seventh circle

There is a certain hopelessness in having hope.

Why is love so painful? Is it because the tough times make the mediocre time seem fantastic?

He says he doesn't love me. OH wait I take that back He says it when he is high and when he is sick and when he has fucked up something in his life by being high and knows i'll listen . I love him and don't want to see him destroy himself or destroy me.

I get the "I care about you but I'm not in love with you" speech frequently. Or "your in my business" or (my favorite) "We are not a couple" (even though we sleep in the same bed) or I should say we did. And now I feel I have point out examples of what I am babbling about.
Perhaps the time your best friend and his boyfriend gave US that great tray for the coffee table you never questioned your best friend and his boyfriend why they gave it to US as a couple?) "US"
I wasn't the only one under that impression.
Oh and what about when he said oh "it's the Patricks" could of been a little tip off that maybe even your friends see us as a couple.
The only person who didn't see it is you.

How bad does it have to get before you understand. Wait I take that back. I should be asking myself that same question.

I enjoy being with him. I need him in my life. There is no one else who make me so euphoric.
Without him I feel incomplete. I have tried to excise him from my life but it makes me miserable. I have tried giving him everything I have and that seems to just push him away. I have tried eliminating all contact with him and He keeps coming back or I end up bringing him back into my life.


Well, here is the bottom fucking line of todays post. I'm simply to wound up to connect thought "a" to thought "b" so this is my sad little man point today:

Why do I have hope? Because there is nothing else.
I believe you can die of a broken heart.


So ends crazy rant #1.

Have a great mutha fuckin sun-shining outta your ass day, everyone.

Go and be nice to a stranger today. They may feel down and a simple smile could brighten their day.

Better yet Hug a friend for just being a friend. A little contact goes a long way and could repair a damaged soul.

Here are 10 fine examples of the wit and wisdom of Tom DeLay:
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1) "So many minority youths had volunteered, that there was literally
no room for patriotic folks like myself."
--Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP
convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not
fight in the Vietnam War.

2) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"
--Tom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees
from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept.9,2005.

3) "I AM the federal government."
& nbsp; --Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris
Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal
government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003.

4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power."
-Tom DeLay, explaining why America must topple
Saddam Hussein in 2002 interview with Fox News.

5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes."
--Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003.

6) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The
causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into
daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working
mothers who take birth control pills."
; --Tom DeLay, on causes of the
Columbine High School massacre, 1999.

7) "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide
structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide
stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though."
--Tom DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10,
2004.

8) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I
think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that
there will not be a government church."
--Tom DeLay (date unspecified)

9) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on
$4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist.
Fortunately, such families do not exist."
--Tom DeLay, during a debate in Congress
on increasing the minimum wage, April
23, 1996.

10) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My
job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government
employee. I am in the Constitution."
--Tom DeLay, in a CNN interview,
Dec. 19, 1995.
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So, you see, my friends, there is a reason Tom DeLay
is one of the most popular men in Washington.

It's because he makes the president look slightly less stupid by
comparison

creative Q-tip

Movieland wax museum

An era ending
Some of the kitsch surrounding Knott's Berry Farm is coming to an end. Both the Movieland Wax Museum and the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum closing their doors at the end of the month. Movieland Wax Museum has announced that it will be closing its doors for good on Oct. 31, 2005, after 43 years of business and 10 million visitors. (It will be replaced by an entertainment center/pizza parlor called "John's Incredible Pizza Co.") Both are longtime attractions near Knott's Berry Farm but recent years have seen marked declines in attendance.

The wax museum opened in 1962 and was purchased by the Fong family in 1985. The Fong's expanded to open Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1990. Both venues will be offering “Last Chance” admissions for $5 before closing their doors on October 31.


So if you want to see the museum before it closes, run (do not walk) to Buena Park before Halloween.

Lovley day!

