
I wonder if being profound is as exhausting as it sounds. I enjoy being hack sometimes. Tonight, for example, when I sat down to write absolutely nothing interesting popped into my brain. I pushed a few words around but nothing stuck together. I have started reading Stephen King’s book “On Writing”. Sometimes when I read about the craft of writing it makes me hesitant, as if becoming more aware that I am not as talented as I wish pushes back the words.
In a desperate attempt to stir something I went to http://www.randomwebsite.com/ and started clicking away. Most of the random crap was precisely that, however I happened into a database of rollercoasters. I am a librarian...I like databases. I like to know that there are oddball resources out there. The about page says the site hasn’t been up for a full two days yet:
Roller Coasters: | 5035 |
Amusement Parks: | 2148 |
Companies: | 179 |
People: | 1204 |
Models: | 414 |
Model Lines: | 96 |
Elements: | 56 |
Websites: | 427 |
Pictures: | 30913 |
Application built: | Monday, November 08, 2010 10:31 PM (64-bit) |
Application startup: | Monday, November 08, 2010 10:32 PM |
Uptime: | 1 Days, 19 hours, 19 minutes |
Hits since startup: | 651859 |
Hits per minute: | 250 |
I enjoy rollercoasters. I love the Viper at Darien Lake. Once when I was a teenager, I went to Darien Lake on what must have been an off day or maybe some sort of “we were the only people there” event thing. (I can’t recall...maybe it was a Soccer thing). Regardless, the lines were non-existent. I rode the Viper seventeen times in a row. Getting back on took as long as it took me to race through the empty pipe-lined queue. That night, when I was tucked away in bed, every twist and turn in the Viper rolled back through darkness behind my closed eyes. It was an odd night, but I still love the Viper.
And here is the Viper entry!
I haven’t thought about the Viper at Darien Lake or all the fun times I have had there in a long time. Metallic played there once and only once. It was a year after the Black album came out. They were so loud Darien Lake asked them never to come back. Danzig and Social Distortion opened. I remember not liking Social Distortion, thinking Danzig was a monster, and One live was epic.
I am going to go now. There are other treasures to find in this little (new) database. There are other memories to unlock. Maybe I will get some more of that book read tonight, too.
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