February 19, 2001

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Quote to remember:
"Seize the day. Make your lives exordinary!"
     - 'Mr. Keeting aka Captain, My Captain', Dead Poets Society

I didn't realize what a 1.) small town I live in and 2.) the popularity of NASCAR in it. I was standing in line when I heard about Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash during the final lap of the Daytona 500. Everyone was talking about it ~ whenever someone walked by someone else would say, "Hey, _________, did you hear what happened??" Everyone was talking about how they couldn't believe that he was gone ~ and how he had died happy, doing what he loved to do.

Personally, although I am somewhat saddened by the fact that a person died, I just don't see the appeal of a something where all the contestants drive in circles for hundreds of miles. I wonder if any of the drivers ever develop a adversion to left turns?

Death seemed to be the theme for the day. Even This American Life's entire show was about it.

Do you know that there is a guy who put together a book composed of nothing but the last recordings on the black box of plane crashes? There was one incident mentioned where you could hear the automated system saying, "Please put out your cigarettes, this is an emergency dive!" long after everyone was dead. That is a bit creepy.

Speaking of creepy, some of the dream fragments I remember were just that last night. I think that all of this stuff got to me a bit ~ in one fragment, I was back in the building where I went to high school. (Creeped yet? hehehehe) Anyway, there was this guy there who I just didn't like. At one point, something happened (don't know what) and he was lying mangled (literally a bloody pulp ~ even though I didn't actually see it in the dream, I just knew) across a copying machine. Certainly dead. When I tried to leave the grounds with some friends I was with, the same guy met us in the parking lot. Not a mark on him, even though we all knew what had happened. We couldn't get rid of him.

Now, the operations of the mind being a strange and wonderful (well, most of the time) thing, I think I know what, uh, inspired this bit. C.M. went to the grocery store and I keep thinking that I was forgetting something. As we headed for the checkout, I remembered it ~ Kitt was out of dry food. I made the remark, "Good thing I remembered this ~ Kitt would have killed me! If you came home and saw a shredded, bloody pulp lying in the floor, you'd know what had happened!"

He took a little too much glee in that visual. Does this also mean that part of me is annoying and won't go away?

Another fragment I remember: I am sitting on the front steps of the house I grew up in, watching three huge storms merge into one in the sky above me. All three were the type with big, purplish black clouds that could spawn killer tornadoes. I was expecting an incredible clap of thunder when the three met but nothing happened.


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