Back home to the Pipster

So my house sitting duties are over today. That means I get to go home to the Pipster today and not leave again until Monday morning. Pip should be tired of me by then. I'm not so sure I'll be tired of her by then though. She's kinda stolen my heart. I'm glad that even though I haven't been around much the past three weeks, and she can come and go, that she always seems to find her way home again. And I'm sure that the animals that have had to put up with me for the past three weeks will also be extremely happy to see their folks again. At least Pip has seen me occasionally. Poor Sammy and Newman haven't seen Mom and Dad for three weeks. I just hope they let their folks get some sleep tonight!

I read about a pizza place (Dominos I think) that had to close because 2 of their employees taped themselves doing disgusting things to food then serving it to customers. If I read it right, the employees were both at least 30 yrs old. They then posted the video on YouTube. Dominos is a franchise business, so the owner of that restaurant lost his livelihood, and 20 other people now have no job. Then I saw on the news the other night the tape of the teenager in Chicago who was beaten to death in the street.

When did we stop thinking about how our actions affect others? When did it become more important to have thousands of strangers watch a video than to think of the consequences to the person right next door? And I know it's not just the people who are recording. Obviously there is an interest in these videos, otherwise people would stop doing it. I don't know. Maybe on some level if we watch a video online, then maybe it's not real somehow. Maybe it's like we somehow equate it to watching a movie or a TV show, something that's not real. But it just seems like the videos that get the most hits (an interesting, tho apt term maybe) are the ones that have the most violence, or are the grossest. It just bothers me somehow.