New Job

I landed a new part time job at an answering service. For years I abused those poor people so I took the job to make up for it. Turns out they are the best group of people I have ever had the pleasure to work with. The main problem is they are hard people to have conversations with. For some reason those darn phones we have to answer keep ringing.

Say Again!

In life I find myself getting angry at sayings like, "learn by your mistakes. If you get lemons make lemonade. When one door closes another opens. Finally Trust in God." After many; many hardships all these sayings proved true. What makes me mad is the time I spend in worry and stress during these times. What is hard to remember is, when going thru a new open door; make sure I close the old door behind me.

NC Got Gun Laws ! ! !

To my Daughter On 7/24/13, Now that you can bring guns when you go to the restaurant or playground in NC. What kind of firearms should I send the grandchildren? hand or rifle? Love Grandpa Reply to Grandpa: How about neither! To my daughter. Ok. As a school teacher. Do you now get to carry guns to school? Love Grandpa. (Still waiting for a reply).

Click oops!

When I was young I was sitting in front of a very new television. It was 1960. I asked my mother this question. "In school today the teacher told us a story of Pandora's Box. What exactly she talking about? What is Pandora's box? "You are watching it." she said." I remembered this just after watching "The Snowtown Murders" on Netflix in 2013. The box is very open.

I'm Back

Since no one really reads this I decided to take a small vacation. When I came back the only one that missed me was my pet dog. Well, only when I replaced his battery. Now he is fixed and breathing again. My daughter called me and said they went to Florida to check on Grandma who may be having memory problems. Of course my Daughter and her son got lost on the way down. They did eventually find her house. Grandma is doing fine.

Why Mommy?

I do volunteer work in a Hospital and over heard a little boy ask this question to his mother. "Mommy why do dumb people have smart phones?" It was a maternity waiting room and there was a lot of cell phones going off with different annoying ring tones. Also a lot of loud people screaming, "The Baby is here!" Then cell phone pictures galore being passed around. One family was actually talking to the mother during the birth and yelling "push" "Your doing good. We are here for you!" I agreed with the little boy. Although that is why I like my volunteer job, I learn a lot.

Stroke Recovery

My former wife had a mini stroke. This is a big fear of mine and my daughter was pretty worried about it. It was a mutual decision to part ways. I am very glad we have a wonderful daughter that was very understanding during our departure from each other. My daughter also related my past partner had lost parts of her memory. The doctor thinks she should recover most of it but it may take awhile. My daughter said it would be ok to visit her and her new husband was ok with it also. Probably because of her memory loss she would not remember being angry about our bad times together. Unfortunately her husband is having a rough time. Seems she thinks he is me and has been yelling at him quite a bit. So I decided maybe I should wait and visit her later.

Feeling What?

If there is no life after death then I won't feel disappointed or angry when I die.

Medical Breakthru!

If you want a well conditioned body but hate to exercise.
Use Hair Conditioner for a full body wash in the shower or bath.

Male Bonding Story.

My Grandfather instructed me to always open a door for members of the opposite sex. "Why?" Was my curious response. He then explained that one day a man entered his cave like he did every day, but on this day a rock fell and hit him on the head while entering the cave. Since then he always let the woman go first. Thus began the notion that man was curtious to the opposite sex. The woman never caught on because rocks did not fall all the time. When they did. The rocks usually killed them. If not the man helped the woman recover from her injuries. This also led the woman to stay in the cave after recovery and gave the notion that man was a caregiver. Since not enough rocks were falling and the man wanted a woman to stay and share the cave with the man. Man came up with the idea of sneaking up behind woman and knocking her out with rocks. Then later because the clubs were more effective and less likely to kill the woman. Clubs were used more and more. The man always told the woman during recovery, "You are lucky you should have seen the size of the rock that hit you." Later on the woman began to suspect something was up with the man and started calling him a caveman. Not because he lived in a cave but what happened to her skull after he hit her
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Opening the car door for a woman came later when the man needed to test the car brake.

