obligatory i’m getting older post
Posted by jaked | Filed under just4fun
this cake isn’t a lie…
so here it is… i’m another year older, the wiser thing… i guess we’ll see. so today i am officially old… i’m not talking…
but sometimes it feels like it. so instead of regale (how do you like that use of a thesaurus?) you with stuff about me and how great i am i wanted to take a look at other (more important, probably) things that have happened on december 2nd than my birth.
- december 2nd is the 336th day of the year (337th on leapyear)
- 1981, birth of britney spears…
- 1983 birth of green bay quarterback aaron rogers…
- 1348 death of japanese emperor hanazono…
- 1963 death of famed circus… guy john ringling of famous ringling bro’s circus fame…
- 1993 death of famed colombian drug cartel leader poblo escobar…
- today is international abolition of slavery day
- national day in the uae from uk control in 1971
- uk launch of the xbox 360 in 2005
- 2001 enron filed for
- in 1942 the manhattan project (responsible for the atomic bomb) initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction…
- 1927 the ford model a car is introduced
- 1976 fidel castro takes control of cuba
that’s probably enough of that…
one thing that’s been really cool is i got a present (sorta) from a stranger. so this morning the ups man came to my door with a package from someone who i didn’t recognize. i signed for it and took it inside to open it. i figured it’s my birthday, maybe somebody sent me something… it was a small box and when i opened it to my surprise there was a bunch of wadded up newspaper and an iphone… but not just any iphone, it was the one that was pick-pocked from me on the 4th of july while i was down in orlando. along with the phone and newspaper was a piece of folded notebook paper that had one word written on it.
sorry
i have no idea where it came from, i looked up the address on the box and it’s made up and the name doesn’t really pull up any info either. all i can do is thank the mystery person who returned it… whoever you are. i’ve since replaced my phone and at this point don’t know what i’m going to do with this one (are they still selling iphone 3gs’ on ebay?) but i really never thought i’d see this little sucker again.
so anyway i hope you’re having a great december 2nd…
oh yeah, one thing i do have to look forward to today turning 25 is that my car insurance is going to go down woo hoo!!!
ink’d… ‘love dad’
Posted by jaked | Filed under art?, billings, holidays, just4fun
so i managed to steal someone’s computer long enough to throw together a quick post because well, it’s been forever since i have done anything here. so here goes…
i work a part time job right now while i’m raising support in order to pay of those oh so lovely student loans. not my top 10 things i wanna to be doing with my time but hey i gotta pay back my debt to the state of montana.
anyway, one cool thing that the job’s given me is the opportunity to rub shoulders with some folks who i’d normally not get to and have gotten into some cool conversations as well as heard some crazy life stories. my latest is with one of my only male coworkers (trust me not as cool as it may sound) and this guy has had a rough life. he grew up in cali and did his part to raise the local crime rate. i mean california has a reputation to uphold right?
all of that aside he had a pretty rough time at home as well. His dad disappeared when he was 7 and the last he heard from him for a long time was the birthday card he sent for his 8th birthday. as sad as it is this seems like a reoccurring theme i hear in alot of people’s stories. it’s almost uncommon to hear about a family that has stayed whole for the long haul…
this guy pretty much grew up without really knowing his dad and after a while he just gave up hope ever reuniting with him. well he’s grown now and has a two year old daughter of his own. after this new adventure came into his life and he started to understand the importance of the father’s role he wanted to try and find his dad to try and rebuild their destroyed relationship.
with the amazing jumps in technology and the internet he said it didn’t take a whole lot to track the man down. i’ll skip some of the gory first meeting details to the next part. they started working things out and his dad was grateful to have the opportunity to be a part of his grand-daughter’s life and father and son became a family again.
this whole story came out when this guy i work with came into work with a bandage on his forearm. i asked him what had happened and he said he got a tattoo.
he peeled back the bandage to reveal, in what looked like handwritten script, the words ‘love dad.’ i asked him what the significance of it. he told the aforementioned story, as well as its conclusion… last year at about this time his father passed away from lung cancer. he said he had really only known his dad for about 8 and a half years of his life.
the tattoo was how his dad signed the birthday card he received on his 8th birthday. it was actually even made to look just like his father’s hand-writting. he got the tattoo on the one year anniversary of his father passing away. so at this point i was about to break into tears…
we had the opportunity to keep talking and i go to share about my relationship with my dad as well as how that too has been redeemed and everything that went along with that and how it was part of a bigger life change. a much bigger life change.
now depending on your own personal view of tattoos you may fall on one of two sides of the fence: the people who like tattoos or the people who are scared of people with tattoos. i kid i kid. tattoos are interesting to me because they mean so many different things to so many different people.
now you could be like this guy…
and just go to town. i mean i don’t know this guy… i just googled ‘stupid tattoos’ (i would recommend putting google’s safe search on strict first) and he was one of the first to pop up. and who know maybe all of those have some sort of deep meaning to him… right…
lots of people have tattoos to profess love, faith, loss, pain, sorrow, happiness, accomplishment, and almost anything else. i mean i don’t have any… as of right now but i know i’ve experienced all of those things and i never want to forget any of them because they’ve all been a part of the master plan for my life and have shaped me into who i am today. cheesy right?
like this whole support raising thing, i think i’ve probably felt all of those things throughout this whole process, and when i get through the initial part of it maybe i’ll get some ink to always remind me of the provision that has gone before me.
how about you? do you have a tattoo? do you look similar to the guy above? what event (events?) that have happened in your life might warrant commemorating with some ink? feel free to share in the comments.
sorry for the absence…
Posted by jaked | Filed under i don't need no stinking label, just4fun, nugget from the net
but seriously you probably didn’t notice that i haven’t blogged in quite a while right? i’m sorry i’ve been gone so long but (several weeks ago, maybe like 3-4 months-ish) my computer caught fire and decided to die. i suspect some foul play by some sort of foul (that’s hunter speak for bird i think) but i can’t prove anything. so basically all i can do is post from my phone wich let me tell you isn’t very fun. so yeah there may be some radio silence until i can finally afford to buy a new computer… so like next year sometime… or maybe in 2012 if i cross my fingers. who knows but until then please enjoy posts from some of my friends who still post stuff. my buddy Jack and my buddy Matt have great blogs which you can click on below. also my friend chris blogs a new post every day which is usually worth checking out. like i said you can find links below to all of the above. (do you see what i did there? no? oh nevermind)
jack’s blog ‘the adaptations of life’ http://www.adaptationsoflife.com/
matt’s blog ‘leadership, technology, innovation www.mattmccomas.com
chris’ blog that’s too cool for a name www.christownley.com
