Ya know, life is really good...

I am really enjoying life right now. So much so I think I need to write a blog about it.

Scene: some really skinny guy with really fro'd hair, sipping fresh home brewed starbucks, tapping my foot to DJ Eion(I got hooked on Trance music curtesy of Emily). I think it is time to break out the motorcycle today! yay! BTW, 'yay' is my new favorite word. The weather is just PURFECT!!!! Heck yes!

Work is awesome(Sorry, I can't tell you about it..hehe), my career is headed in the right path - upwards. My goals are going to be accomplished by sheer force of will. My somewhat hidden passion for life is burning stronger than ever. Gotta go shower and fire up that motorcycle again.

Well, maybe one last blog

When Richard Clarke published his book Against All Enemies attacking Bush, it was too soon to say whether or not his allegations were just a bunch of hot air. Well my friends, we have corroboration in the form of a classified document courtesy of the Brits. If ever there was time for impeachment, this is it. I don't think that will happen because the American people don't give a rats ass about integrity. It's about keeping your guy in power and keeping the other guy out. I take small consolation that I was not fooled like the rest of the American lemmings.

On a side note, I am not shedding a tear for Saddam Hussein. I should also note that I am directly benefiting from the mass hysteria arising from 9/11 because the explosion of military contracts.

AFK

I may be away from my blog for a little while - I suddenly got massive amounts of work to do in a short time. Yay for overtime! I was going to respond to some of my more recent commenters, but I don't know if I will have the energy to do so...

What should I join?

OK, so I have left Church, and the Republican party...what should I join? That's not so obvious right now. Is it possible to start your own political party?

Leavin the Republican party

I am announcing my intention to de-register myself as a Republican. There is only so much of party politics that I can stomach and I have reached my tolerance level. I refuse to wear its collar and be identified with the other Americans that are little more than lemmingsfor the mediocre.

Trying too hard

What is it with those places that have strange names for their food/beverages? Tall, Venti, Grande!@!@? So, which one is larger? I can't tell you off the top of my head. Whenever I order something from Starbucks, I always use the standard english version - small medium or large. I must be a simple person, I understand large. What the hell is Venti?

Now Rubio's has gotten involved with their tres tacos meal deal. I am a white american gringo, I don't want tres tacos, I want THREE tacos. If I go to some authentic hole-in-the-wall mexican food shop and I say I want tres tacos, I will get a strange look because of my obvious lack of an accent. Why? Because its obvious you are trying too hard. If 'three tacos' is good enough for real mexicans, why should I have to say 'tres' tacos to the equally white american grigo taking my order?

I'll end with a word of precaution - never microwave the lime slices with the rest of your tacos.

Downing Street Memo

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

Disturbing - very disturbing.

I thought Bush was just an idiot for going into Iraq, but now its worse...much worse.

What is worse - Bill Clinton lying about getting a blow job and cheating on his wife, or Bush lying to and manipulating the american people on matters of national security.

Got that bug again

Ladies and Gents,

I have that bug to get out of San Diego again. It is back with a vengence. I have a possible job opportunity that has opened in Colorado Springs! If I can land this job, I will make like a snowboarder and leave for great adventures in a land far far away! If I don't get the job it doesn't matter - i'll get there eventually. Besides, my job here in SD just got a lot more interesting of late.

So, I spent some time today looking through the listings for houses in the Colorado Springs area. If I lived there, I would be able to make enough money to support a family on a single income. Not that I am jumping to start a family, but I would not have that option here in San Diego. I really really want that season pass for Breckenridge this winter....

An Actual Friday Night

9:00pm <-- time night started

I had this crazy idea that it might be fun to take my motorcycle out for a ride through the desert at night. Afterall, it would be warm in the desert and I could see the stars.

My roommate thought it was too dangerous to ride at night alone, and that I should get someone to ride with me. I thought this was interesting because dark roads don't scare me in the least. Maybe I should have listened....

I left my place, and stopped by my traditional gas station to fill up. For no good reason, I decided to put premium fuel in my baby. 2.7 gallons. How much did that cost me? $6.66 !!!??? hmmm, thats no good. I wonder if I really should ride with someone? I'll call Brent. Well, Brent is sick as a dog - so I'll be doing crazy stupid stuff alone tonight.

Everything is fine and dandy as I head up the 67. The air is warm, and so far it is just a peachy ride. Right after the town of Ramona, it starts to get a little cold. Stupid mountains - have to cross over them to get to the desert. I can bare the cold - for now. I have never taken mountain curves in the dark before, it is kind of interesting. You really need to use your high beams because it is difficult to see how the turn is developing with your low beams. Kind if fun - you can't see the turn all that well.

Driving past Dudleys.... I always stop there when it is open. On to Julian. Getting a little foggy here....I should slow down. The air is really smelling good. Ah, epic moments.

