To think I may not even exist.
Current mood: content
Category: Life

The last couple months have been really busy but I seem to enjoy each day more. I think for my mind to be at ease I need to move around and see places. Im not sure if its the adventure which helps my mind or the time spent traveling with my mind free to think and sort out ideas aside from the day to day running around and constant decisions which have to be made. In travel mode I can catch some beautiful scenery which takes my mind to better places and gives me a better outlook on whatever Im thinking or sorting at the time. Is there really anything else in the world besides what we see in our own mind? I thought thinking like that was ridiculous years back, the world is how the world is its no different to you than it is to me, is what I used to think. Now I believe it is to each of us as we perceive it. The only way for two people to view this life and this world the same is for them to share the same thoughts.

     Say you have information or even a thought which nobody else has. It seems perfectly clear and obvious to you but nobody else sees it. Your thoughts and ideas are real but to the rest of the world dont exist. Say your thoughts and ideas are true and correct, until you prove them and others can see what you see, you may have it all and at the same time have nothing where the rest of the world is concerned. Say your thoughts are flawed and others know your thoughts and know the problems which you dont see. Your still in your own world unable to comprehend what to others is obvious. But what is true and what is false when it comes to things which cant be proven. Most of science is based on theories which change over time. There is no world other than what we see in our own mind. We can sit speechless and motionless content in all our thoughts out of sight with the rest of the world and one with God, at that moment we will have everything and be nothing to the world.

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My Wonderful Life
Category: Food and Restaurants

       Sometimes people wonder what I do all day and I often wonder myself so why not a blog about today. I woke up kind of late but made it to work by 7 30. I delivered a truck for a customer and explained what we did to fix it and what was wrong with it, then got a ride back to the shop. Its all kind of a rushed blur but when I got back I talked to whoever was there answered some questions and got a message of a customer who needed me to call him back. I had to meet a guy in San Bernardino between 8 30 and 9 so I rushed off and made my calls on the way. There was an accident on the freeway which put me further behind but I managed to make it there by 9:02. I get there and the place is locked up and nobody around. I call and he said he forgot and would be right there but was supposed to be delivering some stuff and … I already had a plan. Most of my 20s were spent in a mad rush trying to get all the work done that I possibly could. I decided 30s should be productive while enjoying all I can in life. So I told him don't worry about it I will be in the restaurant across the street for an hour and see you when you get there.

       I have always liked little side of the road independent restaurants where you can sit at the counter and feel at home. I ordered some ham and eggs, not green eggs and ham just regular ham and eggs, country potatoes and even the drink I gave up for many years a cup of coffee. I ended up talking to an old retired guy who was sitting at the opposite side of the counter. The place was about empty, him and the waitress/casher/everything but cook were talking about how quiet it was. I ended up having a good conversation, a great breakfast and then getting to read the latest book Im working on for a while. When I left the place was pretty busy and I had what I thought was a good start for the day.

       Back across the street I showed up right when the place was opening talked about how the people/government are ruining our country picked up my order sold some stuff they needed and left. I called the shop to see if they had anything to pick up on my way and headed back. I showed up just as a tow truck was dropping off a truck. I ended up talking to the owner of the truck for around a half hour while I gave him a tour of the shop and told him what we could offer his company and others hes working with. He was referred by a friend and it turns out we both knew a lot of the same people and worked on some of the same jobs just at different times or different areas. He left, I got some paperwork done and most of the rest of the day is a blurr. I know I went to another customers yard, dropped off some paperwork and talked about the work we have been doing lately, talked to some other customers on the phone, looked over some work and some other projects were working on at the shop……

       Basically if you look at what I do during days like this it amounts to almost nothing. I used to build things, fix things, I would get tons done, now all I really remember is having a nice breakfast which is something I almost never get to do. I skipped lunch and was busy all the rest of the day but what did I actually accomplish? Now its 10 at night and I still have stuff I should be doing but I decided to write this blog why I don't even know haha. Well I hope your days are full of pleasant excitement    :)

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Oh what fun
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

