I wrote this last September, I believe, for another blog I have been more frequent about keeping up. It stayed as a draft though and I never published it but now I am dragging it out for your viewing pleasure.

Over the past month I’ve traveled just shy of 4,000 miles in a beat up old minivan, picking up strangers along the way to share the road and to pick their brains. I’ve learned that a growing contingent of people see 2012 as the end of the known world, that our individual and global vibrations are building and bringing us ever closer to accepting the truth about extra-terrestrials.

I’ve also learned, for just many that believe this, an equally large group believes that sometime in the near future our physical bodies will become outdated. Technology will have moved us beyond the confines of these weak and feable constructs and our conciousnesses are to be uploaded into computers so we can “live” forever. The singularity they call it, the time when man and machine become one.

The past week I’ve spent on the couch, trying to ascertain how the millennials, my generation, will cope with these changes and how we will interpret the media’s presentations of them as they draw near.

Swine Flu, the now politically-incorrect name for H1N1, is still making headlines with the recent exposure of thousands at the University of Washington. I watched slightly amused as I shivered as the virus effects played havok on my body this week. Another “Shock and Awe” campaign turned hammy, another un-news worthy story vying for our attention.

Where will we all end up? Apparently only the newsman knows. Either way, we may very well end up being a groovy vibration in a computer system, sniffing around for all eternity for just one more truffle.