I managed to mess up all of my vehicles this week to the point that I am wheel-less for the moment. Does that upset me? A little. I'm frustrated, but there's nothing that can't be fixed in the ammount of time I have and nothing is too expensive, so I'm good.
Sometimes you have to look at the blessings, or the good stuff if you prefer. I'm doing great on my diet, I was the biggest loser for my team last week, my grades are all good, I've not gotten behind on anything important. Life is good, despite one bad day.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Biggest Loser - middle school edition
Well, we had our first check-in, and I lost 6 lbs. That makes me the biggest loser! Actually, being the lowest paid person here and the only fat guy working here makes me the biggest loser.
Either way, I joined weight watchers last week in hopes that it would show me the way. As of right now, I'm not disappointed. I know that to maintain a healthy weight, I must maintain a healthy lifestyle. This is the part I must learn. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, my whole life is changing around me and I'm ready to change too.
Starting - 260
Current - 254
Goal - 200
Either way, I joined weight watchers last week in hopes that it would show me the way. As of right now, I'm not disappointed. I know that to maintain a healthy weight, I must maintain a healthy lifestyle. This is the part I must learn. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, my whole life is changing around me and I'm ready to change too.
Starting - 260
Current - 254
Goal - 200
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Senior 60
I have a kind of twist to the freshman 15. I'm border lining morbidly obese and something has got to give. I'm doing the senior 60. I want to lose at least 60 lbs before I graduate.
My school (where I work) is doing a "biggest loser" contest in the vein of the TV show. I joined up and I'm the only man in it. I'm also the only guy in wretched shape in the school. I tend to be a very competitive person and thought this would be the perfect motivation to do get it done.
I have decided to get organized with it. I'm going back to the gym starting today, and I've joined weight watchers. I like structure and I've realized I can't do it without it. Mainly, because I never learned how to eat healthy.
Current weight: 260 lbs.
Current goal: 200 lbs.
Timespan: ~8 months
Let the fun begin
My school (where I work) is doing a "biggest loser" contest in the vein of the TV show. I joined up and I'm the only man in it. I'm also the only guy in wretched shape in the school. I tend to be a very competitive person and thought this would be the perfect motivation to do get it done.
I have decided to get organized with it. I'm going back to the gym starting today, and I've joined weight watchers. I like structure and I've realized I can't do it without it. Mainly, because I never learned how to eat healthy.
Current weight: 260 lbs.
Current goal: 200 lbs.
Timespan: ~8 months
Let the fun begin
Friday, October 05, 2007
rough night
Last night I dreamed of my death. Not of how, but of the precedings before the funeral. I looked like a creepy glob of wax and they were dressing me in a gray suit. I was watching them do it all, I guess I was a ghost of some sort. It was disturbing to say the least, but I remember thinking "there's something more after all".
I'm a reluctant athieist, meaning I'd like to believe in more, I'm receptive to the idea there is more, but I just don't. I've actually had people tell me my beliefs were "convienient". I think they are anything but. I want the tunnel of light, I want to see all my loved ones that passed away. I think Heaven should be there, and it should be like a Southern picnic. Everybody you know is there and they are all happy to see you. I'd like to think dear old Buddy is at the main gate waiting for me to come in.
I'd like a place that is a cross between everything we know about afterlife. It's what you enjoy and find beautiful and you can interact with other loved ones who have died. Maybe it would have a little reincarnation mixed in. You can remember your past lives after you pass on, but eventually you send your essence, or soul back to be reborn. Perhaps the people we strongly connect with in life were the people we had a previous connection with in another life.
Who knows really? I know that if this is my only shot, I want it full of love, comfort, and happiness. I want the people I've shared my life with to be left with positive things after I'm gone. I want them to remember the love and that I'd want them to be alright after I'm gone and move on with their lives.
All this over a dream. I don't know when it will happen, but I know and accept that I will eventually die, and everyone around me will die either before or after me. I cannot stop or control this, it is a simple fact of life. I will, however, fill the future with as much good as I can so when the time comes, I'll have no regrets.
