June 2009

Back in Chicago

June 30, 2009

It seems weird to be back on the streets of Chicago. It’s been over twenty years since I’ve been here, but still things are familiar to me. This time I am in my right mind though. Not too exciting an entry here, but just recording some details. I plan on visiting (or at least walking [...]

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Michael Jackson dead?

June 26, 2009

OK, so the “King of Pop” Michael “I’m so confused” Jackson is dead. By all the coverage, you’d think he’d won a Nobel prize instead of being a total freak. I used to be a big fan. I think most of the world was, until all the allegations of sexual misconduct and the plastic surgery [...]

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Caving in Arizona

June 22, 2009

I spent about four hours in a cave a few years ago with my oldest brother and another friend of his. This wasn’t a tourist trap, but an ‘out in the middle of the mountains, mostly hidden’ cave. Interesting time. We ran out there in his Isuzu Trooper and arrived in the Arizona mountains around [...]

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Prejudice And Upbringing. Whys of Prejudice

June 21, 2009

We are all shaped by the events that happen early in our lives. Not that this is any sort of news to anyone, but how do specific small events or circumstances that are beyond our control mold our essence? I am reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and his examples in the Canadian youth hockey development [...]

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Ponzi Billionaire loses 6 private jets – I’m crying here.

June 19, 2009

This story almost made me cry, so I had to share it. Granted it has nothing to do with me, except that I am also on the list of richest Americans (if you drill down really really deeply) {I figure since I don’t have credit card debt, I must be on that list. Everyone else [...]

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Texas Hold ‘em

June 18, 2009

I was a tech supply sergeant in Texas. Actually that was just one out of three positions I held at Fort Hood. When I first arrived there I was assigned as a forklift operator in an attack helicopter division. (The Sixth Air Cav, if anyone cares) That was primarily made up of Cobra attack helicopters, [...]

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Returning to Germany

June 15, 2009

I’m not exactly sure how all this came to be, but it started when I flew in from German for my youngest brother’s first wedding. He had been seeing this girl for quite a while, and eventually when she was hugely pregnant, they got married. Sort of odd memories and maybe I have it wrong, [...]

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Stardust Dreams Celebrity Blog Talk Radio: yeah, this is an odd one

June 10, 2009

I was listening to a radio show on blog talk radio yesterday and the guest was Rick Butts. It was a somewhat interesting show, if you are interested in what he calls the “Stardust Factor” which is on how to present yourself as a celebrity. Now this isn’t like, I want to be Paris Hilton, [...]

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Carnival

June 9, 2009

Time and again I end up in situations with my brother Tommy. He was the black sheep of the family, in and out of trouble, did a little bit of jail time for a possession charge that was, according to him, mostly a set up. I wrote about visiting him in prison during those marathon [...]

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