America

I dont mean this to sound worse than it is. I love this country and I think all my friends know that. I think it's great to have a melting pot of cultures and peoples all together under one country. What I dont like is when I have people that come to my work that don't speak the language or even try. I have customers that come in here and don't speak any english at all. Does any one know how hard it is to rent a machine using hand gestures and pictures. I know people will say well they dont know our language. They live here why dont they learn it? When I go on vacation I try to speak in thier language it's just easier for them and me too. If I lived there I sure as hell would know how to speak thier language or at least have a book so I can butcher or at least attempt to try to make it so that they can understand me. Ask my wife, we went on a cruise and I really tried to speak spanish the best I know how to the people we interacted with becasue it was easier that way. Not only was it fun to be able to communicate with the locals but it was also neat to be able to try and learn thier dialects and differences that I didn't know before. Ok any way that was a soap box.

Motivation?

last night I pedaled up to my WW meeting and actually lost 4.2 lbs. I wish that I could use that as motivation. Its just that I really don't care how much I lose it is so hard to get out and exercises. Right now I am sitting here trying to talk my self into running tonight which wouldn't happen for another five and a half hours. I hope it gets easier. How long does it take to make a habit? People always say that if you can make yourself do it for two weeks straight it starts to be routine. I don't see that happening. In two weeks I expect to still have to talk myself into going. I just don't know if I will ever find running fun. I like weights but have yet to lift one. Maybe if I had a workout partner I would look forward to working out with some one. I guess this is what athletes call low mental toughness. I am going to go but just don't like to think about it.

Work is slow as usual and I even found extra stuff for me to do. Maybe I work to fast. I mean I watch people make their work drag on all day I can't do it that way. Something inside me always make me want to hurry and get everything done so that nothing gets left for tomorrow. It would bother me to do what all these other people do. Really how could you type up something take a five minute drink of a soda and talk for a little while, then get up and grab some papers? It all seems so boring why not get it all done and surf the Internet. Oh that's right the work place watches our Internet usage. That is all so lame. If I get done I think I deserve a little Internet time. not my fault the salesman aren't getting rents. Any way work sucks I wish I was rich or doing something that made a difference. Come on police academy. One year and counting.

Peace

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Bordom

This morning at work was a little busier than normal. At least thats what I thought. I was running around being busy, got done with what I thought was a ton of work and it took me two hours. That sucks I had eight more to go. This place is sucking the life out of me. I am literally sitting here chewing on my beard so that I don't go to sleep. The Phone just rang!!!!! No one on it they hung up, what a let down. I would give you a play by play but I wouldn't be able to type anything. This place is a time vortex. Let me out of here crazy magical time keeper. Lame I know but I have nothing else to talk about.

Well lets focus on tonight. I am going on a 10 mile bike ride. Five each way and the way leads to the dreaded Weight Watchers scale. I feel used by going to that place though. I am paying for a scale, and the people there give you fatty looks while their skinny asses tell you, "you will do better next time". They make me want to smack that smug little "I already went through this" look right off their faces. This is why I have officially withdrawn my membership, but unfortunately when you sign up they give you a month after you cancel. So two or three more meetings, then I am scale free. The bike ride will be fun though, I do like riding my bike. Last night I went for a 1.5 mile run and cut a whole minute off my overall time. I think having my Mp3 player heps me keep a more steady pace. I wonder if they will let me use it on my test doubtful but maybe.

Don't tell my wife but last night she made me watch this movie. It was on of those romantic ones that usually make me sick to watch. The one last night was pretty good. There was this one guy that married this lady and I don't think he really liked her and he had the best one liners. I wish I could understand them better though. It think I missed a lot cause they spoke old English and I couldn't follow them as well. It so cryptic for me, like Spanish.

Have a great day all.

Whats Going on??

