Time and/or Lack of …

It’s Sunday morning and still rather early in the day, 9am that is.
I have things that I need to do, things that I want to do and then the biggest portion is the things that will get done.
AKA, nothing.
I have a big project that I am working on that I started going on 2 months ago that I have really only gotten about 1/6th of it done at best.
I have my comic strip that I keep throwing ideals at but have yet to pick up the pencil toward.
I have a house that still has a few boxes that need to be unpacked for going on over a month now.
So what do I do?
I come and type out a Blog … yeppers I have issues!
It is just like at work I guess?
I go in and do all of the hard things to get them out of the way and then sit around doing nothing and avoiding the little things until I can’t any longer and then run around doing all of them … then go back to sitting around for a few more hours.
You all know how much sitting around I do … let’s give you an ideal shall we?
I go in at 7:30, I grab my keys and open my shop at 7:45, I then go and sit in my office listening to the radio until 8:30, then my guys show up and they come in and tell me about there nights and make coffee, about 9ish I get out of my office and walk over to another building to look at my E-mail and purchasing reports and make fun of the security officer, 9:45/10ish I go back to my shop and tell the guys what all is going on and at this point possibly go grab up a broken vehicle for them to work on because they are bored, 11am Lunch, 12pm return from lunch and see what all I missed, 12:05 go check the mail and hang out in the admin building until about 1pm, go back to my shop and if needed order parts or go get another vehicle because the guys fixed the first one already … damn them for being quick and proficient … 1pm sit down and listen to the radio and the guys who are bored again come in and tell me about there lives … I do more social work then anyone knows … 2pm I’ll go check the computer again and mess with before mentioned security officer yet again, 2:45 go back to shop and start cleaning up, 3pm do a quick inventory and lock things up saying goodnight to my guys, 3:30 the guys get picked up and I end up in my office listening to the radio, 4pm lock everything down and go home for the day.
That is honestly how my days roll out.
I have a vehicle break down I will either go grab it or send a tow truck, my wife might need some help for a few moments or someone else might but over all … that’s my day!
So then I get home!
I am tired and have to walk the dog, then I check my E-mail and read my online comics and about the time I finish the wife gets home. We lay around for 30 min or so and talk about our days then I get up and do something or other until dinner needs to be made and then around 7:30pm after eating I might go work out real quick or not.
Then in bed by 10pm and asleep by 10:01
You now know my day … what does all of this entail for you, you might ask?
I am still stalling because I don’t feel like starting my other projects L

Turkey Time ...

Turkey day, yea some call it a celebration but I prefer to think of it as mass genocide!
This is the day we all gather around and think about how good we have it as we attempt to figure out new ways to cook a creature of another race.
How would we feel if Aliens came down and decided to cook us for dinner?
Well I guess we would be afraid, you would kind of know what it felt like to be a tribe in South Africa who find out there new neighbors like good old fashioned Long Pig.
We have come a long way from the good old days of cooking turkey on a spit or in the ground on leaves, and because of this I think we have lost some of the magic.
That is I mean people took to baking turkeys in the oven for so long that they made it not so special anymore.
Most people think that they can cook a turkey too and that’s a whole other issue you lords of dryness!
A few years back though some crazed redneck, I am guessing a redneck but come on you will think it too, decided to drop a whole turkey into a big pot of boiling oil … being of redneck ingenuity we are still not sure if it was vegetable, lard motor or something else but we are positive it was not Olive oil … rednecks for some reason dislike olive oil as much as they do deodorant and proper tooth care …
Low and behold … the next great thing!

