My Melancholy Tranquility....Ruined.

Damn you Criminal Minds! Not only are you an addictive show that has sucked me into your Profiling abyss, but now you ruin a favorite song of mine. The episode is "Ashes & Dust" with an opening of a family getting trapped in their house as it is set on fire. The song that they play whilst the family tries to escape their fate is "Boadicea" by Enya (see below). I totally dig Enya, have since college. Always good music to listen to when studying, or working on projects. Lets my mind focus on what it's doing but breaks the silence nicely. Sometimes when I write it inspires.

I'll admit the song does fit that opening scene quite well, it's calmness an erie balance to the frantic family struggle. In general I enjoy Enya's more melancholy songs and this one was no exception, but now every time I hear it I think of that opening scene. No other images can replace that powerful beginning. It just sucks because it was sad watching the tragedy. For now I will have to switch CDs until I can change the images brought to mind by that song. Damn you Criminal Minds.

Enya - "Boadicea" in "Criminal Minds" [Diboan Audio Emphasiz
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Slacker

So I've totally been slipping about blogging. I knew it had been awhile since I posted something but I was still surprised that June was the last time. Really thought I had done something in July, but no matter life got carried away with me so I missed a few months. I'm sure I've forgotten subjects I wanted to talk about and share, but should those thoughts reenter my brain I'll try to play catch up.

I've really had little to no motivation lately. Things I'd have been Johnny on the spot about before have fallen by the way side. I don't know if I was run down from work, the issues with my bad ear and subsequent surgery, or what the cause was. At times I was overwhelmed by how much I had going on that maybe I just shut down on somethings as a survival mechanism. I do tend to take on too much and have often burned myself out. I need to find a happy medium between crispy critter and raw slacker.

Inconvienient Technology

This is an ode to Register #5. Oh Register 5, how I loathe thee. It was such a let down to be assigned to you tonight. In short you suck Register 5! Your belts are frayed and clunky. Your scanner needs a seeing eye dog. Your conveyor ramp is offset so it rips many a package open much to the dismay of cashier and customer alike. Your money drawer pops out far too slowly if it pops out at all. Your touch screen? HA! More like pound screen. Banging away at your unresponsive screen has caused more miskeys than when I learned to type oh so many years ago. Some of those miskeys have even forced me to make change in my head and you know I totally suck-diddly-uk at math. Why they continue to even use you is beyond me. None of the other 8 registers cause as much trepidation and woe as you do. I truly feel that every cashier assigned to you should get a shirt at the end of their shifts saying, "I survived Register 5"