summertime 2009

Where does the summer go? Its been a weird on this year. The Temps have been so cold all through August and very rainy..... I did get to do a few things that I wanted to do this year and a couple more.... We did get a chance to camp out at my father in laws house downstate. We set up a tent and the boys and I bunked down by 8pm and got up at about 6am...It was a cold night but a fun night.  I don't know what prompted me but I wanted to go fishing this year. I already a 2 poles and some gear but I wanted to do more than just throw a hook in to the water. I spent time studying knots , bait and lures. I got a book about local fish and what the eat. I bought about 30 bucks in gear and a 25 dollar rod and reel combo. Nothing fancy. We started by the house and just had fun with it. We have been fishing just about every other day. Its been fun watching them really get in to it so much that they ask me to go when I get home from work. We have caught loads of bluegills, bull heads and yesterday the boys caught an 18" and 12" silver carp. Id say 5 and 7 pounds..... It was a nice fight on the line for them.... It's funny we have the best luck with a kids micky mouse set and my old style cane pole.... My cane pole cost me $4.50 and the kids pole was $12 .... that and some hooks, bobbers and worms = a fun day.....

 

Now summers over, kids are in school and I don't have my weekday fishing partners..... We only have time for Sunday after church....

 

PS if you want to catch carp..... use a can of corn and bread balls.   Chum the water with the corn and bread crusts..... give it time ----15-20 min  and they will roll in.They hit hard and they have dead eyes. Like a dolls eyes.... .. Some guys said if you add tuna juice from a can of tuna in oil in to the bread it works best..... I'll try that next week.....

10 things I hate about me.

A few days ago a lady customer told me that she did not like me. That I spoke to her like I was her father. ... She was ...how do you say ...a Jewish American Princess but aged to a spoiled age of 55. I told her to follow a certain drive route and she just did not like it. Whatever. ..Since she did not like me I'll put up what I don't like about me. I'd invite her to do the same, but most Jews are self hating anyways.

 

1. My weight. A source of health and esteem problems for years.
2. My shoulders and knees. This is just me getting older- aches and pains.
3. My Race and skin. Since the age of 5 I have never been welcomed in this country.
4. Me being tired all the time. It takes time away from my boys and family.
5. Me getting sick in 1995. **nothing to say about this.
6. Always having to work - I'd love more time off to do nothing.
7. Only knowing 2 languages - I'd love to take French, Chinese, Latin, Urdu
8. Being unsure of my self in most ways.
9. Not knowing my grandparents. I feel disconnected from the past.
10. *****Add your own here.....

Peace and Love.

Its not fair, but good

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of "The Plain Dealer"
Newspaper", in Cleveland , Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught
me.. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."

My odometer rolled over to 90, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and
parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God
never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful..

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19.. It's never too late to have a happy childhood... But the second
one is up to you and no one    else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no
for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don't save it for a special            occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years,
will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change..

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you
did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show  up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day.. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's
we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Its estimated 93% won't forward this. If you are one of the 7% who
will, forward this with the title '7%'.

I'm in the 7%.

Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves. Because we
already have great families!

Gallup poll....

Prudes.........cloning wrong? death penalty? divorce? fur? - I'm hard
pressed to consider mant acts wrong. However you hurt a child and you have
a whole world of hurt about to happen.....

Where we stand
Ninety-two percent of Americans who responded to a recent Gallup poll say
having an affair is morally wrong, more than any of these other deeds:

Divorce: 30 percent say it's wrong

The death penalty: 30 percent

Buying and wearing clothing made of animal fur: 35 percent

Gambling: 36 percent

Medical research using stem cells from human embryos: 36 percent

Medical testing on animals: 36 percent

Sex between an unmarried man and woman: 40 percent

Having a baby outside of marriage: 45 percent

Gay or lesbian relations: 47 percent

Doctor-assisted suicide: 56 percent

Abortion: 56 percent

Cloning animals: 63 percent

Suicide: 80 percent

Cloning humans: 88 percent

Polygamy: 91 percent

Married men and women having an affair: 92 percent

Rain rain go away...

This May and June in Chicago have felt like April. It either rains every other day or its just grey outside. I have taken the kids to the pool only once so far this year. I'm not a fan of Summer weather, no heavy jacket to hide behind , but I do miss the blue skies and sunshine.  This year I am going camping even if I have to go my self. I am planning on a local site at first then with hope we will get farther and farther from home. I want to do a couple of days away fron civilization and rough it. Thats  kinda hard to do with the kids and near impossible to do with jelly stone - they have pools and wi-fi at all locations. ....... Anyways I just need a full week of crystal clear skies to make me feel better.....Peace

One Adam 12.....

