A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That

Okay Thursday night 6 something or other and I may be picking up the H at work as it is pouring rain here so this may be a short blog. Time for a state of the Marc address in the condensed Campbell soup form. Lately I have been wanting to throw in these out of left field comments. Never ever out of right field. If I ever played that position it would have to be called left of center field. Ellis Valentine and Rusty Staub will forever be known as the greatest left of center field players that my late, beloved Expos had in their time. They couldn't be playing right because then they would just be wrong all the time, Kind of like some dip named Gowdy that had his half-brained thoughts splayed in today's Greenville News front page. Not exactly the purveyor of the all the news that is fit to print unless they mean making me pitch a fit because then they are doing a fine job. There must be a saner way of getting crossword puzzles!

So it was pouring rain coming home tonight. You'd think that people on the road would factor in these conditions as they are moseying along to wherever they are going. Well you would be thinking wrong just like that Gowdy dipwad this morning!

There were some absolute brain dead individuals driving only with their daylights on even though it was effing dark just like my Yuengling Black and Tan. In my 10 mile drive home I saw at least four wrecks along my route. Brilliant. Cars in ditches. Cars turned around against traffic. Nah they weren't speeding! It's like an effing obstacle course some days. Unreal!

Good song on now. Our Lady Peace's "Somewhere Out There" from their 2002's Gravity album. Definitely an underrated alt rock band from Toronto. I'm listening to JACK-FM out of Regina, Saskatchewan right now where it is currently -17c or 1 degree Fahrenheit. Now that's cold!

Great thing about listening to JACK out of Regina or Vancouver is getting my Canadian content fix in music. A man can listen to only so much Skynyrd or Tucker before wanting some OLP, Triumph, Saga or Adams back in his life. Maple Leaf music rocks and rolls!

Okay that's it for now. Time to make a dining decision. I think tonight is a Mexican food night. I need some pico de gallo!

New Blogger Design

Hmmm. I haven't typed in a while and I got back on the site only to discover that they have changed everything around. I kind of knew where everything was before to write and format these blogs. After writing 20 or so of these things I figured out how to add labels and photos to them. Now I am back to being confused once again. I'm probably going to have to write a few before I can start adding the stuff I added before.


So two weekends ago I turned 50 years old! It's incredible really when I think of how quickly time passes by. All in all I think it's been a pretty good ride. I've got some regrets. Who doesn't? I've made mistakes. I've squandered opportunities. I've caused myself to stress over things that I could have handled better and less stressfully. One thing I know is that I have the tools, knowledge, wherewithal, etc. etc. to change the things that I can.


In a roundabout way this brings me to one of the wisest things I have ever read. Something that I learned about in the late 80s when I attended a lot of meetings in church basements. Well lots of them were in basements. Sometimes they were in rooms that were in the upstairs part of the building though. LOL.

The prayer above even though many or most of us know it from a 12-step program is a tenet or words that have to be more important in my life than they have been for perhaps the better part of the last decade. I'm thinking at times that I completely forgot about the simple wisdom of these words.


Earlier today I took a break at lunch where I went to my neighborhood Starbucks and grabbed a table outside with today's Greenville News and a venti coffee and just vegged out for an hour or so. A little bit of serenity came upon me at that time. Month-ends are always hard for me and add the fact I made a major decision this week in my life as well; I definitely needed some calmness to descend upon me.


As I was watching traffic go by the words of the Serenity Prayer came to mind. It's been a long time since I thought of those words, and once again like it did thousands of times before when I attended meetings; a little bit of my own private serenity came upon me. A few minutes later I got behind the wheel of my car and all that inner peace went out the window. I'm a stark raving French speaking lunatic once I get behind the wheel of a car. I really, really have to work on that. LOL.