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Pet Peeves – Wasting Time in Politics

I do not like wasting time, it is one of those things that just drives at me because no matter what is done that time cannot be gotten back.

Seeing people from the state government try to prop Portland as some no problem paradise just pisses me off. We have crime problems, we have job problems, we have money problems and the most people want to talk about it is saying if you talk bad about Portland you are an evil MAGA.

I am a registered democrat and there are others who see this and look at the lies over the years and for those thinking Antifa is getting cleaner, they did this in 2020 with their free milkshakes and walk with families, they then poisoned a milkshake and turned it into a chemical weapon against Andy Ngo. How do I know?

I was at those protests five years ago, hell, you scour the video you will find me in a white and blue jacket. I was there and have seen the down fall and the same people who say there are no problems are now trying to show nothing is wrong when everything in their paperwork says otherwise. I have seen them try to barricade front doors since 23, the bags of rocks or the hap hazard stacks of bricks during the 2020 riots, the fireworks and items thrown at police, the hiding behind mothers who believed with them. The only thing I say what was wrong was this was something I tried to understand, I tried talking to them, and everything they said was utter trash.

Portland state had their library trashed causing more than a million dollars’ worth of damage in  a series of years where they had their budget shrink and had to make those cuts during more years of budgets shrinking. It is a lot harder to cut a shrinking budget then a growing one. We cannot as a school,(Portland state) as a city (Portland) or as a state (Oregon) be so foolish that we simply not look at out problems, and seeing that so many people want to brush them under the rug is absolutely infuriating because it means that all the good done is essentially wasted.

No program can last without funding, and no funds can be collected without people with jobs, and those jobs do not exist without businesses. Also these failed fact checks like the Oregonian is just a show of stupidity they claim no explosives have ever been used meanwhile there are videos in 2020 and 2021 of explosives being used. Hell, I saw them from a park trying to figure out why people would do this in the city.

I would have no problem if it had some point, but after five years of this, it clearly does not have one, it has been a waste of time and money for everyone in the city and the worst part is it does not even help their own case.

Gaslighting and picking the best times to show video just as a gotcha is the equivalent of someone hiding a broken plate behind their back because they know if caught it will mean they will be punished. Honestly I think we just need a better level of politician not more one way liberal or conservative, just more honest about the situation…

Maybe I need to think about doing something about it.

Stay strong.

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Meetings Next Week 10/10

One of the projects I have been working on is a civics calendar so people can get more involved, this is the current meetings for Portland next week, neighborhood associations and district coalitions in red, and city council and city advisory boards in green. It is not perfect but week to week it should tell you what everything is going to be. There will be more added so if you want to know more you can always look. I would say just on default if you are looking for your neighborhood association meeting then you will need to look with the time closer to 9 pm. A lot of them are between the 6 to 9 pm. This has been something I will keep working on when I get the time. If you are interested about civics in portland hope this helps.

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Bonehead Tweet

You know I do hate when I have to do someone else’s job better then them. Even when it constitutes a level of basic knowledge. Rep Eric Swalwell from California had a question a few other dems asked for the sake of a gotcha.

As a dem lets go over why this only shows the dems have lost more touch with people then ever.

Currently the republicans hold all three major houses, but not total power. Total power would come when they have 60 people in the senate for a couple reasons. One it would be the amount to pass continuing resolution bills, like the one that our shutdown was caused by just this past week. The other is the Filibuster where it currently stands that 3/5 majority or sixty would be needed. Some of the reasons would go to the need for a larger support and more likely then that the need to work with multiple parties as often times one party even at great strength do not have the votes to break a filibuster.

Can the filibuster be changed? Yes. That however is a bot of a nuclear deterrent and would allow the democrats to do the same if they got back in office before the heat death of the universe.

Continuing Resolutions are harder to change the votes needed and as it stands will be something that will not change currently, so why is there a problem.

Well, in these bills are things called riders, thin of them as a little something to make someone vote your way for the whole thing. Right now a lot of democrats are not getting medical aid for illegal immigrants (one of the riders proposed) and are not getting the affordable care act  credits extended which they wanted as well.

