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In the words of Locutus “Resistance is futile!”
For all of my none geek readers, well, I shouldn’t have to tell anyone who Lucutus is!
I know I am breaking away from this Blog.
I honestly feel bad about it.
I just don’t have enough time to get everything done anymore.
Wow, being a grown up sucks!
And to think I would like to go back to school … but how and when?
I am starting to understand that paying good old Peter with Paul money can only last for so long.
That fraise seems to work with both money and time
There are things I want, and parts of me think I need, but luckily the adult small part of me is starting to say that can I actually do it all?
Yes, in so many says I can, but at what cost?
I want BarsnStripes.Net to do well.
But it takes hours a week that I am already pushed at finding.
Yes, this site only takes about 2 hours a week to work on, but somehow that two hours is just getting harder and harder to find?
It’s hard to justify as well, I mean I only have about 150 people coming to this site.
The worst part of that is that most of them are staying for less then 30 seconds so I know that they are finding it by mistake.
Yes, I just looked at the data print out and it was kind of sad.
So, the question is, do I just move everything over to BarsnStraipes.Net and run everything off of that?
Well, the problem there is that none of my viewers over there will care about my vacation photos.
I know that most of you all will not either, but I like to think and pretend that you all do.
O’well, on to something more perky!
I got a cool new jacket last night?
Yea, that is honest to God the only new thing going on in my life right now.
That’s right people, the big news is I got a cool jacket for $25 in Florida in the Summer!
And who says I am not a bargain shopper?
That is just how boring my life is in fact!
Speaking of cool over garments …
I have my old Duster.
I think anyone that knows me knows this beast of an overcoat.
Something strange about it though.
When I got it, I was in the Army just out of Basic and AIT so arguably the best shape, and thinnest, of my life.
When I got it, I got it one size bigger so that I could have a denim jacket underneath it.
Yea, yea, yea it was the style I liked and still do so shush!
Well, as I got … more grown up and a little larger per say, the darn thing still fit and I could still where a jacket under it.
I had to get bigger jackets, but never my good old duster.
So, now that I have lost some weight, once again I have had to get new jackets.
But my good old duster still fits just fine?
What I am getting at is, I think it has some of that old world magic in it.
It doesn’t make any since, I should have grown out of it.
Then if it kept growing with me, I should have gotten to small to wear it.
But no, my good old duster still rides along on my shoulders like the champ it is!
Yes, I did just make a large section of today’s Blog all about my duster.
It deserves it just as much as any other topic.
And in my mind, it is even cooler then good old Locutus!
Thanks old friend for keeping me warm and safe for so long.
Might we have at least another 15+ years together!
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Lets talk about the future Guber.
The two following definitions are brought to you by UrbanDictionary.Com
I am not saying that I agree with them, just that these are 2 examples of the word Guber.
#1 “A stage in a man's life when he acts in a way which other's would usually find embarrassing. This can include such acts as answering the mailman in your underwear or long boring inquiries into common sense tasks that lead to long meaningless stories.”
“IE: I dropped by Frank's house to get my textbook and while he ran to get it, saw his dad frying sausage and eggs wearing nothing but his underwear. What a guber!”
#1 “A combination of gay and uber; used to describe something that is ultimately or epically stupid.”
Now that we know the basic definitions, lets move onto to the candidates shall we?
Republicans …
Lets start with Bill McCollum.
He is a natural Floridian, that one for the plus category.
He has served 20 years in Congress, so he knows all of the snakes and lobbyists.
He seams to hate Medicare, and only wants old people, and I mean OLD people to be able to use it.
He has worked as the Florida Attorney General for some time, so we know he is a snake.
We do know that he is so against Federal Healthcare that he and a dozen other buddies, all of them being other State Attorney Generals, filled a federal lawsuit trying to block and ban it.
I might not agree with him but he did stand up against some big guys doing that.
We now can’t forget to mention how he was the faithful trusty over the Florida State Board of Administration where somehow over 60 Billion, yes Billion with a B, ended up missing?
Then of course lastly, and by no means lastly, we have his hatred of children.
Well, not really that, but how he thinks that over crowded foster homes are better then gay couples adopting said foster children.
Rick Scott
He is not a Floridian
Navy boy …
Back in 1997 he was associated with a major healthcare scandal involving 1.7 Billion dollars in fines and civil suites Medicaid and Medicare
This was done not necessarily by him and or his word, but the company did seem to like to say they did things when they didn’t.
He does though like to bowl and or just likes to charge other people to do it as he is a partial owner in a bowling alley franchise.
That’s fun, right?
Close ties to the Bush family … darn Rangers!
He does though seem to like health care insurance companies just a little to much …
Democrats
Adelaide ‘Alex’ Sink
She was a Former High ranking name with Bank of America.
That’s saying something in that world of chauvinists.
She is the Chief Financial Officer for the State of Florida.
Also the treasurer for the board of trusties.
So, we know right out the gate that she is bad with money!
Another person who is not a Floridian.
She does though like plants and animals
Brian Moore
Lets start with wasn’t he the former presidential nominee for the Socialist Party in 2008?
Most of the time he seems to be an independent?
In 1994 he was a republican though …
He is though all about the working man, and not the capitalists.
He seems to say what’s on his mind.
He does though want to cut %50 of the Military’s funding.
That’s probably because he was in the Peace Corps
Again though, another person with strong health care insurance ties.
He does though believes like me that free trade sucks.
No affiliations!
Michael E. Arth
He is an Artist and an Author.
