Pumped Up on Baseball

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't steroid/HGH use illegal unless used for medical necessity? I mean, granted nowadays you could get a prescription for just about anything but if it becomes obvious you are a drug seeker using prescription drugs outside their intended use I was under the impression it was illegal.
Maybe I'm wrong. I mean with all the hoopla about steroid use in Major League baseball you would think there would be some arrests. Of course if it's not illegal then there wouldn't be arrests. Since there are no arrests and players are willing admitting steroid/HGH use then it must not be illegal.
So then it leads to the question, if it's not illegal then what is all the investigations about? What's with the asterisk questions in relation to hall of fame entries? It appears it's not illegal. Like I said, if it were then why are none of these players who are admitting to drug use going to jail?
I think it is illegal use of drugs. That's the problem. The use of these enhancements is illegal. Essentially all these players are druggies and not athletes.
No one seems to care. No one except politicians who are bored with yelling about Iraq or being yelled at about Iraq. Isn't that sort of apathy kinda dangerous?
The way I see it, if some average Joe/Jane decided to do illegal drugs just to take the edge off the day and allow them some 'down' time. You know, so they can really unwind and then be able to totally excel at their job the next day. Why should they go to jail if caught or fired if they freely admit to that drug use?
Bonds isn't going to jail and he has gotten into the Baseball Hall of Fame for his illegal drug use. Other players command multi-million dollar salaries for their drug use. How can the courts legitimately arrest and put in jail Joe/Jane for using drugs when the same courts are ignoring the use by professional sports players?
A truly blatant double standard there I would say. All I know is if there was a pill, illegal or not, that I could take that would get me multi-million dollar contracts and into halls of fame, I'd take it. Who wouldn't?
A brief note; I could care less about drug use in baseball or the apathy over it. I find it ingratiating that the public puts so much interest in people who, although physically talented (with some pharmaceutical assistance), will never have much of, if any at all, impact on society. I was just curious as to why we seem to have so many double standards in society in relation to famous/rich people compared to the average Joe/Jane.

Dorian Grey

I had the misfortune to come across a friend of mines web page. On this web page they had posted some photographs they had taken. Three of them were of me.
If that wasn't disturbing enough all three (taken apparently in succession) were some pretty bad photos of me. I looked like death warmed over.
People are always getting on to me for refusing to have my picture taken but then something like this comes up. It reminds me why I don't have my picture taken. If I don't get seen then I can pretend I am not fugly.
Okay, fugly is a bit of a stretch, but I hate the way I look. When I get ready for work in the mornings I only use a mirror to focus on the bits and parts I am doing at the time. Like if I am shaving I pay attention to my jaw and only my jaw. Brushing teeth, combing hair, whatever I only pay attention to that particular part of my face not the whole thing.
When I see a picture of me I have to see my whole face. Ugh. That is an image I work hard to avoid. If I do happen across one I obsess about the flaws.
I look at it like a Dorian Grey syndrome. If I don't see it I can drift through life oblivious to my flaws but when I do see it, well Dorian aged and died I just obsess and get depressed.
Eventually a good friend of mine is suppose to take current photos of me. However, it will be in a very controlled situation so I can pick and choose and then eliminate any that don't make the cut.
It really brings the phrase, "We are all our own worst critics." to a new high huh?

(okay, I am aware of the contradiction in my blogs. i hate my picture taken and i am trying to set up video blogs. well, that's just me. a walking, talking contradiction.)

Help! I lost my voice.

Okay, so like I said in my short last blog. I got a web cam and I wanted to video blog with it. I was asking for suggestions, a request apparently ignored but I forgive you. The short of it being I had to meander out into the big world wide web all alone. Just me and a web cam. Trying to find where to try and video blog. (also how to do it too)
I went to the youtube page and tried starting there. Once I figured out how to record a video to the site I was ecstatic.
Then I played the thing back. Umm, no sound. I tried again.
Still no sound. I tried a third, fourth, fifth and even a sixth time and never was there even a mouse fart from the video. Not to mention I tried creating on my own through the software that came with the video camera and then saving to youtube but the sight did not recognize the files.
So there is the dilemma. My question is, "How the Hell do you record a video with sound to youtube?"
I guess I will give some quick background. The microphone I use is the one installed in the camera. Granted it is not great but it does work. My idea was to start out slow and easy and if I enjoyed the experience maybe expanding to more expensive accessories. If I got bored then I didn't waste a ton of money on it.
Since I can record sound on the software system with my cam then it's not that the microphone does not work. SO I am lost as to what to do.
I know you guys laid down on the first question as what to do with the web cam but help me out here. How do I record vlogs on youtube that have sound? Thanks for all the help you give.