I have the windows open but have to admit, it’s pretty chilly right now. I definitely will have to close them to sleep. Was a nice day, not too warm, didn’t need the a/c at all. All this money I save on a/c will go to the body shop, so it’s not a good thing! I may get it back tomorrow, depends if they need 4 hours to put it back together as that’s how long it took to take it apart.

Dermatologist appointment tomorrow, hopefully the last one and he’ll hopefully tell me my infected thumb is clearing up, err, not infected, fungal thumb.

Hope I sleep tonight, haven’t slept well in a few weeks. I’m not sure if it’s because I was quasi-dumped, the change in the weather, the change for daylight savings time or just one of those things. I also have been going to sleep earlier and that may be a problem, but I’m just so tired by 10 pm that I go to bed and read for a while.

Not sure if you’ve been reading the newspapers or watching the news but there have been 3 murders here in the past week. Seriously. First there was a shooting by 2 kids from a gang, one shot another 10 times and he died. He was caught with the gun in his hand though his accomplice got away and he’s not talking about who it was. The other kid shot is in critical condition a week later and he’s not talking. The shooter is in jail and 2 days later someone kills his mother. Really. Now, he doesn’t live with his mother, but he gave the police that address, so the newspapers printed it. It’s not like she lived in a bad area, either. It’s about 4 blocks from my chiropractor, and she just sold her house for $650k and lives among several million dollar homes. The neighborhood isn’t bad, but there is a “bad” housing project about 10 blocks down the street.

If that wasn’t bad enough, this weekend one of the Fairhaven High School seniors killed another. Seems 3 boys were involved in a house robbery in the middle of the night, one took off, the other 2 argued while driving and one stabbed the other and left him to die. He’s been arraigned and is in jail.

The gang stuff is bad because the shooting (10 shots) happened in downtown New Bedford, a tourist area off the waterfront. People are now a little afraid to go there. I grew up down there as my father had a business there. I haven’t gone downtown in a long, long time because there are parking meters and it’s a real pain to find a parking place. I think the last time I went there was to buy my ex some historic area T-shirts and a hat and maybe I’ve been there once since then. I’m not afraid to go there now, but there are neighborhoods that I won’t go to because of the drugs and constant problems involving gangs and guns. Downtown, though, isn’t that type of area.

Now what pisses me off is the father of the kid killed in Fairhaven making a stupid statement like “things like this don’t happen in Fairhaven” so it has New Bedford people thinking WE think we’re better than them, or we think we’re better than others. I surely don’t, and crime can happen in every town, no matter how large or how small.

Are the parents to blame? Why were 3 kids at age 18 or 19 out in the middle of the night? Where were the parents? Is it peer pressure?

I think I’ll write more about this subject on the coffee blog which is again open to comments unless that comment spam starts up again.

This blog is still being slammed but the comments are being stopped since you have to register to post. Hopefully that will change soon.

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