All Things Rowdy

I started the year as Sharpshooter in ESP for IDPA and ended the year at Master and as a Division Champion for ESP in a match. I finished 16th in the national championships for IDPA for SSP division. I went the entire year without being hospitalized! I have two brand new motorcycles, a FZ09 and a CRF250L and a 300 Ninja that is no longer around. I earned my Rider Coach certification with the MSF and then the state stopped using that program. I gave up on ever having a full time Nuclear Medicine job again. Or PA school. I went to South Korea and Cambodia for two weeks! The discovery of sights and foods was overwhelming. I continued taking classes at a local community college. I finished second overall in a year long, nation wide contingency program for shooting put on by Automatic Accuracy. I finally met Simon Jack. And another wonderful family addition in Jade R. Killer came back to the USA. I got up to 148lbs, the most I ever have weighed in my life. Sadly it was...

In the past two weeks I've got to talk with different people about the problems in their lives. Relationship issues, mental health, housing, diabetes and so on. What I learned from these chats were that one, everyone has problems. It is really hard to tell from the outside what is truly going on with some people. (not in these recent cases, but some people are drama and create problems when they have none. those people are to be held at arm's length) Secondly, is that no matter what I have going wrong or whatever problem I may have at the moment I absolutely do not want another person's problems. It's funny how we are often heard to say, "Wow, I don't know how they do it? I could never do that." And I think it is because very often we're suited for the problems we face. Readers, keep your head up and endure. Miracles most often happen after the hardest trials.

If you invest in your looks or muscles or body fat at the expense of the rest of your complete being, you're investing in something with a diminishing return. Looks fade, faces wrinkle, waists expand. As a human being you are three things primarily. One a physical body. Two a brain. Three a spirit. To be your best is not developed in your meal prep, gym selfies or mirror time self admiration. But rather in the equal development of all three. And all three of them in an ongoing fashion. Do you exercise your mind, stress it and grow its capabilities to the level you work your muscles and scrutinize your diet? How do you work on your emotions? Sense of love? Faith? Character? The Y.O.U. Mutual Fund is holds three stocks of body, mind and spirit. How are you investing in you?

From a speech by John Quincy Adams on July 4th, 1821. If only it were still true..... AND NOW, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, an...

When I was 18 I had a car and a motorcycle. I had one accident and three speeding tickets on my record. My monthly premium back then in the 90's was $250 a month. That is quite a bit in 90's dollars.... I should find a calculator on line that could adjust that to today's dollars. No matter, the point is now I still have 3 tickets on my record. Two speeding and one illegal turn. But now I have two motorcycles and three cars with full coverage on all of them. My premium today? $300 a month. Yep, just a 50$ increase with the same driving record but tripling the number of each kind of vehicle. But I only made $7 a hour back then versus my earning potential today.