Code Name D.A.D. … Defeat Anger Daily

I want to climb to the top of a very tall building and jump off…..

Not suicidal, I just think Rappelling is COOL!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes the best feelings in the world happen once your life has ended. Great clarity also comes at that point.

Many Many Many years ago, the Lord told Noah to build a boat and gather up all the critters because I am going flood this place. And Noah did just that.

Now, you may be asking what the point of that little Bible lesson. The point is simply this. God and Noah both loved each other. And were both dedicated to making their deal work.

Why did God pick Noah???? Because God knew Noah would work his ass off and get it done. And why did Noah do his part? Well, I am sure it was because building the boat was better than the alternative. (Drowning). Noah was a good and righteous man. It was a good match for both.

The point to all of this is both parties had to work. Both parties had to be dedicated. Both parties had to focus on what needed to be done. Love had nothing at all to do with.

 Today, revealed for the very first time, is the story of Barogelmon.

Barogelmon was Noah’s neighbor. And Barogelmon heard the whole conversation between Noah and God.  Barogelmon decided that he too was going to build him a boat. But Barogelmon had some issues. Barogelmom used to go to a lot of Ra’s dances. Barogelmon would occasionally light a candle in Hera’s tent when his luck was not going well with the ladies.  And everybody knew about the parties Barogelmon threw for his friend, Bacchus. But when shit come to shovem Barogelmon belonged to Yahweh. And because of that, Barogelmon busted his ass. He collected a bunch of animals. Barogelmon decided that he was going to pack up the unicorns, a couple Dwarves, a pair of Gold and a pair of Blue Dragons and many critter of that ilk. You see, Barogelmon loved the Lord, and wanted to do everything he could to help. The problem came down to the fact, while the Lord did love Barogelmon, and Barogelmon did love the Lord, The Lord had picked Noah. And that was all there was too it. Barogelmon was cut. Barogelmon was sent out to drown. The story of Barogelmon died.

And I don’t know about the rest of ya’ll out there in Blogland, but I do miss those Dragons

Love is pointless. Feelings are immaterial.  Dedication is everything. It is pointless to continue to fight a losing battle. One can do everything they can to solve, fix or make it right, but if another party has made up their mind to go a different direction, all the hard work is just running around in a hamster wheel.

Pass along the story of Barogelmon, I would love to see it make it around and onto other blogs……

“Someone” reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. It’s not the Big Read though — they don’t publish books, and they’ve only featured these books so far. In any event . . .

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 or less and force books upon them.

1. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman

14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Do not know if I should underline the or not. There were a couple I did not like…..While others I thought were awesome
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

So when we last saw our hero, he was very excited about the date he was going to have this weekend. He had a rather impressive dinner planned that included Chicken Kiev and a home made Chocolate Marble cheesecake. Did I ever tell you I make kick ass cheesecakes????? I do, but I digress……

So approximately 2 hrs before work shift ends I comment to my date about this weekend, and she apologizes profusely, but a girlfriend of hers was coming into town and she was spending the weekend with her.

So sport’s fans, let’s look at the scorecard……

This weekend…………Stood up

Last Weekend…………Spent with da Missus and da Twinsies.

Weekend before………Stood up

Weekend before that…Stood up

 Doing pretty damn good!!!!! Outside of the weekend with the family, I am a perfect 100% on the FAIL SCALE!!!!!! OK….there was one spur of the moment evening or two with someone in there, but hey…..She is the one standing me up THIS weekend. Guess she got to know me well enough to know better.

Let’s look at the big picture though. We cannot look at 4 weekends and make a determination of success or failure, right????? We have to look at the big picture!!!!

In the last 18 months, I have lost my wife, lost a girlfriend, been stood up in real life by two different women (one of them more than once), and been accused of rape twice. Hell of a year!!!!!!!
 

I won’t even mention all of the girls that have just said no or ignored my advances.
 

Of the rapes??? Yeah…..on two separate occasions, a lady I have been with accused me later of forcing myself on them when they did not want it. Both of them did not like it when I referred to it as “rape”, but by definition……
 

I won’t even mention the fact that my daughter is refusing to talk to me right now.

Hell of a slump I am in. Well, kids, I here some alcohol calling my name……I do not know if I will be blogging much in the near future. I may…..Or I may just drop of the face of the Earth for a while.

A young lady friend and I went out this evening. I do have some interest in her. No clue if she has it in me. A lot of signs point to yes though. Cool thing is, is that I am not stressing over it. If it happens, it happens, and if not, WHO CARES???? Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Embarrassing part is that I nearly started hitting on one of her friends…..Whoops, slow down stud. Remind me to screw up one relationship at a time. It has been a long time since I was in the dating scene. Right, now I remember one of the many reasons da Missus dumped me. I am an ASSHOLE. However, eing taken out and introduced to friends is still considered a good sign, right?

I am still getting used to the concept of this being "my house". While da Missus left in March or so, she was still coming back occasionally. Well, barring some sort of extreme situation, she will probably never live here again. I really need to get in gear and start packing up / putting away her stuff. I am not trying to shove her out, nor am I trying to erase her existence. And truth be told, I wish in many ways that we could get back together and try again. Fact is, I do not know if I can and I am pretty sure she will not. But the cleaning is more of a cathartic move for me. It is too easy for me to start to wallow in self-misery / self-pity (self-destruction) with all of her stuff around. 

Hope everyone is enjoying the “emoticons”

Enough for tonight. More tomorrow

1. Do you believe in marriage? WOW. What a tough question. But looking at it, yes I do. I see my parents who have been married 40 yrs and are still giddy over each other. I see othe people like them. I know it can work. AN with my religious beliefs (Basically Catholic) I sort of have to.

2. What is marriage to you?
It is supposed to be a partnership. It is supposed to be two people cleaving into a single unit

3. If you are married, why did you do it? If you are not, why have you not married?
Why?  Truthfully, we got married when we did because da Missus was pregnant. Now we went on to lose that child. But we were already planning to get married. We wanted to show our commitment to each other, to God and to others around us.

4. Do you believe in divorce?
Funny to say this seening how I am divorced once and currently seperated, but I really do not believe in divorce except for extreme circumstances. Obviously, if you spouse turns into some who an alocoholic, drug user, rapist or beats you, of course I think divorce might be the only option. But I also think that divorces are to easy to get. I believe that too many people look as that as the easy option. A lifetime commitment is work. Hard, hard, miserable work at times. But with the work some rewards should come. If both partners are willing to give and work.