Genres in my iPod

Mak asked me a while back what was in my iPod and there wasn't really any way I could tell her, except to say a little bit of everything. I put a list to the right showing the genres...I guess it's obvious I like a little bit of everything.

Tagless Shirts

I don't get the whole tagless shirt thing. They say it's tagless, but all they've really done is move it to the side where it really scratches. If there is going to be a tag that sticks out at all, just leave it at the neck. Thank you for your consideration (end sarcasm).

Charlotte's Web

If you haven't seen Charlotte's Web yet, I highly recommend it. I feel it stays true to the spirit of the book. Both made me cry (I know, I'm such a sap). I thought it was an odd and wonderful choice of Robert Redford for the voice of an arachnophobic horse named Ike.

A bit of movie trivia for you: Kathy Bates took over the roll of the unsinkable Molly Brown in the movie Titanic for Reba McEntire after Reba was unable to do the film because of scheduling conflicts. In Charlotte's Web they play the cows, Bitsy and Betsy.

Softball

Well, it's been a while since I posted. Softball games are about to start. I guess we've been pretty lucky. We've only had to cancel two practices; one for cold and one for rain. We have team pictures Saturday and then the games begin on Tuesday. The team is definitely improving. I think the girls are learning and having fun, and that's my biggest goal. They are wearing me out. They like to run the bases after practice, trying to catch the girl (or guy if Levi or Darryn is running with them) in front of them. I'm anxious to see how sharp we look Saturday, all in our uniforms.

I'm so tired. The Molly dog is scared of storms, so when they've been coming through at night, she's been keeping me up. Then she gets to sleep during the day so that she's ready for the storm the next night. It's my day off tomorrow, so maybe I can get caught up...or I'll just spend all day keeping her awake.

Quotes

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen (1935 - )

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
Ellen DeGeneres

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
Cullen Hightower

Virginia Tech and Violence in Video Games

My heart goes out to all of the friends and families of the people killed and injured Monday at Virginia Tech.

I was watching the coverage Monday night and Dr. Phil McGraw was interviewed (I believe it was by CNN). Before the name of the shooter even came out, he was claiming that violent video games were to blame. Why should they be to blame if we don't even yet know if he played them? I didn't see the interview, but it's been written that Jack Thompson has said the same thing. Yes, it's true that some of the past school shooters had played violent video games, but how many of these games have been sold in the U.S. alone? If you take the percentage that played them compared to the percentage that go out and shoot/rob/etc someone...Taking away everyone's violent video game because they might go commit crime is like taking away someone's car because they might fall asleep behind the wheel.

Parents aren't as involved with their children as they used to be. My parents knew my brother's and my friends, what we watched on T.V., what video games we were playing, decided when we were mature enough to handle movies that had adult themes. If we really wanted to watch/play something, we could plead our point (because so-and-so gets to was never a good argument). Occasionally we changed their mind. It doesn't seem like parents do that anymore. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't want to overgeneralize. I know there are parents out there that still do, but it seems like more and more don't bother. I wonder sometimes why some people have children. They don't seem to want to have much to do with them. Will parent interaction stop all crime? No. There will always be those that were abused, are mentally unstable, etc, but I'd be interested to see how many could be prevented if parenting got back to being parenting instead of trying to just get along or be friends with their kids.

Interesting article on parents "bribing" their kids.

"The Road Not Taken" - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.