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Here’s one to watch.

Whether it’s conversion disorder or something else, it’ll be interesting. Hopefully everyone ends up fine.

… of the mind. I think about death almost constantly, but count myself an extremely happy person. I wonder if happy people secretly obsess more on death than the rest; we’ve more to lose.

The miracle of life is only a miracle because of mortality, because of the contrast of that little bit of light in the darkness. The facts of a dying sun and an expanding, ever lonelier universe do not dissuade the living. All matter has been slowly cooling since the Big Bang… forget global warming, the Big Freeze is how it all really ends.

Tim Clark suggested a childrens’ version of Ice and Fire at work the other day. I laughed a long time about that. I like the idea a lot. To support the above Big Freeze notion, the adult version was written by a guy named Frost. Am I crazy?

I really hope we don’t miss any basketball this year.

[Panini card from the 2009-2010 season. My boy Ray Allen.]

For some reason I just decided to look back on the past through Google Calendar, a tool I’ve been using since 8/15/2006… since the time my daughter was about to enter kindergarten; she is now finishing out fourth grade.

Wow. Stunning, amazing. If you have used a calendar like this to manage the last 5 or more years of your life, check it out. Five years is between 5-10% of your expected life span, and a lot of change occurs. At least, it does for me.

Although I am supporting the current union effort for PAT staff at UNH, I continue to listen to all points of view, often agreeing with anti-union folks on various aspects. There is a lot of grey area here.

The problem with binary, political stuff, though, is that sides must be chosen, conclusions must be reached…

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.

-Arthur Block

Even more troubling than having to conclude things out of pure fatigue? Having to remember where and when free speech is *actually* allowed here in the USA. All these rules surrounding union ’solicitation’ (see? Use a word like ’solicitation’ instead of ’speech’… voila!) are distinctly un-American, to trot out a chestnut usually roasted by the Right. Limiting speech to control political outcomes? Transparently fascist, people.

They say ‘America First’, but they mean ‘America Next’.

-Woody Guthrie

Do I need to say more?

Am I even allowed?

For the record, I have no rules surrounding when other people are allowed to speak to me about anything in particular, and I promise not to ‘run to Daddy’ if I don’t like what you have to say.

I don’t watch hockey, but I feel an obligation as a New Englander considering the Bruins haven’t won it all since ‘72. That’s three years before I was born. If I have my facts right, in both cases.

Kind of fun watching a new sport. Random thoughts include:

• It was cool how the guy singing Oh, Canada! used a tuning fork out on the ice, right up to his ear so he could hear it above the crowd, just before beginning.
• Hockey officials have to jump over the puck sometimes. That’s pretty damn athletic itself. I’ll bet hockey officials have to retire earlier than basketball officials. Looks a lot more strenuous.
• When one of the Bruins starred the protective glass behind the goal with a slapshot, it ruled.
• An announcer just commented that a shot ‘ricocheted off some Unfortunate in front of the net’ which made me laugh.
• Wow, seriously, no score for 3 periods until the Bruins give one up with 18 seconds to go? Does this happen often in hockey? Very disappointing. Not sure I lucked out on my first hockey game. At least in basketball, even if your team loses, you get to see them score about 50 times. I still haven’t had the joy of watching a Bruins goal! Hopefully next game.

I may add some bullets, if I keep on watching. Go Boston!

There is a lot of rhetoric around people needing to ‘make sacrifices’ in these hard financial times… you know, bear the burden of rising costs together, stop being selfish and all that. Presumably we are making sacrifices for the sake of this.

The whole system needs a push from below, that’s why I’m for the unionization effort at UNH. Not because labor laws and legacy political constructs make perfect sense… but because it’s the only civil method of applying that ‘push’.

Seems I’ve misplaced my give-a-shit.

If you find it, please… don’t return it. I sort of wonder where it ran off to, but I don’t miss it that much at all.

… Charlie is actually putting wins in the record books.

Confidence is its own reward.

Kinda makes me miss World of Warcraft.

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