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Posting stuff on the internet

Kevin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:41:29 +0000

When you’re talking to someone in real life, words are like dust in the wind. But when you post stuff on the internet, its like etching your words in stone. The difference is, people can go back and read what you posted. Once your words are spread to the wind, they can not be retrieved,…

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Conformist

Kevin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:02:08 +0000

Facebook has this feature where the site will suggest people that you may know, and you will have the option to add the suggested people to your friends list. While I was scrolling through the list of suggested friends, I came across a name I wish to have never seen or heard spoken again for the rest of my natural life. While we were in school (junior high and high school) the guy and some other people like him were complete assholes. One person in particular taller then most of the other kids, so I guess he thought his height gave him permission to be mean to the other kids. His height just meant that he was a tall asshole instead of an average height or short asshole. I don't know if the guy was abused, maybe raped as a child, saw his dad push his mom around, saw his mom push his dad around,,,,,,, who knows. But one thing was for sure, he seemed to have a lot of built up anger. That anger manifested itself in the form of harassment towards other kids. One of the reasons why I was picked on at school was because of the music I listed to, which happened to be metal. While most of my high school class was listening to 80 pop rock garbage and loving it, I was listening to metal and loving it. To the other kids, since I listened to metal, then I "must" be dong drugs, because you can not listen to metal without doing drugs - or at least that was their mindset anyway. When other kids do not understand someone, they usually pick on the strange kid. And that is what happened to me. I listened to metal, which meant I was "magically" a drug head (which I was not), so the other kids made it a point to torment me about my alleged drug use and my taste of heavy metal.

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Are you taking care of yourself

Kevin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:09:54 +0000

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.

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Trip to Bridge City

Kevin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:52:23 +0000

My wife, my 2 daughters, 2 grand kids and I made a trip to Bridge City today to go see mom and dad. Moms birthday was on July 17th and they are getting moved into their new house this weekend. Its been 10 months since hurricane Ike passed through and the recovery process is still…

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80 years old and starting over

Kevin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:00:30 +0000

80 years old and starting over, that was the sad reality of the facts. There was no denying that around 5 feet of flood water had gotten into the house and there was no denying that the couple did not have flood insurance. The hard wood flooring that everyone had liked so much, after the…

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Hurricane Ike Aftermath

Kevin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:43:14 +0000

These pictures were taken in Bridge City, Texas after Hurricane Ike made landfall in Galveston, Texas. Using Google Earth, and measuring from where these pictures were taken, its estimated that 20 miles inland, there was about a 14 - 15 foot storm surge. This is not a scientific measurement, its just an estimate.

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Hurricane Ike Video Series – Part 1

Kevin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:19:12 +0000

On the morning of September 13, 2008, the eye of Hurricane Ike approached the Texas coast near Galveston Bay, making landfall at 2:10 a.m. CDT over the east end of Galveston Island. People in low-lying areas who had not heeded evacuation orders, in single-family one- or two-story homes, were warned by the weather service that…

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