Head scratching behavior

Recently, I decided that I wanted to do less complaining blogs, and more fun or thoughtful blogs. Nothing wrong with venting off steam on a blog but I realized that every blog idea I came up with had some form of complaining. This realization bugged me, so I ventured to brain storm on new blog ideas. This was done mainly while I was at work (I have a multi-track mind) or while trying to wake-up to get ready for work. Fortunately for me, I came up with several ideas (ok it was two ideas) but I think while working on those ideas more ideas will come to my mind. Before I can mull over my new inspiration I have to get some stuff off my mind. Yes, you can say I am complaining, but I will try to keep my soapbox preaching down to a minimum. Two events occurred over the past few weeks, and I really tried to move past them, but I need to use this blog space to get it out in the open. Please bear with me during the next few paragraphs.

The first thing that got to me happened at work, while I was locking up. I was outside locking up a gate, when I noticed several kittens roaming around. It was apparent to me that they were wild and I had no chance of getting close to them, but I still took time to watch them for a second. I was watching a small kitten crossing the street when a car came around the corner and the driver made no attempt to slow down or yield to the kitten. Fortunately, the kitten was fast enough to make it across without any harm. I myself was about to have a heart attack from the few seconds of stress that accumulated. I was feeling relief for the cat and immense anger to the driver , then I realized the driver was someone I knew from work. I continued on with my task of locking up the place, when the driver came back to get something they forgot. I took the chance to inform them (with as much calm as I could muster) that they almost ran over a kitten. Ok let me pause for a bit. Ok, I had to do that, because the driver's response still makes my hands shake when thinking about it. The driver replied by telling me that they hate cats. (Ummm ok, so what's your point.) I could have responded in manner of clever ways to this asinine reply, but all I could come up with was "Well, I like them." Ok, so this person didn't like cats, that's fine, but does that give them the right to try to run over cats. I sincerely hope not. Needless to say this event made me scratch my head every time I thought of it.

The next thing that lodged into my brain came from a discussion from my friend that heavily contributes to this blog site. We were discussing while playing "City of Heroes" that Alton Brown (our favorite Food Network chef) was absolutely furious in his latest blog. If you go to this link you can get a better idea of what happened: www.altonbrown.com/pages/rants.html
Evidentially, Alton Brown had asked his blog readers to send photos of their decorated refrigerators to him via e-mail. This was supposed to be a fun and informal contest. I suppose Mr. Brown was going to put the top photos on his web site for the whole world to see. Sadly, things went wrong. I am sure the majority of the participants joyfully sent photos of their beloved "chill chest", but as always it takes a small group of people to ruin the fun. This small group decided it would be funny to send Mr. Brown lude and disgusting photos. Sadly that was enough to make Alton Brown decide to remove the contact button on his web site, which essentially ended the contest. He also went to saying he said he will not accept any e-mail from anyone that already has his web site e-mail address. The reason this event bugs me so much is that it took a small group of people to deny a larger group of people access to this person. I know it is highly unlikely to get a response from a celebrity via e-mail if one were to write to one. I can see it would be fun to try. Lets say I had recipe related question for Alton Brown and I sent him an e-mail to see if he would be kind to answer my e-mail. Thanks to those disgusting people, they changed the odds from highly unlikely to absolutely impossible. Now, let us all put one hand on top of our heads and begin scratching.

I would like to thank my readers for enduring this rant. I certainly hope this will help me get past these events. I am certain that I will never forget these events but maybe they will not crop up anytime soon in my brain.