Well here we are only a week and a couple days away from thanksgiving. This year is going to be a lot different around my house. The main difference is I had to sit and really think about what I was thankfuk for . Ussually its my job and health and family. I have 2 of the 3 but its harder to get in the mood for this stuff when you dont work. 

   Well I got thinking there are a lot of things to be thankful for this year  more than any year before here are some of them.

    1] My son is still with us ( as some of you know it was darn close for awhile) he is doing a lot better and thank god he is starting to take life real serious.

     2] My family is all in good health  as far as I know anyway. My mom doesnt always tell me when things are going bad. Unless its real bad

      3] I still have my house and havent fallen behind on the payments so far.

   So as you see I have a lot to be thankful for  

Now  with thanksgiving  it also means christmas isnt far off.Well with being unemployed that holiday will deffinetly have some changes  I wont be able to go crazy like ussual. But still there are a lot of families out there in a lot worse shape.

  And now comes the main reason for this blog.  I know there are a lot of people hurting right now.This is a hard time of year during good times let alone  now And I am asking everybody I know and some that I dont  to please if you can donate to places like toys for tots or the one I always donate to is run by the Marine Corps.  they put boxes in the stores and ask for new toys to be donated. Now if any of you can put something in these boxes it would be really nice. There is nothing worse then knowing a child will wake up christmas morning and not have anything. Me and my girlfriend have decided that instead of getting each other anything we are going to put a gift in these boxes everytime we go shopping  nothig big of course but even a small present is better than nothing.

 I know it is hard when times are so tough but no kid should ever think christmas is just another day. Some of them dont get anything all year SO PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.

Well I am done preaching and I really hope everybody has a great thanksgiving  remember even if you are struggling with bills and stuff now  if you have your health everything else can change. And if you are sick  let us know and we will pray for you  the power of prayer is very good as I found out a few months ago.

Love you all and peace be with you

Well here we go again. Someone has decided I am not me again. I dont know why this keeps happening maybe its becouse I say what I want here and people dont believe that someone could feel that way I just dont know.

 At least this time faroff did give me a complement and said I wrote like a b average graduate. And considering that just today I got my GED papers in the mail that was kinda nice. I thought my writing was getting better. Now I know it is.

 I dont know why anyone would come on here and purposely decieve people. What would be the purpose  I dont blog about politics very often so that couldnt be it. Well I only have one thing to say  to the people that dont believe I am me  well just dont read my blogs that would solve the problem.

 Now to the friends that I do have here I want to add thanks for being my friend I saw that some of you stuck up for me and that was nice. I dont blog as much as I use to becouse nothing is going on in my life right now . I sit at home probably 23 out of the 24 hours so theres not much to blog about.

  And to the ones that asked about my son  he is doing a lot better but his short term memory is gone. They say it was becouse his brain went without air to long. But he is now taking his diabetes a lot more serious and seems to be a lot happer.I guess if you cant remember what happened the day before there isnt much to stress on. lol

 Well that is all for now and I hope everyone is having a wonderful halloween!!!!

 I read an article today that said the recession is over. I would really like to know who they talked to. Like maybe they talked to all the rich people who are getting richer. They sure didnt talk to me or the millions of people like me who are still unemployed and looking for work that just isnt there anymore.

  The economy is getting so much better that I cant even afford the parts to fix my truck. Yes its broke down again I keep trying to keep it going but this time I have to rebuild the motor.

 I am done reading the news  its just reporting what the rich want to hear  they dont care a bit about the average person and it also lets all of us know that the rich are still getting richerand the poor are still getting even poorer. Will it ever end I doubt it  the rich have to much power and the poor are just to worried about surviving to do anything about it.

  I dream of the day that everybody that makes under say $100,000 a year can afford to go on strike.  Lets see how the rich do doing there own dirty work. I hope I didnt offend anyone with that statement but its how I feel. and yes I have family that would fall in that category that would have to do there own dirty work  but I dont really care.

