Not much going on. I did have a job interview that I thought was going well until it ended abruptly. Oh well!! Maybe I'm not supposed to work. Went to a Don McLean concert and managed to get in after the intermission which was the whole McLean part of the concert. It was OK. He milked American Pie for all it was worth but deservedly so. I have been experimenting on myself. I've been getting into gut bacteria which is a new "sexy" research area in health. I've been interested for a few years since I realized that taking some antibiotics had made me completely lactose intolerant. I bought some expensive probiotics (bacteria pills) which didn't seem to do much and also went down to Walmart and got some cheaper ones that WERE effective (more consistent and different smelling pooh) made by NatureMade. BUT they also seemed to substantially change my mood making me moderately depressed. More on this as I experiment. Also just got a note from Reed back on Guam-----The other night I was at Applebee's with my friends and there was an open mic going on. Tyler's girlfriend, who works there said that the winner gets 100 bucks. So I did it and won. Hahaha. 100 bucks just like that. Not bad.--------

Got a note from Reed today.-------------Something cool happened last night. So mom and I were having dinner at Table35 (coach Jimmy's restaurant) and the band he had playing was Patrick Palomo's! Mom mentioned it to jimmy while they were talking and he called him over. Eventually jimmy asked if I could join them up there and he let us. I got to sing That's All and I've Got You Under My Skin with him and his band. Totally unexpected and spontaneous.------Patrick is Guam's best pianist and obviously a good sport. Way to go Reed.

Saw somebody die today. I was on Main Street, stopped for a red light, third car from the intersection in the right hand lane. I saw this black girl probably in her 20s yellow dress and glasses. She came out of the building by the intersection, saw a friend across the street and rushed over to meet her. Just then a car went by me maybe going a little fast but having the right of way as the light had turned green. The girl went right out in front of the car and took the full force. She got knocked about six feet in the air and I remember her glasses went flying. I don't see how she could have survived. About half a second before she got hit I could see what was going to happen and I think I started to scream. I just kept screaming after she got hit. It was awful. There were lots of witnesses so I just drove away and I couldn't even look at her lying there. The streets are probably the most dangerous thing in downtown Jacksonville. And it's for the opposite reason than you might think. There's not a lot of traffic and the blocks are short. Consequently, people don't pay a lot of attention to the traffic lights. I'm guilty of it myself. Unfortunately, she picked the wrong time to be careless. It killed her in an instant and I'm sure left the person who hit her with a life long scar. It left me with one. ---------------------------------------------------------------- (update from the news) A 12-year-old girl is in critical condition after she dashed across Main Street next to the downtown library and was hit by a car as family was arriving to pick her up, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. The unidentified girl ran out in front of a car that had just entered the intersection of Main and Monroe streets shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, Lt. Brett Sharp said. "It [the traffic signal] was either green or yellow, but they are still doing their investigation," Sharp said. "The young lady was attempting to run across the intersection when she was struck by the vehicle." Police said the 12-year-old girl was not in the crosswalk when she was hit. A second car coming up behind the accident scene was there to pick her up, police said. That car has Maryland license plates. The accident shut down two blocks of North Main Street behind the main library and a city parking garage. East Duval and East Monroe streets were also shut down during the accident investigation.