Been busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
I have much queued up to blog about – but first I need to relax 😉
More to come…
Busy
Archives for 2004
ATTACKED: The Protest Warriors in San Diego
Been pretty busy at some meetings and such on this end, but appears that SMASH and his fellow band of Protest Warriors have had some excitement in sunny San Diego lately.
Wish I could join them…
122 Arrested on First Day of Protests
The protests are off and running at the Republican National Convention in New York City – and this promises to be quite a different show than the protests in Boston – where only twelve people were arrested. Already, in New York, more than 122 people have been arrested according to today’s New York Times:
Thousands of cyclists rode through the streets of Manhattan last night in an anti-Republican, pro-environment display of bike power that ended in more than 100 arrests by the police after the ride blocked some streets.
Despite tension over police warnings to obey traffic laws against blocking traffic and running red lights, the cyclists – numbering 5,000, the police say – did just that in a meandering course that started at Union Square and wound its way to the West Side, Central Park, Midtown and the East Village.
As of 11 p.m., Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said that officers were still processing people who were detained, but that he expected more than 100 people to face charges, mainly for disorderly conduct.
The arrests, two days before the convention starts, seemed to herald a busy period for the police, who must patrol a stream of demonstrations large and small, several each day. The police on Thursday made 22-convention related arrests, more than three times the number during the entire Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Tomorrow is the huge anti-war march by United for Peace and Justice.
May we live in interesting times….
IPD to Arm Officers with M-16s
The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Indianapolis PD will arm their officers now with M-16 rifles that have laid in storage since last year:
Longer-range rifles that the Indianapolis Police Department has had in storage since last year will be in officers’ hands possibly by November, department officials said Thursday.
The announcement follows criticism from IPD officers that they regularly face criminals who have more firepower, although officials say their announcement was not a response to those complaints.
The criticism increased after IPD Patrolman Timothy “Jake” Laird was gunned down Aug. 18 by a Southside man firing an SKS-style assault weapon from more than 150 yards away.
Indianapolis Police Chief Jerry Barker said Thursday that the 218 rifles, known as M-16s, will be given to officers as the weapons are modified and as officers are trained to use them. He said training would occur at a range at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, a military base about 45 minutes south of Indianapolis.
About time….
Grumble
My old car dealer had Wi-Fi in their waiting area. Now I’m at Silko Honda in Raynham, MA giving the hybrid it’s first health checkup and some fresh lube.. and there’s no wi-fi here.. It’s just not right! 😉
The Black Dog and Heather, Interrupted
For nearly two years now, my daily blog reading has included Heather Armstrong’s classic Dooce and her husband’s equally entertaining Blurbomat. Through the lens of a blogger, we’ve seen Heather and Jon move to Utah, get fired, find a new job, buy a house, remodel a kitchen, have a child, and struggle with the black dog of depression.
Now it looks like the dog is back and isn’t going away:
I wish that I could tell you that the reason you won’t be hearing anything from me in the next several days is because we’re right on the verge of launching the redesign. And we are, I promise, we’re right there, just a few more MT plug-ins and some tweaking on the templates and we may have a new site! But that’s not the reason.
It’s also not because Leta is really cute in her caterpillar pajamas. Or that her face smells really good.
The reason you won’t be hearing anything from me for several days is because this morning Jon is driving me up to the hospital and I’m going to check into the psychiatric ward. I am very scared that if I don’t go ahead and do this that I may experience some sort of nervous breakdown.
As I’ve written before, I’m highly sympathetic to this – not just because I love the Dooce blog, but because I had my own struggles with depression twelve years ago.
I never had to check myself into a psychiatric ward – but I did go through several weeks of counseling and took Prozac for a time. Thankfully, those days are behind me – and I hope I’ve learned enough to not have to ever go down that road again.
While I will miss Dooce in the weeks ahead, I truly hope that this break from the world will prove to be the catalyst that she needs to pull through – we’ll be thinking of Heather and Jon often over here….
The Three Day Weekend ToDo List
As I see that Tim has posted a list of things to do for the weekend, I thought I’d post my own list for this upcoming three day weekend:
- Fix Closet Clothes Bar
- Spackle x2 downstairs bathroom drywall
- Mow
- Remove solar lights
- Return Cable Model
- Return Router & DSU/CSU
- Exercise at least twice for 60 minutes or more total
- Cleanup home office & guest bedroom
- Laundry
- Goto Corrs concert (don’t ask)
Much to do!