He likes to help the homeless.
He understands that some of the homeless need more then just a place to stay and some food.
That they might have mental and medical needs as well.
Now although he is all about the environment, he does seem to like the ideal of self driving cars a little to much for my taste.
I mean K.I.T.T is cool and all, but never forget his evil older brother C.A.R.R
He says that he left the Democratic part because change is needed and that it needs to come from the outside at this point.
One of the nice things about him is, if you have questions for him, you will be able to find him bicycling across the state on a strange but personal meet and greet.
Lawton ‘Bud’ Chiles … son of former Governor Lawton Chiles.
Enough said?
Also, he will not be like his father, and/or Michael Arth, and traveling across the state trying to meet the people.
I hope that this helps you all remember that voting is a very important thing and that you all need to learn a little more about all of the candidates before you vote.
That being said, I am going to express my option to note vote once again.
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Working on BarsnStripes.Net.
They ran an update and now for some reason it will not recognize any of my stripes.
Yea, this is turning into a job!
At least I am getting paid for it now, right?
Also, trying to figure out a few last miner problems with our vacation.
I’m starting to feel like this site is falling away to the waist side.
That really does, honestly, make me sad.
I need to work on that … a LOT!
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I know it sucks to hear about other people going on vacation and how wonderful a time they had on it and all that stuff.
I also know that as annoying as it is, all of you will still listen and look at all of the photos when we get back.
To try and ease the hostility though, I figured I would tell you a little about the problems we have had in doing all of this.
We first had to decide if driving a manual transmission on the wrong side of the car, that is going down the wrong side of the road was in fact a good ideal … and then had to a lot for the GIANT cost increase after deciding it was not a good ideal.
Second we wanted to stay at a castle.
OK, so we get with a company and they say that they can make it work.
WOOT!
So we get a letter of confirmation and have our card charged and then get a phone call.
The Castle is booked up.
OK, we are still cool about it and say just fid us another one.
Well, they can only find us a Manor House, or a room in a Castle Hotel where you sleep off property and not in the Castle itself.
La Wife doesn’t like this option so we fight with the guy about how we already paid for it and had a confirmation.
That didn’t go well …
Wait, what’s this … our bank account is now over drafted?
They overcharged us for something we aren’t going to get to do?!?
Yea, so now we don’t have a castle stay, and are negative money?
Eye R Knot Happy!
So, long story short I call and it gets ugly but I keep my legendary cool and try to figure out the right questions to ask and finally do.
We can get a full refund on the Castle night if we want … and the overcharge back too … OK … for now …
So I start looking for other Castle to make La Wife happy because this is one of the only things she really wants to do over there.
I think I am going to have a phone bill close to 100Euro because of all of the calls but it is all good.
I find a couple of places and try and book them, my card is declined because I didn’t get prior authorization from the credit card company for international purchases.
Yea, they think a foreigner is going to steal my identity, HAHA!!!
No one wants to be me, and they can only help my credit score!
OK, so I call the bank the next morning and then back and of course the rooms are now booked.
Yea, that’s my luck.
So, I take a day off of work, wake up at 4am and start working on this project.
At 7:45ish it was finished.
Mind you, La Wife has worked just as hard as I have and is even making more sacrifices then I am … but this is my story so I have to make it sound like I am doing everything :P
So, we have a car.
We have authorization to start booking our bed and breakfasts.
We have a Castle, tickets and insurance all around for the trip.
So lets hope this last part is going to work out.
International travel is not as easy as I thought it was going to be.
Cruises are cheaper, and SO MUCH simpler!
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OK, so for the last few months I have been a little side tracked with my other website and I have neglected this one.
I feel bad too.
I really do!
It happened a pone to me that this site, the site that has forced me to open up to the world must feel like the young child after the family brings in a new baby.
So, I decided to take some time and post about stuff.
… Yea so once again I got nothing …
Dear God I have a boring life!
This is why my readership is down.
I thought it was because I was neglecting my Murderers out there, but in fact it’s because I am boring and not worth there time!
So, let me say a few words on a topic to help not only you, but more poor neglected website.
Dinner last night …
I was asked a few days ago if I wanted to go and hang out with a coworker.
Mind you in all of my years I have prided myself on not hanging out with my coworkers when not at work.
Yes, I know I have MAJOR issues!
So, we go to a sports bar and have dinner.
It was pleasant enough.
We talked about all kinds of things but every other topic was all about work and the problems with it.
I know it is strange, but I don’t want to think about work when I leave work.
La Wife and I talk about it for about ½ hour, every day and that is more then enough for me.
I don’t want to be one of these people who 5 years after I retire I die because I let myself be bothered and stresses out over a job for the last who knows how many years.
We all know that work sucks, that’s why it’s called work.
But, when everyone knows that I try and walk away form the gossip and rumor mongering, what would make you think that I want to talk about it for 4 hours at dinner?
I don’t want to think about people doing all of the wrong that they are being accused of.
I don’t want to think that these people are not just breaking the rules, but the laws.
I don’t want to think about how in 6 months I might be seeing my coworkers working form the other side of the fence.
Is rumor mongering really needed to be that big of a deal in a work place?
Do we really need to live vicariously (Wow, I spelled that right on the first try!) through the negativity of our coworkers lives?
Do I really want to think about people sneaking in things, sneaking around with, breaking this rule and/or anything else like that?
The answer is this, and simple … Yes I do!
I try and stay away from it, I honestly do.
