Ancker’s Limited Infinity

I don’t know about that title, for some reason that phrase popped into my head the other day….and I like it.
I don’t think it has any significance, at least not for anything in my life.

Yeah, been a while since I’ve updated, I don’t care.

My passenger side headlight is out and if I remember correctly, it was a PAIN to change.

Today is my birthday, I’ll be on the phone with my Insurance company tomorrow. :)
It’ll be nice to have a bill go down instead of up.

I’m not exactly the most charitable person. I tend to avoid people collecting money or asking for charitable donations.
That isn’t to say that I wouldn’t donate to a charity or something I felt worth contributing to, but I don’t generally go for that sort of thing.
I don’t want to sound like a selfish jerk, I just feel like my money is better spent on those around me, not on new office chairs for the Salvation Army’s execs.

I was pretty upset with Dick’s Sporting Goods on Monday evening.
I went to buy a shirt and was greeted with the normal “would you like to sign up for our rewards card?” junk. I declined.
It was immediately followed by “we’re also accepting donations to the blah blah blah, how much do you want to donate; one, five, or ten dollars?” ……….
Notice it wasn’t “Would you like to donate” or “Do you care to donate.”
While the Charity they mentioned isn’t one I’m completely against, I didn’t like the feeling of being pressured into donating.
I don’t mind when places ask or put out the jar or whatever to passively collect, but putting in the form of “we expect you to donate, but you can opt out if you want to” is horrible.
Maybe the guy gets $0.30 for every dollar that gets donated, and this is how he grabs that extra few bucks, but I think its the wrong thing to do.

People want to feel like its out of the goodness of their hearts when they donate, they don’t want it forced on them. We have a name for “donations” like that, they’re called ‘taxes.’
People hate taxes because they are taken from us. We would feel much better about them if they were voluntary. (obviously if they were voluntary, most people wouldn’t pay) BUT, maybe if Uncle Sam didn’t make $5431421e21 in taxes every year, they’d think a little bit more about how they spent it. And if they thought a little more about it, better things would happen. And if better things would happen, you’d likely get more people to contribute.

Pics Here.

Overall fun game. I lost though.
Next game is no earlier than September 08.
We have a strict 2-month:hours played rule.

So I splurged a little.

The funny thing is, it’ll likely go without a SIM card most of the time and end up more like an iPod.
I may write up a crude review later.

So I splurged a little.

The funny thing is, it’ll likely go without a SIM card most of the time and end up more like an iPod.
I may write up a crude review later.

Vater Unser, der Du bist im Himmel. Geheiligt werde Dein Name.
Dein Reich Komme, Dein Wille geschehe, wie im Himmel, also auch auf Erden.
Unser taglich Brot gib uns heute. Und vergeben unsere Schuld, als wir vergeben unseren Schuldigen.
Und fuhre uns nicht in Versuchung. Sondern erlose uns von dem Ubel.
Denn Dein ist das Reich und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit in Ewigkeit.
Amen.

I think the conversation was something like

Person: “There’s Synchronized swimming”
Me: “Synchronized swimming is dumb, why is it an Olympic sport?”
“Who cares if you can swim exactly like the person next to you.”
“Do they have a Solo Competition?”
Person: “Umm, I dunno”
Me: “Wouldn’t it then just be called _Swimming_?”

Well, little did I know. It actually was an Olympic sport
See Here
1984 1988 and 1992. Luckily someone woke up after 1992 and decided it shouldn’t be an Olympic sport….too bad they didn’t realize it shouldn’t be allowed period.