Wow, how's that for a title? Sounds like a bad joke...but...before we get to the joke let's get down to the nitty gritty. First things first I would like to start with God. I currently believe that their is a God and that he gave up his only son so that I could get into heaven. I also currently am the worst Christian ever....well maybe not as bad as some of those lapsed Catholics but I'm not judging anybody else. I believe in God but I don't live the life that I am supposed to. I am currently looking for a church that I like but am so freaking lazy that I just don't look. I think that for now I will try to attend the church that my beautiful wife Carla attends and is becoming a well involved member of, so that at least I can hear the word of God. Now, I will have to open my heart, soul and mind up to the word and not the person speaking the word and their interpretations. I will have to let the word speak to me. The reason I say this is that I don't feel comfortable in the church (mentally and physically) but as long as I get the word in God will speak to me through his written word.
Maybe someday I will get off my lazy but and find my own church again. My favorite churches, where I felt I got the most out of God and his word were small churches where the body of the church worked together because they were so small. People would band together and set up chairs for the service and subsequently take down the chairs after the service was over. Now this church has a small church family but I don't know what it is it just rubs me the wrong way. I myself feel, and some people reading this may say your just lazy and judgemental. but I don't feel right and hopefully something will come my way so that I may get the fellowship that I need.
Now, the second part of the title...Jerry Garcia...now I am currently reading a book...well three books right now. One of the books is called "In the Spirit" written by Wendy Weir. This book is a book about Wendy's interaction with Jerry Garcia's spirit during a time period after Jerry Died. Now I have never been one to enjoy Jerry's music. Frankly I think that the Greatful Dead only have two good songs and they are Casey Jones and truckin and even then they arent' that great. I have been asked by people to listen to the music and honestly I have tried. To me most of the music is very bad and out of tune and a live album forget it fucking terrible. I appologize to all the Dead Heads out there but sorry that's just how I feel. Now the book. As I am reading it I feel that most of the book is a crock of shit and this women Wendy Weir, Bob Weir's sister, Bob was adopted by her parents(incase you were wondering), is using the death of a musical icon (to alot of people just not me) to make money, sell books and publish her beliefs.
I personally think she is a whack job talking about spirits, souls, devil hounds and dragons but some of here messages are ok. It's her way of dealing with spirituality. It's almost like she is trying to have her own religion where Jerry Garcia is God. Now she will not admit to this nor does she in the book but that's the way it comes across to me. in the book.
Now, the joke: It's God, Jerry Garcia and me in a boat and the boat is sinking. We empty all of the cargo off the boat to try to keep the boat from sinking. Once we get all the stuff off we realize we are still sinking and God says one of us has to go over board and most likely will die. God and I look at each other and then we look at Jerry. "you have to go Jerry" We tell him. "why me?" asks Jerry. "Well, Your music sucks," God and I say simultaneously. "Plus," God Says, "their is some whack job trying to make you out to be a god." Jerry can't really argue...i mean it is God you know. Jerry goes overboard and drowns. God and I look at each other and we realize that the boat is still sinking. "God, who has to go now?" i ask God. "He looks at me and says fear not my son I can save you and me...I can walk on water," God replied. "Oh yeah, right, then why didn't you save Jerry too?," I asked. "Even though I am all powerful and all knowing, even I couldn't keep both you fat asses afloat!"
Not sure if that joke is funny of not. let me know. I laughed my ass off when I made it up though but I have a weird sense of humor.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
What's wrong with people?
Can anyone tell me where we went wrong? I mean as people. We are weaker now, we are lazier now, and people are always looking for the easy way out. Now, I am including myself in these statements that I am making now. I would love to take the easy way out. I am lazy. I don't think I'm weak but I'm sure I'm not as tough as generations before me. But...this isn't about. I just have these questions.
Just in asking myself these questions I have a theory...now I'm not standing 100% behind this theory I am just thinking out loud....or thinking through this blog. I think that we may becoming weaker as a people because we have access to more things than previous generations and because we are more tolerant of others...because we are not willing to make decisions that need to be made. We won't even kill people who have killed other people. Our prisons are over crowding, there are prisoners who have more College education than I do. I may be getting off the subject but if we can't kill a rapist murderer than we deserve what we get.
This whole train of thought was started by me noticing that a fellow co-worker, a subordinate is having problems with the work that is being given to him. He is asked to complete different tasks each day but the tasks come from a pool of 7 or 8 duties which need to be completed daily at our place of business.
I need to give you back ground information. I am a Shift Supervisor where I work but I have been where this gentleman is now. He is one of the low men on the totem pole. I was there. I was given the same duties that he is given. There is one duty that we do called Logbook and phones. The log book is basically the daily account of what happens at our place of business. Phones is monitoring resident phone calls to there parents or relatives. This is the most time consuming dutie there is. Now most supervisors won't even touch this duty, I lead by example I take the duty at least once every two weeks and sometimes once a week. I am not afraid to get down and do the things that I ask my supbordinates to do.
