Go ahead officer, search the car.

I got called into work tonight for a little prep for the big weekend. 5 Hours later I really hadn't accomplished anything but i was being paid, no harm no foul.

on the way home i notice a cop behind me, and yeah i was doing 55 in a 45, and the lights go on.

"I pulled you over for doing 65 in a 45"
(anyone that has been in the station wagon knows that you know when you're doing 65 you know how fast you're going.)

i normally don't have a problem but i've never been pulled over in someone else's car, i was a little on edge for myself.
"where are you coming from?"
"the Weed"
"Have you been drinking?
" No sir, i work there"
" you sure?"
"Yeah"
"Please step out of the car"
"ok"
(second squad car shows up)

"You have any weapons on you?"
"No"
"Who's Car is this?"
"My Roommates"
"You have anything illegal in the car?"
"No"
"Does your roommate?"
"Ugh, well, um no, i mean, yeah he had better not, i mean no, go ahead and search it."

"Because your a little more on edge than our normal customer I'm going to pat you down and search the car."
"ok"


"because we took a little more of your time than normal i am going to let you go, just slow down."
"thank you gentlemen"

No ticket, no warning... but it gets better. Tonight was Kevin's 21st and i was actually headed to willies.

I stop at home and exchange stories, and walk to the bar

i get to 9th and washington (i live at 10th and jefferson) and who comes rolling up? but the second squad car that pulled me over, I just wave.

One beer turned into 6 beers and 3 shots, the third shot was take exactly one hour after i got pulled over..... needless to say i haven't spell checked this blog but for what its worth those shots are kicking in.

Good Night All.

Cowboy Mentality

My on the job training tonight consisted of:
be a Gentleman first and a hard ass second.
-if he giving you shit, only use the force needed to get him to the ground
-if he breaks a bottle or pulls a knife, fuck him up

Its 4:15 and i have class in 6 hours so im just going to hit some of the highlights
-When the lights go on and music stops its not good
-Biggest fight in 6 months.
-I saw a cop run into a crowd w/ a taser sparking (looked like cattle being herded)
-Shotgun loaded with riot control bean bags
-Sirens
-Some handcuffs
-I had a guy pinned on the ground and remember looking up and seeing the cop with an asp ready to put a hurting to the guy if needed
-a drunk guy passed out cold on stage, we found him during clean up
-that same guy decided that he wanted to fight
-i got to hold that guy down while two guys tryed to cuff him and the cop tazered him

I'll post a complete story tomorrow once i wake up from a massive nap

How would you kill 20 minutes?

So I had 20 minutes after class today before the bus came to the student union headed due south toward my house. With no pressing issues at hand i wandered into probably the weakest book store ever housed in an accredited university. Trying to figure out how to make this fun I spotted the cashier behind the counter, late 30s/early 40s christian looking woman. Instantly i knew what had to be done.

After some casual browsing I come across a Karma Sutra book. While thumbing through I took a few mental notes but put the book back. It wasn't going to hit the spot i was looking for. Around the corner I stumbled across where the 3 book Philosophy section ends and the 300 book Religion section starts. There before my very eyes was the book i was looking for. god is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything. Being in the bible belt, I had no idea that there was no University PTA that would ban a book like this. Paydirt!

I walk up to the counter and was greeted with a smile, she took the book from me and ran it over the bar code scanner, she obviously did not see the title until it came up on the computer... her face made it the best $21.30 my parents have ever paid for.

Conversation

Mom: Did you get a new job?
Me: Yeah, I'm bouncing at a club in town.
Mom: What was wrong with selling your blood?(in a guilt tripping/nervous/disappointed tone)

is it sad when your mom thinks that selling your blood is one of your least hazardous sources of income?

:-)

My Quest For Perpetual Randomness

Well, in the true random path that is my life I am now a bouncer at one of the two clubs in stillwater, The Tumble Weed. For those that don't know of the Tumble Weed, it is an enviroment that is hard to put into words. Its really two different clubs, one side, Tremors, is the most ghetto ass gangster place in Stillwater and in the same building is one of the few redneck dance halls I've ever been in. This is going to be interesting.

