Sorry State Of Affairs
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Posted:Jul 15, 2022 2:03 am
Last Updated:May 9, 2024 7:58 pm 1411 Views
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There are times I wonder why I have never deleted this account. There was a time when this was my favorite online place to hangout. Folks from all over California and Nevada used to gather and chat and even organize parties offline. Was fun and actually social. Now days it's all spammers, scammers and trolls.
Fair warning! If we should be having a dialogue and things like I need your help or I'm behind on my rent enter in the conversation stops. If we have never met and have no connection then you're not my problem. Your problems are not mine.
On the other hand if we have met and made a connection / commitment it's a different story.
It is in my profile that I am attached. Nothing has changed there and if she's not involved neither am I. It's simple. It works.
Scammers, spammers and trolls. Yep a sorry state.
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2 1/2 Years
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Posted:Aug 2, 2009 10:32 am
Last Updated:Jul 15, 2022 1:35 am 25667 Views
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And still not a damned thing to say.
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Entering Politics
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Posted:Nov 27, 2006 7:26 am
Last Updated:Aug 2, 2009 10:20 am 24919 Views
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Okay heres my official toss of the hat into the ring
Yep were starting a new campaign for 08. RonAlan for President. And what are your qualifications you might ask? Well see thats the thing I dont have any. Im not a womanizing ex-governor, the of a past president, favorite of an oil barons family, rich, or a military hero.
But then again I can over extend my budget, operate on credit, and generally fuck up finances. I have the art of intimidation down to a science and have been known to stick my nose in where not wanted on more than one occasion. Hey! Wait a minute! Maybe I am qualified after all!
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Enigma, withdrawn or just reserved?
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Posted:Aug 10, 2006 9:17 pm
Last Updated:Aug 2, 2009 10:23 am 25100 Views
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A recent conversation brought to my attention the fact that I don’t share much of myself. I can bullshit for hours about the most banal and mundane topics imaginable. But when the topic turns to me I can become very vague about the everyday things.
It is not a conscious thought process that causes it. I believe it is from well learned lessons from a much earlier age. One where were to be seen and not heard and where complaining got you nothing but heartache. As I continued to grow up I learned that the less people knew about you the less they could hurt you. Also the more violent the reaction to being teased the less you would be teased. I was never a bully and quite often defended the that were bullied. I was that crazy fucker that would put you in the hospital because you slammed the palsy against the wall and thought it was funny. Take no shit from anyone and make damned sure they regretted it if they gave it.
I was also the out of control one that would take almost anything for a high and would run 120 mph down the freeway passing beers back and fourth between cars. I was almost indestructible and I could prove it. Not too many people can slam a car into a house at 90 mph sideways and talk about it later. How many people you know that had 1500 pounds roll across their chest and walk out of the hospital and hour later cracking jokes about it?
No those weren’t exaggerations but true events in my life prior to the age of 18. By then I had had guns pulled on me. Knives held to my throat because some girl didn’t like some guy. Handed my own knife to someone and dared him to stick me with it because he was going around saying I’d backed down from him. I learned to keep my friends close and my enemies closer. Never provoke a fight but never back down from one either.
When I became a father all the wild shit stopped. I had responsibilities. I couldn’t be out of control anymore. I couldn’t drink and drug and party all night. There was too much risk to my family if I got busted.
So I learned to control me. I learned to hold it in and not show things to anyone. Not the things that bothered me. Not even the things that made me happy most of the time. Once in a while something will slip through but mostly it’s put away.
Besides even those who really do care need not be burdened with the problems of others especially if there is no solution for what bothers them.
Although quite honestly most times for me it can be summed up in one word MONEY or more precisely lack thereof. I’m making some gains on digging out of the hole I was left in (yes left in I didn’t dig it by myself) and know that I am. It’s just a very slow process.
Life is a journey. It is also a battle to survive it for as long as you can. I’ve been down a few times getting to this part of my journey. But truth be told the fight is never over and you’re never truly out until they stick you in the ground and throw dirt over you. I’m not there yet…….
