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gravguy @ 2009-11-28T06:19:00

2009-11-28T11:19:58Z

ok what is it with women sometimes. I get a call from a female friend im not in a relationship with, all the time at 4 am waking me up all the time. i dont know if she just doesnt get it but man i dont need to listen to her complain about her boyfriends if you arent nudging me dont wake me up holy shit i would tell everyone her name but when she reads this maybe she will get it UUUUUUUUGGUUUUUUGGUGGGGGGG
HHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! even worse than that is she is calling me on my pay as you go cell phone that she knows is a pay as you go phone.
Just sitting here thinking of this problem i cant decide wether that she is young or that shes dense i have a set of rules i use in realitonships now its a set of rules i follow if im going to be sleeping with a person but i think that i might have to change it to apply to new friends

rule 1
NO CHILDREN that means never sleep with children, only logical right. but this also means no one who is not mature enough to handle problems of life and able to deal with someone who has had polly lifestyle for a big part of his life. mental children are dangerous
rule 2
NO ANIMALS this means well yeah you got it no animals, and no one who acts like an animal who doesnt stay clean a person who has personal pride if they dont remember where they were last night would you want to sleep or live with them
rule 3
my primary has right of first refusal ie she or he has the right to say no to anything or anyone

rule 4
THE STUPID RULE this is where i have been trying to decide how to put a rule in there for stupid people this woman in question is not really dumb but she is not so quick with the uptake. i get really tired of dealing with people who just dont get it and if i put a rule like this to test i would try and eliminate this kind of thing from my life

joke

2009-09-24T23:02:02Z

i don't normally repost jokes but i have to this time:

Yesterday I had a flat tire on the interstate. So I eased my car over to
the shoulder of the road, carefully got out of the car and opened the
trunk. .

I took out 2 cardboard women, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of
my car facing oncoming traffic. They look so life like you wouldn't
believe it!

They were in trench coats exposing their nude bodies to the approaching
drivers..

To not to my surprise, cars started slowing down looking at my lifelike women which
made it safer for me to work at the side of the road. And of course,
traffic started backing up. Everybody was tooting their horns and waving
like crazy. It wasn't long before a state trooper pulled up behind me.

He got out of his car and started walking towards me. I could tell he
was not a happy camper!

'What's going on here? '

'My car has a flat tire', I said calmly..

'Well, what are those obscene cardboard women doing here by the road? '

I couldn't believe that he didn't know. So I told him,
'Helloooooo! Those are my emergency flashers!'

another image from a book

2009-09-23T17:42:58Z

so i posted a radom image from one of my art books last post , so ive decided to put another one. i seem to have a weird connection to roses for some reason i draw them i sculpt them i buy them when i see a new one this is a simple sketch that i did

heres an image of one i sculpted a few years ago and a random image i was trying to do becuse the image of blood and a rose is deep win my head

While making a rose welding in shorts and t shirt

yes thats real blood but i had just washed my hand and spread it arround

PS: that lastimage is of the first metal one i ever did and it used to have real meaning now i just see it as a thing of beauty even if the original emotions are changed hence the blood image with that one

Writer's Block: Touch-Screen Pros & Cons

2009-09-17T18:30:51Z

i think people would be more in touch with the interface if we had touch screens. the potential of a tablet with hand writing recognition or a way to just play on the screen. i use notebook and paper to draw so i think if we had touch screns it could be used like a waycom

so now ive started this

2009-09-17T18:26:13Z

ok i put up a drawing the other day of a home and someone sent me a message that they had never seen any of my art. so here goes im going to post some every so often. and a short thing as to what it is ( like the kid who draws something and has to tell everyone what it is

ahhh its a ... isnt that cute
this is just a totaly random page form one of my sketch pads i must have 30 + of the things lying arround and i pick them up at random and will draw. one of the things i commonly do is called "circle time" where i limit myself to a circle, drawn using whatever is within reach at that time i do beleve these are pill bottle tops i dont limit myself on color but this time it seems i must have so look as you like idlike to hear what people think

yes thats a butt

not like im waithing for oct 1st or anything :-)