  I get really tired of hearing them say  how hard it is for them   they didnt get a raise this year or they have to pay for something unexpected and had to put less in there bank accounts. Well at least they had the money.

 OK  I am done crying here  its just getting crazy  I am not use to not working and it is killing me to stay home

Well I hope everyone is having a great day

Well one thing being layedoff has done is give me a lot of time to think. One of the things I have been thinking about is friends that I use to have and wondering what ever happened to them.

  I was sitting here wondering about that becouse today I thought I would call a few friends and do something to get me out of the house. That is when it dawned on me I had noone to call.

I was very upset and started thinking where they all went  I use to have them but couldnt remember what happened. Thats when it hit me that I had been so busy working and getting things around the house done that I didnt have time for them and they all disappeared one by one.

Well with that in mind I started thinking even more  and this is were I am now.  What is really important in life? Is it stuff like a nice house and cars  or is it friends and I discovered that I had made the wrong choices. I should have found time to go fishing or whatever becouse friends are what make life bearable.

Now I know I have a few friends here and its always great to hear from you  but I have lost a few of you even becouse I was to busy to spend the time here. I couldnt spare a few minutes everyday to say hi and let you know how things were going. I hope to change that now but it may be to late for some that I use to talk to .

 But just maybe I will meet new ones and that will help . 

Its kind of funny how you have to stop and look before you find out you messed up  becouse nobody wanted to say anything  they thought they were the only ones that felt that way .

 Well here is to making new freinds and saying hi to all the ones I have been neglecting  and hope you are all having a great day.

Remember you can get by with less money but you cannot get by without friends!!

 Well I just got done reading LisB's wonderfuls blog and it got me thinking ? Everybody was wishing her luck and after the last couple of weeks I dont think luck plays very much attention but what I have found is that prayer works miracles.  My son was suppose to be dyeing we were told we were going to the hospital to pull the plug becouse his brain had went to long without oxegen to survive. A lot of people prayed for him.

  Now I am very glad to report he is still with us and doing very well, he has lost some of his memory and his short term memory is no good at all (he will ask the same ? over and over) but along with a lot of the memories  he also lost a lot of the bad things. we had him and his girlfriend over for dinner the other night and it was the first time in a long time we actually had him laughing it was great to hear. So even though it is a bad situation some good came of it.

 So with that said  LisB I will be praying you get that job  or if not a better one very soon. I am still looking myself but there isnt anything around here right now.  It will get better sometime soon I hope but luckily I am not worried about it . When something comes it will come  until then I will just keep on keeping things going.

 I hope everyone is having a very nice day and remember you have to enjoy today becouse tomarrow may never come.

Well I thought it was a good title. It has been raining and thundering all day.In the house it has been nothing but sunshine,the boy came home from the hospital today and is at his own home.Unfortunatly he dont remember it and has some big problems with memory. We were joking with him about the movie 30 first dates. becouse now he is somewhat like that he remembers everybody and can tell you what has happened today  but cant remember yesterday at all.

  Then there is the bad news but it isnt even that bad now that he is home. I went online to look at jobs in my area and for the first time I can remember  there were none on the job website.The only jobs I could find on there that were even close to what I was doing were over 200 miles away(talk about daily commute) and they didnt pay anywhere near what I was making. So for now it looks like I will be a jobless bum.(hope I didnt offend anyone with that statement but I have to keep joking or I will go nuts)

 Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!! 

Remember life is to short to worry about the small stuff enjoy anything and everything that you can!!!

Well it has been a long time since the last time I blogged here but somethings have happened this week that has me wanting to.

 First I read all my old blogs and have decided I was wrong about people who were on unemployment.  Well I had 3 jobs when I first started blogging here and now I have none. I was layedoff last week and found out that it is very hard to find a job that pays as much as my unemployment So I have decided that I will try to get some things done that I didnt have time for  like get my GED and my drivers liscence. Then maybe try to farther expand my education. But I can finally see why people dont work  before I thought you were just lazy if you didnt.

