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Ramblings of an American Madman
Madness is finally gone, now it's time for life.
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25Aug 08Hmm, this place looks even odder now. I mean, really odd, though that is just the "anti-change" part of humanity talking right now. So, summer, yeah...it was fun. Montana, Crater Lake, the coast, down southward, parties, hikes, naps in a hammock...twas good. Here are some pictures from Montana. Mind, half of them were taken without any thinking involved, and half of them were me taking pictures of cloud formations I thought were pretty...
Crater Lake...not uploaded to photobucket yet. The hammock...pictures cannot do it justice. 
Now I'm back in college, doing school work, and that other kind of work that you get paid for. Current troubles would include: understanding the Japanese students, contaminated city water, and having to wake up at reasonable times in the morning. Current good bits: classes seem entertaining enough, I haven't gotten fired, and I keep getting job offers for when I am. Anyways, I just figured I'd chime in with some pretty little pictures. There would be some sort of lovely little linguistical manipulation, but my mind is off a bit...the contaminated water in Redding gave me a lovely intestinal disease. However, I can provide you some proof that miracles happen, though on a smaller scale than most would like. You see, someone actually managed to blow my top the other day, its difficult to do...but also kinda dangerous once it happens. I tossed my fist very lightly into his gut to start with and doubled him over, but after that, I lost my cool and was going to...hurt him a little. Now the first person to tell me to tone it down, I wasn't listening to, but the second...she is my little miracle. She's a new friend of mine, I've yet to be able to be around her without a smile getting me, and thankfully her voice was capable of cutting through the "unpleasant" feelings towards my dancing partner. She got me to let him go, had me promise to not hurt him, and reminded me I promised her when he kept trying to entice me to forget. So, not much of a miracle, but considering the trouble I would have gotten into if I had smeared him across the walls, its still a miracle to me. And we all know how nice it is to have a bit of divine intervention in our lives from time to time.
Especially when said intervention is pretty. 
Farethewell for now.
- John
"I was told the way to a woman's heart is through her stomach, as for men, I would suggest between the fourth and fifth rib with a nice sharp knife." -John, On how to get to people's hearts.
- Posted Aug 25, 2008 8:13 am GMT
- Category: Relationships
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1Jul 08
Hello All,
The other day I took the CCNA test (the final one that would have given me the full CCNA), I failed...first time I have ever failed anything related to academics or work, a bit shocking actually, and it points out that I might actually be partly human. I'm currently planning on what I need to study to retake the test, and I'm going to go in ASAP to pass the test...because I am rather depressed and angry that I actually failed (I'm extremely hard on myself about work). By the by, don't do any consoling if you can help it, its something I'm rather against.
Studying the first time was why I have yet to blog about Montana at all, nor posted pictures of the trip. So, here are a couple of pictures to lighten the blog up.
Best picture ever taken of me.
On other notes, I'm back home, for the time being, and I spent yesterday ripping the carpet out of our living room. Getting it replaced today, after it's been in this house for, quite possibly, 20 years.
I also happen to be in the middle of a great many fires right now, so far none have threatened my home, but I knock on wood every time I say that. (pretty good, since I'm not very superstitious) Much of California is burning right now, and the parts that aren't burning, they are covered in pretty darn thick smoke...because of that I've been trapped inside allot more than I would like, only been able to go out for walks a few times...and even then there was an official warning against doing much outside.
Anyways, be back around eventually, I'm kind of lost; can't go outside much, can't study yet...might be online a wee bit. Best wishes all.
- John
"The more we learn from losses, the less losses we will see, but soon again we'll fall behind, and lose and learn again." -John
- Posted Jul 1, 2008 9:14 pm GMT
- Category: Relationships
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17Jun 08
Simple Things
Time ago I told myself,
to look beyond the sea,
but mists would come,
and block away the bay.
And time would go,
and I would wait,
and never could I see,
those simple things were right in front of me.
Now I'm looking out the window,
but damned if I can see,
the leaves are rustling in the wind,
but rustle not for me.
I blink aside the blurryness,
but still a blurr I see,
the clouds can blow, and birds can fly,
but flutter not for me.
