High Schools and Web Sites

Sitting down with Kate last night at our favorite coffee shop, we seem to talk more there than any other place on earth. We call the coffee shop the "Catylist for Conversation," Something in that coffee makes us talk until the late hours of the night, sometimes even the wee hours of the morning. Talking is such a great thing. I know that sounds so simple and obvious, but I'm serious; talking is a great thing. Allow me to illustrate what I mean... Lately I've noticed that people just don't talk anymore. It's like we don't have any time, like our lives are to busy and stressful and whatever else that mentally binds us from just talking. What happened to talking? What happened to "how are you," or better yet "how's that project you've been working on?" These are questions that instead of getting a valid truthful answer, we get what I like to call a "canned answer." This is a definition word, use it in a sentence. The answers are always the same! "Fine""Good""I'm well, and you?""I'm OK, thanks""Great!" The point is no one really CARES how you are anymore. They are just being nice, if they cared - I mean really cared - these days they have to ask at least twice. "How are you?
"I'm fine."
"No really, how are you?"
Then it becomes, "Oh well quite shitty, actually!"
OK, so I understand nobody really wants to be dumped on. People are really around for that, close friends, family, etc. But the fact of the matter is, that doesn't seem to matter any more. No one really knows what's going on in someone else's life unless they sit the hell down and TALK. Which brings me to my main point, talking is a great thing. Without it, one will never know who cares and who doesn't because they never got the chance to talk to them. So Kate and I were talking, and the conversations always seem to just take off every time. There's been one or two nights recently when there'd be a pause in the conversation, I would say "Well, that's it, we officially have nothing more to talk about." That's a big friggin' lie. We always have something to talk about. Not more than a minute later we're elbow-deep in the next subject.

Many times we ask questions. They are tougher questions, unlike the canned ones mentioned above, they are often referred to as "ponderables." Questions like, "Why do hot girls flirt with me even if they have no interest," or, "Why are men so stupid," or "Why is my ass on fire?" You get the idea. It happens all the time. We all have questions, every one of us in this world. Fact is, if we knew everything, what would we have to look forward to? There's no truth to seek, no answers to find, no research. There'd be no hope, no dreams, no goals... because we would already know the outcome. My point is, we have questions, it's good to ask them and have others listen and talk about them. Because we just... don't talk anymore... as you know.
So we got an idea. We decided to start a website. OK, OK stop for a second. Allow me to add something... I know I'm a DJ, I know I have a lot of work, so now I got this website thing? Yes. You see, primarily I have interest in music and being a DJ. However, that doesn't mean I don't have interest elsewhere. If you would just read my profile, you would see that I like technology and computers, which takes me back to the beginning... We're opening a website. The site is already parked, thanks to www.godaddy.com. We will be creating the site and it will be in full swing in time for the summer. The site is called www.idontknowadamnthing.com or www.idkadt.com for short. Here's the story behind it, there's always something you don't know a damn thing about. Well here's where your gonna go to find out about it. Unlike a similar page entitled www.howstuffworks.com, where you read articles about everything known to man... we will have a site where people can ASK, and TALK. That's the real ticket. Instead of hearing it from some article, how about hearing it from millions of your closest friends? Not sure what a man is thinking? Go online and ask other dudes what they think. We're gonna have forums about women, men, relationships, cars, computers, music, sports, and more. Plus we'll have a 'general rant' board if you don't really want answers, but you just wanna get something off your chest. We'll be here to hear you. On top of that, my team and me are going to take some of the questions asked and head out to the hotspots all over and ask real people about them. We'll come out with one researched answer every month or so. I know I sound like a big advertisement, but I'm really digging the idea... besides, it's not really advertising because we'll be giving this service absolutely Free. So keep checking back for more updates.

So we talked about that stuff, and we also talked about memories. A question that was asked, "do you think you would reckognize your elementary school if you saw it?" brought up some interesting points. People remember many different things about their life. Like right now this instant I remember playing a fun game of football as a kid in NJ. My parents, brother and I went to the local part and we just kinda played around. Well I don't know why I remember this but I remember pitching the ball to my mom and the ball smacked her right in her chin, and she hit the ground. Sorry for that mom, by the way. I don't remember what happened before or after, just that moment. I remember standing out front of our classrooms at New Albany Elementary School in Cinnaminson, NJ, but I don't remember what I was doing. I remember an old friend Jonathan, who sat across the room and we made faces at each other when we heard the daily lunch menu. We would then spend all of recess chasing this girl Jeanette around the playground, but I don't remember the reason.
It brought on other things, teachers, activities, kinda what went wrong for me. Like around 3rd grade I just simply decided that I didn't want to do homework anymore, so I didn't... pretty much all the way through high school, actually. I didn't really fail any classes because of that, but I was definitely around 'C' level my entire school career... Anyway so we got to thinking about going back. No, I'm not going back to high school to learn... I just want to see it. Did I miss anything? Was my high school career worth my while? I went to Dickinson High School in Wilmington, Delaware. I was in football, choir, drama, amoung other smaller deals... but I DID stuff... isn't that what I wanted out of it? Was there anything else I could do? Make good grades, now that I think about it, but I honestly don't regret getting mediocre grades because I was having fun. I was doing things I was really interested in. That was the important part, to me. I'm not a star scholar, I'm just a guy - I think I did enough as a singer or an actor. But... I do wanna go back, I wanna see what has changed. I think I might head back summer 2006. Anyway, that's all for today, have a pleasant eve.