plasma donation

I am donating plasma. I try to do it twice a week if I can find the time. I get thirty bucks on the first visit and thirty five on the next. So 65x4 is 260x12 3120x5 oh I'll do the math later but I am guessing that will all add up nicely in my own private account somewhere. Good time to read a book too. Most of the blood workers fight over me sometimes because I look like the only one who doesn't have TB or herpes. They play movies too to keep peoples minds off the needles I suppose. Bella and Edward would go crazy in there everyone would be dinner. (see twilight series) I so hope McCain picks Romney and gives mormon kids hopes and dreams of becoming president. I can understand the blind following of Obama by the black community just because he is black. I don't think I am doing that for Romney but I know how it feels to have people hate you because of something you hold dear in my case my religion. It will be a happy day for me if he picks Romney. I hope Obama doesnt find a new supply of idiots to vote for him. Pray for our country.

Update

The end is coming!!!! I am not one of the guys with the sign on the street corner and anyone can agree there will eventually be an end. But one thing I can say with certainty is that the end will be in my lifetime. Food storage, ammo, weapons, fuel, water, whatever else you might need get it now. Food prices going up, gas going up, everything going up.
On a happier note I survived mothers day driving for UPS everyone said that I would quit after it was over and I have no such inclination. My Spanish grammar is slowly improving at my job. Tara is almost a Jet Blue certified and fully trained employee. I work way too much but at the end of this year if I don't see results I will cut down on my hours and enjoy my childrens childhoods while they are still around.

Frontlines

Hey, Christine- I thought you might like this. I came across it at Bagrham AFB Afghanistan.

More India

Can't talk long I have to get the kids ready for school but the top picture was of one of the girls I wanted to bring home to do a study abroad program or something, nicest girl in the world. She is the tallest one next to the girl in the dress her name was Diya. The second one is of the local school kids singing their local songs for us. The third is of our proud build the best wall in the whole village made with American precision and quality will out last all other walls. Of course in the picture it is just getting started but we finished it in the end.

India Rocks

Tara is going to kill me for posting these pictures from India but she took so long to do it. The picture on top is the first time we really started bonding with some of the people there. I was walking back to the bus after a long hot day of work but I felt great because the habitat people brought a huge supply of real mango juice in these juice boxes for us at the work site. I must have drank half of them while the rest of the team of eight got the rest "very greedy". In the village there is a main street and on the side of it I saw five little girls playing a game involving four posts. I decided to be a little spontaneous and see if they would let me play too. Two of them ran into the house scared and the other three stayed and let me in on it. I was in the mush pot I think it would be called and I had to tag anyone who was not touching a post or get to an empty post then the odd person out was it. Pretty soon we had a line of kids wanting to play with the six three white foreign guy. Some of the younger more adventerous westerners joined in too after awhile. I think I was a hit after that because after that the kids would come up and say game? game? . I introduced fag tag but considering there were a couple of gay people in our group I renamed it buddy tag to be a little more considerate of peoples feelings than usual. They enjoyed buddy tag even more and so did the westerners.
The second picture is of me and Tara on the back of the burning hot bus after a scorching hot day of bricklaying. There are other pictures of us but this one was my favorite just because Tara got frustrated with me not looking just perfect after a day like that. I was just teasing her a bit. The third picture was on our second morning at the wilderness resort they had us at. After breakfast we had about 30 minutes to take a walk. We went down to this river and found some really awesome specimens of Quartz that we managed to smuggle back successfully. This particular resort had alot of interesting flora and fauna; iguanas, toads, eagle size fruit bats, rhinocerous beetles, poison dart frogs, enormous moths the size of my hand, geckos, cameleons, and a mango tree with a banyan tree attached and a certain kind of nut producing tree growing up above out of a crevice in the tree. I am going to post some more pictures of India even though Tara may get angry with me.

We are back

India was amazing. We have a tentative plan to return in two years. Next time we are taking the kids. We will post pictures shortly. I know no one reads this stupid blog but I just want to say to everyone that they need to consider India as a prime vacation spot. One location in particular is Goa. Goa kicks Hawaiis butt.

bandierantes

I have been reading about these guys known as the bandeirantes on various websites. I am trying to find information about them from online libraries. I have decided that I am going to become the foremost expert on this group of adventurers. They were men who explored the interior of Brazil before any other European. Don't quote me but I don't think they were working for the crown of Portugal when they went on these expeditions. From what I have gathered they would travel the vast unexplored deserts and rain forests in search of indian slaves and riches. They were usually unsuccessful in these efforts but a good number of these explorers found great riches. One expedition found golf ball size emeralds. Another found an indian village where the people were wearing more gold than clothing. The most famous of these explorers was Antonio Raposo Tavares. I don't remember off hand why he was the most famous but I assume it was because he was the most successful. Some expeditions brought back in excess of 3000 indian slaves. Later African slaves proved to be more productive because the indian slaves would just run away to the forests of the amazon or wherever they came from. When I get more information about specific expeditions I will include a more detailed account of these expeditions. These guys on one of their marches through Brazil traveled farther than Mao or the pioneers. Anyway not much happening here in Afghanistan. Just trying to pass the time.

