Anyway, I’m trying to get out on my bike on a regular basis and have dropped a few pounds in the process. I have a great family, and I’m sure everything will work out great. And if the lottery gods are listening it sure would be nice if one of the tickets in my wallet had all of the winning numbers on it :)
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Happy Tuesday :)
Sorry that I haven’t posted anything in a while (not that anyone is holding their breath waiting for me to say something), I have been trying to make some money with a new business venture, I don’t want to go into it but it has been stressful. Usually new jobs, new ventures are stressful and take a bit of time to feel normal.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
I had a real kooky idea as I was driving back from Office Depot today, why don't we bring all of our troops home from every place we have them stationed overseas, I mean everywhere. I see no point that in having our troops stationed all over the world. We are not the world police force and we shouldn't have troops deployed all over the place.
What would that do for us? Well for one thing we wouldn't be flushing all of our tax dollars down the toilet by having these troops stationed in places like well Iraq of course but also Germany, Italy, England, Greece, Japan, I mean every friggen place. Now let me tell you this: I spent 5 years of my life stationed in Germany and I have been all over the place while I was in the service. I was in the Philippines when Marcos was ousted. It costs a fortune to have troops all over the world. We don't have a big Soviet Union to worry about any more! And for China, well they make every friggen thing we buy why would they want to attack us?
Maybe I have had too many beers tonight but I'm telling you that we need to bring the troops home from every place, there is simply no reason for having them over seas, but I must admit I had some mighty fine schnitzel in Germany.
What would that do for us? Well for one thing we wouldn't be flushing all of our tax dollars down the toilet by having these troops stationed in places like well Iraq of course but also Germany, Italy, England, Greece, Japan, I mean every friggen place. Now let me tell you this: I spent 5 years of my life stationed in Germany and I have been all over the place while I was in the service. I was in the Philippines when Marcos was ousted. It costs a fortune to have troops all over the world. We don't have a big Soviet Union to worry about any more! And for China, well they make every friggen thing we buy why would they want to attack us?
Maybe I have had too many beers tonight but I'm telling you that we need to bring the troops home from every place, there is simply no reason for having them over seas, but I must admit I had some mighty fine schnitzel in Germany.
What a wonderful beautiful day it is here in Eugene. The temperature is 80 degrees the backyard chickens are happy and the kids are entertaining themselves, what more could a guy ask for. We had friends stop by that we hadn't seen in over a year; they had come down to attend the Oregon country fair then they are traveling down to the redwoods in Northern California for a few days.
I think I will take the bike out for a nice ride; I have been trying to get riding in every couple of days. I'm trying to get into some kind of shape, when you get into you 40s you start to realize that you might want to live a bit longer and your not going to get there is you are a couch potato, not that I was before but I was feeling like I needed to get into some sort of shape. I usually take a good hard 1 hour trip and get good a sweaty. They have some wonderful bike paths here and it's a real treat to get out and see the sites. The bike path follows the Willamette river and there are gardens and wildlife to see along the way. If you have never seen a Nutria begging for bread crumbs next to the geese you are really missing out There are also families, bicycle pants wanna be racers, and homeless folks too.
No rants today, time to go enjoy the day!
I think I will take the bike out for a nice ride; I have been trying to get riding in every couple of days. I'm trying to get into some kind of shape, when you get into you 40s you start to realize that you might want to live a bit longer and your not going to get there is you are a couch potato, not that I was before but I was feeling like I needed to get into some sort of shape. I usually take a good hard 1 hour trip and get good a sweaty. They have some wonderful bike paths here and it's a real treat to get out and see the sites. The bike path follows the Willamette river and there are gardens and wildlife to see along the way. If you have never seen a Nutria begging for bread crumbs next to the geese you are really missing out There are also families, bicycle pants wanna be racers, and homeless folks too.
No rants today, time to go enjoy the day!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that the Iraqi army and police are capable of keeping security in the country when American troops leave "any time they want,".
With the Iraqi police firing at American troops and leaving the door open for insurgents to attack American troops I would say it is a pretty good time to leave.
In other news the Eugene Oregon Register Guard stated the US Air Force has built up air support with F16s, A10s, and B1B bombers. The civilian body count keeps going up on account of this. Well lets see, some Iraqi with a grudge informs on his neighbour he doesn't like and says they are building bombs. A B1B wipes out the neighborhood killing everyone. Boy isn't that a way to make the Iraqi people just loves us.
Bush is a fricken mad man who needs to be sent to jail for life along with all of his stooges. I just can't say this enough.
With the Iraqi police firing at American troops and leaving the door open for insurgents to attack American troops I would say it is a pretty good time to leave.
In other news the Eugene Oregon Register Guard stated the US Air Force has built up air support with F16s, A10s, and B1B bombers. The civilian body count keeps going up on account of this. Well lets see, some Iraqi with a grudge informs on his neighbour he doesn't like and says they are building bombs. A B1B wipes out the neighborhood killing everyone. Boy isn't that a way to make the Iraqi people just loves us.
Bush is a fricken mad man who needs to be sent to jail for life along with all of his stooges. I just can't say this enough.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Am I just a big trouble maker?
My point of the Wendy's post and of the field burning post is that in order to make our representatives or the CEO of some corporation wake up from their sleep is to slap them in the face with some reality. I think that they as with most people are just living in their own reality and need to have an outside perspective hit them with some different reality. Reality can be an elusive thing and we all can use an outside perspective from time to time. It is I think a rare thing to be able to step back and look at something from the outside.
