No longer in beta?

I can't help but think that putting up another post would help keep my blogger.com account going. My life lately has been (other than my wonderful family) coffee! Roasting, brewing, buying selling, you name it. As I have said in the past, you never know where life will take you if you let it, I find myself enjoying a hobby that I didn't even know existed a year ago (Home coffee roasting).

Alice was having some fun playing drums at a very good friends christmas party, and we invested in a Roland V-Drums drumset.
In order to keep from thinking that I really went off the deep end with the expense, I thought it would be best if Margaret and I also tried to learn how to play. After a few weeks, I'm getting pretty good at keeping a beat, but I need more discipline and keep trying to run before I know how to walk. I wouldn't say that I sound good, but I will say that I surprised myself and if I keep up a half hour every day, I may actually learn how to play.

Videogames have been taking over lately. Alice has been showing an interest in gaming and calls my Nintendo DS (her DS). We bought a Wii on launch day. (I got up at 3:30 AM to sit on a line outside Target). So far, I have been very happy with the machine. It has a major emphasis on "FUN". I also am happy with the Playstation 3, but have been a bit bummed about some of the launch titles, and even more so, the drought that will occur before I see another new game. I have been through this before, but somehow, I thought that Sony would have a better flow of titles at and after launch. An early warning sign was how late it was before they released the final PS3 spec for the developers.

That is all for now, I'll try to write something else before the year is up! ^_^

I'm mad as hell and I can't take it any more...

I suppose this has been coming for a long time, perhaps since Al Gore invented the web in the early 90's. He would call me and say "Mitch, I have taken over ARPA-net and think you should sell books and name your website after a tribe of really large females", I thought there was no future in this.

The next month, Al called and said "Mitch, I know there is no such thing as an online auction and there are only three people online, but how-about making an auction site and calling it sickbay, or ix-nay, or something like that..."

I thought this idea was up there with "Pizza in a cup" and "Wax Lips" but my html skills are only rivaled by my ability to speak politely to people with differing political viewpoints.... I have none.

But seeing as over ten years have passed as many times as I keep threatening to share my over-opinionated views with strangers, I have always been to busy/lazy to attempt this concept.... until tonight. Now I can no longer spare the world, I have to say what is on my mind, even if it means I have to spend the rest of my life saying "I was only kidding" to the interrogators in Cuba.

As I have no intention of getting myself on a federal "watch list" with my first post, I will limited my viewpoints and just mention that I like tech, I like gadgets, Indian Classical Music is a major part of my life, but I am not from India, nor am I related to anyone who is/was. Asian food, all things Macintosh, Digital Photography, Computer Graphics and Video, Audiophile, Videophile, DVD collecting, Sushi, Anime, Video Gaming and playing Tabla are my primary interests.

I'm not very happy with my country at this point, I didn't vote for the current administration and think that their politics are immoral. This doesn't mean that I don't love my country, I just don't like the hypocrites that are attempting to govern it and it's people (and the rest of the friggin world) at this time.

I like people, I respect others that have differing opinions, as long as they can support them with real facts and not "parrot back" half baked ideas that they have heard on less than reputable broadcasts and publications.

I don't know where this will lead, either I will give up quickly, or it will be a way for me to vent without disturbing others.

I hope someone gets a chance to read this and if you are intelligent and open-minded, it will excite you, and if you are an idiot, it will annoy you to no end!

then I will gladly state- Mission Accomplished!

Cheers-
Mitch