leftovers

I'm not one to complain about living in Los Angeles. I have been here now for over 16 years, and while at time I daydream about moving somewhere else, for the most part I am perfectly happy here. However, there are certain things we Angelenos love to complain about, and when you get down to it, what we're really complaining almost all comes down to how spoiled we are. Here's the top 10 things that suck about life in the city of Angels! 10. Traffic. Yeah a lot of people would put this at the top of their list. But if you're fortunate enough to be driving a car in Los Angeles, you're already doing better than millions of other people. You are located in a city of dreams, full of potential, with possible fortune around every corner. And you have somewhere to go! Someone wants to see you! So quit bitching and leave the house early enough to get where you're going on time, get a book on tape, learn a foreign language, or call your mom (hands free, on speaker phone

This is a picture of a little playground, located at 111 E. 4th Street in Hays, Kansas. 17 years ago, there was a house here, and that house was all decorated for Halloween, with pumpkins on the porch and all kinds of skeletons, spiderwebs and such inside. It was the house that my brother and I lived in, and it would be our last Halloween living in Kansas. It is so strange to look now and see that it's all gone. I've lived in quite a few houses during my lifetime, and most of them are still standing somehow. This house was pretty special though, as my brother and I lived here our last two years in Kansas, while I was graduating from college, and so many good times were had here. Seeing it now, it's like my place in Hays has been erased. Not that I ever want to go back, but now it's almost as if I was never there.