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|#116608 - 11/19/05 04:52 PM F4 Tornado.....Never seen anything like this!
Registered: 04/06/05
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Loc: Madisonville, KY
At 3:30 this afternoon it will be four days since the tornado hit.
First thing. We are fine. My wife was at a client's lumber office when the tornado hit. They saw it coming and 12 of them got into a crawl space under the office. Janet said it was like the sound of a train going by. They came out and found the building they were in damaged but not seriously. They went outside to find the lumber yard and all its outbuildings destroyed. She called me on her cell and said shes had been in the middle of a tornado and my son and I should be in our safe zone. I had been watching the sky and knew the storm had passed so we got in the car and headed for Janet.
We live on the north side of Madisonville and had no damage, just rain. Pat and I drove down the four lane towards the south side. We passed through the area where the storm had corssed the parkway. Lots of tree damage.
We drove on to the lumber yard and found Janet and the owners walking around stunned at the damage. She obviously got the huge hug from me. I am so thankful that she was unhurt. We walked around a looked at damage of the kind I have seen after other tornados. Severe, but not total devastation.
We returned home to change to clothes and get ready to help. Our friends Jim and Janie live in an area hard hit. They had been at work and were safe, but could locate their daughter. They had been told that they could not go home because the damage was too great. They called us to help find Katie who babysits in your neighborhood. The phone lines and cell phones were sporatic with no power. We got in the car and started looking for her. Janie stayed at the church were she works and waited there while we and others looked for Katie. After the power went out, Katie, the children she was sitting and their parents went to McD's for dinner. When Katie was unable to reach her parents, they went to the church and parents and child reunited. Jim and Janie tried to go to their house and were allowed to walk. In the dark they were able to walk their street and shocked to find only shadows where houses had been. Their house was standing but did not enter in the dark. When they called to tell us all this we made our home available to them.
We heard that the damage was more severe in an area where some friends live so we knew we should try and help. We ate a quick bite of dinner and headed towards the south side and our friends. The main drive to the subdivision was blocked by police so I drove the back roads to their home. The closer we got, the more we knew they had big trouble. Rescue crews had cleared a path with chain saws and front-end loaders. Trees were piled up on both side of the street. It was already dark and I couldn't see far, but I didn't see anything good.
We finally got to their house and found Burl and Paula's neighbors and other friends there removing furnishings from the house. We pitched in. A one-story addition on the back of their two-story house was gone. The roof of the house had slid 4 feet towards the front of the house. There were 2x4s sticking through the walls. One friend had brought a 6 x 20 trailer and we loaded as much as we could. Paula picked through her belongings and told us what to save. We worked until the police enforced a curfew. I did get time to look around outside in the dark and I knew in the morning that it was not going to be a pretty picture.
We returned home. The power was back on. Jim, Janie, and Katie were there, stunned by what had happened to them. We had a few beers and drinks that night while talking it out. Needless to say, it was a restless night in our house.
Wednesday morning Jim, Janie, Katie and Janet headed for Jim and Janies' home. I stayed at our house to answer the phone and coordinate the recovery effort. After more friends and family were contacted, I headed for the site.
As I got to the south side, I could see the damage to the golf course and the homes to the east where we had worked the night before. Trees snapped off and blown over. The is no branch smaller than 5-6 inches on any tree. In the daylight I see my first damaged house. And it's not there. A fireplace and chimney at one end and a closet safe at the other end of a concrete pad. Nothing in between. I mean nothing. No toilet. No bathtub. No pipes sticking out of the concrete. No appliances.
I cross the ridge that is the end of Madisonville and the beginning of Earlington and I am stunned. The neighborhood where Jim and Janie live is on a ridge on the west side of the road. I stare in amazement as I realize there are no houses and trees on the hill. Everything is knocked down. I drive to the site and get out just shocked at what I see.
Highland park had 12 homes. 8 are demolished. Nothing but foundations or basements. 1 is a twisted wreck where the house was spun on the foundation and it leans into the basement. 2 have no roofs and missing walls with the contents missing. Jim and Janie's has 1/2 of roof left with at least 3 huge trees layng into or across the house. The wind had blown part of the roof off and then blew out the wall at the far end of the house. The sheets of the bed in the master bedroom were sucked out the hole and the mattresses thrown up against the wall. The windows were blown out or broken by branches. The inside doors twisted and broken off the hinges.
