Happy Labor Day!!

Why do we take on some big yard issue during a Labor Day weekend is beyond my sensibilities.  Case in point, we have some sugar maples with very large branches hanging over our neighbors double garage.  During last winter's snow and ice storms, it was duly noted by my beloved that laden with Mother Nature's Wonderland Substance, they would lay on their garage.  The neighbor and I spoke of this situation several times and came to the final conclusion that indeed some cutting and trimming would become necessary.

I'm envious of my neighbors who have garages, although I respect the fact that they have them, even if most of them are filled with the household over flow of one's life.  Never the less, I don't want any part of these tress that we're given to us in the '70's as twigs to come crashing down on my neighbors domain slash workshop.  I have to much respect for that to every let that happen.

So, feeling a little like Santa Clause, "up on the roof top, Ho-Ho-Ho," I went, but up my ladder.  I had dreamt of every move before doing this deed of neighborliness, for some time now.  Seriously dreamed about it.  Guys would understand this, truly visualizing everything for safety's sake.  Step 5 (or so) in any chainsaw instruction booklet tell's you to no end, "Do not climb a ladder to cut limbs from trees!"

Well, when you don't have the funds to pay someone else with a cherry picker bucket, mounted on a fancy truck, "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!"  "So what if I fall on my head, I work at a hospital and have health insurance!"  Famous last words of many a homeowner I'm sure, but the end justifies the means, it's done.  Now for the ground work, this will take up the rest of the week, for sure, but I like cutting wood on the ground.

Much safer!!

How was your weekend?

PS-I realize my limits with this one last limb, time to call that lucky S.O.B. with the fancy cherry picking bucket on his truck.

A Versalift Bucket truck, out of Montana.  I'm so jealous.  It's so pretty, if I were lucky enough to use one of these, things would really be looking up in the world for me. lol  Then again, I could look down on all the little people, eh. ;>)

Hey Baby, if I'm really good can I get one of these for Christmas?  Didn't think so, bah. 

It has been brought to my attention that if I want to get long winded on another's blog site that maybe I should do so on my own.  OK, point taken, then I shall do so from here on out.  This whole new frontier world of blogging has it's many complexities and maybe it should be for only the truly gifted leaving the rest of us out on the fringe.  Well then that's where I shall remain, an outlaw blogger.  For here are my following thoughts about it all:

1.  I don't need anyone's comment.  If folk's do then fine, what ever you have to say, I don't care one iota.  Just be nice.  Foulness will be deleted.

2.  If, we as a MSN Spaces Live Community cared about the assaults from other blog site spammers and wanted something done about it and Spaces cared not to do anything about it what so ever, (with their "let the eat cake" attitude)  Then maybe we should all fold up these blogs here and go somewhere else.   What other choice do they leave us?  But, we don't, and they know it, because we have to much time and effort invested in our blogs. 

It is addictive isn't it.

3.  So, what can we as 130 million Spaces Live blogger's do about the hit and run spammers?  Does anyone know of ISP trace software technology that we could download as a plug-in and thus trace the offending ISP.  Or are we going to let them continue to hide there where about's through other Spacers blog sites?  Because you may think that just because you have your site set on "permission only," spammers will still get into yours through your "friends" sites.  Thus as Scott has commented to me, that's how they gain access and leave no trace.

4.  What is their objective?  To disrupt the friendliness of the Spaces world as a whole, to call into play a way of distracting us from our own objectives in our writing's?  If I make someone feel uneasy about something that I've said, then I too feel bad about it.  I do have a way of rambling and it can get truly misunderstood, most of the time, but if you're willing to look deeper you'll start to understand where it is I'm coming from.

5.  A lot of the times, people don't want or care where it is that you're coming from in this day and age of short attention spans brought on by the technological revolution.  Just ask any teacher how they've had to adapt to the changes to keep a classroom engaged.  It wasn't that long ago that I used to visit my own children's classes and was appalled at the outright obnoxiousness of the fellow students.  These times they are a changing, indeed.

Often I wonder how my life would've been different if I only had more children.  How these children come about is of no matter, just that they're here.  In watching Tuesday's Oprah's of 6/16/'08, the show's subject was about Polygamy and men who have more than one wife, and are having 6-8 children per.  One would think to one's self in these turn down economy of "support the falsified Iraq conflict", just how would one go about supporting not only these wife's, all college educated, but with 22 children?  I can't fathom what kind of job you would have to have if everyone in the community is also having just as many children and wives, along with the payments of a 3200 square foot home.

