The End Game

At the time I'm writing this, Jonnene and her Mum should be in their last hour of flying to Sydney. At 5pm Tuesday (my time), she'll be at the US Consulate downtown at her appointment. I'm hoping that sometime Tuesday night I will hear some good news from her. Then in 20 days she'll be here in the USA!

Busy day today....several things to do work-wise, sent off the first invoices of 2007. Picked up two new jobs, one was just a revision of some copy on an ad I did 18 months ago but I still get to charge for it! I'll be busy for most of this week and that's okay with me.

Here's a question that's plagued mankind from the beginning: "Why am I surrounded by so many stupid people?" This question usually pops up when you're driving or at Wal-Mart. I say Wal-Mart because most of the bad driving habits people have are transferred to what they do with their shopping carts at Wal-Mart. It doesn't seem to happen as much at other stores and I don't know why. But people have no problem pushing their carts out from side aisles into main traffic areas without looking....they don't mind blocking an entire aisle with the cart on one side and their bodies on the other, all the while studying what item they want as other shoppers stack up behind them....or, as they make a sharp turn into an aisle, hitting a product on a shelf, knocking it to the floor, and continue on as if nothing has happened. Yeah, pretty much like going down Youree Drive or Airline Drive. I like going to Wal-Mart but I have absolutely no problem ripping the kind of "other" people who also go there. I guarantee that at any one time, about 33% of the people under the roof have no functioning kind of IQ level that allows for attending a secondary school. What's bad is these "normal" people have no excuse for not having a clue as to what's going on. I think I remember the term that a columnist on Fox uses...an "obliviant". I do whatever I can to not be one...I have failed before and will fail again in the future but at least I'm aware of the possibility and do what I can to avoid being one. At least I'm trying in some small degree to improve....it's those OTHER people. As Charlie Brown says, "Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhh!"