I have eight posts for the day including this one. I don't think I have ever posted that many in one day. We also have over 60 hits by 3 o'clock.
LMAO, I just went to check on my tri-tip, it came out marvelously; but, the oven broke. The display for the oven, the clock, all of it just stopped working. I checked the breakers and they are on, I checked the stove top (it has an electrical pilot) worked; but, the oven display that controls the tempeture and has the clock, it is not working. I had unplug it and finish the tri-tip in the microwave.
What is interesting is that the tri-tip came out wonderful, I guess I haven't lost my touch for cooking. I will call the oven manufacturer and let them walk me through troubleshooting, if it is truly broke, it is only a day old and I am sure it is under warranty. I don't want my landlord to feel bad when he reads this, stuff happens, I find it amusing and had a great meal.
Hope you all had a great day.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Homelessness
A reader sent me a link to a blog about how to live homeless. It is by a person who lived homeless, now having allowed more than one homeless person to live with me I thought it might just be useful to someone who finds themselves in that situation.
How to be Homeless
Hope none of my readers ever needs this information; but, if you do I hope it helps.
How to be Homeless
Hope none of my readers ever needs this information; but, if you do I hope it helps.
Circumsision in the News
Because I try to provide content of interest to the readers I felt a need to make this post for the one who is interested in circumsision. Apparently in the Phillipines boys generally get circumsised when school is in recess. The Phillipines are a poor nation and it is not always done by professionals. In order to help, some doctors gave free circumsisions to boys over 9 age at a circumsision party. One of the boys exclaimed that now he was a man.
Circumsision Party in the Phillipines
I have no idea how Phillipinoes view circumsision. I find it interesting that the boys had to all be over 9 years old, they knew what they were getting into. They apparently view it as a right of passage. Don't know how I feel about that, not really into social pressure for rights of passages.
On a side note, I decided to make tri-tip as my first oven cooked meal in my new apartment. I made a rub and a marinade from what I had lying around. My life continues to find it's new normal, I don't know if that is good or bad. I think for the moment it is good, I need to have my quiet time.
Oh, the picture. I searched for "beautiful" and it came up, the title is beautiful eyes, no idea who it is or who took the picture. Just thought I would post it.
Listening to a little Paul Simon, slip sliding away.
Cheating on Your Spouse
I was reading on Shine (part of Yahoo) and there was an article about how the day after Mother's Day was the second most popular day for women to cheat on their husbands. Anyways, it got me thinking and I began reading personal stories about cheating from all sides. One article was about people who didn't regret what they did, another asked why the "other person" saw the innocent spouse as the bad one and the adulterer as the good one.
I then went to a few forums on relationships and read the breath of issues people were facing in their relationships and it had all kinds of issues, most were sexual; but, that was far from the limit. I remembered hearing about a website that helped people to cheat and decided to look at it. I do not provide a link. It is a free site where married people can find others to sleep with just for sex.
I read somewhere that over 90% of adulterous affairs end and the couple (can I call them that) never marry or become serious. People risk everything to cheat and then don't become a couple. So it is not about relationship, it is about temporary pleasure. It is more common for couples to stay together after infidelity than it is for the adulterers to become a couple, I find that strange and yet, it makes sense.
I have not been sexual with another person for four years. I like sex; but, it is not the focus of my life. It is a benefit that we get to share with a partner. The thrill of meeting someone new can be very intense, it is filled with possibilities. The adrenaline that one must experience while cheating must be intense. I believe that the intensity is why people fool themselves into thinking they are in love.
The question about the "other person" is interesting. If you sleep with a married person, how can you respect or trust them? How can they trust you knowing that you are okay with cheating? Even more is how can a cheating spouse ever complain about someone cheating on them? The minute you justify cheating, you justify your being cheated on.
When I met my ex, she told me she was divorced, I later found out she was in the process of being divorced. She had moved out and was living alone with her daughter and waiting for the court to finalize the divorce. My divorce has been finalized for well over a year, it took three years. I have no idea how many people my ex slept with while we were waiting for the court to finalize things, it was zero for me. I dated a few times; but, it was more for companionship. Even Pimpernel gets lonely sometimes, not too often; but, sometimes.
As my ex-wife never discussed what she did with me or express any regrets at all, I cannot imagine how it effected her view of herself. The ex seemed rather proud of what she did; but, when her sister decided to do the same she told her that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Who knows the reason why, I certainly don't. I doubt the "other person" regretted it; but, I haven't discussed it with him.
When I meet others who have been cheated on and divorce, I always tell them that it just keeps getting better and it does for us, we don't have the guilt and we haven't justified others cheating on us. I forgave the ex and the "other person" a long time ago, I don't agree with what happened; but, time does heal all wounds.
I assume that for a cheating spouse to move on and trust in a relationship again they must first accept that what they did was wrong. This would seem to be necessary in order to not feel someone else was justified on cheating on them in the future. I very much doubt my ex has gotten that far in her thinking; but, who knows.
