75 questions to ask yourself

An old proverb says, “He that cannot ask cannot live”. If you want answers you have to ask questions. These are 75 questions you should ask yourself and try to answer. You can ask yourself these questions right now and over the course of your life.

1. Why not me?

2. Am I nice?

3. Am I doing what I really want to do?

4. What am I grateful for?

5. What’s missing in my life?

6. Am I honest?

7. Do I listen to others?

8. Do I work hard?

9. Do I help others?

10. What do I need to change about myself?

11. Have I hurt others?

12. Do I complain?

13. What’s next for me?

14. Do I have fun?

15. Have I seized opportunities?

16. Do I care about others?

17. Do I spend enough time with my family?

18. Am I open-minded?

19. Have I seen enough of the world?

20. Do I judge others?

21. Do I take risks?

22. What is my purpose?

23. What is my biggest fear?

24. How can I conquer that fear?

25. Do I thank people enough?

26. Am I successful?

27. What am I ashamed of?

28. Do I annoy others?

29. What are my dreams?

30. Am I positive?

31. Am I negative?

32. Is there an afterlife?

33. Does everything happen for a reason?

34. What can I do to change the world?

35. What is the most foolish thing I’ve ever done?

36. Am I cheap?

37. Am I greedy?

38. Who do I love?

39. Who do I want to meet?

40. Where do I want to go?

41. What am I most proud of?

42. Do I care what others think about me?

43. What are my talents?

44. Do I utilize those talents?

45. What makes me happy?

46. What makes me sad?

47. What makes me angry?

48. Am I satisfied with my appearance?

49. Am I healthy?

50. What was the toughest time in my life?

51. What was the easiest time in my life?

52. Am I selfish?

53. What was the craziest thing I did?

54. What is the craziest thing I want to do?

55. Do I procrastinate?

56. What is my greatest regret?

57. What has had the greatest impact on my life?

58. Who has had the greatest impact on my life?

59. Do I stand up for myself?

60. Have I settled for mediocrity?

61. Do I hold grudges?

62. Do I read enough?

63. Do I listen to my heart?

64. Do I donate enough to the less fortunate?

65. Do I pray only when I want something?

66. Do I constantly dwell on the past?

67. Do I let other people’s negativity affect me?

68. Do I forgive myself?

69. When I help someone do I think “What’s in it for me”?

70. Am I aware that someone always has it worse than me?

71. Do I smile more than I frown?

72. Do I surround myself with good people?

73. Do I take time out for myself?

74. Do I ask enough questions?

75. What other questions do I have?

The Gamer's Bill of Rights

1. Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.
2. Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
3. Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
4. Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
5. Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will play adequately on that computer.
6. Gamers shall have the right to expect that games won't install hidden drivers or other potentially harmful software without their consent.
7. Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
8. Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.
9. Gamers shall have the right to demand that a single-player game not force them to be connected to the Internet every time they wish to play.
10. Gamers shall have the right that games which are installed to the hard drive shall not require a CD/DVD to remain in the drive to play.

Yoga Trance Dance

So tomorrow at 7:30 Christy and I will be going to my yoga place to do what the title states.. :) it sounds like a lot of fun.. :) From the description it says that this experience is all about liberation and to enjoy your inner dance.. humm.. my inner dance.. i wonder what color my inner dance is.. and besides that what if i dont get along with my inner dance.. :) Ill have to tell you about it when we get back friday.. until then.. humm.. my inner dance..

Blah!!

Good morning world.. How are you doing today?? 

I’m ok so far this morning.. I have most of my tasks for this week done and I’m getting ready for the vacation.. :D Christy and I are going down to fl this weekend.. and all of next week.. (well until weds night anyways).. I personally have never been to fl.. and from the last weather report no hurricanes will be there to make the days wet and rainy.. in fact the rain will be coming only after we leave fl..  So at least we won’t have to worry about that..

Blah.. I wish it was Friday already.. one more day.. well more like 2 days.. (still 2 full days of work left)..

Also currently I’m upset with Christy.. Last night and really over the last week she hasn’t been that nice to me.. demanding and expecting things which I normally do anyways because I like (and really don’t mind) doing it for her and I know she really like it too.. But last night really kinda hurt my feelings a bit.. I came home and worked on another copy (my version) of the invite. I knew she had some of her ideas so I didn’t want to mess with those so I came up with my own ideas. I spent close to 2 hrs or so (if not more) touching up the image and designing what I thought looked good. Now I knew it was a draft.. and was not done. The heads had to be rotated and a few other sections had to be touched up and the wording.. oo my.. the wording (fonts and size) really needed to be fixed up.. but for just looking at an idea I thought it was good..  so I sent it over to her computer (the new printer is setup in her room on her laptop) and printed it out. Then when I showed it to her I told her it was a draft and not completed yet.. and for some reason she thought it was done (or something).. even after I told her it wasn’t again and again.. she still came back with.. “well the heads still need to be rotated and it looks funny.. and ewww.. and I thought we were going to do it my way..” (umm.. yea this was another idea I was playing with..).. and I mean if you don’t like something.. cool.. but the way she just ripped into the image.. well its kinda hurt my feelings a bit. (sigh).. I guess unless it is done her way completely I guess it just can’t be right..

Blah!!

Bread is Dangerous...

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations
4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average North American eats more bread than that in one month!
6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 240 degrees Celsius! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics, we propose the following bread restrictions:

1. No sale of bread to minors
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.

All but one..

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5408800.html

Wow.. thats all i have to say.. this is such a touching story.. :)

Questions for Our "Leaders"

In the same spirit, we invite legislators and policy makers to address the following questions regarding the "War on Drugs."