Greetings fellow bloggers. I am writing to you from my corner newsstand.  I was hoping to be writing this in the comfort of my home however I was unable to piggyback off of my neighbors wireless system. so, here I am. sitting at a little table at the newsstand. What an odd little place this is. It was built about 3 years ago on the side of Universal Liquor. My local boozery.  Its a stones throw away from my front door.  The guy that runs it is a little younger than me. Cute guy. His wife is here with him most of the day chatting it up with the locals. I am not one of those locals. I am the guy who never comes here. I never talk to these folks. I dont need to know more of what is going on in my neighborhood. What I see is more than enough. But now that I'm here using there wifi  I guess I'll join in. I'm sure they are surprised to see that I actually stopped and sat down instead of whizzing by  to get smokes from the booze shop. The "clients" here are an interesting lot. The fellow looking at porn is a homeless guy I have seen smoking crack in the alley behind my apartment.  Last night when I was testing the laptop here one of those Desperate Housewives showed up. Eva Longoria. She was looking for a magazine with her wearing a white dress. She babbled a tale about a friend who told her to get it and take a look at the the picture. Pity her friend didn't tell her which magazine it was in. So she settled on buying all  the magazines she has appeared in this month. I  dont know  what  her excuse for buying all the magazines will be next month. She cant use that excuse again.  I can imagine she must have a huge "LOOK AT ME" pile of magazines already.
So I am wireless and able to write without fear of co-workers reading over my shoulder. Its a relief to finally have a computer. I feel liberated.

Im Free!!!

Im sitting on the corner of Lankersim and Ventura blogging. How exciting is this! I finally own a computer and can Write in my blog without co-workers looking over my shoulder.

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Hiya there !

I am now part of the 21st century. I now have a powerbook.

Does that mean my posts will get better? NO.
Does that mean I will take the time to spell check or avoid painful run on sentences or freakishly poor grammar or odd conjunctions that don’t need to be there really? UUUHHHHHNO.

It means I can now pay 79 bucks a month for the opportunity to e-mail from the bus using something other than a cellphone.

Harriet Myers

What is she 10 years old???
"DEAR JESUS... YOU ARE THE BEST GOD EVER! I would like a pony. " read the previous birthday card sent by Harriet the spy.

oh here is more! Have a nice day!

daylight come...

"...and I'm going to..."

Has anyone ever noticed how many haunted dolls are on e-bay?

Seriously. Go to e-bay right now and punch in Haunted Doll. There is over 200 of these damn things each with a goofy little story about the haunted object.

Perhaps I like the abuse?

Negative attention is so easy to get. Hey at least people are paying attention!
That was my mantra for years.
YEARS!

I had no idea I was so self destructive until ,I kid you not, a bolt of lightning during this weeks storm.
The sad thing is that this mantra applies to relationships. If someone is yelling at the top of their lungs at you well… at least they are talking to you.

I’m beginning to understand how starved for attention I really am and how that need has affected my life.

I’m working thru it.

GAG ORDER

Last Friday I rushed out of work to go to the APPLE store to make the big purchase, a powerbook.
Kiddies I have never owned a computer in my life. What I know about them is what I have been taught at work. I know nothing about them. 4 days after I made the trip to make that purchase I still no nothing about them. I still don’t have a computer .
Friday. I went but the store was too crowded and it was too much of a hassle to buy the powerbook. Oh wait let me add that this is a big BIG thing for me.
1. I have never had the money to buy one until now.
2. (or “B” if you are using an alpha system) I intend to use it to mix music and practice writing.
That is a big commitment for me. It is like I am to choose the object thru which I will express my life. This purchase is important and very emotional.

So I get there Friday and get freaked out by the crowd so I leave. Saturday I wake up early and start cleaning the house. I was cleaning because its a mess and I wanted the computer to have a clean home for however long I am living there. I am just about to leave when I get a call from a “friend” who is too high to go to work. I picked him up wandering up La brea Ave and took back to my place so he could sleep It off. Still no powerbook.
Sunday I worked and it ended up being a longer day than I anticipated. I drove like a bat outta hell to get to the Grove mall by 7pm to buy the powerbook. I get there 6:55 and find out they do not have them in stock. “WELL WHAT DO YOU HAVE!” (insert Applestore product here) “FINE I”LL TAKE THAT!” ... The apple people disappear into the back room and come back empty handed. “WE ARE OUT OF THEM TOO” “WELL WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE? ANY THING?” I have tried to get this thing for 3 days and have been denied.
DENIED the right to express myself ! I CANT WAIT!. I wanted to cry. I know two people who work there and they were the ones saying no. I gave them a ride home and one of them says to me something like “why don’t you take the money you are going to spend on this and get a maid.” Maybe one of those little naked ones you find in the back of Frontiers magazine.”
Not only do you deny me my right to express myself efficiently you insult me!

