A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

- Bob Dylan

You just have to ask

So my girlfriend and I were sitting in my car at a stop sign, talking together, when a sleek black BMW Z4 convertible drives past us and stops at a red light maybe 40 feet away.

“That’s a sexy car,” I said, enviously.

She stopped talking about whatever it was were talking about.

“You can get a car like that, baby,” she replied. “But you have to ask.”

Hmmmmm

So I just looked over my shoulder forward and realized that in less than three weeks, I will be 29 years old. I really don't have a lot of time to do this, but I should anyway, so I'm kinda looking at what I've been doing with my life. Let's look at the lives of a few other people, shall we?

By age 29, these are what the following people have done:
- Alexander the Great: Conquered Greece, Persia and half of India, indeed most of the known world.
- Julius Caesar: Conquered most of Western Europe.
- Winston Churchill: Charged the Sudanese in the last and greatest charge of the British cavalry... ever.

I'm wondering if I don't need to ramp things up a bit.

Why I'm somewhat of a religious skeptic

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.” —Mark Twain (as quoted by Al Gore in his film "An Inconvenient Truth.")