You know who the real drains on Society are?
Go-getters.
Those driven people who blaze trails and leave carbon footprints all over the place as they strive to be the first one to the top of the mountain. With their early adoption of certain electronics that are currently filling up landfills and their incessant need to get there fast and first, they may not realize how much emissions they are personally responsible for.
I was a go getter once. I went and got what I needed and found myself atop the mountain only to find that the mountain was not a nice place to be. It was lonely and cold and people tend to want to push you off when you are up there. I was pushed from the top but I survived the fall.
I am content with being at base camp, I have been to the top and can now let the mountain weed out the materialistic from the gene pool. For now at least. I will want to get back to the top but at least I know now what I didn’t know then. I guess there are a lot of good things that come with getting old. Hopefully NIAC and The Mac will remember what they are. 
Yeah, I’m in a weird mood today. LOL I have decided that I will now just write what ever comes to mind, no direction perhaps, just write.
I’m not a go getter..but I’m not at base camp either…I guess I just kinda set up camp half way up.
By: jane on June 17, 2009
at 3:52 pm
Who’s not in a weird mood these days?
I have one more week until my vacation with sis. I really want the days off with nothing but guilt free gaming
By: Korben Dallas on June 17, 2009
at 3:58 pm
I feel I’m falling down toward base camp right now. Getting older has just made me more broke…
By: JulieMac on June 17, 2009
at 4:35 pm
I almost over came my internet shyness last night and asked you to play pinball with me Julie. *runs to log off the computer before she see this*
By: Korben Dallas on June 17, 2009
at 4:41 pm
Hmm,
I just realized … LOL, take this as you will … that if anyone actually was following along with the shit that is taxing me right now, they’d think I might be in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Change is always good, my friend(s). Even if it is one of those painful, seemingly backward changes.
At least, I hope so.
By: NIAC on June 17, 2009
at 4:53 pm
When would everyone say is the definition of ‘mid-life’? I really want to know. If Dag were here she would Google it for me.
By: Korben Dallas on June 17, 2009
at 4:56 pm
I would like to play pinball sometime JR. I haven’t played online with anyone with that game.
I was a bit busy last night packaging stuff up I sold so far on ebay (I’m selling a bunch of games and some of Mona’s sister’s stuff). Trying to raise enough $$ to pay a few of my remaining bills this month. The rest of my games finish tomorrow. Mona works a couple days this weekend so that will help as well.
Soooo…. I will be on my own on my birthday evening… anybody want to play a game? I didn’t sell any I play with others…
By: JulieMac on June 17, 2009
at 5:14 pm
Jules. That sounds awfully … “interesting”.
Anyone want to “play a game” with Jules since she didn’t sell anything she would use to play with others?
Happy almost Birthday, JulieMac – you are very close to being older than me again!!!
By: NIAC on June 17, 2009
at 5:23 pm
Birthday? Awesome mega happy birthday Julie.
Ok I will say this for the record for all to see. I am almost always up for playing online with any of you at anytime. I however will hardly ever ask you. You will almost always have to ask me. I always feel like I am bothering people when they are playing something. I barely ask Dagger or Cid to game with me. I really need to work on not feeling that way with my friends. Text talk really intimidates me is part of it. I am terrible at spelling, grammar and getting my point across. I am however working on it. I think I have gotten a lot better as of late.
By: Korben Dallas on June 17, 2009
at 5:26 pm
Stop buggin me, JR.
By: NIAC on June 17, 2009
at 5:34 pm
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By: Korben Dallas on June 17, 2009
at 5:38 pm
LOL
By: NIAC on June 17, 2009
at 5:39 pm
JR… I’m shy too.
Never noticed any issue with your writing though.
Wrote that just before I left from work. Having a poor poor pitiful me day. Feeling a little better now.
yes Mike… I would never get rid of the “entertaining things” I use to play with others.
By: JulieMac on June 17, 2009
at 8:03 pm
I will be there to game with you Jules. I actually posted a blog over at the GAP to see what game you wanted to play on your birthday.
