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J.J. · 10-11-2001, 10:10 AM

Hmmm....made me actually think before posting this time, Dan. Congradulations on achieving the rare and significant

Nothing else puts the rest of your life in better perspective than when that very short flashback movie the Head Producer shows may have curtains, also. - i remember it as being said by a h'wood director from the '30s. I guess I have gone back over the times when things were 'dicey', as Charlie would say. What stands out is the difference between near death anticipated, such as car crash, and the sudden, incredibly jarring realization that your life was just in doubt and you had not one say in the matter. cars*shudder* i hate that awful, dawning realization that your little mobile empire has just declared allegience to the laws of physics in denial of your attempts otherwise. you have time to anticipate, for example, if you will go thru the truck windshield before you hit the frozen river below, or as you do, hand braced on the dash, yelling "stop" - and all of a sudden , you are still in the truck, on the road, wondering where the momentum that was clearly enough went? we sort of fell out of the cab of the truck - this is a bridge on the Ice Highway, Alaska - used and useable only after everything has frozen, land, water, plants, animals, humans, etc. span over 150', straight down ice about 4-7 feet thick on river, don't know if 4door crew 4x4 and three juggies would have broken through or not. or just sort of bounced and smeared, a bit. - A nameless, lazy snowplow driver saved our lives by not using the 'blade' or gaurd - ppl live where lots of snow, the gate drops over the edge of the grader plowing the street so you do not get 'bermed in' by the 'wake' of snow it pushes outward from center. - more work to use gate, but it also keeps things like bridges from getting bermed edges, which can drift, which can turn a road into a 'park' in a breath or two. the driver's tire was snubbed by a snow/ice boulder plow had dislodged, but not bothered to move. a foot ahead or behind, no story today. so, if not for some man's sloth, there go i over.

it is different when something cataclysmic happens around you - first of all, if you were close enough for scars, you are effectively deaf for an hour up to a day or so, or forever. the ringing is atrocious, but you are too disoriented to notice much at first, and the first thought is why/where am I?, and the overpowering urge to be elsewhere but not know how to do it, it is extremely dislocating the jagged way your faculties return. When other people around you come to your attention again, it is a double rush first of fear - am I really hurt and don't know it yet, and the feeling you know you must be mostly okay because your next feelings/thoughts are for the ones near you, and your buddies. About 3 months after Reagan (incompletely) bombed libya, a small, and I mean 6 stool hole-in-the-wall small bierstube in friedberg, West Germany, was ineptly and incompletely blown up in a fit of holy war or whatever. guy tried to install the car bomb while car parked at bar. guy either victim of inadequate training, luck, or probably both. Instead of playing darts on the machine right next to the door like usual, the lights were buggin, and with much griping about having to go around the corner and walk about 15' to the other dart machine, we did. still arguing over what game to pick, when picking self off of floor, follow thought process above. Those two stand out most vividly of all, and you know right *shhh* 250 is absolutely right in my opine, it leaves you shaking because you know there is ab-so-freak-in-lut-ely no reason why you are not dead. not your job, address, bank account... nothing mattered, and it was just luck - a favorable random turn of the cosmic die when the universe's desire for randomness passes you over for that guy over there.

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10-11-2001, 10:10 AM	#16
J.J. Symbol of Cyric Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Montana, USA Age: 61 Posts: 1,217	Hmmm....made me actually think before posting this time, Dan. Congradulations on achieving the rare and significant Nothing else puts the rest of your life in better perspective than when that very short flashback movie the Head Producer shows may have curtains, also. - i remember it as being said by a h'wood director from the '30s. I guess I have gone back over the times when things were 'dicey', as Charlie would say. What stands out is the difference between near death anticipated, such as car crash, and the sudden, incredibly jarring realization that your life was just in doubt and you had not one say in the matter. carsshudder i hate that awful, dawning realization that your little mobile empire has just declared allegience to the laws of physics in denial of your attempts otherwise. you have time to anticipate, for example, if you will go thru the truck windshield before you hit the frozen river below, or as you do, hand braced on the dash, yelling "stop" - and all of a sudden , you are still in the truck, on the road, wondering where the momentum that was clearly enough went? we sort of fell out of the cab of the truck - this is a bridge on the Ice Highway, Alaska - used and useable only after everything has frozen, land, water, plants, animals, humans, etc. span over 150', straight down ice about 4-7 feet thick on river, don't know if 4door crew 4x4 and three juggies would have broken through or not. or just sort of bounced and smeared, a bit. - A nameless, lazy snowplow driver saved our lives by not using the 'blade' or gaurd - ppl live where lots of snow, the gate drops over the edge of the grader plowing the street so you do not get 'bermed in' by the 'wake' of snow it pushes outward from center. - more work to use gate, but it also keeps things like bridges from getting bermed edges, which can drift, which can turn a road into a 'park' in a breath or two. the driver's tire was snubbed by a snow/ice boulder plow had dislodged, but not bothered to move. a foot ahead or behind, no story today. so, if not for some man's sloth, there go i over. it is different when something cataclysmic happens around you - first of all, if you were close enough for scars, you are effectively deaf for an hour up to a day or so, or forever. the ringing is atrocious, but you are too disoriented to notice much at first, and the first thought is why/where am I?, and the overpowering urge to be elsewhere but not know how to do it, it is extremely dislocating the jagged way your faculties return. When other people around you come to your attention again, it is a double rush first of fear - am I really hurt and don't know it yet, and the feeling you know you must be mostly okay because your next feelings/thoughts are for the ones near you, and your buddies. About 3 months after Reagan (incompletely) bombed libya, a small, and I mean 6 stool hole-in-the-wall small bierstube in friedberg, West Germany, was ineptly and incompletely blown up in a fit of holy war or whatever. guy tried to install the car bomb while car parked at bar. guy either victim of inadequate training, luck, or probably both. Instead of playing darts on the machine right next to the door like usual, the lights were buggin, and with much griping about having to go around the corner and walk about 15' to the other dart machine, we did. still arguing over what game to pick, when picking self off of floor, follow thought process above. Those two stand out most vividly of all, and you know right shhh 250 is absolutely right in my opine, it leaves you shaking because you know there is ab-so-freak-in-lut-ely no reason why you are not dead. not your job, address, bank account... nothing mattered, and it was just luck - a favorable random turn of the cosmic die when the universe's desire for randomness passes you over for that guy over there. ------------------ Amanda's Dad - The Best Damn Job, Period. Official Pin-Up Girl Evaluator/Massager of the O.L.D. C.O.O.T.S. Clan To Err is Human To Forgive Divine, However Neither is U.S. Marine Corps Policy. [This message has been edited by J.J. (edited 10-11-2001).]