There was no date on this one but it mentioned me so I thought I would post it. It's all good stuff.
2 places that everybody should visit if they ever have the chance is Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Al and Ellie's Place in Iuka, Ms.
Mom, Cody, Jake, and me went to the space thing in Huntsville, Al. On the way back we stopped at Big Bobs BBQ. It's not the first time I've been there but it was the first time with Cody and Jake. I don't think they have ever had food like that in Idaho or Colorado. Big Bob's is like the greatest BBQ in the world. I've eaten at BBQ places in Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville, and all over Mississippi. But no place compares to Big Bob's. The last time I had a regular BBQ but this time I wanted their Baked Potato BBQ. It's like this huge potato that they bake. Then they load it with everything (sour cream, chives, cheese, real butter, etc) but at Big Bob's they put what ever meat you want in the potato also. So you can have bbq chicken, pork, or beef in your potato. Then they have their special BBQ sauce. It's not like regular bbq sauce. It's as different as you can get from regular bbq sauce but man it's great. It's white. You put that over whatever you get and it's the best in the world.
Ellie's place reminds me of places you would see in New Orleans. It's in this little town, in the like downtown part. It's a little building in the middle of the town that can hold 10 people if they all stand up. They have coke, dr.pepper, sprite, diet coke in the little bottles. But it's the burgers that is so great. They are called slug burgers. They are like 2 bite burgers (like the size of a Krystal's burger) and have like 2 slices of pickle, a ring of onion, and a couple of rings of mustard. But man they are fantastic. No burger in the world can get close. It's a special blend of meat. It has pork and beef both. It's from a local burcher shop and it's their recipe, so it's this place or nowhere for this burger. Everytime we would go to Pickwick Lake during the summer, we would always stop at Ellie's place for those slug burgers if we could. But they are only open at certain times and certain days.
I was gonna put in about the resturant that has all of the fried vegies that I like but it burned down. But if you go anywhere in the South, you can get what they had. Some of the fried foods you should try if you ever get the chance is okra, corn on the cob, cream corn (it's cream corn frozen into balls then coated with breading), sliced jelopena peppers, squash, whole jelopenas with cheese inside of the pepper, dill pickle slices (this is a must), and of course fried green tomatoes. I remember eating at a resturant in South Carolina and they had some of the best fried green tomatoes. So you can find this all over the South and probably even all over if you really look.
Enjoy....
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Lets Rant
This is from 3/07. I think this may be the last one that I will be posting. Everything else isn't even close to being finished. I'm still looking thru his stuff. He had some stuff in Google Document and in his gmail folders. I'm looking thru his yahoo stuff and maybe I'll find something in there. Just about anywhere he could write something and get it stored, he has something stored. Man I never realized how much time he spent writing and thinking about things going on in the world. He didn't talk about politics or celebs that much. I know he wouldn't watch a movie with Tom Cruise or any of the Scientoligists in it. He wouldn't listen to Greenday, Dixie Chicks, or U2. He truely hated them but he never really said much about why to me. Now I know.
I have this affinity for hating on celebs. I absolutely love the crocodile tears, the fake outrage at the injustice of the world, and the typically hypocritical lives they live. I know that there's alot of people that do this kind of crap but it really tweaks my butt hair when these fake people try to tell me about anything. I have a real life. I don't play a real person in front of the camera, I am a real person. I don't view the world thru drug and alcohol tempered eyes. My brain isn't warped from substance abuse (it's just warped). I don't hold myself up to the world as a pied piper: I say and you follow. I may not be world traveled but I'm not comatose either. I have a view of the world, probably one that is more realistic that any celeb has.
I did a search for a few of the more outspoken celebs just to see the things that they have done. It's surprising the things that these celebs support. See I must be missing something. I must be in a coma, because there are some crazy things that these people support.
Susan Sarandon was one of the supporters of John Henry Abbot. He wrote a book from prison and gained the admiration of alot of people from the entertainment community. With their help, he was granted parole. 6 months after he was paroled, he stabbed a man to death because he wouldn't let Abbot use the bathroom in his families restaurant. Sarandon actually named one of her sons after this person. What is with that?
I saw a video of Colin Ferrell at some awards show. It was like a few years ago. He was at the microphone crying about the war in Iraqi. Then he went to the parties after the show and I doubt there was any crying there. If I was so disturbed by something that I cried on national tv, I wouldn't be partying right after. But that's just me, my conscience wouldn't let me be that shallow. Maybe I'm just not adult enough to understand the subtleties of this profound act. Maybe in a few years I can be so moved that I cry about the injustices of the world one moment and then party like it's the end of the world a few minutes later. Wouldn't it be great to have a conscience you can turn on and off at your own convenience, but still hold yourself up as An Enlightened One?
Mel Gibson. He seems so down to earth. He plays these characters that seem likeable in a human way. But then he shows his true self, a drunk bigot. But he's still a money maker with the ability to make people see things his way. How can this person still be seen as a person of substance? Money, money, money talks!
Alec Baldwin and the brothers DIM. Wow. These are my role models. How could I go wrong modeling my life after any of them? LOL. These morons could support me and I would still not agree with them. That's how much I think of them. Alec in one of his little angry fits, called his 11 year old daughter a "thoughtless little pig" in a phone message. What is up with that?
Billy Joe Armstrong is another one. How can someone who has lived the life he's lived, have the stones to write songs about anybody else? Hypocrisy. He's lived a life of excess and violence, but is morally against violence and excess. Wow. Mixed signals there. Typical glory hound. It's way too easy to stand on a stage in front of a bunch of kids and yell "down with authority".
All of the drug and alcohol induced whiners that get on tv and tell me how something is horrible, I say look at yourself. Most of them have repeated driving under the influence charges (no telling how many people they put at risk by driving like that), repeated stays in rehab clinics (to keep from going to jail), but still tell us what is good and bad in the world. To me it's the same as Saturday Night Sinners/Sunday Morning Christians telling me how to live. It's hypocritical as hell. Someone who can't control their own behavior shouldn't go around telling other people how to do anything.
And I don't buy into the fame weighs on them, excuse. No one has to live in the media eye that has that much money. There are plenty of famous people that don't play the celeb. They live outside of the Hollywood limelight. They don't feel the need to be in front of a camera except when they are paid to. The tabloids partner with certain celebs. The tabloids get the pictures, and the celeb gets the attention. Publicity in any form is still publicity.
There are plenty of politicians that jump to mind that are/were different from what they showed in public that I would put in with these BEE_YOU_TEE_FULL people.
Senator Craig. Step up to the plate. Stop hiding behind stall doors. You are who you are, so except it and go on with your life. So you probably won't be popular with the Right but hey at least your being honest with yourself.