Writer's Block: On the (Job) Hunt

2009-09-15T23:47:55Z

the hardest part is when you have done one thing for a very long time you find you are way behind all of the others.they seem to be looking at the same jobs you are and they seem way more qualified than you are . as a person who has run my own business for now 17+- years its hard to find something that i could do.i keep wondering if i would be able to fit into the regular job world, where i dont make the rules

gravguy @ 2009-09-15T19:16:00

2009-09-15T23:41:13Z

havent posted in a while. someone brought live journal up in a conversaton today so i figured i would come look at my page. well it was a little empty. but i did get inspiration from a friends page. he was posting his new Porn so i figured i should take hint and post some of mine well heres his pixel.livejournal.com/509569.html well i have one that is mine i still seem to gravitate twards very contemporary homes i love the the simple geometry of them so heres one i keep working on ((see below a container house design i have been working on. heavy asian design elements as simple as it can be strong ties with outdoor life ))
now the major diference between pixel and i is that he loves the old style of home and i prefer to create my style.its the artist and creator in me that makes me dive into the design. my sister keeps saying go back to school you should do something with your art. and then i hear about my girlfriend and how much debt that she has from going to school i just could not handle that kind of stress no not to say pixel isnt artistic far from the truth he is one of the most artistic people ive met he just likes a different style than i do.
so i have decided i am going to post some of my ideas andshow some of my house ,car and art porn. you can run in fear now if you like but its a wild ride so it could be fun just watch

Writer's Block: Thanks to Technology…

2009-08-26T23:07:10Z

What are some things you can do today because of technology that you couldn't do five years ago?

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eat like i want to exersize like i want to and be allot more active. i wear an insuiln pump ive always been an active person extreme sports and all but in the last year i got my pump and now wow dont get in my way because im on
5 years ago they didnt have meters that did real time monitoring and pumps that coudl take an active lifestyle

Something to write about war

2009-08-14T01:42:45Z

Now that’s hard I have just spent a week at war and this first week after I have been trying to come up with something to write about it and I have been stumped. I started out thinking I was going to have work done enough to leave my shop for 2 weeks. It turned out that I could not get it together enough to take that much time off well I ended up going to the first weekend the first night is called zero night. And I was really looking forward to spending the ZERO night with my girlfriend and have a great start to war. Well it started out getting there real late but the weather was nice even though it was a little chilly. Got trolled in and set up enough so that I could spend the evening with her. After all ive heard about Zero night I didn’t like it I would have much rather shown up at 8 am and rolled in and set up. I know there is a job to be done and that’s the reason zero night became the aborted thing it has become but … I know there is allot to it but for me It was very stressful and Since I don’t drink it was only amusing to a point. Falling asleep to the drunken guys saying how we were idiots for going to bed so early.

The next morning that first Saturday was described as a difficult time that it never went smoothly land negotiations being normally problematic. I can see how it could be but it went smoothly I think mostly because the block was not too full and there was still free space amongst the camps that would work out any differences between the camps. I don’t know if I would be as diplomatic as a land agent as Sorcha is. That first day was a little hell like is stormed very heavily for most of the afternoon and the evening turned out to be ok . didn’t go out partying but had a nice dinner off site and went shopping ( hinting the elusive tarp and pallets that night sat around for a while with Sorcha . the vardo helled up well in the rain and stayed nice and dry .

Sunday morning woke to a nice light cloudy morning. Dreading the feeling I knew was coming, the separation knowing she was going home first. I watched her drive off for home and a week of work. I left the next morning not getting to hold her that night was a little long for me

A week at work I drive back Monday and jump into work immediately I have this dream I could get stuff done I did work but get anything done not really.

Back at work I prepare to leave and get my ass together and head out to war on Friday at noon. I get back to coopers about 7:30. Expecting a warm welcome I got a full report of information I really dint care for. (Mostly about my ex and the weather) so I settle in. start thinking of parties and the music I would hope to sit around and listen to. The parties are all around camp. And the one I have raced back to see is very grumpy. Hoping for a nice sultry night turns into a night of stress for me. (You know the blue kind) so the week stars out and I get up sat morning and go to my first classes to fill my day. let me stop here and say the things I love other than being near the one. I love listening to music going to classes hearing stories and talking to people. So I went to that days classes and wandered around alone (no I don’t like that) that night parties all around that I didn’t go to but cold hear in the distance. I miss the music that night but I did get the company of the woman I came to see.

