One week

It is one week until my 30th birthday.  Sadly, I will be working the night before and and the night of, so I will have a party on the Monday after, or the fifth of October for those of you who are brain-dead and cannot think for yourselves.  I am inviting no one to this party and it shall not be considered a pity, I will enjoy the solitude and the time away from the rat race of civilized society.  I will ponder many things and pose many queries to the trees and the squirrels, none will be answered and not a word to be spoken.  I will enter a deep thought process and magically return with a full stream of consciousness to be bombarded by the universe.  Life can be so grand and the answer is 42.

Pro-gun vs. Anti-gun: Blown Away!

Here is a clip of a typical liberal meathead host:

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Chris Mathews is that meathead and should be disparaged at every opportunity. The guest does an excellent job of reinforcing the intelligence of all pro-gun, pro-freedom Americans. As usual, Mathews doesn't allow the guest to answer a single question without interrupting and attempting to make himself appear smart when he is really a dumb-f**k. Mathews must go! He is among the many reasons I don't watch MSNBC and wish it would die.

Superman needs help...

Okay, Superman never needs our help, I just wanted to draw your
attention to the plight of the fully enclosed phone booth, as seen in
this video:

Embedded video from CNN Video


I think more should be built, make them high-tech, with cameras and
security systems. If a bum begins to urinate, zap him with a bolt of
energy, smokers would get doused by an overhead sprinkler system, and
those that wish to sleep over night would be charged for the room. I
think this is doable and I would encourage a local entrepreneur to get
right on it.

Apollo 11 + 40

Today is the day that we mark the historic landing of man on the moon.  Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module and placed footprints on a foreign celestial body.  A very riveting time for our nation and the world as a whole.  I applaud NASA for replaying the tapes from those history-making days in real-time, I have been listening to them and have found much interesting material.  No doubt that Buzz and Neil were very excited about the important and improbable feat that they were to accomplish on this day.  

As I have been listening to the real-time feed that I mentioned above, I have also been following along with the transcript that is posted of the communications between Houston and the Apollo spacecraft.  Though at times the 40-year-old live feed and the transcript do not match up time wise, it is still fun to read along as the crew goes about flipping switches and pressing buttons to be able to land on the moon.  As for historic points on the trascript, I have found a few.  The separation of the lunar module from the command module occurs on page 318, the landing occurs on page 337, and the first footprint by Neil occurs on page 382.

I encourage everyone to pause for a moment today to reflect upon the masterful and unlikely events of today and send a message to Congress that we need to return to the moon and go to Mars and beyond.  It is our destiny as humans to seek out what is beyond our grasp and to explore what is beyond our reach.  Godspeed Neil and Buzz and all of our astronauts.

Flying

Recently, I flew from Missoula, Montana to Fresno, California via Delta Airlines.  My journey was pleasant and, for the most part, uneventful.  The employees were all very polite and helpful and the worst that happened was them not getting one of my two checked bags back to me until the next day.  My first flight by myself and they misplace one of my checked bags.  Not a big deal, 'cause when I did get it back, all was in order and no complaint needed to be filed.  Not so for Dave Carroll.  Watch the video he created and follow his story.


An airline destroying a guitar and then not paying for its negligence is absurd and cause for a boycott.  You won't see me on United anytime soon.
Will Robertson of Livermore, CA

Montana

I have had a wonderful time in Montana. Well, as wonderful a time as can be had while working with the bees.  I have managed to avoid being stung, accomplished by wearing a bee suit and deftly handling boxes and frames.  The weather has been mostly hot with a cool spell happening in the past 24 hours or so.  Will be glad to return to California tomorrow, on what will be my first time flying alone.  I will be walking through security, finding the gate, and changing planes, all by my lonesome.  Now, I know that for a 29-and-a-half year-old like myself to be saying this may sound weird and even a bit stupid to some people, I think it is a highlight of my life that I am able to do this on my own.  Not that I am in any way physically or mentally handicapped or the least bit stupid or retarded, I am just a normal male who realizes the enormity of the world and all its wondrous ways.  It should be noted for the record, that I am married and I am fully capable of living the good life if I weren't just so damn lazy and bored of life.  I attempt to find the fun, but it is hard and I like to make things easy and to do so while maintaining the highest quality is not so simple after all.  Am I just rambling, perhaps, but this all needs to be said.  I will sign off now, enjoy the day!

Will Robertson of Livermore, CA