We just arrived back in Ohio from visiting my parents in Georgia over the Memorial Day weekend. It was really nice outside during our visit and we were able to hike. We drove out of our way to go to Louisville, Kentucky to go to a bookstore and it was well worth it. We both said we would willingly live in Kentucky over most eastern states simply because it is beautiful, rural, quiet, and interesting in its own unique way. It really is not a terrible place! West Virginia, however, is a terrible place. We also stopped at a bookstore just outside of Cincinnati. We are planning to leave for Georgia again on June 9 so we can fly out to California and then Hawaii after we visit Brian’s parents and go to Yosemite and the Sierras. Yay!

We spent a long time last night unpacking our stuff and we still have much to do. We also got home rather late last night. It was about a 12 hour drive with all the stops we made.

We did see the new Star Wars movie with my parents. It was decent enough. The Annakin/Padme dynamic was horrid but that was expected. And what happened to Padme to make her change from a strong Senator and woman to a pushover, cowering, and whiny woman? It was a ridiculous change. I did like the Darth Vader elements and when Annakin turned to the Dark Side as well as the battle scenes.

We have some other travel plans in the works but I will wait to post on those later…

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We are off to visit my parents in Georgia for the Memorial Day weekend. We plan to hike and bike and have fun in the sun!

We have been looking at land in Hawaii online. It seems that quite a bit of land is available on the Big Island, especially near volcanic vents! We can handle volcanic vents and earthquakes. Besides, not many people can say that they are able to sit out on the patio and enjoy the lava flow… I already have big plans for the lava should it come our way. We are considering a moat…

We only got three hours of sleep last night and I get to drive eight hours today, weeee!

We spent a bit of time yesterday putting up company fliers around OSU. Because we were out at dinnertime, we ate dinner at “Buckeye Donuts.” They have donuts and some Greek food. Go figure. We ate falafel gyros and I accidentally got Diet Coke when I refilled my drink rather than Sprite. I never drink soft drinks yet I said something like, “Oh no, I got Diet Coke, I cannot drink this, it is so unhealthy with all of the caffeine, coloring, and aspartame!” Then I said, “Why am I so worried about caffeine when we are eating fried falafel with french fries and I just drank sugary Sprite?” Note to self: Never drink soft drinks, they burn your throat. Fortunately, we did not nor have we ever partaken in the donuts from Buckeye Donuts. I am sure that their donuts are fine (however one goes about grading donuts) it just seems that we ingested enough fat…and we do not eat donuts.

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Post of randomness…

Since we will not be living in Ohio much longer and because we do not wish to communicate with Ohioans, we have decided to get rid of the Cadillac. We really do not need a car here. We rarely go anywhere that we could not have walked to or used the bus to get there. Yay for getting rid of the car.

The idiot yard man outside is using an edger but it seems as though he is better at edging concrete rather than grass. I was napping when the grinding of concrete woke me up. Now, I am sleepy and moody. Fortunately, I will be better once Brian is home.

After reading a bunch of western novels (which were all great) I am now reading The Vampire Lestat. It is an interesting to make a transition from 1860-1880 Western era novels to 18th century French vampires. I tried to read Larry McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment but it could not pique my interest very much so I will try that one again later. It seems a bit strange to read a book by him where he is attempting to portray the lives of two different women rather than a large number of men.

I will cease the rambling now. I am exhausted. Why do we keep staying up so late?

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Why do our neighbors have to have a bunch of badly behaved children? They like to wake up early in the morning and scream and yell all day long until it is time for them to go to bed. And they let these kids stay up too late (in my opinion). They also plop them down in front of the TV all day and we get to listen to their TV drone on endlessly into the day and night. One child enjoys throwing tennis balls against the brick walls because of an apparent lack of imagination. One runs around all the time and from the sounds they make you would think it was a baby elephant running around and not a child…

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Brian wants to say that I should not call the government a bunch of Nazis. He said they have not caused a holocaust. I never claimed they caused a holocaust I only intended to liken them to the political aspects of the Nazi party. The government is a giant propaganda machine and anyone who opposes it is automatically tagged anti-government or unamerican, just as the Nazis tagged Germans. Whether or not this government is brutish is largely subjective…

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Oh joy. Oh excitement. I cannot wait until I get my “Real ID” card. Perhaps, after that, I will receive my government issued toilet paper. Welcome to the USASSR, you don’t know how lucky you are.

