Unsocial Media

 Remember that show with the 8th grader that was a doctor of some sort back in the 1980s?  He either started or ended his show in front of a computer writing in his journal reflecting on what happened in the day. Sometimes I feel like Dr. Doogie in front of my computer writing in my journal. 

 A corvette is more than a car.  It's a culture and also a lifestyle.  The corvette is the cost of admission to be part of the culture.  I never really experience that while I had my corvette because I never really made time to be part of the community.  Sure I went to a car show but that was so incredibly boring.  Everyone there knew each other already and they were broken off into their little cliques.  I stayed for about 30 minutes and left; not sure why I bothered to invest the time to attend.   There were cruises to check out the bluebonnets, but timing wasn't right.  Or I didn't make time to go on the cruise.  Earlier this week I saw a post that there was a corvette cruise to go out to Mexia, TX for a special trip.  A special trip to go see Big Boy - aka Union Pacific 4014 - a steam engine from a bygone era.  The biggest steam engine ever built with a 4-8-8-4 configuration.  Decommissioned in 1961 after having travel...

 I so wish my employer would give a sabbatical leave of absence if you've been employed for 15 or 20 year.  Maybe a 3-6 month leave of absence.  Maybe at partial salary or something.  I don't know. What would I do if I had that opportunity?  Immerse myself in Amish culture.  Like to to Pennsylvania or Ohio and be part of their community for a while.  To live without the modern technologies and conveniences we take for granted.  Do things the old way.  Do manual labor.  Learn that we don't need all these new fangled things like TV, radio, social media, modern appliances, computers or cars.  I think it'd be interesting to rely on face to face communication, community effort and living off the land. When I worked in Florida, the amish people would be frequent visitors in the summer.  There were two parts of time they would stay.  It is interesting because they got there via airplane and often times one member of the family ha...

 After arriving to work seeing a bunch of hoes, jocks and soy boys at the bar at 0830 in the morning, it finally dawned on me why I hate the city.  It's full of a bunch of petulant kids.  Kids just out of college or under 40.  The entire airport is crawling with them.  They're entitle, self important, think the world rotates around them.  They're young.  They're hip.  They're annoying.   The city is also full of people from India or wherever that are young, working high tech.  They think they're better than everyone.  A bunch of brown people with beards.  They all look the same.  They're all flexing their Tesla.   I read the median age for people in this city is 34.2.  Their brains are even fully developed.   Maybe that's why I was so happy living in Florida.  The average age of people in Sarasota is 49.8.  That explains everything.  People in SRQ had tons of money.  But they weren't flex...

I walk in to work at 0820. Hear are this noise coming from the bar. There's roughly 6 people drinking acting like fools. What do these people do for employment that lets them start boozing so early in the morning. If you ask me it looked like a group of hoes and douche bags.

Some of the people I work with think they're so much more important than the rest of us. Condescending assholes.

 I was recently asked how many cds I have in my collection.  I'm guessing somewhere between six and seven hundred.  Around 120 of them are JOHN WILLIAMS.  Then there are the film scores, band and classical selections.  Followed by rock, pop or country in nature.  Then there is the new age or instrumental cds to the likes of Yanni, John Tesh and the like. I've been collecting since approximately 1983 - more than 80% of my life.  Those cds are the musical soundtrack of my life.   Literally every chapter in my life has a sound.  It's fun to occasionally be transported back in time to various stages of life.  Whether it was fantasizing about dating some girl or reliving my childhood listening to Barry Manilow and John Denver as my parents would ofter listen to.  Bach's toccata and fugue in D Minor that my dad would listen to...  Then high school listen to the likes of Poison, Def Leppard or Journey.  Then jumping to the soundt...

 If they really wanted to have meaningful reduction in human impact to the population, they should have done something a little more meaningful and targeted than Covid and the vaccine.  Here’s what I’m thinking - carcinogens in tattoo ink. That’s what I call a targeted and smart approach to population control. Yes. I am exhibiting bias and discrimination against people with tattoo. But with few exceptions, these are less desirable members of our population - at least here where I live. Maybe a notch above illegal immigrants - but still meaningful reduction to the less desirables. 

