Who else you know can take 2 months off ...

Come back cold turkey and fly lids off. No, it's not Ma$e, one of the greatet rappers ever, but in fact it's me. It's official - I'm back. I haven't blogged since June 8th. It's a good thing Andrew has been here to carry the load and quite admirably might I add. But I digress. Things have been a little hectic around the old office lately. I've been putting in some killer long hours. Working past 4, whew that's tough now. I've had a lot of things happen during the two months away and plan to take them on one at a time. Mostly because it's good stuff, but also because it's a good way to keep me from blogging about politics.

So here are some quick hit points of what I'm going to blog about in the near future:

1.) Various lessons learned on my vacation / law school visit trip. I started in Pittsburgh, went to the middle of the state, down to Virginia Beach, and then ultimately to the city of Columbia, South Carolina.

2.) A whole blog dedicated to states that still fly the Confederate flag. What the crap is up with that?

3.) Andrew and I shopping/losing our manhood at Ikea, but furnishing our entire apartment at the same time.

4.) Nasa and space exploration in general.

5.) Andrew's anger and general demeanor while playing Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

6.) Why I hate Andrew for calling me a baby and the pictures he posted.

7.) Why Walmart is so horrible. Quit giving your money to communist China.

I think those are the high points I'm going to cover. But while I'm on it I'm going to rant for a brief moment. I'm going to take on Nasa for just a second. So Nasa sent another shuttle into space to repair the space station right? I ask you two questions:

1.) Who cares that it went? Virtually no one. Space travel has lost its luster and shine. Mostly because it happens more frequently. All people really want to know is did the shuttle get off the ground and did it return safely. We're doing the same old stuff. Fixing things going to the moon etc.

2.) Why then are we spending tons of money on things that don't work? We spend millions and billions of dollars for them to repair the space station and what do we get? We get this kind of garbage It makes me so angry. We spend all this money and we NEVER fix anything. How mad would you be if you went to Nissan, gave them a billion dollars, and asked them to make you a car. But then when they roll the car out something hits the bumper and the car catches on fire. They assure you that it can be fixed with another large sum of money, maybe a million dollars. So you say, ok it's so worth it to explore and see stuff, and I need to drive. But when they roll the car out again the same thing happens. The car catches on fire. It's absurd. And still NO ONE GETS ANGRY. People flip out when you cut taxes, or take $24,000 from an educational scholarship, but when you give a million dollars to something that fails no one cares.

Why does no one care? Is it that space travel is so worthless now? Is it that no one reads the articles anymore and has no clue what's going on? Why don't we let other people try to go to space and do a better job than NASA? Put out a memo and say, "Anyone who can put up a functioning satellite go for it." Or how about we do something cool like send PEOPLE to Mars. We send all these little roving probes there and people EAT IT UP. Maybe we can live on Mars. Maybe there is something cool there also. So we need to do one of two things. Scrap the space program. Which of course everyone doesn't want. Because it's soooooo cool to explore and see stuff. Or we go ahead and do stuff that matters. Let's inject a little life into the space program. At the same time let's quit sucking and wasting millions of dollars to fix nothing and on broken things. I'm not impressed enough by a rock from the moon to forget about the million dollars we just wasted.

Rant over. So that takes care of one of my topics. But for now NASA joins my boycott list just like Walmart, McDonalds, Budweiser, and Coors. I'm off to get some Sheetz. So good right now.