December 31, 2009 58 deg some rain

I don't think women love as deeply as men do.  They certainly don't understand the way we love.  Men love people and things for vast amounts of time, it's deep and doesn't end.  It's the reason why a man will own a boat through three marriages, or leave a woman cause she wants him to give up his car.  That's love.

 

I think women love ideas more than people or things.  They love the idea of getting married for example, this overwhelming urge from their youth to obtain this fantasy lifestyle of one man a few children a house with a white picket fence, you get the idea.  It's all planned out, this idea in their head, then after all is said and done with their plan they seek out a man to fill that dark figure next to them atop their dream wedding cake.  Who fills the suit is less important for sure than the fact that it's filled.

 

Men seem to go through life always looking for their love, their passion, and they are not necessarily stuck on one.  How could they be, how can you have the feeling of love and not want to experience in greater abundance.  It doesn't mean that when they love something new they love the other things any less, it just means they have more love in their life, more passion and more abundance of joy.  There's no security in it for sure, it probably won't fit inside a photograph and it's very hard to describe. 

 

If a woman is reading this take no offence to it, if a man falls in love with you he will probably always love you even if he divorces you cheats on you or simply decides to spend all his weekends on the boat.  Don't confuse the desire to have more love in his life with not loving you those rules were created by women not by men.

 

Hopefully someday I'll read this and it will sound crazy!

 

 

Dec 29th 2009. 70 deg

The reason for living life at it's limits is so you are always paying
attention.

The key to a good life
Love people
Love what you do
Have something to look forward to

The difference between being content and happy.... Money

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500 people sat in the dark perfectly silent for 2 hours and 40 minutes while they were brought into the cinematic exquisiteness that is Avatar.

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Dec 28 2009. 68 degrees

I was taliking to an elderly couple and their daughter when the
daughter said that mom pretty much makes all the decisions and dad is
just lost when she is not around. I told her my wife and I are still
working that out.

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Dec 27 2009 65 deg

Yesterday I took the strangest phone call and saying that please note
I've been in customer service salesmy whole life. I was not at my desk
but out where our records dept is with three other people they were
chatting and making some noise but nothing unreasonable, admittadly I
should have taken the call somewhere else but here's how the call went:

Hello this is T

Uhhh am I interrupting you?

No how can I help you.

Are there people in your office?

Yes, sorry about that they are just talking making some noise it's ok
how can I help you?

You sure they aren't tickling your balls?

Uhh no!

Well they aren't tickling my dad's balls he's dead!

Im sorry did your dad just pass away?

No he's been there for a long time have you seen him? Are you sure
they Are not tickling your balls?

Uhh no (by this time I got the Attention of the girls and quieted them
down) did you have a question.

Anyway you can see how thAT was going, after I hung up with her she
called back and used an alias to get back to me, I couldn't even
understand why cause we left the call on good terms. I just thought
the whole thing was humorous, she has scheduled and appt to come in
and do some other arrangements, she didn't show and that made me glad.

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The people I work with must be the most adaptable people on the
planet. They have taken the changes around them with stride and have
not been too upset with the infringments on their space or time.

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December 25, 2009. 65 deg sunny

Yesterday was Christmas Eve so I didn't get a chance to post
anything I worked most of the day and was happy that we got off a
bit early. Our office is still a disaster, the funniest thing about it
is that the GM left word before she went on vacation that she didn't
want any holes put in the wall so the staff took this to mean that we
couldn't hang up the various boards, shelves and boxes that we need to
function. The solution thus far for these basics of our workplace has
been to put them in various configurations on the floor creating a
sort of clustered maze in which to stumble through our daily activities.

Last night was nice our a nual Christmas Eve party went very well and
we got an opportunity to visit with many friends. What gets me every
year is the amou t of cookies and sweets that are put out, it seems as
if to run out of something would be an insult instead of what could
only be seen in my opinion a compliment to the great taste of something.

This morning Christmas was also at our home I must admit thAt I like
being able to stay home and ibwas thinking this morning how glad I am
that we don't have q broken home. Kari's parents are still together as
well as mine, there's no need to cart off to different homes for
Christmas and certainly Kari and I don't have to fight over who gets
Jacob on Christmas morning.

