Yet another blog

I’ve been busy lately with my little side business Top Step Fitness. I’ve started keeping a blog on the site as well. You can find it HERE.

It’s a little more focused than The Figurehead. I hope to get more active with my posts on The Figurehead as well.

50,000 views

I know in the world of blogging 50,000 isn’t exactly a huge number, but this blog just passed the 50,000 page view mark. Congrats to me! Thanks to you for reading.

Grant Lee Buffalo

I had forgotten about this song until a conversation with my friend KC yesterday. What a great song and a great band (“Mockingbird” from 1994’s album Mighty Joe Moon):

New Death Cab for Cutie single: I Will Possess Your Heart

You guys know what a huge DCFC fan I am. I’m eagerly awaiting the new album Narrow Stairs due on May 13. Here’s the first single I Will Possess Your Heart.

A little pick me up

After my last post, admittedly a downer, here’s something to make you feel better. Always works for me!

Mike’s music makes me feel good. He sounds like spring time on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro – it’s the mid 90’s – I’m a little hungover, but still prepared for the big test. After class we’ll kick a soccer ball on the quad and then hit the bars. Ah, to be young again.

The Feet standing on the neck of the American middle class

Forgive me, I’ve had the FLU for a week now so I’m a little irritable. My entire family, that’s three of us, have had the FLU since Sunday. We all go to the Dr. to have the flu confirmed. That’s a $35 copay for each of us = $105. All of us are given a prescription for Tami-Flu. I head to Kroger to fill the prescriptions. Before going in to get them filled I fill up my gas tank at the Kroger fuel station = $45. I’m not having a good day. Once inside I learn that each of my Tami-Flu prescriptions will be roughly $39 each = $120.

So in one day I shelled out $105 for healthcare. $120 to the pharma companies. And finally $45 for one weeks worth of gas so that I can drive to work.

Honestly, the $105 to the Dr. doesn’t miff me that much. It’s the $120 for the crap drug that all three of us have had trouble keeping down. Somewhere there’s a CEO of a Pharmaceutical company enjoying his private yacht…probably sipping champagne with the CEO of a petroleum company. Meanwhile middle class folks like me are trying to figure out how to survive.

Someone please tell me that our country is in great shape – so that I can slap you and tell you to WAKE UP and look around.