homekirk's Journal

Looking for a Cousin in playboy...
I recently heard from a long lost cousin. She was from part of my family that we had lost contect with after a big fight over money and grand parents estate. This side of the family is a little on the strange side. But they are nice enough and I had missed hearing from them. Apparently the feeling was shared.

She called me from out of the blue. She missed us and I talked with her for a good long while. She told me how she had gotten married and now how she is getting devorce because the man decided he should be a woman. She told me about he son and some of his problems. She told me on how her modeling career is doing well and how she had been in playboy magazine and was going to be on a TV reality show.

I in return told her of my life and stuff since I last saw her in her room about 20 years ago. She said she would give me a head shot of her and explained that she had a lot of plastic surgery done.

So after she hung up I found myself in the odd position of trying to find a picture of my cousin. The only source she sighted was playboy. So here I was looking through playboy website for her pictures... very odd feeling indeed. Nothing sexual just that this was the only source I had... I gave up after a bit since her name was hard to find and I don't really have a good idea how she would look now.

Current Mood: amused

Life Updates... in Clip Form
1) Filling fell out make three teeth that need work... Health
2) Thinking of going to vocational school to become a medical assisstant... Job
3) My work place (Pearle Vision which also own Lens Crafters etc) ordered all Holiday decorations removed.. Job
4) Kitten is using Christmas Tree as a play set and knocking down all the ornamates.. Home
5) Got snow... too little snow... need new tires for snow... Home

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Current Mood: depressed

Musical Boobies!!!! Man I feel left out as a man.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1570835.html?menu=

"Musical breast implants

Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman's breast implants.

One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person's whole music collection.

BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years.

BT Laboratories' analyst Ian Pearson said flexible plastic electronics would sit inside the breast. A signal would be relayed to headphones, while the device would be controlled by Bluetooth using a panel on the wrist.

According to The Sun he said: "It is now very hard for me to thing of breast implants as just decorative. If a woman has something implanted permanently, it might as well do something useful."

My Thoughts: Wow... what can one say but MUSICAL BOOBIES, MUSICAL BOOBIES... man I knew liked breasts but wow now they could play music... I wonder if they will have twist dial control?

Just say something that would be my first pict for my wifes Boobie music collection..

http://www.alteringtime.com/features/misc/?p=baggins
Thanks.. darthbeckman

Current Mood: amused

Life Update
Long time since I posted in this forum.

Lets see what has happened... Work is fine although most are just going through the motions. Synger and I are doing great and enjoying riding our bikes. Gem is been exposed to more old time "saturday" cartoons I just to watch as a child or young man... this time it she has gone from the "Thunder Cats" to the "Galaxy Rangers". As for myself still involved in politics, and I had a interesting thing happen at the church in which I responded to a political issue a visiting pastor brought up. People came to me after church ended to agree with me on the matters.. It was great.

I have been adding to my collect of religious holy texts. The Confucius "The Analects" and the Rastafarian "The Kebra Nagast", along with another book which I have ordered but it has not come in yet. Money has been tight but that is normal near years end. Gem has been going to a gym class and having a ball. I think that is about it. Oh I am recovering from the flu and I have also closed the pool down for the season.

This has been your update... best wishes and have a nice day.

Current Mood: accomplished

Was Thinking
I was thinking of Marriage...

I have concluded as long as you feel lucky to be married to you wife and your wife feels lucky to be married to you then your marriage is in great shape. It is when you feel you can do better or that your wife is lucky to be married to you that your marriage may be in trouble.

Also heard a great line in a country song..

"Want to hear God laugh... tell him your plans"

Current Mood: amused

DVD Collection
Collecting memories. I have a collection of over 2,000 dvd’s and many VHS films. I collect what I liked and the collection is extensive containing many main line films and many B movies and second rung films. Rare and common, but this whole practice seems pointless. I mean as technology increases the ability to call up whatever film you want whenever you want will become standard and all the money and time spent collecting and storing this collection will be in the end pointless. It is also in a way pointless because I could never hope to watch all these films again.

Why do I waste my time and money? Why? I guess I am looking to collect old memories of shows I enjoyed and films that impressed me. Perhaps the fear is that they will be lost to me in time or one day will be out of print. But in the end does any of that matter? No not really.