I don’t want to do it, but once someone starts talking about the negativity about someone else’s life you kind of feel better about your own.
Then you have to tell what you know on the subject so it quickly snowballs down hill.
So now I know everything going on where I work.
It bothers me.
I don’t want to think about some of the things I now know.
Then again, I have to try and remember that it is in fact just rumors.
We all know how the telephone game works, and that’s all that this was.
So, there.
I posted something.
The point I am trying to make is this though …
Don’t, and I mean DON’T, think that they are not doing the same thing about you when you are not around.
If they will talk about everyone else, they WILL talk about you as well.
I know that this was not very controversial, but now that I have a little more free time, expect better.
OK, you might want to expect better, but it might be better if you expected about the same and then where just pleasantly surprised when better popped up on the screen!
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I am trying to keep this short and sweet, sorry … well most of you don’t care anyway because you only look at this site out of some act of kindness to help stroke my rapidly diminishing ego.
Nah, we all know that’s not true … well the part about my diminishing ego that is!
La Wife and I are trying to plan out this darn vacation.
We are doing it mostly on the magical budget of credit cards and discount cards and vouchers, and of course the sale of blood, plasma, bone marrow and other things … yes I did think about offering up a kidney but I don’t think any one would wanted it after they saw me.
So, back to international travel and how bothersome it is!
First, figuring out where to go.
Second, how to get there.
Third, how long you can afford to stay there.
Forth, getting the time approved off.
Then you have one of the hardest parts, trying to fit everything you want to do in on to short of a trip.
Yea, it started out we only had like 5 things we felt we needed to do.
Then La Wife got on the computer and added about 20 more.
I can see why travel agents still have jobs now.
I can also see why tour companies stay open as well.
The truth of the matter though is, we are going to get to see and do more for less!
That’s the story we are going with anyway and I only hope it rings slightly of truth.
There are a lot of things to take into consideration though in planning an international trip.
I would almost say to just have someone else do it for you, but La Wife and I had fun figuring it all out and it was cheep easy quality time together I guess … for like every night for the last 2 months I think!
Also, countries know that they have you when you are coming over.
Let me just say 2 words to make it all make since, Car Rental …
That’s right!
Yes, I can have a mini car for just like 85 Euro for a week.
But no, I’m a big fat butt and need a larger car.
So lets go up a size shall we?
The next sizes up are the Economy (Ford Fiesta) and the Compact (Toyota Yaris).
Um, nope, still not big enough for me … what else you got?
Intermediate … that sounds good right?
Nope, it’s a darn Ford Focus!
How about a Standard … Volkswagen Passat?
How small are these people?
Am I going to be a giant like Arnold when he comes out the Asian airport in Twins?
Fine, lets look at the Full Size … Toyota Corolla … really … fine we will take it.
Ok so we have now gone from the best deals around and upgraded 4 times so it isn’t as good a price, but we are still doing well.
The next question is a stinger though.
Automatic or manual.
Well darn it I can drive anything, I have a manual transmission in my Blazer so of course lets go with that, it is always cheaper isn’t it?
Well, I start thinking and reading up on this little upgrade option for an automatic and low and behold it hits me.
I can drive a manual transmission just as well as anyone … with my right hand and left foot on the clutch …
But over there it will be with my left hand … and right foot … and on the wrong side of the road to boot!
OK, lets look at the upgrade to an automatic.
IT’S 3X AS MUCH!
After much discussion, I bowed down that although I am the master of all skills and the best at everything, even I can’t a lot for me being an idiot at some point and slamming on the break as I try and downshift in a hurry as a flock of sheep are coming down the correct side of the road … that I am also on because I forgot I am not in America where we drive on the right side of the road like normal people should … and I take out a flock of 4 legged animals.
La Wife would never let me live that down, so we upgraded …
The trip is almost booked, we are going to be making the final call this evening.
It isn’t as bad as we had expected … we are still going to have to put some (Cough Most Cough) of it on credit cards, but it is our 5 year anniversary present, and our honeymoon too.
I will keep you all updated … it is getting closer though and if you live in the area and need your yard cut feel free to call me!
Be for warned though, like our cousins on the other side of the Pond I will charge you in Euros so you think you are getting a good deal when in fact you will be paying twice as much!
This is why a cruise ship is the best option!
1/3 the cost and no planning other then what buffet to go to …
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The topics of conversations ended up all over the board again this week.
The end all be all though was on Friday afternoon when the crew I was working with got a phone call telling us to go pick up 2 five gallon bucks and dispose of them.
This was not a strange request, we do this kind of stuff all of the time.
Then the next part came out, we had to dig a hole and burry the contents.
Um, ok this just got a little strange now didn’t it?
I mean, some of my guys have probably buried some strange stuff in the past, you know everything from drugs, animals and human bodies.
But they, and I felt we needed to know what we where going to be burring just incase we needed to go incognito and be sneaky about it.
So of course I ask, what’s in the buckets?
Well, each of the lovely 5 gallon buckets is partially filled with home made fertilizer …
Um, excuse me, what?
I get the same response so this leads to the next part.
That being of course us laughed about it with that uneasy and uncomfortable flavor added to it.
So we go, we find and we realize got lied to!
There where, and I am not joking, 14 - 5 gallon buckets of poo!
There was so much that we knew we where getting close because of the smell alone about a block away.
Some of them had lids, most of them didn’t ...
Just a quick side note, it’s the middle of July in Florida here people!
On another side note, all of this and low and behold a darn dumpster sitting 15 feet away from where they where placed.