Sunday morning comes make a breakfast and hang out till after 100 not leaving camp till late really didn’t do anything all day

That’s my second weekend I will say more later on the rest

home from war

2009-08-11T16:28:57Z

home from pennsic war just a note feels like i should find a new one though

Writer's Block: My Family's Future

2009-07-29T23:55:13Z

im a living as a single man at 40 ( even though im in a relatonship) im in a long distance relatonship so i can say i want health but i really wish for financial security so that i can do the traveling that makes a relationship like this possible

videos

2009-07-22T18:44:43Z

So I watch allot of videos, im kind of addicted. I jones for the next one i watch mostly educational ones, I really don’t do the kick to the groin ones. I just cant wait till nova puts up a new show or masterpiece theater puts one up I search the internet for good ones and I have watched all the T.E.D. That WWW.TED.com has to offer well I was on one of the sites I frequent and saw one today that I thought I would pass along. Its one of those inspirational ones now before you watch this I want to tell you what is on the back of a journal I carry with me its called OOPs and it’s a little thing I try and remember but lately have forgotten

an irate banker demanded that Graham bell removed

that toy from his office that toy was the telephone

a Hollywood producer scrawled a curt rejection note on a

Manuscript that was "Gone with the wind"

Henry Fords largest original investor sold all his stock in

1906 at 10 it would be worth 100 million today

Roebuck sold out to Sears in 1895 for 20 K today they

sell that much in 10 seconds

The next time you have an idea put it on the

back burner till it will warms up

Well after that here’s the video I don’t know how to imbed video so here’s the link

http://www.wimp.com/awesomemotivation/

Just some inspiration to my friends and to some who have watched me fail over and over and jump back in over and over again

thinkin about nutin

2009-07-20T23:43:23Z

So tonight I was thinking about stuff I like. I was watching a NOVA episode (nova is the name of a scientific television show) that was talking about cosmology I was overwhelmed with thoughts of well why don’t I think about … any more things I still do and some I have not really not been interested in just am not doing on a regular basis. A short list for instance steam punk, rockabilly, volksrods trike’s and cycling now I go through spurts, but it seems I do this allot and lately ive become too tied to do any of the fun stuff I liked . there is nothing wrong with this as I see it but it bothers me that I go so broad in my interests I loose them in amongst my life and by doing so I spend allot of energy doing all these things I will never actually finish so the question is do I quit thinking about all those frivolous things ( plus another large list ) and concentrate on just one interest or embrace my hap hazard existence and do everything I can touch . just a little thought I have had today and to show why I didn’t get real work done today I was watching nova since 600pm when a true friend called me

quote from my notebook

2009-07-20T19:27:21Z

well i stumbled across this one and today it seems very fitting

                                         Every thing will be better in the end.

\

                                                              if its not ok,
                                 its not the end

WAR good god yall

2009-07-16T21:24:51Z

So I haven’t really written much about Pennsic war! For the last few years I have been going to Pennsic war. The best way to describe Pennsic is to say it’s hard to really describe Pennsic War to anyone who hasn't seen it. To begin with, it's an annual, two week long medieval reenactment festival attended by over 10,000 people. It's participatory, so almost all attendees dress in medieval clothing and camp at the event. There are armored battles, classes on a variety of topics, an extensive shopping area and huge nightly parties. Plus, you will meet a wider variety of people than you might ever expect at a historical reenactment event.

