About bleedin' time...

It's been officially announced.
The City of Worcester has taken the site of the warehouse fire of 3 December 1999 by eminent domain, and are turning it into a living memorial for the six firefighters who lost their lives four years ago.
And the memorial? An actual fire station.
Personally, I find this perfectly appropriate.

I remember that night, and the days following. The apartment that I lived in at the time was only a couple of miles at most from the scene, right up Grafton Hill from the fire. Damn helicopters kept me awake too. Found out about it by watching the TV news, noting that the reporter was in the parking lot of a meat shop that I frequent, which was right across the street from the warehouse.
Four years later, I'm in a different flat, but I still go to that meat market, still get breakfast from the diner that was destroyed in the fire and then rebuilt, and drive past the site.
Tragic day in the world of public safety... I remember the memorial parades and service at the Centrum. Even President Clinton came to pay his respects.

I can't think of a better tribute to those brave men than to have an operational fire station at that site.

Out here.

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So, yesterday was the first time since like late August that I've gone to the Y to work out.
Mind you, everything felt really good. I did one leg machine, two arms, the other machine for legs, hand weights... didn't get to the fourth arm exercise cos some old gent was hogging the machine. I could have gone and done the abs, but I always end with the abs. Plus, I was running out of time, so I binned it for the day and came to work.

Now, 24 hours later, my pecs hurt. I was gonna go back tomorrow, but I think I'll push it back to Friday morning.

Should've been going when I had the chances, hmm?

Zanshin

Okay... that word, if memory serves, refers to a sense of situational awareness... knowing what's going on around you.
Typically, I've usually had pretty good zanshin. (In Hero system terms, more like Danger Sense, Out of Combat, Intuitional, Immediate Vicinity, Sense... 22 points, pretty expensive for a "Normal" person, but I digress...)
As of late, though, I've found myself running into things, typically on my left side. My left shoulder will hit a door that I thought was open far enough for me to get through, or I'll manage to cut a turn too sharply and bump into a wall or cubicle, or anything to that sort of effect.
It doesn't, on the whole, worry me so much though. Maybe I'm just mentally tired, and need another vacation. Of course, the only chance I'll have for that is Christmas weekend. I don't feel overly stressed about any one thing in particular, either. There is just a general sense of unease within me though, and I don't know why, really. If it was anything serious, I think my brain and body would tell me.
Just seems odd is all.

More later should news warrant it.