Why do we collect JUNK? I guess I should preface this by saying why do I collect JUNK? I am moving furniture around and redecorating two rooms for reasons I just can't go into now. In the course of this redecoration I come across a pile of items that I think, why did I keep this? Why is this still around? Why is this in my home collecting dust?
It took me more time sorting through things than it did to move the furniture and pictures and other little knick knacky items. I am a collector though. I would like to believe I collect things of some worth though not pieces of paper with idle thoughts or numbers I long since forgot what they were to or for.
Why don't I filter this stuff out as I am taking it out my purse? I don't know, it comes out of the purse to another place on the desk to another place in a drawer to another place in a chest until I need the chest for something. Then I realize I am collecting little bits of myself that I have quite forgotten and will never remember again.
I believe this is why I remain on the ground floor. Vega, over and out.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
As a Blogger I am SUNK.
Okay I stink as a blogger. I can't figure out all these pings, pongs and pac-mans. No wait, that was in my time, not now. Anyway I am going to write away as if you out there in internet land are reading this.
Gas prices are dropping in this part of the world, Deep South. We watch them fall, but everyone is also saying November, December is right around the corner. People will start travellling and what will happen then? The gas prices will go up again! What a big surprize that will be. Airline tickets will go through the roof. I am sure they make all their money in these up-coming months.
I don't pay a lot of attention to the stock market, though I should. My 401k is heavily invested in the stock market and I live on the edge with only half invested in government securities. Still it is money I never see and seems unreal to me. Some day I do hope to have it in one big chunk, but it may become like Social Security and something I have invested in for naught.
What other cheery news do I have? I have a new job that I was offered in the nick of time as my office now is on the verge of imploding. While it would be fun to watch, it would not be fun to experience. Holiday weekend coming up, everyone should enjoy, we in the south always enjoy our weekends but the northerners better appreciate these last days without snow.
This is Vega, over and out. Please still respond if you know how to ping.
Gas prices are dropping in this part of the world, Deep South. We watch them fall, but everyone is also saying November, December is right around the corner. People will start travellling and what will happen then? The gas prices will go up again! What a big surprize that will be. Airline tickets will go through the roof. I am sure they make all their money in these up-coming months.
I don't pay a lot of attention to the stock market, though I should. My 401k is heavily invested in the stock market and I live on the edge with only half invested in government securities. Still it is money I never see and seems unreal to me. Some day I do hope to have it in one big chunk, but it may become like Social Security and something I have invested in for naught.
What other cheery news do I have? I have a new job that I was offered in the nick of time as my office now is on the verge of imploding. While it would be fun to watch, it would not be fun to experience. Holiday weekend coming up, everyone should enjoy, we in the south always enjoy our weekends but the northerners better appreciate these last days without snow.
This is Vega, over and out. Please still respond if you know how to ping.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Blogger SINKING, cries for help.
Ok, I don't get it. How do you get all these pings and Technorati going? How do you get anyone even the least bit interested in your blog to look at it and then make a comment. I thought for sure I had at least one blog of some interest to this vast internet community but nary a soul has left a remark.
I can't understand the ping thing. I can't get Technorati to accept my blog so there is something amiss here within my settings. MAYBE. I would add more to my blog like pics and content but I am like why bother. NO ONE IS OUT THERE. I think this whole internet thing is a sham. There isn't a large group of world wide people out there on the web searching and surfing. There is, however, stupid me, thinking someone might actually read this crap and respond.
Seriously if there is anyone brave or bored enough to get this far please leave a response on what in heck do I do to get this thing up and going. This is Vega on the sub ground floor digging a hole for herself.
I can't understand the ping thing. I can't get Technorati to accept my blog so there is something amiss here within my settings. MAYBE. I would add more to my blog like pics and content but I am like why bother. NO ONE IS OUT THERE. I think this whole internet thing is a sham. There isn't a large group of world wide people out there on the web searching and surfing. There is, however, stupid me, thinking someone might actually read this crap and respond.
Seriously if there is anyone brave or bored enough to get this far please leave a response on what in heck do I do to get this thing up and going. This is Vega on the sub ground floor digging a hole for herself.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Bail Out America Not Big Business
The bail out failed to pass. I am actually happy about it. 700 billion to help out businesses that ran their business into the ground. That makes perfect sense. They will only do it again. Or do so under another business' name. Come on already, if we have that kind of money available to us, spread the wealth around Washington, we have people out here struggling to make ends meet just to buy gas to go to work.
