I HATE MICHIGANS SECRETARY OF STATE OFFICES!

You know, everyone dreads going to this hell hole of a place, once or twice a year you have to go in there and give them money for some of the most uselsss shit in the world. First of all, THEY ONLY HIRE THE SLOWEST GOD FORSAKEN WOMEN IN THE WORLD TO WORK HERE. There are hundreds of people trying to register vehicles and get licences daily...HIRE FASTER PEOPLE!!!!!

You wait and wait and wait for hours upon hours for them to call your number just to get hassled for not having a paperclip on your paperwork or something stupid, sent back with a "goto the front of the line for free" pass WHOOPEEE!!

I went in today, to renew a plate, and what do i get when i get there?? "Our computers are down statewide we can't do anything. They usually try to have them back up by the end of the day."

PROBLEM ONE!!! I DONT HAVE TIME TO RUN AROUND TO SOS EVERY FUCKING DAY!! NOBODY DOES!! IT'S ANNOYING, IT TAKES FOREVER, IT'S MUNDANE, IT COSTS MONEY, AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF, THEY'RE ONLY OPEN BUSINESS HOURS.....WHEN EVERYONE IS AT FUCKING WORK!!! So now you've got who knows how many people that have taken their unpaid lunch and wasted it driving to the secretary of state, or taken an unpaid day off of work just so they can goto the bowels of hell so the state doesn't rape them for more money down the road, and your shitty fucking 1975 outdated ass computer system doesn't fucking work. HERES A HINT: I WANT TO SEE WHAT THE FUCK IM PAYING ALL THIS MONEY TO THE STATE FOR, WHERE IS IT GOING?? Obviously not into the roads! And what about those computers??? UPDATE THEM, I PAY ALL THIS MONEY UPDATE THE SHIT SO YOU DONT WASTE ANYMORE OF MY FUCKING TIME!

THE BEACH SURE IS NICE!

Screw the snow!

Well..Myspace is really broken.

Yep, it appears as though this popular social networking site (that I am a member of) is experiencing it's second in history catastrophic failure. I am wondering if the p.r. is going to blame this on a califonian power outtage again, or if they will report the true problem? Their homepage works, however, upon attempting to login you are presented with an error of "Login is temporarily disabled while we fix some database problems. We'll be back shortly. 3/10/2007". The worlds largest social networking website experienced a very similar failure like this in July 2006. at the time the member number was around 80 million. Now it is over 105 million. With a following like that, you would expect them to have a more redundant system, as was addressed last time the site had a major malfunction. Apparently cents matter more than sense. This outage i personally noticed at about 3:30 am E.S.T., and 4 hours later 7:30 E.S.T., the site is still non functional. Profiles don't display and the site will not login. Ad's on the homepage also haven't changed as they normally do dynamically. I'm interested to see if this was a hacker attack, how many profiles will be altered or completely missing. With the "friends lists" averaging in the 500's, other up into the thousands, and some band's and musical artists well into the tens or hundreds of thousands, how many of those will still be intact? With Myspaces ever growing popularity and user base, could this be a servere hit to the social networking site?

On an end note....on an averagely boring friday night, I would normally surf the net and periodically check myspace for updates through my nocturnal schedule, being that the site is down I found another way to amuse myself for the evening. Playing the origional unreal tournament. It's great fun. What have others done without their usual late night browsing of myspace?

Fucking MySpace!

I get some e-mails notifying me that I have 3 new myspace messages. So I try to login to check them and the whole damn system is broke. cant even log in, let alone read your messages. MULTI MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY!!! HIRE BETTER FUCK ENGINEERS YOU FUCKING DICKBAGS. we now return to our regularly scheduled program.

School to Choice?

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my life. We're so concerned about overcrowding in schools in Michigan, yet we have public schools that are being closed every semester because of low enrollment rates, when school enrollment is currently the highest in history. Doesn't make sense? Sure it does. School A is built to hold 2000 students, and school B is built to hold 1500 students. School A is in a lower class neighborhood where graffiti overrules street signs, and school B is in a cleaner middle class neighborhood, where you can walk at night without fear. Instead of everyone paying taxes in school district A and working toward improving their schools, they say f*ck it and send their kids to the nice, well taken care of school in school district B where other people are paying all the taxes and working toward upkeeping their neighborhood. Schools and neighborhoods don't stay nice on their own with magic. You have to get off your own ass and get involved to improve the quality of the area, attracting more and better teachers, and improving curb appeal of the schools.

