Once Again...

So here I once again sitting on the edge of impending surgery that could end either in a bad way or a good way.  A draw back to being inteligent and having a good imagination is letting it get ahead of you sometimes.  The phrase one of my ex's used was ;letting it run rampet and foolish'.  Possiblly she was right.

That being said, it's ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is a day away...

It's less than 24 hours till I go under the knife for slipped disk.  An operation that should take about 2 hours, or so they tell me, that has so much potential.  Potential both good and bad.  On the good side I should get feeling back in my left leg and be bale to run again.  On the bad side I could lose all feeling in my ( Read more... )

The Fear

I was reading Frank Herbert's Dune again last night and I was struck by the mantra that the Bene Geserit chant about fear.  I'd copy it here but I'm left the book at work.  I wish I could get the manta to stick in my head.

Life is pushed by Fear.  We all deal with it everyday, and it's how we deal with it that defines a part of us.  Do we ( Read more... )

Chaos

From Chaos comes order.  And order eventual breaks down in entropy.  From that Chaos we once again find order until it agains breaks down.
So you can understand the universe by either looking at from the constructive philosophy or the destructive philosophy.  Either way you're looking at the same problem from different sides trying to reach a ( Read more... )

Easy Goes Hard

The world of EMS can be trying, even stressful.  This is especially true when you are working a truck that dedicated to providing 911 coverage; ask anyone on Boston EMS.  You tend to go non-stop for hours on end dealing with people who are having anywhere from a bad day to the worst day of their lives.  It wears on you after awhile.
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Random Enters the Game

Why is that whenever two people sit down together and have a conversation for any length of time greater than an hour, sustained, they end up talking about God or Sex?   Now I'm not saying that after an hour the conversation automatically turns to one of these two subjects, or that it can't happen within an hour of the startof ( Read more... )

Polka

There is something to be said about knoctwurst, saurkruat, red cabbage, potato salad and large amounts of draft beer.  It's normally said shortly after in words you cannot remember due to the large of draft beer.  Other words are said later on.  These are the more telling and truthful words.
This words are said during a period of several hours ( Read more... )

Beer, beer, beer

To say that my father and I have a strained relationship would be like calling the Vietnam War just a police action.  Things have gotten a bit better in the past year or two though.  Mostly because we have several similar interests; Irish music and beer.  It's a well established inherited trait in Irish families I think.
So today we ( Read more... )

1.20.09

Maybe it was because I was driving home through the college section of the city tonight, since the on ramp to the expressway was closed, that I once again noticed the prevalence of those every so trendy radical bumper stickers reading '1.20.09 Bush's Last Day'.  Since I do some of the best thinking while driving (I'll avoid discussing the ( Read more... )

Bastards on Parade

It's a little after 2300 hrs and I'm finally alone with my thoughts and a nice bottle of whiskey.  My friend Shaun once said that whiskey is what you drink when you're life is shit.  I've been drinking whiskey as my boozes of choice since I was about twenty.  If that doesn't sum it up, well.
Most anyone who reads this is probably ( Read more... )