5 posts from January 2009

Here is a video I love. I may have posted it before, but it's worth a second glance. This guy makes me want to practice the guitar! I'm about to start working in the studio. More soon!

Thank goodness for people like Dennis, who looks at things from the prospective of the innocent and gives a voice to the unheard.

I wish this clip had aired on prime time television instead of C-Span. I love watching C-Span. It really gives me great insight into what is going on in our government. I don't need to see a ten second clip on CNN, then hear the talking heads go on and on about it. They sound so absurd rambling on and on. Are we unable to come up with our own opinions? Why can't we see the whole clip, then contemplate it? All without being told what it means or how we are supposed to interpret.

I have started working out after work. No I'm not curling fifty pound weights to make my biceps grow into shapes that are inhuman. I'm just doing a nice thirty minute workout with a little bit of cardio mixed with weight training. It feels nice to get back to pushing my body out of it's comfort zone.

 I did unfortunately push my body way out of it's comfort zone into it's ow that fucking hurt zone last night. I woke up this morning feeling like someone had implanted a metal rod with barbs all over it into my neck.  I guess my body was pissed at me for waking it up. As a result of my workout fun, I smelled like eye-burning mintastical goodness today at work. Oh how my co-workers love me. Other then the kinked neck I felt really great today. I'm going to work very hard to keep this up.

Peace and Love,
RJ 

In the winter here in my new home of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the meteorologists seem to have a problem predicting the weather. Sometimes their wisdom points to a bad ice storm on its way to clobber us. This prompts Karen to drive all the way back to my workplace and drop off the car. Only to have it merely rain all day and night. Other times Karen and I will check the weather channel and the computer for the latest forecast (we are quite thorough the two of us) and find that there is not supposed to be any precipitation what-so-ever. So it looks like a perfect day for Karen to drive me to work. This is almost always the day of the surprise snow storm that no one knew was coming. Having been born and raised in the "Sunshine State" I'm not used to such glaring mistakes when it comes to the weather. Sure the weather person might say that it's going to be mostly sunny one day and it turns out to be somewhat sunny. But for the most part it's hot and wet and it rains a lot. Here in the Mid-Atlantic we have a wide variety of names for the wet substance that falls from the sky in the winter. For example there's sleet (I'm still not sure what that is), snow, hail, freezing rain, and of course my personal favorite wintry mix. This variety of titles doesn't seem to help when it comes to predicting the weather. At least this unpredictable weather only lasts for about two months. After that we return to more predictable things like rain, wind, sun, and clouds. All of this weather talk got me to thinking about changing my profession. I'm starting to think it would be great to be a weather person here in Pittsburgh. For instance if I felt like being a slack ass one day I could just stand in front of the green screen, turn on the weather map, close my eyes and throw some icons up on the map. A little wind here and how about some wintry mix there. No one seems to get angry at them when they're wrong. People even seem to like their local weather guesser. So if you turn on your T.V. and see me blathering away about the wintry mix that's on its way you'll know why.

Love and Peace,
RJ