I think that most people are trying to do the right thing even if they are screwing up the entire world as idiot George W. Bush is doing. It is very hard for me to fathom what is going on in his head. I suspect there is a squirrel on a treadmill chasing a nut. But of course it could be a small monkey banging cymbals together, or a fly sucking on a little turd. :)
I think that most people are trying to do the right thing even if they are screwing up the entire world as idiot George W. Bush is doing. It is very hard for me to fathom what is going on in his head. I suspect there is a squirrel on a treadmill chasing a nut. But of course it could be a small monkey banging cymbals together, or a fly sucking on a little turd. :)
I sent this to Wendy's restaurant today, I just thought I would share:
"I would first like to say that i have been a Wendy's restaurant customer for the past 15 years. The first Wendy's I can remember going to was in Grand Forks North Dakota when I was stationed there in the Air Force when I worked on our fleet of B-52 bombers that was protecting us from the threat from the USSR at the time. Wendy's has always been my first choice of hamburger restaurants until today. i will no longer purchase anything from any of your restaurants. And I will be letting the world know why on my blog.
Today, I was out on a bike ride with my 7 year old son when we decided that we could use a snack and some refreshments. We pulled up into the drive through on our bikes at the Wendy's restaurant on Franklin Blvd. in Eugene Oregon and waited our turn. When we got up to order we were told that we would not be served and that we would have to go inside to be served. Well the last time I looked a bicycle is a vehicle by state of Oregon law. I told them that they had lost my business and I received no response. I rode with my son 2 blocks to a Dutch brother's coffee hut and was gladly served snacks and refreshments at the drive through.
Maybe they didn't like the tie die shirt I was wearing I don't know but you no longer are getting any of my business and I will be posting this letter for the world to see.
Oh and by the way you can't leave feedback on your web site so I tracked down your email addresses to contact your management team directly."
I found the email addresses to the who Wendy's management team and sent a copy to each of them.
"I would first like to say that i have been a Wendy's restaurant customer for the past 15 years. The first Wendy's I can remember going to was in Grand Forks North Dakota when I was stationed there in the Air Force when I worked on our fleet of B-52 bombers that was protecting us from the threat from the USSR at the time. Wendy's has always been my first choice of hamburger restaurants until today. i will no longer purchase anything from any of your restaurants. And I will be letting the world know why on my blog.
Today, I was out on a bike ride with my 7 year old son when we decided that we could use a snack and some refreshments. We pulled up into the drive through on our bikes at the Wendy's restaurant on Franklin Blvd. in Eugene Oregon and waited our turn. When we got up to order we were told that we would not be served and that we would have to go inside to be served. Well the last time I looked a bicycle is a vehicle by state of Oregon law. I told them that they had lost my business and I received no response. I rode with my son 2 blocks to a Dutch brother's coffee hut and was gladly served snacks and refreshments at the drive through.
Maybe they didn't like the tie die shirt I was wearing I don't know but you no longer are getting any of my business and I will be posting this letter for the world to see.
Oh and by the way you can't leave feedback on your web site so I tracked down your email addresses to contact your management team directly."
I found the email addresses to the who Wendy's management team and sent a copy to each of them.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Well here is today's rant:
Here is the Willamette valley we have the largest concentration of grass seed farmers in the world. Driving down the freeway and you see what looks like huge lawns. When the grass goes to seed the seeds are harvested, packaged, and shipped around the world for lawns. That is all good and find except for a small percentage of grass seed farmers insist on burning the grass stubble every year after harvesting. Grass seed farmers are actually paid by the government large sums of money to not burn and to take care of the stubble in a different way. Most of the farmers do this but there are a few backward stubborn farmers who insist on burning their field as they did today. Huge clouds of smoke came rolling into my home town today causing problems for the elderly, very young, and people with respiratory problems like asthma. It was 100 degrees and the air was foul. These people are selfish and stupid and hire lobbyists to keep the practice legal. All I can say is shame on you oh stupid and selfish ones. I wrote an email to our Governor today and left a message on his answering machine complaining and I complained to my state Representatives as well. There were over 100 complaints about the smoke today to the Lane regional air quality protection agency. (our county air quality department) and it was covered on the news. I hope that some sort of common sense will kick in and maybe my state Representatives will get an ethical backbone and actually do something about this problem to help the common good and stop supporting stupid, stubborn people who have lobbyists with briefcases full of cash.
Here is the Willamette valley we have the largest concentration of grass seed farmers in the world. Driving down the freeway and you see what looks like huge lawns. When the grass goes to seed the seeds are harvested, packaged, and shipped around the world for lawns. That is all good and find except for a small percentage of grass seed farmers insist on burning the grass stubble every year after harvesting. Grass seed farmers are actually paid by the government large sums of money to not burn and to take care of the stubble in a different way. Most of the farmers do this but there are a few backward stubborn farmers who insist on burning their field as they did today. Huge clouds of smoke came rolling into my home town today causing problems for the elderly, very young, and people with respiratory problems like asthma. It was 100 degrees and the air was foul. These people are selfish and stupid and hire lobbyists to keep the practice legal. All I can say is shame on you oh stupid and selfish ones. I wrote an email to our Governor today and left a message on his answering machine complaining and I complained to my state Representatives as well. There were over 100 complaints about the smoke today to the Lane regional air quality protection agency. (our county air quality department) and it was covered on the news. I hope that some sort of common sense will kick in and maybe my state Representatives will get an ethical backbone and actually do something about this problem to help the common good and stop supporting stupid, stubborn people who have lobbyists with briefcases full of cash.
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