This is the only house on the street where the majority of personal items have been salvaged. We spent two days sorting and packing and moving them to a new home. Jim's employer has a home for sale and she offered it to Jim. It needed a lot of work and we think that by Monday or Tuesday they will be able to move in. They are there now trying to organize it.
Back to the subjet line. NOAA officials have now determined that when the storm touched down it was an F4. Very few F4s are recorded. None ever anywhere near here. No one was killed. 25 or so injured. Some seriously. A 500 yard path for about 15 miles. The FEMA guy said he had never seen so many homes destroyed in an area. I have seen the aftermath of tornados before. Nothing compares to what a see when I stand on the hill at Jim and Janie's and look down the path of destruction. These were not mobile homes and trailers, but well built one and two-story homes. I have never seen a brick home destroyed before. And my bigger question is: Where is all the stuff that cames from these homes? I look at a roofless building and down the path of destruction and no roof is to be seen. Where are all the refrigerators, washers, dryers, toilets, tubs. sinks, mattresses, furniture, etc? I drove to work yesterday to a site 45 miles away. I did see alot of plastic and fiberglass insulation in fields 40 miles away. There must be a lot of stuff in farm fields northwest of here.
There were over 100 homes destroyed here. About 600 have some kind of damage. The Red Cross is on the job and churches opened there doors as shelters. We will heal.
I'm trying, but I don't know if I have expressed how amazed I am at the power of such a storm. If you are fortunate enough to get a warning, hide yourself in you concrete reinforced bunker.
Thanks for listening,
|#116609 - 11/19/05 05:04 PM Re: F4 Tornado.....Never seen anything like this!
Registered: 12/30/03
Posts: 6331
Loc: Cleveland, Ohio
I'm speechless, but giving thanks that you and your friends are uninjured. Cling to that, and to each other.
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton
|#116610 - 11/19/05 05:05 PM Re: F4 Tornado.....Never seen anything like this!
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Doug, I am so glad everyone is fine in your family. Back when I was 7 years old in 1974, an F4 Tornado pretty much leveled my home town of Ankeny, Iowa. Back then it was a town of about 15,000, today it is much bigger and has become a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa.
Anyway, I remember that night like it was yesterday. Hope I never have to experience anything like that again. I am such a light sleeper now, that I wake up when it sprinkles.
Take care man...Randy
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Are you referring to counting "how many sequence types" are present in the dataset? What would be the purpose of clustering the reads? Deduplication?
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Expect the roads to be awash with politically correct people on the road hot, dazed and confused with all the goings on. It is not far from Mayor Boris Johnson offices so I expect he may even attend for a speech. traffic flow.
Next week is a similar thing, the politically correct cyclists will be raising the British flag half mast next week in the name of charity to raise cash to help Breast Cancer research as cyclists boldly cycle from Malta to London starting on the 19th July. The organisation to find out more about this is Alive 2013 charity. If you are a cyclist in a city count your lucky stars you still have a license but please stop ringing those bells and shouting the most bizarre things to get attention its quite distracting and will no doubt only turn into an accident, scateboarders and people roller blading don't do it so why do this?
If you are concerned about cycling on the city streets you can take a test and improve your skills, I have provided a document I have found online which gives you half the story, just like the London Mayor does over on Stirring Trouble Internationally.
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In celebration of Michael Cacnio's 20 years in brass sculpting, Cacnio does an unusual but fun collaboration with global giant LEGO for an exhibit aptly called INSPIRE.
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And College Station native Brek Shea will be training with the United States Under-23 team later this week in Frisco, another big step for him. "Yeah, it is no big surprise. It's something very important to Brek and it should be important to any player to get called into the Olympic team and have an opportunity for lifetime memories," Hyndman said. "It's quite an honor and I think he'll do fine.'
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"In my hole in the basement there are exactly 1,369 lights. I've wired the entire ceiling, every inch of it. And not with fluorescent bulbs, but with the older, more-expensive-to-operate kind, the filament type. An act of sabotage, you know. I've already begun to wire the wall. A junk man I know, a man of vision, has supplied me with wire and sockets. Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is in the light and light is the truth. When I finish all four walls, then I'll start on the floor"
- The Invisible Man.
