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Lost our Edge

During a company meeting I realized I am not working at the right place.  The topic of checked vs carry on baggage was brought up.  The prized hire of the company said something to the affect of the reason we charge for bags is because that is the agreed upon model for the industry.  Immediately I thought, wtf?  We're gonna continue doing things this way because that's the way everyone else does it?  What happened to being fresh, edgy and sleek?  What happened to innovation?  What happened to when everyone turns left we turn right?   I get that we're in survival mode - but doing things the same way everyone else does is stupid.  Just because that's the way it's done.  That's not playing to win.  That's playing it safe and being extremely risk averse.  We didn't start out doing things the same way everyone else did.  We started out by forging our own path and doing what's right (which was a novelty back then) and doing some...

Trump's pretty savvy

 I was pissed off all day about Joe Biden calling Trump supporters garbage.  He said what he said and he meant it.  The filter between his brain and his mouth is shot - just like the rest of his brain.  No amount of mansplaining by his unqualified dei hire of a press secretary can undo what he said.  And that's fine.  At least he said what they all think about us out loud.  The left hates us and everything we stand for.  I hate that man and every single thing he stands for.  He's the garbage.  The world will be a better place when he's gone. And Trump being who he is, rents a garbage trunk and puts a Trump sticker on the side of it and rides to his rally in it.  Then while on stage for his speech he kept his safety vest on.  Touche' mother fucker.  Suddenly all was well in the politisphere.  Well played Donald...  Well played. Now can we get this election over with?  I'm sick of all of it.  

Say what?

I was okay being called a basket of deplorables by Hilary Clinton. But today when I heard Joe Biden call me garbage I was angry. I can honestly say I hate that man and the world would be a better place if he had not been president. I wished someone would extinguish his existence just for a moment. I was ready to lash out and in fact did write some very ugly things on Facebook and quickly retracted what I had posted. I'm sure it's now forever immortalized in the halls of social media justice. But whatever. Who cares. It's taken me an hour to settle down after hearing Joe Biden call me garbage for supporting Donald Trump. I wonder if that's how my lefty friends feel when I call democrats idiots? Maybe that's why I don't have any friends. You wanna know how I calmed back down? Listened to George Strait. King George makes everything better. He sings truth.

What scares me

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Do you know what scares me most about Kamela?  It's not that she was installed. It's not that she was one of the last in the room on every policy decision with potato head. It's not that she's a hoe. It's not that she can't answer a question without word salad.  It's the fact that she is a chameleon. She starts speaking in tongues or accents depending on who she's talking to.  The fact she can do it so easily is disturbing.  I can't trust her. You shouldn't either. The Quick Translation Guide To Kamala's Many Fake Accents dailycaller.com

All that’s left

When my parents die. When my kids leave home to start their own lives. When my job ends. All I'll have left is my wife. I better get a dog for plan b.

How can she say

How can Michelle Obama say Kamala understands me when Kamala doesn't even understand herself?

It’s always good

It's always good to driver a different car than the one I own every once in a while. I've been driving a Chrysler Pacifica for a few days. What a turd. The leather is hard, it is noisy. The engine has no toque. Every time you get on or off the gas there is this knock in the front end. Like the axle is making contact with the hub and the cv joint in the transmission. The manufacturing tolerances are not very tight. What's surprising to me is my car is 20 years old. It is better than the Pacifica in every way. You'd think cars would get better instead of worse in two decades.

The big boss

The big boss lamented that it costs more to take an uber from the home office to the city than it does to fly from city to Florida. The boss expressed frustration with this reality. Maybe our planes should be deployed elsewhere.

I learned a few things this week

 Here's the deal.  I don't like my job.  And work is a four letter word.  It was reinforced on Friday.  I was on a conference call and got my ass handed to me in front of about 10 people for 20 solid minutes of being questioned, providing explanations and being told point blank that my performance is unacceptable and it has to change.  I don't know if that was meant as a threat, but that's how I took it. A much younger me would have popped off with "if you think you can do better, come and show me how because everything I'm doing isn't working to move the needle."   After that little exchange, I decided if they want me to quit, they're going to have to fire me.  A strategy a friend of mine employed.   This whole idea was a disaster.  I'm not a "manager" per se.  I'm a trench worker that lead effectively from the middle.  Not from the top.  I'm a lieutenant.  Not a general.  Maybe that's a flaw.  Maybe I'm no...