I shouldn't listen to raving athieists before going to bed, or eat spicy sandwiches either
I'm a reluctant athieist, meaning I'd like to believe in more, I'm receptive to the idea there is more, but I just don't. I've actually had people tell me my beliefs were "convienient". I think they are anything but. I want the tunnel of light, I want to see all my loved ones that passed away. I think Heaven should be there, and it should be like a Southern picnic. Everybody you know is there and they are all happy to see you. I'd like to think dear old Buddy is at the main gate waiting for me to come in.
I'd like a place that is a cross between everything we know about afterlife. It's what you enjoy and find beautiful and you can interact with other loved ones who have died. Maybe it would have a little reincarnation mixed in. You can remember your past lives after you pass on, but eventually you send your essence, or soul back to be reborn. Perhaps the people we strongly connect with in life were the people we had a previous connection with in another life.
Who knows really? I know that if this is my only shot, I want it full of love, comfort, and happiness. I want the people I've shared my life with to be left with positive things after I'm gone. I want them to remember the love and that I'd want them to be alright after I'm gone and move on with their lives.
All this over a dream. I don't know when it will happen, but I know and accept that I will eventually die, and everyone around me will die either before or after me. I cannot stop or control this, it is a simple fact of life. I will, however, fill the future with as much good as I can so when the time comes, I'll have no regrets.
I shouldn't listen to raving athieists before going to bed, or eat spicy sandwiches either
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Solution?
Organized crime? Gang problems? Terrorism? Dwindling resources for social programs?
HA! Easy solution, what do they all have in common? Drugs.
Gangs, Gangsters, and terrorists fuel their agendas through the illegal drug trade. So? Legalize it, tax it, and go into an economical golden age.
Simple solutions are the best.
HA! Easy solution, what do they all have in common? Drugs.
Gangs, Gangsters, and terrorists fuel their agendas through the illegal drug trade. So? Legalize it, tax it, and go into an economical golden age.
Simple solutions are the best.
Monday, September 24, 2007
great quote
I was watching TV last night, which is rare in itself and I saw a quote used on CBS's "Cold Case". I was a few punk kids tagging "Evil Triumphs" as thier motto and they were convicted of murdering 3 kids. It turns out they didn't, and the big rock&roll satan gimmick was a reach. The kids were making a statement. "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" was the whole quote. I thought' "Wow!".
It's so true it's scary, just look at what a generation of inaction has given us.
Everyday we lose a few more rights. we allow the Constitution to be erroded and we do nothing. As long as there is an i-Pod, a Starbucks, and 500 crystal-clear HD channels to keep us numb to world events and all the while Big Brother is listening.
A Russian commedian that was popular in the 80's, said "Things are so different here. In America, you watch TV. In Soviet Union, TV watch YOU!"
Patriot Act my rear, just wrap that one in the hammer & sickle and call it a day.
It's so true it's scary, just look at what a generation of inaction has given us.
Everyday we lose a few more rights. we allow the Constitution to be erroded and we do nothing. As long as there is an i-Pod, a Starbucks, and 500 crystal-clear HD channels to keep us numb to world events and all the while Big Brother is listening.
A Russian commedian that was popular in the 80's, said "Things are so different here. In America, you watch TV. In Soviet Union, TV watch YOU!"
Patriot Act my rear, just wrap that one in the hammer & sickle and call it a day.
Friday, September 21, 2007
the future...whatever
I don't get much time to write with school in full blast, but we do what we can. I was looking at some vintage reels from the day talking about the future. By the year 2000, we'll have flying cars, take vacations on the moon, and have robot servants. Well, they sure missed on all that.
I think the problem with predicting the technology of the future is we use today's standards of life to base what we think tomorrow will be like. The problem being is that all the technological advances that get us closer to those goals also shape the society and creates other issues and goals.
This is a transcript of what might happen in 2000 in a 1961 newspaper.
What sort of life will you be living 39 years from now? Scientists have looked into the future and they can tell you.
It looks as if everything will be so easy that people will probably die from sheer boredom.
- Still no cure for cancer
You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight's holiday in outer space.
- Hmmm
Your house will probably have air walls, and a floating roof, adjustable to the angle of the sun.
- nada
Doors will open automatically, and clothing will be put away by remote control. The heating and cooling systems will be built into the furniture and rugs.
Automatic doors? yes. Everything else is BS
You'll have a home control room - an electronics centre, where messages will be recorded when you're away from home. This will play back when you return, and also give you up-to-the minute world news, and transcribe your latest mail.
