Another one bites the dust. Damnit.

     Lou Reed has died.  He founded the group the Velvet Underground but is probably best known for this song.  The problem with growing older is that you have to watch everything from your younger days die become unrecognizable.  This is why you can never go home again; once you leave, it becomes something else.  You can't return to a memory.  The best you can do is just learn to keep and cherish the memories you have, and learn to accept (or blow up, if you have the know-how) whatever is their place now.

I knew women had it rough sometimes, but damn...

     First, let me say that I usually find sitting through a tampon (or any other 'feminine product') commercial is only slightly less discomfiting than having your prostate examined by a doctor with a hangnail and Parkinson's.  This time that was not the case.

     Secondly, I never knew how dangerous having two X chromosomes could be.  Damn, women have it rough. 

     And, in light of that, I would lastly like to thank God for the Y chromosome.