Time has past,
and I am lost,
and never will I see,
the simple things that sit in front of me.- John1918
- Posted Jun 18, 2008 12:50 am GMT
- Category: Cars
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22May 08
Howdy all,
Hope those approaching the end of their school periods are doing well, finals can be a pain in the arse. Personally, I just got done with them on Tuesday, and for those wondering; no I didn't study for any of it.
Apparently an entire semester (half a school-year) has disappeared on me, and so has all the time when I lived in the dormitories. I'm currently moving my stuff out and cleaning, and tomorrow I'm going to say goodbye to those still here, and to allot of memories that accumulated on the way. I must say, we did go out with a bit of a bang, I had been wanting to throw a pool tournament, and one got started up for me and a couple of buddies...then it grew until six players was sixteen, and ten attendees were...I couldn't even count. Heck, I even got to chug a fair bit of a keg of rootbeer...yes they sell it in kegs.
(I'd post pictures, but common sense says no)Now, about that job I was considering, I did apply (3k a month is hard to pass up), but it turns out that all hirings at the college have frozen due to budget cuts...ergo, nobody is getting the job. I've still got an offer here and there, but I'm pretty sure that I will just take my last fun summer and run with it.
On that note, I get to the title thing, I'm going to Montana on Monday. *listens to that bloody cricket chirp* Yeah, I found out about it not very long ago. I was hanging out at a friend 's place and he asked me, over drinks, to go to Montana with him and another of his friends. My family had even less notice...essentially getting a call asking if I had any prior engagements then.
A little trip (over 1000 miles) is a good way to start off a summer eh? Hmm, guess that means I'll be gone even more, do yourselves a favor while I'm gone...make sure to keep having fun, no matter what you're doing.
- John
They say that there is no greater joy than accomplishment, I say there is no greater accomplishment than joy. - John
- Posted May 22, 2008 11:59 am GMT
- Category: Science
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4May 08
unfortunately...the bouncer was bigger than I had first thought.
So, first thing being placed first...though that is likely more logic than I should use in one place at one time online...I went in to take the CCENT test shortly after my last blog post. I obviously did pretty poorly...thankfully, my version of pretty poorly is a score that passes by a rather nice margin in Cisco's parlance. 844 out of 1000 is okay, only 804 is needed to pass, but the thing I feel a bit proud of is that I got the 844 via my retained knowledge...because I did not study for the test. Sure, I could have studied, and maybe could have gotten a little better. The thing is, that wouldn't have been a true representation of what I know, its not like you can cram before each day of work. This way, I know that I am good enough, even without practice, to be a networking engineer.
Word has apparently gotten around, as I have told a few people I thought might be interested I passed, and I have gotten a number of fingers pointing me towards job openings at various places. This, though rather nice, is a bit troubling...as I did not plan on working heavily during this summer (figuring it would be my last even remotely free one), but now have the chance to make lots of money, and gain experience. Now I'm between a rock (my plans of some traveling and fun) and a hard-place (working, making money, and getting into an apartment with a good friend, or two, of mine).
Thankfully my life isn't all rock and hard-places lately, and I've been having a heck of allot more fun...at the expense of a wee bit less studying.
I actually managed to place second in one of the local pool tournaments, and I've still been having a fair amount of fun with small wagers at the college. (a tip, do NOT bet against me in billiards)( I think) I've managed to pick up a copy of Hellgate London...I know it got a bad rap, but I've played the demo to hell and back, and it seems like something I'd really like. The main unfortunate casuality of college has been gaming, as the PC I normally played on is not here with me...and thus I will have to wait to play Hellgate, on a good note, it has pushed me to find free (and therefore less likely to need highpowered hardware) games online.
One of the gems I have stumbled upon is Wesnoth. It is a simple, turn-based, fantasy strategy game. You play it on a hex-board with one of a number of factions, each having similar, but different, unit selections. The main fun seems to stem from persistance in matches (and across whole campaigns) with units gaining in experience with each fight and kill, and becoming stronger units (with branching paths) over time. Its nice to think that you actually get to mold your army to what you want...from balanced forces to extremes like all-cavalry armies. Additionally, it forces you to protect and heal your higher end units, because you can't just turn around and replace them like in other games. Most certainly worth a look if you like strategy games.
