27 July 2022….oh baby

So we were going to a special dinner for my son. He graduated from high school two years ago. But since most people thought the world was going to end we didn’t do anything. Well we decided to do something finally. We drove from my house to down town San Antonio. There the car started sputtering and would not go at more than a snails pace. We talked to one police officer tried to call a couple of places then I just called a tow truck. 

It was almost closing time. The dealership couldn’t take. The tow company couldn’t store it. So it came back to my house. 

I hate the long weekends sometimes. It still got done, a week later. 

I really am glad I didn’t need to get a new car. But I thought that maybe I would not get a new car. Life might be better without a car. 

I tried calling the repair shop, four times. I finally got through. Apparently I had been calling the wrong number. The repair shop sent a tow truck. Now I have a vehicle that runs. 

To much stuff this month. 

21 May 2022……hmmm

So my children and I made pizza last night. It was fun. I just think thy skimped a little in some toppings. We will go heavier on the toppings next week. 

I am so tired of most people, myself included, think most news is real. Fox, MSNBC, CNN, Reuter, Atlantic, Federalist, etc. It is all cheap cheesy entertainment. I am pretty sure I prefer more expensive entertainment like Amazon prime or Hulu. 

I will admit most things on the news are sensational. Every once in a while you get something worthwhile. Like Denzel Washington once said, if you don’t watch the news you are not informed. If you do watch the news you’re misinformed. I choose not to be informed. Most of the time. You can get more reliable news watching Game of Thrones or maybe the new season of The Orville. 

Personally, I really enjoy MASH. It started before I was born. It ended when I was in fourth grade. It is still better than almost everything. 

I have been thinking a lot. Dangerous I know. Still, this is my little parable or whatever about life. 

Personally I hate videos games. It might be something about how I was brought up. I know, and have known, many people that like video games. I do understand that some good can possibly come from video games. I still don’t like them. I can see better ways to spend your time. 

That said even though I don’t like video games, I like people who play them. 

I don’t have to like video games to like you. In fact if I ever do meet a new person, it is most likely, not because of a video game. 

Bottom line. I can like you and still not like the video games you like. 

19 May 2022……homemade pizza tonight

 So I went to the VA hospital for my teeth. They needed to be checked out. They did not fall out yet. 

I have to say I hate some things at the VA. 

I have to say thank you to all the people that like the look of me with no beard. Sorry to disappoint some people. I’m growing my beard back. I went outside with my children and wife. I sunburned my face. Beards do not allow that to happen. I was talking to someone at church. He was saying his wife insists he have a beard because if he has a little bit of stubble she gets razor burn. A beard does not let that happen. So I love the fact that people think I look good shaven. That said most people will not ever have to kiss me, and no one will have to endure the sunburn I did. 

Plus it is so much cleaner. So much warmer. I have no life threatening reason to shave every day. I do not need to keep a shaven face so I can maintain a good seal on a gas mask. 

Speaking of masks 😷, I honestly wonder why anyone wants to wear one anymore. It seems pointless. If you want to wear a mask you can. Still I think that for the mask is a sign of deeper issues. 

The other big part of my life are my plants. My lemon tree is going to be loaded. My peppers are going to be loaded. We, my children and I, bought an avocado tree. Grandpa Larry always wanted one. This one is our memorial tree for Grandpa Larry. I love having the plants. I just might have to wait to plant anything new. 

I have lemon, palm/coconut, citronella, 4 types of peppers, a maple tree, catnip, chives, and now an avocado. 

My children and I want to plant to many things right now. 

Lastly, I love my wife so much. She works tirelessly everyday to help make things better for us. Sometimes I wish she would just slowdown and take a nap. She is not feeling the best recently.  Still she keeps going and going. She seems to have more energy than my children. Still my children are not as young as they used to be. I don’t know how my wife has so much energy to do what she does. I get tired just watching her most of the time. But she helps me with so much. Having options to eat is wonderful. So much better than hot pockets everyday. When I’ve been by myself that is one of the easiest things I can make by myself. Plus she helps me in countless other ways. 

Last minute insert. I hate some things about the VA transportation so much. I have been thinking of calling them. But I have decided I am just going to let it go. I hate having to deal with it. I have better things I can do with my life. 

17 April 2022…Happy Easter

This week has been more eventful than I like. 

My step father died the other day. Me and my wife and children have been feeling really yucky, so we didn’t go to Utah for the funeral. They did a zoom broadcast. That was nice of them. It was a very nice service. 

After some other business, we went to “grandpa Larry’s” favorite restaurant Jack in the Box. That was an adventure. The sign said they we open. Nope. So we went through the drive though. Eventually we got home ate our food and remembered events we loved with “Grandpa Larry”. One of the best times we have had for a long time. 

