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Dean
I find myself terribly depressed today, so I probably won't be blogging much. Maybe later.
So what are you planning for today? And have you got any interesting links in the meantime?
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A happier new year to you and yours, Dean.
Here is a link:
Smell From The NY Times Rivals Tsunami Beaches
About the Times showing their lack of sensitivity, and respect for the dead in order to take cheap shots at Bush.
Loathsome Ghouls Rush In
Volunteers are still collecting bodies washing up on the one-time [Novotel Phuket Resort] pristine beaches. Amidst this massive slaughter by nature, determined tourists flock around them, playing in the surf or basking under umbrellas.
http://www.doctor-horsefeathers.com/
This line in the Winchester article:
The events that this week destroyed the shores of the Indian Ocean, and which leveled the city of Bam a year ago, were of unmitigated horror: but they may also serve some deeper planetary purpose, one quite hidden to our own beliefs
..is almost unbelievable.
Depressed? Hopefully not because of what day it is. I'm acctually looking forward to 2005. Not sure which blog I read it on, but I found myself agreeing... I have great reservations about 2004. I wasnn't sure I wanted to keep working in the job I was in, I fully expected a major terrorist act in the US in October, and there were a few health issues I was concerned with.
Not so for 2005.
I live by a saying - don't sweat the small things. Well, writing this and knowing how callous I might sound because I'm rather happy over 2005 in light off events halfway around the world... I need to add something to that: I guess I don't sweat the large things either.
I feel for the hundreds of thousands. I'm doing my part to get them back on their feet. But I guess it's part of my faith that has me KNOWING that everything happens for a reason, and that everyone goes when it's their time. Jeez, even that sounds callous. But it also - when combined with deep faith - gives me solace. Whatever my problems, whatever the problems of this world... the next existance will be better.
Turns out Helmut Kohl was an eyewitness when the thing hit Sri Lanka.
We're enjoying your AIDS coverage, and Deb is especially thrilled to see you doing the hands on journalism with it. This is one reason why you are one of the best.
No special plans for the Eve. Maybe I'll be in control of the cough and the nose will behave better by then. Ugh.
Though I will prolly leave early.
Wife nixed the idea of taking my xbox in with me, cause I woulda taken the 25 inch TV from the computer room, and thats no good, LOL.
Interesting links? Well, here's a piece on a website that can help you track where your dollar bills go. I've been doing this as a hobby for going on three years now, and I've had dollar bills end up in every corner of the country.
Feel free to leaven your depression with boredom, by perusing my book reviews at Amazon.
/thx
Now I have to brave the grocery store and drag myself around so I can get home and shut us all in for the duration. But look up, there's gonna be about twelve thousand hours of football on this weekend. Uh, never mind.
Happy New Year all.
To assuage your depression I would suggest you take Tony Robbins advice and try to change your state. As a former Michigander, I know the take down all the brass monkeys in the fall so I know it gets cold. But bundle up and take your family for a long walk. You may be surprised at how it'll lift your spirits.
It beats mopping around the house.
The tusanmi response is astounding - see Tim Blair.
My morning run-down has some good stuff in it. You might take a look at the You Big Mouth, You link I've got there. Norm Geras is profiling Don Sensing (one of the greatest resumes in the blogosphere). And I'm trying to put together a round-up of bloggers predictions for 2005. Got any?
I'm very unhappy to hear you're so unhappy. Perhaps the Queen can cheer you up. Happy New Year!
As to me, I've been reading Jeanine Ring's posts in SOLO (Sense Of Life Objectivists). She is one of the most fascinating people I know, right up there with Arnold Harris. Both are consummate individualists, admirers of "The Fountainhead" but -- or, rather, _and therefore_ -- have quite different _styles_.
Here is her spectrum. Ties in with the Political Compass, with the AFC/OICU2 spectrum, with Kelly Ross's spectrum, with Jerry Pournelle's spectrum, with many other spectra.... There's only one thing I love more than a spectrum....
jan
Hug.
Here's a post for you. I'm hated like Ann Coulter these days. Check out an anti-La Shawn blog set up by one of my bored detractors, via my blog.
