A thought about this blog.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that this blog would evolve into what it is becomming.Is it a Christian blog? Kinda.Is it a military blog,maybe yes and no.It does have some aspects of both.I feature a blog roll of military related bloggers.I will soon have a blog roll devolted to Christian bloggers. I still will go off on a rant every now and than.I will endevor to stay out of the political fray because my ideas embrace some of the right and some of the left and some independent traits as well. from time to time I will feature recovery related items and posting that I run across,whe I do I will give credit to the author.I WILL NEVER STEAL A POSTING FROM SOME ONE ELSE WITH OUT CREDITING THE POSTING TO THEM.I DO HOPE THAT EVERY ONE CONTINUES TO ENJOY WHAT I POST HERE AT GOLCH CENTRAL.

well I done committed high treason.

well folks I did what I said that I never would do.I done committed high treason,I went and bought a new car that is not an American car. We bought ourselves a Honda Fit.We were not happy with the room of the higher mileage American cars.I did not fit(pardon the pun) into them.
so we ended up buying the Honda Fit. it has a surprising amount of room in especially when you have a large torso as I do.My Late Dad and I stood eye to eye.His height was from his long legs(36" inseam) and that gave him his height. My height is in my torso.I have short legs (30" inseam).
Imagine to my surprise that the fit had more head room that of the Pontiac Vibe or the Chevy Cobalt.
We do not like Dodge or Chrysler. and The Fords we looked at did not fit the bill as well.
so forgive me America,I just had to go with something that was right for our wallets.

Parts of me Part 2

when I was talking about my first marriage I only talked about the bad stuff in the marriage,we did have some good times as well.We did some silly thing and some fun things.The first time and only I went to Disneyland (a childhood dream come true)was as an adult with my first wife MaryEllen.we have been to places like fisherman's wharf,Cannery Row in Monterrey,Winchester Mystery house.and a bunch of other things that have escaped my mind now.

A new Rant.

I saw where some one was blaming the new clear air/water act as bad for the economy.Horseshit!!!! the remark was that jobs are gonna suffer and the gas prices will rise even more.
I went on a real diatribe in my remarks for that posting,and I'm not done venting.

Let's take a look at some of the facts.

1) rising gas prices are due to the lower production of gasoline's by the petroleum companies.(Exxon,Chevron,Shell,etc etc you get the picture)

2)the second reason gas prices go up are due to the greed of the buying and selling of oil futures that drives up the price of a barrel of oil.

3)The economy is bad enough that the new controls will destroy jobs,Horseshit.
Jobs have been leaving this country since the Early 60's.the reason the jobs are going is that the big fat cat CEO"s want more profits and cheaper labor costs so they can sell junk,charge more for it and fatten their bank accounts even more.

A personnel observation if you will.I can be dismissed as a fool as someone that does not know what he is talking about.I am fine with that.
There are a lot more out there that voice what I just said here but in more eloquent ways that may be more palatable.I do not know.I am just speaking my mind about what I feel that needs to be said.

one last thought. GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE NEEDS TO BE REVISITED.THROW OUT THE LOBBYISTS,STOP THE BUYING OF POLITICIANS BY THE RICH CORPORATIONS.GIVE THE UNITED STATES BACK TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES INSTEAD OF THE SUPER RICH.

I am now officially departing my soap box.

A post about a dark side of me.

this week with the death of Sissy Hula Girl's sister in law.Brings me to this post.I too have had thoughts of suicide in the past,my first attempt came when I was stationed on aTempory Duty Assignment(TDY those that have served in the military know these initials all too well.) in Tiawan.
I have made several attempts by using an overdose of the meds I have taken. I even tried to hang myself.Each time I have failed at these attempts.I am grateful for these failures.
After one such attempt I was placed in a psych ward by my doctor at the time where one of my sisters said to me "how can you do this to our Mother".I told her that my attempt was to kill the person I most hated,myself and it was a selfish act and at the time I had no reguard for may one's feelings.I told her that I did not need to be attacked this way and walked out of the visiting area back to my room.
Bottom line is that I am doing a lot better now,and like drinking I know that these thoughts will come back to me.It is how I address these thoughts that are important.I now have phone numbers to call 24/7 I will go to the emergency room for help as well. I love life and I have a lot more peace that I have had in the past. I also have all my friends that live in my computer that I can turn to as well.
Bottom line,if you are having problems Please for GOD'S sake reach out to someone,ask for help.you do not need to use a perminate solution for a tempory problem.I learned this Please do this for your self as well.
GOD lOVES YOU,AS DO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

a good day today.