Side note while we were eating the elders/missionaries stopped by. Apparently they didn’t know where I live. And the fact I shaved my beard threw them of. They saw that I had The Family a Proclamation to the World hanging on the wall. Then they figured out we are members of the same church as them. Then I said I just shaved my beard off. Then we recognized each other. Fun night. 

I guess people have figured out I shaved my beard. I hate it. I can’t wait until I have some fur on my face again. Without facial hare it’s cold it hurts it’s uncomfortable. I do not like it at all. I will post the video of my children helping to shave me on another post. 

So I guess this past week was also the anniversary of when I had my stroke. I had several posts on Facebook show up that people have made 9 years ago. Some are still Facebook friends. Some decided to unfriend me. Honestly I don’t understand unfriending someone. If you don’t like something me or anyone says, Ignore it. But some people can’t handle the constant reminder that someone exists. I have had very unpleasant moments.  Moments are just that moments. I had to turn off all the posts of a couple people. Still, life goes on. But I am curious about what I may have posted that upset someone so much that they felt they had to unfriend me.  I’m just me. A person. I have a type of brain damage. Still I’m not to big of a deal in the large world. That said, I’m the grand scheme, everyone is a big deal. 

Then my wonderful wife has been making Easter treats for everyone. She is amazing. To bad she can’t eat hot peppers I grow. She is marvelous in countless other things. Not being able to eat hot peppers is nothing. 

4 April 2022…..we are getting closer to First Contact Day.

I have found and been reminded recently, that anger is a very effective way to get physical things done. 

It helped me in the past, when I was a pilot, still I decided then that I could not hold on to the anger I had. 

Then I had a stroke. For a while I had no idea why I was in the hospital and why I couldn’t move me body. Then I wanted to get better so I got angry. It help me improve but at some point I lost the anger I had. 

Just this morning I was angry again. I wanted to write and get all of my anger of different things out of my system. 

A few hours have gone by. I have no desire to be angry. I think it can handle not being angry. That said I miss the rush of desire to write and create in other ways.

One other thing I decided to do is shave my mustache. I still have my beard. I am sure I do not like having a naked upper lip. 

I ask my wife to leave her hair curly. Her hair is gorgeous and naturally curly. She doesn’t like it so she wants to straighten it most of the time. Her choice. She is a big girl. Still she doesn’t like my beard. Still, after shaving my mustache my face is freezing. I am willing to live with her straight hair if it means my face wont freeze. I had to have a shaved face for years. 

One other thing about me. My beard is so curly it seems to grow very little. If I use my heat brush it helps it look a little bit longer. 

Slightly related is the fact that shaving is messy. I got hair all over the counter and the rest of my beard and body. Then the razor needs cleaning. That is not easy for me. After I took a shower to get all of the little hairs off. 

Sorry everyone. Shaving is for suckers.

14 March 2022…..some catch-up.

I have been writing sporadically the past few weeks   So here is some of what I wrote. 

 

In case you haven’t heard. I got married. Immigration has been a very long process with all the coronavirus nonsense. Anyway she is here now. Now we have even more work to get done. 

She doesn’t want to take a photo right now. 

A few days ago. 

I just got off the phone with VA transportation. I had an appointment and since I don’t drive I called to make an appointment for the transportation department to come and pick me up. 

The lady, and I use that word loosely, was constantly commenting, and talking back to me about requests I made. I want them to be here an hour and a half before my appointment so I know they will get me on-time for my appointment. I ask them to call me the night before so that I know someone is coming to pick me up. I have had people show up for appointments that never existed, and I have had drivers that showed up so late there was no chance I would make it to my appointment. Later, when I needed to go home, I waited around for over an hour to get picked up. Then I didn’t get home for another hour and a half. More recently, I waited over an hour to get picked up after my appointment. After another half hour I was finally picked up. 

I loved The Va transportation when I first started with the VA. It worked wonderful for me then. 

The past three years or so it has been one problem after another. The last time I made a complaint, I was told that because I was the only veteran that made a complaint, it therefore didn’t happen. 

The VA does many things good, but transportation is not one of the things it does well. 

One thing I love is groceries delivered to you. I have been trying to use as much of my food as I can. I have to look in the panty and freezer and see what is possible. Then just make sure I can just get mostly the things I need so some things can get used up. I’ve encountered some fun combinations. Who would have thought pesto would be a great condiment for sandwiches and burgers. Other things are a fail. Sauerkraut with cut up hotdogs and bologna not as good as I thought it would be. But, you take the good with the bad. 

But I have my groceries coming. Then I can use up some more stuff. 

I have started growing my pepper seeds, and it is time to put them outside. 

It got so cold in February I had to bring my pepper plants inside. I left my tomato on the porch were it would have some cover. It still froze. 😐I think my priority is my pepper plants. 

I have been getting out of my wheelchair and crawling. It is not the easiest and it can sure make me tired. I mean tired for days. Still, I need to do more of it. 

