Quote for today

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Bored!

I'm so damned bored right now. I've been sitting in a McDonald's leeching their Wi-Fi for the last three hours waiting on my car to get fixed.

PLEASE HURRY UP! I CAN'T TAKE ALL THIS MINDLESS CHATTER HERE AND THESE SNOTTY KIDS CRYING ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!

Sunshine

Its a great day outside, the air is crisp and cool just like I like it. Its starting off to be a shitty day though. I've had so much going on lately, so much utter bullshit with my kids and my hearts broken. I don't know what my problem is today, I just wish I could enjoy how wonderful it is out there.

I feel like I'm drowning. To bad its not in the sunshine.

Home...

This was a nice greeting early this morning as I came up the back stairs.

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Crazy times...

How come the people we should love most in life, contribute greatly to making us heartless?

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20 minutes of oxygen - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

If I had the brains, here's what I'd do

Build a time door and visit my youth

This cigar burn is for effect

In the future you won't forget

When you're trapped in that airtight room

Flick the red switch but not the blue

So, if you remember

If you remember me

That'd be the rip-cord in my destiny

I know how it sounds, trust me on this

Your life to be hangs on this one choice

Keep your Hilti near, you'll know when

Twenty minutes of oxygen

So, if you remember

If you remember me

That could be the rip-cord in my destiny

So, if you remember

If you remember me

That could be the rip-cord in my destiny

If I had the brains, that's what I'd do

Build that time door and poke my head through

It's too late now and I'm still dumb

Twenty minutes of oxygen

No, you won't remember

You won't remember me

There'll be no rip-cord in my destiny

No, you won't remember

You won't remember me

There'll be no rip-cord in my destiny

Quotes on Education

"The children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone would be interdependent."
-John Dewey

“Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed customs. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.”
-William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.

"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
-William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906.

“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.”
-Stuart Chase, The Proper Study of Mankind, 1948.

"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."
-Justice H. Walter Croskey, 2008.

Keane - Atlantic

I hope all my days
Will be lit by your face
I hope all the years
Will hold tight our promises

I don't wanna be old and sleep alone
An empty house is not a home
I don't wanna be old and feel afraid

I don't wanna be old and sleep alone
An empty house is not a home
I don't wanna be old and feel afraid

And if I need anything at all

I need a place
That's hidden in the deep
Where lonely angels sing you to your sleep
Though all the world is broken

I need a place
Where I can make my bed
A lover's lap where I can lay my head
Cos now the room is spinning
The day's beginning

Evening...

Its evening, I'm hungry and its been a long quiet and completely uneventful day so far. In large part thats a welcome thing, as I've been moving new furniture in most of the week. I'm tired of moving. Its to hot to move all this crap around...

So I'm sitting her in the dark on the new couch blabbing away about nothing. I don't know why I'm even bothering.

Quotes for today

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
- Sidney J. Harris

Quotes for the evening

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

- Andre Malraux

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Bubbling brook

In the meadows of this wide old world
On winds with whispers long enswirled
In moonlights silver cloak unfurled
He awaits you in a dream

Near the coolness of a bubbling brook
In the shadow you watched what barely shook
As something crooked out to have a look
And in yours eyes set a gleam

Was a slender wolf with a shaggy tail
Looking hungry and just a bit to frail
It drew deep breaths as if to wail
When it saw you by the stream

And its pink soft toungue hung idly by
It stretched its legs and yawned a sigh
He lay down to watch this passerby
Who was more than they would seem

So to you dear dreamer near the water
Dare you fearfully to creep and totter
To the wolf whose breath is growing hotter
Or instead, will you just scream

Or instead, will you just scream

Child

Little me in you I see
I'll hold you
Like it should have been

And give to all a little you
I'll be your guide
And see you through

For you I'll be a guiding light
A star afar in darkest night
A soothing voice to calm your fright
A force for you when you must fight

Let me be your memory
When sadness brings you to your knees
Of smiles and laughter in the spring
Of wind and creaking strength of trees

My only wish, my only dream
Is for you to shine and burn and gleam
Like sunlight pouring down the beam
To a golden ripple on the stream

Ask me no questions - Wendy Mcneill

Quote for today (well, very very early this morning)

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

Douglas Adams

Suckitude...

I lost my job a few weeks ago... this blows. I'm looking really hard for a job but I'm either over qualified for everything (so the gently say when they respond that I didn't get the job) or its got some weird niche software hardware requirement that I've never come across before.

I'm ready to take just about anything just to have some money flowing in, really, I don't care at this point. SOMEONE JUST FREAKING HIRE ME!!!

I'm starting to get into a funk here. I can feel it in my bones. Its been in my bones for awhile now. Something is amiss and I'm not sleeping anymore.

Quote for Today

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard

Snow day...

The world I know is gone
A blinding blanket lay upon
Its face and it gleams anew
With light the cold wind blew

It is crusted in a shroud
Weaved of winter cloud
It hugs the house in drifts
Deepening as icy fingers lift

And my feet sink and wallow
Make paths the wind will swallow
With icy dust awhirling
The whole world in white is swirling

Nights...

I miss my wife. Tracey's back on nights again and so our schedules are a mess. I really miss her and the 20 mins or so I get to squeak in on the days I get home before she leaves just isn't enough.

I hope she finds a trade soon cause we have so much fun together and I hate not being around her.