Wet vs. Dry
Posted in: Frustrations, Heroes, Life, Philosophy, Politics | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 01 March, 2010
We have an election concerning expanding alcohol sales here in Danville to include that of packaged sales. For those outside of the area, let me be clear – you can already get it by the drink in several establishments, as well as packaged in several nearby counties, including a less then thirty minute drive in at least three directions. And yes, you guessed it, I have an opinion.
I really hate to break this to the world, but I have just been lazy. Really as for blogging I suppose it goes back to November when I did the month full of posting once a day. Did that sour me and burn me out? I do not really think so. I really dislike making a posting about all the reasons why I have not blogged, as I am sure it is not really that interesting of a read, but I am feeling compelled for my own sake all the same. It is my blog after all so bear with me, after all it is 6:00ish in the AM on Sunday morning and I have been awake since 4:30ish at least.
I have not really been the mood to do much blogging the last few weeks and the number of posts shows it. A couple of times I have been close to being motivated, but I really got the mojo on after having issues with the hosting platform and being shut down yesterday. As ticked off at Lunar Pages as I was yesterday, I suppose I should really be thanking them for getting my groove back on and hence the very reason I am posting this tonight.
And of course as a correlation to the best ten moments of 2009, there had to be a worst ten moments/experiences of of 2009. I am not sure if this indicates that I am a negative person or not, but it seems to me that the ability to find the ten negatives was easier. I am going to go with instead that I had such happy moments to choose from that it made it difficult, where the negatives were far and few and hence easier to select. How is that for positive thinking?
Any one seen the movie An Affair to Remember? I am sure millions of you (as if I have that many readers) have seen it. I am sure further that a good half of that number would list it in a top 25 romantic movie list. And for those that have not there would be an equal number would recall the references and clips of the movie in the more modern movie Sleepless in Seattle. Well, I am going to say that I just really do not like the movie and what is all about, which is really saying something as Cary Grant is one of my favorite actors from the time period it was produced. If you have not seen it, warning for spoiler information ahead… 
Okay, I admit right off the bat that maybe this is not the best of times for me to be behind the keyboard. I have had a few stiff bourbons and having exhausted that I have moved on to lesser things like improvised margaritas. That being said though, I have something on my mind, and found it mostly expressed in a few songs, on in particular. A country-ish song from a few years ago, well now that I think on it, a LOT of years ago. That aside though, there is a song entitled “You Just Get One…,” the lyrics of which include, “You just get one true love.”
I just have had one of the oddest days today and thought I would share a bit about it in pretty much the order that things happened. Most of it summed up to not a really good day, but a couple of things did have a positive moment or two in there. The day began with getting going a bit good deal before 7:00am on what was being a day off for me…
I will begin with I probably knew better from the get go, but I was lured in all the same. After all when I read the message of a fourteen day free trial with no obligations and thirty six credits it sounded pretty good. I was, after all, in the market for a few songs here and there that I was wanting to get, just the single song, without purchase of an album of what have you. Besides the small print clearly stated, no charge would be made so long as the account was canceled during the fourteen day trial period.
Read an article that showed up on a list I am today about a Mr. Xinos, an attorney in a town in Illinois. Apparently the town has just recently cut some funding to the library resulting in a some jobs being cut at the library. According to the article, after a couple of speakers, one of which was a child, Mr. Xinos had some really less then things to say and further suggested that the entire library be closed.
Today has been about as filled with ups and downs as I have had in a long time. It technically started at what most of you would call late last night, but I will officially go with it being today. I have have near disasters followed by some very uplifting experiences. Given that I thought I would share some highlights of my Sunday with you all. I may use some of these to expand into a more full blog later this week, but not sure at this point if I will or not.
