Movie full of questions

I had to find the right debunker or critique before releasing the name of the movie. Zeitgeist, movie, has much to offend the mind. The first 40 minutes attempts to diminish your attachment to Christianity. A good critique and debunking of the movie is by this man who has written quite a bit to deflate the movie.

Watch, be offended, then read and feel "smarter".

Scaled down

Monkeyjack has a scale that shows really nice numbers for your weight. According to it, I came in at 83 pounds. Uh, I don't think so, but that's a good deal better than my hefty real weight.

It was the exact same thing ...

I kept saying the same thing over and over again without even knowing what I'm talking about.

non-celebrity spotting

"Aren't you ..."

I was captured again wandering about. Adam spotted me and has a job at a hardware store. That means that five years ago I stuck in his mind. I am damn glad he didn't greet me with a sucker punch to the gut. I guess I did make some small, positive impact on people.

I like teaching, I like education, I just think our educational system needs work and not in the direction it has been. "Change the variables"+ ie: lower the standards.

+ Thank you Monkeyjack for this very memorable quote

greet me with the widest smile

Then they go after me like a dog biscuit.

I love you ... chew, chew, chew

not bad for a free item

I was given a computer cooling fan. I scoffed it, but it does cool down my laptop. Interesting.

It probably works better still not on the cement.

Charlie playing

He was a put put off that we didn't jump for hours on the trampoline or that we didn't have our eyes bug out with hours of Wii, but still we had fun. Charlie took the time to spit, gross habit, into the yard, and he lied down, thoughtfully before dinner. "Gosh! I'm starving!"

He appears to be doing a, "Mini Me"

2 clumps of mud

Well, I was mowing and the little girl in her yard was happy to talk with me. She wanted to know if I had kids, if I had a wife, if I had a mother. This was really because of her inquisitive mind.

"This is [man's name] house. He has a wife." "My mom has a belly in her belly." She was ecstatic about having a little sister. It was unclear to me whether she had high hopes or if the parents knew the sex of the unborn child.

In the course of our talk she broke off bits of the chunk of mud with which she was playing and let me "taste" some god old mother Earth, she old enough to understand it was a game. She wore some mud on her shirt and told me that she soon had to take a bath. I suggested to her to take time to play before she got cleaned. Folks tend not to have kids bathe just to dive back into the sandbox or make mud pies.

In all, the clumps of mud were a nice little gesture, though I didn't wind up putting them on a shelf of any kind.

same title, not a movie

weight of water

Fiery weekend?

Well, Keith enlisted my help with moving the logs from one point to another, now next to garage for the fire pit. They temporarily have two. Keith is using the fire to burn up the stump left from the massive tree taken a couple of years ago. --The pictures are clouded because of this fire and the one behind me as I shot this one -- The other fire pit is still in use which is where the burgers were cooked.

Charles (not Charlie), was many things in the Navy, a chef being one of them. He finished the burgers and cooked the shrimp while Charlie, Keith, and I were at the store. Lori was working on other stuff for the meal.

As well as logs, we moved stones to surround and control the fire on the second pit. Keith's goal is to move it once again to a point somewhere midpoint between the two, so people can sit around the fire like the old days.

Aw! You didn't say you were going to kill it!

watch (1:37-1:47) for relevancy

My money!

For a friend who is having trouble

Die!

moby date?

You are unwise to lower your defenses! (6:03) LINK
Prepare to die. LINK

talk aboot timing

I sent my resume' at 10 something in the morning, left, came back and at 11 something, I got this. Yep, nice ... couldn't make it there in that short of time.

library listing

How interesting, the placement.

I think I might

It is the beginning of the bite

I felt this thing, enduring its sucking until I could get this shot.

fireflies

Fireflies are not the easiest thing to shoot near dark. I was not successful getting one to "blink" on command.

These two were investigating each other. I am not sure whether they are ready to battle or trying to determine sex.

These two investigated each other then separated.

Perhaps by random chance only, the fireflies seemed to gather around me. I was wondering if the camera was affecting them someway, but that is a big guess.
In the end, the fireflies wanted me to bug off, so well shown by this one.

into the blue sky

cryptogram

My Google spreadsheet.