Sometimes I feel like the invisible man - dying for more light in the dark spaces. I find that one finds light through loving to the point of expense. Because I think that love, in any real form, always costs one person or another. I read an Andree Seu blog today about this exact thing. It was entitled "going first." I was particularly moved by the following -
"My own personal experience of being loved unilaterally is that it is completely disarming. Love can break a bone better than meanness. When somebody 'goes first' to love me after I've been boorish, coals from heaven and hell are heaped on my head. I could even envy the one who goes first; I know that a person like that is free. He is not controlled by other people's issues. They may hurt him but they can never destroy him...he does all he does from a position of strength."
I was loved unilaterally, this evening, after learning the photo technique of "painting with light" this weekend. The two aren't so different - you turn off the lights in a room, set a frame open for an extended amount of time, and turn a flashlight on to illuminate the beauty in a thing until the moment closes, and then run back behind the tripod to check out what you created.
I'm thankful for what illumination created in me.
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What will you be doing today? Will you be going to work? Attending school? Running errands?Whatever you will be doing today, please drop by here, I got something for good reflections.
No greater cause for thankfulness do I have than these things, that I should be hearing that my children go on walking in the truth.(3 John 4)
Being a family head in this wicked world is a challenge. Satan and his demons endeavor to destroy the spiritality of God's servants.Moreover, there are a lot of pressure on you, parents, especially on single parents.It is difficult to find the time you wanted to do.But it is worth the effort, even if you can only apply one suggestion /advice at a time to improve your family get together towards God.
Seeing those who walk loyally towards God' way is a heartwarming reward. To walk succesfully in God's way together family members need to find joy in family bible study, going to mass(spiritual reunions)and share in "evangelising" work. For that to be true,preparation is required- preparation that builds up the heart and that equips each one to have a meaningful share.
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I think The Actual a great example of modern writing in that there is really no emphasis on plot and much of what we encounter are fragments that are decontextualized. Some of the players involved have implied roles, yet offer no true forward momentum to constructing a plot.
There is a collection of cinematic scenes, internal thoughts, and observations. The reader must put all of this together. We end up trying to figure out what the story IS while we are reading. And, it is a bit of a twist to see the fragments i THOUGHT might develop where actually red herrings (as you mentioned). In the end it was a simple old flame who really did make our main, mysterious character truly conscious.
The old flame theme idea rears its head in a completely realistic manner. Life goes on with its monotony on one side and its chaos on the other. Many times during a day one connects with their past—externally and internally. Even if you change locale and friends—its always inside you.
The immediacy of life hit me in the face by the end of the book. Marriage, love, and trying to cope with it all while Death hangs over head. Old relationships, ones that could have been but never where.
There are some people who have a profound ineffable affect on me. There is an attraction way beyond the physical. It is the missed opportunities with those unique people which are often viewed with regret. We all have them.
I am thankful that I attained closure with two unrealized loves from my past. I sought one of them out, and the other found me. I walked away much wiser with a strong acceptance of our attraction and incompatibility. Unfortunately, i am also reminded of all the loves that where realized yet ended unresolved and without closure. There is a residue from these things that lingers until you get so old you forget everything you ever did and everybody you ever knew.
Friday, December 4, 2009
The Actual—#2
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The Trib Live shared the stories of two consumers we've helped together with getting coverage because of the Affordable Care Act. From the article:
"Consumer Health Coalition, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, has helped people — including Whiting — enroll in Medicaid and individual insurance plans sold on the federal insurance marketplace at healthcare.gov.
Sally Jo Snyder, the organization's director of advocacy and consumer engagement, said Whiting's situation is common. Many people breathe a sigh of relief after signing up, Snyder said.
"It's a huge exhale for them finally to be able to have coverage," she said."
Read the full article here: http://triblive.com/news/healthnow/11842404-74/medicaid-expansion-percent


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This blog is for pilot wives, girlfriends and really anyone who is in a relationship with a pilot. It is good to discuss the joys and challenges of the pilot wife lifestyle. It includes a lot of mine and Mr. Rights views which we hope will provide advice and support take what you like or need leave the rest. My hope is to meet other pilot wives and foster those friendships through sharing, and commenting because we can learn so much from eachother.
