Monday has dawned ...

and be assured I'm not going to do anything irreversible.

First, this lion always accepts hugs from friends, and I consider everyone who was concerned as a friend. :=3

le_loup_peint I consider you a close friend, though we only really met at AC2K. You keep that tiger of yours in line. ;=3
Also I pray that everything goes wonderful for you in the coming months.

As for my feelings, I'm on the rebound. Slow but sure.

I have talked to a few friends, especially those that are part of the "Dirt Den Inn Denizens".

As I said before, I'm not "happy, happy - joy, joy" yet, but then again if I went from one extreme to the other it would be cause for alarm also.

Funny thing is when I was working at the RR Sat. & Sun. I was happier. Maybe it was the fact I was doing something useful and not just sitting in front of a computer. Also yelling at the boaters, through the amplified hailer, for the stupid things they were doing was a great stress reliever. I might have gotten angry for their wanton disregard of marine law, but, in the end, I walked away from the bridge and if they did something stupid it was their own fault, not mine. BTW, I did call the NJ State Police - Marine Division on a wave runner. It was a father with two sons on one. First no "PWC's" are allowed in the canal. Second he was jumping wakes, and he was doing this in the vicinity of the bridge. If he wants to kill or injure himself, fine, but I will not allow him to put two children at risk because of his stupidity. :=/

As the above shows, I'm channeling my anger to more constructive means.

To all those that were D*C and MFM, I wish I could've been there, but the job, more than money, stopped me from going.

I also think that is part of my problem. I need a full weekend off, which I've not had since we started running for the season, to do what I want to do. No matter, after Hallowe'en, I'll have a full month off, unless we start running freight. That won't be so bad, as the trains won't cross the bridge and we'll have a pool of engineers and conductors to pull from.

Hopefully freight will start in a month or so, and that'll help my finances, a lot.

Well, enough rambling from me.

I'll be posting when the mood strikes. :=3

This hurricane season.

Ok, I want to know what south Florida did to make the hurricanes take an interest in it so much this year.

First there was Bonnie. Not much damage, but it was still there.

Second was Charley. The first hurricane in over 40 years to strike the west coast of the state in that particular area. A Cat. 4 storm that came in with almost no warning, and proceded to rip up the state from Punta Gorda (basically no longer there) to the Daytona area.

Now we have had Frances pound the south central part of the state from east coast (Miami) to west coast (Tampa) and now is taking on the panhandle.

Next up it seems that Ivan is taking a course that will have it pass over the keys and southern tip next Saturday or so. The forecasters are saying this can become a Cat. 5 storm very soon.

Is someone trying to wipe south Florida off of the face of the earth?
It sure seems like it. :={