Things I Think v3

A little more long-winded this time around.

• Solid reporting again from the Associated Press. This article answered many questions I had that were left unanswered by other reports on this story.

• I didn't notice the DOW Jones Industrial Average fell more than 400 points today, did you? It doesn't seem like much, only 4% of it's total, but it seems like a whole lot more when you consider that $632 Billion was lost. $632 BILLION!

• So why the Hell are they moving Daylight Savings Time around like a chess piece this year?

• I'm thinking of getting a digital camera with my newly discovered wealth and photobloggin' a little bit.

• I watched parts of Airborne on HBO last night. It's not half as cool as I remember it being. Seth Greene is in dire need of exposure to sunlight, Shane McDermott really isn't all that cool, but Jack Black was amusing. I don't remember him being in the movie. He has short hair too, very strange.

• I was debating politics with somebody the other day and he says to me, "it's not about Russia and China, that's a red herring." WTF does that mean anyway? It just makes me crave tuna.

• One dare I would never take is to spend a week in Saudi Arabia amongst the locals. Same with Iran and Pakistan. I couldn't feel safe there.

• NCAA Basketball beats the NBA for drama and entertainment on any given night. You can't play 82 games and give it your all in every single one. I don't care who you are.
  

• Being a nerdy coin collector I feel comfortable saying that Euro coins are a whole lot cooler than our plain Jane stuff.

• "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is based on a true story. Who knew?

• A lady looking to be in her late fifties came in today and placed an ad for an Estate Notice for her husband that had just died of a brain tumor. Like a lot of people in this area she proceeded to tell me the whole story, and I listened mostly because she probably just wanted somebody, anybody to listen. She told me about the last eight months of his life, how much he loved his cars, and how he would never admit to anybody that he was going to die soon. It was very hard to listen to and I'm sure it was much harder for her to experience. I deal with half a dozen of these notices every week and I've never really thought about the people these names belong to.
  

Things I Think v2

More things I think:

• For some reason I really like the way hispanic names sound.
  
  
• One of the best names in NASCAR, Boris Said.


• I have a goal of traveling to all fifty states before I die. 13 down, 37 to go.


• Clint Eastwood knows how to direct a great movie. Not bad for the Pale Rider.
  


• Another goal I have is to someday have a Wikipedia article about my life.

• I really would like to figure out what the Hell it is I want to do with my life. I know of at least one thing I don't want to do, and that's anything involving accounting. It sucks the big one.

• I miss people, lots of them.

• 1.5 oz Grey Goose, 1 oz Blue Curacao. 10 oz Ginger Ale and ice of course. I call it a Swingin' Ginger Goose.

• I love being around my family, we have a lot of fun together when we go out. Moving out to NC really brought us a lot closer. Except of course for my younger sister, who disowned us and stayed behind in Utah so she could be around her boyfriend. Because of her decision she will never be as much of a tight-knit member of this family that the rest of us are. It makes me sad for her, but it's what she wanted.
  

Things I Think

I keep a piece of paper in my wallet. I use it to record things I think about that day. Sometimes thoughtful, rarely profound, and mostly useless. Anyway, I'm going to post them here.

• I'm not much of a clothes shopper, unless it involves the Old Navy clearance rack and pants that look great on me.

• I'm usually pretty easy going. I don't get mad at people often, but if you really want to piss me off mention in my presence that you believe the internment of US citizens of Japanese dissent during WWII was a great idea.

• Who is Ricardo Montalban?

• Am I the only person that doesn't care that Britney Spears shaved her head?

• I'm told people here have had complaints about my ability to stay on top of things here. I wish they would talk to me about it so I know which areas I need to work on. All I know is that I work my ass off and I don't take a smoke break every hour. I barely have time for a lunch break.

• I don't think there are any cameras in this building...

• That article left too many questions unanswered. I don't give a rats ass about her home design business. I want to know why her husband decided they weren't returning to the US. How was she finally arrested? Why is her daughter choosing to stay in Kuwait?

• I have a racist relative. He says he isn't racist, that he hates everybody. That may be true, but he also happens to really really hate Mexicans and anybody that might look Mexican.

• A buttered piece of toast always lands buttered side down. A cat always lands on his feet. If you strap a piece of toast, buttered side up, to a cat, does the cat defy the laws of gravity and fly?