The Random Ramblings Category
Vladimir Putin never fails to impress
Vladimir Putin is just one of those people that never fails to leave an impression. Whether you hate him or love you, at the very least you have to respect him.
Being able to think for yourself
What is it with people not being able to think for their self? Its as if some people just accept what their told as fact and never ask any questions. They just form a line to the stupid door and file in order. Children – One example, my wife and I have a friend of…
Stop and give thanks
Next week is Thanksgiving. But like a lot of people, my family and I are having a get together this weekend and next week. This week we are having my wifes kids (my step kids) and their families over for a celebration. Next week on Thanksgiving, my wife and I are going to the house…
Happy Birthday Half-Life
Happy Birthday Half Life, your 12 years old today, November 19th 1998 – November 19th 2010. I still remember the first time I saw you, it was at a LAN party in Little Cypress with my buddy Revy. It was a cold, wet, typical winter day in southeast Texas. I had been invited to a…
Why do we miss the good ole days
As I’am sitting here thinking about old friends, people that I knew from years ago, and some of the games that I used to play on the PC – I wonder why people look back and think about the “good ole days?” These times are pretty good, there is nothing wrong with right here and now. So why does 10 years ago seem like it is better then today? Maybe we forget about the worries back then? Maybe the memory seems like things were less stressful back then? I dont know, but there are a lot of things I miss about the late 1990s.
One thing that I miss was my job at Allied Fabrication in Rose City, Texas. Those people were some good people to work for. But when the work got low, they let me go. When I was working at Allied, I would come home, eat dinner, then make my bike ride, and do my workout. Then there were the camping trips with my buddies into the bayous around Orangefield and Bridge City, Texas. And then there was taking my family to the camp for the weekend.
Then there is the regret, like the time one of my sons ran over some brush that had been cut down and jammed a stick into the gear shift linkage. I got onto him a little hard about that. But he should not have been riding through where the timber company had cut the trees. There was a trail and he should have stayed on it.
Something else I regret, I feel that I did not spend enough time with my family. Sometimes we get consumed with what “we” want, instead of what the family wants.
Have you ever
The other day, my wife and I were walking around one of the local big-box marts when I saw this late teens – early twenties looking fellow. From the sight of him, I doubt he has ever done more then a weeks worth of hard labor in his life. He might have been around 5 feet 9 or 10 inches tall, and must have weighed between 250 – 300 pounds, and not a single ounce of that was muscle. If there was muscle, it was buried under the layers of fat.
This makes me ask the question, have you ever
shot a rifle
shot a shotgun
shot a pistol
gone camping
shot a deer
tacked a deer
skinned a deer
Is your life founded on debt
Is your life founded on debt?
When you bought a house, did you have to take out a loan?
When you bought a car or truck, did you have to take out a loan?
When you paid your electric bill, did you use a credit card?
When you bought groceries, did you use a credit card?
When you rented a movie, did you use a credit card?
When you went to the movies, did you use a credit card?
When you bought gas for your truck or car, did you use a credit card?
When you bought clothes, did you use a credit card?
When you went to the doctor, did you use a credit card to pay your co-pay?
Did you use a credit card to pay off medical bills?
Did you pay cash for your breakfast, or did you use a credit card?
Did you put christmas on a credit card, or did you pay cash?
Are you taking care of yourself
My wife got the text message last night at around 2:30am – we have a very dear friend of the family whos mother passed away last night from lung cancer. She was around 46 years old, and she had been a heavy smoker for years. She leaves behind a couple of children, and a couple of very young grand kids. The grand kids are only about 1 – 3 years old, not old enough to remember the time they spent with their grandmother. There will never be a chance to pass down stories, never be a chance to go to birthday parties, Christmas, no Thanksgiving,,,,, nothing but a visit to her grave from time to time.
While thinking about our friends mom, I also started thinking about my other friends that have passed away.
When my brother and I were growing up in Bridge City, Texas, we had some friends in the neighborhood that where the same age as us. There was Bret and Troy, Steven and Gene , John and David, Bobby and Mike. Steven was the same age as my brother – 2 years behind me – and Gene is my age. When I was a senior, I heard that Steven had gotten into drugs pretty bad. It was so bad that his mom and dad kicked him out and he was having to look for a place to live. Steven went to live with Bret and Troy for a little while, but the parents of Bret and Troy found Stevens drugs and was told to leave the house. From there, Steven left Bridge City and went to live with his sister in Port Arthur. That was probably one of the worst things that could have happened. From what I understand, drugs were a lot easier to find in Port Arthur then in Bridge City. This meant that Steven had easy access to all kinds of illegal drugs.
Bullies and haters
Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of talk about bullies and teens being driven to suicide because of it. While reading some of the stories and personal accounts, I think back to my own junior high and high school experience. I dont think that I was really “bullied” per say, it was more or less the typical teenager “you must conform” type of stuff.
Clothes – The day I wore a black shirt with light pink 3/4 length sleeves. The pink was just a light pink, almost a dark pink. Some of the other kids started calling me gay because I was a guy who wore pink. I never wore that short again.
While I was in junior high, my mom and I were shopping for some school clothes. I saw this really cool shirt with a superman logo on it. Since I liked to read superman comics, I got mom to buy the shirt for me. After the other kids ridiculed me for wearing a superman logo, I never wore the shirt again.
Music – Because I liked real Rock and Roll music instead of the pop-rock stuff, other kids in school said I smoked dope. Their mindset was, if you listened to Ozzy, Pink Floyd or Black Sabbath, you “have” to smoke dope. My music taste are something that I refuse to be moved on. Even to this day I would rather listen to some good Ozzy, Black Sabbath or Rammstein then some pop-rock wanna be a singer carp. I would rather define my own music taste then have the record companies tell me what I’am “supposed” to listen to. And I do not do any kind of illegal drugs. It was the mentality of the kids in school that bothered me the most. It was like very few of them could think outside the box. Just because a song is on the radio, does not magically make it a good song. The record companies are pushing those songs because they think money can be made – not because its a good song. There is a difference between a work of art and making money.
Starting over with physical fitness
Over the past 2 months (August and September 2010) I have had to restart my physical fitness training twice. The first time was in the first week of August, the second time was in September.
In the first week of August I came down with some kind of illness that caused vomiting, and fever in excess of 102 degrees. The first signs were Sunday August 1st with a feeling of discomfort, August 2 I had a 101 fever, the 3rd I was in the bed with a fever around 102 and nausea, the 4th high fever and nausea, Thursday night into Friday morning I was up at 2am vomiting and with a fever of between 102 – 1.2.3, so my wife rushed me to the local emergency room at Christus Memorial Hospital in Jasper, Texas.
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