All Things Rowdy

I need to stop going to facebook for the next month. Every morning it wants to share a memory from last year when I did my semester abroad in Spain. I miss it soo much, seeing the pictures just make me sad.

No, not the diet from the 90s I tried for a bit. (it wasn't too bad, more meat and veggies, less carbs) I mean the feeling or mental place you get when you're performing subconsciously at your best. I used to hit this feeling once a month. Now I'm getting it almost once a practice session. What's change? Learning how to visualize. Positive self talk. My routine. And just more time behind the gun. But I can feel it now, where things are just happening and it feels slowed down and yet it will be my best and fastest time of the day. Getting closer!

-Vanessa and Ethan should have formed a power team and fought Dracula. Dracula battles a witch and a werewolf to the "death". That would have been awesome. Dracula should have died at the end. And I could have tolerated Ethan or Vanessa dying as well if done properly. -Dorian should have gone quietly medieval on the whore army in his house and killed all of them. At first his character just seemed a vacuous window dressing but I'd like to see him even more developed. -Not sure what I think of Lilly, Jeckyl, Frankenstein, and the Creature's arcs. I'm glad the Creature didn't reanimate his dead son. I somehow wanted Lilly to either be killed or to turn into a regular person and wander away. I'm fine with her fading from the show with no explanation. Victor I'm not sympathetic to anymore. Lord Hyde I would like to see more of, in both his guises. -Yes to Sir Lyle and the Mummy. Either in London or Egypt or both. -Sir Malcom does a good job being t...

No need to look at the radar, I can see the front moving in. Lots of thunder, no rain yet.

Lovely little creatures are all over the back yard. Glad I see bunnies, birds and deer. Rather than rattle snakes.

Remember when a large part of the population found something dangerous to the greater good, though legal at the time. Went through the effort to change the Constitution regarding it. A national campaign and consciousness about the evils of alcohol and how it was our moral obligation to the safety of society, family, children, health care and public safety? Remember that? How is that effort now seen in retrospect? As successful? As a correct principle? And where are we today? There is something admirable in wanting to make such a change, but the means to it can't be banning a "thing". That's utterly foolish. Look at prohibition again and make the corollary to the gun issue today and tell me if you think it will be any different? It won't.

Never have I had to deal with soooo many stupid, surly, unknowledgeable, unhelpful people in my life. When will I experience an equal and opposite level of customer service? It's a physical law, it has to happen, right?

My old HMO wouldn't write me a scrip or let me fill one for enough Humira to cover me until new coverage here kicked in. Despite having the 90 days of coverage.... I'm used to being "in the system" and I guess cutting the line, or getting special consideration. The new health system is not having any of that.... So it looks like I'll have to go to the ER to force a prescription refill for my Humira. The GI doc won't accept a self referral, I can't get into a PCP until the middle of August and then a referral to GI from there, leading me to not getting Humira until September at best. I have a shot for my injection in 5 days but nothing for after that date...

War on Poverty, check. War on Drugs, check. No Child Left Behind, check. War on Terror, check. War on Gun Violence, coming. Let me know how well that works out. The war on obesity, smoking and drunk driving seem to have gone OK, so that at least is good.

How would I feel if it was someone from my religion who was a mass shooter/extremist that shot and killed people? What would I do? How would I feel if some group that I strongly identify with were the victims of a deadly attack? How would I mourn? I am not a Muslim but it does seem the majority of terror events in the past 40 years are related to radical islamists. Also I'm not gay but they do seem to be the focus of quite a bit of hate still, despite a more open society and changes in social norms that make being gay more acceptable. I was once told that it was a characteristic of an intelligent, civilized person if they could see things from a point of view now there own. That's what I'm trying to do here, is have a thought exercise about both sides. I'm trying to avoid blanket, absolute pronouncements but instead something more nuanced. In the end though they are just thoughts, which are not worth very much unless they lead to actions. Changes. We've go...

Oh man, so the new job has me running a business' social media. Their Facebook, blog, web store, forum accounts and Instagram. Generating content, posting, answering questions and updating it all is wayy more work than I expected. And of course I'm doing my own internet promotional work for my shooting career. This is one reason why I'm hit or miss on this blog or why it seems I post a ton and then none. Oh and I got asked to help a Cub Scout group each week as well. Which requires a bit of internet training. hahahah.

Ok, I've been living in Arkansas for over two months now, so time for a report and a review. 1. Driving here if you want to visit from San Diego is a non starter. You'd have to do two 12 hour days. That's brutal. Flights are less than $300 if you look around, just do that. I do have a nice guest room though should you want to.... 2. They don't understand my voice often and I get theirs, but for the idioms. I think I have a higher toned voice and a west coast cadence so people here often ask me to repeat myself unless I am talking slowly and there is no background noise. It's ok, I understand. I get their accent OK most the time. Except the one time I couldn't find the restaurant called "Hal n Mal" as I was looking for "Howling Mal". 3. I live out in the sticks. Really. Dear, turtles, turkeys, bobcats, snakes, birds ect. Three acres of land at the edge of wooded land. FedEx can't find my without issue. My address is on no GPS. Everyo...