Still I guess the definition of a hobby is something you do that wastes money and only brings enjoyment to yourself.

Current Mood: amused

Family Pictures
I have been tranfering family pictures from VHS to DVD. The current one is family pictures from my grand father. Now I want to give you an idea how time changes people. I remember my grand father as a kind yet stern skinny old man and my grand mother as a sweet sickly bent old woman. But in the films they are young. My grand mother is a attractive well built young lady. My grand father is a muscular impressive young man, I mean he was ripped. Not only that but he served in both the navy and the army and trained to shoot almost any kind of firearm you could consider. He also had a temper, till he found God as a older man, which my mother often resorted to hiding from. What I like about home movies..

You see the person when they were young and you see them only in the happiest of times.
You get to know you grand parents in a light that otherwise is impossable.

I know one thing... I would have never picked a fight with my grand father when he was a young man.. he was truely impressive.

Current Mood: amused

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
I have been work longer hours then normal since one of my workers left and the other is on vacation. As a result of this I have been the only person in the optical lab making the glasses for people. To make matters worse after returning from my vacation I found we were grossly behind in a number of important areas and spent a lot of extra time just getting caught up. Well yesterday at 7:30 after working a ten-hour day I was about to leave to go home and noticed a customer with the “I am in a hurry” look on her face waiting for help outside on the retail side. Even though the retail people have done nothing at all to help me when I needed it, I decided to go out and on my own time help this woman in need. Big mistake on my part.

She was picking up her glasses, and that was an easy and quick thing to do. So I gave her glasses to her and she took one look at them and ran over to the demo pair on the wall. Then she returned to me with a complaint. They are thinker then the lens on the demo frame and they are not as shinny on the sides. I explained to her that the demo pair has lens in it that have no prescription, and as such they will be thinner then those that have a prescription and that the edges of normal lens are not shinny but we can shine them up for her if she wants it (even though we normally charge for this service I was willing to do it for free). She demanded this done. I informed her it takes about an hour to polish the edges and I was currently off the clock and was on my way home. I would be happy to do her job first thing in the morning. She was piss off at this and stormed out. Well I did as she asked and polished the edges; in fact I came in 2 hours early just so I could get her job done as soon as possible.

Come 7:30 tonight she comes back in and gets her glasses. She complains about me, and asks for the store managers name and number so she could complain about me to her. Next time I should even try to help them outside or to be honest with customers. Next time I will just leave at 7:30 and screw the customer.

Current Mood: crappy

A wonderful trip
My wife, my daughter, and myself have just returned from an over night trip to Wytheville Virginia. First thing we learned is that Virginia is very long from northeastern corner to the furthest southwestern part of Virginia. It took about 6 hours driving one way. That a side we got there and found many many hotels but only one with an in door pool. Since it was raining and Gem wanted to swim we had to find an indoor pool. With that set we went out looking for dinner. The German Dinner Theater was closed that night so we went driving. In town we found a wonderful restaurant called the Log House. The food was great and the atmosphere and the help was wonderful. Home made foods and some totally new foods that were fantastic. After dinner we went swimming at the hotel and so many kids were in the pool Gem had a fantastic time. All the other people were amazed at how well Gem was swimming.

The next day we got some pictures of the city of Wytheville and batteries for the camera. Then we were off to Virginia City mining and old west town. Now it was a pure entertainment type place. Not a real mine but the sleuth was real and the semi precious stones that you looked used and looked for were real. As was the gold flakes you could look for. We went through3 buckets of sand (mixed with gems) and one small tin of sand mixed with flakes of gold. Gem could have done it for hours. Then we walked to the western town and looked in to the shop there and looked at the homes and buildings up there. It was more beat up then we expected but they have been rebuilding the site for about 5 years now. The owner has a lot of old buildings with different conditions. My wife was disappointed that there were no signs explaining what each building was. I had to put he in jail for that. Then my child spoke up in her defense and in to jail she went to. But we got hungry so I let them out early for good behavior. We headed home in high spirit though the wonderful mountain scenes. A beautiful place to visit and would be a wonderful place to live. All the people were so friendly and the town was of good size.