I have had deep fried turkey now a few years in a row and this is the first year without.
(Whimper & Cry)
It is the best … nah the ONLY way a turkey should be cooked in my mind now!
There are certain issues with it though that people need to take into consideration.
If you are old and/or have a hard time picking up a 16 pound bird, have stupid children or pets, or are just in general referred to as not so bright you should not try deep frying a turkey.
Hum, I think I just contradicted myself because rednecks can do it … hum must be a strange genetic abnormality that allows them some how.
The average number of house fires is 800 a year from people messing up this magical art.
Back to some form of a point though … So many people forget what the day is about.
It isn’t about the killing of hundreds of thousands of birds.
It isn’t about how we took over the Native Americans home land and forced them into the lives they now live after they saved our dumb butts way back in the day.
It isn’t about getting to see family once a year so that we can act like we like each other trying to get into each others wills … and then go home and bad mouth each other … OK it is about that too but again not the point …
It IS though about being thankful for who and what we have.
We might think that we don’t have a lot but I have been and scene third world countries and we have so much!
Take a moment and look around and see what all you have to be thankful for and about.
If you are reading this that means you more then likely have it SO much better then so many others but again look around and take note.
We all say thanks for this and that but so many of us say it in passing because we are supposed to and not realize that we take most of it for granted.
I am thankful for my friends, family, job and all of the perks that come with it.
I’m thankful also for a house, working vehicles and so many other things.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg though!
I am trying not to go into preacher mode … hum … that would be a different direction to take my life into … sorry was thinking with my fingers again … just saying take note of all the little things too.
Enjoy your day, enjoy your lives, enjoy each other and enjoy your Turkey … mind you they now think turkey was not at the first Turkey day dinner from a diary entry they found but that’s another story …

Side Note!
Does anyone else think that Thanksgiving is really pushed by the Native Americans because they know that after we eat we get lazy and one Thanksgiving they are going to riot and uproar and take the country back … or is it just me?

La Wife and I …

The above picture is about La Wife and not me ... well not completly being a bear would be cool, a boy bear that is ... shut up and read on already!
La Wife and I have been looking for a new pet.
Something to keep Wonder Mutt company and entertain us as needed.
Quick side note, I am not sure why the wife is being referenced as Hispanic, and incorrectly I might add, but it seems to fit in my warped world so moving on …
We also watched a show a while back about bears, yes we know we have no lives again moving on …
They said that a bear has a nose that is 10 thousand times stronger then a dogs.
Wow, literally can smell them farts a mile away … in regards to my father 10 miles I fear.
Poor, poor bear’s!
So, that made us think … what if they had Police Bears!
O’yea, they can fun about 45 miles per hour as needed, they have thick fur and hides so that’s like bullet proof vests, they are supper strong and can smell better then dogs … well they more then likely smell much worse then dogs … and also not very kid friendly I am sure.
You could mind you send the bear up the tree to get the child or kitten … you might not like what you get when it comes down though …
I am not sure that this could work around here in Florida but how about up north?
Crime rates might drop.
Fleeing from the cops on foot … O yea if a dog will rip you up think what Yogi will do.
Another issue will be transporting them to and fro … hehe Alaska could have Polar Bears.
To some form of a point or another … I don’t think a bear cub would be a good pet!
House breaking it would be … well … yea you all I am sure get the ideal.
So, I fear another dog or nothing at all

Just passing on a little out of my warped mind.

More Car Talk ...

Cars are getting smaller, but people are getting bigger … anyone else see a problem with this?
THAT’S IT!!!
I know what to make and make millions!!!
A Car Horn!
No I know they already have hors you sillies but how about something like a shoehorn for when we all need that little extra Oomph when we can’t suck it in enough!
O’yea … I needs some graph paper!

Then again we have the elderly …



They always wanted that pretty Cadillac and have decided now that they are to short to see over the steering wheel, to decrepit to turn there necks to see oncoming traffic, to over medicated to realize that there aren’t any purple chickens in the road and of course to slow to react that now is the time to buy one!
They need to get out though and see Adam and Eve at the morning restaurant to eat there prunes and try and remember yesteryear because this really might be the last time they see them … old age has to suck!
They grip about how people are driving so fast down the road and don’t realize either A) the speed limits have changed in the last 50 years or B) they are only doing 30 under the speed limit but to them it’s fast because a horse could never go that quickly!

So, old people need big cars … big people need little cars …

I really don’t have a point I just was thinking about this and wanted to share!

Wait I think I do after all!
The elderly should be forced to have to go and renew their driver’s license with not only an eye exam but also a practical exam.
We all know that they are just renewing through the mail and they know that they should be driving.
I am not trying to take away their intendance but come one … it isn’t safe anymore and they just keep getting older.
Does Great, Great Grandma with 2 cataracts need to be on the road?

Now I did bring up fat people and little cars so we have to point out something negative about them too to be fare …
… hum … this is hard …
I got it!
When you pull up to the fast food window you have a touch screen that you put in what type of car and how many people are in it.
Then you roll up onto a scale and if you exceed the amount you have to walk in to get your order in an attempt to help you loose weight!

