Last Blog

For this being the last blog and asking if I will continue to blog more than likely my answer would be no blogging. At my older age blogging is not part of my lifestyle. I do not think to blog or even be on social media websites for that matter. I have nothing against social media websites except I think some people use it for the wrong reasons.  For those who like blogging good for you. I was just not into doing blogging. It was fun and a way to express your thoughts and feelings on issues. I will say some feedback comments were very helpful. Actually some comments helped with getting through the week. I will say a couple of classmates who provided comments are very nice. I do wish and hope for the best for them in their futures. For everyone in class I hope you will have a happy and fun filled life in front of you.

I wish I would have just stayed on top of my blogging to ensure a good grade. I think my lack of enthusiasm for blogging was part of the reason I missed some blogging assignments. I would be thinking get your blog completed and posted, then next thing I know were into the next week where I forgot to post. It was also difficult sometimes writing to meet the word quota of 500 words. I did learn how to do embed links for writing. This is something I will say has helped me to start getting back into the new technology to make sure I am able to have some knowledge. A lot has changed since I took computer class. I remember talking about binary codes for basic computer programming. It is all brand new know and I would say this is one thing I can take from the class to use in the future.

I did not see much improvement in my writing skills. This is the only thing I wish we could have had more focus on. I am a person who is long removed from school it would have been nice to refresh and enhance the rules on writing as well as expand on vocabulary skills. This is me telling my age again. I did want to make my writing better but for me I needed my guidance to do that. I did not feel I got this from just writing a blog. The blog is a way to express your thoughts and feelings but not a way to learn or enhance your writing skills. I feel that we as long distance learners are not looked at as people far removed from current technology or education due to the focus is on what the younger generation currently is a part of. Most high school graduates coming into college have this mind set and skill set because this is what they grew up doing. We as the older generations have not dealt with this new way of social media chat so it presents a challenge. School curriculums have changed to be totally different of school education expectations but hey….it is what it is!

Personal update/Provide suggestion

For those who have been reading some of my blogs, a big thanks. Some of your comments were very helpful and I took them like you said. Here is some follow up to some of those personal blogs. My sister and I had a long talk a couple of weeks ago. It was very helpful for the both of us. We both have to be patient with each other because we are not the same little kids we were when we grew up. We both have lived very different lifestyles and have seen and learned a lot of things for our own personal enlightenment. Even though I am the youngest out of five kids, I have to step up and be the leader in our family. It is funny how the youngest in a lot of families end up taking the leadership role of the family especially after the death of the parent. Our mother passed away suddenly back in 1997 from diabetes complications. Love you mom! When she passed we lost a lot of that motherly love leadership. We all ended up going our separate ways to live our lives. My sister and I had to talk so we can learn about each other all over again.


We used to see each other just for the holidays but we never talked on the phone. This is just how protective her bad husband was. The only reason he moved them to a whole other state was to get her away from her family so he could do his manipulative mind games. Since our talks things have been better around the house. We will continue to talk and I think I will add hanging out together to our list of activities.

Another topic of discussion is my job. I have been interviewing for some jobs within the past few weeks and still currently. I have to say that I did receive another job from those interviews. I am blessed! I will be starting a new position with the same company I work for now. This position is something new for me so I will be learning a lot more information making myself more valuable in the future. This new position starts in two weeks. I look forward to the new position. I have to fly to another state for another job I have been going through interviews with. This is the final stage of the interview process. If I do well on this I will have the job for sure and it pays very well where I would be able to financially help my sister get back on her feet. I can still let her know that family is still good whether it is all of your family or just part of your family. I am keeping my options open and not counting my chickens before the eggs hatch.

I have to give a presentation to a panel board for my final interview. This interview has to be interactive to incorporate the panel board. I am thinking since I coach little league football to go over flag football and use a nerf football. If any other ideas I am open for suggestions.

I also want to say to everyone in class good luck on final paper and final grade in class. I hope everyone is able to pass the class with a good grade!

Random

What am I going to blog about today? HHMMMM….I did see a story on Roger Clemens of all people. The article is mainly about Andy Pettitte, Ex-New York Yankee catcher, changing his testimony on the stand to help save Clemens from being charged with perjury. This is a who cares story and a waste of money. Clemens is a retired baseball player with a great career. This is not important to prosecute him and send him to jail for lying about using steroids. They can try to twist this case all they want to focus on lying but this case is still about the use of steroids. I do not think it would matter if he lied on the stand about drinking alcohol before, during or after a game. The government should have never got involved with baseball in the first place. We did not need to have those tax dollars wasted. We needed those and current tax dollars to be spent on something way more important like helping out homeless people. With all the issues we are having we will never see a congressional hearing on helping the homeless. What a sad day in America to focus on steroids in sports. Let the sports govern themselves!


