Looks like it is time to stop watching and supporting the National Football League. The story broke this morning that they refused to play an ad during last weeks super bowl from the US Border Patrol which was asking for help to secure the US/Mexico border to help stop the threat of terrorism and illegal drugs from crossing over.
The NFL claimed the ad was "controversial". This, coming from the organization that allows Go Daddy dot com to show ads of scantily clad women parading around selling internet wares. Hello, isn't this a family show? We should definitely be more interested in protecting our country at the porous border than watching some smutty commercial selling domain names!
From this point forward, I ask you, my tens of thousands of loyal visitors to think before you watch your next football game. What do you support? What do you stand for? Question yourselves and make the changes to be a better human, which in turn, makes us a better and stronger nation!
Borrowing Money, There is a better way.
Monday afternoon, I went in to the bank to go over some of the initial paperwork for my mortgage. About 1.5 hours later I came out of there in a dazed mess.
Lesson learned and theory confirmed: -NEVER- borrow money for anything!
Pay cash for it all Even for your house, and save yourself a lot of hassle.
I got a 15-year fixed rate mortgage @ 5.875% with 0 points and 0 origination fees, plus no early pre-payment penalty. (My credit score was 800, which confuses me since I don't use credit cards of have any debt of any kind.)
My goal is to write the final check for the balance on Dec 30, 2009. That will be my birthday present to myself on my 35th birthday. I will call in to the Dave Ramsey Show on Friday Jan 1, 2010 and scream "I'm debt free!" Of course, I may be married by then, so really we will be screaming "We're debt free!"
At that point, there will be no need to ever borrow money for anything ever again! What a glorious day! How awesome is that?!?! I am so excited right now! The thought of being able to live life, without payments of any kind ignites a desire within me to start working 80 hours a week to get there that much quicker!
One thing I've learned is, you must set goals and take steps to achieve them. It is when people don't set goals and plan for the future that they find themselves stuck and unable to move forward in all areas of their lives. Stop, plan, and take action!
How much do you spend on cable or satellite TV????
In other news, it looks like Charter cable is raising their rates on customers. That just further solidifies my stance on not having cable TV. As my friends and I have discussed lately, we are all realizing that TV really isn't adding anything of value to our lives.
I was thinking more about this today. Look at TV ratings, "Reality TV Shows" are all the rage.
But, if you step back: We are a nation of watchers, watching shows about people living their lives, while we sit cooped up inside, when we should be the ones out there living life and going on adventures! In the 1960's television was nicknamed, "The Idiot Box". I am starting to see why.
Growing up, I never had cable TV. We had rabbit ears, all the way until I was 20 years old and in my second or third year of college. I am actually thankful that my parents refused to have it (1) because of the 100% absolute garbage that is on those channels (2) it allowed me time to actually develop talents and skills in art and music and be creative!
Of course, I say all that, how I don't watch TV, but as a techno-nerd, I am plagued by techno-desires. Techno-rotica?
Last week I was in Circuit City and was checking out a Sony 60" SXRD HD DLP TV (Model # KDS-R60XBR2, $3,599). The demo DVD had HD video from Hawaii, and the picture was crystal-clear and had the most vibrant colors of any TV in the entire store. My mouth was watering. It played in 1080p.
I got to looking around and realized I would have to get a 1080p DVD player with up-convert capabilities, which is another $400 or so. Plus, I'd have to buy a stand. Then, there's all the cables. It has 3 HDMI inputs, and I definitely want to use them, so there's $60 a cable right there. I really need a new Surround Sound receiver since mine is 10 years old, there's another $1,000. So, in the end, I saved myself about $6,000 by not buying the TV. Maybe next year.
What is the deal with girls and their bathroom products?
This morning, my team lead was saying how he wished he had all the money his wife had spent at Bath and Body works. It would no doubt be a small fortune. I concurred and brought up how amazed I was at all the hair products my girlfriend has in her bathroom. She has like 6 different kinds of shampoo and conditioner plus body washes. I'm like, I have soap, shampoo, and a towel.
I am thankful that she doesn't wear make up. She's 100% got that natural skin tone beauty thing going on. The other day we were watching a video, and it had been shot early in the day when the girl had recently woken up, and she didn't have any make up on. She looked pretty rough. Not to be superficial, or, maybe to be entirely superficial, whichever: I thought how I would not enjoy waking up in the mornings and having to see "that" first thing.
It's like the Seinfeld with the good light/bad light girl. Except in this case, she looks really bad without make up, and really good with make up. Who wants to wake up in the morning and be frightened by the sight of their wife? Not me.
How many email accounts do you have?
I have 10.
Why do I need 10 email accounts? I don't know.
Yet, I can not seem to get myself to cancel any of them.
It's as if, when I close one, it's killing a little part of me.
It's not like these are my 10 fingers or 10 toes we are talking about here.
It's a freakin' email address!
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