TOO LAZY TO PUT YOUR SHOPPING CART AWAY

Now this should not be a surprise to anyone, however it is annoying as hell to me.  I am sure you have seen this at one time or another and you probably have been guilty of this too.  I have a few pet peeves and one that annoys me (there's that word again) more than anything is the inability of human beings to walk 5 feet and put your stinking shopping cart in the cart return and not in the middle of the parking space.  Excuse my language but this annoys the hell  out of me (did I mention it annoys me).  I can't tell you how many times I have pulled into a parking space and had to have the skill of an astronaut to park my car because there was some lazy ass person who was too tired to go on the other side of their car and put the cart away.  

You know, I don't drive a Mercedes or BMW or Bentley but my car is precious to me.  I work hard for my dollars and the last thing I want to do is drive around with dings in my car because someone was too lazy to put their cart away.  The worst is when people park right beside the cart return and still leave it in the middle of the parking space.  I know the day is coming when I will lose my cool and just scream at someone to "Put your damn cart away!!".  

This picture is classic.  The cart on the right is the cart return and as you see, the cart on the left was graciously left by some Lazy smuck.

Medley's Web 2.0 Mix

Medley's Web 2.0 Webmix

This is a collection of web 2.0 resources that I wanted to share.  I continually update this mix so check back often.

It's Christmas Time: Christmas Songs

I was driving home the other day and I started thinking about Christmas songs.  I am not sure how many of you ever realized that there are maybe a handful of Christmas songs that exist.  The regular classics:  Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, Jingle Bells, etc.  When you stop and think about it, these songs get played over and over and over and over each and every year at Christmas.  What really caught my attention was the fact that I never get tired of hearing these songs or singing them.  I listen to Pandora all the time and I have been listening to Christmas songs lately.  I heard a rendition of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer by Baby Face.  I said to my colleague, Baby Face.  It never dawned on my how many artists have their own rendition of Christmas songs.  I am so ingrained in The Jackson 5 Christmas album, I never took the time to look at album covers of other artists until now when listening to Pandora.  I was really taken aback.


Merry Christmas eveyrone

Where were you during the Virginia Earthquake

Hello everyone, I am sure by now you have seen all of the news coverage and interviews of people and their accounts of the Earthquake that happened in Virginia today.  I want to know where were you and what were you doing when the earthquake struck.  This is my second earthquake, the last one was in Virginia in 2004, near the same location.  That day I was in my office at Lee-Davis high school at my desk working on my computer when I though 100 tractor trailers drove by at the same time.  Today, I was again, sitting at my desk working on my computer.  I thought I was going crazy because my computer started swaying ever so slightly from side-to-side.  I didn't hear anything until a whiteboard I had started shaking against the wall, it was them I realized it was an earthquake.  When I checked online, my thoughts were validated with another earthquake in central Virginia.

So, where were you and what were you doing when the earthquake hit?

Obama announces debt agreement - politics - Capitol Hill - msnbc.com

Obama announces debt agreement - politics - Capitol Hill - msnbc.com

I am baffled at the time it has taken the two party worthless government to settle on an agreement, that still isn't settled. I am curious if anyone in Washington remembers this brieft statement:

" . . . endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

A little thing called the Declaration of Independence. The last time I checked, lawmakers were supposed to be working for all citizens of the great United States, not those who are the wealthiest of the wealthy that will have a fit an cry if they have a meazly 3% taken away from their constant inflow of old money cashflows. It is sickening. Never mind that the country is about to be embarrassed beyond belief. I guess the tea baggers don't consider themselves a part of this country and I guess if the country defaults and it's credit rating falls, and interest rates skyrocket, they just don't give a damn. Must be nice to be protected. I almost cried when the republicans tried making the argument that if President Obama raised taxes as a part of the debt deal that jobs would be lost. I bewildered, if you are taxing people on personal income over $250,000, what jobs are at stake. As a gentleman on NPR put it one day, what jobs will be lost if the CEO of GE gets taxed on his personal income. What in hell does that have to do with jobs? The man is a gazillionaire, you mean that little bit of tax on his personal income will shut GE down, WOW!!!

Washington needs to wake up. They are playing chicken with the government that I don't like it. Can you imagine, I have debts out of the wazu and if we go into default I can see what little paycheck I get now just go up in smoke. But the wealthy boys don't have to worry, they gon be alright. Interest rates can go up, just as long as long as I don't have to sacrifice my country club membership or my Lamborghini or my 17 mansions or my teeth whitening appointments or my . . . .

What's up with Chris Brown?

I am not sure how many of you are still Chris Brown fans after his drop from fame after the Rhianna situation.  Let me preface this by saying that I enjoyed listening to Chris Brown's music.  I wanted him to be very successful.  Being from a small town myself, I know how hard it is to make it in a huge industry like music.  I am disappointed that he has taken a turn as a bad boy.  Lately since his return to the mainstream, his music is starting to surface with a lot of cursing and vulgarity in it.  I am not a big fan of curing and dirty music, I like good melodies, harmonies, and beats.  I don't see the need for Chris Brown to change, I feel like he is perpetuating everything the media dubbed him as when he physically assaulted Rhianna.  He adamantly defended his character when all this broke out that he was not a violent person, he was good, he made a mistake.  I don't judge the man, I don't know him at all, just what I see on the TV and radio.  He needs to remember this when making his music.  "Deuces", I like, I dig the beat and the melody.  I can do without the cursing, the darkness.  He has a couple of other songs that he collaborates on and the drops the MF's, F bombs, etc.
I hope I am not the only one who feels this way.  I just don't like to see people, especially brothas, perpetuating stereotypes that are forced on them by the media.  Be true to who you are, if that is you, where was it before the Rhianna incident.  If it isn't you and you are just trying to fit this mold now, "STOP"!!!

Listen to these songs and you will see.
Yeah 3x (Explicit Version)Yeah 3x (Clean Version)F.A.M.E. [Explicit]F.A.M.E.

3 girls busted for illegal lemonade stand - US news - Weird news - msnbc.com

3 girls busted for illegal lemonade stand - US news - Weird news - msnbc.com

Wow, have you ever heard of such (I will say it) nonsense. You mean to tell me that police have nothing better to do than to drive around the neighborhoods and tell these little girls that they have to shut down their lemonade stand because they didn't know where it was made, how it was made, and what it was made with. Well let's explore this: First we need lemons, the last time I check and made lemonade, it can only be made from lemons (even the artificial stuff is from lemons), second, we need sugar (probably real sugar, not the high fructose stuff because it is a residence) and water. When you mix them all together, Shazzam!!! you have lemonade. I think I would almost be embarrassed if I were a cop telling these little girls to "shut it down", the very least you can speak to the parents and tell them that they can sell today but not anymore after that (until they get a license from Kellogg). Wow, this is all I can say. There are people trying to blow up airplanes, kidnappings everyday, but this is what gets law enforcement attention. Only in America.