Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Bad week so far
The world lost a great man at 1:30 AM Monday morning. I remember meeting Glen Engelke when I was eight years old. At the time, to a little kid, he seemed like a wily old crazy trucker. He was; but he was also a great guy, loyal to his friends almost to a fault and one of the few people I ever knew that could absolutely put a smile on anyone's face no matter how down they were. He took the time to take a crazy kid golfing whenever I wanted to go and was always available to just meet up and talk about whatever with whoever. I had lunch with Glen and couple of other friends a couple of weeks ago before he became confined to bed and he looked me in the eye, shook my hand and thanked me for being his friend. Glen realized he didnt have long and was more concerned about letting his friends know how much he appreciated them than having anyone's pity. The funeral was yesterday so I haven't felt much like blogging this week.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Game Time
The boat is headed east. Last check it was in Pensacola, Florida. Flying down to meet it in the morning. In Key West till next Monday with an insane group of people. Assure you I'll have pics and stories for the blog.
UT lost last weekend. Sucks.
Halloween last weekend, didnt do anything. Went to the movies with Brent since Angela was out of town. Home asleep by ten. It was awesome.
Room is full of sounds of Chris mounting his soap box
Electing a new President today. Next four years is gonna be interesting. Unfortunately I dont think in a good way. CHARISMA does not equate to being a good leader. Simply proves once again that life is one big popularity contest. Not even Presidents get elected on their merits. If you're "hip" and can point out what's wrong with America and most of all can move people with your speaches and convince them to follow you, you got what it takes apparently. Dont bother with proposing solutions. Let me first say I'm for McCain. I think Obama may be able to use his ability to motivate people to do some great things, however history is full of people who have used this ability with huge negative consequences (Hitler...great motivator, David Koresh...great motivator; now dont everyone get upset, these were two incredibly misguided individuals who used their gifts negatively, their are examples such as MLK and others who used their abilities in amazing and beautfiul manners). Hopefully history doesnt repeat itself. I, for one, think socialism should be left in places like Cuba and China. Call it what you will, "spreading the wealth around" is socialism.
Chris dismounts soapbox
UT lost last weekend. Sucks.
Halloween last weekend, didnt do anything. Went to the movies with Brent since Angela was out of town. Home asleep by ten. It was awesome.
Room is full of sounds of Chris mounting his soap box
Electing a new President today. Next four years is gonna be interesting. Unfortunately I dont think in a good way. CHARISMA does not equate to being a good leader. Simply proves once again that life is one big popularity contest. Not even Presidents get elected on their merits. If you're "hip" and can point out what's wrong with America and most of all can move people with your speaches and convince them to follow you, you got what it takes apparently. Dont bother with proposing solutions. Let me first say I'm for McCain. I think Obama may be able to use his ability to motivate people to do some great things, however history is full of people who have used this ability with huge negative consequences (Hitler...great motivator, David Koresh...great motivator; now dont everyone get upset, these were two incredibly misguided individuals who used their gifts negatively, their are examples such as MLK and others who used their abilities in amazing and beautfiul manners). Hopefully history doesnt repeat itself. I, for one, think socialism should be left in places like Cuba and China. Call it what you will, "spreading the wealth around" is socialism.
Chris dismounts soapbox
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