Rest in Peace

It was only a matter of time before the end came. After years of loyal service it was inevitable I guess but nonetheless a great loss of a supporter and personal sponsor. We lost a great friend and motivator that greeted us every morning with bitterness and energy all mixed into one formula that helped get us out the door on time to face the trials and tribulations in the world.  May you R.I.P. “Fabareware, Superfast and Fully Automatic percolator” coffee pot, we’ll miss you most on those cold foggy San Francisco sunrises.  Your replacement will never be able to fill your basket. 

My Head Hurts what about yours?

In a time of environmental turmoil, government disenchantment, high unemployment, religious upheaval, and geographic colonization, our future seems almost hopeless. Where does one focus his/her attention, commitment, and energy?   If you live in California, specifically, San Francisco the important topics are numerous and each must be considered with equal anxiety.   Most issues are surprising even to the people that make it their lifelong purpose to consider and find the worst of everything in life. 

What is on top of the mind most San Franciscans? I thought about this question for a while and I came up with a list of what may be waking us during the night with cold sweats in our silk pajamas.  The following topics flood the local and national newscasts for what feels like around the clock reinforcing all the negativity in the world.  What is important to deal with first that is the question?  What would resolve or solve these crises so we can all get back to doing whatever it is that we do after watching the morning news (negative energy while sitting/standing).  My head started hurting putting this list together.

 Japanese Nuclear Crisis

The non-working radiation detectors on the West coast

Ousting Libya’s Qaddafi regime

The National Budget approval

The States (California) budget approval

Unemployment (Job Creation)

Foreclosures 

Corporate Greed

Homeless in San Francisco

America’s Cup Race

PROP 8

Disappearing 6oz Irish coffee glasses (Should San Francisco sue Buena Vista  for hoarding all the glasses from the rest of the restaurants?)

The Iraq war

The Afghanistan war

The Libyan war

Iranian issue

North Korean issue

Iranian espionage on US soil

Another terrorist attack

Google’s takeover of Silicon Valley

The floating islands of plastic and trash in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Amazon not paying sales tax

Oil shortage

Deteriorating pipes

Southern California succession from the North

Supporting the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters

Oh boy, I sure could listen to  an hour long Jim Rohn audiobook right now

Professional protesters...Guess who pays for their right to free speech?

It is the 99.9% of hard working tax payers like you and me that earn money everyday that make occupy "Wall Street" protesting possible. Who do you think cleans up their mess. Where do "they" come from anyway?  How many are receiving unemployment paid for by the corporations and small business?  How many are on Welfare or other public subsidy that is being funded by those still working ? I am sorry but the groups of protesters in front of the Market Street Federal Reserve building or residing on the Herman Plaza just don't strike me as being credible spokespersons for the 98.9%.  What are they protesting? They are protesting against the hands that feed them.  Most don't even know what they are talking about.  All of them are followers not one leader in the bunch  from what I see and hear.  What category would I label the protesters?  This is how I would break it down.

1.00% (innovators, job creators,  wealth builders, charity contributors, etc.) (BTW I think the new current percentage is at 5%)

98.9% (unrecognized future innovators, future  job creators, future wealth builders, future millionaires, present charity contributors too, etc.)

.1% (the wanters, the takers, non-contributers, users of the system, the ungrateful few, etc.)

I love this City...it's as plane as that.

Waking up every day overlooking the San Francisco Bay is like opening my eyes onto a different world each morning, with a fascination about nature’s power to rearrange the molecules all around us so as to completely change the environment hour by hour like a high-speed movie.   San Francisco changes from a drizzling foggy morning to windy gusts that can give the most experienced sailor on the Bay a tipping scare of his/her life on a large and seemingly ocean worthy sailing yacht.

Those of us that live in the City know that the uniform is layers of clothing every day except maybe those three or four days that the weather person guesses wrong and the temperature reaches above 70 degrees.  Even then San Franciscans don’t give up their coffee. You can bet on the likelihood that the temperature will drop especially when the afternoon fog rolls in or more descriptively snakes in under that Golden Gate (the mascot of the City) and along the shoreline mysteriously swirling around Angel, Alcatraz, and Treasure Islands causing each to disappear in sequential order as though each island had priority over the fogs deathly hug. Later and just as fascinating the regressing fog releases its lock on the islands one-by-one as each reappears in reverse order. This is amazingly beautiful to me!

I am not what San Franciscans consider a native to the City but I am here now and would never think of leaving this mysterious and delightful City on the Bay set upon precarious geologic tectonic plates that continuously shift beneath our feet slowly and quietly, and those periodic and surprising jolts that scare the semi-tourist and the “want-to-be San Franciscans” (the non-believers) losening their stranglehold on the real estate and limited affordable rents and lease prices. I love the fact that Mother Nature does some natural culling of folks from the City.  I personally feel special to live here permanently and already have experience with nature’s periodic rock shuffle. 

I’e walked around most of the seven square miles that makes up the Cityscape and during my adventures I learn that the City is as diverse as the weather is variable.  No matter, I love this unique City and the people I’ve met that live here.

Pictures Sum Up a Hard Ranching Life in Texas

Roughing it at a business retreat in Texas

Sunrises are beautiful in Texas

Seriously, A real bat cave created for bats that are used for mosquito control

 

 A 12' by 24' walk-in freezer that contains everything raised or grown on the ranch...organically I might add.

Bunkhouse in the evening