Whatever happened to The Westerns of the 60s and 70s? The John Wayne movies were great and there was just a ton of them. Even Johnny Cash did the gunfight. And then the spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood. It just seemed like there was a bunch of them. It was a fairly short time in history but a unique time when the six gun and the repeating rifle changed the way arguments were settled forever. There were lots of wide-open spaces and not too much law. Your horse and your hat were the only things that kept you alive sometimes.
Nowadays it's almost hard to watch some Westerns. The ones that had very little dialogue and these long scenes with people riding around on horses or watching The Horizon or sitting around the campfire. Scenes that depicted the loneliness and the expanse of the West. Nowadays people are sitting waiting for Non-Stop blazing gun battles and dynamite exploding every 5 minutes. The west just wasn't like that.
I found out recently that some of the places called forts weren't really forts at all. They didn't have an Armory or Canon. They had a lookout up on top to spot people coming to trade. the place kind of looked like a fort it but it was actually a trading post. If it had really been attacked by say a hundred Indians it wasn't defensible. these places were for trading furs. Beaver furs or maybe bear furs once the rifle became popular in the West. My understanding is it really wasn't easy to kill a grizzly bear with a musket. The movies portray every place called a fort to have a bunch of Union Soldiers in blue With yellow bandanas. many of these trading posts didn't have any military benefit. They were never attacked, like in the movies. As the Indian way of life was wiped out these trading posts were abandoned and melted down and have disappeared. Indians could be violent and at times did try to run off the white man by using Force. But generally not at these trading posts. The Trading Posts seemed to have been on the frontier and not heavily populated. The Indians didn't see them as a threat for the most part. Of course overtime more white people came and basically wiped out the Indians. The Indians were not well organized and were no match for European technology.
true worthiness of a movie
This new car radio will play DVD movies. It has a 6 by 9 inch screen. So far it's had about two and a half movies played on it. After the first few minutes of the first two movies I started just skipping to the next chapter of the movie and watching a couple of minutes from the beginning of it. The first two movies really weren't worth very much. They were somewhat funny but they really weren't memorable. If you watch a movie on a 6 by 9 inch screen and it doesn't really hold your attention then it's really not much of a movie. A movie that has something to say will hold your attention even on a tiny little screen. and the volume doesn't have to be set so high that it blows you out of the room. Now the third movie is an action movie that holds my interest a little bit more. It has some high-tech CGI in it that I find interesting. But frankly the movie really doesn't have that much to say either and it may not be worth watching the rest of it. These are movies that people went to and paid 10 to 12 bucks to get in the door and then paid 10 to twelve bucks for popcorn and a soda. Well they weren't worth watching when I watched them for $3.74 and then threw them in the trash. so I'll keep looking for some interesting movies. But in all fairness there arent going to be a lot of great movies that end up in the $3.74 bin.
Speaking of movies in general though. I've been watching the current running movie list at theaters and there just isn't anything worth watching. A lot of movies are "R" which probably means there's a sex scene in there somewhere or some boobies showing and maybe they pull your heartstrings a little bit over something or there's some travesty of Justice or something that keeps you sort of halfway interested in the thing, but frankly they just look like a waste of time.
I should get an old copy of 2001 A Space Odyssey and force myself to watch it four times until I'm sick of it. When I used to watch it it was so fascinating. it would be interesting to see how cool it is after watching it four times in a row.
Speaking of movies in general though. I've been watching the current running movie list at theaters and there just isn't anything worth watching. A lot of movies are "R" which probably means there's a sex scene in there somewhere or some boobies showing and maybe they pull your heartstrings a little bit over something or there's some travesty of Justice or something that keeps you sort of halfway interested in the thing, but frankly they just look like a waste of time.
I should get an old copy of 2001 A Space Odyssey and force myself to watch it four times until I'm sick of it. When I used to watch it it was so fascinating. it would be interesting to see how cool it is after watching it four times in a row.
Warfare
Okay don't take this real seriously and it's not well thought-out so you know give me some latitude on this one. The first part of the argument suggests the nuclear bombs have saved more lives than anything else in all of history. I think other people have pointed this out it is highly unlikely we're ever going to have another War like World War 1 or World War II where we load up ships with all kinds of stuff and load up planes with all kinds of stuff and try and move masses of people around the planet to attack each other. Why? The nuclear bomb. If somebody starts loading up ships and sailing across the ocean with a whole bunch of troops and weapons one nuclear bomb solves our problem. So one of the ways that the Incas the Maya and the Aztecs had of trying to solve the problem of warfare was to have these mock battles where only their leaders went out onto the field and fought against each other. My understanding is that initially they didn't actually try to kill each other they simply had some sort of physical contest where one person would eventually win. But on that fateful day one leader killed the other leader. Then there was more Bloodshed as more people got involved in the fight. And then before long it was all out Warfare and one side got wiped out their entire Society their entire civilization destroyed. Let's just pretend that Putin and Trump decided to engage in some sort of mock Warfare like that. It would probably be some sort of digital game right like in James Bond are they both sit down at some sort of electronic game board and their blazing away at each other somehow. and let's just pretend that Putin figures out some secret way to kill Trump in real life like he like electrocutes Trump or something. Now it would be much better if he'd killed Obama but if Trump did expire Pence would still do okay. And if Obama had died I don't remember who his vice president was was it Pence also? Anyway what's going to stop Russia and America from going at each other with everything they've got? The nuclear bomb they're just not going to do it people there won't be any of either side of us left.