Random thoughts and the past couple of days

The last three days I have been trying to kill off this growth around my hip region. My method that I thought would work is to go on the treadmill for 30 minutes to an hour a day at level 20 and try to burn just over a thousand calories. I did some reading on Wikipedia about strength training tonight. Why wikipedia? Because it seems to be a reliable source of information. These other sources seem to be fads. I found that doing what I am doing will burn muscle not fat this is bad for a man who is unhappy being not skinny but not sufficiently thick. I am working out hard and eating small servings. Apparently I need to increase my protein intake and that will in turn grow muscle and burn fat. I also noticed in just these three days my mood has stabilized. You know what people with depression need a kick in the arse to the freaking gym. I am serious I am feeling great, "no joke" whereas in Spain one hour I want to lock my hotel room door turn out the lights and hope that I can fall asleep in hopes that I will wake up in a better mood. And then an hour later get jittery and want to go see everything I can before I leave. Continuing with my last couple of days. I have a twelve hour shift in which I try to read, call family and watch a movie to help two hours fly by. Other than that I just make sure no durka durka mohamed jihad enters or comes near the building. Without a clearance of course. I have decided that my next shift I am going to do push ups sit ups and stretches maybe fool around with yoga or pilates when none of the guys are there of course. I would get so gaybled if I was caught doing yoga stuff. I kid you not every guy I know that does that stuff looks like I would like to look not gay of course just in a certain kind of shape toned and healthy and semi bulky. I woman touched my bare chest today. It cost eight dollars for a half hour of pain. I was so sore I did not let my self consciousness about my hair stop me. She massaged my back too. I went once before and felt really stupid because I was not sore and she was weak. Got to go times up.

Afghanistan

This is a little taste of where I am. That is a C-17 that I flew in on once my first time here. I prefer the C-130 it is slower. Those little houses have about six little rooms each that is what I get to stay in. By the way the C-130 crew always say winglets are for Pu#%^&$ refering to the little upturns at the end of the wings of a C-17. Very mountainous here. These look like spring pictures just after rain. The rest of the time picture not being able to see the mountains because of dust.


The plane with the propellers is a C-130 the mission bird as we call it. It is way more comfortable and it breaks down more so we get to stop more. Just wanted you all to see a plane for real men not just a plane with winglets.
The Humvee or Hummer is a common verhicle in these here parts complete with leather interior, bucket seats, surround sound stereo and built 50 caliber machine gun just perfect for rush hour traffic and your occasional case of road rage in Afghanistan of course dealing with the enemy.

favorite actress

Well my wife thinks I am into Lucy Liu but if you mix talent and looks I think Jennifer Connely is my pick. Some people don't take her serious because she was in Career Opportunities and Labryinth but look at the other movies she has done House of Sand and Fog, and A Beutiful Mind with russell Crowe. What do you think of the hair?

my favorite actor

The picture I added of Isaiah Ali and Kale was unintentional but still a good picture. Anyway right now this Viggo guy is my favorite actor mainly for cool points for being Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings series of movies but also for his wide range of movies. He almost always plays the tough guy but he does it very convincingly. For an actor who personally does not promote war he sure does promote it in his movies.

good links

RealClearPolitics
http://www.mittromney.com/
Tartelette recipes

biting off more than he can chew

Mitt Romney will bust a cap in these two. Another reason to vote for Mitt.

Washington Post

This newspaper did a very honest and balanced article on Mitt Romney today. I don't have a lot of hope for Romney but he is someone one should never count out. Romney will find a way in the end to make a really good showing. I trust the Washington Post to be more honest than the Boston Globe and even more than Real Clear Politics. I like Real Clear Politics for their poll average and their conservative credentials. I don't like them because they have given everyone else a fairer shake than Romney. They seem to worship McCain who I can not stand. Anyway Time Newsweek and a lot of the liberal media outlets bag on Romney that is a good thing in my book.

Turkey

These are some of the things I am missing out on while I am in Turkey. We are only here on base for 16 hours and it is very difficult to get off of base. Some guys that are stationed here showed me some pictures of a trip they took today and it looks totally different than what I expected. Turkey was a desert in my mind before coming here. Tomorrow I will be at my final destination. I don't like it here but there are some good things to see.

Hey guys here are some more pictures I thought weree cool.

This is where I am now. I didn't get to see the inside but this picture was on a picture sharing site. I don't know what to tell you about Spain just that it is different. It is no wonder there are hardly any fat Spaniards their food servings are so tiny it could not satisfy my childrens appetite. I can wait to get home to the land of two pounds of food per meal at good old granny annies. You got to hand it to the Spanish on the architechture side of things. This is some seriously intricate work and it was done hundereds of years ago without modern machinery.

decisive

"Mr Thompson are you going to join the race?" I have not decided whether to join the race. I might join the race but I am still not sure. If I do join I will join at the most opportune time but like I said I am not 100 percent certain if I will run or not.

Similar Q and A during hostage crisis.

President Thompson are you going to give into terrorist demands in order to free the hostages. I have not decided whether I should give into the demands of the terrorists. I might negotiate but I am still not sure. If I do negotiate it will be at the most opportune time but like I said I am not 100 percent certain I want to do anything.

Another Q and A during newsconference about nuclear bomb in US

President Thompson what are you going to do to stop the bomb the terrorist possess from being detonated on US soil. Well I am looking into it but we have not come to any conclusions. I think I will give it more time. I really need to think about whether I want to deal with this at this time. If I do decide to deal with this situation I will do a real good job after all I am a good conservative.

After nuclear strike by Iran on New York City

President Thompson are you going to declare war on Iran? Well I still need to deliberate with my wife and then talk to the actors guild about this. I am really not sure if I will ask congress to proceed with declaring war on Iran.

Speed Chess Loss to Master

Speed Chess Loss to Master

How do they do this? He really handed him his lunch didn't he. Talk about not much else to do. To get that good takes either a whole lot of time or a whole lot of freak of nature that is my conclusion.