I heard and saw this guy talk about this photo, about how there was NAZI’s in America… Well dude, you are a pure dumb-ass, this was how the flag was saluted until 1942. It was called the “Bellamy salute”. Because it has similarities of the NAZI salute they changed it after that to be the hand over the heart. I don’t mind mistakes but I hate idiots and dumb-ass remarks without making an attempt to verify anything.

Remember the words “Under God” wasn’t added until 1954.

My son and I was coming through Lakeland last night around midnight. We were on Hey 98 and came up to a light and it went from green – yellow – red so fast my son had to slam on the breaks in order to stop. We laughed and said, WTF? Well a couple of lights later we were coming close and it turned yellow, now we were going the speed limit and if we had tried to stop we would have slid half way through the intersection. So my son did what I would have done and kept going. The light changed so fast to red we were underneath it and that’s when we saw a bright flash. I’m sure I’ll get a $158 ticket in the mail next week.

Most tickets I get I deserve. I’ve gotten a few speeding tickets and didn’t bitch to much because I was speeding.  I don’t think this was fair, they have the lights set to change very quickly to increase the number of fines. I think this is just a method of bringing in revenue and a very dishonest one at that. Well Lakeland if I get the ticket I will pay it, all $158 of it, but that’ll be the last time you’ll get any money from me. I will NOT go through Lakeland again, I will not shop, eat, sight see, or anything else there. I won’t patronize any shops at all in your city (even online), and try to talk anyone else I know of from buying or going there as well. I for one think what you’ve done is dishonest and crooked. I should expect it with your corrupt police force. So Lakeland you’ll the $158 and I hope you feel it’s a victory, because after that YOU CAN SUCK MY DICK!

I got up and went into the office this morning and then at 11 am left for Palm Beach Gardens. We got down there and did the 3 hour inspection and just got home at 1:30 am in the morning and I’m very tired so I’m going to sleep.

We did stop in Lake land Florida at the Hooters and ate dinner at 11:00 pm at night. That makes for one long freaking’ day!

I am so tired…till tomorrow!

My class went great today for home inspectors. Everyone seem to give great compliments on how well the class went. It’s one of those classes that I almost need two day to complete. There is so much information in the class that we need to cover and only a few hours to do it in.

The class was a great group, very appreciative for all the extra stuff I went over with them. It always feels good when they come up and shake you have and thank you for the class. I realize it’s my job but never the less it’s an ego boost.

Now if we could only get more women in class…

How often do you see strange and unusual things? I don’t often but wish I did more.  I try to even follow the website “RoadSideAmerica.com” and haven even paid for their app.  It’s amazing to me how many dinosaurs, muffler mans, tiny churches, ect. there are in my little area of the world.

My wife sent me this photo of a “Food Lyon” giant cart. She knew I would appreciate it. I’ll stop and talk to “Elvis Riding a Bike” or “A guy dressed in robes dragging a huge cross”, and anyone else that is strange. The way I see it “THEY REALLY WANT ATTENTION”.  So it’s not odd to stop and talk to them that is what they’re doing it for. The Elvis guy just thought he was Elvis, and the guy with the cross was a pilgrimage for the Lord.  But he took the time to stop and pray with me and I got some photos. lol

So what about everyone else, do you stop to talk to odd balls going down the road?  I like to stop and talk with them and get their story and hopefully get their photograph.

So what about everyone else.

Well we didn’t exactly do corned beef and cabbage but we did do a Reuben sandwich.  Damn web is running so slow tonight it’s taken 10 minutes to post the freakin’ picture. WELL Happy St. Patrick’s Day Everyone! I truly hope everyone had a nice evening. I hope everyone was wearing green and had them some corned beef and cabbage. It’s been a good but uneventful day!

I was going to work and came up on a guy driving a Jeep and in the back seat was a baby’s car seat. Now I owned a Jeep for several years and I just don’t know about putting a baby back there. It’s not just the fact of it’s pretty unsafe but the fact of the wind and bugs beaming the baby. I’m not in his shoes and I’m really not trying to judge but what does everyone else thing?

Now remember I grew up in a era with no car seats, no seat belts, and no A/C in the cars so our windows had to stay down. I had to ride in the back of an Ford F-100 Custom Truck from the time I was 6 – 14 or so. When I was 4 or 5 my step father took me on the Interstate on a motorcycle. ( I still question both my mothers and his decision on that judgement call and that was over 45 years ago)

It’s not illegal for what he’s doing but I won’t be carrying my baby in the back of a Jeep, but that’s just my own decision.

I’ve driving many a time alone a few times for a couple of days at a time. I can’t really say I liked it because I didn’t. I would rather have someone traveling with me, if for nothing else the companionship.

Driving alone you do a lot of day dreaming and thinking. You reflect on your past and sometimes get very depressed with all the regrets. We all wish we would have done or handled a few things in our life a little different than what we did. But if you had would you be in the same spot as you are today. I mean if it was an old girlfriend you broke up with and you could change it and didn’t break up with them, how much would your life have changed. It’s like going left when you should have when right, but by going left you found the love of your life. So that one change in direction, even for a moment, could change the entire direction of your life. You’ll never know if it’s better or worse.
Those are the kinds of thought I use to have driving alone… but then I realized that I’m very happy with my life and where I’m at. I don’t want to change anything, so those regrets in my life are not really regrets. So when you’re watching the “Butterfly Effects” think about that. In the movie these people go back and one of them kills a small butterfly. That cause a change in the entire history, which of course changes the entire present.

What I’m saying is I no longer have any regrets…