It’s just too bad Michael Jackson is such a freak. He really is talented, and his early 80’s music is my favorite. Especially when I hear it play on the radio of my “Banshee” in GTA Vice City. But, I am so over his plastic face, and his reculusive lifestyle. For a guy that sings (sang) pop-music, he is awfully alternative.

Our poor (well not really, more like well-to-do) Youth Group kids. I swear, kids have more problems growing up in a well-off area than some in poorer neighborhoods. Parents are medicating their kids, and putting them into mental institutions for no reason. I’m extremely disturbed. I don’t remember high school causing the kind of serious problems that I hear around here – depression, suicidal tendencies, anxiety attacks. I really think that there ought to be some more formal training for being a parent. Since there are no longer tribes, nor extended families living near each other, people really don’t know how to raise their kids. Kids really need to talk about what’s going on, and the last thing they need is to have some pills shoved in their face, or to be shipped off to a mental health clinic. This has got to be the best way of starting kids on chemical dependencies and a life long counseling program. I hope that Tricia and I can raise Mason without these crutches.

That’s what you get when you drive to Palos Heights from Aurora after getting up at 5:30am only to find that one of the players on your volleyball team decided not to show up. There goes the tournament fees, there goes my Sunday. I haven’t had this happen to me since high school. Grown men can really suck.

I’m so very full of chili from our groovy SuperBowl Party. It was definitely the Grand Opening of our basement. Hard as we worked to make it all nice down there, everyone still congregated in our kitchen. There is an amazing gravitational pull in the kitchen of of our house. Next time we are going to install a tractor beam in the basement to offset the kitchen. Hindsight is 20/20.

So Monster decided to change its look and feel for the Super Bowl. Whoopee! I agree with all of Walt’s points about the reduced productivity, and the striking resemblance to Apple Switch. I’d like to add to that.

Monster has become a frightening hodge-podge of different “projects” cobbled together to resemble a web property. It is scary how different each area of the site now looks and interacts. From the recruiter backend, to the Career Center, to My Monster, every thing looks different. The use of graphic Monster buttons and catchy little callouts all over the page makes the site look like the outfield at your local minor league ballpark (and they’ve started cleaning up the aesthetics of those ballparks). I really think that Monster is due for a total architecture and look and feel upgrade. Unfortunately I know how difficult that would be.