I'm going to vent for a few moments here. Sure we all wish for world peace, saving the rainforests, feeding the hungry, but we know that's probably just a pipe dream. But what I want to know is why people have to hate and aggrevate other people. And why and where that starts. Why do we keep passing it on to our children, teaching them so that ( Read more... )

I love driving. I love going for long road trips. Well, maybe not long, but just going for a long drive for a couple hours. There was snow in the mountains, the sun peaking through at times to glaze the ridges lines with frosted evergreen trees. I loved Steven's Pass, where we wound through canals of snow banks stacked high on either side of ( Read more... )

Okay funny image. This older guy at work, he's close to 50, looks and acts like the absent-minded professor.. every email he gets has some sound file associated with it... a lot of Monty Python, some Austin Powers, Star Wars... he just got one I haven't heard... so the old guy, working at his computer and it responds to him "com'n, shake it for ( Read more... )

I was driving out Bigalow-Gulch this afternoon, the wet road marking through the wonderfully rolling snow-covered fields dotted with houses, and evergreens standing out dark and white interchanging. The sun was shining and there was blue sky in the distance, crisp air flowing as I flew by. Out in one of the fields, someone was snowmobiling down a ( Read more... )

I had a relatively nice evening Friday night. Not the ideal evening, nor the easiest, but it was nice. Went to work out and on the way home picked up a couple movies. Tried to make banana bread with my mushy fruit, and had a deadline before my 9pm tv show to do that, shower and make dinner. So the oven is heated, I'm almost done throwing in all ( Read more... )

What is up with our society that people can't say what they mean or ask what they want to know anymore? We hide behind worries about offending, being politically correct, asking something taboo. Why can't people ask when they want to know something, rather than conjecture and gossip and wonder about the truth, so much that it becomes the truth, ( Read more... )