Different Blog

So I have to write a blog for my Spanish class while I am in Spain this summer. They would prefer I do it separate from this blog. So I will be posting a link here soon when I create the new one just for this summer's stuff. Find the idea of me writing in Spanish about my time in Spain horrible? Sweet, then you'll have a lot more free time.

Buttttt, if you wanna read that kind of stuff I think it will be something new and fun for all of us! Check back here soon!!

Fiber's a fiend not friend.

So with my history of intestinal stuff the lumen, inner diameter of my intestine, is narrower than most people's in all the places I've had surgery previously. I seem to have forgotten this fact when deciding to eat half a pineapple this morning. Needless to say the mechanical action of trying to force that much fibrous food through the tight spots in my gut has made me feel pretty yucky. I'm currently in bed trying to wait out the pain, nauseousness and bloating. #stupidchrohnsdisease

I hate "why" questions.

I generally have a strong dislike for most "why" based questions that aren't of a scientific nature. I much prefer phrasing all the questions I have in life with the other interrogative options. Who, how, what, when. Why just never seems to lead anywhere.

As you know, or don't, I have a strong desire to move not only from San Diego but from California entirely. 10 years has been enough! When I tell people who still love CA about this they often say, "Why would you ever want to leave this?!?", gesturing to the weather, sky and ocean.

Well one, I've lived a lot of other places and I'm not a weather wuss. Living in SD makes you weak in that regard. It lulls you with a false sense of ease and comfort. Like the couch when you should work out, or sweatpants worn outside of the house.

When interviewing for jobs in San Diego we always had salary discussion. In the bay area I was making $50 an hour as my base pay and routinely made 11 grand a month in overtime and call. So then to just move down the state a ways and be offered $28 per hour for the exact same job and be told by HR, "We pay you in susnshine.", well I should have known where that would lead. I did tell them right then, "Sunshine doesn't pay the rent!" (I also did not get that job)

Schools, infrastructure, politics, land use, recreation, nanny state mentality, dwindling resources. All reasons to leave and my familiarity has bred nothing but contempt. I've lived in other states and another country. Sorry to say it, but CA just ain't it anymore and hasn't been since about 1963....

BTW, almost everything in the picture below one would consider cool is either untrue, no longer exists or is illegal. Just one big falsehood meant to lull the dim into complacency.

To Do before Spain

-Smog my truck and renew its registration.
-Rotate tires and wash truck.
-Make all ammo for Nationals and mail to PASA.
-Buy book for class.
-Make packing list.
-Research more clearly my weekend options.
-Shoot as many matches as possible.
-Hang out and help Super D while I can.

Not a chance!

If I dyed my hair black, had surgery to alter my eye lids, took medication to alter my skin pigment and changed my name to Li I would not then be Asian. I could tell people all day I was Asian, that I'd always felt Asian and that I'd been born to the wrong race. Ad I'd be 100% wrong.

I'd be called a cheat and a fraud for checking "Asian" on any form, application or paperwork. Any genetic testing on me would come back Caucasian. And most importantly every other Asian in the world would scoff and scorn my exclamations that through my own choice and superficial actions I was now Asian.

To expect, let alone demand, inclusion or understanding from all the other Asians would be ridiculous on my part. The things that make us who we literally are all intrinsic. And unchangeable. To do otherwise is an affront to your very being and existence. An existential slap in the universe's face.

Questions, always questions. Isn't action always part of the answer?

Various questions rolling around in my brain cave the past few days.....

-Serve some revenge now that the dish is cold, or just let the sleeping dogs lie?

-Renew my CA state nuclear medicine license or let it go fallow?

-Is and act still considered courageous even if it is wrong?

-Sell my FZ09 and get a KTM RC390?

-Wear my GoPro facing to the front or the rear when I run with the bulls at Pamplona this summer?

-Which is better, Wallace and Grommit or Shaun the Sheep?

-Should I care about seeing the number go upwards on the scale as long as my waist stays the same?

-Buy a Spanish talk and trash(pay as you go) phone or just get a month of international data while in Spain on my current phone?

-I've let my interest in photography and photoshop slip, what is the best way to revive these interests?

-Should I get a second cat, one more cuddley?

I lost

I fought the County and the County won. Just got a 8 page packet from them detailing a year long plan to remediate the site back to natural. $60,000 wasted......