I remember the good old days when we had categories like mysteries, science fiction and current events at the book store…

Over the weekend there was a story about a women that was admitted to the hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain, flu-like symptoms and infected sores on her backside.  When doctors questioned her about what happened she was at first reluctant to answer but after some additional probing, she admitted to having “cosmetic surgery.”

It turns out the “cosmetic surgery” was performed by an unlicensed transgender person, by the name of Oneal Ron Morris, who performed the operation by injecting the subject with a combination of fix-a-flat, cement and mineral oil.  The incisions were then sealed using Super Glue.  Cost of above services were $700 dollars.

OK.  I know there are a lot of people out there with little money that would like to have plastic surgery and would consider this their only option.  I can understand that.

There are also a lot of incredibly dumb people out there who would think nothing of having a medical procedure done at someones house and would also see nothing wrong with a magic concoction of fix-a-flat, cement and mineral oil injected into their buttock.  I can understand that too.

What I can’t understand is that after meeting the “doctor’ and finding out he performed the procedure on himself, and is a model of his own work, why you would ever choose to go through with it.

Good Lord.  What is wrong with people?  Could anyone really be …

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I like old people.  I really do.  In fact, I hope to be one of them some day.  I just wish they had some consideration for those of us that work for a living.  For example,  I’m at a medical lab this morning needing to get a blood test, and the waiting area is filled with old people who I suspect have little else on their schedule today.  It sure would be nice if they waited until the morning rush was over before coming in for their tests.  It would really make life easier for the rest of us.

Here was my comment to an article reporting the Borders Books was on the verge of going out of business because the e-book has killed them:

What killed Borders for me is their decision to turn the store into a reading room.  I used to love buying books at Borders but all of a sudden I had to make my way through piles of people with no intention of buying anything, sitting in the aisles and spending their day reading.

I’d often see people with piles of magazines that they had taken off the rack, reading away like it was their living room.

One time I went in to buy a book on 3D animation and I couldn’t get into the aisle because a girl was sprawled on the floor with dozens of art books, copying the drawings.

Who needs this?

Now I sit at home, take my time looking through books online and end up buying on the Net; usually through Amazon.

As far as I’m concerned, Borders and Barnes and Noble lost my business when they decided to cater to the seagulls instead of the paying customers.

Adding a bit to this:

It really was uncomfortable buying books at Borders.  Since I’m a software engineer, I’d often head straight to the computer books section.  In every aisle, they had installed chairs facing in both directions.  When I’d be trying to look at the books, my …

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