The iPhone 3GS is out now. (I will be purchasing a white 32gig version shortly!)

Steve Jobs is reportedly back on the job at Apple.

I still haven’t cleaned my house this week.

I’ve expressed my views on raising kids to a few people and I’m starting to get the overwhelming feeling that maybe I am a little crazy… I don’t know. I have never had a child, but I’ve lived with a LOT of people over the years who have had kids throughout my 26 years here on the planet. Enough people to have developed a sense of what things I should do and other things I shouldn’t do.

I am not going into this with the idea that raising a child is easy. It’s the hardest work anyone can do. It’s more than a full time job.

Having a Child requires you GIVE UP 20 years of your life. Minimum.

Here are a few key ideas that I have;

1. Getting pregnant can be an accident, raising a child cannot be.

I think you have to go into it with a plan. Even if you have to write the plan down to remember it, you have to have a little structure and know where you are going. Setting rules and goals “on the fly” is going to get confusing and eventually hard to control.

2. Santa or Jesus?

Which God should your child believe in?

3. Home-School or government education?

Government schools scare the hell out of me. They teach values and ideas that are far from what I hold to. Can you accept the fact that the school will be teaching your kids the things you should be teaching them?

4. Raising a child with good credit.

I want to start a savings account for my child the day he/she is born. his/her first car’s deposit and payments will be made with that money in his/her name, on time, every month. My kids paychecks will go straight into a bank account and he will receive and allowance from it. I will teach him/her the value of saving, making payments on-time and living responsibly below your means.

5. MUSIC!!!

Have you ever heard someone say “I wish I had never learned guitar and/or piano?”
Make your kids take lessons, not just a couple, from the age of 5 to 18. Trust me, they will thank you later.

I might seem crazy, but these are just a few of my ideas.

Can a single, 26 year old male have any idea what he is talking about when it comes to raising kids???

Stand by for chapter two “Pet Peeves” (a pet peeves blog is ALWAYS more entertaining than a thinking-out-loud blog)

Look guys, Xanga is awesome. It doesn’t care what you look like, or how many friends you have. The site focuses on writing, creativity and who you are.

and… facebook is FINALLY getting something we have all had for years… Custom URL’s! LMAO!!!!!!

so, count your blessings, and write something entertaining or informative for me to read already!!!!!!

I’m going to throw a quick scenario out there and see how you guys would respond.

I’m running a chain of, let’s say, toy stores. I have 100 stores across the country and over 10,000 employees. Let’s say one of my employees is touching little boys in ways you should never touch little boys.

What should I do?

A. Fire his sorry ass publicly and report him to the police, file as many charges as I can against him and hope to god he is sodomized in prison;

B. Quietly fire him, let the parents of the kids handle the legal stuff, wash my hands of it.

C. Move him to another store and pretend it never happened.

(hint, according to the Catholic church, the correct answer to this question is “C- condone the behavior”)

So here I am, staring into the billions of pixels my brand new beautiful 65 inch high-def TV and I decide to watch some old-school “over the air” programing. I haven’t had the pleasure of even owning a TV for the last 6 months so the new set (yes I AM bragging a little here, come on, 65 inches!) was looking pretty awesome in my living room.

So I connect the right wires, hit the menu button and scan for channels. I live in the middle of Scranton so about 15 different channels pop up. I’m excited! Free TV!!!!

Apparently I missed something.

During the last six months the government has issued a decree stating that we all have to switch to digital now. Awesome. While my TV happens to be brand new and comes with a built in digital tuner, millions of other Americans are being forced to purchase Digital Converter boxes that force their television sets TO ACT LIKE A FREAKING SCRATCHED DVD!!!

I mean, seriously, wtf????

Halfway through a Klondike commercial, a guy is about to get the hair waxed off of his chest (I was pretty excited about seeing his reaction) and the tv froze. I waited for about 15 seconds only to see the very end of what I thought was going to be a pretty good commercial.

I sat through about 2 hours of mindless channel surfing getting frustrated ever time the tv would randomly decide to just “skip” important parts of conversation.

THE DIGITAL TRANSITION HAS RUINED MY HOPE FOR A FREE LUNCH!

I think the government is punishing me for not spending more dollars on cable for them to tax every month.