I didn’t say it was a good ideal but I tried a little …

The Car Industry …

So, we are supposed to bail out the car industry now because they are going belly up.
This bothers me, a lot actually!
These companies have been told that they need to come up with more fuel friendly cars by the American government and keep saying that they can’t because it takes time.
Now we find out that in Europe they have had these vehicles for some time now because there government wouldn’t back down to them.
The major car companies are now going to bring these plans and models over to America and make it work.
A little to late if you ask me.
Another issue I am having is, does everyone remember when the carmaker unions went on strike to get more money because $32 an hour wasn’t good enough they needed $40?
The average starting pay up there is $24 an hour … go union!
This being said though, gives the employees an option, less money or no money and see what they choice?
These companies up there are taking away pensions of the people who have worked hard for years and earned what they are getting … if they can take away the little mans pension why not cancel the severance pay of the CEO who ran the company into the ground.
You know the guy who is getting 86Million as he is fired!
Back to the point though, this is just one area that we are helping the big guy who doesn’t know what he is doing.
If I run a small business and go belly up I loose out with nothing to show for it.
They do it and WAM, free money and we will make it all right.
The reason the Car industry is not doing so well is because other companies like Toyota are making a better car with more options, better gas, better warranties and lower costs.
The industry will not die, it will just get shuffled around so that someone else is making the money.
This is SO easy to fix people … STOP BEING SO DARN GREEDY!!!
I guess what I should be doing is opening my own business and taking all of the profit and my savings and giving it to the congress and senators so that in the end I will make millions … hum this isn’t that bad of an ideal actually now is it …
Excuse me as I go come up with ‘Some Dumb Name Here’ products line … how about glow in the dark flip flops … that’s dumb enough to work isn’t it?

This is just a quick rant … sucks to be you all to have to read it … all 3 of you …

Veterans Day …

I try to never use the same picture and believe it or not go searching for something that goes with the topic.
Today’s picture though I didn’t feel could be used again because to be honest the POW/MIA flag I think says it all in my eyes.

A lot of people get today off and enjoy not having to go to work.
That’s cool, because the people today is about fought so that you could do that.
Some people go lay flowers at the graves of their friends and family.
Some go to the bar and drink one for their lost comrades.

It doesn’t matter what you say or don’t say, do or don’t do.
These men and woman didn’t fight so that you would get up and pay them homage.
They didn’t die so that you would say a kind world or thank them when you see them.
They did the opposite it in fact so that you could ignore them and do nothing.
They fought and died for your freedom to choice!

I try to make this Blog fun and entertaining to try and put a smile on your faces … not today though, this topic and I have come up with a strange problem … the lack of not enough intense words to describe the situation … this is the first time in a long time I had a tear in my eye …
So I give you a choice, as the Veterans who this is about have also given us … read on or stop reading.
I don’t care what you do, I just feel like I am supposed to write it down.
That’s the luxury of living in this Country, Freedom to choice or Freedom in general, and the reason we are supposed to … is celebrate the right word?
It seems like it should be more like a day of humbling and appreciation to me anyway but then again who am I?

I have posted before about our Veterans and what they have done, been through and how some of them are forced to live still today.
Some were forced to join through the draft, or criminal sentencing.
Most joined though because that’s what was expected of them as the youth of our nation.
You know back when people were proud to be Americans and trusted blindly in the Government and what it said needed to be done.
We have lost that and our youth have lost more because of it … not the blind faith in the Government part, that’s has been lost because of there actions …
They think that it is just there right to be able to do and say what ever they want … they are right though, it is.
It has already been paid for by someone else, so they don’t understand what the cost was and what it might be in the future again.
It wasn’t like we won the greater war that ended all war, just the combats of the moment.
All we have done is make a payment so to say on our freedom … get ready, another one might be do soon!

I joke and laugh about my military career, I mean come on 16 months and most of it state side?
Then again, I did go over to the Middle East and got to appreciate what the difference between America and a Third World country truly is.
I got to know what it is like to have people in tanks pointing at me, I got to know what it was like to have people with guns aimed at me … I got to know what it looks like to see a pre-teen child holding an AK-47 pointed at me with no hesitation about pulling the trigger in his eyes.

