Don’t let me die with a crappy song on the radio

The other night I was driving home from work when I hit a patch of ice on a bridge and started to lose control of my car. It had been snowing for a few hours that night and the roads were pretty crappy. I live in Michigan, a state so broke that they have decided to cut back on sending out the snowplows this winter because they don’t have enough money to buy diesel and salt.  Yes Michigan!

Anyhoo.

As the back end of my car started coming around and I found myself starting to slide sideways down a steep bridge the Bryan Adams song Everything I do I do it for You from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie was playing. I used to be a Bryan Adams fan. He had some good songs and it’s not that I even dislike that song but at that moment I had an odd thought.

If I were to die right now is that really the last song I want to hear as I shuffle off this mortal coil?

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When I grow up

The other day I was at work and I found myself thinking about some of the different things I wanted to be when I grew up. Some of them, to be fair, were kind of unobtainable. Sure there are people who actually are spies and astronauts but there aren’t really a lot of job openings in those areas.

As I got older, I thought about becoming a cop or a firefighter but the thought of dying in a fire scares the crap out of me. Plus, I identify more with criminals than I do police.

I wanted to be a chef for a time. I even went to school for it but I ended up dropping out. I got a degree in photography and was pretty good at it but for various reasons that too faded away.

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