I got to work today and started my normal routine. This consists of doing all the filing and mailing that needs done then going on the Internet to check email and read the news before it gets busy. (it never gets busy). So I am reading some stories and notice that there is never any good/positive news. All that our media reports on is tragedy. For me I used to always assume that these things were happening in some far of distant land. Then I moved to Texas. I have noticed that a lot of the really bad things happen here in Texas. I read a real bad one today and the first thing I thought after reading the head line was I bet it was in Texas. Sure enough San Antonio is where it took place. I just sit here and read these things, and hurt for the world. I mean, where are we taking this place? How do people get these ideas? Where and why would it seem like a good idea to hurt people as bad as they do? I would give specifics of the one I am talking about but it is so twisted and just wrong that it makes me sick to think about it. If you have questions you can ask me later. So I read all these terrible things and think this is why I love God and my church. I start thinking about how much I would love to help make this world a better place through my faith. Right as I start thinking about this I read another story about a catholic priest that is making a web site call "Miss Sister 2008". A beauty pageant for NUNS!!!! What kind of mockery is this? Really is this condoned by the Catholic church? Its no wonder non-Christians think that religion is a joke. This priest is quoted saying that "beauty is a gift from God and we shouldn't hide it". These women devote their lives to following God. Isn't that beautiful enough? I would think that this "pageant" is more about glorifying self then God. Isn't that blasphemy? Any who


I had a great weekend. I went camping in the heat and that was fun except for the sweating and fire ants. If you ever live in Texas remember this, the smaller the ant the more it hurts when they bite. Man those things hurt, maybe I am allergic. For real they bite me and I get little blisters. Well have a great day hope every one is well.

BIke Ride

Last night I went for a bike ride around Rowlett. I met Marilyn for a date at Casa Nostra and it was really good. It must be a family owned restaurant because they were all very Italian. One guy would just randomly start singing like old operas in Italian and he was a pretty young guy. The food was really good which always make me a little bias. When we got done I was going to go shopping with Marilyn but looked at the clouds and seeing how it looked like rain and I was on my bike I decided to just head home. I took the long way hoping I wouldn't get caught in the rain but wanted to see what it would be like to ride my bike for fun again. It was nice. I went through some parts that made me think of the river ride in my home town. Oh last night at dinner I heard a lady talking about Grand Junction. Just thought it was neat to hear someone else know where I am from. Its a little city but we are a proud people. Jk. Any way the bike ride was nice then I sat outside in the cool weather until it started raining. It was such a relaxing evening. we watched Semi Pro again for me first time for Marilyn. That movie is so funny. I really enjoyed it.

After the movie Marilyn had me play some new songs on my guitar. Well I say play but mean hobble through it. Its fun though. I want to learn these songs so when I go camping with my future kids I can bring my guitar and play song by the fire. Man that sounds fun. Overall I had a great day with my work out plan and my wife. I like those days. :)

Day One!

Last night I did my first evaluation day. My plan is to once a week do the physical agility test that I will have to pass to get the job as a police officer. I was right about where I thought I was overall. I was 2 seconds over the sprint time and 7 minutes over the 1.5 mile run. So I have some work to do. Also I have to be able to do 25 push ups and I am about 12 on those and I have to be able to do 29 sit ups in a minute and I suck at those. I think after I lose weight though the vertical leap wont seem so impossible. It has to be 19 inches and I think I could get six maybe. So I know what I need to work on and am willing to get it done. While my times sucked I had a personal achievement. I ran 1.5 miles without stopping to rest. I thought I was going to die but now that I have done it it really helps my mental toughness. Now I just cant let myself slack. Watch out Rowlett here comes officer Russell.

Happy, Sad Rain

Today is Monday and what a lame Monday it is. Its Raining which is good and bad all at once. good cause its not as hot now and we needed rain. Bad cause its the first day of my new getting in shape life. I now get to run in the rain. Maybe if I think happy thoughts it wont suck as bad. I looked up all that things I have to be able to do to get into the police academy and am going to try to go today and get all my base stats to track my progress. That is if I can find a 1/4 mile track. Maybe Levi knows. He does have "Jesus on the Main line." thanks Marilyn. It doesn't make since I just wanted to use it.