My crew and I ended up gagging and did what we needed to do.
We then drove down the road with our windows rolled up looking for people who had there windows down and pulling up next to them.
Completely by accident of course …
We end up back at the shop and I call over the boss so he could injoy the lovely smell … aren’t I a swell guy!
In his defense, he did not get a visit from his lunch again … like I did …
Well, this is when it got strange, it popped into my head that none of my guys had TB and Hepatitis shots, so we put the buckets on the ground, smiled and then got to walk away.
Thank goodness for knowing the rules … and knowing how to use them for personal gain …
So the end all topic of discussion this week ended up being another multitude of things within the last few hours of the week.
With a countdown like a late night show might have, insert your own drum roll!
5) Who thought to poo in a bucket and leave it out for another to clean it up?
4) Who thought to do it 14 times?
3) Why not put them into the darn dumpster that was just 15 feet away???
2) Peoples faces as we drove past
And of course the number 1 topic of mass conversation and a lot of injoyment …
How green I turned and how funny it was to watch me gagging off in a corner.
I let my guys have there laugh and have all there fun because, well, first I would have been laughing if it wasn’t me, and second as soon as they saw me turning green they really started moving to get the stuff way from me.
Who says they can’t be nice every once and awhile.
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Medical science is what I am thinking about right this moment.
They have come so far in such a short time period and can do just about anything now.
So that made me think of some of the things that they are capable of doing …
They can make a pill to send medication to a specific location in the body and no place else.
They can use a pill to send chemotherapy like drugs to fight specific cancer cells in the body.
They can even give you a pill to remove the build up of junk in your blood stream.
So, my question is …
WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A ANTI FAT PILL YET?
O come on already!
You mean to tell me that every famous person, every government higher up and every darn doctor actually goes out and exercises and eats right all of the time?
OK, the President does have a cooking staff, and does seem to exercise daily.
… do you think that he has food tasters to check for poison?
So I am sure that these people have a the great secret anti fat pill and they are just not sharing it!
I think it is out there, but that it is being held back by the government because if we all lost weight we would destroy the economy.
O yea, lets take a moment to think about this one now shall we?
The obvious is that people wouldn’t go out to eat as much and/or as often.
Speaking on that subject, do you see how we all like going to places because they feed us more then we should eat?
Did you know that most restaurants who serve what most of us think is to small of a portion is actually feeding us 1 and ½ times the recommended diet allotment?
Just a strange little side note for ya there.
Back to why the economy would fail …
Furniture would last longer.
We would have less need for doctors.
Because of the restaurant corporations taking a hit, all of the food providers and farms would take a large one too … in other nations that is, (Please see my below comment)
Cars would get better gas mileage … it always come back to fuel doesn’t it?
Now that we have looked at a few of negatives, lets point out some of the positives if this magic pill was to be pushed, and America was to get thinner!
More money in the pockets of the people because we don’t have to buy as many things such as furniture and clothes.
AKA, better economy for other business.
Better health … to help with the costs of our free health care plan …
More use of American farmers and ranches instead of buying foreign produce’s.
No need for big massive SUV’s that only get 10 miles per gallon.
So, everyone could drive smaller cars, helping with traffic congestion on the roads.
Also leading us toward lower road repair bills and a decrease in accidents.
And of course cutting down on global warming because of the lessening of carbon monoxide release.
So, why does the government not push this?
Why does the government not want a nation of healthy people?
My guess is because they are getting paid to much by all of the companies who would loose out on us being a healthier people.
That is just one ideal, but they have proven time and time again that as the people that we have picked and chosen to protect us and look out for our best interest, well, that they in fact don’t.
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I don’t have a lot to say about this one.
I know, I am having less and less to say each week now aren’t I?
Truth be told, the real question is, is it a big surprise?
I mean between ADD and everything going on I am impressed I have written for as long as I have.
Back to the 4th though.
Lots of people think it is all about BBQ’s and fireworks.
Well, that is what it has become about.
The other truth on this topic is that people think that this is what it is supposed to be about.
Well, why not?
Yes, we do need to take a second to think back to and remember all of the things our predecessors did and had to withstand to become what we are now today.
After that though, it is all about our independence and freedoms that we now have.
This is one of the few Holidays where it is absolutely your choice to celebrate it how every you want, or not at all!
It is also one of the few holidays that isn’t pushed by the happy card companies.
This is though the holiday that so many other people in so many other countries long for and crave to be allowed to celebrate.
So many other places only wish that they could say that they have broken away from there tyrant rulers.
Others long to have a democratic government.
Then others desire nothing more the chance to become something more then they are where ever they are.
So, being that it is my right to celebrate this day anyway I want, I think I am going to go …
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The truth be told, I should have some wonderful and deep Blog today.
I mean I have three day weekends and stuff.
But, I am still trying to figure out Bar’s n Stripe’s site and failing.
That is where the mass amount of my time seems to be lost at right now.
That and my computer has decided to separate all of the things in/on it into strange categories.
Does it not understand that even though I haven’t looked at something in 6 months I still might need to have quick and easy access to it?
Also, that my mind is not what it used to be and that I can’t remember what I might have named something at the time I put it into the computer?
So in closing, my computer and I are fighting.
I also think that since I do have a third day off during the week I will start working on this stuff, like website updates and things, until then, I think I need an assistant.
How do I go about getting interns?
Do I have to be successful to have one?
I mean, look at the people who are making some of these trash movies out there!
They have assistants, and they so do not deserve them!
