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How are you over there?

Today I applied to CNS Wholesale Grocers, Borders, IParty and the Sentinel. Incidentally, CNS was the name of the bus company that used to take me to school. The Borders application was weird. I had to take a 25 page multiple choice survey about myself... My likes and dislikes, and whether or not I would swear violently at customers.

I spent some time today driving to Home Depot to buy lumber. I then promptly returned it when I found out that it was not pressure treated. Did you know pressure treated wood is heavier than its organic counterpart? I also bought a piece of poplar to make a neck for my cumbus uke.

Today was not the sort of day that I can't get excited about. Apart from applying for jobs and and waiting for people from those jobs to call me, I really did nothing apart from ride down to the country club, and then to the gas station on my shiny new machine....

As both the protagonist and the author of this publication, I feel that it is my duty as both to engage in life in a more inspirational way.. As the author I owe it, because you my readers who have remained faithful up to this point will not be so for much longer if I continue to write about such mundane things as applying for jobs and Germans. As the protagonist, I owe myself more than either sleeping till noon, or spending time with those who seek to influence my behavior in a way that my principles dictate is not positive. To remedy both problems, tomorrow I am going to go out and do something stupid for you and something positive for me, because as Chesterton said "A good novel (blog) tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel (blog) tells us the truth about its author. " My mission is now to write a better story for both of us. Thus, I am going to attempt to be both a good and bad author.

Today I saw a few episodes of Penn and Teller's "Bullshit." It was awesome.. They were all about alternative medicine, new age stuff, tartaric sex, chiropractors, yoga, religion, pet love, environmentalism.. The show explained how each of the proceeding subjects fit the shows title, and while I did not agree with a good deal of what they said, I did see a lot of people who looked and spoke like the friend we met in a recent post.

I must seriously question the subject of alternative medicine. If it worked, why would it not be mainstream? Is it really because the evil corporations want to keep us dependent on their products? I doubt it, because in a capitalist society that really would not make sense.. I understand the placebo effect quite well.. I remember some of my friends and I giving heavily watered down beer to someone who did not, yet should have know better, and telling him that it was vodka.. The behavioral changes which took place in him were remarkable to say the least. The mind is quite a powerful device, if used correctly.. However, and not to overuse subject of the good doctor who came to see us, but I do not understand how the placebo effect/Homeopathic medicine could possible work on an animal.. Animals do not think, and thus are quite incapable of being cured with a pogo stick and a radio antenna... The answer must therefor be that it does not work, and that the positive effect is transferred to the owner of the animal.. Basically, people who practice this form of medicine are praying on the affection someone feels for an animal in their care. Perhaps these Doktors do not do it intentionally, and are firm believers in their methods... Still, bullshit is bullshit.

Well, thank you for reading my most profanity laced post ever. Please stay tuned for more.. Posts that is.