Ever wonder how you got there …

So many times La Wife and I sit around and talk about the past ... and how I need to throw more pictures up into this thing.
It’s normally a shorter conversation on my part but I do try.
We say things like ‘I wish I would have known what I know now back then’, I wish I wouldn’t have’, 'I wish I would have thought of that’ and all kinds of things like that.
You know the lines, you know you have said them too.
I do have some things that I almost regret, and some things I wish I would have done differently but all in all I don’t want to change anything big.

The things I have done lead me to were I am, it isn’t exactly were I wanted to be but it is were I was supposed to end up ... for now.
What in the world would I have done differently you might ask?
You might not but again my Bloguverse so shut up and read on or move on!
Things I wish I would have done …
Kept every movie ticket for every movie I have ever been to.
Worked harder on my writing and spelling skills.
Gotten my ulcer checked sooner, and drank 1% milk instead of drinking a gallon of whole milk a day … I can’t drink that anymore I might add, it's so thick!
Things I might have regretted though if I had that emotion …
How I treated some people who didn’t deserve it, and who in fact deserved so much more.
Learning to late in life that even thought it might be true, you might not need to say it.
Yea, that’s about it … not as bad as I thought actually!
The truth is though, I do look around and wonder how I ended up in Podunk Land.
I wanted to go to the CIA … the cooking school not the government don’t you all know I am all about the antidisestablishmentarianism!
Well, I am actually all about the antidisestablishmentarianism but in truth most people use it incorrectly and I am only using it this time to through a big word into the this blog to try and look and sound smart.
That being said it isn’t so much ‘anti-government’ as so many people think, it was all about not wanting a single church for the US and trying to break away from the Church of England.
Also, it isn’t the longest word (as of 2007 anyway), some lung disorder just took it, brace yourself it might hurt you head …

... Deep Breath ... Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis …

Yea, so if you don’t go around breathing the dust around active volcanoes you most likely will not get this and then have to learn how to say it!
So back to the point, it is hard to think that I would be against going into the CIA, I mean I have donated with my military and prison time now almost 11 years of my life to the betterment and safety of my fellow Americans … sounds good that way doesn’t it :P

I actually had fun and wanted to stay in the Army too ... crazy ...
To some other point, everything I did lead to today and more so to tomorrow.
I have in no particular order … a job with benefits, a dog, a house, friends and a wife.
I wake up happy most days, pain yes but happy when I look around.
I know I will never make it big or rich.
I am not looking for a promotion at work.
I only wish for better for others because over all I am doing gooder and gooder!
I still have goals, but I don’t have dreams … that’s sounds sad doesn’t it?

(Other then this ... 2006 Harley Davidson Road King Classic, or something like it ... )

The truth is though, I am living so many peoples dream as it is, so who am I to ask for more?
Everything leads to a point, can’t change the past … just learn to deal with it!
A lot of people are stuck in the past, I am sorry for them.

They can’t break free, it was just to bad, and I understand that … but for the rest of us, lets look forward to the future and what we still have to do trying not to be lost in our own pasts.

(Sorry, best picture I could find ... close to the point ... right?)
Do I like my past, not always but it made me who I am and placed me where I needed to be to end up in this spot.

So many people are loosing their homes because they lost the jobs and it isn’t looking like it will change soon so again, so how can I complain?

I am blessed and living the dream.

So it’s St. Patrick’s Day …

Some of you might know this, most of you probably do not though.
St. Patrick’s day is my favorite holiday!
I can’t give you a real answer as to why though.
I don’t like to go and partake of the green bear.
I don’t have red hair or a thick Irish accent.
I am not from Ireland, although I did visit its airport!
I am not sure that I even have enough Irish blood in me to claim it without being smacked?
It is still my most favorite holiday!

You might ask how I spend this joyous day?
You might not but I will tell you anyway!
I cook up the largest Corn Beef I can find with some red potatoes and cabbage!
Well, that’s how I am doing it this year anyway.
La Wife got pulled off to North Florida for work and will not be home until late.
Then I was stuck in training all day … O the fun of relearning CPR yet again!
What does this mean over all?
I have nothing better to do then to write a Blog and eat all the corn beef myself!
What will I write a Blog about you might ask next?
Aren’t you all a bunch of need-to-knows I might add asking all these questions!