- Answering machines & internet okay, this real
You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, an indoor swimming pool, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV. Press a button and you can change the décor of a room.
- You can have a big screen tv, and indoor pools, they made video phones and video chats are popular. Mostly stuff for the wealthy, not the average person. No push-button remodeling though...
The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer help, which will help mother tend the children, cook the meals and issue reminders of appointments.
Well, they can't cook, but computers and TV's do seem to 'babysit' the kids to ill-effect.
Cooking will be in solar ovens with microwave controls. Garbage will be refrigerated, and pressed into fertiliser pellets.
- Wow, they had the good drugs in 1961
Food won't be very different from 1961, but there will be a few new dishes - instant bread, sugar made from sawdust, foodless foods (minus nutritional properties), juice powders and synthetic tea and cocoa. Energy will come in tablet form.
-Yep, food without nutritional properties are here, we call it McDonald's.
At work, Dad will operate on a 24 hour week. The office will be air-conditioned with stimulating scents and extra oxygen - to give a physical and psychological lift.
- So much for that work week. Those glade plug-ins work nicely.
Mail and newspapers will be reproduced instantly anywhere in the world by facsimile.
-Email and internet. Didin't get the need for paper out of our mind yet.
There will be machines doing the work of clerks, shorthand writers and translators. Machines will "talk" to each other.
-Internet! Still have to type manually...
It will be the age of press-button transportation. Rocket belts will increase a man's stride to 30 feet, and bus-type helicopters will travel along crowded air skyways. There will be moving plastic-covered pavements, individual hoppicopters, and 200 m.p.h. monorail trains operating in all large cities.
- Not yet...
The family car will be soundless, vibrationless and self-propelled thermostatically. The engine will be smaller than a typewriter. Cars will travel overland on an 18 inch air cushion.
- keep dreaming
Railways will have one central dispatcher, who will control a whole nation's traffic. Jet trains will be guided by electronic brains.
- I guess consolidation of services is a foreign concept.
In commercial transportation, there will be travel at 1000 m.p.h. at a penny a mile. Hypersonic passenger planes, using solid fuels, will reach any part of the world in an hour.
-HA!
By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space. Many will have visited the moon and beyond.
-We're really falling behind schedule here.
Our children will learn from TV, recorders and teaching machines. They will get pills to make them learn faster. We shall be healthier, too. There will be no common colds, cancer, tooth decay or mental illness.
-Yeah...
Medically induced growth of amputated limbs will be possible. Rejuvenation will be in the middle stages of research, and people will live, healthily, to 85 or 100.
-Well, no regrown limbs, but people have been seen to live vitally past 100.
And this isn't science fiction. It's science fact - futuristic ideas, conceived by imaginative young men, whose crazy-sounding schemes have got the nod from the scientists.
It's the way they think the world will live in the next century - if there's any world left!
- Yeah, they were pretty delusional. I want my robot servant.
But there are thing we have now that they never imagined in 1961.
Cell phones
Mp3's
Laptop computers
Video Games
Internet
All these thing make a lot of what they were talking about obsolete. A robot servant could consolidate many things and really simplify life. But think also of the bad things that could happen.
I think the problem with predicting the technology of the future is we use today's standards of life to base what we think tomorrow will be like. The problem being is that all the technological advances that get us closer to those goals also shape the society and creates other issues and goals.
This is a transcript of what might happen in 2000 in a 1961 newspaper.
What sort of life will you be living 39 years from now? Scientists have looked into the future and they can tell you.
It looks as if everything will be so easy that people will probably die from sheer boredom.
- Still no cure for cancer
You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight's holiday in outer space.
- Hmmm
Your house will probably have air walls, and a floating roof, adjustable to the angle of the sun.
- nada
Doors will open automatically, and clothing will be put away by remote control. The heating and cooling systems will be built into the furniture and rugs.
Automatic doors? yes. Everything else is BS
You'll have a home control room - an electronics centre, where messages will be recorded when you're away from home. This will play back when you return, and also give you up-to-the minute world news, and transcribe your latest mail.
- Answering machines & internet okay, this real
You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, an indoor swimming pool, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV. Press a button and you can change the décor of a room.
