I felt a little guilty at class Monday...

as I was doing the homework that we will be going over in the class on Friday in class, on the computer.  I just wanted to get a head start because I have a busy schedule this week.  The sad thing is that it is only Monday evening and I'm already tired as heck.  And yes, I'm cheating once again by doing the morning blog the night before.

So some of the things I'm pondering at the moment.

Is there a single classic rock radio station anywhere in the country that doesn't make some play on the month October to make it into Rocktober for at least one promotion, contest or whatever?

Why is it that even when you see the signs that warn a particular street will have construction going on in the upcoming week, you totally dump that information from your brain and wide up caught in the traffic from that construction?

Why is it that some supermarket locations always have plenty of shopping carts, and others require you to hunt throughout the parking lot to find one that someone has just finished using?

If there were a way to be in two places at the same time, would there be people who would still not be satisfied and insist on someone finding a way for them to be in three places at once, or even four?

There's a residential neighborhood in Bakersfield where speeding cars were a problem.  Then one of the residents put up a sign that says "If you hit my kid, I will shoot you" and speeding has almost disappeared.  So the fact that it's a residential neighborhood with kids playing won't get drivers to slow down but fear of being shot will?  What's up with that?

Everyone loves Five Guys Burgers and Fries.  How long before someone starts Six Guys Burgers and Fries, because six guys have more meat than five guys?

Why do people dress up so much to go to the opera or the symphony?  Is there some reason you should have to be uncomfortable just because you're attending something that's supposedly "classier" in nature than a movie?

Why do more people not dress down when flying on an airplane.  If I had to fly I'd be wearing sweat pants, a t-shirt and flip flops so I didn't have any fuss over my shoes.

So Pizza Hut has chickened out.  Now that poor guy who was willing to ask "sausage or pepperoni" at tonight's presidential debate even though he'd be made fun of forever won't have any reason to do it.  Dammit, if I were there, I might do it anyway.  My fear would be that Candy Crowley, the debate moderator might carry out her threat to ask relevant follow-up questions.  So then we'd hear "President Obama, Chicago deep dish or New York thin crust?"  "Governor Romney, is BBQ sauce and grilled chicken still pizza?"  And if she's a Dominos fan as I suspect, she might even ask "do you want to add an order of 16 cheesy parmesan bites with that?"

Why is it that when a movie is really bad, if the stars are really hot, you can still bring yourself to watch it.  "Practical Magic" is a bad film, but pairing Bullock and Kidman obviously set off enough men's threesome fantasies  to earn back its $60 million production budget.  Similarly, it wasn't the male audience that drove "Magic Mike" over the $100 million mark at the box office.

I have an idea how we can help balance the budgets.  We'll outlaw election polls and require that any money wasted on them be donated to the fund to repay the public debt.  When everything is "within the margin of error", what's the point anyway?

Which image is more frightening?  Sacha Baron Cohen in his "mankini" or Jim Carrey at the beach wearing his then girlfriend Jenna McCarthy's bathing suit?  I think that's a toss-up.

Do you cringe when you're watching the news on TV and you hear a reporter say something that you know is completely wrong on a factual basis?  I do.  Because people are sheep and will accept as the gospel truth anything a TV reporter says on a local newscast.  At least that's how it seems.

I have a new book at present, but I'm wavering over which book to read after this one.  I'm down to "Perks of Being a Wallflower", because the movie is so good or "The Best Thing About My Ass is that it's Behind me" because the author is funny and interesting.  May have to recharge the Kindle to read the latter as an e-book.  Now where's that charger?

So it turns out that those digital billboards can generate nearly six times the revenue of an old-school billboard.  Not much consolation to someone who has the light of that billboard shining through their apartment's windows.