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic Drive-In is a mixed bag. They put on these incredible specials for their drinks and Shakes. Their drinks and slushies are generally on sale in the summer between 2 and 5 p.m. of course the one that I went to only put stuff on sale between 2 and 4 p.m. a fairly small window to rush down there and get a really cheap slushie or drink. Now I intended to order one of their large slushies half off. It would have run somewhere around 2 bucks. But instead ended up getting one of their other special drinks but not a slushie. Somehow the word slushy never got into the conversation. And since they didn't mix up my order with somebody that ordered a slushy well no slushy was had. The neat thing is they accidentally put in two maraschino cherries and three lime wedges. It was delicious. You can tell there's sort of an attitude problem on the other end when you order and you say that you want something that's half off and nothing else. They don't like that. They're hoping you're going to order a burger and fries for $7 and then get to drink for $2 and then with tax will be close to $10 but instead you order a drink half off for $2 and drive away. Still it was delicious. There's another matter I don't know if we want to get into it here or not. They offer their shakes at half off after 8 p.m. okay who needs a thousand calorie chocolate shake after 8 p.m. at night? Some 16 year old high school kid? Once again they really don't like you ordering a small chocolate shake half off and nothing else. They put a tiny little dollop have whipped cream on it barely visible under the Cherry. Still it's plenty of calories and tastes good.
Hot fudge sundaes at McDonald's
McDonald's has this little hot fudge sundae. It's about a buck 70. If you do any add-ons it's generally 30 to 50 cents for like extra nuts or extra fudge. But McDonald's has started putting in kiosks. And some of the stores don't know how to configure the kiosks yet. So occasionally if you're lucky you can find one where you can do add-ons like M&M's or cookie pieces for free! This confuses the staff behind the counter but it makes life worth living. Free M&Ms added to your McDonald's hot fudge sundae. It's good while it lasts.
Lowe's home improvement and the granddad
There's this Lowe's Home Improvement in Denver. One day there's this guy that looks close to 70 years old walking in to Lowe's. He's walking rather briskly and seemed somewhat irritated. Behind him maybe 20 feet is the grandma. She has about a six year old granddaughter in tow. You can tell the Grandpa didn't want to have anything to do with it. He wanted to be out shopping by myself enjoying doing the guy thing. And it looked like maybe the six-year-old was living with them. That's happening a lot in America. The younger generation is either aborting kids or just dumping them on the grandparents. It's a sick time in America. it's a sad time.
USB drive and the car radio
Well well well. The USB drive works fantasticly. The smallest one wal-mart sold is 16GB. it took a while to rip 6 CDs onto the USB. it wasn't completely painless, as some of the tracks had the same generic name, like 01-track-1.wma, in these cases it required changing the names of all the tracks from that CD slightly. This was fine. It seemed like a good idea to have all 6 CDs at the top level of the USB folder structure. Oh, the USB package claims it will hold 3000 songs. We will probably never get that many. But maybe, that should be 300 albums, roughly. The USB plugged into the radio cable easily, and started playing instantly when the USB option was selected on the touch screen. Chalk 1 up for Pioneer and technology.
The new radio
Okay the new radio has been a mixed bag. I'll have to go over the details it's been sort of a wild crazy ride. The guy who installed it appears to be a genius. But even Geniuses make mistakes anyway. So before we go over that let's go over what happened right after the install. I was sitting in this parking lot and I decided to pull out into one of those medium speed lanes that goes around shopping malls. Well there was a lady who was pulling out across the street. So I waited for her to go. Now I had glanced to the left and there was no one there. But unfortunately I did not look back to the left before I hit the accelerator to go perpendicular into traffic. There was a super hot babe in some sort of white SUV approaching from the left. I looked up and saw her and slammed on the brakes. She gave me a look like don't you even think about it you slimy bastard. And I could almost swear that she hit the accelerator as if she was just daring me to move one more inch into the traffic. I didn't have time for my heart rate to accelerate I just slammed on the brakes. Looking back on it it would have been better to hit her. There's some remote chance that she's not dating anyone and she was smoking hot. You know it would have been a great reason to exchange license plates insurance information but most importantly phone numbers. she looked like she was in her mid-20s I'm like way over the hill so of course she would have laughed in my face but even that might have been satisfying.
The radio. The guy took me on a whirlwind tour of the super cool touch screen interface which of course went over my head like the jet stream. There was a few times I said now what did you hit to make that happen? And he would show me again real fast. Anyway I got to the parking lot and start playing around with the controls myself the most important thing to me was to be able to adjust the level of the balance and fade of the speakers. It didn't work. The fade did not fade. The next problem I had was I could barely see the screen. I mean it was so dim I couldn't hardly read anything. So I called him up and I said hey the speakers don't seem to be adjusting. He said well that's because you have a separate amplifier you're only going to be able to adjust the balance not the fade. At first that was very bad news in fact I said that's not going to work the fade is important to me. And he said it was because you have a separate amplifier. so then I calmed down and thought to myself well you got a backup camera. And the backup camera is important. And the touchscreen screen is kind of cool. So I just adjusted the base and the trebble and sort of got used to the idea that I wasn't going to have fade. So the next problem was the dim screen. this part gets a little bit complicated to explain. the screen was so dim it was like it thought that it was night time. So because Google has gone communist, I'm switched over to Dogpile. my understanding is that Dogpile uses Google in the background so you know I'm not sure how big of a point I'm making but you know we've all got to try. Anyway Dogpile shows up this YouTube link that talks about how to adjust the dim setting. so it turns out the dim setting automatically comes on when you turn your lights on. And guess what on this particular car it has daylight running lights. they are so bright that I turn the night lights on because they're not as bright as the day running lights. people have flipped me off because the day running lights are so bright they can't hardly see even in the day. so I drive around with the night lights on. Guess what that does? The triggers the radio to dim that very cool touch screen so that I can't see anything. well there's some manual settings on the radio for controlling dimness. One of the settings will let you only turn on the dim During certain times of the day like from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. . But guess what the radio install guy accidentally got the 12-hour clock off by 12 hours. so the radio is thinking it's the middle of the night even though it's 12 p.m. in the middle of the afternoon. so I switch the radio over to 24 hours. then it was obvious to both of us that it was the middle of the day. the radio screen came on really bright. Wow what an adventure just to get the screen where you could look at it. so the install guy said to bring the car back in and he would switch some of the wires around. anyway the radio sounds pretty good now. so soon we'll have to go over the USB drive. You will live it. (there are some words that this speech to text does not understand very well like live and love.)