Either way the day went well and I got a new iPhone which I've really
missed. Have to really take care of it now.

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Wed December 23rd, 2009

Spent a good part of the day at work trying to reconfigure IP addresses on printers and getting general internet and the network functional at the office.  I had help, actually.... I was the help E ----- has more experience and he got most of it together while I used my websearch abilities to get some troublshooting ideas.  It is unbelievably dissapointing that the company left us holding the bag on the computers and the set up of this new office, the most dissapointing part is that the management being unskilled in technology generally seems uninterested in getting involved and making things happen....

 

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A friend of mine finished up a purchase on a 35' Cat Ketch up in San Francisco and I'm considering going up there to help him break it in.  I've always wanted to sail that bay and sail under the bridge hopefully I'll be able to work it out.

 

 

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What's the saddest part about about being a funeral director strivbing to become a comic, nothing funny to say.

 

December 21, 2009 Monday!

Still playing with the subject date line on my new commitment to write something every day and if that wasnt' bad enough I've decided to add a goal with every entry; to write something funny about my life every day.

 

I've often contemplated the idea of becoming a comedian and with that goes the obvious necessity to be able to write jokes and have someting interestingly humurous to say.  So today begins the new day of writing something that is funny, of all day sthis should be easy as you'd think I would also have the history of the 37 + years of my life to pick from in addition to the current days events of relocating our office from one building into a very new and possibly not well thought out new office space that replaced our old office space slowly over 3 months of construction.  Of all those incredibly funny things that should have come out of it I can only think of one.

 

Hey we are all moving into the new office today where's the location manager?  ....   On Vacation.  Wasn't she on vacation last time we moved?    Yeah they were both on purpose.

 

Sad more than funny, and not writtten humurously so I got a lot of work to do to figure this out.

 

Cem

Sunday Dec 20, 2009

Newport Harbor Ring of Lights.  Temperature H 78 L 61 Newport Beach, CA

 

Rented a 30' Catalina tonight "Catatonic" from Marina Sailing.  Cost totalled around $200.00 with fees and taxes.  Had a wonderfull time.  'The boy' and I first motored outside the breakwater trying to do a little sailing before friends arrived late in the afternoon.  We were rewarded for our efforts with glass seas and absolutely no breeze.  After floating around for a few we fired up thumper and headed into the harbor to check out the route since it's been 2 years since I've been in Newport.  After taking a little trip Danny, Susan, Kerstyan and her friend came down and actually found parking on the island, later Wifey, her mom, aunt and two other of our friends came and had to park in an alternate place and we picked them up at those docks about 10 mins away.

 

The light were nice and the weather could not have been nicer.  I don't know if I'd do it again, at least not next year we'll have to see.

Saturday Dec 20, 2009

74 degrees in Long Beach, light wind 10-12

 

Took Scott from Family Service at Montecito out for a sail.  Beautifull day, can hardly believe it's December.  Installed new bilge pump and replaced a few earings on the mainsail nothing much.  There was a windshift on the way home that I thought might prelude some Santa Ana's but they never materialized.

Friday Dec 18 2009

Temperature 70 clear no wind

Drove down to San Diego with Edgar to pick up a Sail Car. For those unfamiliar it is a three wheel cart with a windsurfer sail attached to it. You sit down low between the rear wheels and control the steering with your feet. These 'boats' as they still call them will do 40+ miles per hour. Professional boats will do over 70 and ice versions of the same have been clocked well over 100 mph. The boat I got is in OK condition but old, either way it is well worth the $50.00 and 6 hours worth of driving I did to day to get it, will probably take another 100 to 150 to get it going. I am suprising Jacob with it for Christmas in addition to the normal gifts he is getting and hopefully he will get excited about helping me fix it up.

Tonight is the judging of the Christmas Lights in our community. I've never really thought about it much but believe that I have a good chance of winning with the Nightmare Before Christmas themed characters that I have made over the years. I'm posting a couple of pictures of them but they are made of a symphony of different materials and methods all of which I learned as I was doing it.

Thursday 12/17/09

Sunny 70 degrees light winds 58 low.