The model who has filed for $46,000 per month for child support is out of her mind. This really is close to a gold digging mother. She claims she need the money to protect her son and to provide for around the clock nannies. That is very motherly of her. She wants 24 hour nannies so she can do her work as a model and keep her beauty appointments to maintain her look. I do see what is more important to her as a mother!! (sarcasm) Now her child father has married and has another child. During this time model mom had another very rich boyfriend who she has no more. After this spilt she decides to file for child support, really sounds fishy! I am sorry for the mother out there who really deserves to get child support. A case like this makes it bad for all of you. For those mothers who deserve child support you keep doing what you do focus on your child and give them the best life you can give them with a whole lot of love.

I am sure most of us have heard about the sudden death of ex-NFL great Junior Seau. To all his family, first and foremost, goes all of our prayers and sympathy. That was heartfelt to see his mom give her public statement on his death. I will say the media should allow his family time to heal and find out personally the reason for his death before going public. I felt disappointed on how the media has handled well known people deaths. It seems like the family gets put in the middle. Media acts like the family should be responsible to talk to them and the public. Families need to heal just like everybody else. They are no different than you and me. All the media should do is make a statement and give family time to heal before trying to get into their business about the deaths.

Friends - True or Not

"Friends, how many of us have them….friends," taking this from hip-hop group Whodini! For those that do not know this song you should look it up and listen to it. Not only is it entertaining but also true to an extent. The song is mainly geared towards relationships between men and women after the first verse. The first verse is where I am going with this blog. I worked with a girl who I thought we were really cool and this is strictly on a friend level. She started working here after me, I helped her during her new hire training and continuing education training on the job. We then ended up working together on the same team. We started working even closer on the same project together and carpooling to work. I stating this because all the time we spent together we would talk about everything and have no shame towards one another. We both had our personal problems that we talked about daily. Then you know how a situation comes up and you find out who your friends really are. Well this happened with us.

The project ended and then it came back up again. This time I was the only one chosen to implement the project. This is where things went downhill. It was the same old cliché. She got upset because she was not chosen for the project. First of all she knows this was bad and who cares. From the beginning of the first project management knew I put forth all the work and ingenuity to put it together because I kept them involved because I needed their help. This was obvious I did the work and she did nothing. While she was leaving work early or not showing up was noticed as well. While I was gone she threw me under the bus by bad mouthing me to everyone and trying to take all the credit for the first project. What she didn’t know was the feedback from the people we was completing the project for provided stated as such to her lack of performance and involvement. She did it to herself. Then the project was completed again and I had to return to my home work location. I then tried to approach her and she had attitude so I left her alone and let all that nonsense be on her. Nothing was my fault on this and she could not and still refuses to recognize her faults in many situations. This is where I am going with this blog.

Since then her life has just feel apart and a lot of what she told me comes up to be false. She said was married but come to find out since they split up no divorce is needed. She said her supposed to be husband cheated on her which she cheated on him. She has tried to make him look like the villain which he is just upset and hurt which she refuses to acknowledge. She wants everyone to be one her side and have pity for her. Well if she knew me like she says she would know I am not the pity party type person and especially when you lie. Still I try to help her and she continues to lie. For those out there in similar situations; if the person calls themselves your good friend but refuses to be completely honest and claims to always be completely honest, then keep them at arm’s length and sometime you have to let them bury themselves for them to realize who their true friends are.

Speech and Money

Some things are really really bad. I look at yahoo almost daily for stories for my blogging. Today I see another story about money within NCAA football. It discusses implementing a playoff system to prevent schools from paying so much money out of pocket for trips to bowl games. LSU is school mentioned in this article how much money they spent on players, coaches, marching band and school president tickets for the game. The schools are complaining they should not have to spend money on tickets. Although I agree but only in one aspect; the player’s family should all be comp tickets because of their hard work, dedication, pain and injuries to get their team to a bowl game. I think the players deserve this. School president and coach don’t because they already getting a high salary and can afford to pay for themselves as well as their families. Not to upset anyone but this only my humble opinion. If I was coach it would not bother me to pay for my family. I pay for my family now on little league level when we travel to play in championship tournaments. All this is another ploy for schools to make more money from bowl games to put in school pocket for them to spend it unwisely!