Fire I love ya darlin’ and even though you don’t get to hear the things that bother me any more than anyone else does you may never know how much it means for you to be there and tend my wounds at the end of a days battle.
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Where do they go?
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Posted:Jul 22, 2006 9:48 am
Last Updated:Nov 27, 2006 7:31 am 24971 Views
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Well another year has managed to slip by. Today puts me even closer to the half century mark. Damn where do the years go?
I've been out of high school now for thirty years yet remember many of the faces and events like they happened just last year. Hell I can even remember the names of my first best friend and my first crush. Where did the forty years in between go?
I was in the delivery room when each of my were born. Now I have visited each of them within hours of when their have been born. Where did the time in between go?
Looking forward life is a long long journey. Looking backward it is but a flash. Enjoy your life! It's all the time you've got.
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12,995
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Posted:Jun 12, 2006 6:18 pm
Last Updated:Jun 12, 2006 6:19 pm 24787 Views
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That's the number of groups that alt claims are active. Over 350,000 members postings are in those groups.
Have you ever perused those things? Discussion? Naw trollin'. lol
Yes I can be found guilty of making the same types of posts. Mostly because I can't find a serious discussion about anything in there. Even descended into the depths of hell far enough to create a group that would primarily be a platform for promoting our lingerie business.......
Of course no one was interested in that topic either. Don't really want to say how long I've been lurking around alt. Let it suffice to say that when I first came on the member count hadn't topped 1 million yet and two was a long ways off (and no I didn't spend the whole time with this handle).
But I do remember when we had discussions in chat that were about things that mattered. The group boards used to be about lifestyle topics instead of hook up lines.
Guess that's what happens when you go mainstream. When the fringe quits being the fringe and becomes the norm. Hell even read an advice line yesterday where someone had asked if they thought she had a mental condition because she liked being a sub / servant to her husband. And in case you're wondering the answer was probably not since it didn't seem to be an obsession and wasn't the only way the woman could get interested in sex......
Things keep going the way they are and pretty soon you'll see Jerry Falwell and Jesse Jackson dressed as furries and Hillary will finally shove that Monica soaked cigar up Bill's ass.
I aint normal damn it! I aint I aint I aint.......
Enjoy
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Going To Be A long Two Weeks
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Posted:Jun 11, 2006 6:03 pm
Last Updated:Aug 2, 2009 10:25 am 25165 Views
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Here it is just under 36 hours since I dropped fire and the monster off at the airport and I'm already trying to figure out how to entertain myself for the rest of the the time they're gone.
Oh well I'm sure I'll survive. but it will be good to have fire back at the end of the two weeks. I didn't include the monster because she'll be gone for two weeks after that but I miss the little pain in the butt as well.
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Here Today Gone Today!
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Posted:May 21, 2006 6:02 pm
Last Updated:May 21, 2006 6:03 pm 24738 Views
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If you visit the front page of Alt.com or go to various other parts of their website you'll find references to there being some 2.5 million members.
That is an impressive number of members without question. Now go to the browse tab and look at how many are listed for your state. I'm quite sure there ia a fairly impressive number there as well (at least for most states). Now actually browse those listings. I'm almost willing to bet that after the first few pages almost all the profiles will show that the person has never visited Alt.
Yes they actually were here at least once (most of them anyway) and created a profile. But they didn't stay.
Now even more fun is going through the recent members list. You know the link on your homepage that is supposed to show the most recent members to visit Alt that are not actually online anymore.
Start browsing those profiles and you'll find a lot of them can't be found. The person has actually taken the time to fill out all the questions and fill in the blanks and little checks marks it requires to create an Alt profile and then they say fuck it I didn't hook up today and they're gone. Leaving those of us that have been on Alt for a while and do participate online and know that it is not a right now environment to wade through all the dead profiles.
I have lieterally seen a profile created, approved, viewed with pic and deleted in the same day.
Why in the world anyone would go through that hassle is beyond me. Hell I can usually tell before I finsih signing up for a site whether I'm going to stay or not.
At least it's a self weeding environment except for the trolls....... but that's a different topic entirely...