Employment

I'm not the leader I was 5-10 years.  I was a better leader back then.  I had passion.  I had the fire in the belly.   I finally landed the job.  I've been doing it for a year.  I don't like it.  It's a job I can do, I think but I don't know.  I've never been told I'm doing it wrong.  I've never been told I'm doing it right.  No news is good news, right? I don't know if I've changed, the role has changed or both.  I don't feel good about the work I do.  I get through the days.  Get up and do it again. The fruit was dying on the vine when I left and that hasn't changed up my return.  If anything we've given away every asset of value we had.  We've learned to do more with less.  The goals have gotten higher.   The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Vote

If you don't vote for me, you ain't black - Joe Biden If you don't vote for Kamela you're a mysoginst and a racist -  Barry Obama How about fuck both of you. The democrats are stuck with a pile of crap for a candidate.  She didn't earn her position.  She was installed.  Just like they did with Joe.  Unburdened by what has been?   We've been to the border.  And I haven't been to Europe either. What gets me is out of all the people in this country we have these to train wreck candidates to lead the country Burn this shit down and start over.  Our government is rotted from within top to bottom, inside out.

What if I told you

What if I told you the processed food industry is doing everything they can to make you sick and big pharma is doing everything they can to keep you sick?

Sarasota takes direct hit from hurricane

 Sarasota fared better than expected, I think.  People's homes and businesses are messed up.  Infrastructure needs repair. I'm reminded of a conversation had with a colleague just before the hurricane that occurred when I lived there.  My colleague said he hoped it be devastating.  Why?  We gotta get rid of all the trailer park trash.  If it gets destroyed we can build real homes in their place.  I was like seriously?   My feelings toward that individual were forever changed after that conversation.  People used to retire in Florida because it was cheap.  And a mobil home wasn't very expensive - meaning one could retire in Florida without being rich. I wouldn't want anyone to lose their home due to natural disaster.  These people were here before you, so leave them alone and let them go about their business.   If one was to spend a considerable amount of time in Florida, they would realize certain parts of Florida are extr...

Quote

 Your body naturally rejects the people, places, and things that aren't for you.  Listen to your body.

Sam's Club

 Sam's club is the Costco for poor people.  I don't quite know how we ended up with a membership to that store, but here we are.  I also don't quite know how we ended up at sams club for dinner last night.  You can get an entire pepperoni pizza for eight dollars and seventy five cents.  Cheap enough.  Anyway... Look around at the patrons of the establishments... It a bunch of low class fat people with tattoo.  These people look like they have a hard life.  But anyway. Watching them wheel out their carts, they're full of bottled water and unhealthy snack foods.  All of it in large quantities. I did not like my sams club experience.  I'm not like those people.  Well maybe I am because I'm fat.  I don't want to go back.  I don't like looking at those kind of people.  That makes me an asshole.  Father forgive me for I have sinned. I asked my wife to cancel our membership because I don't want to go in there or be seen...

Tinfoil hat wearing nut job

 I was driving to take my wife car to the shop.   Sometimes while I drive I listen to conservative talk radio.  I know...  Big surprise there, right?  They were talking about the 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris and I just had to weigh in on my thoughts on her interview from the clips I've seen. I called the number.  It rang a few times.  The screener answers and asked what I wanted to talk about.  I told him.  He said he'll put me on their air and asked for my name and location. My turn came up and I had a little 5 minute conversation on the radio with the hosts of the show.  It was really kinda interesting to be on the radio and talk about my perceptions. I fulfilled a life long dream.  Absolutely amazing.  Kidding.  Kinda.  It was neat to participate in the town square and have a brief discussion on the radio with whomever else was listening.  I must not have been too crazy because we had a bit of dialo...

