Forgot to post for another whole month. Wow. Just have a couple of quick thoughts for toady.

I saw something today that made me sad. I saw a happy puppy running around willy nilly, doing whatever he felt like doing. At first I thought, wow, how great must it be to be a dog. Then I though wow, that fuckers gunna get run over. He didn't have a collar on, and he was in a pretty upscale neighborhood. The speed limit is pretty low in that area, so I wish him well, but you could tell that he was maybe not schooled in the ways of the world and probably didn't understand that these huge metal things on the non grassy part of the world that kept whizzing by would flatten him. Then I began to think about some poor kid running frantically around the neighborhood looking for his best pal. Then the saddest thought of all, I imagined a lost dog sign posted all over the neighborhood. When you think about it, there is nothing sadder than a lost dog poster.

So I had a VMware training class last week, and had to travel about an hour or so each way to get to the class. At 7:45am anywhere in the entire Dallas Fort Worth metroplex area, there is nothing but bumper to bumper traffic as far as the eye can see in any direction. It is astonishing. And, none of these assholes are particularly good at driving. Most are on the phone, or doing other stupid stuff. Some are angry as fuck, and ready to kill, others are scared to death of the traffic so they are barely moving. Everyone cuts each other off, which usually results in shouting and flipping each other off. It takes an hour and a half to go 30 miles. I bet I literally saw well over a million cars in the 4 day period. Its absurd. And to top it all off, it rained all week, which only magnified the problems 10 fold. I just couldn't imagine doing that each and every day. There was a time at work when I had to go to a different office and had to drive in it for maybe 45 minutes each direction for maybe 9-12 months, so I suppose I can understand how you could adapt to it mentally and physically so you don't go shitballs crazy and kill people, but that kinda thing takes a heavy toll on people eventually. I just think that somehow there has to be a better way to manage traffic. It is almost two fucking thousand ten, someone needs to get off their ass and figure something out.

Finally, the new winter hockey season got underway last night. We were victorious in the debut handing a quality team an 8-4 defeat.