Haines His Way

Beautiful pictures Cillaliz.

Being self centered puts you off balance.

Stop bending your elbow and start bending your knee.

Oh a customer!

FJL... my plans with Jose are not firm.  We are definitely in H on the left of audience center.  Look for a middle age blonde lady with glasses and a young blonde girl with glasses looking for you!!

Back from some errands.

I think in certain ways, yes, the parents of people born post 1980 have helped turn this generation into a spoiled, entitled, immature, overprotected bunch of fools (obviously, that's a general statement and there are exceptions).  But, it's also the Internet in general, MTV, reality TV, films, all accentuating the amateur, the need to be connected twenty-four hours a day, the need that to be cool you have to be a slut (and that goes for men and women), the complete ignorance of what words really mean, and basically having to put a minus ten years on their age to realize what their emotional maturity is, age-wise.  

I agree.

Oh, I guess I forgot to mention, the story isn't a story. The office is just saying I'm gone until July and not telling anyone why. The lawyer in question thought perhaps I had some serious disease or something and was quite relieved to hear the real story. She still offered her house in Deadwood, SD if I want to get away...I may take her up on that one day

Back from a jog.  I thought it was going to be one where I couldn't even go half the distance, because my legs and back were very achy, but I stuck it out and went the full distance.  I'm now sweating like a pig.  I think today is feeling like a tuna sandwich day, but it could also be a tuna pasta salad day, or it could be something wholly other.

In my opinion, myspace is a niche market for some people but it is not for all people. Live journal and blogging are only another avenue. I also have a blog but I have been shy advertising it here. I post in it once a week and offer my views on what I see around me whether in the news or society.

I remember the days of IRC client type chats but message boards seem to have stood the test of time. I remember the days of Classic Prodigy when that was the only way to chat.

It is interesting to see the fluidity of the different boards, blogging and online journaling through that connections can be made and then disappear due to real life and changes in interests.

They are often tenuous at best.  Some work and some dont and often serve as a microcosm of ideas and freindships but instead of in the real world they are centered digitally.

Back from some errands.

I think in certain ways, yes, the parents of people born post 1980 have helped turn this generation into a spoiled, entitled, immature, overprotected bunch of fools (obviously, that's a general statement and there are exceptions).  But, it's also the Internet in general, MTV, reality TV, films, all accentuating the amateur, the need to be connected twenty-four hours a day, the need that to be cool you have to be a slut (and that goes for men and women), the complete ignorance of what words really mean, and basically having to put a minus ten years on their age to realize what their emotional maturity is, age-wise.  

Sadly, from seeing some college students come into the library, I do have to agree with you. Some kids are decent and are respective and actually have a work ethic. However there are some that I shake my head at due to their manners. I actually kicked a kid out of the library one night for I was not interested in his cell phone discussion of his extra-curricular activities in living color.  There are some who are not taught patience and how to use their imaginations.

My thought are with you, Larry.

RANT coming.... Okay - as much as I have gotten impatient, annoyed and angry at my share of teenagers in my day (and will continue to do so, I'm sure) -- I think we're doing a huge disservice both to the kids and to ourselves by painting an entire generation ("with some exceptions") with the silly, immature, stupid, etc. brush.
It's easy to put labels on these kids and shake our heads in disgust. But, come on folks, WE'RE the adults. Let's look beneath the surface. Let's assume that if we got to know some of these "immature cretins" there might be something more there.

I lived near Columbine at the time of those horrible events. My daughter's school was the sister school of Columbine. The way these kids (from her school) behaved following that tragedy really opened my eyes to so many things. They rose to the occasion, they had character, they had depth. Yes - depth. Kids I had been writing off as - well, as all of the things named in previous posts - suddenly exhibited dignity, leadership, strength. Okay, this was an isolated incident, certainly not, thank goodness, typical. But I cite it because it taught me a lesson. It's too easy to write teenagers off. They make it easy for us. But let's be better than that. These are hard times to live in. Particularly when you have no real control over your life. Sure they act out. Sure they can be obnoxious. But they're still young, Very young. And  - as I said - we're the adults.

I'm going to stop preaching now. And, believe me, I can be as intolerant and unreasonable as the best of them. Ask my DD about the time I threw all her loud teen friends out of the house. So it's no saint speaking here. But, I find it unsettling to hear so many kind and reasonable people (that's YOU, DRs) not looking past the surface -- unattractive as that surface can be.
End of Rant.

I must say in writing about this stuff, I sound just like the character in my new play - I've even inadvertantly used some of his dialogue today.

Turned out to be a hot dog kind of day

....the title of my next screenplay.

Mr BK I am jealous of the 33" waist.

DR CILLA LIZ will you be taking the Deadwood Stage?

Beautiful photo, Cillaliz -- but I would like to warn you about pointing the camera at the sun; it can burn the lens, and then you'd have spots in every photo.