Enjoy
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Careful what you wish for.
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Posted:May 19, 2006 10:50 pm
Last Updated:Jun 11, 2006 5:56 pm 25013 Views
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An old adage that certainly seems to be true.
For most of the last three years I have struggled to build a reputation with various IT service companies in order to make a living.
Earlier this year I managed to hook up with a major corporation which gives me a fairly decent amount of income on a weekly basis.
Now all of a sudden I have conflicting project requests vying for my time. Suddenly there are multiple companies asking me to do things on the same days (usually fortunately with no overlapping times)making what was a hour here and there double shift days.
And if that wasn't bad enough. Just about the time that this is starting to show an improvement in our finances fire goes to work on a second job. Okay good idea decent money for the position and she'll be able to get benefits which she needs.
Only problem is she is such a damned good worker that as soon as there is a problem at work it is our phone that rings. So now she has the money coming in soon she'll have the benefits. THe only thing she doesn't have is time to sleep (actually she does but not when the rest of us are)and spend time with us.
So when searching for success as in everything else. Careful what you wish for.
Enjoy
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Wealth
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Posted:May 17, 2006 4:38 pm
Last Updated:Apr 16, 2009 6:15 am 25367 Views
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I've always found the topic of wealth to be an interesting subject. Wealth is or has been measured in many different way s over the centuries.
The number of cattle you have, or , or wives, as well as the ever present currency of the land. These have all been ways of measuring wealth.
Another way to measure wealth is the friends you have. We all make many friends throughout our lives some closer than others. Many are just acquaintances that make the friends list for a very short time before they disappear into the ever flowing tide of life again.
Others make more permanent impressions and stay in our thoughts far longer than the acquaintances even if we do not see them for years at a time they are always remembered and thought of. Often when feeling nostalgic it is these “old friends” we think back on.
These friends tend to be the ones that are there for us when we need them. In good times and bad they stick with you. The friends that help you out without you having to ask. The ones that go out of their way just because they can and you have made their frineds list.
Over the last several years we have been fortunate enough to make many of those types of friends here on Alt. There have been many instances of the types of actions I just referred to. From improptu birthday parties and trips to the Lair, to an early morning breakfast for a passing traveler, to helping clean house for a move, to a trip over the Sierra Nevadas in the middle of the night to pick up a stranded family. Many of these folks are still on Alt and I miss talking with them as regularly as we used to. Many have changed their profiles so I am not able to mention them by name. You know who you are and again I say thank you for the things you have done.
Last year I had to travel to the Reno / Carson City area for work. The week started out beautiful especially in Southern Nevada. However things being as they are the weather changed shortly after I got to the hotel in Reno. Fortunately my sidekick for the job had his car with him since I had ridden the Harley. While the weather threatened for the first couple of days we were there it didn’t rain and after we’d get done I had time to make some short trips around the area. I had also arranged to meet with SageAlpha2 for a trip while I was there but he backed out due to the weather steadly worsening.
We instead arranged to meet for breakfast just outside Carson City the last morning I was there and that was the day it rained. And I don’t mean nice little spring showers either. I mean it rained gully washers. I didn’t see any cats or dogs but I think there might have been a frog or two.
Sage made an offer at breakfast to haul my crazy ass back to Vegas so I didn’t have to ride the distance in the rain. I thanked him and declined. We shook and separated at the door with me dressed in the rainsuit and ready to roll.
Just a couple miles down the road I pulled in to top off the tank with gas and as I was standing there waiting for the tank to fill I felt a tap on my shoulder and there was Sage asking again if I wanted him to haul me home. He had his car there along with his bike trailer waiting to go no questions asked. I again declined and headed on down the road.
The next stop was at another friend’s place and he offered to let me take his pickup and drive it home so I didn’t have to make the trip in the cold and the wet. I declined his offer as well. Yeah crazy is me…lol
I know you’re probably wondering how a post about wealth and a ramble about friends are connected. Well as I said earlier one measure of wealth is the friends you have.
My checking accounts is always near empty. My savings account went away long ago.
But as long as I have the friends I have I will always be wealthy.
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