And Some More Stress

When I say that life has been full of constant stress for a very long time, believe me.

This one turned out alright, all things considered. If you can believe it, he walked away.

He was driving on a road that has a nasty curve at the bottom of a real steep hill, when his throttle stuck. He managed to make it through the curve, almost. There's a flat spot and a second part of the curve. At that point he fell off the road and over-corrected, which might have saved his life. At that point, it dug in and he barrel rolled at least 3 times. No time to turn the engine off, unfortunately. Going down that hill in neutral, you can hit 80+mph by the bottom. You have to be on the brakes the entire time.

Luckily, he rolled into the middle of the road instead of into the 60 foot ravine on the other side of the road. That would have been bad.

He's a very lucky boy and we are very thankful that it wasn't worse. He was able to walk away and only had minor scrapes and bumps to show for it. He wasn't decapitated by the axe floating around in the back of it, nor was he hit by the spare battery he had in it. He managed to recover most of his gear, including his Tough Book, which true to it's advertising is fully rugged.

Looks like the engine and tranny survived, as well, so he'll be able to pull those and put them into the truck that's sitting right behind his truck.

There's a lot of blessings from this tragedy, the biggest of which was that he walked away. I am, however, just bone weary and numb. They say God doesn't give ya more than you can bear, but a lot of days, I'm feeling a lot like Job. I don't know how much more I can take. I'm ready for some fun instead of all this crap.

Comments About The Next Presidential Candidate

I believe the American People are getting wiser. I hope so anyway, and I'm sure that there are those that would beg to differ, and that's ok, too.

Here's the thing. Any candidate for the Presidency must raise a shitload of money in order to get the job. That's just a fact.

Another fact is that the candidate owes these people for contributing enough to get him or her elected.

What I would like is a list of donors from each candidate. I think that would actually be a better way to tell who to vote for.

Those are the people that the potential President is going to be working for. You cannot accumulate that much money and not owe somebody. I'd just like to know who they owe.

Seriously, this whole shindig is getting damned ridiculous.

None of the potential candidates out there has a clue about you or me. None of them has had to worry about money in their lives. Not once. None of them has ever had to decide between food or electricity.

These people don't even think twice about spending taking your money and then spending it on something else entirely. It matters not to them how you are going to come up with the money for this free health care. It matters not to them that the price of food has doubled in the last year.

These people that we are about to elect..no matter who they are...are so out of touch with the American People, that they might as well be in another galaxy altogether.

Somebody in the chain is greedy, that much I know, as well. Why does it cost so much for the candidates to have their debates on television. In this day and age, that stuff should be way cheaper. But it's not.

That's not to say you shouldn't vote. You should, by all means. I just don't expect it to make a real difference for a few more years. We have to keep voting for new folks during the mid term elections, and eventually we'll weed out all the old faces.

Clueless People

Clueless idiots, I mean, people, just piss me off sometimes.

Mostly because the words I would use to give them a clue would hurt their feelings worse than what they did to hurt mine.

Everybody knows that you never, ever, ever openly talk to the ex-wife in public hearing of the new wife, right? Especially not the Senior Chief's ex-wife.

We have one particular relative who just for some reason wants to be all disgustingly nice to the ex-wife...on Facebook.

So, Army boy just got back to the states and managed to make it to Texas for a family reunion, which was cool.

But here's this relative posting that he looks good, and he needs to improve his communication skills. AND that he can't wait to visit her (the ex-wife).

What? Get the hell out. First of all, I take extreme offense at the fact that she insulted him trying to be nice to someone who, from all accounts that I've heard, wasn't very nice to her.

Second of all, who is she to volunteer him to visit anyone? Ok, so we did kind of promise he might be able to go down to Pensacola to hang with his best friend...but that's way different.

Seriously though, couldn't she have wrote all that stuff in a private communication? And who the hell is she to say he needs to communicate better? I don't have too much of a problem with his communications skills and I RAISED HIM..not the one who was getting her ass kissed.

I just don't get it. The ex-wife doesn't have any claim to him as far as I'm concerned.

Not only was she a shitty mother...she never did anything to help raise them in any kind of way. All she did was make things harder and let me tell ya, if she'd have been a man, she'd have been in jail for not paying child support. It kind of tells ya what a shitty mother is that the Senior Chief got custody in that day and age.

I am excited to see him at the end of the month, though. He looks thin and could use some fattening up. God knows he won't get that at the ex-wife's ...not only can't she cook, but she flat out refused to cook.

Like I said, ignorant people just piss me off and I totally don't understand why the attempt is even being made to speak to her, let alone nice and promising her stuff that probably won't happen. Well, he might visit...for a day. Two weeks he'll be HOME though.

So there.