Happy birthday Charlie

carry on with your indomitable spirit

Charlie had a birthday party at Bells' Roller Dome and it seemed to be quite the success. Another year older and deeper in thought. They grow quickly so don't blink!

I hope you don't get your dad's "skills" as they were with liquids -- note the coffee-like color stain on Keith?

Yo! It's about that time

Peace now and forever, Christ Jesus was born and lives forever.

Merry Christmas and may you find love, happiness and joy. Peace to all!

Sorrier

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Geez!

Just for one little thing -- they kick you out!

I swear, I wasn't cheating!

Beware ... always

Turning my frown upside down

Well, I think I might try thinking positively for a while. Though my drive was terrible and my stress was high -- I was soothed with the tender caress of compassion today. I stopped on the road and around ten separate people stopped and asked if I needed help. I never even considered my hometown so friendly and helpful!

Thanks to everyone who offered to help me!

Thankfully, I didn't need it, but it was great that assistance was offered. Be it the season, the city, or the general attitude of people, that has put me in a good mood!

white roads, white knuckles

Well, I drove from work town to hometown at a blistering 28 - 34 mph. The drive lasted for 2.5 hours including the time I had to pull off the road (possible engine overheat) and shoveling my car free from the hotel parking lot. I didn't like it; didn't want it; happy to be home.

My county of residence did a better job of clearing the road than my county of work. Odd, all things considered, but happy that I saw very few people ditched out.

hotel stay

I was thinking about staying in town if the weather got bad. The company "splurged" and got me a hotel room ... negotiated trade and I spent the night in town. It's quite the winter out there now. While the hotel of choice they made was not mine, I am not disappointed.

Free; rest; coffee. I only wish I were back home.

Thanks God! Thanks work!

lampoon government

God pitched in

Okay ... after 8 blasted days ... my car is fixed...


or no

I was nearly to work -- I made it to 48 minutes there and sputter clunk ... the car died again.

I called the shop and they came to pick up the car. I needed to be to work ... there was no one there willing to come get me. How shocking!

I stepped out waiting for the time that they'd send someone to get me, and then a guy pulled up and gave me a ride there.

So guy just doesn't want me driving that car I suppose. Well, it'd be nice if I had the money to get another one, then ... ro get a different job to avoid having that wicked drive or some other solution.

Capitalize on revolution

So, in opposition to the status quo of sending so-called representatives to vote in our place we have what ... autocracy. What a gip! If a representative is elected ... the duty is to do what is right for:

the nation,
the world,
constituants

To guide him/her are sound reasoning, logical and ethics. Money and party-based ideologies should not impart decision-making. Party R or D have slated agendas, but there are dissenters to these, so they are not static.

The American revolution was based on flagrant misuse of monies and no control over how much or how it is spent. Law was administered from a remote region and was final -- not eligible for review. These same things we have now.

I do not propose a violent destruction of the US, but rather submit a call for the government to act like it is supposed to work. It doesn't get five weeks of vacation! It doesn't paid, then pensions, protection, and lobbyist monies. It serves the people, not the people serving it. I call for the government to stop acting like 18th bureaucratic aristocrats or Czarist Russia.

As the government spends our money for no gain to us and as jobs become scarce, the system will fail. You cannot speak peace with a gun, and you cannot speak success without security. We should focus on education and not on incarceration. We should concern ourselves with health care, not on welfare.

I want more ... more ... and the US certainly can do more. The level of taxation isn't the issue, its the use of the money that is the problem. I also don't like our very few representatives who are filled with personal agendas and "where do I see myself in five years" financially secure after "serving" my term.

"We know what we're doing" with your money. If it doesn't help the nation, then you're doing it wrong.

The US is spending nearly $5 billion monthly on Iraq and Afghanistan. Let's apply that money to cancer research ... think we'll get closer then? How about that money spent on Health care restructuring? How about using that funding for crime units in the US completely eradicating gangs in LA, Chicago, NY? If the war isn't "that costly" to our GNP then, use that level of personnel in the US checking customs, cargo crates, borders, etc.

If you ask families in gangland if the gangs were expunged, 'would they feel safer'. The gangs there are a direct threat and help import crime, people (including slave labor), drugs, weapons, terrorists, and help fund them. Are they then a threat -- heck yes!

Waste with MySpace

in order to contact someone at work ... I got, "MySpace" ... garbage, garbage, garbage.

I also got spam messages within 2 days of using it. How shocking! I would definitely stay away from MyWaste dot com.

why to buy aides

Oh ... and you'll also need headphones and a nose guard. Yep ... that's why you need Viagra

oh and Absolut Vodka and tequila

Guitar Hero

Mama don't your babies grow up to be rockers

my car ...

my car, my car ... talkin' 'bout my car ... my car

My car is still sitting at auto shop. "Yeah ... we get that together on Monday". Hey, that's nice -- merely a week of having it! I am not sure that I will use the shop again regardless of their previous successes.

remember your freedom at the cost of another's

I think about how "hard" my Christmas is going to be, but then I think of those defending my freedoms, those who've died. I've got it easy ... I'm still here in the states this Christmas. Thank you to all who serve.

Learnin' dumminess

Fat Albert

Trains bite! I'm running late

Trains bite! I'm running late again!

charisma charming

I can't expound upon this any more ... pictures are telling.

criping?

The people making the most fuss about Jennifer Love-Hewitt are, well ... out of her league as it were. Why should they care that she is becoming adult and developing --- cellulite. Wow ... her legs and bum are the resting places for adipose tissue, much like many women. What is the big friggin' deal, folks?

Oh, and she's engaged -- yep, off the market for those 275 pound couch potatoes and computer typers who couldn't run a block let alone a mile. They know all too well about cellulite. She's engaged, rich, beautiful---face it duds (not dudes) she was never yours to begin with.

Unlike the media, her finance' probably makes her happy.