- You can have a big screen tv, and indoor pools, they made video phones and video chats are popular. Mostly stuff for the wealthy, not the average person. No push-button remodeling though...
The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer help, which will help mother tend the children, cook the meals and issue reminders of appointments.
Well, they can't cook, but computers and TV's do seem to 'babysit' the kids to ill-effect.
Cooking will be in solar ovens with microwave controls. Garbage will be refrigerated, and pressed into fertiliser pellets.
- Wow, they had the good drugs in 1961
Food won't be very different from 1961, but there will be a few new dishes - instant bread, sugar made from sawdust, foodless foods (minus nutritional properties), juice powders and synthetic tea and cocoa. Energy will come in tablet form.
-Yep, food without nutritional properties are here, we call it McDonald's.
At work, Dad will operate on a 24 hour week. The office will be air-conditioned with stimulating scents and extra oxygen - to give a physical and psychological lift.
- So much for that work week. Those glade plug-ins work nicely.
Mail and newspapers will be reproduced instantly anywhere in the world by facsimile.
-Email and internet. Didin't get the need for paper out of our mind yet.
There will be machines doing the work of clerks, shorthand writers and translators. Machines will "talk" to each other.
-Internet! Still have to type manually...
It will be the age of press-button transportation. Rocket belts will increase a man's stride to 30 feet, and bus-type helicopters will travel along crowded air skyways. There will be moving plastic-covered pavements, individual hoppicopters, and 200 m.p.h. monorail trains operating in all large cities.
- Not yet...
The family car will be soundless, vibrationless and self-propelled thermostatically. The engine will be smaller than a typewriter. Cars will travel overland on an 18 inch air cushion.
- keep dreaming
Railways will have one central dispatcher, who will control a whole nation's traffic. Jet trains will be guided by electronic brains.
- I guess consolidation of services is a foreign concept.
In commercial transportation, there will be travel at 1000 m.p.h. at a penny a mile. Hypersonic passenger planes, using solid fuels, will reach any part of the world in an hour.
-HA!
By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space. Many will have visited the moon and beyond.
-We're really falling behind schedule here.
Our children will learn from TV, recorders and teaching machines. They will get pills to make them learn faster. We shall be healthier, too. There will be no common colds, cancer, tooth decay or mental illness.
-Yeah...
Medically induced growth of amputated limbs will be possible. Rejuvenation will be in the middle stages of research, and people will live, healthily, to 85 or 100.
-Well, no regrown limbs, but people have been seen to live vitally past 100.
And this isn't science fiction. It's science fact - futuristic ideas, conceived by imaginative young men, whose crazy-sounding schemes have got the nod from the scientists.
It's the way they think the world will live in the next century - if there's any world left!
- Yeah, they were pretty delusional. I want my robot servant.
But there are thing we have now that they never imagined in 1961.
Cell phones
Mp3's
Laptop computers
Video Games
Internet
All these thing make a lot of what they were talking about obsolete. A robot servant could consolidate many things and really simplify life. But think also of the bad things that could happen.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Podcasting....
I'm intrigued by podcasting and I want to do it. I need to figure out what I need to make it happen.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
teachers...
I was never a good student in school, I am 100% responsible for the mess I made of my adult life. I never did get much guidance and direction as a kid. I got a lot of love, but not much guidance. But there were a few. There were people who tried to teach me, even when I wasn't ready to hear what they had to say. And now that I work with kids and see what their effort meant, I'm truly ashamed that I won't ever get to thank all of them in person and tell them what they meant to me.
Mrs. Niparts, 1st grade - Thank you for being loving, inventive and creative. Thank you for making me feel special.
Mrs Leath 3rd grade - And currently my department head, thank you for making me feel wanted and important.
Mrs Martin 5th grade part II - Thank you for just being a great, loving person and a wonderful example of who to be as a person.
Mrs Gates 6th grade - Thank you all I can remember is feeling love.
My entire 7th grade team - Thank you for not killing me, I'm sorry.
Mrs Miles 7th grade Language Arts - Than you for trying to make me a better person and not budging on it, though I hated you at the time for it.
Mrs Baumgardner 9th & 11 grade LA - Wow, thanks for being so crazy I had to pay attention and thank you for reminding me that I like to write.
