Admiration & Persecution

Thus far quiet days with my ex and at home, just the way I like it. I want to wish Roisin and her father a great day as he is 80 years old. It was somewhat of a sad day but one has too step back and admire the amount of things people that age have seen and experienced. It always amazes me the stuff people have gone through. Now imagine an immigrant whom left his home and made the journey to a new and different place. That alone is to admire. Sadly me and my generation will not see nearly as many changes and events as our parents and grandparents. Maybe one reason why I joined the Navy to maybe get a hope of experiencing world changing events even as small as our current events.

Finished reading State Of Fear by Michael Crichton and I highly recommend this book and I feel is a must read for everyone. I decided to stay with Crichton and read Next. I liked Next as it pointed out many things about gene manipulation and gene patents. Coincidence that Crichton died early in life from cancer. Hmmmm. Another must read book for everyone. My next read I decided to finally buy Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. This book may be the very first book written about time travel but it was used to point out society from that era and Twain's time.

I was slowly looking to get my upgrade before I leave and it seems cell phone companies are again screwing consumers. Amazing how they price fix and raise prices even more. Amazing how some cell bills are the same as car payments lately. Now you are paying full price for phones on top of the cell bill itself. No more subsidized phones. I guess I will keep my old phone and when I get back turn it into pre-paid. These companies are going to loose customers once people realize this. Now I hope cell phone companies start to lower the prices of devices as they are too high.

I have to go on a minor rant on a big subject and that is Edward Snowden and this administration treating him like a spy. Funny how they trash his background yet hire him to run the computers that spy on us. Now this administration is eager to catch him to shut him up. An administration whom promised to be transparent and to help whistle-blowers yet they persecute them. On the other hand we we have Holder and the administration providing guns to Mexico causing so much havoc and now Syrian rebels which in turn will be pointing those guns at our military. Yes your sons, daughter, wives and husbands will one day be on the other end of a gun provided by our government. So much secrecy with the IRS and Benghazi to begin with and we are concerned about a guy whom just pointed out what he did. Please, we need to wake up.

Microsoft has decided to change its policies on the new XBOX One after so much backlash. It will no longer require an internet connection and games can be traded as before with no restrictions. However the Kinect sensor and its capabilities are still an issue. Sony however right now ahead with its lower price tag advertised. Also to note I got the urge this week to play some video games which I haven't played in weeks. Wanted to download State of Decay to find out it has been having issues downloading. So I never got to download it to play it. Thanks Microsoft. Playstation on the other hand has released Last Of Us and it looks like game of the year already. For some reason Sony tends to back and put forwards awesome story telling games.

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