General........whatever......

Why is it so hard to get up at 5:30 am when it is dark? But then, when Spring and Summer roll in, that same 5:30 is much easier to handle....I am coming to the realization that there are some bad psychological and physiological forces at work on us. Why do we allow the "outside" to affect us so much? Shouldn't our joy come from the "inside?" Maybe that's the problem.....a lot of people don't have the joy.....there's nothing inside to help them navigate through their day. Do you think "bad luck" follows people around? I don't really believe in luck, but that Murphy fellow certainly had some valid points. For instance, the other night, we bought a new DVD player. We were excited! This is our first DVD player! I got it home, and realized, "Hey, Mike, your TV is too old." There was no way to hook up the DVD player to my television. Naturally, being the "MacGyver Technical Nerd" that I am, I figured that I could scrape up an old cable box or VCR or something that I could run the connection through. Well, 2 VCRs and 1 Cable Box later, I found I was not so "MacGyver-ish." The smart guy would have taken back the DVD player and gotten his money back. Me? I went and bought a new TV. . . . Life is all about perspective . . .