Anyways, enough ranting and raving for now, maybe next time I can regale you with a tale of drunken delight. (no, I wasn't drunk, a guy I know...drunk barely even covers it
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"Little Johnny was a chemist, now he is no more, for what he thought was H2O, was H2SO4." - Someone...wish I knew
- Posted May 5, 2008 5:16 am GMT
- Category: Movies
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7Apr 08
Hullo All,
So, somehow, I've been really busy lately...therefore, I haven't yet gotten to muck around with the blogs I may have helped kick off via tagging. I will get there...eventually...but sadly I have far too much homework that has not gotten any pencil or pen marks on it yet.
I finally got in a break today though, went to a billiards tournament...I personally was very off my game, so I only got 3rd place, I did get a bit of prize money...but I'm good enough at 8-ball that 3rd doesn't really match up to my skill level. I've honestly gotten more money out of idiots at the college wanting to bet on games, though I try to keep away from that, not exactly smiled upon to shark your dorm...anyways, it was fun.
Now Friday...that won't be quite as fun. I'll be heading off around 2 P.M. to take the Cisco certification test for the CCENT (half of the CCNA). The question isn't really "will I pass," but moreso "how high will my score be." Still, a bit of me is probably nervous about it, I just haven't been informed by the nervous bit yet.
Hmm, I just got an email, apparently I am finally an official member of that honour society thing...I think I spoke about that thing on here...anyways, now its all official and I'm actually listed online as a new member. Only took them most of the semester to do it...
You can find the page he...nah, its got my name on it, tis a secret. OOOOOO, there is an Official PTK Teddy Bear you can buy! 
Anyways, I'll try to get around to the messes I have inspired, but I honestly am considering sleep...
- John
P.S. Can you read this?
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- Posted Apr 7, 2008 10:13 am GMT
- Category: Nature
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28Mar 08
Howdy Various Creatures With Typing Apendages,
Well now, I clocked in here while checking email, and jumped a couple of blogs to see what was what. Apparently there has been a rash of chain-blogging lately, normally I do not enjoy such things, but this time the chain actually does exhibit considerable personality. Thus, when asked by my friend gamer_girl15 to join in on the festivities, I actually decided to do so.
So, here are five things about me that you might not know, or that you might have wondered about. 1) Things break around me, to clarify, I'm mostly talking about inanimate objects. Pool cues, kitchen knives, pool tables, plates, doors, walls, windows, my car, screwdrivers, etc...its a long list. Its not because I'm particularly violent, nor because I'm not careful. My body is fairly powerfully built, toss in bad luck or not paying attention, and its really easy for me to snap a pool stick I have in my hand in half, or to knock a buddy too hard and send him through a wall. 2) I cuss seldomly, and around women, next to none. 3) I cannot dance. I can pretend I know how, but only for short periods of time and more formal dances. 4) I was a vegetarian for a number of years, and I still do not eat all that much meat.5) I have been asked if I am gay due to
A: Being too nice to women to be straight
B: Being too good of cook to be straight
C: Being too intelligent to be straightNormally my answer is followed by the lovely question of "Then why are you single?"
Anyways, hope one of those was entertaining to you, I think I'm supposed to call out some number of people to do this now...orkhammer, champ, hokies, david (kinda scared what he could write), smolle, some people, somewhere, on the side of my blog...start writing.
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Not much to say otherwise I guess, going to get my blood drawn tomorrow for a liver test, probably going to take off sometime afterwards for a break from life. I need a passport, going to go to Canada with some buddies sometime, I'd like to be able to get back in the States. Anyways, starting to get tired, when on a really, really, long walk today, threw some boulders too.
See ya'll later, might make the blog I was thinking of writing...sometime later.
- Posted Mar 28, 2008 11:00 am GMT
- Category: Pets and Animals
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15Mar 08
Canvas
Widely spread the canvas flows, waiting for the brush,
there I sit in fear again, lost amidst the crush,
I do not know how to press, the colours I should use,
the way to capture what I see, to show it all to you.
