Took this picture of the full moon early this morning. It's a marvelous night for a moondance.

Moondance - Van Morrison

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I just finished re-reading this book by Wayne Dyer. It closes with this paragraph:

Remember, you do not have to struggle...
You do not have to fight...
You do not have to win...
You only have to Know.

The DJIA finished today at a flat 13,000. If it breaks below that I am wondering if it will top it again this year. Election uncertainty, and a continued mediocre economy has me thinking it won't. I admit I could be wrong.

I never saw the movie or knew much about the book but I bought the book today. It is a short book. I think this book might be for me based on the description on the back cover:

This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed.

Most of the birds have returned after what I suspect was a hawk attack. Maybe a few less than before but many came back. The only birds that never left were the cardinals. They seem like highly intelligent birds who would be less likely to be prey for predators. Watching them they are always moving their heads like they are constantly alert to their surroundings. I think for all beings, the higher your consciousness the less there is to fear.

It is August 30, 2012 and the dog days are over.

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Heard this old song on Sirius/XM and now I find myself playing it over and over in my head.

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OK it is not that hot and not tin but this cat is on my garage roof.

Can a person be born again in a park? Possibly....

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First time I went there I stayed in a motel on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica near the pier. It was cloudy in the 50s but it didn't rain.

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I met this girl Laura in my junior year in college. I had an odd relationship with her. She became obsessed with me I think because I could ace just about any class I took. I started falling in love with her from the attention she gave me. She would call me multiple times a day in addition to all the time we spent at the college. She treated me like the smartest person she knew. I think she loved me in the sense that you might love someone you think is wise or smart but there was no future for us. It took me a long time to realize that. Another factor is she was orthodox Jewish and I don't think she would ever marry a non-Jew. This song makes me think of her because of the way her eyes would shine when she looked at me.

Todd Rundgren - I Saw the Light

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She still doesn't let me touch her but she lets me get close.

It just rained here.

Van Morrison - In The Garden

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Continuing my exploration of Queens parks, I went to Cunningham Park. It is a flatter park with fewer hills and lots of open spaces with ball fields and tennis courts. It doesn't really have the trails like in Alley Pond Park or to a lesser degree Kissena Park. It has a walking path that goes around the perimeter of the park. Once again, someone started a conversation with me in the park, the guy with the German Shepherd in the bottom picture. I can't help it, people just want to get to know me.

This clown has to go.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/26/to-honor-neil-armstrong-obama-posts-a-picture-of-himself?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+(Big+Government)

It is U.S. Open time so it reminds me of the one pro tennis match I attended. Just before the U.S. Open they used to have the Hamlet Tournament on Long Island as a warmup to the Open. I don't think they have it anymore. Anyway a couple of girls in my office at Citibank ended up with an extra ticket to the Hamlet. They couldn't find anyone to go so at the last minute they asked me. To be honest they didn't really like me much I think because I was hired at a higher level than them but who knows. So I went. It was a John McEnroe match near the end of his career.

After work I drove by myself to the match. You had to park in a lot and then take a bus to the courts. I get there and there are the two girls from work and a girlfriend of one of them. So here I am with three women, two who don't really like me and a third who I didn't know. It could have been uncomfortable but I decided on a different strategy. I started chatting up the girlfriend. She liked the attention and we sort of hit it off. The other two were silently stewing. Then as things were going great a torrential thunderstorm started. It was one of the heaviest rains I have seen. There was no thought of staying so everyone left the stadium and headed for the buses to the parking lot. Lucky me I had an umbrella and my new lady friend didn't. So I opened up my umbrella and we were pressed up against each other as we headed to the buses. Then she says to me under the umbrella to get closer. I didn't see how that was physically possible. We get to the buses and they are packed. That is when we got separated in the crowd in the bus. When we got to the parking lot it was still coming done in buckets and I couldn't find her. That night reminds me of this song by the Hollies called "Bus Stop" about sharing an umbrella in August at a bus stop. And by the way, McEnroe won that night.

Bus Stop- The Hollies - 1966

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This kitten has shown up the last day or two. It runs away on sight so I had to shoot quickly.

Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

The play the radio edit, which leaves out the best part about the little red panties that pass the test.

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I put out some bird food this morning and no birds came by. No squirrels either. They are usually waiting. I think a hawk or some other predator must have gobbled up one of them and scared off the others. I saw that happen last year and the birds went away for a day or two but they came back. I also saw two squirrels this morning stretched out on a branch in the tree just looking. There was several peanuts and they were just looking at them from the tree. When the hawk came last year a squirrel did the same thing, hiding in the tree. A few birds did come and eat this afternoon but they left quickly instead of hanging out.

Today I decided to explore another park, this time Kissena Park in Flushing, Queens. I had never been there before and really didn't know where it was or much about it. I walked in and there is a huge lake with ducks and turtles. I just walked around the lake today. It is a busy park with a lot of walkers, joggers, tai chi folks, and dog walkers. I might go back and explore more and I have some other parks in mind, but I am making no commitment to do so.

A few weeks ago I found tape recordings my parents made of the Apollo 11 voyage including the liftoff. I uploaded it to youtube.

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I didn't know who this is but apparently he is an MMA fighter. On one of my youtubes somebody left a comment that "I am here because Uncle Chael Sonnen told me to come". I'm not sure what that means but I couldn't find anything that linked him to my video. Anyway I clicked on my video and youtube added a 3 minute preview of a new movie with Robert DeNiro and 50 Cent called "Freelancers". It looks like a cop movie.

This big golf tournament is going on at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, Long Island. I drove by and saw the MetLife blimp parked in a field.

One of the comments (not mine) about the song:

thank you, this is the only full version of the song, but really it does work, because it is actually one of the saddest songs ever einstein down on the beach staring into the sand, everything he believes in is shattered-when he gave up the search for the cosmological constant as a force to balance gravity and cam e to the awful realization that things are not infinite-then what you fear in the night and the day comes to call anyway, and just in case you're not ready to hang it up yet we all get

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Being on a nature kick right now I thought of this song. The best times in my life have coincided with a closeness with nature.

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I went back to Alley Pond Park today. This time I went to a different part of the park, a couple of miles from where I went last time. It is a huge park covering a lot of land. I went to a trail that was the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway about a hundred years ago. It goes on for miles. I walked about a mile on it before turning around. Much of it is uphill so it gives you a good workout. Three people said hello to me on the trail, including the blonde jogger in the bottom picture. She said hello as she came up from behind. Getting back to nature is good for the soul.

I haven't written enough about the Virginia in my life. When I was working at Citibank they had a reorganization and they assigned a girl named Virginia to work for me. She was already working at Citibank but the made me her manager. She was a year or so out of college. I usually like to hire my own people but we got along very well. A year or so later I quit Citibank for another company and after I left we started hanging out and doing stuff. We both liked amusement parks so we went to a number of them - Disneyland in California, Great Adventure in New Jersey, and Rye Playland in NY. Sometimes we would just hang out on the weekend in the park. It was an odd relationship because she was sort of engaged to another guy at the time but heck I liked her too. She did eventually marry the guy but they divorced about a year later. I wasn't surprised. What I remember about her was after I left Citibank I would sometimes see her on the subway platform. She was going uptown and I was going downtown, so we were separated by several sets of train tracks. She would yell hello to me across the platforms. She was an outgoing girl and she would say hey sam what are you doing this weekend, let's hang out. Mind you the whole Wall Street subway station could hear her. I loved every second of it.

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I have a couple of things that weren't working right that are working now. I had a phone handset that kept beeping when it was on its charger. This started last year and for over six months it would beep before it got fully charged. I would leave it off its charger and then charge it until it started beeping. A couple of months ago it stopped beeping and I can now leave it on the charger.

The other thing was a paper shredder. It had stopped working and there was no visible reason like paper jams. I have another shredder and when I used it I would check the broken one. It never worked. Finally I decided to throw it out but one last time I tried it. It worked.

