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As a few years travel by, I tend to collect a lot of old gear and positions that I no longer need. Let it be outdated PC parts, instrument accessories, recording gear, clothing, camera gear and so forth. I usually end up giving it away to friends, family and finally Goodwill for whatever is left.

I decided to tally up everything (Goodwill-wise) so far that I have let go this year to see what my writeoffs look like thus far. I have given away 42 items to goodwill already. I never knew I had so much stuff I didn’t need. Given, I think I have gone though just about everything looking for such items…so I’m pretty much at a dead end now. An old wired phone, a not so old digital 5ghz wired phone set (I don’t have a hard-phone line)….an old digital camera, a printer…some old clothes that were never worn (yatta yatta). It all adds up quickly collecting space.

I handed off a good number of things to friends as well. I just mailed out a small pocket-size digital kodak camera to a friend. I noticed I haven’t used it in over 2 years. It was a nice camera, but my phone takes just as good images (if not better) so why not pass it on to someone who could use it. Two old 21″ TV’s, some Xbox games that I some how acquired but would never play. *poof*….gone. Freed up a lot of space.

Something interesting, I recently acquired a signed original art piece by one of the artists from “Adventure Time” (via a local

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Our Generation – Generation Suck (revised)

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I have been wanting to write about this for some time now. There is something so wrong with our generation. We seem to have lost most of the qualities that make us what we were created to be. Let it be if you believe in God who created us, or the alternatives of evolution, natural selection or aliens that “brought us from another world” (bum bum bum).

We have become a generation where people are more worried about the brand name on their shirt than the quality or purpose of it. More worried about Facebook than they are physically meeting friends in the open and having fun. More worried about “that Xbox achievement” than they are finishing a day of school that wants to teach them how to be better people. More worried about talking on the phone, then paying attention to the person standing next to them who is there to spend time with them (let it be friend, or more).

This truly is sad. What’s worse is that it spreads to the older generations as they begin to lose hope in this new one.

I find more and more that neighbors ignore those that live around them vs

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