2008 In Review, And More
The first lines from the first entries of each month...
Jan: Not an auspicious start for a new year...all four of the football teams I've followed this weekend lost.
Feb: DING!--You are now free to move about the comfort zone.
Mar: Sent off my application and resumé to my brother this afternoon.
Apr: ...As I've just returned to the Ruby Rather Manor after an 18-hour day trip to Asheville for a job interview, which went well.
May: SmartFix-40 has started.
June: Cleveland, one of the oldest and best model aircraft design companies...and the best source for airplane clip art ever.
July: Utility crews are at work on our road east of us.
Aug: As I'm writing this I'm wearing a shirt that advertises Tobasco pepper sauce.
Sept: We Trust In Your Love, Never Falling Down
Oct: I am posting this from Computer King repair shop in west Knoxville.
Nov: A guy is invited to a working vacation, and gets into incredible trouble.
Dec: December was heralded by pellet snow...since the ambient temp is about 40' F it didn't stick, but it looks like more is coming.
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On Tuesday I reconnected with Aleks...the man whose problems make me think of what I might be like fifteen to twenty years from now. He was out riding his bicycle three weeks earlier and got tagged by a car in a hit-and-run accident. The side mirror whacked his forehead.
On relaying the story to my parents, they "mobilized"--gathering food and clothes and sundry items (soap, hand lotion, washcloths) for me to take to him. So I visited him today and gave him everything and then took him to do some holiday shopping for himself. He had sales coupons for a hardware store and bought some tools he needed.
The thing of it is, yes I think it would be really great if I could do more for Aleks. On the other, I don't feel I have the right to do more than what I have. Besides...one thing I tend to do well is be a catalyst. I've already got a good idea. But I need to get the elements of this idea together in one place. Then we'll see what happens.
Jan: Not an auspicious start for a new year...all four of the football teams I've followed this weekend lost.
Feb: DING!--You are now free to move about the comfort zone.
Mar: Sent off my application and resumé to my brother this afternoon.
Apr: ...As I've just returned to the Ruby Rather Manor after an 18-hour day trip to Asheville for a job interview, which went well.
May: SmartFix-40 has started.
June: Cleveland, one of the oldest and best model aircraft design companies...and the best source for airplane clip art ever.
July: Utility crews are at work on our road east of us.
Aug: As I'm writing this I'm wearing a shirt that advertises Tobasco pepper sauce.
Sept: We Trust In Your Love, Never Falling Down
Oct: I am posting this from Computer King repair shop in west Knoxville.
Nov: A guy is invited to a working vacation, and gets into incredible trouble.
Dec: December was heralded by pellet snow...since the ambient temp is about 40' F it didn't stick, but it looks like more is coming.
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On Tuesday I reconnected with Aleks...the man whose problems make me think of what I might be like fifteen to twenty years from now. He was out riding his bicycle three weeks earlier and got tagged by a car in a hit-and-run accident. The side mirror whacked his forehead.
On relaying the story to my parents, they "mobilized"--gathering food and clothes and sundry items (soap, hand lotion, washcloths) for me to take to him. So I visited him today and gave him everything and then took him to do some holiday shopping for himself. He had sales coupons for a hardware store and bought some tools he needed.
The thing of it is, yes I think it would be really great if I could do more for Aleks. On the other, I don't feel I have the right to do more than what I have. Besides...one thing I tend to do well is be a catalyst. I've already got a good idea. But I need to get the elements of this idea together in one place. Then we'll see what happens.