Addressing the problem of school overcrowding while others are closing...
Everyone in school district B gives up on their neighborhood/school district instead of acting on it, and ships their kids to school B, made to hold 1500 people, so now it houses 3,000 students, and is 100% over it's max capacity. Thanks to the wording of the law, the fire marshal can't even put a stop to this. This epidemic leaves school A empty, and under-filled, thus causing closing of the school, leaving the overcrowding of school B, nowhere to go.

Condition of quality...
It's a proven fact that lower quality or lower income neighborhoods, have a higher crime rate. Why? Because the underprivileged of the world gather in these section 8 and low income neighborhoods, and the cancer grows. Those unlucky children that are born into families like this (not low income, but low quality, you can make 100,000 a year and be low quality) are brought up knowing no other lifestyle, and these are the kids that are being shipped off to other schools, overcrowding them, alot because they have already been expelled from a previous school, and this brings down the quality of other schools. Guess what, we have boot camps. Use them. Don't expect the rest of us to babysit your little punks.


Bottom line, keep your kids in your own school district. If you don't like the schools appearance or teaching methods, do something about it. Make a voice for yourself, goto a school board meeting. They are public. If you feel it's impossible to make a change, and the school is that bad, your neighborhood probably isn't much better, man or woman up, and make a better life for your family. Downgrade from a 50,000 dollar car to a 30,000 dollar car, and move your family into a middle or "upper" class neighborhood, and quit settling for lower class.

The "Echo Boom" Generation

The "Echo Boom" Generation. People born from 1986-1993.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not attacking every person born between '86 and '93, nor does this exclude everyone born outside of that span of years, but this is where i have determined the problem to lie, and it just so happens that there is a specific generation, dedicated to these.

What's the problem you ask? It's the entire change of attitude, over a short span of merely 6 or so years. Those born in that generation, more of them closer to born in the early nineties, are now around 15-17 years old, and quickly tumbling into adult life. The problem though is their "my-parents-work-for-an-auto-maker-and-I'm-set-for-life" attitude, because they are used to A-plan discounts and the days when houses that were over 100 grand were the types of homes that people the likes of Michael Jackson lived in, and they haven't opened their eyes to look around and see what real life is really like.

I am terrified for the future of our people, due to the majority of this generation. They have grown knowing nothing other than having instant messengers, text messaging, and cell phones on their hips with processor power that of my first home p.c. God forbid the electricity go out, without techno-gadgets and cancer blocks glued to our heads, how would we EVER communicate with our friends!? I KNOW! YOU COULD RIDE A BIKE THERE! Oh...wait...bikes...those went out of style as soon as the world became so paranoid that we've practically began installing metal detectors in churches.

Now that tree huggers and those parents terrified their child might get a hang nail playing on that good old fashioned steel slide (which...gave for the BEST speed in the winter time if you had snow pants on and got a little snow up at the top) have desensitized the whole world to ANY danger whatsoever that their children may ever face, you've also taken the most important part of growing out of a childs life. Socializing. Babbling on a cell phone about what Brittany said to Bobby at school when she found out he was sending Ashely messages on myspace, is NOT socializing. It's gossip. There is no learning involved except practice to appear on Jerry springer. It's already too late, but we cant blame the generation, it's their parents. Which many of us from this generation have those same parents, some of us have siblings that are in the generation i speak of, and we are in the previous generation, but throughout our life growing up, is when the extreme paranoia started. No longer is the largest concern in kindergarten class who's allergic to peanuts and who's not, but who's family doesn't allow them to eat them because it doesn't fit with their SOUTH BEACH DIET. This younger generation has also started a trend by manipulating parents with the power of the law, and too many parents have fallen prey to this. This is something that this generation is abusing. There is a protective service for a reason, it's not so you can sneak out at 2 am to fuck your 24 year old boyfriend, and then get off scot free when you come home drunk and high and break the living room lamp stumbling to your room. No. Your parent should have knocked you clean through the drywall into your room, and then maybe you wouldn't have done it again, and ended up giving birth to your first child before you started drivers ed. I am thankful that my parents gave me a swat a few times in my life. I was never mistreated or abused, I was corrected when I was wrong, and I learned to be a better person because of it. There's a reason spankings were used for so many years as a disciplinary action at home and in the school...IT WORKS. Finger shaking and lecturing a teenager who doesn't listen to what their best friend has to say doesn't work. Bottom line. They hear you, but they aren't listening. Oh yeah, cell phones aren't a god damn necessity either. We survived just fine without them when I was a teenager, we were just more RESPONSIBLE and EXPECTED to pick up a telephone, be it friends phone, pay phone, whatever, call and let your parents know where you were. I would be willing to bet if you investigated the facts, of how many more teenage pregnancy there are nowadays compared to before every woman infant and child had a cell phone/mp3 player/camera/blender the results would be astonishing, because having to WORK to make up a lie was just so much more work, and easier to get caught. Parents didn't call YOUR phone, they called your friends PARENTS phone, and asked for you. Parents used to meet, and discuss what their kids did together, rather than once one of them gets picked up for possession and tells the cops they got it from their friend the parents go "well...I've never even met this person before." Great parenting. Keep it up darwin will be making his rounds.

