It's The New Same Ol Same Ol ......

January 1, 2007 - 12:00 PM CST...Twelve hours old, just finishing up the last minutes of The Rose Bowl Parade - and switching between MSNBC and CNN to keep up with the lastest late breaking news, which, as one might expect, is just more of the same ol same ol that we hear every other day. Think I'll watch a movie - though it, too, is likely to be just more of the same ol same ol stuff. Has the word 'new' really taken on another meaning, now just being an adjective that really means 'same thing, but different'? At the rate our technology is advancing, we are introduced to 'new' technological advances on a daily basis. As we assimilate and absorb this rapidly evolving, constantly escalating, and ever changing technological global society which we who are living here in the post-dawn of the twenty-first century are witness too, we are finding that 'new and improved' really just means 'improved'. And frankly, the word' improved' doesn't always apply to the updated version of the original, as the effort to make a less expensive product generally leads to a cheaper quality as well. So it'll be another year of the same ol same ol and 365 days from now everything will be the same, but different. Who knows what unexpected events will take place between now and then. Some great people will die this year, some great people will be born, and the greatness of some who are now unknown will become evident. We will be introduced to the lasted gadgets, which will replace the new ones we just bought which, in many cases, are obsolete before we even have a chance to read the multi-lingual instruction book. It's bound to be a great year, as great as a year could be, considering the general state of the human race and the mess we have made of things. It's going to be 'a heck of a ' ride, so I think I will buckle up and hang on, for 'guess what' is going to happen???