Grandaughter's Birthday My Opinion

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I was sitting next to my granddaughter’s great grandfather at her birthday party. (This pic is to cute… she’s actually on a pony.)

My Achillies Heel

My Achillies Heel

I believe he’s close to 80 years of age and  he’s having a few health issues.  He turns to me and basically says, “This is all the enjoyment I get,  sitting here watching her on the pony.”  He really can’t do anything else.  To me, this was sad,  it also was telling me, this is your future. We get old, it’s a fact, not much we can do about it.  I’m sure he gets pleasure knowing his family will go on, and that he had a part in creating this. But is it enough?  Not for me, I want more out of life. I’ve got about 30 years left if I’m lucky.  If this isn’t motivation I don’t know what is.  As you get older the years do go by faster, as they say, “Time is wasted on the young.”  Then there’s always “Make hay while the sun shines.”  For those of you wanting to make a difference I salute you and I am in your ranks and this old man needs to turn his life around. Wish me luck on my journey!

President Obama and "Fly Gate"

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Fly (fli) a dipterous, or two-winged, insect that is often the vector of organisms causing disease.

I don’t know about you, but where does PETA who is now complaining about the fly incident get off by considering a fly an animal? This incident shall now be so named by me “Fly Gate”

In case you weren’t aware our President Obama is quite skilled in killing flies. One was bothering him during a recent taping of an interview for one of the networks. President Obama has quite the reflexes. Its not easy to kill or catch one of those buggers without a fly swatter.

But I’m impressed, and I will support him in his efforts to eliminate this pest (see description above).

Now the Buddhists believe that this fly could be a re- incarnated person. I’m sorry but if I come back as a fly someone please take me to the president so I can be killed right away and try and get reincarnation right and come back as something better! How about Donald Trump’s son? Or some rich sheiks son or Bill Gates grandson you get the idea where I’m going with this.

As far as I’m concerned keep practicing President Obama and maybe this can become a national sport or competition? Keep up the good work!

My Granddaughter

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As we live our lives, begin our careers, raise a family and deal with what life hands us, I don’t think we appreciate children as much as we do when we get older. In the midst of our life as we are “growing  up,” our lives are hectic,  full of activities running from here to there.  We are busy trying to raise our kids, take them to school, take them to soccer practice, to friends’  houses, parties, the mall,  whatever.  It’s hard to get a moment to sit back and be in amazement about your own kids and what you created,  because of the lives that we lead. So, along comes my first grandchild and I absolutely melt. Now, I love my son and I’m proud of him, but she comes first in my life. I guess it’s survival of the species.

I look at her and I just about die, she is so cute.  I love to watch her and see how she reacts to everything, and to me of course as I tend to make myself into a total fool in front of her.  I’ll do anything to hear her laugh.  I get to see her every few weeks.  Sometimes it’s only for five minutes and that’s fine, I get my “fix,” I know she’s ok and everything is right with the world.

Now, some of you may be two steps ahead of me and you are thinking , just wait they grow up and you know what they become… “Teenagers from hell.”

Yes I know, but who knows if I’ll live that long and even if I do this is the punishment my son and all our sons and daughters get for being “teenagers from hell” for us. That’s right, now he has to deal with it and I think its then that they actually begin to appreciate their parents and what we went through with them and they wonder how we did it!

Either way I’m going to try and stay focused and not think too far ahead and just enjoy her and love her and tease her and tickle her till my heart explodes.

As we approach her second birthday I want to thank you Chris and Carly for giving me the greatest present anyone has ever given me.

I Have A Solution

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A while back I remember seeing on ABC’s 20/20 or CBS’s 60 minutes a new weapon that the military has developed. It was a truck with a large board, like a 4x 8 on top of it. Of course, it was painted Army Green. This weapon was basically as I understand it, a giant microwave. They aim it at people, let’s say a couple of hundred yards away, and when they push the start button, just like your home microwave it cooks the water molecules within your body. Now on this demonstration, they had to align the truck facing the “volunteers” to heat them up. After a few seconds, the “volunteers would turn and run away to get out of the sightline of the microwave. Their bodies would heat up and they couldn’t stand it any longer. This isn’t a killing machine, its just be a way to disperse people.

The problem with this is to try and get our enemies to stand still long enough to be zapped! I think there’s some flawed thinking here on the use of this equipment? Since when do our enemies standstill? In Afganistan there hiding behind rocks and in caves etc.

I’m a marketing guy and I don’t think they had a good focus group for the planning of this product! They obviously missed the boat. To me its pretty obvious what they should do to make this a more effective product. In fact, I can guarantee a return on their initial investment pretty quickly.

They need to make it smaller. A handheld device would be great but even two feet by eighteen inches high would be just about right. You see I want to mount it on my car. I’m tired of the bastard tailgaters on the highway. I’m already going 65 miles an hour and I’m in the left lane I have nowhere to go as I’m blocked on the right lane and there’s a guy in front of me but this guy behind me thinks I can get out of his way! I just want to zap him to tell him to back off. I don’t want to kill him ( well maybe?) I just want a cop to see him, I just want to prevent an accident! Just one little zap, instead of a little warning he gets a little “WARMING.” I can see the commercial now with Billy Mays the commercial pitchman showing how it works! We will sell millions of them. “Hi, Billy Mays Here… Tired of People on your Ass? Well, have we got the product for you.” I’m hung up on one part though when he says “But wait there’s more…” What could we add? If you think of it let me know. We could even get them installed at the factory of the “Big 3.” (If they are the Big 3 anymore?) You know this could be useful in many situations just think about it. I think I’m going to give Obama a call I think I have a solution to some of his budget concerns. I wonder what other products they came up with that with a little twist would be perfect for mass production.

My Life My Opinion!

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As I get older, it seems I have become less tolerant of many things.  It’s as if a switch was turned on when you hit 50 years of age that you have no control over.  As an example, how in the hell did it suddenly become OK for me to listen to elevator music in my car?  I just recently found this local station that plays old music like from the 40’s and also newer stuff that we would call “Muzak.”  I guess my days have become more and more hetic…phones ringing, constant flow of people, traffic, the thump thump thump from the car next to me.  Thumping the living daylights out of anyone that gets within 100 feet of it with its blaring thumping base speakers.  Hell, I didn’t even put the quarters in the machine and I got a free massage!

I guess “quiet / peaceful” is hard to come by these days if you live anywhere near a big city.  My generation of “Baby Boomers” kept asking for more more more, faster and faster and we got it.  Now that we got it, I want to get rid of it! How many of you feel the same way?  Maybe that’1s why some people get summer cabins/cottages to get away to.  I’ve been to a few of these “Summer Cabins,” they have their Direct TV, they have their internet, they have all the appliances.  All they are escaping to, is a view with all the noise!

I think I’m going to start a company to teach people how to disconnect.  I think it will be a booming business for all the “Baby Boomers.”