When we die, we die in the present portion of time. Our parts are recycled for the future. Our past remains fixed in the past.
The past and the future are as real as the present. We are not set up to understand them. Our state is set to the present.
We won't be in this state ever again, and we have no tools to imagine any other state.
But one can imagine that 100 years in the future, we will be dead in present time. We are currenty, the real, living, ghosts of the future.
I don't feel like a ghost, and I don't feel like a spirit either. And I don't feel dead. But, I am, one hundred years from now.
I believe all existance has already been predetermined. Life is like a movie where you don't know what is going to happen next.
There is only one path that could have brought us to the present, and there is only path possible into the future.
With that said, nothing is random. Our pain and joy, the decisions that we make, and the paths we take, all of these will have had to happen.
Our existance in the present is just a short ride.
I think it is like a rollar coaster, where we go in the same circle over and over again. It may be that we get to pick different seats each time around.

Can't wait to get back to Pittsburgh, my home away from home.
So, if working in Pittsburgh is like a dream, then this weekend was like a dream within a dream.
We didn't make it to Ocean City, NJ or Atlantic City, like I'd hoped.
The traffic was too thick, but we did see some of Delaware.

Ever feel like life, for a moment, was in perfect harmony throughout the world.
Ever feel that if the past was great, then the future can't be bad.
Today I picked a dandilion and shook it. The spores flew 1,000 feet into the sky, and I still don't understand it. 
I am living in a magical place.
Pittsburgh people, I hope you know you're living in someone else's heaven.
Thank you all for making it that way.

 1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day
   (I didn't)
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! 
   (somehow, I calculated thats $30,136,320 per hour...hmmm)
3. Wal-Mart will sells more from January 1 to April than Target sells all year.
   (McDonalds does too) 
4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot, Kroger, Target, Sears, Costco, and K-Mart combined.
    (Why would you combine Krogers and Home Depot?)
5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private employer, most can't speak English.
   (Most Americans can't speak English)
6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.
  (Babylon was largest prehistory mall)
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only 15 years.
8. During this same period, 31 supermarket chains sought bankruptcy (including Winn-Dixie). 
  (ewwwe..Winn-Dixie)
9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.
10.. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.
11 This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at a Wal-Mart store. Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.
  (I've bought there, but, it wasn't really an experience)
12.. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart.
   (1% live in the dressing rooms)
Let Wal-Mart run the Government.

A fellow I work with told me that his daughter was going for vacation in Ethiopia.
I said "WHY?".  He said, "She wants to adopt a child. I'm going to be a double grandfather!".
I said "Wow. Isn't she worried about mental illness, and other born diseases from the malnutrition."
He said "Nope. The company she's going through tells you all about the children. They get vaccinated...the whole shibang!".
I thought that was SO SELFLESS. She's going to give a child a life that he/she would have never had the opportunity to have.
That's nice. The people here are nice.