Well, There It Is.

Maybe instead of looking at athletes, they will look at musicians? Then again, maybe that’s not such a good idea.

In the mid eighties, I was a big fan of the Mets. And yeah, I was a little excited when they had a chance of going to the World Series this past year. But in the 80’s, Darryl Strawberry went through that whole drug thing. And apparently, he’s now back at it. Why are there so few good role models in sports?

Who will our kids look to now? John Rocker? I hope not.

Don’t get me wrong… my brother is a nice guy…

So at this point, and for several months now, I’ve been sharing an apartment with my father and my brother. This is my situation until my brother leaves for California to go to school or something, my father moves to Jersey City which is closer to his office in Manhattan, and I move five minutes or so down the road to West Windsor.

My brother finds it necessary, as if he’s preparing for life in the Sunny State of California, to turn the thermostat all the way up to 75 degrees in the house, and leave the fan constantly on. First of all 75 degrees is way too high for the winter. It’s just a waste of energy and money. Second of all, with the fan constantly on, even when the ambient temperature reached 75, air still blows through the vents, not affecting the temperature, so it’s wasting energy and money. Third of all, it’s just uncomfortable.

I can’t wait to move out.

Yes, of course I’ve talked to him about this. Sigh. It’s just not worth any further effort..

Isn’t it great how people who drive SUVs feel they don’t
need to be aware of what’s going around them? It must be so nice to drive a vehicle and not
worry about other cars. I mean, the SUV is just so big that other cars will just have to
get out of its way. So why should the driver care about other traffic? I want to be an SUV driver
and have the freedom to drive carelessly, because, hey, in an SUV, it doesn’t matter.

Well, I’ve decided to revamp my thoughts page — again — and this time I’m going with Blogger. Apparently, there’s a huge community of people who use this on their website. It’s a nice free utility.

So, there’s been some stuff on my mind… some recently, some tonight… First of all, Alissa’s grandmother is in the hospital. She had a massive brain hemorrhage and is now in a coma. The last I heard, they’re planning on taking away life support later today. This makes me sad, and I wish I could be up in New York with Alissa.

Also, I just got back from Dinner and a Movie with [DELETED]. We went to a diner, then went back to Darren’s house to watch Election. It was a strange movie. But even stranger is how it feels to be around these people. Darren’s my best friend, of course, and he and I know pretty much what the other is thinking all the time. No problems there. But, when I’m [DELETED] vibrations of my personality reflecting off other people. And everybody I contact has this. The more “in synch” I am with a person, the more my outward vibes and the reflections cancel each other out. Like Darren. He and I are so in synch with each other, I feel no vibes. The same with Alissa. But with some people, there is definitely interference in the reflection. [DELETED] They all reflect the vibes in a different way, and just being around them feels so much different. It almost makes me frustrated sometimes. [DELETED] Occasionally I meet a person where the reflection is stronger than what I’m sending out, almost like an amplifier will do to a music signal. That’s when I feel quite good about myself. Usually, there is a lot of eye contact, a lot of smiling, and maybe even laughing. When the vibes cancel out, like two opposite signals (what I send and its reflection), I am most relaxed. When there’s interference, I get tense and unsure of myself. I feel like people think I’m a jerk. But I’m not, at least I don’t think I am.

Well, I think this new web page is ready to go up. I hope you agree. It’s taken a long time mostly because I’ve been working on other projects — ones that I’m getting paid to do — but I figured I would take one evening and just finish this off and get it out of the way. :>

The other night I saw Dar Williams and Cheryl Wheeler. I enjoyed the concert, in fact, here’s a picture:

Last Tuesday, I went to a Harry Connick, Jr. concert in New Brunswick. It was a really fun show. The only annoying thing about it was the two girls sitting in front of us. Obviously, they had a crush on the guy and would sing through the songs. Apparently they thought they had something going with him by the way they were making faces at him.

The music was very good, and his big band was great. His arrangements of some of the charts were very original; he ever tried a couple of new ones on the audience which everyone seemed to like. I think I might have to pick up his new album at some point.

Well, we’ve made it to the year 2000 without any major computer glitches, airplane crashes or terrorist attacks. I guess the next test won’t come until May 5th, when the Earth, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will all be aligned within 5 degrees of each other. If nothing else, the tides will probably be affected.

New Year’s Eve was spent with Alissa, Darren, Bryan, Michelle, Ali, Pete, Devon, Becky and Rich.

I’ve also been having many dreams recently, which I can’t seem to get into my Recent Dreams area of the web page. I’ll try harder.