Why can I say these things here? Because my Mother told me she was not going to read my blog anymore because it upset her. So, now I can say what I want. Now, if she does read it and gets upset, I am off the hook (heh heh heh)
Mom, if you want to start reading my blog again, tell me so I can say something different!
Bridget just called. She and the kids are going to Kennedy Space Center tomorrow. They are going to have "Lunch with an Astronaut" and do the meet and greet. I wish I could have been there.
Im too old to make a difference with anything beyond what I have done. No high bar anymore for me. I have to look for my children to carry on with the high bar thinking.
I have tried to help Jon with getting a meaningfuljob, but he 'will not' even get me a resume to work with. I know I could get him on in the car shop. He had been around Cathy too much.
Since I met her, I was always the one who wanted (and still wants) to do everything possible. She never really had that drive. I would trade everything but Bridget and the kids to get into something exciting.
My one wish for this year is that Jon does something bold and exciting. Since I can remember, he has lowered his sights and I can blame myself about 20% for that. I could not be around him since Cathy was the cause of the breakup of the family I had. I could not be there to drive him. She drove him, right down from 'wanting' to be a pilot in the Air Force when he was 7 or 8, down to 'hoping' to be a gas station attendant when he was a freshmen in high school. I am worried that he will just sit and let the world go by.
Whe told me (for the third time) that Cathy said (Jon't words) she was waiting for him to graduate so she could get him out of the house, I couldn't see why. I would have done anything to have him live with me. But that was not meant to be.
Jon, if you read this, please send me a resume & call me. I want to help, but I can't do it for you. It's your life.
I am in the process of removing all my work related posts. I am placing them in my work blog. If you have an inkling of interest, try it out.
When I was initially asked if I wanted "insurance" for my cell phone, I snidely scoffed at the kid behind the counter. Then, something popped into my head saying,
So for $5 a month, I have (had) insurance on our cell phones."You should get this, it is an expensive phone. You know you will probably loose it off the train."
Last week, I lost the phone. There is no one who had found it. I am kinda distraught. The thing had lots of phone numbers which will take me months to retrieve.
Anyway, I had lots of stuff in there. I even had pictures which I feel are not replaceable. Sure, life will go on and in 100 years, no one will care what pictures I lost, But they mattered to me.When ever you get a number to put into your phone, always write it down somewhere else so you are not screwed when you get a replacement.
Today, I called Cincinnati Bell Wireless and told them what happened. The person on the phone gave me a number and 5 minutes and a $35 deductible later, I have a new preprogrammed phone on the way. It should be here by Friday. I am so glad that I got the insurance. The thought of going through the paces of buying a new cell was very bad. I just didn't want to spend the money for another one.
So, I guess that little voice in my head was right. I needed to get the insurance. I guess I need to keep it too. I feel another loss is in the future. I can surmise that at some time, I will be riding on the side of a boxcar across a river, look down and it will fall out of what ever pocket I have it tucked into.
Remember, "Murphy's Law is in effect"
Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning. Source
Don't ask me where this came from, I am not sure. But click on the link right below this and find more facts.
Working for CSX. I have been asked many time over, "What it is like working for CSX Railroad?" This is the one hardest jobs to describe ever. Mainly because you never quite get the whole picture.
I think I will have to think about this one for a while to even come close. It is one of those jobs I really like to do, but hate to go to. The two hour call thing is one of the most debilitating things I have ever experienced. When to sleep, when to do something with the family, when to eat. All those things come into play every day. It is one constant battle to determine, "Will I go to work today-tonight-this evening-tomorrow morning?"
As of last month, I started to put down what I am doing on the railroad specfically. I will keep a blog of that here. Maybe it will make more sense than trying to describe it.
I didn't feel very good last night. The kidney stones are a real pain. They say that the stones are not only diet related, but "stress" creates them.
It's not like I have had a lot of stress with selling the house, packing everything we have up, moving it to either a small 3 bedroom apartment and/or to a storage room up the road, then having to unpack and at least live within the space we have.
Honestly, it is not the stress of all that, it is trying to determine what to get rid of and all. What should I (we) keep and what should we give away or just toss?!?