Now, it is something he should know, and he looks foolish, and makes the dems look so as well because he does not know this.

I may know why he doesn’t know and wanted to show everyone lawyers can be boneheads at times.

Rep. Swalwell is a lawyer in California. And for those who don’t know I just put a pair of the most lore intensive detail needed bureaucratic heavy categories together. Try to think yourself learning Latin and the other language your teacher knows is Klingon. Very difficult and a lot of stuff to keep on hand, so most likely he just thought it was a majority pass, didn’t think twice wrote the tweet, and now is on my wall of shame.

Do I know him? No. Could he be a bonehead? Chance of it happening. I would say in this case I am not impressed with him but that is more not impressed with a lot of people and he currently decided to sample his shoes for putting his foot in his xbox. (mouth)

I did hear of the whole fang fang thing. For the sake of not writing a thesis I am not going to touch it. Swalwell is a bonehead for this tweet, try again next time.

Everyone is a bonehead at times on social media, at this point just shrug and hope it’s a blip and not a sign of average content.  

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Personal Update (Not Falling in a Black Hole)

You know I have an absolutely atrocious sleep schedule, I do not think I have slept 8 hours straight since the Clinton administration. I have talked over problems of the city and what could be fixed in it this time I just want to talk.

In the next sixty days I will be in three separate competitions, now I won’t go in depth for what I am doing but being in three competitions, alone, is kind of a problem to me because for two of them I should be on teams. Now, is that going to stop me? No. I tried to get teams and no one wanted to try it thinking there were other things to do, they didn’t feel it aligned with their majors or just thought it was not a good idea.

Now, for some that could be the end of it but this is something that may help me later and so I am going to step in with schools with teams incredibly more qualified and like I normally do take my best shot at it and who knows. Sometimes dark horses run sometimes.

Outside of this there is a lot going on and sometimes everything just feels like it is getting away from me in a form or another. Sometimes I do not even know why I try to do so much, but I have learned the level generally I do this with and how the next couple months I am pushing myself past that point for the sake of stretching my capabilities.

My health has gotten better in places, now we are doing enough I am losing weight slowly but naturally and my muscle is more coming in. Blood pressure is low at times but I have something now to help me with that, and something in case it goes too far. It sounds weird for those who see me to think I have low blood pressure, but it is true.

A joke I heard from a friend was that I had to be part shark (like Great White or Hammerhead as those sharks are the kind that need to if memory serves.) because otherwise I would just die, and the need to try and do definitely feels like that. Generally, I try to do one piece of advice so y’all can learn from my stupidity.

Just take care of your neck, I injured mine many times and I pay for it so take care of yourself. Don’t want to take your health from the present and pay for it in the future.

I did make a few things for different foods spices, but I need some more products that people want so I am working on that, in the free moments.

Writing novels have been fun, I may try to get published in the old-fashioned way and see what comes of it. Who knows, I don’t.

Until next time

Stay Sharky

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Fall Term at PSU

We are going to try some things, first, I am still working on doing things with this blog that I think will be useful to someone, but part of one of my classes is going to be opening and allowing myself to be more creative.

I like to have things regimented, but it was never good to me after some time, so we are going to do the same things we talked about, creative stuff, Portland, civics, maybe do it a couple different ways.

A big fear has been thinking I am useless and with my disability it has been something that has pushed me further, sometimes when it was the smart idea to rest up. In an effort to handle that I am going to write more. I am not sorry, but it may be what you are not expecting and if you still read this I hope you get something out of it.

T.

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9 Months and A Kirk

It has been almost one full year since I had done more of these posts, and you may wonder why. I did not want to waste the time when I was not sure what to write myself. It had been one of those things that had bothered me but where we are at I think we have a lot to go over.

For those who do not know I do use my Instagram, although not as rampantly as before. First, there is something I do want to talk about.

Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA has been something I had joined in the year, even though according to some I am more on the left. I think if you put all my ideas on the line between left and right I think it would even out, but I will say I am thankful for joining TPUSA because it got me to look at my beliefs more in depth and while I did not believe with some, no one believed everything 100%, but the talking was something important to the group.