Seafood Feast from the Gulf to the table
Yesterday my parents in law and son myself took a trip to Galveston Beach for a day in the sun and relaxation. There is a little market off the port pear called Katie's Seafood Market and I just love it. I shop there every time we go to Galveston and buy fresh flounder and shrimp or other fish. Yesterday we grilled the flounder and some of the shrimp, we made shrimp coctail with the rest of the shrimp. Check out meals for two for the recipes. Yumm yumm.
Adjustment after pilot has been gone also know and 1st day home jitters (Survey)
I wrote about this few times (First day back jitters and Theanti……….cipation as well as He is coming home) and the topic comes up often in the different groups I belong to. How to cope with the jitters? How to seamlessly slip back into the routine? In the survey I asked how others do it. Is there a secret to having a successful home coming every time?Continued in Survey
Positives and Chellenges of the pilot lifestyle (survey)
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Why are pilots pilots? There are numerous reasons why people choose their profession and I know that for us my husband loves to fly, with that choice comes a unique lifestyle that allows for travel and presents many opportunities as well as challenges -so I asked the wives and girlfriends to list the positive and challenging things about this lifestyle. Here is a summary of their take on the pluses and minuses of the lifestyle and job, listed in order of most often mentioned to less often.
For the entire survey reults please go to Survey and the section has *NEW next to the title
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A perfect break
Once in a while you get blessed with a perfect break. The last 7 days were amazing. With this schedule of days or weeks away from home sometimes the home coming is sweet and sometimes it is not as smooth as one would hope. I wrote many times about the preparations that go into Mr. Right coming home in "He is coming home!!!", I also wrote about the struggle to find a balance in "Folks we are experiencing turbulence due to colliding fronts" and in "Unclear try a different freq.". But what does it take to have a perfect break, what is the formula for a perfect week?
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Before I saw any Iowa Hawkeye fans here in Tampa for Outback Bowl week, I encountered a pair of Oakland Raider fans Saturday afternoon.
Neither were as divine-looking as the gentleman in the photo above. One wore the No. 24 jersey of Raiders defensive back Michael Huff. That was as far as the costume party went.
But make no mistake about it, some Raider loonies will be in Raymond James Stadium Sunday when 4-11 Oakland tries to spoil the playoff hopes of the 9-6 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As horrible as their team has been for several years, some Raider fans seem to make it to all the road games to leave their indelible impressions.
Meanwhile, a shuttle driver told me that for the first time in the history of the NFL in Tampa, local fans will be rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles eliminated Tampa Bay from the playoffs in January of 2000 and 2002, only to lose the NFC title game to the Bucs in January of '03. Tampa Bay went on to win the Super Bowl that year, a feat the Eagles have never accomplished.
But if the Bucs beat Oakland as expected, they'll need Philadelphia to win at home against Dallas to put Tampa Bay in the playoffs.
If you say this doesn't matter, you are anywhere but Tampa. The Outback Bowl was page 10 sports news in Saturday's Tampa Tribune.
Television commercials are airing trying to drum up interest in Outback Bowl tickets. It's pretty much a given that the South Carolina fans who do come down to Tampa are mostly going to be ones who stay just one night.
This game has had better matchups than two unranked teams, Iowa and South Carolina, with a combined nine losses. It's had many better matchups.
But you know what? The Hawkeyes and Gamecocks should surely put on a more competitive game Thursday in Raymond James than what the Raiders give the hometown Buccaneers Sunday.
If that's not the case, either one of the two Outback teams will have laid a big egg, or the Bucs will have stumbled around in their regular-season finale.
I'll be at the Raiders-Bucs game to provide Gazetteonline.com and The Gazette a piece on former East Buchanan High/University of Iowa standout Robert Gallery, who will be finishing his fifth season — all losing seasons.
In fact, Oakland is 19-60 since it took offensive lineman Gallery with the second pick of the NFL draft, ahead of Phillip Rivers and Ben Roethlisberger, to name a few.
Not to lay blame on Gallery. Everyone who follows a little NFL football knows the Raiders' franchise has been fouled up for a long time.