Mrs Cheney 11th grade US History - Thank you for telling me I was worth something long after I no longer believed I was.
Mr. Cook - You never taught me, but you knew my name. That made me feel important. Thank you
Mr. Pickard 11th grade Intro to Computers - You are a great man and you made me feel like a person in your room, thank you.
Mr Rice 11th & 12th grade graphic arts & Al too - This class was my refuge. I felt like family in here. I stopped thinking about killing myself after the first month. Mr. Rice called me by my French class name "Serge" it was the fist time anyone thought enough of me to give me a nickname.
Coach Staley 12th grade Geometry - thank you for treating me well, and not getting mad when I was too wasted to hold my head up in class.
Mrs Danieley 12th grade Chemistry - If not for you, I would not have graduated. Thank you so very much.
They did so much for me, and cared long after I had stopped. Now that I'm trying very hard to improve my lot in life, I can use what they gave me to be a success now that I'm ready to do it.
Mrs. Niparts, 1st grade - Thank you for being loving, inventive and creative. Thank you for making me feel special.
Mrs Leath 3rd grade - And currently my department head, thank you for making me feel wanted and important.
Mrs Martin 5th grade part II - Thank you for just being a great, loving person and a wonderful example of who to be as a person.
Mrs Gates 6th grade - Thank you all I can remember is feeling love.
My entire 7th grade team - Thank you for not killing me, I'm sorry.
Mrs Miles 7th grade Language Arts - Than you for trying to make me a better person and not budging on it, though I hated you at the time for it.
Mrs Baumgardner 9th & 11 grade LA - Wow, thanks for being so crazy I had to pay attention and thank you for reminding me that I like to write.
Mrs Cheney 11th grade US History - Thank you for telling me I was worth something long after I no longer believed I was.
Mr. Cook - You never taught me, but you knew my name. That made me feel important. Thank you
Mr. Pickard 11th grade Intro to Computers - You are a great man and you made me feel like a person in your room, thank you.
Mr Rice 11th & 12th grade graphic arts & Al too - This class was my refuge. I felt like family in here. I stopped thinking about killing myself after the first month. Mr. Rice called me by my French class name "Serge" it was the fist time anyone thought enough of me to give me a nickname.
Coach Staley 12th grade Geometry - thank you for treating me well, and not getting mad when I was too wasted to hold my head up in class.
Mrs Danieley 12th grade Chemistry - If not for you, I would not have graduated. Thank you so very much.
They did so much for me, and cared long after I had stopped. Now that I'm trying very hard to improve my lot in life, I can use what they gave me to be a success now that I'm ready to do it.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
law
I thought of going to law school after all is said and done, but I really don't think that will happen. I don't think I'm smart enough.
One of my current Criminal Justice classes is being taught by a lawyer and it is no as much demanding from him, but just difficult to grasp all these concepts of the history of law and how fickle the interpretation of said law is. I think I get it, but I'm not too sure.
I just don't think I'm smart enough for law school.
One of my current Criminal Justice classes is being taught by a lawyer and it is no as much demanding from him, but just difficult to grasp all these concepts of the history of law and how fickle the interpretation of said law is. I think I get it, but I'm not too sure.
I just don't think I'm smart enough for law school.
over-enthused
You ever take a class from a teacher who thinks their subject matter is a bit more important than it actually is? Were they so enthused and think every little detail is so important that it actually turned you off of that subject?
Yeah, I hate art now. I will pass the class, but the teacher can die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, I hate art now. I will pass the class, but the teacher can die in a fire as far as I'm concerned.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
observations
Hate is as natural an emotion as love is. If we learn to stop hating based on race, we'll hate based on some other difference.
Personally, I like to hate people on a one-on-one basis. Being a racist is just lazy and ignorant, if I hate you, it's because you earned it.
Few people believe this, but I'm actually a person who is very content with life's direction right now. Is there room for improvement? Yes. Are there things I want, but don't have? Yes. Am I where I want to be? No, but I'm getting there and that knowledge is enough. My five year plan is well on track, and though it is a struggle, I'm well on my way to a goal.
Personally, I like to hate people on a one-on-one basis. Being a racist is just lazy and ignorant, if I hate you, it's because you earned it.