I started out about 15 years ago but I never went to the event to stay at the event I went because a few people I know wanted something special built to either camp in or use at war ie kitchens and shower houses. About 5 years ago I sent my then fiancé to war ( she was a person into it also ) but I restricted myself for I don’t really know for what reason

One day I was asked by her to come back to war with her, so I did and fount there were things I liked . It was very interesting to me I am not the kind of guy who goes out and wants to party the whole time im there ( although the parties are great) I find much more interest in building stuff like cool tents or special structures. I also find allot of interesting stuff in the classes that are held every day during the event mostly I like the blacksmithing ones and the crafts skills (leather metals, tent making) currently I have built a lot of stuff for my camp and a whole list of things for other peoples camps here are a few of them on my photo bucket page http://s211.photobucket.com/albums/bb147/gravguy/sca%20stuff/

The first largest item is the vardo itself

Im just going to leave it at that so you can get an idea then I will post more later when I have more time

Something I have been thinking about lately, am I ever going to streetluges ever again just a thought it’s a good starter for next time when I have a writers block

Writer's Block: To Infinity and Beyond!

2009-07-16T20:41:43Z

Are you interested in intergalactic travel? What would you hope to discover?

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i would expect to discover everything . ( MOVIE QUOTE) " it there's nothing out there its an aweful waste of space"

i know people hate these

2009-07-16T20:39:14Z

Here's what you're supposed to do... and please don't spoil the fun... copy and paste, delete my answers, type in your answers and send it to a bunch of people including me.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
6:05

2. How do you like your steak?
meduim rare

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
Harry Potter

4. What is your favorite TV show?
True BLood

5. What did you have for breakfast?
Nothing

6. What is your middle name?
I

7. What is your favorite cuisine?
american ( i love steak )

8. What foods do you dislike?
brocoli

10. Favorite dressing?
none

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
today im on my bike ( 75 suzuki titan)

12. What are your favorite clothes?
black tshirts black jeans

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would it be?
sailing towards the equator

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full?
no cup drink form the hose its more fufilling

15. Where would you want to retire?
retire whats that im going to die on my feet with my fists up

16. Favorite time of day?
well its night

17. Where were you born?
Above dover afb on the way here from japan- so i guess Dover De

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
sports i only watched the ones i was in ( streetluge ,skydiving )

19. Who do you think will not tag you back?
I don't really care

20. Person you expect to tag you back first?
I don't really care

21. Pepsi or Coke?
Diet Mountain dew

22. Bird watcher?
well theres this bird i keep seeing driving in this convertible reminds me of someone special

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night !!!

24. Do you have any pets?
yes OZZY greatest dog on the planet

25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?
going to war see you at pennsic

26. What did you want to be when you were little
I always wanted to be a farmer with a john deer tractor

27. What is your best childhood memory?
none really i was sick as a kid

28. Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Dog, what else is there

29. Beer or Margarita?
quit drinking but have wine with meals on special occasions

30. Always wear your seat belt?
um no but i should always do in anything light weight

31. Been in a car accident?
if you have to ask that about me you dont know me and never will

32. Favorite Restaurant?
dont have a favorite because i like to cook

33. Favorite Pizza Toppings?
meats ,cheese

34. Favorite Flower?
varagated roses

35. Favorite ice cream?
world class choclolate from B&R

36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
wendys

37. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
once the drivers tester played a trick on me i got him back the next time and got him to make mistakes