Now that I know a little about the layout of the park, I went in a different direction. I came to a hiking trail where the entrance was surrounded by plants and weeds:

There was a Chinese couple ahead of me so I followed them, not knowing where the trail was going:

The trail went on, in a straight direction for about 1/3 - 1/2 a mile:

Then I saw daylight, the trail ended out to a street with a school on the corner:

I turned around and took the trail back. I found another trail that looked interesting. It was unmarked and had a steep downhill slope. I went down it for a bit but had no idea where it was going and it was a rough trail so I went back. This is the approach to that trail:

This park is huge and covers a lot of ground. I have explored only a portion of it.

So I was thinking about girls I have known. I have loved a few. I can't say I don't still love them in some way no matter how it ended. But the one I am not over is a girl I never thought I loved. For Nora.

king of wishful thinking

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I had it in a mutual fund that is up about 13% for the year. The economy is still bad and the election is coming up, and some people are predicting a market crash in November, so my money is going on the sidelines for now.

I think I like this song.

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I am a big Van Morrison fan because much of his music is spiritual. The first VHS tape I ever bought was of a live concert he did which included a song called "In the garden". I can't explain why but this live version of the song literally gave me chills up my spine. It did for years afterward. I can't say I still get that effect but it does affect me. It is I guess about being born again in nature.

Just you and I in nature
And the Father
And the Son
And the Holy Ghost
In the garden
All misty wet with rain

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I went to Alley Pond Park today which I don't think I have been to since I was 17, and have never been to this part of the park. There are a lot of nature trails winding through the woods and over hills. I took one path and got some pictures. I then came to a sign that pointed to an "adventure course". I didn't take that path this time but I may go back and find out what is on that trail. I make no guarantees that I will do that but I might.

The mourning doves that I feed usually fly away when I get close. Today I was putting some food out and there was one that was on the fence and didn't move. It watched me and then flew over to me and hovered in the air about a foot away from me for a few seconds. It was quite a sight.

Update: less than 2 hours later all gone. They love this mix.

I left these plates of food for the birds and squirrels this morning at about 7AM. They usually clean the plates in about 2 hours. I will check back in a few hours to see how much is left.

My uncle also died on August 16, but a different year. I was 15 and nobody knew he was sick but we got a call that he died, I think of leukemia. I called the cemetery today to get his grave information. I will visit his grave if I get a chance.

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Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work ?

Too many people living in a secret world
While they play mothers and fathers
We play little boys and girls
When we gonna make it work ?

I could be happy
I could be quite naive
It's only me and my shadows
Happy in our make believe
Soon...

And with the hounds at bay
I'll call your bluff
Cos it would be okay
To walk on tiptoes everyday

And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
Cos to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands

Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work ?

Love is promise
Love is a souvenir
Once given
Never forgotten, never let it disappear
This could be our last chance
When we gonna make it work ?
Working hour is over

And how it makes me weep
Cos someone sent my soul to sleep

And when I think of you and all the love that's due
I'll make a promise, I'll make a stand
Cos to these big brown eyes, this comes as no surprise
We've got the whole wide world in our hands

Advice for the young at heart
Soon we will be older
When we gonna make it work ?

Working hour is over
We can do anyhting that we want
Anything that we feel like doing
Advice...

I joined a dating site just to check it out without really any intention of meeting anyone. I still don't plan to but one of my matches has got the look that just fascinates me. She is a skinny Guyanese girl who looks kind of mousy. But she has got something about her that really attracts my attention. She is not bad looking but not the prettiest. Maybe it is the sad look in her face that gets my attention. She is the kind that I'd like to get know.

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This tombstone caught my eye when I was exploring a cemetery. I am not sure what the epitaph means but I guess it is meant to be funny.

You move along.

The All-American Rejects - Move Along

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A couple of weeks ago my neighbor's landscaper cut the grass and left clippings and debris on my driveway and sidewalk. It didn't look like they were cleaning it up so I went up to the guy with the mower and showed him the stuff and he cleaned it up. Today I came home and a different landscaper was doing a bunch of other houses near me. I stayed in my car and pretended to be texting but I was watching to see if they would blow crap on my side of the street. Well a guy blew crap right at my car and I had to close the window or it would have gone inside the car. It left a layer of crud on my windshield. I could have used the wipers to clean it but I thought what was the point of sitting in my car if I take crap like this. I got out and walked over to the boss. I wasn't angry or afraid. I opened my arms with my palms up like I was confused. I said your guy just left debris on my windshield. I showed him and he said I needed to wash my car. I said the windshield was clean before the guy came by with the blower. He had him come back and blow the crap off. Not a big deal but it is minor annoyances like this that get under your skin. I don't know if he will be more careful next time but at least this time I walked up to him and told him what his guys did was unacceptable.

