So You Want To Go To Dinner

I was talking with youngest daughter.  She was hungry, she wanted me to make dinner, I had no desire to even make me dinner!  We decided to go out for Chinese food.

There is really only one way to get to the Chinese food ... only ... the road was blocked off by police cars and emergency vehicles!  Well, you just can not cut off the only main drag through the downtown without arousing the curiosity of all 33,000 in this town!  Get my nose inserted into the doings!

I have mentioned in the past that this little burg gambled that by becoming the alcohol destination of the area, this would raise sufficient capital to finance the city government.  Of course, as anyone with a brain knows, introduce unlimited alcohol and you introduce unlimited police, emergency personal and lawsuit costs!  But in their myopic rush for cash, they never thought beyond the unlimited funds they expected.  And so the town runs about 50% of its budget behind now in support of the alcohol culture and death this has brought.

Tonight, we see a VW Passat, not being controlled by its drunk driver, which took out an unknown  car in a head on.  The unknown car, because there is not enough in it to identify even the maker, then went through the side of a log cabin.  Driver of unknown car was killed on impact, the VW driver was whisked off to the regional trauma center in Seattle, about 12 miles away.  I imagine by now they are in lock  up.  As it turns out, the killed driver was one of my clients back in my computer days ... small world, very sorrowful.

Such an avoidable tragedy ...

It set a poor mood at dinner.  Someone was so drunk at 5:00 to have caused this accident.  What a legacy we are defining for the culture of the next generation around here.  Sigh.

So, my mind wandered to other tables and conversations.  Across from me ... okay how would you classify a set of transgender females whom have become men and were now, uhm, a couple.  What the heck!  The world we are stuck with!  Dear Lord!

Next to me on the left was a couple of guys, brothers whom seem to be meeting for the first time in years.  It took little for me to understand that the younger is the successful morally corrupt brother.  The other an aerospace engineer and it seems he had never successfully been on a date, he was in his late 50's.  And it seems he had been on at least one space shot!  What the heck!?!?!?  I thought that the space corp was manned by swingers!  Wow!  What a pair.

It was an interesting conversation between the two of them.  No, I doubt they will ever be close, they have nothing, NOTHING, in common.

And it made me sad to think of both Nicky (2 years younger) and Jeff (15 years younger), my two brothers whom both died in their teen years.  I will always wonder what it would have been like to have had a brother whom survived their youth ...  Obviously, I was destined to be the nerd.

And so now on Saturday guess what!  Yes, a repeat of the Friday accident only it was at least off in the outer areas of this burg.  Drunk driver, at high speed, becomes airborne, and snaps one of the high tension power poles, about 20 feet off the ground!, for the north end of town and southern Seattle.  As for me, well I live on the power grid which supplies Vashon Island - so almost am never dead powerwise.  :)