It is time

I am officially moving to a new space. You can find my blog here:MarkSears. Come by and read the madness that I can come up with.

Better Late Than Much Later

Welcome back. I know it has been quite some time since my last post. It seems that I am trying to commit blog suicide. I really don’t want to loose my two or three regular readers. I really hope you are reading this. So here is a mini update, my family and I have been so busy, we have been to at least one football game a week and most of the time two. My daughter is on the JV cheerleading squad at her school. It is so different than it was back when I was in middle school. I was not a cheerleader but they were nowhere near as busy as my daughter has been the past two months. I have been elected to the school board of my son’s high school. Basketball is gearing up and will be in full swing in a few weeks. If you aren’t aware I coordinate the basketball and other sports programs and my church. The band has taken a short hiatus. But I am under the impression that is coming to a rapid close.

Ok, I am going to get back on my regular blog schedule. It may take a few posts to get back into the swing of things. So give me a few posts to get the creative juices flowing and maybe I can make things worth coming back to read. I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head. I’ve been sleeping much better so the delirious off the wall things you have been reading may become more coherent in the future. But a lack of sheep can show up at any time and the madness could return with no notice. Check back regularly to see what is going on around my life.

So, what is Next?

OK, I was under the impression a plan in the 700 billion dollar bailout was a done deal. I never had a clue there was a chance it would not pass a vote. Well, people are hurting in this tough economic time. There are families doing without, some wondering when they will have to find a new place to live. Now, the lawmakers are trying to come up with a new plan. At this point, I am not sure what caused the plan not to pass. I guess we will see what the future holds. Maybe the Senate and Congress will get their act together and we will see something done before it is too late.

What a week, since Friday we have lost one of our greatest actors, a bailout bill failed as I said above and the market lost almost 800 points in less than ten minutes yesterday.

The up side to all of this, the market will rebound, the power in the government will shift and many other great actors will follow Paul Newman’s path. The best thing of all is we will learn from history and it will be many generations after us before anyone will have to deal with this kind of mess again.

Just remember we have our whole lives ahead of us. Keep your eyes lifted high and follow the path of the greatest man ever to walk the face of the earth. He gave us the best example of how to live.

So, what is Next?

OK, I was under the impression a plan in the 700 billion dollar bailout was a done deal. I never had a clue there was a chance it would not pass a vote. Well, people are hurting in this tough economic time. There are families doing without, some wondering when they will have to find a new place to live. Now, the lawmakers are trying to come up with a new plan. At this point, I am not sure what caused the plan not to pass. I guess, we’ll see what the future holds.

Maybe we will see something done before it is too late.

I’m Back

OK, I posted yesterday and it was one from a couple of weeks when I wasn’t sleeping all that well. I spent several hours alone at the computer with the television playing and lots of time to clean out the deep dark areas of my mind. Well, my wife tells me it is the silly parts of my mind. Anyway, last night I spent a lot of time sitting all alone in front of the computer and with the television playing. The good news is you don’t have to read the crazy things that were racing through my mind. I did finally go to bed and get some sleep. The down side is my alarm woke me up two and a half hours later. I managed to make it thought the day at work and a few miles of a taxi trip picking up my daughter and getting her to church. Now I am about to head back to pick her up. Then I hope the whole family gets to get a good night sleep tonight. So with the fear of sounding stupid, I hope my next blog post is boring. Well, not really but I do hope I sleep tonight.

Reality TV?

In keeping with my lack of sleep theme of a few weeks ago, here is another episode of my blog for your enjoyment.

Is “Reality TV really all that good. Most of the shows are not. How many of them have come and gone without as much as a glance. Of course There is Survivor , Big Brother and American Idol that have enough of a following that they will be around for a while. I don’t consider myself a reality show junkie or anything. I do watch some of them but that is mostly because we don’t have a million channels in our house and at times you just have to choose something you would rather tolerate over the other things that are on.

OK to the point, hasn’t TV changed in the last fifteen years. I guess it is because of the moral change in the views of the American people. We now accept things as the norm that fifteen years ago would have been considered voodoo if mentioned in public. Now we are accepting curtain words on prime time TV that were NEVER said in public settings much less on TV ten years ago.

What do you thing was the biggest contributing factor to this trend? Leave a comment and let’ see if we can come up with a reason and maybe a solution that will make TV worth our children watching in the future.

See you soon!

How much crap is for sale?

I told you I was having trouble with my sleeping patterns reciently. Well, I have seen a lot of late night/early morning TV. There is a lot of selling or at least trying to sell junk going on. It seems that every channel of “free TV” have infomercials running all night. This seems to be more present starting on Friday night/Saturday morning but none the less someone has found the need to try to sell some kind of gadget we “cannot life without” because it will “make our lives easier” or because they have found a way to give us that ripped and finely cut body we have always dreamed of by doing as little as possible for just fifteen minutes a day and it only takes five easy payments of $49.95. But wait there’s more! If you call in the next ten minutes they will pay one of the payments for you AND WAIT there’s more. They will give you a second of whatever contraption it is that they are hocking at now cost. Truth be known the first easy payment will triple their profit on both items they are promising to send you.

And what about those car salesman that are parading all these “Great Deals” around for thirty minutes on each channel? You can see them and when it is over change the channel and catch the same thing again and so on and so on until you have seen them on every channel.

What would an infomercial from God be like? I know He wouldn’t sell us crap. And furthermore there is no way we could possibly pay Him what it would be worth. I love a lot of people but there are only a hand full of people I would die for. If you want to see what it is all about let me know and I will give you the time and location of one of His infomercials. Even better I’ll give you direction to the live event.

See ya soon.