Trying to follow

So, I got bored and decided it was time to enter more into the web world and join many of my friends on facebook, myspace, and a few other sites. I couldn’t do a normal myspace so I had to spend a bit of time tweaking it to my preferences. Of course, that meant updating this site as well. Now I have a few other things I want to mess with before I’m truely satisfied. What I desperately need to do is to change http://iamnotashamed.net to something different then just a boring t-shirt page. Anyone want to buy a t-shirt?

I’m addicted to modifying

I guess the term is about retailers getting out of the “red” and into the “black” as in profit, but it seems like it’s more of a foreshadowing on what a dark and sad day this day is.

I’m sorry but Friday seemed more like a day for a funeral then anything else in my mind. $400 laptops at Walmart and you can forget about any concerns for world poverty or whether the price is due to inhumane business practice. Let me be really clear: I was quite tempted to do some shopping myself on Friday, I’m not really talking about other people.

I didn’t look for any video footage or news about shoppers getting trampled, but I’m sort of afraid I’d start to cry if I saw it. I think back to the types of comments you heard in response to news of people rioting and fighting in New Orleans after Katrina and I wonder. Don’t you wonder?

I don’t know how I feel about Thanksgiving. I should start by saying I miss my family. It’s one of those occasions you know family is getting together for, and it certainly is one of those times you want to be there. But, I don’t know if that part is any different for me then if everyone is getting together for some other event.
I mean historically speaking it’s a sort of disturbing event, at least to me it seems that way. I mean as nice and peaceful and wonderful as the first Thanksgiving could have possibly been, it doesn’t even hold salt to the atrocious genocide that occured after. All the love that might have been expressed seems pretty irrelevant compared to the hateful use of slaves that labored in this land for years after that feast. I don’t know about you, but Thanksgiving just doesn’t seem like a happy thing to celebrate.

That aside I had a good day on Thursday. I worked from 7-3, which meant hanging out with the one guy that was still at his cottage, then going to a Thanksgiving lunch buffet with four students and three staff (good ratio).
After that it was off to our wonderful friends Bob and Jewly’s for a Thanksgiving evening of more food and great conversation. And a viewing of the movie K-Pax.

Good times, and being with people is something I always enjoy. Hope I didn’t ruin any holiday spirits, I tried to wait till after the day to write about it.

It’s only when you don’t have something that you really miss it. We lent our digital camera out (Which we were very happy to do) and I now have no way to take pictures of things. So your going to be left with a simple list of things I WOULD have taken pictures of if I had a camera:

Can you picture any of it?