Multiply 365 Day 250 - Housekeeping

 

It's Friday so I guess I will to a little cleaning up here on the blog. Nothing significant is going to happen so if you are the type that wants to know whether or not this blog will be significant in the grand order of 365 things, trust me it will not be.

Rather I just need to update a few things, including the change meter which has tailed off considerably these past couple of months. Only another $1.30 gets added since my last update, so now the total is $308.00. Barring someone dropping a wad of bills at my feet or me finding another monthly bus pass there is almost no way this will hit $400 by the end of the year. Not that I would have expected it to, but I guess that is going to be the next benchmark.

My aunt sent me a little box full of Coke caps the other day, which caused my eyes to get all wide with prospects of getting ever closer to the 8 GB MP3 player, but as I started pawing through the caps and entering in the codes it turns out roughly half of them were already used. Not good. Luckily my friend Phil emailed me the other day and sent along some codes as well, from his habit of drinking Diet Coke. Unlike my aunt's caps, I knew Phil didn't enter any of the codes (not that my aunt did either, but I imagine she just collected them from some friends who did already redeem them) so between the 15 he sent me and the ones my aunt sent that did work, I should still be able to max out on points this week, for the first time in ages. I am 27 points away (9 caps) and I think I should be able to find 9 good codes between what is left in the box and what I find just walking around over the next 24 hours.

I did snag another Amazon gift card from Swagbucks as well. $5 to the Amazon kitty, which is needed after I blew through about $35 in the last month or so. Between MP3 downloads and my recent book order, it is about time I start saving some cash for Christmas. Not that I will do all of my shopping on Amazon, I still have not so fond memories of the watch disaster of last year, but I might get a couple of things over there. With the cheap Kindles down to about $100, I am halfway there (I would be much closer if I hadn't went on my splurge) and I don't think I will need to buy books for a little while, I am enjoying my first read, but it is kind not one of those books that I am banging out 100 pages a night, more like 10-15 on those nights I make time for any reading at all.

See, I told you this would be an unimportant blog in the grand scheme of things. And now I am off to bed, there are rumors of breakfast again tomorrow morning. Just not sure where yet.

Karaoke Friday - This is what you get

I'll admit, there is something I like about this video.  It's the fact that the band basically gets the shit kicked out of them by little kids.  This fate should befall any group where the lead singer is a guy trying to sing like a woman.  I would pay good money to see the assclowns of Maroon 5 get kicked in the nutsack.  But for now I guess I have to settle for this.

 

 

Sometimes life it takes you by the hand.
It puts you down before you know it
It's gone and you're dead again.
I've been in places and I won't pretend
That I make it I just follow my head.
When its strange to take a walk downstairs
Sweep u all up on a corner and pay for my bread.
You know that I cannot believe my own truth
To show what a truth, got nothin' to lose.

Yeah yeah and it's okay.
I tie my hands up to a chair so I don't fall that way.
Yeah yeah and I'm alright.
I took a sip of something poison but I'll hold on tight.

You know those days when u wanted to choose
To not get out of bed and get lost in your head again.
You play the game but you gotta cut
Cuz' you're comin' down hard your joints are off stud.
I tried to say that's not the only way
I never knew if I could convince myself to change.
You were pacing I was insecure.
Slip and fall I got the call of the prison I was livin' in.

Yeah yeah and it's okay.
I tie my hands up to a chair so I don't fall that way.
Yeah yeah and I'm alright.
I took a sip of something poison but I'll hold on tight

Multiply 365 Day 249 - 9/11 Fatigue

 

Okay, I am officially tired. I am so sick of seeing and promos of what each television and radio station is going to do on the 10^th anniversary of 9/11, Facebook people imploring me to change my profile pic to commemorate the anniversary or copy and paste some inane status message. Let me make this abundantly clear, I don't fucking care.

The true test of 9/11 was not remembering where we were that day or what we did, but how would we come out of it. And you know what? In that regard we failed miserably. Yes, thousands of Americans lost their lives that day, and our nation sent thousands more into harms way to hopefully protect us from that type of incident occurring again. But really, what were they protecting? A nation that after a brief pause of mourning went right back to the same collection of self absorbed dumb fucks that we were prior to 9/11, except now we have to wait longer at the airport.

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor it spurred America to action, a nation acted almost as one, some fought, others aided the effort at home by either building or donating things to those that were fighting on our behalf. But the sense was that the nation took up the cause as a collective effort. After 9/11, not so much. George Bush may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he hit the nail on the head when after 9/11 he told Americans to go shopping. Because that is our mentality, 9/11 to most Americans was more like losing your electricity during a rousing bout of World of Warcraft. Lots of bitching and moaning, until the electricity gets turned back on, then the status quo returns. So while many bled and died on our behalf, there was a collective sigh on the homefront, we couldn't even be bothered with showing the caskets as those soldiers came home, lest it interfere with our petty bickering that makes us so “great”.

So you will have to excuse me if I am just a little too fatigued to bother with this nonsense. Hell the President just addressed Congress this evening, and some members of Congress couldn't even be bothered to attend. Yes, we sure have learned a lot since 9/11, we learned how shallow and simple minded we really are.