November 10, 2010
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The Daily News
1 So...Joe the Bear's ear walks into a bar...
2 A few days ago I was fishing around for a blind light socket, and I knocked Joe the Bear onto the floor.
3 He's SO cool. If you are a DN fan, then you know that Joe the Bear brings peace to the Earth, sort of like Gandhi, or Jesus, or maybe even Snoop.
4 He is this figurine who just sits and lets me know that you have to keep an even keel if you are going to enjoy the true things that matter in life.
5 Joe's deep.
6 It's clear that he wasn't bothered by the dis-earring, but I felt mortified.
7 I guess that's the difference between the human and the etheareal.
8 M'bad. Ethereal. I know that. I also know what it is. It's what you do in the morning. You ethereal. ; ) <---------- sideways winky guy, and yes, that's two groans it two items.
9 Well, I finished all my grading early on last night, and now I just need to enter all the data into the database.
10 Yeesh.
11 Database.
12 If you will.
13 At what point in life did we suddenly depend on "databases"? We're all turning into bots.
14 It's the end of innocence, I tellya.
15 Anyway, after tomorrow I'm free as a bird.
16 Grading papers at a high-achieving school. Climbing Everest in a blizzard. Same thing.
17 But I just planted a torn flag into the snow, and smiled like a Sherpa.
18 I'm gonna keep this one short today, because we have a minimum sched. We still have to go to meetings, but isn't that the bane of our existence nowadays?
19 Dude.
20 Who invented all of this anywayZ?
21 I just keep laughing, and poking the world on the nose and running, like a juvenile goof in a bear cage.
22 Life's WAY too short to take all the stuff we take on a daily basis seriously.
23 So I won't.
24 And you shounnnint either.
25 That's the way my students say "shouldn't".
26 Shounnnint.
27 No rest for the wicked, I well imagine.
28 Anyway, don't expect much. I'm off for a coupla days for Armistice Day and its good friend and confidant Veteran's Day.
29 So no DN's 'til next week.
30 In the mintum, I'm gonna try to see what's up with the new AOL, which absolutely can't figure out what to do with itself.
31 Someday I'll explain why I stay with that imbecilic company.
32 Right now though, I'm completely spent.
33 I feel like a boxer who was pummeled in the first fourteen rounds, but who now raises his hand in bruised and bloody glory. My eye is swollen, and my nose bleeds mixed metaphors.
34 And you know?
35 The fighter still remains.
36 That's it.
37 So much more to say, but I ain't sayin' it.
38 Have a restful and marvelous weekend.
39 I'm outta here.
40 Time to get Zen, hit the coast, and spring free.
41 Peace.
~H~
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