damn, well mine is leaking from the engine oil cooler (
And I think to myself...
...a look into my life from a 22,000 foot view
8.4.06
Wendell Adams found guilty in Nadia's murder
As an update to this case, Wendell Adams was found guilty yesterday of Nadia Whitmore's murder.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 8th.
1:17 pm - 7.24.06
Without lights, but not without power
It's an understatement to say St. Louis had an outage. Over half a million homes and businesses were in the dark. I was going to write about it, but my heart just wasn't up for it.
It's been interesting to say the least. I'm sure I could have said something humorous about the ordeal. In retrospect, I guess I'm sad that over. Sure I had to get by with losing food in the refrigerator, no TV/land line/Internet, lights, air conditioning, ect...During this outage, though, I had a chance to see some of the best of what St. Louis offers. Aside from some unnecessary high strung emotions, the city has been pleasantly peaceful and orderly.
It's been years since I simply sat with my neighbors and just talked. All too often, words are spoken in passing. Even worse, quality time with the family improved. Worse?!? Yeah, it took two massive storms bringing the StL to its knees for us to huddle into a bedroom together with the window open to renew our appreciation of having each other.
My perspective has been skewed for far too long. The result of all this has greatly empowered me to look at my personal life from a more macro perspective...and the view is wonderful, seeing all I have to be thankful for!
On a lighter note (get it, light...yeah, we have lights!) I realized there are two things I thought I could get by without:
1) Big candles, lanterns if possible.
-- Sometimes the electricity doesn't come back within 8 hours.
2) Car charger for a mobile phone.
-- I only found out the blackout exceeded 400k from Wednesday's storm by checking KSDK's WAP site. Also, Charter's telephone service failed...(remember cable services rely on inline amplifiers to get the signal to your house...and those are powered by the electric company)
7.17.06
For those of you that use ALL CAPS
I'd like to submit a motion to sit all of you down and skin the tips of your finger. Next, I'd soak a keyboard with the caps lock key disabled in a vat of Sea Breeze and for them to type out Psalm 119 (because, you know, since you're use to seeing big letters, you'll hold down that shift key). Oh, and while they're sitting there, I'd stick their feet in a bucket of driver ants.
Torture? Depends on perspective. Which is worse, having your skinned finger tips splash in Sea Breeze while your ankles eaten from the inside by the most carnivourous insect on Earth...or being forced to read a technical spec that's written in all caps, with no line breaks?
In my opinion, there's no reason for either. Turn off the caps, mkay?
7.8.06
St Louis Photobloggers
I like linking to St Louis-based sites. So, here's another one, St Louis Photobloggers.
7.3.06
Poison ivy iz teh sux0r
I have a fence in my backyard that is completely overgrown with weeds. Unfortunately, they're all coming over from my neighbor's yard.
About 2 weeks ago (Sunday), I decide to take the electric saw and start hacking at them. My right hand is slicing and dicing, and my left hand is pulling it all down. I get a good start, and call it quits for the day.
All is normal on that following Tuesday (during work), until my wrist starts itching. It looks like a slight rash. By that evening, that rash spread across my wrist and up my hand.
Taking some Benadryl to help me sleep, I awaken on Wednesday to find my right eye nearly swollen shut. My arm developed a puffy sore as well. Wrist was enlarged as well. That's when I realised I working fist deep in poison ivy on Sunday...which is funny because I live in the city, so "poison" anything is the last thing I'm concerned about.
All that I read up on the symptoms said that it should go away on it's own over time. The itching was bad at all, so I decided to let time cure it. That is, until Friday. By then, my wrist was actually hurting and it was getting hard to swallow due to pain.
I visited the doctor and explained what was happening (except the throat pain...didn't think it was related). She gave me a steroid shot and a 5 day, tapered perscription for Prednisone.
Shortly after taking my first dose, my throat started feeling better and the pain in my wrist went away. That's scary. If I decided not to listen to better judgement, I could have found myself in a dire situation.