The Kennedy's. I do think they were involved in some great things. I just don't know if it was actually something that was meant. To me just about everything that was accomplished by them was by accident. They were spoiled elitists with more money than the family knew what to do with. They were alcoholics, drug abusers, and couldn't keep their peckers in their pants long enough to actually do any good on purpose. So this myth that they were this family of Great leaders to me is wrong. They were just there. Right time, right place, with the right connections, and of course the looks.
President George Bush needs to stop acting like the know-all Savior of this country. He along with most of the Republicans are loosing touch with reality. Nothing seems too unconstitutional for him to say is in our "National Interest" or for the "Safety" of Americans. REALLY! If we keep going with the "Safety" theme, soon it will be against the law to leave our homes, except to pay taxes and vote Republican.
Maybe I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I don't understand why politicians don't get it. They are our Representatives. They should reflect our beliefs. How can they represent us and lead us without representing all of us? And at what point did politicians get the idea that they can act in anyway because they are who they are? They are suppose to be the elite of our society. They are suppose to be the best of the best. They are suppose to safeguard our lively hoods but instead they are the dregs of society. Not the best of the best, but the best con artist.
Maybe I missed something along the way but why is Russ Limbaugh still around. Is it completely crazy for someone to spout all of his conservative venom before, during, and after his affair with drugs? I guess if your loud enough and say the right things, you can gain forgiveness from the Right for just about anything. Hey Russ, can you say, OXY?
Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the biased News agencies that base their programming on biased news commentary; are Morally Retarded and Morally Corrupt. Everything is shaded to fit their target audience. They shade news (what little news they put on the air) to fit a belief or promote fears. It's just political commentary. I've started getting my news from the changing seasons. It's just as reliable and at least I don't get lied to as often, plus it's more accessible for me to bitch at. LOL. Damn weather. I was gonna get my news from the insects, plants, and animals in the woods; but now there are TOO many of them foreign insects, plants, and animal. I can't understand 'em. LOL.
Well I can't stop there. Some of you may be thinking, "What about You"? Welllllllll, I think I'm sick of my ranting. I do hate whinny know-it-all teenagers that have practically no life experiences. I think I need to grow up and learn that the world isn't perfect. Life isn't perfect. I'm not perfect (I'll have to think that one over later on). I need to get tougher. I think I let too much of the dumb shit get to me, like celebrities, politicians, and churches. I need to spend more time out in the world and less time barricaded in my room. It's too easy for me to stand on the sidelines and yell at the world. I need to be involved with the world to be able to bitch about it.
Maybe I just need to get layed. LOL.
Who doesn't?
Well that's my rant for today. Did I leave anybody out? LOL.
Man, I was all over the place with this one.
I have this affinity for hating on celebs. I absolutely love the crocodile tears, the fake outrage at the injustice of the world, and the typically hypocritical lives they live. I know that there's alot of people that do this kind of crap but it really tweaks my butt hair when these fake people try to tell me about anything. I have a real life. I don't play a real person in front of the camera, I am a real person. I don't view the world thru drug and alcohol tempered eyes. My brain isn't warped from substance abuse (it's just warped). I don't hold myself up to the world as a pied piper: I say and you follow. I may not be world traveled but I'm not comatose either. I have a view of the world, probably one that is more realistic that any celeb has.
I did a search for a few of the more outspoken celebs just to see the things that they have done. It's surprising the things that these celebs support. See I must be missing something. I must be in a coma, because there are some crazy things that these people support.
Susan Sarandon was one of the supporters of John Henry Abbot. He wrote a book from prison and gained the admiration of alot of people from the entertainment community. With their help, he was granted parole. 6 months after he was paroled, he stabbed a man to death because he wouldn't let Abbot use the bathroom in his families restaurant. Sarandon actually named one of her sons after this person. What is with that?
I saw a video of Colin Ferrell at some awards show. It was like a few years ago. He was at the microphone crying about the war in Iraqi. Then he went to the parties after the show and I doubt there was any crying there. If I was so disturbed by something that I cried on national tv, I wouldn't be partying right after. But that's just me, my conscience wouldn't let me be that shallow. Maybe I'm just not adult enough to understand the subtleties of this profound act. Maybe in a few years I can be so moved that I cry about the injustices of the world one moment and then party like it's the end of the world a few minutes later. Wouldn't it be great to have a conscience you can turn on and off at your own convenience, but still hold yourself up as An Enlightened One?
Mel Gibson. He seems so down to earth. He plays these characters that seem likeable in a human way. But then he shows his true self, a drunk bigot. But he's still a money maker with the ability to make people see things his way. How can this person still be seen as a person of substance? Money, money, money talks!
Alec Baldwin and the brothers DIM. Wow. These are my role models. How could I go wrong modeling my life after any of them? LOL. These morons could support me and I would still not agree with them. That's how much I think of them. Alec in one of his little angry fits, called his 11 year old daughter a "thoughtless little pig" in a phone message. What is up with that?
Billy Joe Armstrong is another one. How can someone who has lived the life he's lived, have the stones to write songs about anybody else? Hypocrisy. He's lived a life of excess and violence, but is morally against violence and excess. Wow. Mixed signals there. Typical glory hound. It's way too easy to stand on a stage in front of a bunch of kids and yell "down with authority".
All of the drug and alcohol induced whiners that get on tv and tell me how something is horrible, I say look at yourself. Most of them have repeated driving under the influence charges (no telling how many people they put at risk by driving like that), repeated stays in rehab clinics (to keep from going to jail), but still tell us what is good and bad in the world. To me it's the same as Saturday Night Sinners/Sunday Morning Christians telling me how to live. It's hypocritical as hell. Someone who can't control their own behavior shouldn't go around telling other people how to do anything.
And I don't buy into the fame weighs on them, excuse. No one has to live in the media eye that has that much money. There are plenty of famous people that don't play the celeb. They live outside of the Hollywood limelight. They don't feel the need to be in front of a camera except when they are paid to. The tabloids partner with certain celebs. The tabloids get the pictures, and the celeb gets the attention. Publicity in any form is still publicity.
There are plenty of politicians that jump to mind that are/were different from what they showed in public that I would put in with these BEE_YOU_TEE_FULL people.
Senator Craig. Step up to the plate. Stop hiding behind stall doors. You are who you are, so except it and go on with your life. So you probably won't be popular with the Right but hey at least your being honest with yourself.
The Kennedy's. I do think they were involved in some great things. I just don't know if it was actually something that was meant. To me just about everything that was accomplished by them was by accident. They were spoiled elitists with more money than the family knew what to do with. They were alcoholics, drug abusers, and couldn't keep their peckers in their pants long enough to actually do any good on purpose. So this myth that they were this family of Great leaders to me is wrong. They were just there. Right time, right place, with the right connections, and of course the looks.