Haven't heard it in months. I turned on the car radio and it was playing.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros on Letterman

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This is Phil Mushnick's column from the NY Post today. He got the audio from my youtube which was posted on Bobsblitz.com. I don't get the credit but that's OK. I know I did it and I'd rather have the talent to do it than the credit. I am no Kardashian.

Francesa’s Amazin’ eruption

Mike Francesa could use a vacation. Last week, he screamed over a caller who caught him, a caller who mentioned Francesa’s previous take on what R.A. Dickey’s future salary could become was very low.

Francesa erupted, shouting that his take came when, “Dickey hadn’t done anything! He had five wins! It was in June, before I went on vacation [in July]! It was in June! It was in June!”

On June 13 Dickey pitched a one-hitter to go to 10-1.

No worries. Francesa today will issue an on-air apology to Eric from Nutley. Cough, choke, cough. Hey, Macarena!

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/jonesing_for_more_BrssS3Ia4yNqClSSXc13bN#ixzz23QEj7fLF

This is my youtube:

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I went back to Home Depot to buy some more door knobs like the one I bought yesterday. I didn't buy more yesterday because I wasn't positive it was the right type. This one uses a square type of screw. I go back and look for them and they were all gone. There was a bunch yesterday. That is odd that of the many hundreds of door knobs in the store, this type sold out since yesterday. I checked at the service desk and they confirmed they were sold out and had no idea when they would get more. I headed over to another Home Depot store that is near me that had some in stock according to the computer. I had never been to this store but I knew where it was. On the way I noticed that there was little traffic and almost every light for me was green. I got there and they had them and I bought two. So a little detour and I got what I needed.

I came across a column by Jeffrey Gitomer, a sales motivational speaker/writer. He lists his secrets for maintaining inner peace and fulfillment. It is pretty much what I have been doing with this blog and I think it works.

1. Write down all the crap clogging your brain. As soon as you write down the details you no longer have to dwell on them. The benefits of an uncluttered mind is that ideas and resolutions to your issues will begin to manifest themselves daily.

2. Write down your present situation. It creates answers to situations that have been bugging you.

3. Write down your dreams and thoughts. Writing them down help you see a more clear and focused picture of them.

4. Find a quiet park or garden where you can sit and think, read, or write for an hour.

5. Read something positive, and write down the most inspiring quotes.

6. Mentally go to all the positive places where you've been before. Those thoughts will lead you to stories and lessons - write them down right away. Then blog them.

7. Blog your thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Your ideas may matter to some people in the world.

I caught the sun rising on the expressway. I also got exactly what I needed at Home Depot.

My next door neighbor is an elderly woman who now has dementia. For years she has had a live in caretaker. A few days ago the caretaker's niece moved in as well. I don't think she is taking care of the woman, I think she is renting a room. Her room is opposite my bedroom. For most of the time I have lived here, no one used that room or if they did they kept the blinds closed. This girl throws open the blinds and it is quite awkward because there is a clear line of sight from her room to my bedroom. Everytime I glance over she is at her window. Now it is not like I am running around naked all the time or doing similar stuff, but I can't even take a nap without having her be able to watch my every activity. I have been leaving my blinds down and closed. It is really quite awkward.

I found a link somebody posted that has all the Twilight Zone episodes available for download. I don't know if these are legal for download but heck how does one find out?

These are FAA towers a few miles from me. They are a little out of the way but I never really paid attention to them before. Today I was driving by and turned down the street to check them out. They are massive and in the middle of a residential area. They are not really near an airport but they are on a high area in Queens. There are warning signs on the fence about trespassing on FAA property. I guess they are part of air traffic control but who knows what the government really is doing.

Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want

I dedicate this song to...me

Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want

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You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try and try
Try and try, you'll succeed at last

Persecution you must bear
Win or lose you've got to get your share
Got your mind set on a dream
You can get it, though harder them seem now

You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try and try
Try and try, you'll succeed at last
I know it, listen

Rome was not built in a day
Opposition will come your way
But the hotter the battle you see
It\'s the sweeter the victory, now

You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try and try
Try and try, you'll succeed at last

You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
You can get it if you really want
But you must try, try and try
Try and try, you'll succeed at last

You can get it if you really want - I know it
You can get it if you really want - though I show it
You can get it if you really want
- so don't give up now

Youtube shows the audience is 75% male. It's about a guy kicking a girl out of his place. It has lines like "Get out! I am telling you now. Do you catch my drift, what could be plainer than this". But then he sings "She won't even miss me when she's gone. That's OK with me I"ll cry later on" so maybe there are some mixed feelings going on. The song has one of my favorite opening lines ( after a spoken intro): "I met her on the strip it was another lost weekend".

The Tubes - Talk to ya later

The Tubes - Talk To Ya Later - original with intro

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I've been trying to get your attention
And I'm very, very close to thinking of a way
I could be big and tough and other funny stuff
But you just keep looking the other way

How far away can you go
And still be dancing with me?
Would you mind staying in the vicinity?
I've not been faring badly
But I would gladly take you back

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Youtube gives you demographic statistics of who views your youtubes. I'm not sure how they know stuff like sex and age but youtube can break down percentages of views by those categories. I guess they harvest information from people's web usage that gives them a good idea of who is using an ip address. Anyway I have found that men much more frequently view my music youtubes than women. Part of it might be the type of music, like Justin Bieber must have more female viewers. But I don't think that accounts for the whole difference. This youtube of mine is one that has more female views than male views but only by about 53-47%. The song is a woman's song about a girl tempted by a man so you would think it is mainly of interest to women, yet it barely has more female views.

Terri Gibbs - Somebody's Knockin' - good audio quality

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If I google "Roadrunnner Modern Lovers", I get about 135,000 results. The first result is my youtube.

I have sent a few tickets and made a few jumps but I don't get it.

Bob's Blitz is a New York area website that features links about sports, pop culture, and girls. It gets a good amount of traffic. The guy that runs it is one of my youtube subscribers and he often embeds my sports youtubes. When he does this it usually adds 100-200 views, and sometimes other websites link my youtube as well. Here are two of mine today under the title "Francesa rips Jets":

http://www.bobsblitz.com/search?updated-max=2012-08-08T11:29:00-04:00&max-results=5

For example, I just found a shortcut to Belmont Park racetrack. It is not far from me but the main roads that go there are not close by. I was playing around with the maps app on my iPad and found a shortcut. If I go three blocks from my home there is a small residential street. If I take it for two and a half miles it brings me right to Belmont Park. It is not that I ever go to the racetrack but it is nice to find that little shortcut that was under my nose for decades.

I hadn't made a picture of the sun in the palm of my hand this year so I made one.

Breathe- Hands to Heaven

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Last week I tried to buy Band-Aids that were on sale for 2 for $5. They rang up as the regular price and I showed the woman from the store the price on the shelf and she told me it was for another UPC, which wasn't even there. It turns out they posted the sale prices a day early and they are on sale this week. I bought them today and almost everything I bought was on sale too.

For Nora:

Too many sad days
Too many Tuesday mornings
I thought of you today
I wished it was yesterday morning
I thought of you today
And I dreamt you were dressed in mourning

But I knew that you
With your heart beating
And your eyes shining
Would be dreaming of me
Lying with you
On a Tuesday morning

The Pogues - Tuesday Morning

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Why don't you slide?

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So I looked up this woman named Beth who I knew in graduate school. I don't remember how we became friends other than she was sitting in front of me in a marketing class and we started talking. We sort of hit it off and she used to laugh a lot with me. That is an attractive quality. Then I think we started to become more than friends. I remember one night after class we were walking to the parking lot and it started raining. We ran under a doorway but got soaked anyway. Being in the rain, at night, alone with her, well it was sort of a special moment. She was older than me but I don't know exactly how much older. Anyway she invited me to come over to her apartment one night to study. She was the first woman I knew who had her own place, that is not living with her parents. I didn't know if this was really just a study date or a real date. I mean if it was just a study date we would more likely meet someplace on campus. I went to her place and was sort of nervous. I played it straight as a study night and I really think I messed up. Afterward in class she was sort of cold to me. The semester ended and I never saw her again.