Speaking of trashy movies …
La Wife and I went and saw the Karate Kid.
Um, wow, that was a GOOD movie!
Yes, it was 2 and ½ hours, but it did not drag at all!
The acting had a few rough spots, but the fight scenes, well just go see it and you will understand.
The fight scenes were not as cool as Kick Ass, but two entirely different movies!
Speaking of cool, I just almost typed in the word sweet.
I think I am starting to get old because I just realized I shouldn't use words like that anymore.
I also don’t use dude anymore … Um, wow … I can’t even remember the last time I thought about getting on a skate board.
I mean I might fall and hurt myself.
Then I might loose time at work … O NO!
I am getting old!!!
I’m sorry, I have to go and play some Super Mario ASAP!!!
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La Wife left town Thursday night to go out with her girls for a nice weekend away.
WOOT, YEA, O YEA!!!
So, La Wife has a food allergy that means there are some food I don’t get to eat as much as I might like as much as I might like anymore.
So, while the cat is away …
I made up a big old full jar of Prego Meat flavored spaghetti sauce, a whole box of this spaghetti and some frozen meatballs thinking I would munch on them all weekend while she was away.
Yea, well, Thursday night I was bored, and lonely, and it was so darn good …
Well, Friday while I was walking around at work people might have commented on how I looked a little green.
So, I guess woman do serve a purpose … I’m going to go order 2 pizza’s now so I have something to eat for tomorrow …
La Wife needs to get home soon.
I have single handedly in one weekend gained all the weight back I worked so hard to loose!
Wonder Dog is not helping the matter either I might add.
She keeps telling me to cook more, all in the hopes that I might drop some of it for her.
On a completely different note, Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there!
Also to all of the Mothers who act as both parental positions!
I spent Yesterday with mine driving from one side of the state to the other.
Had lunch, his treat because the place we went to didn’t except credit cards (I know right?), then we wondered off and had dinner, my treat this time.
I had a good time and hope he did too.
Thanks old man!
We don’t say it enough, but you did good!
Working 2 and 3 jobs at a time so that we always had food, clothes, a roof over our heads and never any other needs.
We even had most of the things that we wanted too.
I am not sure how you pulled it off, and thanks doesn’t say enough.
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I am sitting hear trying to think of something to write about.
I am also just sitting hear eating some watermelon from the market down the street.
As always I am also listening to Sunday Morning coming down, but I know that no one cares about that.
Trying to come up with some grand topic that can both be entertaining and deep rooted.
As normal, I seem to be failing.
The only thing running through my head is how much time I do in fact sit in front of a computer.
I did just sit down and see that La Wife was looking up a big cat rescue down in Tampa
(http://www.bigcatrescue.org/tours.php)
Road trip in the near future?
Lets hope!
Big cats are so darn cool.
That does have me thinking a little though.
Do people actually realize how little time we injoy the world outside anymore?
We all go out and say how wonderful it is.
We even say how cute the little animals are.
We feel bad when we see hurt animals.
But we don’t really take advantage of it.
We have fallen to much in love with the A/C,, and other luxuries of the inside.
If we want to learn about an animal, we watch a video about it.
We sit and chat in online conversations instead of meeting up with a person in person.
Mind you, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with this … OK I am but I do it myself so I am trying to be nice about it.
So, instead of writing anymore about this topic I think I am going to go do something a little different and encourage all of you to do the same.
I’m going to go walk around the area around my house, because I have a forest 100 yards away from me … I really am lucky!
I’m going to go talk to some neighbors and injoy the morning.
That is until it gets to hot because I do live in Florida and it will be in the upper 90’s today.
So, I know this Blog is getting more and more disappointing, but it is about what is going on I my life and my thoughts on things.
And I think I want to go see my old friend Mother Nature!
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I hate to say it, but I find myself working more and more on Bars & Stripes.
Yea, yea, yea I know it needs all the work I can give to it but still.
I think I have a hobby finally?
I always say that I need a hobby.
Now in my spare time I seem to go and work on that.
I will take it as I have a hobby just for conversational use.
Then also when people ask I can send them to go look at my hobby to get more and more viewers so that one day I can complete my final goal and attain … I guess I need to think about what my final goal is now too don’t I?
It was so much easer when I just said I needed a hobby.
Who would have thought that there needs to be long term goals in all of this?
I could talk about the oil spill.
Like everyone else is.
Well, actually I heard something from a local EMS guy that kind of made me think.
This oil sitting out in the Gulf, that’s messing up the flow of the cool water coming into the Gulf.
Then also holding the heat and creating a higher humidity in the area.
Yea, getting what he brought up?
Hurricane season might get really, really nasty!
Now I have proven that I injoy sitting outside watching a hurricane pass, and at the same time I might not be so smart I guess.
But I don’t think I really want to be hit with some supper hurricane that we can’t get a track because the oil makes it change directions.
I also don’t want to start getting black rain on my house and person.
Can someone please tell me why though we have let technology go into effect that we have not come up with answers to as to how we can stop it?
This is exactly how Skynet takes over people!
So, I am just going to move on to my next project for the day.
That’s right, British sitcoms!
I really do injoy them.
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Memorial Day!
The day to be reminded of the fallen souls, who gave everything, so that we can sit here today.
I decided to take a different path this year.
I think all of you know how I feel on this topic, and next year I will be forced to address it like I normally do.
Simple because I think that this is a one trick pony way of doing it this year.
So here we go …
All information listed below is gathered from different government sites, and I will not take any responsibility for the governments’ numbers being wrong.
