Office Party?

I got a big WTF? going on at work lately. I have an office near the front of the building and it's become the big hang out place. Whenever someone doesn't have something to do they come to my office and sit in the chairs in front of my desk and hang out.



It's really beginning to wear me down. A guy sat in my office yesterday for four straight hours. I'm going out of my mind. I talk to them at first to be pleasant then I try to get my work done. I feel bad for ignoring them but DAMN. The worst part is if I start working on my computer they get curious and get up to look at what I'm doing. Seriously WTF?

Lets get something straight, I am not that interesting, I'm not good looking and my office sure ain't party central. If I get on the phone they listen in then comment after I get off. I'm starting to put work off until they leave but they never do. I have actually had to get up to meet customers out in the hall because my office is full. When one is in there it attracts another and before long I have four people in there. ARRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!! I fake a reason to leave and they eventually go but as soon as I sit back down here they come again.



Why the hell would people waste their time sitting in an office for no reason? Take a damn hint, please. Just go, go...... I'm begging you.

Honesty, Not Walmarts Policy

Went to Walmart with the kids again this weekend. The kids like to ride in the buggy so we have to put the stuff all around them. We get to the car and I realize that the one of the kids was sitting on a can of 'Great Stuff' sealant and we didn't pay for it.





So I grab the can and head back in the store. I tell the Walmart greeter that I didn't get charged for the can. She looks at me like WTF? I motion to the check out and she nods for me to move on.





I walk up to the cashier and tell her my kid was sitting on the can and I need to pay for it. "Oh, aren't you just the honest one" she says very condescending. I pay for the stuff and have to ask her for a bag and receipt. She treated me like I was an idiot for coming back in. I just wanted to pay for what I got. I didn't tell on the greeter for not finding it or the cashier for missing it. I didn't yell it as I came through the door. What's wrong with these people? Or is it just me?

The War

Well I can understand others point of view about the war. I can even respect it. I can't respect people who say get out no matter what. That we caused this and we created it. I don't want to change anyones mind about this. It's a complicated issue that has more to it than stay or leave.



While I believe Iraq may or may not have been the place to make this stand, eventually we will have to make it. If we look at history, Hitler's Nazi party started the same way as these Islamic extremist. If you are not like them you must die. People ignored Hitler because it didn't affect them and by the time it did he was very powerful. That can never happen again.



Now lets look at Iraq. You had a man in power who murdered, raped and stole from his people. People who counted on him for everything. The President thought that these people would welcome a chance at controlling their own lives. I thought they would too. What he didn't count on was the Islamic extremist being willing to kill their own people to keep that from happening. This is the part I don't get. If Saddem killed his people no problem. If the extremist kill their own people no problem but if we kill the people who are killing everybody we are the devil. WTF? Even though the press has only reported the bad it's clear to see that our intentions was to spread democracy though that part of the world. It may be the wrong country but it's against the right people, right now.



What gives us the right you may say? History does. If we do nothing the following will happen almost guaranteed.

The woman of the middle east will be all but slaves. No rights other than what they are allowed to do by men.

A handful of people in these countries will be ultra rich while the population all but starve to death

These countries will acquire nuclear bombs that eventually will be used.

Our country will never be safe again. As they force millions to bend to their will our chance of keeping them out decreases

They will break our economy by using oil as a way to inflict economic damage on us

Did we cause this? No. In Africa, in the Darfur region, where we have not been involved, hundred of thousands of people die at the hands of, you guessed it, Islamic extremist . We debate human rights they do not. We try not to kill innocent civilians, they don't care if they do. If one of our soldiers does kill or rape the innocent we prosecute, they celebrate theirs as a hero. We took over Japan and gave it back. We took Germany and gave it back. We don't want Iraq but we do need to confront Islamic extremist and let them know we will not just roll over.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Sir Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Sir Winston Churchill

Abortion (he'd better not go there)

My thoughts on abortion.






My thoughts on abortion are some what tied to my views on women's lib.






I am pro choice!



I believe that as long as a woman has a choice to have sex she should not have the choice to have an abortion. That means that if she is raped or has incest (that can't be a choice) she should have the right to abort. The only exception to this should be if the mothers health is severely threatened or if the baby will be born to a certain death or will have no quality of life.



It's a woman's body so a man has no say, some have said. Well I disagree. When a woman allows a man to deposit part of his body in her, her womb becomes more than just her.



