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Red Clay Chronicles: Raw Power
I’m watching the Marty & McGee show on SEC Network this morning, where they’re set up at the Daytona International Speedway in preparation for tomorrow’s Daytona 500. All during the broadcast, the United States Air Force’s Thunderbirds demonstration squad is practicing overhead. Upon every pass, you hear the roar of the engines, all while Marty Smith ducks for cover and Ryan McGee giggles with joy.
Hearing the roar of jet engines will always bring back memories of growing up in Pensacola, Florida.
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Safe for Work
I’ve been doing a lot of earlier morning shifts, typically starting at 6 AM, as of late. This is because I’ve been doing truck unloads in our receiving area. Due to being short-handed lately, there’s been a couple of mornings where I was asked to work at 5:30 instead. Usually, the first lead in picks the music for the unloading process. Here’s the thing with me: a lot of my music cusses just about as much as I do.
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Another Quirky Note in Seattle Sports History
I’ve been watching old Seattle SuperSonics games today, which led me to reading up on the old Seattle Center Colosseum. Little did I know, Seattle was almost granted an expansion hockey team back in the 1970s. According to Wikipedia:
To sweeten the offer, Ackerley sold city leaders on the idea that the new arena in SoDo could also attract a National Hockey League club. The city, along with Denver, had been conditionally granted an expansion NHL franchise in 1974 to begin play in the 1976–77 season.
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I Now Have a Photo Blog
I should say, I now have a photo blog, again. I had one before, which was discontinued back in 2017, most likely due to cost. So, it was just sitting dormant on Micro.blog, ignored and inaccessible. I tried setting something like this up with the WordPress setup I experimented with for about a week this year. But, I found things to be just a little too messy for my liking.
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We Live In Paradise
The following is an email my father sent me in the days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall:
I have lived in a little trailer park just south and east (toward the Gulf) from the Hiway 90 bridge that they showed from Biloxi to Ocean Springs (the one with all but the raised portion missing) and even at or below poverty level it was a great place to be young! It was only about the height of a Gator belly above mean high tide so if it is still there it would have been covered with about 20 feet of water or more.
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I want to spend more time here
I caught myself doomscrolling last night. This is when you stare at social media for an extended period, flipping through posts and videos like a mindless zombie. To be fair, I was a mindless zombie at this point. I just came off back-to-back shifts where I close one night, only to turn around and open the next. So, I was working on less than six hours sleep. This was also the start of my week-long vacation period, where I’m looking to wind down from the madness of the Christmas season.
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No Influence
The above picture is of my text editor, iA Writer. It’s meant to provide focus while writing. It’s honestly a wonderful environment. I have a couple other apps like it. Drafts 5 has a mostly empty canvas as well, and is meant to create text with the intent of acting on it. It’s a great place to write an email without getting distracted by your inbox or to write a text message without seeing the message list.
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Community through food
Finding a new place, to me, is far less rewarding than finding a place and going to it again and again and again and again. Where you feel like if life is just this lonely, scary march through this sometimes unwelcoming world, if you find shelter in the storm through these places, I find that life affirming and giving.
Wright Thompson TrueSouth is a show I’ve mentioned before on this site.