The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard and The Critique

Have you ever wondered where our "stuff" comes from, how it's made, and where it all goes when we are done with it. Annie Leonard has made a video to tell us about our "stuff". 

What do you think about our system? Do you believe what she's saying? Do you think there's another side to the story? Of course there is. There's always two sides to any coin. So take a look at a critique on this video.

As for my own opinion, I do think we should be good stewards of the planets resources. I do think we need community and sustainability. I do think corporations are irresponsible and government has overstepped its place. I think both sides made good points but I don't have to fully believe either side to know that I have a personal responsibility to love and care for people in my community and around the world. I don't have to take sides to know that no one should be homeless or without healthy food and clean water or proper health care. I think that people have power and make the world go round. I think that we've gone so long with the way things are that we don't think we can change it. I don't believe that for one second.

Free Folk Album Download - Ryko: Flash of Light Sampler

While browsing the freebies that Amazon.com has available, I found this sampler album that I thought I should share here. Folk music is one of my favorite genres of music and this sampler has some great songs on it.

Ryko: Flash of Light Sampler

Artists included:

Will Hoge

Sam & Ruby

Jupiter One

Matt Duke

Leslie Mendelson

Justin Currie

Gary Louris

Nickel Eye

Thea Gilmore

An 8x10 Kind-of Life

Just ran down and picked up my free 8x10 from Walgreens!

[And being that I'm posting this on Feb. 25, 2022, I have no idea what that picture was! If I remember what it was and come across it at some point in the future, I'll scan it in and upload it here.]

Dodger got on trying to fix it

So two days ago Dancer's computer started to really act up. It would just shut down for no apparent reason. Dodger got on trying to fix it. He noticed that one of the fans inside wasn't working right so they went and got a replacement part for it yesterday. Everything seemed to be working and then last night it started shutting off again. Dodger even tried to login via safe mode so he could see if maybe the issue were a virus but it still kept shutting down.

Dancer was aware that she had enough money in her bank account to buy a new one so that's what we all did today. We first went to Target (nothing there), then we went to Walmart (ugh. they had something but we still had one more place to check), then we hit Best Buy. Ta-da.... they had the deal we had seen online as an in store deal. Dancer ended up choosing that one. It was the best deal in her price range.

Then the super deals on laptops caught my eye. I had no intention of buying anything for myself when we went in but I'm at the point where I just can't stand Dodger's nagging about my time on the computer anymore. I need one for myself so that I can do other things during the day and use the computer at night. As it is now, I have to use the computer during the day.

The computer that just broke down was supposed to be mine in the first place.

No, I don't have the money to be buying a computer for myself. Yes, I put it on a credit card. I just hope that now I can really focus on building an online income without having Dodger nag me about using the main computer. Now I have my own.

I don't like this worry about money that spending money causes me. Maybe I need to go find a night job. The Walgreens and Kroger (both of which are down the road from where I live) are open 24 hours. Maybe they would hire me to work 10pm to 2am for 5 nights a week. Maybe I'll have to start donating plasma again. Ugh. I don't know... I do know that worrying won't make it better.