“Your home…. GET OUT.”

No lets talk about the film Psycho.

I cant think of any film to date that has the hero become the heroin. Norman was the only survivor that achieved his goal. He wanted to undo the horrible crime he committed. The only way he could do it was by bringing back the dead. He becomes his mother and Norman is never to return. Succeeding in resurrecting his mom at the sacrifice of his own mind.

Now the thing that gets me is Hitchcock gets credit for the structure of the story. Joeseph Stephano, the writer who helped make THE OUTER LIMITS the paranoid fearfest it is was the man who wrote the screenplay of Psycho. Based on the Robert Block book(which was based on the crimes of Ed Gein) Stephano was the man who came up with the idea to kill the “main” character 40 minutes into the film. A bold move to say the least. With the budget and pace of a TV movie Psycho still ranks in the (pardon me Leonard fucking Maltin for stealing your word) Pantheon of horror. As far as Hitchcock films go it does not support character development. You don’t really care about anyone in the film. With the one exception of Norman whose personality is carefully dissected. *If you want latter years Hitchcock with great characters try VERTIGO.* Norman is the perfect monster. Unassuming creature that can lurk in the daylight unnoticed. Its too bad that Paramount let this one go. They could have had classic to add to their library of 12 great films!

...and your home in the grave.

Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition
A man purportedly from Kazakhstan launched into a diatribe instead of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
By Laurence Hammack
981-3239
The Roanoke Times



No one knows for sure who he was, that Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat who was supposed to sing the national anthem at a rodeo Friday night in the Salem Civic Center.
But he sure shook up this town before leaving in a hurry.
Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America. A film crew was with him, doing some sort of documentary. And he wanted to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to show his appreciation, the announcer told the crowd.
Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd - it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places - that he supported the war on terrorism.
"I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards," he said, according to Brett Sharp of Star Country WSLC, who was also on stage that night as a media sponsor of the rodeo.
An uneasy murmur ran through the crowd.
"And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq," he continued, according to Robynn Jaymes, who co-hosts a morning radio show with Sharp and was also among the stunned observers.
The crowd's reaction was loud enough for John Saunders, the civic center's assistant director, to hear from the front office. "It was a restless kind of booing," Saunders said.
Then the man took off his hat and sang what he said was his native national anthem. He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that ended with the words "your home in the grave," Sharp said.
By then, a restless crowd had turned downright nasty.
"If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him," Jaymes said. "People were booing him, flipping him off."
Rodeo producer Bobby Rowe, who by then had figured out that he was the victim of some kind of hoax, had the man escorted out of the civic center. Rowe told him that he and his film friends had best leave right then.
"Had we not gotten them out of there, there would have been a riot," said Rowe, who has been bringing his Imperial Rodeo Productions to Salem for years.
As his wife, Lenore, put it: "It's a wonder one of these cowboys didn't go out there and rope him up."
Saunders agreed. "I was concerned for his personal safety," he said.
Once the film crew members and their star realized the severity of the situation, Bobby Rowe said, "they loaded up the van and they screeched out of there."
After apologizing to the crowd for being duped, Rowe was left to wonder who pulled such a hoax, and why. Months ago, he was approached by someone from One America, a California-based film company that was reportedly doing a documentary on a Russian immigrant, Rowe said.
The outfit asked if Sagdiyev could sing the national anthem at the rodeo in Salem. After listening to a tape, Rowe said sure.
By Saturday afternoon, Jaymes had observed that Sagdiyev looked a lot like the title character of "Da Ali G Show," a Home Box Office production that often catches its guests and audiences unaware and then records their reaction to "shock value" material such as Friday night's performance.
The show has a character named Borat from Kazakhstan, according to the HBO Web site.
Jaymes said she recalls that one of the five cameras was turned on her and others on stage, as if to catch their reactions.
"I looked at Brett and said, 'Why do I feel like I'm in the middle of a bad "Saturday Night Live" episode?'" Jaymes said.
As Rowe prepared Saturday for a second night of the rodeo, he was playing it safe on who would sing the national anthem.
"It'll be a tape," he said.