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A club newcomer kept the streak alive as the Walden Mountain Bike Club Wolfpak Racing/Inception Cyclery team earned a podium finish, yet again.
Racing in the first Scott Ontario Cup XC Series event of the year last Sunday in Woodnewton (Ontario), Samantha Fuller topped all
competitors in the Cadet Expert Under 17 Women's field, covering her course in 47:10.
Chris Bryce and Alex Anstice both finished in seventh place in their respective categories, while Katlyn Dundas and Nicholas
Tavchandjian were one spot further back.
Following is a full breakdown of results for all 11 racers that represented the Wolfpak:
The Wolfpak are back in action this coming weekend, travelling to the Mansfield Outdoor Centre, site of the Intense Cycles Epic 8 Hour Relay


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Former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Maine) calls on Obama to work on an exit strategy from Afghanistan:
A BBC/ABC public opinion poll of Afghans reveals that fully 80% of the population is opposed to an escalation of American troops. Many of those who are shooting at our soldiers are not jihadists; they are proud Afghans who are famously sensitive to the presence of foreign forces on their soil.
The lack of an exit strategy also works against President Obama's regional strategy-outreach to the neighboring nations who have zero interest in a Taliban dominated Afghanistan because it would threaten their national security as much, if not more, than our own. How likely will China, Russia and particularly Iran be to join the U.S. if the outcome might be tens of thousands of U.S. troops on their border?
We need Congress to step up now and help prevent what has now become "Obama's War" from turning into a quagmire that undermines, if not destroys, the critically important agenda the President is fighting to pass here at home.
We need to step up too. We can start by contacting Members of Congress and urging them not to succumb to a vote-now, ask questions later approach to war funding even if it is our guy who is asking for it. We need a critical check-and-balance before it is too late to stop an endless war in Afghanistan.
The war spending bill is on the floor of the House of Representatives next week.
We often, as citizens of an empire, look at our military actions abroad as distant and not affecting us. But if we continue to use so much violence in a place we barely understand as a part of the geopolitical power game taking place in Central Asia and the Middle East, we can expect many more Bin Ladens to be born as a result.


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Thursday evening Zul Hijja 14, 1430 (December 3, 2009)
Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to try to understand what is beyond the grave, and be sincere about what you bringing there. If you are not sincere with yourself, you cannot hide it. Stop complaining; this means you are happy with your Lord. After hardship comes ease, then hardship again. ALLAH swt puts everyone under test. Be patient with the tests. It is easier when you are living for the sake of ALLAH.
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Anyway, for those of you that don't need the lesson and are here for the eye candy, below you'll find a list of our 7 favorite jQuery scripts and effects that we have used in our new jQuery template category so far:
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Our 7 Favorite jQuery Template EffectsMonday, July 26th, 2010
50 Ways to Earn CommissionsThursday, July 22nd, 2010
|The BoxedArt affiliate program is offering a special increased commission rate of 35% (usually 25%) through Halloween (October 31, 2010). We're also giving high performing affiliates (affiliates that provide a dozen or so sales per month and/or 75+ hits or so a day), the opportunity to permanently retain their rate. To help in promoting your affiliate links, we've assembled a large group of our banners, and have composed a list of promotion ideas to the tune of Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover."
A Decade of Design EvolutionSaturday, July 10th, 2010
|Web design styles have been evolving rapidly in recent years, and the design industry has sprouted up like an over watered Chia Pet, incubated in an industrial green house, and crammed full of Miracle Grow laced with crystal meth. I clearly remember the time (circa 1990′s) when the only sites available to help you put up your website were along the lines of cgi-resources.com and htmlgoodies.com. You got a basic script that did mostly what you wanted, hacked away at it, and tried to figure out how to make some sort of basic layout nesting and re-nesting tables until finally a family of birds moved in.
Themes? Templates? Skins? There were a few "free template" sites around back then, but they were fairly obscure, and commercial templates were virtually non-existent. A script came with one look – plain, and if you wanted to change it, you spent a few weeks in Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop pasting together graphics and inserting rotating gifs. If you have no idea what I'm talking about then you haven't been webmastering until sometime in the 2000′s when starting up a site had become easier and prettier.
