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Shuttle

9:58am CST Saturday 1 February 2003

Okay, so the shuttle blew up and that's terrible but what the fuck is ABC local news thinking by breaking in on the national ABC news that was actually telling us something interesting, interviewing knowledgeable NASA employees about the shuttle and all that? Local ABC broke in on this interview where the cat was giving us new information to tell us fucking moronic shit like, "oh, the Johnson Space Center is under tight security now, there's a sense of sadness here and families are in private rooms" and fucking gossipping about where people are from in Texas and all this bullshit; just let the fucking families have their privacy and let them cry and don't splash their details all over the news.. Shit!

10:36am

According to the news I've been hearing:

Kennedy Space Center is in Houston.
The accident happened around 9:00 am Central time
Challenger explosion was in 1981

But the worst of all, Jim Hickey of ABC News reading? ranting? "If the shuttle program is grounded for months or even years, what will become of the 3 astronauts in the International Space Station?

Who the hell came up with a crisis over that? What do you think will "become" of the 3 astronauts? We'll fucking go back up there with another Shuttle and pick them up!!!

"Oh, I'm so sorry guys; it's just too risky to come back and get you.. the shuttle might blow up on re-entry! You would rather starve, right?"

Now c'mon Jim, you don't gotta read that. And if you wrote it, you're fired!

dirt

11:10am CST Saturday 1 February 2003

I rode with my dad to get a tiller and 2 yards of dirt. The trailer tires needed air after the dirt was added, so we pulled into a gas station. It seems that when the trailer went across the (minor) dip of transition between street and parking lot, one of the axel connectors broke.

Dad analyzed it and seems we need to jack the trailer up, shift the something and put it all back together.

I trust we can do it and still let me hang out with Marcel today.

12:04pm

Took the trailer off the truck.

Took the tiller off the trailer and tossed it into the truck.

Going now to get a 5 ton jack.

12:06pm

Someone in a vehicle, looks like a drak gray brown Jeep Cherokee type thing purchased at Copeland (here in Tomball) with TX plates F25 YPL, just threw a plastic bottle into the grass by the road.

They just turned onto Sandy Lane from 249. Maybe they live back there.

12:51pm

Have the jack from Dad's storage shed now. Headed back to his house where we'll get my car as well so I can leave separately if necessary.

friends list

9:42pm CST Saturday 1 February 2003

A couple days ago I removed 3 names from my LJ friends list. Adrienne, Chez's cousin Paul, and Megan I think. Adrienne emailed me, asked me why I had removed her.

Fuck.

I told her it was because of the length of her entries, and though I encourage long journal entry writing, I don't have the patience/attention to read long entries. I think journals out to be written for ourselves, not written for others. (That's a big fat hard thing to do with my journal online, but I'm getting better at writing more of what I would write in my private book.)

Then I went to her journal and find that the recent 20 entries aren't all that long. Hmmm.

I read through the remains of my friends list and find that I wasn't really reading most of the entries. Only about 3 or 4 people's entries do I read. Maybe more. I seem to read the entries of people who I know well. That makes sense.

So, do I go slaughter more of my friends list? Alienate more people?

I've got too much fucking internet stuff on my daily plate already: emails, email lists, friends lists, writing my own journal, world news... argh fuck.

I'm on the edge of a cleaning mode, where I might just shred my LJ friends list or erase it altogether. But I know I won't erase it altogether.

keys

9:59pm CST Saturday 1 February 2003

Maggie just called; she locked her keys in her car. In Pearland. That's not exactly around the corner, but it is in Texas. Even in the greater Houston area.

10:16pm

Got a map on mapquest. Leaving Maggie's now. Got my iTunes rocking. NIN happens to be on first.

How can I possibly have not written about the fun fun times with Marcel, Adriene, Nicholas, then Kayse, Laurie, Brianna? Legos with Adrien while Marcel worked on my computer.

And talking for two hours with Janette. Just lovely lovely lovely. How could two hours have gone by so fast????

11:12pm

got a bit lost. but I've arrived. 42 miles

11:24pm

Hahahahah talk about underdressed with my T-shirt, shorts, no shoes, in a crowd of tuxes, suits, dresses. Walked out arm and arm with Maggie, as she was wearing a dramatic purple dress with crazy purple hat and purse and boa or something.

12:09am

Back at Maggie's. 82.2 miles driven.

Wow; I beat them home!

today

12:19am CST Sunday 2 February 2003