Am I growing wiser or just turning into a wuss?

[Penguin]

I just spent about half an hour of lunch cruising the internet. About half of it reading up on the Martin/Zimmerman trial. I came to a startling realization: I don't give a shit.

What's worse I don't even want to listen to those who do give a shit.

It is an unpleasant business. It seems like everyone talking about it is doing so in a really emotionally charged way. Charges of racism are being tossed around like baseballs. From both sides. Everyone seems mad. Everyone seems like they are taking law classes at night.

I find myself googling the early mast predictions for WV and trying to figure out how much extra vacation time I will have to chase deer and maybe even sneak in an early autumn trout fishing trip to the mountains. My Badgers and Mounties are getting ready to fire up fall camp and I have been catching up on them as well.

I am not saying that I am sticking my head in the sand and ignoring the problems of the world. Just that it seems like if I can't personally do anything about it and it is unpleasant then after a certain point I just walk away from it. I am gravitating to things that make me happy and leaving the rest behind. I don't remember being this way before.

I this something like a middle age crisis? Is there a red corvette in my future?

Will

[Chicken Dinner]

Wuss.

[Chicken Dinner]

Seriously, I'm right there with you. The older I get the more I just worry about my little piece of the world.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at a website Len suggested to me called ilovesmallies.com. Pure, unadulterated fish porn.

BKB

[Penguin]

Well that is good to hear, assuming you two are what is considered normal.

Yesterday at lunch I just walked over to my garden plot (we have little ones you can get here at work) and spent the hour looking over my plants and counting green tomatoes and peppers. It seems like I am getting more enjoyment out of just growing some vegetables than I'd have thought possible. I used to split wood as a kid to avoid working in the garden...

Will

[Buckrub]

You don't believe I'm normal, so I hesitate to say how much I agree with you.

But there is little that goes on in the world that I care about. SOME, but not a lot.

APATHY RULES (but only where Chaos is too tired too)!!!

[LJ3]

Willie,

(a) Good to hear from you
(2) I'd go with wise wuss. Has a ring to it.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I think he was saying he's a kinder, gentler, wise wuss.

BKB

[Thumper]

Makes ME feel like a dinosaur. I remember when Willie was just a "kid" in school ... now HE'S old!

As for the Zimmerman thing. What a crock that has turned into. I guess news is slow. I thought we'd get a rest after the Casey Anthony b/s ... this just took it's place.

I read the other day that some of the "civil rights" a-holes are claiming we should get ready for major riots in the big cities if Zimmerman is acquitted. Give me an f'ing break.

[Buckrub]

Curmudgeon.

[Thumper]

And I wonder why this isn't the big news story. Anyone have a clue?

Police: NW Indiana waitress murdered for tip money




SCHEREVILLE, Ind. (FOX 32 News) -
Three men have been charged with killing 24 year old Jacqueline Gardner and taking the tip money she earned from her restaurant job on May 19th.

One of the three men, Stephen Lee Henderson, 25, of Gary, is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, Schererville police said Wednesday.

In custody at the Lake County Jail are Michael A. Craig, 22, of Merrillville, and William Blasingame III, 30, of Harvey, Ill.

All three were charged with murder and a second count of murder in the perpetration of a robbery.

Gardner lived in the 8000 block of Alpine Lane in the Hidden Creek apartment complex, south of Pine Island. She was shot in the hallway outside her apartment about 11:30 p.m. Saturday after she arrived home from work at Joe's Crab Shack in Merrillville.



A witness heard cries for help and saw three males enter a black Oldsmobile Aurora and leave the area, according to charging documents. The witness recorded the license plate number and gave it to police.

Timothy Sarcia, who police said was Gardner's live-in boyfriend, told police he was inside their third-floor apartment when he heard heavy footsteps and a struggle in the hallway outside of his apartment door. Through the peephole, he saw a man putting a chokehold on Gardner. He called 911 and screamed for help, he told police.

When he opened the door, he found Gardner lying on the hallway floor unconscious.

Gardner was taken to Methodist Hospitals Southlake campus in Merrillville where she died about 12:20 a.m. Sunday.

Police recovered a 12-gauge shotgun shell in the hallway. Gardner's $85 in tip money was missing, according to the charging documents.

Police found a smart phone inside the black Oldsmobile found behind the residence of William Blasingame III in Harvey, Ill.

The last time the phone's GPS function was used was in front of Gardner's apartment, police learned. The phone also displayed the address of Michael Allen Craig Jr. The phone showed several calls made to Stephen Lee Henderson on the same day.

Police also found what appeared to be blood on the seat and blood on a T-shirt.

Sarcia identified a photograph of Henderson as the man putting a chokehold on Gardner. A second witness identified Craig as one of the men running from the apartment.

In a statement, Craig said he and Blasingame and Henderson waited for about 15 minutes for Gardner to arrive home. He said Blasingame got out of the car and followed her inside the outside door of the building. He said Henderson went inside with a shotgun with a pistol grip. Craig said he heard screaming and gunshots and he saw the Henderson and Blasingame run out the door.

Craig's live-in girlfriend told police she worked with Gardner at the restaurant and when she came home about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, Craig, Henderson and Blasingame were in the apartment playing a video game.

A visitation for Gardner is from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Lawn Funeral Home in Burbank, Ill. The funeral is at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. She will be buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

Schererville Police Cmdr. Brian Neyhart said Schererville detectives worked around-the-clock to solve the homicide, with assistance from the Northwest Indiana Major Crimes Task Force, the Lake County Crime Lab and the Lake County coroner's office.

[Big Muddy]

Threats of race riots could be solved very easily.

All they need to do is issue a statement that anyone caught rioting would not receive their food stamps or welfare checks for one year.

That oughta clear the streets right up.

[Buckrub]

And I wonder why this isn't the big news story. Anyone have a clue?

Yes.

[Penguin]

Makes ME feel like a dinosaur. I remember when Willie was just a "kid" in school ... now HE'S old!

Haha, yeah in some ways I think I am getting old. In other ways I suppose I can't tell a difference between now and 20 years ago. Physically I still feel pretty strong. I still run and lift and do all of the things I used to do. And with the exception of taking longer to recover I'm pretty much unchanged.

Its the unwillingness to stew about things I can't change that is new. And I am wondering if maybe it isn't that I just feel emotionally and mentally.... well, tired. And when I am around things that upset me I just analyze it, figure out what my opinion is, and then move on.

Take that article you put up. Yep, you and me and every other swinging dick on this site knows exactly what is going on there. No mystery there. And I sincerely hope those 3 animals get some iron fisted justice. I feel bad for the young lady whose last moments must have been absolutely horrifying. And I find it extremely hypocritical that we are spending time and ink on Zimmerman while these wastes are still breathing.

But then after that I felt tired. So I put it away and moved on. I didn't used to do that. Injustice and animal like behavior are something I just can't abide and since I can't change the world I just have to move on.

Instead I took a moment and admired the edge that I put on my pocket knife last night. Always wanted a real live translucent Arkansas whetstone and finally antied up and bought one this past week. I feel like a real old timer now since I hadn't freehand sharpened a knife in ages. It is the knife I bought for my wedding and it has aged wonderfully over the last 9 months. The tired feeling went away and now I am all smiles.

Wise or apathetic? I'm not sure.

Will

[Buckrub]

I would call that wise, but then, I really don't care.