Blessed are those who have music to listen to
(By the way, there are more hyphenated-words in this blog post than normal. Please use caution when reading.) This is a good time to be alive. Despite the money grab from most music artists nowadays, you can still get DRM-free music on Amazon.com. Find a song you like, and almost less than a minute later, you own it. I didn’t grow up with that kind of instant gratification. So I still find it amazing. Seems like it could be both good and bad for the future of society.... Read More
The Revenge Insanity
Today some random nurse charged into me with the full voice of whatever crap is going on in her life. I did my best to use the, “Service Values Recovery Behavior Training,” to steer her back toward a constructive conversation. The situation was, I agreed to encode three videos by Tuesday (tomorrow). But the presenter wanted them by Friday. I told the presenter that I couldn’t make that deadline, but that I would do my best to have everything done by Monday. She... Read More
The Land and the Sky
There is a legend of a man and a woman who lived long ago. The man loved the woman more than anything and she loved him in return. He was a calm man, someone who knew the purpose of it all, who could see the wide view. But his love could not rest. She wanted to explore and run and dance and scream. Eventually, his true love left him and became the sky. He cried so much that he created all of the oceans and the rivers in the world. He walked so far looking for her that he... Read More
How to Survive a Bank Robbery
I’m a man of action. I don’t wear suits to work, I wear cargo pants and roomy shirts so that I can slide across car hoods comfortably. My footwear enables me to chase down perps and run two or three steps up a vertical wall. That way I can grab the upper edge and climb the rest of the way up. Flower pots at the mall aren’t obstacles to go around, I leap them. So if you are in a bank and three men in US president Halloween masks stroll in with black bags and assault... Read More