I must be tired and ready for a change. Nothing seems right anymore. Stupid people ruined the world haha. Well not only them but lazy greedy people had a lot to do with it and not all of them were lazy some were hard working greedy people which is much worse. I had to buy underwear and razor blades today, Inflation makes me want to cry. I paid over 17 dollars for 8 razor blades, when I bought the razor originally I think it was around 5 or 6 bucks and came with a few extra blades. I haven't bought any underwear in around 5 years or so and don't remember what the price was but imagine less than a years worth of razor blades was more than a 5 year supply of underwear. Do I blame the razor people for trying to price gouge or the store for trying to make a killing selling these things? No I blame the government for taking us off the Gold Standard and killing our dollar. The Constitution spelled this out for a reason what our money is to be and the idiots in government now changed and reinterpreted it to mean what they want so someone can rob us all.

       Ok now that I got that out of my system, I can still feel my heart pounding that makes me so mad but I will get over it. I want a place where I can sit down with a book and eat my lunch but the places here suck. Im ready to move again. I think my mind is warped. What I want is to live in the downtown area of a nice little town where I can get up on Sunday morning walk downstairs and get something to eat, ride my bike to the store, walk to work, and be within a few miles of the airport. Yeah I know I don't want much that's all I want is a simple life. The problem is I look for a quiet town and a place where I can rent for not a lot of money and then the gears start turning and squeaking from lack of lubrication and I wait for smoke to boil out my ears but it doesn't happen. I start thinking well why do I want to pay this money in rent why don't I figure out how to buy the building and then I can live in it and rent the rest and then I start thinking about how it will be the same complicated mess like things are now. Yeah Im an idiot haha. Im thinking about taking a few months off work so I can live out of the area find an instructor and get my instrument rating and just change my mindset for a while. I hope this time I do it. I doubt I will though. If I do I will end up getting involved in some project and who knows what. I doubt I will ever get any rest. I bet after I die I will have some kind of deals working and be even busier than I am now. I wonder when were dead what we have to look forward to. Think about it, the whole time were alive were waiting to die what do we wait for when were dead? Is there ever a deadline on anything when your dead haha. Whats the hurry, you can eat all the pies and cookies you want or not eat at all for years and not worry about a stomach ache if your working on a project and decide to take a century or so off to rest will it matter? Will anything get done at all? Whats the incentive? I have a lot more questions but I don't want anyone to think Im any more sick and twisted than they prolly already do :)   Well Have a Great Day  Haha

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Go Kick Rocks
Current mood: thirsty
Category: Art and Photography

More talk about the meaning of life.

       Yesterday was a wonderful day. I say that and people instantly ask "Why" which is a good question in most situations but here it isn't anything to do with why. That is exactly "Why" it was such a good day. Nothing happened that seemed particularly good, no great news no big event nothing of the sort. I believe that makes it a better day than any good day with an event. Say something really exciting happens like you get to drive a Diamond T truck that's been kept in perfect original condition since it was new. Yeah I know it sounds too good to be true but say it happened and you were excited because of the great event of the day. That's a good day but its good because something happened. A good day where nothing happens is that much better because it was good and nothing happened. The air was clean, I felt good, the sky was so clear you could see for miles and for no particular reason I was in a good mood.

       Now its today, today wasn't a bad day, it just didn't seem like a good day. Nothing went wrong it just seemed to suck all day and I was in a mood for no reason. I wasn't in that bad of a mood just a crappy kind of mood. The thing I don't like about it is there was no reason. I thought to myself be happy you have a choice. When things are going bad I am usually happy, I think I do that to spite the world. I figure if I can stay happy no matter how bad things get I will always have it made. The other reason is people get really pissed if you can be happy when everything is going miserably wrong and they see it should be getting you down and its not. Yeah there are situations which make me mad normally they are always situations which I can't control but whatever the case I try to make the most of it and stay happy. Well Im tired of looking at this computer, I think I will go outside and kick rocks and smile the whole time even though its dark and nobody will see me haha this is great    =)

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Finally
Current mood: content
Category: Life

       The other day I finally realized this is the first time in my life I feel content. Being content in life is such a wonderful feeling, it sounds so simple, and seems like it should be a given but it took me over thirty years to find. I feel fortunate in finding something so great in so short of time. While others may spend a lifetime never feeling content some may be born with it and never know otherwise. Until now I don't think I could have defined what being content is all about. I thought I knew but didn't fully grasp what it was.