Being part of TPUSA did not mean that I had to believe everything that Charlie Kirk did, and in fact there was some issues we did differ, but as some of the people wanted to have a conversation there was a time where I had to find and figure out more in depth what I believed and why. This process made me realize there are people who are going to be lost not because they believe differently but because some people have values and use it on what they believe in politics while the people I have the biggest problem are with people who look at politics as the moral structure not thinking how politics need to bend.

It is weird, because even Charlie Kirk had things where he disagreed with, but that was okay, it did not stop him working with people and I think if you do not agree with someone but are still going to at least see them as people. Versus the opposing side where hard impassioned leftists claim where they have to agree and the people they associate with have to be the kinds they agree with and that just means they are losing out and making their side smaller with each move.

Now those hard leftists may have a good idea on something but the problem is also they have been is that their zealotry for their own beliefs means you have to have belief in everything or it counts to nothing.

I am sorry but for people who hated him. If you thought Charlie Kirk was a homophobe because he personally did not agree with homosexuality, but still worked with it, treated it as a difference of opinion so people can walk their paths, then I am sorry but that says more about you.

Also, new rule, you can’t suddenly try to debate a person because they are dead and can’t answer when their work had been to talk about things. It makes you look like you had points so weak that it couldn’t stand to a string of Christmas lights shining on it. Sorry, Bill Maher here we do have a habit of gimmick infringement, but for everyone I do hope it gave you a chuckle.

Stay Strong.

Rest Well Charlie. I don’t agree with everything, but if we see each other again, I got the first drinks for the sake of thanks.

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An Outlaw Returns

It has been a little bit of time. Working on some civic projects, and trying to get more people involved in civics if not politics. Sometimes all you need is the first one.

I am not happy with how people have gone more to the left in the city of Portland there is a group of people clamoring for blood based on things that not one person cannot prove with bending themselves into a knot in some moral purity test. There is a problem here that these people do not understand they are making, because for all the wishes of violence for all they claim how the left has never had violence on anything, there are those who had seen it and lived through it.

Being homeless it was never the proud boys that beat up the homeless or stole their stuff, it was antifa. It was not the republicans who thought me to be a stereotype but it had been the leftists time and again. All of this had been personal experience but had also been the experience of those who been in my position as well. Moderates had been nice, but for those who had this idea of leftists or nothing, the ones that make politics their religion are angry when others have a different moral code.

What worries me about these people on the hard left claiming they want blood think they have the unspoken majority when nothing in the world says it. It is not even something that any poll has even spoken and on the left I do not see that. For the city of Portland I am worried about this wanting to pick a fight because I cannot see anyway that this idea of social justice will be able to stand if they demean everyone who does not believe in the same thing they do.

There will be more posts coming soon as the summer and the pasty ear has been exciting. And a lot of progress has been done but it has been something where working through the bureaucracy has been painful at time but it has been something that allowed things to change in smaller ways thinking that those with more power if driven can aim to get stuff done.

Before realizing I live in a city where everyone would bankrupt themselves as an own to their political opponent. It makes me wonder where this will lead, and how we can avoid the worst at the end of it.

I will go over some of the things new, and I hope your years have gotten better.

Stay Strong.

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Final Round With A Rival

Let me tell you a story. Two fighters get into a ring. 15 rounds are on the clock and as the time runs you see these two fighters beat the holy hell out of each other. Swing, counter, swing planning, counter planning. Then sometimes they will just come together and beat the holy hell out of each other. After a while Other fighters look at that match and they go these two had something. Between them, whether it was respect or hatred or just there was something additional there, that’s a rivalry.

Five times. This will be. This month makes the fifth time me and my rival and Game of tones are competing against each other and the score is they have won twice against me. I have won twice against them. They got a third event where I could not compete, so they have three victories to two for me, but in competition against each other. Out of four times it’s evenly split two Vs two. So. This is the reason why I also had to come back. Now. There was part of me hoping I could get by and not have to deal with my rival. I am laughing as I write this because it’s almost poetic where I’ve wanted to get to three victories. They got to it first because I had to go to my schooling and focus more on that. They are now in the crosshairs and for me to get it, I have to get by someone who’s been essentially a thorn in my backside for this competition.

