The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
13 September 2012
I awake at 5:15 am today. GF prepares to go to Snowbird for work and I hitch a ride, currently unable to spend $4.70 for a roundtrip ride on TRAX.
We get in the car and pull out of our building’s parking garage into darkness punctuated with the lights of industry: warehouse exterior lights, streetlights, headlights and taillights, traffic lights. The world is starting its arbitrary shift change from night to day.
I feel completely comfortable. I tolerate the daylight hours everyday, but desperately crave the darkness. The wee hours of the morning or the dark after sundown.
The I-15 is shockingly busy at this time of day. The interstate has a magic sheen from the combination of highway lights, automobile lights and the slowly discernible sunlight. The mountains rest calmly in the background, all purple shadows.
GF drops me off at Bakery and Brews, a coffee shop specializing in South American food. The coffee shop is 1/4 mile from where I work. I am able to purchase a coffee and homemade empanada thanks to a rewards card and the owner allowing me to pay him in nickels and dimes. I want everyone in Murray and Salt Lake City to visit Bakery and Brews at least once to try the homemade soup, clam chowder (on Fridays), empanadas, pastries or sandwiches. You can also purchase nutritional supplements if you desire. I have yet to purchase said items, as you can probably tell when you see my unsightly physique ambling along sidewalks.
The sun is up now and I am trying not to be annoyed with it. Every day I wake up hoping this will be the day when the clouds take over and block the sun for 24 hours.
I will do well in the apocalypse. Unless the apocalypse includes a blood red sun, because I imagine that would be even more annoying.
-JPR
21 July 2012
After an all-too-common shooting in our country, I feel the need to weigh in on how we can prevent mass murders in future.
There should be no guns or mass murder weapons. No one at all anywhere in the world should be able to have access to or build a gun.
Guns serve absolutely no purpose in this world besides ending life. As a proto-civilized society of humans, we will only develop further by disallowing any thing in our midst with the sole purpose of murder.
Conceal and carry permits frighten me to no end. I think that a person must have something a little bit off if they want to carry a gun on their person at all time. I don’t want to think about the person next to me at work, at school, at the state capitol, at a restaurant or anywhere with a live weapon tucked beneath their short-sleeve dress shirt (that one may be Utah specific).
The 2nd Amendment is an outdated code from a different time. We should take a hard, honest look at ourselves as a people and consider what it says about us that we would continue to codify the right to stockpile the ability to murder multitudes of our own while being unable to codify even the most basic human rights guarantees for minority groups, women and lower- and middle-income workers.
We’ve got it wrong. Give up your guns.
-JPR
28 March 2012
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