I at lunch with Brad today at this bomb German restaurant it was so good. I love a good braut. I love Kraut even more though. I guess that's an OK addiction to have. I love pickled cabbage and i don't care who knows it. And yes, my wife knows of my twisted feelings for sour kraut.

The weekend was short and I am tired. The Olympics are on and I cant stop watching. I wish competitive eating was an Olympic sport wouldn't that be fun to watch? GO USA!!!

New Focus

You know how people always say you should do what your passionate about? Well right now I am NOT!!! doing that. When I was in college I worked night shift at a 7-11. I used to have the night shift police come in every night and shoot the shit with me. I started asking about it and was fascinated with it. I started looking into it and even got the application to an academy. Then life happened and it got put on the back burner. Now that I have to get up everyday and sit at this desk I have started thinking if I could do this forever. I don't think I can. I mean there is room for advancement but do I really want to be in heavy equipment rental forever? Behind a desk? The answer to that is, if I have too. I don't want to be here forever but will do what I have to to pay the bills. OK, I did all that back story to say that I am officially trying to get in shape to get into the Rowlett police force. I have full support of my wife and am going for it.. (duh!, man in uniform of course shes OK with it.) jk If there is anyone that needs a work out partner let me know.

Fantasy Rock Ball

This weekend was full of excitement and wonderment. It was so busy I feel like I got less sleep over the weekend than I did during the week. Friday night I went to my leagues live fantasy draft party at Jono's house. It was a ton of fun. most of the guys that aren't really into it got bored with the draft about round 10 but I loved it. I even went home and signed up for another league. This is the first thing I have been really excited about. Usually I like things and look into it get bored and quite. This is one of the first things I really want to learn all about. After I looked at it I see all my teams weak points and cant figure out how I will win. After the draft I lost 10 bucks in poker which sucked but I made it to the last three. The two that beat me split the pot like girls but what ever. I might have done it too, leave with more than you came with; every ones a winner. After poker came the newest love in my life, "ROCK BAND". If you haven't played this game you need to. It was Crazy fun. I sang at first and it was so cool. Does any one remember the Atari? I remember thinking how cool that was and now we have video games that can tel if your singing on key or not. We continued rocking into the wee hours of the morning. I got home at 4:00 am that's a late night.

Saturday we had a church sponsored movie night in the park. It was fun. We had a bunch of families that came out and watched the movie. We are doing it again next week hopefully the wind wont be there again. We only had it break once and got it fixed quickly so that it wasn't a big deal.

Sunday was church. It was good. the sound was kinda funky which is my fault I don't know what was going on with it. I think it was a bad pedal or something. I hope next week it goes smoother so we can get started sooner and get the bugs worked out. After church we went to lunch and then drove out to Jono's for more ROCK BAND. This was a great time and also turned out to benefit me cause now my wife is addicted to the game. Well maybe not addicted but she likes it enough to maybe help me get one. I think we are saving up for guitar hero 4 though. I wonder if I can get sponsored by them and if I talk about them enough I can get paid for it. From there we went over to the Sprangs to watch GSP beat the tar out of a guy with the best chin I have ever seen. After that I went home and watched the USA pull out a crazy upset in the 400m men relay in the Olympics. IT was awesome. Eat it FRANCE!!!!

From this long weekend I realized I need to spend more time with my wife. I was around her but not really with her. I need to devote as much time to my wife as I do all my "extra" activities. It's only fair and I think it would be a lot more fun in the house if we weren't always playing catch up on what we have been up too. I hope she feels the same way and isn't sick of me.

