Honesty

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -Robert Flaherty

Tuesday I swapped trucks with Abram and he did me the favor of taking my truck up to north Austin to get the window installed. After, he went to turn in his application for the apartment and the rent for May. It is nice to know there are people in life you can count on. During my lunch break I met up with him to change trucks and man it felt good to see a window instead of a cardboard cover. We had lunch and I went back to work. Now I need a good car wash.

Here is my HIMYM review for the week. It just seems like each show gets better. Watch it people. Really, if after reading this you go out and watch the show and don't find it great, I'd like to know. I just think people don't give it a chance. In this last episode it was awesome how Barney hired Marshall as his attorney and then told him a secret and held him to attorney client privilege. That was classic, as was the devil's threeway joke. The ending was great and I'm glad Barney got what was coming to him. Ted was turning 30, but it seems like 29 would of made more sense.

I finally caught up with a good friend of mine this weekend. It had been a while since we had talked. I feel like I end up really going on with random mundane things, which means we will have a long conversation, so I should probably just call more often and keep the conversations shorter. I can just go off on so many tangents. It is nice to see people's lives going well.


Words can say a lot of things, especially written words. Things that change the way you see the world, things that change your entire perspective of a person or how they are feeling. They can also sometimes just be words, maybe with some sort of meaning when put to paper, but when pressed for action, not as strong as the impact they made on you when you read them.

Thanks for the recent kudos. My Myspace readers don't leave enough of those.

I'm really waiting on that tax money. $300 won't go a long way, but I have people I owe money to that this would help with. Sadly, it will probably pay for a few tanks of gas.

I'm tired of hearing 'no'

The Pound

"I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose," said Tan-Chun. "If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!" - Cao Zhan (c.1715-1763)

I am welcoming the end of this week. Thursday was another day that left much to be desired. I'm at work and I get a phone call from animal control. The dogs got out yet again and this time the neighbors called the authorities on me. I had to rush from work and when I got there, the dogs were sitting on the porch of the house while the dog catcher was waiting for me in his truck. He was a very cool man, he told me that the fine would be about $130 a dog, but that this time I would just get a warning since it was a first offense and he didn't have to take the dogs in. I was very lucky.



My hearing must be bad because I can't hear the under 40 sound in the video below. Where do you rank?

I run into a lot of really random websites. Here is one I thought was clever. http://www.exboyfriendjewelry.com/, a website for women to share their break-up stories and sell their jewelry. It makes me wonder about my discussions with friends about buying an engagement ring from an engagement that did not work out. You could get a really great deal, but the history makes people see it as bad luck, or at the least, it comes with a bad story. Maybe that is why ebay or craigslist would be a better idea. Considering the diamonds were probably mined in a way that has a worst story, you would think it wouldn't compare, but people don't like thinking about that. A wise person once told me to "marry someone you can talk to." When we are old and grey, talking will count for more than we can imagine today.

I finally got to see this weeks How I met your mother. Oh my...Barney and Robin....that is so wrong. Maybe I never got over the Robin Ted breakup, but Barney? Yes, I'm this emotionally invested in this show.

is it just me?

Shattered Window

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

I hate to talk about negative things, but sometimes they just happen. I just feel that harping on them just makes them worse. So yesterday I got a speeding ticket for going 40 in a 30. I mean, 40, really? It will cost me the same as if I was going 80 in a 70. Now which seems worse? I don't have a TX license, so I can't just take a defensive drivers course. I tried to let it go and not think about it.

Then Abram gets home last night and we move all my stuff in. It felt so good to have my couches. We are probably done at about 12:30am and I go to bed at 2am. I'm up and ready for work at 7:30am and as I walk to my truck I notice that the floor is covered in black glass. I wonder who would of broken a glass by my truck. Then as I look up, I notice that my back window is smashed. Someone broke into my truck last night and took all kinds of stuff from the inside. My ipod, gps, maglight, ripped up part of the dash, and probably some other things I haven't yet figured out. I called the police and they got there quickly and I filled out a report. They noticed another car broken into on the way over, but they had yet to call. They took prints but found nothing. What really pissed me off was that they tried to get in by messing with the handle lock, which means that that is messed up too. Now I have to find out how much it costs to get fixed and if it will be more than $500 or less than, since that is what I'm paying either way. Sure beats getting a few stratches. To make matters more interesting, it starts to rain as the cops leave. I have to create a ghetto window cover with cardboard, thick plastic sheets and tape. It did the job and is the least eye sore you can expect.

Well of course, other than being late to work, it starts to rain even more testing out my cover. It will need more tape later. On the bright side, with a day starting this bad, it can only get better.

On the subject of bad handwriting, which includes mine, did you know that in any given year, approximately 7,000 people die because a pharmacist couldn’t read a prescription.

Let me tell you more about yesterday. So Abram brought my couches, my table, dvds, games, dart board, kitchen ware, stereo and a few other assorted items. Rino, Abram and I started setting up the upstairs and it was starting to look real good. We put some carpets down, some pictures up and even got the TV on a stand. Rino brought a mini-fridge up and now the place really looks like home.

In pretty damn amazing news, I just found out that my friend Angie just passed the Virginia bar exam. I'm so very happy for her. I can't wait to hang out with her and Bob to celebrate. Now she has two bars under her belt. I looked through the list and noticed some names of people I went to school with too. That was a great way to end the day. Can't wait until I join the taking two bars club.

this sucks

Another Primary

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

So today is Earth Day, did you know that? I didn't, but it seems like every year I forget until the day actually arrives. It kind of feels like the one day people talk about the environment, but more in a spiritual way rather than in a we have to really change the way things work type of way. I'm drinking from a water bottle as I type. I hear those are terrible for the earth. Hope you had a good one folks.

The air condition broke at work on Monday. It resulted in a very hot day. I guess the good news was that we got to get out an hour early. I had to go home to wait for the cable guy in the morning, so it really put a damper on the hours I was able to put in.

The only Sunday talk show I seem to watch is Meet the Press. I really respect the show and like Tim Russert. This Sunday I caught him making a mistake that really urks me. I quickly looked for an article to see if anyone else noticed the same and it wasn't too hard to find. Here it is.

On Meet the Press, Tim Russert asserted that “many Democrats fear Republicans in the fall will string together an ad which shows,” among other things, “[Sen.] Barack Obama with his hands clasped in front of him rather than holding his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance.” However, the photo to which Russert was apparently referring appeared in Time magazine with a caption indicating it was taken during the national anthem, not the Pledge of Allegiance…read on.



I have this medicine for my heart. To be honest I'm not taking it. I took it a few times, but I wasn't sure if it was making me feel sick, so I just stopped. I just feel like my body should fix this problem on its own. This of course is not happening. The idea of being one of those people that gets a heart attack is kind of scary. That is the kind of thing that happens to old men, and in my case when I'm old, old men that are not me. It is hard to worry about something you can't feel. Maybe it isn't my body that should be fixing the problem, but instead my actions and choices.



You know what I hate more than bad smells? Bad smells that I've been around so long that I no longer notice. Our downstairs couches are really nice, but they still have that dog smell that although less, still hasn't gone away. My concern is that I'll just get used to it and not notice it anymore and the problem will still be there.

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