A Use For Tattoos

I saw a picture the other day that was kind of odd and funny. It was a girls lower waist and written in pen it said "Don't F*&# me, I forgot my pill!" Makes you question her life style and the situations she was planning to be in, but I guess it was a safer thing to do than nothing. I was also thinking about the movie Kids which has some rather controversial stuff...anywho it made me start thinking about issues and problem solving. What if any time anyone was tested positive for an STD or anything that they will have for the rest of their lives that can be past on to others they had to get a tattoo saying so in a specific place. Hey, tattoos are suppose to represent the person who has them and that is something the person is carrying around for the rest of there lives. It could help stop lying evil people who are willing to pass that stuff on to others. Yeah there are plenty of issues with that passing thought I had but hey, if people had mandatory testing and...
Well this led to an expansion of that thought. A world of mandatory tattoos. Every school you go to is on your back left calf with any relevant info like years and GPA. Your jobs you have had go on your upper left back. Relationships are on the upper chest. Whatever may represent who a person is or was and what they have done in their lives has its place. Any criminal records and speeding tickets. Any info about a person can be found somewhere on them.
Why hide from who you are unless you are doing things wrong. Could cut down on people lying about themselves and misrepresenting who they are. It would also provide more motivation to not do things wrong and to really make something of your life because you wouldn't be able to hide about things. You would wear your crimes on your sleeve literally. We could have a president that had both Prez of the US and a DUI on his body. You can forget about resumes because instead possible employers would just ask you to send over a picture of your lower back and left calf.
Sure there would be problems with counterfeit tattoos, but hey that isn't my problem to fix.
The worlds I create in my mind can be quite interesting.
Who's afraid?

Failure

I failed. I made the cake last night and despite being hungry I wasn't able to get through even one small piece. How sad. It was too sweet for me to really eat. I ended up going shopping today and now I have ice cream to eat instead. Still have basically an entire cake in my fridge. Bing.

Interview and Cake

I am really running low on food in my apt. right now. I was going to go shopping today but I had a very difficult time falling asleep last night so I didn't get to actually fall asleep till 6 something. When I finally got up after waking up a few times throughout the morning I dealt with a few things I had planned for the day and ended up having an interview at 5. Watched a little TV, took a shower, checked email, and got ready and went. I put on my suit, struggled with my tie and was off. The interview involved very little of me talking. It is a position I am not qualified for which involved multiple certifications and work on many things I have not experience with. It is a lot of hard work with high expectations and constant reading up and self training. There is however one thing going in my favor. The desperation to quickly hire someone. Anywho, the interview ended up going till 6:30 with a phone call from a client answered for a few minutes in the middle. Then there was the time to drive home and the fact that the Kings game starts @7:30. Doesn't leave much time to go buy food for me. Obviously I am not going today because I am typing this.
What does all this mean? The reason why I am typing this is because I am hungry. I don't have too many choices and those choices are limited further because of the lack of ingredients...no butter, milk, what ever people use for cooking. While looking for food options I did notice that I had all the ingredients necessary to make a cake. I had the mix, the frosting, eggs, just barely enough veg oil...so in celebration of going and listening to someone talk while I had a suit on (as if I really needed a reason) I am having a cake for dinner. I have never done this before and should probably never do it again but that is what I have decided. Now all I have to do is make it.

Playoffs and Stuff

Like many of my fellow Sacramenians (People who live in Sacramento) I am a Kings fan. Sure it started as the whole cheer for the home team back when they were the bottom of the barrel team, but it became more than that as time went on. I went to a few games back then, got some autographs, and in the early nineties I had even seen most of that team naked. (awkward silent) Kind of an odd thing to happen to a 13 year old and it is kind of a long story I don't feel up to typing right now. Now this whole thing just sounds disturbing and I should erase the last few sentences... but I am not going to. Eh, different topic.
Basically I enjoy playing basketball, follow the Kings, and over the last few seasons I have managed to go to a couple of games every year. I think I have made it to at least one playoff game each of the last few years and I will be at this Fridays game against Seattle. I go with my friend Andrew who manages to somehow get tickets online consistently. (To my amazement considering I have never succeeded in doing so) The day after that depending on the weather I am possibly suppose to go to San Francisco to wander around. I don't know if all of this is money well spend considering my current position, but I feel that I have to waist money sometimes just stay a little more sane. I say it is a waist because it is something I could easily do without, but I know some people would argue with me considering I am getting something out of it. and Blah Blah Blah........
Today I started thinking about how much gasoline I will probably use over the course of my life. Think about all those cars and SUVs that have been driven for 200K over there lifetime. Your getting about 20 MPG out of that car and your using about 10,000 gallons of gas over about 15 or 20 years. That is just one person driving around. Then look at all the people your stuck sitting in traffic with on the highway and realize they are all doing the same thing. That is just right there in that area. It adds up quite quickly. With the way prices are you might as well just fill up a swimming pool with gas now and live on that while hoping no one ever smokes or does anything out by your pool that could catch it on fire. I guess that wouldn't work too well. Don't try that. Kind of an odd tangent to go on but hey, it was just what I was thinking about.
People sure live strange extravagant lives. I don't think most people are smart enough to be making as much money as they are. Do most people who are well off right now deserve what they are getting? With what you have done in the past week at work do you deserve as much as your taking home at the end of the month? How do places stay in business paying so many people and places so much?
This is a very inconsistent entry...Just how it should be...It is my thoughts after all.

