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Well, here you go:

5) First off, where has the summer gone? I guess it went off to the East Coast because they had a massive heat wave earlier in the week. Especially in the mornings, it has been foggy, cold, and a tad drizzly. Yes, it's expected morning weather in the Bay Area, if I was living in San Francisco or near the water. However, I live in American Canyon, which is much more inland, and it's still foggy. Even in the afternoons when the sun comes out, it doesn't go higher than probably the low 70s. What a crappy way to bask in the summer sun. Perhaps it's the final revenge for El Nino?

4) I recently read an article on Yahoo about how much money does an average person need to consider themselves "satisfied" or "happy". Apparently (or obviously), a person who has a higher income has considered oneself much more satisfied with life. Meaning that they think they have fufilled their lives to the best, pending that actually have a life goal of actually being rich. Also, people who eventually earn $75,000 or more no longer gain any more personal happiness. Meaning that the average person will not be any more happy even if they get a pay raise from $100,000 to $150,000.

This article is really the true epitome of the American lifestyle, that our successes and failures in life is only determined by how much we materially gain. I'm not saying that having a lot less will make us happier, especially in this country. On the other hand, I find it total bullshit that my satisfaction of my life is determined by how much money I have in the bank or what kind of car I have or how big my house is in the end. When I do reflect back in my overall life, I will probably be in my late 60s to early 70s, which is pretty much my end years in life, hence why this is bullshit to me. When I die, all those things that I have gained is going to be given away or destroyed. That's it. By the time I have evaluated my life satisfaction, I'm already dead and all the things I have worked so hard to gain is gone. Useless.

I don't want my life evaluated as to what I have gained materially. Rather what I have I done personally to contribute to God, to my family, to my friends, and to the world. I don't want my life's work summed up by gaining a buttload of consumer products, but whether or not I have changed something for the good in a chaotic world. I believe that will give me better life satisfaction and a lot more personal happiness as well.

3) There has been this constant theme for 2010 about how people wished that they were kids again, or at least younger to the point that they don't have worry so much about their own problems. Perhaps, the reason for this theme is the never-ending problems of our economy. I will admit that life in the early years were a lot more worry-free. Aside from several parental limitations, I pretty much could've done a lot more things that I no longer can do as a working young adult. It's probably those simple things like hanging out with people all night long or eating whatever I want that I miss. Nowadays, I don't even have summer vacations and I'm constantly worried about my finances. Not a good place to be at the moment. As I stated in my last blog entry, it's true that risk and chaos gives us larger gains than what we are comfortable doing, but I can't help at times remember what it was a couple of years back and how much more comfortable and worry-free I was than now.

2) In about 5 months, I'm about to reach my 1 year anniversary work. Where did the time time go? I'm still contemplating on whether or not I should move out at home. Acutally, I am planning on moving out of the house soon, pending no financial issues come out from now till then.

As for potential locations, I'm still thinking about that at the moment. I'm actually kind of excited to have my own place. I mean really have my own place. Sure, I'm going to be renting still, but at least I will not have any roommates (which I really DO NOT want to have again after dealing with that shit of my 3 years of college). I may definitely be saving a lot of money living at home, but I can't be waking up uber early just to get to work on time for the rest of my life (I want to at least have a 0500 wake up time which is decent for me).

1) I found this Youtube video hilarious. I found it through Tosh.0 on Comedy Central.



I believe the actual motor that keeps the refrigerator cold is gone, which then makes the refrigerator much lighter to lift. However, it still doesn't change the fact that it is a great video.

Kudos to you, old man.

That is all.