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PROTEST AND SURVIVE!!

Today I started my own “Occupy” protest.

It’s happening on the couch in my living room right now and involves quit a bit of chanting (yelling) at the idiots on “Maury” while my laundry is in the dryer.

It may involve baking some brownies later.

Jim Says: “No brownies, no peace!”

Mom was Right!

There were times that I would go to the grocery store with my Mom when I was a child, and ask for certain foods. Most of them were patently unhealthy but quite delicious.

Mom would always say “When you’re an adult and making your own money, you can eat whatever you want.”

Every Halloween, General Mills would release their “Monster Cereals”, of which, my favorite was always Count Chocula. I LOVE Count Chocula and would constantly pester Mom for it.

Mom’s would counter “When you’re all grown up and making your own money, you can eat Count Chocula for breakfast, lunch and dinner!”

You’re goddam right, I can!

However, Mom also said that “Man cannot live on Count Chocula alone.”rnrn

Again, Mom was right.

Jim Says: “And after I’m done, I’ll make a fort out of the goddam boxes.”

Loss of a visionary

Today marked the end of an era. Apple founder Steve Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer early this evening. I’m not going to go on about what a great innovator and technical pioneer he was, there’s plenty of that to be had elsewhere. I will share this thought, the products he pioneered have brought tremendous joy to me both in terms of entertainment and allowing me to express my creativity. In fact, I’m writing this on one of my many Macs.

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When attending my friend’s funerals, I always say “Go easy, Bro”, but that somehow doesn’t fit here, having only briefly met Steve once, just long enough to exchange a brief pleasantry. So instead, I simply wish to pay my respects and admiration and hope that the world will get to see a brilliant mind like that again in my lifetime.

Jim says “Thanks.”