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You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!

My brother emailed this to me this morning, I got quite the laugh from it…

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning

Uphill… barefoot…

BOTH ways!!!

Yadda, yadda, yadda!

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!

But now that… I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today! You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today you don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, —-with a pen!

Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!

There were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!

Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and/or the end and @#*% it all up!

There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and ‘eject’ it when finished and the tape would come undone. ‘cause that’s how we rolled dog!

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! —With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘asteroids.’ Your guy was a littlesquare! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove … Imagine that!

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled. You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

Ridah > look ma! No helmet!

So this morning, I’m driving to work in the morning darkeness and I see something flashing in my rear view - my first thought was a cop, but when i looked in the mirror, it was a motorcycle. The guy had his brights on - now being a rider, I’m all about visibility, as in making sure other drivers know I’m there, but when it’s pitch black outside, you can’t run with your highs on… people don’t like that!

Anyway, no big deal, I slow a bit and let the guy pass me so I won’t be getting blinded by the lights - as the guy passes, I notice he is only wearing a bandana do-rag on his head. I know - alot of people choose to do this, and it’s Texas law that the rider has a choice of wearing a helmet or not (as long as he/she at least has enough insurance to cover thier funeral)… Personally, I think it is absolutely the most idiotic thing to not wear a helmet while riding… but in Texas, we all have that choice - I don’t get on a bike without a helmet, period.

Ok, so that’s fine and great - the guy doesn’t wear one and is relying on that do-rag to protect his melon… whatever… so the guy keeps on around me, then pulls into my lane in front of me; it’s then that I see something that just cracks me up: The guy has his helmet strapped on his back seat… What the heck man… you know ? The helmet doesn’t protect the melon via osmosis man…

I just found it pretty humorous.

Stuff-onomics: Hidden Side of What You Own | ThinkSimpleNow.com

http://thinksimplenow.com/clarity/stuff-onomics-hidden-side-of-what-you-own/

After traveling for several months in one bag: two pairs of pants, a few shirts, a jacket, several books, and my iPod (which I used once)…. Coming home to 50 boxes full of Stuff, it felt like my world was once again being weighed down by things I didn’t need. It felt as if the things will consume more of me than I will ever consume of it. Thus, my new project: to simplify my life… starting with Stuff.

now that things are starting to settle down on the Tipton3 homefront, i’m getting back to my simplification kick - this is a great “how-to” type article, to help you see how “stuff” really does weight the average person down… We never think of it that way, but in all honesty, when you have a bunch of stuff to take care of/store/whatever, it ties you down and creates a cyclical pattern that makes us work harder and harder just to pay off the stuff we buy…

Anyway, I never lost sight of my simplification goals, I just had to push them back in the priority order with the move and all that… so now I’m back at it. Go read this article. now.

UFC 95 - PREMATURE STOPPAGE!

That should have been the “name”… Anyone else think UFC 95 ref’ing sucked worse than a candy cane straw in an orange (in the sense that the juice wouldn’t come out very good - those are tasty though!)? It was like someone told UFC, as soon as a fighter goes down in conjunction with someone else throwing a punch, stop the fight! I was in shock the first fight when Kos took a mean punch to the face and went down, before we could even see if he was going to do anything, the ref is jumping in… I mean come on bro - they don’t stop it that fast in boxing… Now I’m not saying that Kos wasn’t out, he looked to be rocked like crazy, but usually, MMA fighters are given a chance to recover - he most definitely wasn’t… The next two fights ended the same way - it really hampered my attitude during the rest of the fights, I just couldn’t (can’t) get over how fast they were stopping those fights - almost like whatever “commission” was sanctioning them was telling the refs to stop as soon as a fighter went down… sucked man. I am glad, though, that I didn’t pay for it - I would have been really upset in that case.

