rambling

Initially i started this blog as a way to vent so that Patty didn't have to take the brunt of the garbage i usually can home and talked about. It's been a while and i realize that it did not work very well. Most of the time when i get home from work she still has to listen to the garbage and it does not go here as intended. So i would like to officially appologize, and thank my lovely wife for putting up with all the crap. That said, in my last post i did manage to complain and it felt good to get it out. However, i do not want to give the wrong impression that my new job is all bad. It has it's good days and some days that are not so good, but overall it is a massive improvement over what i left behind. I am in a position to be the captain of my own future. I have a lot of freedoms that were not afforded to me in the last position i held, and the whole thing is a blank slate for me to fill.
On a personal note, i am living in the new house and it is a massive improvemtent from the apartment. Most of the projects are either complete or under way and soon to be completed. Patty and Aimee will be joining me in 2 weeks and that is cause for celebration. I can not wait to have my family back together. They came to visit me last weekend and even though there was a bunch of work that had to be done, i really enjoyed the visit. I don't think they know just how much they mean to me or how much i miss them when they are not around. Just like Patty, moving has been hard for me. I miss the friends we have made over the last 8 years in Cincinnati, and the ward family is going to be missed very much. Steubenville has a very different pace of life to it, it is much slower and is taking a lot to get used to. although they do have the big city driving mentallity. Over all, life is good, God is great, and things are lookin up.

It's starting all over again

   As most of you know i have started a new job in Steubenville, Oh. I am opening a new office for a new company, as with most new openings it is a challenging time, made worse by the fact it is a new town for me and i know nobody in the area, whice means i know no clients either. All of this is made worse by the fact i have to spend a lot of time away from my family.
   In my last job my employer and i did not see things eye to eye. He wanted me to be a full time sales person and i was hired for remediation and doing spills. So we constantly argued about sales. Well when i interviewed for this position i told them if they wanted a sales person, i was not the person for the job. His response was they did not believe in seller doers. I thought that was great and accepted the job. Well now 2 months into the job i get a call from the bosses boss and am told i need to focus all my attention to doing sales. Now you have to keep in mind that (not trying to be concided) when i get into see someone i can sell snow to an eskimo, but i can not do cold calls or appointment setting to save my life. My question is this, does anybody understand the old addage that a mans word is his bond? What happened to truth and integrity? I don't want to sound like i am venting and bad mouthing my new employer, i just want at least 1 employer to keep their word. I truely love the work i do but i absolutly HATE doing sales, the cold calls and appointment setting anyways.

A fallen friend

As most everyone knows, i am an emergency responce contractor by trade. A lot of my jobs are road side accidents. When a truck wrecks and spills their load or diesel fuel, i am usualy fond on the side of the road cleaning the mess up. Yesterday a friend of mine with a different contractor was working a spill on 71 south in Gallatin county. They had just about finnished their clean up and were loading equipment when a box truck ran through the traffic cones and killed my friend. The company he was working for had followed all the safety requirments, cones, lighted signs, flaggers, and road side signs. Dannys death was sensless, he was a good man and a loving father, he leaves a young son now to mourn.
Most know that i am not a man of many emotions, i report this news through teary eyes to beg and plead with everybody, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION WHEN YOU ARE ON THE ROAD, DON'T RUBBERNECK. We knew when we got into this business that it was dangerous, but please don't make it any worse. You may not know Danny but please pray for his family.

Politics again

OK, my Sundays start at 6am. Go to the church for Bishopric meeting, services start at 9, then home about 1pm. Ready for a nap. Just drift off to sleep and the stupid Republican party calls. Start to drift off again and the stupid Democratic party knocks on the door. So much for a nap. It may not have been so bad if it would have been the actual candidate wanting to share their opinion, but robo calls and volunteers on a Sunday? What ever happened to the Lord's day, a day of rest from the normal garbage of every day life????

Growing Old

When I look in the mirror I don't see an older person, I see me. The same way I have always seen me. Other than a few grays and a couple extra pounds, I see the same person I saw when I looked in the mirror during my high school days. I like to believe I have more knowledge and common sense then I did during that time period, maybe I am a bit more thoughtful of others, and a lot more charitable, but overall the same person. That all changes when I go to the doctor. When i went i had a few aches and pains. When I leave his office I usually have a new medication or 2. By the time he gets done telling me all about my limitations I feel like my grandfather. When I get home and look in the mirror I see the same me I saw this morning. Can someone tell me how I lost 20 years in the Docs office and then gained them back by the time I got home????? I am curious, when I am 80 will I still see the teenager in the mirror???

Vengeance

Last night someone decided it was going to be fun to slash all four tires on my car. At first, when we found it i was really angry, then i was sad, then when i called the insurance company i was pissed. After a while i was resigned to the fact that it was going to cost a bunch of money we don't have. My wife had mentioned vengeance, at the time i said i just want the guilty party to pay for the new tires and tow truck bill. After a few more hours i decided i wanted to hang the jerks by their pinkie toes from a very tall tree. Now i just want to get past it and make sure it doesn't happen again. But i will continue to wonder why would someone do something so hurtful? How does one not get paranoid that it will happen again?

Let's change America's political face

I have been looking at all the stupid political ads. Now it's time to let the idiot politicians know what we think. I HATE attack ads!!!!!!! We need to dismiss all politicians with any political experience. Lets elect all new people that have the country's best interest at heart and not their own wallets. Lets limit terms for all offices to 3 terms. No retirement for any elected officials, once they have served they need to get a real job and quit living off my taxes. We need to limit political pay checks. No elected official should get rich off the sweat of their constituents, so lets put the political paycheck limit to no more than $75,000.00 per year, and the people vote on their pay raises in an open election, not the politicians behind closed doors. We need to outlaw lobbyist. Politicians need to work for the people, not deep pocket corporations. I am still trying to understand why we spend tax dollars studying all kinds of stupid things that will never make a difference to anyone. If  you want to study something, find a corporate sponsor! Our taxes were never intended to finance your research. Never have I seen anywhere a founding father's comment that said we are going to tax the citizens in order to study turtle spit.