Is it a white thing?

I cant get my whites white. I don’t understand it. The moment I wear a white shirt it gets those nasty yellow armpit stains that never go away. Now I know people actually wear their white t-shirts more than once and can keep them white. I’m not doing anything different. Bleach, water soap a machine. Come on.
Its true white folk cannot wash a white t-shirt to save their damn lives. Oh wait..Its because I’m not republican. Satan stained my shirt. OUT DAMN SPOT!

PEN

The cat.
The cat knows when I am worried about something. Aside from the fact its perfectly clear from the GODDAMN-ITS and FUCKS that I huff to myself. The cat knows. Cats unlike dogs seem to empathize. Its odd. Sometimes I catch him looking at me. He's got large alien eyes that change color hazel to green. He has been with me thru some pretty dark times. You know... crying and cant get outtta bed hate the world kinda times. I could swear he has looked at me with my mum's eyes.
I have caught him looking at me the same way my mum used to when I was upset. Its kind of comforting yet freaks me out. He does what a lot of cats do but I'd like to think he's some sort of supercat. He taps his paw on my hand when I'm upset. Its not the same tap as the "Hey wake up the sun is coming up" tap Nor is it the same as the "Hey bigface I wanna get under the covers" tap. Its an "Everything is ok. "tap.
hes a good cat.

office speak.

Last week I was having a “discussion” with a “co-worker”. He is a member of the Galactic Empire or as they like to be called, republican.
He was arguing how Abu grab is different from POW camps during the Vietnam War. I was trying to get him to see that whether they are similar or not the abuse should not happen. We went back and forth for a while. I find this a topic that I would not like to discuss especially at work or … anywhere for that matter. The only way to get this conversation to stop was to tell him “You were never there. I was never there. This information is coming from the media. It has been filtered and sanitized. We are speaking about something we are not qualified to speak about.” After I said that I started to take inventory of the things I can really speak about in his presence.

Lets take a look at the list of items I am qualified to speak about:

My cat.
Laundry.
The film Psycho.
Old socks that turn into crunchy cotton foot-bags when the elastic goes.


And, as far as republicans go, that’s about it.

Now wait …I just realized something. If we are one nation under God… that means that whoever is in charge determines the God. What the hell is Bush and what does he believe in? I guess that we should all be Roman Catholic if we are to be truly patriotic. It is my understanding that if you are catholic you get into heaven… If you are anything else you will go to hell.

So with that in mind. Our current administration believes that all Jews will go to hell.

Hey guess what it is true... He is like Hitler!

No...this is not me.

This is from JUST ANOTHER SOLDIER . This is one of his later posts right before he was ordered not to blog by his commanding officer. I think he has a wonderful way of explaining a world I know nothing about.



June 27, 2004
How To Blow-Up Trucks, Dogs, and Mosques
Okay, this is going to be a quick entry because I'm lazy. The great thing about being lazy when writing about combat in Iraq is that the facts and photos sorta speak for themselves and you don't really have to talk it up. I tend to elaborate on things because it's cathartic for me. You might feel as though you are reading about Iraq, but in reality you and the several hundred other people reading my screeds are actually my collective of therapists. I don't need therapy today, but I want to share a few quick things because they are interesting.

A couple days ago me and about fifteen guys from my platoon were doing our NAI run ("named area of interest") along with the EOD ("blow shit up") guys. There was an alleged cache of mortar rounds or something near the NAIs that the EOD guys wanted to blow up. So we drove to the first one, dismounted, checked things out, mounted up, and moved out. We came to the area that the cache was supposed to be, but didn't find shit. Then we went to the second NAI.

The NAIs are somewhat large areas of real estate, so each time we go we try to inspect a different part of them. This time when tooling around, we found an abandoned tractor trailer. Abandon vehicles are never a good thing in Iraq, so we usually destroy them when we have the means. This time we happened to have EOD with us who didn't get to blow the cache of mortar rounds that never materialized, so as they say: you do the math.

