Sure, not all technology is useful, but I sure am glad I don't live in a grass hut, or have to hunt for food so my family doesn't starve during the winter. We could live without most of the luxuries afforded by technology too, but let's admit it, they are nice.
   

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On a less than enthusiastic note.

When I made this I decided I wouldn't put useless drivel in here. Sadly that's pretty much what the past weeks have boiled down to. No great news other than a four day weekend. It made my night last night because I totally forgot about the holiday. It seems we get every holiday, big or small, off. I think some of the people up-stairs are slackers. We even get a paid day off the day of the election, and got a day off the day after President Regan died.

The extra day off is nice, but I won't really get to enjoy it, (I really have no clue what the acceptable customs fpr celebrating Labor Day is anyway.) My 4 day weekend basically consists of: sorting through all my stuff, throwing out or donating a good portion of it, and moving all the stuff that survives the Armageddon of downsizing to the new place.

Whilst sorting through my stuff I found some real gems from the past. Most of all I found my old haunted stereo (complete with 3 disc changer.) I feel bad moving the useless heap, but it is pretty legendary. Cue up that spooky music, because I will now indulge you with a little story of the haunted Sanyo MegaBass 3 disc changer.

 I was just a young lad, and having recently entered my 16th year, I was strongly urged into employment by my father. A local house of ill-repute by the name of Wal-Mart took me in based on my qualifications of being able to count to one hundred, and my uncanny ability to read and write in english. I was a cashier, or "customer service representative" as the euphemism for "whipping boy of the company" is these days. Making seven dollars an hour made it feel like money was raining from the heavens. I couldn't invent ways to spend it fast enough...until that fateful day.

I was part of an elite Wal-mart club that got ten percent off of everything except groceries, and I had my eye on this stereo. Multi disc stereo systems were all the rage at the time, and I felt like changing the discs on my current player was getting to be a real bother. Chaning them two thirds less would solve all my troubles (or so my 16 year old logic told me.) Finaly on pay day I went to the conveniently located bank in the store and frolicked back to the electroics section to make my purchase. All went well and I was in three disc heaven...until it happened.

 After a week or so I started to notice my stereo on when I got home from school or work. it happened ireegularly so I figured I may have just left it on and forgot. Then late one night I woke up to its ususal sputtering and clanking as it changed discs. The Machine turned itself on, and started playing a CD!? Baffled by this, I turned it off and went back to sleep, unaware that dark forces were at work.After a few times of the random starting, I was informed by a friend that it might be a sleep timer. Oddly it would happen at seemingly random times, and would either play a disc of its choosing or turn on the radio. It also made the rules when it came to what volume to play it at. After a year of this I unplugged it, feeling that one disc is fine as long as I get to choose when and what it plays.

When I put a new surge protector in my room I plugged in the stereo unknowingly. I have way too many electronics, and its pretty much a jungle of wires behind the television. It only took a week for it to start again. It freaked the hell out of me because I didn't know it was powered. After that it has been brooding in my room, powerless to unleash its fury of noise.

Those who have witnessed it, have no natural explanation for the strange behavior it expresses.Needless to say the only explanations could be demonic posession, or a voodoo curse put on it by a wicked Sanyo employee. Either way I feel it is my sole duty to protect the haunted stereo from falling into the posession of someone that will use its powers for evil.
  

Anybody want to help perform an exorcism on my stereo?

-Ging (guardian on the cursed Sanyo MegaBass 3 disc changer)