Reese's Blog

This past 4th of July weekend invovled a few things. My baby's momma had an incident of having to move because she is now single again. Of course, being that a child is involved, the drama trickles down to me. I was pissed and stressed at the same time, but I managed. She found a place and I had Daphne for a couple of days. On the 4th itself, I was rewared with some tasty eats at Jessica's parent's house and then my own parent's house. I traveled to Slidell three times this weekend.. a new record. J-Pop, Me, and my brother bought fireworks and where having fun with mortars (with and without the launch tube!). Hearing stories from my father about how fireworks are weak and crap compared to the old days combined with J-pop's quotation of new government standards on terrorism and not being able to make your own celebratory explosives sent a shockwave of anti-patriotism through my soul. Could you blame me? It's definitley not a terrorist act to construct your own fireworks, is it? Maybe the patriot act has something to do with this.. or maybe J-Pop just made it all up. But the way things are headed, it's most likely that he didn't. Anyway, I celebrated something that matters more than the thousands of meaningless deaths occurring overseas and the barrage of idiots running the show in Washington... I just plain enjoyed the evening hanging with good friends and my cool bro. I'd never say fuck the USA, but fuck the US Government, I will say.

It's that time of year again.. where the occasional hurricane or tropical storm can come by and change up the pace of life here in southeast Louisiana. I for one think that the naming scheme is lame... giving powerful tortoise-like natural disasters cutesy names just doesn't make any sense. It's not a he, she, or even alive.. it's the product of physics and matter. Most are calling this amazing weather pattern "Dennis". Evacuation routes and warnings are being issued all over the metro area and beyond. Most computer models predict the storm to head more towards Florida than here, but most people feel that the margin of error is too high for risking. Here I am, Friday, noonish and at work.. awaiting the fate of my weekend and so forth. I never get too crazy about these things, although people may misinterpret my calm demeanor as being ignorant of the seriousness of such a catastrophe..... make no mistake, I know enough to know what wind and water can do when given enough energy. Earlier this week, a tropical storm came straight in and tore down a lot of trees and such, bringing a little bit of flooding as well. A lot of weaker branches have now been cleared from the trees, which may prove to lessen the debris from future storms. Weather fascinates me, though.. just like electricity (including electronics) and atronomy. One of the great things about science is that the different studies link to one another in some way or another.

For the most part, my week has been ok and not too eventful. Doctor visit, shopping, movies, and computer stuff.

Wow.. it's been a while since I've had the time to write. Truth be told, I wish I had time to make a daily entry... or implant something in my brain that would record the types of thoughts and phrases that I wish to keep for future reference. Tonight is Brandolyn and Matthew's rehearsal dinner and such. I still have yet to purchase the wedding gift for them, but I shall. I will have to pick up my grandmother and Daphne tonight. I'm getting tired just thinking about all that i have to do this weekend with my sister's wedding and such. Yesterday, I brought my car in after a couple of trips to Baton Rouge for work, where the engine light was flashing and it was pulsating running like shit. Now this car has been problem since day one.. recalls, brakes, engine problems.. and countless visits to the Ford Dealership in between. This time, I had some coil go out (not sure the details, didn't read into it) and about 500 dollars worth of maintenance and deposit removal... as it runs very great now, the engine light came back on yesterday, and so I will have to bring it in tomorrow and make sure they don't try charging me a 50 dollar deductible to diagnose a problem that I paid 50 bucks for them to diagnose yesterday. Anyway... the first two days this week, I went to Baton Rouge basically because their server's memory had gone bad. I've never really seen memory go bad like that, but maybe power spikes really do affect a computer, even through a UPS and surge protection. Jessica is doing fine and everything is progressing along. Next week, me and Brian will be working the Bar Admissions Exams and making 500 extra dollars in the process. This will help pay for my newly found car-repair debt. (not really debt, as I paid in full). I was hoping to have extra money to spend on myself or save, but the 2000 Ford Focus strikes again! How does a company that's been around about a century build (and mass produce) such a piece of garbage is beyond me. I'm sure they've worked out all the kinks since the initial 2000 model year, but that doesn't help me. I could create a whole website with scanned documents of the repairs done to that vehicle alone. In fairness to Ford, the 1983 Crown Victoria, 1978 Mercury Marquis, and 1990 Ford Taurus were used cars that were worthy and fun to drive. At $13,500, the 2000 Ford Focus has fallen way short of even a modest expectation of problem-free ownership...and to think it was the first brand new car that I bought with the intent to not have problems that come with owning a used car anymore. Sorry about the rant on the Focus... but damn! It would piss anyone off.