Hehe you even have a chance to make use of your uhm, rocket? Yeah, rocket. =)
By: E_Dragon on June 18, 2009
at 3:17 am
Mid Life. Well I have always looked at the age of 40 as The Hill but that is a bit of a cliche these days. I guess technically The Hill would be 39 (current age) and turning 40 would be you ‘Over The Hill’.
*shrugs*
I feel like I am nearing if not accepting my mid life, perhaps that is the weirdness that I have been feeling as of late. No that is actually me just missing a damn computer. Moving on. =)
Well since I haven’t been able to sleep at all and it is 4:30 in the morning, I guess I will just turn off this ugly computer, did I mention that I hate this computer, WINDOWS and miss the mac I had? Yeah, sorry. =)
Holy shit!! Realization. I will be forty fucking years old in a few months. I think I will take this moment of realization to look back and remember all of my friends and family who are not here to witness it with is me.
- My father. I still miss him, terribly. R.I.P. Dad.
- My first cousin. He would have already turned 40, last September. R.I.P. my brother.
- My Sister in Law (& bro). I miss her and her hubby who was a great friend of mine even before he and my late sister in law met. They are missed, R.I.P. Jeanine and Marv.
- Good friends that I have lost touch with and cannot find anymore, even online. I really hope that Lisa Chantel is doing okay. I miss her too.
Having said that I will do the full 360 view of being up here and look forward to all that I have yet to see and experience.
- My sons and all that they have yet to go through, with me at their sides holding them up, supporting them as they learn to walk (George the Third can walk holding on to one hand now), as they learn about themselves and how awesome it is to be a big brother (AE is an awesome big brother) and yes, girls (DJ and girls, nuff said).
I have much to be thankful for and if this thread is any indication, it is okay to feel old. It is okay to acknowledge where you are on the mountain and it WILL be okay because of great people in my life.
By: E_Dragon on June 18, 2009
at 3:37 am
Look this is when I leave for work. Damn it’s early.
By: Korben Dallas on June 18, 2009
at 3:40 am
Have a great day JR. Run over a squirrel for NIAC cause you know he would want you to. =)
By: E_Dragon on June 18, 2009
at 3:47 am
You know we actually had two dead squirrels in the park yesterday.
Now I’m home waiting for the plumber, thats always fun.
By: Korben Dallas on June 18, 2009
at 6:09 am
Oh I Googled ‘Mid Life’ and yes I’m afraid at least three of us (maybe more) are transitioning into it.
By: Korben Dallas on June 18, 2009
at 6:10 am
It’s good to know you don’t need Dagger to Google.
Yeah we are probably in the mid-range…
By: JulieMac on June 18, 2009
at 6:25 am
So how was it JR? Googling The Mac? =)
By: E_Dragon on June 18, 2009
at 3:17 pm
I would have rather been oogling the Mac
By: Korben Dallas on June 18, 2009
at 4:06 pm
LOL Oogling. I haven’t oogled since grade eight. LOL Shuddup. =)
By: E_Dragon on June 18, 2009
at 4:42 pm
I know how you feel JR, I don’t like to bother people or harass them, but now that I know you’re usually game let the harassment commence!
By: sethb78 on June 19, 2009
at 7:29 am
On the whole ‘mid life’ thing. The definition gives a broad range for age, between 30 and 60 in fact. It basically says it’s a time of finding ones self. More of a spiritual thing and a time of finding ones true adult self.
I don’t know? Thats just what Google had to say
By: Korben Dallas on June 19, 2009
at 4:36 pm
LOL, sorry for redirecting your blog, Little Brother. I should state, for the record, that I plan to have a mid-life crisis immediately after all this shit is done. I think I deserve it. Now, back to George’s original thought. Something about roasting marshmellows or shaving or something.
By: NIAC on June 19, 2009
at 9:09 pm
Shaving somthing?
By: Dagger_32 on June 20, 2009
at 7:44 am