HIGH VOLTAGE

For shame, leaving your tumblr logged in.

FFORR SHAAAMEEE

Saw on the TV the other day that every afternoon at the end of a particular TV hour, just as the credits roll, England has to kick on several extra power plants to cover the excess demand created by everyone turning on their electric tea kettles at the same time. Everyone. In the Whole Country!

Apparently, according to this show, England is the only place in the world with this particular problem.

The best part about getting older is realizing what’s truly important and relevant and worthwhile to me and understanding that the rest of it just isn’t worth me worrying about or fighting for or being depressed over, etc…

Sometimes I still find it hard to let some stuff go, but I have to look at my own situation and ask myself if it really affects me in a manner that makes a tangible difference. Usually, it doesn’t, which means I let it go, move on.

I used to get so angry over stuff that was outside my realm of influence. It really had no effect on me and I could affect no change on it, so why did it make me angry? Now I just giggle at the idiocy and let it entertain me instead of getting my panties all up in a bunch over it.

Life’s a miracle in the first place. Let’s all learn to enjoy it a little more.

So I’m driving from Austin to OKC and I make it to Dallas tonight and almost decide to go home. I’m doing 75 in a 60 really close to where 67 joins 35E and this psycho freak passes me doing what must have been about 120-130 MPH in a dark blue Chrysler Crossfire. He then proceeds to completely lose control of his vehicle and slam himself into a bridge abutment. 

Is it wrong that I almost laughed about it while talking to the 911 operator?

Fortunately this Starbucks is still open so I can change my underwear.

Ask me stuff. I’ll dish you a hot plate of Truthiness.

This will end up bad. I have a feeling.

Generally speaking, it’s probably a good idea to keep content creators and content distributors independent. Particularly, this applies to sole providers within a household (yes, I may subscribe to a newspaper which creates and distributes, but it’s easy to get another paper whereas it is not simple to get content from another cable company). To do otherwise can give far too much information control to one entity.

It becomes very easy then for a company to skew and limit the information flowing into our homes. The content created and provided is all focused simply and purely on the profit of one and only one organization.

Hopefully, the Federal Trade Commission will deny this request.