Since commercial template design entered the scene in the 2000′s, the styles on the market have been constantly changing, especially over the last few years. Below, we've compiled a comparative sampling from 2001 through 2010 showcasing the evolution of designs. You'll be shocked at where we started with our layouts and just how far we've come.
How it Was Made – BoxedArt Website Design TutorialSunday, September 27th, 2009
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Tutorial: Create a Pattern Background with PhotoshopWednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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The Gentrification of Coeur d'Alene?
"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to,
Why don't you go where fashion sits...PUTTIN' ON THE GLITZ"!
--written (sorta) by Cole Porter while he sat at an outdoor restaurant, obviously...
I don't usually buy Sunday Newspapers; I don't think they're a very good value. You basically are paying over twice as much for twice as many ads...from what I've seen, the "news" portions of a Sunday paper aren't all that much bigger than you get Monday thru Saturday. But, the screaming headline on the front page of ye olde Sunday paper really caught my eye. "Puttin' On The Glitz", which referred to Coeur d'Alene's going-out scene becoming all upscale and yuppie. The article referred to the newest outdoor restaurant, the "Beacon", which charges $17.50 for a Pastrami Sandwich. WHAT???? I suppose you can wash it down with an overpriced Coke, or some expensive fruity pseudo-cocktail...
Yeah, the scene is changing downtown. On weekends, music booms out of an open-front nightclub a little further up Sherman Avenue, which must mean that if you have a business that brings outside dollars to the area, you can violate Coeur d'Alene's vaunted noise ordinance all you want. Allegedly, all of these spiffed-up folks who litter the sidewalks with their presence like to sit around, drink expensive drinks, and watch all the other folks who are also drinking expensive drinks. I don't know...I think I am at the place in life where society is leaving me behind. I don't feel the need to go out and display myself (not that there's much to see), and as I drive up Sherman Avenue and see the human masses seated outside, I think to myself, "gosh, I'm glad I'm going HOME." Harrumph!
Now, I suppose I'm a hypocrite. Yeah, I can't deny that I go downtown to spend money on unnecessary things. After all, I go to the Java Place and drink $2.00 cups of coffee. Ah, but there's a difference. While the masses flock to outdoor bars at night to indulge in varying degrees of social shallowness, my treks to Java are a matter of survival. I go there because if I don't get a cup of coffee somewhere after I get up, I feel like I'm gonna DIE! Either I go to Java downtown, or I risk life and limb going into the northern part of town, to go to Starbuck's where the 'quotes' printed on their coffee cups tell me how to live my life. Ack. And at Java, yeah, I do "people-watch" to a point. So maybe I'm shallow. But at least I'm SOBER. And I'm not eating any seventeen-buck-ham sandwiches either!
Speaking of being downtown, I hardly ever see a Police Car downtown at night when Sherman Avenue is inundated with people, all over the place, outside, in various states of intoxication. You would think downtown Sherman Avenue would be a feeding ground for the "Blue Meanies", after all. Many times I've driven up Sherman and have encountered folks ambling across the street to get to their cars, so they can amble all the way home as they try to drive. Yet I can get pulled over on a Sunday morning, when absolutely no one else is on the road, for not SIGNALING before I turn. In spite of the fact there was no one to signal for. Except for, perhaps, the cop. That actually happened to me a few years ago.
I am also sick and tired of getting my ears blasted to smithereens every time a motorcycle (or two or three or twelve) roar up Sherman Avenue; I guess Coeur d'Alene's outside bars are now catering to the Harley-Davidson crowd. I know that "Harley's" are one of the definitions of Americana (whatever that is), but I absolutely HATE the way Harley engines sound. I can hear 'em over half a mile away sometimes. And as they roar past me, I literally WINCE from the noise they make. Even when I'm INSIDE the java place, I can barely tolerate the damn NOISE when they ROARRRRR past. Hey, "powers that be", how about an ENGINE noise ordinance, too?
Rather than waste my time a bar attempting to be social, which never did me any good, I prefer to watch the sun set and experience the lake breezes. At night, in the park, the skateboarders are gone, there's no screaming kids and barking dogs, no obnoxious busybodies yakking away on cellphones, and the seagulls have gone to sleep wherever they go to sleep. (Where DO they go at night?) Anyway, you've seen those "Arby's" commercials where some hungry guy has Arby's little "Cowboy Hat emblem" hovering over his head...well, one night while playing guitar, all of a sudden I got awfully doggone hungry for a HAMBURGER...