Yet this one person, who shall remain nameless complains about the duty in question everytime he has it and if he isn't complaining he becomes a miserable prick to his fellow staff members and to the residents. He has been doing the job for over a year maybe close to 2 years and he is still not comfortable with this duty. He also becomes insupbordinate. My recent interaction with this man is as follows; I came back to work after my weekend and I gave out the duties as it follows on our duty schedule. This guy says to me I did the log on Friday I shouldn't have to do the log on Sunday too. I argued with this man for about a half hour when in my place of business the staff do not argue with the supervisors but I am willing to listen. I got so frustrated with the conversation and the fact that I was coming from Easter dinner and before that I had worked the over night the night before. I literally had only about 3 hours of sleep. So when I got fed up I did this persons duties for the night and I let him have the day off.
Now, I have to tell you why I walk a little tenderly around this man. I have had issues in the past with this person. This person happens to be black. In no way shape or form am I or have I been a racist but when I argue with this person I feel that he is like second away from playing the race card against me. I have a good relationship with most everyone else on the shift that is at his same level. The thing is they all do what is asked of them when it is asked of them. Even if they don't like it. That is how my place of business works. That's what I do when I am asked to do something and that's how it should be.
My whole issue with this man is why is he such a baby about doing his job. Why can't he do it and not question it. It's how it's been and how it's going to be. Frankly because of him the job has changed because of him. The person doing log and phones used to have to do Safety rounds and do a lot more. But because he can't handle it or it is too tough for him we had to change it. Not my doing believe me. This man is approximately 8yrs older than me and I can't believe how lazy he is. Maybe he isn't lazy maybe it is difficult for him and he can't handle it all at once. But if that is the case then maybe he shouldn't be in this line of work. Everyone else can handle it why can't he. I don't know. But he makes his generation look bad. He might even be in my generation and that pisses me off.
We get weeker as time passes on. In this country we used to be patriots we believed in the system. We backed each other up. There used to be a lot of wrong going on but we fixed that wrong for the most part. But as we have have fixed these wrong things our country has gone soft. We feel we get over worked. Honestly the jobs at my place of business are 90% easy as pie and 10% you actually have to work. I mean seriously right now writing this blog I am at work. What's that say about me....I'm just looking for something to pass the time. I am pissed and I want this country to get back to being strong. Like know one will fuck with us and we can handle anything thrown at us.
As I write this I am feeling very very conservative and I feel that even though I didn't agree with G.W. Bush he handled business and didn't give a fuck what others thought of us. I see us getting weaker and weaker under this new administration. President Obama is our leader and I support him but as he goes I feel we are getting weak. I wait and hope he proves me wrong. I appologize to anyone reading this blog I don't mean to offend it's just how I feel. I heard a story about our president where he bowwed to another country's leader. I don't think our president should bow to anyone. It is definitely a sign of weekness. I hope that what I heard is not true.
Since I began voting not one of my candidates have come into office. I haven't been happy with our administration since Clinton was in office. I wish Hillary was in the office now. Our country needs to be strong. We as a people need to be strong. We need to do the jobs that we are being paid to do. As is write this I say maybe I shouldn't be writing but my duties are done and are being done. I can multi task unlike the man above. I am strong.
I may have got off base and I may be rambling on about nothing. I hope I make sense and I in no way intend to offend.
Just in asking myself these questions I have a theory...now I'm not standing 100% behind this theory I am just thinking out loud....or thinking through this blog. I think that we may becoming weaker as a people because we have access to more things than previous generations and because we are more tolerant of others...because we are not willing to make decisions that need to be made. We won't even kill people who have killed other people. Our prisons are over crowding, there are prisoners who have more College education than I do. I may be getting off the subject but if we can't kill a rapist murderer than we deserve what we get.
This whole train of thought was started by me noticing that a fellow co-worker, a subordinate is having problems with the work that is being given to him. He is asked to complete different tasks each day but the tasks come from a pool of 7 or 8 duties which need to be completed daily at our place of business.
I need to give you back ground information. I am a Shift Supervisor where I work but I have been where this gentleman is now. He is one of the low men on the totem pole. I was there. I was given the same duties that he is given. There is one duty that we do called Logbook and phones. The log book is basically the daily account of what happens at our place of business. Phones is monitoring resident phone calls to there parents or relatives. This is the most time consuming dutie there is. Now most supervisors won't even touch this duty, I lead by example I take the duty at least once every two weeks and sometimes once a week. I am not afraid to get down and do the things that I ask my supbordinates to do.
