Personal interests

I often wonder how some people came to be TV watchers and some are activity doers, and some are computer addicts and some are bar, tavern, saloon or club people.
I admire them all, however I cannot help but wonder from what each may be fleeing.

I wonder about myself the most of course and have decided that everyone has in their persona a ‘Nerd” that drives them to be a certain distortion of the real person they know they are.

If everyone would just go; (Yes I have a destination in mind for all of you) If they would just go take a strong, honest, blinders off, personally safe, private, critical and admiring look via a SERIOUS self examination and evaluation.

I think we would have more artists of quality, more health, more smiling, more satisfaction, more secure perceptions, more responsibility, more fulfillment, more acceptance, more beauty, more sharing, more realization that we can be everything we want of and for ourselves and not give a hoot about what we think others think of us in our real skin.

Have you ever done something to please someone else, and at the same time displeased yourself?

Have you ever bought a dress (Do women still wear dresses?) that you knew was just to look better for a specific other woman in some sort of personal fashion war?

Have you ever worn Khakis for someone else when you wanted to wear jeans for yourself?
Have you ever ??? - you fill in the blanks, (there is more than one thing to go here for each of us).

Have you ever ordered wine when you wanted a beer?

Have you ever said to yourself that you wish you had done what you wanted for yourself instead of doing something else for what someone else might think?

Enough, by now you either get it or are bored or have checked out. If you are still here, the real blog follows:

My point is that this is the real deal here that we are living today. This is the Final night of the play. This is the last time the orchestra will play the theme for curtain calls. This is the last experience we will have that is this unique experience - life.

Do whatever it takes. Do all you can. Please do ask yourself – Am I worth it to ‘be’ myself?
Ask yourself: Have I satisfied my desire to ‘be’ the person I know I am? Really. Way really down deep inside where only you can see, feel and know what is right for you.

If you haven’t yet done this, you are in for a treat. Just do it!

Then, when you have acknowledged who you really are not, go to the web site I won’t mention http://www.millennium3education.com). Here through yourself you can capture your life as you want it.

Ask yourself,
“What Is It That I Am Pretending Not To Know”

Fare is paid, tuition is not. You are worth it. I know. Do you? Go find out how to ‘be’ you.

Love with power and freedom,
CABBY

A Good Word

No, Not Charley Brown :)

Just a thought or two to set up a traveling weekend.

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take
charge and rule our lives from within."

Free your heart from hatred.

Free your mind from worries.

Live simply.

Give more.

Expect less.

Stop trying to be perfect.

Don't get overwhelmed.

Resist temptation.

Reward yourself.

You just rode in a taxicab through a car wash with me.

Yes, we left the windows down to help clear out everything. Today I will see something I never noticed before.

You'll dry out, so will I.

Hope you enjoyed the ride. I am going to go dump the car wash water and wax out of my boots. ha - ha!

Fare was the price of the car wash - 'free' with the windows down.

Laughing, CABBY

Bill paying

If we pay our city utility bill via telephone or internet, we pay a third party fee to make each payment via those methods.
So, I could save money by using the postal service?
Here is a prime example of that twisted logic of the politically correct getting in my face again.

Damn the bastards, I'll be post dating checks again.

(Do you realize that if you get a mile a dollar for using a credit card on a rewards card, that the merchant you do business with pays for those miles? He cannot charge you more for the use of the credit card, so he has to inflate his prices to everyone.
Look for another blog soon about that whole thing.) NUTS!

I can't charge you more when you pay your Curves bill with your rewards credit card, even though it costs me a dollar more to take your payment than it would by check or cash. So if I were to have a third party take your payment when you call me to pay it, then they can charge you more.

We 'otta sue the bastards that created this abomination!
Talk about a loop hole. Why not jsut let the merchant charge the fee?

Where were the regulators when Congress allowed this? Love those banker lobbyists!

It sucks to pay conveniently.
I have more to say. However instead, I am going to go pack to go on an Oryx hunting trip.
I'll show 'em about politically correct.
I may even go piss outside under the stars while I am there.

You know, I may even swear at the animals before we shoot, just to be completely politically outspoken.
I will still sample the blood when I butcher the carcass, though. I am after all aware of what I will be doing in the control of the range and environment.
(Singing here) "Here little Oryx. Here little Oryx. Come closer little Oryx. That's it". BANG!
Fresh liver soon. Oh, and Fresh heart. Yum-yum yum.

Sorry, I didn't get you away from the curb, I was afraid of my political rage turning to road rage.
CABBY

National Safety

India is a very poor country. People there are as smart as every where else.
India is having a very hard time with terrorists. Terrorists regularly and randomly murder Indian citizens daily.
India is arming its citizens to thwart terrorism because they think that will work.

