(Originally posted on Memorial Day, 2005)
In Memoriam
To those hardy souls who took up arms in the days before we even had a nation of our own, paying in blood with musket and tomahawk to lay the groundwork for the Union to come. Those who laid down their lives against the French and their Native American [...]
It was founded in 1871. An industrial city in a region of cotton farmers and plantations. Supposedly the Pittsburg of the South.
I grew up less than 3 hours from here, and often ventured to Ft Payne, Alabama to see the country music group that bears this states’ name.
I’ve been here less than 24 hours, and [...]
Probably my favorite song by Don Henley.
Also a play against my favorite poem, by Dylan Thomas.
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light”
The light died. And from the darkness I have risen a new.
Gawd help you all.
After 5 years [...]
… for a friend who has taken a bit of a hiatus from the blogs for a bit, but has decided to take me up on my offer of unlimited rantage here on my seedy, beer-stained corner of the web.
Least I could do for someone who is in desperate need of a place to [...]
The city of Rockford has been working on my street for about two months now.
What I’d like to know is this:
1) What the fuck takes two months of almost daily work to complete on an area less than one block long
2) Since when has the noise ordinance not applied to heavy equipment run by the [...]
As you can tell, I’ve been pretty damn stressed lately about the job situation. 3 more people got laid off, we had to take a pay cut, etc., ad nauseum, blah blah…
I really need to count the peanuts instead of staring at the turds.
At least I have a boss who is really trying to work [...]
Those are my two choices.
I took the 7% pay cut. Which is supposed to be temporary.
Yeah. Riiiiight.
So in the year and a half since the second shift supervisor that was there when I was hired quit, I was put in charge of the entire shift, got saddled with multiple trainees I was responsible for, [...]
Some people find release by hurting themselves. In self inflicted wounds, they find peace.
They cut themselves. Burn themselves.
Or worse.
Me?
Three times in the last three weeks… I have made a huge pot of chili after midnight, and gluttonized far more than my fill right before going to bed.
It’s gotten so bad, I’m starting to [...]
Been a negligent blogger the last few days, political ranting to resume soon…
Well it seems that Elderspawn must have been sick with the regular flu (the one that kills about 40000 people in the USA every year) and not the Swine flu that everyone is panicking about (which has killed like, what? One person? Two? [...]
Wow. Either some people are just doing some cynical grandstanding or they are so ignorant of the constitution it’s mind boggling. Normally, I’d vote for “grandstanding” but lately it seems that the majority of our elected assholes simply consider the foundation of our society an inconvenient roadblock to be whittled away at every opportunity. (Bonnet [...]