Goober

Last night I took my wife on a date. It started out a little rocky cause I was joking around a little too much. Some times she doesn't like that. Who would have thought that? We went to this little Italian restaurant and it was so good. The food was good the service was good. Their bread is great and they bring you like a plate of 10 rolls at a time. MMM so buttery and good. Any way we ate and talked and really had a good time. Then we drove home while Marilyn rubbed her dinner baby. (aka. full stomach) After we got home and let out the kids to go potty ( we have dogs not actual babies) she got the urge to finish up the bathroom I started painting this week. So we got all of it painted but I kinda had some mishaps with the roller hitting the ceiling. So I have to paint the ceiling again anyway when we redo the trim. We had a good night none the less. As we were painting Marilyn was either on the toilet or ladder and lost her balance and smooth stuck her back on wet paint. We were painting in old clothes and Marilyn happened to be a tank top and panties so she had grey paint on one butt cheek her arms and her hair shes such a cute little goober. I got it on my foot. Not sure how but it was on the bottom of my foot. Funny how that works.

Last night when I was sleeping I was having this crazy dream. I was a Russian mail order husband working at a suit rental place with my crazy dream wife. My phone in real life's battery was dying and kept making a chirping noise. Now I took mostly psychology in my college stint and it is crazy what your brain would do. Every time my low battery notification would chirp in my dream my brain made that the ringer for the door. So in my dream the chirp meant someone else came in to rent a suit. That's CRAZY because my brain played along with it..

This morning my boss heard on the radio about a lady pressing charges against her husband because she woke up to him copulating with her. This was interesting to me cause in college in psychology you are required to "volunteer" for laboratories. One of the ones I ended up doing was all about the perception of forced intercourse. The result they gathered is that if you are married the public makes excuses for rape being OK. What really is the difference between a man forcing a woman into it and a husband forcing a wife into it? Nothing but a ring. This is all by the way my opinion, but I feel that you don't marry a woman and sex becomes a duty its a privilage and something special that is meant to be shared. Marriage is about love and if your doing that you don't really love or respect you partner. Any way thought that was intresting and interested to see what others think.

Another Universe

Friday I took off work to go and get my drivers license. It was a very big awaken er. This place is the most awful place in the world. Not only did I not get my license but I also found out that I have to pay more money to get it again. This sucks, but isn't even the worst thing that happened. When I got there the second time after having to go home to get two more Ids for a total of four that you have to have in order to change an out of state license over to Texas I see that that lady in front of me is about 90 and cant hardly stand. I figured that she was there to renew an Id or something NOT!!!! a drivers license. Oh boy was I wrong. As her turn comes up she wheels her way to the counter with her rusted walker and tells the lady she needs to renew her license. She managed to fill all the paper work out in a record time of ten minutes while I stand in line waiting for her to finish. Next is the eye exam. I have never been so scared for my life. She was told to read the Fourth line. She rambles off some numbers and the lady behind the counter asks "what line are you reading?"

"Line four of course." states the old lady
" You got none correct can you try again?" the teller asks.
"Well its kinda fuzzy let me adjust my glasses." the lady says and rambles off some more random numbers.
"Are you sure your reading line four? Your not getting any number right." The lady says
Of course I am reading line four that's what you asked me to read." The old lady says a little irritated now.

"Can you try to read line three?" she asks.

This goes on all the way to line one let me say that again LINE 1! its like the big E on eye charts. the Numbers a huge. which the old lady didn't get a single number right. the lady behind the counter then explained that she is legally blind and needs to go see a doctor to get new glasses. The old lady looks her in the face and says

"I see just fine when I am driving I don't need new glasses."

She leaves and smooth gets in her car and drives off. I was terrified. Needless to say I am not looking forward to my next visit.

The weekend was fun. "Fusion" the band I help run sound for had a little teen concert and it was pretty cool to see all the teens react to the band in a cool way. My friend Brad rocked so hard on the bass on this one song I actually had to stop my self from throwing up the horns in church. The drummer in fusion is like a 15 year old prodigy. Hes going to be good. We also had our first church service in the theater and the sound in there is a MILLION times better than in the old church. I gave my self goose bumps with how awesome the band sounded. Not to toot my own horn or anything. It went really smoothly and I think this will help our church grow and reach some people we may not have been able to reach because of location and timing.