I woke up because of the voices. They were of what I thought was 2-3 men outside across the street from my house drinking and talking. I thought it was no big deal.  A few guys just chilling and having a beer or two. My wife woke me up much later near 4 am and  the talking grew to yelling. I decided that enough was enough....I called the police. Question...why am I the only guy that calls the cops?  Any ways I as I'm the phone with the police I hear the voices get louder and louder until they became screaming. A fight breaks out and I see at least one guy on the ground. Then I heard the pop of a bear bottle hitting someones head. The cops rolled in about 30 seconds after that. In all there were 5 guys and all were drunk and two wound up in hospital. The 2 were carted away on streatchers.  6 squads , 4 ambulances and 2 fire engines in total were called in. It looked like a war zone ouside. I could see neighbors peeking through their windows. A few came outside to gawk at the light show...The fire engines were brought in to throw light on the house and yard. The cops stayed there for the better part of an hour and left well after sun up, near 5:45 am. At that time my phone rang and I spent the next 10 minutes speaking with an officer to round out any thing I saw from my window. Of course it was dark, raining and I have a tree in my front yard.....He could see what I was talking about as we chatted.

    I don't thing they were able to charge any one with any more than obstruction of justice and public drunkenness....But who has not been charged like that before????

In the morning after the kids went to school I went outside and swept up the broken modello glass that was in the street.

   Lesson learned kids....drinking after 3am is never a good idea, drinking outside after 12 midnight is never a good idea and please handle your beer or liquor. Don't let it handle you, t never works well....Very few things ouside of sex happen after 4am that are good. Most end up with the police being involved.....

Peace.

news and silence.

Swine flu- h1n1 and other things have just been spinning around on the news every day. I just don't feel like watching the news any more. Now today it will nothing but Drew peterson for weeks on end...I just don't care. The only thing I want to know is who will be the next as Supreme court justice. I've only been watching a little TV as I get home and then only cartoons and some on demand TV. Family guy-king of the hill, mythbusters, Warriors and deadliest warrior has only been on my screen in the last month. The news seems to be the same story day after day. Kids being shot, ecomomy in the toilet and some one trying to bash obama.  Before the swine thing I don't remember the main story.....probaly GM failing..... The truth is that I have not been listening to the radio either. I have been burrying my self in books and dvds. Most car ride have been in silence and with my own sound track in my head....I have been finishing a book a week. Some times I read in to the small hours of the night. My eyes will be tearing up and I will fight to stay awake for teh last 10 pages..... as a kid I used to do the same thing. Read in a still house with one bulb on....

Tracking the zombie plague.....

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/27/us/20090427-flu-update-graphic.html

If you get the chance Plz read PATIENT ZERO .....zombie virus +
bioterrorism!!!!!

piggy piggy

Wow... It just wont end will it? I was watching the daily show and it made me laugh that they said that god just does not like us. Tsunami, earthquake , bad economy and now a new strain of swine flu. Why not just move it to the full on zombie plague....or is it like the STAND.... how about the new British TV special the Survivors.
Personally I'm now worried about the flu. In 1968 we had a pandemic called the hong Kong flue that killed about 1, 000,000 people. Before that the Spanish flu of 1918 killed many million more. So far the swine flu has a very low lethality. Flus and viri are measured by several factors; how they spread, how quickly and how lethal they are. For a brief second in the mid 1990's they feared that HIV would or could go airborne. That would be very bad....The new flu has a high transmission rate but if you treat it correctly. Rest, drink fluids, take some med etc. Use common sense - wash your hands........

Now this made me laugh......The Jews and Muslims want the name of this flu changed because it offends them to be associated with swine....Come on .... Enough is enough. .......

not just a headache...

The other day I felt as if I was going blind in my right eye. Its
usually an indicator that a migraine is about to happen. Stress? Weather?
Blood pressure? I hate when they happen; my vision collapses in to a tight
tunnel and fuzzy. The pressure starts and just does not stop. I'm some
cases I have started to slur my words.
Usually a good night of sleep in total darkness with 100% silence will
make it degenerate in to a tension headache. My Dr was amazed when I went
in for am update for a specific medication. Its not a pain reliever, but a
vasodialator. It opens up the veins to allow for better blood flow and
relieves internal pressure. I don't want a pain reliever. I can deal with
the pain. I need to keep a clear head with the kids at home. I think he was
impressed that I was avoiding a pain medication like ocy or vicodin from
him.
I grown scared that one day I will have a vein pop in my head. Its
what killed my uncle and I...I just have this fear that that will kill me
too. The loss of brain matter in that way is frightening. To lose who you
are in seconds in horrible. .....Maybe I'm just reading too much in to
another migraine...