Stereos and televisions and personal MP3 players and such… a few more things that take away from quality time, for the most part, but on rare occasions can add to it if properly applied. “Music is the gift that keeps on giving,” I was recently told by a close friend of mine. Of course, I think they just wanted a copy of a new CD that I had just purchased, but the thought was still a good one. Although I have to say that music has been a great part of my life. It h...

     What can I say about computers and networking, really? I sit here using mine, typing away. I check my email, research my writing, play my online games and Google myriad things on a daily basis. I have met people online that I would never have run into without a computer, and have learned so many things through the Internet that my mind feels nearly overwhelmed. Why, just in my junk email alone today, I got my home loan refinanced, met horny women in my area while b...

     These are things like autographs and baseball cards and movie props, I suppose. That fact that people collect these things astound me, I have to say. These are all things of Man, and will fade into history except for those few people who have no lives other than to dwell in the past. I am not talking about people like archeologists, who study layers of the earth so that they can tell me that 1500 years ago my ancestors ate fried chicken too, because stuff like t...

     Coins are a pain. I think everything should cost an even dollar amount. After I buy things, then the government can get their odd portion. Speaking of the government, am I the only one that thinks that Congress and the House of Representatives are useless and should be dismantled? After all, the President doesn’t have to listen to them, or consult them or anything, that has been proven over the last few years. We can invade a country without them even knowing abo...