Yet this one person, who shall remain nameless complains about the duty in question everytime he has it and if he isn't complaining he becomes a miserable prick to his fellow staff members and to the residents. He has been doing the job for over a year maybe close to 2 years and he is still not comfortable with this duty. He also becomes insupbordinate. My recent interaction with this man is as follows; I came back to work after my weekend and I gave out the duties as it follows on our duty schedule. This guy says to me I did the log on Friday I shouldn't have to do the log on Sunday too. I argued with this man for about a half hour when in my place of business the staff do not argue with the supervisors but I am willing to listen. I got so frustrated with the conversation and the fact that I was coming from Easter dinner and before that I had worked the over night the night before. I literally had only about 3 hours of sleep. So when I got fed up I did this persons duties for the night and I let him have the day off.
Now, I have to tell you why I walk a little tenderly around this man. I have had issues in the past with this person. This person happens to be black. In no way shape or form am I or have I been a racist but when I argue with this person I feel that he is like second away from playing the race card against me. I have a good relationship with most everyone else on the shift that is at his same level. The thing is they all do what is asked of them when it is asked of them. Even if they don't like it. That is how my place of business works. That's what I do when I am asked to do something and that's how it should be.
My whole issue with this man is why is he such a baby about doing his job. Why can't he do it and not question it. It's how it's been and how it's going to be. Frankly because of him the job has changed because of him. The person doing log and phones used to have to do Safety rounds and do a lot more. But because he can't handle it or it is too tough for him we had to change it. Not my doing believe me. This man is approximately 8yrs older than me and I can't believe how lazy he is. Maybe he isn't lazy maybe it is difficult for him and he can't handle it all at once. But if that is the case then maybe he shouldn't be in this line of work. Everyone else can handle it why can't he. I don't know. But he makes his generation look bad. He might even be in my generation and that pisses me off.
We get weeker as time passes on. In this country we used to be patriots we believed in the system. We backed each other up. There used to be a lot of wrong going on but we fixed that wrong for the most part. But as we have have fixed these wrong things our country has gone soft. We feel we get over worked. Honestly the jobs at my place of business are 90% easy as pie and 10% you actually have to work. I mean seriously right now writing this blog I am at work. What's that say about me....I'm just looking for something to pass the time. I am pissed and I want this country to get back to being strong. Like know one will fuck with us and we can handle anything thrown at us.
As I write this I am feeling very very conservative and I feel that even though I didn't agree with G.W. Bush he handled business and didn't give a fuck what others thought of us. I see us getting weaker and weaker under this new administration. President Obama is our leader and I support him but as he goes I feel we are getting weak. I wait and hope he proves me wrong. I appologize to anyone reading this blog I don't mean to offend it's just how I feel. I heard a story about our president where he bowwed to another country's leader. I don't think our president should bow to anyone. It is definitely a sign of weekness. I hope that what I heard is not true.
Since I began voting not one of my candidates have come into office. I haven't been happy with our administration since Clinton was in office. I wish Hillary was in the office now. Our country needs to be strong. We as a people need to be strong. We need to do the jobs that we are being paid to do. As is write this I say maybe I shouldn't be writing but my duties are done and are being done. I can multi task unlike the man above. I am strong.
I may have got off base and I may be rambling on about nothing. I hope I make sense and I in no way intend to offend.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Booze, God,the Diner, Mexican Eggs and the murtock list.
The other day I was watching the show How I Met Your Mother(HIMYM). If you haven't seen it I advise you to see it and/or rent the previous seasons on DVD. Well anyways, the show was talking about something called the Murtock list. I have some background info for you if you haven't seen the show, so bear with me. Detective Murtock is Danny Glover's character in the Lethal Weapon series movies. A line from the movies, spoken by Detective Murtock is, "I'm getting to old for this shit!" The list on the show is things that you may be to old to do now that your older than 30.
I have just reached 32 years of age and time is not being good to me although I did run into some old friends of mine who told me I still look the same as I did when I was 18 or 19. Well, I definitely know that isn't true. I'm not sure if that is even a kind statement or a jab. Since I know my friends who have said that are really nice people then I will take it as an compliment. Even though it's totally untrue. I weigh considerably more than I did back then. I won't get into specifics about weight though. Sorry too embarrassed. I am also gaining a solar panel on the top of my head like most of the men on my dad's side of the family.
But I digress....let's get back to the Murtock list. After seeing the episode of HIMYM and an incident that I had this past weekend, I have decided to begin my own Murtock List. Now I am only going to add things to this list as I need too. As of right now I will only have one item on my list cause I have only realized that I am too old to do it this past weekend. So as I realize these things that I am too old to do I will add them to the list and will probably also tell you about them here on this blog.
Well, this past Saturday my friend Chris had a going away party. He's going away to Iraq in a few weeks and will be serving his country. God Bless him. I pray he comes back in one piece. Well anyways at his party he had an ice luge. I had never been to a party with an ice luge before and I wanted to try it. Somebody brought the Dr. and I did a shot. It was great. At the end of the night though this girl Kerry got me to do another shot on the ice luge. She poured quarter of the pint down the luge and into the mouth. It was the biggest shot I have ever taken since a bad time I had at a Camp Elmwood staff party but that's a story for another day.
