Lately, I've been fightin' Jesus

Today has been an awkward day.

So, I wake up in a pretty good mood...shower, eat breakfast...as per my routine. I make my lunch for the day and brush my teeth. I put my shoes on and walk out the door with just my lunch. I get to the car and realize I don't have my bag...so I go back, get it, then return to the car. When I get there, I realize that my door is unlocked....huh, that's not like me...but I've done it before....then I see the pile of glass in the passenger seat. INSTANT RAGE.

So, I was parked in the street and someone broke into my car last night and the best part is, they didn't even take anything I really care about (they got about $2 in change, my stereo faceplate (the stereo was bolted in pretty seriously...and I was trying to find an excuse to replace it anyway), a battery jumpstarter box (which doesn't really work) and my rollerblades). The rollerblades are probably the biggest loss...and I haven't used them in years. Somehow, that makes the whole thing more frustrating. Maybe it's the fact that they broke my dash...maybe the fact that they busted my window...I don't know. So I send an email to work...tell them I'll be in late, if at all...and call the police to report it. They're pretty lax about it and just take my name, guess that it happened at 2:30am and call it a day. I call around, find the best price on a window (that can install it today) and find that I'm gonna be out $175. The good news is that they'll bring it out to me, and I don't have to drive with all that broken glass in the car. This is kind of nice because I've been very slowly working on some trays...it's hard to explain, but basically a drawer that doesn't go into a dresser. They'll be for when my desk is full of a project that I'm putting on hold, but can't put into a box, for whatever reason. Basically, I'm making dovetail joints for the sides, then gluing in a bottom. I also work a bit from home. I got a lot done...I made two of the trays and the third one won't take too long. Maybe tomorrow afternoon. Dovetail joints are apparently REALLY difficult, and a sign of a person's craftsmanship...mine really don't look all that bad, and they're perfectly functional. I think better wood (read: no knots in it) would make them a bit better, too.

So, I just build and work and wait for the glass man to come fix my car. It' a fairly relaxed morning. After that gets taken care of, I go to a car-wash to vacuum out my truck. All through the day, I'm just slowly getting a bit more sad; not really for myself, or my situation...but more for just the state of humanity. We've got people cutting other people's heads off on buses, child sex rings, and all kinds of other completely ridiculous things. We, as a species, are just getting more and more fucked up. I blame over-population. Crime is often a result of greed. Greed is made worse by the fact that some people have too much and so many people don't have enough. This could be due to the fact that not everyone can be the richest man in the world...the best paying jobs tend to be the most selective...however, anyone can clean shit off of an elementary school floor...

I honestly think I feel sorry for the guy who busted my window. I mean, he might get $20 pawning my stuff...he obviously got cut up pretty decently (a dime-sized spot of blood on the outside of my truck and a smear on the vinyl side of my seat) and was clearly pissed (as evidenced by the scratches on the front of the stereo he couldn't extract from the dash). Odds are, it's just a down-and-out drug addict with nothing to lose. The fact that we have so many people just like him is just upsetting.




Or maybe feeling sorry for other people is my way of coping with anger.