August 29, 2007
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The Daily News
1 Whew.2 Made it through the first day.
3 Well, Mondays. What can you say. Fly low. Radar. See trouble coming your way, go the other way.4 About the toughest part of yesterday was probably the computer going wonky on me.
5 It got all jittery and began jumping every which way, creating all sorts of havoc for me, way more than I had bargained for.
6 Boy's possessed.7 It wouldn't matter what I would
order it to do. I would push the "center" thing and everything I've
ever written for the past six billion years would go with it. FUH-WING! The entire DN flew to center, like something out of a bad Kubrick film.8 Change the font size and suddenly I'm staring down the barrel of twenty-foot high letters in of all things comic sans.9 Sans comedy. I wun't laughin'. The DN is SERIOUS bizniss, boys.10 It felt like some early stone-age Atari game with things pinging and ponging all over the screen.11 The funny thing is, since moving up to the Chill I have hardly ever tried doing the DN at work. It was just later in the afternoon and my day was technically over, but like anything I've ever done, I don't consider a day done until I've hit at least ten hours. Also, the entire network failed yesterday, so that's an automatic ticket to goof off. You'd THINK I woulda been having fun, but when fonts don't cooperate and you can't center things, and your little cursor guy keeps jumping about like a Mexican jumping bean, it's really time to go home.
12 Ah, opening day jitters, that's all.
13 Moving on: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but by my count, the DN is now entering its 11th year. Started in '96 with Guys and Dolls and eventually got online in 2001, and on the Xanga machine in '03 if I'm reading correctly.
14 Hey it's our little secret. S-h-h-h-h-h.
15 That's a whole LOTTA stupid.
16 Moving on, Part II: Faith in Something Bigger Dept. Well I didn't think I'd actually DO it, but yesterday I woke up at around 4 a.m. and goofed on the lunar eclipse. I walked out in my backyard and thought I saw my neighbor showering, but it was this huge moon, all orange and dark and very much like Mars. I instantly fell in love with science.
17 I know, I know, but I was pretty amazed. I had already written yesterday's DN the night before. REALLY, I had already written yesterday's DN a week ago, and just adjusted.
18 But after I sent it off, I went up into the hills, really early, and looked out over the city and enjoyed the remainder of the eclipse. It actually worked better in my own backyard, low beneath the dark trees because they shielded the San Jose yellow and it was much more immediate and strange.
19 I wanted to wake someone up but decided against it, knowing human nature the way I do. You don't really appreciate a phone call at 4:30 in the morning just to hear some madman mistaking his neighbor's flabby ass for an astronomical occurrence.
20 Nah, it wasn't my neighbor's ass. It was the moon, orange, later having a round shadow in the middle of it as the Earth drifted off it's right side.
21 Trouble is, you see something like that and it's hard to even explain it except to a chorus of "so whats".
22 But I just thought it was fun, especially since I never even set an alarm clock. My frabjous, insomniacal brain decided it all for me. I really don't think I had a thing to say about it, except maybe this DN.
23 Without going too deep, it all seemed sort of meaningful.
24 You know how you get all cynical and old about stuff as you move on, but this was really a fun one. I never saw a lunar eclipse before, nor meteor showers, but I really did enjoy it. There are times in life when certain things just happen.
25 I had a nice morning afterwards and went into the new school year with a grin and a lot of confidence. I set out to conquer the entire Universe, the first step of which begins with an eclipse.
26 And yeah the computer went wonky, and things were all sixes and sevens yesterday.
27 But I enjoyed the mystery of something bigger than all of it, and for a cynical old brown shoe looking out on a big "so what", the miracle of it all took hold yesterday morning.
28 Just wanted to share that.
29 Have a cosmic day.
30 Peace.
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