This would be me, with my mind on food, playing a rousing rendition of "Scramblin' Man" by the Omelet Brothers. Yee-hawwwwww!
Hey, folks, if it's okay with you, I'm slowing down my blogging. The summer heat and corresponding mentality is kinda gettin' me a little bit. I think this is my first post since Friday. Has it been that long?


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Reading About This Bacon Creation Will Either Make You Cringe… or Drool.
Nick of Dude Foods created this monstrosity to debut on a local Milwaukee radio show as an extension of the increasingly popular bacon weave taco. He describes it on his blog as "sort of like an awesome version of Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch." What you're looking at here: two bacon weave taco shells with macaroni and cheese between them and a taco in the middle! So, are you thinking "gross" or "why didn't I think of that?"
The Double Decker Stuffed Mac n' Cheese Bacon Weave Taco serves as the savory sequel to Nick's first big bacon weave taco shell sensation: The Bacon Weave Choco Taco.
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I feel like I'm melting. The fat that holds up the veneer of my skin is oozing out of my pores like some rotten liquid, a putrid smelling blended concoction of thoughts, feelings and memories.
If nothing lasts for ever, then what makes any one thing last forever? What makes any one thing special? Well, not much does. Everything does. It is all so short, grab what you can...
"For better or worse" always seemed like such a cruel joke to me - a lie- perpetuated by those afraid of being alone. Me, I'm stuck being alone, always. People will accept parts, like or desire other parts, but no one ever wants the whole - "the worse". They always walk or run away in a mix of disgust, loathing, anger, frustration. No one ever wants to stay around to help me.
ME!!!! (Oh ya, right, that is just being self centered and selfish, so I need to stop.)
I'm stuck with, live with, must always deal with me. I will deal with yours!!! But everyone just leaves me - alone - as always.
So, just screw society. I'll be as nice to you as much as I can as often and for as long as I can, if you do the same for me. I'll always trust people - that people don't care, won't care, so maybe I can have less stress and stop caring for others. Society is here just for an individual's own gains, helping them to protect want they have, get what they want, and control those they don't like. A bunch of lying, two faced self centered idiots living in denial of their individuality so they can live with their weakness and fears in dealing with death, loneliness, and feelings of lack of self worth.
(Yeah, it's been a rollercoaster last few days... This is a cleaned up version of some free-flow I did earlier.)
Writings of both the random thoughts and feelings of one who experiences Bipolar and ADD disorders.
29 August 2006
"Alone again, naturally"
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Hi there! Visiting via DreamReplyDelete
Writer's blog. I'll be back later to read more.
Hey - Thanks for stopping by my blog - I will add your link to my blog this week.ReplyDelete
I will read your blog first thing tomorrow morning...:-)
Wow!! Are you ever expressive! Guess most of us bipolars are though. I found you through Dream Writer's blog as well and will look on you again.ReplyDelete
You might be interested in my new blog as well (started just a week ago) : marjabergen.blogspot.com Yesterday I also dealt with the topic of Stigma: a passion of mine (a passion full of anger and frustration).
See you around.
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These are the thoughts and feelings as they happen. The subject matter and verbage may be of a more mature nature, and may be considered sensitive by some. In respect for that, I shall try to remember to give headers (with some space before post) and attempt to just "suggest" sensitive verbage.
Peace, Blessings, I hope this can help some.
Peace, Blessings, I hope this can help some.


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TRAVELLER Schooner, damaged sails and hull in gale winds on Lake Huron. Property loss $300.
Buffalo Democracy
Feb. 28, 1855 (casualty list)
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SCHOONER "TRAVELLER"---We learn from Capt. Beckwith, of the Brig MOHEGAN,
that when he came past Pt.Gratiot, St.Clair River, he saw the TRAVELLER, at anchor at
that place. She had suffered considerably during the gale, had her sails and spars injured,
injured, and had her deck load of pig lead washed overboard.
