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My day was much more mundane
with the changes I’ll have to make to schedules in June in full swing. The house was invaded by a very small frog
which disappeared somewhere into the family room. It eluded capture and will serve as a surprise when
my wife returns.
For some reason I was
reflecting a little bit on life yesterday and the importance of tolerance. I have a few subordinate managers that have a
tendency to do the ole - "Ready, Fire, Aim!" thang. They
react to a situation before they have all the facts. I think one of the most important things I’ve
learned in life is not to judge other people’s actions by how you would have
acted in the same circumstances. This
took me a long time to figure out.
Everybody comes to a given
situation with a completely different set of beliefs, education, abilities, and
intelligence. You have to try and
understand where a person is coming from before you judge them too harshly. They may be doing dumb things because they’re
just not that smart or have never learned what they’re doing is dumb. I’m doing a very poor job of explaining this
but I’ve learned that expecting everybody to react to a situation the same way
you would is borderline intolerant – never a good thing.
I went to see the remake of
one of my all time favorite movies – The Evil Dead, one of the greatest horror
movies of all time. I certainly could
not have taken my wife to see this so her absence made my solo date night more
appropriate.
It turned out to be okay –
lots of death along with buckets of blood and gore which is required in an Evil
Dead movie. The cast was a bit of a miss
with the male lead Shiloh Fernandez just not up to the task blazed by Bruce
Campbell. The female lead was okay but
didn’t look anything like the drug addict she was supposed to be. The supporting cast was much better and
should have been given more time over the two leads. The best parts included subtle odes to the
old movie: the demon racing over the
ground, the old car (as a relic here), and the chain saw (gotta have the chain
saw). This movie had a much bigger
budget than the original but I found the older movie a lot scarier maybe due no
use of CGI. All in all, a good, but certainly
not great horror movie.
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I topped off the night by
treating myself to a fire out on the deck.
I guess the Evil Dead really wasn’t as scary as the original because I
wasn’t leery of going out into the dark (course it wasn’t that dark when I got
the bonfire going). When I cleaned up
the basement recently I came across several faded American flags that I knew
had to be taken care of properly. I
refused to consign them to the trash.
Once I had the old bed parts blazing merrily I placed the flags into the
fire, repeated the pledge of allegiance and saluted. I know it sounds really corny but a large
part of my life was dedicated to defending that flag and it really means
something to me. I even checked the
internet to insure I was doing things appropriately:
"The flag, when it
is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should
be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning"
Buddy accompanied me out
onto the deck and repeatedly tried to steal the piece of wood I was using to stir
the coals. The neighbors a couple houses
down also had a deck fire going on at the same time, although mine was a bit
bigger. I tend to get a little out of control once I get a fire going. My wife wasn’t around to caution me so this
fire was pretty epic. She did get a face
time video call in so I was able to share the fire with her but by that time it
had waned to a sane level so I avoided castigation.
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