America is (was) a wealthy country. People in America are as smart as every where else.
America doesn't have a hard time with in country terrorists. Americans are presently safe on their streets.
Americans are an armed society.

Some Americans want to take guns away from responsible gun safe people.

Some responsible gun safe Americans want to teach gun safety to ALL citizens, so it will be safe for everyone to own guns.

Some Americans want to require all Americans who own ANY gun to register and pay a registration fee and secure a license / permit to own each gun.
The proposed fee for such a licensing is approximately $ 25. That is $ 25 for each gun. The proposal says that this license would require renewal at about 5 year intervals.
I suggest that for $25 per student, I can teach adequate gun handling safety to everyone. It would not require renewal, EVER.
That would include a registry to record such training.

There are states that have progressed from a culture of licensing concealed gun carry permits to a culture of carrying a gun does not require a permit after gun safety training.

There are states that are attempting to make the possession of a gun a felony.

There are states where people collect their protein and table fare with a gun.
There are states where the people living there think it is unnecessary to own guns - at all.

The bottom line is that we have allowed the 'polite thinking' to permeate the sensibilities of logic.

There are people who would rather kill any innocent person, to support a drug habit.
There are people who would spend money to support these people with drug habits and not teach gun safety.

The next time you read your Daily Advertiser (Newspaper) headlines, just recall that the headlines could be that the Mayor, Governor or President actually told the truth and said we have as many people on the dole, welfare, handout, charity, you pick your name for it as we do paying taxes.

The next time you blow a red light, don't signal a lane change or a turn, just recognize that you are a part of the National safety problem.
You are, in committing that little illegal maneuver, a contributing reason that the police have to spend so much of their budget on traffic and not on crime protection.

If people would stop thinking of themselves, and begin to think of the whole bunch of us, we would begin to reduce the burden of crime, violence, welfare, food shelter and work shortage, social strata perceptions, poverty, trash in the environment, crimes against the citizens that are unable to protect themselves, pet cruelty, drug abuse, domestic abuse, traffic problems etc.
We would be able to take whatever of the stimulus money that might trickle down and attack all or any one of these items in a positive and effective way.

Now those of you who know me, you know I am no Bleeding heart, or Joe Straight or a Do-gooder. I am an opinionated, salty ol' bastard at times. I have my mind made up, but can be budged to reconsider.

So, I ranted on longer than I wanted, and ranged way wide of what I planned. I apologize for that and will soon begin a project to write a memoir, where some of this opinion will be focused - which might relieve some and for sure will make this more conducive to complete reading.

I think I got the response links repaired, however I can always be screamed at at:
wdaleh9047@hotmail.com.

Enjoy the race from Fontanac CA this afternoon. Attendance is down as a result of the economy, so I will end this ride at the race track, and waive the fare to help reduce the economic effect on my favorite sport.
Anchorage didn't have well organized racing. We used to race down (or up) Northern Lights Blvd.
CABBY

Writing

Did you ever consider that you might want to write a book?
Well, I have the reference guide for you. I am not paid, nor does the author know I am touting her book.

"Shimmering Images" by Lisa Dale Norton
(A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir) is the sub title.

Consider taking it to the beach, on a flight, to visit your in laws.

It is 138 pages of delightfully written advise. The book would make a great textbook for a writing class.
Step by step with labels for things and mental images for the processes so that it is easier to understand than any BBQ assembly instructions I have ever struggled through.

She is able to speak plain English and clearly is aware of the scope of the pitfalls of attempting to be published.
She also has great advise if all you are thinking of doing is recording your life for posterity.
I presume that some day my offspring will read what I plan to memoir and say, thank you. It will be nothing like this blog.

So, if any one of you think you are unique and are inclined to record the details of what has made you who you uniquely are, this is a handy, easy thorough discussion of the task.

I have a brother-in-law who journals. This book should be in his library.
Hmmmm maybe a Birthday present from me?

I once had a travel writer charter my cab for about a day.
We went to the Indian Health Hospital.
We went to the Psychiatric Hospital.
We went to the Cemetary and to a mortician.
We went to the Chapel at the City Cemetery.
Needless to say, the passenger was writing an article on Anchorage for a funeral director / undertaker trade magazine.

It was real interesting that even though there were a couple funerals that day, He wasn't interested in the people in the cemetery (alive). He did in the end take a scenic trip around the town. I was even able to get him into Chilcoot Charlie's.
I tried to get him to go to Mr. Whitkeys, however he was a woos and didn't want to be out that late.
Oh well, after seeing how easy it seemed to be to do the research and the outlining of the information, I decided that anyone could do what he did. Write.

So my blog is current proof that I was wrong about that.
Fare is paid.
CABBY