A Bachelors Blog

Back in the day when I was in the Infantry, we did this drill. NBC Warfare was what it was all about... and as awesome and awful as it was, I see that it was necessary... as it is still necessary to transition into my true topic! *Insert Devious and malcontentish laughter here*  AHEM... yes, well... shall we continue? Let me just start up "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles... Good, good!!   Now, proper procedure for NBC warfare scenarios (Nuclear/Biological/Chemical) in Cold War Era training regimens was to immediately, with no hesitation, tear open the carrier pouch for the gas mask, set it on our heads, shout GAS GAS GAS, thrice...damn rights, I said thrice!! And then put your helmet on, check the seals etc and prepare for contact.  Last time I was ever gassed in the Army, my trench partner, Private Homer (fitting name, by the way), panicked and dropped his rifle, helmet and gas mask in the bottom of the trench and ran away.     As soon as I was ba...

So my optimistic "Ill write out my blog ideas next weekend" turned into five weeks or so...  It's been that frenetic.   And I am currently listening to a song with dripping water and man does that make me wanna go pee.  I digress...  Also, I tend to start posts and paragraphs with the word So.  I was once told that my best stories would always begin with a deep breath, a 'So" and then a bloated pause before the ridiculousness would begin.  Indeed.  Getting back to my ideas on marriage as well as other things... I will tell you all this.  Marriage needs to change. Like TV had to change, and humans had to change, and the dinosaurs had to cha...oh...err.. yeah... you see what happens when change is not factored in?     Personally, my view is that Marriage is now unnecessary in our cosmopolitan and ever changing "family dynamic". The world has changed so much and the advent of the Interweb and Divorce losing its social stigma's a...