Michael

My Family, My Friends!! Ring-Wing aircraft design, Flying toys that glow-in-the-dark, Glow-in-the-dark bracelets, Law of Attraction, The Secret, The Power of Intention, art, mural painting, high-fidelity portrait painting, actually...painting ANYTHING that floats my boat. Now, I thought I would expand a bit on this 'general interest' thing. I mean, after all, who reads this stuff anyway? I am not referring to your eyes, that would be rude. I know my brain usually glazes over within several seconds of some Joe going on and on about their interests. Especially if it is just one long continuous list of phrases that fails to captivate. After spending (quite) a bit of time online and perusing through perhaps several hundred ms pages, I have developed a bit of a calous in my brain when it comes to reading about peoples' interests. Although I DO SCAN through stuff to see if anything catches my fancy. In a couple of rare intances this activity has been rewarded with some damn good chuckles. So I guess you could say that one of my interests is actually digging into this stuff with a prospector's eye for the occasional nugget. And you know what? I have actually found some. Another thing that I am pretty stoked about is people that actually respond to personal notes that I send. A pet peeve would be the majority of people that don't bother. I ask you, what is the point of social networking and myspace itself if all you wanna do is lurk around and not really participate an iota? That is so lame. Go away. Please note: Just because I happen to enjoy networking on the net doesn't mean I don't have real-life, physical relationships with flesh and blood people. For instance, I am happliy married. With a wonderful , accomplished daughter who is, by the way, graduating from grade 12 very soon. Did I mention that I have a wife and daughter? And a real-world, real-time life? I am not that fond of the frequent requests that I get here on mySpace from young ladies who want to parade themselves in front of me. How many times do I have to 'deny' these young ladies before they will take a second to read my personal data that says I am married? Double DUHHH! MySpace should really do something about that. How about a 'BLOCK SENDER' option. Or am I missing something? Well thanks Tom! I see we now have the option to "Mark as Spam". That is good.I have no clue why I am even bothering with this exercise. Not that anybody will ever read this, unless you SO do not have a life, I just wanna say in closing that the real reason I bothered to jot down these thoughts was because I like the way that the text scrolls down the page on the left-hand side. It's strictly a graphic thing, dude.They say it’s lonely at the top. Well, it can also be lonely at the bottom. And everywhere in between. Enough of the stiff upper lip thing and pretending that everything is tickedy-boo. Because it isn’t. While it is very likely preferable to appear strong, focused, motivated and accomplished, the truth is some days I just want to pull my hair out. Another reality dose: it seems to me that the world in general is becoming more and more anti-social. Or non-social. It seems that everybody is out to vacuum a buck out of your wallet, or is suspicious that that’s what you are trying to do to them.Ha! My cynical, jaded side is coming to the surface even after all of my stoic efforts to plug into the Law of Attraction to meet “ all of the right people “ and attract all of the things into my life that are my birthright as a thinking, creative spirit.Sure, I have met some astonishing people both online and in my everyday life. Really. But you know what? I get this funny feeling that I am only one of millions of people that are beginning to get the impression that they are on the outside looking in.I wonder what percentage of people plying the deep waters of the net actually feel that they have derived any tangible benefit from it? Yeah, there is the obvious feature of pretty much infinite information out there for anybody with a thirst for it. But when it comes to building relationships with real people, I wonder what the reality is.Is this the age of Enlightenment or the Age of Alienation?While I appreciate the potential of the internet with its groups, forums, social networking, websites, e-mail and the like to act as an amazing level playing field that can unite people together with common goals and dreams, I also see that this planetary force also has a dark side.It is just too easy to make promises and commitments visa-vis e-mail and then simply abandon them as frivolous.If I were to stop and think about how many people have ‘promised’ to follow up on an idea over the past few months and have then simply faded away into the obscure muck of virtual anonymity that is just SO easy to do in a wired world, it would get a bit depressing. Whatever happened to the simple value and integrity of a person’s good word?Is this just another argument in favor of my little thesis that the world is getting more anti-social and dog-eat-dog or is it just that people are getting more lazy and less committed to honoring their word?I would love it if you were to prove me wrong by dropping me a note. But I certainly won’t hold my breath. I DO have a real life and keep busy and productive in my own small corner of the world. Nothing earth-shaking. Just a guy trying to make an honest living. With an eye bent towards forging real relationships with real people whose word is worth something. Because mine is.

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Front View of Skyaak Model 3: