Department of Redundancy Dept.

we'll see....

okay here's how this thing works...

you sign up for one of the offers...(I did the $6.95 Computer Professor deal, after I receive the cd-rom's I have to cancel) and then I refer 5 friends to do it too and get an ipod..

if you don't have an ebay account you can sign up and bid once to complete your deal too...

anybody wanna try and get a free ipod...try this

email me reddirtred@msn.com and let me know...

"I had to leave my life in Dallas
that town will always be you
in every crowd, on every corner,
every face I'd see you
so with nothing more than a tank of gas
I drove away without looking back
and I guess that's how I got where I am
going anywhere as fast as I can..."
--Lee Ann Womack

I sometimes wonder why the cool, damp idea of fall...

makes my mind wonder.

Today my advice is: don't personify your baggage...

We all have baggage. We all want to bleat out to the world and cry, "Great, tremulous woe unto me."

We all want to feel we now can draw strength from our troubles and become better people because of past misfortune and in the same breath cast a thin veneer of self-importance over it.

We all want to think that in some way our troubles were more troublebling...our problems more problematic than others...

but you know what?

they weren't and they're not.

shame on you and shame on me.

life is hard so get a helmet...and we all could use a big dose of humility...

keep that in mind.

I was driving this evening and came across some great 80's song....Pet Shop Boys...A-Ha...Mike and the Mechanic's....I don't remember which one but you have the idea.

As I drove, I did somthing that immediately I wondered about. I turned it up.

I've been thinking...and I want you to as well....why do we like those songs? I mean sure it may be music that never tires...still fresh and cutting edge...whatever....

What I mean is, I think that sometimes we add nostagila to our like of a song or band or genre. I mean I was listenting to a song that was a cool and now, hip...on the charts at a time when older kids I knew were exactly what I wanted to be...older.

Those are songs that are a part of the soundtrack of their lives and to some extent a part of mine...but, at a time when all I wanted was to be a part of them.

So...now that I am older...and those songs come on the radio I want to turn it up and let it be a part of my life's soundtrack....

but it doesn't....
it just makes me older.