Ozium, Owl and Ketchup

How is everybody doing? I am just fine myself. In a few minutes I am going out to play Catholic music.

Today was my first day of summer. I slept until noon, and woke up feeling predictably terrible. Around 1, I drove to the Employment Security office to see if anything new had come up, but it had not. After this, I went to Serena's and we went out to lunch at Athens. Upon leaving, I met up with Imon and his Portuguese girlfriend before making my way back here to dig an irrigation trench in the back yard. I hate digging in New Hampshire. there are the most awful and awkward boulders every few feet that hurt your back very much. I also do not like digging in swampy areas, because it is mosquito season again. I got quite frustrated by the bugs, and eventually got a lighter and a pressurized can of cooking oil to fend them off. This was not a very good idea at all. Don't do it. I will be continuing the irrigation efforts tomorrow, with plenty of DEET and I will be driving to Alyson's Orchard to apply for an immigrant job there. That should be fun.

It seems that I have not written enough for a real post yet, so why not post a quote, and think about what it means?

"I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams (October 28, 1813)

I think that this quote is fascinating, and although it was hinted at in my inconvenient book, it was never mentioned. I think this quote is all about personal responsibility. Yes, we are all created equal, but after our creation the choices that we make determine who we are and what we will be. I think that this really defines self ownership in a way that made sense in 1813 just as well as it does today. This quote makes me think a lot, because it makes me realise yet again that absolutely everything we do, think or say is a choice. It is a choice to sleep, it is a choice to breath, it is a choice to eat and it is a choice to speak..In essence we are like computers, which work by on and off switches... Or something like that, and eventually we make Youtube.