Finite Resources

 They say all resources on earth are limited.  They've been saying we will run out of oil in the next 10 years for decades.  We're gonna run out of oil.  Coal.  Water.  Lithium.  Cobalt.  Silicon.  Gold.  Silver.  Titanium.  Copper. I think they're wrong.  Peak oil hasn't happened yet.  None of the other stuff has peaked either. When me and my wife got married we would vacation in Arkansas at Table Rock Lake with her grand parents.  They would take out the pontoon boat and we'd drop the anchor in some cove and swim.  We'd wear the life jackets like underwear putting our legs through the arm holes and buckling up so you kinda sat in the water.  It was always very relaxing.  We'd swim for a while and take up anchor and go somewhere else are head back to the marina. When you bobbing in the water you could sometimes feel a warm or cold "jet" where the current was moving.  You could feel it against...

23 and me?

Social media is say we should stop looking at Diddy and turn our heads to the entire 23andYou board jumped shift leaving only the CEO at the helm.  Stock valuation is less than 50 cents per share. Suddenly everyone is concerned about what's going to happen to all the data they've collected as they've analyzed genetic data of some 14 million people.  The data collected relates to genetic potential for having certain diseases and what not.   What could possibly go wrong? The company goes out of business?  The company needs to raise money to continue operating and may sell the genetic profile of all the people who thought getting their genetic information analyzed from going Hawk Tua in a test tube.  I would think either the government, health insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies would be interested in this day.   The biggest use of the data would be for insurance companies to deny you health care insurance before you're sick.  Just based on yo...

Will and his trans friend

 What's Will Farrell trying to do parading around the country with his trans friend?  Trying to earn brownie points with the freaks? I can't take these trans people seriously.  I think they were all abused as children.  Either that or they're sexually dysfunctional.  How can a man possibly think he's really a woman and vice versa?  They guys really want to wear women's under things.  The women wish they had a penis. I had a friend who went trans.  He wrote about the first time he tried on women's lingerie and being totally sexually aroused.  Well - there you have it.  Being a man is about taming the demons in your mind.  Not letting them take you down.  Rise up above them like a phoenix rises from the ashes - or else you'll get pulled to the underworld.  Not kill yourself to become a cross dressing homosexual. He's parading his "friend" around like a trophy.  Look at me - I get it.  I get you.  You complete ...

Kanye West said this?

  This is what happens when you sell your soul to the d£vil for wealth, fame and power. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? Kanye West; " Diddy was controlled to do everything he did. I've been there, and I can tell you every Hollywood celebrity has a story to tell. There are people in power who control you, turning you into a d£mon so they have something to use against you if you choose to turn your back on them tomorrow. They give you everything with conditions and tell you they can take it all back if you don't follow instructions. I had to be the brave one to tell them no, and they made it look like I was m@d. All the musicians with power are pup_pets to a group of influential people. They use them to win souls and when you are tired, they bring you down and continue their mission. What's happening to Diddy is what I was talking about but y'all called me cräzy. The sy...

Exhausted

 After coming up with my breakthrough theory on concrete causing climate change (aka global warming) I am exhausted.  So much mental energy was burned that I'm blown.  Maybe I'm manic when my brain has these ah-ha moments and I race to put them down to journal.  I percolate over them.  I think about them.  I think my logic is sound.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe I'm stupid.   I was telling my wife about my global warming theory and she doesn't think I'm right.  I told her I'm not wrong either.

I wonder

Climate change is being blamed on the burning of fossil fuels.  I don't think that's necessarily accurate.  Burning fossil fuels is a byproduct to the causes of climate change.   Concrete is the cause of climate change.  Say what?  Concrete.  I told my son this and he looked at me like I was crazy.  He disagreed.  I told him the concrete is reflecting the heat from the sun instead of going into the ground and being absorbed by dirt and other vegetation.  He's like, whatever dad. I told him I could prove it.  How?  When we get home...  put your hand on the drive way...  then put your hand on the street...  then put your hand on the grass in the yard. He gets out of the car and does what I had asked.  I asked him which was hottest.  The street.  Which one was the least hot?  The grass.  He was shocked. So don't give me all this bullshit that global warming is caused by fossil fuels.  It's c...