Drink and Pass please.

In order to prove our ancestors drank lots of wine and smoked extremely powerful pot. Read Aesop's Fables.

And The Oscar Goes to!

                                        
                                                   You !!!

 Enjoy the reward, the after party and everything that goes with it.

22132 days

If I ever offended anyone in the last 22132 days.  I apologize.  Just please let me know the exact day I offend you.

Wreck Cog Nation

Walking down a street or passing people by what do you do?  Try to be invisible to everyone. Walk a little faster.  Put on a non expressive face.  Or Say a friendly hello.  Make a little smile and back it up with a nod.  Which one makes you feel?  Which one makes you not?  What makes someone recognize another person?  What makes your neurons fire or not fire? ...........Hello! or Hell.....O!

Friends.

The best thing about friends is that they accept me.  This makes it easy for me to accept them.  Every now and then acceptance can be tricky.  Like when my one friend was excited about her homemade multicolored rubber flip flop wreath decoration for her door.  I just think about my mom giving my dad a wooden paint mixer with an empty plastic six soda can holder stapled to it.  He needed this to kill flies.  Those presents she gave my Dads helped me accept things.  The Styrofoam empty egg carton garbage cans were helpful also.   Plus they are easy to make.  Just make sure to use colorful yarn to tie the egg cartons together.

Judas - A lesson in economics that isn't funny.

It is said that Judas committed suicide after he betrayed Jesus.
One of the reasons was he felt guilty because he betrayed Jesus.
Another reason was he had to do it, with Jesus knowledge, to fulfill the prophecy.
The third reason no one acknowledges.
It was revealed to Judas after it was done. 
That the exploitation of  his betrayal/Jesus death.  Would create power and wealth beyond his imagination to a future Christian Religion.  Based on the fact that he only did it for 32 pieces of silver, when he could have made so much more.  He would not only be labeled a traitor but also a fool.  This was the motivation for his suicidal actions!
The act was accomplished after another revelation that other religions would be started for similar power and wealth.  Thus wars, hatred and violence would be born because God's infinite pocket book was more important to man than his word. 
Welcome to The Crusades, Boston, the Twin towers, gun violence and our children's future.
If you had the same opportunity and knowledge Judas had what would you do?

Lost Time

Announcement in a waiting room on a Maternity Hospital Floor by the mothers younger sister.

"Hey youse guys!   She is 20 centementmeters and the doctor just gave her an epidourial a shot or sumthing to help it git born." 

Holy Days!

One interesting fact about life is that somewhere, sometime one will confront religion.  Some born into one, others will discover and explore religion.  Then a choice is made to accept or reject certain beliefs, God, and or a way of life that religion provides.  One little girl was confronted by an inquisitive classmate one day.  The big question was the Virgin Birth.  They concluded that life itself is an impossibility so a Virgin giving birth was not that big of a deal.  Then the classroom bell rang and it was time for recess. 

Wiz Dumb

Every now and then all of us get a shot at thoughts and words of wisdom. 

Child asks his grandfather.  "Will I ever get old?"
Grandfather replies, "Give it time and time will tell."
"Why is there life on this planet and why am I here?"  Just about everyone wants to know.
The only one who has the answer is Fred.  Unfortunately he got on the wrong spaceship and ended up somewhere else.

Power Short Out Age.

Cavemen were mostly in the dark I believe. Fire was a big help. Every now and then the fire would go out and that was their power outage time.

I had a recent power outage. All the power in my neighborhood was out for over 12 hours. I could not understand why it was so dark. Then I realized that at night even though the lights are off. All the LED lights on my clock, phone, TV, VCR and various other electronics did light up my darkened house a bit. I was surprised at how many of these little red lights I had. When they went out, during the power loss, it really made a difference. Sometime it amazes me what I learn just sitting in the dark.