I'm back from vacation and my head is all a flutter.  Even tho I have only been blogging for a couple of weeks, and inconsistently at that, I missed it while I was on vacation.  It's almost theraputic to be able to take a few of the things crashing around inside my head and release them on the world.  Ready world?

Immigration - Holy burger flipper batman!  The news has been talking about border patrols and the surge in Mexican immigration into the US.  If you're like me and discounted it as media hype, take a quick trip through Virginia, Washington DC and North Carolina.  Every person working at every single restraunt and gas station in those 3 states was Mexican.  I'm not exagerating or condeming it just saying... Dang!

Ugly People - I know I'm no beauty (glass house meet stones) but IMHO America is getting uglier.  On my trip to OBX I looked around.  On streets, in cars, at malls, everywhere and in a whole week I gotta tell you, I could count on one hand the number of attractive people I saw.  I'm not talking beauty queens either, just above average in the looks department.  And it's not a case of averages either because the other extreme had an overabundance of hideousnous.

Laser Cutters - Went to a cool little puzzle shop.  Lots of jigsaw puzzles.  I got to thinking about a small little kiosk sitting in a mall around xmas time.  That took me to selling custom jigsaw puzzles (you provide a picture we mount, cut, box etc...)  That took me to the pursuit of laser cutters and that took me to a number of sites and some really cool services.  First I discovered that a CO2 laser cutter is pretty epensive (> $3K) I also discovered places that you can send a CAD file to and they will laser cut the material you choose.  Most importantly I discovered that they will do this at a reasonable cost.  Now when I have an idea for a little gizmo or some such thing I know that I could take it to the next step and actually have it materialize... not that I will, but it's good to know I could ;-}

Free T-Shirts - My wife threw away my 1999 .NET tee shirt simply because it was a bit fadded had a couple of small holes in it (and a few paint stains and was missing most of the left side under the arm)  I'm the master of the free "T."  In fact all of the shirts I wear at night or on weekends are free tee shirts.  Thing is I havn't been to a conference for quite a few years and I'm starting to run low.  My wife suggested I go online and sign up for free T shirts at some of the sites, and I thought "That's a great idea!"  I am officially announcing the start of my latest quest "100 Free Ts"  That's my goal.  Finally my life has purpose!

Electronics - Just got my "Electronics for Dummies" and "Teach yourself Electronics" books.  I've got lots of stuff to read but my plan for world dommination is going well.  Soon there will be millions of robots in my control... girl robots!

Misc - Because there are so many things going on right now, just thought I'd yada yada yada some them.  You can fill in the missing information.

• Yada yada yada People are idiots yada yada yada
  
• Yada yada yada Nine screaming six year olds yada yada yada
• Yada yada yada Late night glue stick run to WalMart yada yada yada
• Yada yada yada Wind, solar and wave energy in one package yada yada yada
• Yada yada yada Mini blimps on guide wires yada yada yada

So much more but really bad headache ;-}

TTFN