8337 - Only Thursday... or is it Thursday Already?

[scottobear]

I remember back when you could go to Pizza Hut to have a nice sit-down meal with a friend or three. Are any of them still like that anymore?

That's one of the things I sort of miss about PamM.I've got about a decade's worth of memories of High School world and times after... and all of my real cohorts are either dead or gone. Steve Jacoby vanished into obscurity, Brent died, and Pam and I probably will never speak again. I don't have anyone left to really reminisce with about those times anymore. Kev's about as close as it gets, but he was at a different school... and the memories are of a different sort.. Kev was one of my "Computer Pals" (like JimG, who I still hear from every year or so.), Those mentioned before that were my gaming/school friends. It's kind of funny... Pam lives less than four miles from me, and we share some common friends, but I don't know if I could communicate with her on a reasonable level if I ever saw her again. We were good friends, and unfortunate foes - for the same personality reasons. Maybe someday we'll talk again, but I'd put odds in the slim to none range. A shame I can't just reconnect with the good parts of that friendship... I don't really care to see what happens to social politics when we mix, but some of the in-jokes and "good old days" sort of stuff.

That's the funny thing about compartmentalizing friends... if you lose a smaller amount, that chunk fades totally into the past. Old Computer buds from back when I had a 110 character per sec modem... ran fidonet and BBS systems is pretty fun to talk about... but similar memories of going to the complete strategist and gaming in the living room form that time are gone. Watching TV while talking on the phone and chatting... Matt Frewer on Doctor Doctor caused us to laugh our heads off. Trip to Disney was probably one of the first signals of how we were bringing out the less than stellar sides of one another. Halloween costumes. Watching Zardoz and comiserating about our folks, when we were both still living at home with parents.

Ah well.. the nice thing now is that I can make new memories with old friends, new ones, and those that fall in between. Learn from my mistakes, profit from my successes.

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Carrageenan is awesome stuff. I first learned about it on a cartoon segment (Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo - about a pod of whales and a seaweed farm) in an episode of Captain Kangaroo.

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Does impersonating W's voice and Goober from Andy Griffith show sound the same to anyone but me? IQ 85 southerner sort of vibe?

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Moment of Lyric - MP3

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
No!

Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
The center lights around your vanity
But surely heaven waits for you

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry (don't you cry no more)

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View walking to the bus stop yesterday morning.







Also, sign to have the roofers not tar up the little bridge to the pool (and outdoor bathrooms for them to use.) I'll tell you what, no matter what you think about immigrant workers, construction (and more specifically, hurricane reconstruction) simply wouldn't happen on the current scale in South Florida without them.

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1 year ago - enzyte, fishbone, newton at kittenwar, bro lesson, interview meme

2 years ago - crazy-face pic, rainy-day pictures, jb finds me a local house on ebay (only 3.8 Mil!)

3 years ago - Mayah talk, D&C 2 months into another kidlet, icepacks, thinking about 5/5

4 years ago - Kazaa lite, passing osbournes along, gamelan music

5 years ago - mushy, ullage, purple cow, backdating implemented

Comments

[legal-beagle555.livejournal.com]

I had (have?) a tendancy to compartmentalize friends, too. "ottawa friends" "longtime" "law school" "dc area" "married" etc. while it looks like some of those overlap, in my mind they're distinct i.e. law school people may live in the DC area, but they're not DC friends- I guess that should be "non-law school DC friends"

anyhow

My respect for immigrant workers grows everyday, living in this area- the law school is basically kept shiny and nice by dozens of latino/a people who work their butts off at it, maintaining everything from the exterior paint to the electical to the lawns to the vaccuming of the halls and keeping the chrome and glass and hardwood trim and marble floors all new and shiney looking. For all the teaching and leaning that goes on, the place would shut down if it weren't for them. My apartment building is squeeky clean ofr the same reason.

If I could consistantly apply the same work ethic to studying, I'd have it made

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I try not to put folks in boxes anymore, but it comes very easily to me. "Hippies / Tech folk / Gamers / etc" Unless there's some overlap, it's tough to merge 'em.

Keep up the good work in school! :D

[fivefootmayhem.livejournal.com]

There are a few of those sit-down pizza huts around my area. I know of three (at least) within mine and neighboring counties.
Beautiful sunrises always make waking early much easier. I love to watch the sun stretch and spread its light over the due glistening farm fields. The trees sparkle and the foggy purple mountained horizon sings. Farm-life (already up and grazing) look as though they hold the secrets to such glories. I feel lucky that I can soak this up everyday. ^_^I feel lucky for very much.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Quite the evocative prose! Most of the life up and grazing in my region are people in line a tthe dunkin' donuts, and iguanas nibbling on tree-buds.

You're a very fortunate woman, and certainly deservedly so! :D

[applelard.livejournal.com]

Both of the Pizza Huts here are sit down restaurants. Actually, there are very few in this region that *aren't*!

Those sunrise pictures are beautiful.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hm... Stinky ol' Florida has pretty sunsets, but precious few sit down pizza huts!

Thanks!

[mental-circles.livejournal.com]

that's because you need to move to south broward. i know there is one on university south of sheridan...

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

well sakes! I must just be in a pizza hut black hole, then!

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

EXCELLENT moment of lyric. Brought back the memory of a small tee I wore with Kansa written across the front in the late 70's. Love Kansas. So often you inspire old memories for me. I too miss those days if getting together and just be silly and fun. The crack in some relationships end up like the Grand Canyon to cross. Sad, but the memory remains.

Love that lemony sunrise.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I heard it on an episode of Supernatural a week or two back, and it's been rattling around in my head a bit since then.

You're so right about the grand canyon. I am happy that I've got good memories, even if I can't share them with anyone from that period anymore.