The Aldrich Avenue Weekly

Well folks, I had some real nice ramblings of how I feel we are doing as human race, but my computer took advantage of me and said that it was too smart, people won’t understand it, its years beyond its time, that it decided to delete it. HA HA, joke on me. So I borrowed a entry of mine that I have on another site that many of you may or may not have read. My apologies, enjoy what ya can until next week. Cheers

20 September 2006
     I’ve been giving this writing career a lot of thought now. Is this
something I can really pursue and be successful at? Who knows? Which
direction should I take it? Am I better at writing while I’m under the
influence? Afer a few cocktails? After a couple one-dogs? A little of
both? Sober? I should do some sort of study on that. Hmmmmm, ideas. I
could write about sports. I love sports, its part of my life, but I
think the style of writing for may be a bit more risque or unique so
probablly not sports. What about politics? Wait, no. HELL no. People
that know me know I don’t know a lick about it and honestly don’t care
for it. I haven’t voted since I turned 18 and don’t plan to do so
anytime soon. I just feel that its all pompous bullshit we’re getting
fed day in and day out and the truth, the honest truth will never exist
in my lifteime or any others in the future. I know its sad, but my
faith in the government and how it views our way of life has gone down
a black hole, never to see the light of day again(that is in no way is
a Bush bashing rant). I’ve felt that way for a long time and theres
more to it then just our President. Oops, there I go, condtradicting
myself. Music? I love music and I’m happy to say I have a unique and
broad choice of tunes. but then again, the type of writing I am looking
to do won’t jive with music. The only thing and I mean ONLY thing I
ever had good grades throughout my years of skool(not counting
electives) was English, Language Arts, Short Stories, and others. My
sad realization is I really would like to pursue this as a career or
side job, I just have no motivation to go back to skool. Maybe I’m
doomed. Who knows. Maybe its a style of writing I am still jumbling
around in my head that will come together one day(a long shot and most
likely won’t happen but who knows) and people will notice. When it
comes down to the nitty-gritty I spose writing does have to have a
topic, I just haven’t quite pin-pointed what topic(s) I want to take
on. All I know, that what I have so far is just the first few sentances
of many blank pages ahead of me and the possibilites are endless.
Cheers.

OH, I am adding a weekly quote

this weeks quote
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congratulations…..I think. By this time tommorrow our good old U.S.of A will officially have 300 million Citizens. Wait hold on, those are Legal citizens. It is estimated that the U.S. has roughly 12 million illegal immingrants. Be that it is, its quite large number to take in. Better yet, the projected population in 2050 will be 420 million citizens. From these numbers on Garage Logic today Soucheray determined this was our problem with rising commute’s and the spike in traffic. Is there another undesovered part of this country that I don’t know about yet? Magically going to pop up to make space for all of these people? If so, please, someone tell the Big Guy. What this comes down to is that our cities are going to grow,grow, and grow(obviouslly). Slowing expanding and taking up more land. At that rate we won’t be able to grow enough crops, and recources to take care of ourselves. Is it an Immigration Control problem? Is it the higher life expectancy? Is it another baby boomer phase? I think its a little of all three. How is it possible to let that many illegal immigrants into our country? The life expectancy for the American citizen is 77 years compared to 71 in 1965. More and more younger people are getting married and creating families.  I just get worried thinking about how we are going to manage to live our lives  if  our space to roam, get away, relax  is getting smaller by the day.  Its a vicious cycle.  The citizens keep piling and piling up,  space needed for those people, therefore spacing keeps condensing. Now I am not saying to everyone that lives outside of this country "You’re not welcome", I’m simply saying that there needs to be some changes from those "experts" out on the East Coast that make all that money to slow this down a bit. Damage Control people.  Have they done the research to see if this country is capable of handling this many people. I hope so, because wether you like it or not, its coming up in our rearview mirror way closer then it appears.

Is this country getting dumber by the day? I read today that the mother from Dallas, TX who killed her 5 children by drowning them in the tub back in 2002 was found Not-Guilty due to insanity. And that was the second trial. The first one was found guilty, but they took it back to court. Insanity plea? That term gets thrown around more these days then anything related to Paris Hilton. I think the Insanity plea should be thrown out of the court system. Its basically used as a get out of jail free card. People like this don’t deserve special treatment and "help". Not only that, but she’s been getting chummy of a fellow housemate where she is being kept that also killed her daughter. That makes total sense. I’m sorry, but if you do something like that, you better be ready to pay the price. 3 school shootings in 2 weeks. My oh my!!! What the hell is going on? A kid kills his principle. A crazed lunatic kills 4 amish schoolchildren, and a middle schooler brings and Ak-47 to school and fires it at the ceiling. In a time of our life where there isn’t enough fear and tension amongst us, we have to deal with shit like this. How does a middle school child get ahold of a gun of that magnitude? It boggles my mind. Obviouslly there is something wrong with our system or lack there of that needs attention. I would like to know the amount of school shootings in the last 10 years compared to past times. Add that on top of North Korea supposedly testing a Nuclear weapon and something is bound to burst. I’m just you’re average day Joe just doing my own thing in this universe we occupy, but In the back of my mind that "fear" is growing  more and more daily of something brutal and wretched to come down upon us. I think a lot of the people that run this country and our world are too caught up with success not failure, saying what we want to hear, not what we need to hear. And its gonna catch up sooner or later. Think about it……..

Pandemonium…… Thats what was going on at the Metrodome yesterday afternoon around 5pmish. A season that started with people predicting the Twins would at least win the Wild Card if not the divison, only to have those critics write them off after a 25-33 start. As the Common Man likes to say "Look at me now". On the final out of the final day of the regular season our beloved Twins were in first place with a Division title. After 160 some odd games they were in first place for the first time on the final day of the season. Wow!! Only 3 days ago nobody was even thinking this really would happen. The Tigers hosted the Royals for 3 games. Folks, the Tigers were 14-1 against the Royals this year. The Twins were hosting the high powered White Sox with Santana not pitching to rest up for who we thought would be a match up agains the Yankees. Each game this past weekend we saw the Royals come from behind and win two games only to see us lose two as well. Then came that magical and unforgetablle Sunday downtown Minneapolis. Just as Joe Mauer was coming up to bat after he pretty much punched his ticket in baseball history as the first catcher in American League HISTORY to win the batting title the Metrodome erupted into a frenzy as the scoreboard showed the Royals had just taken the lead from the Tigers. Fitting that Joe would slice a double down the left field line. Then came after the game, Some 35,000 remaining fans of the 45,000+ stayed with the Twins to watch the rest of the Royals game. Then the Royals made that final out of the game.  So there it was. Pandemonium. A fitting ending to what has been a magical and unforgetable season for the Twins and the fans. I was riding my bike downtown right next to the Dome when it happened. Where were you? I guarantee you won’t forget where you were when you were either watching that, listening to it, or heard about it. Moments like these in sports don’t happen very often. You gotta grasp onto them and let it soak in. It really is surreal. So there I will leave it, with a quote from the late and great Mr. Puckett "don’t take life for granted, because tomorrow isn’t promised to any of us". Well said Kirby. GO TWINS.