From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Quitting the Rat Race, Winning the Human Race

February 27, 2009

I quit a fairly high paying job at a financially stable company after working there fourteen years. People told me I was crazy and I have to admit, I am not quite right in the head, at least not by the standards of most people. I am quite willing to take chances and believe that [...]

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Fishing and Drinking Wine

February 23, 2009

I knew this dude in Chicago, who was a semi-crazy mother. Actually put like that I knew a bunch of dudes in Chicago that were like that. His name was Josh. (well, almost) And he liked to drink wine.
One of his favorite things to do was to sit on the bank of a river and [...]

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Jr. High Dance and Still Dating my Hand

February 21, 2009

I went to the dance hoping to find a girlfriend or at least talk to a girl. Truthfully, I don’t know why exactly I went. I went because there was a dance, and if I didn’t go maybe I would miss an opportunity. This really turns into the story of my life. Do something and [...]

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The Lookout, or The Great Gasby

February 20, 2009

Sometimes you look back and say to yourself, what was I thinking? With me, it was more than just sometimes. Those times did become fewer and fewer and now past the age of 30, (pretty well past that actually) there are only very isolated instances. Most of those aren’t even worth writing about, just small, [...]

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Weird how memories are…

February 19, 2009

I wasn’t sure if I would have things to write about in this blog, because I wanted it to be all the odd things that have happened to me. Not things I am ashamed of, or anything like that, but just things that generally are left unsaid, memories, unspoken and eventually forgotten.
But as I write, [...]

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DUI and some close call stories

February 18, 2009

Not trying to get into a rut, so I will move on, for the time being, to another subject altogether. I think it is a good idea that society as a whole is finally starting to address the issues with alcohol, from dui’s to underage drinking to addiction, there needs to be unity on these [...]

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The Next Time, or more truthfully, almost the next time

February 18, 2009

As I’ve said before, one nice thing about living someplace with year-round warm weather, and blistering hot summers, is that most places have pools and air conditioning. It’s practically a survival thing, more than a luxury thing. Who wants to move into an apartment complex without a pool, if most of them have pools?
So I [...]

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Cherry Bomb, or not

February 16, 2009

Everyone, well, almost everyone, has the story of their first sexual experience, meaning the time you went the ‘whole nine yards’ or wahtever expresson you want to use. I happened to have a somewhat unusual experience to relate on this subject, involving silent barking dogs, underwater escapades and an eruption interruption.
First a little bit of [...]

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Octoberfest in Munchen

February 12, 2009

Like lots of my ‘adventures’ during my years in the military, this one started out with an unplanned road trip.
I always wanted to go to Octoberfest in Munich, or Munchen, as the natives call it. (Unlaut not included in this bargain basement blog. Extra punctuation marks that are particular to a certain language are sorta [...]

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Fasching

February 11, 2009

When I first arrived in Germany, not even a week in country, is was Fat Tuesday. Not that Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras means anything to me. All I knew was that it was a party. People were dressed up in costume and were extremely friendly. In Germany Fat Tuesday is known as Fasching.
I was [...]

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