Above us all, the canvas flows, and makes a scene anew,
and yet again it cows me down, so little can I do,
up the brush will lift again, and swipe amidst the clouds,
changing all that I can see, before I see at all.
The canvas will defeat me, more stubborn than myself,
changes with the whim of gods, and flutters in the wind,
yet some shall say it's empty, that they see none of it's grace,
a cloudy sky my canvas is, the paints but rippled mist.- John C
- Posted Mar 16, 2008 7:47 am GMT
- Category: Games
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21Feb 08
70 years ago, the house had first been built. It was a fairly plain house, well-built, but not much in the way of awe-inspiring. The family inside was friendly, and they got along alright with their funds, but a fancy house wasn't as important as food on the table. It lasted, much the same as the day it had been made, for near the next 19 years.
The family had grown alot in those years, but the house had stayed the same, and the extra people inside were a bit cramped. That's why the youngest, the daughter by the name of Linda, ended up changing the house after all that time. An errant ball, and an all too common story later, the house was missing one of it's smaller windows, and the child was probably busy trying to find a way out of trouble.
A bit of plywood solved the insulation problem, but it was only a temporary solution, and soon a new sheet of glass would cover the bit of wall...it only took a week or so for the father to convince the family that a bit of stained glass would be best for the spot, he had a soft-spot for the ones at their church. They searched over a great deal of pieces for sale, but after some hours looking they found a somewhat simple design, an elegant piece, displaying a dove crossing in front of a beaming sun, and they knew it was what their home wanted.
15 years down the road, the kids grown, the family sold the house and moved to a smaller place in a smaller town. The new residents were decent enough, but they were far too concerned with status, and that meant the house was forced to change after 34 years of being good enough. A new garden, new fence, new shutters, new appliances, new everything, but the window...it got to stay, for a little while.
Moving a new lamp up to the top floor, the window met it's match when the combination of clumsiness, steel, and human crashed into it. The main portion of the window, the framing, was just fine...but the glass itself had been annihilated. (and the part that was left "somehow" got kicked out by an angry shoe) They went to get replacement panes, but found that they could make it "better" than it had been before, just a little framing here, a little bracket there, and some new pieces of glass. 5 hours, and extraordinary amounts of cursing later, the window was whole...but it was still broken...
They had filled in the empty spaces with new glass, but rather than put in a few pieces and have the picture shining on the wall, they filled it with small chips and flakes, leaving a riot of color where there had once been a purpose and a plan. It satisfied them, and honestly, it showed perfectly what that time would be for the house, confusing and changing. Didn't take long for it to end though, they needed a new place, bigger and more modern, within a couple of years...then the riot left, and a new family came in.
The new people were different from the old ones, more like the builders in their style, more reserved, and more simplistic...thats why it's questionable whether it was an accident, or on purpose, when the glass shattered yet again during move-in. They went to rip it out, its not like they were going to replace all the insane little chips, when they found a oddity in the make of the window. Half of it was of high quality, the stuff of a master craftsman, and the other half...it looked like it had been glued on by a monkey.
A bit of tearing later and the monkey part had been ripped away, leaving the old-style wrought-iron. Seeing what it was meant to be, the new people went out to purchase new glass for the newly old window. With the setting of the sun on the first evening, they knew why the window was there, the light flitted through magnificently and it shined with a beauty that was hard to believe, it shined with a purpose it had once forgotten, it shined like a house that was whole.
I can't help but sit and stare at it sometimes, after all, that's allot of history for a window, and on the right evenings it still shines like it did back then, every home needs a heart after all.
- Posted Feb 21, 2008 10:59 am GMT
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26Jan 08
No, not dead in life, just online.
A wonderful young woman was playing the piano here, it was very touching to hear the melody. Made this piece of junk boil in my head.
Read and suffer. 
Soundwaves - By John C.
Sound is just vibration,
moving through the air,
no greater purpose, or hidden mysteries,
that's what science tells us,
and that's what we believe,
but now to ask a question out of you.Why can music move us,
and leave us far behind,
or feel things we've never felt before,
to make us laugh, and make us cry,
to make us feel whole,
my friend, how could vibration do all that?Off again all, off again.
