My father (not my step-dad) is a recovering alcoholic, he only ever recovers from the hangovers.
I was reading my health book for class yesterday, and apparently, there is such a thing as "Safe-Saving". Now, it's not actually called this, I made the name up for my own amusement. But it toally represents it. There's always adults telling kids to have safe-sex, use condoms, contraceptives, anything to keep STDs and HIV from getting spread. If you must, wrap your junk in serane wrap.
But, safe-saving has the same theory. In my health book, it said that if you witness an accident, you are required, whether you have the license or not, to perform CPR or any type of help of any kind, but if you do so, do it safely. If they are bleeding, or throw up, or have a gag reflex and spit comes out, it may get in your mouth. So, wear a mask like the surgeons wear, and wear surgical gloves.
Because people just HAPPEN to carry these things around right? They just sit in the back of your car. Ya know, along with your pig guts, bolt action rifle, and cardboard cutout of Lindsay Lohan in her stripped outfit from "I know who killed me."
I think the idea is good, don't get me wrong, being safe in both instances is wonderful, but you need to be safe for EVERYTHING now! For god sakes, I had to put on a biohazard suit just to slice a freaking carrot yesterday! I just think sometimes we go too far. What if the person doesn't HAVE a mask or gloves, what THEN? Do they just let the guy lay there bleeding, be like, "Bob, I know you're in blinding mortal pain, but seriously dude, I didn't bring my safe-saving sh*t to work today, sorry man. Hey, I'll be right back, I'm gonna go get something to drink, you want anything?"
I just think it's stupid sometimes. People need to take a little risk sometimes. Then again, there's the dumb homophobic viewpoint, if a guy is unconscious, and another guy has to give him mouth to mouth, he's INSTANTLY, without a fair trial, deemed homosexual by those around him. Did you know, DID YOU KNOW, that when you're having your autopsy, the mortician will actually wear gloves?
That's how far this thing goes. I guess for some people, you're even untouchable after death.
Like Joan Rivers will be.
M@RK
...Suck.
One of the reasons I'm so happy to be 18 is that nobody can schedule me to do ANYTHING in the summer anymore. When I was little, I remember people being able to set me up in summer programs. When I was about 10 or 11, my aunt sent me and my step-sister to Art Camp. They actually have a camp to teach you how to draw. Because it's so difficult to pick up a pencil and doodle Snoopy onto a peice of paper, right? I went to hundreds of camps throughout my life as a kid, and they were all terrible, the worst had to be sports camp.
Sports camp was a camp designed to make children feel inaddequate, embarassed, and akward. It also succeeded in the art of making children's self esteem and confidence shatter, which it did most thoroughly. Being not the most athletic child in the world, this camp was torture for me. I remember one thing though that never made sense to me. At Sports Camp, they made us play board games. Because apparently, Connect 4 is a f*cking sport, right?
I think the camp was run by Hitler.
But being 18, now I can do whatever I want, except I'm CHOOSING to go to summer school and a summer video production program. But nobody can make me take swimming lessons or anything anmore. And it's a wonderful feeling. And, the best thing is that with the economy in such a slump as it is, nobody can make me get a job because NOBODY can get a job, and even the people who HAVE jobs are having a hard time keeping the ones they've got.
So, that all being said, summer activities suck, and the only thing I'm looking forward to is my birthday. Not so I can become a year older, 'cause all I did was not die for another year. I'm looking forward to my birthday because I get presents and will actually feel loved for once in a blue moon. Except even my birthday, being in July, seems like somethingt that somebody rigorously planned out for me to enjoy as an activity.
Sh*t.
There's a saying that always confuses me, it's when something happens, say someone dies, and you go the funeral. You give the surviving family a gift, and they thank you.
Politics would be SO much more interesting if the candidates were sexier. I look at Hillary Clinton and just...I don't know, I want her to teach me how to ride a bike or something. I can't say for Barrack, 'cause I'm not gay, but from a straight point of view, he looks like he could be a history teacher or something. And McCain looks like a preacher.
There's a difference, as I consider myself curious and others consider me nosey.
This is another "perfecting the net" idea.
I looked up my brothers Facebook page yesterday while in class. It had him listed as Agnostic under "religion". I laughed at this after I thought about it.
I've got some more ideas to make the internet better.
Apparently, the internet is nothing but a series of tubes, here's the definition of the internet from an online dictionary:
INTERNET:–noun a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually prec. by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
That's basically the net for ya. I think you should be able, in order to prevent virus's, disconnect your network from the worldwide network. Basically, my theory is two accounts. You'd have a worldwide account that you could use to surf the net, and to download stuff from, and then a private account that only your family and friends could see, where you could update your twitter and blog and such. That way, your chances of getting a virus is cut into the 50/50 ratio. I also think it would be a good idea to invent something for fixing your computer in about 5 seconds. This is the "Computer Companions" team. Basically, what they do, is you'd call them up on Skype, and they'd be on your contact list. They'd be a trained, professional team of PC and MAC geeks who have worked for both companies, who would be able to handle whatever problems you have, and it'd be fixed in under a few minutes, all from the comfort of your chair and Cheeto's bag.
I also think it'd be cool to be able to have something where, if you visit webseries sites, or blog sites, you'd have 1 all purpose downloader. It'd be called the "Bulk Byte". Everything is a kilobyte, or a nanobyte, or a megabyte, you get the idea. So the Bulk Byte would be able to capture all the stuff that's new that you visit regularly, friend updates from social networking sites, webseries, comics, blogs, whatever, and download it all right to your desktop so you wouldn't have to go searching for all the damn stuff separately.
So far, we have the Accounts, the Computer Companions, and the Bulk Byte, and if I think of anything else, I'll let you guys know, and if you think of anything, feel free to leave your comments.
M@RK
