Shit!

Yeah... I know that is not really an appropriate title for a journal entry. But I really don't give a shit. No... I don't. I am just feeling a little lethargic. Ups and downs always. I mean the minute I think I, my family, my country is making a giant step forward... I am slapped in the face and I feel like I just fell off the cliff!

Don't Ask Don't Tell was repealed today... Fuck yeah! End of discrimination in one form and then the DREAM Act is defeated for kids that were brought to this country when they were two years old and are treated like they are fucking aliens from another planet. "Yeah... fuck those guys... send them back."

Nice... great fucking attitude. Maybe we should send your old wrinkled Senator ass back to Ireland, England, Germany or wherever the fuck your relatives came from... you hypocritical piece of old man shit! Like you are so much more deserving of this country then the guy from Mexico that actually lived on this continent for a whole hell of a lot longer than your ancestry! You fucking hypocrite.

Ol man MC Cain... To think at one point I actually admired this man. This guy has lost his soul! Good lord man... how do you look at yourself in the mirror? You used to be an advocate for the disadvantaged now you would sell your mother for a vote!

It just gets so hard to see the good anymore! I need to focus on the good. Becuase in actuality the good really does outweigh the bad! I just focus too narrowly like a laser on the bad. It takes over my sub conscious and I put too much emphasis on the bad! Although an ounce of bad does pretty much weigh 20 lbs of good.

I mean good should just be a given... and when it is not... we can't help but focus on that.. right?

Or is it just me? Am I the only nut job that gives a shit? WTF?

"A Night Like This" - The Cure

Say goodbye on a night like this
If it's the last thing we ever do
You never looked as lost as this
Sometimes it doesn't even look like you
It goes dark
It goes darker still
Please stay
But I watch you like I'm made of stone
As you walk away

Man I used to play the hell out of this song back in high school! I love the Cure!  Yeah... I really love the Cure! Their words had so much meaning... deep meaning for me back then. When I hear them now I am brought back to my days of youth and young love...

A great deal of our youth is spent in crazy, passionate love right? That love that hurts so bad it hurts to move sometimes. Yeah, we were either in love, yearning for love or writhing in pain from broken love.

Emotions so penetrating and raw, they made us grow up so fast. The Cure followed me all the way through High School and College. It followed my highs and lows in love and relationships.

As I grew older I stopped listening to The Cure for some reason. Perhaps I could draw some "pseudo-meaningful" reason for that. Or perhaps, I just started listening to other music. Who knows!

YouTube has become my new friend in drawing me back into older music I hadn't listened to in a long time. Kick back, have a few beers and throw on The Cure or Depeche Mode and I can teleport back to those youthful days.... Friday night football games, dances in the gym, rallies in the auditorium, walking down the hall and hoping to get a glimpse of that one girl....

or in the words of Robert Smith:

Say hello on a day like today
Say it everytime you move
The way that you look at me now
Makes me wish I was you
It goes deep
It goes deeper still
This touch
And the smile and the shake of your head

I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night

Can't stand here like this anymore

For always and ever is always for you

I want it to be perfect

Like before

I want to change it all

I want to change

Thanksgiving in Perspective

I suppose you could say I am thankful for the courage of a small few that decided to leave all life that they ever knew.... hopped on a small wooden ship and headed west. I mean come on... that takes balls!

I suppose I could show even more respect for the Paleo-Indians who came here over 12,000 years ago.... showing even greater courage as they migrated over the land bridge from Eurasia and spread out all over North, Central and South America.

I suppose we should all give thanks that the latter group decided to help out the former group when they were on the cusp of extinction. We should also realize that "but for" that union we would not all now be living and "flowering in this generation... triumphantly." O.K. the last few words were actually Bob Marley.

Always give credit where credit is due!

Yes... our Native American brethren shared their food with us during that cold, severe winter. They harbored us. They embraced us. They allowed us to live in their world.

When our politicians espouse their philosophies on immigration.... Let's at least try to keep the true historical record in perspective.

Above all else, there are no borders in humanity... there are only families helping other families and protecting them in their time of need. There are only individuals protecting and giving sustenance and warmth to courageous strangers that have arrived on wooden ships.... on the shores of hope.

Stop Fucking us Over

Listening to a little Bob Dylan: 


Oh yeah brother. 

The "Times are a-Changin"

SO PROPHETIC!  

Today we live on the cusp of GIANT change! 

Are we not now moving with blinding speed into a society that will offer true justice and equality to all? 


Is it not now the time to take back our society? 
Can we not now scream the following in unison????

No longer will we sit back and be passive. 

No longer will we sit back and accept inequality.

No longer will we accept the status-quo. 

No longer will we be content with injustices. 

No longer will we be guided by the charlatans who prosper and grow by our ignorance.

No longer will we be misled by the politicians that deceive us into their web of trickery and deception only to prosper themselves and leave us to pay the bills!

NO NOT NOW!  


Now is the time for the masses to be heard! It is time for all the people of this country to awake and find clarity in our message. 

It is time for us to unite as one and say... "diplomatically": Stop Fucking us Over! Stop allowing this rigged system to prosper. Let's unite! We all want the same thing. Let's stop letting them divide us! Let's unite and take control of this bullshit! 


LET'S VOTE AS ONE IN 2012!

Well perhaps Dylan can say it a little more diplomatically!   

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

-Bob Dylan

Cobwebs, Cleaning, Advertising and the Net...

Such bold and fast movements in our society these days. It used to be that, as a company, you worked hard... put out a good product, placed an ad in the Yellow Pages and then managed your company.

