Another day in the brickyard. ;) I have a couple things that are on my mind so this will seem random I am sure.

First off, I live in Minnesota. When I choose to keep living here after I left home, I understood some basics about the state. We have crappy weather about 9 months out of the year. It's 90+ and humid during the summer with tornados and severe thunderstorms, and It's 40 below in the winter and it SNOWS! This may come as a shock to some people, but I know that it will snow. Yesterday there were storm warnings and the sky is falling alerts splashed across everywhere, because we were going to get 4 inches of snow. I would like to be the first one to point something out. FOUR INCHES IS NOTHING! We can all go stack up for supplies when there are 12+ inches coming, but really FOUR INCHES ?!?!? I would hope that if you have choosen to live here you would have more than one day's food on hand. Perhaps I am the only one that goes to the store and purchase more than one days food, but I doubt it. And worst case senario, pizza places will still deliver. As long as they have power, they will bring you food!! I get tons of phone calls from caring people saying the sky is falling and I should not be driving. I have spent the last 11 years of my driving life driving in this state. I appreciate the thoughts and prayers, but I will make it. If I end up in he ditch, I will call for help and eventually someone will come. I don't drive on empty during the winter so I should be fine. I also am fully aware that their are other less intellegent people on the road with me, and I keep my eyes open for them too.

Second, I have been thinking alot about commitment recently. People have a really hard time with commitment and I wonder why? Are you afraid you will fail so it's easier to not commit to something? Have you been hurt before by a commitment? Is it easire to wonder through life without being a part of anything? I am completly opposite of this so it is really hard for me to understand. I figure if you are going to expend energy doing something, why not do it like you mean it? Why not commit? I think a lot of people do not look at the positive side of commitment. Commiting means that you will be supported. This includes support when you think you fail. It means we will help clean the dust off of you after you hit the ground and get you back running again. Once you really start seeing commitment from every side I think most people will want to commit.