Sorry to all who have responded to posts, emailed me or posted to me in other places. I have been so busy this week I am not even getting much sleep. I have even fallen behind on my Flickr 365.
I will get back into it this weekend.
Hope all are doing well
I am referring to the last post I made. I was panicked because of a stressful day at work and mad at god. I would like to have closeness to god again just not dure what that would look like now
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This site is probably an invasion of privacy and probably gonna sell me out to the man but for now I think its interesting I can share my weird musical tastes with blog readers. It tells you what I have played. At least on my work PC. I don’t condone it but go ahead and watch me. Whats next? Freaking reality TV.
http://www.mystrands.com/spiritbear928/music
Just the title of this free ebook got my attention. Someone once posted that sacred cows make the best hamburger. I think it was comment on this blog but I don’t feel like looking for it. Whoever said it, you know who you are.
Back to reality, (see my ADD mind wander all over again), this ebook is about tithing and why we don’t need to do it. Many who have been reading this blog for a while know I like tithing as much as I like mandatory health insurance.
This is from an assumed fundamentalist Christian background (which I have some issue with at this point) but its an interesting read if you ever need to refute someone who preaches tithing and speak in fundise instead of English
http://www.tithingdebate.com/EatingSacredCowsDownload.pdf
I think I am going to cook up some sacred bocaburgers tonight and serve them up on some locarb pita bread.
I am sensing the need to blow off the diet and have lunch at McDonalds. Though it would probably kill me now.
This is street level view on Google maps. The link will take you to a photo of the home in
Anyway, the detail is great but at the same time very frightening. Surveillance society here we come. Check it out
OK so back in 03 we ran into a snag similar to what we are in now only then there was no obvious light. This time there is.
I was freaked out by the calls and just wanted them to stop so we signed up with Intellidebt. One of those debt counselors that you see on TV. Here is what it did for us and what it did not do for us:
The incompetent:
1) The whole first $450 payment went to “admin costs” so the calls continued and dragged on for another month not to mention that what was slight lateness (about 30 days) turned into major credit damaging lateness (over 60 some reaching 90 before these morons sent them money)
2) They charged us $77 a month for admin fees on top of what they paid the creditors
3) They cant ever seem to get the due date right so occasional slightly late payments happened and cards dropped out from time to time
4) The outrageous amount of the monthly payment (way more than the minimum) caused us to have to go more in debt and get more credit cards to pay for it
5) We finally have it almost paid off and when we call to drop the program, nobody will talk to us. They promised callbacks and didn’t do it.
The Good:
1) After 3 months, the calls stopped and one big payment is all we owed for the cards we put in the program.
2) By giving up the cards, they did EVENTUALLY get paid off
3) The interest rates were SLIGHTLY lowered
4) It improved our credit rating after their incompetence damaged it.
This time we wont go for this. These supposed “non-profits” rip people off and don’t know how to run a business.
There is light at the end of this. Light from the IRS of all places. In a month, it will all be current and we will get out with fairly unscathed credit. Just a couple of over 30 days late.
I worked too damn hard to improve our credit and these dickheads didn’t help much. Just a warning to those stuck in debt. Debt counselors cant do anything you cant do yourself if you have the time and a thick skin. Neither of which do I have when it comes to creditors. Therefore changing my phone number and paying them a bit late works for me
To be a Republican you need to believe:
1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary
2. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s
Daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him,
and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.
3. Trade with
trade with
harmony.
4. The
highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against
5. A woman can’t be trusted with decisions about her own body, but
multinational drug corporations can make decisions affecting all
mankind without regulation.
6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in
speeches, while slashing veterans’ benefits and combat pay.
7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won’t have sex.
8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies,
then demand their cooperation and money.
9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing
health care to all Americans is socialism. HMO’s and insurance
companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
10. Global warming and tobacco’s link to cancer are junk science , but
creationism should be taught in schools.
11. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable
offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which
thousands die is solid defense policy.
12. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the
Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the
Internet.
13. The public has a right to know about Hillary’s cattle trades, but
George Bush’s driving record is none of our business.
14. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you’re
a conservative radio host. Then it’s an illness and you need our
prayers for your recovery.
15. Supporting “Executive Privilege” for every Republican ever born,
who will be born or who might be born (in perpetuity.)
16. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960’s is of vital national
interest, but what Bush did in the ’80’s is irrelevant.
17. Support for hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for
wearing orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.
If you don’t send this to at least 10 other people, we’re likely to
be stuck with more Republicans in ‘08.
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Todays annoyance goes to:
People who talk to you in the bathroom while you are taking a leak.
I realize that it may be acceptable for women to do this. I don’t know. Never been a woman or in a ladies room (well once accidentally when I was very drunk but we wont go there). Anyway, in the mans world, it is not cool to carry on conversations with people while using the facilities. It is not cool to ask about your day or your computer while peeing. You are supposed to silently stare at that imaginary spot on the wall and do your business. When you make a man uneasy while in the bathroom it becomes difficult and awkward both physically and mentally.
I will talk to you but please don’t talk to me when I am in the bathroom. It freaks me out man.
http://www.democratherald.com/articles/2008/03/03/news/top_story/7aaa02_courthouse.txt
A friend of mine from the Coast emailed me and told me. Since I am at work and work is not in
Commissioner Roger Nyquist (NEYE'-quist) says a county employee found writing on a courthouse door and some packages inside early Monday morning that indicated a threat.
He says the Linn County Sheriff's Department and Albany Fire Department have been conducting a HAZMAT inspection and the package will be taken to a lab for analysis.