I found her on facebook today. I wasn't sure if it was her because she is older but still very nice looking. I confirmed it was her because she listed the college in her career stuff. She is a big time lawyer now which is a little surprising since she seemed a little ditzy back then. I don't mean she was dumb or anything but she didn't seem like a very serious student. She supported herself in college by selling stuff at flea markets at Aqueduct racetrack. Then I did some more googling of her name and I found out that her husband just died in July of a heart attack. Funny how I got the idea to look for her on facebook at this particular time. I really have no particular feelings about her now but she definitely is a footnote in my life. We did share that one moment in the sudden rain shower at night huddling under a doorway, laughing, getting wet and looking into each others eyes.

My cats came back yesterday and this morning. The cat in the first picture is my buddy now.

This topic was in the newspaper today and answered by several clergymen. The following response is from a Rabbi. I think it makes sense to me, and by its definition I have had divine intervention in my life multiple times in big ways. But if so, why?

How do you recognize divine intervention? You first must accept that there is a plan for everything. Then, you have to understand synchronicity. For example, a man and a woman both alter their schedules and end up in the exact same place at the same time. If either had arrived even two minutes earlier, they wouldn't have met, fallen in love and married.

Another key factor is that it implies an unusual occurrence. For example, you never get sick, but this day you get sick and don't go to work. On the same day, the train you regularly take is involved in a crash.

Third, it cannot be fully explained by the known laws of nature. The example: Someone gets struck by lightning twice and survives both times.

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I was walking down Queens Boulevard this morning. It is a very busy street and is the road you usually see them driving on in the King of Queens show. There was a traffic cone on its side blocking the right lane. There was no reason for it to be there, and it probably got bounced around from some construction about a block away. There was no traffic at the time so I thought what the heck and walked over and moved it to the curb with my foot. I like doing quickie good deeds like that. It gives me a lift.

I just had a dream about my friend Nora who I haven't seen in person since 1998. But we had a "dream thing" going on when we used to hang out together. Once I had a dream about seeing her on the subway and I told her. Then a few days later she told me she had a dream about me. So that was the beginning of our dream connection. Stuff happened in life and we didn't hang out anymore but the dream connection has continued. Once at a very low point in my life she was there for me in a dream. I also saw her in a dream about a year ago when she told me she was going to college. Last night I saw her again in my dream. It is hard to say how long a dream lasts but we spent a bunch of time together. Then as I was holding her I said to her that I missed her so much. I woke up shortly after. But I didn't get the feeling that you usually get when you wake up that it was only a dream. I felt great and I believe that on some level of reality I was with her again.

I just watched this movie. It is very good. It is episodic and is not really focused on Jeff living at home. I liked all of it except the weird Susan Sarandon romance.

You've changed your place in this world.

"Talk of the Town" - The Pretenders

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Found a nail in my tire. The tire only lost a pound of air so it's not flat but they can't fix it because it is near the sidewall. Mavis Tire has to order it so it will probably take a couple of days to get it.

This was an impressive sight today. I am guessing it was a police officer's funeral or maybe someone important to get a police detail.

I went to a different supermarket this morning. I saw a display of Band-Aids that were on sale. Two boxes for $5 so I took them. The sign said you have to buy two. No problem there. This store only has self checkout until 8 AM. I scanned them and they rang up at $4.49 each. I told the woman monitoring the checkouts and she says no they are not on sale. I tell her the sign says they are and we go back to the display. The sign reads "Band-Aid Variety Pack, two for $5". The boxes I took were right above the sign and are called "Band-Aid Variety Pack". The woman goes "no, this is a different UPC code". The UPC code of course is that set of bars that are only machine readable, so it wasn't worth arguing over. I didn't buy them.

When I google "I'll stop the world and melt with you", the second google result is my youtube.

The future is open wide....