I'm on-call at work and have a terrible headcold. So I'm going to rest as much as the pager will allow me to.
Scott: ROCK ROCK ROCK, ROCK'N'ROLL HIGH SCHOOL!
Except I'm doing Grateful Dead today.
La Shawn: You know you've hit the big time when people become obsessed with telling people how awful you are. ;-)
"The insults of an enemy are a tribute to the brave"
--old Afghan saying (I think)
A link for you in honor of the Year of the Rooster.
More your speed than mine I'd say.
You're kind, your thoughtful, you're a fine man according to this ole' lady. It might be because we are related but I really don't think so. You've added years to my life with your witty words and all the good things you do for others. I guess Dean, somedays are just better than others.
I wish you could move out of state and know that would feel kinda great but someday when the boys are grown you might be able to do that. The children and their MaMa want to be next to the family and it's kinda rough when you want to go but you know it wouldn't be good just now.
Pretty soon Drake will be out of the oven and you will be smiling again. I know the feeling, I really do. I had to live in Chicago and wanted to live back in my homestate. Time seemed to go by so slow and I would hate those dreary cold days but you've got lot's of people that sure care about you and that right there is something many people do not have and that is for sure.
Depression can also be a good time for reflection. Perhaps just knowing that will help and sometimes the body is just worn out and tired. Good you are listening to music and today I had a blast buying myself some fantastic CD's I got with Christmas money trouble is, I'm havin' a difficult time trying to get my stero system hooked up.
Hey Everybody, Guess who gave me this fantastic stero system!?!? Yep, it was me kid Dean. He showed up here in San Antonio, Texas sporting a Fedora Hat, a really cool jacket and some indian shoes that tied up really neat clear up to his knees! Been wonderin' if ya ever wore those anymore, they were soooo coooool!!!!
Sweetheart, you're one of a kind...Now don't go and get ALL EMBARRESSED cause your Ma just said those loving things. Hey, I wasn't like the Mom in the, Focker's! The mom was played by Barbara Streisand (I know, she a kook with politics but she was cute in this movie). I liked the whip cream scene and just imagine a son having a Mom like that,
WELL!?!?!?!! (hugs)
[ducking]
There was a crooked woman,
And she wore a crooked smile.
She had a crooked conscience,
Besides the crooked smile;
She stole a crooked vote,
Which was her crooked fate,
And so became the leader,
Of a very crooked state.
Your job situation is temporary. You are highly intelligent and with self-confidence and a good measure of ambition, you will have opportunities to better yourself. Don't give up. That's what depression is all about - giving up, losing faith in yourself and feeling hopeless. In reality, you have all the qualities needed to achieve financial security that you want for you and your family.
You have experienced a temporary set-back. Remember, you've said it once on this blog, poverty for most Americans is temporary. I wouldn't presume to say that you are living in poverty but with a family to support, you are dissatisfied with your present income and could use a higher paying job. Keep looking, keep improving yourself and most of all keep a positive state of mind and it will come. I know it's easy to offer advice but believe me, I've been there. The success I've had on the job only began when I was in my late 30s. After that, given ONE opportunity to prove myself, the financial rewards from working very hard have come regularly to me. They will for you too, I am certain of that.
And it's okay to be down for a day or two but don't stay there.
Hugs. You're the best.
Dean, hang in there with us baby!
If you or some of your readers would do me the favor of checking out my website I would be most grateful. I have posted a link at the top of the page to a "Garnet Sermon" that provides a copy of Henry Highland Garnet's 1865 address before Congress (the first African American to do so) and there is a link to "Irene Olivia Colbert Edmonds" who is a direct descendant of Garnet's. She was a professor at Florida A&M University and wrote a fantastic 1950s review of William Faulkner's black characters in his works up to that point.
If you read both pieces you can't help but have a far better understanding of where Democrats (and African Americans) got off track in the protests of the 1960s. Both writers believed in American exceptionalism and the blessings of the gospel.
Anyway, Happy New Year to one and all on this board -- especially you, Dean Esmay.