We will go to the final round. Both of us have lives that are moving faster. This may very well be the last time both of us can do this kind of an event against the other. Inside us is also that little bit that I know they have as well. They go “OK, can I do it a third time?”  I wonder the same.

The person that will win this? We’ve had to go through hell as a writer because there was someone in your shadow pushing you just to do that little bit more, that extra repetition, that extra page, to put it how close we have been. For the four times we have competed against each other, we have never been more than 5000 words apart. 5000 sounds like a lot and for those who are new to this, it sounds Titanic. For those who are doing 500,000 that’s less than a couple hours. Three of the most recent times it’s been less than 2500 separating us. Anyone who does anything in competition. If you do something very well, let’s say you are a running back and you get 10,000 yards overseas and you make new records in your area. You do everything and when you look at the national records for the year, you realize you’re second by 10 yards.

Going into business, you have a rival business and they make $1,000,000. You are awarded as the best new business in the city because you made $1,001,000. The difference is  minuscule. It feels like inches and when you have gone miles to lose by inches hurts. It stings, it burns, it makes you swear. Funnily enough, we both have done it. Part of me wonders if I can do that again, and I cannot tell you that I can. Because if this is the last round, it would kill me if three separate times someone got by me for the sake of maybe an hour’s worth of work in a month-long competition.

What has to be the greatest piece of comedy in all of this is that neither one of us would be so strong in this kind of event, or writing on the whole, if it weren’t for the other across from us. Pushing us just to get that extra little bit more out of us. The reason I use dictation sometimes now is because of them. During the last event, we were together after the second week. Both of us had put in more than 50,000 words daily. We also made a novel. Both of us had made separate novels in a one-week time frame. Now you may hear me say 50,000 words and novel interchangeably. Some people may go that’s too short to be a novel. I use this because as it has been practiced from National Novel Writing Month, the idea the goal is to make a 50,000 word piece of writing. Now, depending on who you talk to, it could be more, it could be less, yeah. 50,000 in any case, is the goal that everyone understands.

One more time, one more challenge and one more chance to change the past. You get one bullet to do so and you ever find yourself in a position like mine, then you will do everything you can to make sure it goes to where it needs to go. How it is done though may be them ore interesting thing because win lose or draw there will be some changes. We will not be the same people we were when we started this challenge.

The final round is going to start and this is going to be the rubber match between me and my rival all for the sake of seeing not only who can do more but just as a point of pride between us. It will be tough but when the time starts working against you it is when we will start to see the test on the soul. It is never when things are going well, that you find your drive for something. It is only when things go badly, or you face an opponent worthy of it where you have to check your gut and see if there is enough there to get by them.

Part of me is also sad, when you have someone like that you expect them in other challenge to almost be there, especially if you put a lot of time into competing against them. Finality, that colors everything and it makes you see exactly where the story between the two of your ends. I guess in a couple weeks, we are going to find out.

Stay strong

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Million Word Month?

For those who do not know, doing 1,000,000 words is a challenge period to write a million words for projects for books for stories for blogging for everything that creative writing can be and in to do that in 30 days is going to test yourself. Generally, when it comes to something like this, I will go with the flow there will just be ideas and writing putting it all together seeing what we have. I cannot do that here.

This is a task that will require my full focus and with everything on my docket this month that is going to be incredibly tough. So, what I have done is I actually built myself a game plan a way for me that I know I can do and get to 1,000,000 words in 30 days now the reason I have to do this. Last time I wrote about my rival, well last time I was unable to compete they decided to defend the house I represented because I had to go do schoolwork and they did so very well they did the most anyone has ever written. Unfortunately, me and them both being here now means we have to compete with each other and now that means I have to try and go for what they did because I do not know if they’re going to do it again.

