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Driving down to Phoenix tonight I stopped at a local Circle-K for some coffee and bottled water. I was surprised that the guy at the check out register was Dave, the guy I usually see down the street at his own store, the local dry-cleaners.
This is what I am liking about being in a small town, a decrease in the sad anonymity of The City.
I smiled, raised and eyebrow, and asked, "Double shifting it. eh?"
He returned the smile and said quickly, "You do what you have to do... Actually the cleaner business is picking up and I was able to hire back my assistant who needs the work. I feel good about that."
So here is the 2009 American Dream. Start your own business, and spend your evenings working the register at a convenience store to make your mortgage payments. Or do it to get by and at the same tie, give a hand out to help someone else up.
It's the second day in a row I feel overwhelmed at my good fortune.
I have a good paying job working al day from home on my computer. I don't have to work another 7 hours at a store to pay bills or eat.
Something sure needs to change in this country for people to aim for and achieve real dreams. Our previous leadership was not there at all to support the dreams of the Daves of the world (it was more like lining the fat pockets of the Todds and Amandas of the country club) and only paid Dave lip service to swipe his vote.
Shouldn't we be "mad as hell" yelling out the windows at the snakes who did (and may still be) profiting from our down turn? I would be, yet I am still confused as to the how, why, and when, and at the same time, thinking, it's too late, it's done.
And yet, I don't want to be just another person talking about the colors of the falling sky; the cloud of pessimism seems omnipresent; I want to avoid falling into the realm of "there is not much use in being anything else".
I just have to admire that kind of determination and can do attitude I picked up on tonight. No despair, no anger, no resentment, just acceptance yet not resignation.
You do what you have to do... or what?
Ernesto "Che" Guevara with Carlos Fonseca (founder of the FSLN) and A.C. Sandino. Below them is Monseñor Romero (the woman with him is a particular person, also a martyr of some kind, but I can't remember who it is! shame on me!). At the top right is an anonymous compa (compañero=Sandinista soldier) helping women and children.
Despite the seriousness of the mural, I can't help thinking that Che looks like he's saying to Fonseca and Sandino, "c'mon guys, this is so not my scene--let's go get a beer."
Centro Cultural Batahola Norte, Managua, Nicaragua
This guy made me laugh out loud. It was a great cosplay and I was impressed that he could carry off wearing pink and made it look believable!
UPDATE: "Rusty" Venture was featured in Uproxx's Cosplay Appreciation: 'Venture Bros' Returns This Weekend, Bring On The Venture Brothers Costumes. I'm highly amused that they chose my pic of Dr. Venture to highlight. :-D
My sister, Jean, scanned this old photo of the three of us. My brother Guy is about 2 years old in this making Jean (next to him) about 5 and me about 8. We were sitting on my mother's hope chest with a chenille blanket under us. Ma would put our hair up in rag curlers in order to get the spiral curls.
The Man in a Suit that follows Snake on Act 3: Third Sun on MGS4. This Man is actually made up of 3 Dwarf Gekko (See my Shadow Moses Pictures).
The lantern is from the Ashmolean museum in Oxford. Given to Oxford University in 1641 by Robert Heywood of Brasenose College, the son of the Justice of the Peace who arrested Guy Fawkes.
So I got this set for the folding chair that works cuz my Gary needs at least a chair, but I guess Gary needed some male friends to play with.
A front panel from 1956 Guy Arab IV, JCS432, withdrawn in 1971, lingers on in a corner of Western SMT's Kilmarnock workshops in 1979.
Captured from one of my old super 8 cine films.
For a beautiful photo of the original and complete bus in service see this excellent shot by Flickr member Guy Arab UF:-