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This isn’t about any particular incident or about any particular person. I’ve just been spending the last day or so listening to Silverchair pretty much non stop (psyching myself up for the show on Friday) and certain lyrics have been catching my attention.

The above line is from a song called “Across the Night” which is the lead track from Silverchair’s 4th album, Diorama. This album is probably the most personal for me, and I love the lyrics. I especially love this one because it really describes my way of thinking…and people’s misconception of me.

See, I’m not very sociable…I’m a wallflower. I like observing people, listening to conversations rather than actively participate. For whatever reason though, most people view this as me being anti social, rude, snobbish, etc. etc. I don’t care really, about those things. I know that I’m not like that, and the people who I care about know that I’m not like that.

However, even the people that I’m close to assume that because of my above behavior, I’m lonely. That’s furthest from the truth. Okay sure, there are certain moments when I do feel a bit lonely…but doesn’t everyone have moments like that? I think so.

But no, I like being alone. Not all the time, but I do enjoy (and frankly, need) to spend time by myself. I tend to get overwhelmed by constantly being around people and that’s when I start to retreat into myself and start counting the minutes until I can leave and go home and have a breather.

When I’m alone, I’m able to think better. When I’m with a lot of other people, there is often a lot of stimulation going on and I find my thoughts wandering or I end up with a headache as I’m so busy trying to concentrate on whomever I am with, and blocking out all those other stimulations. I like to listen to music. Sure, that’s an activity that I can do with other people but somehow conversations always seem to pop up and the music is just a background noise. I like to read and I like to write, both things I would rather do when I am alone. And, ultimately, these are the type of things that really make me happy.

When I want to be with people, I go out. I will pick up the phone and call a friend to chat, or make plans to get some coffee or whatever. In fact, I have actually been doing that a lot more than I have in the past…but I still feel as though people around me think that I am lonely because it seems like I don’t spend a lot of time with other people.

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I am excited! I talked with Sunny Flats Medical Center earlier today, and they’d love to hire me on. They’ve generously given me a good six weeks to get my act together and move down to Sunny Flats, and so I’ll be out of here in a few weeks and on to better horizons. I alluded to my hunt for a new job in an earlier post.

Sunny Flats has something like four times the patient volume of Our Lady. By my hillbilly standards, it’s huge. It’s got a renowned ER, a crapload of ICUs, and a vast sea of medical beds which I’m sure will provide me with many excellent stories. Fear not, dear readers: I’ll still be around at Sunny Flats.

I’d say that I’ll miss Our Lady, but…no. No, I really won’t. Some of my coworkers really are great, and I will miss them, but maybe I can poach them and bring them with me.

Anyway, congratulations to me! I’m moving up in RT world.

I have been monitoring earthquakes for over 20 years now. It’s a hobby! My children used to think I was paranoid as we are native Californians. I’m not. I just find it interesting and fascinating.

There is a pretty regular pattern (though not 100% of the time). Quakes OFTEN begin in
Asia. Once there is a notable one in the area, you can pretty much be sure that similar large quakes will take a southerly route around the ring of fire and go to So. America and then upward to No. America.

This is NOT ALWAYS the case, but over all these years it’s a pretty regular pattern.

Within the last 9 days there have been much larger quakes than usual. In the last six or seven years the intensity of the quakes worldwide has increased tremendously. Since
the terrible quake that caused so much death and horror in Asia, quakes has increased moderately around the world.

This is a list of quakes of intensity 6 or more (these are quakes you absolutely can feel, and can cause damage”:

Northern Peru 6
Aleutian Islands (Alaska) 6
Vanuatu (1300 miles NE of Australia) 6.1
W. Coast of Japan 6.6
Sea of Japan 6.8
South Tanzania 6
Tanzania 6
South of Fiji Islands 6.1

What makes these quakes a bit unusual to me is the proximity of them. Usually large quakes follow that pattern, around the ring of fire (volcanoes around the world) from Asia to South America and then upward to N. America and the top of the northern hemisphere, which I just mentioned.

Just thought I’d share this with you, but keep in mind, even though I have been monitoring quakes around the world for many years - I am not an expert. I not infinite. My thoughts are my theory. There is really no way to absolutely predict an earthquake precisely as far as I know. I do know many animal’s behaviors change just prior to an earthquake.

Our planet is alive. It’s still beautiful and unpredictable no matter how many people try to
predict the future. That’s part of the excitement of living to me! Any thoughts?

As I commented on today’s devotional “A Faithful Man” this is what the Ahead to 80 program is as I remember it.

Picture yourself at 80 years old and ask yourself these questions: What do I want to be doing when I’m 80? Who will I be doing these things with? How will I afford to do these things?

Then, back into it with your current age and start taking steps to get there. If you plan to be active at 80, then you need to take care of your health now. Are you exercising and eating right?

Are you spending time now with those you plan to spend time with at 80?

Are you putting aside money now so you can afford to do what you want at 80?

just that they’re too grown up and professional to have a FuckSpace of their own.

Bernard and Steven are carrying on without the leather-trousered Big Girl’s Blouse, then.

It’s no wonder that the unemployed bassist is flogging his Haçienda dead horse and wringing money out of not-for-profit charitable concerns over the use of an ex-club’s ex-name.

A new magazine called Mixtape - a collision of craft, eco-cool and pop culture kitsch is soon to be released with a kids art project from yours truly inside. Isn’t the cover wonderful!

I’m afraid I’m a little bit late in pointing you in the right direction (life just whizzes by here). Pre-orders have been cut off, but there will still be a few left in the etsy shop - so if you’re quick you might get one when they become available.

Quite an exciting project to be a part of, and a great mix of contributors. Hope it goes off like a rocket

Republican Rep. Christopher Shays apologized Friday for a loud and angry altercation he had a day earlier with a Capitol Police officer, saying he behaved “in a way I know was not appropriate.”

Shays spokesman John Cardarelli said the incident took place at the West Front entrance to the Capitol during a rainstorm when the congressman was trying to locate a group of his Connecticut constituents who were coming for a Capitol tour.

An intern had gotten lost with the group and had difficulty describing where they were to Shays, who asked to speak to the police officer. The officer refused, saying it was against policy to accept phone calls while on duty.

Shays eventually found the group and went to them, but the police officer refused to allow them to enter the building through the West Front entrance, which is off-limits to tourists. Shays, Cardarelli said, grabbed the officer’s lapel “to look at his name badge” and shouted at him.

“I know Chris swore, and he probably did use the f-bomb,” Cardarelli told CNN.

Shays later told CNN he did not remember grabbing the officer’s lapel, but he said he was angry and frustrated at not being able to locate the group and get them inside out of the rain.

“The one thing I do remember is wanting to know who it was — I couldn’t see the badge well,” he said. “I didn’t make a fist — that i’m sure of.”

“I shouldn’t have argued with an officer” or touched his badge, he said, and “I regret doing it.”

Shays also said that the point of his apology was “that I don’t want anything that I did to reflect on” the officer.