The radio. The guy took me on a whirlwind tour of the super cool touch screen interface which of course went over my head like the jet stream. There was a few times I said now what did you hit to make that happen? And he would show me again real fast. Anyway I got to the parking lot and start playing around with the controls myself the most important thing to me was to be able to adjust the level of the balance and fade of the speakers. It didn't work. The fade did not fade. The next problem I had was I could barely see the screen. I mean it was so dim I couldn't hardly read anything. So I called him up and I said hey the speakers don't seem to be adjusting. He said well that's because you have a separate amplifier you're only going to be able to adjust the balance not the fade. At first that was very bad news in fact I said that's not going to work the fade is important to me. And he said it was because you have a separate amplifier. so then I calmed down and thought to myself well you got a backup camera. And the backup camera is important. And the touchscreen screen is kind of cool. So I just adjusted the base and the trebble and sort of got used to the idea that I wasn't going to have fade. So the next problem was the dim screen. this part gets a little bit complicated to explain. the screen was so dim it was like it thought that it was night time. So because Google has gone communist, I'm switched over to Dogpile. my understanding is that Dogpile uses Google in the background so you know I'm not sure how big of a point I'm making but you know we've all got to try. Anyway Dogpile shows up this YouTube link that talks about how to adjust the dim setting. so it turns out the dim setting automatically comes on when you turn your lights on. And guess what on this particular car it has daylight running lights. they are so bright that I turn the night lights on because they're not as bright as the day running lights. people have flipped me off because the day running lights are so bright they can't hardly see even in the day. so I drive around with the night lights on. Guess what that does? The triggers the radio to dim that very cool touch screen so that I can't see anything. well there's some manual settings on the radio for controlling dimness. One of the settings will let you only turn on the dim During certain times of the day like from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. . But guess what the radio install guy accidentally got the 12-hour clock off by 12 hours. so the radio is thinking it's the middle of the night even though it's 12 p.m. in the middle of the afternoon. so I switch the radio over to 24 hours. then it was obvious to both of us that it was the middle of the day. the radio screen came on really bright. Wow what an adventure just to get the screen where you could look at it. so the install guy said to bring the car back in and he would switch some of the wires around. anyway the radio sounds pretty good now. so soon we'll have to go over the USB drive. You will live it. (there are some words that this speech to text does not understand very well like live and love.)
The divorce
My wife and I we got a divorce after all those years as a matter of course we both know deep down inside that it's not true we're old and we're tired and we're all but through. We're on different missions different wavelengths I don't care what you or the whole world thinks. He needs to let go he needs to move on find someone else and sing a new song not on my watch will I go down as such. He said it can't happen so of course it will let me claim to my fantasies still
Drug deals
So over the last year I've been sitting in parking lots. School parking lots church parking lots store parking lots Park parking lots. All kinds of different parking lots. I witnessed at least three drug deals. I'm pretty sure if the city put out 15 to 20 plain clothes people just sitting in parking lots they would see four or more drug deals going down every day. It's not that hard people. we're spending billions of dollars on drug enforcement and I'm guessing we're catching one tiny little bit of the action. It's just not that tough you see two teenagers walking across the parking lot they walk up to a car they say hi their hand reaches inside the car briefly and comes back out with something in their hand they stick it in their pocket and they walk off gee I wonder what just happened I know it was her mom sending them a note don't be late for dinner right? I've seen this happen on three different times. Another way it happens is two cars pull up next to each other inches apart somebody reaches through the window like they're going to shake hands and then when they withdraw their hand you can see that they have it cupped around something. Gee what just happened? hi bro take care have a great day love you too bye. I mean guys it's just not that tough. you collect information on these guys. Follow the cars around and compare all the plates you put together the organization and you do the bust. I mean come on. Columbo gets it, what's the matter with you guys.
Here's my plan and It will explain to you why I'm not in law enforcement. He sits Im parking lots but now your car's been augmented with tons of high-tech shit. It's collecting all kinds of information it's being fed into Watson that supercomputer that uses Ai and all kinds of stuff. Watson's coming back with all kinds of probabilities on what's going on. When watson reaches 99.97% on more and more deals you then call in a SWAT team. The SWAT teams are able to calculate within a high probability where the next deals are going to go down. When the deal goes down the SWAT team which of course is disguised as like a donut delivery truck or something bumps off everybody and drives away and of course there's a wet cleanup team that comes out that makes everything disappear. Imagine how much taxpayer dollars we're saving. Oops bumped off the Sunday School outing, oh well it's a work in progress.
Hit a bucket of the balls
Hey it might be fun to hit a bucket of balls later. Thrift stores have a bunch of use leftover old clubs that nobody wants anymore. So it should be easy to pick up like an 8-iron and a 5-iron for about five bucks. Then run over to the golf course and hit a small bucket of balls. Then just give the club's back you know re donate them. Of course you can come sure it'll be fun.
The big day
So today is the day we've all been waiting for. I know the anticipation is high and the mood, electric of course.
