Weirdest thing happened this morning, I forgot to mention it. Well it wasn't weird, so much as it was cool...Anyhow, I was thinking about my best friend and started to get all sad because we haven't talked in a really long time. I really miss her. Anyway, I tried to call her on Thanksgiving and stuff, but she wasn't home and her cell phone was disconnected as of like 3 weeks ago...and e-mailing her, I don't even think about it...she's not one of those types of people...the e-mail type that is. Anyway as I was doing my normal morning work routine, turning on my comp, filling up my water bottle, etc. I got a voicemail...turns out she called me(I have no reception in my office) and was telling me how much she missed me and she got a new cell phone. Tripped me out...we were both thinking about each other at almost the same time....that's probably why we're best friends. Anyway, now I'm actually looking forward to my drive home, because I'm gonna call her and we're finally gonna catch up! Yay!

Has anyone been paying attention to the news at all lately? What's w/ the homeland security act being passed. If you don't already know, it was an act that set up the Department of Homeland Security, and the whole issue is raising up a lot of concerns. Because some of the stipulations of the home security act is that agencies will be given the greenlight to monitor e-mails, bank accts, etc, whatever they deem as necessary means of surveillance. I think I am @ a crossroads with this...because I feel that this puts a tab on all of us, having everything we do possibly monitored and to me, that's one scary step closer to implementation of the mark of the beast...goodness, and I KNOW I don't want that. But also I guess only those types of accts...or people with sudden irregular activity would cause them to probe their lives. If you led a more or less normal life and they ran a sweep over a group of people and you were included in taht group, I don't think that they would really totally check to see everything that you're doing, because if you're doing normal shit, then I'm sure they wouldn't really give much of a rat's ass about what's going on w/ you. However, your privacy is definitely invaded, and well...like I said, I have to say I stand somewhere in the middle right now. In all this striving to protect our fellow americans and future, I just hope we don't end up sacrificing the freedoms that brought our families here in the first place. The saddest part is that barely anyone even knows these things are happening... I mean some of these courts are pretty secret and you have to keep an eye out on any information that comes your way, such that you have to try to make an effort to learn about the world around you...so learn about it people!!!

"Perhaps it is a universal truth, that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
-James Madison in a May 1798 letter to Thomas Jefferson...