Musing

Let's Get Something Straight or Clarification Let's talk about selfishness for a moment. This is what being selfish REALLY is: bettering your own quality of life by knowingly and willingly reducing the quality of life of others. Spending the money you earned on a new CD is not selfish - stealing $5 from every member of your household to buy a CD is. Putting aside a little money each week as a rainy day fund is not selfish - dipping into your childrens' college fund to go to Europe is. Making excuses for a job done poorly is a lame attempt at saving face - trying to take down an entire department with you is pure, unadulterated, downright hateful selfishness. I can hardly comprehend how anyone could be so dispicably selfish, yet I see a lot of it every day. How could anyone take more than their due without feeling guilty? How could anyone have so little regard for anyone else but him/herself? It's just like the constant lectures we heard in middle sch...

The Dog Days of Summer or Those Long Haired Blues   In the spirit of shamelessly ripping off someone else's website, I'm going to post some more random comments in place of something that could actually be considered a full-length, coherent post in hopes of keeping the post-hounds at bay.   For all of you who are sick of the long hair, I've decided that I'm getting it cut before vacation in mid August.  The weather down there in Perdido Key is typically Floridian:  90-95* F with a chance of thunderstorms every day.  This rug would be way too warm to keep around.   Yesterday, I finally went to 1st Source and opened a savings account there, since I closed my one at Sobieski's earlier this month.  It was odd to hold so much money in my hands at once.  The moment was way too fleeting.   There's also something else that's been on my mind for a few weeks now, but I'm not sure that I want to throw it out for everybody quite yet....

A Rare Salute or Looking Up To People Six Feet Under Gotta give 'em credit - the Founding Fathers had balls. Great idea, great execution. It's only everyone since them that's farked everything up.

Irritations A short note on where I've been #2: Working 40+ hour weeks is a really good way to force yourself into an early grave, especially when said hours don't really net you the funds you would expect/hope to earn. I worked 9AM - 8PM yesterday, then came home and fell asleep literally as soon as I laid down. The Bright Side NOT what you were expecting to follow the previous comment This is going to be a little paragraph on the pride I take in my job, so if you don't feel like hearing it, you've been warned. Okay, so you're still with me. Good. 11 hours nonstop is not only illegal, but it's also just plain damn hard work. Especially when there is no one else there to help you with your job. Joe, my boss, left as soon as I got there and only appeared during the afternoon for about an hour to pick up a few things off of his desk and check on the store. My quick math tells me that that's ten hours that I owned that store. When...

Irritations #1 (many more coming soon) #1: People who stand in front of the milk cooler and ask where they can find the milk in this damn store, because God knows they've looked everywhere.

Ten Rock Albums That You Shouldn't Be Able To Live Without (a rather subjective listing of the greatest music ever in no particular order) [I] - Led Zeppelin This is the absolute pinnacle of bluesy rock - and it was only their beginning. This is a CD that you really would screw up by burning it, because a lot of the songs go right from one to the next without a pause. Don't be a fool. Buy it. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd I just realized how pathetic you have to be if you don't know who created each of these albums. I'll keep doing it, though, to benefit all of you clueless losers. This is another album you really shouldn't burn. There are lots of different rereleased versions of the original album out there, some supposedly better than others. Google it before you go out and buy your own copy. Back in Black - AC/DC Need I say more? Almost 50% of this album later became singles material, so you know I'm not the only one who l...

Two Earthshaking Articles or Whoa Ever wonder what happened to Creed, like me? Wonder no more. I'm probably one of very few who read this that care, but I couldn't call myself a fan if I didn't make note of such a monumental occurance here.