Random Thoughts on a Random Sunday

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You may not understand that while I am a writer, I get as much enjoyment and satisfaction from programming in Python or throwing together web pages with HTML 5 and CSS as I do from writing a new chapter in a novel.

I can be a Grammar Nazi, but I also tend to make up words when I feel none of the existing words will do.

I believe algebra and the algebraic method needs to be a mandatory part of education because of the logic needed to solve problems. 

I love learning from classes, but I also think life teaches us lessons everyday. 

I believe that we as a society can learn from history, but I also believe that society tends to ignore history and just make the same mistakes over and over. 

I believe in neither heaven nor hell, but I believe that we are made of star stuff, and that our essence is that of the universe. 

I believe that people need to live every day as if they will die tomorrow, but I also believe that everyone needs to plan to live to be at least one hundred. 

I believe it is simple to be kind to one another, but easier to be nasty, explaining why so many people choose the latter option.

Mostly, I believe in wearing sunscreen and brushing teeth, because wrinkly, dried skin and a full set of dentures sucks when you're one hundred.

On Monday, If the Sky is Blue, I find I have a thought or two...

Here are the random thoughts of the day:

• On September 2, aspiring rapper Ervin McKiness tweeted about driving drunk at 120 mph, justifying the action with "yolo"  (you only live once).  A few minutes later, he died. What strikes me about this news story is.. that it's a news story!  I mean, I expect someone drunk driving at those speeds to crash into a large, stationary object on the side of the road, potentially dying himself and those in the vehicle with him, which is exactly what happened.  That's not news, that's physics and common sense.
• I read another article where someone ranted about getting the U.N.   For those petitioning to  "get the U.S. out of the U.N", please read your history books.  The U.S. started the U.N. It's our creation, started after World War II to prevent World War III.  That's why the headquarters are in New York, NY.   
• A baby panda was born at the National Zoo yesterday.  Squee!!!!
• Today is the 225th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.  If you want to read this important document, click here for an online copy.  If you grew up in the seventies, you already know the Preamble.  Sing it with me - "We the People, In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and ensure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution, for the United States of America."

Have a good Monday!!!