None Meaningful Drival

I have so much meaningful stuff in my head sometimes. So many stories, memories, points of view, realizations, and feeling. Stuff that is truly me. Every time I am about to type some of it out or share it to the world some how I stop myself. This blog is a place I felt I could actually get some of this stuff out originally but I never do. Why??? I don't know. For every action there is a reaction and I guess in many cases I fear that. Like with many people I keep a lot bottled up for a reason. A lot of what I have to say I know definitely can't say it hear. I am a different person to different people, and much of what I want to say now and then I feel I may be able to say to select people depending on the topic but I should definitely hide it from others. There is so little that I am willing to completely share with the everyone, or even just close friends for that matter. I fear what could happen because it is important to me. Even if I knew that only good things could come from saying something and that it is truely just me, I still would question saying it because I would feel exposed.
What is there to get out of all of this? I have a lot to share. Deep things. But I am not going to. At least not right now. It is probably not what you think...No I don't have any deep secrets I am hidding. It is just that the content of this blog seems to be more of me hiding myself than actually sharing things right now. I should try to fix that at least a little...but I can't. Not right now. I fear who it might hurt, or help, or what it might reveal about me. I fear this, but I also fear that I am fake to so many people so often that any part of who I really am may get lost and forgotten. What is their to do? Type up a bunch of what appears to babble and realize that no one really cares. Then go read a book till morning.
Does anyone else find it odd that the word "Blog" isn't in a blog spell check?

Ms.

I found out today that I am apparently a woman...or at least the place I emailed about my TV dinner with no chicken thinks so. The letter that came with a coupon for a free TV dinner refers to me as Ms. a number of times and on the outside of the envelope. What does this mean??? Probably nothing, but a lot of people like to read things into everything. When I told a friend of mine about it they said, "Maybe that is why they were nice to you and gave you the coupon." Another view brought up elsewhere was the concept that the company just assumes that anyone who would take the time to complain about a TV dinner would have to be female. Normally I wouldn't have done anything because in most cases it wouldn't seem worth the time and effort to go through the whole process. I only did it because I was curious about what they would do and had a little time to spend. Probably over 95% of the time I wouldn't have done anything about it.

Not Getting What You Pay For

Recently I purchased a few TV dinners like I often do. It isn't the best diet, but at least I am eating a more balanced meal that I would otherwise. Once I get home I decided to make one of the meals. Chicken with mashed potatoes and corn, all a not so growing guy needs. I read the directions, poke the holes in the plastic, and pop it in the microwave. Like many people, I have had some rather bad food experiences, but don't worry because this isn't one of them. After a few minutes it comes time to peal off the plastic and stir the mashed potatoes. This is when I notice the container didn't contain any Chicken. I guess it did feel kind of light but it never registered that something might be missing.
I just got done emailing the company just to see what they say, so I figured I would share this story...not that anyone would care other that to possible take a minute out of your day to think about something different than you would otherwise. This isn't the first time I have not gotten what I paid for. It has happened a few times. Some not so interesting such as the time I purchased chicken tenders which were suppose to contain 40 tenders. When I opened it the container didn't seem as full as usual so I stubbornly counted. 36! One of my favorites was with one of those family packs with a variety of chips. I use to have them in my lunches in elementary school. One day I was home and grabbed a bad for a snack to notice that it only contained air. It was very full of air though, which I guess counts for something.

Poker

I played poker on Saturday. Wasn't a major game or anything, but more of a social dinner and fun thing. Dealer picks the game, $20 buy in, betting isn't very high so people don't have to worry too much about losing everything, and we play about three or four times around the table. It was intended to be a monthly thing, but it doesn't really work out to be that often. I ended up winning the most and making a number of people very mad at me in process. I won a few big pots with some really big hands, but I lost every game that relied completely on luck and less about everything else. I ended up having 37 dollars at the end so I won 17 while the closest person after me won about 10. Last time we played and it was the same format I won 20-something dollars. I guess I like this better than no limit games because there is less bluffing, thinking, and worry involved in every hand. Just social entertainment.
No Limit in games like this mean only one person really has a good time.