Rock me like no other

- I'm such a sucker for a waltz one-three time in folk music. Some of the songs that I've fallen in love with recently are evidence of this like The Road by Matt the Electrician. On an unrelated song I also been loving songs about the open road. Its funny the effect music can have in stirring around a mood. Most of the music I listen to I connect to various events in my life when they spoke to me either by chance or on purpose.

- My summer's been interesting recently, really good but interesting. The people that have come into my weeks and weekends and the things that are happening to them give me interesting perspective on myself past and future.

- The month of July is approaching fast and its going to be busy to say the least. I often relate my life to driving an manual transmition. July, in this metaphor, will be a shift; up or down I don't know yet. Lets hope my clutch handles it smoothly.

This is talk radio, eight fifty KOA.

- Recently I've been utilizing time I have left over after I finish a mail run at work to journal in my old notebook. So, future Jay, if you're reading through, thats where you've been spilling your guts and thats where you should look to to find the rest of the story. Its pretty easy to find where I picked up. All of this assuming, of course, that I'm diligent in writing in it, something history shows I'm inconsistent in at best. Its been good for me though, the privacy and ineditability of the medium gives me interesting perspectives on my thought processes. The entries have mirrored a stream of conciousness style of writing which makes it hard to follow, but a lot of more theraputic in the end. I hope I keep it up. Some of the most inciteful things I ever wrote were in the old entries back in 2003 and I find something new about myself every time I pick through them.

- Anyway, I'm not gonna stop writing here all together. I just may limit the number of personal entries which are always nebulous and emo anyway.

- Today, in place of my cds or perfered radio stations, I switched it to the AM frequency and picked around a bit. One of my favorite parts of the day is when at 1:00 when I start my afternoon run and get the NPR news report. This afternoon, I figured the news was a few pundits short of talk radio so I gave it a shot.

- The result was that I was blown away at how stupid our nation can be when the issue of public policy and politics arose. I listened to Rush Limbaugh arrogantly call himself the "Kingmaker of the Republican party," I heard a man calling himself "the progressive voice of talk radio" call McCain an "evil lying racist," I heard Hannity plug six different corporations in the rare moments his show wasn't on commercial, and I heard some liberal crone respond to a well researched thought-out soundbyte from Alan Greenspan criticizing Obama's foreign financial policy with the "equally" well thoughtout response of "hes a stupidhead" followed by the example of how her mom asked her (a well off radio host btw) for some gas money as an example for why financial life in America is almost unlivable thanks to Bush.

- Every station on both sides of the political spectrum (if you could call it that through the limited selection of polarized crap) was littered with loud mouth fear mongering coupled with argumentative falacy after falacy. It seemed everything any of them said worked more effectively in mind as an argument for the opposite side. Yet, like watching a train wreck, I couldn't stop listening. It taught me so much about why it seems nobody can be really reasonable about anything anymore and it made me laugh, literally laugh out loud (lol) at the absolute ludicracy of it all.

- Our country is getting dumber everyday and its everyones fault. I wish people could just shut up for a second and think about things reasonably, maybe decide their vote for themselves and leave it at that.

- I hate politics.

Cooperstown Shoo-in

- Baseball, nay sports great, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 600th homerun today. He did it without steriods. He did it without complaining. He did it without showboating. He did it on a salary that was lower than he could have gotten had he played for an east coast giant. He did it with his dad. He did it for the love of the game, for the love of his city, for the love of his family. I'm proud to say I got to see him hit one of them in his hometown in his home ball park, though not the big one. Thats pretty cool. If you can't tell Griffey's my favorite athlete of all time. I remember watching him play as a young kid. I remember saving up my money for months so I could buy Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball for supernintendo. And I can't remember ever losing respect for him. He's the prototypical example of what an athlete and a man should be. I know he'll never see this little love letter I wrote, but congratulations. I hope you keep playing and hitting them out of the park for years to come.

Giantism

- I love it. The weekends are long but feel short, the sun is shining and really I don't have a care in the world. I'm not taking it for granted. Any of it. I'm thankful and I should be. I've been dealt a pretty good hand.

- Its all happening so fast. I hope don't miss anything.

Full Time Summer

- Summer is a beautiful thing. The idea that I've grown tired of college life and am ready to start looking for something a bit more substantial would have been deplorable to Jay from as recent as a year ago. But I'm getting there. I need to find a career that I can leave at work and be able to relax when I get home like I'm able to this summer. I'm not sure our society is going to grant me my wish. I don't think theres much worth doing that you can let go of completely when its finished but it can't hurt to look.

- I'm glad it wasn't a big deal to me. The fact that its not is another thing slightly younger Jay couldn't imagine but its good. Different for sure but I've changed and am changing a lot. Ships are sailing.

- Another full day of work tomorrow so goodnight.