President George Bush needs to stop acting like the know-all Savior of this country. He along with most of the Republicans are loosing touch with reality. Nothing seems too unconstitutional for him to say is in our "National Interest" or for the "Safety" of Americans. REALLY! If we keep going with the "Safety" theme, soon it will be against the law to leave our homes, except to pay taxes and vote Republican.
Maybe I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I don't understand why politicians don't get it. They are our Representatives. They should reflect our beliefs. How can they represent us and lead us without representing all of us? And at what point did politicians get the idea that they can act in anyway because they are who they are? They are suppose to be the elite of our society. They are suppose to be the best of the best. They are suppose to safeguard our lively hoods but instead they are the dregs of society. Not the best of the best, but the best con artist.
Maybe I missed something along the way but why is Russ Limbaugh still around. Is it completely crazy for someone to spout all of his conservative venom before, during, and after his affair with drugs? I guess if your loud enough and say the right things, you can gain forgiveness from the Right for just about anything. Hey Russ, can you say, OXY?
Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of the biased News agencies that base their programming on biased news commentary; are Morally Retarded and Morally Corrupt. Everything is shaded to fit their target audience. They shade news (what little news they put on the air) to fit a belief or promote fears. It's just political commentary. I've started getting my news from the changing seasons. It's just as reliable and at least I don't get lied to as often, plus it's more accessible for me to bitch at. LOL. Damn weather. I was gonna get my news from the insects, plants, and animals in the woods; but now there are TOO many of them foreign insects, plants, and animal. I can't understand 'em. LOL.
Well I can't stop there. Some of you may be thinking, "What about You"? Welllllllll, I think I'm sick of my ranting. I do hate whinny know-it-all teenagers that have practically no life experiences. I think I need to grow up and learn that the world isn't perfect. Life isn't perfect. I'm not perfect (I'll have to think that one over later on). I need to get tougher. I think I let too much of the dumb shit get to me, like celebrities, politicians, and churches. I need to spend more time out in the world and less time barricaded in my room. It's too easy for me to stand on the sidelines and yell at the world. I need to be involved with the world to be able to bitch about it.
Maybe I just need to get layed. LOL.
Who doesn't?
Well that's my rant for today. Did I leave anybody out? LOL.
Man, I was all over the place with this one.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Justified
This is from 9/07.
I'm not always so sensitive to other people. I try to be but I can't relate to certain behaviors. When someone over comes great odds to make a good life, I admire that. I'm not talking about making alot of money or becoming famous. I mean the people who live, work, and raise their families without the attitude that they are owed something. They don't need to justify their life because their accomplishment wasn't that they lived but that they made society better just by being in it. There are people in this country that don't play into the role of victim and I admire that.
Then I see the other side, the people that are always a victim. These are the people that spend their lives taking from society and never giving anything back. They prey on us like vampires, sucking the life out of us. Nothing is accomplished because they do nothing that helps society. The roles they play are many and very diverse, and it has nothing to do with how rich or poor they are. It has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with what sex they are. It has nothing to do with where they are from. It's simply an amoral person(s) at the right moment in time with a society guilted into submission by every form of media, religious group, ant-religious group, and political party over injustices from decades/centuries ago. At this time in our evolution, we need those victims to save/help. We need that jolt that goes with helping someone. We need that feel-good feeling to over come the guilt of personal accomplishments especially financial. We need to alleviate that guilt from our sometimes horrid history of injustice. But please be aware that these victims are not always real victims. There are too many people in this world who feel they are owed something from society. They feel that any action on their part is justified because they are alive (birth = entitlement).
Playing the victim is almost the perfect life right now. It must be because every day you see something or hear about somebody that needs your help. There is always somebody with their hand out. But every time somebody is found out to be a fraud, it takes away from the real victims (people who actually can't help themselves for whatever reason). Most of these people know how to play the system and to play us. For me, I had rather be dead than live that way. And it seems that everybody has been molested, physically abused, mentally abused, racially abused, religiously abused, etc......... And they all want to get paid for it. There is truly a price on almost everything now.
I went to my local doc awhile back. I listened to a woman talking to another woman and man in the waiting room (the first woman was sitting with her back to me so it was hard not to hear the conversation). They were talking about going to this doctor in Alabama that gives out alot of pain medications. The woman was telling them the stuff to say to the doctor and how get alot of stuff without really being hurt. She said it was easy. She goes to a couple of different doctors and her husband does the same thing. All 3 of them were there that day not because they were sick or hurt, but because they were playing the system. But in the process, they were clogging up the system. I ended up having to wait almost 1 1/2 hours past my appointment time just to get a stupid checkup and have blood drawn. I hope they enjoyed their medications and I hope that one day they are actually sick but have to wait because there are people playing sick that is in front of them.
All of this makes me leery of anybody that claims abuse. I question everything about victimization now because even some of the real victims of abuse played into the act. And in my view, most of the claims are crap. Maybe I'm cynical. Maybe I'm too judgemental. Maybe I'm just plain wrong. But maybe I'm right and people need to step up and help themselves before proclaiming themselves victims. Because no matter what, every time somebody gets away with these bogus claims, we pay for it. Not the big companies or the government: we do. One way or the other, we pay for everything.
I'm not always so sensitive to other people. I try to be but I can't relate to certain behaviors. When someone over comes great odds to make a good life, I admire that. I'm not talking about making alot of money or becoming famous. I mean the people who live, work, and raise their families without the attitude that they are owed something. They don't need to justify their life because their accomplishment wasn't that they lived but that they made society better just by being in it. There are people in this country that don't play into the role of victim and I admire that.
Then I see the other side, the people that are always a victim. These are the people that spend their lives taking from society and never giving anything back. They prey on us like vampires, sucking the life out of us. Nothing is accomplished because they do nothing that helps society. The roles they play are many and very diverse, and it has nothing to do with how rich or poor they are. It has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with what sex they are. It has nothing to do with where they are from. It's simply an amoral person(s) at the right moment in time with a society guilted into submission by every form of media, religious group, ant-religious group, and political party over injustices from decades/centuries ago. At this time in our evolution, we need those victims to save/help. We need that jolt that goes with helping someone. We need that feel-good feeling to over come the guilt of personal accomplishments especially financial. We need to alleviate that guilt from our sometimes horrid history of injustice. But please be aware that these victims are not always real victims. There are too many people in this world who feel they are owed something from society. They feel that any action on their part is justified because they are alive (birth = entitlement).
Playing the victim is almost the perfect life right now. It must be because every day you see something or hear about somebody that needs your help. There is always somebody with their hand out. But every time somebody is found out to be a fraud, it takes away from the real victims (people who actually can't help themselves for whatever reason). Most of these people know how to play the system and to play us. For me, I had rather be dead than live that way. And it seems that everybody has been molested, physically abused, mentally abused, racially abused, religiously abused, etc......... And they all want to get paid for it. There is truly a price on almost everything now.
