By my math the country is 230 years old today! I know in the realm of civilization that is pretty young, but what a great feat for the "grand experiment".

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Okay so I have just read through some of my posts... It is interesting how this blog has changed in just a short time. I originally started it as a place to voice my opinions and views on many things, but not really intending for any of the entries to be so personal to me.

I had thought I would talk politics, government, and stupidity in general... Instead I have done more blogging about myself and my feelings than any of those other topics.

I have blogged some about politics and the general stupidity of others... But I guess I needed to blog about the other stuff more. In all honesty I probably knew that when I started this blog but just didn't want to admit it.

Anyway, if you are reading this, I hope that you have found some of it interesting.

If you are my friends and you are reading this, I hope you don't think I am too nuts. (Even thought I still think I am.) I also hope, well, that you still want to be my friend.

Okay, so something happened tonight that bugs me. Someone in my family decided to make dinner. However, they didn't get to making it until late. Okay, now to be fair another family member didn't help things with a last minute road trip to the store. However, everyone involved knows that in the evening things can get busy. I have a friend who comes up to help me with stuff and sometimes we get to talking etc. Well, things did get busy. So we had dinner late.

Okay, I realize that and yes I could have been quicker on getting things done, but sometimes it doesn't work that way... And truthfully, I don't want it to.

So what bugs me? Was it that we had dinner late? Not really, what bugs me is the little pity party my family member had with them-self because dinner was late. Had they been that worried about having dinner on time, why didn't they get it ready before it got close. The biggest problem is, this isn't the first time (or probably the last) that this has happened. This person seems to like to push up against a time limit we have and then moan, groan, and complain if things like this happen.

However, you sure as hell had better not do it to them or there schedule. If you even remotely get close to pushing time or being late, you will never live it down. That I just don't understand.

I don't like to make people late and I try my best not too. I do know that sometimes it just happens and their is nothing anybody can do about it. But why is it that this person just seems to think it is okay to do it to us all of the time. I understand that they are on vacation, but that doesn't mean we have nothing to do or have nothing going on. I mean, I have put off doing some things and meeting with some friends and other people so that we can do things while this person is here. However, should we completely stop everything and put it on hold until they leave? As i remember this never happened with them. In fact sometimes when we were on vacation we often did more running for them than we did when we weren't on vacation.

I guess what bugs me the most is that fact that while we try to show this person as much respect as we can, sometimes this person doesn't always do the same in return... At least if feels that way at times.

So the big thing now is to lose your normal landline phone and go either all cell or cell and VOIP. This is bad, very, very bad. I just can't get it? Why can't people understand this is bad?

Just think about how many times we have seen where cell carriers are overloaded or non-working in a disaster area. For VOIP, think about how reliable your high-speed connection really is and think about the fact that your router / modem has to be plugged in to work... What happens when the power goes out?

While landlines do have their problems, good ole twisted pair cooper phone service is very reliable and often works when your cell phone and high speed connection won't. That is of course if you have a corded or wired phone... Remember your cordless has to be plugged in to work! So get a corded phone and try it the next time the power goes out. Chances are it will work and your cordless won't.

Now, I don't work for a phone company, I just use my head.

When all else fails, there is of course ham radio... I know, I use it.

TIRED - GRUMPY - LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE...

I have had some major mind set changes lately. First, I can now actually see myself being more mobile and I want that to happen. Second, I have decided that I do what to "do something". As in, I have decided to start thinking about setting up a web site to do actual web sites for money. With each of those things, I haven't given up on trying to do some more school and even date... Yes I typed it didn't I. I am still thinking about that. The one person I had made contact with has found someone for now, so I am just moving on. I sent about 10 emails today to a few other young women... I don't know where any of it will go, but what is there to lose.

Oh yeah, along those lines, I have decided that another thing I need to do is... As I get more mobile, I need to go to some of the public events around, even if I wouldn't normally go...

I can't believe that I am really thinking about all of this. It just really doesn't seem like me. However, I know it is me and thanks to my friends that part of me is starting to appear. I guess I have always knows that I wanted to do these things, it either didn't seem worth the time or the trouble... Or it just seemed impossible.

That has now changed!