Today is Thanksgiving, so in the spirit of giving thanks here are some things I am thankful for (in no particular order): That my family loves me. That I have the house to my self until saturday night. That I am in generally good health. That I live in a nation where I am allowed to do more or less whatever I want. That it is snowing. That my computers do what I ask them to. That Draginol made this place called JoeUser.com That there are so many wonderful people here at JoeUser.com ...

       Today is my birthday, and I'm 27 today (assuming my math is correct, I was born in 1978). Yet I'm generally depressed. I'm just not a happy person. I doubt this has anything to do with my birthday (age or other related events). My life is not what I want, I don't think it can be, I definetly don't know how to go about getting it there if it was possible. So I sit here being a whiny maggot (which I often call my brother, yet the title fits me just...

       I was reading the paper today and it had a good laugh and just plain bizarreness in it (in addition to the normal news).        The laugh was a headline titled "Bush sees Iraq pullout when 'we have completed our misson'". Right, this is the guy that landed on an aircraft carrier with a great big "Mission Accomplished" banner way back when. And now he says we'll leave when the mission is done. Did he go back and s...

       So I'm reading the paper today while I have lunch and I find two crazy stories.        The first is about a "ghost cane" that sold for $65000 on ebay. Bought by the same company that bought the virgin mary moldy sandwich. The owner of the cane said she was selling it so that her 6 year old son would think that his grandfathers ghost would leave the house with it. Tis just silly, that's what I think.   ...