It's kinda sickening to hear what some of these victims call abuse. It's even more sickening to hear that alot of the time, our society agrees. I don't like most big companies. But not liking them doesn't mean I think they are the problem. Some examples of these are:
- The people that sued McDonald's because their fries tasted too good. The most exercise these people got was the actual motion of putting the fries into their mouth and chewing. Am I the only person that doesn't understand this?
- The tobacco companies being blamed for smoking. I'm sorry. I don't understand it.
- Gun companies being sued for people using them. Stupidity.
- Drug companies being sued cause the medication worked. Maybe I'm slow but What? There was an ad on tv for a law firm looking for people who had used a certain pain medication and became addicted to it. And I'm sure there were people that were shopping for doctors that will be involved in that lawsuit.
I went to my local doc awhile back. I listened to a woman talking to another woman and man in the waiting room (the first woman was sitting with her back to me so it was hard not to hear the conversation). They were talking about going to this doctor in Alabama that gives out alot of pain medications. The woman was telling them the stuff to say to the doctor and how get alot of stuff without really being hurt. She said it was easy. She goes to a couple of different doctors and her husband does the same thing. All 3 of them were there that day not because they were sick or hurt, but because they were playing the system. But in the process, they were clogging up the system. I ended up having to wait almost 1 1/2 hours past my appointment time just to get a stupid checkup and have blood drawn. I hope they enjoyed their medications and I hope that one day they are actually sick but have to wait because there are people playing sick that is in front of them.
All of this makes me leery of anybody that claims abuse. I question everything about victimization now because even some of the real victims of abuse played into the act. And in my view, most of the claims are crap. Maybe I'm cynical. Maybe I'm too judgemental. Maybe I'm just plain wrong. But maybe I'm right and people need to step up and help themselves before proclaiming themselves victims. Because no matter what, every time somebody gets away with these bogus claims, we pay for it. Not the big companies or the government: we do. One way or the other, we pay for everything.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Favre Gate
This is from 8/08.
Maybe I look at things wrong. Maybe. But I don’t look at things from just one side. From what I can see, Favre and the Packers are both right and wrong. To start with, I think there was something going on from awhile back when McCarthy, Murphy, and Thompson decided to almost push Favre out. And I don't understand it. If you like him or not, he has been a great player for the Packers. But from his perch on top of the Green Bay Packers history, he was given little support from the higher ups the last few years. To me it seems that for whatever reason, there was resentment from the front office for Favre. Maybe they felt the fans gave Favre too much power over them. Maybe he was just too Favre for Thompson, Murphy, and McCarthy. But from what I can see, there is something screwy in Green Bay.
Sure Favre was wrong to retire. Maybe he was really wrong by not informing the coaching staff and management ahead of time that he was coming back. But is that reason enough to make this much of a drama in Green Bay. If Thompson and McCarthy were really being honest, they would say that the best QB and the person who would give them the best chance to win would be Brett Favre. If they were honest, they would have been upfront with everything. If they didn't want him on the team, release him. It's a simple thing. See as soon as Favre started talking about coming back to Green Bay to play, the organization and coaching staff should have been setting up meeting between them and Favre. It should have been the main thing on their minds. McCarthy and Thompson should have been traveling to Kiln, MS, so they could get things rolling. But they didn’t do that. Instead they acted as if nothing was going on until things were beyond fixing. There is something screwy in Green Bay.
If Favre wasn't good enough to play for Green Bay, then he shouldn't be good enough to play for anybody else. If Thompson and McCarthy didn't think Favre was able to lead the Packers, then they shouldn't care where he plays. But for some reason, they did care. If Favre was such a distraction to the team, then why not send him to a rival. Wouldn’t he be a distraction to that team? If he wasn’t a good team mate, again why not send him to a rival so he would be a bad team mate there. But Green Bay wouldn’t do this for some reason mainly cause he is a good team mate and can lead the team. See they say one thing, but their actions say another. There is something screwy in Green Bay.
I don't know if half of the stuff that has been reported is true, but I don't believe that stuff about Favre not being ready to play. McCarthy kept bring that up about his meeting with Brett, that he didn’t feel Favre was mentally ready to play. I think he will be able to play and play well. He is too competitive to not give his all. And I think he would have played for Green Bay if there was anybody in the coaching staff or front office that wanted him there. I think there was a lot of stuff said on both sides that was meant to hurt the other side. But from what I know of Favre, he is nothing but straight forward and honest. Maybe a little too honest at times. From Thompson and McCarthy, I heard a lot of double talk. For the most part, they were trying to sway fans away from Favre instead of trying to find a solution. They kept painting him as a turncoat and trying to make him look dishonest. Maybe I'm wrong but it's what I hear and see from them. To me, Thompson and McCarthy looked sleazy. Sure they were in a tough spot but I think it's a spot they mostly caused by their ineptness. It would have been an easy thing to have ended this before it started but there was no leadership from the management. It's like they were waiting to see if this would just go away without them having to do anything. Instead of thinking about the team, the fans, and the organization; they did nothing. They spent their time postering before the cameras like innocent bystanders instead of being the leaders of the organization. There is something screwy in Green Bay.
So with all the different solutions to Favre-gate, Green Bay came up with the trade with The Jets which is better than most of the other options available (Should Favre just go away? Should Green Bay let him go somewhere in the NFC? Should Murphy, Thompson and McCarthy be fired and Brett continue as QB for Green Bay?) I don’t know what all was said between Brett and The Packers but I think that Favre wants to play football and if Green Bay was the real football town that they claim to be, then Favre should be playing football for them. If there was real football people in the Green Bay organization, it should have been a great day when Brett Favre decided to un-retire. But the screwy people in charge of the organization made it a sad day for everybody concerned. There is something screwy in Green Bay and it’s the people in charge……….Wow there are some great QBs playing in NY now.
Maybe I look at things wrong. Maybe. But I don’t look at things from just one side. From what I can see, Favre and the Packers are both right and wrong. To start with, I think there was something going on from awhile back when McCarthy, Murphy, and Thompson decided to almost push Favre out. And I don't understand it. If you like him or not, he has been a great player for the Packers. But from his perch on top of the Green Bay Packers history, he was given little support from the higher ups the last few years. To me it seems that for whatever reason, there was resentment from the front office for Favre. Maybe they felt the fans gave Favre too much power over them. Maybe he was just too Favre for Thompson, Murphy, and McCarthy. But from what I can see, there is something screwy in Green Bay.
