YOUR ROOTS

Today I was thinking about where I came from. A while back my aunt did some research on our family background and turns out some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Go figure, from the sounds of it we were a bunch of crooks....

The point of this story though is I'm totally fascinated with the settling of this country. First off there are Indians and not much food but also had to travel thousands of miles in a boat. Think about taking a camping trip and your stuck in a 20' camper for like 3 months. Um yea I would think that you could get a little sick?

When they came here there was probably not much food and I'm sure they had to do tons of hunting. I get sick of taking a lunch every day but at least I dont have to go out and shoot it first. Also if I want a mountain dew I can go drop some cash and get it ...I dont have to search hundreds of miles for water.

I think people forget about where we came from. I know times are tough today but think about what these people had to go through...>no banks? No Mcdonalds? no convenient stores....no automobiles? How about having no car and you have to walk everywhere you go...>NO thank you....

I will take today over the past any day....

The Black Widow

THE COST OF WAR

Don't get me wrong I'm a firm believer for an eye for an eye...However recently I have been asking myself questions....Why? Why are we in Iraq.....Why are we in Afghanistan.????Why???? I get the point that maybe if we don't kill people over there that yes they will come over here and kill us. However I sit and look at the cost of moving people to other countries and I have to tell you this is getting CRAZY....

First off as you know I have two jobs and I drive a vibe. I put on a couple hundred miles each week and go through about $60.00 a week in gas.. Now lets see that's me (um yea one person ) and x 4 weeks that's $240 dollars. Now how many miles to the gallon do you think a tank gets? How many tanks do we have over seas? How many people do we have to feed in a day? Is it free to feed our people? How much does it cost someone to fly over seas to war...Is that free? Do we get a return on investment on this stuff?

Here is my question. So we have all these places that terrorists can fly into and yes now they are starting to blow up planes which I'm sure they will never stop doing. However what about beefing up security at airports/borders? How about throwing money into new ideas on how to fight terrorism at a border....Why cant we come up with some new ideas besides just going to war....

I don't want to get blown up...I don't want anyone to get blown up. But I am now afraid we have lost track of what we are trying to accomplish in Afghanistan and to me it's opportunity cost.

We are throwing a lot of money in ....And there will be no money coming back out... It's like every time I put on the news I see my kids "Standard Of Living"....Just going by the wayside...

The Black Widow.

THE SHINING

Remember that movie "The Shining"?????

It was that move where they went way out in the wilderness to this hotel to take care of it. I take care of 3 properties now (on top of my full time job) and the newest one is in Southern WI....I don't know how to explain it but when I come over the hill and see the town below, I get this EERIE feeling....The town is very old (1800's) time frame and has lots of old buildings...It's just strange and I think the people in it are strange..

Have you ever had that feeling when you went somewhere? Like you don't or wouldn't trust anyone in the town? I've had that feeling in the woods as I have discussed in one of my earlier stories but I also get that feeling of "no trust" when I have visited certain cities in the U.S.

What is that? Is there a 6th sense we just don't know about? Is there something that happened in that town years ago that you can pick up on? I know I have written about dog man before and I think there are things in your brain that you pick up on and ya just can't explain it.. If your out there and you can explain it to me let me know.

At any rate when I take over a new building it has takes time to get use to the people (some are very unclean and just strange)....

I love my job....

The Black Widow