Mediocre Monday's

So this week had been a mixture of ups and downs.  Mostly downs.   My best friends birthday is today, well Tuesday, so I gave him a call at 4 minutes after midnight...  He works the graveyard shift and was busy while I was talking to him but it was cool to hear from people back home..   One of my old friends Stacy Hendershot was married this weekend..  Weddings are like funerals. You can interchange them sometimes.  

My roommate failed to pay the rent again this month, so coughing up the extra cash to pay rent put a squeeze on my budget...  I hope to have her out of her in a week.  She's got a new place to live and can move anytime, not soon enough.  I don't want to pay for her to have a place to live.  She's taken advantage of my so much this year.  out of the 11 months she's been here she has paid late 9 of those.   She acts like it's a bother for me to ask her when I can expect her to pay the rent.  I'm real close to changing the locks on the door...  But I have to keep my cool and do things so that I keep my legal options open.   Otherwise i would have kicked her out on her ass long ago.   

The sail boat above is a recent project I worked on in Adobe Illustrator.  We are supposed to pick something that we like to do and do an icon.  I like sailing, and I miss doing the with my friends.  I think it turned out pretty good...   I like applying myself sometimes, LOL...  

Haven't been doing much photography lately, as I have been supper busy with school projects.  tow of my classes have stopped meeting, but the rest of them are still in the swing of things...   Still unemployed, need a job...   I didn't think it would be this hard to find a job...   Oh well, more time to chase straight A's...  

Lessons Learned

So I have learned a valuable lesson in life.  People always tell me that "opportunity" knocks and if you don't take that chance then things will never happen.  I'm sure in my lifetime, I have let many opportunities pass me by without acting on them.  You know, the "go getters" always go after something that they want.  I'm more calculated about the chances I take and the things that I go after.  For example; I returned to college giving up a career that had some meaning in my life to try to better myself and put my self in a position to capture opportunities when they come up.  It was not a rash decision nor an easy one to make.  Going in debt more than I've ever been before to finish something I should have finished a long time ago.  Even more doing it the way I did it, drop everything and move across the country, 2000 miles away from my friends and family.  But I couldn't have done it any other way.  

I spent the summer back in Ohio, a place that I love and hate.  I' not sure why, but I felt that there was nothing there for me.  I mean no opportunity.  Career wise there isn't.  I just can't call up an old friend and go have a beer now, so there is hours of thinking about what I have done.  I can't go back, not now.  I have to move forward.   

So back to the lesson learned.  Unlike most people, I think I'm more considerate than most.  I think of the other person first.  I put my needs and wants behind what is good for the group or individual.  Why?  I don't know. I've always been like that.  I guess my parents raised me to make sure I take care of business before thinking about myself.  8 years as an EMT thinking about other people, putting myself second to the job.  No money but a dedication that propelled me to get up in the morning and head to work.  So what propels me now?  One, I have a mission to finish college and do the best I can, and right now I'm pulling all A's this semester and I'm pretty proud of that.  As for anything else, it's all gone now.  I have lost motivation for most everything else in my life.  Here is analogy of why.  It's like a gambler walk p to the table and has his life's earnings, places one bet and looses everything and now he has nothing.  That's my lesson learned.  Don't place all your chips on one bet.  

When you risk your most prized possession and you loose it, then what do you have left?  

A million miles separates you from what you desire and nothing you do can get you any closer to regaining that prized possession.   That's my lesson.   When you cherish something, don't risk it on anything that is not a guarantee.  

I've lost my most cherished possession...   Not sure if I'll ever get it back..   

What happened to Saturday?

So the other day when I was checking the weather for the weekend using my Weather Bug Widget on my Mac Book Pro I noticed something a little strange...  Where was Saturday?   We're not in a leap year are we?   The United Nations didn't declare Saturday as deleted from the calendar.   I hope not, I kinda like Saturdays.

I snapped a screen shot and uploaded it so you all can see for yourself that last week, we did in fact skip saturday..  

Some of you know that I'm a recent Mac convert, and I don't think I'll ever go back.   So yesterday when I was searching for files for an upcoming project I found this little picture.   At first I thought it was funny, actually I still do.  But then I started thinking about the real impact of this image.   It's a result from a few dumb ass American soldiers who do not represent the majority of the United States Soldiers and their actions in Iraq.  But I think it sends a realistic message to everyone.  We are in a WAR that we did not want, but have to fight.  What discuses me is a new poll that says 1 out of 5 Democrats thinks the world will be better off if America loses the war in Iraq.   Are they really serious?   Is that belief a reality?  What the hell...    How in the world can these people really think that.   That is why we failed our mission in Vietnam and left there in disgrace.   

If we lost the war in Iraq, what would happen?

1.  The terrorist that we have been fighting will claim victory and their numbers will increase and then we'll see more attacks like 9/11/01 happen here on American soil.  

2.  The 3814 soldiers that have been killed in Iraq will have died in vain.  Without support, without funding, without total confidence and forceful support behind our guys, they don't have a chance.  Why did we win WWII?  Our whole country was behind victory, every part of it.  We could win this war sooner if we all would work together and quit debating this.  Talk of pulling out of Iraq and ending funding is all working against our guys.  

3.  The world will not be better off.  We have already seen other countries suffer attacks and planing cells within their countries.  How do these people justify their "talk" when the actions we (George W. Bush) have taken has prevented any attack on out country since 9/11/01.  

When are the people of this country going to wake up and see that if they want more freedom they need to fight for it.  If we don't want to worry about terrorist attacks in our communities, then we need to take the fight elsewhere.  Picture this, a fire-fight in Times Square in NY City...   I don't think people would put up with daily bus bombings in Chicago, or daily IED attacks on I-5 in LA.    I don't think this country would put up with a terrorist coming into one of our schools and shooting all the teachers and girls for going to school, then hanging the people in the town square that don't agree with them...   This is why we are not fighting here.  We pull out of Iraq, and we say, Ok you beat us, come on over and fight on our turf, it's cheaper...     Give me a break...   

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Funny picture I thought people would enjoy.   Most of my friends know my political views.  I'm not a big fan of this woman or her husband.