Wedding? i love weddings! Drinks all around!

This update is at the much demanded request of Raoul...

i have just arrived into town from having spent the past two weeks away. Both of my trips to various locations around the midwest have been at the demand of weddings. On my long drive home today i realized something... Bugs just got married, Raoul just got engaged, my friend Little Bit just got married, my other friend John just tied the knot... and my grandfather now has a girlfriend. Apparently there is some flu going around that my body's intense immune system has been adequately fighting off.

i shall now return to my coffee, cigars, wine, and literature...

In the spirit of grad school i have purchased a notebook. The wireless internet connection has been of particular entertainment. I have noticed that the number of tickets i write has taken a sharp decline because i am parked behind a Starbucks surfing the infamous "world wide web." And speaking of that beast, i have recently succombed to the masses and created a myspace page. Yes, i know, at least ten years in Purgatory for that one... Father almost excommunicated me out of the Church after confession. i have no idea what the webpage is so good luck finding it. Happy hunting!

A Normal Life...

Greetings to all the fellow travelers on this road of perdition and salvation... it is with pleasure and a trove of stories and statements that i return.

First, a big congratulations to Beth and Bobby, who shall now be referred to as Bothy. Also, it made me very happy to hear that Raoul finally learned how to kneel... you are my hero... (S-, good luck!)

Nobody knew this, but just so you now know, i am feeling much better. i spent a good week sick in bed a couple of weeks ago. Not too sure what caused it... i KNOW that it wasn't beer. i think that it was a bad piece of chicken from a chinese restuarant, but can't say for sure. All i know is that i felt like i was in a painful dream without the ability to wake up. My mother was kind enough to come by the house and being me chicken soup and ginger ale. My father on the other hand called and said for me to get my own wife to take care of me, he wanted his back. Sigh.

i purchased a notebook the other day. Didn't really intend too... my mini-DVD player broke and i went to buy a new one for my extra job. My feet brought me to the notebook section and i discovered one that was on sale for a great deal; and keeping with my family blood and it's inability to pass up a great deal, i got it. It's a Toshiba with a lot of ram, which i'm told is a good thing. i justified the purchase by saying that it would be very nice to have for grad school. Hey, let me enjoy my excuses.

And in other news my 91 year old, recently widowed Grandfather now has a girlfriend. Sigh, that man is Italian through the bone. It is a younger girl too, which means 84. The family is all going nuts over it. So am i actually, but mainly because i can't get over the fact that my 91 year old GRANDFATHER has a girlfriend and i do not. No comment.

Work has been steady. Had a few rough calls over the last month. Found a lost two year old girl in a bad apartment complex at three in the morning. Girl was screaming. When we got to the shelter she wouldn't let go of my neck. She just kept clinging on to me. i gave her a stuffed animal. Sqeezed the stuffing out of it. Broke my heart.

Then on a quiet Monday morning i get a call to assist Highway Patrol. As i approach the area i'm advised by dispatch that it is reference to a collision between a sports car and a semi, with at least one possible fatility. So now i'm running code, and as i look in my rearview mirror i can see an ambulance about 1/4 mile behind me following suit. i wind up getting to the scene at the same time as the fire department. We step out on the highway, which is at a complete stop, and discovered this blue sports car that has been turned into a convertible. The young (19) female passenger is moaning, so the seatbelt is cut and we get her out just as the ambulance pulls up. Myself and a fireman look at the driver. Then we pull out a thin blue blanket from the back of the ambulance...

"Why can't i just have a normal life, Doc?"
"There is no normal life, Wyatt, just life."