This is what bothers me the most. Washington, DC, is out of touch with the REAL world. They have no concept of what middle class and lower, America is doing or how we are getting by. Why do they think homes are being foreclosed on right and left, because the companies were poorly run??? HELLO, MC FLY......people are not and cannot pay their bills. In part because the stupid mortgage companies let them have loans in excess of their income ratio but also because the home owner probably started living large when they got the larger home.
So instead of fretting over the people who have lost their homes, we have decided to bail out the companies that screwed these people. The companies that probably knew at the onset that they were playing with fire but figured they could turn the foreclosed house around and around and make lots of money off one house. Similiar to the Buy Here, Pay Here, Auto Lots. They sell the same auto to different people a number of times. Repossessing it when the loan goes into default. But I think with the car business there are more avenues to get rid of a car, like auctions and the junk yard. There is only one way to make money on a house, sell the house or it sits empty.
So I will say it again, pass all those billions out to those of us that NEED the money. Those of us that could use a home, a car, a retirement fund, a college fund. groceries in the pantry or a bed to sleep on. I am sorry their business failed. A lot of us have had to start over, now it's their turn.
It's just my idea with what to do with the money, coming from the Ground Floor, it's Vega, hoping someone will save me if it starts to flood in here.
This is what bothers me the most. Washington, DC, is out of touch with the REAL world. They have no concept of what middle class and lower, America is doing or how we are getting by. Why do they think homes are being foreclosed on right and left, because the companies were poorly run??? HELLO, MC FLY......people are not and cannot pay their bills. In part because the stupid mortgage companies let them have loans in excess of their income ratio but also because the home owner probably started living large when they got the larger home.
So instead of fretting over the people who have lost their homes, we have decided to bail out the companies that screwed these people. The companies that probably knew at the onset that they were playing with fire but figured they could turn the foreclosed house around and around and make lots of money off one house. Similiar to the Buy Here, Pay Here, Auto Lots. They sell the same auto to different people a number of times. Repossessing it when the loan goes into default. But I think with the car business there are more avenues to get rid of a car, like auctions and the junk yard. There is only one way to make money on a house, sell the house or it sits empty.
So I will say it again, pass all those billions out to those of us that NEED the money. Those of us that could use a home, a car, a retirement fund, a college fund. groceries in the pantry or a bed to sleep on. I am sorry their business failed. A lot of us have had to start over, now it's their turn.
It's just my idea with what to do with the money, coming from the Ground Floor, it's Vega, hoping someone will save me if it starts to flood in here.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
McCain Stomps Obama
Last night in the presidential debate McCain spoke of foreign policy and foreign leaders rattling off numbers, countries and names as if the events had just happened the day before. He made it clearly obvious that he was not only aware of what is going on outside of the United States, he was aware of what has been going on for years. He quoted meetings and summits and years of those times and who was in attendance. He related the current state of the countries we are most concerned of in the Middle East and what we should be working toward for our military troops in the war. He related a touching story of wearing a fallen soldier's bracelet for the soldier's mother.
Obama says he has a bracelet too. That was his counter. In fact that is all Obama could do is counter because he does not know half of what McCain knows. It was obvious that Obama was getting angry and was controlling his temper while standing at his podium getting verbally tossed from side to side of the room. Because McCain beat the heck out of him with his vast knowledge of the world, life and the military. When it came Obama's turn to make a statement, his were well rehearsed and memorized. Through the television you could feel him hitting the key points and making emphasis on the right notes, raising his voice at just the right time.
Quietly McCain would rebut, with something profound like, "Senator Obama", showing all due respect to the man, is mistaken about .......strategies, or a number of other things that Obama seemed to not quite understand but was talking about. Personally I felt bad for Obama. He was mad at not getting his point across and getting his cheers. He did not have his supporters filling him full of himself when they should tell him the truth. The American people have just seen who of the two people running for president actually knows what they are talking about.
Obama says he has a bracelet too. That was his counter. In fact that is all Obama could do is counter because he does not know half of what McCain knows. It was obvious that Obama was getting angry and was controlling his temper while standing at his podium getting verbally tossed from side to side of the room. Because McCain beat the heck out of him with his vast knowledge of the world, life and the military. When it came Obama's turn to make a statement, his were well rehearsed and memorized. Through the television you could feel him hitting the key points and making emphasis on the right notes, raising his voice at just the right time.
