Application is the Key!

It seems like all I'm doing with my free time is filling out applications these days for jobs for the upcoming school year. I wouldn't mind it so much if one of two things would happen: either (A) I got a job and wouldn't have to fill out anymore stupid applications, or (B) all the applications I fill out would ask all the information in the exact same way. Now don't get me wrong, all the applications I fill out ask the exact same information. The thing that drives me up the wall is the way they ask it: Put in your SSN with dashes, put it in without dashes, give us your references address, no give us their phone number, no tell us how you know them, no tell us where they grew up and what their favorite flavor of ice cream is. However, this is the only way I've ever gotten a job, so I'll continue to fill them out. What a way to spend a summer!

iTunes Highs and Lows

I've got to let everyone know how much I love and loathe the iTunes store. I love how you can go on and peruse music or podcasts for hours at a time, you can normally see music from any group in any genre you feel like. This would generally be a fantastic thing, especially for one who is now into his summer season with nothing else to do, but as with most things in life there is a catch: There's always more! Let me explain myself. Let's say I went on to look for music from a band I really like, such as the Foo Fighters, I'll find a song that I like, but being on a fixed budget I can only select one or two songs. Still, this is not the big problem, the big problem is iTunes lists bands or songs they think you'd like according to your selection which leads you to more songs and before you know it you've spent $300 on songs when you only meant to spend $2! I think I'll just buy stock in the company and be done with it, at least that way I can recoup some of my losses!

Memorial Day

Hello everyone in internet land. I've finally succumbed to the dark side of the internet and begun a blog. Despite the title of this blog, the first entry will have very little to do about music if at all. I just had dinner with some neighbors of mine one of whom was looking at our hostess' commemorative plate of the flag raising at Iwo Jima made famous by Joe Rosenthal (even though it was the replacement flag). I asked him if he had read John Bradley's book "Flags of Our Fathers" about the flag raisers, and he replied that he hadn't had a chance to read it, but it was okay because he was there! As you get to know me, you'll realize one of my passions is US history, and so to eat dinner next to one of the bravest men in our country's history during one of the most terrifying times in history was slightly jaw-dropping. He told me of taking a transport of troops to the beach and watching the large aircraft carrier ships behind blowing huge chunks out of Mount Surabachi and of the 39 men he led onto the beach and the two that survived. I sat enthralled by his stories and it reminds me that you should always get to know your neighbors because you never know what heroes there are a few yards from your doorstep if you take the opportunity and initiative to go meet them. Happy Memorial Day to everyone who reads this and thank all of you who have served, are serving, or will serve our great and glorious nation in the name of freedom!