I don't feel good today. It started two days ago with a VERY dry cough. The kind of cough that destroys your throat in no time. I feel bad for the people that sat around me in biometrics on Friday morning. I tried to cough quietly, but that doesn't work very well.
I'm not sure if you can OD on Halls cough drops, but I will let you know. I really love these little things. The Honey-Lemon is my favorite. The gift shop at work (OU Medical Center) ran out of this flavor and I almost cried. I had to settle for Cherry, which was a nice surprise, but not the same.
ANYWAY....I feel like crap. I'm fighting it though. I woke up this morning and decided that tea was the thing to drink. Tough decision for a loyal coffee drinker, but a wise one I would say. So I went to Starbucks and had a green tea. I dumped a bunch of honey in it because I heard that it would help a sore throat. I then went and bought some Dayquil. I got the orange flavor, which was ok. Now I'm laying on the couch.
So the title of this was "Thing Never Go As Planned". That is because I was planning on spending the day in the library doing work (nerd alert), but I just didn't feel up to it. So that is why I am fighting this evil cough and other crap. I want to go to the library tomorrow. Hopefully I will feel up to it.
Oh and I wanted to go to the movie tonight. I might just load up my pockets with Halls and do it.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Nancy Pelosi and Other Idiots
Yesterday it was revealed that the House and the President had come together in a bipartisan effort to put together an economic stimulus package. The proposed package would send checks ranging from $600-$1200 to most Americans. This sounds great and I'm in favor of such a plan.
What I'm not in favor of is "leaders" such as Nancy Pelosi who stand in front of the media touting the new plan and the hand she had in creating it, but then hedges her bet by adding that the plan isn't exactly what she wanted. WHAT?!?!
So now what we have is this "leader" standing up and taking credit for this plan and how quickly it was put together, but making sure that she has wiggle room in case things don't work out. You can bet your bottom dollar that if things go south with this plan we will hear all about the reservations she had to begin with. The fact that she had a hand in creating it will for some reason be forgotten. The media will have no problem helping her do this, just as they had no problem is trying to persuade voters that the 2004 election was over by mid-afternoon and that Kerry had won, thus making people think that their vote didn't matter and that they shouldn't waste time even going to the polls.
This reminds me of one of the great idiots of our time....John Kerry. The man who never really could get it straight on his war vote. In 1991 Kerry voted against the first Gulf War, a war in which Iraq took aggressive action, but then in 2002 he voted for the war when Iraq took no aggressive action. Or what about when Kerry voted in favor of the Patriot Act in 2001 saying that it, "has to do with things that really were quite necessary in the wake of what happened on Sept. 11th". Then while campaigning in 2003 he was in favor of, "replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time". So which is it John?
This is what you get when you continue to push career politicians through election after election without taking a look at their voting record and noticing what idiots they are. It makes me wonder about the water quality of the state of Massachusetts when they continue to elect the Kennedy/Kerry idiot tag team.
What I'm not in favor of is "leaders" such as Nancy Pelosi who stand in front of the media touting the new plan and the hand she had in creating it, but then hedges her bet by adding that the plan isn't exactly what she wanted. WHAT?!?!
So now what we have is this "leader" standing up and taking credit for this plan and how quickly it was put together, but making sure that she has wiggle room in case things don't work out. You can bet your bottom dollar that if things go south with this plan we will hear all about the reservations she had to begin with. The fact that she had a hand in creating it will for some reason be forgotten. The media will have no problem helping her do this, just as they had no problem is trying to persuade voters that the 2004 election was over by mid-afternoon and that Kerry had won, thus making people think that their vote didn't matter and that they shouldn't waste time even going to the polls.
This reminds me of one of the great idiots of our time....John Kerry. The man who never really could get it straight on his war vote. In 1991 Kerry voted against the first Gulf War, a war in which Iraq took aggressive action, but then in 2002 he voted for the war when Iraq took no aggressive action. Or what about when Kerry voted in favor of the Patriot Act in 2001 saying that it, "has to do with things that really were quite necessary in the wake of what happened on Sept. 11th". Then while campaigning in 2003 he was in favor of, "replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time". So which is it John?
This is what you get when you continue to push career politicians through election after election without taking a look at their voting record and noticing what idiots they are. It makes me wonder about the water quality of the state of Massachusetts when they continue to elect the Kennedy/Kerry idiot tag team.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Marriage
On our class message board there is a thread on marriage that is pretty interesting. I have found it to be interesting because of a few conversations I have had with friends recently and a few observations I have made.
One of the conversations I had was with a single friend of mine who is 29 years old. The topic was how it seems like every girl in Oklahoma who is 20 years old or older is either married, engaged, or divorced. The larger point of the conversation was how shallow the dating pool is in OKC among young professionals, especially in the 25-32 age range.