Jobs, this generation thinks that every person in the world is setup with a comfy high paying job at a desk at no cost to you. NEWSFLASH. You're a minor, you have to do a shit job to move up to a better one. Unless you're the mother fucking Dali Lama, you're not walking into the best job in the world. On that note, GET ME MY FUCKING FRIES AND MAKE IT FAST. Suck it up, when you get into the real world, it doesn't get much better. You get paid more, but thats only because now you can work more hours at your shitty McJob. If you despise your McJob so bad, that you just want to quit, do something about it. Learn a skill, and apply it. Don't or can't learn any skills? Goto college, pay your dues, and get a degree. Oh yeah, and on the way up the tree, DON'T FUCKING CRY ABOUT IT. When you think you're a grown up, because you got a cell phone bill and your 2007 Chevy Cavalier(that your parents paid for every penny of) takes 30 dollars in gas a week, you haven't scratched the surface. I pay more in taxes per week than most of you make IN A MONTH. And I still struggle. However, I wouldn't trade it for the world, because I am a viable contributing member of society.

In conclusion....
Welcome to 2007. A new time in our lives. A time of toys we enjoyed as children, are now deemed illegal and "weapons". A time of resentment toward having to make an honest living, by those who know nothing of life on your own, parents living in fear of the man letting their teenagers life spiral out of control, instead of seeking help. A time that we are spending more money per month in fuel in our cars than we spend to own them. Parents, step up to the plate, get help with your out of control children if you need it, don't be afraid to ground them to their room and be allowed to have no form of entertainment except books. YES! THATS RIGHT! GOOD OLD BOOKS! Do not fear forcing your child to use their brain and imagination to amuse themselves. Contrary to popular belief, life will continue on without myspace, instant messangers, and cell phones. For those of you parents working out deals with your kids to assist with buying nice newer things and luxuries such as cell phones, in trade for good grades and good behavior, pat yourself on the back. You are not bribing your childs behavior, you're not buying it, you're just finding a way to "stick it to the man", just like they are. They may think they are outsmarting you by getting what they want, but in reality, you are outsmarting them by helping prepare them to be a better person, and more acceptable to society, and raising someone who will be prepared to carry this world on into farther generations.

The Internets "most popular networking website"

If you have ever used myspace, you can relate to all of the following.

Put up a picture of yourself, if the only picture you have is one of you and friends, specify in the caption who you are.

Words with the letter "i" in them, only have one "i", and the following letters are in lowercase. e.g., is does not = iiS. going does not = GoiiNG. You just look like you have a typing stutter and were not properly educated in spelling.

Holding the camera at extreme angles, more specifically in such a way that girls hold the camera so they "accidentally" shoot directly down their shirt, or where you can see down the ass of their pants. It's 2007, i know you took the pic with a camera phone or digital camera, delete the shit and retake it if you're showing cleavage to the whole world. It's not cute, it makes you look like a slut and give little 14 year old boys stiffies. nobody else.

GUYS, EVERYONE IN THE WORLD DOESN'T CARE IF YOU HAVE A SIX PACK. If you feel the need to show off your abs to a girl, wait and privately send her a message. Otherwise you just look like a fag.

