Skaters on Market Street August 2012

In yesterday's post I mentioned some skaters on Market Street in Metropolis on Saturday night.  I've posted the video below, minus the sound in one frame to cover up the profanities of spectators...

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I'm Stripping Things Down...

Well, I've stripped the page down and it's so plain it's killing me.  It was a real toughie to start pulling stuff out of the page not knowing if I'd be able to get it back or even notice that it was gone.  As cluttered as the page was - you can only imagine the clutter in my brain... 

I plan to pop the header back onto the page today as well as about 5,329 other things... including the pondering  the return of the Ocho-rific Song o' the

Day  and the possible merging of Nucleus of my Noggin and the Ocho-rific Song o' the Day... continue looking for a part-time job that is suitable to my expertise :) ... find some fabric in my storage unit to recover my patio chairs... finish a proposal for a radio station and a liquor store owner and find more stuff I can live without and pass along to you folks... Let's all please remember I have two bar stools and some other goodies for sale in this folder ---> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4367120701888.2180415.1404051314&type=3

I really have some writing to do and need to seclude myself later ... my brain is very heavy, but in a good way... and for those of you who have been wondering if the "How I Spent Leap Day 2008 - Part One" will ever be continued - it will... and it will be done as a vlog, if my wonderful and talented friend Chip will be so kind as to collaborate on it with me... 
and I hope that he will.

While I'm thinking about it, if you know of a young cat by the last name of Ablett who was skateboarding with his buddies on Market Street Saturday Night; please help him find me on Facebook.  I have some rather groovy video of him doing a nice little jump over a moving tape measure... I also have some video of him missing that jump - but I'm not gonna show you that :)  One of them was wearing a captain's hat and they were maybe in their late-ish teens, but I really have no idea because the older we get, the younger they look.
I would love to shoot with these guys though - so please help me find them.  

I'll post the video on my YouTube channel later on 
and share it to the Facebook and here... 
Have a Grand and Groovy Day!
Be Kind to One Another...
and Don't Text and Drive!! 

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Why Didn't Somebody TELL ME?

I get it gang ... I'm perfectly negative and negatively perfect and you never know what you're gonna get.  My dear Mother has dealt with this for the last decade and only in the last six months has she begun to really get pretty good at it and catch me before the flip and say, "We don't need to talk about this right now...".  Very few people are able to weather the storm with me.. and I make it sound .. like .. REALLY bad and it's not, but I do have a quick temper - it seldom blows, but when it does ... "Katy bar the door!" 

I've always been a "non-violent" person, so I generally try to just remove myself from the situation or mentally zone out... sometimes that's not possible because my gut is moving more quickly than my reflexes, thus sending my tongue into an absolute frenzy ... sometimes via the keyboard - sometimes right in front of some one's face.

I don't often get up scuttled about the opinions of others... I like to talk with people and learn why they think the way they do.  Over the years, I've changed views on a few occasions after actually learning about something rather than assuming I knew enough.  The thing that usually sets me off is when people give feedback or advice on my life without being invited to do so...

I DO LOVE to get feedback on my blogs and don't get nearly as much as I would like... I'm the youngest child and the only girl... that sounds like a real treat - and it was until I got into the world and found that the earth actually didn't rotate around me.  That's a rough lesson to learn... 

It doesn't matter if you just say that you enjoy reading it every now and then when you're spending a day in your jammies recharging or if you read religiously immediately after I post, it just makes me happy that someone read along and got a chuckle or thought about something in a different way or .. yes .. even if they don't agree and only further confirmed their opinion for themselves, that makes me happy too.  

Therefore I was very happy last night when I met a friend for drinks and a walking tour of Metropolis and he told me how much he enjoyed my writing.  I was even more happy when he pointed out that sometimes he has to scrap the page because it loads halfway and hangs up.  

This is definitely something I would want to know :)  So anytime there's something happening on the page that's "jacking with you or your machine" - please don't hate to drop me a note or a text or even post on Facebook - because I'll want to fix it pronto.

This brings me to my next announcement... I'm about to start stripping down the page.  The blog content of course will stay.  I'm possibly going to merge some things that I've been thinking about merging and do some other groovy stuff that you're absolutely going to be delighted with .. so wake your grandma and tell all your friends and be sure to bookmark, subscribe, follow on facebook or whatnot.

