A sad tale in one image.
Category Archives: Paul
That Feeling When – April 30th
That feeling when it’s dark but not too late yet and you’ve been busting your ass all weekend and you’re really tired and sweaty and from a couple of blocks away you can hear some music and you’re thinking about how different sounds and frequencies carry better than others because what you hear clear as a bell (if faintly) is a trumpet line from some music and you’re thinking that must be why trumpets were used in battle and so on, because the sound carries further, and you’re thinking it must be a quinceañera or something with a mariachi band when suddenly all of the pieces snap into place and you realize it’s the background trumpet music from the choruses of The Monkees’ “Daydream Believer” and you wonder if you’ll ever be able to listen to mariachi music the same way again.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
Two Borrowed Images
After a delightful long weekend in Toronto, it was back to work, packing and panicking, and trying to find any spare time at all to try to keep current with what’s going on out at the hangar.
Two images stuck with me all week:
Remember this scene near the end of “Deep Impact,” after the comet’s hit? Metaphorically, I’ve been Lea Leoni in this scene every freaking day.
I’ve been trying to be this mouse all week. I don’t know how well it worked, I feel a lot more like an owl pellet at the moment.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
You Have To Go Through This To Get To That
If you want to take a couple of days off and go to see some friends north of the border, not only do you have to get a ton of work done on the move (which is progressing) and at the office (where we’re still mid-audit but surviving) and at the hangar (where it always seems to be a losing battle to stay current), but then you have to deal with THIS abomination:
I reserve the right to be grumpy tomorrow. Especially crammed into a middle seat.
I know it will be worth it. But still…
Look out, Toronto. Here I come!
That Feeling When – April 15th
That feeling when you hurt in places you didn’t know you had places after four days of intense physical exertion in a big push to get stuff moved out of the house prior to escrow closing, either to storage or to the trash or to someplace where it can be donated, and everything is hurt and bruised and you just want to hold very still but the gods have a wicked sense of humor so all of that dust you’ve been sucking into your lungs throughout this ordeal now has you sneezing and when you sneeze you involuntarily clench every muscle in your body and every muscle in your body screams out in agony and then you have to sneeze again and you’ve become something like a badly designed toy that does nothing but hurt itself and it would be really funny if it were happening to someone else but it’s not and excuse me I have to go start sneezing again…
Ouch!
OUCH!!
OUCH!!! DAMN IT!!!
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
No Context For You – April 10th
I kept my promise from last night. I worked very hard tonight. I paid my property taxes today. I kept my mouth shut when I needed to and earned a cookie.
I didn’t need bail money.
I’m not in ICU.
I’ll take that as a win.
Tomorrow’s another day.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
This Is Not A Drill
People, pay attention, this is not a freakin’ drill!
Results are in for last night’s local election. Today’s results show that 24,853 citizens bothered to go vote – out of 272,717 registered voters. That’s 9.11%. Not even double digits.
Yet we still did better than the special election a couple districts over in the 39th, where a similar special election drew only 6.45% of the voters.
Maybe we deserve the shit we’re getting out of Washington. Maybe we don’t deserve democracy. Maybe we’re just too freakin’ lazy and stupid.
So let’s talk about something upbeat instead, okay?
When we humans destroy the planet’s ecosystem to the point where we can no longer sustain all of the infrastructure and agriculture and transportation necessary to actually feed everyone and civilization collapses leaving only scattered pockets of post-apocalypse humans just waiting for their turn to die a miserable, horrible death, which species do you think will evolve to take over from us? Bonus question – will they be smart enough to see what we did and avoid that fate?
Not helping, huh?
Let me know when someone can show evidence that I’m wrong.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
That Feeling When – March 27th
That feeling when you realize that the long nights and lack of sleep up to this point where just practice and now it’s about to get REALLY hard – but at least you’ve found a couple of new Sirius XM channels that you like and you got a neat pair of bluetooth headphones for your birthday, so at least you’ll have tunes.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
No Context For You – March 26th
It doesn’t matter how detailed the map – if you don’t know where you are and you don’t know where you’re going, you’re still lost.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
That Feeling When – March 23rd
That feeling when that channel on Sirius XM that you were really starting to like suddenly isn’t there and you think it might just be that you need to turn the app on and off again or maybe jiggle the cable to the internet to bring it back but nothing’s working until you remember that you have the internet so you google it and find out that SXM just made it go away and you try a couple of the channels that are supposedly “close” to the same sort of music and they’re really, REALLY not so you go back to listening to a country channel for a while but somehow it’s become so pop and Brittany Spears-like that you want to stuff your ears with rabid man-eating eels while knowing that you’ll be scarred for life after listening to that crap so in the end you’re back listening to classical because if it’s good enough to survive three or four hundred years it must have something going for it, right?
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 