Someone accused me of being "cheery" today. I told them this is my only day. I am sure she didn't get what I was saying but do I? I started the day doing all the next right things. Then I started to deal with my slow slow computer game my "
beautiful day" starting getting cloudy. So it is about staying focused on what is important. Remembering is the hard part. I guess that takes practice.
My wife has fallen 3 times in the last three days. I guess we go back to the hard times now. I have a job now and as soon as I know my actual hours then I can get some help here from Medicaid to pay for expenses.
It has been rainy in the last 2 days tomorrow is suppose to be better. So maybe I will take my wife out to the mall to look at people. Blow some stink off as Grandma Wilkins used to say.
Spent some time today to make 36 phone calls for Mayor Fraim today. I have his sign in my yard and Randy Wrights sign should soon follow. Got to be for something and especially not for total idiots.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
28 March 2010
What a day! Started it off with the Easter Cantata. I was even listed as a soloist because of some echo work I did on this one spiritual song. I had my own personal mistakes that I regret but kept right on trucking. Tried to remember that I am a performer and to make sure people see my happy face. So the church folk seemed to appreciate it.
Then it was gardening time for me. Perfect weather and I bought two bags of mushroom compost and spread them on my two raised garden beds. I weeded the beds and replanted a few of the mints and onions that were spreading about. I also put down rows of seeds to include lettuce, spinach, Bib lettuce, radishes, and alyessum flowers. Took my rooted roses and re potted them and put them into the garden bed. Let them all grow a little bigger until maybe next year. Noticed that I have a white tulip that bloomed in my front and also my perennial tulips are spreading and blooming also. Cut 5 daffodils for my enjoyment and put them in a crystal stem vase and cut some "weed" flowers and put them in my little display vase. I don't know what it is called but it holds the flowers up and I have a perfect statue for it to be held in.
Then I went to the Came to Believe meeting and enjoyed the company of all there. Tried to be amusing but some nights I have it and some I don't. I have been in the obsession for a drink today but I am tired and that is what my cure will be today. Plus some prayer.
Took pictures of the choir and only one really turned out OK. Sorry Nick but the pics didn't really make the top 10. He needed to get back a couple more feet to get the whole choir in. Looked at pictures of myself and I am huge. I need to get a picture printed so I can remind myself what I look like and take the appropriate action for it.
Then it was gardening time for me. Perfect weather and I bought two bags of mushroom compost and spread them on my two raised garden beds. I weeded the beds and replanted a few of the mints and onions that were spreading about. I also put down rows of seeds to include lettuce, spinach, Bib lettuce, radishes, and alyessum flowers. Took my rooted roses and re potted them and put them into the garden bed. Let them all grow a little bigger until maybe next year. Noticed that I have a white tulip that bloomed in my front and also my perennial tulips are spreading and blooming also. Cut 5 daffodils for my enjoyment and put them in a crystal stem vase and cut some "weed" flowers and put them in my little display vase. I don't know what it is called but it holds the flowers up and I have a perfect statue for it to be held in.
Then I went to the Came to Believe meeting and enjoyed the company of all there. Tried to be amusing but some nights I have it and some I don't. I have been in the obsession for a drink today but I am tired and that is what my cure will be today. Plus some prayer.
Took pictures of the choir and only one really turned out OK. Sorry Nick but the pics didn't really make the top 10. He needed to get back a couple more feet to get the whole choir in. Looked at pictures of myself and I am huge. I need to get a picture printed so I can remind myself what I look like and take the appropriate action for it.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Nuclear Arms Reduction
The Russia and America nuclear super powers are going to reduce their nuclear stock piles from 2200 to 1500. Plus they are going to reduce their out-of-date delivery systems. Sounds good. Save money and still be able to blow each other to total annihiliation.
Sinking the South Korean ship Cheonan
Currently the US and South Korean forces are playing war games designed on what they would do if North Korea attacked with nuclear weapons. North Korea in the mean time has been banging their sabers in a threatening manner. My experience in war games is that both sides push the limits of the boundries. Baengnyeong is an island administered by the South Korean government. On a map it shows this island far up the coast of North Korea and it is said that on a clear day you can see North Korea.
Whether the ship was sunk by an internal explosion, a mine or a torpedo is under investigation. Will we know the truth someday? We can only hope. In the meantime there are missing sailors. The good news is that the ship has turned over with the keel explosed so there may be a few more survivors.