To the point though, I know nothing, I don’t even consider myself a Veteran because I have scene the real thing.
We still have real Veterans who when they hear a door slam hit the ground and crawl under a car looking for cover because it takes them back to the war.
We have Veterans who one is blind and another is in a wheel chair and they work together because that’s what the need to do to get around.
We still have Veterans who can’t even get out of bed, just lie there with no legs or arms, burned from head to toe and live in a life of pain who say that it was worth it just to have the knowledge that there family and friends don’t speak German today
Most of all, we still have men who are without a leg and arm still stand up on there own as the Pledge of Allegiance is said because it is what we should do.

These people are heroes, some of them didn’t get treated like it when they got back, some of them took up the bottle and drugs to try and forget, but heroes none the less
Now we have more kids coming back from another war.
We respect them and treat them like kings … isn’t it strange how different it is now?

When I go to the VA Hospital I am seeing less and less of the older Veterans and more and more of the younger, not because they are treated better, but because most of there bodies are finally giving up.
I see more and more drug and alcohol abuse and treatment there now.
If I saw what I did in my short time, what did they have to do?
Pulling the trigger as a 5 year old child who is running toward you because the man on the other side of the wall told him you would give him food for his family if he would deliver this package to you?
You all hear about it and see it in movies, unless you have been there you have no damn clue and don’t think you do!

I don’t do or say enough about myself, and what I saw and did.
I like it that way and appreciate that no one pushing it.
It’s been 12 years since I got out and I still have nightmares and cold chills when I think about that short time over there and we didn’t do ANYTHING in comparison to the men and woman who fought, died and now live with the memories.

At this point I feel I am just ranting, not even making a point just kind of beating a dead horse.
So I will close this with just a few more lines … or not …
You have the right … no the gift as Americans to do or say whatever you want.
Please, please don’t forget why or how you got it.
You might be bothered by the Veteran talking to himself on the bus, or the one that smells a little off begging for change.
Although you have the right to say what you want … don’t you dare say a damn negative word to them or about them.
It isn’t bad enough that they are crippled both physically and mentally with nothing to show for it and nothing to look forward to except for that next disability check so they can buy another bottle of liquid forget?
So, you see the Veteran with his jacket covered in pins with his dog, his only friend anymore, sitting in a wheelchair with no legs and a sign asking for help … and you walk on by?
The VERY LEAST you can do, is to say thank you!
He might be faking, he might not even be a Veteran, but, the chances are he isn’t because that’s the condition we have left our Veterans in.
Play the Star Spangled Banner and lets see what he does.
I will put money down that he sits up as high in that wheelchair as he can taking his hat off and then puts it over his heart.
He will not say anything to anyone who doesn’t though, he might be a little upset because more and more don’t but that’s what he fought for … you to have the freedom to do what you want and feels right to you.

Remember our Veterans, not just today, but every day!
If you don’t respect them, respect what they have done!

That’s all I have to say …

O’yea, this falls into one of the areas I don’t want to be asked about too … not the other Veterans but about my time over sea’s … it is a joke and pathetic, but it is my joke and pathetic memory to deal with.

Saturday Morning …

My wife wondered off to some religious thing last night and left me all to myself.
I was left with little food and a crazed pony running around trying to bite my feet.
Things had to change so I jumped into my handy dandy little car and drove to visit my friends at UCF … Hijinks did ensue but that’s a different story!
So, then I came home, walked the insane pony and threw myself into the cold lonely bed reminding me of the time before I had my lovely wife and for the first time in a long time and in a new house that still feels strange I felt … WONFERFUL!
No one taking up the whole bed, trying to snuggle and pushing me off of the side, taking all of the comforter and best of all … well … ok it sucked I guess I have gotten used to it but I am trying to sound all cool but to be honest I was lonely.

So this morning, I awoke to a little horse bouncing around demanding that she needed to go sniff an anthill or something and making me get out of bed at the crack of dawn … or 9am as it might have been to others.

I came in and decided to watch TV.
Talk about disappointment!
Saturday mornings used to be the bomb-digity of good times, what happened?

It’s all little kids shows now.
Stupid vomit inducing computer generated trash!

Now I remember my mom not wanting me to watch Transformers or G.I. Joe and so many other things because they were violent but come on.
What happened to Cartoons?
Is this some government ploy to make children not want to sit inside and make them get outside and play in the sun?
If so cool, what about me though?
I NEED cartoons!
Anima is good and all but it just doesn’t hit the same spot.

So, we think it is Ok to have stupid mind numbing things for children and then throw them into shows like the new 90210 where in the opening screen a girl is in the truck with a guy, who we find out is not only not his girlfriend but we can’t see her head until he is done smiling.