I digress…

The rest of the weekend was grand - went to the skating rink again on Saturday with the wife & kids - had a blast again… The little one’s are getting better and better - it’s alot of fun watching them… although, Ave took a few tailbone knocks… and we all remember how bad those hurt! I am thinking about getting her a football type tailbone pad - wish my dad had gotten me one of those!! hehe

Saturday night, Jess’ cousins all came over for a game night - we played WOW Cranium and got our butts kicked by the girls - we let ‘em win though - you know how we roll.. hehe - it was a fun game, and the acting was very funny. I do hate the “humdingers” though… uggh!

Sunday, after church, we ate some of the best roast I think Jess has ever made… it was so tender… very good. Then I proceeded to take a 4.5 hour nap… Woah. yeah, 4 and a half hours. Sad thing is, I think i could do that again today and still not feel caught up…

Anyway, it was a good weekend, and we enjoyed ourselves tremendously.

Here’s to having a great week, and being even more blessed.

75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/11/75-really-useful-javascript-techni...

this is another one of those links I put in here for mainly my benefit… I just want to make sure I can find it again…

PocketMod

http://www.pocketmod.com/

This is more for me than anything, but you guys might find this quite helpful, especially if you are (a.) non-geek and (b.) cheap/simplistic.

The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDAs are too expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish, then easily transfer the notes to your PDA, spreadsheet, or planner.

Hokey Pokey?

How long has it been since you and Mr. roller s. rink were hanging out? Yeah, it’s been about 20 + years for me… but this weekend, we decided to take the kids and I’m sure glad we did. I had a great time, the kids were fascinated, and I got a great workout (including the blisters!)

I’ve forgotten how much fun it really is to strap on the ‘quads’ and go in circles… I think next time, I’ll take my Rollerblades… I’m significantly better on those than the roller skates…

I was impressed with the two small ones - we had to get them some ‘tightened’ wheeled skates so it wasn’t so “slick” (as Luke called it) and they went to town - they had a blast and really wore themselves out…

It was only $6/person and that was for the day…I would highly recommend it for all yous guys - it’s a cheap, fun way to spend the afternoon together and a great workout as well!

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I feel good today. It’s just nice that it’s a friday, and I know I’ll get to just hang loose this weekend.

Last night I was in an off day as far as my hundred pushup program goes, and I decided to go ahead and pull the trigger on getting the C25K started again. (I’ve been nursing the left knee and my back so i’ve held off on starting) I am sure glad I finally got on with it. I feel great today; I slept like a log last night (although, i could have used another 2 hours of sleep) :D

It amazes me how much working out helps with dealing/sluffing stress.

This weekend brings my wife family down to see the new house - so that’ll be some fun - but I plan on doing a little nap taking for sure…

Finally, an update!

We are finally starting to settle in here in our new home in Ft. Worth. Going from 5 acres down to 0.10 acres is quite a jump; but I like it - it means there isn’t alot for me to do on the home front, and after 3 years of doing nothing but work on a house I built on 5 acres of land - it is nice to go home at the end of the day and pretty much just chill with the family…

My new work schedule allows me to be HOME by 5pm (that’s out of traffic, sitting on my couch at home) so I have a little more time to spend with the fam which is what I’m all about. On warm days, sometimes we’ll go jump on the trampoline or go for a short little walk - but J and i have started working out pretty hard core. If you remember correctly, we started the C25K just before all of the transfer/moving started up; needless to say, we got off the program due to the chaos that is moving and starting a new job… Well, we’re starting back up as of NOW, and I’m actively looking for a 5k or 10k that we can sign up for around the end of March or beginning of April. Along with that, I’ve also started the 100 Pushups challenge (http://www.hundredpushups.com); along with my brother, wife, & oldest daughter T.

I have to say, I’m quite sore today, but I am glad that I’m on a program again - need to get down to my summer cut because now that we’re so close to water, I can assure you my family and I will be at the lake pretty much every open weekend. OH YEAH!

In other news, we’re coming down to the end of owning 2 different houses - as the company is about to purchase our old home in Midland so that will pretty much complete the transition and allow us some much needed, stress free living; along with all the rest of our debt being knocked out. A fresh start, so to speak. I’m pumped.