All up in mah faic!

So the other day whilest I was parrusing through town on my way to the bus station, this random guy with a rolled up American flag comes walkin' up from the other direction and starts yellin' somethin' at me. Now usually when I'm out for a jaunt, I take my bag and my earphones and this event was not different, so, naturally I sorta heard him over the sound of my tunes (which, in all honesty is pretty impressive considering that they're skullcandies and I had the volume up to I could hear it above the traffic I was walking adjacent to) and had to take one out and say "What?"
Anywho, they guy, whom I'll refer to as Danny since I didn't ever catch his name, starts in on this whole angry rant sermon about how we as Americans no longer respect the iscription on the dollar bill "In God We Trust". It was sort of a long-winded speech and laced with quiet a bit of colorful language, but the gist of what he wanted to know was is it in God we trust or in money we trust. This kind of struck me as odd because not an hour before that encounter, my family and I had just finishced meeting with another prominant couple in our church to get to know each other better and, surprise-surprise, this same topic, among other things, had come up whilest we were discussing each others lives the current world events.
So I got to thinking, where DO we place our trust? Is it God? Is it money? Gold? Stocks? bonds? To where will we turn when we experience the further effects of this ressession in the next several years? Let me hear what you think.

Randomocity#3

So I'm pickin' up some paramecium cheese from the grocer's the other day and as I'm tryin' t' find an open check-out lane, I overhear this dude in one of the lanes talkin' the manager's ear off about macroeconomics or something or other. Now normally I wouldn't pay too much attention to something like a conversation about how the government spends it's money in a check-out line, but this guy was being very adamant about what he was saying, like he was off on a rant or something. It didn't seem like he was angry, but he sounded like he was in some college debate class trying to push his point on the guy at the counter (a.k.a. Mr. ManagerGuy). Not only that, he was there talkin' longer than I'd probably been in the store and when I left, he still flappin' his jaw at the guy. I didn't say anything but in my head I'm goin' "Dude! Jus' pay yer bill an' leave the macroecon sermon to for the econ classes!" It just seemed like he was there just to show off his proficiency in pop economic psycho-babel or some other crap like that. Just slightly annoying.
And then there was the guy in front of me. Now this guy was a whole different kind of annoying altogether and his act didn't last nearly as long as captain economics two lanes over. He was minding his own beeswax and just checkin-out when he took it a step further. After he handed the cashier the money to pay, he started lookin' at something toward the front of the store, away from the cashier and instead of turning to the cashier to take his change, he keeps looking at whatever it was that had so rivitingly grabbed his attention and just stuck out his cupped hand in her general direction. I hate to complain and sound nit-picky, but WHAT THE CRAP?!? Rude! Annoyingly rude, no less!
I guess common sense has gone to the dogs.

JAck out.

The Karate Kid?

If you've seen the new trailer on youtube for the new karate kid movie that's coming out this year, you may be asking yourself why they never bothered to change the name. According to the trailer, the new Mr. Miagi (or however you spell it), played by Jacki Chan, is teaching his new student kung fu. KUNG FU! So why are they naming the movie KARATE kid?? If I go to see a karate kid movie, I wanna see the main character practicing and learning KARATE, not kung fu! What the heck!!! I can see that someone wanted to cash in on the successful Karate kid franchise, but seriously now, call it what it is! Call it Kung Fu Kid, that's what it is. Besides, there's probably more people who'd go see that than would go see Karate Kid.

Back from the dead and other random stuff

Holy crap! I totally forgot about my blog again! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCKK!!!!!
Okay, anywho, I'm back and I'll try not to leave such a great space between future posts, just been a li'l ca-ray-zay if'n yaknow wut I mean.

So, the other day I'm on my way home from the library to meet pops at the farmer's market in town, right, and outta the blue this random kid on the other side of the street sees me, books it across the main road (which by that time was kinda busy, mind you) and starts askin' me, point blank, if I got change. Now I'm standin' there lookin' at 'im all blank and thinkin' to myself 'why don't you go home and ask momma or somethin' instead of runnin' up to some random dude walkin' down the street whom, by the way, you don't even know'. Now, of course, being the polite, and broke, teenage college student that I am, I shrewdly and gently answered with a firm 'No' and kept on walkin'. Now, I guess I can understand that he needed change, whether it be for the bus or something like that, but still, random. But then, not nearly as off-the-wall random as what happened to me a couple of days earlier on the way to the library.
I was walkin' through the parking lot of this convenience store which happened to be on my way there and this white mini-van drives up past me and parks a few yards ahead of me. Now, normally I wouldn't give even half a cent about that, especially since you consider the fact that I was, in fact traveling through a parking lot, right? So, naturally, I thought nothing of it and kept on walkin' by. It's what happened when I came about abreast of the vehicle in question that caught me a little off-guard. The lady driving the van had seen me, I guess, and must've thought I'd broke down somewhere in the parking lot because she hopped out real fast with a box in her hand, ran 'round the front of the van and aproaches me with the car-charger-in-a-box and blurts out without a second thought 'here, you look like you need this!'
Now don't get me wrong, I love gettin' free stuff. Who doesn't? In this case, though, all I needed at that moment was to be at the library. Compound that by both the fact that this is a complete stranger we're talkin' about and my current lack of ownership of a working vehicle and now you fully understand my utter confusion and bamboozlement at that exact moment. In my mind I'm thinkin' 'what is this, am I on camera or somethin'? Who the heck are you??', but, again, I didn't say that out loud, instead opting for the slightly more polite response: '..Uh, no thanks, I'm good.', and kept on walkin'.

So... yeah. Random.

Jack out.