He takes pictures of rocks. Tell me this guy isn’t next level shit?

So Gourlay has been way off track lately.  He’s posting about bands on Sunday’s and concerts on Thursday’s when the essence of consistency is Tune Time Tuesday.  Since his blog is sending exactly 0 people to my site, I figure I need to appeal to the good side of an upcoming blogging extraordinaire.  It may not happen in his lifetime, but I support the Goodies.  Don’t worry Sam, I support you too but aside from the questionable drive from Gourlay, he has the most writing potential.

It’s 10pm right now.  The Smiths are playing on my Sirius player which I’ve been using more than Spotify because I prefer listening to songs I’m not as familiar with and this radio is far superior to Spotify.  The song before was a deep Asia song called Don’t Cry which is an above average song.  Asia is a “super” group formed from the bassist/vocalist of Roxy Music, guitarist and keyboardist of Yes, and drummer from  Emerson, Lakes and Palmer if you didn’t know.  I know it’s small but the box above the Smiths song is Alex Chilton by the Replacements playing on the Spectrum which I also enjoy.  In the coming days I’m going to make a post about my top 5 favorite New Wave bands and I’ll be the only person who will appreciate it.  I hope that is enough info to warrant a Tune Time.

I went to the gym earlier and ran 3 miles in 18 minutes which is getting lower each day.  My winter time exercise turns into more gym time and less miles than summer where I’ll strictly run outdoors.  I get stronger in my arms and my speed builds but I sacrifice endurance.  I notice a little knee tweak on the treadmill which put me out for months a year ago but I should be ok for the remainder of basketball and football.

I feel good but my eating schedule is completely thrown off.  Today we had a visitor that arrived late and I didn’t eat lunch until after 2.  Then I get home and tried to implement a new theme to the blog and it turned out to be a disaster.  For $40 dollars you’d think the transition would be seamless but its been problematic to the point that I have to keep the current theme until I work out the kinks.  I also started up German and Photoshop skills which are much easier after I’ve already grasped the basics.   Back to eating, I tried to eat dinner after I got done working out but I wasn’t hungry and ate a small portion.  Now I could eat but I’m not trying to go to bed on a full stomach.  Kids in Ethiopia would dream of this situation.

I wanted to tackle a few topics that are universal to each and every person roaming the globe. Understand that I have zero interest discussing this in person so if you see me in the real world, ask me how much I hate the smell of a sponge that washes dirty plates instead of these.

Money – A topic that everyone must contend with because without it, you have better be one hell of a survivalist. Imagine Earth before man existed on it with pure blue water, growing trees and plants, nature lizards (just lizards), and oxygen to sustain life. Resources from the ground were abundant. When man arrived, resources were needed to survive. Money is only the intermediary between the trade of resources. Instead of trading you a goat for your lumber, money is a universal medium for trading goods. It simplifies trading. So most people look to making more money as a plus because it gives access to more resources. This is why the cliche statement, “money doesn’t buy happiness” rings true. Money only buys resources, not happiness.

People – With 7 billion people in the world, it’s hard to view yourself as unique. The ratio of 1/7,000,000,000 gives a much better understanding of how inconsequential you are. Everyone you interact with is another one. It’s easy to view people as your best friend or I went to school with them but reality is that it’s only a single person who you may interact with in a small glimpse of time in your life. There are of course life long friends but it’s rare and viewing people this way is a varying opinion than believing that everyone is special.

Government – The top 1% of the world possess 40% of the world’s wealth. This wealth has heavy influence on the Gov’t. When the rich have this much money, they strike deals with the Gov’t in order to make their world tick the way they want so that they can continue being so wealthy and powerful.

Small players have no power whatsoever and it’s sickening to think that you are powerless against the Gov’t. This is why getting hyped up in politics is as smart as banging your head into a wall. The flip side is doing nothing and accepting that this is the way it is. There is no good answer unless the lower class pull together and start a revolution demanding change. It would be bloody and no good would come from it.

Death – No one know what happens when you die but death is a part of life. A cat of the family has passed recently and he had a lifespan of around 15 years. He had bad breath. Now that he has passed, it’s foolish to think that his trait of bad breath was disgusting. You take his life as an all encompassing 15 year journey instead of a day to day event and realize how much love the cat gave and the joy he brought into our lives. Death is sad. Some people can understand it’s part of the life cycle and inevitable and others can’t. This thought will usually lead to afterlife discussion and the hope that the dead are not really dead. This is hard to grasp.

I know very little about the last 4 topics I wrote about.  I don’t have Mark Cuban money.  I only interact with dozens of people.  I barely know who the Vice President is.  I’m still living.  So why did I take the time to write about them when I know so little?  It’s to show that I have the ability to think.  This would never be a paper in college and no self respecting professor would pass it.  Yet this is the best representation of how I think.  This is an A paper from my mind.  There was no research (I looked up the wealth stat).  For that I’m 1% proud and 99% apathetic.  Do you think like this?

I was surfing around Reddit and stumbled upon a Calvin and Hobbes strip, which lead me to the /r page on calvinandhobbes and that led me to this insight from Bill Watterson. I’m probably the last person who should be showing this based on my job but I still like it.