Yes we're going to get the radio. Yes it's the one with the back scratcher. Although now they have aftermarket radios that are like 1,200 bucks or maybe more. This one is not that expensive. But it does have a touch screen and I mean after all no self-respecting radio would be caught dead without a touch screen. For years I've been irritated by digital sound equipment that doesn't have an equalizer. This one has an equalizer. You can somehow not only control the fade and balance but you can also sort of control the frequency by Zone which I don't really understand what that means but anyway we'll play around with it. you get a little short demo after they get the install done so that'll help oh and it's got a USB plug. So supposedly you can just plug a USB drive in and play music straight off of there. I'm not sure how the back scratcher works.
Unrelated cactus flower. This is a wildflower that stood out in rather drab brown and green surroundings.
And another thing. The total install with steering wheel controls and everything, there's no back scratcher that was just BS, the total installed price is over eight hundred bucks. Over twice the cost of the radio itself. you could send my car to China have the install done there and send my car back cheaper than installing it right here down the block from where I live.
Yes we're going to get the radio. Yes it's the one with the back scratcher. Although now they have aftermarket radios that are like 1,200 bucks or maybe more. This one is not that expensive. But it does have a touch screen and I mean after all no self-respecting radio would be caught dead without a touch screen. For years I've been irritated by digital sound equipment that doesn't have an equalizer. This one has an equalizer. You can somehow not only control the fade and balance but you can also sort of control the frequency by Zone which I don't really understand what that means but anyway we'll play around with it. you get a little short demo after they get the install done so that'll help oh and it's got a USB plug. So supposedly you can just plug a USB drive in and play music straight off of there. I'm not sure how the back scratcher works.
Unrelated cactus flower. This is a wildflower that stood out in rather drab brown and green surroundings.
And another thing. The total install with steering wheel controls and everything, there's no back scratcher that was just BS, the total installed price is over eight hundred bucks. Over twice the cost of the radio itself. you could send my car to China have the install done there and send my car back cheaper than installing it right here down the block from where I live.
Women
It would be nice to have a girl friend with no soul energy. Unfortunately all humans appear to have this deplorable substance. If you have been told by men over the decades that you seem blank or unreadable please look me up.
New car radio
Did you hear that my car is getting a new radio? It just seemed like it would be fun to have a state-of-the-art radio. Well it's turning into a frustrating situation. On the first attempt they didn't have the right install kit. So they had to special-order one. That took a couple of weeks. Then I missed the schedule appointment by half an hour. The guy actually runs a tight schedule all day long. So that meant rescheduling for later in the week. So we'll see how it goes. He looked at all the current parts and seemed satisfied but like anything Technical, you don't really know do you get in there and start putting it together. He said he wasn't sure if he'd hooked up the backup wire yet. It seems like these things have gotten incredibly complicated. whatever happened to a 12 volt power wire the antenna wire and the speaker wires? The good old days.
I'm moving
For all of you who stayed in such close contact thank you so much. All your concern and encouragement has been tremendously helpful. Thank you so very much. I'm moving into a different place. It's one of those places that the more upgrades they make the more barely livable it remains. When you look for apartments this place doesn't show up on the internet. Somehow that's comforting. Apparently they just take walk-ins. It's in a fairly nice area so they seem to get lots of walk-ins. There's a place in the springs called Off the Grid. It probably just means they don't have internet. And maybe no running water. You know how Homeland Security can track you by running water. You have no idea how much your prayers mean. So I decided to go dark. No one will know where I am. Only the post office the federal government the local government my job some friends and family and other people living in this apartment. Oh and of course all those people that can track you by your cell phone. But other than this very small list I'll be completely untraceable. The current apartment has simply become unbearable. Between the pot smoke and the loud banging noise from the mechanical room at all hours of the day and night this place isn't lovable (or livable). The management at this new apartment promises me that no one has a meth lab. No drugs of any kind are allowed. These apartment manager quite often have such a vivid imagination. But sometimes are just not thinking things through. While waiting to talk to the manager this late model SUV pulled up in front of the apartments. I mean the thing had to cost north of $50,000. If you saw these apartments it seemed really out of place. This guy jumps out opens both back doors and starts trying to wrestle a 55 inch high-def television out of the back seat. He tries it on the curbside but somehow can't get it out. Then he runs around on the street side with cars driving by honking at him. he pulls the thing out and hauls it into his apartment. I said wow nice TV he said thank you. The back parking lot is an odd assortment a broken-down Volvos and Audis. Oh there was one Saab with a flat tire. You can tell the people living here used to be upwardly mobile . they watched all those ads with really fancy European sports cars. But since they can't afford those they looked in the used car ads and found these old European cars at Incredibly discounted prices sometimes even hovering around $5,000. The reason those fancy sports cars are selling for $5,000 becomes apparent the first time the thing breaks down. Needing 10 to $20,000 in repairs leaves the thing broken down sitting in the parking lot. I used to pray stuff like dear Jesus please don't let anything bad happen to me today. And believe me that prayer is implied every day whether I say it or not. But today I actually pray something like everyday is a new adventure help me be up for it.
The dodo bird
By skeletal remains and artist rendition the dodo bird appears to have been a very ugly bird. But who's to say what ugly really is? I mean God created the dodo bird maybe it's actually very beautiful. Maybe it's just my Twisted sense of Aesthetics. I mean after all male and female dodo birds looked at each other and thought wow I need some of that.
