I feel it's about time for a regular update. With a month left until school resumes, I feel I have done a good job of keeping pretty busy this summer. I added a bookcase and some new bar-stools (WITH BACKS) to the house. It's nice to be able to see my books on display in the dining room, and not have them all hiding in cabinets anymore. Plus, the bar-stools I got are wooden and actually match the kitchen counter, so that was a nice touch. I am continuing to stay disciplined on the dietary and exercise fronts, and I just reached my 50th and 51st 5-star ratings as an Uber Driver today which was cool. Lyft doesn't have as a large a market in the area, but the 5 star ratings continue to come in either way. It's kept me pretty busy with work being so slow, and it's a nice way to meet new people. Someone I picked up who lives on my street just a few doors down invited me out for drinks. On Friday, some girl I was driving to work complimented my rear-view mirror ornaments and showed me all these drawings of Batman villains that she's been working on. She seemed really cool. So, all in all things continue to go well.
We are half-way through the year, and as if Adam West, Greg Allman, Martin Landau, Roger Moore, Jonathan Demme, Don Rickles, Bill Paxton and Chris Cornell weren't enough, just this week we have lost another. Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park and up until recently lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots (whose original lead singer also died), died of an apparent suicide on what would of been the 53rd birthday of Chris Cornell who also comitted suicide just a few months ago. It's sobering to see all these faces I grew up knowing and in some cases idolizing just suddenly check out one after another without warning. Some you know are coming, some are just way out of left field. It's all sad either way.
I find it funny how even after all the countless instances we have seen of provocative and controversial social media posts made by celebrities and public figures over the years thinking that they were saying something witty, edgy, insightful, or that needed saying for one reason or another and ultimately ended up in deep shit for it and/or retracting it, that people continue to do this as if they haven't learned a fucking thing from anyone else who has done it and ended up recanting. Brian Welch (overall uninformed/misinformed recovering meth addict and guitarist of Korn) took it upon himself to post on Facebook about his frustration with musicians who commit suicide, and stated that Chester took the coward's way out, which a lot of other people found insensitive, and the backlash caused him to backpedal and apologize just a little while later. Let me be clear--I am not one of these social justice warrior, lib-tard, politically-correct whiny fucking babies. It's his right to say it, it's his right to feel that way, no one is arguing that. It's everyone American's right to express their beliefs, say what they want, act how they want, and be as uncensored and as undiplomatic about it as they wish. I wouldn't have it any other way. But, somewhere along the way in this country, it just seems that common sense and voluntary self-discretion went out the fucking window and a whole new level of cynicism that makes even me sick along with a newfound desire for verbal combativeness came center-stage regardless of who it may hurt along the way; regardless of whether what is being stated is even correct, or even makes a single valid point. People just seem to want to hurt each other.
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