What if I told you that wind turbines to generate electricity is the biggest deception in the green energy agenda.  There's no wind yet you see a turbine turning.  I bet they turn the supposed generator into a motor and feed it electricity to have the turbine turn at a slow rate of speed.  It is an entire sham so energy companies and governments spent large amounts of money on sustainable energy online to line some democrat donor's pocked to funnel more donations back to the candidates.   I heard the blades alone are a million dollars a piece.  The probably cost 20,000 dollars to make. Plug up some cable and energize the motor and viola all the lemming praise the sustainable green initiative and it's a hoax.  All of it.Suckers. 

Why does David Muir always look so pensive? Like he's some intellectual giant carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders…. What a phony propagandist shill for the democrats. After watching the Ronald Reagan movie I'm convinced those making their living in front of a camera are in the tank for globalism, liberalism and the new world order. Hollywood is like Satan. A slow steady burn that constantly nags, exploits and slowly destroys everything it comes in contact with. They've been going strong since the 60s.

 Why is the media making such a big deal about Trump saying the Haitians in Springfield are eating geese, dogs and ducks. No one has ever complained about the Chinese people eating cats hanging in the windows in Chinatown.  Why is that and how is this any different?

 Today is my wife's birthday.  We decided to celebrate going to one of our favorite restaurants which was a 20 or so mile drive?  We almost didn't make it.  We were in the car and some nut job is in the center lane and swerved across two lanes of traffic to make a left turn.  He almost tore off the front of my car.  I slammed on the brakes and thankfully no one was behind us.  I came within inches of hitting him.  I lay on the horn ready to turn around and chase this mother fucker down and beat his ass.  I couldn't.  As it turns out, he got hit by someone on the other side of the road.  Instant Karma for that bitch. He was driving an older Honda civic.  Not anymore.   My wife and I were talking about it.  She thinks it was someone having an argument or something.  I think it was either an illegal alien or someone under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.  It really doesn't matter.  He got his. Which ...

 My hometown hss been destroyed.  It is a sewer of apartment complexes and housing developments.  I came home from a business trip and took the back way as opposed to going all the way up on the interstate.  The extreme outskirts of town are very country.  But driving up 620 - there is NO VACANT LAND anywhere.  The are car dealership, housing developments and apartment complexes.  They say it's better to be part of a growing community rather than a contracting community.  I guess that's true...  But when the home you've known for 50 years of your life is not even recognizable anymore, there is something wrong. This place has turned into a god forsaken wasteland of rich people.  People with money coming out of their ears.  Either that or poor people living paycheck to paycheck with gobs of debt trying to flex and keep up with the Jones's.  

 Why are people so afraid to pick up the phone and call someone when it has to do with work?  So many people want to send an email or a message via teams.  The world doesn't work via text message.  Relationships are formed via text message.  Pick up the phone, or if you have to, do a video call.  This hiding behind text or message is lazy communication.  

 Can you imagine what it must have been like to be a construction worker back in the day when they were building Disneyland in CA or Magic Kingdom in FL...  A place unlike any other in the world.  A fantasy land.  To take the Earth and shape it and build an entire world that has stood the test of time.  I bet that was pretty neat to say you built Main Street USA or the castle or the lagoon...  That would have been cool.

 Who reads what is in the food they buy? I typically don't...  but I think I'm gonna start.  Acheta protein or acheta powder.  Do you know what that is?  It's secret code for insects.  Crickets specifically.  They're calling a nutrient dense substitute for flour.  They're now getting people to eat bugs.  A victory for Bill Gates and the liberal left.  Apalling?  Not really.  Disgusting?  For sure.   I don't think people even know this is happening unless they read the labels.  Well I'm gonna start.  Not putting that crap in my body.  This is deception.  This is offensive.  And this is absolutely disgusting.

