Episcopalian Church on Easter Sunday.

This past Easter Sunday i decided to go to church with my friend Tara.  Tara’s car had broken down some time ago and she really wanted to go to Easter Service so I agreed to take her.  Due to some other things coming up we went to the 11 AM service.  I had decided to go with her and stay for the service mainly out of curiosity.  To be honest i don’t attend church that often any more.  I don’t know why, but i go when i feel the need or my conscience gets in my case enough.

I have to admit i enjoyed the service.  I had at first thought that we were going to a Catholic church, mainly because i had no idea what kind of denomination Tara was other then it was similar to the Catholic religion.  But the Episcopal Church is quite literally a faith that broke away from the Roman Catholic faith during the formation of the Church of England.  So they basically stripped a lot of the traditions and other things from their idea of the faith.  You might say they mixed Baptist beliefs with Catholic beliefs and came out with some thing that is neither but both a the same time.

In the end i have decided that i will probably go back next Sunday.  Suffice to say i felt very welcome at the church and since i enjoyed the quiet sermon and people i kind of feel compelled to go back again.  But next time i think I’ll bring a camera with me.  The architecture inside that church is sweet!

Adria Richards and the wrath of the internet.

Now some of you may know what i am about to speak of, some of you may not.  So to let people know whats going on, here’s the deal:

Two days ago a tech developer and known feminist Adria Richards posted a picture of two men on her twitter feed from a tech convention she attended.  She claimed the two men were making a sexually offense joke by talking about forks and dongles.

For the definition of a dongle you can just look it up but basically its a form of accessory hardware like a flash drive.  Adria demanded the men be dealt with for the conversation which she was not involved in or mentioned in any.  One of the men was fired the next day after some feminist internet buzz and this started a chain of events that have rivaled anything since Anita Sarskeen started Feminist Frequency on Youtube.  Two 4chan boards /pol/ and /b/went into a rage and decided to teach Richards a lesson since the man who was fired had a wife and three kids.

The last 24 hours were, in my opinion, a hilarious hell as /pol/ and /b/ dug up dirt and personal info on Richards.  They ‘doxxed’ her as the term goes and staged a internet justice/hate campaign against her.  The campaign was a rousing success, several articles online state that she has been fired as of today and she’s already claiming she’s going to call her lawyer.  Her dad is a lawyer by the way.  I doubt this will go any further although 4chan is now looking at harassing PlayHaven (the company that fired the guy) for their actions.  Yep 4chan is harnessing years of repressed rage and no one involved in this may be safe.  Oh well i shall watch and laugh.

The reality is: Karma is a bitch.  And said bitch bit down pretty hard on Adria Richards’ ass.  There aren’t any real winners in this debacle but it sure was fun to watch.  And yeah i kinda think Richards deserved what she got.

Around the Corner…

So earlier today I went to check on my parent’s place because they are out of town.  After checking on the house I was heading home and at the intersection i saw the Taco Bell and decided to stop and get a quick bite to eat.  Well that turned into something different.

I parked in the parking lot of Prime Sirloin, a buffet restaurant i used to work at.  Its been closed for at least eight years now and I suddenly felt a sense of nostalgia,  so i walked around the old restaurant and peeked into the widows and noted how the place still looked as it did when i worked there.  Feeling my nostalgia needs had been met, i walked over to the Taco Bell to get something to eat.  As i walked through the parking lot i saw a black man with three young kids.  A girl and two boys.  I’d say the kids were ages 4 to 6 at best.

When the father noticed me looking at him and his kids i smiled and asked him if all three kids were his.   A married man of any race with three kids feels so rare nowadays so i felt the need to ask him in order to start a conversation that i hoped would end quickly.  After he confirmed that all three kids were his, he asked me if i had any children  I told him that sadly i didn’t, i was 35 and didn’t see much hope that i would marry and have children due to my financial situation.

He told me not to give up and told how at 33 he got married and began having children later.  he told me he had been homeless and on drugs up until that point, but he had found God, and God had blessed him with a good marriage and three children.  He told me i could do the same but i had to first be patient with God.  He told me that God does everything in His own time and that i should be as patient with God as He is with me.  I realized that the man was right.  I hadn’t been patient with God and i needed to be.  If i believed that God would help me then all i had to do is wait.

We talked a little more and we both came to realize that to a certain extent God had set up this meeting so we could receive a blessing from it.  It made me realize that God is still working on me and is still quite patient.

No Ma’am!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/30/Marine-Tells-Di-Feinstein-No-Ma-am-Over-Gun-Grabbing

 

A letter written by a former Marine to Dianne Feinstein

Senator Dianne Feinstein,

I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.