       I have always wanted to do everything, see everything, go everywhere. I still want this but am satisfied with what I have and feel blessed for all I have gotten to see, do and experience already. I was always rushed before, knowing I couldn't accomplish all of what I wanted to in 3 lifetimes so how was I going to get anything done is this short life? I now know it simply doesn't matter. Life is not a race, a contest, or a pleasure cruise. What life is doesn't even matter to whether or not you feel content. Think about how many seconds are in a year. Picture a scale with tick marks for each second in a year. Now picture a scale with a time line of eternity, say you live to be two hundred years old. The tick mark for your two hundred years wouldn't be as big as the mark of a second during a year or even a second out of a thousand years. The grains of sand on the beach can be numbered easier than any of us could measure eternity.

       How did this realization help me in being content? According to the world population estimates there are over six billion people in the world today. Each of them is living another life just as I am. It really takes a lot of thought to comprehend six billion and to think that's only counting the living, how many other souls were living and still have spirits floating around someplace. Now with all these people and with all this time what can I really do in this world that will make a difference? In another two thousand years what will be the same in this world as I know it today? If we could find someone who went to sleep two thousand years ago and wake them up today with them not having known anything in between then and now, what would they think? A distance which they would struggle to travel in years we can go in hours. Information which they wanted to convey may take months to get to a few people, we can transmit in seconds to millions. Was their journey any less meaningful then than ours is now? Jesus Christ was here about that time and nothing any of us can do living then or now will ever compare.

       So we are one in billions living for a short speck of time in an ever changing world. All there is for me to do is live the best life I can treating others with the respect I wish for them to give me while being grateful for everything I have been blessed with and not giving a second thought to what I don't have. This doesn't mean I shouldn't work hard to do more and see more while I'm here it simply means I will do the best I can and be perfectly happy with the outcome whatever it may be.

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Not just another day.
Current mood: content
Category: Life

    To another wonderful day. I got up early again today, by 4 30 in the morning I had already consumed an entire fried ham and egg sandwich and was loading my things in the truck to go to work. After a few short hours of playing in the mud I was exploring the Oakland airport for my second venture out of there. I always look over all the people wondering what their story may be and wondering who I will find myself sitting next to on the plane. I saw a few people who looked interesting but only one who looked amazing. These are the people I enjoy conversing with, the ones who are amazing.

    Judy Putnam was a lady full of tales of an amazing life. I sat next to her on a flight to San Jose one day. I saw pieces of living through the great depression on that flight, learned more about the strengths and will of people, saw the respect and splendor of a fading generation, one which is a shame didn't rub off on us more than it did if it did at all.

    Whiley ( I hope I spelled that correctly) is another inspiration nearer the other end of living her life. I was figuring somewhere in her mid twenty's but now believe closer to early twenty's but what vision and what a shame more people aren't blessed with the wisdom and views of life she has. It made my day to know there are still people out there who view life as a simple journey which we try our best to understand and plan but end up living to the best of our ability knowing we are not the ones with the answers but the ones being tested.

    After finishing work I went to the movies with Hannah. We saw Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, a wonderful movie I very highly recommend. A week or so back it was the Bee movie which was ok but not as wonderful as a movie about a,…  well you better see it for yourself. After the movie it was jumping in all the puddles we could find and now here I am figuring I should post this and go to sleep so hopefully I can try to have this good a day tomorrow if I ever figure out just when tomorrow is that is.

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Questions Answers a few notes from the other day
Category: Life

We are born, we live a short period, we die. Why?

Who is going to count the grains of sand?

What is the purpose?

There is none for they are already numbered.

