Blanket level of annoyance

You know, I have been doing my best to maintain what I like to call a blanket level of annoyance with things in general, but I think it's getting harder.
Just simple things, needs if you will.
We need food, water, shelter, companionship (although I have heard some people say they don't need that last one).

Food: Is poisoned, that is of course unless you pay twice as much or more to buy special non-poisoned food (call it organic food).
Water: Also poisoned, and people pay around a dollar a glass for clean water (although investing in a good water filter [Big Berkey anyone?] saves quite a bit of hassle there).
Shelter: Minimum wage is what, five fifteen an hour? That's about six hundred dollars after taxes a month. I know zero houses you could get for that, and while you could get a good apartment (at least here in OKC) for that, how would you eat, or pay for transportation to and from work? Let alone, God forbid, you had anyone but yourself to provide for.
Companionship: Most people's best friend these days I hate to say it is the television. They spend more time with it than anyone else in their family. It tries to fill the void of real companionship with horrible things like reality TV or sitcoms, but it really doesn't want to be your friend. It just wants to sell you crap. I know if any of my friends stopped talking to me every fifteen minutes to try to sell me something I would not stay their friend for long. Poison, again.

Why is it that three of the four things are poison, and the fourth costs more money than many of us can afford? People used to get these four things from the land, with their community right there to help. What happened here?
I see new things all the time, hear new things in the news about companies cutting corners, being downright evil (sometimes with a capital "E" even). I think I can maintain this blanket level in part because I have stopped expecting better, I no longer expect people to behave in a civilized manner. It's only when they do the right thing that I am suprised anymore.
Wow, doesn't that sound cynical?
At least it won't stop me from doing the right thing, and it won't stop you either (at least there's two of us, right?).

Reality coefficient

You know it seems almost impossible to get a group of people together here in OKC once a week to game. Now I'm not talking LAN games, or X-box, or even board games. I'm talking about old school pen and paper RPG's like D&D. It seems we get people who can't show up on time (if at all) or we get people who don't really want to play (they just want some [any] social activity to get them out of the house).
Oh well.
I can always move back to Michigan if I want a good group (and to be broke and live in a cardboard box).

Life

You know life really is a wonderful thing some times. Nothing I have done yet is nearly as amazing as being a Father. I think that's the way things are supposed to be though.

Impossible without reflection

Well I started this blog many months ago and left it for dead...
Ok, not quite for dead, but I felt for whatever reason I did not have the time to write in it. I think I do at this point.
I used to keep a spiral notepad with me at all time, and I would do my best to come up with good quotes to write in it. Some were from other people. My best friend Aaron for example was quoted as saying "Why not?" when asked the meaning behind life.
My feeling on the meaning of life can be summed up as "Because it's more fun that way." After all, isn't existing more fun than not existing.
I wonder if I can find that book again.
Oh well.
"Looking for meaning in life is like looking into a mirror, both things are impossible without reflection" -Wayne