200 years ago I coulda been a ‘Jefferson type’, a Renaissance Man, maybe I could of been a friend of his…  But in today’s society most of the people I meet socially sell weed…   Their very enterprising really…  You’d be amazed at how many skills and trades they work in…  sorry back to my point…

I work with computers and write, I’ve managed businesses (successfully, that’s important by the way), worked in insurance, accounting, corporate finance, the airline industry (during 9/11), health care, driven trucks, shoveled doody and entertainment…

Today, I stand here before you making ‘pithy’ remarks…

It’s funny how in today’s society being a ‘Polymath‘ is kind of looked down upon…  University’s are no longer institutions of learning for the sake of knowledge…  Their trade schools…  you used to go to school to learn and then AFTER school you’d pick a trade…

But all that’s tough to get through during an interview…  So now I write jokes and work out of the house…

Not that I miss fighting traffic,…  the coffee hogs who never make a fresh damned pot…  that’s just rude…  my Mom didn’t even drink coffee but she’d smack you upside the head for that one…  I don’t miss the ‘office politics’…  Or all the women undressing me with their eyes…  it’s just uncomfortable…  Hey!, my eyes are up here Miss…

Somewhere along the way everyone has forgotten to ‘just be’…  We’re all in a rush…  gotta pick a career, what are you going to do with your future…  never mind a 17 yr old can’t be trusted to pick out a matching shirt in the morning…  what’s your religion, what do you believe, how many hours can you work, can you stay late, when are you coming in, pick up the laundry, go to the store, pay the bills, go back to work, I hate this job, but you gotta pay the bills… or you won’t be able to pay for the cards and the tv then they’ll take the car, the house, then the kids…

That’s why I just smack myself in the face once a day with a ball peen hammer and ‘relax’…

What, were you expecting something “deep” at the end of this???  I told you in the beginning I make ‘pithy’ remarks…  If you want answers you need to go to one of those “Sit Down” philosophers….

What the hell is going on in Oakland???…  A guy on Sunday in a big rig gets pulled over, comes out with a shotgun, shoots the cop and gets back in and starts a high speed chase in his truck???…

That’s no joke, they’ll take away his CDL license for that…    he can loose his job….

Some people go to driving school for WEEKS to get that CDL…  they see that commercial on T.V…..    at 3:15am when their hands deep in that bag of Cheetos, take out a loan the whole bit…   Makes you feel lots safer out there on the highways now doesn’t it…

It just makes me curious, how did he really think he was going to get away???…  It’s not like he was gonna get past a corner and blend in with traffic…  Maybe he saw Beverly Hills Cop over the weekend on TBS and got ‘inspired’…   But there’s holes in that plan, even Eddie Murphy didn’t get away at the end of that chase scene so….   If Eddie couldn’t do it, really, where does this guy get off…  I mean he even had writers and everything…

Living with 2 kids, a 9 yr old and a 13 year old (Down Syndrome or not), is like living with a little law firm…  It’s frustrating…  I mean I have myself to blame…  I’m the one that taught them to think “out of the box” so there you go right?…

Kid would ask me about a shooting star and he gets a 20 minute dissertation on meteorites, micro meteorites, “space junk”, and the perils of polluting our atmosphere…  So now it takes me 40 fucking minutes to get the little turds into bed…

And what you want to do is go “GET YOUR ASS IN BED!!! OR YOUR GOING TO LEARN ABOUT THERMAL DYNAMICS WHEN MY HAND MEETS YOUR ASS!!!”…

And then your explaining to him as you give him swats that this is what the Earth felt like when the Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit Latin America…

You don’t do that but you think it….