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You would think I've have more to write about, especially writing almost every day in February. Here it is almost May and I wrote one picture post in March between then and now. With springtime though, comes the usual business. Yard work usually picks back up. Now I have to re add leaf clean up, stick pick up, and lawn mowing back into my weekly routines. Then the world decides it wants to go crazy. This week we've seen an attack on innocent locals at the Boston Marathon, ricin attacks to national leaders from an Elvis impersonator (allegedly), a very large fertilizer plant explosion, and now the manhunt for one of those marathon bombers after the other was killed. Events of this week will be discussed for a very long time. Conspiracy theorists are already brewing up ideas on how these events were caused by everything from government agents to aliens. You and I will continue on with our lives. We cannot let reminders of evil in the world consume our world view. If t...

(language warning) Yeah, I'm that guy that won't let this guy/gal over too. 

So I attempted to post all 28 days in the month of February. Here's my random recap of the month: I got 25 posts out of 28 days, only a handful of them were meaningless.  It's been a cold month and I have declared February to be the suckiest month of the year. I have a birthday coming up. I'll just leave that right there. I am looking forward to my trip though in a couple weeks. There will be music, sleeping in, seeing family, more sleeping, and bad foods. It is a vacation. I haven't really had any significant time off since the wedding and after this, we can focus on planning our honeymoon. Which will happen this year. I got 0 yard work done. I'm so ashamed of myself. It has rained every Saturday this month or it has snowed. I have a lot of work to do in a couple week's time. I have a cat sleeping on an ironing board against a window with the curtains drawn. Only in this house can a cat find so much accommodation.  For a short month this did not fee...

I guess I'm not done with Oscar posts. I have held two thoughts about the state of comedy and political correctness over the past two years. I believe we've gone too far and are on a path of massively restricted speech on one end, and a strange exception for someone to say whatever he or she wants under the guise of being a comedian. The exception being, if it's funny and I agree with the political stance, it's funny. If it's not on par with my worldviews  it's insensitive and that comedian needs to be silenced. I don't think there should be an exception. We should really all be free to joke and make fun of things that go on in this world, provided it's in good faith. I think, going back to some earlier posts, there's one ingredient that we're missing still: Respect. It's still not okay to bully, to make racist, sexiest, or ignorant statements. It shows a lack of respect for other people. I am no people person by far in fact as a ...

It's going to seem funny that someone who has not watched the Oscars since....ever is going to post some thoughts about it. I freely and openly admit to watch only scant tidbits about the awards and that's centered around who they pick to be movie of the year. I was more than interested this year because I actually enjoyed most of the movies that were nominated. Normally I've seen one or two of these nominated movies and avoid the circlejerk of the industry by watching movies that will never ever get awarded an Oscar. What can I say? I like popcorn action flicks. If I'm paying north of ten dollars for a ticket, I want my eardrums blown out. And the winners were.... I am pleased that Daniel Day Lewis won best actor for Lincoln. If there is a biographical movie ever made, he raised the bar to impossible heights with his portrayal of our 16th president. It's also a nod for Richmond, where a considerable chunk of the movie was filmed. It's been almost 150 ...

I've found I have many wishes for my friends. A few months ago, I pleaded with people to attempt to write more. I have found that it is a great outlet of feelings by not only helping one get acquainted with those feelings, but it allows them to elaborate and build on their beliefs. The goal is self betterment. I know we are probably the most selfish generation in the history of humanity, but I think that energy can be better utilized. It's not a shallow exploit to find out who you are, it's a selfish venture to spend a considerable amount of time trying to paint a facade for others. Having a better outlet is the second step. Understanding what we consume is the most important prerequisite to self awareness. We need to fix the point of intake to create a better outlet. We live in an obnoxious 24 hour news cycle. My first bit of advice would be that we all separate ourselves from that cycle. I'm not advocating we never watch news, virtually ...

Do I have to say that I'm no stock expert and this is not stock advice? I probably should. I'm the last person people should listen to about what to do with their money. That said... I read an interesting article today, published on Wednesday from analyst Clem Chambers at Forbes. He basically states that Apple's stock is indeed a bubble by comparison to Microsoft and Amazon's history. This agrees with my less educated assessment of Apple back in August when they were riding an all time stock high. My reasoning centered around the 2012 Apple approach to stifle innovation through litigation. They had just won a multi billion dollar lawsuit against Samsung for similar trade dress. I predicted that this would not look good for Apple and leave regular people with a bad taste in their mouth. I was in the right forest, but barking up the wrong tree. It appears many feel that Apple's best days are probably behind them. With rapid innovations comin...