We are simply discovering for ourselves what is already known.

This ink was surely meant for this paper.

Did you find these words or were these words meant to find you?

Is this pain we feel meant to hurt us or bring us joy for what we have been spared?

The pain which hurts us the greatest is that of others which we can not prevent.

Are you alive, or were the days of this life numbered before you were born?

This time is simply a test to determine whether you shall be given life.

True life need not breathe, eats because it wants to, and has no need for the concept of time.

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Video of the Rodent
Category: Life

For anyone wondering what happened to the mouse whos fate was voted on in a previous blog I made a video. I tried to post it on myspace on image shack and also on youtube. Each said the file was too large. The file is 267MB about 2 and a half minutes long. I can e mail it to anyone interested in seeing it or better yet anyone who knows how to resize it and make it to where I can post it. To the people who voted, Thanks  :) 

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I cant even begin to describe this one.
Current mood: indescribable
Category: Life

Im sitting here thinking I should write a blog even though what I want to write Im too lazy to put the time into writing, so then I thought I would write a blog about my friends on myspace. I would do this but I don't want anyone to take offence to what I say or don't want anyone to feel their privacy has been invaded by me talking about them in a blog.

     So I will just write about them in general and not single anyone out. The internet is crazy, I have met some truly amazing people on it. I tend to meet interesting people everywhere. I like to talk to strangers :)  I think I always have. What's neat about the internet is you can have conversations with total strangers over a period of time where you get to know the people better than even some of your real life friends. That is a little strange and scary but 15 years ago who would have ever imagined such a thing. I have friends from different parts of the country, different countries and all sorts of backgrounds from different cultures. Its almost like traveling without traveling. Some have been deleted due to disagreements some have disappeared without me knowing why, some don't sign in anymore and some we very rarely communicate but its still kind of neat that something like this exists.

     Technology can be good and bad. Some I don't understand. I have had encounters with people talking to themselves for quite a while. I remember doing a job in Anaheim close to the nut ward or something and we had several people talking to themselves, I remember one person in particular yelling at a mailbox then kicking one of the steel plates we had on the ground and really giving it hell. I still remember him calling it a bureaucratical son of a bitch, I don't know what that steel plate did to him but he was pissed. Then infront of the post office this lady was walking down the sidewalk waiving her arms saying something, so I stopped and said yes or what or something like that and she just kept on walking carrying on with this conversation and nobody was around. The other day I see another guy walking down the street talking to himself and I just figured all these people were nuts. Now one of the guys at work started talking to himself and he swears hes talking to other people through this thing attached to his ear. He says I should get one. I guess theres some way you can wire this thing to your ear then telepathically communicate with people talk out loud with nobody around and they can hear you, but its not really telepathically because you talk out loud. I will have to ask if they tried just thinking the thoughts to see if the voices still talk to them and answer them.

     So what Im thinking is if this really works and some of these people I have been seeing aren't crazy and just have high tech gizmos that lets them communicate to people who aren't there maybe,.. just maybe I can get one of those things to attach to my fingers and move objects without touching them. I guess they call this telekinesis. Say I get one of these things attached to my ear and somebody tells me their truck is broken and wants me to go fix it. Instead of me getting some tools and driving out to where they are or trying to tell them whats wrong with their truck I can just start moving my hands around fixing the truck, I may need some of the same technology built into some glasses so that I can see what Im doing I guess but I can stand right there on the sidewalk infront of the post office fixing peoples trucks, I wont get dirty I wont have to worry about having the right parts because I can just think about where they are and teleport them to the job.                     

     Think of all the uses. Oh no I might be out of a job. The people wont even need the trucks anymore, they can all have these things and just move the things through the air to where they need to go. We wont need cars people can all just stand by the post office and have their things they need moved teleported wherever they need to go. We wont need a post office, why pay for a stamp when you can teleport the mail where it needs to go if you even need mail, why not just teleport yourself to where you need to go and pay the bill or deliver what you may in person. The oil crisis is over crude oil is going to plummet when word of this gets out, the transportation industry gone, roads, we don't need them, airplanes, boats, all novelty items of the past. Will the unseen path ways hiding behind the air become saturated and gridlocked? Will the government find a way to regulate these new mental powers and tax us on the usage of our mind? Will we even need them or even worry about taxes. My mind is about to hit overload just thinking about all this, I need a break, somebody wake me up when its over.

