Amen, brother!!!

Denny wrote a helluva post regarding Barack Obama's "SUV" speech. Where Obama basically tells us as Americans what we can and can't do. You know what? Fuck. You. Obama.

Who the fuck do you think you are?! And, god forbid, if you do get elected, will our government actually become the "Nanny State" that you socialists Democrats have dreamed of? Who are you to tell the population of the most powerful and productive country in the world that they can or cannot do something? We pay farmers to NOT produce food fer chrissakes!! Although the trend seems to show that many manufacturers are outsourcing jobs to other countries, many products are still made only in the USA. We have 3% of the world's population and use 25% of its energy? Good!! More than likely it's because we're producing something worthwhile, not like the crap they've been cranking out of China...chock full of lead and made using slave labor. Who would we be saving this energy for anyway? Just for the record, my thermostat doesn't stay on 72 degrees. It stays pretty constant around 75 +/- 2 degrees, depending on how hot/cold I feel.

And if you want to bitch about oil consumption and cost, well, you can shift the blame for that clusterfuck on your Dhimmi-cratic elected officials, since they have rejected ideas for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by drilling in ANWR and off the coasts, and for not allowing any more refineries or nuclear plants to be built. Instead they want to increase the taxes on the folks who refine the oil. Now, I didn't do so hot in Economics class in high school, but businesses aren't in business to give away profits in the form of taxes, so they're going to tack on extra "surcharges" into their prices. And who is going to have to pay that? Oh, yeah...you and me, kids. They might as well pass out condoms at the gas station. Hell the way it's going politically in this country, they may as well give you a condom when you hit the voting booth. 'Cause we're going to be getting a royal fucking either way we go.

Ups and Downs

The average person who happens upon this blog would probably see some of my posts and say, "Mike, you're so negative. All you do is rant and rave about everything." Not true. There are many positive things in my life, but I prefer to vent about stupidity vice talking about things that involve my feelings.


The last couple of years have had their ups and downs. I missed out on buying a house due to my credit being as fucked up as a soup sammich. But that seems to have been a blessing in disguise. With my wife finding a job near where I work, we decided it would be better to move a bit closer to work instead of staying out on the west side, which makes for a helluva commute. I'm glad we didn't get that house, since we'd be stuck out there for 4 more years before we could sell it and try to get out of it what we owe. And the housing market is making a swirlie around the toilet bowl, so we'd have probably ended up getting screwed on that deal. Houston's not near as bad as some parts of the country, but when you're trying to sell something noone wants to buy, it can make life rather difficult.

We did eventually buy a house on the northeast side, which puts my commute at just over 15 miles. Beats the hell out of a 34 mile each way commute. The house we were going to buy was built by Kimball Hill, and they are a good builder. If you ever decide to buy a Kimball Hill home, see if a guy by the name of Jose Cavazos is still working with them. Last I knew he was at Lakes of Bridgewater off Mason Road in Katy. The house we ended up buying was built by David Weekley, another very good builder. The floorplan we chose had everything we wanted: covered porches front & back, study, open...it was an inventory home, so we got it at a good price too. I'll have to post some pics of it sometime. But with buying a new home comes decorating, and that tends to be a pain in the ass as well as the wallet.

My boy is getting huge, and speaking more clearly now, both in English and Spanish. He can count to 10, knows letters and is learning his colors. And he's not even 3 yet. And, like daddy, loves to fish. He has a couple of motorized fishing games and when he catches one will say, "Daddy, look...I caught a fish!" I'll have to post some more photos of him soon too.

My paternal grandfather passed away earlier this year. His death hit me particularly hard because I was rather close to him. I've been in a funk since I found out he was diagnosed with colon cancer, and when he passed away it got worse. I'll probably delve into that more some other time, just because it'll probably be a huge post.

I talked before about changing jobs, and I did. I was offered a position at a different agency for more pay, and the people where I was couldn't match the offer. I miss working with some of the guys over there, but I like the people I work with now too. The majority of us like to fish, and we get along well so there are relatively few problems. Every once in a while tempers can flare, or somebody feels like someone else pissed in their Wheaties, but everything is smoothed out a little while later and we're back to cutting up. The last two jobs I've worked at have been great. I worked at a privately owned company when I lived in Illinois, and that place felt like hell on earth. My friend Doug stayed on with them for about a year and a half after I left, and he moved on elsewhere. I guess he finally got tired of the mangement's bullshit too.

That's about it for now. I'll expand on some of this later and may open a few new cans of worms as well.

Don't use Xoom.com

I'm back, bitches!! Good gawd, it's been over 2 years since my last post. Not that I've had nothing to bitch about, just either been extremely busy or lack of enthusiasm. But I'm irritable as hell today, and I get home to hear my wife complaining about these assholes.

Xoom.com. Supposed to be a money sending service, like Western Union...only cheaper. Here's another example of "you get what you pay for". Shitty customer service and incompetent assholes answering the phones. Perfect example: My wife sends money back to her mom in Colombia for her birthday. She sends it in her aunt's name. Aunt has an issue with her gov't issued ID, since she has a temporary while she's awaiting the arrival of the actual ID. Kinda like what they give you at the DMV/DPS when you make changes to your Driver's License. Wife calls Xoom's customer service and she tries to change the payee name. The incompetent fuck on the other end says she can't do that, only they can. She says fine, change it. To which he replies, we can't. Then he offers her the option of cancelling. She says fine. It isn't until after he cancels the transaction that he informs her that it will be 5-10 business days until the money is credited back into her account. You gotta be fucking kidding me. Which is exactly what I said to the dumb bitch that told me it would be 10 days to return the money to my wife's checking account when I called them to find out wtf the deal was. She got all indignant, and told me not to use profanity. I asked for the supervisor, to which she said she was the supervisor. Good, I'll make sure my wife never uses your shitty service again and I'll make sure I tell everyone I know not to use it either, thank you very little. then I hung up on the bitch.

So in a few words: Fuck Xoom.com.

You motherfuckers will never see another red cent of my money. And if you were the last money sending service on earth, I'd make sure to walk the shit down myself before I'd use your service. I'm half tempted to call back and see if the next assclown that answers the phone is a supervisor too.