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i-pass,i-pods,i-tunes,i-bods(NO, i didn't make that up)e-dating,e-mail,e-commerce,e-lationships(YES, I made that one up)Friendster,MySpace,MOC,Kazaa,Napster,SoulSeek,Suicide Girls,Naked Nerds, Gothic Sluts, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, ...Et Cetera, ad Nauseum, Ad Infinitum...Digital Revolution over and done with. Digitial Evolution needs to be implemented. When's the last time you saw something on-line and thought *Well, hey...here's something.* I'm growing weary and tired of the *wired* generation...my generation. I was there when AOL hit the floor running, I was there when the only way to get *on-line* or *connected* was by dialing up a BBS. I remember *The Well* The internet, and all it's marvel, to me is like an ex-girlfriend. Remembered fondly when it's not around. Missed more and more as the days go by. But then I sit down and spend time with her and I realize in 10-15 minutes why it never worked out. How frustrating and maddening and annoying she can be. How it's the same old shit, different year.
I'm tired of this overly *PC* world. Politically Correct and Personal Computer...I still like my Personal Chickens just fine. While going into a drawer at my friends house here looking for a spoon to stir the sugar in my coffee, I noticed a pack of what was called *Celebration Candles*...come on now! I do realize that the *Birthday Candle* in all it's wonder does, at times, serve the function as a flame for other events...but as far as I remember...and I am old(er)...I have always heard and read them to be refered to as *Birthday Candles*. Celebration Candles...for fucks sake man. Am I that clueless, am I that unaware of something in which the term *Birthday Candles* would be offensive to a certain sect of persons?
I'm pissed off at IDOT (Illinois Department Of Transportation) for raising the tolls in this state to double it's former ammount. If you know the history of the Illinois *toll roads* then you know that the tolls were put into place, for what was suppose to be a maximum for 10-15 year, to help pay for the cost of the construction of new highways...and now over 20 years later they are not only still there, but they have just increased the tolls to *Non-i-pass users* in order to try to force our hands into purchasing that nice little white box that sits on out windshield. i-pass was *supposed* to help clear up the trafic conjestion...or so they say. All in all it's just another revenue making cash cow. If you purchase said i-pass you have to plop down 40-50 bux to get the thing. 10 of those dollars are a *deposit*. A *deposit* that you are never told by the state nor the maddening instruction manualm when you will get back. I would only assume you would get it back on return of the device to the state. BUT they know damn well that users of the i-pass will never return the thing because it becomes a necessity for commuters in order to cut in HALF their travel costs from day to day. 10 bux deposit times the millions of users of the Illinois toll roads...you do the math. Where does all that money go? It sure as hell doesn't go to the maintainting out roads during a snow storm. I can personally attest to that from my experience last night. They knew a storm was coming, yet there were no salt trucks on the highway to be found. Now before the storm nor at 2:30 AM...more than 10 hours after the snow began. The roads were terrible...as bad as I have ever seen them. I was on the roads for over 4 hours total yesterday and I didn't see ONE set of yellow flashing lights, those lights that would indicate to me that the state is doing it's job and plowing and salting the roads.
Closer to home...Chicago. Within city limits, I did see the trucks going, most of the *main* roads were pretty well taken care of by the morning commute. The side streets are another story entirely, but that's just Chicago. It's impossible to clear off the side streets in a city as large as this with the ammount of parked cars around. I did find, much to my ammusemnt, that lawn chairs, parking cones, milk crates and whatever handy object could be grabbed, were out in full force this morning marking parking spots. A Chicago tradition that our mayor has tried to curb (no pun intended unless you find that funny, then pun intended) But reguardless of our mayors rantings the fine people of Chicago will still adhere to the *saving the parking spot tactic* and I have lived down here long enough,this is my third winter, not to fuck with a cone or crate or whatever. People get cars beaten on with baseball bats, tires flattened or even personally physically assulted over the moving of a parking *space saver*. This is a blue collar town and you just don't fuck with a persons space.
So happy 2005 all. I truly hope and have a sneaking suspicison that this will be a much better year than last.
So to all the *i's* this and *e's* that I have only one thing to say...f-You.
Love and a post of no mention of girls and or friendships,
Robert John.
P.S. 2005 can have my typos and fuck the spell check. Thanx!
I'm tired of this overly *PC* world. Politically Correct and Personal Computer...I still like my Personal Chickens just fine. While going into a drawer at my friends house here looking for a spoon to stir the sugar in my coffee, I noticed a pack of what was called *Celebration Candles*...come on now! I do realize that the *Birthday Candle* in all it's wonder does, at times, serve the function as a flame for other events...but as far as I remember...and I am old(er)...I have always heard and read them to be refered to as *Birthday Candles*. Celebration Candles...for fucks sake man. Am I that clueless, am I that unaware of something in which the term *Birthday Candles* would be offensive to a certain sect of persons?
I'm pissed off at IDOT (Illinois Department Of Transportation) for raising the tolls in this state to double it's former ammount. If you know the history of the Illinois *toll roads* then you know that the tolls were put into place, for what was suppose to be a maximum for 10-15 year, to help pay for the cost of the construction of new highways...and now over 20 years later they are not only still there, but they have just increased the tolls to *Non-i-pass users* in order to try to force our hands into purchasing that nice little white box that sits on out windshield. i-pass was *supposed* to help clear up the trafic conjestion...or so they say. All in all it's just another revenue making cash cow. If you purchase said i-pass you have to plop down 40-50 bux to get the thing. 10 of those dollars are a *deposit*. A *deposit* that you are never told by the state nor the maddening instruction manualm when you will get back. I would only assume you would get it back on return of the device to the state. BUT they know damn well that users of the i-pass will never return the thing because it becomes a necessity for commuters in order to cut in HALF their travel costs from day to day. 10 bux deposit times the millions of users of the Illinois toll roads...you do the math. Where does all that money go? It sure as hell doesn't go to the maintainting out roads during a snow storm. I can personally attest to that from my experience last night. They knew a storm was coming, yet there were no salt trucks on the highway to be found. Now before the storm nor at 2:30 AM...more than 10 hours after the snow began. The roads were terrible...as bad as I have ever seen them. I was on the roads for over 4 hours total yesterday and I didn't see ONE set of yellow flashing lights, those lights that would indicate to me that the state is doing it's job and plowing and salting the roads.
Closer to home...Chicago. Within city limits, I did see the trucks going, most of the *main* roads were pretty well taken care of by the morning commute. The side streets are another story entirely, but that's just Chicago. It's impossible to clear off the side streets in a city as large as this with the ammount of parked cars around. I did find, much to my ammusemnt, that lawn chairs, parking cones, milk crates and whatever handy object could be grabbed, were out in full force this morning marking parking spots. A Chicago tradition that our mayor has tried to curb (no pun intended unless you find that funny, then pun intended) But reguardless of our mayors rantings the fine people of Chicago will still adhere to the *saving the parking spot tactic* and I have lived down here long enough,this is my third winter, not to fuck with a cone or crate or whatever. People get cars beaten on with baseball bats, tires flattened or even personally physically assulted over the moving of a parking *space saver*. This is a blue collar town and you just don't fuck with a persons space.
So happy 2005 all. I truly hope and have a sneaking suspicison that this will be a much better year than last.
So to all the *i's* this and *e's* that I have only one thing to say...f-You.
Love and a post of no mention of girls and or friendships,
Robert John.
P.S. 2005 can have my typos and fuck the spell check. Thanx!