The Here and Now

There's something that needs to happen....right now. I cannot emphasize that enough, right now.

Some of you would think that you did that by electing Obama. No, that was a beginning. No, he's not the something that has to happen. The something that had to happen there was the fact that you realized maybe it wouldn't be bad - and do not be fooled into believing that it is.

Now, we have to realize that we have to move on, forward, far and as soon as possible.

We are blinded on all sides by globalization. Problem is, people rushed into globalization in the hope that it will save them, or make them money. No. People are not together enough as a society or even a civilization to make globalization work. Far too much focus is put on helping people and countries outside of "the 48" (and, I'm quite willing to call it a total of 49 based on 1 single person).

Really, if you cannot take the time and help your own, your own people, your own country, to better it, to rebuild it, then why the hell do you think what you can do can help another people or country? If you cannot clean up your own backyard, what gives you the experience to go knockin on a neighbors' door?

What needs to happen right now is that we need to smarten up, better ourselves, our people, our country, then our world. That goes for every people, every country. Better ourselves, then, we'll better each other. Are you capable?

I Survived 5 months 4 feet away from a Succubus...

Seriously. I first thought of it as a joke when I tried to figure out why I was just absolutely not myself the past couple of days. I usually resemble an idiot savant, not a simple idiot. Then, the past months replayed themselves in my head.

The entire situation started off wrong. One of those conversations that goes, "either this or that, but not this," but, "well, we've got this, and it's not that or this, but it is." Off to build something from nothing for a political candidate whom had won without it, but now needed it for survival. Always a problem bringing people to the light when they have tasted success doing things wrong, by the way.

This "thing" was surprised by my coming on board, as in, was not told about it until the day I was supposed to arrive. Luckily, her response to it was to give me a traffic update for the street around the office - even though I was a few hundred miles away.

As the weeks went by, sitting next to her, hearing her mumblings, her fingers pounding out angry text messages, I just began to feel more burnt out, earlier, than I ever have from working on a campaign. This went on and on, to the point where I thought maybe I needed to leave to stay mentally healthy.

Her ideas where beyond useless, her compliments so fake, they made one nauseous. She'd step into a room and start trying to tear people who weren't there apart, becoming their drooling fan as soon as they arrived. It only became worse.

At a point, I tried to put a stop to "it," and I did, to some extent, but that only seemed to make "it" more devious. I can remember a day when the noises coming from "it" were just incredibly, well, inhuman, amplified within my head much more than they should have ever been. I mentioned this to others in the office and they couldn't hear anything.

The moment that brought me to this thought, though, was a very specific day in the office. I turned and looked at it, and was stunned by the mask of make-up on "it". Again, I turned to others after she left, and asked, "What's up with that?" No one saw anything different. Then, I thought back to a statement the candidate had made to me early on, "I asked her and her sisters what their age difference was once, and they all sort of just stared at me."

Maybe this is just a joke, but if you ever spend any time with "it", and pay attention, it does not seem far fetched.

Right Now

As I reached into the office fridge just now for my dinner, figured I'd play it cheap tonight, I realized that I don't like my life right now. Not because I reached into a fridge for my dinner, please, who doesn't do that? Rather, the location I am in is because of a person who does not really understand what he is doing.

I have always been surprised when he never has a clue when I send him an email, but, now I understand. The fact that I told him one thing, and he responded with something completely different is because he could use me to fool more people into thinking he knows what he's doing.

Sure, you don't bite the hand that feeds you, and, I most likely won't. What happens, though, when you fuck with the bull?

Yeah.....

The other day, I posted a Facebook update that said:

"To both sides of the aisle - If China wants to start trying to push us around, don't you think it's about to time to shut up and start working to better this country - NO MATTER what it does to your personal standing? This isn't about you, it's about The United States of America, or did you forget that right after you were sworn in?"

If I could have added more to that, I would have said, "If we keep up this pace, the Chinese will have clean energy technology before we do."

Today, this tweet from the West Wing Report (WWR):
"WWR: The U.S. worry: China is racing ahead with development of clean energy technology - at a pace & scale that dwarfs American efforts"

As usual, the Deacon is right on target.

Writer's Block

Cohesion? Most likely, none at all. This will be far more of a rant than most other posts, as I use it to try and cure some writer's block.

Think I might have mentioned before that my favorite statement about social media comes from Chris Brogan - who said that calling yourself a social media expert is like saying you know how to email. Just look around and see how many people describe themselves as a social media expert. I just saw someone who described herself as a social media and PR rookie - Jesus, why would anyone hire you? Or, another favorite is the person I saw that bragged about being able to put together successful Meetups. Amusing because, well, because Meetup exists the way it is today because of myself and a few others who were so good at what we were doing, we pushed it past the breaking point. For those thinking, "Meetup? Don't you mean Tweetup?" no, trying to put together a "tweetup" is a shot in the dark - for the effort you would have to put into making it successful, you might as well just pick up a phone and call people.

Thinking at a point in time that I should really start paying more attention to my diabetes, I started reading a few diabetic blogs. All these people talking about their pumps and how perfect they worked, first, made me think I was doing something horribly wrong, then, just annoyed the hell out of me. So, I stopped for a few months, then went back to check them out last week. Surprisingly for them, not so much for me, things weren't running as smoothly as they would have liked, consistently high sugars, no way to safely take care of that, i.e., a shot, problems with the pump site, having to leave work early because of not feeling well. Yeah, all that sounds like more than enough of a reason to spend thou$and$ on a pump. Anyone who reads a story about a diabetic, and thinks that it can be applied to all diabetics, hasn't a damn clue.

Eh, I guess there was cohesion, if I had felt like breaking that up into 2 different posts, but, oh well.