Taking drinking seriously

I think this county's population has a real problem with rationalizing stuff and coming up with excuses instead of realizing the problems we have. I mean, why else would we continue to allow people to use judgment-impairing drugs and drive their cars on the road and then when they kill somebody, they just get a slap on the wrist? Yeah I mean alcohol. I go out to restaurants and see couples, often with children, BOTH drinking alcoholic drinks and then all getting into the same car and driving home. How ignorant do you have to be to not have seen that even a single drink impairs judgment and reaction times by a measurable amount? I hear people laughing and joking about how hard it was to drive home and that they were lucky that they didn't get a ticket. It never crosses their minds that they're lucky they didn't kill themselves or somebody else.

Who's using all the drugs?

I saw today on the news where some semi submersible boat carrying around 5 TONS of cocaine was seized. Now that's a lot of dope! We hear all the time that drug trafficking prevention costs us X number of dollars each year. My question is, why are there so many ignorant, stupid, insane people that use this crap anyway? Are we a country of losers that just don't give a darn any more?

Watering the wet ground

What's up with people with automatic sprinkler systems in their yards who don't actually monitor what their systems are doing? If anybody has seen the weather or news, you'll know what we've gotten our fair share of rain down here in Houston. There was one 2 week period that it rained at least once every day at my house. Still, I'm leaving for work at 6:30am and what do I see? I see at least 2 neighbors sprinkler system squirting water on the grass. And one day it was freaking raining AT THE SAME TIME!!!

Is it ignorance? Have they forgotten that they even have their systems on a schedule? Do they just not give a damn that they're being wasteful? Are these the same people who get a pet and then forget to feed it?

Whatever it is people, come on! Let's use a little common sense. Normally this time of the year we're already seeing notices from the water company about drought conditions. It's not going to stay wet like this forever and the more water we leave in the ground now, the less the change of a shortage later.

Where's the posts?

Geez, one day I'm going to have to start posting stuff.

Not a griping day so far...

Well, wouldn't you know it? It's the first day that I was going to put something down and I'm coming up empty this morning! Oh sure, I could just think of some topic and go from there, but it wouldn't have any real feeling to it. The day is young. Maybe I'll think of something. Maybe I'll put my radio on a talk show later and see what they're bitching about!

Let the griping begin!!!

Well, here it is. I'm starting this blog, just to see how much I gripe about stuff! Ok, so that's not necessarily (geez, did I spell that right?) what it's for but I thought it would be interesting what happens. There may likely be "positive" gripes which might be better tagged as "My Like for the Day", but we'll see.

Everybody knows how it is. You head into work and somebody cuts you off on the road with no turn signal and when you had the right of way. Or, you hear something on the news about something overseas, something in your country/state/city/community, and it just sticks with you for the day. I think that's what this will turn out to be. I'm not sure if I will try to avoid "repeat" gripes or I'll just go with whatever comes to mind first thing in the morning. We'll have to wait and see.

So, I'm going to tweak the layout of the page a little first. I'm not sure if I'll post an actual gripe today or not. I had a few ideas earlier but the initial setup has taken my morning free time already. Of course, my boss called in sick today, so plans may change! If he reads this, I was just kidding!

Oh, and about the URL. I tried a few simple ones, but gripe.blogspot.com was taken already, although there hasn't been a post since 2001! I thought about shortening Gripe Of the Day to make god.blogspot.com! I suspected that it might get a lot of hits, but I didn't want to be misleading. It didn't matter anyway, as somebody already has it. Again though, there hasn't been a post in a long time. Expanding to GOTD would have worked, but apparently there is a "Girl Of The Day" with that URL. So, I went with part of the sentence, "All you ever do is gripe, gripe, gripe.", and there you have it.

As a final note, nothing I put here will be intended as a personal attack. Don't worry, because I don't intend to single out any one person (except maybe foreign heads of state because they represent their people) and if I do put a gripe that appears to be directed at you personally, don't worry. There's bound to be others like you!