I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.

I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.

I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.

We, the people, deserve better than you.

Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012

 

A week has passed.

As you all know from my last post i got my tooth pulled on Friday of last week.  The surgery went well and no nerve damage so far.  The time after the surgery was quite painful because the Codine I was prescribed didn’t work and i had to call my brother for advice.  He recommended Motrin IB for my pain and it worked flawlessly.  Since then i have been taking antibiotics to insure there’s no infection and i have been taking two Motrin every 4 to 6 hours.  The pain and swelling have subsided greatly but i still have a little of both, so on occasion i still take a couple of Motrin when i get annoyed with the little bit of pain I’m experiencing.  I was getting frustrated by Friday of this week and my Mom had to remind me that healing can take more time then expected so i needed to be patient.  To add fuel to the fire two other teeth that have cavities have begun to bother on and off.  Thankfully the pain is very minor.

But these last 8 days have caused me to have a great deal on introspection on my life and my situation at the moment.  For one I need to get a credit card for financial emergencies.  I do not want to have to go through the headache and misery of hoping i can find someone to treat my teeth when I don’t have any money, so a credit card for just such emergencies has become a priority for me.

Well i don’t feel like rambling on, i just wanted to update anyone who had read this and was concerned.  Take care every one and all.

A strange sort of tooth.

Once again I’ve been away for a few weeks.  The reason i am posting now is for the sake of memory, I need to have this all written down somewhere so if something pops up i can have this post as a memory, and maybe a warning or something.

As you saw in one of my posts i’ve had a gum-ache for a few days, well its gotten worse since then and up until today i have been taking Aleve, Ibuprofen, and Codine to deal with the pain.  I wasn’t sleeping well and i had to eat a lot or else the pain would start to flare up even when i was on pills.  It was so strange, debilitating, and depressing.  Once more i was at the mercy of pain and i didn’t have much of a life.

The dentist that i went to couldn’t tell what was causing the pain so i went and got a second opinion.  The opinion of said second dentist was that a wisdom tooth that was buried under my gum and laying at a 45 degree angle was most likely scraping a nerve and causing the pain where there hadn’t been a tooth in years.  And yes surgery was the only way to remove it.

To make matters worse there seemed to be no sign of infection or any other problems that could be causing my pain, so this tooth was the only idea they could come up with.  A idea that will cost $705 to remove.  Yeah $705.  So now i sit here wondering if this is all worth it.  If this doesn’t work I’ll be in pain again and no solution will be forthcoming.  I’ll have spent $705 of my parents’ money for nothing.  And no refunds will be given…probably.

So what do i do, to add a tinge of weirdness to this who debacle i am no longer in any pain.  I haven’t taken anything in 12 hours and i know the pain meds must have worn off.  The reason i know is because 2 Aleve only lasted 8 hours at best, and one and a half Codine only lasted 4 to 5 hours at best.  I took two Aleve this morning and I am three hours and a few minutes past the 8 hour mark, but no pain, none.  Well scratch that, as i write this right now i just felt the slightest twinge of pain and nothing else since.

Oh and here’s where it actually gets bad.  If the nerve gets bruised or damaged somehow during surgery i could lose most of the feeling in my left lower jaw for quite some time!  All the way to my lower lip.  WTF?!?!  Oh and i can’t sue because i signed a form that i understand the risks and all.  Geez!  Not that I’m looking to sue or anything but still GEEZ!  What am i about to ask my parents to pay for?!

So I’m wracked with doubt, guilt, and no assurance whatsoever.  After I eat I will probably take some more Aleve, just wait, and pray.  I have surgery at 7:30 A.M. tomorrow so i can’t eat or drink anything after 12 A.M. tonight, and as i mentioned the pain pills seem to wear off if i start to get seriously hungry.  My only hope is i sleep until about 5:45 A.M. and can make it through until the surgery.  So I’m going to stuff food down my gut until i go to sleep which may be in the next hour or two.

After the surgery I’ll be out of it for the rest of Friday and maybe some of Saturday.  Suffice to say, Friday will be a total blur and I’ll have almost no memory of that day at all.  Saturday will hopefully be better.  I can only pray for the best.  I feel like I’m writing some kind of last will and testament here, but i know its just for memories sake, so I’ll know and understand why i did what i did and what the consequences are.  I’ll post a update as i feel better or feel the need to.  Just keep me in your prayers folks.  I am going to need them.

truth in pictures

Unretouched Victoria’s Secret Swimsuit Images

A very interesting article that points out certain falsehoods in photography.  I have to admit my ego has certainly been stroked a bit.  I feel much better about my photography now.