Thursday, October 25, 2007
Downtown
Monthly walk across town so doctor can ask if I'm feeling Seasonal Affective Disorder. Sure, but for me it's probably an improvement in my mood. I stopped in main library for a couple of large print novels, looked for a cheap stick vacuum in the only store downtown that passes for a legit dept. store, didn't expect to find one & didn't. Restocked on CD-Rs at Radio Shack. Closer to my neighborhood, the crappy Chinese restaurant went out of business. On a street crowded with clean, popular Hispanic cafes & barbecues featuring attractive young waitresses, there wasn't much demand for indifferently prepared General Tso's Chicken, desiccated ribs, & "shrimp" egg rolls. The space is now occupied by a Latino dance school.
The stretch of Elizabeth Ave. I walk has about 5 day labor agencies, all utilitarian places with metal folding chairs, bright fluorescent lighting, & a single desk at one end. Same day pay. The paperwork probably requires minimal personal information. If that's discouraging, there's both Army & Army Reserve recruiting stations on the same street closer to the County Courthouse. The Navy, Marine, & National Guard offices are couple of blocks over, The Marine recruiters wear the spiffiest uniforms, but the Army guys have a pimped up Humvee they roll out for street festivals & parades: Go ahead, sit in it, we'll give you one of your own, & a legal gun, too. Iraq? Hehe, that'll be over by the time you finish your advanced training in, let's see, how does Television & Video Production sound for an Army career? Yeah, last I heard the school for that was in Honolulu.
The stretch of Elizabeth Ave. I walk has about 5 day labor agencies, all utilitarian places with metal folding chairs, bright fluorescent lighting, & a single desk at one end. Same day pay. The paperwork probably requires minimal personal information. If that's discouraging, there's both Army & Army Reserve recruiting stations on the same street closer to the County Courthouse. The Navy, Marine, & National Guard offices are couple of blocks over, The Marine recruiters wear the spiffiest uniforms, but the Army guys have a pimped up Humvee they roll out for street festivals & parades: Go ahead, sit in it, we'll give you one of your own, & a legal gun, too. Iraq? Hehe, that'll be over by the time you finish your advanced training in, let's see, how does Television & Video Production sound for an Army career? Yeah, last I heard the school for that was in Honolulu.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Monthly walk across town so doctor can ask if I'm feeling Seasonal Affective Disorder. Sure, but for me it's probably an improvement in my mood.
Bob, I laughed out loud at your comment. Is that inappropriate? If not, I gotta use that somewhere.
Bob, I laughed out loud at your comment. Is that inappropriate? If not, I gotta use that somewhere.
Whenever the shrink comes into the waiting room, looks at the appointment list, & waves for me, I imagine him thinking, "Good, I get 10 minutes with a lucid patient who doesn't have a felony conviction attached to his file." Sometimes for his cultural edification I identify the classical music playing softly on his office radio.
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