Current Mood: happy

Religion Of The Month: Deism
http://www.religioustolerance.org/deism.htm

Deism as defined in most sources is the belief in the existence of God, on purely rational grounds, without any reliance on revealed religion or religious authority. As I would put it the belief that there is a God but no belief in anything books or persons on the nature or character of God. While agnostic believe that there is a God they also believe that there is no way to understand what this God wants of us. This is a minor and important difference between the Deist and the Agnostic. Since the Deist believe that normal rational thought can reveal the wishes of God while the Agnostic says nothing can do this.

I include the Deist as a religion only in the most loose of way. Since the focus of this faith is completely spiritual in nature even though the practice of it is not well formed. It does not answer the three basic question I would require of it to answer for me to consider it a religion.

“During the later 17th century, the meaning of "Deism" began to change. It referred to forms of radical Christianity - belief systems that rejected miracles, revelation, and the inerrancy of the Bible. Currently, Deism is generally no longer associated with Christianity or any other established religion. Then, as now, Deism is not a religious movement in the conventional sense of the world. There is no Deistic network of places of worship, a priesthood or hierarchy of authority.

Deism was greatly influential among politicians, scientists and philosophers during the later 17th century and 18 century, in England, France Germany and the United States. Early Deism was a logical outgrowth of the great advances in astronomy, physics, and chemistry that had been made by Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, etc. It was a small leap from rational study of nature to the application of the same techniques in religion. Early Deists believed that the Bible contained important truths, but they rejected the concept that it was divinely inspired or inerrant. They were leaders in the study of the Bible as a historical (rather than an inspired, revealed) document. Lord Herbert of Cherbury (d. 1648) was one of the earliest proponents of Deism in England. In his book "De Veritate," (1624), he described the "Five Articles" of English Deists.”

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Current Mood: thoughtful

Life Update:
Well another one bites the dust at work. While a few weeks ago both my workers looked like they may just may leave my work place, they both returned. Well a number of events happened and it all resulted in Dora leaving my work place after 15 years of service. My parents are leaving town for a week. This means I don’t have someone to look after my daughter for that week. So I asked for a week off vacation time. Well all seemed well. But 2 weeks before this time frame my mother dropped a bomb. It seems the time she had given me 4 times in a row was off by a week. At nearly last minute I had to change the week off. They didn’t need to do this for me but they were nice and did. Well this lead to a Saturday in which all of the lab techs were working. Well Dora had already worked a couple of Saturdays in a row. She heard me ask if Dora should be allowed to have that Saturday off, and the answer by my boss was no. This lead to a conflict between the boss and Dora in which Dora explained how she felt she was being picked on and my boss explaining she had no right to a weekend off in retail.

End result Dora quite and we are down to two. The sad part was not one day later a thanks letter came in for her for working 15 years. A letter that includes a present selection thing, that I feel should she should still get because she did work that time.

On a personal level I will still be taking that week off. I am planning a trip to a gem dig in Virginia (Virginia City) or in North Carolina. The hotel costs seem to be low there and I have not spent much time in those areas of the country. Gem has expressed an interest in the mining for shinny stones and pretty things. The Virginia site has an old west town and show that could also interest Gem. I hope my wife can make it also; it will be for only a few days though.

Current Mood: contemplative

For the drugs I need...
http://www.jibjab.com/167.html

Funny and so true...

Current Mood: amused

Gem's Back and so are my co workers
The universe has returned to normal. My co workers came back to work today. Dora told me of her illness and how the doctor is treating her. Kit sat down with me and discussed his problems and I told him next time talk with me and don't go storming out, in the end we agreed to forget that yesterday happened.

Gem came back late last night and she was very a sleep. But we so wanted to spend time with her that we gentle woke her up and when awake she was he old happy self again. She talked about her trip a little but mostly about Adam and he new monkey "blue hunk monk".

Current Mood: bouncy

A strange day or week.
This last week things at work just got strange. I have two workers in my lab at work and we collectively know things are changing fast. Of the three of us I have good enough English to feel comfortable working with customers, as comfortable as I could ever be. So with the pending packing of our surface side, stress is high in lab. Anyway one of my staff Dora went on vacation and when the day came for her to return she called in sick. Sick not for one day but for the rest of the week.

