Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Another sad day

Today a 4-year-old girl died in a fire.
And I'm a little bit upset because my spacebar keeps sticking and it's a new keyboard.
I think my keyboard problem is far less important in the grand scheme of things.

I feel bad for her family.
Fire investigators are investigating (because that's what they do), but I think someone will end up taking the blame.
Imagine losing a daughter and then learning it was your fault.
What if you could have fixed the wiring or moved the space heater a little further from the curtain and your child would have lived?
I don't know if is what happened, I'm guessing.
I hope it ends up being something that was truly unavoidable, but I doubt it.

I helped with the reporting, but got nowhere.
The fire investigators don't want to say anything yet.
Nobody official wants to say anything.

I turned into a stupid reporter a bit today.
Not stupid as in, that guy is asking totally irrelevant questions, but I was a little curt with a PIO who wouldn't tell me anything.
I don't like being that guy. I'll try to learn from it and drive on. Make a better choice the next time.

Too many deaths lately.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Disc Golf, Feb. 14, 2015

Working a split shift Saturday, I headed to Peregrine Point Disc Golf Course and got in seven holes. I would have played more, but I worked a later shift and it was getting dark.
A photo posted by Dan Reidel (@dan_reidel) on

Total time spent: about 1:10 with drive time.