Glen Brammell

One item in the news recently was President Barack Obama’s call for China to allow its citizens more access to the internet. Under the current Chinese administration, the people of China are severely limited in the material they can view. The government controls what can be seen and blocks many western sites from its peoples view.

I hope that the great country of China will realize that true power is given to the government by the people. I hope they will reconsider their efforts to control every facet of their citizen’s lives.

In today’s USA Today paper is says that Intel was fined a record breaking amount of $1.45 Billion dollars for illegal monopolistic business practices in Europe. I cannot image having over a Billion dollars available in the bank to pay such a huge fine. But it is obvious that Europe takes this type of thing very seriously. American companies need to learn how to do business in other countries without using all the same shady practices they get away with here in the U.S.

It really stinks to work hard all week and look forward to a big weekend full of plans for outdoor fun and then have it all ruined by two days of rain.

Every weekend in May and the rest of the summer months ahead has a variety of fun things to do outside, from fishing to races and tons of festivals and sporting events.

Yesterday I had to stay in and got a lot of chores done instead of having fun. I was hoping to go to a baseball game this afternoon, but thunder and lightning will keep me indoors instead. I guess I’ll do some paperwork and surf the internet for a while, then break out a good book and read for a few hours.

Every one knows how much I rely on my printer. I use it nearly every day as I have many documents to print. I usually bring home some of my work and need to have it done. The problem is that once again, I am out of ink! Ink cartridges are the bane of my life. They are constantly running out.

I don’t know how they get away with putting a tiny amount of ink in each refill. There should be a law or something. I know that if I ever get to heaven, the printer will never run out of ink again!!