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I am pulled over in a rest area near Kerrville TX, it is Saturday night around 11ish local time. I'm tired, smell bad, and can't find a hotel. My reservation in the new town is for Sunday night and it is about 350 miles away. After carful deliberation and weighing my options with the good head God gave me, I'm planning on resting here for a few hours, catch up on my email and then move on to the next rest area, 123 miles away, sleep a few hours again, and move on, and so on and so on, until I reach my final resting place Hobbs New Mexico.

I have traveled all over the world, Thailand, Amsterdam, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, London, Sierra Leone, and the list goes on, this is the very first time all hotels have been booked. Does that tell you something about West Texas? It tells me nobody cares what happens out here, maybe the locals but I doubt it, why did I accept a job in noplace? Right now I am having a very hard time giving you a good answer. We should be thankful for small things, I have internet, and that is a good thing, the truck driving nieghbors are not bothering me, there is nobody banging on my window, yet, and I get the chance to update you on what is happening in my life.

Spent about 6 hours with my Uncle Larry, Aunt Susanne, there son Doug, (My Cousin) and his wife Falicia, ( I Hope no names are mis spelled) and had a great time, filled them in on my life and got caught up on a few things from teh family, talked too my fience, she is still in love with me and was very glad to talk too my Uncle. All in all, my life is good, a few pitfalls along the way, like no place too sleep, is no big deal. see y'all soon and remember to always look at the glass half full. (if it's not being tipped down the ftont of your shirt)

New Job

Well Folks, I have accepted a new job and will be moving this week. This may be my only article for a week or so. I am excited about the new position in New Mexico but I have to leave my ocean side Condo, not an easy thing, I do love this place, but sometime you just have to bit the bullet and go. I hope there are a few decent people in Eunice, I'm sure there are, in all my travels there are always good people wherever you are, and I am sure New Mexico is no different, I have a 26 hour drive ahead of me, and then the hassle of finding a place to live and so on, i will be back as soon as I can and let you know how it went. loveya meanit . Bye for now

Control your temper

If there was something I could say to every person in the world, to make your life easier and better it would be to learn one thing and one thing only, control your temper, I know its very hard sometime when stupid people do stupid things, but you have no choice in the matter, an angry person does things that no normal person will do, anger is like being on a drug, or being drunk, you will do things you will regret forever, I cant count the number of people in prison today because they couldn’t control there temper, I guarantee, you talk to people that are unhappy and you are talking to someone that looses it, I have seen perfectly normal people but once a week they loose it and there life is HELL, once you start as a young person acting on your anger it is worse then trying to get off heroin, so start practicing now, anger turns you into something ugly that nobody will be happy with, it is a part of knowing yourself, if you have anger issues, you better fix it and fix it now or your life wont be worth spit, so lets talk about how to control it when you get cut off by some idiot and your about to yell and flip them off you are going to be making a choice, yes your whole life is about choices, and your about to make the choice to get upset, you may have made this choice in the direction of anger so many times it is almost automatic, if this is you, we have a lot of work to do, but you are still making a choice, and every time you choose anger the choice the next time is easier to make, now when that time comes, the time to make your choice, you may have to keep notes on your dash, maybe keep writing every night, I will not loose my temper, over and over, I cant tell you how to remind yourself, but you will have to make yourself chose to let it go, I did have a small problem with my temper and I made myself choose not to do it, I read a phrase that helped me, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time gave me the inspiration to make the right choice, I hope it helps you, a fictional character named Hobart Malloy said, violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, wow, think about that, I am going to type it again just to make sure you get it, VIOLENCE IS THE LAST REFUGE OF THE INCOMPETENT, this simple phrase said by a fictional character helped me overcome my anger, I realized the truth of this phrase, I have always considered myself a smart person, my grades weren’t good because school bored me to tears but I am very smart, and self educated, and after I read that it was like a light bulb went off in my head, I am to smart to be called incompetent so I started thinking ahead, making sure I didn’t get myself in a position to loose my temper, if there was something that made me upset, I avoided it until the time I could deal with it, I made the decision in my life to live by not loosing my temper, and thankfully it worked, now you can either do as I did, and use my saying, or make one of your own, but you need to do something and do it soon, talk to someone, let them know your working on staying calmer, get some help, there are very good therapists out there that can help, just make sure you get a good one, talk to your pastor, talk to friends, get into Yoga, do whatever it takes, if you need some incentive let me tell you what will happen if you keep getting angry, your children will be just like you, and the frustration will be laid back on you 100 fold, they would rather be anyplace then with you, your spouse will eventually leave you, they can only put up with nasty people so long, no matter what they feel for you, your friends will leave you, they have better people to be around then someone that blows his/her cool every time something doesn’t work out right, it hurts me when I see people in public acting like fools, because I know there on the path to living a very sad existence, they will die alone, sad and neglected, with no friends and nobody to care for them, our retirement homes are full of sad old people with good families but because there such nasty people nobody in the family wants to take care of them, why? Because they never learned to handle there temper. So get a grip, hold the anger, it will hurt, it will be hard, it may be the hardest thing you ever did, but it will reap rewards that you can never imagine.