I know, I know, how gross, but consider how we're constantly planning everything else in our lives, you would at least think that we should be able to plan our own funerals.  I'm not talking about the burial plot at which cemetery or which Funeral Home will do all the services necessary for your body, but the finer details how you would like your funeral planned.  Consider all the Pastors in town, no wait I'm getting ahead of myself.  Why do we need a Priest, Pastor or Reverend?  Well, our friends might be to distraught to say much of anything for fear of making a fool of themselves if they were to speak up, so we ask the leaders of our churches to do a sermon for us.  Ok, I can understand that part, but what I've often wondered about and have posted here in the past: Did we have a going away party before we came here?  Hmm.

Now before you think about that too much, consider: Why are we now sad when our loved ones die?  If we're all returning to our Heavenly Maker: What's the problem with being happy for our dearly departed family and friends?  If I sound like I've been thinking about this for some time, well you might think: Where's he been today?  I just went to our dear friend's fathers funeral, and this got me to thinking: Is everyone else here, thinking what I'm thinking?  You know, we're all at the funeral or at the grave site and the Pastor is saying his words and we've all got that self talk voice going on in our heads, "I'm wondering what this fellah is doing now?"  The reason we all gathered today is to say our goodbyes to our friend's father and were all sad, let's face it funerals are done to be sad.

We should all have a New Orleans Funeral, that's what is wrong about funeral services in general.  I've only heard of one of them being done here in our hometown.  I think now as I did then when I heard from the lips of the drummer that he and a couple of other's got together and did a little New Orleans style funeral music as the folk's who came to the funeral were headed out the door to their cars and onto the cemetery.  He told me he got lots of compliments and every one who knew the deceased said that it was perfect the way he and the group played because that would've been the way he liked it.  You can do that at a Funeral Home, you not allowed to do that at Funeral in a church, they've all got these "rule's."  That's even sadder than the Funeral's themselves.

Thus my thinking for: Why can't we all plan our own?

I finally sat down with my beloved and filled out our taxes.  First I noted that we didn't take in 109 Million, sadly, maybe next year, eh.  With no children to deduct, we don't have much for itemizing, like nothing, zero, zip.  What I always find amazing about filing such paper work is why do we have to do this stuff year in year out?  If my employer has already sent in their paperwork and the I.R.S. already knows everything about you, that you over paid them as usual.  I guess my question is this: Why don't they just automatically send you your refund?  Sounds simple enough to me, but nothing with bureaucracy is ever that simple is it?

Now interestingly enough, last night a male figure with a van, wearing a vintage flight jacket took 5-10 minutes to shine his headlights on our house by pulling partially up into our driveway.  Accordingly to my beloved he got out and strode up and down in front of our house with a flashlight.  What was he looking for?  Looking at?  At 2:30 a.m. in the morning.  It was the perfect time to look things over with no one being awake to observe him, I'll give him that.  Should we call 911?  Why?  He didn't attack the house with any object, nor did he start any fire, or make much in the way of any noise.  We couldn't see any holster for a weapon, which doesn't mean he didn't or could've had one.

My beloved came up to our bedroom to tell me that there was someone outside with a flashlight.  I questioned allowed, "is he looking for worms?"  In the past, when I lived here alone I've had people going over my front terrace with flashlights looking for the healthy earth worms that grow to a really good size.  Just observe the Robins when they return in spring, there all over the yard, out take dining. 

Seriously though, I called our local Police to ask the communications desk if there were Police in the area investigating something a foot.  In the past they've come by with their flashlights and our communities drug dog, looking for someone who shouldn't be around the neighborhood.  Honestly, that's what I thought it was about, but after calling the Police and they didn't have any ongoing investigation in our neighborhood area.  So, I'm left wondering.  Just what was so important that needed to be looked at, at 2:30 a.m. by this mystery person?

Ah, this is what I pay taxes for?

With this writer's strike going on, who needs there DirecTV service anyway?  There's even talk of the picket lines going up during the Golden Globe and Oscar Awards, that will make for a lot of empty seats.  Unless they pay a bunch of stupid people to fill them.