The ‘True’ Story of St. Patrick’s Day, brought to and abbreviated by me!
Once a pone a time there was a Monk named Patrick, he was a slave and broke away to England and found God and decided he needed to save the Irish from there evil Celtic ways and came back and attempted to do so.
So one day everyone was walking around in a joyful mood and low and behold they were all wearing green to boot!
Our little Monk was upset because he was one of the only ones still wearing blown.
So he of course asked around to find out why everyone was in Green.
He found out that this was a sign to show that on May Day you would be ‘participating’ in the May Day after hour’s events.
Our little monk being of a cleaner mind didn’t understand and asked further to find out that on May Day that’s when people who could not conceive children ‘swapped’ there spouses in an attempt to help there friends and neighbors have little bambeto’s of there own.
Them darn Irish are so good to there neighbors … I guess it does take a village to raise a child … hehe
Our little monk was so distraught that he was not informed of this, so that he too could were his green robes, he decided that if he could not join in no one else should do it either.
So he voiced against the people saying that they were sinners and then did all that he could to try and put a stop to it.
The people thinking he was taking this way to seriously decided that they needed to be nice to him and give in to his ego just a little.
So they sainted him and named the day after him so that in the future he would know that on his day he too should wear green.
The problem is he was such a stickler that he found it not only insulting but his pride would not let him back down from his mission, so he continued on trying to stop the villagers from helping there other villagers families to grow.

So now you know the story, and I think I have figured out why I like it so much too!
It is insulting and degrading to a Catholic … yeppers it all makes sense now doesn’t it!
I really do need to go to the Mother Land one year, and truly partake in my cousins great day … as long as I don’t then also go back on May Day I might keep my marriage safe … then again if, no I will for now on say WHEN I go to Ireland, La Wife might not ever come back for her love of the people and the men with accents … 3rd wife here I come!

So you say you are bored …

I can only point you down the path of entertainment that I follow.
That would be from random searches, or maybe something I heard through a third party that could have possibly, under the proper mood that is, lent to, at that moment in time anyway, being construed as enlightening entertainment to some, if not all, people who find things of that nature entertaining, or at least some thing close to that, in a positive way that could be looked a pone by me at the time I heard about it.

Now that we have that out in the open …
I enjoy online comics … more then I should I mean it takes me 30 min a day to read the few I read every day.
I also like of strange music.
Nothing like GWAR, but just some odd stuff.
My mother said once to my sister and I that we would look back on the music of our childhood and think it was the best … I agree but that’s because the stuff before was to slow and boring, and the stuff after … well … Rap is not music, Country needs to stop already how many songs can be written about death and disappointment, Rock is dead, Pop is … yea … and alternative makes my head hurt, not the music but how can it be alternative if everyone is doing it and the only thing close to it is Pop and Rap?

So I go to the other side of the wall, no not JPoP … (That needs to stop too I might add!) but how about something like Alternative Country?
It is strange, it’s fun though in my mind, take a look at this link and tell me what you think?
Just listen to the words … I give you:
Todd Snider - Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qQ78JVtS8

Now I know that you all just loved that link and want to know more about this music, so, listen to Real Radio 104.1 Sunday Mornings.

As for the online comics, well, you all more then likely will not understand most of them because you have not found your inner geeks and nerds just yet.

A week and 1 day …

Well my loyal lackey’s, I feel bad for going so long with out giving you all something to think about.

I am trying to come up with things other then Religion, Military or Work.
Well, that’s about all that I have going on in my world anymore so it makes it hard to do anything else.
I could talk about La Wife and other less interesting things but I am trying to keep you all entertained!
I guess talking about her is better then nothing though …
Nah, lets just run with something else shall we?

The new guy who took my old job is doing well, great actually.
My new job is going well, great actually.
Nothing going on with the VA …
Got our income tax return and of course the car and dog have to go get worked on within a week using up that money.
Day light savings time sucks big time!
We also almost got hit my an asteroid … yea don’t feel to bad no one knew until 2 days before hand and they kept it on the down low.
Isn’t it nice to now know that if the world is about to end they will not tell us before hand?
What? You don’t believe me?
Take a look at this and then look it up and get all the other news channels and information on it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=asteroid+nearly+hits+earth+march+2009

The government says they had no clue … I am sure that the Aliens we are in contact with gave them a heads up or that the SGC took care of it for us in the last couple of minuets.
Thank God we have SG1 around, right?

That’s it, sorry it sucked, I will do something mind blowing someday … or more then likely not but I have dreams people!