Birthday

yesterday was my Birthday, I turned 46, maybe a little old to be playing around with a blog but it's something I enjoy, letting people know what I am about, letting people know what I am doing, and letting people know how close I am to finishing my book. It's getting closer by the day, I'm going to be putting the finishing touches on it this weekend, here is another paragraph to give y'all a little bigger taste.

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I quote the great Yoda from Star Wars, there is no try, either do, or do not, so quit trying to loose that weight, and quit trying to be a better wife, and quit trying to be a better husband get off your lazy butt and do it. Suffer a little, there is no pill, no diet, no secret to loosing weight people, it is actually very easy, eat less and be more active. AAAAAHHHHHHH look at that, the angels are singing, the world has just learned the secret to loosing weight, all the billions of dollars spent every year on a miracle fat pill are now useless, I am so impressed with myself for sharing the ultimate weight loss product in the world, in 6 words, I’m going to assume you’re an idiot for a while, please don’t take this personally, I honestly don’t think any of you are as dumb as I am about to treat you, but the fact remains that if I talk to some of you in an adult manner you just wont get it, so lets take a look at this miracle weight lose solution, the first step is to EAT LESS, what do I mean by that you ask? Well instead of eating the whole bag of chips only eat half, if your tummy hurts because your hungry and you feel week and your blood sugar needs a snickers bar, deal with it, don’t eat, go through a little pain, suffer for an extra hour, I can honestly say nobody I have ever known has died from hunger pains, yes it hurts, yes it doesn’t feel good, after all who is your boss? Your body, mind or spirit, your body is just a tool, used to get your mind around the world, you honestly don’t have to do what it says, I promise, it will still wake up tomorrow morning, it will still walk where you want to walk, it wont rebel and fight with you so it can have that last piece of cake, talk to it, tell it, body!! Yes your hungry but you’re a whiner, and your fat, your going to get into shape and stop eating like a pig and there is nothing you can do about it, just shut up and get over it, be the boss of your body and eat less, now for the second part of the miracle weight lose plan, move more, be more active, walk instead of ride, get a freaking bicycle, play more golf, take up tennis, do whatever you have to do, just move your fat ass more, if you come home from work and turn on the TV and that is your evening, well your just screwed, go ahead and sit and sit and buy the magazines and wish you were with someone that looked like Tom Cruise, and stay fat and ugly, for God sake people do you really think that your life is going to end if you don’t see who won American Idol? Get up and go do something. Now you know the whole secret to loosing weight, please send me $100 via paypal to the email address above, I’ve earned it, I just saved you thousands of dollars on crap your going to do that wont work, I guess I should’ve just waited to sell the secret but now that its out I just know I wont see a dime of the profits.

Nobody here?