Seriously, this is an absurd and egregious violation of my rights as an American citizen. It was my understanding that the point of the government is to protect me. They messed that one up on 9/11 and a myriad of other times, I might add. It is unbelievable to me that I will need to use a domestic passport to travel within my own country. People like to argue that the Democrats are better than the Republicans and that the Republicans are better than the Democrats. This is crap. Both parties are a bunch of slime sucking Nazis who want to take all of our rights away while simultaneously giving us bad toilet paper, turning us into the USASSR, and forming their own little Axis of Evil. I am so sick of the absurd legislation in this country. Perhaps a Boston Tea Party needs to begin but this time boycott Capital Hill! If no one sent in their tax money on April 15 every year, what would the government do, arrest EVERYONE? I doubt it. It seems absurd to me to continue giving the government my money so they can pass legislation to harm me! Paying someone to harm me and put me in danger seems rather irrational! It is even more absurd that they attached this to an emergency military relief bill! This has NOTHING at all to do with the military and it was a sneaky tactic to attach it to a bill that would provide military men and women with the very things that will keep them alive: guns, ammo, and housing. I wrote two nasty letters to the goons here in the Ohio senate. I know it will not do a bit of good since this country does not work the way it should. It is really too bad that the forefathers of this country are not around to see the shambles it is in now. Whatever happened to abiding by the Constitution and other governing laws of this country? It is horrifying to think that we are abandoning the founding elements of this country. Let the revolution begin!

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I am spending this morning making ads for the business and I also was thinking about how I need to update content on this website too. I will start work today on some new papers and maybe revamp some of the older papers. Anyone have any topics they wish for me to write about? I am certainly willing to entertain suggestions.

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Yesterday and today, we went to day one of the book sale at the OSU library and we bought a number of books, one of which was a giant book on Scientology by Scientologists. We watched westerns and then read parts of the Scientology book… It was like a giant 800 page pamphlet! It had many colorful pictures of smiling people and all these levels of secret stages. So, basically Scientology is a big pyramid scheme and cult all wrapped into one. They have all these bizarre “self-evident truths” which were not at all self-evident (or truth for that matter). Here are a couple:

“The entirety of the subjects of Scientology flow from these basic
truths. No later discoveries fell outside the bounds of truth
described in these logics and axioms.

#1 Knowledge is a whole group or subdivision of a whole group of data or speculations or conclusions on data or methods of gaining data.

#2 A body of knowledge is a body of data aligned or unaligned or methods of gaining data.

#3 Any knowledge which can be sensed measured or experienced by any entity is capable of influencing an entity.
Corrolary: That knowledge which cannot be sensed, measured or experienced by any entity or type of entity cannot influence that entity.

Axiom #1 The source of life is a static of peculiar and particular properties.

Axiom #8 The life static conquers the material universe by learning and applying the physical laws of the physical universe. Symbol: The symbol for the life static in use hereafter is the greek letter theta.

Axiom #11 A life organism is composed of matter and energy in space and time animated by theta. Symbol: living organism or organisms will hereafter be represented by the greek letter lambda.

Axiom #13 Theta operating through lambda converts the forces of the physical universe into forces to conquer the physical universe.

The book lists 194 Axioms, 24 Logics, 30 Factors (#1 Before the beginning was a cause and the entire purpose of the cause was the creation of effect). “

We also got two giant cases of books for only $10…that was before the rabidly rude Russian took all the books with his secret goon police…

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Brian and I were just discussing how interesting it is that most couples (married or not) tend to become more “normal” while in their relationship - meaning more social, more in tune with societal standards, becoming more “suburbany” and trying to blend in with others. It is almost as though relationships are used by many as a means of social lubrication, even by those that dislike social lubrication. It is so odd… Brian and I have done just the opposite. We have both become far stranger, less social with others, less in tune with societal standards and norms, and have no intention to be suburbany. Brian also interjects that dealing with people in a goal directed manner has become easier since we have been together. He just cannot tolerate non-goal oriented conversation with people, but this is nothing new.

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