Wes’s Life

“In these mat­ters the only cer­tainty is that noth­ing is cer­tain.”
- Pliny the Elder

I guess I could sum it up by saying, what was said I needed to say. Had I not, I would prob­a­bly be kick­ing myself harder than I am right now. I feel like crap, and will for a while.

Many thanks go out to my friend Norm, wise beyond his years as far as I’m con­cerned.

Every­time I listen to this song, I long to be relax­ing in a chair on a des­o­late beach — quiet and somber — cov­ered in wreck­age from some unfor­tu­nate ships and the hurricane-​wrecked island. It’s quiet, calm and sunny. It’s sunset, since I can’t fathom me waking up for sun­rise even if it is just a vision. A macaw rests in a nearby palm tree and pon­ders the sunset with me. Some­times I wish my dreams could come true, if for only a minute or two.

Island In The Sun by Weezer

hip hip
hip hip
hip hip
hip hip

When you’re on a hol­i­day
You can’t find the words to say
All the things that come to you
And I wanna feel it too

On an island in the sun
We’ll be play­ing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t con­trol my brain

hip hip
hip hip

When you’re on a golden sea
You don’t need no memory
Just a place to call your own
As we drift into the zone

On an island in the sun
We’ll be play­ing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t con­trol my brain

We’ll run away together
We’ll spend some time for­ever
We’ll never feel bad any­more

hip hip
hip hip
hip hip

On an island in the sun
We’ll be play­ing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can’t con­trol my brain

We’ll run away together
We’ll spend some time for­ever
We’ll never feel bad any more

Heh heh

We’ll never feel bad any­more
(hip hip)
(hip hip)
No no
(hip hip)
(hip hip)
We’ll never feel bad any­more
No no

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The dealer’s hand smoothly laid down the next coated hard stock piece of paper from the dark cherry wood card shoe. The pit­boss took a sip of scotch from the crys­tal high­ball. Nor­mally, the casino would have scoffed at a pit­boss drink­ing, but they knew very well that a bit of scotch would calm nerves. The card hit the soft green felt, weath­ered from a little under a month of play. The adren­a­line dis­charged into my mouth, leav­ing a taste that lin­gered with an unsat­is­fy­ing after­taste. The card’s land­ing still rever­ber­at­ing against the already lain down side-​facing king. One large spade winked up at me as the pit­boss fin­ished off the scotch. The dealer’s hand went for the navy backed card laying beneath a smirk­ing queen. For all of her mirth, she was sit­ting on a nine of dia­monds. The pit­boss walked towards the phone before it began its metal­lic chorus, know­ing it must sing its song. A crisp voice came over the phone wrought with a slight tinge of reluc­tance. Sit­ting there wait­ing, all I could feel was pure jubli­a­tion, await­ing a simple piece of heat-​transfer paper with a short line of let­ters, num­bers and one soli­tary dollar sign. The casino felt that with large sums of money, the only way the winner could feel secure was through a bank trans­fer. I’ll take a trans­fer anyday.

People that reg­u­larly read this site know that I go to Vir­ginia Tech. People that keep up with Vir­ginia Tech know that Marcus Vick, Michael Vick’s little brother, also goes (went) to Vir­gina Tech. Recently Marcus Vick was kicked off the team after inten­tion­ally step­ping on an oppos­ing player’s leg, I have to com­petely and whole heart­edly agree with Vick being “dis­missed”. All of his actions reflect upon Vir­ginia Tech and there­fore the major­ity of people think that we are the same as Vick.

Well a few days after being dis­missed from the team, news comes about that he was arrested on firearms charges. I believe Vir­ginia Tech’s admin­is­tra­tion did what they needed to do, maybe not as early as they should have, but better late then never.