The results are expected to come sometime Monday. Nyquist said a decision will be made Monday afternoon on whether or not the courthouse will reopen Tuesday.
If you are innocent, you have nothing to hide and need not fear. This is often said, Mostly be Republicans when discussing homeland security, RFID, police state, etc. Those who say that may end up being the first to find out it is not true.
If you are innocent, you have everything to fear. Do you trust the government to decide if you are innocent or suspicious.
We aren’t there yet but I don’t like the way things are going.
May God help us all if we really are heading for 1984.
I gotta quit listening to Coast to Coast and reading articles on the Internet. Being an ostrich with head buried in the sand was so much easier. I think I should go back to Church, stop thinking and do what they tell me. If big brother says 2+2=5 it’s a lot easier to believe it than to get all your teeth pulled out with pliers and branded as a thought criminal like that dude on 1984.
This post is full of sarcasm. A bit of conspiracy theory and an element of reality. I may sound like a paranoid idiot and no I am not ready to move to
All I am really saying here is don’t be an ostrich. Watch the signs. Be prepared and be afraid but only slightly afraid.
Actually if you want to be an ostrich, go ahead. I am not telling anyone what to believe. If you want to believe the sky is purple you have that right.
There are a few things that I have noticed make me uneasy. Borderline crazy or make me feel crazy.
1) I haven’t flown for a long time and deep down I have a mild fear of flying but that isn’t what keeps me away from the airport. I am scared shitless of airport security and any interaction with the dept of homeland security. Many would say, I am not doing anything wrong, I need not worry. I worry though. I expect to be wrongfully accused. I don’t trust them. The same fear makes crossing the US Canadian border a fearful experience though I have done that once post 9/11. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t that bad. They didn’t do much but it left me with that I hope they had rubber gloves on feeling. I also have amorbid fear of being kept on a plane on the tarmac for many hours without a working bathroom
2) Redlight cameras. Ever since my wife got a ticket from one, I look up at those things and my heartrate increases. Everything starts moving slowly and I am obsessed with getting out of that intersection. I also get haunted with fear of who is watching and what are they doing with it. I get that same feeling when I see a cop following me on the road. Innocent until proven guilty. YEAH RIGHT.
3) Telephones. Spending years working in a help desk. Now avoiding creditor calls have caused me to jump out of my skin when the phone rings. Once I see who it is, I calm down. But I don’t answer the phone in most cases without caller ID. The feeling I get when it rings is what scares me.
I don’t want to be a slave to these things and with the exception of the airport one, they haven’t been crippling fears. Just more of an internal panic until I calm down.
Maybe I am losing my mind. Maybe the thought of a surveillance society is too much for me. Maybe I am normal and everyone feels this way about something inside.
A woman in
I just read a disturbing article on wired that said that cars that have RFID implanted keys are stolen and insurance companies are denying the claims saying the cars are theft proof.
I remember three years ago the top of my key to this car broke and it cost me over $100 to get a damn working copy. Not to mention several trips to different places. All the dealer had to do was run the VIN and magically program a new key to work. So we now trust all car dealer employees. I would think they could make some extra dough on the side by selling keys. They have your personal info so they know where to find the car and how to make it work. But if they steal it the insurance company can accuse you of fraud and there are real people out there paying for cars that don’t exist because of this.
Our car is paid off and I only keep full coverage on it because in our neighborhood I worry about car theft. What’s the point?. Maybe I will drop it today. Since it CANNOT BE STOLEN.
The real stupidity is I have to keep full coverage on my 21 year old pickup that nobody would steal (but would be easy if they wanted to) because it is collateralized in a loan.
Today we attempted to go to opal creek wilderness but only made it to the first unpaved bridge and the road was buried with snow. It was nice out there.
We will make it to jawbone flats and opal creel when the snow melts.
OK so we had liquid satan now we have the satan device. The company I work for decided to buy the CEO a Zune music player to bring him into the digital world. This is Micro$ofts knock off of the Ipod. I was tasked with setting it up and ripping about 10 CDs and copying them to it.
I have officially declared the Zune the satan device. This thing is from the bowels of hell. I plug it into my laptop. You cannot use it without downloading software. OK. Maybe that’s fine. I download the shitware (I mean software) and it proceeds to without asking UPDATE THE FIRMWARE on the Zune. Now as a tech I know that Firmware updates can go very bad and toast your device. At least an option would have been nice but this just did it.
Now my laptop is a 1.8Mhz core Duo with 2GB of RAM and XP. Not bad really. Well it took 45 minutes for this satanware to install. That seemed excessive. No progress indicators. Nothing. Then once installed it starts puking out random error messages which researching it tells me are TO BE EXPECTED. This will be great for a technophobe CEO. Finally I get the damn satanware to work and then had to figure out how to copy music to it. You would think Micro$uck product would use Media Player. NOT.. Forget about drag and drop like a normal MP3 Player. Nope you have to use the Zune satanware to copy files to it. And its about as user friendly as a nuclear power plant in meltdown.
Ok so I get it all figured out. All is well right. WRONG. Now every time I turn on the laptop its noticeably slower and has errors on the Zune bus enumerator. Sure I can probably disable the services or worst case reformat my laptop. But CEO with his slower system is going to expect this piece of shit to actually work and call me when it doesn’t.
We haven’t presented the satan device to him yet. I am going to try and talk the people who bought this into returning the damn thing and buying him an ipod.
Somehow I know I will get called on a weekend sometime and will be treated as if I wrote this satanware.
ZUNE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. It looks cool but the software makes Vista look like something good. What a piece of shit.