- Posted Jan 27, 2008 4:39 am GMT
- Category: Music
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24Dec 07
Intelligence For Your Life:
A. The security guards at John's college do NOT like him...
B. John has not been, and will not be, going online, bar rare occasions...for some weeks at the least
C. The guards REALLY don't like John...
D. He wishes you all a happy holidays, and apologizes that his microphone has died and carols are out of the question.
E. The guards regularly disbatch a team to go after John...
F. John has secured four A's in college...again...and can now attempt certification with Cisco Networking Systems if he wants.
G. John also has grown to dislike the guards...-John
- Posted Dec 25, 2007 1:56 am GMT
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14Dec 07
...9 out of 10 doctors advise against it...and the rest of them just hate people in general.
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Hello All,
I'll get back to thingets on here soon, like a song for Alex to sing his heart out with.
But for now, time to vent out a couple of odd happenings in my day. The biggest one was getting my first 'surprise' final exam...you see, the teacher decided that schedules are boring, so he told us at the last class that our hands on final was due during the same class period. Then he prattled off entirely, and insanely, random teams for it. Somehow, I guess by the grace of god or something, I actually didn't get an idiot.
Oh, I also got a bit of an offer to come apply for a job...its with a rather large and successful company, with the products they market being sold in, um, 70 something countries by vendors, with branches of the actual company in places from Australia, to the USA, to the UK, to India...yeah, big place. I really have my reservations that I would get the job if I applied...but I do have a contact within the company who said he would vouch for my skills and abilities. Not sure if I will...I'd hate to pass up a rather golden opportunity, yet I am not really in the position to go for a full-time job with a major corporation.
Well, thats about it for the night...wanted to vent about the job thing, but nobody I know around here is awake.
Now its time to force myself to sleep, though it may prove impossible, as I have a poem (of all blasted things), bubbling in my head, and it doesn't want to go away, but I don't entirely want to write it either. Anyways, enough babbling, why do you people even read this slop anyways? A goodnight, good day, good morning, good noontide, wherever you are, whenever you are, a good something with my best wishes attached. (oh, thats why you read it...cause I'm just such a sweetheart )- John
- Posted Dec 14, 2007 12:46 pm GMT
- Category: Games
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8Dec 07
Hello All,
Weeupdate of something.
My computer is atiny bit old *cough*100 BC*/cough* and its been a tempermental little blighter as time has worn on. Now, well, the bugger has gotten a bit more tempermental, and I no longer have internet access at my apartment...since I rarely come here at remotely normal times, that probably lowers my chances of seeing your witty blogs.
Its problems,including the obvious kicker of old age, are getting beyond my ability to repair...and that is honestly saying something. Especially "lovely" is the lack of internet access, as more of my classes have internet components than not.
So, time to tighten the old belt, got to save money somewhere. Parts aren't cheap after all, we all know that.Anyways, best wishes all, since I may not be around,hope you have a MerryChrismakwanzhaunadan seasoneverybody...I amusing that to make sure thatI alienate and insult everybody I can at once.
Now off to do four tests that I had yet been unable to do because of no connection...and then the pages of darn work. - John
Happy Holidays, dead in it's grave,
Season's Greetings a faint memory,
Merry Christmas insults too few at a time,
so Chrismakwanzhaunadan for me.- Posted Dec 8, 2007 9:21 am GMT
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28Nov 07
Hello All,
Been a bit since I have slung something out onto this chunk of webspace that cnet has foolishly allowed me the use of. So I guess I will give a bit of insight into some of the many happenings in my life, things have possibly slowed down a little bit, but my life is honestly still akin to a rollercoaster in a land without laws against endangerment or indirect murder.
First off, a bit of gaming news I think would be warranted.
I've been a gamer for a small bit of time now, about the entirety of my life, but my family has only a spotty history of gaming. Therefore, it is my sworn and solemn duty to convert them to "see the light, and hear the siren call, of gaming."
