Misc Ramblings Of An Unconscious Mind

5:25:26 PM HST
Feeling Worried
Hearing Incubus

I found this on the Reuters News Site.....

Los Angeles (Reuters)--The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.

Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis.

When one huge tectonic plate beneath the Indian Ocean was forced below the edge of another "it had the effect of making the Earth more compact and spinning faster," Gross said.

Gross said changes predicted by his model probably are too minuscule to be detected by a global positioning satellite network that routinely measures changes in Earth's spin, but said the data may reveal a slight wobble.

The Earth's poles travel a circular path that normally varies by about 33 feet, so an added wobble of an inch is unlikely to cause long-term effects, he said.

"That continual motion is just used to changing," Gross said. "The rotation is not actually that precise. The Earth does slow down and change its rate of rotation."

When those tiny variations accumulate, planetary scientists must add a "leap second" to the end of a year, something that has not been done in many years, Gross said.

Scientists have long theorized that changes on the Earth's surface such as tide and groundwater shifts and weather could affect its spin but they have not had precise measurements to prove it, Caltech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori said.

"Even for a very large event, the effect is very small," Kanamori said. "It's very difficult to change the rotation rate substantially."

 

Should we be worried? I think not. It shouldn't have that big of an effect on the planet that I can see. But dammit if I'll change my clocks again.

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4:46:11 PM HST
Feeling Sad
Hearing Green Day

I heard from the families of my 2 friends who lost their lives in the devistating earthquake and tsunami in Asia, where the death toll is now 117,000.

My college friends, Elizabeth and Marni, both medical aid workers, were in Pulau Bangka, on the SE coast of Sumatra when the wave hit. The small island is flattened and desolate. No one survived.

The girls were there delivering much needed medical supplies and food to the villagers there. Fishing hadn't been good there for sometime and the villagers were hungry and sick. My friends gave their lives while trying to help others to safety. Or so the version of the local "Coast Guard" says.

I wish I could remember them more. I have gone through my old photos and I see them, but I don't remember them.

I went to church today and lit a candle for them both. It was the least I could do.

The surf here is getting rougher. Could be what's left over, I'm not sure. I sat on my deck and looked out at the view I so have grown to love and wonderful how something so beautiful could kill.

Well, enough of the depressing stuff.

I go in for the last of my reconstructive surgery next month. Than god!! I've had 9 of these and this is the final one. After this last one, I have been promised to look even better than I used to...LOL. Not that I'm bragging, but when I look at older photos of myself I always think of Julieanne Moore. Only blonde.

That photo of me in the about me box was taken, according to the back, 6 years ago, when I was 24. It's the only photo of me I have. I guess I didn't like my picture taken. I don't even have any of my wedding. Mom is sending me some. 

So, I'm supposed to look better than I did before or so my surgeon promises. I tried to get him to make me look like Audrey Hepburn or that new girl Anne Hathaway from that movie The Princess Diaries-The Royal Engagement, but he said he wasn't  a miracle worker. I called him a smart ass. He told me I was gorgeous either way and to shut up about it. I think I fell in love with him right then and there. It felt so nice to be called gorgeous. It's too bad he's married...LOL.

My home nurse, Kathy, leaves on January 17th. That's her last day fetching and carrying for me. She seems sad about it. I don't. It means I'm getting better.

I wanted to thank the 2 lovely women who actually read this and ahd the good hearts to leave me comments. Honestly, I never thought anyone would read this even when I left a comment in Nelle's journal. Who would want to read some cripple's anguish and recovery anyway? Ok, so maybe 2 people.

So to my 2 new friends, thank you sweeties. You ROCK!

Sooki

p.s. if anyone knows how to add those cool pictures that move please let me know. I've tried a few things with html code and can't get them to show up right. I'm still working on it though and may just get it one of these days. I got the photo of me to show up, but that's it.

