On other news, life has been kinda rough lately. The whole family has been sick, for one. And money has been tight too. The house is messy. And I'm behind on working on my internship. The good news is that it can't go on like this forever. And even better, my wife will be graduating from her school in just under a month. Hooray! She has done so good, and I'm super proud of her.
Well this post is turning into more of a journal entry, so I'll get on to the White Board and be done with it.
Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it. - Margaret Case Harriman
I
long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to
accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West
In
the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light!” And
there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole
lot better. - Ellen DeGeneres
One interesting thing on the 'net that I ran into some while back, but neglected to put in here. It's a photographic-based story about abandoned amusement parks across the world. To explain, I've always wanted to do what is known as "Urban Spelunking", which is when people "creatively visit" (polite version of saying Break and Enter/Trespass) old run-down buildings and other places of interest that are closed to the public. Just to look around and explore. I've only actually done it once, and that place wasn't technically abandoned (it was the other half of a building that was being partly used as storage for an aviation components manufacturing company I used to work for), and that time I worked for the company that leased the building, so it wasn't breaking the law but only wasting a little bit of company time when I could have been being more productive.
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| A Google Image search reveals some of the places Urban Spelunkers visit. Abandoned hospitals, industrial zones, infrastructure and churches. Some people also include sewers and drain systems, but personally I don't see why anyone would want to explore those. Maybe it is because I'm not fond of the water, or even the possibility of drowning in one of those spots. / Source: UrbanGhostsMedia.com |
Anyway, I've always had a thing for abandoned places. The left-overs that people leave behind them after they've worked so hard on something. Old industrial buildings, junk yards, abandoned houses, etc... Of course I don't give in to my temptation to go exploring, as places like these can be dangerous in the immediate (bad floors, possibility of getting trapped inside, something heavy falling on you and squishing you like Wile E. Coyote in a Roadrunner cartoon) or in the long term (Hanta virus [sp?], asbestos, other toxic stuff and/or disease). But whenever I pass such a place, I secretly long to investigate it and gaze upon its secrets. Maybe it is a combination of my enjoyment of haunted house tales, my love of history, and my fascination with how things work. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
Here is my disclaimer: Don't go into places you're not supposed to, kids. Having said that, I'd love to break my rule. From time to time. And this article has pictures of places I'd love to do it in.
8 eerie, abandoned amusement parks
Guess I'll stick to pictures rather than visiting myself. Just not the same, but safety first, don't ya know. Sigh...
The parting comment:
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| Source: Lol Snaps.com |
A zip tie on an old rusty chain. The bane of the Urban Spelunker. Haha.
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