First we had John, one of our .50 cal gunners, unload a few bursts into it. For the non-killers out there, mounted machine guns have a device on them called a T&E that controls the weapon's traversal and elevation. Basically it's just a thing that keeps the gun from climbing up as you fire it while allowing it to freely swing side-to-side. When John shot the truck, he didn't have the T&E engaged. This is called free-gunning. It's fine that he chose to free-gun it, it was good experience, but it made it so he could only put a short burst into it before it started to climb. We try to be careful about this sorta thing because, after all, there are people living all over the place and collateral damage from errant bullets isn't cool. Anyway, I only mention this for the guys that read this who will be manning .50 cals in Iraq soon. Free-gunning is cool when you need the freedom of movement, say for a close-range engagement, but if you want to actually put lead into something accurately with nice long bursts, use the damn T&E.

I have some super-crappy footage of this if you want to see what I mean. The .avi is about 3.9 megs. Here's the link: http://www.justanothersoldier.com/50cal01.avi

After shooting the truck, EOD decided to blow it up. They had several bricks of some Russian explosives they wanted to expend, so they put the whole shit in the cab of the truck on a timed fuse. We then drove several hundred meters away and waited patiently. "Thirty seconds!", the EOD guy yelled. So we're all watching the truck, waiting for the fireworks display, when, Hey, wait a second, is that a dog? Oh, shit! What are you doing? Get the fuck away from there you stupid mutt!

A dog had wandered toward the truck right as it was about to explode. I've never seen so many dogs get fucked up in my life as I have over here. This one had the luckiest day of his life, though. However, I don't think he'll be answering to any more whistles. The truck blew right next to him then he tucked tail and ran. Aside from the fact that innocent animals (almost) dying is not cool, it was pretty damn funny. My buddy, Yanko, got it all on tape, but I don't have the software to get the footage off his camera, so I took some screen shots of the display screen. The quality sucks, but it's enough to get the point. I also got some footage on my little camera, but you can't see anything. It's funny, if for no other reason, to just hear the guys talking about the dog. The .avi is about 3.8 megs. My hosting company may have a heart attack when they see my bandwidth usage for the month, but here's the link to that movie: http://www.justanothersoldier.com/dog_truck01.avi

Then on the way back while we're driving through a little neighborhood, I notice all these bricks and rubble strewn across the road. I thought to myself, Hmm, what's all this shit? I look out the front of the Humvee (I was in the back seat, so my sector of fire was out the window) and thought, Is something missing? Holy shit! That one mosque is gone!

This small village had a mosque that was now no more. We stopped and got out to investigate. It was handy that we had EOD with us because they were able to poke around the rubble and determine that the explosion came from the inside (as opposed to an air strike or an exterior detonation). The locals who came out told us that someone was seen planting the bomb that destroyed the place. It must have been a good amount of explosives, because this place was leveled. As you may well know, I'm no fan of religion, but it still made me really sad to see this. The mosque was Shiite. What's strange too is that this area is considered to be less-than-friendly to us, so for it to be a retaliatory strike against the local people for being sympathetic to the coalition doesn't make any sense. The mosque and the village are within the boundaries of a different unit's area of operations, so we reported it up and headed home. We may never know what the story was. What can I say? The Iraqis are as busy being assholes to each other as they are to us.

W. B. is amazing.

Warner Brothers is amazing.
Last week I had the pleasure of eating lunch at the commissary with a dear friend. Afterwards we walked over to the studio store to see what they have to offer. DVDs and CDs. Now its not an impressive MEGA DVD CD blowout warehouse but a nice little store with Warner Bros merch. The main DVD display was filled with Titles that
Warner Bros has released and some they have acquired from ye olde MGM library.
Garbo seemed to be the focus of the day. Garbo silent collections and Garbo classics filled the top two shelves.
What a great display… but wait what’s this? The shelf right below Garbo was a film I have never heard of! NEVER HEARD OF! Holy cow what are the chances. My friend Jamie was eagle-eyed and pointed it out. Thank you Jamie for brining this film into my life. It was a current title. Some sort of spy film.


Funky Monkey.

