57* the Wacky Character jacket

I feel so much like a yo-yo, up and down, up and down.||| 
There's really nothing more to say today.

->->-> RANDOM TOPIC<-<-<- Kenny's crazy jacket

"Are you really asking me to take a pic?" -2010

    This is Kenny one day after school. He actually went to school wearing the EXIT sign. It was the random item of the day. I thought it would be a great idea to take a picture of him wearing it since he wore it to school. Kenny was not thrilled but I was finally able to talk him into taking a pic at the end of the day. I'm very glad I have this memento of that memory because it was just one of those quirky things Kenny did, and he never wore the EXIT sign again; however, he wore that sweat jacket everyday for two winters until he got mini bleach stains on it and the cuffs worn out and a bit ripped. It was the first jacket I was able to talk him into buying since he was a youngster. I think of it as his first 'cool jacket' as a teenager. Before this, everything he owned was very plain. He was drawn to this jacket and kept trying it on and putting it back- I knew he really liked it; it has so many bright and wacky characters on it that it fitted his personality perfectly. Buying it was one of those special things I was able to do for him that he felt he didn't deserve, but I knew he did and I expressed to him that he was definitely worth a cool jacket. We bought it at one of the surfing style stores in the mall. It was during the period of time Kenny liked to go to Hot Topic, probably during his skull faze which didn't last too long. I remember that day- I remember him trying on the jacket and I remember the happy feeling I had when we bought it and the giant grin on his face. It was a minor victory at the time.
   This was the only jacket I wore last winter, I kept it on for several days after Kenny died... 


Element of the day (day57)
#72) Hf-Hafnium-] metal 
Discovered in 1923 by Dirk Coster and George von Hevesey,Denmark. Commonly occurs with zirconium. Most zirconium minerals contain a few percent hafnium, and hafnium and zirconium are the most difficult elements to seperate from one another. An unreactive metal,unaffected by air, water, most acids or bases. Used in the control rods of nuclear reactors, in high temperature alloys, light bulbs and ceramics.

Minerals are very rare. Chiefly obtained as a by-product of zirconium processing. Produced in Australia, South Africa and the USA.