The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

I don't watch the news, well I very rarely watch the news. I just don't like it. It's very depressing, you never hear good things on the news it's always murder, decay, corruption, society atrophying into a state of hedonistic barbarism. Those that are obsessed with the news I think would be the same ones that thrilled at the gladiator matches in the Coliseum, kind of a thirst for the blood and misery of others but in a way that doesn't leave them wringing their hands yelling at a damned spot. Or they could just want to be well informed citizens. What do I know? Nothing, because as previously stated, I very rarely watch the news. So where do I get the news? One of four places- 1. My wife tells me, 2. I hear it on the radio before I turn the station to find some music, 3. One of those little blurbs on the Road Runner home page catches my eye before I can click on the facebook link, or (and this is a new one)4. I can go to work and have everyone ask if I'm okay, they heard I had a seizure and got robbed at Wal-Mart and then come home bewildered and look up 'the news' on the Star website. So I look up the article and while I feel terrible for the guy I'm very glad it wasn't me and I can see how the mix up may have occurred. My first name is Jeremy, this guys name, and because thats whats on my check a lot of folks at work know that it is, his last name was Sperling with an e and mine of course is with a u but I don't know how to spell everyone's name I work with and so I don't expect them to know mine. So what happened is one guy heard or saw what he thought was my name (if he had read the article I don't think he would have thought it was me) and went to work and started asking people if they heard what had happened to me. lol. Now the plot thickens. It just so happens that Wednesday the day this happened I called into work so that we could go and trade Raineys van. So you got a guy thinking I've had a seizure and had my money stolen and then you have me not coming to work and by the time I got there they had started a prayer chain and were thinking of taking up a collection to help me buy the kids school clothes. OMG! It's nice to know people care about you though. I thanked them and then told them I did have to take on a car payment which I've not had in quite awhile so if they wanted to go ahead and take up a collection for me, I'd be okay with that.