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Girls drive cars in America

Yes it is true. If you ever come to America, which is ill-advised, do not be alarmed when you see a proximately half the vehicles being driven by women. I remember the first time I was beaten by a girl playing tennis. We played several matches and she beat me every time. This was truly frustrating as a Young Man, but I came to realize the girls can be quite athletic and are able to drive cars. Although tennis and driving are two completely separate activities they both require coordination and quick thinking. There was some tiny degree of Comfort when my high school sweetheart drove their family station wagon into a giant telephone pole at 15 miles an hour. She was much smarter than me and more disciplined and it did not deter her from climbing behind the wheel and continuing to drive cars. Still way back in the tiny little reptilian part of my brain I thought maybe girls shouldn't be driving cars. This thought has not grown into a movement though, women are driving more vigorously today than ever.

Teenagers

Living near teenagers is bad news. They are prone to getting in trouble. They don't truly realize we will all be judged by God. The boys are really bad news. I was a boy once, it is no fun and trouble stalks boys. Do your best to avoid teenagers and men under 40.

Moving to a new home

This seems like good advice. Moving is a huge waste of time. If you are married with tons of stuff you're doomed. If you are single go small. Very small.

Office space

Office space is a movie about a computer company and a guy that works there. It probably got rave reviews when it first came out, because of the deep social implications and timeless relevance to workers everywhere.

The main character is a worker named Peter. He goes to a hypno-therapist with his girlfriend in an attempt to save their relationship. Just as the hypnosis takes affect the hypnotist dies of a heart attack. Peter begins to act unusual after this as he never snaps back to normal. He breaks up with his girlfriend and starts ignoring orders at work, which oddly enough leads to a promotion.

It's pretty funny if you like docudrama comedies.

Peter finds a new girl and a new job. A happy ending.

Some other stuff happens, but these are the important points. Get a new girlfriend and a new job.

There's always a down side

There's always pro's and con's. Is more of anything always better? Too much money caused hyper-inflation. Too much fun? Too much love? Too much peace? Too much happiness? To much good? Why are these things limited? Why are they such a challenge? The democrats say the pie is fixed and needs to be divided up. The republicans say the pie is growing, go get your own piece. Why are they both right? And both wrong?

The move in blues

 you know how moving in seems like it's going to be so exciting? Then the heavy lifting is done and its largely the same stuff in a different place. After a lifetime of this it starts to sink in. The thrill is gone.

America is not safe

Realizing of course that much of the world is a deadly Wasteland it's tough to say that America is no longer safe. There's really nowhere else to go. Perfectly healthy able-bodied people walk around begging for money. No I'm not kidding. There are signs in almost every store wanting to hire people.  most of the Beggars are young men in their twenties and thirties. How's that public education working out for you? This kid walked up in front of my car started digging through the trash and came out with 3/4 of a bottle of power aide, a sports drink. Then he walked up to me and asked for a couple of bucks. This is a perfectly healthy adult kid. And it is happening more and more. Soon I'll have to start concealed carry and watch every move.

25 bucks a month for all the movies you want

So some of the movie Chains have started a deal where you can pay a flat fee every month and see all the movies you want. they make it sound like you could go see five brand new movies every day for 30 days. But of course new movies come out at a slow  irregular interval and certainly not five new ones every day. So if you really wanted to see maybe two movies a week it seems like it would be a great deal. The one I went in you'd be spending $15 per movie on popcorn. Now course you could get the big popcorn and see two movies. Still you need to be fairly convinced you are going to go see a minimum of 3 movies a month and probably see two of them back to back. Do you want to see three movies every month like clockwork? Not sure. It requires an initial sign up for 12 months and then you can cancel at any time. Frankly, the movie industry is having a hard time coming up with original content that's worth seeing. They're going with the whole computer-generated thing. CGI isn't the answer to every movie. There should be meaningful content that's worth watching without Non-Stop physics-defying action going on. How many Star Treks Star Wars lion kings Beauty and the Beast and toy stories do we need?  here's a fresh idea. A guy finds something incredible in the Bible and no one will listen. His family won't listen his friends won't listen is preacher won't listen and 7 billion people on the Internet won't listen. Eventually he dies. Now there's a storyline you can sink your teeth into.

Matthew 13:9

Revelation 13:9

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Matthew 1:17

Revelation 1:20

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Matthew 10

Revelation 7

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Matthew 21:1-7

Revelation 19:11-


Don't be a wimp. Look them up yourself.
Almost all of Matthew and all of Revelation can be matched up sequentially.

