Driving > Disco

Well, you may have noticed that I missed my #MusicMonday post, which, in and of itself is a travesty. I mean, how have you made it this far through the week without knowing what annoying music I'm listening to currently?

Anyway, this past Monday, November 2nd 2009, marked the 5 year anniversary of Driving > Disco. It was a dark, stuffy conference room that I was doing contract work in, way back in 2004, when I first got the notion to try my hand at blogging. It was on the "internet," some new fangled, mish-mash of cables and networks that everyone was hopping onto, in order to detail the incredibly mundane minutiae of their lives and I echoed the most famous words known to mankind: ME TOO.

So, five years later, this "internet" fad is still hanging around, and something tells me that it's not going anywhere soon. There's a whole bunch of new crap that lets you force even more incredibly mundane facts about your life down the throats of strangers and friends alike, and dang it all, I've gotten attached to it. So, while I couldn't care less about what the temperature is in your city, how great of a parking spot you got this morning, or even what various and sundry goods are on sale at your favorite emporium, I wholeheartedly expect you to care about all that crap when I talk about it.

Here's to another five years!

I wanted today to be the day that I got back into blogging more regularly. I was going to update you on my foot issues (more on that later), various musical discoveries and basically, just some light housekeeping for D > D, but when I saw the headline Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, I had to pause for a moment. Mainly because I thought it was a joke headline.

I mean no offense to the man. I did not vote for him, but as the president of the United States of America, I do support him now. The issue I have is that I don't really get what it is that he did to win the award. I mean, he has been in office for the better part of a year and hasn't really done much of anything yet, has he? Again, this is not a bashing session. I don't think any first term president has gotten a boatload of items from their "to-do" list checked off in their first year, but still the Nobel Peace Prize?

In the article, they even state that "the decision appeared to catch most observers by surprise," and how the voters "gasped" when Obama's name was read.

Perhaps this is more of an award for his potential accomplishments, not that it makes any more fair to those that may have done more to deserve it now. On the other hand, I have basically zero actual understanding of what one must do to be nominated, or win, a Nobel Peace Prize, so maybe I am just severely confused (ie - over caffeinated).