Only Got 100 Years To Live

I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live
I'm 33 for a moment
Still the man, but you see I'm a they
A kid on the way
A family on my mind
I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy, Time to lose yourself
Within a morning star
15 I'm all right with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live
Half time goes by
Suddenly you’re wise
Another blink of an eye
67 is gone
The sun is getting high
We're moving on...I'm 99 for a moment
Dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
15 there's still time for you
22 I feel her too
33 you’re on your way
Every day's a new day...
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live
- Five For Fighting -

Thought For The Day

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
– Oprah Winfrey -

Thought For The Day

Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in the grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.
- Raymond Chandler -

Thought For The Day

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross -

The VP Choice

The political conventions are about to start, as soon as the Olympics are over, and it's time for the candidates to announce their choices for the VP slot. In fact, Obama might make his choice known tomorrow.

It appears that it will be either Joe Biden, the Senator from Delaware with much foreign policy experience, or Tim Kaine, the Governor of Virginia. Other than coming from Delaware, with only 3 delegates and already a Democratic state, everything seems to favor Biden. Which means it will be Kaine.

McCain has a problem. He can pick the best candidate, Romney, or pick someone who will make the Christian conservatives happy. They don't like Mormons so Romney would be risky. Since the Republican convention begins after the Democrats, McCain can wait to see who Obama chooses. Given McCain's age, picking someone who is ready to be President is a factor he must consider.

Candidates for Vice President don't usually win elections, but they can lose them, Dan Quayle and Joe Leiberman are perfect examples.

Thought For The Day

I don't really like to repeat quotes, but this one is so good, every time I see it I have to use it.

"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, It is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."
- George Mallory -