Benedict Cumberbatch
In the latest dream Benedict Cumberbatch plays President Trump. It takes place just before and during the president becoming president for a second term. Someone writes a book about this. The first part of the book is about how the president helps especially disadvantaged children or children with a life-threatening illness. then part of the book is about present events but I can't remember exactly what it was all about. anyway when you pick the book up at the store it looks like it's maybe 600 pages long, but when you actually read it it's one of those books that's like 200 pages long. the back cover is a thick box that basically just looks like more pages somehow. they weight the book to make it feel like more pages but there really aren't more pages to read. Then Benedict Cumberbatch is playing the president at a dinner. The president starts rambling on about all the problems we're having all the wars and as strange as it sounds I stand up and say, I don't know what words you're supposed to say to introduce the next president and to have him give his acceptance speech. does anyone know what words we're supposed to say to introduce the present to a second term? These two guys get up who know how to speak on camera. They're two brothers and everyone seems to know them but me. They start playing off each other's words finishing each other's sentences and they start driving to the point that the president's about to accept his second term as president and They are sort of rambling on and laughing sometimes. they're not being rude but they're just not getting to the point the president Rushs them and actually pushes them against the table and all three of them fall down. everybody rushes over and helps all three of them up. Then President Trump takes the microphone and says something like I've seen all of your problems your Wars your petty Falls. And he looks right at me and it seemed like for a second Benedict Cumberbatch would come out of character and sort of give some sort of knowing look like yeah I'm just playing the part. apparently he's very good at acting. he doesn't break for even one tiny little instant and that's the end of the dream
This did not happen in the dream colon
The president graciously accepts the microphone and regally addresses the Gathering. There is light Applause all around.
This did not happen in the dream colon
The president graciously accepts the microphone and regally addresses the Gathering. There is light Applause all around.
Dreams
Have sweet dreams.
How many times do moms say this? And many times it turns out true. From my experience very few dreams are actually sweet. They're either sort of neutral and weird or somewhat disturbing. They tell us all kinds of things. They show us some of the problems we're having although It never seems like they really tell me how to solve anything. And apparently we dream every night but may not remember it. Some dreams talk about our society at Large. Some dreams just seemed like a collage of things that happened the day before. But it seems almost certain that dreams are prepared by someone or by a team of people who put them together quickly and play them in your brain like a movie only thrown together and hastily presented. There are certain dreams that people share. In other words some dreams are played over and over again and many people's minds. For instance in America turning in your homework can sometimes be stressful ore missing a final exam. This is a common dream for college students who felt like they were under pressure all the time. Sometimes it seems worthwhile to write down dreams. One problem with this is if people find them and read them. Some people will look at your dreams and say there's something wrong with you. These dreams indicate that you're deeply Disturbed. who really cares if you're deeply Disturbed. there's a possibility that we could get thrown in the Lake of Fire that alone is disturbing why shouldn't it show up in your dreams that you're disturbed. Wife is hard but we Soldier on.
How many times do moms say this? And many times it turns out true. From my experience very few dreams are actually sweet. They're either sort of neutral and weird or somewhat disturbing. They tell us all kinds of things. They show us some of the problems we're having although It never seems like they really tell me how to solve anything. And apparently we dream every night but may not remember it. Some dreams talk about our society at Large. Some dreams just seemed like a collage of things that happened the day before. But it seems almost certain that dreams are prepared by someone or by a team of people who put them together quickly and play them in your brain like a movie only thrown together and hastily presented. There are certain dreams that people share. In other words some dreams are played over and over again and many people's minds. For instance in America turning in your homework can sometimes be stressful ore missing a final exam. This is a common dream for college students who felt like they were under pressure all the time. Sometimes it seems worthwhile to write down dreams. One problem with this is if people find them and read them. Some people will look at your dreams and say there's something wrong with you. These dreams indicate that you're deeply Disturbed. who really cares if you're deeply Disturbed. there's a possibility that we could get thrown in the Lake of Fire that alone is disturbing why shouldn't it show up in your dreams that you're disturbed. Wife is hard but we Soldier on.
Photography
When I was a kid very few kids took photographs. If you did you got to take a roll of film for some special occasion like a birthday party or something. You had to buy the film you had to process the film then you had to pay for paper photographs. So if you wanted to do things less expensive you bought black and white film and you developed your own photographs at school in the school photo lab. It was much less expensive you did have to provide your own paper and your own film. But our school provided all the chemicals and all the equipment and the darkroom. I know it's hard to believe there were no digital cameras. There were no smartphones. There were no cell towers. When you walked out that door every morning your parents were saying strong prayers for you because you were walking out into a hostile environment where anything could happen. You knew that every day could be your last cuz if you were going to make a phone call you had to make it to a 7-Eleven and call from a payphone. And there were just lots of situations were you couldn't put everything on hold and just run over to the nearest 7-Eleven and make a pay phone call. So you knew deep down inside that you were taking your life in your own hands but you just said a prayer Jesus please send me a super powerful guardian angel today and let's go get them in Jesus name we pray amen. There was a much stronger sense of faith before smartphones. People knew that life was fragile and that anything can happen. Now there's this weird sense of invincibility every time you pick up your smartphone. You're in touch with the world you're in touch with the internet you know you can command whole armies right from a little thing in your hand. Nobody better mess with you. Not so when I was a kid. It was just you and God and billions of years of evolution.