Now, I have been really slow in getting the books out. I apologize. You know, there are other things I’m doing. Also, there is just that I don’t feel comfortable quite yet, but I’m working on it. We have one on board. We’re getting the rest out. The problem is there’s going to have to be 10 other book projects I need to finish during this month for me to hit 1,000,000 words. I need to do 33,000 words a day.  Let’s put that in perspective need to do the following in 30 days. I need to write the equivalent of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell in 30 days. I have to write essentially the length or the equivalent of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. That’s the four books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. More than The Hunger Games and Lord of the Rings books. Together by the site I’m using for research, The Hobbit comes in at 95,000, Fellowship of the Ring at 177,000, The Two Towers at 143,000, and The Return of the King at 134,000. Hunger Games you have 99,100 and 1100 thousand. I have to do all that in 30 days, and granted, it’s actually going to be a little more than Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games series together cause that’s about 850,000 words. I essentially have to write just under the length of the entire Harry Potter series in 30 days. According to Capitalize My Title, it comes in at 1,084,000 words. I have to hit a million. It took J.K. Rowling  almost a decade. It’s going to have to take me 30 days. Woo

What’s the plan. Plan is this. Obviously, there’s going to be posts on the blog because this is a form of creative writing. It is something where I have to train different muscles. There are going to be at least 20 different fan fictions, so if you’re the kind that likes that sort of thing, there will be more coming in very quickly. I must write 10. separate. books. Now in game of tones. There is something where editing does count for portion of words. I will be using that. Raw writing is going to be tough to hit a million on, however, I am using a dictation machine right now, which is a reason why am I writing sounds a little different on the blog because I’m just speaking it into a microphone to save my bloody wrists.

For those who are unsure if I really do talk like this. Yes, I do. It annoys everyone that has to deal with me. A lot of people think I speak like I’m from the 1920s or 30s. No, I’m not that old. However, back to the 1,000,000 words. There is a plan, there is a way to get to this point and hopefully with the tips and tricks I have learned. The focus I’m putting towards this. A dozen or so energy drinks in my fridge to help me along. There is enough here over all of that that we are finally going to get our third victory. I hope.

If you are unused to writing for long bounds or long periods or long anything, I would suggest starting off with a little bit of fan fiction. What is fan fiction, you may ask? Is it as bad as I’ve been told? There is a bit of a stigma about it. The way I have explained fan fiction, the way I have told people to look at it is you are already invested in a series in a way of writing and description that really speaks to you. What you can do is to use that knowledge and have it kind of as a lab. Not quite a scientific lab, but a lab nonetheless, because you will be experimenting with how you, the writer, do things with values you already understand very well. This is how I think fan fiction works, especially when it comes to writers because they often have series that they read, that they love the characters, they love the settings or descriptions, or they just love how things are put together. This is a way for writers to try it, to see what’s under the hood, so to speak, if you’re a mechanic, to see the playbook a little bit better, if you’re someone who likes sports in any way. It’s a way to see how everything comes up, to make it what it is. Hence, If you like to try and push yourself riding, have a fan fiction project as well. You can do a bunch of different ones, it’s a nice little. Way of doing things where you learn but you also get stuff done and people can give you some reviews on your writing. I have a profile on fanfiction.net. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. I think I’m kind of mid as a fan fiction writer no matter the link will be put below where you can check it out for yourself. There is a lot there and it’s all over the place.

Fanfiction

Reflecting on how things have gone so far is where this plan has come off the rails a touch, because not being able to focus solely on this has been something that I knew would be a problem. This takes a lot of time and focus. As of right now I need to do a lot more to catch up but I have more time open in the next couple weeks so it is not so much that it is out of reach, I am a quarter of the way through the goal amount, but that means I need to do three quarters in two weeks and that will be difficult.

Stay Strong, and Keep Rolling

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What I Have Been Doing (1)

If you have been reading these posts for a while you may find it surprising I do volunteer. I actually made an effort to do so by going into university to try and cover possible weaknesses in my schooling. Less than three weeks ago one of my contacts needed me to do a speech, 20 to 30 minutes, online to a group of people in a few different community colleges. In fact, you can look it up it was call NoTED. The paperwork on the licensing so the whole pun on notes, I am guessing, was made. I think it works.