Sure Favre was wrong to retire. Maybe he was really wrong by not informing the coaching staff and management ahead of time that he was coming back. But is that reason enough to make this much of a drama in Green Bay. If Thompson and McCarthy were really being honest, they would say that the best QB and the person who would give them the best chance to win would be Brett Favre. If they were honest, they would have been upfront with everything. If they didn't want him on the team, release him. It's a simple thing. See as soon as Favre started talking about coming back to Green Bay to play, the organization and coaching staff should have been setting up meeting between them and Favre. It should have been the main thing on their minds. McCarthy and Thompson should have been traveling to Kiln, MS, so they could get things rolling. But they didn’t do that. Instead they acted as if nothing was going on until things were beyond fixing. There is something screwy in Green Bay.
If Favre wasn't good enough to play for Green Bay, then he shouldn't be good enough to play for anybody else. If Thompson and McCarthy didn't think Favre was able to lead the Packers, then they shouldn't care where he plays. But for some reason, they did care. If Favre was such a distraction to the team, then why not send him to a rival. Wouldn’t he be a distraction to that team? If he wasn’t a good team mate, again why not send him to a rival so he would be a bad team mate there. But Green Bay wouldn’t do this for some reason mainly cause he is a good team mate and can lead the team. See they say one thing, but their actions say another. There is something screwy in Green Bay.
I don't know if half of the stuff that has been reported is true, but I don't believe that stuff about Favre not being ready to play. McCarthy kept bring that up about his meeting with Brett, that he didn’t feel Favre was mentally ready to play. I think he will be able to play and play well. He is too competitive to not give his all. And I think he would have played for Green Bay if there was anybody in the coaching staff or front office that wanted him there. I think there was a lot of stuff said on both sides that was meant to hurt the other side. But from what I know of Favre, he is nothing but straight forward and honest. Maybe a little too honest at times. From Thompson and McCarthy, I heard a lot of double talk. For the most part, they were trying to sway fans away from Favre instead of trying to find a solution. They kept painting him as a turncoat and trying to make him look dishonest. Maybe I'm wrong but it's what I hear and see from them. To me, Thompson and McCarthy looked sleazy. Sure they were in a tough spot but I think it's a spot they mostly caused by their ineptness. It would have been an easy thing to have ended this before it started but there was no leadership from the management. It's like they were waiting to see if this would just go away without them having to do anything. Instead of thinking about the team, the fans, and the organization; they did nothing. They spent their time postering before the cameras like innocent bystanders instead of being the leaders of the organization. There is something screwy in Green Bay.
So with all the different solutions to Favre-gate, Green Bay came up with the trade with The Jets which is better than most of the other options available (Should Favre just go away? Should Green Bay let him go somewhere in the NFC? Should Murphy, Thompson and McCarthy be fired and Brett continue as QB for Green Bay?) I don’t know what all was said between Brett and The Packers but I think that Favre wants to play football and if Green Bay was the real football town that they claim to be, then Favre should be playing football for them. If there was real football people in the Green Bay organization, it should have been a great day when Brett Favre decided to un-retire. But the screwy people in charge of the organization made it a sad day for everybody concerned. There is something screwy in Green Bay and it’s the people in charge……….Wow there are some great QBs playing in NY now.
Wild TIgers I Have Known
This is from Jan 08.
I saw this movie on some movie channel awhile back, I think it was IFC. It was a real bizarre movie. I think it was made by a crazy person. The movie wasn't that good and it was poorly made with too much dumb crap thrown in to fill in for the lack of substance. But the kid playing the main role was awesome. It was the only reason I watched the whole movie. It was like watching this kid from a hidden camera. His expressions, the way he talked, and everything else was so well done: especially since it was not an easy role to play. He played a gay 13 year old outcast who is in love with a popular guy at school who isn't gay. He starts dressing like a girl and calling this guy on the phone as a girl. He ends up setting up a meeting with the popular guy to have sex only the other guy thought it was going to be with a girl. Like I said it was a hard role to play. But this kid did well. The movie sucked but his acting was worth putting up with the movie. I know that probably only the Punk would enjoy this movie cause he is a movie buff, but I hope some of my other readers would give this film a chance.
I saw this movie on some movie channel awhile back, I think it was IFC. It was a real bizarre movie. I think it was made by a crazy person. The movie wasn't that good and it was poorly made with too much dumb crap thrown in to fill in for the lack of substance. But the kid playing the main role was awesome. It was the only reason I watched the whole movie. It was like watching this kid from a hidden camera. His expressions, the way he talked, and everything else was so well done: especially since it was not an easy role to play. He played a gay 13 year old outcast who is in love with a popular guy at school who isn't gay. He starts dressing like a girl and calling this guy on the phone as a girl. He ends up setting up a meeting with the popular guy to have sex only the other guy thought it was going to be with a girl. Like I said it was a hard role to play. But this kid did well. The movie sucked but his acting was worth putting up with the movie. I know that probably only the Punk would enjoy this movie cause he is a movie buff, but I hope some of my other readers would give this film a chance.
FRI END SHIP
This is one of his last drafts. It was from August 09. If anybody thinks I shouldn't publish these, please tell me. He was having a real hard time with alot of stuff and he was going on trips that made him so tired that I think he just forgot to post alot of things he meant to publish. I think he would have wanted them seen by his friends so I'm going to keep posting them unless somebody thinks I shouldn't.
I've been thinking about this for along time. It's something I really want to understand better so I can be a better friend. Heck, it's something I need to understand so I will have a friend.
It's tough to trust someone not in your immediate family, or it is for me. I usually do it in stages and very slowly. I don't just jump into situations easily where I have to trust. So it's kinda like dating I guess. There's stages you have to go thru: Friends, Good Friends, and Best Friends. Best friends being the person that is the most trustworthy and responsible. The person you count on in tough situations. The person that you ask important questions of and listen.
It's all about give and take. Good friends always seem to have a certain amount of it, it may not be equal but it's exceptable. I think this is where I go wrong in friendships. Friends need to feel needed and I'm not good at that. It's not that I wouldn't trust a friend to help me. If I'm friends with someone, I really trust them. I guess I have something broken in me because I don't ask for help from anybody (except maybe my family). Maybe it's some long ago and long forgotten betrayal, but I just can't do things like that. Maybe I don't want to burden friends with real personal stuff or maybe I just think I can find my own way without bothering someone else. Or it could be I think I will feel ashamed that I can't figure out things for myself. Who knows? But I think it keeps me from having close friends.
Another thing that bothers me is that it's so hard to get a real best friend because I think it takes years to get there. At the point someone becomes a best friend is the point where that friend knows just about everything about you. The most guarded secret is usually no secret at all to a best friend. But if you don't have the time to have a history, a best friend is hard to find.
