MY COMPUTER HAS MORE HAIR THAN I DO!

Well, that tears it!  Makes me wonder why I even try.  Here I was writing some poetry for this blog.  I was just in the third stanza so I haven’t saved it yet and Word decides it doesn’t want to play anymore.

So, being an aging mind I can’t recall all I had written.  Granted, this was a freak accident that may never happen again.  But the reason I have a computer is to remind me of things I can’t remember.   For example, writing poems or stories.  When I am writing my mind tends to wander just as it does whenever I am doing anything at all.  I can keep my attention as long as I can look at what I just wrote.  It enables me to remain in the moment and stay on track.  Just like I am doing right now.

When I was a younger man and had more hair that was never a problem for me.  I was able to concentrate on multiple things at a time and not lose my train of thought.  Hey! I think I’ve just made scientific breakthrough!   Stay with me here.  When we are younger, we have lots of nice healthy looking hair and we are able to learn.  But as we age, the hair thins or just plain falls out.  It loses its silkiness and just goes off into hair heaven.

Now you have to put on your imagination cap, if for no other reason than to cover up that bald spot, and consider this.  What if the amount of knowledge t hat you are able to access is directly related to the number of active hair follicles that are on your head.  Think about this, if you are still able.  We often hear that the brain is akin to a computer.  So, how?  Well, maybe the brain works like a motherboard with a built in processor.  When you search for something on your computer you type in what you are looking for, the processor finds where it is and brings it to your computer screen.  Now where does the processor find just the right stuff?  Most likely it is saved somewhere on your hard drive.   However, if you don’t have enough RAM, the computer can’t deliver it to you.

So let’s say that the human brain is your processor that locates your saved information and puts in on display as an image in your mind.  While it may be true that we only use 5% of our brain, it may be that we actually use a much bigger percentage but find ourselves unable to access most of the stuff we know because we don’t have enough RAM to allow that.  Why?  Well, at some point in our lives we have attained so much knowledge it is unreal.  Is it still there?  I think so.  Then why can’t I access it?  The answer is Random Access Memory, or RAM.  We don’t have as much as we used too.  Well, what happened to it?  Consider this.  RAM on humans is represented by active hair follicles.  As the follicle dies, the hair falls out and things we before were able to recollect with the snap of a finger, now takes a while because there is not enough RAM to handle everything you have going on at the moment.  Your hair could be available RAM.  Therefore, as your hair goes, so does your memory. 

There. I’ve solved the age old mystery about memory and hair loss.   If you don’t want to lose your mind, then take good care of your hair.   Have a nice day. :)

I'm just too stupid

Good morning, all of you blog readers out there!  It has been nearly a week since I've posted anything on here and it makes me wonder, "What has been going on to distract me so?"  Well, as you know by now, I finished my book (which still needs a name) and I have been doing the final edit so that I can present it to publishers and hope to get it on all the book shelves in the world.  That in itself takes some time.  I want to get it just right so that I won't have to wait for a publisher to publish it.  Some people say that with the advent of e-books, the real books are on their way out.  To them I say "Pshaw!"  Many people still prefer to hold an actual book in their hands, enjoy the smell of it and actually turn pages and dog-ear them.  Also, for the price of an Ipad 2 you could purchase around 50 books and have them on display in your home to impress people with your literary prowess.

So, there is still a bunch of readers who prefer books.  Another upside is that Hollywood is out of ideas.  They need books to make movies out of.  So, here I am, Mr. or Ms. Publisher. 

Another distraction has been how the world is falling apart.  The entire Middle East is trying to wipe itself off the planet, what with all the wars and uprisings happening there.  Then there are the terrorists who are bent on destroying mankind as a whole.  Volcanoes erupting, a tsunami in Australia and now a big one in Japan that has done so much damage that the Japanese a scurrying to try to prevent several nuclear meltdowns which, I read, may have already begun.  

Newly elected Republican Governors and State Republican Representatives are doing there best to take away the rights of the same Americans that put them in office by destroying unions.  Many of you and other misinformed readers are saying I don't have a union and my company is treating me well.  To them I say, catch up on the history of the labor movement in this country.  Before the unions, we were a country that produced things without any benefits at all.  Paltry wages, no health care, no sick pay, no 40 hour work week (which I believe is still too long) all managed by some hairy sweaty man with a strap that would beat you if he caught you unnecessarily breathing while on the job.  Forget about a bathroom break. These are all things our grandparents and great grandparents had to suffer through to bring us into the much nicer world of today.  We have the benefits, freedoms and rights at work that we have because of the labor movement in America almost a hundred years ago.  That's right, I said America.  This seems to have been lost on the gen-x, y and whatever generation is out there now.  You have the freedoms and privileges you have today because of the price the generations before you paid.  Even if you don't have a union.  You have these things because of the union movements from way before you were born.  Don't let politicians who are only in government to have power and keep a definite separation between the rich and the poor in place, or else we will soon become another third world country who uses child labor, slaves and sweat shops that will support only the wealthy.

So what else?  Well, there is the threat that the NFL will have a lockout after all and there may be no season this year.  I know, a lot of you are thinking "Big deal.  Football is not a necessity."  Well, you are right and wrong.  Forget the players and the teams owners.  Think about the custodial crew, concessions, the grounds keepers, people that make and sell team apparel and all the other supporting workers that will lose their jobs if the selfish owners and self-centered players can't get their act together.  This could result in a major blow to our already languishing economy.  

Do you find all this as depressing as I do?  I hope so.  The world is in turmoil.  Our nation, itself, faces a very serious threat of losing the very rights we were founded on. Stand up for your rights!  Do NOT let anyone take them away from you.  Every right, every freedom you have is because someone before you gave their life to see to it that you have them.  Do not let corporate greed or political greed take any of those things from you.  VOTE!  You have the power to change things for the better.