38. From whom did you get your last email?
yahoo groups nicola tesla group

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
home depot

40. Bedtime?
3 or 4 am

41. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
No one

42. Broccoli?
um no

43. What was your favorite vacation?
romainia

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
valeri

45. What are you listening to right now?
pandora internet raido ( ditektiv byron)

46. What is your favorite color?
VIPER GREEN

47. How many tattoos do you have?
None,had them removed

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
ill send it direct

49. What time did you finish this quiz?
423 pm

50. Coffee drinker?
dont drink coffie im i tea drinker

i dont know how to put a title on this

2009-07-11T20:34:35Z

So this month has been real crazy, going from highs and lows. On the 23^rd of June my mother passed away. It had been a long road for her she had A.L.S. a disease that can be pretty tough it has no cure and affects the nervous system. ALS attracts the nerves one at a time and travels not necessarily in patters but in most cases in the extremity’s first. in most cases ALS patients from diagnosis live from 3 to 5 years . In my mothers case it started in her right arm and hand and went up her arm. In her it transitioned to her right leg after taking the use of both arms. In less then 4 months she lost use of both legs. A few months later it got into more an more of her speech and her breathing. This is where the disease really got bad. When she could no longer eat the doctors suggested to get a tube in for feeding before it was too late and they could not because of complications. When she went in for the procedure she was still able to communicate but after she came out of the hospital she was lethargic and non communicative. After the hospital stay it was a short matter of just a few weeks till we were on watch at all times. The bad part of the disease is that you know they are in there but are trapped. They can’t communicate they can’t move. in my mothers case we were told early on that she would probably dye from suffocation. I was not at her side as she died but just before I left her side I knew that it was coming. My father didn’t want me there so he sent me away and I went to work. Before I actually arrived at work my phone had rung 5 times. So I got to my shop and returned the call. I immediately returned to the house and helped the nurses deal with her and made my dad sit and relax.

As the family came together I found myself kind of standing out of the loop. I don’t want to make this about me. But I wanted people who know me to understand where im at right now. I found that I was not and am not able to express any emotion about my mom but watching my sisters cry a river and my father in his depression (understandable but not letting me help) so im kind of there but outside looking in. now I am the type to turn to the person im in a relationship with to look for a friend to talk to, or to friends to sit around and just let them understand what’s going on with me. Well this time I was not around anyone and I kind of realized that I don’t deal well with not having someone around. Now I always believed in strong friendships, and im currently in a long distance relationship (when she reads this OH BOY) now I really have had no one to just talk too. The relationship with her is strong but being so far away it doesn’t allow for real communication when we are together I don’t want to bring any bad into our conversations. I really enjoy the time I spend with her. But im so afraid of messing up what we have by brining up bad stuff. The weekend after my mothers funeral was the 4^th of July now we had planned a nice weekend and we did all most of the things we planned but the whole time I avoided bringing this subject into our conversations now it was not that I was thinking don’t say this or that for some reason I just didn’t . I really needed the time away sitting with her watching fireworks. It does bother me that none of my other friends called or said anything hell not even a card. But ive started to realize my friendships aren’t as strong as I thought. That or my friends are just feeling that they cant deal with me during this time.

Something I have realized during this is how I really am in the middle of a major point in my life. Call it a stall in life or a real mid life crisis (early I guess) but someone I know described it that way and I denied it till I thought about it. Mostly I denied it because I don’t really see myself as an adult. Somehow I missed the classes that were given to the rest of society. You know the one that says go to college buy car meet a girl /boy (girl boy girl-girl boy- boy) have kids buy a house. Yeah somehow I screwed that all up so much that I have no idea where or what to do now. I thought -hey I have this cool thing I have freedom I have a cool artist life. I could be HAPPY well I am starting to wonder if it’s what I thought it is. Somehow I was just typing that last line and looked back and read it ( deleted it = re wrote it ) but I looked at the words “im happy” and thought well yeah overall I am I wonder how I could do better but I really am

Ok I could write for a long time on this but I think im going to stop ( don’t want to waste it all in one time)

Writer's Block: Vacation All I Ever Wanted

2009-06-16T03:00:58Z

Describe your idea of a perfect summer vacation.

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a few years ago i would have said something different than now but now i will have to say im going to war www.pennsicwar.org/penn38/

Writer's Block: Teen Time Machine

2009-06-12T16:23:02Z

If you could be a teenager living in any decade, which one would you choose?

Submitted By twertle

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for myself the future. im a diabetic and the advances in medical tech have gone very far in the last few years. my hope would be that there would be a cure. and have my teenage years to be good ones not ones where i was sick all the time

