fuzzyraygun

Cold outside but warm in me
couching my afternoon away
with love

I woke up this morning from my meat coma, induced by my b-day dinner with Alanna at Mortons steak house, and I don’t think I need to eat meat ever again. I have hit my quota for my lifetime.

The wine and bread and appetizers and desert didn’t help much with the to much food problem either.

uuugh. Please just let me have a salad today.

Alanna and I also got into a scooter/Motorcycle accident together. Her scooter is recovering nicely at the SF scooter center and Alanna has a few cuts and bruises. We were right in front of the 500 Club so we decided to stop in for a drink while her scooter took a rest.

You say it’s your birthday nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah.

Yes friends and neighbors I am gettin older. I think it’s pretty easy to realize your age, when:

1. You have t-shirts that are older than most high school students.
2. You’ve seen most James Bond films in the theatre.
3. You remember when there was no such thing as an ATM card.
4. You remember when ATARI came out.
5. You can name more than 2 presidents
6. You have a wine rack and it’s full
7. You don’t remember your old phone number at the house you grew up in.
8. Suddenly there are just as many kids as adults in your family.
9. You start saying things like “Those damn kids” or “In my day”
10. You are comfortable in your own skin.

OK, this thing is sweet. Talk about model building. [link]
(wow, did I just say fuel cell models are cool??, damn I am a geek, time to go pocket protector shopping)

It seems to have a little magic in it, and not just cause I was born in it either. When you were a kid August held the height of summer and the end of summer at the same time. August holds those hot long days that seem to last forever and later on, once you turn that magical corner and September is in your mind, it seems to fly by like the days were on roller skates.

My birthday is smack in the middle of those fast days. Parents are dragging kids out to the stores pleading them to try on things that will not fit them by this time next year. Sometimes I think that my birthday is the fastest day of the year. Some years that is a good thing and some years it’s not.

As with lots of birthdays that are near other gift buying seasons I was rewarded with countless “back to school” presents over the years. Binders, shirts, socks, jeans, sometimes I wish I had saved a list of all the presents I’ve gotten for my birthday. I’ll bet sifting through a list like that would be strange, like seeing the seating arrangement for your 5th grade class.

“I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway-
I saw the Empire State laid low.
And life went on beyond the Palisades,
They all bought bright Cadillacs-
And left there long ago.”

Billy Joel

I would like to know what is going on in the mind of the DPT officer. What are they thinking, when they see you run out and try to move your car when they ride up on their little three wheel scooter thing.

Are they thinking maniacly about getting you next time, or maybe about how they are going to give you a ticket anyway as soon as you think its safe and go back inside. Maybe they are thinking what a sad life it is to be hated and feared when they turn the corner in any part of this city.

I would also like to comment on the large butt size of most DPT officers. I think there is a correlation to the size of the big cushy seats on the little 3 wheel vehicles. I think someone should do a study and find out whether it’s the seats or maybe it’s the hiring process that only picks people with a propencity for future large buttness.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

Sometimes things in the geek world get ugly.

This story is suprising indication of the length our government will go to, to make a case for war. When they will ignore the sound judgement of experienced scientists and experts in order to persuade this country, they have lost all credibility and good standing with the public they are put in place to serve.