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His Life is Truly in Your Hands
Category: Life

       I caught another intruder today. This one Im going to keep in a cage and let the people of the internet decide his fate.

       The security guard is fat and lazy now eating until she pukes on a regular basis. She has no concern for the security or protection of the property or premises any longer, as long as she eats shes content.

       The charges against the latest intruder : breaking an entry, stealing food, defecating in the cup I drink my tea and hot chocolate out of (not just on one occasion but twice he had the nerve to show such a foul display of disrespect).

       So its up to You and the people of the internet to decide the fate of this despicable creature.

       Some of the actions taken in the past include: setting the intruder free in a nice grass field, turning him loose next to the railroad tracks to fend for himself, smash him with a shovel, or he could be turned loose in front of the lazy security cat and her friends to see how nature would handle the situation.

Post your decision in the comments so its fair and all votes can be viewed publically. The last day to have your say will be the 31 of October. State your case as you see it and remember whatever the people say is how it will be. Life in prison is not an option, he is entitled to a fair and speedy trial after which he can be killed, fed to animals (snakes lizards cats or whatever) or he can be turned loose. If it is decided to turn him loose in some exotic destination the funds for transportation must be raised by the community and they are responsible for any quarantine or whatever else may be involved in exporting him there. I doubt this will happen though.

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Ramblings of nothing
Category: Life

Is this the end of a week or the beginning of a week? Or is it simply today? Is there a past and a future or just right now? Is there even such a thing. We have absolutely no control over time yet we feel we can define it. Every theory I have heard on time travel is flawed and I don't care if you can travel faster than the speed of light. Three quarters of the people who subscribed to my blog did so in the same month but of different years. I was at a wedding today, the bride has 3 girls and the groom has 3 boys. Each child has a new brother / sister of the same age. It was strange but kind of neat. I was watching the birds at the beach and realized birds think about making their takeoffs and landings ahead of time. Today was a fun day. I met more people at the wedding than I knew before going there. I ate all day and Im still hungry. I have to wake up in a few hours and haven't thought about going to sleep yet. I guess I should go. I doubt I will go to sleep though. I hope you enjoy reading this. I have no idea the purpose of this blog. I doubt we truly know the meaning of much we do. I think we think we know much more than we really do. Im going to make some hot chocolate and find something to eat now;)

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Whenstomorrow
Current mood: calm
Category: Life

Today the words and letters don't even look right so I will focus on the thoughts. Everything I was involved with today went well but I still feel like crap for some reason. I guess I should sleep more but who has the time. No don't look at your watch that will do no good. Nobody has asked me about tomorrow lately, when it will come or where it is. Its just a day away yet it never comes. I have been waiting and waiting for the day I can wake up and it will be tomorrow but every morning when I check and see what to title the day its always the same its always today.

Big things are in the works the future holds many changes. Hope for the best and plan for the worst. Im disappointed in what I see lately. I have been working on this giant puzzle for years now. The box was thrown out before my time, the pieces lie in a pile on the table, no preview is available; the only way to see the picture is to assemble it piece by piece. The more I put together the bigger glimpse I get of the big picture and the uglier it becomes.

Last week while on a flight I was talking with an older lady who has lived through what I can only read about. I asked her for some of the answers. I wont tell you the words but let you see some of the thoughts. Life is a circle, not some peoples lives not some things lives but life. Education is the answer, when the entire class ignores the teacher time will take over. When history is ignored it will repeat itself to remind us who were dealing with.

I thought we had many problems in many areas but found we have just one. Morality.

