Sunday, December 31, 2006

To my Baby

I love you baby,
More than the sun.
I love you baby,
'Cuz you're my hunny bun.

You're so sweet, baby,
Sweeter than ice cream.
You're so sweet, baby,
It's better than a dream.

You're my Angel, baby,
Mine to Love and respect.
You're my Angel, baby,
Mine to serve and protect.

I don't know what I'd do without you, baby,
And all of the magical times we've spent.
I don't know what I'd do without you, baby,
By the way, I plan to help with rent. ;)

I don't know how you stand me, baby,
How I want to stay fun and free.
I don't know how you stand me, baby,
But that's how I always want to be.

Thanks for stickin' it through, baby,
I know this winter's been tough.
Thanks for stickin' it through, baby,
This time next year we should have our own stuff.

I wanna be with you forever, baby,
Every day of every year.
I wanna be with you forever, baby,
Right down to the very last tear.

I Love You, Melissa

Friday, December 29, 2006

Ponderings... or, lack thereof

Throughout my day I spend a lot of time on my own, working, driving, or whichever else. I ponder a lot, about dumb little stuff. A lot of the time I say to myself, wow, I wish I can remember this later on today. Maybe if I can remember it I can transform a pondering into an idea.

The human mind is very interesting. The thought process is such a tangled web. Ever have an idea? How did you come up with the idea? What thoughts or events led up to it?


"Whoa! That sign I just drove past kind of reminds me of that Holy Grail movie."

"I wonder if there really is Holy Grail."

"I remember in The Da Vinci Code movie the part with the Last Supper, they pointed out that there was no cup on the table in the Last Supper painting."

"I wonder what they would have drank at the last supper had they used cups for every person."

"Maybe there were some cups there and Da Vince just didn't paint them. How could he know one way or the other?"

"If I painted it, and I used cups, I would paint on that looks sorta like the 'Not tonight, it's bowling night' mug as a joke. That'd be funny."

"Oh, no! I left the coffee pot on."


Should thought processes make sense? Is there a correct way to think as a means to blossom your thoughts into better, fuller ideas? I'm sure there's some kind of Freud stuff about all that. Makes one ponder...

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Christmas and thereafter

Our Christmas went well. We sent Christmas Eve at a friend's place. It was real fun.

We've been having a lot of bad luck lately with cars. I've decided that the most reliable form of transportation here in the winter is dog team. They don't break down. It doesn't matter how cold it is, they always start - you don't even need to plug them in all night and jump-start them in the morning. They don't let you down. They don't just run out of gas. They definitly don't get stuck. They don't need oil changes, they don't blow headlights, and they don't grind gears. Their transmissions don't blow. They get you to where you need to go, dependably. All they need is love.

Friday, December 22, 2006

So I decided to update today agian. Today we tried to plan a trip down to Skagway to take care of some business, but it's next to impossible to rent a big pickup truck. It's as if F-250's and bigger don't even exist to rent! Makes me want to start a truck rental company that rents out trucks rigged for towing.

Anyway, I went over and scooped the dog yard today and straightened things out. Tomorrow we'll be running some teams. This is the second day I haven't run - I'm really starting to feel like a fish out of water! I BELONG on the runners behind that sled. I spent some time with Stormy's puppies while I was over there. They look just like their dad and grandpa! They're around 4 or 5 weeks old now and are beginning to wander around their pen some. I bet the two boys end up 65 pounds and the girl maybe 55.

I've really been meaning to get a watch for the trail. I'm always wearing my watch, a small analog model that velcroes on. When I'm out with a team it's a real inconvenience to pull down my glove and lift up my sleeve right in front of my face just to glace at the time, it's not worth it. In the past I've tried wearing my stopwatch around my neck, but that gets in the way any time I need to bend over for anything at all. It's clunky and can become caught on things. So today I sewed a piece of 3/4" wide breaded elastic band into a big loop. I took the cord off the stopwatch, and popped off the back cover. I got two small screws with bolts and bolted the stopwatch to the elastic band. It should fit perfectly over all my winter gear so that I can wear it near the middle of my forearm. It'll be nice being able to use a stopwatch, too, as opposed to using a regular watch that only tells time. It seems pretty sturdy, so hopefully it doesn't fall apart. I'll only be wearing it on the trail and not in the yard so that should ensure it'll last.

My first blog entry!

There are a lot of reasons that I've decided to start a blog. I originally wanted to start a journal, as a way to keep track of things that happen to me in life, and as a way for me to improve my writing skills. A blog enables me to not loose the things that I write, and it's centralized so I can access it anywhere. I didn't want to use myspace to blog, I don't want anybody why happens to be my myspace friend reading my blogs. I don't plan on writing about things that I want to hide, I'd just like to keep things separate. Myspace is about sharing pictures, about staying in touch with friends and family that you don't see much, and lately it's about spam.

I plan on writing about a log of different things, as I have many, many interests. I'm a computer repair technician/tech geek. and a linux user by practice. With software, if it isn't free, I pretty much don't use it. I'll be writing a lot about the open-source world of software, something that most people aren't even aware of. I'll tell people that there is no adware and spyware, and no viruses in linux. There's almost no popups. And I'll write about how easy it is to set up and use. You'll definitly be hearing about microsoft and how evil they are in so many ways.

I like tech gadgets. I spent my night looking at gps-enabled watches. I think I might get one next summer. There's something about little gadgets that I really like.

I live in Alaska with my girlfriend of 2 years and our dog, a sled-dog-who-couldn't-quite-make-it. They're both a lot of fun. I spend my last 2 summers in Skagway, where I worked on a glacier doing sled dog tours to the cruise ship passengers who roll (sail?) through Skagway. Last winter I went home to Michigan, where I became obsessed with dogs to begin with. There's just not enough snow down there to go along with all the ignorant, self centered city slickers that I grew up around. There were a lot of reasons for me to move here. I wanted to learn more about the sport of dog mushing. I wanted to learn another way of life (one involving out houses, wood stoves and block heaters, and dog trucks every 5th truck on the highway). I wanted to come to a place where I could really be away from people that I know I can rely on so that I become more self-reliant. I wanted to do my own thing. I really wanted to find out what really is important in life. I'm not even 22 yet, so I know I have a lot to learn. But the things that are important back home no longer even matter here at all. People don't care what kind of car you drive, or what kind of money you have, or where you're from. I was always the guy who judged a person by how he treated people, instead of whether or not his home is worth $500,000 or not. Society clouds peoples perception or reality. So does advertising. I've been a victim just as everyone else has, and I don't like it.

I don't plan to ramble much.

I'll probably update this quite a bit. I'm not sure if I'll mess around with pictures or not (that's why myspace is for) but I may drop the occasional link here and there.

It's funny because I've written this as if it were to an audience. If you actually have read this, can you tell me?