All of this has me wondering if I will even have a best friend again. I'm not that great of a person to be around. I'm not someone I would try to be friends with. I'm not big on doing stuff like hanging out with a bunch of other people. I don't like being around people I don't know. I'm out going but in a boring way. I like to be outside, not sitting on the porch and stuff like that. I mean out in the woods hiking, camping, riding 4 wheelers, working ( yeah it's weird ). I don't like riding around places with a bunch of idiots doing nothing, I don't want to get drunk or high, I don't need constant motion and stimulation, I don't need endless chatter about nothing, I don't crave attention (I've never had the urge to strutt around like a horny moron), or any of the other ignorant things that guys my age do (I wouldn't mind sex but that's another blog and another day). I think I need to start hanging with people as weird or weirder than I am (if there is anybody weirder than I am). Maybe it takes a weird person to be around me for more than a few minutes.
I have friends online (a few that I do tell almost everything to). But maybe it's easier to do that with somebody that I don't see eye to eye. I trust these trusted few more than anybody for some stuff that I can not talk about with my family. I think if we were neighbors we would be best friends but who knows. I'm such a hard person to be around sometimes. Somedays it's hard to figure out things without somebody to talk to. And since 360 is no more, it's really hard. I miss my friends. I miss my life. My cousins are living with us now and maybe things will change. I hope Jake can be that someone that can I can really talk to but he's so close to his brother than I don't know if I can really trust him. Only time will tell but somedays, it doesn't seem like I have alot of time left and things just seem to build up to the point where I think I'm losing my mind. I guess I need to find out some things about Jake. Man I miss 360. Yahoo can kiss my ass for the way things went. Bastards......
I've been thinking about this for along time. It's something I really want to understand better so I can be a better friend. Heck, it's something I need to understand so I will have a friend.
It's tough to trust someone not in your immediate family, or it is for me. I usually do it in stages and very slowly. I don't just jump into situations easily where I have to trust. So it's kinda like dating I guess. There's stages you have to go thru: Friends, Good Friends, and Best Friends. Best friends being the person that is the most trustworthy and responsible. The person you count on in tough situations. The person that you ask important questions of and listen.
It's all about give and take. Good friends always seem to have a certain amount of it, it may not be equal but it's exceptable. I think this is where I go wrong in friendships. Friends need to feel needed and I'm not good at that. It's not that I wouldn't trust a friend to help me. If I'm friends with someone, I really trust them. I guess I have something broken in me because I don't ask for help from anybody (except maybe my family). Maybe it's some long ago and long forgotten betrayal, but I just can't do things like that. Maybe I don't want to burden friends with real personal stuff or maybe I just think I can find my own way without bothering someone else. Or it could be I think I will feel ashamed that I can't figure out things for myself. Who knows? But I think it keeps me from having close friends.
Another thing that bothers me is that it's so hard to get a real best friend because I think it takes years to get there. At the point someone becomes a best friend is the point where that friend knows just about everything about you. The most guarded secret is usually no secret at all to a best friend. But if you don't have the time to have a history, a best friend is hard to find.
All of this has me wondering if I will even have a best friend again. I'm not that great of a person to be around. I'm not someone I would try to be friends with. I'm not big on doing stuff like hanging out with a bunch of other people. I don't like being around people I don't know. I'm out going but in a boring way. I like to be outside, not sitting on the porch and stuff like that. I mean out in the woods hiking, camping, riding 4 wheelers, working ( yeah it's weird ). I don't like riding around places with a bunch of idiots doing nothing, I don't want to get drunk or high, I don't need constant motion and stimulation, I don't need endless chatter about nothing, I don't crave attention (I've never had the urge to strutt around like a horny moron), or any of the other ignorant things that guys my age do (I wouldn't mind sex but that's another blog and another day). I think I need to start hanging with people as weird or weirder than I am (if there is anybody weirder than I am). Maybe it takes a weird person to be around me for more than a few minutes.
I have friends online (a few that I do tell almost everything to). But maybe it's easier to do that with somebody that I don't see eye to eye. I trust these trusted few more than anybody for some stuff that I can not talk about with my family. I think if we were neighbors we would be best friends but who knows. I'm such a hard person to be around sometimes. Somedays it's hard to figure out things without somebody to talk to. And since 360 is no more, it's really hard. I miss my friends. I miss my life. My cousins are living with us now and maybe things will change. I hope Jake can be that someone that can I can really talk to but he's so close to his brother than I don't know if I can really trust him. Only time will tell but somedays, it doesn't seem like I have alot of time left and things just seem to build up to the point where I think I'm losing my mind. I guess I need to find out some things about Jake. Man I miss 360. Yahoo can kiss my ass for the way things went. Bastards......
Strong/Weak
I've been going thru Kieran's drafts for any that he finished but didn't publish. This is one that I have found so far. He has so many drafts to go thru and most were unfinished.
I'm not one of those people that expect a guy to act one way and a girl to act another way. I do fight that ignorant thinking. It's limiting and it makes people play parts that don't necessarily accomplish anything. Playing a part in life is never helpful but we all do it. We act weak, strong, smart, dumb, to fill the need at that moment.
I don't like to be seen as weak. But I don't think I would like to be seen as some kind of hero either. I don't know how I really am beyond the few experiences I have had. I think how I would do something in certain situations, and I hope I would do the "right" thing. But I know that until I'm in those situations, I don't know for sure. In a dangerous situation, will my brain shut down or will I stay in control: I don't know. If I need to react in a split second, will I have the mental capacity and ability to react quickly: I don't know. In a situation where I need to control my emotions, can I do that to help others thru that situation: I hope so. But I don't know until or unless I am in that situation.
When I got to my Aunt's house after Kat, I saw what was going on in New Orleans. It was all over the news. It was just about all the news. But I saw something that was easy to blow off as typical, even for me. I could have looked at the news conferences as typically shameless postering by city, state, and national officials. While all of the flooding was going on, our leaders were standing around pointing fingers at each other. I remember the Mayor of New Orleans using the race card, like a beacon of injustice pointed straight at everybody in earshot. Typically he didn't use the stupidity card and point it at his self, because he was the problem before anybody outside of New Orleans. He waited till after the storm to help anyone (actually he waited till after the storm to get somebody else to help). A person in his position should be better at organition, delegating authority, and fixing problems. But he completely lost his head and didn't do anything but point his finger at everybody else. He was a great help.
Then you had the Governer of Louisanna. I don't care what the situation but when the head of my state goes on TV, I don't want him/her crying. See, I don't need a politicial hack useing crocodile tears to get sympathy for something that she was partly to blame for allowing to happen. Her inablilty to function was horrible. Instead of trying to help the people of her state, she held news conferences. Instead of mobilizing the people in her state and the states around her, she held news conferences so she could point her finger and blame everybody else for everything. At the time the state needed a strong leader, there wasn't one. She was busy being a politician. Then she got into an arguement with the mayor of New Orleans about who did the least. It was so sad to see that crap.