We need a happy middle ground.
I vote COOL CARTOONS!!!

I also say that TEVO is great.
How about Parents actually sit down and watch or just fast forward through a show there kids want to watch and see what it is all about instead of trusting in what the TV producers think is good for children.

Grr … I want my cartoons back darn it!!!

Election Day …

People should vote.
It is your right and so many people have fought and died to give you the right to say what is on your mind.
That being said, people have also fought and died to give you the right to sit on your butt and not vote too.
The big problems with elections are so many people lie and cheat to get their person into the winning spot.
Right now up north the Black Panthers have surrounded a few precincts to run off the mostly white voters.
Another man has found a way to vote over 5000 times.
So, what gives some people the right to stop others from doing and or getting what they want?

Next, my wife and I just got done reading the sample ballet and our heads were spinning trying to figure out what exactly it says.
You all can say what you wish about me not being the brightest, but she is bright.
They dance around the wording to make it sound this way and that so that in the end you not only don’t know what the ticket item is about but also if you want to vote for it or against it.
Don’t we have people who are supposed to read these things and decide if what it says makes since?
I have a simple thought on this … you know I have thoughts on most things and that’s why you all read this silly Blog and you know it … take it to a middle and or high school and ask the students to tell you what it says.
If a child doesn’t understand it that means that most adults will not either, and even more of the elderly might have anxiety attacks while trying to figure it out.

Anyway that we look at this though, tonight is going to be historic!
Either we get a Female in the White House or a non Caucasian.
My wife and I have decided that at this point either has plusses and minuses so who ever wins we can stand behind with little complaint so life is good.

I have a question though, lets say that McCain wins, and the he dies or something else happens to him so that he can’t take over office does his Vice take over as President Elect and then get sworn in?

Do you all also have fears of Obama winning and being assassinated?
So many people can’t get past the race issue and I think he will be targeted.
I am willing to bet that he has had a few attempts toward him already.
Gotta love fanatics and people who forget that America is a melting pot and that with each generation we are slowly becoming a nation of mixed blood and heritage.

The next issue is all of the people who will be bitching tomorrow and a few months down the line about the actions of the next President, Congress and/or all the other elected items … who didn’t get out and vote to stop it from happening.

Like me :(

The Wife’s Birthday …

I know, all of you must be gripping the edges of your seats awaiting the stories of loot and treasure that she got … brace yourselves and be astounded!

We went over to her peeps house, aka the ‘Lama Den’ (That’s the first initial of each of there names moved around to make us smile when we talk about them) … not to be mistaken with where certain terrorists might be hiding with weapons of mass destruction.
Having herself fully ready to open her treasures of mass enjoyment she found that she was … if you really want to know make her tell you and or demand a Blog from her like I am now encouraging!

We had a early dinner / late lunch at about 2pm and sat around joking and having a good old time until around 8 or 9 then decided to leave out to continue our adventure!

So, we move on toward my side of the evening and the only thing that matters, what I got her … it’s my Bloguverse so deal with it people and learn that no matter what it is all about me one way or another.
It’s good to be the younger child … wait … no not always but that’s another days Blog I fear!
We got to the car, drove home, talked for a while and then went to bed.
No you perverts not like that I didn’t have a gift for her … I know I am horrible.
We just got a house, went on a cruise and are flat broke what did you expect from me?

O come on would I do that … shut up you!
I was going to give her gift to her the next day, that didn’t work out so well so we waited until this weekend to go and take care of the all mighty and wonderful gift of gifts!

I had sent E-mails, phone calls, filled out an application and even had an investigation put on me to find out more about me!
I know, I put some work into this one!

So, today we went for a drive … a little longer then I thought after somehow we made about a 20 mile circle because someone wouldn’t listen to someone else who might know the area better then him … how could map quest be wrong though I ask you?
We ended up at a little park in Tampa in the very back corner there was a little ‘Bark Park’ and low and behold about 35’ish beagle puppies running around in need of a good home.

The wife was surprised and I got one over on her … go me!

We stayed and played and fell in love with more then a few, watched the one I came to see go home to another loving family and then found the one the wife fell in love with.
Beauregard III … The third means he is important or good right?



We came, we saw, we fell in love … and left him there …
We are going back to meet up with them again next Saturday with our little wonder mutt to see if they get along.
I will keep you all in the loop!