Shaving

After waiting for the last five days, I finally shaved last night! It's amazing how much friendlier your face feels after getting rid of the excess stubble. Shaving is also great fun, besides the fact that you're scraping a razor blade over your jugular, you get the aerosol can of shaving gel that expands to a very nice smelling lather when you put in on your face. I think men have fast growing facial hair, just so they have an excuse to shave it off every day.

Norm Job

Peeve of the day:
Three minutes before your supposed to punch out, your coworker gives you one last thing to do, making you punch out seven minutes late, seven minutes that you'll never get back.

Personal Carrot

Being somebody's carrot is great fun, it's kinda like being somebody's personal fitness trainer, only you taste better.

Cell Phones

Cell phones are amazing gadgets, communication to anybody in the world, sitting there in your pocket, but they're also extremely painful when their battery dies in the middle on a conversation.

Airsoft

While wearing my "Defend Life" shirt, I shot people all weekend.

The Forbidden Fruit

I've been thinking recently on the story of Adam and Eve, and more specifically on the apple, the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Nobody knows what kind of fruit condemned mankind for all of history, but I have an idea...

The fruit is different for every human being, it is the thing or action that we know is wrong, but we justify with excuses, like it's not that bad or it doesn't hurt anybody. We either do it because of our own temptations and selfishness(Eve), or because people we trust, our peers, lead us to it(Adam).
Whether the story of Adam and Eve actually happened or not(there's good arguments for both sides) the moral is the same. We as humans are all sinners, and always have been, we are continuously eating the forbidden fruit, and only through Jesus can we be saved.

Holding Hands

Here's another guest quote for you...

"I wouldn't hold his hand unless I had just severed it from his arm, and am beating him to death with it. Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself? *evil laughter*"

Doesn't this quote just bring pleasant images to your mind?

Politics

It amazes me how much the politics in the legislature resemble the politics in highschool.

Paul Fahey: The Big Job Hunter

Out in the wilderness of "The Town", Paul Fahey is patiently hunting for the ever elusive Job, this is a challenge unlike anything he has ever faced.

When I was your age...

All the trouble you kids get into these days, when I was your age I just didn't have the time...

Life, Kisses, And Other Wasted Efforts

Sorry it's been so long since a post, this past week was crazy, I'm still feeling the stress effects, a sever lack of sleep and acne breaking out. But oh well, The Beatles said it best, "La la la la life goes on".

Showbread has finally released new music from their upcoming albums, and it sounds absolutely amazing, like a mix between their "Age Of Reptiles" and "Life, Kisses, And Other Wasted Efforts" albums. I just love these guys.

"Freedom"

Single guys make up stories about how great being single is just to impress their single friends, who are just as miserable and lonely as they are.

Just Don't Care

Paul's philosophy number three...

I've had this philosophy for a few years now, it could be my best one, and hardest to follow. "Just don't care". This doesn't mean that one shouldn't care about people, or care about life, it means that one needs to learn how to let some things go. If a situation is out of your control, you've done your best and yet it's still going to end up bad, you need to sit back and not care. When you're worried about what somebody might think of you, just do your best and then not care. People worry and stress about some of the dumbest things, and it literally rips them apart inside, when you can let something out of your hands and be free of it, your life will be much happier.

Makes perfect sense to me...

Molesting Bushes

Another one of Paul's philosophies on life...

Always touch something before you molest it, you need to be certain there's no thorns.

I know this sounds rather nasty, but it came out of the lawn guy at work telling me to go screw(I'm using family friendly words) a bush, then later that week I was trimming a bush and leaning way into it to get the back branches, not knowing there was thorns. So no, I'm not a pervert, I just hate bushes.

A Monty Python Classic

"Inevitable"

Do you remember when we were just kids
And cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss
Schoolyard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything we knew we were not

I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now

I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss

Amazing how life turns out the way that it does
We end up hurting the ones, the only ones we really love

I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment (stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now

I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss

Is it over now hey, it's over now
Is it over how hey, it's not over now

I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have (that you'll ever have)
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last, first kiss for all time

-Anberlin

Corsage

Yesterday I went into the flower shop in Carson to buy a corsage for the prom, I swear that place just sucks out any trace of testosterone one has in them. I went to the front desk and asked to see what they had for prom corsages, and the reaction I get was "Aww, are you going to the prom?", I wanted to answer "No, I'm just buying a one to wear around the house", but I was polite, charming, and just answer with simple yes. But in the end it was worth going into the flower shop, because the corsage I picked out is absolutely gorgeous.