Few people believe this, but I'm actually a person who is very content with life's direction right now. Is there room for improvement? Yes. Are there things I want, but don't have? Yes. Am I where I want to be? No, but I'm getting there and that knowledge is enough. My five year plan is well on track, and though it is a struggle, I'm well on my way to a goal.
observaions
I've changed since going back to school. I'm also trying to be more considerate in public. I've noticed most folks in Walmart will not look at me or even try to be considerate. They just nudge past.
I was told once by one of my teaching mentors some children and most child-like adults see kindness as a sign of weakness. They will then disrespect, and try to take advantage of you.
Kids tend to only misbehave as far as they think they can get away with, and if you don't stop unacceptable behavior today, it becomes tomorrows' acceptable behavior.
I was told once by one of my teaching mentors some children and most child-like adults see kindness as a sign of weakness. They will then disrespect, and try to take advantage of you.
Kids tend to only misbehave as far as they think they can get away with, and if you don't stop unacceptable behavior today, it becomes tomorrows' acceptable behavior.
Friday, August 31, 2007
School, well...college
I'm in my second week of classes, and so far so good. I hate Art, but I have an A, so I can deal with it. I guess if you don't develop a love for art young, you find it to be a waste of time. I asked my advisor if I could just take more CJ classes than I need to fill credits.
We got our teams for Forensic Anthopology class Monday and we were split up into groups based on the fact that only four of us have pickups. I'm one of them and people who had me in previous classes gravitated toward me. Then I became team captain.
Call me Grissom.....
I really didn't want the extra responsibility, but I guess it will look good on me in the long run. We'll see.
We got our teams for Forensic Anthopology class Monday and we were split up into groups based on the fact that only four of us have pickups. I'm one of them and people who had me in previous classes gravitated toward me. Then I became team captain.
Call me Grissom.....
I really didn't want the extra responsibility, but I guess it will look good on me in the long run. We'll see.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
This past week school restarted and my first week of Fall semester began. Tomorrow, the kids return.
I've made a pledge to keep up with my studies, but already it's proven difficult. When I'm in school, I'll have a large amount of daily study time, and I will use it, but my home study time will also have to be up to snuff.
I'm shooting for straight A's my final year. I'm not expecting them, but I'm aiming.
I really don't know where gym time will play in, but if anything has to give, that would be it. I will, however, make an attempt to get a more healthy diet added to my lifestyle. During school-season, my life is more about routines and schedules. Cheap and healthy is almost impossible though.
By this time next year, if I do what need to, I'll be a graduate and in a better paying job. Notice I don't say better. If I could get payed well for what I'm doing now, I'd retire from it in 30 years. Oh well....
July '08, here I come, full speed ahead.
I've made a pledge to keep up with my studies, but already it's proven difficult. When I'm in school, I'll have a large amount of daily study time, and I will use it, but my home study time will also have to be up to snuff.
I'm shooting for straight A's my final year. I'm not expecting them, but I'm aiming.
I really don't know where gym time will play in, but if anything has to give, that would be it. I will, however, make an attempt to get a more healthy diet added to my lifestyle. During school-season, my life is more about routines and schedules. Cheap and healthy is almost impossible though.
By this time next year, if I do what need to, I'll be a graduate and in a better paying job. Notice I don't say better. If I could get payed well for what I'm doing now, I'd retire from it in 30 years. Oh well....
July '08, here I come, full speed ahead.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
observations......
I'm going to try to put a single observation up as often as possible, just a new angle on my content.
Today I ate at McDonald's for lunch. I ride a motorcycle, so I go in and sit down more often than not.
I sat in a booth facing the exit for the drive-through line and this McD's has a trash bin right at curbside for folks to toss trash on their way out. There were no fewer than 5 people who stopped and tossed McD's wrappers and cups out. In my mind, there could only be two reasons for this.
1. That was some tasty-ass burgers and they finished it in seconds flat.
2. Their last meal was McD's as well.
Both are equally sad.
Today I ate at McDonald's for lunch. I ride a motorcycle, so I go in and sit down more often than not.
I sat in a booth facing the exit for the drive-through line and this McD's has a trash bin right at curbside for folks to toss trash on their way out. There were no fewer than 5 people who stopped and tossed McD's wrappers and cups out. In my mind, there could only be two reasons for this.
