This is some good advice

Unfortunately...I think this guy is right. Not to sound too George Carlin, but people give a fuck about far too many things. While I don't advocate chugging cheap vodka straight from the bottle it has been my experience that many things that people give a fuck about are things that they really have no business giving a fuck about. For example...many people give a fuck about how other people live their lives. Now...if the person under question is planning a mass murder or a coup it might be wise to give a fuck. However...oftentimes the concern is more of a vessel to ignore the things in their own lives that need attention by focusing on the lives of everyone around them. Oftentimes this focus isn't even necessarily on people in their lives but rather on people and things that really don't affect them.

A short list of things people spend too much time giving a fuck about...

1. Heterosexual people that give a fuck about gay marriage: Why? This is a very strange thing to care about unless you yourself are gay and wish to marry. Provide for me a reasonable explanation as to how two men or two women have an impact on your family and I might get on board. Leave god out of it...if it pisses him off they are going to hell anyway so...why do you give a fuck?
2. People that give a fuck about legalizing Medical Marijuana (or use of MJ period): Listen...having a toke of MJ at the end of a long day is not so different from another persons nightly gin and tonic. If you don't drink...great, but why do you give a fuck what someone else is doing. Countless research dollars and time have been spent trying to mimic the effect of MJ on pain receptors to no avail. Why do you give a fuck if someone who is sick and possibly dying takes a toke to provide some relief? Really...why?
3. People that give a fuck about who their legislators are fucking: This is the business of your legislator and his/her spouse. As long as your legislator is doing a good job and not skimming money off the top of the public coffers why do you give a fuck who they are getting naked with? Don't you have anything better to do?
4. People that give a fuck about other peoples religion or lack thereof: I repeat...if you are right and there is a god who is pissed then the person who doesn't believe as you do is going to hell anyway...so why do you give a fuck?

This is an extremely short list of the things that people care about that don't actually affect their lives. I could go on, but I'm out of time for blogging on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. Perhaps tomorrow I'll post on what people don't seem to give a fuck about but maybe should...

Sore

Sun baked and sore, that is the only way to describe me today. Spent yesterday riding around on my new wakeboard with bindings that actually fit. It was great...I can finally maneuver the board and I feel like I'm actually participating in the process...not just being pulled behind the boat...an out of control passenger on a wild and crazy ride. There is a metaphor for life in there somewhere but I am too sun baked and sore to attempt the articulation.

Was over at a friends blog today where he has posted a picture of premier Bush checking out some beach volleyball tushy at the Summer 08 games (see below). Not to state the obvious and re-iterate what the other bloggers are blogging about, isn't there something more poignant for him to be spending his time on than beach volleyball? And before you throw down the old argument "Even the leader of country deserves a vacation" I have this to say. First...the bozo has been on vacation ever since he took office...the lights are on but no one is home. Second...you screw things up as royally as he has and you don't deserve a vacation...you don't deserve ringside at the beach volleyball match up. Seriously...when are we going to have some real leadership in this country? If the current contenders are the best we can do is there any hope?

I never thought I'd say this, but...

OK...I'm going to leave the government conspiracy theory's to those that weave them better than I. Even though I would like to blame our current administration for all the ills of the world whether they affect me directly or not I really can't hang Bush for this one. But I'd really like to. I believe I have lost my ability to drink. 3 glasses of wine on Friday and I felt like crap Saturday. Went to a Birthday party on Saturday and woke up the next morning feeling like I drank twice what I actually did which was far less than I am usually capable of (sans oogy just shoot me hangover). I mean…I couldn't hold down food and I rarely experience that. And I know I didn’t drink more than I thought because my friend is the bartender and she rang me in confirming that I actually drank less than I usually do. She has noticed a change in her ability to throw back a beer herself and we have chalked it up to our new exercise and diet plan that we have been following. Well…it’s not really an exercise and diet plan.

So what is it? I don’t really know but I’m eating better and have lost some of those emotional eating pounds I gained in the beginning in there year.

Here’s the basics of our not a diet diet plan…

We decided that we were sick and tired of cooking something and having a ton of leftovers that you get bored of so we have this food share thing going on. Its fun and we are all eating better and drinking less. Why are we drinking less? Well…our get-togethers don’t necessarily happen in a bar. Often our get-togethers consist of dinner (made by one of us) followed by a session playing on the Wii. In fact…we play the Wii quite a bit. It’s just fun with a capital F. I think I get the whole video game fascination the testosterone set has…though we are using a bit more than our thumbs using the Wii. Sally lives about 10 minutes away so we often get together just to have a little conversation maybe some channel surfing and then its game time. It is actually pretty good exercise and with my competitive streak I’ll keep trying to beat the game no matter how tired or sweaty I am.

So what am I trying to say here? Big thumbs up to the Wii and an apology to all the guys I’ve given a hard time to for all their video game playing time.

And...I never thought I'd say this about a video game system but...I want one!