Pondering...

Hello again. I was talking to a fellow today about the disaster that is Katrina and he brought up a few nuggets I thought I should share with ya'll. First of all, where's the U.N. aid? Second, why aren't all the nations we call friends calling us to lend support? Seems all our friends of the world aren't that friendly when we're in a bind. Maybe we should divert some of that rebuilding money from New Texas, uh, I mean Iraq, and use it for the benefit of the victims at home. Or, maybe we could take a few of those gold doubloons from the gas pumps and put it in the pockets of those who really need it. Just trying to suggest some solutions since our leaders are too busy serving the rich and screwing the poor. Come on folks, New Orleans is UNDER WATER!! Where's the telethon man?!! Let's not forget about Alabama and Mississippi either. These are our brothers and sisters and they need help like yesterday. How is it that we can ride to the rescue of every island with a flag over there and we can't take care of our own people? This is a wake up call. God don't like ugly and we, as a country, have turned our backs on our impoverished citizens way too long. I bet if Louisiana was a foreign country sittin' on a gang of oil we'd send all the help they could stand and the government would slice up that pie amongst themselves. Karma will not be kind to those crooked clowns, I guarantee it. Hi-Lo

Killing time

Hey ya'll. I'm not doing much since my better half is out at rehearsal and I'm bored out of my brain. I read the paper today and the news is really depressing. That bitch of a hurricane caused a lot of damage down south. I saw the pictures of the Big Easy and I still can't believe that 80% of it is underwater. That can't be right. I read that the "resident" President is keeping an eye on the relief efforts already underway. The other eye is on the profits he's making on the recent oil price increases. Yesterday, gas right by my job was 2.70/gallon. This morning, it was 2.78/gallon and by this afternoon, it reached 2.83/gallon at the same station!! Are these gas prices or the Stock Exchange updates? Of course not, because the Stock Market moves up and down (mostly flat nowadays) while the gas prices only go up. Remember the good old days when Dollar Bill was running the show and gas prices were at an average of 1.15/gallon nationwide? I don't care if he had a line of interns waiting to "serve there country" outside of his office, at least there were jobs and I could afford to drive my gas-guzzling, four-wheeling, deer-stomping SUV without taking out a loan. Not that I would ever hit a deer or that I ever went four-wheeling, but at least I could afford it back then. Now, Jack in the Box is considered fine dining in my household! Let's make an Ammendment to nix the whole two term limit thing on Presidents and re-elect Dollar Bill to another term. Hell, make it two 'cause we've got a lot of Bushit to undo and one term might not be enough to reverse the damage. All blue-collar folks would definitely be happier. Think of the strippers, people! Nickels and dimes hurt you know. Hi-Lo

Bangin' on the keys

What's up out there? Well, I finally found a new job after years of searching. Funny thing is that I can't quit the old job because I need more money than either one alone could provide. Figures! So, I'll be working both jobs, full time, and I wont have much time for the blogging lifestyle for a while. I may actually be posting more often since I'll need something to keep me sane through all this. No sense in wasting valuable time sleeping when I could be making money anyway. I hear working eighty hours a week isn't so bad once you see those paychecks roll in. I guess this is life in the 21st century economy. Too bad I don't own an oil well or run a whole country so I can invade some poor little Middle Eastern country and make millions by taking over there oil supply and... oh wait, that's already been done. Or maybe I could parlay my movie career into winning public office and screwing the citizens of the state I run and... damn, too late for that one too. Well, it seems I have no other choice but to work these two gigs and keep playing the lottery. Stay tuned. Hi-Lo

Hey ya'll. Nothing much to say today except:
Being broke is
no joke,
How do you cope,when you don't
drink, smoke or toke?
I wake up everyday without
a penny in hand,
I wonder how much more of this
I can stand,
The rent is barely paid and
my stomach is never full,
If I only had some money,
life would be wonderful,
'til that day comes,
I'll continue losing weight,
And doing a job that
I really, really hate,
I guess when I'm old
I'll laugh about these times,
When I was so hungry,
I scrimped all my nickels and dimes,
For now, I'm working one job
and looking for two more,
So I can pay the bills
and get some food from the store,
Well this is the life
in a good economy,
No time, little food
and no money.

Don't be alarmed out there. Yeah, I don't get three squares a day, but it takes a lot more than a little calorie reduction and a bad job market to silence this mind. Stay up... Hi-Lo.

Rough going

Hello everyone. I know it's been a minute since I last posted anything, but I've been going through a lot of things of late. The worst of which is that I lost a very good friend of mine. He was the nicest person I'd ever met. It didn't really sink in 'til I went to his funeral yesterday. He had fallen ill a while back and all my energies went into visiting him in the hospital and checking in on his son to see how he was doing. People consider me pretty funny, but as most people find out, the most humorous of people tend to have gone through a lot of things. I don't think of myself as one of the funniest people on Earth, but I have gone through a lot of tragedy in my life and I've coped with it by having a good sense of humor. For example, as I began to write this posting, I thought of how life has been hitting me so hard that I feel like a pinata. I also had an image of being stuck in a pinball machine. Guess which part I was? I know there will be times when life treats me like a punching bag, but I also know that if all you focus on is the bad times then you're going to have a bad time. That came out kinda Yogi Berra, but I think you get the idea. The other day, I imagined that it was twenty years from now and my friends and I were old men on a porch drinking lemonade and laughing about the good old days. One of us didn't make it that far, but I guess we'll have to wait 'til we all get to that porch up there. You know, I was thinking about how even though I'd always believed we go to a better place when we die, I've had that voice in the back of my head that said,"what if you're wrong?" The greatest gift my friend gave me was that he left this world with a smile on his face and now that voice is gone. Thanks Robert, for all the laughs and all the good times. Save me some lemonade. Hi-Lo