My View From Las Vegas
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
This past weekend was about as wonderful as you could ever imagine. The first weekend I was able to spend with my children since October. The whole weekend starts off poorly, because on Valentines Day, there was a conversation between my ex wife, Doris and my best friend, Jodi. This conversation took place from my home to my ex wife's new apartment. The results of that conversation were difficult for me to digest emotionally. However, there was reprieve on Saturday, when Jodi, who is my best friend in the whole world, came over to bring Chinese food and birthday presents for Mikey and Olivia. We were all together at my exwife's new apartment, and everyone, especially the children, enjoyed themselves more than we have in a very long time. This is good news for the future.
Monday, February 10, 2003
The drums of war continue to beat loudly. The American response to the Iraq refusal to come clean about their weapons capability will lead us to full blown engagement, or so it would seem from the way things are going.
Saturday, February 08, 2003
Things have not really gone too well lately, I am at a complete standstill.The job at Turnberry crashed and burned in a complete surprise layoff. The General Forman began by treating me better than anyone I had ever known in the whole time I have worked in construction.The problem arose from the friction between myself and the guy who was supposedly my friend. "Beware of your friends while embracing your enemies" So as of a week ago Friday I am no longer working and this is a major setback, because the only solution for the problems confronting me at the moment is to find some way to get an Ironworker's position and hold it for awhile. The disappointment is devastating, and I would add that my emotional state has been extremely low and eratic over the last week. I am clueless as to which way to turn, and what to do. The way I feel is that my life is slowly slipping further and further where nothing will matter at all. I have two young children who had birthdays this week, and I was unable to persuade their mother that it would be nice if I could be included in whatever plans she had to celebrate with them. I have not been able to see them since October. Sometimes I feel like I will never ever see them again. I am sad, depressed and very confused.
Monday, February 03, 2003
This was a very sad Sunday for everyone in the United States. The weather here in Las Vegas was suddenly becoming like winter, which it is. The entire Nation mourns the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia.Seven Astronauts were killed when the Shuttle blew up while on a trajectory to renter the atmosphere and land at Cape Kennedy.
Saturday, February 01, 2003
The catastrophe of the Space Shuttle Columbia coming apart in the atmosphere has darkened this day for the whole world. There is probably no way to imagine a more daunting experience than to be contained within some vessel that many miles in the sky and blowing apart. Very sad for all the people involved in the Space Program. There seems to be a budget problem in the NASA program, and the Columbia was certainly not on its maiden voyage. Unless we are willing to fully fund the NASA projects, we should not risk this kind of tragedy without completelt funded, cost no object type of support.
