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Here we go again, on this eternal topic. I do not know why we spend so much time on this kind of stuff, all it tends to do is get us ticked at one another. Face it, it is a difficult world we live in today. So, it is no surprise, that what should be "normal", is no longer normal, and vice versa. As for women not being able to find men-- there are PLENTY of men out there, just salivating at the chance to go with women like the one in the beginning of this article. True, these men will just "use and abuse" these women, and mainly see them as a checkbook, and a place to sleep at night(AFTER they have bedded someone else earlier). BUT-- then some women seem to dislike the kind of men who would NOT do these kind of things, seeing them as "boring", "wusses", "too nice", "nerdy", and so on. .... and here we are.......

It is sad, that we as a society have arrived at this point.

On another note, Nowhereman,. if I may sidestep a little....

There is a CHANCE, and albeit a SMALL one, that a new opportunity MAY be opening up for me, financially.

That is, in installing and upgrading HT and commercial distributed-sound systems.

There is a BIG opportunity, for QUALIFIED techs, in these areas.

Let me explain what is going on, for a bit:: At the beginning of this week, I was asked to accompany the owner of the shop I work for, to give some advice on solving a problem, with a HT system, and a DS sound system(whole house sound), for a client, and the client just happens to the the OWNER of JTM meats.. SO, I go to the house with him, ad I discover that SOMEONE, has done a real, slap-dish,half-@ss job, of putting together their HT system, and REALLY botched the DS system! They had ONE receiver, for ALL of the HT speakers, AND it also had to run the whole-house system, ON THE SAME CHANNELS!! Now, THIS was a rip-off!! Cheap, small, bad-sounding speakers, NO sub, and so on!! And because of the terrible overload, the DS sound was NOT working well LOW volume, and distortion!!

From listening around, this seems to be a trend. Too often, HT systems are put together by people who are more concerned with making the system LOOK good, to the owner, and NOT the way it sounds, and then, getting their BIG check, for doing this, and moving on!! So, I recommended some changes, to the system, that will make it sound a LOT better than it does now, and STILL look nice, and add TRUE 5.1 SS to the system WITH a sub. Also, the whole-house system will be able to function properly, when we are done, and I will get paid WELL for doing all of this.

Then, this last Friday, I find out that an owner of a restaurant wants his establishment wired for sound, with several zones. So, early next week, we will go there, and asses the situation, work up a plan, and put together a distributed-sound system,with paging, and XM radio, for this guy,and I will get paid good for doing so, AND this system will sound as good as it looks, which is what is important to me.

So, maybe these will be isolated incidents.. I hope not, because this would be a great opportunity for me, and the shop, to see to it, that HT and DS sound systems were PROPERLY installed, and did not just LOOK good, but SOUNDED good, and the customers were getting a good deal, with competent installation of their systems. I saw at Homerama, how badly people can get "ripped off", by incompetent installers, and would LOVE to get into this market, and provide a good, reliable, HONEST service, to those consumers.

Here we go again, on this eternal topic. I do not know why we spend so much time on this kind of stuff, all it tends to do is get us ticked at one another. Face it, it is a difficult world we live in today. So, it is no surprise, that what should be "normal", is no longer normal, and vice versa. As for women not being able to find men-- there are PLENTY of men out there, just salivating at the chance to go with women like the one in the beginning of this article. True, these men will just "use and abuse" these women, and mainly see them as a checkbook, and a place to sleep at night(AFTER they have bedded someone else earlier). BUT-- then some women seem to dislike the kind of men who would NOT do these kind of things, seeing them as "boring", "wusses", "too nice", "nerdy", and so on. .... and here we are.......

Hmmm, that's a good way to look at it, from the other side. There will be men out there that would like to snag this lady to be their "Sugar Mama" and just mooch off of her. I see it this way, we are presented with choices in life and when we make one choice, sometimes the other choices are not available to us depending how big the choice is. I guess this lady made such a big choice that required a lot of effort to get where she it. I am assuming that she didn't "sleep her way to the top" although I must keep that door cracked open, it is certainly possible.

It is like where if I had $1500 to blow on a high end shortwave radio or a high end VHF/UHF/SHF receiver. if I buy one, I will have to forgo the other. That is what she did in life and she is paying the price of her decision when she longs for the pathi n life she didn't take.

There is a possible alternative, using my example, I could take half the $1500 and buy a nice scanner or handheld scanner that could do 90% of what the high end VHF/UHF radio could do. I could take the other half and buy a very nice shortwave radio and have the best of both worlds. Getting back to this lady, I remember that 1970's commercial of the "super woman" who can bring home the bacon and then cook it with all the energy of the Energizer Bunny. That is pure BS, no one can do that. So in essence, if she wanted a good career and a family, she should have backed off some on the career side and invest time and effort into a man and a family as she should if she wanted parts of both worlds.

I know myself, I get into trouble on this topic but I can't help it, I just keep opening up my fat mouth (fingers and keyboard?). B-) It is sad, that we as a society have arrived at this point.

I'll drink to that. That is sad. B-(

There is a CHANCE, and albeit a SMALL one, that a new opportunity MAY be opening up for me, financially.

Great! I hope it comes true, I'll keep praying for you. Where I work at, I know they are going to teach me to scan documents into the system soon. I work in the accounts payable section.