In today's fast paced technological society; we are now tasked with not only working hard, putting out a good product, placing ads in multiple sources of media including print, and the internet. However, now as an added bonus we have the pleasure to work almost full time working on the internet ads.

We no longer have the Yellow Page companies to design the perfect ad. We no longer have these advertising company's reps as advocates for our business. No, we must now work constantly on internet ads that change from day to day and to whom large internet company's only care in the world is how many "clicks" my company generates.

They no longer truly care in my company progressing and prospering so that I might grow and purchase a bigger Yellow Page ad next year. No, the sole concern is how much I am willing to pay for the next person to click on my website and possibly call to make an appointment.

Meanwhile, as a company that prides itself on consistency and quality in the cleaning business, I am still tasked with letting my crews know to clean out the cobwebs in the corners of the rooms when they perform their General Cleaning Services. Reminding them to hit the light switch plates or areas that might not be noticed.

Add to these multifaceted problems we now must deal with the occasional dissatisfied customer whose sole desire is to spew venom about your company all over the internet.  The fact that that your company cleans hundreds of homes a week to satisfied customers takes a backseat to the negative comments on the internet of the one person that has never had their home professionally cleaned in their life. The one customer whose expectations are completely out of the realm of sanity. The customer that expects miracle workers to come into their home which hasn't been cleaned in years and within one hour perform that miracle. Then, when that miracle is not completed within the one hour time frame that same person berates you all over the internet!

Meanwhile, the other 100's of satisfied customer's, don't ever even fathom to write a positive review for you  over the internet because they are happy! AHHHHH..... At times, this can be disheartening!

However, I don't let all the negativity bring me down. I fight on. I love my employees. I love my company. I take pride in the work we perform. I know that our company serves a noble purpose. I know that so many people enjoy a sense of calm and positivity from the work that we perform. I know that I am a fighter and I will change and adapt and move forward. I know that our company blows away the competition. I know that we work our butts off and I know that in the end....

Our strengths overwhelmingly outweigh our flaws!  And not to sound too sappy, but as I stated previously...our cause is noble.

That's Entertainment!

"Ramble on"... Yeah... nice... "ramble on." Zeppelin right? That song rocks! Or we could always go w the Circle Jerks... "I was so wasted!" HA HA HA HA!!!

Nice... so I have reached the Psalms and soon the Proverbs on my Bible Journey.

Nice... finally getting away from the history and the right side brain work... now delving into some poetry... a little easier reading... let the left side flow.

Not sure I am in total agreement with the whole left side, right side view. I mean, you are using your whole brain... maybe it has more to do with using your brain and your heart (soul??) in unison.

I mean, we are talking about evaluating your existence in this world. I mean... yeah, it is great to meander around in this world... acquiring wealth, building bigger nests and the like... but when you get right down to it... there has to be some higher meaning... unless you live in some freaking abnormal cocoon...

Let's get real! What is life? What is our purpose? Where are we going? If anywhere? Can we move forward on a higher plane? Can we somehow find an intersecting point from the life we lead and this earthly plane into a more metaphysical higher plane?  And if so, can we recognize that point and diverge our path to continue on to that higher plateau?

I would think that these matters are obviously of much more significance than all the bullshit that we must observe on a day to day basis.

Did our ancestors get closer to that plateau than us? The Egyptians? The Sumerians? The Mayans? Perhaps they did attain that level... perhaps they progressed into that new plane.

Can our society reach that level?  I think we are potentially on the precipice of a significant movement towards that end goal. However, I also feel that we are also teetering on the edge of falling into an abyss.; Well not completely the abyss of "the end." Yet... just a serious step backwards from where we need to go.

However, I do see a strong sense of positivity and strength emerging to guide us forward... We just need the people in the middle to think rationally and sensibly and push us "with an omnipotent storm" forward to keep us on the path!

Or we could always follow in the steps of the Jam:

Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearses in a nearby yard
Watching the telly and thinking 'bout your holidays'

Now That's Entertainment....

-The Jam

CASE CLOSED ASSHOLE

Oh man... negativity be gone. Ever dealt with a person who is completely insane? Or in my situation, a tenant that is completely insane? You try to be a good guy and fix a toilet and the next thing you know you are being accused of subjecting the tenant to mold, asbestos, lead and any other invention they can find on the internet? 

Have you ever walked into a person's home to evaluate a problem.... leave to buy a new toilet to help out the tenant and return with your workers and then be accused of assaulting "said" insane tenant that you never touched and then being "citizen's arrested"? 

Have you ever had to take a lunatic to court to get them out of your property since they refused to pay any rent and then have to hire an attorney costing thousands of dollars and then having to defend yourself that your house never had any mold, asbestos or lead and that the "said" insane person is just working the system?

Have you ever showed up prepared to battle your opponent on all the merits of truth and the knowledge of right overcoming wrong... and then to have your opponent show up and basically throw in the towel and turn over the keys to your property and say they have moved out?

Have you ever had to witness the same "insane" person beg the court to waive court fees and the judge allowing it?

Have you ever had to watch that same "insane" piece of shit walk out of the court completely unscathed... as you have just lost thousands upon thousands of dollars defending yourself for nothing....?

Well, Case Closed on getting Mr. Insanity out of my house!

However, Case open on my next venture of dragging Mr. Nuts back into court to get a judgment for all I am out! Oh and don't think I have forgot my false "citizen's arrest".... oh yeah that's gonna cost said "insane" asshole a LOT of money.