Wow that went by quick. What have you learned?

Now it is 2011. What the hell? And where did it go? Do you remember being told when you were young that the time just goes by faster and faster as you get old so quit wishing you were 18 or 21 or whatever it was at that time?

I remember the day Kennedy got killed(the president), they let us out of school early that day, and while I was walking home I figured out what year it would be when I turned 50, I laughed because I knew the world would end long before that year ever got here.

I am a bit more cynical now than I was then. I have experienced a few more ups and downs. Been to places and then back again. Seen good people do bad things and I have seen bad people everywhere I go. I have watched bad things unfold the lives of people trying to do good and I am certain that most of the good people are not provided with as many opportunities as they should be. I guess that is what qualifies people as good----they are able to make do no matter what.

I understand that the promised land is bullshit. If you want something, you need to get up off your butt and go take it. There is no goose pushing out golden eggs around here that is the entire truth. Sure that is not a list of all the steps you might need to take to get what you want, but you can bank on the fact that if you don't work for your goals you will never reach them.

In some cases you might even work your little behind off trying to reach specific goals and as soon as they come into focus some jerk pulls the carpet out from under your feet. But they do it only as they are reaching for the goals they have set for themselves. Bullshit. Some will do it just out of spite. Or maybe because they cannot stand to see another person happy and content.

Okay, that is good for now. Welcome to 2011 belated but welcome anyway.

Daily Efforts

The many challenges of living on the road because of the job can be inundating, to say the least. Currently I live with four adult men, one of which speaks zero English, and one other presents a plethora or issues. I will refer to him as pain number one. So PN1 has moved his bed into the living area of the small two bedroom apartment we occupy because he says he cannot tolerate the snoring his roommate does at night.
The living area, like all apartments is a part of the dinning and kitchen area. It is also the only space that provides access to the bathroom, refrigerator, sink, etc etc. In other words any movement in the place transverses his bedroom. Let me clarify that he is from a different country with a different culture, just thought I would put that out there in a politically correct manner.
This morning PN1 says to me that I cannot make coffee in the morning before 6:00AM, which is the time we leave for work, of course I tell him to move back into the bedroom to solve the issue. He cannot even seem to understand that he is the one who has put himself in a place where there is bound to be a level of disturbance each morning and I will not let him impose on the normal routines due to his choices of bunking locations.
Cultural and personal differences may cause problems down the road. But I am so willing to continue to live the way I want to regardless of PN1’s choices that the outcome is irrelevant. I guess that is all there is to say about that whole situation. I am certain that my ranting on and on about the conditions I put up with each day only serves as an outlet that does not include stupid behavior like arguing and bickering between grown men about such easily fixed issues.

Friday after work and ready for the weekend of complete boredom. But that could be a good thing, better than going to jail or filing for bankruptcy, I think. I guess that not all is as bad as it could be, I mean I have food and a roof over my head, so it could be much worse.

Anyway, that is probably not much different than the situation for thousands of people all over this great country of ours. Many have it so bad they cannot even afford to purchase a connection to the Internet and then they would miss out on my sarcastic discords. Imagine that would ya.

So what is the point you say? The point is that it is not what you have or don't have that really makes or breaks the day, it is how you deal with your situation. You can either hang from the whoa tree,(oh whoas me, what to do, what to do), or you can lighten up a bit and find something to smile about. Something such as the dumb ass you work with, you know the one person who has not got a clue about anything, and be glad you are not like that. Or think about the last great laugh you had... of course it helps if it was at somebody's expense, kidding, maybe, you decide.

Still no real clear point has been established. Are you surprised? Think about it, the entire point of this blog site is to clarify and elucidate on the truth about something. I say something meaning everything in general and nothing in particular. But that might change at any time. Guess you will just have to check in once and a while to see if this rhetoric ever becomes defined.

For now I will leave it as it is and feel okay about the confusion I might have caused. Have a great moment or don't it is completely up to you.

What's to Say it is Right

So I wake up in an apartment with three other adult men, all of us working on the same project away from our homes, and endure the crowded and inconvenient harassment of sharing the facilities and small spaces. One of the crew speaks no English so that makes it even more fun. I wonder if this sort of challenge is a normal part of life or if for some reason I have been singled out for special treatment.

The work is okay, the pay,(as always), could be better, but no changing that now I already knew what what I signed up for. Well gotta go for now I'll add more later.

Working on the Road

I find myself in a place named Watertown, New York working for a new company doing new things. All of this is good in a way, I don't much care for being away from my home and all of the daily comforts there but I can tolerate it for a time.

I do enjoy traveling and meeting new folks along with having new experiences in new places. I find it all lends support to my ideas about people places and things. They are what you make of them no more, no less.

It seems a universal reality that most people live in small little shells and are afraid of the world in general. Once and a great while I run into someone that is different in that they are willing to extend themselves with a smile or a handshake, but for the most part people go about their days sticking to themselves and their own realities.

I could be very sarcastic about this but why waste the energy on the negative side. Instead let me just say that it is okay for people to withdraw into a void and resist the natural ability to humanize the experience of living. It is just such a waste and it does bug me that it happens more than not.

Education as Modern Day Torture

I have been attending classes for the better part of my life and it seems that some of my fellow students should quit paying for school. I mean they don't seem to be able to learn or they hide that ability with expertly applied stupidity.




Maybe I have been over trained or I could be way too sarcastic for my own good. It might well have colored all my opinions a shade too dark for others to ever shine through.




As I sit in class tonight I am witness to the early process of academia in that the presentations being given in this class(a networking introduction class)I wonder if English is even the native language of So. Cal. and then if that is the case are there then no prerequisite qualification procedures in place at this university.
Which says not much for my choice of schools, even reflects on the way I have chosen to spend money on my own self improvement by enrolling here.


It makes me ponder the cash for qualification theory. Enough money and you can get graduated. Or if not enough money you can get graduated slower.

Through the Eyes of ......

So many ways to look at the daily experiences, none better or worse than others, just different. Working for someone else, collecting a paycheck every two weeks and going into the same American rut as millions of other people can be the worst feeling possible.

Get up in the morning, get dressed, get in the car, drive to work, spend the next 8 or more hours waiting to go back home. Sound like the daily grind or what. It seems to me that the entire process is just wrong.

I would be willing to work from sun up on Saturday to sun up on Monday then take the next four or five days off. I am sure that if the system had consulted me before creating the existing schedule it would have worked much better. Certainly it would have been more user friendly.

The ability to work from home is another possibility that could be explored by many of us. I have noticed in the past that when working from home the boss usually figures that you can work longer due to the fact that you are at home in the comfort of that environment. So I am not sure that working from home is actually a viable alternative.

I can see sometime in the future that everyone will be able to automate the working situation by creating some sort of proxy system. The answer is certainly in the technology to come. Let's hear it for stem-cell research and clones.

No matter how you view the problem it is just that, a problem. Of course it is not so bad that we cannot live with it, I am just thinking that improvements are in order.

Thanks for listening.