Political zombies spy on the internet and make bad parents.
Lately I've been writing entries and and hitting the post button before realizing that I've forgotten to give it a subject. [Edit: Thanks, Britney. I did it again. Might as well go for something from left field for tonight's subject.]
It's not that I have a thing against subjectless entries but personally I enjoy coming up with the titles. Most of the time.
This is perfect timing (for once) I had a calendar reminder set to remind me about topics I wanted to write about.
I'm feeling a bit low on energy and thus not quite up to writing about why I'm so unique. (I feel that will be a long entry. Considering that I feel my entries as of late (most of the last month and a half or so?) have trended longer I feel that it's saying something if I already feel it will be a long one. I don't want to write an epic but as should be clear by now sometimes my mind sort of meanders its way through something. Why take the highway when you can take an enjoyable twisty country road?
I wonder what it looks like on the Kangamangas tonight.
It might be worth packing a camera, tripod and the laptop and hitting the road.
I would need gas first.
No doubt I'd return exhausted assuming I didn't stop somewhere to sleep on the side of the road or in some parking lot someplace. It'd hardly be the first time I slept while on the road. I remember waking up in the Jeep once (when it was without roof and doors and everything) to a cop knocking on my windshield. I was startled. I was also sleeping in the driver's seat. Apparently someone drove by and "was concerned" about me. I didn't realize being tired was a crime or really so suspicious. Considering it was mid-day.
It's beautiful outside and there is a part of me that would really enjoy going for a drive somewhere.
One of those things on the To Do list was writing about a "shell" that allowed me to more or less shrug off things that illustrate just what kind of a terrible place the world can be. I think describing it as a watershed may be more apt. With everything that's been going on, developments in the sentencing of Bradley (or Chelsea) Manning, the Edward Snowden leaks and...the rest of that drama--I wonder if someone who could make those events a dramatic comedy? Including Julian I-Can't-Remember-How-To-Spell-His-Last-Name posterchild for Wikileaks starting from before he took up life in an embassy.
I do think the play (Yes, a play. Not a movie or a book. A play. Maybe a musical.) could be brilliant. The real question would be, what is the point it is trying to make?
I feel like it might be a good time to write about that.
Plus with the killing of that Australian ball player I mentioned the other day by the three kids who were allegedly bored and that's the only reason they killed him. I have to say, I think that's pretty messed up.
Today my co-worker (who is awesome for the record) was telling me about some kids who beat an eighty-something year old World War Two veteran to death.
Again for no good reason. I couldn't even begin to imagine.
As she asked, could you imagine being the parents of one of these kids? I'm pretty confident I'd feel thoroughly embarrassed. I also feel like if the kid was of legal age I'd disown them if they killed someone in cold blood for no reason like that. If they weren't I don't know if I could forgive them I'm afraid as soon as they were legal I'd kick them out and would never want to see them again.
I'm normally very tolerant but there is a line.
When she asked if I could imagine being one of those parents I told her we wouldn't have to worry, we can figure out how to be good parents by reading about the bad ones. There are enough examples. Allow me to describe a few:
The last school shooting the guns that were used belonged to the mother who had failed to take precautions to secure the guns to ensure she (or those she trusted to handle them) had access to them. They weren't in a gun safe locked up. I can tell you that if I ever own multiple firearms there will be a gun safe or until then locks involved. I don't think I'd keep anything more (or larger) than a pistol or handgun outside of it while it was locked to defend against home intrusion and even then I wouldn't just leave it laying around carelessly.
I've spent too much time in the company of people who have firearms. I grew up with one in the house for almost as long as I can remember as my dad hunted. (It wasn't in a gun safe but it was locked and I never went near it anyway.)
The two murders mentioned above. Yesterday my co-worker also mentioned a mother who shoved then punched a skateboarder because he plowed into her toddler who was running around (without safety equipment) in a skate park unattended!
Excuse me? You think it was the skater's fault? It was a skate park and it was clearly posted that children weren't allowed unless accompanied by an adult. Are skaters suppose to look for kids running around who shouldn't be doing exactly that? C'mon now. He was focusing on a trick and didn't see the kid until it was too late to avoid hitting him.
I can sort of understand a shove if you saw the skater collide with your child (from the article I read - I didn't watch the video) it sounded like she didn't even see the collision but was taking action because of what she imagined had happened (I hate people who act based on assumptions like this.) but when she punched him, that crossed a line. If think if I'd been him I would have pressed charges. This isn't acceptable behavior. I could have shrugged off the shove because I think if I was a parent I think I'd be emotional if I saw my child hurt because of such a collision but throwing the punch? Uncalled for. Stop reacting and just cool your jets. Slow down and take a deep breath before you fly off the handle.
It should be easy, after all the internet will show/tell me what not to do with stories like these.
I didn't expect this entry to become this long. It just proves my earlier point.
I wonder where I should go. I'd love a scenic drive but who am I kidding? Enjoying scenic views at night is definitely more difficult.
As I was just looking through my list of tags I couldn't help but to wonder what the The Conversation Handbook...for Zooombies! looks like. The extra "o"s make it sound like someone cross-bred a traditional zombie with the Flash. Zombies with super-speed!