Even if it is April fools day,and no I will not pull anything on this posting.
I can count my blessing that today is a good day.I'm glad that I shared some of the stuff that that runs Though my head,it shows a side of me that needed to be shared.
I shared this in response to several blogs that I visit where they talk about the stuff that happens to them.This way I can show them that they are not alone.
Abuse comes in many forms,physical and mental by some one we know. then there is substance abuse in the form of drugs and alcohol.these are "friends" that I know all too well.
than there is the category of self hatred,this takes many forms as well the worse one being suicidal,I have walked that path many times as well.The good part that I know that it is a pernate solution to a temporary problem.This does not mean that the thought will not be revisited,but I now have the tools to combat these thoughts.I promised my psych doc that i would call her and or go to the emergency room.
My point is that no one is perfect,and the last perfect person that walked this Earth was nailed to a cross to die for our sins,that we may be saved.

doing what I need to do.

As of today I have just shut down 2 of my three blogs. my Rambling Thoughts on the word press and the Rambling Stuff Awards Addition on blogger. I can No longer do three blogs and will devote my time to this the original blog and visiting my fellow blogger.

something to think about

I got this in an email,I could not get the photos to copy with the text.Sorry.

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen...


A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: 'I don't believe that God exists.'


'Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?



If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.'
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.


Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:

'You know what? Barbers do not exist.'
'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.
'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!'
'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.'

'Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.'
'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'


If you think God exists, send this to other people---
If you think God does not exist, delete it!

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!!!

Since I got this as an EMAIL,and you want to pass this on,if you know how to cut and paste it to your blog or email it if you so wish.

Just a quick reminder.

Just to remind every one to A) turn your clocks back one hour tonight and B) CHANGE YOU BATTERIES IN YOUR SMOKE DETECTORS,THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN!

A mile stone.

Counting the you tube postings and the diatribes and the regular posting I have done I am about to hit the 500 mark two more posting to go.

just a "quickie"

just to let you know I had doctors appointment 2 day in a row and a bunch of seizures.so plenty of naps have been taken,and I think I want to try to watch the backlog of stuff I taped so far this week.

I needed a change.

I think I needed a change,so I did. When I get tired of this one I switch to one of the other "freebies" that blogger offers.

I've fired this one.

GMAIL you are now officially fired.I'm having all my comment sent elsewhere. it takes forever and a day for you to open it takes forever and a day to open up one of the emails I have received so therefor you are and will be forever fired!
Next will be your cousin YOU TUBE if they do not clean up their act as well.and good riddance if it comes to that.

my great computer.

My great computer had a major bug in it and I had to do a complete restore.I had thought that I had backed up all the inportant stuff that I wanted to keep like all the awards and pictures that I had saver on my computer,not to mention all of the bloggers sites that I had saved to a folder and the blogers that I was considering adding to my blog roll of honor.Alais all of that is gone.all of the other folders that I created are gone as well.so now I get to spend hours just tryint to figure out what I had stored and how to get it all back.
At least I think I salved some ot the problems I was haveing like the flash player not working.
And now the fun begins again.

Hey You Tube,what's up??

Hey You Tube videos,what is with this system all the videos that I have posted will not play! I cannot even get the videos that I saved on my you tube account to play. Is there some evil plot to drive people up the wall? or has the video system gone to he double hockey sticks??
I live visiting every one's site and I enjoy watching their videos Except you get this Ugly message: Video no longer available.
The really aggravation part is that you cannot e-mail the clowns and voice your frustration with their system.Oh I forgot you have to work within the system,only there is no system.

A followup,one their site there is a help section that is soo much help that I'm soo happy I can just do something that the Cat forgot to bury.That's right you tube I'll talking about you!

i'm getting pissed off

I put my blog roll onto the Google Reader to sped up being able to make my rounds,well today the reader is not being co-operative,or is it blogger that is being the pain in the A$$? I don't know(third base)
(I will occasionally use stuff from Abbott and Costello's routine who's on first.You can find the routine on You Tube)
getting back to this rant. I opened up the reader it took forever to open than when I clicked on the blog that I wanted to visit I only got part of the blog there was a picture on the blog that came up a blank.EFFING electronics.
Now that I got that out of my system and I now return you to regularly scheduled programming.

something to think about

I saw something at http://smallreflections.blogspot.com/ that really speaks volumes to me. and you know what every whom the eras mentioned can relate as well.

Feast or Famine

I guess with me it is feast or famine,there are days that I'm so prolific that it scares me.that I'll go a day or more and cannot think of one thing to say.the life of a "writer"