Its gone well, what with my brother following in my footsteps (when he gets a little older I'm introducing him to shooters so I can take him online and laugh as he pwns n00bs
) and my dad liking the Mechwarrior games. But still, imagine my surprise when I get an email from my folks, saying that they are trying to buy a Wii and cannot find one. I, obviously, braved the stores of Northern California to find them a Wii...which was mostly a losing battle since they sell out within minutes at most stores in my city. But, I have connections, and eventually tracked down a Wii in another nearby city. So, for this week, I've had a Wii sitting in my apartment for "quality assurance testing," alongside Super Mario Galaxy. No, I didn't think they would be broken...but could I still be a card-carrying gamer if I had NOT offered to test it? I think not!
By the way, if you have a Wii, get Super Mario Galaxy, it is a GOOD game. Hmm, school...I'm very happy about one thing in my Russian History class...it will soon be over. The text is pretty much garbage, and the teacher...lets not even go there.
As for grades, they've been the normal kind for me, so my GPA of 4.0 is going to stay intact. (For those unknowing of what I mean, GPA is an American measure of how well you have done during your entire career at a school, 4.0 is the highest and means nothing but top marks on all final class grades.) I also found out that, by some insane bit of luck, I got the very last room in the college dorms...means I will be moving again, but also means I'll be shelling out less rent, and won't have to drive through rush hour to get to class.Now you might wonder what the singing up there in the title is...my dad tossed a box of old computer junk at me, and I found a wee little microphone in it, and I might be taken by my special sense of insanity and end up singing ya'll a Christmas carol...yes it is a threat.
On a side note, do people normally know what they sound like personally? Because whenever I hear a recording of myself, I barely recognize it.I also just picked up a book, "Horus Rising" for all you 40k'ers out there, its a Sci-Fi novel that had gotten allot of acclaim from those I've talked to about it. I was skeptic even with their support, as the few Sci-Fi novels I've seen have normally been *insert bad word here*. However, this book was very skillfully crafted, and entertaining enough that I finished the 412 pages in the evening I bought it. May have to get the next in the series now, then again, I have always been much more interested by good books than most other forms of entertainment, including games...
On the last note of insanity, I just got my picture taken with Santa for Christmas.
Hope you all have a good one, I'll be back to stalk the comments eventually, and maybe add things I totally forgot.
-John
- Posted Nov 28, 2007 10:58 pm GMT
- Category: Movies
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16Nov 07
Hello All,
I had said that I was planning on telling a story from my past, something to entertain the masses. Tonight finds me a wee bit down, rather sore, and just a tad exhausted, so I'm not up to telling one of my stories...but late this evening I was reminded of a story I heard a long time ago, and its one that deserves retelling so I am not the only repository of it.
I first heard this story, related in part, back when the better portion of the readers of this blog were very small children. But it is far older than that short stretch of time, most of those here were not yet born, and I would venture to say that even the eldest were but babies when it actually happened if they had been born at all.
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On the streets of San Francisco there was a young man, a worker in his heart, but the rest of him had become haggard by the ministrations of an unkind world. Life had honestly beaten him, he had no money, no job, no home, and no person to turn to, not even to merely talk with. He had not given up fully on life, but it was impossible to think that it might start being kind...it would have just been too much of a change.
He lived on the street, just one of many whom were too poor to do anything else. Unlike many of the others though, he tried his best to find a job, but no employer would look twice at the man before them...too unkempt, too ragged, for them to waste their time upon. He had not been on the streets long, and each failure took away a bit of his drive to press on, and added to the growing chance that life merely would not let him get by.
It did not take long before he was forced to ask any he saw for help, not for a handout, but for a chance to work at any odd job...just for a bite of food. Few, as is the norm in San Francisco, would give him the time of day, but he had no choice to the contrary, a man must eat. The requests worked, rarely, but, on occasion they worked.
One day he asked a man for something to do, hoping for perhaps a sandwich in trade for some menial labor, and the man said he would help, asking him to get into the truck. The man took him back to his home, and gave him lunch. Then the man told him to get cleaned up in the shower and showed him clean clothes he could put on. After dinner the man gave him a small sum of money and sent him back into the world once again, only smiling with a twinkle in his eyes when asked why, and saying he respected a man who work instead of handouts.