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7:29:49 PM HST
Feeling Happy
Hearing Van Halen playing in my journal

It's me again. While cruising the main AOL Journals page, I came across a 2 journals. One had music which I will cover in a moment. The other was discussing the movie The Exorcist. Well sort of. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I think. Anyway, please, please, if you find this, go check this out ok?  Here is the link to his journal and the link he has in it.... Sixtieschild32l

 

The Exorcist

The other one had music in it. Could I do this too? You betcha!

I followed her easy directions, uploaded my own music and VOILA'! I have music...lol. So cool and so very easy.

Here is the link to her journal entry about it and the comment I left for her.

 

mcjerseygiri

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6:32:27 PM HST
Feeling Hopeful
Hearing Motown Favorites

Well, this is day 1 of my new life. What's so new about it you ask? Well, after surviving a near fatal car accident that left me in a coma for 6 months, with more broken bones than I care to mention, the loss of my unborn baby, my husband and my memory, today, for the first time, I walked to the bathroom alone, without any help from either person or walker. Things are definitely looking up I'd say.

One year ago, on New Years Eve, my husband and I were coming home from a party at some friends' home. We had enjoyed ourselves very much, since we had both been so busy with work and hadn't been able to see them as often as we would have liked. We were both sober. We never drank. Ever. While going through a green light, a truck driver doing 85 mph and high as a kite on cocaine, methamphetamines and crystal meth, ran the light and hit us. My husband was killed instantly, I wasn't so lucky. I was 7 months pregnant with our first child, a girl, and was trapped in the wreckage for 6 hours while they had to cut my husband into pieces to be able to get me out.

I had severe head injuries, internal bleeding, broken everything and all that goes with an accident like ours.

I awoke from a come 6 months later, on July 4th, 2004. I remember nothing of my life before that day and still have trouble remembering day to day things. Probably always will. I had to learn to walk, eat, talk and think all over again. I have seen more doctors and even more have seen me. I have scars that will be with me forever, but don't remember how they got there. In that I am fortunate....I guess.

Everything I went through, was told to me by hospital staff, family, friends, police, and paramedics. I saw the newspaper articles on the accident and couldn't believe it was me they were talking about. It was surreal.

So, now I'm a new person. No past....nothing. I can start fresh without all those troublesome memories to bog me down and hold me back. Ok, so I'm a tad optimistic. I've had to learn to be.

So, on my birthday, my father bought me a computer. A rather nice one I must say, and I got AOL, through the reccomendation of my physical therapist, Glenn. Gay, cute, funny as all hell and he dresses better than me, but I try not to hold that aginst him.

While cruising through AOL, I notice Hometown and AOL Journals. Hmmm. I check it out. I spend days thinking about it. Ok, weeks. Who am I kidding? I simply cannot make spur of the moment decisions.

I think about it some more. I make a decision....and here I am with my first online journal. I play with it for awhile, change the name 5oo times, check out other online journals, come back to AOL. Play with the colors, and all the cool stuff and finally make my first entry.

I must confess, I'm not a real writer. Nor do I aspire to be. I just have all this shit in my head and have to get rid of it for fear of doing something impulsive.....like using my insurance settlement to buy that cool Ferrari I saw last week. It would look cool in my garage. Only problem is I can never remember where my garage is. No kidding. I always walk into the pantry when headed to the garage. So, here I am in all my glory. Well, not quite, but you get the picture, or you will if I can remember where I put it.

I actually never expect anyone to ever find this, so I will not censor my thoughts or mouth. Why should I? After all I've been through, I should be able to say what I want.

I live in Hawaii now. I left California. Not sure why. But I like it here. People are friendly, and kosher to me. Not too bad if I do say so myself.

Just a side note, the earthquake and tsunami in Asia took the lives of several of my best friends from college, or so my family tells me. Since I don't remember them, it doesn't hurt so bad, but I would like for anyone who happens to stumble across this to say a prayer or whatever it is you do for all those lost and their families, ok? Just tell 'em Sooki sent ya.

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