Paws In

We took a little break in the sunshine the other day...

Life has been especially stressful lately. These are the kinds of moments I want to remember first when I think of Fall this year.

Decisions, decisions

We may take the boy to a doggie costume contest tomorrow. So Internet, which would you choose?

And does it influence your decision to know that the boy also has a Halloween-themed bandana that would likely be incorporated into a pirate costume?

Job Hunting?

Know anyone looking for a writing/editing/social media job? Look who is hiring. Came across this little announcement in my FB feed this morning. Nice way to liven up the old resume, no?

Texts from This Morning

From my honey, on her way to work via the bus this morning: Just saw a guy using a flame thrower and 3 cop cars

Me: WTF? That's the kind of text I want to get on your way to work for the next 10 hours!

Honey: Looks like he was trying to patch his asphalt the homemade way. Doh!

Me: Really? Idiot!

Yeah, we live in the super classy part of the suburbs, obviously! At least our recently increased taxes are being put to good use...

Little Left to Lose

So is there any chance any of my handful of readers know anything about resources for injured workers whose employers are blocking the system of access to health care in a timely fashion? Like how one would go about obtaining an attorney, and if it is even possible to do so without going bankrupt? Which, by the way, I'm pretty damn close to at this point already. I'll take any info or advice available at this point, with cautious appreciation. (I'm rather stressed out and beyond my capacity for coping with stress even remotely reasonably well by now).

Big Picture

So let's talk about Facebook for a while, shall we? More specifically, let's talk about this story that was floating around yesterday, repeatedly being framed as a "sweet love story" because the couple died holding hands. Yes, that part is touching. Kind of. In a tunnel vision sort of way.

However, let's look at the big picture here. What really happened is a driver who should never have been behind the wheel that day failed to yield at a stop sign, causing a collision resulting in fatal injuries to himself and his wife, and injuring another couple as well. He could have killed those people in addition to himself and his wife. Which, let's face it, is exactly what he did. This is a man who was already facing pending action to have his driving priveleges revoked, who knowingly got behind the wheel anyway. I have lost far too many family members and friends (4 just in my immediate circle of family & friends) in car crashes due to the actions of other dangerous drivers to find this story to be anything but a tragic, unnecessary cautionary outrage.

And everybody spreading it around FB and calling it a sweet love story is making me very cranky. Especially extended family members who have been to some of those memorial services with me. We should all know better.

But then again, I feel like I find myself feeling that way about a lot of things lately. Must be election season.

No, really...

Hi reader in Hudson, Ohio. Welcome to my blog. I'm truly happy to have you here! It looks like you enjoyed yourself in my archives for a while last night, and that's great! Please feel free to read, comment, and enjoy.

I do have one small bit of housekeeping though. I was not kidding in my previous post, so allow me to repeat myself:

Just like with my blog posts themselves, ANY and ALL photographs posted on this blog are my intellectual property (unless otherwise noted and credited). I own any and all copyrights on my photos, even the crappy ones, from now until the end of time. That means every download in my stat logs is an act of STEALING. In case your mother never told you, it's not okay to steal. So stop it. Now.

Just because something is on the Internet does not mean it is up for grabs. And just because you can do something, like download a stranger's photo for whatever reason, does not mean that you should.