 I don’t think I will ever understand how freedom of speech actually works. All you here about is how someone should not have said this and that, how unprofessional, how dare they say that, and the response keep going. I wrote about freedom of speech a few blogs ago and how quick another person is being thrown under the bus for a response to a rude comment. I speaking in regards to NHL Florida Panthers COO responded to a NHL NJ Devil fans tweet. The fan called the COO a butt in good wording terms and he responded by letting her know her opinion does not matter. She took it personal talking about how terrible of a response that is brcause he is the COO. HHMMMMM? I take it this means one person is free to say whatever they want but be careful what you say for a response because you are wrong to express your opinion. I just do not get this. Just because he is a COO does not mean he is not a person. Just because he is a COO how does that make him better than anyone in regards to how he should speak? This is ridiculous. The NJ Devils fan called him an improper name and he let her know he wasn’t going to accept that so let’s move on. Blame the media and holier than thou people who cannot respect someone else’s opinion. Shame on them to act like self-opinion is truth or fact and someone else should acknowledge and accept what they say. All this because as a COO protecting his team decided not to sell a plastic rat for fans to throw on the ice for certain plays made during the game! Really!

Like my classmate!

I am going to take a page from a classmate and blog on several stories. Right now there is not too much going on that is really catching my eye. I did see a story about a 7 year old girl with no hands who won a national award for penmanship. That’s right you heard me, no hands and won penmanship award. The little girl name is Annie Clark who lives in the Pittsburgh, PA area. She was born with no hands and has learned to write with using her forearms. She holds the writing utensil in between her forearms. The story goes on to say how little Annie takes pride in her work and wants to make sure she does her writing correctly. How nice and wonderful is that! This is so great to see, hear and read about. With all the tragedies, political badgering and gossip; this story is a breath of fresh air!

 I really do not care that a secret service agent stated he was checking out Sarah Palin. This is not going to affect my life at all. This is just not news worthy story. I will say Sarah is not a bad looking lady, but Tina Fey is much better!! Should I say smarter too? All I can see coming out of this is proving how our government spends too much of our tax dollars on dumb stuff and this is President Obama fault. The Republicans will probably twist this to say this happened under Obama and OBiden watch so they are terrible for this. Oops, I pulled a Sarah Palin, I meant to say Biden. There is not much you can do when something like this happens. I say to fire these secret service agents based on the evidence. We do not need to spend any extra tax dollars to have an investigation completed to get details of this foolishness. If the government conducts an investigation than they are a part of the same foolishness!

Zimmerman is able to post bail. This case is going to be a long drawn out ugly trial in the media. It is not the same but very similar to the OJ case. This is going to be ugly. The prosecution will need to have plenty of substantial evidence to make the charges stick Zimmerman apologized to Martin family for killing their son. I don’t think it was accepted. Can you blame the family? I hope and pray that the Martin family continue on and remain strong. On the other hand how ironic is it that Zimmerman lawyer wants to keep Zimmerman where about a secret out of fear for his life. They must have forgotten already that he murdered a child. I just think it is funny how they trying to portray Zimmerman as a victim in this case. I cannot see anyone walking up to this man to try to do anything because you may not walk away on your own two feet! Rest in peace Trayvon Martin.

Stress

I am really stressed right now. I have so much going on that is becoming overwhelming. My brain is in over load mode. I have so much information to retain from all directions. I have to remember information for work, school, family, friends, coach for football, medical issues information and household bills. I am not looking for a pity party. I am just expressing my thoughts to get some stress relief by talking about it. I am currently searching for a new job to make more money. I have kept my low paying job for way too long and it is time to move on. We know how it is. If you do not get the promotion you were promised then it is time to move on. I know this is part of corporate America. Anyway, I have a phone interview. Can you believe I have to prep for a 30 minute phone interview? Well I do. Do not take this wrong, I am grateful for even being chosen for a phone interview. I am going in the direction of how things have changed. Things have changed in more ways than one.

I miss my younger days of no responsibility. All I had to do was go to school, do house chores and go outside to play. As I stated previous paragraph I am stressed now. There is so much responsibility to maintain it causes stress, especially when you have very limited help within your household. Let’s say I have a house full of grown folks and a pet dog. Why do I have to come home from work to make sure the dog is taking care of properly? This is something no one should have to stress over. Well, I do because of how the people in my house do not think and seem to be grateful with having a place to stay. Like today, I have this interview I need to prep for. I am unable to because my dog is sick and no one wants to help me out and keep an eye on my dog to help me out. These are the things we deal with for family. I really want to get a new job to make more money to be able to provide and help them get on their feet. I think I need to demand a little more gratitude from them before I start breaking my back for them. I try to be nice and not be selfish. I do not want to be selfish. Ungrateful people really try you but we must maintain our positive mind state in order to receive our many blessing for being a caring and giving person.

I will make tonight a late night and early morning to prep for my phone interview tomorrow and hope for the best. I will work on managing my time a lot better to relieve some stress through exercise which I plan to start on Monday. If any other ideas I am open to what you have!