The more things change, the more they remain the same.

The other night driving home from my parents house it struck me...All innocence seems to be gone. Seriously. While at my 'rents house my son was trying everything in his power to catch lightning bugs, completely in awe from his new found insect friends. On the way home he was still staring out the window into the fields that were full of thousands of those bugs...And for a moment, I was there with him completely lost, but then the usual thoughts of bills, work and other grown-up nonsense came into my head and ruined it all. Knowing what I have worried about over the years, and what I worry about now, it makes me really wonder what I will be worrying about in 10 years! I mean growing up there is the typical worries; friends, girls, sports, not getting caught by your parents...Now there is bills, my job, my fiance and son, and the future. I didn't worry about the future before. It never even crossed my mind to be concerned with where I'd be in 10 years, and that is probably w...

As a kid when the power went out it was always a good time...We'd get the candles and pretend we were living before electricity was invented. Thursday during a big storm our power went out, and for some reason it wasn't near as cool as I remembered it being. Probably because my son couldn't watch his Elmo DVD, I couldn't check project status and other misc. on the web, and it made me start to wonder. How long do I think I would make it in a world without electricity. The answer is not to frickin' long. My day (as well as millions of other people's)completely revolves around a computer. I check my personal email every morning, it's the first thing I do when I get up. Then it is on to see if I have landed any freelance work, next to MySpace (both mine and The Chesterfield's ) and you get my point. By the time I get to work at 8:00, I have already been on the computer for about an hour, and I am on the computer for another 8 hours at work! After work, I go...