One Year Ago Today

I can't believe my last post on my blog was one year ago today!  Almost to the minute!  In a Starbuck's coffee shop!  I swear to God I just happen to go to my blog, Now And Then, and there's my last post at the top of the page.  I'm ranting about some woman and her loud brats who came into the shop and annoyed everybody to the point of suicide HA!  And I inserted a photo of a low flying jet liner to compare their noise to.  Wow, it has been a full year.  And what has changed since then?  I don't know where to start.  Lets see, oh yeah, NOTHING!  That's right nothing.  I'm still unemployed thanks to the entire universe.  Yeah I blame the entire universe for my joblessness.  I'm still living at home too.  And my love life has become not.  The universe is mad at me for some reason.  And I'm being punished.  LOL!  Just kidding.  I blame no one, or cosmic movement for the events in my life.  It just is.  Look at the bright side self.  Things could be so much worse.  So I count my assets and carry on. 
 You know, it was nice to visit my own blog and make an entry.  Maybe I shouldn't be such a stranger.  Happy New Year and the best to you and me!

I'm sitting in a coffee shop enjoying my coffee and laptop. Two mothers with a total of five kids, all between three and six years old make a sudden entrance. The mothers sit their kids at a booth and leave them there while they make restroom visits and order drinks. The kids start becoming loud. I mean real loud. I curse myself for forgetting to bring my earbuds. I look around for the mothers. They're standing in line to order. The kids continue their loud yelling and jostling with each other. Shattering the decibel levels of the regular back ground noise. The sounds punish my ears and penetrate into my mind. My head suddenly aches as like from a hangover.

I think I'm blacking out. I start to have visions of being on a city airport runway. And on a flight deck of a Navy carrier without ear protection as large aircraft fly right over me. The sound of a bad car wreck comes into my mental view as the slamming and twisting of metal and plastic explode. I see flashes of dark red and bright white. A volcano erupting. I think I'm bleeding from my ears.

I can't take it anymore. I've got to get up and say something!

But just in time the mothers appear. Completely unconcerned about their outrageous little noise machines. They collect the kids and casually depart.

Thank you Dear Lord for sparing us from their permanent stay. And from continued suffering and damage to our hearing and mental stability. I surprisingly find myself on my knees as I'm giving this thanks. I get back up into my chair.

It seems my coffee has cooled.

Hello? Hello? Anybody copy?

How many times has this happened to you? You're in deep space, or on a new planet. And your stupid radio quits working. So you can't contact earth and tell 'em the good news, or the bad news. And so you try and fix it and now it only picks up incoming radio messages. And those are only some old radio programs from the 20's. Next space trip you'll use the good equipment and not let them contract out to the lowest bidder for radio communications.

A Nice Day To Be Outside.

Today was a nice time to be outside enjoying the beautiful day. The sky looked a little funny but other than that it was great weather. It must have been in the high 80's.
It was that spaceship from outer space that landed on a playing field by the park not too long ago, that created our new sky. But when we protested, the spaceship sent out a large robot that could easily lay waste to our city and then the world. We decided to gladly accept the visitors gift of a new sky and thanked them very much for it. They left after a day of just sitting there. And took a few of our citizens as guests on their departure.
We waved goodbye and wished them luck.
I think tomorrow's sky will look the same again. As it has since the spaceship left.

January 18, 2009 3 PM

Went to see what to see today.
This and that I shall say.
A strange sky like a big banner.
And a cat behaving in a peculiar manner.
Later in the evening sky I saw with care.
A meteor burn up in the air.
What else could I ask for.
I think today, nothing more.

Toys

Remember when you were a kid and you used to play with your toy ships, airplanes, and soldiers in the bathtub while taking a bath? Well I'm here to tell you now to make sure you remove ALL your toys out of the tub and off the floor afterwards, and put them away.
Because your wife will get upset if she steps on a toy soldier while getting into the tub.
Sorry dearest loveliest.

It seems my city is going through some visual changes. Must be something in the atmosphere. Like global warming. Or maybe someone's playing a joke on us. HA! Good one.
Most likely, someone spiked my coffee.