Third World Products
I have recently realized that most of the products I own were made in third world countries by sub-subsistence level workers, by people who honestly scrape to make a living. Take for instance my shoes: made in China. Or my shirt: made in Mexico. Or my computer: made in Taiwan. By buying these products, am I exploiting the third world worker, or am I supporting the third world country?
Speed Limits
If you cannot tell already, speed limits are a big thing to me. Over the years, I have developed a selective taste and sometimes elaborate rules for the speed that I drive my car. Obviously, I like to observe safe driving speeds, but normally this entails at least 3 to 5mph over the posted speed limit.
A Great Beginning and the Looming End
For once, it seems a semester is starting amazingly well. I’ve established what seems to be a good schedule at work, my class schedule looks promising, and I’m actually ahead in most of my classes. So far this semester, I’ve been doing schoolwork at almost every available opportunity and I’ve also been able to do it at work, since I now work mornings and mornings typically have lighter traffic (I’m actually writing this entry at work). There have been some instances where I’ve dallied in video games for a couple of hours on one day or another, but in the other free time I’ve been diligent with doing homework and it has paid off. Yesterday, after playing 3 hours of Civ3, I felt like I needed to do something productive. I looked at all of my school books and suddenly realized that I had no impending homework to do. It looks to be a great start to what will hopefully be an amazing semester (it’d be awesome if I got straight A’s, it’d be the first time since 5th grade).
