sorry, not going to be a long list although maybe someday I'll put some things down.
Nope this post is for just one thing - Shredders/Burn bags
I am going through stacks of papers right now that have been building for longer than I'll admit and my poor little "shredder for home use" just isn't up to the task. I've even been nice and have been feeding it one sheet at a time but there was just too much for it... RIP my little shredder.... :(
Guess it's time to use the grill for something besides cooking dinner.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
definitions...
Below is an excerpt I copied out of a comment from Scott in PA to this article. While I admit not all politicians fit into neat cookie cutter definitions of Republican or Democrat I think that on a very basic level this is pretty good. Everybody has to decide for themselves this coming November 4th and yet again the choices we're being given...well I'll just say they both have their faults. I hope my country makes the right choice but which ever candidate does get elected our lives will be very different in four years...I just hope we're better off.
The key difference between Republicans and Democrats is as simple as the phrase "American Dream" versus the phrase "American Promise".
Republicans usually see America as a country with a framework of laws that provide unlimited upside, if you are savvy enough and work hard enough to take advantage. That is the ‘American Dream’, though sometimes dreams do not come true.
Democrats see an "American Promise", where a mediocre life is 'guaranteed' to everyone through taxation of the successful, to transfer wealth to those unable to function in a free society. With no motivation to excel, many sit back and suck at the teat of big government, till they become as helpless as a child, often unable to fulfill the most basic adult responsibilities of providing themselves with food, clothing and shelter.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
stupid online quiz...
My Conservative Identity:
You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Take the quiz at www.FightLiberals.com
and the other side...
My Liberal Identity:
You are a Working Class Warrior, also known as a blue-collar Democrat. You believe that the little guy is getting screwed by conservative greed-mongers and corporate criminals, and you’re not going to take it anymore.
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Forever and a day...
Yes as the very few that for some reason check this blog have said it's been a while since my last post. There has sort of been a reason for this, a stupid one but still I just have not felt like blogging because I knew what topic would come up. Some may figure it out by the time frame of my last post but that's all I'll say. Sorry, it's old news and that's where I'll leave it.
For a while I was thinking about using this to keep everyone up to date on my road trip cross country...obvious that didn't happen. It was an awesome trip that I hope someday to be able to do again. Minus riding through the hail that is...
Not the greatest of pictures but if you picture those round bruises on arms and legs vice the face...well that's what I looked like. Twice I've had to endure hail with no overpass, tree or anything else to hide under...two times too many!
I could ramble on about the MILF I had dinner with tonight...unfortunately even though she's divorced she'll remain in the fantasy realm as we're friends and that's it. Plus I just don't think I could keep up with her, she's an incredible woman that is so smart, caring and really just a genuinely wonderful person to have as a friend. The saying floating out there about how for every insanely beautiful woman out there, some guy is sick of her crap...well I know one of those guys, her ex, and he's a fool.
Tiff and Beth you two have picked on me the most about not blogging so you get your names in here. Tiff, I'll return the favor and say that I'm sure you were a beautiful bride!!! :P OK, so I'm feeling pretty safe 2500 miles away but still, I know you will find some pictures that you do like just because you are a beautiful woman and it's kind of hard for a camera to mess that up.
...again, feeling glad for a 2500 mile buffer zone other wise I'm sure I'd feel the smack heading my way. :)
Beth, you're safe for the moment...though I could bring out the dunktank video again..
OK, only other thing I'll put out in the first post of the year is I'm accepting the conditional offer to work for the No Such Agency as a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst. If the Men In Black come asking about me, say nice things.
For a while I was thinking about using this to keep everyone up to date on my road trip cross country...obvious that didn't happen. It was an awesome trip that I hope someday to be able to do again. Minus riding through the hail that is...
Not the greatest of pictures but if you picture those round bruises on arms and legs vice the face...well that's what I looked like. Twice I've had to endure hail with no overpass, tree or anything else to hide under...two times too many!
I could ramble on about the MILF I had dinner with tonight...unfortunately even though she's divorced she'll remain in the fantasy realm as we're friends and that's it. Plus I just don't think I could keep up with her, she's an incredible woman that is so smart, caring and really just a genuinely wonderful person to have as a friend. The saying floating out there about how for every insanely beautiful woman out there, some guy is sick of her crap...well I know one of those guys, her ex, and he's a fool.
Tiff and Beth you two have picked on me the most about not blogging so you get your names in here. Tiff, I'll return the favor and say that I'm sure you were a beautiful bride!!! :P OK, so I'm feeling pretty safe 2500 miles away but still, I know you will find some pictures that you do like just because you are a beautiful woman and it's kind of hard for a camera to mess that up.
...again, feeling glad for a 2500 mile buffer zone other wise I'm sure I'd feel the smack heading my way. :)
Beth, you're safe for the moment...though I could bring out the dunktank video again..
OK, only other thing I'll put out in the first post of the year is I'm accepting the conditional offer to work for the No Such Agency as a Global Network Exploitation and Vulnerability Analyst. If the Men In Black come asking about me, say nice things.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
I actually agree with something Berkeley is doing! GASP!!
Quick look at your windows because pigs are flying and there's a fat lady singing down the street!! I'm sure my favorite libtard is just as surprised by the heading of this post as I was when I read this article. If the previous link goes down here is another one.
I really hope this program works and I'd like to see other cities offer similar initiatives - renewable energy is a smart way to go, it's not the final solution but I think it is the direction this country needs to be looking towards. I came really close to blogging about he who has killed more people with his car than I have with my guns but I'm glad others in that wacko state had a momentarily lapse of sanity.