    I was watching The CBS Saturday Early (morning) Show about some of the finer points of office romances.  They had some great points about the IM'ing or emailing that anyone may be involved in on company equipment.  If the other person says no once, that's all, that's it.  If you ask if they would like to go out again, they're likely to sue you and the company for sexual harassment.  One good suggestion was that in the event that things are going along dating wise pretty good, that you should inform your Companies Human Resources Department that you and such and such are involved dating wise.  That way, the company can ward off all complaints filed by others who are jealous.  I know, sounds nuts doesn't it.

    Some of the other great suggestions were: don't ask anyone out that is under you or worst yet over you in the same department.  Makes sense I guess, because if there is a break up, there may be repercussions that neither of you can live with in the work place.  Here were some adult points of electronic exchanges, don't PDA the other party.  So I believe that could mean IM'ing, emails, etc.  This would leave an electronic trail of everything said. 

Do you really want anyone else to know?  You may not be saving every correspondence, however the other party may be.  Do you know that they're not?  Are they forwarding all messages via copy and paste?     

 Things to ponder.    

At a dinner party yesterday I spoke about an idea that I've been contemplating for sometime, but didn't quite know how to present the idea in mixed company. 

So here goes, do you ever experience a moment with your beloved or family and even strangers, that your both thinking of the same idea?

It happens with us all the time.  It seems that if your concentrating about something in pictures in your mind, the person in your presence speaks up about it.  Try this, it may take sometime to redevelop or as I've been thinking, you'll need to become in touch with your telepathic capabilities once again.  I believe, there's a part of our brain that was once upon a time enabled to receive the thoughts of others in our pack, I'll explain a little later why I believe this to be so.

The picture is the most important part of this experiment with this.  I'd recommend your beloved be the first one to try this on.  Don't even say a word, or give any indication of your needs.  Let's just say you would like some water.  Picture the water, now how would you like to have that served to you?  A bottle of water, or glass, cup, etc.?  Now picture the bottle of water if that is what you desire.  We can surely multitask here, if you're watching TV or at a movie, continue to do so. 

Do you still have that bottle of water in your mind's eye?  Nothing yet, no one is bringing up the idea that you would like a bottle of water?  OK, forget about it, give it some time, this may take sometime for the other person to receive your mental picture.  How funny is it when you must ask yourself if, "did I first think of this or did they?"  That idea or picture, in and of itself will bring about a laugh when the one your with, turns to you and asks if you'd like a bottle of water?

I find this works wonders with couples.  Have you ever asked if they,"would you stay out of my head?"  Careful, this may cause your bladder to leak at all of the laughter that will ensue.

If this works for you, I suspect that this is how it was around the earlier campfires of our ancestor's.  Case in point, I was reading an article from Bill Nye The Science Guy, he talked about why we yawn.  There has been many theories, one is that at the end of our day the lack of light along with being tired we need oxygen, so we stretch and yawn.  He's reasonable perspective was that he believed, it wasn't so much about the oxygen theory but that when the leader of the group wanted everyone to go to sleep,  they would yawn to indicate this command to the rest of the group around the campfire that it was time to sleep.  Why?  The leader may've wanted everyone to be fresh in the morning for the hunt, albeit for meat or berries along with the much required water.

Now if there was no language skills at this time, regardless of the leaders grunts and grown's to convey his wishes and directions during the hunt.  I suspect the leaders also lead the others in this way to bring about his wishes so as to get the others to do their bidding.  One has to be quiet when sneaking up on game.  How would you each be able to communicate to each other?  One means, one might suggest would've been hand signals.  Don't we subconsciously see our leaders of today doing the very same thing? In time, I'm sure the leader realized his power and either used it wisely or much to the destruction and the demise of the pack was to abuse this mental power for there own greed, by unnecessarily tying up the packs daily time and resources for themselves.  Thus narrowing their time to gather the necessary daily sustenance of the pack; forsaking everyone else's survival. 

Something has just occurred to me, this could've brought about the whole survival of the fittest mentality.  The young members of the group would see their leader's misguided's for what they were doing and make a determination that something had to be done to change the course they felt their leader was leading them.  Some of the weaker packs we're afraid to upset their leader and thus perished, only after it was to late to see there own end coming. 

