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I think you know how I feel about the money-grubbing, self-important, soulless executives in modern corporate America.  I'm just saying.  It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the next paragraph.

On-line articles I've read have indicated that it's the HP board one should blame.  So besides the  money-grubbing, self-important, soulless executives in modern corporate America we can add  money-grubbing, self-important, soulless executives in modern corporate boards to the proverbial dart board.

Anyway.  The Hewlett Packard CEO, Leo Apotheker, was asked to resign after an 11 month tenure. Can you call that a "tenure"? He got over $25,000,000 on his way out the door. Who but an over-paid executive would get $25,000,000 as a bonus for doing a lousy job? I bet the HP employees don't even get $25 this Christmas for doing a good job.

And another subject. A little out-of-this-world.  Space crap will be falling out of the skies this weekend between 11 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday, EST.  NASA and others want to assure you that there is very little danger of it falling on your head.  Odds are it will fall in the water.  Hopefully not in my bathtub.

 If we're lucky, it will land on some money-grubbing, self-important, soulless executives attending a board meeting on a yacht.

It's Time to Stop

This will be short.  It could be quite long, but this month many others have spoken of this more eloquently, more passionately than I.

Troy Davis was executed in Georgia September 21, 2011. I do not approve of capital punishment. The number one reason is that no man should have the right to take another man's life.   This case highlights the other reason: it's too hard to prove a man's guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt. 

The death penalty should be abolished.  America has no right to object to human rights violations in other countries while we are guilty of our own abuses.  We should be leading the world to a better place, not dragging it down to hell's level.

Goofing off

I'm supposed to be doing something important and grown-up right now.  I should have done it yesterday, but I got sidetracked.  I could have done it this morning, but I found other things to do.

I suppose I will get to it eventually.  I always do.  And I'm hardly ever late.  Unless I forget.
And we all know my rememberer isn't the newest model on the block.

Sometimes I think it's wore out.  I've learned a lot of stuff over the years and there's only so much room in one memory bank.  Even if you make a withdrawal, it's only the interest going out.  The initial deposit never leaves. 

Ham or Cheese

There are little voices carrying on little conversations in my head much of the day.  As I frequently hear them in that twilight time between asleep and awake, morning and evening, I assume they are chattering away all night as well.  For the most part I ignore them.  They don't speak to me, I don't speak to them.  But occasionally one of them says something so funny or so profound that it attracts my attention.  And then sometimes ....

I don't know why this still bothers me, but I just can't seem to let it go.  A couple of weeks ago while I was working on a computer project, one of the women said, in a rather snide voice, "At least this time he brought sandwiches."

What?  What?  Who brought sandwiches?  and why?  Are they having a picnic in my head?  Is it party time and I wasn't invited?

I hate being left out of things.

Not today, boys, I have a headache

What do you say when you have nothing to say?
When every day is like the day before and the next day will be the same?
When you wake up one morning and realize that's it's too late to follow the plan you never made?