Question of the Day

I cut my lip shaving this morning at 6:15am. It wouldn't stop bleeding no matter what I did. I had an 8am meeting and no amount of pressure, tissue paper, or Vaseline would stop the hemorrhage.

I spent the entire hour long meeting wiping blood from my lip with my finger. I licked my lip so many times that I ingested 2 pints of my own blood and now my lips are severely chapped. It was gross and embarrassing. It just wouldn't stop.

My next meeting was at 10am. I spent from 9am to 9:50 in surgery, again applying pressure, smothering Vaseline and trying to dry it out with tissue paper.

9:55am. It stopped.

Wow, miraculously before my meeting, it just stopped? I look in the mirror and notice that the tissue paper had somewhat gelatinized between a 1/2 moist, 1/2 dry, raised, red, textured mess on my lip. It no longer looked like tissue paper and blood, it looked like:

Herpes.

Now I have a pressing decision to make. I have two options to choose from.

A) Do I go to my next meeting looking as if herpes simplex 47 just threw a rager on my lip, but at least it's not constantly bleeding?

or

B) Do I rub off the tissue paper and just sit through the next hour licking my lip like a dog with peanut butter stuck in its mouth?

Question of the Day:
What do you roll with?

Music of the 90's

Does the fact that I just sat through the entire Top 100 Songs of the 90's on VH-1 mean that I'm yearning for some good tunes or that I have nothing going on in my life?

Regardless, I can't bring myself to believe that the past 8 years can even hold the jock of the 90's. The grunge, the hip hop and everything in-between. The 90's had some of the best blend of music in the history of sound.

Not only did I recognize every song and like it, but every song brought me back to a place in my life that was 'good times'. Maybe that's why I like that music so much. There's an emotional tie. High school, College, Post College slumming on the beach etc.

I mean when Sabotage comes on from the Beatie Boys I think about drinking a 40 in the back yard of 1208 and which one of us can whip the most wicked curve ball.

Think if we had iPods back then and we were able to have all our Sublime, Biggie, Pac, Pearl Jam, Green Day on and on and on in one piece of equipment instead of throwing in the overplayed tape that jammed up your boom box.

The 90's went through the end of the hair bands, dirty grunge, hip hop started and the man banders bloomed. Those 10 years put out the best sounds of all time.

Self Reliance & Self Empowerment Vs. Entitlement

The following was not written by me. The following is not a debate between Republican & Democrat. The following is about the ideologue and the differences between how two minds will comprehend and execute certain thoughts.

I'm not saying one person is smarter than the other. I think it's how different people process surrounding information.

My "so called" hate mongering, insensitive, uncaring & ungiving philosophies lead me to believe that the following has merit.

"Conservatism always defeats Liberalism when debated and honestly applied. Conservatism is based on man's ability to better himself through work, religion, education, self thought, savings, family, justice and small government. The substance of life.
Liberalism is based on emotion, class envy, fear of the future, the social collective thought, and self pity. The supposition of life."


Now there is 50% of this country who will disagree with that statement. They process information a different way. Why? I would like someone to simply destroy that statement, without emotion, so I can understand how those "others" come to the conclusions that they do. Conclusions about Life, Politics, Society etc. that keep 50% of us baffled to no end.

I'll be waiting....

Bizzarre Foods.....2

God Dammit. Zimmern, you sick bastard. You are full of crap,....... again.

Tonight on the island of Tobago, you ate "the penis of a conch".

Raw.

No seasonings. So smokey charcoal flavor. No vegitable or fruit additive to disguise the texture or flavor. You straight pulled it out of the shell and ate it.

Can you guess his response? "Holy shift! That was Nasty?" "Ah, dude, I'm a sick M F'er, I can't believe I just did that?"

Nope. More like......... "Hmmm, kinda hard, but as a whole not bad"

Not bad? Not Bad???? You just ate the the raw root of a freaking sea snail dude. What the hell is wrong with you?

Scars Rule

Real scars. Not the ones that come with females in the terms of emotional damage. Scars can tell interesting stories about people. If you have no scars, you are either superman or have lead a very boring, unchallenged, overprivileged and protected life.