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In many stories the young man would now go on to become something great, or he would repay the other older man in time...but I do not tell fairy tales, and this is no exception. The young man went on to get a job, nothing spectacular, but he would be able to support himself and have a place to live. Perhaps he found a wife in time, perhaps he made a family, the only thing I know is that he would always be able to remember kindness and what it can do, that even the smallest bit of kindness paid can change the world of another person.
I will never know the young man, nor even his name; but the other man, the older one with the twinkling eyes, was my grandfather, a man of kindness...
-John
- Posted Nov 16, 2007 10:55 am GMT
- Category: Nature
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7Nov 07
Hello Once Again,
This one will be broken into sections, take it slowly, or not at all.Edit: Forgot to thank you all for the lovely kindness about the poetry-thing bloggy I did the other day.
So the apartment...not quite as nice as the family kept saying it was. Sure, I had been here to look it over too, but I only had a few minutes to look it over, so I missed a couple of things. A quartet of gems for your amusement:
Other apartment stuff
Life
Pretty soon I plan on just taking some time to sleep and recover from all the abuse I'm putting my body through. The good news is that I probably will be slightly more together after I am done putting glue in all the cracks.
That covers WAY more than any of you want to know, so I'll finish off. Oh, nearly forgot the most lovely part of today...a new computer table I bought...I would have been better off buying boards and making one. When I tightened one of the fasteners, by hand, I ended up breaking the metal into two pieces...I did this lovely trick twice before I decided to stop. Its getting returned tomorrow, and then I might look at boards at Home Depot.
Anyhoo, best of luck to all of you, hope things are going, or will start going, well for you all...I imagine this gives a little reasoning to my spotty posting.
-John"In the journey of a hundred years, do the miles really count?" -John
- Posted Nov 7, 2007 10:08 am GMT
- Category: Sports
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5Nov 07Removed, Due To John Doing Evil Things With It Right Now...
- John
- Posted Nov 5, 2007 10:24 am GMT
- Category: Science
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25Oct 07
Hello All,
Yep, me again all.
Ya'll might remember that I've been trying for an apartment so I don't have to drive quite as far, I've found one, and its waiting for me. Going to go down tomorrow with a fistful of dollars...and then some...and claim it as my own, then I'll start moving what I own down to the city. No internet at the apartment, unless I can steal someone's wireless, so less John, especially at insane hours.
I've finished one of my college courses now, still waiting on the final grade, but the second half of it has started up, so my schedule is still full. I actually expected to fail the paper final, as I first tried to study the review sheet about 10 minutes before I left in the car, couldn't even understand the questions. Apparently the review was just garbage though, the 50 odd question test took me next to no time, and I got a 90 something out of it.
After that they made us do a hands-on final, in teams. Out of my team, one was diabetic and suffering from low blood sugar at the moment so all he got done was making a cable, another ran the cabling between a couple of the switches and whatnot, and the other two just stood there, not having a clue of what to do...I obviously took up the slack because I didn't want to fail horribly. I actually feel bad because the two slackers got a perfect score due to the work of the other members...I still don't think a final should be team-based.
I guess one of the next things I'll be doing is seeing if I can fit a job in my schedule, and seeing if I can find one that wants me and doesn't want experience or full-time hours. A couple of note on the college's job board: Gardener, Network Technician, and Nude Model. The gardener is self explanatory, the network technician would be part-time for a church (I do not know why a church needs a network big enough to have a technician), and nude model is for the figure drawing class at the college. The technician has the exceptional bonus of being really good on a resume, as I would be helping a church and working in my field at the same time.
More probably happened, but its late and I have to get up in a few scant hours to be back on the road again so I'll leave any good bits for later. Wondering why I wrote this much then? I took a medication to help me sleep, but I didn't take enough so its not fighting the insomnia, and if I take more it will still be hitting me while I'm driving...ergo my only hope is to pass out before the sun rises or something...
- John
- Posted Oct 25, 2007 10:07 am GMT
- Category: Pets and Animals