Talking about "smokin 'dro", "blazin bud", or any other slang term for smoking weed, as well as having weed leafs plastered all over your myspace page....you may as well change your display name to "white trash f*ck." The world doesn't need to know that you smoke weed.

using layout editors to reverse tables. it doesn't work right. get over it. besides that even if it did work, it's stupid. for those of us that don't use entry level computer software, when we look at your page it just looks all fubar and makes me want to punch babies, because right after you switch your tables around you go post a bulletin "HeY EvEryONE ii Just PUT uP some New PiiC's!! LeAVe CommEntS!" and once I've gotten past the horrible grammar, and not slaughtered any bunnies, i try to be civil and leave you a comment AND I CANT BECAUSE HALF YOUR STUPID FUCKING PAGE IS OFF MY SCREEN AND MYSPACE DOESN'T SCROLL SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU FLIP YOUR TABLES, QUIT DOING IIIIIIIITTTT!!! That brings me to my next pet peeve....

Random capitols and lowercases. "Hii GuYS I lOOk LiiKEE I jUst SMaSheD All ovER tHe KeyBoARD t0 TyPE tHiiS anD goT lUCky!" First of all, wouldn't it be easier to type like you had a lick of sense? yes it would. Second of all....there is no second of all it's just fucking stupid.

Display Names. They have a limited number of spaces so people don't put long stupid shit in there, so putting your name and a bunch of crap with no spaces....fuckin retarded. stop. Putting brackets in your name for any reason with something in it, thats called a trend, and that also, looks god damn retarded. so Billy [isgoingtofloridaforthenexteightdays] IS FUCKING STUPID!! STUPID!! Not cute, not funny, simply trendy and stupid. Remember when people went around wearing jerseys and crap with one arm in them, and people were wearing visors upside down and backwards, and then all of a sudden everyone realized "holy crap we look really gay"? same thing. I'm saving you embarrassment.

Adding verbs after or before your name...also very poppy/trendy. e.g., glamorous, ballin' (especially bad), hott, sexy, famous etc. Also, phrases such as "im so fly" or "don't hate", equally stupid.

Myspace Gangs...what the shit is this??? making cool little myspace clicks and putting your gang name after your myspace name...holy shit you're fucking gay lets all just put "rainbow crew" after our names we'll be as cool as you are.

Myspace two, tom is closing myspace, myspace is going to cost money, repost or a zombie will eat your face, repost in 112.834634 seconds and you'll find the love of your life at 13 o'clock on the 8th day of the week, bulletins, STOP ARE YOU THAT STUPID!? REALLY?? HOW MANY IS IT GONNA TAKE FOR YOU TO REALIZE THIS IS ABOUT AS USEFUL AS SMASHING YOUR OWN FINGERS IN A CAR DOOR.

Pay attention to your account!! make sure if it gets hacked because you were stupid and typed your password into a spoof page, YOU FIX IT! It's really annoying to see you post 45 "get free ring tones" or "look at this porn!" bulletins a day, knowing it's not really you, i feel bad when i have to put you on the chopping block of my friends.

If you want someone to be your friend, have the damn courtesy to send them a message get to know them, it's a damn FRIENDS list not "random people on the internet" list. If you add someone and they message you, MESSAGE THEM BACK, or don't get pissed when your friends count goes down by 1.

Top friends...if you're not in someones top friends, it is not the end of the world, just because you have them in yours does not entitle you to be in theirs. If anyone puts you on their top friends you should feel privileged.

The best(?) late night snack

So you're hanging out with some people and someone goes "Damn im hungry, where the hell can we get some food at 3:30 am??" WHITE CASTLE OF COURSE! For being so horrible, it sounds so damn appealing when it's mentioned at 3:30 am, and nothing else is available. Although, we mostly end up paying for it later. And of course, once you finish off (or mostly finish off) a 30 burger crave case, you can use the boxes to entertain yourself for a while after. Then take pictures and post them on your blog...

My good buddy c.j.

Well, chuck has one of these things, and i often get bored, so i figured if i've got this thing to play around with, maybe i'll have something to entertain myself with. I can post my thoughts and other random stuff here. Oh yeah mike jones has one now too.