"$126 Million!?"

...for a person!? Of course!! Especially if that person happens to throw the nastiest curve ball in all the land. Talking about Barry Zito movin on up to the east side...of the Oakland Bay that is. Seven years, $126 million the San Francisco Giants are shelling out for one person. Isn't that what slavery used to consist of? The Giants own Zito now! They can do whatever they want to with him! I guess for that kind of money I would let someone own me too. Preferrably by one of the Baywatch lifeguards lol. And NO, I am not referring to The Hoff.

Speaking of slavery, it had been on the decline in the early 1800's and was actually this close to disappearing altogether, if not for...an invention. One that took the awful cotton that grew in the South and turned it into marketable, usable cotton for export. I'm sure you already know what I'm talking about and who invented it, but I'll wait until later to get to that. Anyways, now that all of this cotton with the fuzzy green seeds was suddenly worth processing, guess who got that job? Slaves! Slavery was back in full effect and not until 1863 did Honest Abe put an end to it. I was referring to Eli Whitney in case you didn't know. His cotton gin was such a simple device, everyone wondered why it hadn't been created before. In fact, it was so simple, everyone made one of their own, cheating Whitney out of any royalties. Ah well. Win some, lose some. Whitney also came up with a way to create musket parts one at a time in great quantities so that soldiers knew how to fix their muskets in a war. We call it mass production today.

The odds of anyone doing anything worth recording in a history book are one in 7,000,000. Do I like my odds? Mmm, not really. But then again it never was my intention. You'd have to cure something or something like that to get into the books. I often fantasize about having my own TV show but who knows if that will ever happen. For now I will try my best at securing a position on our speciality medications sales team. From what I hear it's pretty easy with good commissions every 3 months. I think I want to retire with this company. I just have to rise above my current salary. You'd laugh if I told you lol.

What would be the best thing about being famous? For me it would be when people come up to you just to see you with their own eyes, awe-struck, and all the while I'd be thinking "If you only knew how ordinary I really am..." and chuckling to myself a little bit. The worst thing? I guess it would be always having to watch my back, making sure something I did doesn't wind up as the feature piece on "Extra". I have a great little world in my mind lol.