I've been told that this is just how one can get your pet dog to relate what it is that we have in mind for them to do.  Have you ever observed a dog when you picture in your mind, their leash?  How about their bag or can of food?  They'll may raise their heads, they may even make a sound, so as to relate back that the message was received, then they'll rise and their tails get to going back and forth with excitement.  I've seen trainers use hand signals along with of course treats to train a dog to practically do most anything, when the dog has gotten the lesson right. 

After a time the treats are no longer necessary, and then it's time to move along with their training.  Hunter's know this all well to easily, when there thinking about hunting, the picture in their mind is, in my opinion, imprinted in the dogs mind.  The dog or dogs will get all excited, because I believe they have a way of telling the others through pictures in their minds, that they're about to go hunting. (pack mentality)  

If you've ever ever used a rolled up newspaper to reprimand your dog for leaving you with a mess, I suspect that the dog will never forgot that which you envisioned with a picture in your mind first and how that mental picture would relate to them in pain. 

Continue with this mindless kind of training and you'll find that the dog won't even want to greet you once you arrive home, and once again you'll be left with another present on your carpet or kitchen floor, in retaliation.  All the while the dog will make a bee line for the opened door so as to escape.  You need not try to call your dog back, their not that stupid, they've felt and seen your terms of punishment.  They'll only return on their own, only once they cannot find more food or fresh water.  As it's been said, "There are no bad dogs, only bad owners."

I just want to take a moment here and relate a thought that has just come to me, isn't this how things are playing out today?     

TV conveys the administrations wishes to the country.  We're constantly "told to be afraid." or the terrorist will come and be on our soil, etc., etc.  However there are those of us who no longer listen to the leaders wishes so as to gather our own sustenance.  Some just feel that the end of all mankind maybe at an end, and now more than ever we have a need to be more connected to those we love.  Putting aside maybe some of the frivolous various reasons why we fought amongst ourselves in the first place.  This of course is just a thought. 

If I'm wrong, have you watched today how the leaders of controlled TV has presented us with the news of Black Friday?  Customers gathering outside of stores, and in there quest to enter the store physically fight amongst themselves. (survival of the fittest)  It's one thing to watch all of this play out, it's another to watch as others walk/run right on by the fights so as to be the first ones to get that much needed new Television or some other electronic mind altering gadget, so they don't have to listen to themselves.

I feel we are all connected to the source that wants only to give us more of what it is that we feel we need to be enlightened.  If it's an electronic game to take our minds off of the terrible situation around us so as to be so distracted from reality and not concentrating on peace, then our leaders have accomplished their goal, through deflection.

I've written once before about how the idea of the draft would soon return if the Republicans were reelected.  I'm sorry that I didn't explain that the future thinking of the leaders of both parties would hold to the agenda's of even their leaders of darkness, so as to just repackage the presentation of what will come next in their game of mind control.  It is one thing to fight the evil's of darkness when one is attacked, however when one has not been provoked by another nation to begin with.  It's another to lie to the nation on a whole about some unforeseeable threats, just because we don't want to envision the wrongful thoughts of our nation's leaders because we as a collective group know what is right to sustain ourselves as a nation, especially when our true God given beliefs don't align themselves with that of our greedy nation's leaders, so as to be subservient to them and there need for power which is all a picture of elusion. 

Which brings me back to my original proposal, about how easily one can with malicious intentions manipulate a conversation in a group or one on one while in the presence of others to see things from our perspective, by just envisioning a picture.  The one true thought one must derive from all of this is, are your thoughts your own, or that of others, who wish to be leaders of the pack?

I wonder then, just who's thoughts are we being subjected to?

Now, there's a thought...        

Often we read and become accustom to someone's style of writing, we'll think they could just go on forever.  Then something changes, that's life.

Such is the case with a blog I've been following called "J's Place."  If you'll remember back when she was first featured on MSN Spaces, you'd remember the stories we all read about when it came to the observant side of bartending.  She would invite us in to what it was like in Seattle's wild night life of just providing a service to the sane and insane customers that us former or present bartender's have all experienced.

Sadly, she's saying her fond farewell after some 55 days of us waiting to hear something about how things were going in her world, she feels it's time to move on.

I would ask each of you to click on J's Place above and tell her your thoughts about how much each and everyone of you have enjoyed her stories and if it moves you, leave some of your insights as well.

Thank You.