mercedes oh my

2009-06-07T03:30:18Z

So the sledgehammer of reality has hit me. I last night was involved in a car accident with fatality. I was driving along major highway here, (believe it of not doing the speed limit) (insert chuckle here) and a Mercedes Benz compressor comes up on me at well over 100 plus miles per hour. Now this driver was way over his skill level. The traffic was not heavy at the time but at those speeds you really have to think 2 to three miles down road for that kind of driving. As I came down the road for at least a mile ahead of me it was totally clear. There was myself and a car I had just overtaken and about three vehicles within a mile of me I had my cruise control on and was rolling at 65 mph, had the stereo cranked. I come up beside a car traveling just below the speed limit. I pass on the right since the lane ahead was clear and the vehicle in the middle lane could see me clearly. I just finished passing this car and I see a flash of headlights and I realize that it’s a car moving way too fast in cutting across from the far left land ( high speed lane ) across behind the middle lane vehicle and right behind me. Now before I really saw him he was already sliding I hear a slight whoosh sound across my rear bumper. He’s now sliding sideways heading away from me towards the center median. I should describe the medians here they are wide grass areas about 35 to 40 feet wide with sections of the area elevated above road surface (basically large dirt piles) I see what I thought was a passenger through the side window but now have come to know that it was the driver having been thrown from his seat. The Mercedes then hit this mound at full speed and does what is a pirouette on its rear till it came in contact with the ground again and reversing direction headed back towards me into the roadway. by the time it re entered the roadway it had ejected the driver and done at least 3 complete revolutions. Now in my life I have talked to allot of people about how they see a panic/ emergency situation I have always seen things in very slow motion. I don’t see things in the flash that they are in time I have always seen each little bit and had time to react. In this case I saw the Mercedes rolling now it was elevated and at least 10 foot off the road surface at the time I said to myself how do I react if I hit my brakes I will be driving directly into where he “will be” so I started to his my brakes then I said no stomp it and be headed that way as he looses momentum I will be clear. Now in my mind it took forever and a day but I was on the shoulder Euro van in park hazard lights turned on and was running up the road. I reached the Mercedes In my mind long before I saw another approaching vehicle (a van) now I had already looked in the Mercedes to see if there were any other people in it and had run up the road about 2 feet before I realized that the van couldn’t see anything and was going to strike the Mercedes. I waved franticly to keep the other approaching vehicles to avoid the driver who was now laying half into the high speed lane. I still in my mind thought there were others so I was looking around to see if there were any other bodies while the now fast approaching traffic was not seeing any of this and was sliding all over hitting debris and swerving to avoid other swerving cars. I finish my survey and take off my shirt and wave it so people can see something. I run back to where the Mercedes driver was laying and notice that he really had no chance when I arrived I looked him over without touching him. As I looked I realized there was nothing I could do as his skull was open and the pieces were scattered along the road edge. Now this happened around 215 am and the sounds and noises from the fire and police were approaching I looked at the time and wow its 235 and it had felt like hours to me. We get enough traffic stopped that the lights form the vehicles are enough to warn the next group of the danger, when to my amazement one of the other people in the accident ( the van driver) tells people to go around. Now the traffic is going away and there are some people looking and some just moving on a carload of young ladies starts to climb out of there car and I yell over to get back in and out their belts on as new cars come screeching up. The gentleman who released all the traffic now listens to me and realizes by releasing the traffic there is no protection for the people now standing in the road and new traffic is coming up at way over 70 mph.

So now im involved I stay and wait for the ambulance to remove the body and the investigation to finish. I love how the investigators don t listen or interview the direct witnesses as for me I think having direct info as quickly as possible is most important

Well now you know about my Saturday morning

Writer's Block: Call Me

2009-06-03T05:59:50Z

Do you still use a landline at home, or do you rely completely on your cell phone?

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i barely ever use my cell phone i dont like them i guess that makes me old. everyone has them or wants them and the cost is cheaper in most cases then the land line. i also like to have it so i can use it as backup for when the cable modem goes out ( pretty often sadly)

how to deal

2009-06-02T23:30:15Z

So I haven’t written in a while I screwed up my internet so its been dialup for a while
I decided I would use word to write in this time and paste it over when I get online again

This one hit me after having a bad spell in my relationship with my father

“Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”

Tolstoy

I wonder what drives people sometimes. My father really wants to be a nice guy and I know there’s something that pushes him away from that. Yesterday I had a bad experience with my pump and my sugars were through the roof so I was feeling real bad. Now normally I work very late and there are several reasons for that on is I don’t want to be in the way of my father. Just my presence bothers him. I spend allot of time at work even if I get nothing done. Yesterday in his life my mother was put on hospice care and I know that that upset him greatly knowing he was not capable of doing everything she needed. So his frustration was very visible. The next thing that happened with him is my sister and he had a big argument. So no mater what I would say I was there so he would transfer that onto me. Well when I got up today my sugars were down but now im fighting the after high problems (what I call the bounce) my sugar upon waking up was very low and I went find food to bring it up after using the bathroom .when he found I needed food he said hey Ive already made batter for pancakes would you like some so I replied I have to check my sugars again before I know how many but yeah thanks. Well the next question he had was would I like bacon or sausage with it. Well I repeated the comment that I had just made that I would have to check my sugar before I could say how much I could eat but I would have pancakes.

