The time of my life.

I've got some bone to pick with life. It doesn't make sense a lot of times but that is the very nature of it. Confused? I am. Have been for a long time too. Actually, I quit trying to make sense of it and making long range plans a while back because number 1, every time I do plan on something, it changes at the last minute and second, the last minute changes usually change too.

You might say, so what. Everyone has to change plans. OK. I agree but the thing of it is, it marks every part of my life.

Take vacations for example. (Was that a pun?) I haven't had one in over 2 years. Except for a couple long weekends, my life has been steady working, trying to maintain the status quo. I don't have the time to go anywhere. I want to go to Asheville in a couple weeks for a long weekend. We take the camper to a campground on the French Broad River and spend the weekend looking at the beauty that God has supply in abundance. Will this happen? Who knows. I believe we are going the minute we pull out of the driveway.

Own your own business! Set your own hours! Bullshit!!! Let me set the record straight. I love what I do, I'm pretty good at it and wouldn't want to do anything else. However, I am the first one there and the last one there. I get calls all the time. I am the last one to get paid if there is anything left AFTER everyone else is paid. Now there are some perks that others can't experience, like a long afternoon nap if I choose and need one. (doesn't happen often thought) A long lunch or the ability to tell someone, I just don't want to work for you.

A couple years ago, someone once told me in a conversation that I was an overnight success. I looked at this person with shock in my eyes and my mouth wide open and said; "Yeah, an overnight success that's taken 12 years to come about!"

It's not easy, but it's what it is. It's what I choose and a life I have come to accept. Complaining never makes life easier, just releases some steam and that's why I'm here.

I couldn't be an employee any longer. Been away from the world of order and time sheets for too long. I always felt constricted under the thumb of my bosses of the past. Egos are tender things and most of them had their own zip code. I try to keep mine in check but still, if you are in my position, you have to be confident in yourself. Otherwise you will be taken down when you least expect it.

Time to go to work now. Later.

Blogging part 2: A peek into my world

This was published almost a year ago on August 19,2011. I think it's something that needs to be brought up again because of the complete lunacy of the world today and how people take complete fiction as truth or reality. Maybe I should have prefaced it with this declaimer; Any and all persons depicted in this blog bare no resemblance to any actual character, person or event unless specifically stated. So noted. Read it and weep, go screw yourself or just go pound sand if you take offense! And for the record, I do NOT hear voices, that is just a dramatization. Look up the definition if you need to, root word is "drama". As has been stated, if you don't like what you read, STAY THE HELL OFF MY BLOG!!!


I stopped doing this a while back because of a post that was completely taken as an affront by another person. It was a cry for help. Nothing more, nothing less, written in the 3rd person and complete fiction. I've missed writing. Not that I think I'm that good, but just the voices in my head refuse to be silent until I give them what they want. Life.

Pretty simple isn't it? They are not always pretty, but they are mine.

I said when I started writing a couple years ago that if you like this that's good, if you don't no sleep will be lost over it. I should have listened to myself then but the circumstances at the time didn't allow for that attitude. You see, I will cut off my nose to spite my face. That damn Irish temper and German stubbornness.

Anyway, I'm here again and hope that if you read this and enjoy it, you will come back again. If not, thanks for stopping by and maybe we can still be friends. (insert smiley face emoticon here)

My thoughts are mine, I don't need to explain or apologize for them. American is ruled by laws based on the Constitution and as long as what I write doesn't cause harm to others, I can say what I want! I love that concept. In other words, you don't have to agree with me, I doubt you will agree on everything with anybody. Just as what you believe, may or may not be on par with my beliefs. Got to love America! PC police are not permitted here!

A friend has encouraged me to do this, I need it and I look forward to blasting the interweb with all sorts of loosely jointed insights on the crazy mixed up world I live in. I write in simple terms because, unless you cloister yourself in the walls of academia, the world speaks in simple terms. I learned a long time ago, the bigger the words, the more time you spend explaining what you said. To borrow a phrase from Forest Gump, "I'm not a smart man...." That was taken out of context but you have to love that!

I'm going to try and reload the old post, because they meant a lot to me. Some were really good, some really sucked but they were all put down in writing because of the words that rattle around in my head needed a home.

Don't get scared off because of them, it's just me. I never really know what floor the elevator is going to stop on. Or whether or not I'm going to get off on that floor and look around or push some more buttons.

Well, the voices of the new day are beginning to speak. It's going to be a good one. You may ask ,"How do you know this?", because I choose to make it that way.

I hope you decide to do the same.