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We are being Robbed With Nobody to Help Us!!!!
Category: Life

     As promised a blog on inflation. Whats the big deal, things get a little more expensive you have to pay a few extra cents for a gallon of milk, a hamburger costs another nickel, so what. Well if you spend every penny you make and then some and plan on working longer than you will live then there is no problem with inflation... for you at this moment that is; but if you save any money at all or have any plans of getting ahead and maybe one day retiring to live off the money which you made a sacrifice to put away, then inflation is robbing and stealing your dreams and all you worked for.

     Inflation rips off anyone who works hard to support themselves and get ahead and rewards the lazy just scraping by who have no care or thought of the future. How, you may be asking (even though why is where the answer always lies) How is the question for now. Think about some old grandpa who worked 50 years at a regular job of some sort, took care of his wife raised his children and just dreamed of one day retiring and traveling the country. He and his wife met in school in the 40s, they planned their life together before they got married and decided to get married buy a house, have some kids, save their money and make it all worth while when they retired. They plan on doing it right and really enjoy their golden years. I guess we should name them, George is the mans name, and Sally his wife.

     George is an average guy with an average job and through the 1950s he earns an average of 4,500 per year, Sally stays home and raises the children with good morals and high standards. They buy a nice house in the mid 50s for 11,000 dollars. Bread costs under 20 cents a loaf through most of the decade and a gallon of gas is between 20 and 25 cents per gallon. So as they planned they save 15% of their income and it makes it tough getting by sometimes but they sacrifice and save it. By 1959 after the first 10 years using simple compounded interest at 5% they save a total of 8914.58 for the decade or the first 5^th of their working career.

     The 1960s ups Georges pay to 5000 a year average which sounds great until you figure inflation caused gas to now average 30 cents a gallon along with a rise in most other prices. They save 9000. dollars and with interest and last years savings the total after 20 years is 24,426.00

     Inflation was really working in the 70s, Georges wages averaged close to 14,000 a year, he ended up making over 17,000 in 1979. With rising costs it was tough for him and Sally to save the money but they managed to salt away their 15 percent despite gasoline more than doubling during the decade creating quite a problem for business, as well as George and Sally the consumer. The same gallon of Gas they bought in 1950 for under 20 cents now cost them over 80 cents. With the rise in wages they managed to get by fine though so nothing to worry about right. They managed to save $20,550. and their thirty year nest egg was now at 66221.79 dollars.

     Wow Georges income is really taking off in the 80s, his yearly average is over 22,000 and he is making over 27,000 by 1989. With the higher wages they salt away 33,525 to savings, after interest that brings them to 151,604.40

     George and Sally are ready to retire after 50 years of hard work. The last decade brought them an average of 34,200 dollars per year. They saved 51,300 that decade bringing their retirement money to a total of 313,683.93 remember we figured 5 percent simple compounded interest.

     If we study the numbers just a little we see that most of the money saved was in the last 20 years. The total savings after the first 10 years of hard work and sacrifice was only $8914.58 but think about that a minute. They bought their first house for just 11,000. They saved 80 percent of the cost of their house during the first 10 years or enough to buy almost 6 new cars in 1950. Their hard earned 8914.58 will barely buy a third of a car in 1999 yet they put 10 years of their life towards saving the money. In 1950 you could buy 49,525 gallons of gas for 8914.58 and in 1999  ?  7,307 gallons of gas. Somebody siphoned 42,218 gallons of gas out of Sally's car and there wasn't a thing she could do about it she probably didn't even realize they were doing it. How pissed off would you be to loose 42,218 gallons of gas? Well its getting stolen right out of your pocket every day hahaha and what are you going to do about it? I have to laugh because its just too painful to cry and quite a waste.

