I’m baaack…

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And things are even more fucked up than they were a year ago.

Personally, I’m fine, but as Robert Heinlein once said, “If this goes on…” We’re screaming down the path to a complete totalitarian state at Mach 2 with our hair on fire (if you get that, you’re old :-P). All the spying and information hoovering is even worse than I imagined, and can imagine quite a lot.

I know the bastards know who I am, so I’ll reiterate what has been my mantra all along: Leave ME alone, and I’ll leave you alone. You guys have plenty of nails that stick up a lot farther than I do, and your resources are limited. Whatever benefit you might garner from screwing with me or mine won’t be worth the price. Or, as Will Smith said, “Don’t start nuthin’, won’t be nuthin.” ’nuff said.

Heavy shit.

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Read this today on one of the gun sites.  I didn’t write it, but I could have.  It was so close to my own experiences I got chills down my spine.

Ya know they told me that quitting high school in 9th grade would be terrible. I would hate it. They were wrong.

They told me that going to college with just a 9th grade education and at the age of 16 would be terrible. They said I couldn’t handle it. It was fantastic. I made the Dean’s List every semester and ended up graduating with a double major.

They told me that the Army would suck. They said I would hate it. I was a fucking grunt in both Airborne and mech units. I had a blast.

They told me that being in combat would be just awful. I have never had fun like that in my life.

I think that when the gloves come off, which may be sooner than you think, that it is going to be the high point of my life. I will be cleansing the country of walking cancers. I will delight in the battle, and smile up at their dancing feet as their bodies sway in the breeze. I could be wrong, but then again, I could be very very right.

I do know that I am done listening to what other people think.

 

Mainsail, Mainsail, this is Raven, Raven, radio check 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 – Raven out

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You have to start writing to write – so here I go.

A couple of things that piss me off today, in no particular order:

  1. I’m paying 60% of my income in fucking taxes to pay for the Free Shit Army’s plasma TVs and birth control.  Do you know what that means??? It means that I’m not going to be able to retire, ever, because of all the sick, lame, and lazy that I have to pay to support.
  2. The fact that half or more of the country is determined to bleed the other half (that’d be my half) dry and doesn’t see a damn thing wrong with it.

Some personal relationship lifehacks you would do well to remember:

  1. People don’t “forget” to do something repeatedly.  If you’ve asked more than once, and they haven’t done whatever it is, they don’t WANT to do it.  Quit bugging them.
  2. People have exactly the relationship they want with other people.  That friend you haven’t talked to in a year?  If they weren’t okay with that, they’d make an effort to reach out.  The person who is always busy when you want to do something?  They don’t want to do something with YOU.  If they wanted to see you, they would.
  3. The most important question you can ask in any situation is cui bono?  You’ll find the answer you’re looking for.  It probably won’t be the answer you want, but it will be the truth.
  4. You don’t always get the resolution you want.  Learn to pick an explanation for an event and live with it.
  5. Once you’ve identified a nut or a toxic person, FLUSH them from your life.  You can’t help them, and you will only fuck yourself up in the effort.