Julian is a litte ghost town this time of night. Not much to do here, so I keep heading for the road down into the desert. Here comes the fun! The curves here are better than before - but you still can't see any better. yeeehaaa! Hmm... if I die tonight, nobody would find my body for hours. No kamakazi stuff tonight.

In the desert now - not as warm as I would have liked and it is a little windy. Not a good night for camping. Stars are out in force again, and the air has that crisp desert smell... yum.

I reach a fork in the road...hmmm... should I head up to Borrego Springs( I went that way last time) - or should I cut south and pick up highway 8? South it is - gotta try new things. I wonder how far south I have to go to reach the highway?

It's a nice night, too bad it isn't a little warmer.. SHIT!!!! that rabbit almost ran me over! Damn inbred rabbits...better slow down a little(speedometer drops to 45). AHH!!!! That rabbit better make up his mind which way to go( as I hit the brakes ). WRONG DECISION(I don't know if I kicked him with my boot, or if that was his lifeless body as it passed under my wheel. Never killed an animal with a vehicle in 8 years of driving - and it has to be on a motorcycle.... For those of you who don't know - animals post a hazard to motorcycles. Bad news to run over something if you are going fast. Now I know what those dark spots are the road are - previous rabbit road kill. I guess it keeps cal trans in work - and the other animals fed.

20 minutes later: How far does this road go? Dang it, another rabbit. Slowing down to 20 mph... splat.. Whats my luck, twice in one night! This one LOOKED at me and threw itself at me!!! I think this one lived - I never found the body. So much for riding at much-to-high-speeds through the desert - that might be the end of me.


Ah yes, now we are at highway 8. Driving through Ocotillo Wells, I wonder if I should stop at that bar - the lazy lizzard? Nah--- thats how people end up dead in the movies.

Now I am on the freeway again - should be home soon... San Diego: 92 miles!!!! how did I get so far away!!!

The freeway starts to head up into the mountains - and getting a little windy!! This can't be good, I am driving like a drunk. Its a good think I am not a motorcycle newbie - this would scare me to death. Now its just fun!!!!

Yeah, its now getting more than a little cold...brrr... and foggy again! I really need to stop for something warm.

Hmmm, theres a strange orange glow over there - must be civilization. Getting off the freeway now, ah! I have stubled across the Golden Acorn!! Welcome to Indian Gambling. This is a really hick town casino - one restaraunt and it doesn't even have soup.

I buy some coffee and donuts and start walking around watching strangers. Its 12:30am, and there are a lot of people in the middle of nowhere pushing buttons on the slots. I wonder if they would be there if there werent pretty colors and cool noises. It's kind of sad, people who can't afford to loose their money loose it anyways. The coffee sucks, but it tastes good because I am frickin cold.

Getting back on the freeway - FrEeZzInG!!!! Now the fog is thick enough the condensation is collection on my visior. Can barely see..... ah, is this one of those border patrol checkpoints. I wonder if it is closed? I can't see anyone - actually I cant see anything. I need to clear my visor. Oops, they were open - and I drove past the officer at 40 mph! Nobody chasing me? whew...

Back home again - 2:00 am. Bed never felt so good. Survived to live another day to the fullest.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:

a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Reports of my unhappiness are greatly...

...exagerated. I use this blog to let out a side of my personality that does not get very much exercise. Overall I am doing just fine.

On Tithe

According to the Bible, we Christians should give 10% of our gross income straight back to God. Since God doesn't exist in physical form to recieve payment, we give to his representative - the Church.

From my previous post, I am taking a sabbatacle from church. Does that me I am going to stop tithing? To be honest, I has been years since I tithed to a church. I have been pretty good at setting aside a portion of my income ever since I started working at a real job making real money. That will not change for the forseeable future. In the last couple of years I have supported my world vision child, donated a metric ton of food, financed missionaries, send Bibles to Iraq, dontated to the Tsunami relief effort, given a car to a friend of mine who REALLY needed transportation of the 4 wheeled variety, and given money to various random people in need. There will always be people to pay the much deserved salaries of the pastors, and to pay for the church building. Personally, I think we should be building people instead of buildings. Here is a radical idea - people are so much more educated and literate than they were even 500 years ago. Do we even need pastors? Not for teaching. If you want book knowledge, pick up a Bible and start reading. If you want to move beyond that, get into a small group and/or start living out the Bible with some other folks doing the same thing. To be sure, pastors do more than give a sermon on sunday. I wonder if what we do is pay someone to be Jesus with skin so we don't have to. I know a lot of people who are Jesus with skin, and I know alot of people who aren't. I am in the latter group myself.

Just a disclaimer - whenever I rant and rave like this, it usually because I am pissed off at myself.