Hypothermia would be a factor that would play in the ability to survive in the water though. At a range of water temps between 40 and 60 degrees the sailors who managed to get off the ship would survive for maybe 20 minutes or so before dying of hypothermia. So if there are any more survivors they will have to be in the ship and out of the water. They will have to be found quickly because they will be running out of oxygen. I am sure that divers have been dispatched to search the ship.
Whether the ship was sunk by an internal explosion, a mine or a torpedo is under investigation. Will we know the truth someday? We can only hope. In the meantime there are missing sailors. The good news is that the ship has turned over with the keel explosed so there may be a few more survivors.
Hypothermia would be a factor that would play in the ability to survive in the water though. At a range of water temps between 40 and 60 degrees the sailors who managed to get off the ship would survive for maybe 20 minutes or so before dying of hypothermia. So if there are any more survivors they will have to be in the ship and out of the water. They will have to be found quickly because they will be running out of oxygen. I am sure that divers have been dispatched to search the ship.
Paying It Forward
December 2008 I became involved with KIVA which is a micro-lending organization directed to help various people in their pursuit of financing their home businesses to provide a better life for themselves and their families. I started a "group" based on one of my favorite concepts and that is "Paying It Forward." The group consisted of myself and a picture that I had taken of a Norfolk Botanical Garden scene and uploaded to the KIVA site. All my contributions to KIVA then were directed to the PAYING IT FORWARD group.
The next month I had a dream of a lady and lo and behold she was my first team member. Since that time I promoted her to the co-leader spot and we made some definition changes of why we do what we do and invited others to join if they so wish. Currently 15 months later or so we have at least 14 members from all over the world. The group as a altruistic whole has contributed in excess of 200 loans to various lendees.
The group is gearing up for April 25 because it has been labeled PAYING IT FORWARD day or some such title. There is a consensus building to make an additional contribution that day to someone asking for a loan. I find that well and good and I hope to participate in that myself considering that I expect to be employed by that time and able to donate part of my earnings to new loans.
Katie Couric did a news piece on the concept of "Paying It Forward". It seems that Harvard and the University of California scientists have proved the concept of people helping people causes people down the food chain of this helpfulness to be more giving themselves. The original concept was if one person helps three people and they help three people that eventually the whole world would have been helped.
My personal results, as of this point in time, is that my original gift of $25 and the succeeding gifts after that, even though I am not contributing new money at this time, result in an additional 6 gifts a month that with due diligence, I am blessed with helping 6 families to better their lives. I am grateful for this opportunity and hope that I can participate on April 25 to celebrate this Paying It Forward day.
The next month I had a dream of a lady and lo and behold she was my first team member. Since that time I promoted her to the co-leader spot and we made some definition changes of why we do what we do and invited others to join if they so wish. Currently 15 months later or so we have at least 14 members from all over the world. The group as a altruistic whole has contributed in excess of 200 loans to various lendees.
The group is gearing up for April 25 because it has been labeled PAYING IT FORWARD day or some such title. There is a consensus building to make an additional contribution that day to someone asking for a loan. I find that well and good and I hope to participate in that myself considering that I expect to be employed by that time and able to donate part of my earnings to new loans.
Katie Couric did a news piece on the concept of "Paying It Forward". It seems that Harvard and the University of California scientists have proved the concept of people helping people causes people down the food chain of this helpfulness to be more giving themselves. The original concept was if one person helps three people and they help three people that eventually the whole world would have been helped.
My personal results, as of this point in time, is that my original gift of $25 and the succeeding gifts after that, even though I am not contributing new money at this time, result in an additional 6 gifts a month that with due diligence, I am blessed with helping 6 families to better their lives. I am grateful for this opportunity and hope that I can participate on April 25 to celebrate this Paying It Forward day.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The A B C's of Business versus Obamacare
The scare mongers told me that to make insurance companies insure pre-existing conditions would bankrupt their businesses. That is a lie. Insurance companies would use their acuaries to determine the cost of doing this type of business and pass the cost back to me and my pocketbook. We all know that the most important person in my world is me. Why would the scare mongers try to make me feel sorry for the insurance companies when it was me holding my ankles for the government mandates.
Businesses number one priority is to survive. When the government makes a rule that affects all businesses all the businesses are affected statiscally the same and raise their prices competitvely. That means me and mine pay more for pre-existing health insurance.
Businesses number one priority is to survive. When the government makes a rule that affects all businesses all the businesses are affected statiscally the same and raise their prices competitvely. That means me and mine pay more for pre-existing health insurance.
Monday, March 15, 2010
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