1. That was some tasty-ass burgers and they finished it in seconds flat.
2. Their last meal was McD's as well.
Both are equally sad.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
sad
I have known for a long time that the ability to breed does not prove the fitness of parenting by default. Actually, it is the inverse. Those who breed the most have the least business have children at all. But when I go to a function with kids involved, I see first hand who can and cannot raise children. The people who have all the uncontrolled kids running amok while my step-kids are well behaved. Everyone says "Wow, those are good kids."
Well, they are not perfect, but we stress proper behavior in public. Recently, I was at a gathering in which children were invited and I saw first hand how other kids were. Things were broken, I personally saved a toddler from falling down a flight of stairs....twice. All the while the parents were not watching the kids and getting drunk.
I've always wanted children of my own, and it most likely will never happen, but it sickens me to no end how people neglect their children and put them off on others to watch.
I guess these people believe either nothing will happen, or they just don't care. It might just be both ignorance and apathy that leads them to drink up and act a damn fool while other watch their kids in horror and disgust.
Well, they are not perfect, but we stress proper behavior in public. Recently, I was at a gathering in which children were invited and I saw first hand how other kids were. Things were broken, I personally saved a toddler from falling down a flight of stairs....twice. All the while the parents were not watching the kids and getting drunk.
I've always wanted children of my own, and it most likely will never happen, but it sickens me to no end how people neglect their children and put them off on others to watch.
I guess these people believe either nothing will happen, or they just don't care. It might just be both ignorance and apathy that leads them to drink up and act a damn fool while other watch their kids in horror and disgust.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
leggo my ego
Do ever wish that people though you were as great as you imagine yourself?
Just once, to receive a standing ovation in recognition of your accomplishments?
To be admired and envied?
Maybe just to feel you were heard?
Just once, to receive a standing ovation in recognition of your accomplishments?
To be admired and envied?
Maybe just to feel you were heard?
Monday, July 23, 2007
Summer Scool over,grades finally in.....
After having the worst three weeks of my life, my grades are in, and luckily, I won't be repeating anything. I did VERY well on my final exam....so well, I almost managed a "B" out of a class I started terribly. A is for AWESOME, which is what I got in my Study of Gangs class. B is for "By God, I passed". C stands for "Could have been better, still passed". Still on track, one year to graduation and counting. If the coming year passes as quickly as this past one did, by the time I know it, I'll look up and see myself in a career that will actually pay me a living wage. But who am I kidding? There'll be much more to finish after this is all done. What next? Master's degree? Law School? Nothing? Who knows, but I do know for sure that I must stay focused and pace myself, to avoid the panic of overwhelming myself like I did this go 'round. The future is not some goal years from now I keep daydreaming over, but a run of classes that will start August 20th, and end December 10th.
Summer School is very expensive. So much so I dread returning next Summer to finish up the last two classes I'll need before graduation. Who knows how much it will cost me next year.
I bought the Harry Potter book Friday night. Wal-mart had a chest-high stack, so what the Hell? I'm about 75 pages away from the end. Very good distraction.
I've decided to start going back to the gym. I don't feel good about myself, and last time I tried to do anything endurance-related, I did horribly and I feel horribly. I though I had gained weight, but I haven't. I gained a good chunk of fat and lost muscle. I'm setting my goals, re-affirming myself, and pushing forward. forward.
Summer School is very expensive. So much so I dread returning next Summer to finish up the last two classes I'll need before graduation. Who knows how much it will cost me next year.
I bought the Harry Potter book Friday night. Wal-mart had a chest-high stack, so what the Hell? I'm about 75 pages away from the end. Very good distraction.
I've decided to start going back to the gym. I don't feel good about myself, and last time I tried to do anything endurance-related, I did horribly and I feel horribly. I though I had gained weight, but I haven't. I gained a good chunk of fat and lost muscle. I'm setting my goals, re-affirming myself, and pushing forward. forward.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
trash filter
A filter is nothing more than a baracade. It will let cetain things pass and keep other things from passing. Some time the filter is there because you want to keep something and get rid of the rest, not unlike panning for gold. You want the filter you use there to remove the mud and water and leave possible gold pieces. The coffee filter keep the gound coffe in while hot water infused with the essence of the coffe beans go through. Some times filters are less tangible, but there none the less.