Now that's actually scary. An undead horde that can out-move you? Frightful.
It's not that I have a thing against subjectless entries but personally I enjoy coming up with the titles. Most of the time.
This is perfect timing (for once) I had a calendar reminder set to remind me about topics I wanted to write about.
I'm feeling a bit low on energy and thus not quite up to writing about why I'm so unique. (I feel that will be a long entry. Considering that I feel my entries as of late (most of the last month and a half or so?) have trended longer I feel that it's saying something if I already feel it will be a long one. I don't want to write an epic but as should be clear by now sometimes my mind sort of meanders its way through something. Why take the highway when you can take an enjoyable twisty country road?
I wonder what it looks like on the Kangamangas tonight.
It might be worth packing a camera, tripod and the laptop and hitting the road.
I would need gas first.
No doubt I'd return exhausted assuming I didn't stop somewhere to sleep on the side of the road or in some parking lot someplace. It'd hardly be the first time I slept while on the road. I remember waking up in the Jeep once (when it was without roof and doors and everything) to a cop knocking on my windshield. I was startled. I was also sleeping in the driver's seat. Apparently someone drove by and "was concerned" about me. I didn't realize being tired was a crime or really so suspicious. Considering it was mid-day.
It's beautiful outside and there is a part of me that would really enjoy going for a drive somewhere.
One of those things on the To Do list was writing about a "shell" that allowed me to more or less shrug off things that illustrate just what kind of a terrible place the world can be. I think describing it as a watershed may be more apt. With everything that's been going on, developments in the sentencing of Bradley (or Chelsea) Manning, the Edward Snowden leaks and...the rest of that drama--I wonder if someone who could make those events a dramatic comedy? Including Julian I-Can't-Remember-How-To-Spell-His-Last-Name posterchild for Wikileaks starting from before he took up life in an embassy.
I do think the play (Yes, a play. Not a movie or a book. A play. Maybe a musical.) could be brilliant. The real question would be, what is the point it is trying to make?
I feel like it might be a good time to write about that.
Plus with the killing of that Australian ball player I mentioned the other day by the three kids who were allegedly bored and that's the only reason they killed him. I have to say, I think that's pretty messed up.
Today my co-worker (who is awesome for the record) was telling me about some kids who beat an eighty-something year old World War Two veteran to death.
Again for no good reason. I couldn't even begin to imagine.
As she asked, could you imagine being the parents of one of these kids? I'm pretty confident I'd feel thoroughly embarrassed. I also feel like if the kid was of legal age I'd disown them if they killed someone in cold blood for no reason like that. If they weren't I don't know if I could forgive them I'm afraid as soon as they were legal I'd kick them out and would never want to see them again.
I'm normally very tolerant but there is a line.
When she asked if I could imagine being one of those parents I told her we wouldn't have to worry, we can figure out how to be good parents by reading about the bad ones. There are enough examples. Allow me to describe a few:
The last school shooting the guns that were used belonged to the mother who had failed to take precautions to secure the guns to ensure she (or those she trusted to handle them) had access to them. They weren't in a gun safe locked up. I can tell you that if I ever own multiple firearms there will be a gun safe or until then locks involved. I don't think I'd keep anything more (or larger) than a pistol or handgun outside of it while it was locked to defend against home intrusion and even then I wouldn't just leave it laying around carelessly.
I've spent too much time in the company of people who have firearms. I grew up with one in the house for almost as long as I can remember as my dad hunted. (It wasn't in a gun safe but it was locked and I never went near it anyway.)
The two murders mentioned above. Yesterday my co-worker also mentioned a mother who shoved then punched a skateboarder because he plowed into her toddler who was running around (without safety equipment) in a skate park unattended!
Excuse me? You think it was the skater's fault? It was a skate park and it was clearly posted that children weren't allowed unless accompanied by an adult. Are skaters suppose to look for kids running around who shouldn't be doing exactly that? C'mon now. He was focusing on a trick and didn't see the kid until it was too late to avoid hitting him.
I can sort of understand a shove if you saw the skater collide with your child (from the article I read - I didn't watch the video) it sounded like she didn't even see the collision but was taking action because of what she imagined had happened (I hate people who act based on assumptions like this.) but when she punched him, that crossed a line. If think if I'd been him I would have pressed charges. This isn't acceptable behavior. I could have shrugged off the shove because I think if I was a parent I think I'd be emotional if I saw my child hurt because of such a collision but throwing the punch? Uncalled for. Stop reacting and just cool your jets. Slow down and take a deep breath before you fly off the handle.
It should be easy, after all the internet will show/tell me what not to do with stories like these.
I didn't expect this entry to become this long. It just proves my earlier point.
I wonder where I should go. I'd love a scenic drive but who am I kidding? Enjoying scenic views at night is definitely more difficult.
As I was just looking through my list of tags I couldn't help but to wonder what the The Conversation Handbook...for Zooombies! looks like. The extra "o"s make it sound like someone cross-bred a traditional zombie with the Flash. Zombies with super-speed!
Now that's actually scary. An undead horde that can out-move you? Frightful.