Candlepower
Handles are very cool. Sometime in high school my parents decided it was okay for me to start playing with matches in the house. That's when candles came into play. It was fun to light them and watch them burn and take photographs of them. That was the first time that it became apparent that that little glowing circle around a candle flame actually shows up on the film. Fascinating. Anyway candles have been somewhat of an interest throughout life. Now it's fun to go to the thrift stores and look for interesting pillar candles. They're easy to burn and you have to learn what kind of wax works and what kind of wax doesn't work. Never get the ones that are super light the wax is useless. Ones that are super heavy may be difficult to burn also especially if the wick is too small. But you can augment the wick by stuffing matches down into the wax. This trick works pretty well. Anyway the very simplest candle to burn is a jar candle. Light it and forget it. And even the cheap ones seem like they've got it figured out to where you can just let the thing burn for days if you want to. They used to be that the flame would go down to a tiny little almost invisible spot, but not anymore. Anyway the nice thing about thrift store candles is that if they won't burn right you just throw them away. Funny thing about thrift stores is they have 50% off day. Now it's not quite that simple everything isn't 50% off just some stuff. So if your shop carefully you can get your candles at 50% off. So 50% off of a $5 gigantic candle is only 250. if you get the thing home and mess around with it for a while and it just won't burn right hey guess what you just throw it in the trash oh well 250 down the drain. Hey go look at candles in stores I mean a big candle like I'm talking about can run 40 bucks
Angry women
Not sure how long this URL will work but these women look very familiar. Almost every woman I ever dated ended up looking like these women. It's weird
anger unmanaged
Let's move to the country
Out in the country there are far fewer people than there are in the city. Whatever City you're in go on to Google and look up crime map for your city. You'll find a variety of websites come up and they'll have these regions marked off. The one I looked at had the dark regions where the worst crime was and the light regions were where the least crime was. There is no place on that map that will be similar to what it's like in a small town. In small towns there just isn't as much crime generally. If there's any crime in a small town the sheriff will come and shoot whoever the person is. That's the way you get rid of problems is the sheriff comes and shoots the person that's causing the problem. It doesn't work that way in the city unfortunately. When there's problems in the city they take you to jail but you get out right away. And you go back to raping and pillaging and doing whatever it was you were doing in the city. In the country they just kill you, not so in the city. So if you're a law-abiding citizen your best bet is to move to a small town in the country. Get to know the sheriff.
KEYSTONE ICE
This is the best bang for the buck beer out there. A six pack of 12 oz cans is 3.99 at this one place I shop. That's $0.66 a can. It's 5.9 percent alcohol by volume. It's a simple solid beer made by Coors. It just doesn't get any better than that folks.
Fred Flintstone would drink this everyday of his life and love it.
Godzilla doesn't disappoint
Yes, it really is that bad. Many American films have a hard time setting the volume high enough. Not Godzilla. The volume is ear splitting, even the one touching moment. There must have been one, a touching moment. Maybe it was when Godzilla died, the third time. Nope that was super loud!
For some reason the whole thing was sort of shot with that Batman quality where everything was dark the whole movie. Like every once in a great while you would see a regular daytime shot. It would last about 10 seconds then it was time for it to be night again. Or they were shooting underwater in some dark deep Cavern. Or the creatures themselves were creating these incredible storm scenes. Yes some of them have the ability to create their own weather systems. Anyway the popcorn was good and the fountain drink was good and the speaker quality was outstanding. The movie was very clear I don't want to ruin it for you because if you like incredibly loud obnoxious movies with creatures screeching and screaming the whole way through it and stuff exploding and buildings flying and melting and crushing and fighter jets getting squashed every 10 seconds, you're going to love this movie. Oh another excellent point about this movie is the humanity is on the verge of Extinction. Now I don't think 7 billion people died on the planet but it's one of those movies where like stuff is just getting destroyed at an incredible rate and you know they usually say something like in a city of 20 million people they'll say something like forty thousand people died. well if you look at these cities if there was 20 million people there before about 19,999,000 of them died. At one point Godzilla becomes so physically hot the buildings are literally turning to Lava if they're within a few hundred yards of him. The CGI was convincing.
They made lots of stupid left-wing liberal statements about how there's too many people and we're destroying the planet and we're polluting everything and it's a horrible thing that humanity is doing to the planet and we got to get rid of all these people. So if you like those kind of themes to the movie or there's just too many people on this planet and we're like oh they actually say we're like a virus or something and we need to be exterminated. I mean think about it people. Humans have actually decided that Humanity is a disease. And the planet will actually Parish if we remain in existence. That was actually a theme of this movie and it's a theme of a lot of liberal wackos. It's kind of scary because in America we're actually electing these liberal wackos to offices in powerful positions. I'm not big on political statements but we need to rethink this. The people we're electing are actually going to come to the conclusion that they need to bring Humanity to Extinction. Well at least all the humans except for them and their rich friends. They will continue to live on golf courses and have robot slaves take care of them. Apparently.
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Jesus goes for a ride
Rev.19
[11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
[13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
[15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
[16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Godzilla the movie
I just watched the trailer for Godzilla the movie. if the trailer is supposed to get you excited about watching a movie then it will be truly terrible. It will be fun to see how the movie turns out. One of the best lines in the whole movie is we have to set Godzilla free. Oh there was another great line one person says oh my God and another person follows up with Zilla. It should be epic. What we really should be thankful for is CGI computer-generated stuff. 3D holographic CGI will probably be used heavily by the Beast the false prophet and Satan in their deceptive use of an image. If history is any indication of what we will see, we will probably all miss the Beast the false prophet and Satan here on Earth. In other words they haven't arrived yet and so the odds are pretty good that we'll all be dead before they get here. But you never know. That's the fun of it.
Automotive repair
Everyone has a different idea about car repair. The simplest most time consuming approach is to fix it yourself. Usually this is the cheapest. It requires tools and a place to work. Moving along to what most people do in today's world.
If, You buy a new car take it to an authorized dealer for all repairs as long as it's under warranty. If it is an American made car buy the extended warranty. This will cover almost everything for 5+ years. If it is Toyota go with the standard warranty. Buy tires as needed from somewhere else, discount tire is good if you take someone along who knows tires. If you don't know the tire business You will pay 300 to $700 more than you need to. The salesman at any tire place can smell blood in the water. It doesn't matter how reputable they are they will upsell you on tires. On a big SUV it could be $1500+. Even discount tire sees their next vacation money when a girl comes in the door. But for everything else go to the dealer. I think most warranties cover oil changes. Do all of them. Do tire rotations every 7000 miles. Do a tire alignment every year and right away If you hit a big pothole. These rules are not meant to be broken.
