I myself have swore off of newspapers and listening to irritating radio disc jockeys because they piss me off. I used to listen to a local classic rock station, I liked the music but the morning disc jockeys were total white trash scum buckets. A couple of years ago they made a big joke out of a local news event that was sensationalized about high school kids shooting frozen paintballs at a particular race of streetpeople. It was horrible. I considered it all to be hate crime related and they were endorcing it by trying to make a mockery of it all. I finally called them and told them that I was going to shoot them with frozen paintballs because they were so stupid. When I did that I was totally calm and just started out with something cute in a nice feminine tone - then I politely told him - Bud, I'm going to shoot you with a frozen paintball. For a glorious 1/2 second there - he was stunned that anybody could say something like that to him. I got him good. Of course after that brief second it went all downhill from there. They ended up hanging up on me.

Now I only listen to radio stations with no disc jockeys or my cd player. MPH knows this too and he doesn't play those stations in his truck, at least not when I'm riding with him.

I also don't read the paper, because I get so pissed off at the stupidity of some people, that I have to write a letter to the editor. I'm never too embarrassed at the time I write my letter to think to NOT use my real name, no I use my real name, and then feel like an idiot later when it's published.

So now I don't subscribe to the paper either.

A couple of days ago my brother in law was ranting about something in the paper, totally bent out of shape about it. I basically told him that this was the reason that I don't read the paper anymore - so that I don't get upset about everything all the time. Then he rantingly pointed out that this is the last thing anybody should do because it's like burying your head in the sand.

That upset me too.

We only have one paper in this town, and I hate getting the one-sided version of news. It's somewhat of a liberal newspaper. Of course journalism is in and of itself a liberal thing, it can't not be liberal. I guess.

I don't know.

I just hate my first basic instinctual responses to things that piss me off.

I have enough stress that I don't deal with appropriately - I get tension headaches and I grind my teeth at night. I just want to be content, I don't even have to be happy, I just want to be content. Smooth-sailing, cruising.

I don't know. I guess I shouldn't complain too much.

Well MPH must be home the dogs are restless.