It's MAY?
I think my last day at my second job is tomorrow. Or it could have been Saturday. I'm not really sure because I've been told not to come in every day since Saturday, and as I asked for tomorrow to be my last day yet have not worked at all this week---well, I'm just not sure. Will they call me in on principle? Or will I get to stay late at my day job tomorrow and chauffeur someone all the way to Middleburg Heights in exchange for free and brake work? Only time will tell.
Today I realized it's May. May 23rd, no less. I'm not sure why this is such a shock. Surely I see this date flashing on my phone all day long. I type it rather frequently. I even laugh at other people for not knowing the day. Yet somehow the fact that it's the end of May has totally sneaked up behind me and whacked me thusly on the back of the head. Damn you, time!
In an effort to get back to blogging, I decided to do what my brother "The Skipper" (also known on the internet as InstantRice) does and use the Iron Man Blogging Competition contest topic of the day for a little inspiration. Skip was technically disqualified because of his raging venereal disease---er---because of his failure to post on April 7th. Pooooor Skipper.
It appears that today's topic is "Is China the Next Super Power?"
My answer to this questions is "dare to dream." Sure! China can be the next super power if it wants to. Let's all take turns! China has a lot in their favor. Lots of land, several differing climates and geographical regions, the Mandarin language (which I'm told is the most spoken language in the world), and a lot of different ways of cooking tofu. After that I think maybe New Zealand should get to be a super power because they're sort of like the redheaded stepchild to Australia. I imagine people from NZ are often complimented on their cool "Australian" accents all the time, and I also imagine that makes them spit with rage.
Sometimes I think it would be cool to be the leader of a super power, but then I think about LeBron James. In case you live in a bubble and don't know who LeBron James is, he's a very young and very talented basketball player from the Cleveland Area. People call him various sporting type nicknames such as "King James" and the "L-Train" and most recently "LBJ," which I misunderstood and took for "Linden B. Johnson." I was really shocked that they were bring up history at a basketball game and was remarking that more people should remember our past leaders when Bryan pointed out that I am both elderly and insane and that LBJ now stands for LeBron James, and I'd be a fool to forget it.
Anyway, yes, LeBron and Super Powers. There was a connection there, and....ah! I remember what I was posting about again. When the team does well everyone gives him praise and talks about how he's the next Michael Jordan, but when someone else fails a shot they criticize him for not knowing not to pass the ball. However, if he stopped passing the ball he'd be criticized for being a ball hog. He gets all the glory and all of the hate at the same time. I know this is a much smaller scale thing than an actual world leader would face, but I'm pretty sure the same sort of comparison would apply.
Heck, if China wants to be a super power they can be my guest. Not that it's really UP to me, but, I figure I might as well acquiesce while the acquiescing's good.
Today I realized it's May. May 23rd, no less. I'm not sure why this is such a shock. Surely I see this date flashing on my phone all day long. I type it rather frequently. I even laugh at other people for not knowing the day. Yet somehow the fact that it's the end of May has totally sneaked up behind me and whacked me thusly on the back of the head. Damn you, time!
In an effort to get back to blogging, I decided to do what my brother "The Skipper" (also known on the internet as InstantRice) does and use the Iron Man Blogging Competition contest topic of the day for a little inspiration. Skip was technically disqualified because of his raging venereal disease---er---because of his failure to post on April 7th. Pooooor Skipper.
It appears that today's topic is "Is China the Next Super Power?"
My answer to this questions is "dare to dream." Sure! China can be the next super power if it wants to. Let's all take turns! China has a lot in their favor. Lots of land, several differing climates and geographical regions, the Mandarin language (which I'm told is the most spoken language in the world), and a lot of different ways of cooking tofu. After that I think maybe New Zealand should get to be a super power because they're sort of like the redheaded stepchild to Australia. I imagine people from NZ are often complimented on their cool "Australian" accents all the time, and I also imagine that makes them spit with rage.
Sometimes I think it would be cool to be the leader of a super power, but then I think about LeBron James. In case you live in a bubble and don't know who LeBron James is, he's a very young and very talented basketball player from the Cleveland Area. People call him various sporting type nicknames such as "King James" and the "L-Train" and most recently "LBJ," which I misunderstood and took for "Linden B. Johnson." I was really shocked that they were bring up history at a basketball game and was remarking that more people should remember our past leaders when Bryan pointed out that I am both elderly and insane and that LBJ now stands for LeBron James, and I'd be a fool to forget it.
Anyway, yes, LeBron and Super Powers. There was a connection there, and....ah! I remember what I was posting about again. When the team does well everyone gives him praise and talks about how he's the next Michael Jordan, but when someone else fails a shot they criticize him for not knowing not to pass the ball. However, if he stopped passing the ball he'd be criticized for being a ball hog. He gets all the glory and all of the hate at the same time. I know this is a much smaller scale thing than an actual world leader would face, but I'm pretty sure the same sort of comparison would apply.
Heck, if China wants to be a super power they can be my guest. Not that it's really UP to me, but, I figure I might as well acquiesce while the acquiescing's good.
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