Leavin Church

I have been contemplating this for a while now, might as well do it. I had been attending the Sunday evening service at the fastest growing church in San Diego for the last year. It's a great church considering is size and the challenges associated with managing size. What is ironic is that my amigo asked me only last month to try to get another person to go to church with me. What really needed to happen was for someone else to get ME to go to church. What is that in scripture about blind guides??

Church is an outward reflection of what is inward. What do you do when church is no longer a reflection of what in inward? What do you do when you can't sing the songs and mean them at the same time? What do you do when the message seems to be at the level of gradeschool Christianity? What do you do when you realize that all you want is to be back in gradeschool?

Denial of issues is no way to resolve them.

Today sense of thoughtfulness brought to you by a wedding and the Garden State soundtrack

There are some things that make life worth living: love(agape love), a beautiful sunset over the ocean, music, long drives with no destination in mind, riding a motorcycle through mountain roads, taking a good shit, having a good meaningful conversation that continues for hours after you said you had to get going, flying down a mountain at 40mph on a snowboard, sitting on top of your car in the middle of a desert thunderstorm, standing on a rocky mountain peak looking over the world below and praising God for his awesome creation, and being a friend when someone is going through a hard time. I just need to remind myself of these things from time to time.

Read this

Want to read a good clean and fun flame? I know you do. On a side note, why is it funny to hear/read two people mock insult each other? I don't know, IT JUST IS - especially when the 'mom' joke is more like the 'mum' joke for the english!!!! hahahahahah

My cats are smart!

I have two cats(well, they are my roommates).

I went to go feed them this morning and I found an opened and empty condom wrapper in the food bowl.

What am I supposed to think???

Misc Ramblings

First for some blog update news... added some links to other blogs, and the realized that you can't see them in Internet Explorer...Everyone should switch to Firefox just so you can see the links. Besides, firefox has tabs.

I have some strange ideas on what is attractive on a woman:

• Fishnet stockings


• bandana in hair


• tatoo's - as long as they are not over done


• RED HAIR!!!!


• glasses - as long as they don't look like my mom's(sorry mom!)


• knee length skirts


• shortness - I veto high heels

In other news:
I have finally have some peace in my personal life. First time in 2 years. I am going to enjoy this time for now. Peace is good.

Got another call from another recruiter wanting my resume... and some references. Why do you need references exactly? If you don't trust me, don't hire me - I don't want to work for you. If you don't trust me, why would you trust my references????

finally washed my car...but now its dirty again

After contemplating my new Bible verse of the week, "Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind," I am droping the second job I had, and I am going to enjoy my evenings with tranquillity.

try this

Done with Theology

I have just a high enuf IQ to get myself into trouble...

...thinking that I can figure it out if I just think about it enough

...thinking that I have somehow a better revelation than others

...thinking that I'm too smart for people to 'get' me


All of this is completly absurd of course, IQ * EGO^2 = bad combination when EGO >> IQ. Note to people who know me: This is why I don't like it when people introduce me as the 'smart' one. It feeds that already heavily inflated ego. Besides, it also implies that you know nothing else about me. Better to just introduce me as *some guy*

While my enjoyment of theology will continue just because I am a thinker and it is not realistic to think that I will stop thinking on command, I must kick theology down the ladder of things that are important. I have heard MOST of the questions/arguments/theories that are worth hearing. Been there, done that. I would have liked to have gone to seminary if I had any intention of using that education for something other than personal enjoyment.

There is little correlation that I can determine between what you know of theology, and what you know of God. Strange isn't it? Theology means 'the study of God' so you would think that a theologian would know something of the subject. NOT

I don't think that Theology is a bad thing, or that it shouldn't be studied. Say that God picks a number - say 12. Then God says, in order to be on my good side after you die, you need to come up with the two numbers I am thinking of that when multiplied together, give you 12. Theology runs into problems because you soon discover that MORE THAN ONE SET OF NUMBERS WILL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER!!!!! You are closer now because you know that 1 * 12 will give you 12, so will 2*6 and 3*4. Eternity is at stake here, and ONLY the right answer will do. Do we get partial credit if we show our work???? Pretty please?? Why couldn't you just give us a prime number? No FAIR!!!

Don't study theology until you already know what number God is looking for. Study to find the others only out of pure curiosity.

I think I used to know the right pair of numbers, but I forgot. Damn.

Welcome to my world - I'm an engineer

My Car is so dirty...

You can't tell what color it is until you get close(my car is black)

Now the security guard knows me because one time I had to roll down my window to show him my ID

My windshield has so much dirt that I don't dare clean it in fear of scratching the glass.

Lizards think my car is a rock and use it to bask in the sun.

Strangers keep asking me how I see out my windshield.. I say, go over there so I can see you...