But if we go with the laws of today they are totally unfair. Men have no say if a woman has an abortion or not. If she decides to have the baby he is obligated for child support by law but if she decides to abort he can do nothing. The fair thing would be, since abortion is legal, that if a man wants the woman to have an abortion and she doesn't he is not obligated for the child. I know that sounds cold but so does a man wanting a child but the mother aborts the baby against his wishes.



Adoption is always an option unless abortion is being used as birth control.

Words to live by

Here are some of the motto's I live by. I wanted to write them down so I can remind myself that they're important to me.

1. My house, my rules. Your house, your rules

2. Just because I don't agree with it doesn't make it wrong

3. If it's too good to be true it probably isn't

4. Work to live, don't live to work

5. Look before you leap, then step slowly

6. My respect is yours to lose

7. Measure twice, cut once (yes, it's the same as #5 but I work with wood a lot)

8. Treat others as you would want to be treated (no matter how much of an ass they are)

9. You can look at life two ways, like nothing is a miracle or like everything is a miracle

10. I am no better than anyone on this planet except for the lying, cheating, raping, murdering, child molesting, women beating, thieving, lazy bastards. I am better than all of them.

11. There are two side to every story, then there's the truth

I will update this list as I need too.

I hate to admit this but I love the Geico caveman comercials. I have actually paused one until I could get back to see the end. I think the actor who plays him is perfect. I hope they make some more.

Stop and Smell the Roses

This is the road leaving my house. I ride on it twice a day but rarely take notice of it. Coming home the other day it reminded me of my favorite poem by Robert Frost 'The Road Not Taken' and the Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road'. I think it's very pretty with the leaves and all. In the picture there is a lot of green but not so much in person.







It made me wonder what other beautiful things do I see everyday and fail to appreciate. Beauty is all around us and we hardly notice. We take vacations to far away places looking for it but I think it's time to stop and smell my own roses.

Please don't give money

I have this Aunt who lives on the other side of the country. She is the sweetest lady in the world but she does this one thing that really bugs me. She sends me money for Christmas. She has done this since I was a child and has never stopped. Well I'm not a child anymore and I never get her anything because I bearly know her. More than a few times I have forgotten to send her a thank you note so that means guilt, guilt, guilt when I do remember. One year I decided to not cash the check until I actually wrote the note but forgot and that screwed up her checking account. Again I felt bad. To make matters worse she really doesn't have the money and if she does her sons are going through hard time so they could use it more. So I feel bad.



I just got her card today and yes she did it again, damn it! She sent cash at that, I mean she mailed me cash through the US Post office. Well it's off to Walmart to buy a damn thank you card before I forget. I know this sounds horrible but really I'm 38 years old. I'm past appretiating money more than the card. Just send the card Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease. Please, Please.

Old Friends, No Friends

We took our normal weekend trip to Walmart this weekend and as we were going in I passed a friend from high school. I had not seen him in twenty years but I recognized him immediately and I'm pretty sure he recognized me. The funny thing was we passed with in five feet of each other and never said a word. He was with his family and I was with mine and I really didn't have anything to say to him.

As we strolled through Walmart I thought of him and how well I use to know him. We weren't best friends but we did spend hours a day together for four years. I know things about him that he wouldn't want his mother to know and that would curl his wife's hair. I certainly wouldn't want him to write a book about me.

He was always a great guy but today, Nothin'. I had no desire to talk to him at all and he me. I find it odd that I go on the Internet to interact with strangers but pass up on a old friend. I let people come and go out of my life with out a fight yet I love to get a damn email. I really don't understand us humans.

A Rainbow Pissed Me Off Today

I can remember when I was a kid and saw a rainbow it felt like I was seeing a little bit of magic. I would almost get goosebumps I would be so excited. I would think of where it might end and the treasure that must be there. I was taught that it was God's promise to never flood the world again.

Well today I saw a rainbow on the way to work. At first I was excited then as my mind started to imagine a pot of gold it was quickly replaced by a picture of the atmosphere and how light reflects off the moister in the air.How the colors are... wait, What? Why in the hell do they teach us this stuff. I mean do they think we are going to grow up to be rainbow makers? They have taken the joy out of everything. Slowly but surely they drain all the magic out of life. Sometimes ignorance would be bliss. I saw a rainbow today and IT PISSED ME OFF!