I got mad props from the people at the party. I'm not particularly proud of what i did but it was cool for the short time that I was drunk at the party. I got an honorable mention on facebook as well.
But I have realized that I am too old for that shit! which brings us back to the Murtock list. Ice luges are going on the list. I did it once and I don't need to do it again. Plus what happened the next morning was so horrible.
I didn't get in till like 3 or for in the morning. The time is under debate between me and my wife Carla she says more like 4 I say definitely 3. Well I woke up at 8:30am on Sunday I had to get ready to got to church with my family for Palm Sunday. Now I am not overly religious right now but my son was going to be a greeter and an usher and would be taking the offering for the service. He looked damn cute in his 3 piece suit. So I am laying in bed awake with a killer head ache after I have taken my shower. I am feeling ok when out of nowhere my son Cody, hits me in the face with one of his books. It came as a complete shock to me. But after that I was never really the same. I ended up throwing up two times before leaving for church in a hungover state. I got to church and only fell asleep 2 times. God forgive me please. But my son was awesome as the greeter/usher.
I don't know why I keep letting this stuff happen to me. I drink way too much and then I can't even move the next day. I'm not a kid anymore. I was saved after church by a breakfast dish called Mexican eggs Great meal from the Modern Diner in Pawtucket. I have only eaten there twice but both times the food was phenomenal.
But I digress again...the list is started and doing shots on the ice luge is done. While I'm at it to I'm going to steal one from the show HIMYM beer bongs are out too. I have never done a beer bong and don't want to ever but if I'm too old for ice luges I'm too old for beer bongs.
Good bye for now.
I have just reached 32 years of age and time is not being good to me although I did run into some old friends of mine who told me I still look the same as I did when I was 18 or 19. Well, I definitely know that isn't true. I'm not sure if that is even a kind statement or a jab. Since I know my friends who have said that are really nice people then I will take it as an compliment. Even though it's totally untrue. I weigh considerably more than I did back then. I won't get into specifics about weight though. Sorry too embarrassed. I am also gaining a solar panel on the top of my head like most of the men on my dad's side of the family.
But I digress....let's get back to the Murtock list. After seeing the episode of HIMYM and an incident that I had this past weekend, I have decided to begin my own Murtock List. Now I am only going to add things to this list as I need too. As of right now I will only have one item on my list cause I have only realized that I am too old to do it this past weekend. So as I realize these things that I am too old to do I will add them to the list and will probably also tell you about them here on this blog.
Well, this past Saturday my friend Chris had a going away party. He's going away to Iraq in a few weeks and will be serving his country. God Bless him. I pray he comes back in one piece. Well anyways at his party he had an ice luge. I had never been to a party with an ice luge before and I wanted to try it. Somebody brought the Dr. and I did a shot. It was great. At the end of the night though this girl Kerry got me to do another shot on the ice luge. She poured quarter of the pint down the luge and into the mouth. It was the biggest shot I have ever taken since a bad time I had at a Camp Elmwood staff party but that's a story for another day.
I got mad props from the people at the party. I'm not particularly proud of what i did but it was cool for the short time that I was drunk at the party. I got an honorable mention on facebook as well.
But I have realized that I am too old for that shit! which brings us back to the Murtock list. Ice luges are going on the list. I did it once and I don't need to do it again. Plus what happened the next morning was so horrible.
I didn't get in till like 3 or for in the morning. The time is under debate between me and my wife Carla she says more like 4 I say definitely 3. Well I woke up at 8:30am on Sunday I had to get ready to got to church with my family for Palm Sunday. Now I am not overly religious right now but my son was going to be a greeter and an usher and would be taking the offering for the service. He looked damn cute in his 3 piece suit. So I am laying in bed awake with a killer head ache after I have taken my shower. I am feeling ok when out of nowhere my son Cody, hits me in the face with one of his books. It came as a complete shock to me. But after that I was never really the same. I ended up throwing up two times before leaving for church in a hungover state. I got to church and only fell asleep 2 times. God forgive me please. But my son was awesome as the greeter/usher.
I don't know why I keep letting this stuff happen to me. I drink way too much and then I can't even move the next day. I'm not a kid anymore. I was saved after church by a breakfast dish called Mexican eggs Great meal from the Modern Diner in Pawtucket. I have only eaten there twice but both times the food was phenomenal.
But I digress again...the list is started and doing shots on the ice luge is done. While I'm at it to I'm going to steal one from the show HIMYM beer bongs are out too. I have never done a beer bong and don't want to ever but if I'm too old for ice luges I'm too old for beer bongs.
Good bye for now.
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