http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/index/ en sassaman@mac.com Copyright 2008 2008-01-19T04:14:01-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/stir_it_up/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/stir_it_up/#When:04:14:01Z Lil’ Darlin Stir it up Quench me when I’m thirsty… Your recipe is so tasty. Stir it up, Bob, stir it up. So tasty. 2008-01-19T04:14:01-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/appalachian_spring_by_aaron_copeland/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/appalachian_spring_by_aaron_copeland/#When:04:07:00Z Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copeland, is what I’m listening to right now, on one of my kid’s iPod shuffle. Right now it is the ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple’ section - beautiful stuff. A soaring eagle. Soaring - soaring and delicate; from soaring eagle to wobbling fawn. Ok - now playing again from the beginning. It starts with a rising tension going to a playful song, then to a “country” regalness, then some full regal stuff. Anyway, I love it. Perhaps it is quite elementary for classical music, but it sure evokes the emotions, and sounds nice too. I’m more and more convinced that art in all of its forms, music, poetry, literature, movies, paintings, sculpture and all the rest are the pinnacle of human achievement. Really. 2007-12-30T04:07:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/i_was_in_a_tizzy/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/i_was_in_a_tizzy/#When:03:26:00Z We all know the place, that famous burger place. I went in expecting something and did not get it. I thought I understood, I thought I did. The offer seemed clear to me. I did not get what I wanted, and a seed of hate got planted. Ah yes and like old Blake I watered it and shined on it, making it grow. Until now. I declare that here and now I’m pulling that weed. That weed will do no good for this old world. Yay! 2007-12-06T03:26:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/missed/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/missed/#When:04:08:00Z So I wrote an email to a dying friend, and I never sent the damned thing. It was finished. I could have just clicked send. But I didn’t and he’s dead now. It is still in my Drafts - with no where to go. Pent up rain for a parched throat. Where can it go? It floats in my head. Bobbing up to remind me… Potential energy perhaps. Potential love. Too raw? Will I ever pluck it out? Will I ever let it free? I don’t want it. Go away bobber. I’ll not entertain you. I was not so close to him. He did not need my love. He was not really a friend. Just a distant kin. I’ll not entertain you - go away! It’s not mine. It’s not mine. Not mine. 2007-11-20T04:08:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/empty_snakes/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/empty_snakes/#When:04:21:00Z Hey Evan, these little ashen snakes are so delicate. They tremble when we walk. They shake under our breath. They’re blacker than the bottom of your feet on a summer day; they have a nasty look. They are just empty snakes. 2007-11-13T04:21:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/the_luxury_of_water/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/the_luxury_of_water/#When:03:23:00Z So my kids went wandering through the park in this awful drought, and I tagged along. The stream bed we found was dry, on the whole. Oh there were a few puddles here and there, but the dryness was remarkable - stark! Dry sand bed like the valley of dry bones. “Rise up - dry dust - rise up!” Yet it stays low. A wind could come and blow it in the air, and then show the water we want. Round and blue. A sweet luxury. 2007-11-13T03:23:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/woo_woo/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/woo_woo/#When:01:55:01Z Chicken plant news: So my lyrics are written, sung to the tune of “Tennessee Stud” - search youtube for Johnny Cash’s version...nice. (I’m lazy - no link) Here is a teaser.."back about July 25, I wanted some chicken so I had to drive” - and there is so much more poulet inspired goodness. My only hold up is how stinky I sing, but I’ll keep trying. Super fantastic news - I have a new toy. A Nikon D40. The cheapest digitasl SLR around, but the pictures look really nice. It captures color and light very well. I’m pretty ignorant about what makes a good camera, but this one seems fantastic for a newbie amateur like me. Yay! Doubleplusgood! Expect mo’ better pics soon. 2007-09-20T01:55:01-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/global_nav/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/global_nav/#When:02:11:00Z Link 1 | Link 2 | Link 3 | Link 4 | Link 5 Global Nav 2007-09-08T02:11:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/voir_dire_in_the_fulton_court/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/voir_dire_in_the_fulton_court/#When:02:02:00Z "Voire Dire is the process by which attorneys select, or perhaps more appropriately reject, certain jurors to hear a case.” -Gordon P. Cleary, Trial Evidence Foundations, section 201 - from Wikipedia So I was summoned to Jury Duty in Fulton Superior Court - and what do you know - I was put in a pool of prospective jurors for a felony criminal case. There are 60 folks in the pool. The “voire dire” process is not yet finished for all of us so we have to go back to finish the process. Almost nobody wants to do this, but the majority suck it up and, from what I can tell, give honest answers to the attorneys’s questions. But there are a few who claim partiality, or an inability to even be impartial, and they are put through the ringer by the attorneys and judge. Rightly so, I’d say. I don’t want to be here either. But what would the alternative be if everyone got their wishes? It really is right and good to serve on juries. Then again, I may change my tune after the selections are made. Haha. I doubt it. I really believe this. 2007-08-28T02:02:00-05:00 http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/meet_the_new_boss_worse_than_the_old_boss/ http://www.i285.com/index.php/site/meet_the_new_boss_worse_than_the_old_boss/#When:00:27:00Z So some folks in one Johns Creek neighborhood ask the new city council for lower speed limits, and the Council then approves lowering the speed limit for more than a dozen roads. They are setting the stage for their revenue generation machine. They want your money. It is burning a hole in their pockets. All of their predictions and studies about how the existing tax base was more than sufficient for running a government don’t matter one whit to them now that the citizens have approved their government. I do not believe these new limits are needed for safety; I really don’t. Maybe some of them, but all of them? Read on at northfulton.com... 2007-08-25T00:27:00-05:00