Life and Everything

So here I am today fighting with the Coupe again and just in general wondering what to do next and where to go now. I have many things going thru my head including the lack of any type of intimate relation. Let alone about my job future and what to do next. 

Because right now thats a huge question on my mind. I am left wondering what exactly to do with myself. I kinda want to try to publish on the web as another friend of mine has been doing some challenges on here and Michy seems to be doing good overall. But I am also left to wonder if my writing skills are good enough to do it in passing as extra money, let alone take it more seriously to work at it hard enough to make real money doing any writing. I love to write and have lots of personal stuff thats on my puters. But just wondering if that transitions over to being good enough for others- let alone publishing. So I'm going to take sometime this week and decide what to do.

Speaking of Michy, I need to also get an unsent letter submission going. I have a few million on the puter, I'm sure at least one will be good enough or presentable enough for a submission. Anyhow, just wanted to check in and let everyone know I wasn't dead. 

Also wanted to say hi to all my anonymous fans that are out there. I hope if you call my sister about this one you at least tell her the truth and the whole story.

Random Ramblings

Just a few random thoughts for the day:

- If we drive on a parkway and park in the driveway, then what do you do on a lane?

- If there is a Presidential order- why is it he has to have someone else explain it to him at the press conference?

- If the book that the President wrote that stated he was half black Kenyan and half Hawaiiian, why is it since he has been elected he is now only Black ?????

- Why is the media so blind to the fact that Obama is the fifth President that is biracial, not the first black President

- Has the media lost its ability to be objective in fear of the censorship that was promised by the President in the inaguation speach ?

- Has America lost so much of its ability to think independently that we cna only believe what the press brings to our attention as news?

- If you know that everyone is going thru alot of stress and trauma in a relation, does it make sense to smother them?

- If people have multiple items going on simultaneously, is it fair to try to pigeon hole them to only one type of work at a time?

0- Why is it so hard for people to believe that change starts from the inside and shouldn't always be acted upon until the process has proceeded far enough to be cohesive and have a positive outcome ?

Just a few thoughts for the moment ......

Yet another thought- or two

So in comes another round of snow and all I hear from people is complaints about snow and how others don't know how to drive in it. My thought follows along this line, the same ones that complain about how others drive in snow are the same ones I have witnessed that are the most dangerous when there is no snow on the ground. All the same I am used to being told I am a danger to the driving public because people don't understand a driving style. But this goes beyond a driving style, this is just to common sense ability and observing the rules on the road. But overall, central Ohio is still the most dangerous place to drive that I can think of in all the places that I have driven in my life. Ohio drivers are, in general, the most dangerous drivers in my opinion. Not because they're not educated or anything along those lines, but more so because they know the laws and they know how to drive- they just blatantly choose to not do so.

What is a loss or gain?

I'm sitting here thinking about the weekend that I just survived and the schedule for the coming week when something came to mind. I mean things are always changing, thats a given. But I have often heard about progress, but the other portion of that is what do we sacrifice to move forward? I mean I remember growing up and what we used to do for the holiday season overall. It wasn't perfect, but it was not bad either. But now a days, we are always so busy and running so much that often you want the holidays to be done just so you can slow down. I mean you have things that others think are mandatory, but really are optional. I mean lets face reality, no kid needs more than two or three outfits and a few toys. I mean really what child needs dozens of toys and clothes. Its already bad enough that the current generation doesn't understand the true difference between need and want. Let alone to continue to feed the delusion by soothing guilt at Christmas by spending money we don't have to get presents the kids only want because they see it on TV. It just irks me that people wonder why America is in the present state, but continue to do everything in excess. I mean, we are the world's best and worse nation. We are the best as far as overall healthcare and lifestyle. We are the worse as far as just abusing everything by using it to the excess. I know I'm only adding to the whine of it all, but, maybe after we finish falling finanically will we as a nation see the light.

Random Thoughts

So here I sit, wondering just what is really going on. I mean lets put it this way, do you ever think about the big picture and what we know that the government doesn't want us to know? I mean the more research I do on the web, the more I see we are getting ready to repeat history- again. Meaning the last time we were in this situation was quite a few years ago. Hoover was dealing with the first round of Black Monday, and the nation voted for change in the name of Mr Roosevelt. What he did was doubled down on what Hoover started.

That wound up being a great short term fix, but not something that would last. That also started the trend that has now spread to the masses. And that is to spend more than what we have, afterall- look at our national debt and tell me that it hasn't magnified. I mean here we are promising all this money to other nations, some industries, and even to our financial institutions. I mean most of these people and companies are in the spot they are because they have not been efficient or effective in their practices. On one hand the best thing the government could do to rectify the situation is not bail out the industries. At the same time that is also the worst thing they could do for the situation.

But I still feel that they need to make those that ran these companies into the ground, also responsible for there part in it as well. I mean you have companies that were struggling to cut a profit, but the top execs recieved about 10% of the raw income as pay and benefits. I understand paying someone that is effective at their job, but the companies have went down the toilet. So obviously they have not been effective in what they are doing. So lets make them pay for the lack of job performance by helping them realize where they have failed.

