Rich man......poor man

There are days when nothing seems very important. OK, actually none of this is very important, but it's fun. Some mornings I wonder what, if anything, I'll write about. Whatever the circumstances are, at least up to now, a topic or subject always pops into this head. I enjoy knowing you may get a laugh or a smile out of this. I've discovered the less I try the easier it is. Like Willy said in "The Sunshine Boy's"...."Don't force it."

I just shut the TV off after watching a pretty decent movie about first year med students. It had the stern but caring instructor and a whole cast of stereotypical characters. The kid who couldn't score high enough on exam's to satisfy his M.D. father. He decided to take amphetamines (the kid not the father) to attack the almost insurmountable work assignments. His habit would soon be discovered and he would be "asked to leave" school.

One of the other students had a doctor father, a heart specialist. This fellow thought in addition to good grades kissing lots of asses would help him. The cast also had the married with a kid, now pregnant, overachiever who had a semi supportive husband. The other female was the daughter of a LADY doctor. This one did her undergrad at Berkeley and was wealthy with a capitol W. Really W since she drove around the campus in a brand new BMW convertible.

The cast also had the poor boy who has to work part time. He doesn't need to study very hard to get by. He takes little seriously and eventually questions his reasons for
entering med school. The doctor instructor, the stern one with the heart of gold, had a systemic disease and died before the end of the first year. Before she relapsed she "connected" with the poor student. Her death was motivation for the poor boy. He vowed to continue his education and "be all he could be." 

What is it with the rich girl poor boy thing? So many plots and sub plots have this element. You just know that before you see THE END these two will get together. Once in a while they mix it up and give us a rich boy poor girl. The girl is always from the wrong side of the tracks. She usually has a mother who takes in laundry and no father. She is always  loose or a loner and often doesn't get the boy in the end.

Hey, maybe I have something here? I should write a screen play.

Some captivating news of the day, Prince Harry is twenty seven so Happy Birthday Harry. I'm glad I didn't get stuck with the name, Harry. There's the obvious, Harry and Hairy and the nickname, Hank. Go ahead say that five times, hank, hank, hank, hank, and hank. Doesn't that sound like something that would come of of your nose? Probably why that square cloth thing is called, a hankie.

And, speaking of Prince's, another one had something to say today. Prince Fielder says nothing has changed. For those of you non baseball fans, this Prince is the first baseman of the Milwaukee Brewers. His father, Cecil, pronounced ses-ill not c-sill, was a ballplayer for thirteen years, 1985-1998. The story here is Prince is a "free agent" after this season. This means he will probably not be back in Milwaukee and he'll possibly earn more in one season than his father did in his thirteen.

Oops, I take that back. I did a little thing called research and Cecil earned just under 47 million dollars in his career.

Prince Harry will probably never be able to say, "It's good to be the King." But, even if he could, I bet he wouldn't out earn Prince Fielder, who will say, "It's good to be a home run hitter."

I am sick to death of clicking on links and going to video. I can read, I like to read, and I think reading in pretty important. What the Hell would I do if it got so everything was "watching"?

Currently I am wearing a t shirt I slept in. I did an hour of step aerobics this morning and I've yet to take a shower or comb my hair. Wouldn't I be a perfectly lovely sight? I'd need to clean up, sit in front of a video cam and record the blog, no thanks.

There is some sort of commercial before every video. The thirty second commercials take forever. The quality of the video usually stinks. I can upgrade the stream if I just download some easy program. I already have a half dozen applications that play video, I don't want another one. Reading is a lot easier and less complicated in this electronic age, all you need do is open your eyes.