As I watch the ads for the uncoming presidential election I hear the candidates talk about the experience they will being to the office. More or less I hear one of them saying the other doesn’t have any experience for the job.
I think about how they use the term experience I think about my years in the US Navy Reserve. My father served in the US Army for 20 years. That means I grew up learning about the military from my father. I also spent a lot of time on military bases going to the base exchange with the family. Also as a life long history buff I spent a lot of time studying all the wars America has been in and others throughout history. You would think after being raised by a military father and being a history buff I would be an expert soldier, Wrong. I found out after serving that all that didn’t prepare me in any way. My experience came from being a sailor.
My advice is when you vote next month don’t listen to the argument of experience. Vote for the candidate that you feel is smart enough for the job and will make your life better.
During the Memorial Day weekend I lost my AC. It turned out to be a burned out compressor fan which isn’t fatal but does render your AC useless. Like most people out there I spend a few hundred dollars getting it fixed. The problem is that with the economy in it’s current state the repair is higher than it would have been 18 months ago. All business are having to charge more to keep there doors open. It’s bad for me is that in this economy I don’t have the funds I used to have. I am financially staple but if I didn’t have credit lines this would have at least stung a little.
The point of this post is that be prepared to pay more right now than you did before to have anything fixed. Also to secure a backup fund to pay for such repairs. You never know when things will fail and also how long the current situation is going to last. Some think that things won’t get much worse and it will turn around. I think it’s possible but we won’t know until it happens.
Do what you have to do to survive the day. Things will get better. In my case I am working hard to move into a IT job with a large company. This maybe a bad year to do it but I am at that point and even though it will take longer it’s necessary.
Yesterday the teaser trailer for Ironsky was released. It is the second full length production from the makers of Starwreck. It is about the Nazi landing on the moon in 1945 an establishing a base. In 2018 they return to earth. I am a fan of the movie Starwreck which was released on the internet in 2006. Both movies are made by Energia production in Finland. I am posting the trailer below.
One thing that I have noticed these days is an obsession with the internet. My life and most others seems to be in some way connected to it. Social sites like Myspace and online games like World of Warcraft keep us in front of our computers. We keep in contact with others as well as make friends online. One thing that I take seriously is time I spend away from my computer. I like to go outside and exercise, enjoy the fresh air, and to socialize with my friends in the real world. I think there is always the risk of getting lost in the virtual world. Below is a video that inspired this post. It’s from a video blogger called Mememolly. I thought it was funny and also something that is also true.
I wrote at the beginning of the year a blog entry about my plans for 2008. Due to the crash this post was lot but now I am writing it again with new thoughts. My life this year is going to be about a lot of change in my life. By the end of the year my life will be a lot different than it is now and hopefully a lot better. I am not saying what I am up to but the ones who know me the most know what they are.
The thing that is a concern is that I am going to be taking a certain amount of risk with the changes in my life. My thought that doing nothing is the greater risk. If you want to get somewhere in life taking risk is part of it. This is what I am going to have to remember in the days ahead.
As you can see there are no posts past December 2007. I was doing some work on the site, adding another site and corrupted this one. I ended up deleting everything and reloading wordpress. The bad thing is that I didn’t have any of my 2008 posted backed up. There were only three so no big loss and I will be redoing them soon.
When I say the environmental movement isn’t new I am meaning we have known for a long time that the pollution we are causing can damage our world. I came across the Crying Indian commercials on YouTube recently. These are commercials made in the 1970’s showing industrial pollution and littering. The commercials always end with the Indian who is walking around in the commercials with a tear in his eye. The commercials were part of the Keep America Beautiful organization which is still around today. It’s sad that we have learned nothing in the 30 years since the commercials aired. We could have been working to bring change instead of being worried now since our world is starting to come apart from all the damage we have caused. I am putting one of the commercials below. I am going to close this post with the same words as the commercial. “People start pollution, People can stop it.”
For the first time in over a year I am on vacation. A full week to relax and to do some things that are important to me. I am looking forward to catching up with some old friends and to get a tan while I still can.
As I work towards the future so does the rest of the world. I recently came across a documentary that talked about our return to the moon. The ship that will take us back to the moon is called the Orion. It will incorporate modern technology but does resemble the Apollocapsules of old. This is what is going to replace the space shuttles which will be retired in 2010.