It still amazes me to boot that after America voted for change, the first thing that our soon to be president has done is back down from what he said he was going to do when he was campaigning. So between this and the way our government is giving money we don't even have to everyone- how are we supposed to have faith in our government? I mean if O'Bama gets his way and they repeal the law that allows the media to speak freely- that will also limit what we can blog here as well. I know they claim that wont happen, but in fact they will do it- he has already said as much.

So if you look at it from another point of view lets go look at Germany pre World War 2. First thing Hitler did was get elected, then he restricted free speech then he took away guns. Am I the only one seeing a pattern on this one??? I pray I am wrong, but if not then I will do what I have to for survival.

The realization of Taoism

I have been riding a streak of luck lately that has been completely unexpected. It seems that for the last few years I couldn't catch a break in most areas of my life. Yet when I would sometimes apparently get a break, it wound up costing me even more before all was said and done. The longest line has been employment, but so far this occurance has been held at bay.

It used to be I would think that I found a few things that had gone the right way and yet in the end it was vastly to the opposite. My life has been a long line of direction and misdirection. Today has been that way as well, polar opposites and lots of in between all in very little time. But sometimes life is that way for ya. All you can do is let it happen, evaluate- then react after that. And thats what I have been doing as of late. Let life happen, see whats the reality of it and go from there. If you are a frequent reader at all, you know I think this country lost its mind recently. Or at least the electorates did the losing of the mind. At any pace, it was not a good choice. But the future will bear that out for sure.

All the same I have had to rely on the fact that I am a Taoist more than ever before. I know people are used to relying on their religion. And I know I was raised to be that way as well, but life has taught me that the church can't be trusted at all. I am not against religion at all costs, but I do believe there are alot of people that wont be in heaven. That sad fact alone will take many by shock, and I still think there are alot that will show their true colors by the result of where they wind up. But the biggest fact that people need to remember is that in life all that comes around goes around. Just it seems that lately alot has been going on, its made me look back to the past and try to improve what I do for the future.

Oh- the holidays.....

Well I have officially survived the first of the yearly disasterous trio of holidays. And somehow, I came thru it relatively unscathed. Partially because I had a better than normal outlook thanks to a new possibility of romance.

But also just because of all that going on in the world this year, it seems to have grounded alot more people than in the past. Maybe we need more of these rough times to remind people of what matters in life and whats important to people in reality.

All I know for sure is that its great to see alot of people understanding and getting the holidays for what they were meant to be. A celebration of the people that get together, not everyone trying to one up the other. I can only hope that it carries over into the other two holidays as well.

Yet Another Joy ........

As Americans we all enjoy alot of optional things and have come to see some of those as mandatory things for life. But it seems that some of us have differnt priorities than others do even when comng from a common background. That what even some raised in the same style, or family, will differ in the ways they live day to day.

I mean in our family alone if you look at how religion plays a role in our lives- its widely disparaged. Let alone when you look at what each of us see as what we need or want for us to live day to day. I find this quite humorous on some fronts, other fronts its quite bothersome. But as differnt as our lifestyles and choices have been we stil tolerate each other for the sake of the ones that we call Mother and Father.

Otherwise I'm sure that quite a many times, at least personally, I would have just walked away and been done with the others. Because they think the majority of life is always negotiable. I still think that no matter what people want to think its the common event that will kill America as a whole. That event will not be finding common ground or a compromise to get along. But rather a majority sale of life or wholesale sell of beliefs just so a group or person can think that it makes them more appealing to others.

Why not do something because its what you want to do? I mean other than the obsessive nature of Americans as a culture to want and need the best while only putting in a mediocre at best attempt to reach the same level. We as a nation have become to whiney and dependent on hand outs. And it needs to stop before it does cause the entire collapse of America.

WTH !!!!

I was taking time this morning and checking video feeds and such. When I came across something that I had heard briefly about on talk radio. It seems that even though this great country lost their mind long enough to elect Obama, lets add insult to injury a bit further. That would be that those closest to Obama are already holding press conferences to deflate the expectations. They have already had a press conference saying that when Obama takes office he wont have the recession or any other major issue taken care of by July 4th. Now I'm not sure when it was promised that it would be fixed by the 4th- that passed me by.

But what alarms me is that this is the SECOND MAJOR TIME they have had to reinvent expectations. First time was the Democractic convention, now even before he is in the office they are doing it again. This really does scare me and is why I was so concerned about the possibility of him being elected. BUT- now we are here and this does not bode well for the future of America.

I only pray to God that this is the end of this because anything more than this means that we will be fighting the next war for America in our backyards .... LITERALLY !!!

Gotta Love ......

In everyone's life there are certain things that you love to do. Then we have even more things that we have to do if we like it or not. That latter subject comes to mind as the Holidays come a running into our face for the end of the year. I often quip that our family puts the "fun" in dysfunctional, but as I sit here and deal with my family having returned home from "vacation" I see the truth to the quip. I love all of my family in moderation. but most days they beat that moderation to pieces. This is yet another one of those days.