Went to Disneyland with the family and was awestruck at just how fat we are getting as Americans. I know this is no revelation and my own weight is certainly included in the calculation but for goodness sake does every man woman and child have to be following in my portly footsteps. Didn't used to be one fat kid for about every 10 kids. Even then the 'portly' odd fellow was just that a little portly not grossly obese the pudgy cheeks now encroaching on their peripherial vision as they stair out through the deep crevaces that previously would be describes as eyes. Clothes don't even work any more and in addition to being fat we've taken on self propelled electric vehicle to assist our jelly filled asses in getting around so that we can expell even less calories and continue in our slovenly domain.

Society certainly doesn't make it easy to obtain it's own version of the ideal weight. Opportunities to eat a normal healthy meal are few and far between when away from the home. Vendors disguise apples in caramel and sell celery with peanut butter and chocolate chips, a normal healthy sandwich on wheat bread sold at a deli will typically contain twice the mayonnaise and the bread contain twice as much sugar in its preparation as what you might buy for yourself at the store or prepare at home. Everything must taste better when it's purchased out side. A simple Chineese chicken salad will be covered in a soy sauce reduction, for those of you unfamiliar with the produce the indredients are simple, soy sauce, sugar heated and reduced till it's mostly sugar. Throw in a few candied covered tangerines and you got yourself 'candy lettuce.'

I was at the doctor the other day being evaluated post gall bladder surgery for some abdominal discomfort after eating, he offered and we did a Cat Scan of my abdomen to put my mind at ease but he said that in all likeliness I was eating food that were overwhelming my new digestive system and gas was builidng up in my Colon causing the discomfort. His suggestion, a simple one, eat what you would have your child eat! Awesome, my sons normal daily grind: 2 eggs with white toast and a tall glass of milk, Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich with applesauce for lunch. For dinner he will eat pasta, cereal, waffles with syrup, or some other very carb loaded sweet thing. Mind you my son is somehow not blessed with the fat gene that my wife and I have had, I imparticularly had harnessed this particular trait since well before his current age of 10. He also does not possess the appetite that I have had my whole life either and although he does not eat foods that are very healthy for him he also does not finish whats in front of hiim, rarely snacks and generally would skip most meals if he wasn't forced to eat. We are usually happy he partakes of any part of his meal and are less concerned that he has left his meat or veggies untouched.

So there you have it a short dicotomy of my current state of nutrition and my evaluation of the problem. So far my family and I have been unwilling to change so I might want to start putting some money away for the electric cart.

Too many thoughts in my head

Last month I finished writing my first novel. A quickly thrown together collection of words that I wrote for the nanowrimo.com competition, and is certainly nothing much to brag about, still I am very proud of the accomplishment. This month I'm feeling anxious and unsettled. Work is tiresome and much of an extreme burden in an of itself, maybe there's too little going on and my mind is searching for something challenging, I don't know. In any case during this frustration, as it always seems to, reflection has crept out. During a lengthy conversation with a wonderful woman who just recently was widowed by her second adventursome husband I heard tell of great adventures the world abroad and a settled tone in her voice knowing that she was done with such ideas. In my life thus far I've been granted the ability to take many of my own adventures, not as broad and elaborate as hers as of yet but there is time. A brief recount I believe is in order and as I look at them I must say that my job was a significant benefactor to the list:

1996 One week Cabo San Lucas (SCI trip)
1997 Tyax Lake Canada SCI Sales Manager fishing trip
1998 Driving trip up the coast of CA in the wake of loosing our daughter Madison (Memorable as both and in and of itself)
1998 Sonora Canada SCI SAles Manager fishing trip
2001 Atlantis Bahamas
2002? Montana Trip
2004 Disney World Cruise through the Bahamas
2006 Trip with my Dad from CA to AR then meet up with Kari in NM and Drive back
2008 Road Trip from Buffalo NY to CA VIA family in AR
2009 Mission discovery driving trip for Jacob's school up the coast of CA

Some of these trips are chronicled in the Archives here and other's are scattered photograph memories in some old file somewhere. It's been wonderful for me to see these places and has only tempted my pallet for more.