March 22, 2010
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MONUMENTAL!
The Daily News
1 So yesterday moved beautifully for me, howzbout you?2 At least the DAY did.
3 At night, I had to finish up all the boushit I have to do each day, as well as reporting the NEWZ lol!
4 Well, I did just that. Spent two hours writing a pretty updated and engaging DN, and somehow managed NOT to save it!
5 Ah, yeesh.
6 It was cool, because it was all about my Dad, and his philosophical friend Red, both of whom crashed in a small airplane years ago when I was but a wee lad.
7 I spent all Saturday with my Dad, and he amused, enchanted, and was there with a wonderful quip each moment of the day.
8 I had told him about how I had misplaced something or other, and he told me about his way cool friend, whose name was "Red".
9 Red had fallen for my Mom's best friend, married her, and all of them remained friends for the remainder of their years.
10 Red was attributed with this comment, according to my Dad: "If a guy is an asshole when he is young, he'll be an asshole when he's old, and dyin' don't change it!"
11 Haha, truer words, truer words!
12 Anyway, when I told my Dad that I had misplaced something or other, he gave me yet another in a lifetime of quotes by the venerable Red: "When you can't find something, you'll spend the entire day wondering where the Hell it is; you will never find it until you finally get home, and plop your butt into a chair. At that very moment, whatever it is you were looking for will suddenly appear!"13 Ya gotta love Red.
14 I'm completely convinced that once I finish up writing this SECOND DN of the night, the first one will magically appear!
15 In many ways, it's almost enchanting, like a Disney movie or something.
16 So I was pretty upset about losing my first draft, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
17 Life teaches us lessons, and it is indeed an ongoing process.
18 Once we THINK we got it, life will show us that we don't.
19 Why trip?
20 Learn from it.
21 Dude, I'm tired,and it's Monday, and I've already written a 40 item DN, which is somewhere on Mars by now.
22 No point trippin'.
23 Just learn from it. I sure did.
24 But dude, I'm totally Zen.
25 Whatever that means.
26 Meanwhile, don't take your own idiocy seriously. The thing about life is that a pie in the face comes with the job.
27 Learn that.
28 Moving on: I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty pleased that a lot of people who don't have health insurance now will. Some day yesterday's decision will be seen as a monumental change, and one that is hopefully going to only get better with time. Even if it has bugs, it is unbelievably visionary, and I fully support it. It's about fookin' time. I've wanted that since I was a starving student in college, back when they had just invented colleges.
29 Hope you're not upset with that opinion, but it is my opinion. As you know, I'm seldom opinionated <tongue planted firmly in cheek>.
30 Fly low. It's Monday.
31 I love you.
32 Peace.
~H~
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