Concept of the day

"To use the analogy, the "Leadership is the answer to everything" perspective is the modern equivalent of the "God is the answer to everything" perspective that held back our scientific understanding of the physical wold in the Dark Ages. In the 1500s, people ascribed all events they didn't understand to God. Why did the crops fail? God did it. Why did we have an earth quake? God did it. What holds the planets in place. God."


I found this quote in Jim Collins book Good to Great. It makes me wonder if the people in todays society are going to step up to the plate and fix the problems they blame on our leadership or if were just destine for meritocracy.

My fear....
"If you lick on the lollipop of mediocrity, then you are going to suck forever" Josh Machicek

Today with sentence fragments

- wake up to study - bought two books to read-pissed off a random professor, apparently he didn't like what I was saying about politics - went to class - two quizzes - phone interview with Alaska - food -

rather mundane but im still alive

Interesting Realizations

So I started class yesterday I got to reflecting on the past few weeks. As much needed as that break was it was slightly weird. I realized that I have changed a lot since the last time I spent more than a few days in New York, granted that was more than a year ago. I got caught up in the realization that I no longer see things the same way as my friends and family. Dealing with this was a little more challenging than I anticipated. As a result I ignored a few people that I probably shouldn't have.

Two quotes came to mind a lot over break, "Home is where you lay your head" and a line from an old Catch 22 Lyric "I don't care, I can fade away to anywhere." The meaning of home has changed for me, it used to be good old Berne, NY but that has kinda evolved into just the place where I grew up. It still holds a lot of value and is what shaped me into who I am today, its just interesting to look at it from a different perspective. The second quote reminds me of the different places that I've lived and things I've experienced. Going from Berne with influences of both Rural New York but not out of touch with Albany, to Oklahoma which is a college town in the bible belt. Then the experience of DC living on the corner of two roads that only have a number and a letter as their designations. I would like to think that I adapted quite well to all of my surroundings but at the same time I bring away a little from each experience and compare where ever I am to the other places.

In the end I see people that are intolerant of others through their own ignorance, people that are stuck in their ways, people that let their environment define who they are. At the same time I wonder about the concept and origin of this 'Ignorance'. I see it as ignorance but looking at it through their eyes its just mirroring their environment and the actions that are positively rewarded in that culture or even just for that individual. It is rough to look at this in a manner that is not strictly pointing blame for how people turned out. How exactly do you go about changing a mindset of a culture or society? You would think that going somewhere that the action or thought process is acceptable would be an way to solve the problem but really it only makes you're environment more comfortable, what happens on the society that your removed yourself from?

Another thought that has been bothering me lately is the real world in general. I'm talking about the real world that is mentioned in our freshmen orientation classes, the one that waits after graduation. For a wile I've had a grasp about how the real world works, its not the sun shine that they make it out to be. Its not all bad just its a little more competitive and cutthroat than we were lead to believe. Regardless, it the name of the game and the only way to get through is to adapt and overcome. My mental wandering has shifted more towards the people that are out in the world making the society work. I look at the previously mentioned people that are stuck in their ways, working 40 years in a factory doing mindless work to feed their families. Now this may just be my arrogant know it all college student side of me but its seems that they are doing tasks that really take nothing more than some simple training in that particular task to complete. I guess what i struggle with is why they don't pursue anything further. I realize thats easy for me to say as a student that is only tied down but the amount of luggage i can pack onto my motorcycle but it still makes me wonder.

Anyway, amongst the deep thought of winter break I ignored several people that i shouldn't have and apologize for that. I really have no ideal if any of these thought make any logical sense but for a kid that goes to college to play with fire these realizations are quite puzzling and it will be interesting to see where I can take these concepts.

When did this happen?

When did the Canadian Dollar pass the US dollar? Why did no one warn me?

I always used to think of the US as the cool apartment where the party always was with the Canadians up stairs complaining and Mexico in the basement doing drugs.

Not so much anymore.

Now New York reeks of canucks and I feel like I've been living a lie for I don't know how long.