I don't have a visual picture of my ex anymore, not in my mind. Not an accurate one. I can only imagine what it will be like in another ten years. Perhaps that is the answer to quantum physics and the spooky effect, it is when two beings cease effecting one another, when what happens to one has no direct effect on the other and the further apart they are, the less it matters. Perhaps the real spooky effect is how we can live on this earth and not feel the others. The real question is not why there is quantum entanglement; but, why it is not more common.
See I got it back to quantum physics. I like quantum physics.
I then went to a few forums on relationships and read the breath of issues people were facing in their relationships and it had all kinds of issues, most were sexual; but, that was far from the limit. I remembered hearing about a website that helped people to cheat and decided to look at it. I do not provide a link. It is a free site where married people can find others to sleep with just for sex.
I read somewhere that over 90% of adulterous affairs end and the couple (can I call them that) never marry or become serious. People risk everything to cheat and then don't become a couple. So it is not about relationship, it is about temporary pleasure. It is more common for couples to stay together after infidelity than it is for the adulterers to become a couple, I find that strange and yet, it makes sense.
I have not been sexual with another person for four years. I like sex; but, it is not the focus of my life. It is a benefit that we get to share with a partner. The thrill of meeting someone new can be very intense, it is filled with possibilities. The adrenaline that one must experience while cheating must be intense. I believe that the intensity is why people fool themselves into thinking they are in love.
The question about the "other person" is interesting. If you sleep with a married person, how can you respect or trust them? How can they trust you knowing that you are okay with cheating? Even more is how can a cheating spouse ever complain about someone cheating on them? The minute you justify cheating, you justify your being cheated on.
When I met my ex, she told me she was divorced, I later found out she was in the process of being divorced. She had moved out and was living alone with her daughter and waiting for the court to finalize the divorce. My divorce has been finalized for well over a year, it took three years. I have no idea how many people my ex slept with while we were waiting for the court to finalize things, it was zero for me. I dated a few times; but, it was more for companionship. Even Pimpernel gets lonely sometimes, not too often; but, sometimes.
As my ex-wife never discussed what she did with me or express any regrets at all, I cannot imagine how it effected her view of herself. The ex seemed rather proud of what she did; but, when her sister decided to do the same she told her that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Who knows the reason why, I certainly don't. I doubt the "other person" regretted it; but, I haven't discussed it with him.
When I meet others who have been cheated on and divorce, I always tell them that it just keeps getting better and it does for us, we don't have the guilt and we haven't justified others cheating on us. I forgave the ex and the "other person" a long time ago, I don't agree with what happened; but, time does heal all wounds.
I assume that for a cheating spouse to move on and trust in a relationship again they must first accept that what they did was wrong. This would seem to be necessary in order to not feel someone else was justified on cheating on them in the future. I very much doubt my ex has gotten that far in her thinking; but, who knows.
I don't have a visual picture of my ex anymore, not in my mind. Not an accurate one. I can only imagine what it will be like in another ten years. Perhaps that is the answer to quantum physics and the spooky effect, it is when two beings cease effecting one another, when what happens to one has no direct effect on the other and the further apart they are, the less it matters. Perhaps the real spooky effect is how we can live on this earth and not feel the others. The real question is not why there is quantum entanglement; but, why it is not more common.
See I got it back to quantum physics. I like quantum physics.
Mothers Day, Bin Laden and My New Oven
Just some rambling notes on a Sunday. I am sitting in my apartment reading the news and about to get some more coffee. I have no idea how I am going to spend this day; but, for the moment I am just relaxing and waking up.
Today is Mother's Day so I send a Happy Mother's Day out there to any mothers who may read this blog. Hope you enjoy the day and get to spend it with your children. Heck, I even wish my ex a happy Mother's Day.
Someone asked if I thought my God rejoiced in Osama Bin Laden's death. I found it an odd question. Everybody dies, if you believe in god then he built us to all die and move on in our journey. If God had wished to prevent Bin Laden's death than he would have. I know this one way too well. If God had wanted him dead sooner, then he would have died sooner. I believe that God rejoices in our choosing to be better rather than our death and I have no idea what Bin Laden's last thoughts were.
I think the real question is should Christians rejoice at Bin Laden's death and the answer is no. I don't rejoice in anyone's evil or anyone's death, I rejoice in their doing good. I do not believe Bin Laden good; but, I do believe that all nations do evil even our own. I don't rejoice in that. When the twin towers collapsed some people in Arabia rejoiced. If we only rejoice when we kill "terrorists" and they only rejoice when they kill us, it means we only rejoice in death.
Bin Laden is dead, the wars continue and more people will die. Not much to rejoice about there. In Egypt the muslims are burning down coptic churches. I will rejoice when we find a way to end these wars.
My new oven arrived yesterday. I like cooking and need to figure out what to cook tonight, I am considering tri-tip. Any thoughts on the matter are welcome.
Like I said, not much on my mind, just random thoughts. I think I will get some coffee.
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