I'm burying myself in my noggin this afternoon and evening to ponder some things, possibly write some things and do some background work on stripping the page and getting back to a "blankish" palette.  

Have a Grand and Groovy Evening...
Be Kind to One Another...
and Don't Text and Drive! 

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KCoJax,  Flawn Ocho,  Ocho-rific

A Confession from the Ocho...

You readers out there and those of you who are on my FB list (or WERE, so much for that family reunion I've been wanting to surprise my Dad with... and I completely felt like I'd been punched in the gut just in case anyone was wondering...) might be happy to know that I'm picking up my Cymbalta dosage a bit ... I figure that might be cheaper than having to call a bail bondsman to get me out of jail because I've manhandled some woman at the market for using to many coupons ...

I HAVE been cranky the last few weeks... and I've wanted to write ... OOOooh how I've wanted to write, but if you've been keeping an eye on ye' ole Facebook then you know that my "filter" has been about as useful as a slice of swiss cheese against a raging flood, so I thought I'd try to spare you what probably would've been a few phenomenally quantumlicious rants that would have upset the apples carts of a great big ole bunch of people... and given me great peace of mind.

I don't like to upset the apple carts of people... It's never my intention.   
But I do have thoughts and I do feel inclined to share them... 

I saw a comment on one of the posts I made in the last couple of weeks that said something to the effect of, "You're not gonna change anyone's mind" ... 

Basically, this person implied that everyone on earth has already formed an opinion about everything on earth and they can in no way engage in the critical thought process and develop a different perspective on a particular topic...

Obviously I think that's absolutely silly to say the least.  SOME people like to learn and grow and think ... I thank God and the Universe and the way it's unfolded that I'm one of them.

I can remember an era during which I said... and SHAMEFULLY I quote myself,
"The day gays can get married in this country
is the day I'll move to another country."

Yes ... holy fried ravioli, Batman.. can you people believe I said that?
I'm so unbelievably ashamed and embarrassed that I once felt that way about part of the human species.

At the time I was in a 100% heterosexual marriage that was falling apart partly because he couldn't keep his "tally-whacker" to himself when he was away from home and partly because I couldn't stop spending money to try and cover up my denial .. 

I look back on that era now and see my thoughts in a different light and I can very easily mimic myself ... "Oh, sure ... here ... let me tell you who should love because I quite clearly made an impeccable choice for myself...", it's literally comical to me now.

I saw the following graphic in my news feed last week and was overwhelmed with the sense it made to me... I laughed out loud, let out an "A'men.." and went about my work... 


The point of the story is, gang ... at one time I was a pretty doggone staunch Conservative just like some of the people who now get bent out of shape and blast me for my opinions on Facebook... but there came a time at which I really started to think about things in a different way.

We'll talk about how I specifically came to change my views on the Gay Community another day, but in short anyone who knows me personally knows that I give a LOT of credit to one particular woman with my being alive today to torment you with my free-wheelin', can't-we-all-just-get-along-message o' peace... and that woman happens to be gay.   

Now just in case you're wondering in the recesses of your noggin, we've never been lovers - though I love her dearly.  She has been and continues to be one of the truest friends I have had in this Universe and I absolutely shudder to think that I might not have her in my life if I'd chosen to be an uptight, self righteous, stuffy pants and choose friends based on who they love and share their life with. 

If I can say something such as this -->
""my personal opinion is that a couple who's in love should be able to marry one another and live happily after, regardless of where the parts go and they should also have a right to have a gun in their home and blow someone to smithereens should they breech the door with ill intent..."" 
then maybe terms like "Democrat" and "Republican" are becoming antiquated, because those are two different ends of the political spectrum... "in traditional terms anyway" ... 
((hahaha, there's an overused phrase for ya!))

The media doesn't like to remind us that we have more than one choice in the matter... but we do.  Not only do we have multiple choices, but I spent a long time reading on a site last night that I found very helpful in sorting out what I think about things. You can find it HERE.

I encourage you to go over and do some research for yourself... I wouldn't at all be foolish enough to recommend that I know for whom you should vote because we're all totally different people, with totally different views and totally different belief systems.

We all must make our own selection based on our gut feeling and sensibilities ...

Have a Grand and Groovy Day...
Be Kind to One Another...
and Don't Text and Drive...

For More Info on my projects Google KCoJax,  Flawn Ocho,  Ocho-rific