Tuesday 13 February 2007
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Love Arizona Day Tomorrow
So many people give flowers without knowing the Language of Flowers. It's become a lost art.
This past week has been interesting. Wednesday night, while we were trying to close down at work, the power went out. That made things rather difficult. I find out that the whole block is out, due to a fire at the nearby acrylic spa retailer. That's right, another major fire on the same block in less than a year. It was on all of the news stations, despite not being as major of a fire, because the fire took out the transformer for the area. That meant that the traffic signals for the interstate were out, causing major traffic delays. My mom called me that night to make sure I was alright. I guess several witnesses saw a transient throw something burning over the fense and onto a pile of vinyl spa covers.
Thursday, a couple decided that they had to leave our store before they were finished browsing because they had just heard the news that some woman had died. When I didn't register the name, they seemed kind of surprised. Apparently, she's big news, but I hadn't heard of her until then. I notice that she seems to be in the news a lot now, but as it's not really news I just tune it out. It just seems to be some of that filler news that the news media creates. I monitored news for a living long enough to recognise non-news when I hear it. Unlike print news media, audio and audio/visual news media can't change the length/size of it's broadcast to match the quantity of the news available. So they create filler news for the rest, which they can easily drop should real news pop up.
The sad thing is that people actually invest themselves into such non-news. People die every day. Read the obituaries some time. All ages and walks of life die every day. Each is its own story, but do you see audio and/or audio/visual news media covering the obits? Nope, just the few they decide are somehow more important than the rest.
Saturday after work I helped haul desks around town. In exchange I got to unload an old computer desk I haven't used since I had possession of the LepreCon Program computer. Today I took advantage of the extra space and reorganized the entire living room. It has a lot more open space now.
Sunday my mother and I brought In-N-Out Burger to my grandparents. We hung out and played golf (a card game using two decks of standard playing cards shuffled together) and Mexican Train Dominoes. Afterwards my mother attended mass with me. She spoke with Fr. Milt after mass about the actual condition of her parents, who apparently try to downplay things to him.
After work yesterday I stopped by Mike's to catch Heroes: the Best Show on Television. He's finding the number of interpersonal relationships to be breaking his suspension of disbelief. This despite the things he's tried to get away with for his role playing characters. This despite the many superhero comics, movies, and television shows he's seen. I'm not finding any of it hard to believe. Truth is often stranger than fiction. Look at the NASA love triangle fiasco from last week!
Tomorrow is Arizona Statehood Day. I wish all Arizonans a wonderful day.
You Are 68% Gentleman 
Occasionally, you slip and do something foolish... but usually no one notices!"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." ~Mother Teresa
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Anna Nicole Smith's life, pity to say it, was so very empty.
It took me a moment to realize you were speaking of Anna Nicole. Sad woman - Sad life - Sad death.
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