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Have you ever looked deep, deep into the mirror through your self and into your soul? Me neither.

Picked up the gracious Mrs. F. at the airport. She's a little kookie. Daft. Loopy. Doesn't make her a bad person but when she goes to D.C. to visit her kids and grand kids they send her back almost immediately. She can't help it, she doesn't know what to do since the good Doctor F. passed and so her mind races around looking for a place to land.

monochrome

I've had the worst back pain in my life for the last 3 days. I know about back pain but its never been enough to complain much about compared to what some people describe. Its radiating from one spot in my lower back. I dunno what caused it but I suspect its part of getting older. It feels on the mend but I have a sort of twinge in my neck now as well.

I had a fare tonight, this dude told me he was in charge of real estate for the federal government. Can he possibly telling me the truth on that? He seemed like some kind of agent. It felt like he knew things, had information that no one else had. Oh well.
In other news:

• The Red Sox lost in 14 innings falling 2 and a half games behind the Rays.
• Tom Brady is out for the season.
• The Republicans chose a pig with lipstick for their Vice Presidential candidate.
• I have to pee.

curia

I dispatched for a few hours this afternoon and then went on the road. I haven't felt good lately. Wicked bad allergies. A little depression creeping in but I fight that best I can. I ask myself who is in charge. Identify negativity and then don't feed it. Starve it to death by giving it no thought. Sometimes it works.
Somebody at work gave me some allergy medicine but didn't tell me it was the type that caused drowsiness and sometime around nine I started to feel it. It got worse and worserer and finally I had to pull over into a church parking lot and take a nap. It was only for about 45 minutes but man it was a really good deep sleep. By then it was almost midnight and I asked dispatcher Dave if I could rap it up for the evening and he obliged.
I only did 5 fares but 3 of them were long distance. Two Bostons and a Natick. One woman was from Phoenix but grew up in Chicago and I told her those are two of my favorite cities. Then there were 3 younger people from Germany going to the Hampton Inn. I like telling Germans that I'm mostly German myself and they always ask if I can speak the language. Wish I could.
Later a couple from Iceland heading to Boston. I never met so many damn Icelanders until this Summer. Its very strange. Oh well, who cares.

emotion

He was one of them you wonder what's keeping him alive. Nice enough old dude lit up a smoke and told of the massive heart attack he'd recently experienced. They told him he won't survive another one so we stopped to pick up some beer on the way home. No sense quiting now. What's he gonna gain maybe an extra month? A month or two of climbing the walls with no cigarettes and no beer? Some folks have a hard life. He's not much older than me.

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She wouldn't shut up. Not for 10 seconds. It must have been obvious that I wasn't listening but words kept coming out of her mouth hitting me like tiny darts. Please stop.
The three of them were at least half drunk on the way to the wake, all dressed up in their Sunday best. Have a nice time.
I asked the dude what country he was from, he said I should guess. He looked like a guru and I knew it was India. New Deli is called New Deli because the British thought the old Deli was too small and crowded so they added on.
They were a nice enough family returning from Orlando. Always beautiful this time of year [sheesh] the Dad had to sit in front with me. He opened up with some incoherent philosophy. One of us was crazy and it wasn't me.
The Irish have landed. The games take place this weekend at the cultural center. I took 4 to Quincy Market, dropped them at the Purple Shamrock.
Barely able to speak, the next dude wanted to go to a Chinese massage parlor. I drove around Chinatown looking up and down the little streets but I couldn't find anything. I took him back to his hotel and rolled him out.
I waited for these 3 Hindus for like 20 minutes and they finally came out and half way to the station one of them realized she didn't have her passport with her and that's what she uses for I.D. Back we went to retrieve it.
The young couple were from Alberta and thinking about a move to Boston.
The Texan wanted to go to a strip club but he was too low on cash so dropped him at a local bar instead.
The older couple returning from Vegas didn't win any money. She was 'up' one day but gave it all back and then some [Never heard that before]

invariably

Most of my shift felt wicked slow like it was a waist of time going to work but I stayed focused and it ended up being a good night. I got a 20 dollar tip from a nice lady headed back to Ireland where she lives in the countryside there. Took a fare from the mall to an apartment complex in Quincy which may as well be called Little India because there's thousands of Indians there. A lot of drivers don't like them much because they never tip but I like talking to them about India.

At 10:30 I took a nurse out to Metro West Hospital where she would work her second shift of the day. She does that three times a week. I've met many nurses who are always working doubles because they need the money and I guess there's a nursing shortage. Doesn't seem right somehow. Should we be having so many tired, exhausted nurses out there?
I figured that'd be it for the night for me because I got back to town right around 11:30 but I hung out for another hour and made another 30 bucks.
During the earlier slow period I decided to take a bunch of pictures mostly from around the front of the mall and strung them together with some music that doesn't really fit but here goes anyway: