Don't be an askhole. Yep, I think you can figure out what two words are smushed together to form this new word, so no need to draw you a picture.
Askhole: A person who asks your advice or opinion and consistently and immediately disregards it, often providing a counter-point to further their own opinion.
Friends normally trust friends. Often someone sees something form a different vantage point you can appreciate with a little open mindedness. If you value your friends enough to ask them for advice or opinion then freaking listen to it.
Do not be an askhole as you risk the people in your life tiring of your reaction and no longer caring to give you honest feedback. If you're not going to listen, think and possibly change your mind then stop asking a question where you know you only want to hear the answer you've already made up in your mind.
As a friend I'm telling you, stop it already!
Monday, July 8, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Hangry
Hangry: one's emotional state of being angry caused by the heightened sense of hunger.
I like this word. It's pretty funny. I have another amalgam I'm going to share tomorrow that is I think just as good.
But how does this apply to now? Well, I am hungry, but I am not angry. Why am I hungry to the point of writing about it when I've gone without food for months at a time? Today is different.
One day a month I fast, meaning I eat or drink NOTHING for the time period in which I would have eaten two meals. Normally a breakfast and lunch. I then take the money I would have spent on those two meals and donate it.
Yesterday I got hangry. But today, while not eating with a purpose I've been able to successfully avoid getting hangry. If you believe that as an entity you are composed of two sides as it were, physical and spiritual then it is pretty cool to see how one side can effect the other.
I'd like to believe that by doing something like this, besides just helping someone by donating money for them to get food, I gain some control over my physical body. I become the boss, not "it". Self mastery.
Like my mom always told me, we don't often get to choose what happens in life, but we do get to choose how we react to it.
I like this word. It's pretty funny. I have another amalgam I'm going to share tomorrow that is I think just as good.
But how does this apply to now? Well, I am hungry, but I am not angry. Why am I hungry to the point of writing about it when I've gone without food for months at a time? Today is different.
One day a month I fast, meaning I eat or drink NOTHING for the time period in which I would have eaten two meals. Normally a breakfast and lunch. I then take the money I would have spent on those two meals and donate it.
Yesterday I got hangry. But today, while not eating with a purpose I've been able to successfully avoid getting hangry. If you believe that as an entity you are composed of two sides as it were, physical and spiritual then it is pretty cool to see how one side can effect the other.
I'd like to believe that by doing something like this, besides just helping someone by donating money for them to get food, I gain some control over my physical body. I become the boss, not "it". Self mastery.
Like my mom always told me, we don't often get to choose what happens in life, but we do get to choose how we react to it.
From the outside
I was able to get one of my friends to film me yesterday, mostly so I could check out body mechanic issues. While you can't see much of what the targets and course are like you get a rough idea of what I'm doing while competing.
The video is entitled "losing" because I shot below my potential, being 10th of 65 people. While that is 85th percentile, If I am not in the top 5 overall, I did not do my best.
losing from rowdy matt on Vimeo.
The video is entitled "losing" because I shot below my potential, being 10th of 65 people. While that is 85th percentile, If I am not in the top 5 overall, I did not do my best.
losing from rowdy matt on Vimeo.
Friday, July 5, 2013
My side of the bed...
My side of the bed could be called Nightmare Alley. I have a REM disorder so that my sleep is frequently interrupted and I have multiple nightmares each and every night.
Every night I whine, cry, whimper, moan, thrash (or am unable to move), yell, pant and so on while suffering torturous dreams. Thankfully I don't attach any significance to my dreams, preferring to think of them as neurological back-wash, or else I'd have to worry about what it all meant.
Unless I take my prescribed medication, Clonazepam*. It's primarily used to treat epilepsy and people with panic attacks. Of which I suffer from neither. There is a real danger though to habituation and abuse with benzodiazapenes so I don't take it every night. Last night reminded me why I probably should....
Sleep, night time and my bed should be my friends. But they're not.
* From the wiki: Like many other benzodiazepines, when taken as a sleep-aid, clonazepam disrupts or interferes with the brain's delta waves. Delta waves signify the brain's slowest waves (~4 Hz) and occur during Stage 4 sleep, which represents humans' deepest sleep state (our muscles are the most relaxed; breathing slows and becomes shallow), and the stage right before R.E.M. sleep and dreaming (Stage 5). Therefore, upon waking, this disruption of Stage 4 delta wave sleep causes a failure for an adequate brain/body rest or "recharge".[citation needed]
[39][40] While benzodiazepines induce sleep, they tend to produce a poorer quality sleep than natural sleep. Benzodiazepines such as clonazepam suppress REM sleep.[41] After regular use rebound insomnia can occur when discontinuing clonazepam.[42]
Every night I whine, cry, whimper, moan, thrash (or am unable to move), yell, pant and so on while suffering torturous dreams. Thankfully I don't attach any significance to my dreams, preferring to think of them as neurological back-wash, or else I'd have to worry about what it all meant.
Unless I take my prescribed medication, Clonazepam*. It's primarily used to treat epilepsy and people with panic attacks. Of which I suffer from neither. There is a real danger though to habituation and abuse with benzodiazapenes so I don't take it every night. Last night reminded me why I probably should....
Sleep, night time and my bed should be my friends. But they're not.
* From the wiki: Like many other benzodiazepines, when taken as a sleep-aid, clonazepam disrupts or interferes with the brain's delta waves. Delta waves signify the brain's slowest waves (~4 Hz) and occur during Stage 4 sleep, which represents humans' deepest sleep state (our muscles are the most relaxed; breathing slows and becomes shallow), and the stage right before R.E.M. sleep and dreaming (Stage 5). Therefore, upon waking, this disruption of Stage 4 delta wave sleep causes a failure for an adequate brain/body rest or "recharge".[citation needed]
[39][40] While benzodiazepines induce sleep, they tend to produce a poorer quality sleep than natural sleep. Benzodiazepines such as clonazepam suppress REM sleep.[41] After regular use rebound insomnia can occur when discontinuing clonazepam.[42]
Ride
As I was short a couple grand for the watch I wanted I bought this instead:
Try not to hit me while you're driving your car, smoking and talking on the phone at the same time. I don't wanna die by surprise.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Aquaman
In a flash of "brilliance" tonight I thought I figured out what I wanted, "thing" wise. If I'm gonna drop major coin, might as well make it something substantial. Something that will last and have value.
When Killer left for Korea I gave him my Bulova watch that I'd bought myself as a graduation gift for college. About $500 at the time.
Tonight I rolled to Fashion Valley with $5,000 in my pocket to buy a Rolex stainless steel Submariner. They are $7,000. I had another grand hidden at home but still..... I was dashed. Here I was thinking I was going to get something grand. A legacy piece my heirs could inherit. Something classic, with lasting substance beyond any motorcycle I want.
And I was $1,000 short. (plus tax)
Dang.
When Killer left for Korea I gave him my Bulova watch that I'd bought myself as a graduation gift for college. About $500 at the time.
Tonight I rolled to Fashion Valley with $5,000 in my pocket to buy a Rolex stainless steel Submariner. They are $7,000. I had another grand hidden at home but still..... I was dashed. Here I was thinking I was going to get something grand. A legacy piece my heirs could inherit. Something classic, with lasting substance beyond any motorcycle I want.
And I was $1,000 short. (plus tax)
Dang.
These are your rights!
Know them, fight for them, exercise them and never ever let someone take them away from you. From the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, knows as "The Bill of Rights", ratified in 1791.
I.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
III.No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
VII. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
When you read all ten of these amendments what things strike you as so vitally, fundamentally important to the people of a new nation they had to be written down and thought of so highly as to never be infringed?
What mattered to them, does it matter to you now? Do you know your rights?
I.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
III.No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
VII. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
IX. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
When you read all ten of these amendments what things strike you as so vitally, fundamentally important to the people of a new nation they had to be written down and thought of so highly as to never be infringed?
What mattered to them, does it matter to you now? Do you know your rights?
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