World War #1 - 117,000 American Soldiers gave their lives, for us!
World War #2 - 292,000 American Soldiers gave us their families, for us!
Korean War - 33,000 American Soldiers lost everything they knew & loved, for us!
Vietnam War - 58,168 American Soldiers decided to give us everything they had, for us!
Now, I am not going to get into all of the other wars such as: The Colonial Wars, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Banana Wars, Lebanon Crisis, Grenada, Beirut, Panama, and of course all of the other conflicts we have involved ourselves in, or the current conflicts in the Middle East, where we are losing soldiers every day.
Speaking of that, we currently have Soldiers stationed all over the world.
Although I tried to gather more information on those numbers, I was only able to find one that everyone would recognize, per say.
We currently have 183,000 Soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
That’s a lot of people!
And speaking of that, let’s take a look at some other numbers.
These aren’t the Soldiers who have already given us their lives, but the ones who are currently willing to do that for us.
The following numbers are based off of the financial reports of the forth quarter of 2009.
The US Army has approximately 540,000 soldiers
The National Guard has approximately 360,500
Army Reserves 197,000
Navy approximately 330,000
Navy Reserves approximately 124,000
Marines approximately 203,000
Marine reserves 40,000
Air Force approximately 330,000
Air Force Reserves approximately 69,000
Air National Guard approximately 95,000
Grand Total = 2,288,500 Soldiers ready to give their lives for you, at any given moment!
Now let us not forget the Soldiers who came home to us, either.
You know the ones, the ones who are crippled, both mentally and physically.
Constantly tormented from everything from missing limbs, to being stuck in a bed unable to see and/or hear anything, other than the screams they relive, everyday, in their heads.
This also does not include the poor souls who came home, but could not survive and/or not be able to live with what they had done and had seen, and then decided to take their own lives, one way or another.
Anything from drugs and alcohol, to guns and stepping in front of trains.
That’s that, as always, thanks simply doesn’t say enough!
I hope these numbers will help you understand why these people are so special.
They do what we can’t, won’t, and are just all around afraid to do.
So in closing, I say thank you, and reuse the old saying that “Freedom isn’t Free“!
Please, sit back and remember what that means, what people have given, and are still giving for us, so that we can say that we are Free!
And for the few out there who disagree, remember this …
Jack Nicholson’s character, Col. Nathan R. Jessep, in the movie, “A Few Good Men”, said this, and I think it says it very well ...
“ … my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. I know, deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you don't Want me on that wall, you Need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something.”
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Yea, not a lot going on.
I could talk about the oil spill, but I am not in the mood.
Although I do have some opinions on it of course, but I think everyone knows them.
If not, well, the next big spill like this I will rant and rave.
Enough other people have said enough and my opinion is no better or eye opening then there’s.
I know I don’t have the quick fix answer so this time I am choosing not to force my opinion in the hopes that smarted people then me can get there points and ideals to the right eyes/ears.
O how lucky and glad the 3 of you are :P
Work is good.
La Wife is good.
Wonder Dog is Good.
Friends seem to be doing well other then one is getting divorced and another’s relationship of 17 years is over.
No neither is Kermit.
House and cars are doing well.
(Insert Crossed Fingers Here and knocking on the wood filling cabinet next to me!)
Family seems to be doing alright.
Websites are both up and going with more then a few hundred hit’s a month.
So now you know what’s going on in my happy little world.
Now I have to get back to writing my Memorial day blog … yea, I actually started it last week and haven’t finished it yet.
I know what you are thinking … Dear God how long is it?
Yea, I don’t think it will even be ½ a page.
Going a different direction this year, I hope it works …
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The shuttle Atlantis went up on Friday.
Watched that, still amazing.
If a guy driving a race car around in circles at 200 miles an hour is considered an athlete, shouldn’t an astronaut be then also by default?
They go faster and have a lot more things to do then hold one foot on the floor and keep turning left?
Then again, is it not a sport because we don’t put stickers all over the shuttle?
I think we need to do that actually!
Get sponsors and advertise on the shuttle!
Yea!
We can make big money on that!
Have the astronauts walking down the bridge way with some pimped out patches all over there space suites.
We need to think more about this …
Lets see, the fox in our area had some babies.
They are so darn cute!
Wonder Dog went to the dog park again on Saturday.
Um, yea, I think that’s about it?
O, and of course what happened at work.
I already wrote this over at Bars & Stripes, but I am tired and don’t feel like coming up with some big long though line twice in one day so I am reposting it over here.
Deal with it, they are my sites so I can cheat if I want to!
Speaking of good old DT, or defensive tactics if you will.
This last week all of the DT in the world couldn’t have helped a coworker of mine.
He was working on an outside work crew, you know the guys picking up trash and cutting the grass out on the side of the roads.
Low and behold he hears a loud bang and the window next to his head in the vehicle he is using gets blown out.
Yea, good times right!
He was OK, the inmates under his care are also alright.
Kind of scary though isn’t it?
I had thought about it before, but this was the first time it actually sank in that things like that can happen.
I am always all about bring on the biggest baddest guy wielding a baseball bat and I will put him down.
Bring me a small guy in a black ninja outfit with nunchucks … and I will run!
Those things HURT!!!
I don’t know why but I kind of forgot about guns.
Is it because I am so used to dealing with people who don’t have them?
I just don’t know?
It’s kind of strange to think about to be honest.
The guys who work out on the side of the roads are in more danger then I thought.