I think I can tell you what 99% of my scars are from, head to toe. When they happened and what I did to get them. Some look cool. Some are weak. Some that you can barely see are from the gnarliest of activity. Then there are some from stupidity, like the one I got when I was 17. I got my ass kicked by a palm tree and I'll leave it at that.

I always like to ask how people earned their wounds.

Surgeries
Fights
Sports
Car wrecks
A screwdriver through the foot
(a palm tree)
etc. etc.

As long as there is an interesting tale behind it, you'll have my attention.

Being the Worlds Policeman

Do you realize that the United States has somewhere between 700-1,000 military bases around the world? Located in over 150 countries?

Iraq, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Italy, Iceland, Spain, Korea, Hungary, South America and on and on and on.

When was the last time you were out and about and stumbled upon Frances Boy Scouts....I mean Army posting up on a piece of US soil? It doesn't happen.

You wonder why people call us imperialists. You wonder why people around the world hate us as they see us forcing our will upon the world.

What is the alternative? Nobody has the money, the ability and frankly the balls to do what we are forced to do.

What happens when there is no authority present? The dogs rule the junkyard. They say that "people" are inherently good in life. I disagree, I think people are naturally bad. Laws, faith, education etc. are what keeps people restrained & structured, and there isn't enough of that around the world.

Do we do it to preserve our best interests? Yes, absolutely. The US is our business, it's our family and we do whatever it takes to preserve what we have. If we are deemed the bad guys so be it. It could be a lot worse.

Wicked Smaht...

Science is interesting, yet I don't know anything about it or attempt to say I do. It's one of those fascinating things that I can't grasp my arms around.

The intelligence of some is absolutely baffling. Good Will Hunting was a great fictional movie, however those dudes exist. This new article is talking about 10 billion dollar particle separators that will help us understand Einsteins theory of relativity and put together the various dimensions of this universe. This physics dude is going to prove the existence of an 11th dimension.

What? 11 dimensions? I thought we had 3. And to see it you had to wear those paper glasses with red & green lenses. 11 dimensions? What the hell does that mean? What in the hell is dimension 4-10? Should we be concerned? Are we eventually going to find out that we're all living in The Matrix?

I don't even understand 95% of this article, but the fact remains there are some people out there with some wicked intelligence. Maybe someday, we'll actually figure out time travel.

I mean they. I'll be licking lollipops somewhere.

Word of the Day...

Frugal. Avoid waste or no unecessary spending.

My people are a frugal people. Today, I am a frugal person, however that wasn't always the case.

Yes I will admit, there was a time when I was a derivative of frugal. I was a cheap, stingy, miser. Yes, there was a day when all 12 of those Keystone Lights were mine and you could have none! Yes, there was a day when I only had an ice tea and you had the beer so you owe more. Yes, there was a day I would drive 5 miles to find 5cent cheaper gas.

However, those days have long passed. Today it is frugal. I don't mind spending money. I don't mind giving my fair share or sometimes more because I know some other day it'll come out in the wash. I just mind spending money for stupid things.

Tipping pisses me off. The service society has morphed into a mandatory tip machine and it drives me nuts.

Tipping when earned is fine. I have no problem with that. I worked in a resaurant for 4 years. You wait on me, whether you're good or even sometimes when you suck, you'll get 20+% every time. You cut my hair, you get paid. You drive a taxi and hit 4 people to get me where I'm going in a jiffy, you're getting paid. If you exceed your expectations, you get a tip. I'm ok with that.


You have your hand out because you cracked a beer for me behind the bar? Go F yourself. You help me load a box into my car and then stand there with your hand out? Go pound sand. You want to make me an ice cream cone and then wait to yell and chant when I put your tip in the jar? Go choke on a waffle cone.


Mr. Pink had it right. Why does everyone have their hand out for extra money when they are just performing their jobs? Didn't tips originate from those who did above and beyond their duties?

It just becomes unecessary spending. It goes against the frugal principles of life. I still always do it, I just don't like it.