For a car not under warranty, do NOT go to the dealer. The rules change dramatically. They charge 50-100% more than necessary. And they may not do as well! A good local shop knows tricks and after market fixes that the dealer is not allowed to do. The problem here is finding the right local repair shop. They will know all the best specialty shops if needed. Ask around. Try several if necessary.
If, You buy a new car take it to an authorized dealer for all repairs as long as it's under warranty. If it is an American made car buy the extended warranty. This will cover almost everything for 5+ years. If it is Toyota go with the standard warranty. Buy tires as needed from somewhere else, discount tire is good if you take someone along who knows tires. If you don't know the tire business You will pay 300 to $700 more than you need to. The salesman at any tire place can smell blood in the water. It doesn't matter how reputable they are they will upsell you on tires. On a big SUV it could be $1500+. Even discount tire sees their next vacation money when a girl comes in the door. But for everything else go to the dealer. I think most warranties cover oil changes. Do all of them. Do tire rotations every 7000 miles. Do a tire alignment every year and right away If you hit a big pothole. These rules are not meant to be broken.
For a car not under warranty, do NOT go to the dealer. The rules change dramatically. They charge 50-100% more than necessary. And they may not do as well! A good local shop knows tricks and after market fixes that the dealer is not allowed to do. The problem here is finding the right local repair shop. They will know all the best specialty shops if needed. Ask around. Try several if necessary.
Juvenile jingles
Stranded
Stranded
Stranded on the toilet bowl
What do you do when you're stranded
Without a roll
Sung to the tune of the TV series Branded
Temptation
Eve and Adam they really dug that fruit
Shortly thereafter They got a caveman suit Don't lead me to temptation
Don't lead me down that path
Don't lead me to temptation
That ends in a bloodbath
Don't lead me to temptation
The Great and the small
Don't lead me to temptation
It's just temptation after all
Shortly thereafter They got a caveman suit Don't lead me to temptation
Don't lead me down that path
Don't lead me to temptation
That ends in a bloodbath
Don't lead me to temptation
The Great and the small
Don't lead me to temptation
It's just temptation after all
Life is tough
Now very most likely today Jeremiah is having a fantastic time in heaven. Here's a guy who went all-in. When God told him to do something he did it. Even so he had an incredibly difficult time. In the first chapter of the book of Jeremiah in the Bible God says and I quote you always know you're in trouble when somebody says and I quote I don't know why but I'll probably get to heaven and God will be like lets see what you were quoting here and I'll be sitting there you know peeing my pants and thinking what stupid thing did I say but anyway.
Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 7 and 8, but the Lord said unto me say not I am a child for Thou shalt go to all that I send thee and whatsoever I command thee Thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord.
Later on in Jeremiah I think he gets thrown into two separate Wells. One of them is full of mud at the bottom and he sinks in up to his waist or maybe even up to his chest. Now God does deliver him he does get out of those Wells and he survives the process is my understanding but another place it says they struck him so he got beat up. I think at one point he has to beg one of the Kings for his life. I mean we like the idea that God's going to deliver us and will be some miraculous way with you know a flying carpet or something and he'll come swooping in and whisk you away before any bad stuff happens you know just like in the movies or Han Solo will come flying in with the Millennium Falcon and he'll pick you up then whisk you away. Of course there's this one scene where they pick up Luke after he's got his hand chopped off so I guess Jeremiah did better than that I think he died with all his body parts intact.
Having said all that, there's also the big picture perspective on deliverance. The idea that you're really delivered into heaven after death. You may die in some way that really doesn't seem very appealing but turns out to be a very short term problem. As humans we're just programmed to want an Earthly delivery where are your spirited away to some Island Paradise to finish out your days. That generally doesn't appear to be God's approach.
Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 7 and 8, but the Lord said unto me say not I am a child for Thou shalt go to all that I send thee and whatsoever I command thee Thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord.
Later on in Jeremiah I think he gets thrown into two separate Wells. One of them is full of mud at the bottom and he sinks in up to his waist or maybe even up to his chest. Now God does deliver him he does get out of those Wells and he survives the process is my understanding but another place it says they struck him so he got beat up. I think at one point he has to beg one of the Kings for his life. I mean we like the idea that God's going to deliver us and will be some miraculous way with you know a flying carpet or something and he'll come swooping in and whisk you away before any bad stuff happens you know just like in the movies or Han Solo will come flying in with the Millennium Falcon and he'll pick you up then whisk you away. Of course there's this one scene where they pick up Luke after he's got his hand chopped off so I guess Jeremiah did better than that I think he died with all his body parts intact.
Having said all that, there's also the big picture perspective on deliverance. The idea that you're really delivered into heaven after death. You may die in some way that really doesn't seem very appealing but turns out to be a very short term problem. As humans we're just programmed to want an Earthly delivery where are your spirited away to some Island Paradise to finish out your days. That generally doesn't appear to be God's approach.
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Poor bastard duo
So remember there was this Oriental couple having breakfast at McDonald's. She was talking Non-Stop and highly agitated about something. She was the only one talking in the whole place and you could hear her no matter where you sat. Well I glanced over at her just to see what she looked like and she was looking right at me. At which point she quieted down for a while. She was wearing this giant pair of completely blacked out sunglasses even though we were inside and it was cloudy outside. They were in their maybe early sixties. Now that I'm old everybody either looks like they're in junior high or in their 60s. Of course that's an exaggeration but you get the idea. Anyway she quieted down for a while but then she began to pick up steam making noises like she was coughing or gagging or mocking someone or something and not speaking Oriental you got the idea she was unhappy about someone. After listening to her for a while it seemed she had to be unhappy with just about anyone she came in contact with other than, of course, the love of her life. No not her husband silly, her cat!
