A Bachelors Blog

....oooooh Dell Support... why must you hate me so? I try to love you, I try to be reasonable and friendly... I simply want a price quote on a product. A power supply, nothing serious, Dell. Why must you insist on my phone #, address, shoe size, last rectal exam, and favorite book??? Why?!? ....You know, don't you Dell... my secret? You are aware of my absolute hatred of you... you can feel it across the phone lines, the interweb ether.. you know I scowl and judge you out there in India... I can smelllllllllll you. I even hung up on you politely, Dell. My restraint was remarkable, even to me! Could you not simply give me a price quote? A simple number? You had the item, I heard you rattling off the product code and wattage..it was what I needed!!! I NEEDED that item, I was squirming..and you KNEW it...so you teased me and made me jump through yer hoops.... ooooh but I won in the end.. I hung up on you before your GPS satellites could find me! ...You are closing in though.. I can s...

So all of this relational chatter got me to thinking and pondering... and meandering and mulling... Eventually my mind ground to a halt at our passions. Relational passion is alike, yet oddly different, from other passions in life...but I digress. I want to talk about our passions in life, for ourselves... what puts the light in our eyes? What excites us even as it frustrates, tires, and consumes our valuable time? I have three constants in my life as far as things I am passionate about. 1) Reading/writing - Sadly I can't separate these two, because for me they simply go hand in hand. It's not the case for alot of folks. I know univ. students who write their brains out and never touch a book outside of a text, and I know readers who won't touch a pen if a gun was aimed at them. I have been writing and reading as long as I can remember, and one of my great and quiet joys in life is to know that the stuff I write will make someone laugh, smile, think, or have some sort of...