Big Changes...HUGE, MASSIVE CHANGES

To Whom it May Concern:

Recently two people, Michelle* and Alex* (*their real names) told me, "Last weeks blog entry was positively awful and we like you less after we read it." I can't remember exactly, but it was something close to that.

Understandably, I was crushed. I cried when they weren't around and I even contemplated shutting down the blog all together. But I realized that wouldn't have been fair to the rest of the world just because these two obviously detest me and my random thoughts.

I started the blog because, 1) I was told that I didn't even know how to do it and 2)to post my random thoughts that I have on a daily basis. While I could do this on Facebook, I don't want to come across as one of "those" people that post stupid things on a daily........no, hourly.......basis.(little Johnny just took a big poop!!! Yay Johnny!!!!) Besides, all my stuff is grade A good material and I don't want to waste it on Facebook.

So, after literally minutes and minutes of internal debating(right brain won), I've decided to make a fundamental change to the blog. Of course, I'll always still be right with my viewpoints and you'll most likely be wrong, but I think I'm going to start interviewing other people and post the transcripts on the blog. Luckily, I know a lot of interesting people (such as the bartender from my favorite bar or the rather unattractive lady at the Subway I always stop at in Tomah Wisconsin whenever I travel) and I think that getting their points of view on actual, relevant topics would be interesting.

I'm thinking something like "What does a surgeon really think of Obama's healthcare plan" would go along nicely when paired with, "What does a homeless/un-insured person think of Obama's healthcare plan" I personally think it would be cool to get both viewpoints. Maybe, just maybe, I'll try to recruit a homeless man to have beers with myself and said surgeon at the surgeons rather nice house. I'm sure his wife won't mind a random homeless man sitting on her couch and I only know one surgeon, so I really hope he's up for this or my entire thought process will be blown to hell. Don't let me down, surgeon friend and surgeon friends wife. (side note: I'm actually laughing at the thought of me, some dirty homeless man and my surgeon friend sitting on his living room couch, drinking beers and chatting while his kids run around and his wife is making dinner. Just Priceless!!!)

Another interview that I think would be great is with the only two gay men that I personally know. These two are a riot and, frankly, I'm only really going to interview them to see if they will help me be a better dresser for work. Just kidding.......kinda. I would like to get their views on what it's like being gay in today's society. In my mind, I think that the stereotypes or racism (I have no idea what to call societies thoughts on gay men) are largely broken anymore, but I honestly have no idea and would like to get their perspective on it. As an added bonus, if you are on the fence about coming out of the closet (Ryan) you might find what they have to say useful in your decision. Also, I was shocked to find out that Anderson Cooper from CNN is gay. I really had no idea and was kind of disappointed because I always thought, "that guy has it all together. He's good looking,well spoken and I bet he pulls a lot of hot female ass." I guess the gay community wins this one. The score is now: Straight Community 270,000,000, Gay Community 15,787,674

This is going to take some time to get put together. It's not like there are homeless people just laying around with nothing to do but get interviewed..........what's that you say? Really? Well, I guess there ARE tons of homeless people with nothing to do but be a drain on society (I'm envisioning that line to be the surgeons comment, but we won't know until all three of us sit on his couch together!!!!). Since my girlfriend thinks that it's a good idea to book things for EVERY weekend from now until Thanksgiving, I'm not sure when I can put together one of these interviews. Hopefully in the next couple weeks or so. If anyone has any ideas for a good interview, certainly let me know via commenting here, text, email, Facebook, rented commercial billboard or smoke signals.

In the meantime, sit tight and I won't post anything else about watching TV......my favorite past time....I wouldn't want Michelle and Alex to be more disappointed with me. :-( (thats a frowny face guy representing me when Alex said "you suck" and then hit me with a baseball bat)

I made that last part up.

Toodles,
Travis