Mood: Out There, Dude

Word Count: A paltry 670

Last month was hectic at work. New boss was adjusting to our team and vice versa. I think we are starting to see the human side of her. So things are calming down. Honeymoon's over onto the lethargy of marriage. I had a woman at work tell me I had a good way of treating people as opposed to other supervisors. I asked her what she meant and she told me I treat people with respect and make them feel a part of the solution. I never get angry with anyone or try to talk down to people. She doesn't work for me but in the area and said a lot of the employees talk about me with respect. I needed that. I always felt people saw me as someone they could walk over.

Friday night I was planning to crash early when during some intermittent channel flipping I found a movie on HBO2 that I have been dying to see. Donnie Darko. I have not been this freaked out since the other time traveling movie The Twelve Monkeys. Jake Gyllenhal (sp.) was fantastically creepy and superbly weird. I never embraced my geeky side in high school or college sticking to the casual jock persona instead. A mistake in hindsight. I recommend the movie. Two big toes up!!

I had a good day Saturday with an early writers group meeting. Back in Louisville at the Hawley Cooke store I had a run in with a politician. Standing in the street blocking traffic was this woman, she was gawking at some store sign. I honked at her and she moved giving me a look. It was Congresswoman Anne Northup. I hate her politics but respect the way she performs her job. She just needs to get her ass out of the road.

Name dropper, Rob

Mood: Eh.

Word Count: Zilcho

I remember back in 1983 during Spring Break at Disney in Florida sitting in the parking lot in my god parents Winnebago. We were having lunch and resting from all the Mouse madness. On the little portable TV a space shuttle mission was preparing to launch. So the t-minus countdown ticks off and it launches. Plumes and plumes of white smoke fill the screen, you can't see the shuttle at all. Off to the east of Disney I look at the horizon and see a column of smoke growing slowly taller and taller. A glowing speck rides the tip of the smokey column and I sit slack-jawed. You need to realize this was the beginning of the MTV era and sensational journalism. A time I still had big dreams.

Out of here like Vladimir, Rob

Watching: The Bourne Identity DVD Matt Damon's best role since School Ties.