Anyway, don't want to shock you all too much so I won't ramble much more about my views on the environment; I may be somewhat conservative but that doesn't mean I can't love the outdoors and want to see them preserved.
I really hope this program works and I'd like to see other cities offer similar initiatives - renewable energy is a smart way to go, it's not the final solution but I think it is the direction this country needs to be looking towards. I came really close to blogging about he who has killed more people with his car than I have with my guns but I'm glad others in that wacko state had a momentarily lapse of sanity.
Anyway, don't want to shock you all too much so I won't ramble much more about my views on the environment; I may be somewhat conservative but that doesn't mean I can't love the outdoors and want to see them preserved.
Friday, September 21, 2007
he posts!!
A friend of mine has occasionally remarked that she has felt the desire to censor what she posts due to the folks that read her blog, well I know exactly how that feels and in a way I have used that as an excuse for not blogging. My sister has pointed out that I 'over analyze' things and she's right, I do, but that and my curiosity are two traits that serve me well at work and I have never developed the ability to turn them off. In fact she has in the past called me Monk, not sure if she meant it as a compliment or not but while I've never been or ever will be that much of a neat freak I do tend to notice and hear things that most people seem to overlook. Just like Johnny 5 I like data and my mind tries to make sense of all the bits and pieces I collect. Unfortunately in my world I don't always find the square hole to go with the square peg and that's when the over analyzing starts. Wish I could turn it off....
Okay so there's a lot going on in my mind and for a change it isn't all about work. BUT on the work front a lot is going on too, not going to bitch to much about that here except to say that I've got six months left before I start Terminal Leave and for you non-military types out there that means that the way I've planned things out I'll be collecting my Navy check for about three months with out having to be there. I haven't decided how soon after I check out of the Navy that I want to start my second career, I've already gotten a couple options lined up but those are based on me staying in my current location. I've got a great opportunity to go anywhere I want when I'm done here and even though someone has said I've based two previous moves on my job I've already decided that this time around it's going to be based on the heart. Those two previous moves cost me something and I've learned that I'm no longer willing to pay that price.
One of the options I'm actually considering is a new one that is still in the "maybe....let's see what we can do" kind of phase that would actually keep me in the employment of the government. I wasn't originally considering that route as the $$$ wouldn't be as good but the job I'd be doing is the fun part of what I do now only with a raise and a lot different poo*. Not going to comment more on that until the path gets a little clearer.
- little side bar here regarding the 'different poo'. Every job has it's poo and yes I'm using poo instead of a four letter word that starts with S. One nice thing about the military is that every three years or so you move, essentially you change jobs and get a different boss so I look at it as new poo, it still stinks but it's a different stink so it isn't as bad as the old stink you got tired of at the last job. As for the different poo I was referring to earlier, well some would still be the same but I'd be without the Navy poo and that my friends I am VERY tired of.
So have I rambled enough yet Tiff? :)
To end this post on a lighter note I've included a picture. I found this online tonight and in a way it's very appropriate for me to share this with everyone right now as the picture was taken when I had only been in the Navy for five months, almost half a life ago. 19 years ago I was attending class with the Sailors you see here and as I look back it's been a pretty good 19 years. Yeah sure there are probably a few things I'd like to pass on to that younger me if I could but for the most part I'm happy with how things turned out. As for what I'd pass on if I could, well I think the two biggest ones I've already kind of mentioned earlier in this post, I've learned from those two periods in my life but I know I could have handled things better.
Okay so there's a lot going on in my mind and for a change it isn't all about work. BUT on the work front a lot is going on too, not going to bitch to much about that here except to say that I've got six months left before I start Terminal Leave and for you non-military types out there that means that the way I've planned things out I'll be collecting my Navy check for about three months with out having to be there. I haven't decided how soon after I check out of the Navy that I want to start my second career, I've already gotten a couple options lined up but those are based on me staying in my current location. I've got a great opportunity to go anywhere I want when I'm done here and even though someone has said I've based two previous moves on my job I've already decided that this time around it's going to be based on the heart. Those two previous moves cost me something and I've learned that I'm no longer willing to pay that price.
One of the options I'm actually considering is a new one that is still in the "maybe....let's see what we can do" kind of phase that would actually keep me in the employment of the government. I wasn't originally considering that route as the $$$ wouldn't be as good but the job I'd be doing is the fun part of what I do now only with a raise and a lot different poo*. Not going to comment more on that until the path gets a little clearer.
- little side bar here regarding the 'different poo'. Every job has it's poo and yes I'm using poo instead of a four letter word that starts with S. One nice thing about the military is that every three years or so you move, essentially you change jobs and get a different boss so I look at it as new poo, it still stinks but it's a different stink so it isn't as bad as the old stink you got tired of at the last job. As for the different poo I was referring to earlier, well some would still be the same but I'd be without the Navy poo and that my friends I am VERY tired of.
So have I rambled enough yet Tiff? :)
To end this post on a lighter note I've included a picture. I found this online tonight and in a way it's very appropriate for me to share this with everyone right now as the picture was taken when I had only been in the Navy for five months, almost half a life ago. 19 years ago I was attending class with the Sailors you see here and as I look back it's been a pretty good 19 years. Yeah sure there are probably a few things I'd like to pass on to that younger me if I could but for the most part I'm happy with how things turned out. As for what I'd pass on if I could, well I think the two biggest ones I've already kind of mentioned earlier in this post, I've learned from those two periods in my life but I know I could have handled things better.
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