Now for some people this would take a month, or two months or I have heard some going three months out to properly prepare. I was given about three weeks, and I did it because I thought I should see if I could. Turns out I can, speaking about overcoming challenges and adversity, and despite everything it went well. As well as can be said in any case, the school who was hosting the event seemed to have glowing terms about it. So, I guess I do public speaking (?) now.

Seriously, between this and the voiceover work this is getting fun in the oddest of ways. Try new things people, you never know where it may lead you. One day if I ever have kids I will have top tier dad-lore, between the voice acting experience, the street fighting and the professional cookery. Even if I do not have children, I hope some of the next generation learn sometime the number one piece of advice is being ready and able to do your best. That has got me more than anything else, and even in places where I should have been more knowledgeable about the different crafts I was in. Volunteering I have found to learn more crafts with a patina of doing something good for society, it does help others but it also helps me. Sometimes you have to pay for your lessons in time and energy instead of money, and if you can find things you want to help then it will be good to get that extra on the resume.

Funny thing about volunteering, often times if you have a heartbeat and a wanting to help, they will train you to do stuff you never did before. This often comes with real life experience so its something you can count on to help you get more time on it in the future if that is what interests you. Volunteering is interesting because as I stated earlier you don’t need any experience to get some. You do not need a degree to work in say broadcasting now that maybe the issue is it may not be a glamorous time or place to volunteer and that is something where you have to find it within yourself if it is worth it to do.

One thing I am working on, is a book for students of all kinds particularly disabled to get the most out of their college education so that when they leave college for whatever reason with whatever degree that they have they feel that they are the best equipped that they have the extracurriculars and experience to make the most of their time disability or not. This is something that was going to be done through my off hours, however, work found it worthwhile enough. Overall groovy, it may be mine, it may be theirs, it may be both, and at this point there is nothing I could care less about because it should be written. This month I have to try and write (ha) some past wrongs during events past and now I am also a university student so the rest of the things I am doing does not stop whether I wish it to or not. In short it will be a barrel fun that will most likely lead to at least one doctor chewing me out for pushing too hard, or going to the hospital or doing something they do not like because I have the IQ of a particular gourd popular during this time.  I do have a plan for what I need to do and there will be some efforts made to stick to it so whatever chaos I would like to bring has to be put at the wayside for right now, because there will be things that need to be corrected and someone has three victories over me and that don’t sit well worth a bit.

For those who do not know, I am talking about Game of Tomes a group of people where 3 times a year we get together and write and edit as much as we can creatively to figure out exactly how much we can do and it’s more fun than national novel writing month. Now I have done this for a few years now save for this last one because of my studies, and my extracurriculars, and everything else I tend to get into for some odd reason. In any case if you would like to join us in learning how to write large amounts or editing. You have a novel that you really want to just spend some time writing with people who are doing the same you can join us on twitch at game of tomes. For those who are new, during this time you have 30 days to write or edit or do something word wise to help your score that score affects your house your house is when you get to choose but whatever choice you make that’s going to be the choice you stick with throughout the event now there are different houses major and minor I am part of house chiroptera or if you know your animal terminology the house of the bat.

Whatever house you choose each event is 30 days. In those 30 days you just do as much as you can you compete as a house you can compete against rival I have a rival it feels like the Batman and joker kind of situation between us. In any case I learned how to write a lot more because of this I have a book out now on Amazon you can order right now reading this because of the writing that I had to go through and because of my rival. My suggestion would be do not try to start off and think that you’re going to beat everybody no one did I did not every winner who’s done the most in this you know has not done that we have had to grow into it and sometimes people feel that they cannot and legitimately writing I have found is a lot like a muscle. You must train it. You must work with it. You must get the information to maximize it.

Despite how much of this month is going to be chaotic for me, I hope you come and join us I hope you enjoy it and if you want to join the House of the Bat in any case as always.

Stay Strong.

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