Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Daily Archive
Tuesday 13 Sep 2011
There is a shooting range 900 yards from where I’m working.
Had I known that I would certainly have brought the Carbine or at least a couple 22’s and done some shooting. If I come back here, I will do so.
Tuesday 13 Sep 2011
To say goodbye
to those and that you love, and head off into the unknown, is a huge and painful thing, that most just can’t do.
It takes a specific type to be a road warrior, and I have done so now for so long that I do not remember any other life. I know I’ll be back, as do the ones I love. Wild horses could not keep me from returning to those other pieces of my heart.
Still, sunday night as I loaded my bag in the truck and pulled out of the driveway I thought of those other road warriors who never made it home. Secure in the knowledge that their own beds were just a couple hours of annoying airline flight away, their worlds were destroyed as they looked on in horror.
Human life is not precious except to it’s lovers and posessors. To those who don’t care, life is worthless and precarious.
So as I drove in the gathering dark, I prayed for all those road warriors who never made it home. I prayed that the stupidity that caused their deaths would be obliterated from the world.
I know better than that, of course. Stupidity is far more abundant in the universe than Hydrogen. Nothing will stop it, it may even be an intrinsic component of entropy.
None of that knowledge makes me want for it not to stop, though. A guy has to have dreams. And a lone road warrior, on deserted country backroads in the middle of Indiana, well, sometimes dreams are enough.
Tuesday 13 Sep 2011
At any given moment,
I usually have four or five books on the go. My bedside book for the last several days has been Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”.
Coppola did the story a disservice, I think. The original as was would have been a good way to do it, and it would have probably made more sense, but then he wouldn’t have been able to send his all important messages about Vietnam.
if you’ve never read the original, if the only version of it you know is “Apocalypse now” I reccomend you read the original- it’s free for kindle. And it’s well worth the time to read it.
