Cool video I ran across

Its Queens of the Stone Age- Go with the Flow

She said ’i’ll throw myself away,
They’re just photos after all’
I can’t make you hang around.
I can’t wash you off my skin.
Outside the frame, is what we’re leaving out
You won’t remember anyway
I can go with the flow
But don’t say it doesn’t matter anymore
I can go with the flow
Do you believe it in your head?
It’s so safe to play along
Little soldiers in a row
Falling in and out of love
With something sweet to throw away.
But I want something good to die for
To make it beautiful to live.
I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate.
Do you believe it in your head?
I can go with the flow
But don’t say it doesn’t matter anymore
I can go with the flow
Do you believe it in your head?

Daddys Toy Is Dead

For those of you that know me I am the biggest video game nerd. I always have to have the newest toy or gadget.


Well its happened again. My Xbox 360 has died again. This is the third one that has bitten the dust. Now I take care of my electronics religiously. So it cant be user error. Apparently Microsoft is having problems with its latest console. The GPU(Graphical Processing Unit) is overheating causing a general hardware failure.


So anyways I called Microsoft tech support and talked to some guy from India. This is where they outsource their tech support to apparently. And after answering a bunch of questions he determines that I have a defective unit and is shipping a box to me. Lets call this a coffin. Because I have to ship the defective unit back to Microsoft so they can send me a refurbished one. Well all is not lost because I was within the warranty period and wont have to pay for anything.

Hmmmm......Now that I have some time on my hands maybe I should actually pick up the phone and call some my friends that I've been neglecting.

Happpy Fathers Day

There were times when all one associated one's father with, was a stern looking man with an invisible stick in hand. During those days, children were afraid to talk to their fathers and readily did whatever he ordered, for they knew only one thing - you can't disobey your father. Still, there was that deep-rooted respect that guided them throughout one's life. Times have changed. Today, dads are more indulgent. They don't expect their children to say, "Yes, father!" all the time. Today, they care for their children more than ever. They go out with them, play with them, pamper them and even change their diapers and cook their lunch whenever they get time. Yet, they haven't lost their position as the epitome of strength and respect in the household. Those times have changed but the love that one have for his/ her father in their heart haven't changed. Love for the father is also a unique one that also have a bit of fear and a feeling of need of that special person to guide our way through to our future.

Here are some Fathers Day Quotes.

* "I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started." - Bartrand Hubbard
* "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. " -Charles Wadsworth
* "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."- Sigmund Freud
* "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. " - Mark Twain
* "The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get." - Tim Russert
* " I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -Mario Cuomo
* "Be kind to thy father,
for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee." - Margaret Courtney
* "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel
* "To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." - Ernest Hemingway
* "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." - Gabriel García Márquez
* "It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare
* "All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye." - Margaret Atwood
* "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Anonymous
* "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern
* Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers- and fathering is a very important stage in their development." - David M. Gottesman
* "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." - Anne Sexton
* "A Man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season." - Anonymous
* "The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!" - Anonymous
* "A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be." - Anonymous
* "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland
* My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." - Harmon Killebrew
* "One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters." - George Herbert
* Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." - Bill Cosby
* "It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons." - Johann Schiller
* There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." - John Gregory Brown
* "My father was a statesman; I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.- Indira Gandhi
* "You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together." - Erika Cosby
* "Father, whom I murdered every night but one, That one, when your death murdered me." - Howard Moss
* "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys." - Anonymous
* "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern
* "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. " - James Baldwin

Fathers Day

Did a little research about one of my favorite holidays.
The Story of Father's Day

Father's Day, contrary to popular misconception, was not established as a holiday in order to help greeting card manufacturers sell more cards. In fact when a "father's day" was first proposed there were no Father's Day cards!

Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd's mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent.

The first Father's Day was observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane Washington. At about the same time in various towns and cities across American other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.

Father's Day has become a day to not only honor your father, but all men who act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult male friends are all honored on Father's Day.

Individuality

If you saw me walking down the street or in a crowd you would notice that I am not like everyone else. I strive to be different. The way I talk, dress, or think makes me stand out from everyone else.

I always get asked if I am from here. People assume that I come from another state or country. Maybe its because I look so young for my age. I don't know what it is. Maybe they don't understand that I want to be different and stand out.

When my children grow up one of the lessons I will teach them is to be different. When everyone zigs you zag. Don't follow what everyone is doing, do your own thing.

Hopefully they will not try to emulate other people. They should strive to be something greater, something no one else is. The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.

Breaking Benjamin

Here's another song that can be interpreted in so many ways. Its Rain by Breaking Benjamin. Lyrics included as well.


"Rain"

Take a photograph,
It'll be the last,
Not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here,

I don't have a past
I just have a chance,
Not a family or honest plea remains to say,

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

Is it you I want,
Or just the notion
Of a heart to wrap around so I can find my way around

Safe to say from here,
You're getting closer now,
We are never sad cause we are not allowed to be

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

To lie here under you,
Is all that I could ever do,
To lie here under you is all,
To lie here under you is all that i could ever do,
To lie here under you is all,

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day,
All the world is waiting for the sun,
All the world is waiting for the sun,
All the world is waiting for the sun.

Student/Sacrifice

Not many people outside my sphere of friends knows that I am a welding student. I think that there is only one other person at my work going to school as well. So many things in my life are sacrificed so that I may go to school. I dont have the best clothes, drive the nicest car, or have enough money. But in the end it will all pay off.

In five years I see myself owning a nice car and house. Its not all the material things I look forward to. My children will benefit the most. They will live a life I never had.

My children are the motivating force in my life at this moment. Everytime I dont feel like studying or going to class I think of them.

So I sacrifice my time, energy, and money for them.