   The other thing that I found out last week is if it wasnt for medicare I would be financially ruined healthcare is very expensive. My son has been in ICU for a week now and it would be very expensive we are talking if I sold everything I have and every penny I will make  for a few years I still wouldnt be able to pay his bills. That is crazy!! 

 So I keep thinking all this happened becouse I was so  up tight about people that didnt work and insurance that goes with working ( by the wat after Oct. 31 I no longer have insurance) so I had to be showed just what it is like . Now I know and it is not nice.

     Well I hope everybody is having a nice day.

Ok now I know I'm being a pest and I'm sorry. You good poeple here have convinced me single payer is the way to go.

 Now I have a big problem. I don't know what to do to help. I have never been much into politics. And always figured my voice dont really matter much. Now after being here on TPM for a few months.(wow seems longer than that ) I know it does a little anyway. Yesterday after I got the final answer I needeed I wrote my represenative from kansas  senator  Sam brownback Now it supreised me to get a response as quick as I did but it was a form letter so.And all it said  in  nutshell was that he more or less didnt care what we think its what he thinks that counts and he's against single payer. So my question is  what now? I mean is there anything else I can do or what?  I hope there is but dont know and hope you  good and smart people can help me.

Sorry i waited so long to get into political stuff but  better late then never I guess.

 On a different subject . I was also wondering is there a website or something where you an see how the canidates voted on different stuff or do you have to take there word for it? I hope there is becouse most of what these people say around election time is lies to get votes.  Once again I am sorry that Im so stupid about these things. For most of my life I just figured they would do the right thing  but not anymore.

Well I hope everyone is having a nice day.

ok well you convinced me I was wrong yesterday. But unfortunately i thought of something else that kinda bothers me with single payer healthcare. So here it goes, I hope you can convince me Im wrong again.

  Well if we go to single payer  we eliminate the insurance companies from heathcare right? Do we think they will just give up there profits and go on? I dont  i think what they will do is just raise the prices on all the other insurance we all need so bad. Life Insurance, House Insurance, and most of all  Auto Insurance which has we been required to have now.

  The big corporations dont give up there money so easy. and unfortunately they have a lot of tools at there disposal including a lot of congresspeople.

 I hope you can do as good a job of changing my mind today as you did yesterday.

 Hope everyone is having a good day!!!!

I've been reading for awhile here about single payer healthcare and I have had some others hear talk to me about it.

  I hope I dont get myself in trouble here but my opinion (and it is only my opinion) is that it would be a bad thing for most people and a good thing for a few.

  Everybody that works for a living and tries to get by will have a harder time becouse we will be paying for everybodies healthcare.

  The super rich dont pay taxes becouse there cheats that have so many loopholes to get away from paying. The poor that dont work dont pay taxes becouse they dont work. That leaves the rest of us to pay.

 I know we need some kind of reform but i would prefer something that requires you to be working if you are physically able to work.

  I know a lot of people that work very hard and still cant afford insurance. They are the ones I'd like to helpbut there are others that i know that would take advantage of the program and they dont want to work.  My own brother is a good example of that  he is 34 yrs old and hasnt worked more than a yr his whole life.would i like to see him have insurance  yes do I want to pay for it with higher taxes   no way..

 I know this will probably make a lot of you mad but its the way I feel. I know a lot of people and they are not all good people like you. They would run up healthcare cost just to try and get drugs from the Drs. And they are capable of working but figure it is easier to let the rest of us pay there way.

Well I hope everybody is having a nice day.

well here I am again. My last blog got me in a lot of trouble. I said a couple things that were took the wrong way by my better half(who is a very special woman to me). I am writing this one in hopes that I can get out of the dog house ( no air conditioning in the dog house its hot).