I am so glad Christmas is over. It’s fun. I enjoy it. But I’m still glad it is over until next year. 

There are a few things I really want to do still. I have to wait from one month to the next to do something. Still I guess it helps learn patience. Growing my pepper plants have helped me learn patience. Just the past few weeks they will start growing buds. Then it will get to cold I guess and the blossoms are gone the next week and there is no fruits. 

There is so much my children and I want to do. I am just not sure the best way to go about most of it. The main thing is maybe getting a house, at least an apartment with a bigger kitchen. I’ve been thinking maybe I can rearrange some furniture. 

So I am at the VA today. I have a very low opinion of many things with the VA. Some things are wonderful. 

I have to deal with transportation for the VA because I don’t drive. I had one gentleman gaslight me. He said several things were one way. I know that is not the way it is. Then I was on the phone with another lady who explained that it works the way I was accustomed to. Then I spoke with a third gentleman, about transportation, he was the most rude person that I have had the displeasure to speak with. 

I have tried calling once a week. I don’t want to be to big of a pest but I think I will need to do something different. 

I want to start working out. For me that involves just getting out of my wheelchair and crawling on the floor. I have some goals for myself. For right now that’s all I want to say. 

I am so flabbergasted that people don’t think Joe Biden is the worst President in the history of the United States. Let’s count just a few of the things he has helped do. 

First the boarder. I live in a state that boarders with Mexico. There are lots of communities that are fed up. One town/city elected the first Republican mayor in years. I don’t mind Democrat or Republican at some local levels. The differences don’t mean much. But it does definitely mean something in some places. 

Afghanistan 

All I can say is a debacle. 

Inflation 

Well if you ask the government to print money, essentially at will, prices go up. If people are paid to stay home companies have to offer more money to get people to work, eventually prices go up. And the money you are “earning” is what you always wanted, but worth less than what you made before. 

Spiking Gas prices

If you are paying the same for gasoline as you were a year ago, you are lucky. 

These are just a few of the possible metrics that could be used to gage the trajectory of the last year. 

Let’s go Brandon. 

If you like the President I question your sanity. 

If he and his people were able to do something with my situation at the VA I might not have such a low opinion. 

 

I’m so annoyed at the way I have been acting. Part of it is probably because of stroke. Part is probably other stuff. I’ve said it before. Don’t have a stroke, it’s not as much fun as I make it look

5 February 2022….it’s warning up.

 I am so spaced out some days. I went to the bank partly to cash a check. I remembered the other stuff and forgot to cash the check. I guess I will be going back to the bank to cash the check I forgot. Oh hell. 

I want to do almost anything but write and post about politics. The thing is, it is a subject that hardly anyone can do anything about. It is low hanging fruit. Almost everyone has an opinion they can’t do anything about. 

That being said. Let’s go Brandon. 

The other thing is Donald Trump needs to find someone else to endorse, other than himself. He was great when he wasn’t a politician. His four years has proven he went from being a businessman to some new breed of politician. Still if he were to be the fourty-seventh president it would be nothing but an improvement over the last year. 

Still local city and school board elections are more important. 

I have been watching shows on the history channel about the Templar Knights. So after the infamous Friday the 13th, when the king of France and the pope had the order mostly destroyed. But according to what I have been watching, the few knights that remained survived in Spain for longer, then ultimately helped set up the nation of Portugal. The name Portugal derived, so the say, is port of the grail. Then the Portuguese were a great sea fairing nation and helped open up the world so everything became easier to obtain. 

I haven’t seen how the group that was the Templars became the Freemasons and set up the United States, but I am sure intending to watch that show as soon as it comes out. 

All I know for sure is that most of the “facts” most people are taught in school are highly questionable. One easily disputable “fact” is that Columbus “discovered” America. Why where there people already here? How many others “ discovered” it before Columbus arrived. Well the American Indians were here. They have discovered Viking settlements for sure. How far south did the Viking make it? Virginia? Florida? Arkansas? Tennesse?

The Olmec civilization. They made some pretty fancy rocks. 

One thing I have learned recently is that most modern Americans and many other people don’t like anything that challenges their status quo. 

For example, I saw a show that Davy Crockett may not have been killed at the Alamo. It was a highly speculative idea, but, because Crockett and Santa Ana were both Freemasons some how they figured this out and then Crockett lived out the rest of his days quietly in Alabama. There are even documents he may have signed to support the claim. 

My point. most people can’t agree on things that happened about a year ago, take January 6th for example. Others can’t decide if a man is a male. We live in a ridiculously stupid time. 

Honestly, I know I was born. Someday I will die. I hope I will have been good enough for some people to want to cry. Sometimes. Then people can get on with the business of living. Cars still need to be washed.  Bread doesn’t bake itself. Budgets don’t balance themselves.  If you are crying all the time then it would be hard to do anything.