1. We spend $50 billion per year trying to eradicate drugs from this country. According to DEA estimates we capture less than 10 percent of all illicit drugs. In this regard, I have a two part question 1) How much do you think it will cost to stop the other ninety percent? 2) Does $50 billion a year for a 90% failure rate seem like a good investment to you?

2. White people buy most of the illegal drugs in this country. Yet, seventy four percent of those receiving prison sentences for drug possession are African-American and other minorities. Is race a factor in the enforcement of drug laws, and if not, how can we prove that to skeptics?

3. Has the cost of the War on Drugs in terms of billions of dollars, blighted lives, jammed prisons, intensified racism, needless deaths, loss of freedom etc., produced any significant change in drug availability or perceived patterns of drug use?

4. Someone once said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and make crime out of things that are not crimes." How do you respond to this statement?

5. It is estimated that 77 million U.S. citizens have tried an illicit drug at least once. How many of the 77 million drug users do you feel we must incarcerate in order to win the war on drugs?

6. Why does the FDA stand up for the right of adults to smoke tobacco, which is highly addictive and causes over 400,000 deaths per year, while decreeing that adults have no right to smoke marijuana, which is non-addictive and kills no one?

7. Drug use is an acknowledged fact of life in every prison in the country. If we can't stop prisoner' use of drugs, how can we rationally expect to stop average free citizens from using them?

8. Despite signatures from 85 prominent groups and individuals, why has the Hoover Resolution (a call for an independent panel to revue existing drug policies) not been considered, accepted, or initiated?

9. What lessons from alcohol prohibition lead you to believe that the current drug war will end in victory?

10. Fifty-two federal judges, the district attorney of San Francisco, The mayor of Baltimore, the vast majority of prison wardens, and numerous other respected officials consider the war on drugs an abject failure. More than a few important Americans are opposed to the drug war. Since no other US laws or policies are inspiring such resistance, shouldn't we be listening to the many voices which are saying that continuing the war on drugs may be a grave threat to the long-term health of this nation?

11. At a time when working people are being asked to tighten our belts in order to help balance the budget, how do you justify increasing the funding to the drug law enforcement bureaucracy? Explain why supporting a failed policy of drug law enforcement has a greater priority than student loans or drug education programs.

12. What do you conclude from the experience of Holland--a country where drugs fall under the jurisdiction of health agencies, not law enforcement--which has seen a decline in chronic use of hard drugs and casual use of soft drugs since de-criminalization?

13. If illegal drugs are so obviously harmful to people's health, why is it necessary to put so many American adults in prison to prevent them from using these drugs?

14. In drug policy discussions we hear a lot about the "message" that certain policies may send to children. What message is sent to inner city children who witness illegal drug sales on their way to school each day?

15. The modern drug war began in the 1960s, and for thirty five years it has failed to reduce drug access to school-aged children. Which is better for America during the next 35 years, prohibition with continued school-aged access to drugs OR reform policies that ease prohibition but reduce school-age access?

16. Drug prohibition has been one of the biggest U.S. domestic policy failures of the late twentieth century. Why is a perpetuation of this failure more desirable than serious consideration of alternative policy options?

17. Why should 270 million citizens continue to pay $50 billion per year to try to change the habits of 20 million people, considering that this policy has not been able to change those habits in 82 years and at a total cost of nearly one trillion dollars?

18. Even granting these drugs are as harmful as claimed, how does persistence in the policy which created and perpetuates the lucrative criminal markets now supplying them make any sense; especially in light of all the collateral damage done by our (unsuccessful) attempt to control them and the abundant historical record that such markets have never been controlled?

19. For what other health issues do we use police, prosecutors, and prisons as the primary means of 'helping' a sick person? Isn't that just as silly as using a baseball bat to cure someone of clinical depression? (Smile and get happy or I'll whack you again)

So many trees killed..

So this weekend.. :) It was another fun weekend.. :) Friday night I was suppose to go camping but instead I crashed at a friend’s place and played Guitar Hero all night long.. only to follow it up by Texas poker for a few rounds before we passed out.. I normally have a fun time when I’m visiting.. :) Now Saturday comes rolling around and all day the rains are pouring down on us thanks to TS Hanna.. Saturday Christy and I went shopping in the morning then lunch at home.. about 2 hrs later we drove down to Tyson’s to meet up with the kids.. Really just shopped around Saturday but was out until 11ish I believe.. On Sunday Christy and I went to a wedding expo. Now while we were there we were waiting for Robyn to come and join us. I felt two females going into this would be better than just me there.. ;) But I walked around the expo and collected everything there was.. It really did show me how much really goings on for a wedding.. Once we got home we had sooo many flyers and packets and samples to go through. We ended up making many different piles just to sort everything out.

Later that day (we picked up spore for the PC) while Christy slept (or napped or even while she went through some of the crazy amount of wedding stuff) I played spore. :) I like the game.. basically you get to play god and evolve your creatures into living beings. So far I’m in the tribal stage. One feature I really like is that you can build and custom everything in the game. From your creatures to the buildings to the planes and water crafts.. I mean everything and then post it online for the world to download and play with also. :)

So once I was tired enough to stop playing Christy and I went downstairs to watch the female singles tennis (US Open).. and S.Williams WON!!!!.. we were both glad that she did a wonderful job.

Well until next time.. :)

The wedding!!

Well just a few details and then I must jump back to work.. but the wedding will take place April 24th, 2009 at Ceresville Mansion (http://www.ceresville.com/)