Trav & Al

Flickr is slowly sucking me back in.

I signed up months ago, but never much liked it because really, why host your photos on two sites instead of one? Plus, it’s ugly.

But recently they added a couple new features, including the ability to blog directly from my photos.

Seeing as I have about a hundred photos still sitting on my camera and twenty unfinished posts, this could be kinda handy.

You think?

And everyone else’s. This 66 year old man shot a kid yesterday for walking on his lawn. Over his stupid, ugly, midwestern GRASS. How long do the dust mites have to eat at your brain before the idea of shooting a 15 year old in the chest WITH A DEER RIFLE seems completely justified?!

What’s scary is, this man doesn’t sound even slightly insane.

Makes me think of the days when my Dad would lose it and go scream at the kids skateboarding in the concrete ditch behind our house. This went on for years and I swear that half the time the ‘boarders did it just to provoke him.

Dad would be roaming the yard glaring at our 6 foot brick wall, getting himself more and more worked up until finally, he’d call the cops, storm out to the ditch and go completely NUCLEAR. Red-faced and screaming, he’d huff around our side of the ditch for a good twenty minutes while the kids stood around and laughed at him from the other.

Yet, he never up and decided one day that shoving a kid right off his board in mid-air would make him feel a whole lot better. He might have thought about it. He never did it.

Instead, he moved away. But that probably had nothing to do with the ‘boarders.

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