Blog Number 396

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

It is time once again to look at the abandoned web pages left in my browser as I logged off from work today.  If you recall, these are pages that I meant to read when I had a minute or two but did not quite get around to it.  Without further delay...

• Highest Paid CEO's: This was a link from the CNN Money website.  I did read it long enough to know that (by their calculation) there was one guy that pulled in $700,000,000.00 for the year.  Now, anything over $100,000.00 is hard for me to fathom.  In fact, anything over that amount is really the same amount of money in my mind (such is my total lack of ability to grasp that large amount of money).  Anyway, read this article and be aware of how much money you truly don't make.
• Cocaine on your Money: I had heard this statistic some years ago but recently hear an updated story about it on the radio on the way to work so I clicked on this CNN article but never got around to reading that 90% of all US currency contains trace amounts of cocaine.  My mind wanders to ships that are filtering sea water for trace amounts of gold for profit.  Could recovering the trace amounts of cocaine from the bills in my wallet be a potential money maker?  Who knows (but you know someone else is thinking the same thing)?
• Cash for Clunkers Effect on Used Car Sales: This is an article from a local paper.  I actually read most of this story that outlined how used car sales have been hurting since the recent stimulus promotion for turning in your older, low gas mileage car for a new one.  Methinks they exaggerate the effects a little in this argument but I will admin I had not thought about it from this angle.
• Kid's Woot: If you have never heard of woot then please move along.  Be ye warned that once you are hooked on it, there is no going back.  I saw on today's item description that they are adding a kids woot to their lineup (shirt.woot, wine.woot, sellout.woot and regular woot).  There goes another minute or two of my morning, thanks a lot woot!
• http://www.donotletevanbayhkilljobs.com: I heard this one advertised during my lunch errands on am AM talk show.  Evan Bayh is an Indiana politician and this group is against some current legislations I guess.  I still think they could have found a shorter and easier to remember web site URL.

I am desperately practicing a song that I am going to sing in church on Sunday.  When I pick a song out, I don't usually consider the important things like 1) are there a lot of lyrics to memorize 2) will I be able to hit all those high notes 3) is this a style that the average person in my congregation will like or relate to, etc.  No, I pick it out based on whether or not I like it.  It is only after I have committed to singing it that the other things come into focus.  The song I am singing this time is borderline in my range and does have what I would consider a medium amount of lyrics to memorize.  So I spend my commute time to and from work singing my lungs out and ignoring the drivers around me and what I might look like.  I am also trying to figure out how to rearrange the hard parts into something I can manage without changing the song too much.  By the time I get to Sunday morning, I will probably have practiced this song 100 times and be thoroughly sick of it (which is why I usually don't repeat songs until a year or so has passed).

Well the wife is passed out in the chair behind me so I should get off of here, fetch the puppies from their cages for one last outing before bedtime, and convince the wife to meander back to the bedroom.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.