Quietly McCain would rebut, with something profound like, "Senator Obama", showing all due respect to the man, is mistaken about .......strategies, or a number of other things that Obama seemed to not quite understand but was talking about. Personally I felt bad for Obama. He was mad at not getting his point across and getting his cheers. He did not have his supporters filling him full of himself when they should tell him the truth. The American people have just seen who of the two people running for president actually knows what they are talking about.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Palin is a Racist Moose Hunter, Watch Out Jews
Somehow Congressman Hastings from the great state of Florida has gotten the idea that women from Alaska who carry guns and shoot at moose are also apt to do something to Jews and Blacks in this country. At least that is what he recently told a group in Florida. He was speaking about Governor Palin giving his opinion of her ability to be vice presidential material.
He came across sounding like an idiot. How could anyone correlate the scenario he has proposed. I would think it is safe to say and correct me if I am wrong, NRA, but most hunters do not shoot at people. They shoot for the sport of killing game and that is not human life. They also are not racists to boot because they are hunters, carrying a gun and going after moose. This stereotype that the Congressman has conjured up is insulting to the vast majority of the American public and her ancestry. Has he forgotten how we came to to this land, how we fed ourselves and protected ourselves. This is the foundation of America to be gun-toting and killing moose.
Additionally, we started this country, if you can remember Congressman Hasting, as a melting pot, with all different types of people from the world. People of European descent to include Jewish lineage and the African people who were taken into slavery and later freed to become African Americans. I hardly thought I would give a history lesson over a silly old moose, but Congressman you are far removed from the American people and deeply afraid Obama is going to lose.
He came across sounding like an idiot. How could anyone correlate the scenario he has proposed. I would think it is safe to say and correct me if I am wrong, NRA, but most hunters do not shoot at people. They shoot for the sport of killing game and that is not human life. They also are not racists to boot because they are hunters, carrying a gun and going after moose. This stereotype that the Congressman has conjured up is insulting to the vast majority of the American public and her ancestry. Has he forgotten how we came to to this land, how we fed ourselves and protected ourselves. This is the foundation of America to be gun-toting and killing moose.
Additionally, we started this country, if you can remember Congressman Hasting, as a melting pot, with all different types of people from the world. People of European descent to include Jewish lineage and the African people who were taken into slavery and later freed to become African Americans. I hardly thought I would give a history lesson over a silly old moose, but Congressman you are far removed from the American people and deeply afraid Obama is going to lose.
Monday, September 22, 2008
There's Women against Palin?
There is a blog dedicated to women who are against Palin being the vice president. They are requesting women to sign a petition to, what? overthrow her if she and Senator McCain are elected? I am not sure what their plan is.
What amazes me is the blog is littered with the history of women and how we have struggled through to time to earn the right to vote, to earn equal pay, equality in the workplace, this list goes on and on. They do not want a woman vice president. Why? I am not completely sure. She is not pro-life, is a major issue but other than that I did not come across anything but that she is VAPID.
Well most of Washington, DC is vapid, so that is a given.
But to not embrace the very thing women have been fighting for, for years, the breaking of the glass ceiling, I do not understand. Granted she does not support all of your issues, but she is a sister, mother, daughter who has finally been put in the hot seat and may actually make the move into the forbidden area.
Sure there may be other women qualified to do the job, but she has been selected, and women should rally to support her, not a party, not a position, but her as a woman because we all damn well know she is going to need it. We should be working to get her in office if we ever want to see a woman President in our lifetime.
What amazes me is the blog is littered with the history of women and how we have struggled through to time to earn the right to vote, to earn equal pay, equality in the workplace, this list goes on and on. They do not want a woman vice president. Why? I am not completely sure. She is not pro-life, is a major issue but other than that I did not come across anything but that she is VAPID.
Well most of Washington, DC is vapid, so that is a given.
But to not embrace the very thing women have been fighting for, for years, the breaking of the glass ceiling, I do not understand. Granted she does not support all of your issues, but she is a sister, mother, daughter who has finally been put in the hot seat and may actually make the move into the forbidden area.
Sure there may be other women qualified to do the job, but she has been selected, and women should rally to support her, not a party, not a position, but her as a woman because we all damn well know she is going to need it. We should be working to get her in office if we ever want to see a woman President in our lifetime.
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