So the question is why? I think the obvious explanation is the old school way in which the state of Oklahoma still operates. Like it or not the majority of the state is made up of small towns and small town values. Getting married at a young age is what peoples parents did and they just see it as the thing to do. The same thing applies with having children. I just can't seem to understand any of this!! What is the rush? Why are people in such a hurry? As you can tell this post has many questions and few answers.
So my next question is this (and this may step on some toes)....does the young age at which Oklahomans are getting married have anything to do with our divorce rate, poverty level, and the education level of our citizens?
Lets think about it. Young people are getting married and taking on major life decisions before they are firmly established in their careers. This means they are going from providing for one to providing for two or more people on relatively low incomes. This can cause financial instability, which brings on stress, which makes people irritable, which puts strain on a relationship. This could help explain why so many people list financial problems as the reason for divorce. Couldn't this be avoided by taking a step back and looking at the big picture? Perhaps (and I think this is true) some have different priorities than myself and aren't worried about establishing themselves before taking on a wife and kids. I think statistics prove that they are more likely to have their relationship fail, but sometimes you learn things the hard way.
And what about education levels. Could fewer Oklahomans have post-graduate degrees because they are firmly entrenched in relationships at a young age? Relationships that have produced children and that force grad school candidates to put off school in favor of trying to earn more money in order to put food on the table? I think so. Biting the bullet and being poor for 2-4 more years to finish a graduate school degree is easier to do when you are single, but the financial gains down the road and the quality of life betterment is potentially much greater.
My thoughts on this are a little jumbled and might not be clear, but I think it is quite interesting. I have a sister in NYC (and another one on her way there) who just doesn't understand what I am talking about. She will be 26 next week and this problem just doesn't exist there. People are more career establishment first, family second. I think they really set out to enjoy life more as well. Of course I have no data on this and it is only one mans opinion.
I've been doing some research and I'm looking to move out of Oklahoma this summer. I have lived in Oklahoma almost my entire life, but I think other places have more to offer someone my age who is single.
One of the conversations I had was with a single friend of mine who is 29 years old. The topic was how it seems like every girl in Oklahoma who is 20 years old or older is either married, engaged, or divorced. The larger point of the conversation was how shallow the dating pool is in OKC among young professionals, especially in the 25-32 age range.
So the question is why? I think the obvious explanation is the old school way in which the state of Oklahoma still operates. Like it or not the majority of the state is made up of small towns and small town values. Getting married at a young age is what peoples parents did and they just see it as the thing to do. The same thing applies with having children. I just can't seem to understand any of this!! What is the rush? Why are people in such a hurry? As you can tell this post has many questions and few answers.
So my next question is this (and this may step on some toes)....does the young age at which Oklahomans are getting married have anything to do with our divorce rate, poverty level, and the education level of our citizens?
Lets think about it. Young people are getting married and taking on major life decisions before they are firmly established in their careers. This means they are going from providing for one to providing for two or more people on relatively low incomes. This can cause financial instability, which brings on stress, which makes people irritable, which puts strain on a relationship. This could help explain why so many people list financial problems as the reason for divorce. Couldn't this be avoided by taking a step back and looking at the big picture? Perhaps (and I think this is true) some have different priorities than myself and aren't worried about establishing themselves before taking on a wife and kids. I think statistics prove that they are more likely to have their relationship fail, but sometimes you learn things the hard way.
And what about education levels. Could fewer Oklahomans have post-graduate degrees because they are firmly entrenched in relationships at a young age? Relationships that have produced children and that force grad school candidates to put off school in favor of trying to earn more money in order to put food on the table? I think so. Biting the bullet and being poor for 2-4 more years to finish a graduate school degree is easier to do when you are single, but the financial gains down the road and the quality of life betterment is potentially much greater.
My thoughts on this are a little jumbled and might not be clear, but I think it is quite interesting. I have a sister in NYC (and another one on her way there) who just doesn't understand what I am talking about. She will be 26 next week and this problem just doesn't exist there. People are more career establishment first, family second. I think they really set out to enjoy life more as well. Of course I have no data on this and it is only one mans opinion.
I've been doing some research and I'm looking to move out of Oklahoma this summer. I have lived in Oklahoma almost my entire life, but I think other places have more to offer someone my age who is single.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
I'm Back
Alright so the blog is back up and running again. It was funny to pull it up and read some of my blogs from last spring. One in particular was about how early the Presidential campaign was starting. At the time the election was still 20 months away, but was yet already a big topic of discussion. Now we are 11 months away and the train has gained momentum. I predict that at this time next year the talk will be all about the 2012 Presidential election. I wish I was joking...
More to come over the next eight weeks. Hopefully I can think of something slightly interesting to blog about.
More to come over the next eight weeks. Hopefully I can think of something slightly interesting to blog about.
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