ramblings about nothing in particular

old friend of mine suggested to me in an email that i become part of the facebook nation. i've resisted for some reason. why? who knows but i have a couple deep, dark, secret thoughts on how facebook is permanently warping the minds of the young in to gray mush. i've been asked several times by other people to do the same but i haven't.

what i do do is twitter. it's simple, quick, and easy. i read somewhere once that someone described twitter as, "the ability to text the world." responses are short and curt and the ability to put in pics or videos. actually very simple to do. i can even send a "tweet" from my cell phone. that in itself is neat because i have an antiquated cell phone that doesn't allow me to do a whole hell of a lot.

kind of like blogging like i do here. something to do, something i like. if only i could make some money doing it, it'd be more worthwhile. i KNOW i could find things to blog about. i can type pretty well even though i don't ike using the caps button. it's just an extra step to take to type. I GUESS IT BEATS HAVING TO TYPE LIKE THIS IN ALL CAPS. then i'll get "yelled at" because my typing in call caps likens it to yelling. gee whiz,...

somehow i found hubpages. kind of a neat way of blogging. basically people go on there and blog about one thing or another but the premise is to put down something as a guide or instruction manual for others to read. you get "fans" who can leave comments or whatever. anyone can search the database to find an article about something in particular. mine is kind of intriguing (to me). i have 10 or so articles i've typed up and published on hubpages. the majority of them are about cooking. i can see how many times my "hubs" have been looked at and some of my cooking ones are all alone at the top; i mean none of the others are any where close when it comes to page views. it's like a 3 : 1 ratio. my one for making gumbo and roast pork loin are #1 and #2. well, i do like to cook,...

i could easily be a computer nut who sits in front of one all day. i can also see my ass getting twice the size it currently is if that happens. i can type about mindless things all day long and read what others have written. my add would be worse than ever if that happened. i'd be one of those who would have to have 6 monitors so i could look at 6 different topics all at the same time. i'd be frazzled in less than 30 minutes.

talked to a guy here at work yesterday about how things used to be before cell phones. what a pain. here's one; on the docks in long beach, ca prepping the adriatic iv (drilling rig) to go from there to singapore on a dry tow. i was in charge of all the supplies we were getting trucked in and putting them on the rig. pallet after pallet after shipping container full of things for working in singapore and the north sea. spent a week on the docks getting things put on the rig.

the crane operator was up in his crane, about 150 ft above me. i couldn't yell at him and robert was a little guy and he couldn't yell at me. he had a big vioce but with all the other dock noises it made it impossible. we both had our cell phones. he lived in lakeland, fl at the time and me back in indiana. we communicated using our phones. it seemed odd that we were so close but were using phones from indiana and florida to communicate in california. but it worked and we got things done. mind you, there are days i want to take my phone and pitch it on the highway for it to get crushed.

off i go back to the real world. enough blogging for now to the loyal handful who read my babbling posts. maybe this week i'll win the lottery and be able to blog all the time about all the wineries and beaches i'll be visiting, the blackjack tables at the casinos i'll be losing money to, and the races i'll be going to wearing only my cut off bibs and straw hat (don't have either, don't worry).