The debate.  Disappointing on all fronts.  From the candidates, their answers, their disposition, everything was a disappointment.  The moderators were a disappointed.  I am thankful ABC decided to stream the debate so I could see it since we don't have TV service.  All I really want to say is America is sick.  Our institutions are corrupt - or at the very least the people occupying these institutions are corrupt and they should all be burned to the ground and be given a do over.  Every single one of them.  Every sector in the government apparatus.  Every agency.  Every department.  THey're all ROTTEN.  It's disappointing what "this" has become.  A steamy, hot mess. It was amusing to see ABC news brag on their awards and accomplishments and highlight the talking heads.  I don't see unbiased journalists.  I see agents of propaganda.  Talking heads operating with an agenda.  Or, what the New World Order l...

 Sometimes I worry if we will get to the point of vigilante justice.  Where there's a guy with a car stalled on the highway during five o'clock rush hour.  Someone rolls up next to him, rolls down their window and shoots him.  For causing serious back up delays.  Is it too far fetched? I don't think so.  I recently read there is a Venezuelan gang holed up in an apartment complex in aurora Colorado.  Gun wielding and terrorizing the residents. The police don't bother to show up. There's something wrong when we're letting every other country's trash into our own country.  Those people are different.  They don't operate under the same moral code as the rest of us.  Bang. I see the days of the wild Wild West making a comeback with shootouts - literally guerrilla warfare on the streets.  Something needs to be done with OR without the governments help to tame these demons.  Or exterminate them.

I'm like a broken record when it comes to John Williams.  Not another John Williams entry....  John Williams is a fantastic composer and artist.  I love his work.  Did you know he produces his own albums?  Which is interesting because most of them are hits.  And some are misses. The biggest miss is that of Close Encounters.  I have three different version of this music.  The original, an expanded and a 40th anniversary.  The original and expanded editions are terrible.  Terribly boring.  Pedestrian.  One of the only albums where I'd enjoy shaving my head with a cheese grater rather than listen to it.   John Williams holds Close Encounters and E.T. in the highest regard.  Which is interesting.  The original sound track recording to E.T. is not very good either.  I don't even own the original sound track recording.  I think there was an expanded issue at some point.  I don't own it either.  But,...

 Tim Walz is a cross between an emotional support animal and a rodeo clown. Mocking white middle to late age men. He’s got a sprinkle of stereotypical used car salesman in him too.  

 I bet you thought I was going to say Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.  But I'm not.  Boeing.  Boeing is a national embarrassment.  On top of their airplanes having exit row plugs blowing out and wheels falling off during takeoff, they have 2 astronauts stuck in space.  The Star Liner mission really cements Boeing's reputation of producing American made junk. Like out of all the projects they have going on, they couldn't even make the most visible one a success.  The launch was scrubbed multiple times and when they finally got the thing in the air and attached to the international space station, it's stuck there.  One project.  They could't even make one project be a success. And on top of that Space X is going to have to come in and save the day.  And Boeing's space suites aren't compatible with Space X suites.  Boeing's probably look like what the astronaughts on the Apollo missions used.  What a pile of trash. That company is doo...

The World Health Organization renamed the disease in 2022 to follow modern guidelines for naming illnesses. Those guidelines recommend that disease names should avoid offending cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups and minimize unnecessary negative effects on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare. The virus that causes it still has its historic name, however. What a bunch of bullshit. Monkey Pox. Chicken Pox.  Small pox. Big pox. Wuhan virus. China virus. Lymes disease.  West Nile virus. Bird flu. 

One of the biggest for of deception is courtesy of Estes Lauder and Loreal.  Cosmetics.  They cover a woman's natural face and make it look perfect.  The use blush to highlight their cheek bones.  Eyeline and eyeshadow to enhance the color of their eyes.  They use curlers to change their hair.  They groom their eyebrows, yada yada yada. Have you seen another of those YouTube videos where some ugly chick applies makeup and becomes a supermodel.  But underneath all those chemicals is one of the ugliest people you've ever seen? Is it marketing or deception? My wife wears some makeup.  And she looks great.  But my favorite look is the one not very many people get to see.  The natural look with out all the camouflage.  She's super pretty without make up.   In a way, I'm lucky to get to see here that way - just as she is.  Maybe that look is just for me and everyone else get's the dressed up look. Have you seen how ugly Hilary C...

