Japanese ! I always wanted to learn the language, so I think I'll start here.

I've always wanted to learn how to speak Japanese .  I think this may help me considerably.

100 Japanese Grammar Points in Plain English by Clay Boutwell. $3.99 from Smashwords.com
Recommended for Beginners of Japanese. This ebook is intended to introduce important grammatical points in a structured way. We will introduce only the 100 most useful grammatical points ordered by how common they are in beginner level textbooks.

One of my Favorite Places to Shop

I just wanted to tell anyone who is near the Daytona Beach area and who loves antiques, especially mid century modern items, visit Our Old Stuff Antiques in Holly Hill, FL.  Trust me--it's worth the visit!

http://www.oldstuffantiques.com/

My E-books are here!

Don't forget, I have two e-books up now!  For a Smashwords download, you can go to:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70015

which is for my online dating guide for women.

And….

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/115772

which is my Ebay antiques and collectibles buying and selling guide.

Both start off a little slowly, but they get more involved and much more interesting as they go on.

If you have a Kindle, they are also on Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Men-Really-Want-ebook/dp/B0058ORO1G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324575105&sr=1-1

and

http://www.amazon.com/Ebay-Beyond-Antiques-Collectibles-ebook/dp/B006O44G0Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324575087&sr=8-1

Also, I am working on my first novel.  It's basically going to be about a boy's life from the past (I'm not going to reveal which decade yet!), and he meets 3 strange women that will change his life forever.  It will be filled with quirky characters, a little bit of science fiction, hilarious situations that are inherently human and stress pre-adolescent life, a little mystery, and adventure.  Be on the lookout for it!  It may be a while, though.  I'm only on page 10.  J

My new E-book has been written!

For those who are into antiques and collectibles, I wrote a new E-book!  It's only a buck, so even if you're not into them, help a poor guy out, would you?


However, I will say that I'm still in the process of formatting the spacing (The Ebook format is a PITA when it comes to Word's hidden formatting) and the book cover is just something basic I put up right now until I can create something a little more professional.  It has to be perfect before I can get it sent off to the major distributors such as Barnes n Noble, Amazon, etc.  But right now it is downloadable off of Smashwords and it's only 99 cents!  14 years of experience buying and selling antiques and collectibles for only 99 cents.  It's a bargain I tell you!  Oh, and yes, I use a pen name and not my own.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/115772

Is Having Bad Eyesight Genetically Superior?

I wonder if having bad vision is actually a genetically superior trait instead of a negative one. After all, if it weren't for contacts and glasses, wouldn't people with bad vision be more likely to have sex with just about anyone, therefore increasing the odds for procreation? I would think, from a numbers standpoint, that would actually be advantageous. Just a thought.

America the Not-So-Beautiful--Come on, you can do better than this!

I was looking at a bunch of census maps this morning.  It’s really interesting to note that in the West they do drugs more (But the NE is a close second) and drink more and have higher divorce rates (I was shocked to find that the South didn’t when compared to the West—it seems to be really bad in the NW right now), in the Midwest and the South they eat more obviously because they have the highest obesity rates in the U.S. now, the South has more violent crime, in the E (Esecially the NE) they have more AIDS cases (And the majority, believe it or not, are in Washington, D.C!  Conspiracy theory/biological weapon origin perhaps?  Makes you wonder), the West and South are tied for property crime, they smoke more cigarettes in the Midwest (With the S and W almost there), the states with the least amount of people who have completed a high school diploma or more are in the South, and the highest unemployment rate is in the West (But with the S very close).

America….Yay.  (Coughcoughcough)

Having Kids....

As for kids, no one is ever ready for kids.  You just have them. I mean, if everyone waited to have kids until they felt ready, no one would ever have kids. People are under this grand illusion that they have to be at such and such a place in their lives before they have kids. You know, in my lifetime I've been at the top of the mountain and felt like I was trapped underneath it. Life fluctuates. You can be doing great and then lose your job, your house, etc. all in the same time frame, but it's the people in your family that keep you together and keep giving you inspiration to just get right back on that path of life. Because life is filled with good times and bad, you have to realize that you could have kids during a good time and it could STILL be followed by a bad, so because of that, when you want kids, just have them! Everything will all work out eventually as long as you keep getting back in the saddle of life.  Besides, we as an American society have things all wrong. We keep saying we want our kids to have what we didn't have, but since every generation keeps getting more and more spoiled and selfish, is that REALLY the thing we should be doing? Perhaps if we gave our kids less they would learn to be happy with what they had. Which means, in essence, that we wouldn't need to wait so long to have them. Just another way of looking at things.