Well I went down to my living area in the basement knowing after I would eat I would go straight to work I got fully dressed. Coming back up I had checked and I was 54 which doesn’t allow clear headed thinking. I come back up and find he has now poured out the batter. So I ask him what’s up he starts in that I didn’t give him an answer so he threw it out. Well then he screams how he has already had a fight with my sister, and he was not going to listen to me. Well I was pretty low so I knew I wouldn’t be safe to drive to work. Well that’s when I said dad really what’s really going on . and then he’s screaming and yelling so I block his way out of the room till he talks to me that’s when it all goes to hell I am trying to stop him and actually I was trying to make him give me a hug. Well I should have known better I was too close t him and he went for a knife drawer and pulled a knife on me. As he whips it out he catches my shirt. He quickly puts it away when he realizes I am not stepping away even though he has a knife I stepped up to him. Well that’s when he says what he’s been thinking probably for a long time holding it in till he can hold it no more. He says “when your mother dies I am kicking you out of here within 30 days after her death” so there it is the gorilla in the room waiting for the right moment to come. So that’s my first of my day.

Now yesterday I had made a decision t sever the connection with a neighboring shop that has been doing my body work for me. Well his work has not been the best and his attitude has become very abrasive. I had previously given him a job that I needed done but I was not in a rush and It was a job that if it was not perfect I could deal with. I gave him a $100 dollar deposit. Figured I would d wait well yesterday he was complaining about money so I said to him when I see some work I will give you more money on that job. Well that’s when he says well im not going to do any work on it till you pay me that’s how it works. Well that would be correct if he had started of done any to the car he as of that time had not touched it AT ALL. That’s what I really needed to hear I then decided I would remove the vehicle from his outdoor storage and put it back in mine. Till I can find a shop that can do the work reliably.. This morning I told him I was removing the vehicle and I would be finding another way to get the car completed. At that time he starts screaming. Now I knew I had lost the deposit I knew there was no way I was getting it back. So he steps into me. If you don’t know what that is its where someone makes moves like they are going to fight you raising a fist and flexing there muscles. Well that’s something ive never known how to step away from. As soon as someone makes a move like that I put my hands behind me and step up to them. First off it disarms the short arm punch is very weak, and the person is never expecting it. I always do this and I let them have their chance, they have that ONE. I know if a fight is going to happen I don’t want to have a police officer ask who through the first punch. My words are “well he did”

So now you know my Monday and Tuesday.

Writer's Block: Licensed to Drive

2009-05-19T06:50:36Z

Should we just be handing over the car keys when kids turn 16? Why or why not?

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depends on the kid , but no i dont think so i think drivers training is not very efficient most of them teach but they don't teach some very important skills. i know very few people who merge properly and collision avoidance , well i don't thinks so! my father put me behind the wheel of a racecar long before i got my drivers permit i see all the time where learning apexing and target fixation have saved my life

notebook

2009-05-19T06:40:43Z

The line from the notebook today is "remember everyone stops at 5 " "go for 6 " now this isn't one that someone else quoted this is one of mine right out of my own lips first ill say what it means and then ill say what it means to me well turns out no matter how big you are or how many quarts of blood you carry around everyone has passed out if you loose about 5 quarts of blood well i have to say i always thought it is go that extra little bit when you go to that edge in every thing you do . now for a while in my life i seem to have forgoten that i somehow . now i have to tell you in my "extreme life " i have pushed it pretty close to that at times, and im glad i have i f you read back in my posts even my recovery from going to the outside of the envelope i still go that level past and sometimes the wrong way. well its short today since i pushed it too far today and its 230 and now i must go home and sleep so i can push it a little farther