So we have a new President ...

All I can say is wow!
So many people are putting so much faith into him that it makes me wonder if anyone can fill the shoes they are sizing him up for?
He has dreams and goals and I hope that they all work out.
I have dreams and goals and they never seem to so if his luck is anything like mine the country might have been in better care if we had kept Bush for another 4 years!

At what point did you all realize that you can type without looking down?
Sorry just something I am wondering to myself as I now know that I can talk and type without looking down anymore about two different subjects.
It’s kind of cool … I am an easy man to please.

Speaking of pleasing … I got new boots!
I know that doesn’t sound so great but they are for work and they rock!
All nice and comfortable … and they look cool too!
La Wife made me get them!!!

Now I have a cool set of biker boots, a cool biker jacket, a sweet biker drover and what’s that last thing I am missing?
O’yea my X-Boss pointed it out to me … the bike.
He called me a poser … he is, sadly, correct.I mean, even this guy has a bike … I am SO doing something wrong … mind you so is this guy too I might add!






I guess it is better then being known as 'That Guy' as I ride around town on this trying to look cool?

The new job is going well, I would like to say that it is keeping me so busy and that’s why I haven’t posted but that would be a lie.

I will try harder … I have nothing better to do anyway so I might try and throw you all a bone now and then.

Another day, another Vet visit …

Wonder Dog hasn’t been feeling so well lately.
Proof you ask, well bring over a steam cleaner and I will show you.
Silly old mutt’s liver decided it needed more attention and low and behold 2, yes 2 and not 1, credit card latter … we wait and see if the stuff they did works.
For the people who do not know Wonder Dog, (That more then likely means that you mean little to me and you should try and buy my affection because if I am important to you, you must be a total looser and I am the closest thing to a friend you have so buy me gifts so I will pretend to be your friend!) she is a cute and relatively good pet.
She breaks free once and awhile, normally when people who should be trying to buy my affection are watching over her, but other then that she is a good pet … a little bit of a bed hog too but it is on the wife’s side so it’s all good!
The point of all of this is though, it must be OK to be rich!
We had the money to take care of her, it hurt but we can still do it.
So many people in the world right now can’t even afford to have a pet.
So many can’t even eat, so they get a pet, then they soon need another …
I started my new job today and that means I got a raise.
So, La Wife and I can finally do something we always wanted to do with all of the extra cash we will be getting form now on!
Wait, we do everything we want as it is … we actually live a good life … hum, well, who knows what we will do with all of our new found wealth but I am sure it will have something to do with bills and loans to pay back.
Did I mention that getting an invention up and going costs a small fortune?
Or that we tried a version of the Bacon wrapped thingy on the post below?
We did it with hamburger and I cooked it a little to long but it wasn’t to bad people!Talk at you all latter!

Yum, unhealthy but yum ...

Just go look at this.

http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/

I have nothing else to say ... just, wow!

Relationships (PT1) …

(Just a quick something so my Blog doesn’t feel lonely)

So I guess the fraise might have something to do with the words as we break them down.
Relation … nice and basic isn’t it?
It means stuck with someone for some reason that might not be obvious but still holds to the fact that you are stuck until said word is dissolved or you are dead.
Ship … must come from the old days when a boat was on smooth water and enjoyable and like the see can be in a moments time, and without warning I might add, all goes crazy and you are in the middle of a hurricane.
This I have come to see, over my many, many years, can come from just about anything.
Not answering a question quick enough because you actually tried to give it thought, being honest, not being honest, coming home a little late with the smell of perfume and red lipstick on your shirt …
Or, it can come from just one person trying to say something and the other just not hearing it, as it was meant to be heard.
Then that being followed up with other people’s thoughts, or insecurities, and how the other person is seeing the issue instead of how it is meant to be.

The next issue is, how to deal with the … conflict, no … fight, no … issue, no … WAR!
That’s right, lets skip the little things like do we go to get burgers or taco’s for dinner and jump right on into the big stuff, like, hum … I want a darn Taco and she wants a Burger … we have issues :p

Back to the point though, we have come to know that there are three sides to the story, hers, mine and right/mine.
So, take a second, not to long or you will get in trouble, and take a breath and try and figure out what in the world your crazed significant other is trying to say.
Remember that you love them and that with DNA testing it is harder and harder to hide the body.
Also, remember that divorce equals alimony … yea good reason to let her win!
Lastly, you are with them for a reason and in the end they are worth the little fights ever once and awhile … if it is more regular, seek therapy at your local tavern!

Somehow we all say things that seem innocent and simple but the other takes it to far and thinks it was said to be mean and hurtful … OK this is true sometimes but I blame Wonder Mutt when that happens saying that she told me to say it … no it doesn’t help.

Things I don’t understand as a guy though are:
1) If I say I don’t care … why doesn’t that count as an answer?
2) If I say it’s OK, why do I need to be asked 3 more times to make sure it’s ok?
3) If the phone rings, why do we HAVE to answer it?
4) Why is it a problem if I am not hungry?
5) Why the Make-Up can’t be put on during the drive instead of when we get there?
6) If something is bothering you, why not make a better point to say it instead of waiting till latter and festering over it?

That’s just a few things though … I have SO many more!

My point is, we all have stress, we all have problems, we all have things going on that we hide and keep to ourselves or just don’t realize are as bad as they seem.
We get into these ‘Sticky-Boats’ for a reason, be kind to each other and try to be helpful and considerate as time needs sometimes.
Most importantly though … I will almost never admit I am wrong and getting an apology out of me is a wish at best.I am right … it might not make any since but in my head I am and that’s all that matters!

New Years Day …

So, it’s new years day.
I was up late, go figure, and now up early.
I cooked black eye peas for the first time yesterday … a little to much red pepper otherwise good I guess.
It came to me that I haven’t ranted about anything in a long while … so … isn’t it about time to start up again?
Isn’t that what I use this Blog for?
A bouncing board of my truer thoughts and a form of entertainment for all of you I, right?

So, now I need a little something to rant about.

I can’t think about anything at this moment, sorry to let you all down.

How about this though, Happy New Year … does that work?
I have once again been smacked in the face with that strange Cosmic Balance thingy.
I have been working on a job change for 6 months now.
Someone dropped the ball and I had to restart the whole thing, then no one knew what paperwork I was supposed to do and then that was a whole other issue.
So, I was getting upset and as some of the positions I wanted to have I was passed over because well, I wasn’t able to fill that job until all this paperwork was completed.
Life moves on, I finally calm down and realize once again that in my happy little world it always balances out for the best for me and low and behold, another job opens up.
This job is one that will be easy for me to do, right up my alley, the same hours (Well close enough), not that big of a change of responsibilities (Again good because I am getting old and change equals difficulty) but best of all, I will still be around to help out the department I am leaving as they might need.
This looks like it might work out with well for me and there is still a chance that it might not go through … well not too much of a chance, but it is all looking good in my favor.

So, this means a little more money each pay period, a better retirement over all, and getting enough of a change to keep me going for another few years … wow, nine years with the department … is this a career yet?

Lets see how this works and I will keep you all in the loop.Looking like a good New Year so far … so I will not get the job :(