Better Living Through Introspection

Laughter, the best medicine

The Onion has a cure for everything. Even in surreal times like this. I would think it’s still a little too close to the event, but I was laughing so hard because, well, it’s funny and funny above all else is what gets me through hard times. Well, that and a little love.

But mostly funny stuff.

Basketball’s worst kept secret

He’s back. My $0.02 worth: he shoulda stayed retired. But, now that he’s back, well…the Wizards couldn’t possibly get worse. And hey, here’s a classy touch:

Jordan will donate his entire salary for the upcoming season to relief agencies working with the victims of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, said Estee Portnoy, a spokeswoman for SFX, Jordan’s management agency.
[ full story on Washingtonpost.com ]

I wish I had so much cash I could be that classy.

I’ve said it before

I’ll say it again…Happiness is coming in to work and finding the line of code that’s been preventing database updates, then realizing the rest of the day you had planned on working on the problem is now wide open.

Of course, that won’t last long.

So I’ll use someone else’s words…

Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald has written an accurate summation of my feelings and, I suspect, those of others as well:

So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that’s the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don’t know my people. You don’t know what we’re capable of. You don’t know what you just started.

But you’re about to learn.

[ full text available at the Miami Herald ]

Words escape me

Immediate friends and family are safe, but as the stories start streaming through the ether it seems no one was untouched.

Nothing will ever set this right.