I’ll have you know I bought that damn dvd and it sat on my tv on display for 2 days before I popped it in the player.
To my disappointment I was only able to watch 15minutes of it before I started to fidget. 20 minutes and it was off to bed.

Funky Monkey is one of the worst films I have ever seen. In a nutshell (and this is easy because the plot is given away during the credits) Animal lover trains monkeys freelance at a secret lab to make monkey ninja spies. He becomes a monkey’s friend and helps him escape the lab and return him to the wild. Since there is no wild in San Diego he returns them to a fictitious monkey park.

It contains everything you would expect. Banana peel slips … you get the idea.

The monkey is clearly a 5’ actor in a mask during the ninja fighting scenes. It’s a real chimp in the close ups.

BAD FILM... BAD!

Now let me remind you that this is the same film studio that hated THX-1138 so much that they almost destroyed Zoetrope pictures. The same studio that fired Richard Donner off of the Superman project. The same studio that has a huge picture advertising GONE WITH THE WIND (a movie they didn’t even make) on the side of the studio. The same studio that also does the Tyra Banks Talk show.

One cool thing they have going is a cool new logo.
WB

FROSTED GOODNESS

Ok kiddies here is a tip from Scotty:
Sugar is not good for you.
I have had noting but sugar-filled snacks for the past week and I have all the bad side effects of a nasty speed binge. The only odd benefit is I dream like crazy. Ive been so busy that I have not had a chance to eat right. I refuse to eat Burgers but what I have settled on eating is not any better. I have been snacking all week on candy and candy filled snack foods. By the time I get home I pass out into a sugar coma. I am breaking out and feel like I am hung over. I have trouble connecting A to B. The quick sugar fix is the only thing that picks me up. WOW. Time to stop this!

SUGAR BAD!

I’m simply calling them names at this point.

Republicans.
Its like a little white lie that snowballs into a lifetime of deception.
YOU KNOW DAMN WELL each and every one of them has a perfectly boring everyday secret that they keep under lock and key.
The sick thing is... the dirty secrets they keep are just dull as ours.
GEORGE take a tip from Lydia Lunch. Stick a Yam up your ass in front of an audience. That should set your skeletons free.(I have a blank VHS standing by for just such an occasion.)stop being so uptight. We arnt going to judge you so harshly if you try the yam trick.
Have "they" ever stopped to think we are all human? Or is that not enough for them? Must they be Uber products of their own making. Why isolate the world? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THEM. I cant count how many times this current administration has told me I should not have any rights let alone have the right to live. I don’t even know if I really do anymore!

George… try the yam.

Thank you world for just being you!

First off... I'm serious! second (or "B" if you are using an alpha system) I'm serious!


There are some darn wonderful people in the world today. I’m sure there always have been wonderful people walking amongst us. I just have never recognized them. This world is filled with people whom are not recognized as humans by the current administration. Creative, wonderful, perpetually tortured souls that make every day an adventure. I love the fact that every day I can go to bed and honestly say to myself “I never thought the day would bring me here.” I am at a point in my life where the phrase “learn by your mistakes” has no meaning. I grow from my mistakes. Without mistakes there is no chance of adventure. I’m sure carefully planned adventures are exciting and fun but I’ve never had one of those. (except for the kern river rapids trips I used to do …years ago. ) I’m lucky to be going thru a very non-stressful time. I’m wondering how much of that stress was generated by me? Who knows …who cares. Everything is fine at this moment and that’s what matters. I hope you all are doing well too. By the way I cant stress enough how much I love this Blog thingy. I truly enjoy reading the blogs of the people who visit. It is one of the highpoints of my day. My job is a data entry job by day.The huge megaglobalhypercorp I work for has me at a computer typing orders all day long 10 hours a day. I am happy to take a break and check in on ya’ll blogs. Thank you for making my day at work entertaining!

No news is true news.

Is there any place to get REAL news?
I mean a reporter who doesn’t have an opinion is hard to come by. Even NPR seems very biased. I heard that there was (once upon a time ) fair and balanced reporting (and they meant that!) I guess this was before my time. I don’t ever recall a time that a reporter did not put a spin on something. Is there some place a non-cable TV non-satellite radio person can get news? Or is the true news reserved for the people who can afford better reception?