Success by Comparison

One of Paul's philosophies on life...

Success by Comparison

If you drive a beat-up rust bucket, don't park next to the Mustang or Lamborghini, park next to that one car in the parking lot that looks worse then yours. Essentially what you're doing is making your car look better, without actually doing any work.
The same thing works for friends. If you're dumb and ugly, don't hang out with smart and beautiful people who'll make you look dumb, hang out with people dumber and uglier then you*, become their leader, and take over the world(or at least a Wal-Mart). You'll make yourself look like a brilliant leader, without actually doing anything smart(besides following this advice).


*I don't necessarily follow my own advice, and I don't pick my friends based on looks or intelligence

Tupperware

Clinton, Granholm, and Stabenow should all get together and have a Tupperware bitch party, then they'll have a hobby other then killing innocent americans.

Education

Because of a fluke caused by an epic literary illness, I got to be a last minute facilitator at our highschool Socrates discussion group yesterday. And because I was the facilitator, I had to be non-opinionated and refrain from arguing my thoughts. So now I'm going to voice them here.

The topic was on public education in this country...

With a recent national survey of dozens of major cities showing, on average, that the highschool graduation rate is only 75%, there is an obvious problem with the state of public education in this country. Now being homeschooled my entire life, I don't know what it's like in a public highschool, so I can't preach about the internal functions. What I do know is that competition breeds a desire to make one's self better, the more competition you have, the better and cheaper you will have to be to compete. Right now the public school holds a huge percentage of the education, while private, charter, and homeschools are the minority, the reason this is so, is because of money. Public school get tons of money from taxes and the government, where as, in comparison, private and charter school get very little, and homeschools get absolutely nothing(except maybe a 25% discount at the local bookstore). So it's generally a lot more expensive for a parent to send there kids to a private school verses a public school, therefor the private schools aren't big enough to compete with the public school system. So the solution that I think would work, is for the government to spread tax and grant money to ALL schools equally, based on the number of student attending. This would cause the school to be on a more equal level, making the schools compete for the enrollment of students, in turn forcing the schools to raise the bar when it comes to education, sports, and faculty, because parents will now have a choice of where so send their kids. Now since the schools will all be different, some with competent leaders and some without, and some putting more focus on one subject over another. The government needs to make sure our nation's generations are getting a complete education by implementing nation-wide standardized tests(like the ACT or SAT) that every student will need to pass to complete elementary, middle, and high school. So essentially education would free market capitalism style, with the government setting national standards.

Wow, that ended up a little longer then I thought. Please feel free to argue with me!

Early morning thoughts

Call me odd, but I've never really liked the phrases "my girl" or "my woman". They imply that one would have some type of ownership over another, like "my iPod" or "my car", to me it almost sounds degrading to the girl involved. A girlfriend(or boyfriend) is an equal to the other, not by any type of ownership or agreement do they belong to each other, they belong to each other out of love and caring. Just some early morning thoughts.

Senator's husband entangled in prostitution sting

Here's some recent news that barely got any media attention, Debbie Stabenow's(one of our Democratic Senators) husband was caught in a police sting aimed at catching prostitutes.


Really doesn't surprise me, with a wife that obnoxious and ugly.

Orange Flowers

Things I noticed this weekend...
Roses are way over rated(go with orange flowers), doing nothing is a lot more fun then it sounds, and Owen Wilson is more fun to look at then George Clooney.

"And if a double-decker bus, crashes into us. To die by your side, such a heavenly way to die. And if a ten-ton truck, kills the both of us. To die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine" - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Starbucks

The chairs at Starbucks are too far apart.

Last night

My car is downright gorgeous, but still not nearly as gorgeous as the passenger who rode in it...

The Three Amigos

Tomorrow the Three Amigos will ride again for a day, and even though powerful forces will tell us not to work together, in their next breath they will send the three of us off on a tedious maintenance quest. It's like the reunion special of a bad TV show.

XKCD

These web comics are hilarious, geeky romantic sarcasm. Just a warning though, they're not for everybody, some are rather profane and crude.

Guest Quote

Today I'm using another guest quote...

"With the tax breaks, and social security money, children are practically an investment, and starting your portfolio is great fun."

The author wishes to remain nameless.

Edit: The auther now wishes to be known as "The Little Guy"