Thoughts in Random Order

Lots of little thoughts passing thru...jotting them down...

*Struggling with 16kbps will hopefully end soon, since we'll hopefully be home much more now, the order for dsl has been placed. Not a bad price...only about $9 a month more than dialup...for the next to fastest dsl speed. They "Say" its available on our phone line...we'll see how that works. Got my fingers crossed.

*When is an addiction into the "fix it now" urgent stage? When we find we keep at it despite the negative, sometimes even horrendous consequences.

*You want to pass a truly useful law? Make Organ Donor the "default" status...and only those who exception out of it will not be organ donors. (Requiring a simple entry into the Non Donor Registry). And if it is important that you NOT be an organ donor, that is no problem, (however nobody listed in the non-donor-registry will be eligible for a donated organ should they need one...we wouldn't want to go against their deep seated beliefs now).

*Travel to and fro thru out the entire USA...it is no longer a matter of making sure each of the 48 have been visited...at this point I've lost track of how MANY times we've visited each one. What have I seen? People. People living here, there, up the hill, down in the valley, near the towns, far out in the country..little houses, big houses, campers, slums, mansions.

People all over the place, some of them hurrying...some just waiting, some oblivious to life and events happening even right behind them or in front of them. Probably most all of them thinking about their to-do list, or regretting something they've done, or wanting, dreaming, wishing, praising, griping. People.

So your little piece of life, it is yours, your turn and your space...and my turn and my space...we all get to draw whatever we want on our own etch-a-sketch, its up to us what we choose to paint on our canvas because it belongs only to us... and we don't have to copy the fancy neighbors, and we don't have to give heed to ill tempered critics...Determined not to enjoy life? So be it...but nobody out there has a right to decree your life be awful...you're a people too. So if you got somebody out there just crapping all over your existence...take them off their "pedastal" in your eyes...they , like millions of others..are just people.

*Maybe I could just live on Ritz crackers? Buttery, bready, crispy...but I AVOID buying them because if I buy a box...I'll eat the whole box within a day ...at the most 2 days.

*Healthy Alternatives always seem to offer much much less pleasure and flavor...I'm REALLY going to be ticked at some people if in my last days of life after I can no longer taste...it is discovered that what we SHOULD be eating is the food our cravings tell us to eat!

* A strange sign of our culture and era that I saw in a workplace a few weeks ago..."Smoking in designated areas only! Violation of this policy could result in progressive discipline".

*While waiting on my plane the other day, (and having several hours for that), I watched a crazy assortment of people. With my hearing loss and the accoustics in there...when people would talk it sounded like buzzing and utterings similar to those found in a SIMS game...or for you old timers...kind of like Charlie Brown's teacher sounded. As one group boarded their plane, the near to last guy on..noticed that someone had laid their newspaper down to abandon it...he turned from the counter and grabbed it up with great purpose and it seemed like that made him feel as if his life was a bit charmed with good fate. Interesting.

OK...think I got all that out of my system now, thanks.