February 21, 2007 by dkaye
What is wrong with the paparazzi? Have they been rendered incapable of compassion?
We have two very high-profile celebrity cases being splashed all over the media as if there was nothing else more important going on in our world.
A dead woman’s body is decaying because her family is fighting over where to bury her; and a celebrity is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both of these are much more important than the war going on overseas, or a President incapable of ruling a democratic nation.
Absolutely. Well, here’s my take on both of these.
Anna Nicole Smith is dead. She wanted to be buried next to her son, Daniel, in the Bahamas.
Her family wants her interred in the family plot in Texas. The family to which she’d been estranged for the past 16+ years. Add to that, her family is also threatening to have Daniel dug up and reburied in the family plot in Texas.
The latest in the hullabaloo is the report that Anna’s body is decomposing quickly. If a respectable ‘public viewing’ funeral is to be had, a ruling is going to have to be made in short order.
Why is it taking so long to reach a decision?
Let me say this again. Anna Nicole Smith is dead. She wanted to be buried next to Daniel in the Bahamas. Why is this such a travesty?
To Anna’s family - by engaging in this drawn-out legal warfare, you’ve stripped Anna of her dignity, reducing her to a decaying corpse sitting refrigerated in a morgue. Give her the respect she deserves. She bought the plot there for a reason.
JUST DO IT. Let her be with her son.
(Note to self: Good time to maybe check will and make sure it’s up to date? Just a thought.)
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February 20, 2007 by dkaye
Football is over for the season. I was beside myself this weekend; suffering from the post-season blues. Ended up watching network movies and HBO on Demand. That’s just sad.
I was looking back at my ‘boyz’ from a couple of years ago. Being the unofficial team photographer, I enjoyed getting to know the guys during the season, and watching their progress during an almost-perfect season. For their Awards dinner, I put together a slideshow of pictures I had taken during the season. Soon, I plan to get the full series (~2000+) up in a gallery. Maybe the post-season downtime will provide that opportunity. Maybe not.
Anyway (and until then) - here’s the slideshow.
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February 18, 2007 by dkaye
It’s cold. It’s damned cold!
A Noreaster blew through here the other day. Fortunately, we only got the outskirts of the storm - artic cold, high winds, freezing rain and light snow. It made for hazardous driving, and some nasty looking salt-caked vehicles.
Driving around proved difficult because I couldn’t hardly see out the windshield. The cheap-assed washer fluid was a frozen block, and it was hard to keep the windshield clear of all the wet muck being sprayed on it. Turning on the wipers just made a bigger mess than what was already there.
So, while out at lunch on Thursday, I decided, screw it - I’ll stop at the gas station and have them go ahead and add the Peak anti-freeze/de-icing fluid sitting in the back of the truck. That would’ve been a good idea had I have passed a gas station on my trip. Aggitated and irritated, I decided to go ahead and do it myself.
Now, I do know my way around cars. I am familiar with locations of the essentials - oil, gas, and most of the fluids. I thought it’d be easy.
That was a critical mistake.
I pulled into a parking lot, and grabbed the fluid. After figuring out where the latch was to open the hood, I opened it up and removed the cap to the washer fluid reservoir. The wind was cold and whipping, my scarf was blowing all over the place, and so was the washer fluid. That just irritated me even more, as I watched it splash all over the place.
Well, it didn’t take much to fill it up, which I thought was a little odd. I don’t know how much fluid actually went in as it seemed more splashed out than in. Knowing it was all a frozen block of ice, I didn’t think too much about it.
But then I noticed a most pecular thing. The fluid inside the reservoir was 1) overflowing, and 2) the color of light chocolate milk. Puzzled, as I screwed the cap back on, I looked closer. Then I looked closer around the engine itself and, in the left bottom corner, I noticed a black cap with a windshield on it.
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