January 2009 Entries

We already have eight to twelve inches of snow on the ground. We're getting another two to four inches today. Another inch or so tomorrow. We haven't been above freezing in weeks. Brutal winter. I hate Michigan. Horrible weather. The highest unemployment in the country. Downright crooks running Detroit costing everyone who lives here. Crime is insane. I want out. Badly. But I can't. Not right now. Sigh.

I think Classmates.com would be a great site if they weren't so damn greedy. They tease you with emails that say you have messages and that people have visited your profile. Of course you want to find out who's looking for you! But then when you go there you can't do anything without paying for a membership! I mean, there are ads ALL OVER THE SITE! They're everywhere! And they want you to pay to use the site too? Greedy. Greedy. Greedy. Get with the program Classmates.com. Social networking sites should be free. Look at Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace. Sure, they have paid memberships too but at least they're usable with the free memberships. Too bad too. Classmates would be great and a lot of fun but I'll never pay for it. Especially with all those ads all over the place.

With the stock market in the toilet and the housing market right there with it, "The Bunch of Dummies" is thinking about buying a house or two and renting them out. Pretty exciting if you ask me. The time is definitely right. Hmmm. Have the dummies ever made a right move at the right time? Stick around and see what happens.

Gayla and I just got back from looking at a little house in Garden City. It's pretty beaten up so we'd have to do some work but that is expected. Three bedroom ranch on a crawl space. 1248 square feet on corner lot with a two car garage. They're asking $18,500. I'd like to see us get in there for around $13,000. We could get 800 bucks a month rent easy. Maybe even $1000. That'd be sweet. And a lot quicker return than the stock market!

I love this new blog skin. I still have a lot of work that I want to do on it. I don't want it to be only Harley-Davidson themed although right now that's what it looks like. I did "borrow" the Harley-Davidson.com favicon. Hope they don't mind.

I also have some issues with Safari and Chrome and the sidebar. For some reason it doesn't show in those browsers even though I can see the html in the source. Weird. It's fine in Firefox and IE.

I think I want to add a tag cloud too. I'll have to see how that looks.

Still, I'm diggin' it. Tell me what you think.

I just finished watching Easy Rider for the very first time. I know. It was only made in 1969. Whatever.
I really enjoyed it though. I have to say I was quite surprised at the ending. Believe it or not I've never really heard anything about it except that it was worth a watch. It's hard to believe people were like that. There are probably still some people like that. Sad.
Anyway, the beginning ride through the desert was just unbelievable! It is exactly what I want to do before I die. I will probably watch that part again. Freakin' awesome!

Live by it.