Author: Michael

Remember Christ Lives, always has and always will.

Thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes! 42 wow what an age. So many memories and so more to see and experience. Thanks Jesus, my Lord, for another year!

Quote of the Day:
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
–Mark Twain

Looking forward to the next two weeks to be over. Then I start my much need time off. Not going anywhere other than maybe to Inverness to check on that piece of property and put it up for sale.

Other than that nothing new going on. Just trying to get all my ducks in a row so that I may be able to start USF on time and hopefully get my company to pay for it. Hope everyone is doing great!

Quote of the Day:
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
–Albert Einstein

Well, it’s almost here. I finally get to take some much needed time off. I am so looking forward to April 1st. But, next week will be trying. I work six days in a row next week. But, at least one will be all much needed overtime.
Quote of the Day:
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a great vantage point to see the last Space Shuttle Discovery launch. I glad this guy recorded it.

Great Capture from an Airplane!

Quote of the Day:
I was so hungry I could have eaten a horse. But only pigs were available.
–Anonymous

This was my first trip and first look at my now owned property in Paris, Tennessee. The video is really about an 1 hour long. However, this is the first 13 minutes. This was also my first time using this video camera. I just learned how to import the video into my computer and was quite amazed how easy it was importing it .

My Paris, Tennessee Property August 31, 2005

Quote of the Day:
I’ll note you in my book of memory.
–William Shakespeare

Here is the video I told about in the last post. I thought it was funny this morning.

Dogs being lazy!

Today has been a great day for me. I have gotten a lot done and the weather has been amazing. I even caught the dogs being lazy today. I took a video of them. I will post it up next.

Quote of the Day:
I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
–Thomas Woodrow Wilson

So far 2011 has not been what I expected. It has been very bad financially mostly. I feel the brink my come this year.

On a brighter note for this year, I have cleared a lot of junk out of my life and house.

Quote of the Day:
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
–Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Well, it is another year. I pray this one is a lot better than last year. I was reflecting last night how if I was still in law enforcement, I would have only 4 years to go to full retirement. However, I don’t know if I would have lived longer than 5 years after that. I would probably be about 250 to 260 pounds. Plus have full blown diabetes and still probably would have had glaucoma in my right eye. On top of that the citizens of Hillsborough County would have drove me nuts.

I am thankful to the Lord for telling me to leave when I did. I have pre-diabetes. Still have glaucoma in my right eye and have lost 26 pounds in the last year. I did it slowly over the course of the year and I am maintaining my weight. I plan on talking to my doctor again and see if I can go back on the Phenteramine. I seem to hold my weight once I lose it thanks to the those pills.

I am hoping to pay down more debt this year. I am hoping. I pray that the Lord will give me enough of a pay raise to help accomplish a 15 percent reduction in my overall debt. I would like to also build up a reserve this year of at least 10 percent of my salary. I would also like to use cash to pay for as much as possible. By the end of the year I hope I can reach these goals along with being at 199 pounds in weight. I would also like to be able to start back to College to head to my goal within the next five years to finally graduate and get a job in the IT industry. My long term goal is to be living in Paris, Tennessee by the time I am 52. Let’s pray all this works out.

That is my short term and long term goals for the years to come. Hope everyone had a great New Year’s Eve. I worked but it was an easy night. So, easy I can’t even sleep today.