My view of the world

They put up a new Welcome to Las Vegas sign on the Boulder Highway between Tropicana and Flamingo.
This one’s a bit smaller than the one on the strip, but I assume that this is also owned by YESCO, now I wonder how much it cost the taxpayers, and how long before it’s completely lost in the underbrush they’ve planted.

I ran into a guy in the bookstore today, who was going to start blogging in order to promote a website he’s building, to sell something or other.
A friend of his makes $50k a year selling online, and since they’re both full time RVer’s the web is the perfect sales place, they don’t need a storefront and as long as everything is dropshipped, they don’t need inventory.

While I was talking to the RVer, I got to thinking about the way I pay bill, order stuff and generally take care of day to day business.
I pay my bills online, and I get mad because I have to write a couple of checks a month.
If I planned meals I could grocery shop online, if I want take out I order my food online, and a great deal of what I need to do for work, I do from home at 2 in the morning.
At this rate I’ll never have to talk to anyone face to face ever again. This is not a joke, I spend a lot of time sitting around in my underwear(this, by the way, is not a pretty sight), doing my work, and I like leaving the house less and less.
The traffic has become the traditional big-city mess, people in general are rude, the people who work in the stores, know less and less and speak less and less english, and those that do speak english tend to be so poorly trained, as to be useless, and so poorly paid, that you almost never see the same people twice.

I spoke to a friend via the telephone the other night for a bit over an hour, I’ve known him for years and yet, because of other commitments and work related silliness we only get actual face time a few times a year. His is one of the few non-business calls that I don’t generally consider an intrusion, mostly because if I told him I was busy, he’d hang up without feeling insulted.
This also got me to thinking, I know a number of people quite well, but I couldn’t pick them out of a one man line-up.
I wonder how many people know me by way of email or news group postings, who think they actually “know” me.
Take a good look at myspace and ask yourself how many of these people are really as they appear and how many are just a persona that has little if anything to do with the real person. (ouuuuuh, that’s deep.)

As far as I have been able to find out, Walmart is the largest employer of illegal aliens in the country. This way they don’t have to worry about benefits or o.t.

China is enlarging the Panama Canal so they have room for all those boats carrying Walmart junk to the east coast, and more importantly, so they have room for all those boats carrying U.S. greenbacks back home.

Yes, I’m in a crappy mood and No, I don’t care what you think, that’s why I have comments turned off.