 I usually get to work early and sit in my car for about 15 minutes.  I just don't want to get out of the car, walk through the terminal and start doing my job.  Chasing metrics or reducing cost.  That's pretty much all I do.  That and maintain positive relationships with other stakeholders and business partners.  That's fun to a degree - but justifying all the other "failures" when getting a plane here on time is a rarity instead of a basic expectation.  But whatever. A friend of mine says "Work is a four letter word."  He's right about that.  I sometimes wonder if I made the right decision to pursue my current position.  I was so much happier in my previous role, living minutes from the ocean.  Being able to walk on the beach whenever I wanted for free - when there are other people spending thousands of dollars to do the same thing.  It was a charmed life.   And it got boring after a while.  The professional challen...

 I stand by my previous statement.  Celebrities (encompassing all actors, most singers and songwriters), athletes and politicians are all cut from the same piece of trash.  Every single one of them.  They're all communists or of some other cult setting out to destroy conservative American values.

 So I went to see the Reagan movie.  It's not a blockbuster by any stretch of the imagination.  It probably won't have a broad viewership.  It's pretty underwhelming.  Dennis Quaid wasn't terrible.  But he wasn't a home run either. What I found interesting about the movie was the theme of communism.  Which, I liken to today's theme of socialism.  Two sides of the same coin.  And here we are with the democrats pushing socialism and the republicans pushing freedom and rights.   Another theme - was even though Reagan and Tip Oneal were opposed politically, they were bonded by their shared belief in God. Interesting comment in the movie - and I wish I could remember it - but it was something about removing God from our culture and replacing it with communism.  Minimizing the presence of God and christian principles erodes the fabric of our society.  It's how some of this other stuff that I typically write about has shaped our cultu...

 There are three things I'd like to add to my cd collection.  The first is Beethoven's symphony cycle conducted by a black man.  The second is Beethoven's symphony cycle conducted by a woman.  I'm curious what their perspective would bring to his work. The third - which is a unicorn - is an album entitled "John Williams and the President's Own."  This cd is a two disc compilation was given away at a concert John Williams conducted.  John Williams also conducted both cds 2008/2003.  It was literally given away to those who were fortunate enough to attend the concert last year.  It's not available for purpose.  I religiously watch the second hand market and it's never come up.  It is a CD I would be willing to pay an obscene amount of money for - it would be the crown jewel of my collection due to the elusiveness and exclusivity of this album.

 You know what we have in America, perhaps even the world?  A crisis in confidence.  What I mean by that is people no longer have confidence in so many parts of our society, culture and professions.  DEI.  Diversity, equity and inclusion.  Didn't earn it.  DEI is the antithesis of meritocracy.  Yet the problem is compounded by changes in the work force, economic growth across various sectors of the economy.  When my mom was in the hospital, I heard a side conversation about how many nurses are not properly trained or qualified for their positions, in large part due to AI and googling everything they need to know to pass exams.  There is not adequate practical experience these gained by these entry level employees before being hired.  That is concerning. I was visiting with some pilot friends recently.  They were talking about some of these new first officers that have 1500 hours of flying under their belt.  Just flying aro...

 I learned a new phrase today capturing my opinion of people jumping on the bandwagon of drug use, tattoo, gender issues, political ideologies, etc.  Weak minded.  Weak minded individuals go wherever the wind blows them.  They lack moral character and conviction of any kind and just sorta wander into these things - like tattoo, piercings, wearing pajamas in public, Painting their hair green or whatever it might be. Also, I highly suspect there is a HIGH correlation between tattoo, body piercing, drinking alcohol, illegal drug use and food stamps.  Chances are good if someone is on food stamps or some other form of public assistance, they participate in those things listed above.  Why is that?  Because they're weak minded individuals.