Worthless Wonderings

Sometimes I wonder if there is something wrong with me. Either that or my job has done permanent damage to my heart. Not the one that pumps blood but the one that has feelings.

I love my job but I have to be able to separate my compassion for others from my duty to do my job. If you let the horrible stories I hear everyday get to you then eventually you won't be able to do the job. Now, I love my job, but the reason I have been able to do it for so long is my ability to be detached while I'm at work.

I just hope its not bleeding into my regular life. Now I know I come by the cold, calculating thought process naturally (you'll understand if you know my dad), but sometimes I feel a little "off", when I'm able to move past bad experiences quickly.

Like today, our new dog had a bunch of seizures and it looks like he has epilepsy. Jenny is of course distraught by the whole thing. I on the other hand observed the situation, made the decisions about what we needed to do and felt terrible about it for a while, but now I've moved on because I know there is nothing more I can do. I know it is a logical step to take but sometimes I really wish I "felt" more. Sometimes I wonder if all those feelings are just bunching up for a massive sneak attack at some inconvenient time in the future.

OK, I guess that's enough for today. Just had some thoughts running through the ole noggin and thought I'd put them down for your perusal.

Happy Dark Knight Day

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And a big thanks to Mr. Chris for the heads up.

Beware the Evil Eye

Has anyone else noticed that Marie shows up in a lot of pictures with the same shady look?

I'm starting to think she may be up to something. I'll have to keep my eye on her.

So we spent Saturday (day 2 of my 4 day weekend) with the magnificent Dornans at the Battle Creek Air Show. We both packed coolers so we would have sufficient snackage with which to battle the onslaught of tasty, fatty airshow food. Of course, once the smell of roasted animal flesh wafted across our party of four our willpower was pretty much destroyed. I wound up going with the monster pulled pork sandwich as my lunchables no longer cut it.

The airshow was excellent as always. The Thunderbirds put on one of the better demonstration shows I have seen. I know they are all just about the same but something just felt extra awesome this time.

Of course Jenny hid from the cameras all day. However, there is a video out there of her playing Air Controller Hero (Jenny plays Guitar Hero with the regular Xbox controller). Hopefully it turns up soon.One of our highlights of the day was the above T-shirt. Yes, those are pigs in various states of reproduction. The signifcance to us is that we bought Jenny's mom a salt and pepper shaker set that can be rearranged into many of the above snapshots. For some reason, every time we go to the in-laws each pig is stationed on opposite sides of the stove. Jenny usually rectifies that extremely non-childish situation quite quickly.

All in all it was a pretty good holiday weekend. We got to spend time with good friends, Jenny became the first person to yak in Chris' vehicle (It shall now be known amongst us as The Vomit Comet), we saw the new Will Smith flic (much better than the critics are willing to admit), ate some good food and advanced a level or two at the old Guitar Hero.

Unfortunately Jenny was also sick for most of the weekend. It sucked for her but I got to do one of my favorite things which is to take care of my baby.

I had plenty of help though.

Showbiz Pizza! Yeah!