What does the dream mean?
The world around us is in trouble. People are aware that problems exist, but are unconcerned. The media reports on the problems but gets many of the facts wrong, as shown by including a jet in a WW II newsreel. sometimes events get portrayed in an exaggerated way, as shown by the giant cockpit. The world is not "going down in flames", but serious flare-ups occur.
Poor bastard
There's this oriental couple eating at McDonald's. She's been bitching the whole meal. I Don't speak oriental, but she sounds pissed off. He hasn't said a word, trying to enjoy his happy meal.
B-47 dream
the dream was like one of those World War II newsreels. The narrator says that the newsreel was shot by a guy in an A7. The A7 is a Navy fighter jet that was still active in the 1990s and wasn't made until much later after World War II maybe even after Vietnam. Anyway the point of the newsreel is that two of the engines flame out on the B-47 and the crew is just taking it very casually. the cockpit and front Gunner part of the plane was not like a real B-47. In the dream it was this huge area where the pilot, copilot and the front Gunner and I think the Navigator all sat where they could see each other and throw a hard ball around with baseball gloves. They seem to completely be taking it casually as the announcer says this B-47 makes an emergency landing because of engine trouble. They're playing catch and completely ignoring the fact that engines are catching on fire and then belching out black smoke and flaming out. At one point the pilot glances over and sees that another engine has caught on fire. Then turns his attention back to one of the crew members who throws him the hardball. He has to reach low to catch the ball and then prepares to throw the ball to another crew member. Another engine catches on fire and no one pays attention. That's the end of the dream.
Jesus
How do you effectively tell people about Jesus. They need to understand some of the context of who Jesus is and they need to understand the need for salvation and forgiveness of sin. Some people seem to get it. They seem to sort of understand that mankind Has Fallen they almost don't even have to hear it. They can just look around and see that it's true and know that we need some way to fix all this mess and it isn't going to happen automatically. Simple human effort won't work. we're not going to pass one more law and then fix all the problems. Humans simply can't do it. We needed salvation from an outside source. A perfect source. And God's way is that Source must be a sacrifice. Some way to settle the score.
Super shieldz
Generally my experience with screen protectors is that they are extremely difficult to put on. It's not that they are technically difficult to put on. Basically you peel off some backing and stick it to your cell phone. There are two places where the difficulty arises. 1 is getting the screen protector on straight and 2 is getting all the air bubbles out. All my previous screen protectors have been plastic and very flexible. This screen protector is glass with a super hard coating and it is not flexible. The instructions insist that you go and watch a video on the internet of someone demonstrating the entire process. They then recommend that you play the video two or three times and pause it as you go through the installation process yourself. This was not necessary in my case but it almost looked like magic the way the person did it in the video. It went on very simply and there were no air bubbles. Well by carefully following the instructions my installation went exactly like the installation in the video. It took a little bit of time and patience to get the screen protector into place properly and then taped onto the phone initially before you install it. But once that was accomplished the rest of the install was completely simple. There were no air bubbles and all the holes matched up perfectly with my phone. Supershieldz gets an A-Plus.
A+
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The half white guy
It's ironic that the first half white president reintroduced slavery to America. It's even more ironic that this slavery isn't based on race Creed or color; it's simply based on citizenship. It's even more astounding that the president acknowledged this himself.
Dear God
What's it like being infinite?
well as you can see it's complicated. The pace is hectic. Sometimes even grueling. But at the end of the day it is satisfying .
well as you can see it's complicated. The pace is hectic. Sometimes even grueling. But at the end of the day it is satisfying .
God likes them better
So it occurred to me today that poor people are not any better than anyone else. In fact if you look at one of the thieves that was on the cross next to Jesus he admitted that he had done rotten stuff his whole life. and in those last waning moments of his life Jesus said to him today you will be with me in Paradise. Now does that mean that he's going to be resurrected in the first resurrection? Why you hope so I mean G. But in typical Cliffhanger fashion we don't know for 100% certain. He seemed to meet the minimum requirements. Kind of got off track there. Anyway Jesus says that to get into the kingdom of heaven you have to believe like a little child and if you think about people that are relatively simple those people quite often are poor hard-working people. They're not necessarily any better, God just likes them better. He likes israel better. I think somewhere it says he likes them the best because they were the least of all the nations. They're not any better. In fact he had them all hauled away to Babylon at one point. Still it's his gig. If he likes them better then my attitude is I better like them better too.
Pitbull
You only have to beat one Pitbull to death to know there is no other animal like the Pitbull. There's no yelping, no growling. there's no barking there's no Squealing. there's no second place. They're the product of death. You only have to beat one Pitbull to death to know there is no deadlier animal.
How to pronounce Chopin
First of all only a clod would pronounce it as show-pan. Please do not embarrass yourself in front of friends and family in this way. No, the proper way to pronounce it does start off with "show" but the last part gets a little tricky. it ends in Pond, without the d. The end Trails off in a distinctly French fashion. As your tongue reaches the top of your palate to pronounce the end it touches ever so lightly and the air escaping your lungs Trails off. The end is indiscernible and yet distinct. Like the man himself the pronunciation of his name is even a paradox.
He seems the Undisputed champion of frilly trills that trail off into the stratosphere
unu uuuuuooo. ooooooooooouo
He seems the Undisputed champion of frilly trills that trail off into the stratosphere
unu uuuuuooo. ooooooooooouo
Christmas desserts
chocolate fudge brownies and white divinity was piled like delicious mountains in the middle of the table. Surrounding we're Rows of red and white striped candy canes standing like faithful soldiers. And surrounding all this was a seemingly Endless Sea of pecan pies. Christmas had come at last.
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