The Democracy, Buffalo
Monday, October 16, 1854
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The schooner TRAVELLER, which we referred to yesterday morning, as being
in distress, at last accounts, in St. Clair River, arrived in port on Sunday last. She
had nearly all her head gear carried away, and sustained other damage.
The Democracy, Buffalo
Tuesday, October 17, 1854
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870Aethelred[1], translated from Wiltshire[2][3]; died in 889[4].
891Plegemund[5] died in 923[6].
923Aethelm, translated from Wells[7]; died soon after the coronation of king Aethelstan[8].
928Wulfelm, translated from Wells[9]. The exact dates of his accession and death are not known ; but the first probably took place in 928, and the latter in 941[10].
941Odo, surnamed the Good, was translated from Wilton, but the date of his election is not certain[11]: Florence of Worcester places his name after that of Wulfelm ; and in the list of bishops of Wilton, after his name, he adds, "Hie vir sanctus post Wulfhehnum Doroberniæ suscepit archipræsulatum." The Saxon Chronicle refers his death to 961, but Florence of Worcester more correctly to 958.
Alsine succeeded Odo; but in going to Rome for his pall was frozen to death on the Alps[12], and
Brihthelm, bishop of Dorset [Wells], was elected; but the King persuaded him to continue in his own see[13]; so that the next consecrated archbishop after Odo was
- ↑ Called also Ethered, Ethelfred, Aethered, and Aethelred.
- ↑ Saxon. Chron. Of the Wiltshire see, however, nothing occurs elsewhere before the beginning of the following century.
- ↑ Sax. Chron. and Flor. Wig.
- ↑ Flor. Wigorn. The Saxon Chronicle says 888.
- ↑ Called also Plemund, Pleimund, Pleigmund, Pleumund, and Clegmund. (Tiber. B. v.) After the death of Aethelred, the see must have been vacant for upwards of a year, as Plegemund was consecrated by pope Formosus, who did not take possession of the papal chair before 19th Sept. 891. Fleury, Hist. Eccles.
- ↑ Sax. Chron
- ↑ Flor. Wigorn.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Flor. Wigorn and Will. Malms.
- ↑ Wulfelm's translation is commonly said to have taken place in 924, and his death in 933, but there are charters extant witnessed by him in 940 and 941, (see Kemble's Chart. Anglo-Sax. vol. ii. pp. 226. 228. 234;) and charters witnessed by his successor Odo in 942. Ibid. p. 240.
- ↑ Gervase, (Act. Pontif. col. 1645,) writing of him, says, "Qui quot annis sederit, vel duo prædecessores ipsius, nondum ad nostram pervenit notitiam."
- ↑ Flor. Wigorn.
- ↑ Ibid.


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Farewell O' Vallium Run. Will I miss you? Not really. Eleven hours of trundling up and down the road, carrying the odd passenger was sometimes akin to watching paint dry. Then again every job has its down side and there were plenty of plus points. The characters on the run, the beautiful countryside where the light and the colours of the landscape were constantly changing.
It started out wet and dull, but very green ...
then the clouds lifted, the rain stopped and the sun came out ...
It was the usual Northern day. Four seasons in one day. Cold, warm, wet and dry. The only constant was the chill of the June wind, which varied from shivery to icy.
The passengers seemed sad to see the end of the bus route in its current form. They complained about the replacement service which would be a pale imitation of the current service. The introduction of any new service is always problematic, but this one with different times on different days, some buses roll up, some have to be booked and some only run as per demand, was challenging even the passengers with the most active brains.
It will sort itself out. There is no other option.
As a passing shot, one of the passengers is intent on giving a graphic description to their last visit to the dentist:
'He puts putty in my mouth. It's a nasty feeling. You see, he gets a large lump of putty and he rams it in my mouth ... that's when me arms and legs are waving all o'er the place. Then it gets worse ... he sticks ...'
Fortunately the passenger's stop comes up fast and it is not possible to complete the story.
So on my last run in the evening, I bid farewell to the Land That God Forgot, past the fields of buttercups which cover the redundant slag heaps and mine workings, past the caravan which never goes anywhere, the lay-by where some rubbish has been illegally left and the bus shelter where the pony is rubbing its backside against.
Will I miss it? I query again.
No I'll be driving through it on Monday, on another route. Through it. Without stopping. That's the best way to see it.