Administrative Professionals Day?

Honestly...what the hell is this all about. Last time I checked, administrative professionals are paid employees, are they not? So why do we have a special day devoted to what they do? It's becuase deep down inside many people feel that secretaries are underpaid, and, consequently, they get a special day on which they receive flowers. I have an idea, pay them more, so that we can do away with this silliness, or stop pitying them for the profession they chose.

Anyway...Sox are pissing me off lately. Pitching has been very hittable, bats have been annoyingly quiet, and to make matters worse, every fifth game, the other team is going to get a bunch of free bases courtesy of Josh Bard...I'm not saying that we should have kept Mirabelli (a bench player for a full-time starter is always a good trade), but it is getting painful to watch Wakefield pitch.

I've been toying with the notion of using this blog as a cheap way to distribute a work of short fiction...maybe 5-10 chapters. Any thoughts? If I posted a new chapter every once in a while, and they happened to be at least reasonably good, would my loyal following think this was good? Just a question for thought.

On to more pressing issues...like how can a collection of animals with the same essential needs be so intensely different? I was talking with my friend Nate tonight on the ride home from darts (we lost...as usual), and we got on the subject of religion. I think that religion is one of the most messed up of all human inventions. Simultaneously, it wills billions of people to behave according to some sort of prescribed moral standard, and yet, AND YET!!, at the same time, that very same scripture is quoted as justification for treating other people like crap. It is a most interesting dichotomy. Surely this point has been made countless times before...but I've never really stopped to think about it much. That's the beauty of this blog. I say very little that is actually new or unique (although I may be the first person to publicly denounce magnetic ribbons on cars), but I say things that are new and unique to me. Anyway, my discussion about religion ended with me geting out of the car...at which time I said, "I believe in a God of sorts, but my God is more of a 'I wonder what will happen if I do this?' type of God." Personally, I don't think a Being possessed of such power as to be able to create all that we know as real would actually be so petty as to care how it was worshipped. I like to think that a true God would care little about that sort of thing. I've really got to start organizing my thoughts before putting fingertips to keayboard...these blog posting are really starting to sound more like rambling, maniacal rants.

Later.