Clean hubcaps

There's just something that feels right about shiny clean hubcaps. And clean aluminum rims. And there's just something that seems fundamentally flawed with regular steel rims and no hubcaps. If there's one hubcap missing on a car it just goes into your brain that there's something not right. If all the hubcaps are missing and there's just four steel rims on there it just seems like something really bad has happened to that car. Maybe nothing bad has happened. Maybe the hubcaps just got old and dingy and the person thought what's the point of having these hubcaps on here anyway I just threw them away. It just looks wrong. The shiny clean hubcaps just gives the whole car a lift. But it seems that keeping aluminum rims clean is somewhat of a challenge. You get them shining shiny and sparkling and just 50 miles down the road if you look at them closely you'll see there's already some Road Grime on there. Now they make some stuff that you can spray on there by hand. it just sort of runs off onto the ground. It pretty well takes off the top layer of grime. but who wants to be jumping out of their car or remembering every hundred miles to hop out Hairspray the rims? So if you wash them off say once a month it still feels pretty shiny for about a week.  a car wash will get off most of the crime but it seems like some human intervention is required to really make them shine.

Truck stop Diner

Many years ago several of us were commuting back and forth on the freeway out in the country. There was a truck stop Diner that had a great reputation for local food. So one day we pulled in there for lunch. For some reason we had gotten off early that day. So we start pulling up to the place and you can see that it's an older place. it was built back in the 50s. It has a gigantic gravel parking lot big enough for maybe a hundred semis or more. There are no semis but only a few cars up close to the restaurant. The restaurant looks a little rundown but not dilapidated. It's a single-story building it looks like it was originally built maybe small and then added onto over the years. We went inside. There were two dining rooms or that's what it appeared. The one dining room was up front; it was smaller and close to the kitchen. The back dining room was dark there was a doorway that led back to it and looked huge, like maybe a hundred truckers could sit back there. There are few people in the restaurant besides us. I think we mostly ordered burgers. they were like those burgers that you cook in your backyard delicious flame-broiled and thick. So there are some flies buzzing around and between the back room, which was huge and dark, and the front room, which is where everyone was eating. there was a doorway mentioned earlier. Tacked to the top of the doorway were three fly strips. Fly strips are paper strips that look like tape but they're super sticky. When a fly lands on them the Fly is stuck and eventually dies a horrible death as all flies should. Now maybe that's too harsh after all flies are created by God and God is merciful maybe I'm not putting on a good Christian attitude there. Maybe they should die quickly and mercifully just like I want to die. One of the people that was eating with us asked the waitress why are the fly strips stuck between that room and this room instead of over the front door? The waitress answered without thinking, we don't want any flies to go back there.

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Dr Martens

I had a pair of Doc Martens for about 15 years. My wife urged me to get them at Nordstroms. They were always a little smug because they were one size too small but they were wide enough. One of them had a small defect but it was at the top and didn't get worse over time. They were fantastic. Well it seemed like a good time to get a new pair. There is one small problem though. I only want a pair made in England. It is not acceptable to have a pair made in Vietnam Japan China Australia the United States Mexico or anywhere else. Actually they were invented by a German, so why aren't they manufactured in Germany?
Another problem is getting the size and width of a particular model of the shoe that you want at any given time. It seems like they only have extra wide in a few models and generally not in the shoes that I want. Well we Soldier on. Haha. Get it?

Girls

Girls are just like anybody else only more so.

Money

Have we talked about money? The classic definition of money is "a medium of Exchange". 

But just like 

beer is so much more than just a breakfast drink

money is so much more than just a medium of Exchange. 

After all beer and the love of beer is not the root of all evil.

The Vanishing West

The western United States was a unique place in history. There are green fertile Rivers there are scorching hot deserts there are  fourteen thousand foot Peak mountains. And in one spot there's  a beautiful Pine Forest surrounded by desolate desert for 100 miles in all Directions. It has death valley, the great salt lake and lake Tahoe. Some of the best wines on Earth ARe produced here and in some places prostitution is legal. The first train track connecting the east coast to the West Coast was finished in 1869 in Utah. The horse was still largely the main mode of transportation until the early 1900s. It was a beautiful place and quite often a lonely and Deadly Place. My grandfather told of a cowboy who was caught in a hail storm. He and his horse were killed. That was a little over a hundred years ago. It seems like a thousand years removed.