It's been almost 10 years since I last went to Disney World. On the flight home, I met a very interesting fellow who claimed his wife was a marketing director for Disney Resorts. He told me about the numbers she has brought home, and claimed the revenues were so robust on food, lodging, and merchandice, they could actually let people in for free and still net a profit in the billions. My next question was "Why don't they?", and he had the answer. "Dinsey caters to people with money." The resort doesn't want just anyone walking in causing all sorts of havoc. So they set a high price so that only people who meet their standards may enter and consume. So the gate price is a trash filter of sorts. People who cannot afford the $60 a day per person can't go. People who tend to not be able to afford the nicer things in life tend to not have the self-control to behave properly in public either.
So, Disney makes a nice chunk of superfluous cash and keeps out people that may be too trashy to enjoy themselves and not ruin it for everyone else.
You might be at this very moment saying "OK....and you're going WHERE whith this?"
This past week, Robyn and I went to see two movies. One was at a very nice theater in a more-or-less upscale mall The Southpoint Cenema and we watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The other was at the $2 theater, Spiderman 3.
Wow what a difference.
Total cost with concessions at Southpoint: Over $50.
Total cost with concessions at Graham Cinema : $10.
Graham Cinema has cheap conessions too, a drink and large popcorn is $5 with unlimited refills. Nice, very nice....
What is not nice is the absence of the trash filter. Every piece of hot ghetto mess that had $2 and would be breaking parole by staying out so late was there. I did find it amazing that pay-as-you-go cell phone can have mp3 ringtones. People were interacting with the movie like it would somehow change the plot. Some of them, I'm not sure they could even tell you what they were watching since they didn't shut up once during the movie. Some chunk of trash took thier infant (infant as in the umbilical cord was still there). It was a 9:45 pm show! It was more amusing than anything else, but it cements the fact that if you want quality, you have to pay for it. I don't blame them, they grew up knowing only what they were around, apathy, ignorance, crime, and dysfunction. I think I'll take the kids there one day to show them how NOT to act.
Just for example, there is a photo album of what I saw here
It's been almost 10 years since I last went to Disney World. On the flight home, I met a very interesting fellow who claimed his wife was a marketing director for Disney Resorts. He told me about the numbers she has brought home, and claimed the revenues were so robust on food, lodging, and merchandice, they could actually let people in for free and still net a profit in the billions. My next question was "Why don't they?", and he had the answer. "Dinsey caters to people with money." The resort doesn't want just anyone walking in causing all sorts of havoc. So they set a high price so that only people who meet their standards may enter and consume. So the gate price is a trash filter of sorts. People who cannot afford the $60 a day per person can't go. People who tend to not be able to afford the nicer things in life tend to not have the self-control to behave properly in public either.
So, Disney makes a nice chunk of superfluous cash and keeps out people that may be too trashy to enjoy themselves and not ruin it for everyone else.
You might be at this very moment saying "OK....and you're going WHERE whith this?"
This past week, Robyn and I went to see two movies. One was at a very nice theater in a more-or-less upscale mall The Southpoint Cenema and we watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The other was at the $2 theater, Spiderman 3.
Wow what a difference.
Total cost with concessions at Southpoint: Over $50.
Total cost with concessions at Graham Cinema : $10.
Graham Cinema has cheap conessions too, a drink and large popcorn is $5 with unlimited refills. Nice, very nice....
What is not nice is the absence of the trash filter. Every piece of hot ghetto mess that had $2 and would be breaking parole by staying out so late was there. I did find it amazing that pay-as-you-go cell phone can have mp3 ringtones. People were interacting with the movie like it would somehow change the plot. Some of them, I'm not sure they could even tell you what they were watching since they didn't shut up once during the movie. Some chunk of trash took thier infant (infant as in the umbilical cord was still there). It was a 9:45 pm show! It was more amusing than anything else, but it cements the fact that if you want quality, you have to pay for it. I don't blame them, they grew up knowing only what they were around, apathy, ignorance, crime, and dysfunction. I think I'll take the kids there one day to show them how NOT to act.
Just for example, there is a photo album of what I saw here
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