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I haven’t posted anything in a while for a number of reasons but mainly because I have been having major mood swings some awesome highs and enjoyment to utter depression or just numb uncertainty and confusion. I started this most recent blog with the intention of actually moving forward with some of my ideas and a clear focus. Instead it has been the same general hodge podge I was posting before. I am going insane I can’t seem to stay focused on anything. Since my weekends have been pretty much filled lately ( and have throughly enjoyed them; it seems like the only time I am happy) and will continue to be, I have lost my usual catch up time. The result has been my house is a complete wreck, I desperately need to go grocery shopping, I have no idea where my finances sit (I am usually quite anal about this), and for the first time it is starting to effect my work. Tuesday morning I think I sat and stared at my computer screen for a good two hours because I just couldn’t think straight.

Reading over this, it sounds much more dramatic that it actually is. It is just a recent thing two weeks ago I was fine, but it seems to be reoccurring. I keep falling into these malaises, I shake myself out of it, it will last for a couple days than I’ll slowly slip right back into it without even realizing it. I have been reading this organizational book for people with ADD and while I am not sure that I have ADD it seems to have hit a lot of nails on the head. I’ll write some more on this tonight. While I hadn’t envisioned this originally I think I am going to focus my next series of post to getting out of my funk. Hopefully by doing this it will help me keep with it. At that lunch is over, so back to work I must go.

AJSPS

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Dilemma of a High School Nemesis

Alright I had about five or six topics in Yojimbo that I was going to blog about, and maybe I still will. But something like this doesn’t happen every day. I’ll start with the history. I played multiple sport when I was in school along with core group of friends. And there was one individual (leaving unnamed, I’ll get to why in a second) from Fort LeBoeuf we had a number of run-ins with over the years. If you where every to lookup a definition of cocky this kid’s picture would probably be there. Now I am not sure if he ever realized the degree that we all abhorred him nor do I remember all the details as to why.

There are three occasions that stick in my head. The first was I think 7th & 8th grade basketball game. He had been his normal cocky self all game and to make things worse the refs were not calling that close of a game. It came to a head when he took out one our players hard enough that his glasses went all the way across the court. A fight broke out after that.

The next memory is quite small and makes one think they are in a bad movie. During a 9th grade basketball game, he actually took his finger licked it, held it up, and made a sizzling sound in the face of our point guard.

The final one was during 13 year all-star baseball tournament. We had already beaten them once or maybe they had beaten us but it was two loss tournament and whoever lot this game was out. He happen to be the catcher of other team. So, his jaw was going all game. To make things worse the umpired end up being related to someone on their team (for some reason I think it was him, probably because it makes a better story). But the game came down to a controversial call in which our guy was called out for interfering with first baseman. Well my dad who was our coach protested the game and it went all the way to Williamsport (HQ for Little League) and they found in our favor. We had to then finish the game which took all of one batter for us to take the lead.

Now he was pretty short and his talent didn’t match his cockiness (not that I was all that great) but by the time we were playing varsity sports he wasn’t. So, I kind of just forgot about him went to college and on with my life. Then, the other day while I was work on one of the servers I saw his name as one of the teachers in the district and made me chuckle. I wondered if it was the same person. Today I was going into that building to fix another server that was have network problems and there he was walking right at me. It made me pause for a second then I just gave the typical man to man head nod and walk by. Now he maybe a perfectly nice guy now but he has one of those jock faces that just looks cocky whether the person is or not. Also, while I recognized him I highly doubt he recognized me because I look a lot different ( 6 to 7 inches taller, a beard, no Recs Specs) and I wasn’t one our main stars.

This all got me thinking about how we perceive people and how we think they perceive us and how foolish this really is. If nothing else I got a good laugh at the whole thing.

AJSPS

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Twitter Draft Solution

If you really get into the NFL Draft but don’t want to waste 10 hours in front of the boob tube or a computer waiting for your teams’ pick. Give twitter a try. I found this NFL Draft Twitter today. Not sure if it for real but I am going to give it a try. Also, there seems to be a Steelers, Browns, Bills, and of course Dolphins Twitters as well. Not sure who set them up but if enough people start following them maybe the will start posting.

AJSPS

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A Few Words on VT

A lot of bloggers like to comment on whatever is the hot topic in the news for various reasons; I do not. I typically try to stay way from topics like this because I feel that there are already enough people covering it much better than I ever could. That said, please consider the following.

I have been appalled at the initial coverage from many of the media outlets. They must still be hung over on all the Republican scandals. The first day of coverage, in which they didn’t even know the name of the shooter. They where already trying to crucify anyone related to situation. Not closing the campus, no mass email to the student, slow response by the police. I am sorry but sometimes tragic things happen and trying to blame anyone but the lunatic who did the shooting is just plain uncalled for. They are doing the best they can to protect the students with smallest amount of intrusion and I am sure if they could go back and do something different they would. Right now everyone involved has to concentrate on the matters at hand like the rest of the students of Virginia Tech, the parents of the departed, and figuring out all the details of the case. Then once things have settled back down they can look back and see how the problems of the young man could have been better handled, how to better inform students of campus concerns, etc. But no, the media likes to live in the world of perfection using their 20/20 hind sight vision to scrutinize, criticize and blame. The thing to do is to learn from this tragedy and take steps to insure, to the best of their ability, that something like this doesn’t happen again. One coverage I found very informative without the typical blame game was ABC’s Nightline.

The second part of this is the inevitable discussion of gun control and the radical idiots from both sides of this debate. In light of the recent events in which both guns were obtained legally. The current gun control measures obviously are not good enough. Seeing how a mentally unstable person can buy a weapon with no questions asked. That said stupid knee jerk reaction type legislation like the current PA House Bill 760, will do nothing but penalize law abiding citizens and further polarize the issue.

AJSPS

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