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New Web site coming soon!	Sunday, February 03, 2008

Currently I'm working on a brand new Web site where I'll vent my enthusiasm and anger on consumer automobiles. Plus, I will post photos from my daily two hour commute on the 101 Freeway, there's always something to gawk at...

Visit www.barkinsdrives.com and keep track of its progress in the coming weeks and months.

Duh!	Saturday, December 22, 2007

Way to go to state the obvious.

A study about traffic reveals that traffic in essence is caused by you. All those times you brake for no reason, all those times you cut others off and all those times you drive too slow create a chain of events that lead to all the back-up. It's a domino effect according mathematicians from the University of Exeter.

Coming from someone who sits in traffic daily on an average of 2 hours a day, I've seen what the study describes first hand. Just today, in relatively light traffic I was nearly side-swiped by a shitty Versa and cut off by a very slow moving early 90s Camry driven by a short fat woman in her 50s and tailgated by a Dodge Ram driven by some white-trash couple who can obviously see over my comparatively small Accord that there's no room in front of me to speed up.

This all boils down to the fact that most people truly do not know how to drive, and one prevailing dumb move I've noticed time and time again are people who aren't capable of merging into traffic smoothly. In other words, drivers slow down when changing lanes instead of speeding up for a smoother transition.

If we all just learned to drive with the flow of traffic without needlessly breaking we would have a fighting chance to ridding some of the traffic we have today.

Long Overdue	Thursday, December 20, 2007

This year is certainly coming to a swift end. A lot has happened in 2007, most of which I don't care to share, but essentially it has been a good year.

I finished college (finally), got a job and now living a semi-adult life with most of the responsibilities people at my age have. I am very lazy however, so believe me when I say I delegate a lot (i.e. laundry) keeping things simple of course.

One main problem I'm coming across now isn't really a problem at all and not really worth mentioning, but since this is my blog, I will. Ever since I started making significantly more money than I did at my old job at the college paper, I find myself spending every penny I make on junk I don't really need. I guess I never really learned the value of a dollar. For months at my new job I would go out to ritzy resturants for lunch and pretty much waste 50% of my paycheck on that. Now I just wrap a lunch, nothing fancy, just a sandwich with some fruit and water. Reluctantly even though I'm saving money on my lunches, I find myself spending it else where. It's hard to hold on to money for me. I'm trying to curb my appeal to spend, believe me, but it ain't easy.

Anyway, such a thing to complain about, I should be ashamed.

All and all it's nice being out of college. I have a lot more free time on my hands, no more homework or studying to do. So I spend it watching TV shows and following political news (some of which is work related).

One show in particular I just discovered is Dexter. It's a fantastic drama with some pretty gruesome bloody scenes, everyone loves that, right?

Anyhow, I'm feeling the urge for some World of Warcraft.

Dave Gahan's new single	Friday, September 14, 2007

Make sure to purchase Gahan's new single and the imminent new album.

Winnie the dog	Monday, September 03, 2007