Not one day later I am talking with Kit and all seems fine. We have a back up on final inspection and I told him that we need to keep up with final inspection. As this point he snapped and ranted about the work he was doing and then stormed out. It is the first I have ever heard of his discomfort with the amount of work we were asking of him. But he seemed to have no interest in discussing the troubles.

SO, in a matter of just a few days I may become the only lab tech in our store. This may or may not be the case. Dora may very well be sick and not seeking another job. Kit may return and talk with me about what exactly is bothering him, since I do want to keep him on and am willing to discuss the solutions. I think part of the problem is neither of them really wants to work on the retail floor but that has become part of the job description. I am sorry if they leave, I like them both.

Current Mood: confused

Moving Books Around and Thinking
Since Gem is away with Grand parents my wife and I have been going nuts seeing all the films we wanted. Think about the latest releases and we most likely have seen it. We also had a great dinner out and otherwise have been just enjoying each other.

Been thinking about the game and trying to develop the personalities of the NPC team members.

Also have been moving books from up stairs to the basement in which I have finished building a bookcase along the wall. We do have a lot of books on Christianity. Also adding in my collection of other religions of the world and our collection is vast indeed. I have not read the Christian books as much as my wife has, so she is far better at telling me the differences between the Christian groups, history, and such. My collection of texts and such of the other worlds faiths gives me a good general understanding of these faiths and I have become a source of information for people at work on the matter.

During the moving of books I considered what is the attraction of Mystic faiths. Being Dogmatic myself I have never really connected with purely or mostly mystic faiths. I think some of the attraction is the self-focus of it or more to the point the lack of need to reference a religious text. It is easier for some one to sit and mediate or perform a ritual done many times over then it is to read religious books and then think on the many meaning brought forward in them.

I have noticed that even in the Mystic faiths people end up seeking books or writings on the faith in question. But that seems to come after a period of self-practice.

But all this is subjective judgments, so I will leave it at that.

Current Mood: thoughtful

Alive Still
Gem is going to Canada with her grand parents this weekend. Sadly this weekend I have to work but my wife and I are looking forward to a date night. We seldom see movies now, and eating out is always limited by Gem's food wishes. She is very stuborn on what food she will or will not eat. Don't know where she gets that :).

The ear is still hurting even after 2+ days of the ear drops. I don't get it. Maybe monday I will go back.

We watched the Kynsey report... interesting and what a nut. Although the study was needed, he just went over the deep end in his lift and as a result hurt many of his followers. He also sounded like as big a fanatic as his father was.

I should be going to work now. So good day.

Current Mood: weird

I don’t understand HMO’s.
Went to the Kaiser emergency care place because I have been wrongly putting off making an appointment to have my ear looked at. Not that I didn’t already know what was wrong with it, or that I already knew what I needed to do to fix it, but to just go through the hoops you always seem to need to go through when dealing with doctors.

Because the only appointment times with my doctor were at times I had to work and I have lost all resolve to deal with the pain any more I found I needed to go to a walk in sight. Normally the place I go to is the Kaiser emergency care sight, where walk in take place. But I was wrong. It is only for walk in after 5:30 pm. So Gem and me had to wait around as the search for an opening. Thankfully they found one and the doctor looked at me and said exactly what I expected him to say. You have swimmers ear and you need anti biotic eardrops. Wow… it took 3 hours to get a doctor to say something I knew he was going to say.

Wasted a good half a day. But I got the medication and have returned home safe and still hurting but with hope now of a less painful resolution.

Current Mood: sore

Tired and Hurting
Tired and Hurting
It has been a long week.

Major changes at work. We have been putting in place plains on what to do depending on what happens with my job. I have had 2 other job offers in the last two weeks and I suspect it would be easy to find a new job should it come to that. It is the time of the season to keep my eyes open and resumes ready.

Had a ear infection that has been lasting over a week now, I intend to see a doctor about it tomarrow. It made the week end somewhat difficulty. Been surviving off handfulls of pain killers.

We had a good planing game in my League White Wolf game. The mission was given to the team, enter N. Korea and destroy their nuclear programs and Biological programs, and get out. Reasources were given them and the details of the mission was to be left to them to decide. The leader of the group thought out the problems and advantages and with the input of others came to a real work able game plan. Certainly I as the GM have to throw in a few twists and turns but it is fun to see players work out a plan and discuss options.