First you have to watch for traffic, then for friends of the inmates, then enemies of the inmates such as victims, co-defendants and friends/family of there victims.
Then also rival gangs and of course X inmates and other people who just hate correctional officers.
So, that was that.
That’s my little blurb about work this week and now to go work on my other website.
How and/or when did this turn into a job?
Also, when will I start to get paid for all this work?
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This last week was interesting to say the least, well as interesting as things get in my life.
The only way that I could really think to handle and coupe with this stuff was of course to share it all with the world … lucky you!
Let me start with all of this first section comes from the mouths of inmates.
As we all know, they are the most brilliant people around, just ask them.
No, some of them are brilliant, and it’s darn scary just how smart they are in fact!
As proof of the majority though, I give you this lovely conversation …
Let me set the scene for you first though.
A Hawk flies by and all of the pigeons and crows get out of dodge hiding in the trees.
The only animals left in the area are a couple of ducks and a chicken.
One inmate asks why they didn’t go and hide as well.
Another inmate says because the ducks are larger then the hawk and there are two of them so it would be hard fight for the hawk to win being two on one after all.
OK, that kind of makes since.
The first inmate then asks why the chicken doesn’t go and hide.
Yet another inmate voices up and says because if the hawk gets to close the chicken will just fight it off and/or fly off.
Me ß um, what?
Then the discussion takes another turn as the inmates try and figure out what flies faster.
A chicken or a duck.
Because if the ducks are faster then of course that must be another reason why they are not afraid of this hawk because who has ever scene two ducks fighting a hawk … this is getting strange …
This goes on for about 10 minutes as 5 grown men go on and on about how hawks don’t want to mess with chickens because they will kick there bums.
Because of course, chickens are natural fighters and fight all the time and could easily take out a hawk.
This conversation hurt my head as they kept telling stories about how they have scene chicken fights and scene them flying.
At no point did any of them disagree with chickens not being able to fly though … so now I question it myself!
Do I need to fear a flock of dive-bombing chickens from the north as they migrate south for the winter for now on?
Did the Yankee’s actually use fighting chickens to help win the war?
Fly them in and them set them a foot with there claws of doom?
Then the question came up about turkeys too!
Did you know that they can fly as well?
Even the big fat fluffy ones!
Do you think that sometimes when there is a wayward chicken or turkey that a flock of ducks might let them fly south with them?
Is the reason I didn’t know about this simply because I never looked hard enough at a V formation in the sky just assuming it was ducks when in fact it might have been turkeys, chickens, penguins or ostridges?
Now I also wonder if the whole move Chicken Run based on a lie?
Where people finding out that chickens could in fact fly, did the government have to go to Hollywood to tell them to make this movie just to keep the people in the dark because they feared they might just need the Chicken soldiers again in the near future?
If all of this is true then I have really fouled up my foul knowledge!
I mean, if all of this is true and is in fact based on truth, do I in fact need fear cockatrice’s now too?!?
I mean it was bad enough having to watch out Medusas but now I might have to watch out for a second creature that might turn me to stone?
Dead Bob, if they are real Basilisks and other mythical creatures might be as well!
3 different type of monsters that can turn us to stone at just a look?
I think that we have a very real and dangerous problem here.
So much so that we might need to take this to the government!
The only lobbyists (Have I mentioned that I hate lobbyists?) who would possibly stand against us would be the 4:20 crew … hehe … yea I know I came a long way around to get to that joke but you know you smiled.
Where to start this search for the unholy creatures though … well Germany for the basilisk and Jamaica for the cockatrice of course!
OK, I don’t think I can beat this horse any longer so lets move on to what really bothered me this week shall we?
So I was driving my crew to the job site and we saw a large, about 1 foot long, turtle trying to cross the road.
Being that the road was about to get busy with traffic and it was dark so people might not see it, I ask if anyone wants to go move the turtle.
I would have, but I had a volunteer … there is hope isn’t there that some of these guys might turn out to be alright …
The guy gets out of the vehicle gets a good running start trying to get to the turtle and then … kicks it …
Um, no, I couldn’t have scene that correctly could I?
Wait he is moving towards it again … and kicks it again?
I get out, yell something I shouldn’t type out and make him pick it up and carry it across the street.
I ask him what in the world he was doing and he says he doesn’t like turtles because one time one bite him.
OMG, Um, what?
So he thinks it’s all funny until I tell him I am going to write him up for molesting wildlife and I see his face twist in that ‘what the heck I didn’t do that to the turtle’ look.
So, the turtle seemed OK, the inmate knows he messed up big time and I have the reaffirmation that some people are, as my mother has told me I was once, ‘a waist of flesh.’
HE KICKED THE POOR TURTLE!
What was he thinking?!?
I just don’t understand, did he think it was a basilisk?
O come on I had to make one more joke about it!
… I think I hate him …
Talk to you all next week
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I don’t talk about fun stuff and what’s going on in my life anymore.
Sure, my political views are ground breaking and enlightening but I am sure that because of how outside the box I think, most of you disagree and don’t read much into those.
So, lets go back to what all is going on in the happy work of John Jay, La Wife and of course Wonder Dog!
Lets start with the sad stuff.
Wonder Dog had to go to the vet and have a growth removed.
Yea, every time we get a little extra money she gets sick and/or a large household appliance breaks.
So, she had a strange growth on her leg that got to be about 2 and ½ inches long by about 1 and ½ across.
Low and behold the vet said it should be removed and gladly offered to take my money because he is such a nice guy.