There is no need to go into the national part of it. That has been written about by everybody for forever. As bad as the national government was and for all of the less than capable leadership, it first falls on local, city, and state officials to be leaders in a crisis, not becoming part of that crisis. It was horrible seeing all of that stupidity going on. In Mississippi, we didn't have it much better, but at least our leaders were on hand trying to be leaders (for what it was worth). But the leadership of Mississippi didn't become part of the crisis. They didn't make it worse. I'm not knocking them as people. It's not like I think I could have done better. I'm knocking them as responsible leaders. I'm calling them pathetic losers who let the people that elected them down in a very public way.
I think that's what is the biggest problem today. We elect people that are good at pointing out things but don't have a clue how to fix anything. They are just clueless.........
I'm not one of those people that expect a guy to act one way and a girl to act another way. I do fight that ignorant thinking. It's limiting and it makes people play parts that don't necessarily accomplish anything. Playing a part in life is never helpful but we all do it. We act weak, strong, smart, dumb, to fill the need at that moment.
I don't like to be seen as weak. But I don't think I would like to be seen as some kind of hero either. I don't know how I really am beyond the few experiences I have had. I think how I would do something in certain situations, and I hope I would do the "right" thing. But I know that until I'm in those situations, I don't know for sure. In a dangerous situation, will my brain shut down or will I stay in control: I don't know. If I need to react in a split second, will I have the mental capacity and ability to react quickly: I don't know. In a situation where I need to control my emotions, can I do that to help others thru that situation: I hope so. But I don't know until or unless I am in that situation.
When I got to my Aunt's house after Kat, I saw what was going on in New Orleans. It was all over the news. It was just about all the news. But I saw something that was easy to blow off as typical, even for me. I could have looked at the news conferences as typically shameless postering by city, state, and national officials. While all of the flooding was going on, our leaders were standing around pointing fingers at each other. I remember the Mayor of New Orleans using the race card, like a beacon of injustice pointed straight at everybody in earshot. Typically he didn't use the stupidity card and point it at his self, because he was the problem before anybody outside of New Orleans. He waited till after the storm to help anyone (actually he waited till after the storm to get somebody else to help). A person in his position should be better at organition, delegating authority, and fixing problems. But he completely lost his head and didn't do anything but point his finger at everybody else. He was a great help.
Then you had the Governer of Louisanna. I don't care what the situation but when the head of my state goes on TV, I don't want him/her crying. See, I don't need a politicial hack useing crocodile tears to get sympathy for something that she was partly to blame for allowing to happen. Her inablilty to function was horrible. Instead of trying to help the people of her state, she held news conferences. Instead of mobilizing the people in her state and the states around her, she held news conferences so she could point her finger and blame everybody else for everything. At the time the state needed a strong leader, there wasn't one. She was busy being a politician. Then she got into an arguement with the mayor of New Orleans about who did the least. It was so sad to see that crap.
There is no need to go into the national part of it. That has been written about by everybody for forever. As bad as the national government was and for all of the less than capable leadership, it first falls on local, city, and state officials to be leaders in a crisis, not becoming part of that crisis. It was horrible seeing all of that stupidity going on. In Mississippi, we didn't have it much better, but at least our leaders were on hand trying to be leaders (for what it was worth). But the leadership of Mississippi didn't become part of the crisis. They didn't make it worse. I'm not knocking them as people. It's not like I think I could have done better. I'm knocking them as responsible leaders. I'm calling them pathetic losers who let the people that elected them down in a very public way.
I think that's what is the biggest problem today. We elect people that are good at pointing out things but don't have a clue how to fix anything. They are just clueless.........
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Leave a message
I'm gonna leave this blog space open for messages for any reason, even if it's just to say hey. Just write your comment into the comment section of this blog. If you are not on blogger or do not have an open id, please sign your name at the end of the comment. I'm also trying to find friends of Kieran's from Yahoo 360. If you are a friend of Kieran's from 360 please leave a link or an email address so I can message with you (or if you do not want to make your email address public, you can email me at skidmard@gmail.com ). I have some message from Kieran to some of his friends and it's a very personal thing for me to deliver those messages. If you know someone who may have been his friend, please contact them and leave a link to this page. Please help me if you can.
Thank you so much,
Jake (Kieran's cousin)
Thank you so much,
Jake (Kieran's cousin)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
What's Been Going On With Me
Hey everybody. So it's been along time between post. I've been real busy and just haven't been able to get online. I had a relapse and kinda went thru alot of stuff. My treatments after the relapse didn't go the way everybody was hopeing and now I waiting for a BMT. The only problem with that is that my sister is pregs again and my brother has something wrong with his liver. And so far there has been no donor matches. Oh well.
I stopped the treatments for now since they are doing nothing for me except make me sick. We went to my uncle and aunts house in Idaho for a couple of weeks. My sister, brother, nephew, brother-in-law, aunt, uncle, and cousins were here for the last part over Thanksgiving. I got to ski alittle. It wasn't a huge mountain run or anything, but it was awesome. I couldn't do it but a couple of times cause it made me tired quick. But man I like snow. We went to this hot spring and I got into the pool for awhile. It was weird with snow on the ground and I was siting in a pool. But it was great. It was just a great time.
I got an early Christmas present, something that was completely mind blowing. I didn't have a clue and wouldn't have ever dreamed of it. My dad, mom, Jake and me went to London and then got on a train to Manchester. My Doc has a friend that lives in Manchester and he met us when we got there and to kinda check on me while I was there. When we got there, I thought we were going to a hospital to get another doc to see if they had different treatments. We went to the doc (who is American and working for a year in Mancherster) and got checked out and then went to our hotel room. The next morning, the doc came to our rooms to pick us up in this super cool Mercedes sedan. Wow. We went to this like interstate and he let me drive. Man I want 1 or 2 those. Driving that thing has got to be better than sex. I think I had a boner the whole time I was driving and I wasn't embarrassed at all. I drove for about 30 miles to this closed road course. It's like a testing ground and is like a big race track. He let me drive real fast. I got it over 193 kph (120 mph). It felt like 1000 mph. After that, we went to his house for lunch. We all got to rest and just sat around the talk. He has a super nice place. Completey British. It had a library, garden, a game room, sitting room, etc. I got to take a nap and then shower. When I went into this bedroom to dress, there was some packages on this bench thing at the end of the bed for me. The note on then said that these were the clothes I should wear for the rest of the day. So I opened them and they were super nice clothes like things you would never wear in Mississippi. Dress slacks, dress shirt, tie, dress socks and shoes. I put them on and then a pullover Manchester United sweater that was like probably the most British thing except for a dress coat that I could ever thought of. Then there was a Manchester United scarf and an over coat that had this thin lining in it that made it real warm. I was like WOW. I think I even had a British accent by then. So I dressed and went down to where everybody was. My dad and Jake were dressed similar. Mom was dressed up in new stuff and looked great. Doc asked me if I was ready to go sightseeing and I said ofcourse. He asked where I wanted to go and I said that I want to go to see Barnsley (because that is were one side of my Mom's family came from), Old Trafford (ofcourse), and the Mersey. So we took off for a day of adventure. I got to see alot of stuff over the next couple of days but that day we went to Old Trafford (The Theater Of Dreams). When we got there, there were a huge amount of people everywhere. The doc parked the car and we got out. Then he pulled an envolope out of his pocket and which had tickets to that days Carling cup match with Blackburn. I could have died right then and been the happiest person on the planet. Tevez scored 4 and Nani had 1 in a win. Man what a day, what an amazing place and what a great family. After the match, on the way back to the hotel, I lost it big time. I really don't think they knew what everything they have done for me has meant to me and especially this. I rested the next day, didn't even leave the room. Then the next day we went to Barnsley, and a few other places. We left the next day for Ireland. We went to Belfast (didnt like it), Limrick (loved it), Galway (want to live there for ever), and Cork (Awesome place). And wow, WOW. I could have died in Ireland and everything would have been prefect. And I could have stayed a hundred years and still not see everything I would have wanted to see. The most beautiful place on earth. Ireland is heaven. The people are the best. But it had to end. I hated to leave but it was time. I was getting tired so easy and the food didnt sit good with me at all. Even though, fish and chips are very good. But those meat pies and things are not for me though. So I came back home. So that is what I have been up to.
