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I do apologize about skipping a day.  To be honest, it had less to do with lack of time and more to do with nothing to say.  I’ve been feeling a little uninspired the past few days, granted yesterday was a busy work day and that took a little out of me.  By the time the end of the day rolled around I was mentally shot.  I sometimes wonder how many more things would get done if people didn’t have demands upon them.  Throughout history it seems the great artists and thinkers weren’t tied down to a day job.  Artists have received endowments so that they could create and not be worried about the day to day.  The same can be said for some scientists too.  I suppose on the flip side of that though they were under great pressure to live up to expectations.  Perhaps that’s why the great artists always seem to be a little mad, or predisposed to addictions.  That being said, I wonder how many true innovators are really out there.  I’ll use music as an example.  It seems like every 10 years or so there is an artist/artists that arrive and completely innovate.  The 50’s had Elvis, the 60’s the Beatles, the 70’s pretty much sucked (as far as innovation), the 80’s had Michael Jackson, the 90’s spawned Nirvana, while 00’s had Eminem.  It seems like there is a revolution of sorts every so often then a gluttony of copy cats until the next innovator arrives.  Perhaps we are prone more to emulate than innovate.  Anyway, I’m going to keep this one short since it’s mostly a filler piece anyway.  Hopefully inspiration will hit me and I will get back to writing tonight as well