No, actually the people at the Vets office are great and have GREAT prices!
So, Wonder Dog had to go in and now has about 15 stitches in her leg.
Do to this, a little dog was not allowed to lick at and/or pick at her new war wound.
How do you keep a dog from doing what comes natural?
The CONE OF SHAME! (See the movie Up for a better reference to that if you don’t get it)
So, here are some pictures of how sad a little dog looks while forced to have said device on.
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So, now that we have the sad part out of the way, lets move to some more stuff, fun stuff if you will.
La Wife informed me a couple of years ago that she has never flown a kite.
At which point, as all of you have just done or about to do, I busted out with some Marry Poppins!
Well, about 2 weeks ago it was in my mind the perfect day to go and do said activity.
So, we ran by Publix and grabbed a picnic chicken dinner meal, grabbed 2 kites from Walgreens and headed for a park.
The wind was strong, the kites flew high and life was good.
Sunburns where had by all!
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La wife hooked me up with the Bro Code CD and book performed by Barney Stinson himself!!!
Dear God that was some funny stuff!
She also got me a really cool T-shirt.
It’s hard to make out but it says iRegenerate and has the Doctor’s (The David Tennant‘s version) shadow on it.
La Wife’s side of the family got me my very own ice cream mugs form Coldstone … we all know that they are not big enough but I didn’t want to offend them.
They also picked up the whole series of Firefly with 3 unaired episodes!
I also got another cool shirt!
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And of course my new watch.
It’s a pocket watch, it’s cool and it is actually what I wanted and asked for.
It was supposed to be for work only, because I can’t carry my phone to tell me what time it is, but I think it works well enough to take around with me other times and places.
I mean, do I really look like more of a fool for having 2 chains coming out of my pockets instead of just 1?
Who knew in-laws could be good listeners?
So, Wonder Dog is fine, kites are still fun, birthdays aren’t so bad … all the time.
So, that’s that, take care!
Next, also a few weeks ago was my birthday … yea, still bothered by that …
So lets show some of the stuff I got!
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Last night I went and saw a movie.
The movie was filled with death, mutilation, profanity, insane violence, but with a simple moral question buried underneath all of that lovely insanity.
Why do so many people stand by and watch things happen when if they would act, bad things might not happen as often?
We as a people have decided that things must be going wonderful and that crime is alright.
I mean, we watch it every day don’t we?
We see people hurting others, stealing from each other and walking when the light says not to!
I guess it all comes down to we are just a nation of greedy people?
The question is though, who is more greedy?
The people doing the crime, or the people watching it happen without acting?
Yes, most would say the criminal is because they are taking something away from another.
What about the witness though?
Did they say anything?
Call the police?
Even take down the information as to describe the scene to the police?
Even call the police after the fact?
No, more and more everyone is becoming more and more afraid of repercussions of acting out to help others.
I, at least when it is bad, still act.
I know others who still do too, but fewer and fewer.
Action does not need to mean jumping in front of someone holding a gun sticking out your chest like a Super Hero because we all know that bullets, knifes and fists hurt.
Is it so hard to stop and make a phone call though?
Or take your phone out and take a picture of the situation as you drive past to give the info to the police?
If we as a nation would start standing up a little more people might start behaving a little better.
If people had a reason to have fear of there actions might they stop and just for a second reconsider what they are doing?
I know for a fact if someone pulls out a video camera I am going to behave … possibly tell a joke and do a little dance but that’s a different issue all together …
All of this needs to be addressed but it comes back to another couple of issues too though doesn’t it?
You know, the bad parenting issues I love thinking about.
No, not the single parent who works 3 jobs and can’t be at home with there kids because they are trying to do what is right.
No, the people who just have children for all of the wrong reasons, but still on purpose.
That and the government.
All the way from the National White Wigs, then down to the paid to look the other way cops on the corner.
We as a people all want change, as proof we voted change in not so long ago, but we are all to worried about repercussion to do anything about it.
We all want the government to fix everything, but how can they be everywhere at once?
I mean you can’t tell me that parents don’t know what there kids are doing.
OK, again I understand that the single parent working the 3 jobs might be a little busy to notice, but the parent who sees there kid who doesn’t have a job but still has a sweet car and gang colors on, should have a clue, right?
Then again, we also have the parents who are so happy and proud that there child just made it into a gang.
Um, WHAT?!?
Some people want there child to go to collage, make a national sports team or become a useful member of society.
Some though decide that they want there children to join the local gangs?
They want there children to follow in there foot steps?
It would seem to me that if they had to do certain things to not only join but to stay in, they would know that there children would and will have to do the same things?
I am not a parent, but I would like to think that K-D has come out OK?
She is the same thing right?
I know when she goes out, where she goes and who she is hanging out with.
Same concepts I believe as a parent?
I know it is not as simple as raising a dog, but isn’t that the basic structure that helps keep kids on the right path?
I mean isn’t it a parents job to protect there children and try and keep them away from danger?
At what point did this country go so wrong?
O, yea, once people stopped caring what happened to others and only wondered about and cared about themselves and there own.
So, I am going to wrap this up because I am trying to keep it a little shorter then I would like it to be because I can rant on this topic for some time.
The next time you see something that isn’t right you don’t need to jump out and stop it.
But take notes if only as you drive by and contact the police.
Let them know that 3 kids are beating the snot out of another one on the street corner and that a medic might be needed.
Crime persists because we are to lazy and scared to stop it.
So, that’s my thoughts on this week.
That and go see Kick Ass!
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