Monday, December 14, 2009 by Myke.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “what would you do without the Internet?”?  I have and it still scares me every-time.  I then thought to myself, what has the Internet killed over the years.  I came up with my list of items i feel the Internet has killed.  Feel free to comment with your own additions as well.

Newspapers - All you have to do is look into how many newspapers have shut down over the last few years and that one explains a lot.  I am not even sure when the last time was that I actually read a newspaper.

Video Rental stores- Good old Netflix has basically shut down 90%+ of all the Hollywood/Blockbuster stores and my guess is 99% of all Mom/Pop video rental stores.

Phone books - Do they even make these anymore?  To my surprise, yes.

Dating - I know that dating is not dead so to speak but because of the Internet you can scour the Earth for the “perfect” mate instead of going to the local bar/club/health club.  I mean people even break up using the Internet anymore.

Checks - The old saying, “the checks in the mail”, has almost gone away thanks to bill pay and online banking in general.

US Postal Service- The USPS has not officially died but we are close thanks to folks sending emails and using IM and texting.

There are so many other things that could be listed so start adding to this list as you please.

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Monday, December 14, 2009 by Myke.

I have received a ton of emails asking why I have not posted any rants, complaints or just plain old mind rambling blah.  To be honest, I am not sure other than life has become so busy lately it hardly seems like i have time to eat/sleep.

Work has been great at my new company and everything is going very well.  We keep watching the price of commodities and they are all moving in the correct direction.  I have been training myself on Cisco and all the latest Microsoft software to keep myself current.  I upgraded our work domain to Server 2008 and it has been running like a dream ever since.  I also got rid of Symantec Backup and moved to Commvault and that has saved me a huge amount of time and stress.  We had our Holiday party over at the Oxford this last weekend and it was great.  Everyone enjoyed the food and drinks and the occasional “3 Sheets to the Wind” party goer.  It looks like this next year could be a very busy year for us with work in a few other countries and re-building the entire domain (long story not my fault…I promise).

The family has been doing well considering we have an almost 16 year old drama diva queen, 13 year old goth, 8 year old princess and 4 year old MMA/BJJ fighter in the house.  With the holidays here it has been pretty hectic and crazy to say the least.

I have been working out, training for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and MMA fights and studying like mad so my time has been very limited lately.  The training is great and has been very hard lately.  The coaches and professor have been driving me pretty good and I am learning a ton along with taking some good bruises, lumps and split lips.  The wife is not too keen or happy about it but she says as long as I am happy…I can keep it up.  Along the way I have made some great friends at the Academies and it has been nice to have some good/real friends.  On the friends topic, I have made some good ones this last year and lost a few good ones as well.  Losing friends sucks but it is the way of life I guess.  We all grow up and move in different directions during this journey we call life.  It is what it is.

I am hoping to get back on track with the stories and rants on everything in the media and World today, but it will have to wait for a bit.  I promise to get on this Tiger story first very soon.  I have got my feelings and opinions on this and I am sure to get a few folks pissed off…my favorite part of blogging.

Sorry for being lazy but I will hit it very soon.  Maybe even blast the World with some fight photos.  Cheers.

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