It’s not a hobby that I ever expected for myself. I first bought the camera to take inventory of what’s in the house. But, then I started taking it with me on my walks with my dog to catch some of his funny moments. This led me to catch other things along the way. Now, I take it whenever I leave the house because I never know when something will catch my eye. Folders of pictures have taken up space in my computer. Now it’s just something I do. I think it might be some of the best $45 I’ve “wasted” on something.

The only problem with my camera now, is that I’m finding out all my friends have better ones than I do! So now I’m trying to think of a way to get up some money for a second camera which can do a little more.

I also seem to have a slight problem with being an expert on “blurry” shots or shots of something moving and it looks like a rainbow. And then there are the shots of nothing but either white or black. So I guess I have some figuring out to do when it comes to what my camera can and can’t do.

Oh wait, here comes the neighbor down the street with his lawn mower. So, now we have two lawn mowers going. No, wait, here’s another one across the street from Guy #1. He must have seen the lawn mower going and figured he’d better get his done too. What’s this? The riding mower people are starting to come out! They have to add to the mix too.

So now, by the time about fifteen or twenty minutes has passed since Guy #1 started up his trusty mower in the once quiet neighborhood, we have about I’d say like five, maybe six, other people who thought this would be a good day to mow their lawn too. Why does this happen? Are people afraid of being left out of the Mowed Lawn Club?

Now they don’t have races or anything, although some days I wonder if they could. But does it really take one lawn mower to start up off in the distance for everyone else to think they need to take care of their lawn too? Are we all so afraid that our lawn will be the messy unmowed lawn of the area that we just have to get out there and do that yard while everyone else is doing theres? Oh and I’m sure there is the feeling of “see pal, I take care of my lawn too!” Meanwhile, five minutes earlier the guy was lounging away in his chair watching some movie on Shoetime.

I just love how people react to the sound of a lawn mower. It’s funny actually because its pretty much a given that where one mower is, five more are not far away working just as hard. I almost want to go outside one day, just start the mower, and wait. Now I won’t do any mowing, I just want to see how many other people hear my mower and think they have to get out and run their own. I’d give it about ten minutes before I heard one in the distance somewhere.

Ok, let me back up. All during the past week we’ve been hit over the head with things to do for Independence Day. So here’s a list of the top five.

Things people want me to do to celebrate our Independence Day:

1. Buy a Toyota

2. Visit Lowe’s or Home Depot and buy something

3. See a Realtor about buying a house

4. Buy furniture from Raymoor & Flanagan because there’s no interest till 2013

5. Oh, eat at Outback Steakhouse

What???

Yeah this is how we should be spending our week remembering how this country was born – by shopping for stupid shit!

Wait, let’s all go eat tomatos and puke on the advertisers in red white and blue.

And people wonder why we’re all in such a financial mess as a nation. Duhhhh.

(and Bill now steps down from his soapbox to blow his hand up with a firecracker)

 Anyhow, as I'm finding out more and more about RSS and how it relates to blogs and news; it reminds me abit of when Bulliten Boards or BBS's were all the big thing way back in the 80's and very early 90's.  Back then you could get the news of the day, with firsthand accounts, just by signing onto your local BBS.  And we all considered it amazing that you could just type in "news from Texas" and some BBS would show up with names and contacts in and around Texas.  And if they didn't know something, someone else in the BBS did.  Technology sure has come a long long way in 15 or so years.  So, we're about to join up with the latest "new thing" to hit the computer airwaves.  Who knew we'd be doing "instant" news and "instant" info 15 years ago on the BBS boards.