Well got to go.
TTYL
Kieran
My name is Jake and I'm a cousin of Kierans. This is not as easy as I thought it would it would be but he passed away in January. He wrote a letter and gave it to his mom to give to me. She didn't give it to me until Monday and it's taken me this long to do it. I couldnt find his yahoo page but this one is still here. He wanted this posted on his Yahoo profile and on here. So I guess this will have to do. There were a few messages he wanted to pass along to some of his friends but I don't know how to get into touch with them. So I'm gonna list them here and hope that you will leave a comment on here with a way I can pass along his messages.
Bri
Bry (Punk)
Sun Dog
Larry
Pierre
Derek
Stuart
Mark
Myra
Clumsy Ninja (K)
Luka
Please leave an email address.
If you are not part of blogger, please sign the bottom of your comment with a name that I can recognize. Thank you so much for helping me.
Jake
I stopped the treatments for now since they are doing nothing for me except make me sick. We went to my uncle and aunts house in Idaho for a couple of weeks. My sister, brother, nephew, brother-in-law, aunt, uncle, and cousins were here for the last part over Thanksgiving. I got to ski alittle. It wasn't a huge mountain run or anything, but it was awesome. I couldn't do it but a couple of times cause it made me tired quick. But man I like snow. We went to this hot spring and I got into the pool for awhile. It was weird with snow on the ground and I was siting in a pool. But it was great. It was just a great time.
I got an early Christmas present, something that was completely mind blowing. I didn't have a clue and wouldn't have ever dreamed of it. My dad, mom, Jake and me went to London and then got on a train to Manchester. My Doc has a friend that lives in Manchester and he met us when we got there and to kinda check on me while I was there. When we got there, I thought we were going to a hospital to get another doc to see if they had different treatments. We went to the doc (who is American and working for a year in Mancherster) and got checked out and then went to our hotel room. The next morning, the doc came to our rooms to pick us up in this super cool Mercedes sedan. Wow. We went to this like interstate and he let me drive. Man I want 1 or 2 those. Driving that thing has got to be better than sex. I think I had a boner the whole time I was driving and I wasn't embarrassed at all. I drove for about 30 miles to this closed road course. It's like a testing ground and is like a big race track. He let me drive real fast. I got it over 193 kph (120 mph). It felt like 1000 mph. After that, we went to his house for lunch. We all got to rest and just sat around the talk. He has a super nice place. Completey British. It had a library, garden, a game room, sitting room, etc. I got to take a nap and then shower. When I went into this bedroom to dress, there was some packages on this bench thing at the end of the bed for me. The note on then said that these were the clothes I should wear for the rest of the day. So I opened them and they were super nice clothes like things you would never wear in Mississippi. Dress slacks, dress shirt, tie, dress socks and shoes. I put them on and then a pullover Manchester United sweater that was like probably the most British thing except for a dress coat that I could ever thought of. Then there was a Manchester United scarf and an over coat that had this thin lining in it that made it real warm. I was like WOW. I think I even had a British accent by then. So I dressed and went down to where everybody was. My dad and Jake were dressed similar. Mom was dressed up in new stuff and looked great. Doc asked me if I was ready to go sightseeing and I said ofcourse. He asked where I wanted to go and I said that I want to go to see Barnsley (because that is were one side of my Mom's family came from), Old Trafford (ofcourse), and the Mersey. So we took off for a day of adventure. I got to see alot of stuff over the next couple of days but that day we went to Old Trafford (The Theater Of Dreams). When we got there, there were a huge amount of people everywhere. The doc parked the car and we got out. Then he pulled an envolope out of his pocket and which had tickets to that days Carling cup match with Blackburn. I could have died right then and been the happiest person on the planet. Tevez scored 4 and Nani had 1 in a win. Man what a day, what an amazing place and what a great family. After the match, on the way back to the hotel, I lost it big time. I really don't think they knew what everything they have done for me has meant to me and especially this. I rested the next day, didn't even leave the room. Then the next day we went to Barnsley, and a few other places. We left the next day for Ireland. We went to Belfast (didnt like it), Limrick (loved it), Galway (want to live there for ever), and Cork (Awesome place). And wow, WOW. I could have died in Ireland and everything would have been prefect. And I could have stayed a hundred years and still not see everything I would have wanted to see. The most beautiful place on earth. Ireland is heaven. The people are the best. But it had to end. I hated to leave but it was time. I was getting tired so easy and the food didnt sit good with me at all. Even though, fish and chips are very good. But those meat pies and things are not for me though. So I came back home. So that is what I have been up to.
Well got to go.
TTYL
Kieran
My name is Jake and I'm a cousin of Kierans. This is not as easy as I thought it would it would be but he passed away in January. He wrote a letter and gave it to his mom to give to me. She didn't give it to me until Monday and it's taken me this long to do it. I couldnt find his yahoo page but this one is still here. He wanted this posted on his Yahoo profile and on here. So I guess this will have to do. There were a few messages he wanted to pass along to some of his friends but I don't know how to get into touch with them. So I'm gonna list them here and hope that you will leave a comment on here with a way I can pass along his messages.
Bri
Bry (Punk)
Sun Dog
Larry
Pierre
Derek
Stuart
Mark
Myra
Clumsy Ninja (K)
Luka
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Jake
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