From the archives

My will be done Dear Believers - I've been watching the Americans and their media regarding the unfortunate loss of Bin Laden.  People using me and my good name to justify killing.  Are these people retarded?  I do not wish death upon anyone in the form of revenge or vengeance.  I think a lot of people forgot my prayer. The key stanza for the day is: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Please notice the word forgive.  Dear brother webster defines forgive as to stop feeling angry or resentful for an offense.  I'm saying let it go.  It happened in the past.  The unfortunate events of 9-11 can't be undone or taken back.  Killing the killer some how rights a wrong?  Revenge.  So not cool. It's like the USA has been just waiting to take take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.  How much hate do you people carry around?  Remember, this is not my way nor what I expect of you. What I do ...

Laptop Class

Saw an article titled "Amazon tells employees to return to the office five days a week."  Apparently the employees are not happy.  They don't want to go to the office.  They want to work from home, or the coffee shop or the beach.  They claim they're just as productive and make all these arguments against going back to the office - which really boil down to they don't want to go to work.  They want to sit in their pajamas in front of their laptop.  Or pretending to work.  Or whatever they're doing. I'm someone who doesn't have a choice but to go to work.  I also spend a lot of time on Teams meetings.  And I am offended by the "laptop class" (as Elon Musk calls them) working from their kitchen table, living room, or patio.  Like get your ass in to the office and work.  Telling me what to do from your living room or on your deck with a mountain in the background is bullshit.  Sitting there with your coffee and your dog.  I d...

Lizzo

I wonder if she was at a puffy freak off?

Control

 I've been outspoken in my critique of Hollywood and the players being the devil incarnated.  The arrest of people like Sean Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein and the fact that Oprah Winfrey is friends with all of them is disturbing.  The culture and values promoted by Hollywood and politicians  is that of liberalism, consumption, violence, promiscuity and drugs use, defining the police, etc.  None of these ideas make sense to normal people.  Normal people are leave that go the direction the wind blows them.  Hollywood is the wind.  The moguls are they ones that set the agenda and the underlings comply. What makes the underlings comply?  They have been abused psychologically, sexually and the moral parts of their brains have been compromised.  Compromised by being abused by powerful people.  Made to do things they would never have done in their previous lives.  Watch the disturbing videos of Justin Bieber int...

Tribalism

 Tribalism - the state of fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.  Tribes are composed of groups that have temporary or permanent political integration and defined by traditions of common descent, language, culture and ideology.    Diversity, equity and inclusion - organization frameworks which seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination  on the basis of identity or disability. Racism - discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.  Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. All three of the above ideas are the same yet they are in conflict with one another.   It is human nature to gravitate towards groupings with people that are similar to you.  Whether that be because of race, g...

Emotional Guidance System

 I am a true believer in humans have an emotional guidance system that acts as a GPS system.  The purpose of the emotional guidance system is to lead one away from things that are bad and things can do harm to you; while leading us to things that are good and healthy for us.  And here's the deal - so many people are listening to everyone else in our culture besides the god and endowed emotional guidance system.  Humans spend so much time soothing themselves consuming social media consuming tv, consuming movies and consuming music that promotes promiscuity, drug use and hiphop - aka gangster culture, and getting tattoos / body piercings because the cool people are doing it.  They're not cool people. They are the devils minions. Our emotional guidance system is being drowned out by the instruments of satan.  I believe humans instinctively know the difference between good and evil.  Yet we are numb or deaf to what our emotional guidance system tells us. ...

Swap Meet

 The local audiophile club had a swap meet today.  I wanted to go - but not enough to get in the car and drive to Hutto.  They had pictures of the swap meet on the groups website.  It was a bunch of dudes slinging their unwanted equipment to others and probably some socializing.   I told my wife I was thinking about going.  She said don't buy anything.  I'm not looking for anything and I'm totally satisfied with my system.  So what's the use in going? I figure everyone socializes and talks about their gear.  While these conversations are going on, I am sure everyone is comparing their system to the one the other guy is talking about and everyone is doing a mental pecking order of audio gear.   There were some guys there that sell gear all the time.  I don't know if they like to compare, or what the deal is.  I only sell gear once I've purchased something else to replace it. I wonder if this would have been a corvette club exper...