What was supposed to be tough, was about 6 minutes of work

Start Date	Name	formula for guesswork	401K	Plan	Retirement	$100,000.00	Standard payout
2/15/1982	Burns, Ken	$ 49,358.44	$ 63,178.81	Prem	$100,000.00
2/15/1982	Simpson, Homer	$ 43,632.01	$ 55,848.98	Anthem	$ 55,848.98
2/15/1982	Stewart, Martha	$ 69,835.06	$ 89,388.88	Prem	$100,000.00
2/15/1982	Astley, Rick	$ 38,804.32	$ 49,669.53	Anthem	$ 49,669.53
2/15/1982	Morton, Bob	$285,583.13	$365,546.40	Anthem	$365,546.40
2/15/1982	Ryerson, Ned	$219,862.43	$281,423.91	Prem	$100,000.00
2/15/1982	Chuck, Phil	$165,334.91	$211,628.69	Prem	$100,000.00
2/15/1982	Moorehead, Craven	$ 32,274.14	$ 41,310.90	Anthem	$ 41,310.90
2/15/1982	Butkisser, Best	$135,971.80	$174,043.91	Anthem	$174,043.91

=(RAND()*500)*1000
=C2*1.28
=IF(E2="Prem", STANDPAY, D2)

My nephew and his prof had a challenge with something like this. I don't see how it was tough.

long name?

Long name, amazing results?

no sleep til

angry again

Again, it's me

It's me ... I broke something, next story.

for someone special

on losing faith and questions no one can answer

I got very frustrated working on my sister's house. I got so mad, I began to favor losing faith than just coping with the stupidities of the situation. I was impassioned with anger. Satan's rapture? Anyway, I started getting angry with God. Yep, He was to blame for the inane and mundane randomness for the whole universe. Look, I tore a paper, that's God's fault. Then a series of under-the-surface thoughts came in with "why do good people suffer", "why is there hunger in the world", "why is there murder and rape". There are, of course, no easy answers.

If I thought that God knew everything, facilitated everything, and could intervene at any time, why not to people suffering? I started with my shaking fist at the stupidity of getting the titles into position. Then any little thing after that got me more bitter. It was a lot easier to blame God than to accept that I could cope with stupid crap.

By the end of two days, I was a bit better and less out of sorts. While I don't understand how stubbing my toe at 2:00 in the morning really pans out to God's ultimate plan for the universe, nor the rape and torture of people+ helping humanity to get to God, I am not as bitter, for sure.

Even if I lose faith, allowing it to slip from my heart and mind, I will not lead others to follow. Without hope, faith, direction, compassion, structure (including law), a person is in an anarchial hell. Without the goal of helping the whole species and moreover all species of the planet, why live? If a person is without purpose, they will die sooner and more miserably. How could I support that? Regardless if I let my faith die, I shall not encourage others to follow.

+ my mind played out the situation of a man (father for example) who rapes an infant. So, the infant deserved the torture because it was born with original sin ... no; bullshit; wrong! Where was God on the child's behalf? This is a question that bugs me.

painted

local spatter from paiting

cuteness button

The bone is actually red with drywall dust making it look pinkish.
If you will look, she has ball in her mouth at the same time.

She doesn't like it when I kiss her nose (muzzle) during play. Here she is nearly lulled to sleep with me rubbing her with my foot.

Here she is wild ... her norm.

potty?

My sweet, adorable friend, embarrassed that she had to stop in for a potty break.
She didn't want her picture taken.

prettier than the paint

oops, had the silly thing in reverse.

Many of these were at Jefferson Point mall, the others were at my sister's.

more work photos

For the original version ... click here.

The tiles pissed me off, so I stopped trying to work with them. My sister was equally peeved and quit. Well, my brother-in-law gets them now.

Here is Jeff Bell. He does lots of things, but primarily installs and repairs garage doors. After his solo effort of loading the drywall sheets, he drove to my sister's and he and I pulled them off. He showed me the faster, however a bit sloopy, way of measure-cutting sheets. It was about 5 minutes instead of 35. I think I will take the trade.

Here you see him talking with my neice.

This is the same view the next day --- a wall, installed by Mike and Dustin.

The brown sections is the new insulation.

Mike and Dustin installing the wall and discovering that the studs are not 24" on center.

This is a problem area near the front door.

My sister and her "helpful" dog cleaning up after mudding the walls.

My white arm. My face was so sprinkled also.

Yes, the ceiling is now whiter.

Power painter ... need experience to use it well.