Shorty

Short note, just to let you know I'm still here. I've agreed to go to the Burnsville mall with a couple of friends. Yes, I said "friends", been working on that. Never really made much of an effort to have friends, but I've been advised to do so by my therapist. I really don't feel like going anywhere but I guess that's where the effort part comes into play.
I posted a little rant on one of my other blogs and thought I'd share it here:

Ok, Things change. People are so damned impatient it's a wonder anything of true value ever gets accomplished. I find it extremely annoying when people want things the way they want them right this minute, and have no sense for long term accomplishments. It's a sure sign of american cultural contamination. People have no concept of procedure and the true nature of accomplishment. It's simply impossible to be what you want or have what you expect, immediately. You have to go through a process, which means starting out wading through knee deep bogs of shit and slowly climbing up out of the stink. The frustrating thing is the way people view you while you're in the shit. They are so cought up in their cultural beliefs that they perceive you as frozen in time. There's an old term (uniformatarianism) which is normally applied to scientific views of the earth and universe but I feel it's applicable in this context. Some People with academic credentials in one field of study, actualy believe it qualifies them as experts in just about every subject. At least they believe their opinions carry more weight than those of others, who've actually lived knee deep in the subject. The opinions of the real experts are discounted only because they don't have a college degree in basket weaving. This concept is simply ludicrous. I just wish the basket weavers didn't feel so compelled to preach on subjects on which they have no knowledge.

One more:


Yep, Decoration Day (Civil War). Today we call it Memorial Day. That'll be Monday of course. The last Monday in May. This year it's the 26th. Couldn't think of anything to start out with and then I remembered that tomorrow is Memorial Day. Most people have forgotten that Memorial Day is more than the traditional start of Summer. If you click on the heading to this post you can refresh your memory. Otherwise just go have a picnic or something. I always feel a little guilty about not going to Ironwood and visiting my Dad's grave, but I find Ironwood to be a little repulsive.
Ironwood is a town full of ignorant, "has beens" and will be for a long time. I just hope those people don't spread out too far, don't need that element in main stream society. It's not just Ironwood, MI it's the entire UP of MI. Anyway, I'm probably the only former resident that feels that way so no cause for concern. I may sneak up there some day before I die, just to say adios in my own twisted way.
I've been advised to break up my ramblings into smaller paragraphs, but that means shortening my thoughts into smaller expressions. I always thought a paragraph maintained it's integrity as long as it stayed on topic. My research indicates no definitive rule and that different writers have different techniques. I will take the advise however. A doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
Today, I had brunch with my brother (coffee) at Starbucks, I don't drink coffee much anymore, just on special occasions. My new beverage of choice is green tea and I've figured out a way to make it that can't be beat. I've got a fairly fancy coffee maker and one day I thought I'd try to make my tea with it, works great. You know how green tea is normally weak looking, kinda clear with very little color. My tea comes out as dark as coffee and It tastes great, not to mention all the positive health Benefits. You've got to get authentic green tea though (ryokucha) from the Camellia Sinensis plant. I've been drinking at least three cups a day. Just make sure you brush your teeth after, tea is worse than coffee when it comes to staining your teeth.
I've come to the conclusion that I am not an alcoholic, there are reasons why I had a problem with alcohol and alcoholism isn't one of them. I've had enough education on the subject to warrant a PhD. There is a problem with low level perception though and that's that anyone who has consumed mass quantities of alcohol is an alcoholic. I've got news for those of you who still believe that myth. Yes there are alcoholics and they have uncontrollable urges to drink, but on the other side of the same coin there are people that only drink because of anxiety and depression issues. The latter are not alcoholics, they are people that are self medicating mental illness issues. The idiots in the medical profession can't seem to figure out the simplest diagnosis. My experience with many doctors is that they lack the ability of deductive reasoning. Actually their problem is fear based, as long as they follow ridged protocol they feel a certain sense of safety and are unwilling to deviate. And alcohol does not kill brain cells. I guess this is really a topic for one of my other blogs so I'll just leave it at that. Stay tuned, I'll be back.