Animosity, Baby Boomers, and Saving the World

Lately, I’ve been watching a disturbing trend around me all the way from real life to Twitter. Every day I keep seeing more people have animosity against other people. For what one would ask? All it comes down to silly stuff, stuff that shouldn’t even matter. At the same time, we’re told by people our economy is screwed and there is nothing we can do about it. The ones who are telling this… Baby Boomers. If only I could save the world.

I guess it all started to get me thinking was an argument over Twitter I saw between two middle age men. Apparently someone got a time mistaken or someone reported a wrong time some show was suppose to start. One person got upset over it and said something. The other person decides to fire back saying something along the lines of not being so controlling. Then the “Fear the list” gets thrown into it. Some magical big bad blacklist of sorts that one should “fear” to be on when crossing this person’s line.

It made me think hard to why is this so important? These two guys are fighting over something so petty, it only made wish I could fight over something so petty. At the same time I’ve been thinking about where I want my life to go. Being close to 27 years old, (I’m 26 now), still living with my parents in an economy that is unstable, I thought where do I want to be in the next 10 years?  Then I thought how much I miss my friends all the way from HS up until now. I’ve watch my friends grow up and start families, buy houses, and have awesome starts to their lives. I am sitting here though… wondering when is my life going to start. Alas, I see two middle age men fighting… over text, over someone’s word, what ever you want to call it. I wish I could trade them places. Just the engagement would be nice, a decent change to the boring same routine. After a while it got too much to bare so I unfollowed them. I didn’t want to but, really “Fear the list? Feeling the power of the list?!”. If a list is all my worries, than my life is pretty damn decent. I just wish all I hard to worry was a list.

Some of you probably wonder why I still live with my parents. Well I did live out on my own once then I moved back home to go back to school. Then school didn’t really worked out as I planned. I am not giving up on my plans for school entirely, but I feel something is telling me now isn’t the time. Now isn’t the time to be dealing with the same usual crap from people who do not want to learn but fight over which platform is the best. Why do people have to fight over everything used on this planet? That’s another blog post for another time. Then the economy happened.

In the news I am told time and time again we are in a recession or a depression. I can’t help but notice the doom and gloom are from baby boomers. I don’t get it, these are the people who rebelled against the norm in the 60′s and 70′s and they’re telling us we’re in tough times ahead?  The government hasn’t been any help.  I look to Baby Boomers for help and some advice into how to protest against certain issues.  Nothing, I’m just told to “accept the way things are.”   What happened?! Where is that rebelling passion you guys had in the 60/70′s?! I am not saying all this is their fault.  I just wish they would show us that rebellious spirit that was so alive 30 years ago. That spirit of standing up and fighting in what you believe in.  Now its just “You’re a liberal, you suck!”  ”You’re a freaking conservative, go to hell!”, except that is with all ages.

What can I say? I am one of those people who want to save the world. I may not be able to do it at once, but its the hope that keeps me going. The hope that things will turn around. My favorite symbol of hope is the Morgan Freeman depiction of God in Evan Almighty, when he talks to Evan’s wife and how that he doesn’t give exactly what a person wants, but more of the opportunity for the person to get what they want. I also like he talked about changing the world by the ARK (Act of Random Kindness). I honestly believe that to be true. You can change the world by a single random act of kindess. I just wish people saw that more around the world, so it would be a better place than it is today. Then maybe I wouldn’t see two guys fighting over twitter, the economy would be in better shape, and I would be able to save the world.

Thoughts on April 3, 1974

This event alone was the sparking fire that got me into storm chasing.  In a 24 hour period, 148 tornadoes would ravage 11 states across the United States and parts of Canada.  At least six of those tornadoes were rated as the devastating F5s. There is a good site called www.april31974.com with tons of great information, in fact its one of my favoriate sites. There is only one thing about it and in all honesty this is not directed at the owner period. He did an excellent job putting this together.  But I just feel its time for an overhaul and some updating to it.

Only issue is, I don’t own the domain. For the longest time living in Indiana, I’ve read everything I could get my hands on about this day. Every newspaper clipping, talking to survivors on Facebook about this day, to even reading books on this day as well I grabbed a hold of as fast as I could.

I wish for the site it was more interactive and even to the point where even more survivors could write about their experiences. A newer design wouldn’t hurt. So I’ve been throwing around the idea of creating a second sight to help add to it maybe. Once I get it finish I would approach the other site to see if we could maybe tie both sites in together or something along those lines.

I just wish this day was taught about more in history classes or to the general public. From the stuff I learned about this day, a simple 2 hour documentary is not enough or even close enough to tell the story of this tragic day. It was literally a 9/11 of the 1970s but instead caused by radicals of another country, it was caused by Mother Nature itself. It became the turning point in our technology in forecasting into what it is today.

Back then, dealing with tornadoes was pretty much scary as hell. You barely had any warning, the internet and computers hardly existed back then at least what we know and have today.  Only form of public communications that existed was a phone, amatur radio, television, and radio. It wasn’t much by today’s standards, but several parts of the US was force to face a situation that many would literally called “going through hell and back”.  There is so much about this day that even a simple blog post can’t even begin to scratch the surface of this day.

I’ll be taking a few days to gather what I can do to get this site together. I just wanted to throw that out right now. Sorry if it seems I am cutting between thoughts, I’ve just been thinking about this so much.

Windows Live Writer

Decided to try out Windows Live Writer to see how it works with my blog. So far it looks pretty decent. Somethings look odd in the writing portion of it, but when I check the previews, it looks all right. I’ll play around with more and see what happens.

Music from the Past

Well the past few weeks have been interesting. I’ve been slowly changing in my taste of music.  I use to be a huge fan of 90′s rock music and some of what’s produced today. The only thing is, that a lot of today’s music just lacks character. It’s not bad music… it just its always the same music over and over. I don’t exactly blame the bands out there but more of the lines of the music industry Now of days it seems to be really cool to create what I call “manufactured” music.  The music that is based off one band that is suppose to represent the whole genre instead of letting bands experiment themselves.

So I decided to go back in time and explore the supposedly the best of the times of rock music… 60s-80s. I want to say my experience has been fun. Finding bands like Steve Miller Band and Doobie Brothers. Yes… I know, I am nearly 30 and I am just finding these guys lol. Thanks Lisa . I do want to thank Lisa and Katie and rest of my co-workers for introducing to a lot of bands from that time. So much good music!

Well, as lot of you can see as well, its a new blog I have too. I am consolidating a lot of my sites as well as servers, cutting down on the cost.  It’ll be weird for a while but its needed. So tornado-watch.net will be here soon.  Hate to cut it short though, I am just getting started in moving things around. Talk to you all later!

~73s~