Dealing with the masses

I like people. Honestly, I do. I believe in the goodness of humanity and live in hope that good will always win out when it counts the most. Yes, bad things happen to good people on a daily basis (maybe even hourly?) but that doesn't mean that people as a whole are bad. If they were, when all those bad things happened to all those good people, no one would ever lift a finger to help them. But we do help each other. Our governments might fail us - faceless bureaucracies are not people - but we are there for one another. We'll take care of each other when no one else will.

However

People, when you're waiting at a crosswalk and the light's red, DON'T CROSS THE STREET IN FRONT OF A CAR THAT IS ABOUT TO GO THROUGH A GREEN. Yes, I'm a little shaken that I almost hit some idiot with my car, and grateful I have good reflexes, but I HATE it when people do stupid things like that. The best part? He just looked at me and laughed, then flipped me off. I should have hit him. Why do the rest of us have to live our lives making sure those morons don't end up killing themselves? Yes, I like people, for the most part, but the stupid really do need to be scooped out of the gene pool.

And for my happy thought: I love Seattle. People here are laid back and friendly, Washington is a gorgeous state and I'm glad that of all the places I could have moved, I came here.

Crap

Sandy just found out my birthday's coming up. I told her she'd better not do anything, she said she wouldn't, then she winked and walked away.

I really don't want to do anything, this year. I'm still missing things back home - correction, back East. I'm home now. Maybe John and I will do something.

Speaking of John, we're going out tomorrow night. He's been busy this week so it'll be good to see him.

All right. Back to work.

Survey time!

Sandy emailed these to me. She's making it her mission to help me meet more people. So far, I do have to admit that her ideas have been paying off. Anyway, she says that people post these things in their journals, other people read them and then post them in theirs. It's a way to get to know each other, she says. I think it's a way to be nosy. Not that that's a bad thing. Anyway, the questions and my answers are below. Some of them seem very random and I have no idea what they have to do with anything. But I suppose random facts can be appealing.
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