2000-01-27 - 00:43:23

there was an article in the paper today about an elevator cab dropping fourty storeys before a safety mechanism brought it to a stop. the passengers did walk away, bruised and shaken.

safety procedures and mechanisms are good, giving a person a much better chance of survival or freedom from injury.

it is hard to imagine the ingenuity of the design engineers who set this system in motion. the cab had to be slowed in increments to protectl the passengers, but at the speed it was going it is obvious that those carefully calculated increments had to be close together. a hair one way or another would have been disastrous.

seat belts in cars cannot save lives 100 % guaranteed...........but it saved the life of my wife and i in a disastrous accident on the road. we would have been killed but for the seat belts. too often today i read of children killed or maimed because the adults didn't make sure the tots were safely secured. don't you think you should buckle up ???

use the safety equipment, goggles, masks, belts they are proven equipment.

40 stories - i would have been a basket case before we came to a halt. notice my head shaking in amazement.

i am concerned about the copy cat types popping up all over the country. either making idle threats or actually planning another massacre. will columbine high be a yoke on our shoulders forever ?

will the kids who did that shameful thing be glorified as modern day jessie jameses or billy the kids ?

it is a minor thing i know but one thing really irks me, soiled shamefully is our state flower, stained with dirt and blood, one of the most beautiful mountain flowers here. many of us will never see a columbine in bloom without being reminded of the tragedy.

the jet stream is fickle, almost as fickle as people who ignore danger from the weather and don't take precautions for their own safety. the weather does what it wants to - - - - one little flutter of the jet and people who thought, "well, it won't happen here," find out for sure - - - that it did.

i am thrilled at the number of great people who are wishing me well. i am also thrilled that some of those people i have read their diaries and journals ever since i got my webtv set hooked in june 1999

travel is truly growth of mind and character, even when it is done from a chair at home. only trouble is that other things get wider too.

al schroeders nova notes forum asked today do you consider your self child or adult or words to that effect. deep thought here, until, eureka, the answer comes thundering from the blue - - - no one but a child can have the fun i am having.

so to beddy bye i shall toddle !

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