Memories, of the way we were...

Today was a great day. I didn't update my blog this morning cause my day started off with the Interstate nearly being shut down. It was mad, they dropped it to one lane for about 8 miles. I was stuck behind 3 semi's doing 40mph. All was not good. By the time I was able to get around them, we were already out of the construction zone, so I sped up to my normal 85mph. I made it to work roughly at 5:21am...

The show was great. I hadn't worked with Mark Ross in years, and I was able to work with him this time on the show for four hours. Mark Ross had started at KTSM-AM/FM in April of 1997, three months before I joined the team. When we first started to work together, we were on the morning show/ shift and got along great. When previous (asshole) managment gave him an untimatum, Mark made the transition to television and left radio behind. Mark became the morning show host, then weekend reporter, to now being the Assistant Executive Producer for KTSM TV. In a cross-promoting effort, and collaboration with KTSM TV, both him and Jeff Lindberg stepped in to host Greg's show while he is in Houston for an ailing family member.

When he walked in today, it was like old times, only we were new to eachother as far as our tastes on air. We quickly got the hang of it, and ran. He was actually my high school substitute teacher for my last year of high school, which is odd since we have essentially followed eachother somehow or another. He laid mention to it this morning on the show, something I didn;t plan on hearing him open up to the listeners. It's ok, though. He is a good guy, and has always wanted to let people know the goodness in others that he sees.

Im still loading programs into the eMachine. Tomorrow, Mark said he was going to start sharing some of the things that he reports on for his technology segment for KTSM. It's good to have another tech guy to swap notes with.

Gonna eat. Starving.

The blind leading the odd

One last thing before I go to bed. I was honored by my supervisor that I was able to leave work early. I was almost out the back door when Mike D from KPRR's morning show had asked if I was really leaving work early. He wanted a ride home to the east side of town. I told him no matter what side of the east side he lives on, its close to my house, and on the way home. I don't know many blind people. Hell, I only know of Mike. I accomidated him as best as I could, and did a good job. It was hilarious, he said he would only agree to the ride if he could drive. If you don't find that funny, there is no life in you.

On the way, we traded road-warrior stories about various accident and traffic hazards we have had in the past. For being a blind guy, he has had alot of accidents he wasn't driving! His wife was involved in one recently where a Cavalier doing something like 35 T-boned his F-250 truck. It totaled the Cavalier, and royally screwed the truck something fierce. He still is paying for the truck, which isn't as new as it once was. I know his feeling all too well. His wife is ok, but is still going thru therapy for the injuries from that accident. The other driver never hit the brakes, and walked away...

Well, here's where it got interesting. He told me the streets to take, and I followed them for the most part. Then, I overshot his street, and couldnt find his house. It's ok, he couldn't see his house. I got him home ok, and this is a first for me.

This is the first time I have ever recieved directions from a blind man and ended up where I should have been.

STRANGE FINDINGS FROM THE INTERNET III

I only have one this time around. I could have waited untill I found more, but this will no doubtedly make up for lacking more. Im thinking of getting this for Teddy when he leaves, God knows he will need it. It's also quite affordable and available in different colors! Makes me think of those Serta sheep. At least the ones sold on Serta's site are plush, the one sold on the other site only comes with "Man-to-Lamb Lubricant"...

Hell, buy a few, have loads of fun!

More plagerism, or is it flattery?

Has anyone heard the newest release from Radiohead? There, There is the latest release off their newest album Hail to the Thief and I swear it has some similarities to several other songs out there. The drumbeat sounds strangely like Godsmack's Voodoo. The lyrics and melody strikes a strange resemblance to late 70's, early 80's Fleetwood Mac. The lead for the group, Thom Yorke sounds alittle too much like the late Curt Cobain and takes too many cues from other artists of the ilk.

I like the new song. It's cool, I just find it strangely like others in the past.

dum, Dum, Dum DA-DUMMMMMM
POM-pom-POM-pom-POM-pom-POM-pom
-Tympany solo from 2001, A Space Odyssey

Yup. Look at the time. Im at home, on the eMachine online up and running. I got a new version of Windows 2000, and installed it on the brand new HDD. I have most of the software loaded back into the system minus the antivirus software, and several smaller non-essential programs including a new web browser called Mozilla. I didn't ditch Internet Explorer, I upgraded it to IE 6.0. With the new HDD, I have seen an improvment in performance on several of my programs including the loading of the computer.

Durring the next few days I will be loading updates and fine tuning the programs on it, not to mention learning Mozilla. It looks interesting, but it may turn out to be a waste of bandwidth I used to download. Look for blogs to show up at night too!

Good Night, John-boy.