It was nice to see my old friends again and we has a lot of fun talking and hanging out. I even go the chance to light off a few small fire works and sparklers. We grilled and the food was great. The swimming pool was looking good but my ear infection kept me out of it. I have always been a fan of coal cooking, the smokey factors and such bring so much more to the taste of the food. I have never understood how some one could cook with propane. The food cooked that way tastes like that cooked inside on the stove. Whats the point of that. If I want food cooked on a stove I would cook food on the stove. Some say it's faster, but what is the point of grilling? Speed... I don't think so. It is about talking, hanging out, and cooking good tasteing food. If I wanted something fast I would use a microwave.

Current Mood: accomplished

Work Sucks
As a devoted capitalist I recognized the power structure and nature of a work place. I know my place with in the beast called work. I don’t own the company I work in. I have been paid for my time with income and benefits. Due to this they own me nothing and I in like terms owe them nothing but by work for the pay they give. Should I find a job tomorrow I could leave. Should they find they no longer need me they can lay me off. It sucks at times but this is the brutal truth. Time served means nothing to those who have hired you, and it shouldn’t.

So why does all this suck at this moment? The answer is the company that legally bought my old company and by extension my services has decided to take the company in a direct that I can see will ruin it. In this ruining I could see all the employees in lab ether being let go or having the nature of their job change dramatically.

What is the news? They are changing us to a centralized lab format. That is to say all bifocals, progressives, and other high-end prescriptions are to be done in one central lab. The final product to shipped to us for edging and insertion into the frame. Not to get too much into the nature of the work, it in effect reduce what we could do in our store within a day by more then a half.

What’s the big deal? The trouble is up to this point when confronted by other companies with only edging in the stores and a centralized lab (and as a result a much lower cost of product) we used to be able to say we charge more because you can, in most cases, get the product today or even in a hour or two. With this change, unless they also reduce the cost of the product, we have been left with only the very limited and often ineffective argument that “we do it better”. People are not going to be willing to pay higher prices when the service is in effect the same. Our central lab as been the source of most of our problems to date and this increased demand and reliance upon them for service will only increase the problem. In effect we have removed ourselves from the special place in the market we had and have put our selves in competition with companies that are better priced and better prepared.

What does all this mean to me?

1 We need far less lab workers. We have 3 full timers now in the end we will only need one
2 Lab people will have to become retail people and compete with them for the limited number of customers.
3 We will loose many customers due to the reduced customer service we can provide.
4 In the end the total staffing of the store should the company survive this will be cut by about half.

Current Mood: depressed

The Basics of my Faith
I believe there are 5 basic truths about God one needs to know.

1) God is all-powerful and eternal. If God wasn't then were does the other powers come from and why should you follow such a God.
2) God is consistent and flawless. If God changes then we would never know the real nature of God and could never follow God, since God has not made it easy for us to get the updates that such changes would require done.
3) All things can only exist with God presence. Simply put all things are created by God and cannot exist with out God.
4) God is interested in each of us as individuals. All things of this world end including societies. God is not so much concerned with the things of this world but the choices of the heart we make. As such how could God focus on a culture or society over the individuals that make it up?
5) God is a Loving and forgiving God. Although it is possible that God could be a violent or evil God. There would be no reason to follow any such God. If you did you may suffer as greatly as those that don't. The ONLY God worth following is one that is interested in the betterment of our souls.

Does God intervene? How could God not intervene? Yes it will not be in stopping time or changing the world to fit our little needs. It may be as simple as an illness that keeps you from boarding a doomed plane. It could be a stranger saying just the right thing at just the right moment to make you feel God presence in your life. One of the most important parts of our relationship to God is our free will to reject God if we so desire to. Sure God could have made us like the ants working together never questioning why we are here who is behind it all. But God gave us the gift to choose and question. Why? Why is the ability to fail a gift? Because the greatest sign of love is the willing giving of it. God could surely force us to accept him. But what greater love is there then our willing acceptance of our creator. So with this in mind, it would be a sign of an unloving God for God to make his interventions unquestionable signs of God. This is why so many as look at the miracles and say's it was a earth quake, you over slept, it was just chance.

But God know that at time we and others that see us need a hint or a nudge in the right direction.

Current Mood: thoughtful

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