I don’t consider myself naive when it comes to most things, but I tend tobelieve things that I take in, until I have reason not to. This can take along time, or mere seconds. The mere seconds is usually when I am reading aperson’s body language. A long time would …
As everyone knows, there is a dire situation going on with medical insurance and the rising costs in maintaining those benefits. This is even true with the State of Washington and their Basic Health Plan. The Governor has stated that approximately thirty five thousand people will lose this coverage under …
Why do people update their [insert Social Media Network here] statuses/timelines/feeds so much? I mean do people really care that you just got the most fab pedi? Or that little Hayden (Disclaimer: I’m not aware of any person that I know, having a son named Hayden, and therefore this is …
Set up 1:I don’t talk to that many people about politics for many reasons. But I do have opinions on politics. Well informed opinions. My main thought is that politics is not as it appears. That’s not to say that every politician says one thing and yet, does another. While …
Twitter’s 140 character limitations lends its self to a couple of interesting aspects of writing, ramblings and the such. Firstly, “Getting to the point”…I am not one of those types that can necessarily get to the point. Sometimes it can take me a couple hundred words in setting the stage …
Every time I go to an establishment that allows the throwing of peanut shells on the ground, I can’t help to firstly, force myself to throw them down on the ground and secondly think about why it’s so hard to throw peanut shells on the ground to begin with. When …
Back in 1996, I became a union sheet metal apprentice. A different experience from anything that I had been a part of up to that time. My first Christmas as a sheet metal worker was a most memorable one; Mostly in part due to a lesson learned. It was customary …
I read this today, for the first time and thought it apropos for the time… Close to a century later after its original print… The War Prayer Dictated by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] in 1904 in advance of his death in 1910. During his writing career, he had criticized perhaps every type …
We had some more unseasonable rain. It rained all night and was still raining yesterday morning when I went to work. So this was the first time that I was able to test my new wind shield wipers. I only turned them on at half speed. But guess who still …
Sometimes, I think that I am moody. Not in a negative light necessarily… Actually the term moody, to me has a negative connotation, but never the less, I know that I am moody. I wake up and the world seems dismal one morning…Or I go to work, and the process …