 Now it never accured to me that when your living with a woman that it was wrong to call a nother woman very special. I do now . In a way Im glad I was talking to a woman it would have been a little strange if I would have been talking to say dick day becouse I would have called him a special friend. I dont know if that would have had the same effect or not? I think all the people I talk to are special here and around my house.

 next part that got me in trouble was asking for a fishing partner. Well I have one when our scedules work out . She goes fishing with me and we have a nice time she even baits her own hook. How lucky can I be(well I do have to take the fish of her line lol).

 I really didnt think I did anything wrong but like the title of this blog I'm just a stupid man.

 Hope everybody is having a nice day.

well i havent blogged in awhile and was sitting here talking to someone who is very special to me and she mentioned i should, so here it goes.

  I picked this subject becouse if your like me fishing brings back a lot of good memories. I can still remember the first time my step dad took me .

 It was a sunny day in april and we sat at the bank and didnt catch a dang fish all day . It was the first and only time I can remember me and him actually talking.  To this day I think he had it planned that way. The fish were biting but we were always not paying attention.

 Now it has been a long time since I've been fishing. Work gets in the way and life isnt what it use to be. For one I've moved to a different state and what they call lakes here we call ponds back home.

  But I think I'm going to have to go becouse fishing as everyman and most women know is about the only way to trully clean out your mind and forget about problems if only for a few hours.  And I know I need that right about now.

 If I just had a fishing partner.   Anybody game??

 Well here's hoping everybody is having a nice day. And lets all dust off our fishingpoles and reline them  becouse this world needs some clean minds doing the thinking now more than ever.

well i havent blogged for awhile and thought I wouldnt again but here I am anyway.

 There are a lot of things to miss this july 4th, some becouse of moving some becouse of laws that have changed and some becouse of personel changes.

 1] The big family get together. We use to have a lot of people around drinking and watching fireworks. Now I live to faraway to go

 2] Mentioning fireworks they have changed the laws so much that a lot of them cant be set off like bottle rockets and stuff like that. In some places you have to pay for a permit and in others you cant set them off at all. What is the 4th of july without fireworks?

 3] getting drunk and watching fireworks  well that one is gone becouse I dont drink anymore.

Now becouse of this is not to say I wont be celebrating the 4th of july but it sure has changed things a lot. I will have my grandkids over and set off fireworks(for now there mostly legal here)

and have a cookout,  With that said I'd like to hear how are you celebrating this 4th of july?

Hope everyone is having a nice day'

Well its been awhile since I last posted anything, Decided today was a good day to start again.

 I'm back at work after my vacation (boy was it nice) and we're back on overtime. The slowdown didnt last long.

  My question for the day is what are friends? And is it better to never have had any then it is to have them then lose them over a small disagreement?

  I have been here a few months and had many friends but here lately a few of them quit talking to me over a small disagreement and I miss them but dont know what to do about it.

 So I wonder if it would have been better to never have met them then I wouldnt miss them .

Now what I need to know is if this is the right way to think about it or am I wrong?  I know that I have had goodtimes talking to them in chatroom before so Im probably wrong

 I know the friends I've lost in life for other reasons like moving or changing jobs have added something to my life by being my friend. So the same thing must apply here.

 Well thats enough whinning for now. hopefully my next blog will be on a better subject, And to the friends I've lost here believe me when I saw I miss talking to you.

  I hope everyone is having a nice day..

well I was planning on not posting anymore then today I read about the call for a boycott of GM and decided that I needed to say something.

 I have been called a Union hating person. In a way that is true I seriously dont believe the unions represent the workers anymore. Now I could be wrong in fact I probably am but it seems the workers would be a lot more willing to help keep the company going then the unions seem to be.

 As for boycotting GM how un American can you get!! General Motors is the american company. Has everyone forgot the saying years ago  baseball applepie and chevrolet. Now baseball is still american and so is apple pie so we must not forget chevrolet.

I hope everybody will forgive any misspellings and other mistakes in this post. I do try to get it right.

Have a nice day