So You're Saying There's a Chance

My house lead at the house whereat I previously stayed (before moving back to my childhood house) agreed to start driving me to and helping me at some speed dating events. 

After so long  in hospitals, returning to high school, completing college, finishing business school, it's high time I get on with life, and start looking to build a family. I think I'm ready, willing, and able. Just need to find some appropriate women to woo.

If Mark cannot get to the gym, then by all means being the gym to Mark

Just ordered a crunchboard from Amazon, that and there dumbbells shall allow me to work my complete routine. 

ZOOMED with my College Brother again this Evening

We had a ZOOM chat, me and my buddy who moved back to Colorado after graduation.

Real ID

 I undertook the ess of getting an ID, such that I can now traverse the skies by airplane.

Don't Fence me in

After some 6 months, today I finally broke down and got a haircut.  'Twas getting kind of overgrown and later in the day I stopped by the MVD and made preparations to get my traveling ID, and i did not wish to look homeless for my ID.

I do not wish to be trapped and not able to make my egress by airplane, should things get hairy. That's why I took steps to get a traveling ID. I shall still hang on to my old ID. The new ID cost me $50 and is only good for 8 years. My old ID has neither drawback, but I couldn't travel without the new ID.  Hobson's choices. 

Blessed are the Peacemakers #PeaceintheMiddleElast

President Trump has facilitated major peace treaties in the middle east.  Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain started the ball rolling. Credit was given to Donald John Trump by participants. 

Whatever comes of this, at least it's a start.

ZOOM Support Group Ĺo These Corona --Quarantine Times

ZION has become a valuable meeting medium.  Especially in thesedistances days. 

I partook in a support group ZOOM meeting, which is right up my alley. Per the SoCal rock band,  Bad Dolphin, I am a Lazy MiddleClass Intellectual 

Seasonal Markers

Every year I wear shorts and a straw fadora, while it's warm usually after Easter. And I switch to a felt fadora and jeans/trousers, when it gets 'cold,' in Arizona that's usually after Halloween. Lather, rinse and repeat. 

Learning About Myself by Learning About my Ancestors

I am an American Dutchman. I can trace 3/4 (3 great grandfathers, the other quarter being German so there may be slight overlap) of my lineage to Holland, Netherlands, et al.  I share innumerable phenotypical and personality characteristics with my Dutch antecedents.  I'm stubborn, there's a trope of the stubborn Dutchman.  The Dutch are notoriously frugal;people chide me on the cobwebs whenever I have to open my wallet.  Always interested in a deal; more for less. I have an MBA from ASU '09.  My bailiwick is investing, principly equity(stock) instruments.  Interestingly, the first international stock exchange was founded in Amsterdam (1602), which is now Euronext Amsterdam. Nederlanders usually hold a Calvinist spiritual heritage (when they do worship).  Calvinism is quite a stubbornly independent faith family.  I was educated at a Southern Baptist college and am member of my local Southern Baptist Church. Southern Baptist denomination is in the Calvinist traditionorn.  A housemate and myself stream the local service after lunch Sundays via YouTube. I think it really neat that my neighborhood church is tech savvy enough to stream the service. Dutch are innately tech-savvy.

My hair is much the same pailor as my father's hair was at this point in his timeline, i.e. darker brown, but my moustache is the hue of my maternal grandfather's hair, i.e., more auburn.  Moustaches run in my family and the generic Dutchman (e.g.Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Dutch Masters et al.)

Just ZOOMED to Colorado after Dinner, and Now I'm Back

 Just, mere moments ago, got off of an after dinner ZOOM chat with my Prodigal College Brother. Went off without a hitch in our giddyup. We had MANY classes together, study sessions, etc. in those halcyon collegiate days.  I even attended his wedding in Colorado.  

After college, he went back to Colorado, explored his tech interests; I stayed in AZ, explored my stocks interest, earning an MBA in the process.

I'm not majorly tech-savvy, but neither am I a luddite.

Looks as though the ZOOM paradigm will continue.  My shrink got me on the ZOOM-train, low these quarantine days

Back to Patterns with a Twist

The lead caregiver from my old home is going  to take me with his guys when they go to the gym Tuesdays and Thursdays until my house again starts up the gym routine.  Not going to the gym that often was not copacetic with me. As such, I proactively encouraged my lead caregiver to contact my old lead caregiver to set it up.  My one takeaway that reinforces an apriori postulate is simply that Bureaucracy Sucks. Capitalization noted and intended. RedTape is best utilized as a grotting tool for asphyxiation

I Fought the Flu, and the Flu Lost

This past fortday,I've felt the encroachment of a flu bug.  But I always enjoy the lead up to a bout with a foreign invader. I like the warmth. So yesterday I ensconced myself in a crysalis of covers. About 4 AM my fever broke and I emerged from my cocoon and took a shower. My good old fashioned remedy of flushing the virus and its attendant bacterial progeny ot of my system worked great.

OK, let's just jump into it. Politics.  Russia and the uranium Dems sold them is despicable.  Russia is an historic adversary.  Obama and Hillary sold them 20% of America's uranium.  Terrile.

Welcome this is a blog about current events, politics, issues, as seen through the eyes of a late stage Gen-X'er

This blog will showcase my editorialization of issues of all types, political, cultural, financial. No topic will be taboo, nothing will be verboten, but on occasion, I may omit points.  However, they'll merely be a points of prerogative or incidental oversights.

OK, Las Vegas shooting. I'm reading that the Democrats are trying to pass bills eroding the 2nd Amendment, let me elucidate you as to how that's problematic: The second amendment is a safeguard of the rights of We the People against them the Government.  Sure, once upon a time we had 3 coequal branches of government, providing checks on each other. But with the legislature abdicating responsibility to the executive that systemic balance is in serious jeopardy.

Whereas the 1st amendment safeguards the citizenry's right to speak against the government, the 2nd amendment protects those rights from usurpation by a concentrated federal government.

Government has a monopoly on the right to use force, all the way from the national military right down to the local beat cop, which was never how the Constitution was intended; id est, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.'  Not shouldn't be infringed, but shall not.  There is no rhetorical wiggle room.