I am just amazed at the amount of coverage she is getting, instead of actual issues getting covered. Seems like so much of these campaigns are about telling us what the other candidates don’t know as opposed to what they are going to do.

I get it. Palin isn’t as qualified as you would want. But, right now I am wondering who has a solution to our nation’s current issues. I haven’t heard any specific solutions. Instead everyone seems to be dissing the others and pointing out inconsistencies in their statements. Both sides are trying to convince us their the right choice to solve our current crisis, but haven’t told us how and why it’s going to work.

I would think that some quality solutions being mentioned would make the choice obvious for Americans… no ? Our goverment is packed with underqualified and unproductive politicians. We have shows on TV that focus on just politics and deal out quality entertainment on a nightly basis – based on people running our country.

So instead of talking about what the others don’t know. Somebody start helping us understand what you know that is some worth to our country at the moment.  Thank you….

If not.. maybe 4 years of Tina Fey making us laugh is worth the risk of McCain dropping dead.

It’s all about you now. Lets not just limit it to iPhones. Lets talk about what you want to talk about. Anything, it’s your call. Did you have dinner yet today ? What’s on the agenda for tomorrow ?

What makes you care ? I don’t understand why I cared, although I’m sure it made sense at the time of my orignal posts.  If you’ve got any new info on the relationship, let me know. Cause if you care, I want to know. Cause it’s all about you now!

How old are you ? Where do you live ? What kind of car do you drive ? Favorite color ? What time is it where you are ? Any pets ? This is your chance to let a complete stranger know whatever you want them to know… I’m here for you. I can’t make any long term promises. But I can definitely say I’m gonna get to know you.. if you give me a chance.

My new initative is to make it all about you — as opposed to me.

What color is your dead pixel ? Where is it on the screen ? What’s the make/model ? Screen Size ?

I’ll help you get through this, if you help me understand what makes you tick. ok ?

What have you been watching lately ? You dig the HDTV experience ? Do you have a satisfactory selection of programs to watch ? You got a 1080p thing going ? Do you like pudding ? You have Tivo.

I’m interested. So , let me know and I’m gonna help you through whatever it is you are going through. Or at least listen. How’s that ?

But because I am trying to learn more about you in my latest initiative. I want to know how you got here. And more importantly, I want to know more about you. What you tell me is up to you, it doesn’t have to be about hot teacher – sorry for not following through on what you were searching for… Lets just try to start out with a clean slate and forget about my failings in that arena.
Shoot… I’m listening. What makes you… you ?

My new initiative here is that it’s all about you. I want to know. I really can’t say how it’s changed my life. All I know is that I see that my posts from a while back seem to still generate hits … why ?

Why are you here ? did you get here via a search engine ? or did you hit another post here and were bored enough to figure out what the hell kind of idiot spends his time writing about Saddam getting hung.

So.. let me know what it all means to you. Don’t stop at Saddam. Let me know about you… I’ll care if it’s the last thing I do.

But given my new agenda of “It’s all about you”, I want to know what’s up with Britney from your perspective. Is she still unstable ? Does she have her kids still ? What’s up with her and Kevin ? What’s up with her music career ? Does she still speak with an english accent ? Does she still do drugs ?

More importantly.. how do you feel about it ? What does Britney make you feel ? How does it affect your life. Yes… I want to know. More importantly. I want to care. Can you help me out ?

So should I rekindle that obsession ? If so, why ? What do you like ? What don’t you like ? Anyone gonna be winning an emmy ? Storyline quality ? Getting old ? Better than before ? Cheesy ?

I want to know about you! What makes you tick ? Don’t bother trying to understand me… it’s all about you now. ok ?

If you want to tell me about your new dog, or your latest obsession… feel free. To be honest, I don’t care about your dog at the moment, but I’m gonna try my darndest to care about you. This…. I can promise you.

It’s common for me to be in conversation with someone and do the minimal amount of interaction to qualify as a conversation…. While thinking about something completely different. Usually something completely random and insignificant to my life except my desire to understand something. I’m good in a conversation that is about me discovering details about something of interest at the moment. But as soon as that interest is gone, I’m in a whole different world.

Why is this ? Hell if I know.

Today’s thought was that it’s about “new”.  It’s like every topic/thought in my life has an expiration date.  Once introduced, it becomes a goal to understand it fully, but as soon as I have significantly explored it. It’s gone for good. The next topic/thought will fully replace it.

Is this A.D.D. ? I really don’t know. The expiration date is not a set time frame. It can actually be quite long and lead to almost a hyperfocus on a topic/thought. Any diversion trying to divert that focus is met with great resistance.

Is it personal ? Naw. I know it’s not. I do care about others, and very deeply.  But transition is the tough part. It’s like I can only be in one mode at a time. They don’t mix. If that makes sense.

Can I be understood ? Anyone out there get this ? Doesn’t seem like many people in my world get it, and I’m not even saying I get it. This is just my theory in a moment that in itself is expiring soon I’m sure.

Barry Gibb’s upper lip. The moment I saw it on American Idol (actually the lack of an upper lip), it was the center of my world until I could come to terms with “why”.

Cajun Turkey – I discovered it at age 37 and it became an obsession till it expired. I couldn’t just add it to a rotation of meals… It needed to be constant. Now.. it doesn’t exist in my world.

So… the new goal is to try an experiment called – It’s all about you. I’m going to try and make all my conversations be about learning about others. As if my thoughts/feelings are meaningless. The goal will be to learn all I can about anyone I talk to.  In thinking about it, it’s still about me… as I have a goal to experience a change in me. But… I have to start somewhere.  Now I just need to guard myself from having something they say create a new though process that doesn’t include them.

Is there hope ? Anyone out there understand all this ? If you got this far, it’s a strong possibility you do. If so, let me know. Power in numbers, maybe we can find a cure or coping mechanism. deal ?

As much as I’d like to believe that we should have won that game, I truly believe that the best thing we had going for us is that the Vikings didn’t run Adrian Peterson more. They ran Chester Taylor 23 times, so it’s like they wasted 23 bullets and Adrian Peterson only needed 20 to get 221 yards and 3 TD’s.

It’s a shame that Devin Hester’s heroics went to waste, he had another great game and is now making a large impact on the offense. I also saw alot of positive things about our offense in this game. They seem like they now have the will to comeback, which is something they didn’t seem to have with Rex Grossman. I think anyone who would contend that moving to Griese as our starter was a mistake is delusional. Griese is doing his fair share of making things happen on offense. He seems to do a bit more touch passing than Grossman did, which is kind of scary when you see the higher arc on the ball on some of the short passes. The longer the ball is in the air on short passes, usually means the more chance there is for someone to defend. But so far, Griese has done it in the right situations and placed them effectively. 381 yards of passing ain’t too shabby.

My one gripe is — Why did we abandon the run in the second half ? Even before we needed to, we started slipping back into our primary attack being passing. I though Benson had a very good first half. I also think that our running game set up the long pass. Even though the DB slipped, it’s just nice to be getting single coverage on your #1 receiver, and that comes from effectively running the ball. But hey.. who notices that kind of thing anymore ? Certainly not Turner, who decided that we needed to pass more in the second half. The longer Peterson sat on the bench, the better in my opinion. Why not run some clock and get their defense tired ? Oh well, it was Adrian Peterson’s game, we were all just there to watch.