Vid of the Week - Speed Racer

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2009 - Year of the Troll

2008 and most of 2009 have sucked, professionally. I decided to make a jump back into financial services just in time for one of the WORST markets in history. To make ends meet, I've had to take on two part time jobs, just to barely scrape by. But what annoys me most is that I've accepted what life has handed me and allowed it to steer my course, instead of vice-versa. That changes here, now...

Life is a tricky bastard and will throw curve balls at you whenever it can. Fate doesn't always have your best interests at heart. But you can't let yourself be a victim of its circumstances. Sure, you'll have to deal with some crap, and sometimes even true tragedy. But you make a choice as to whether you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, or you can choose to accept what's handed to you, sometimes to lay down and die. Life is a full contact sport, and you WILL pick up a black eye or two in the process. But you CAN fight back. You won't always win, but you sure as hell won't always lose.

Add to this that I've been a bachelor for the last five years now. I've noticed that I've slipped, my standards have become abysmally poor. I've done what I've needed to, and I've survived, but I've accepted a lower standard for myself. I haven't been taking care of myself. I've made a choice, conscious or not, to live that way. I now make a conscious choice to change that.

We face many external obstacles, challenges that we can do fuck all nothing about. But we CAN choose how we will fight, how we will live. Knowing yourself, your strengths and weaknesses is half the battle to winning any war. You won't win every fight. The secret is that you don't have to...

Live how you WANT to live. You will have to fight for it. Nothing good comes without some effort, some struggle. But do you REALLY want to live anything less than what you dream? Do you really want to settle for what someone else has in mind for you? Make your own luck. Make your own destiny. Choose Life!

The catalyst for this rant is, of course, love. I found someone I care very much about. I want better for myself, because I don't want her to see what I currently am. Because it's NOT me. I know not what the future holds for us, but I want there to be options, and I want her to see the REAL me. Not this current incarnation. I like the fact that she accepts me for who, and what I am. But I'm not happy with it. Therefore, I am going to make changes...

That was a really long winded, chest beating post. The short version is that you should NOT just meekly let life hand you bullshit, and ask for seconds. Send it back to the kitchen and ask for Chateau Briand, medium rare. Accept nothing less than the best for yourself. Otherwise, you'll get whatever that lazy chef is cooking...

Rise Above and Get your Gun on!

Vid of the Week - I Will Not Bow

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Men grow older, not up

I am a man. I have an adult job, drink adult beverages, and wear big boy boxers. That said, the simple fact is that for all intents and purposes, I really didn't mature past age 5. Fart jokes are still funny. I love blowing things up. I still secretly believe that girls have cooties, (and I DOUBT I'm wrong)...

I'm not alone in this. Most men that I know are the same. 8 to 80, we're all still boys at heart. We put on a good face, but when it comes right down to it, we're still those bad little boys running around First Grade class, hollering at the top of our lungs, eating paste and pulling little girls hair, (when we're not throwing rocks at each other and some such). Most women suffer under the delusion that they are dealing with a grown, mature man who's put away his childish toys. Ladies, let me disabuse you of this fallacy - EVERY man is a little boy at heart. Nothing you do will change that. You can try all you want. You can try to reverse the laws of gravity, while you're at it Probably have better luck...

Work with what you've got. Don't try to make the Eiffel Tower out of Play-Doh. Don't believe that you're going to get a man to behave himself. You'll only piss yourself off and probably give your wayward manchild fodder for a joke...

A Public Service Announcement from your "friendly" Cowboy. Now to go find some paste - I'm hungry...

Blow Shit Up and Get your Gun on!