25th Anniversary

Ah, the Silver Anniversary. What are you supposed to do when you have no little flock to throw your party for you. Typically, the offspring of the relationship all get together and throw you a nice shindig. Not only is there any offspring, there wasn't any big shindig. That in itself was kind of a bummer but considering the circumstances, I am thankful for the 25 years.

So let's just take a memory lane tour of what was happening when Carol and I got Married!!

The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 5 of the World Series, 5-0, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 3rd World Championship.

Microsoft Word is first released.

Michael Jackson's world famous music video for "Thriller" is broadcast for the first time. It will become the most often repeated and famous music video of all time and increase his own popularity and the record sales of the album "Thriller".

Flashdance and Return of the Jedi are box-office hits.

McDonald's introduces the McNugget.

Ronald W. Reagan was President, Population was 233,791,994 , average cost of a new home was $89,800.00, cost of a first class stamp was .20, VCR costs $399-$888, Sony Walkman with Dolby $229

Don't fall for Obama's marketing pitch

Have you ever bought a used car or fallen for a marketing scam, only to regret the choice? Do you remember how it felt being lied to? For the most part, politicians are one step below hucksters in the honesty scale. They will say whatever they need to, in order to close the sale — in this case the vote.

Why do we seem to blindly trust politicians more than we would a salesman pitching an MLM? Just like with a salesman, to know if he is being honest, you have to judge his record, either that look to see if his mouth is moving. Sen. Barack Obama is promising to cut taxes on everyone who makes less than $250,000 per year. All well and good, nice populist message there — but is it honest? The only way to judge this promise is to look at this record. Obama has never proposed a bill to reduce taxes, even though he is in the branch of government that writes this type of bill. His voting record shows he has voted to raise taxes on everyone making more $40,000 per year. He also voted "NAY" To pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending 5 percent on programs rated ineffective. These are his actions, not just the words he uses to try to buy a vote. Sen. John McCain, on the other hand, has a long record of tax-cutting and reducing government waste to show his words have meaning behind them. McCain isn't the perfect conservative, but he has a record. Obama has empty promises. We should judge both candidate's promises on their actual record, not just the pretty marketing slogans.
Why not give our politicians the same scrutiny we would give someone selling us a used car?

Daylight Savings Time

Ah, Daylight savings time. You either love it or hate it. You wake up in the morning forgetting to set back your clock and get ready to go where you need to go, in my case work.

I got up and took my shower and started getting ready for work. After I was ready, I got online to check my schoolwork. I have a paper due on Monday. I noticed the little clock at the bottom. It was an hour off. OOOOooooohhh Yeahhhhh. I forgot to set my clock back.

Well this is the good part of the year if you forget to set your clock. If you forget to set your clock when we spring forward, you end up to be an hour late. I never did like that.

The bad part of daylight savings time for me is that in Arizona where my school is they don't change at all. Now I have an hour less to turn in an assignment. Usually I could get up in the morning and finish any last minute things I needed to do and be able to turn it in by 9 am. Now I only have until 8am. The good news. . . I only have 2 more weeks of that. After that I will have my masters.

I will talk about that on another addition. . .

First Blog Ever

Well, here goes my attempt to blogging. I haven't yet had this experience.

I will keep this one short and sweet so that I can use this as a test blog of sorts.

I will speak of my newest hobby, Geocaching. What is Geocaching you might ask? Well good thing I know so that I can tell you!!

Geocaching (pronounced geo-cashing) is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking treasure. A geocacher can place a geocache in the world, pinpoint its location using GPS technology and then share the geocache's existence and location online. Anyone with a GPS unit can then try to locate the geocache. Once you get to your location, you find bacic useless stuff that other people have put into the cache and you can trade your useless stuff. Sometimes there is a coin, sometimes a bug, sometimes just stuff. You always have to sign the log that is inside and then you move on to your next useless stuff treasure hunt.

Why do it? It gets me outdoors with the dog. Most of the time, at least here in Germany, in the woods. I have had a wonderful time so far and I have only found 7 caches. Jake and I found ourselves deep in the woods on one occassion and never found what we were looking for. Huh? Well at least we got exercise, and Jake was tired.