Just a Suggestion:

Tomorrow I’m having surgery on my left elbow for severe tendonitis. Apparently my joints are protesting my chosen career field as a high school music director/trumpet player/guitar player/piano player. Apparently they are equally unhappy with my method of relaxing after a hard day of saving the world from a never ending barrage of wrong notes, poor tone quality, and rhythm that doesn’t quite groove, which is to play Medal of Honor and Call of Duty until the wee hours of the morning or until I can’t feel my fingers any longer, whichever comes first.

Anyway, I talked to my mom tonight and she said that she had me on several prayer chains. I thought this was really nice of her because we can all use all the help we can get, especially if it doesn’t cost anything and doesn’t require any extra effort on our part.

I don’t want to sound ungrateful to all the people I don’t know who are at this very moment praying for divine intervention in the matter of my sore elbow and the highly trained surgeon (educated solely in the good old US of A, I might add...) who is going to lop off the parts that have now “joined the other team”. But I do have one small suggestion.

Next time, I’d like them to start praying for me BEFORE something goes haywire.

I mean, where were all these people two or three years ago, when my elbow was working just the way God intended it too? Couldn’t they have put me on the chain then? Maybe if they had, I wouldn’t have needed several injections of cortisone, endless nights of ice to ease the pain, and now surgery and an all expense paid trip to Zombia via the Percoset Express.

I have no beef with the prayer chain people, especially since they’ve decided that my elbow was worthy of being brought to the attention of the creator of the universe, as if He (or for all you feminists, SHE) was not already aware of the tendons fraying in my arm at this very moment. But I’d just as soon have them start praying now that evil not find my address as have them pray that it doesn’t stay long when it has already dropped by for a visit.

Again, I appreciate the thought. But would it kill y'all to be a little proactive?

Mars Is Melting

Did you know that the polar ice caps on Mars are melting? Well it's true. Do a Google search on this topic and see what you find. Mars is indeed melting. The polar ice caps are receding, much like they are on Earth. If you read a few of the articles you find on this search, you'll find that scientists generally attribute this phenomenon to solar activity.

However, solar activity is not causing polar ice caps on Earth to melt. Just on Mars.

Apparently, the sun doesn't have the same effect on the Earth as it does on other planets in our solar system. Must be all the water we have here on Earth soaks up all the heat and light and radiation and stuff and keeps all that solar crap from melting the ice on the ol' Big Blue Marble.

Good thing too, because with all the melting that us humanoids are causing, we'd really be (literally) up the creek without a paddle if the sun melted ice on Earth the way it does on Mars. I mean, can you imagine if on top of the melting we cause from burning all kinds of shit that the sun was actually kicking it up a few notches? I mean, the sun is a pretty big dude. I mean, BIG big, you know, like you could fit 1,304,000 Earths inside the sun. That kind of big. And hot too. You combine something this big and hot with a personal grudge and we could be looking at a situation that even ethanol or hybrids couldn't cure.

So every day we can thank our lucky stars (or in this case, our lucky star) that the sun doesn't mess with the Earth the way it does with other planets.

I, for one, am grateful. I'd hate to think that the Earth was being warmed by something we have no control over.