Bomb Threat, A Love Story

A guy called in a bomb threat to Southwest Florida International Airport today. Authorities arrested the man, but not before a bomb search was conducted on a JetBlue flight (that poor airline has the worst luck). Turns out he was making a desperate attempt to keep his girlfriend from leaving.

 

The man is in custody, and the flight was only delayed by a mere 30 minutes. No word on if the girlfriend made it to New York or not, though.

Platoon

Well I just received a bit of a shock.

I was browsing IMDB's website, namely the homepage, I scroll down and there's a quote. I love quotes. Here's what I read:

"Day by day I struggle to maintain not only my strength but also my sanity. It's all a blur. I have no energy to write. I don't know what's right or wrong anymore. " - Chris Taylor

Underneath that quote is a link that says, "From which TV show/movie?" I am intrigued because that quote pretty much sums up my life these days! Although most notably my life working here at the news station.

I was floored when I clicked on the link and saw that quote is from Oliver Stone's movie, Platoon. Of course. A war movie. I've often compared life working in this news industry to PTSD (post-traumatic stress syndrome), a disorder often found in soldiers of war. And that confirmed it. Hm.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Tonight a 31-year-old Teacher of the Year in South Carolina was arrested on charges of having sex with one of her students. Immediately after hearing stories like this, we in the news business often ask each other, "Now why would you want to jeopardize your Teacher of the Year award, for any reason, but especially for that reason???" We get stories like this all the time. It's very sad. More and more and more and more I find myself asking that question: what the hell is wrong with people?

No shadows in Florida

This picture was taken around 12:30pm EDT in Cape Coral, FL to demonstrate how my shadow was almost non-existent from the sun being so directly square overhead.

This is a test

This is a test of the email-to-blog service offered by Blogger. Hope this works.

"Finish it."

In most personal ambitions I undertake, I find myself looking backwards to detect patterns, in order to determine which forward direction I should take. I believe any successful endeavour is a combination of learning lessons of the past and taking the risk of moving forward into unfamiliar territory.

With my latest ambition, which ironically is a resurrection of an old ideal, I can only think of moving forward. To me, there is nothing to look backward upon - all I feel is this push forward. Or maybe it's a pull I feel.

I feel like I'm ready to grab this bull by the horns. It's going to thrash me around in the dirt and tear my clothes but I know I'll hang on. This is not about finding out IF I'll hang on; this is about putting the bull in it's place and emerging victorious. Although it's not victory I'm after but really, scratching an itch. Giving into a force that has never really left me. And Darren Aronofsky showed me how, unbeknownst to him.

I really, really hope that, after it's all said and done I can thank him myself.

The Love of my Life :)

Doing what he loves. This is the "c0rrupt0" in the link above, "c0rrupt0's rants".