What's Next?

Some days I have it, like this one, and some days I don’t. Today is one of those days I don’t. Things were going fairly well until I got off the train. As I was walking beside the train I stumbled a bit too far to one side and a small silver piece of metal attached to the side of the train reached out and attacked me out of nowhere with surprising quickness. I didn’t even see it coming. With a little less quickness, okay, with a quickness reminiscent of the speed of a turtle, I reacted and saved my arm from being mutilated. Unfortunately, my shirt was not so lucky. Although my arm was left with only a tiny red mark where skin was scraped off, my shirt has a gaping hole in the sleeve. Its frayed ends dangling from the wound reaching towards the warm safe piece of fabric it should be connected to.

One would think the shirt mutilation was bad enough for one day, and I would tend to agree, but my bad luck (or is it bad karma?) was far from over. An innocent trip to the washroom turned into a nightmare for my pants as the button on the waist was severed from the pants. I have never been more appreciative of a belt than I am right now as it is the only thing ensuring my pants stay together, saving me from embarrassment and giving a free show.

An ordinary day has now turned into one filled with nervous tension as I await the next small tragedy to befall me.

July 2008 Quotes

Oh Canada, standing tall together,
We'll raise our hands and hail our flag
The maple leaf forever.
- Stompin' Tom Connors (Canada Day, Up Canada Way)

Resignation to inevitable evils is the duty of us all... - Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

Don't ask me where I'm going, cause I don't care
I want a ticket that'll take me anywhere but here
- Sammy Kershaw (Anywhere But Here)

And it's been so long since I have felt fine
That's the reason
That I gotta get out of here
I'm so alone
Don't you know that I gotta get out of here
- Jim Croce (New York's Not My Home)

I'm sorry if I ruined your day
I really hope that you understand
I'm a million miles away
Looking for a place to land
- Great Big Sea (Something To It)

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded
- Soul Asylum (Runaway Train)

Yes; thank my stars! as early as I knew
This Town, I had the sense to hate it too:
- Alexander Pope (The Satires of Dr. John Donne, Satire II)

…nobody beat the system or won the game, and only suckers ever thought they were ahead. - Stephen King (Salems Lot)

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be. - Robert Jordan (Lord of Chaos)

The lessons which are remembered the longest…are always the ones that are self-taught. - Stephen King (The Waste Lands)

God doesn't always dish it in your face…Most times, but not always. - Stephen King (The Drawing of the Three)

Paltry irritations sometimes had a way of festering into lifelong antagonisms. - Robert Jordan (New Spring)

'Scuse me but I don't remember
Where were you when I needed you most?
- Def Leppard (Deliver Me)

But if you're gonna make a difference,
If you're gonna leave your mark.
You can't follow like a bunch of sheep
You got to listen to your heart
- Garth Brooks (Against the Grain)

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable… - Stephen King (The Green Mile)

…boredom is good. People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a bit of thinking done. - Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

Great golf seems always within the reach of the body and only rarely within the grasp of the mind. To play golf well, a golfer need only master himself, need only discipline his own brain. - Bob Cullen (Why Golf?)

If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say “I don’t understand”, God replies “I don’t care”. - Stephen King (The Green Mile)

I know that it's time
for a cool change
- Little River Band (Cool Change)

So much of our life is spent on solving problems to avoid immediate pain or to bring immediate profit…that we forget how true and inexhaustible is the happiness of pure knowing. - Gilbert Highet (Man's Unconquerable Mind)

…I realized something is badly out of whack when there is such a dichotomy between a person’s waking and sleeping lives.
- Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

…if a woman did not want to hear something, she could ignore it till you yourself started to doubt you had spoken.
- Robert Jordan (Crossroads of Twilight)

It is individuality that we war against: we should think we had done wonders if we had made ourselves all alike; forgetting that the unlikeness of one person to another is generally the first thing which draws the attention of either to the imperfection of his own type, and the superiority of another, or the possibility, by combining the advantages of both, of producing something better than either.
- John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

Yet it cannot be called virtue to kill one’s fellow citizens, to betray one’s friends, to be treacherous, merciless and irreligious; power may be gained by acting in such ways, but not glory.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince)

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
- Stephen King (The Gunslinger)