     Ok here it is over a week after I wrote the above, I was planning on taking my time and making this a good blog but I guess I got busy again. So Im going to post it as is. I will write more on inflation as time permits. I want to write some of the arguments for and against inflation as I see it and as I have heard from others. I know this is basic and everything is simplified so for any inflation experts reading this if you would like to send me some tips and criticism I welcome them, the purpose of this is to let people who may not know the disasters awaiting us to start thinking about just how serious a problem inflation is. To summarize the above the first years of savings deteriorated due to inflation and the longer George and Sally live the less their money is worth and their hard work still may leave them in poverty even though they were responsible and saved for their future. Think about the sacrifice saving 15% of your money is and to have it be worth just a fraction of its original value when you need it. Ok enough until next time

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The Value of a Dime Part I
Current mood: depressed
Category: Life

We all need things which we don't ourselves produce so we trade with others. Some of us produce things which others may not need while we still need what they have so we find common units of trade which we call money. You can receive this money for the goods or services you have to sell and pay this money for the goods or services you wish to purchase. So money is simply a common ground to use as trade. What is the value of it and why does it have that value? The value is determined in the market place. If the farmers all have eggs for sale and sell them for 10 cents a piece, eggs are worth 10 cents a piece as long as someone will pay that for them. If the farmers need more money for the eggs because chicken feed went up and start charging 15 cents a piece, then the eggs will be worth 15 cents until one of the farmers has more eggs than he can sell and lowers the price. Once the lower priced eggs run out the price will be what the next farmer asks for the eggs until the price is too high and the people wont buy them. That is a simplified version of supply and demand which I will assume everyone understands.

       But what about the supply and demand of the money? Lets say that the dimes paid to the farmers each have 2.3 grams of silver in them, now someone comes to pay with centavos so the farmers weigh them and find out that they have 2.4 grams of silver in a 10 centavo coin so they sell the eggs just the same for 10 centavos. Now the standard is to accept the centavos the same as cents and some even prefer the centavos since they have a slightly higher silver content. One day the government producing the centavos has an idea to stretch their silver a little farther so they decide to only put 2 grams of silver in each 10 centavo coin. The farmers catch on to this and will accept the older centavos the same as they had before but now want 60 of the newer centavos for 5 eggs rather than 6. The demand for the centavos went down as the supply went up. If this is difficult to understand look at it as more coins with less silver in each coin. The number of centavos increased but the value of each centavo decreased, this is inflation, there is a greater supply of money with each unit having a lesser value.

       Lets now say we take the silver out of the coins completely. What then determines the value of the money? It works the same as it did before, the supply determines the value except now the supply is much easier to increase due to not having to put precious metals in the coins. You can use whatever you can get away with and the coins have no intrinsic value of their own. In other words they are not valued by what they contain but the idea they represent. If the supply remains low and people continue to accept the same amount of money for the same amount of goods everything is fine and there is no inflation. If you increase the supply the value will decrease by having more money representing the same value.

       We cant get something for nothing no matter how hard we try. That is why the Constitution of The United States says that money will be of silver and gold. The reason for this is to keep the government under control by not letting them increase the money supply without having more silver or gold to back the money. Silver and gold is harder to come by than paper and pot metal thus limiting inflation. The government no longer follows the constitution and prints money at will now. So what is wrong with inflation, read part two, We are Being Robbed With Nobody There to Help Us.

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Days of great Discovery
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Blogging

I often wonder things and sometimes ask people but its rare that I find anyone who can or will answer my questions. One of the questions I had was who reads my blogs. There is a counter which tells you how many people have read the blog broken down by day week and total but nothing about who or how they find the blog in the first place. So since I have few friends on myspace and only a few subscribers but get far more people reading the blogs each time I post them it makes me wonder who these people are and how they found my page. Well today Im reading the news on MSN because I feel television in the most part is a waste of time and I find an article about blogging and this site that tracks over 70 million blogs. http://technorati.com/ So I check out the site type a few words into the search box and here come a bunch of blogs from all sorts of blogging sites. So I cant help but to type in a few words sure to bring up one of my blogs and sure enough in the second page of results there it is. The great mystery is solved but how does that work, how did they get my page in with the 70 million and do I want to be in with all those folks. It is what it is I guess. Ok thats the end of this blog but I think I will post another one with more thoughts I been thinking. I should be working so what a great distraction :)

Oh and anyone out there in Technorati land or any other such place viewing my blog say hello sometime.

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