Keepers of the Truth

Ok, I really don't have time to be writing this today, but I really must force myself to take a break. This week has just been really busy and slightly frustrating. Together, those make for a grumbly guy.

I could complain and say how horrible things are, but truly, things aren't that bad. Yes, frustrating that my wife called me at 1:00 AM on my birthday to wish me happy birthday because I'd gone to work at 8:00 AM on the day before and hadn't made it home yet. Frustrating that when I got home from work on my birthday day my wife had work commitments that kept her late that evening. Frustrating that I had to get up half an hour early almost every day this week because various things were going on. Frustrating that due to construction a fiber line was cut at the home office and so I had no internet all this morning. Frustrating that the alternator went out on my truck last night so I have no vehicle today. Frustrating that the battery died on my wife's car this morning so she was not able to go to work day. Frustrating that due to my in-laws decision to move furnature on a Thursday I had to take the dog to get groomed so the piano and couch could be dropped off at my house. Frustrating that someone from the parent office came to my office Wed. and made me come in early to let them in. Frustrating that one of my servers is down so I can't reimage machines (and they almost all are down right now). Frustrating that I don't know if I'm going to get a paycheck next week because I switched from hourly to salary and I'm not sure how smooth that transition will be. I'm sure there is more to it, but I can't come up with it right now.

See what I mean. I could complain about these things, but really, it's not that bad. No one is hurt. No one is really missing out on anything important. No major catastrophies are going to happen because of this. How really can I complain? today is Friday. I can go home, fall into bed and sleep for till time to get up and eat sweet corn and take the dog to the park. No real loss. I've tried and started to complain about it to people this week and then I just realize, Hell, if this is the worst that is happening to me right now I'm pretty well off.

Of course every day adds something new to the list, but so far, I can cope. Really, when I look at it all from another angle I realize that lots of good came from this week as well. Hey, I'm on salery (IE benefits)! The dog is clean and not quite so sheddy. New furniture. Listening to my wife make music is one of my favorite things and now she has a new instrument to play with! The truck will be getting some new parts I've known it will need eventually. The wife's care got that new battery I new she'd need soon. Long work hours are created by high demand. because of some of the server issues I'm getting some updates for my machines I've needed for a while but they haven't deemed it necessary before now.

Oh, and did I mention yet that tomorrow is the festival I look forward to every year cause it brings the best chicken (except maybe mine) and corn. I can't wait to get that fall off the bone chicken and crunchy sweet corn. Mmmmmmm... Now that's eatin!

Here is another blog inspired by Bald Man . This one also has reference to Kerri on mynameismommy.com as well. What a team those two make. If only there was a way I could find of getting them together...

Ok, so Bald Man was asking on in a blog if his comments were out of line in response to another blog . Since it seems I respond to almost everything Bald Man posts, I though, why should this be any different? No really, he is talking about an issue that I really do hold high on my things which get me annoyed list. Kerri had been speaking of the topic in one of her blogs as well. I have posted several times to Kerri's blog because she really hit a subject that makes my blood boil. I don't think I have yet stated my view in a way that I am satisfied with and I have been saying that I am going to write a blog on my views with regard to race for quite some time now but haven't. For that reason I'm glad I have such good blogfriends to allow me to work out my ideas on their spaces.

For the most part I'm not going to repeat myself at this time, you have links to the other blogs and comments. Please give them your traffic so they'll let me keep posting there. I do want to repost the end of my first (and there haven't been more than one so far so maybe only) comment to Bald Man. I would love to hear your answers. Heck, at this point in my blogging career I'd love for any comments. Hello, is there anybody out there? (listens for crickets). Anyway, here's the cross post.

How do you define yourself? What does that say about you? What are you trying to hide behind when you use one term or another? What are you trying to say when you use those terms? Who do you exclude by using those terms?