Is there nobody here to read this blog? I have been writing for 3 days and not had one comment, I guess that is OK, i am not here for others, I am doing this for myself, to express my feelings and practice my writing, also when my book comes out with my webpage I expect it to start getting a little busier then it has been, for todays post Let's put up a paragraph from my book "How to Pick a Spouse, and other Words of Country Wisdom"

As I sit in my “man cave” surrounded by weapons, trophy animals and many mementos of a very good life, I realize the complexity of the problems I faced when younger and the problems you are facing now, as a young person, trying to figure out his or her place in this world, in your near future, you are going to make some of the most important decisions of your entire life. Between the age of 18 and 30 is the time these decisions are the most important, and the time you are the most ill equipped to make them. You don’t have the experience or knowledge, at this stage in life, to use your mind in the way it was intended. These decisions will affect you until the end of your days. And so I decided to write a book to help you and millions of others, if I am lucky maybe there will be some people out there that won’t have to go through what I have gone through, I will attempt to transfer some of my wisdom to those that have an open mind and are not afraid of thinking a little differently. There is a saying that some men are born to greatness, and some have it thrust upon them, I like to say that there are some that take what they want from life, learn from the mistakes of others and make themselves great, that is what I am here to try and teach you, how to live great, What is greatness you ask? Well am I glad you asked. Greatness is the best personal level of enjoyment in life you can get, before you start to scratch your head over this let me explain. Every man woman and child in this world only wants one thing, to be happy, and being great is simply that, being happy, happy with life and all that is associated with it, your partner, your spiritual life, your mental state, your physical state, all these things, when you were a youngster around 5 or 6 the only thing that it took to make you happy was a football and a few friends, and by God you were not only happy but ecstatic, the joy holds no bounds of the Saturday afternoon neighborhood football game, or any other thing you did back then to make you happy, in short it was freaking easy to be happy, now 15 to 20 years later your figuring out it isn’t that easy anymore, so how are we going to prepare our life to be happy? By planning young in life to make decisions, here and now, that will help you achieve greatness in the future, and not just decisions, but good decisions that will make a difference in years to come.

What is a Curmudgeon in Training?

As you can tell from the definition, crusty, ill tempered and usually old. I am not old, a little crusty, and not at all ill tempered, so I am not a full fledged Curmudgeon just yet, but with all the stupid things I see on a daily bases it's getting close, for a simple example, let us take a look at the fast food industry in our country, I have traveled the world and seen more American fast food places oversees then I have when home, and there is a HUGE difference, orders don't get messed up, The people are friendly, they want to serve you, you can tell when you walk in that your wanted, in the U.S. at least one in 5 orders placed in the drive through are not right, I never feel like the young person behind the counter wants me there, this little snot nosed kid is doing me a favor by taking my money for crap service. this is just one more key to America becoming a second class country, it is no wonder the world looks at us as spoiled rotten little brats, it is because we are. let me know what you think.
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Get Closer

I don't think people realize how much being close to others impacts there life. We as humans need to understand this and make use of it when we choose our friends, we all know we are stuck with our relatives but what about the people we hang out with? we all need to understand that friends from work and play have an impact on your personality, they affect the way you think, yet, very few people I know actually think about picking a friend, they just take whoever comes along. Maybe because they have a self esteem issue and don't think they are good enough to pick friends, maybe they are a little lonely and will take the first one that comes along. If you are in a low place it still pays to be picky about who you hang out with, I would not think about hanging out with crack heads, because I have no intention to be one, and the way they act will affect me, negatively. We all need to think more about our friends and take some time and think, Think about there actions and there personality, do you want to become like them? Because to some extent you will.

What do I mean

Folks, I am new to writing and new to bloging, I am writting a book on the subject of how to pick your spouse and other words from a common sense perspective, I have noticed too many stupid things happening in the last 10 years and felt i just had to put it on paper, I will be updateing content soon, Thanks for checking and please once I get this whole blog thing down, it will be a blast, you will enjoy it, check back daily
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