Charlotte...we were in you!

 We were in Charlotte, NC this weekend. It was a great trip to see good friends. Was also there for a rugby game. The weather was great and loved being outside. The traffic going up there could have been 100% better, but at least we got there. I can't wait to get back.

Gardening...can I do it?

 Today, I put together a 5' x 5' raised bed that is 16 inches deep. That's 33.25 cubic feet of area that I need to get topsoil and compost to fill. I could go the bagged route, but that's going to be very pricy. I could go the route of going to a nearby nursery and getting a truck bed full of dirt, but some people don't like filling their truck beds with dirt...especially when said dirt is going to be put into it by a backhoe. Ugh, I really want to do some gardening this summer, but getting it ready is such a fucking pain in the ass. At the house I lived in with my ex, we had four raised beds and I loved dealing with them. We had some good years with those beds and saw some great vegetables grown. I think with this bed, I mainly want to focus on herbs like rosemary, basil, and maybe some garlic thrown in there. There's plenty of room to grow things. The good thing about rosemary is that it is a hardy plant and can survive winters. Basil grows very well but as soon as it gets cold, it starts dying. I want to grow the rosemary so that I can transplant it later around a tree in our front yard as hedges. It's also an herb that fights mosquitoes. They don't like the pungent smell. Living close to a lake provides wet areas for them to breed and they stay around our neighborhood. Let's get this big bitch filled with dirt and then we can worry about plants afterward.

Selective Service...but not able to vote

 I read an article today about the government beginning to automatically register men at age 18 for the Selective Service. It is already something that all males are required to do when they turn 18. Not doing this restricts males when they are trying to get federal student loans and other things linked to the federal registration. Some people that I have talked to in the past acted as if they had never heard this. I don't know how. It's been around for decades. I was shocked a while back when I needed to renew my drivers license and I didn't have a printed bill to prove my address. They lady said, "Hold on, let me look at something." She pulled up my SS registration from 1995 in Alabama and said I was good.

This pisses me off to no end because....the federal government can put in place an automatic registration to register men for the SS at the age of 18, but God forbid that the government automatically register you for something else you're allowed to do at age 18. VOTE! Every person should be automatically registered to vote in the precinct in which they live as soon as they turn 18 years old. That should be the most important thing done instead of registering just men into the SS in case a dumbass president decides to take our country into war. Thankfully, the draft hasn't been used since the Vietnam War...another war that the United States should have never stuck its nose into. Men in this country were shipped off to a rain forest in Asia and made to crawl around, dodging bullets from a military that we should have never met in battle. Many men came back from that war destroyed and homeless. Sadly, many of those men are still homeless and can't get medical care because the dumbass people we have in government can't seen to pull their heads out of their asses and put money where it needs to be....like hospitals and getting good doctors and nurses in the VA. We can't have universal healthcare, but we can spend billions of dollars on another war that won't settle anything OR sending a spaceship to the moon where they are looking forward to building a base for future flights. COME THE FUCK ON, PEOPLE! Why are we wasting money on things that don't matter instead of housing the homeless, getting people healthcare, feeding starving children. We can't allow abortions because that's horrible, but then we won't feed the child once it's here. Fucking ignorant!

Damn, I Need To Get Better At This

 I was doing so good there for a while posting as often as I could. Things got busy with work and as always, I get so into hobbies that I start to feel overwhelmed. Once that happens, my brain begins to scream at me and I shut down. I don't know when that began, but it's a mainstay in my head now that I am older. I have never been tested for any neurological issues, but I wouldn't doubt it if I had one or two. I find myself getting easily distracted. I find myself wanting to run away from people. I find that when I get into a room that is too loud, all I want to do is cover my ears and hunch down into a corner. Who know, maybe my brain would be the beginning of a new psychology field of study. LMAO! 

Until later.....