Another Day In My Life

Hello Internet Friends and Family,

Well I have been off of work for almost 6 weeks for medical reasons. I swear I can not wait to go back to work. I always day dreamed about being at home and watching all the court shows and chilling while everyone else worked. Trust and believe that crap gets boring real quick. I was tired of that mess in two weeks. I like to stay busy and I am completely and totally bored out of my damn mind. However, I really can not complain about too much. I am trying to get negativity off my tongue and my mind, cuz it's contagious and it can create drama, and ya girl don't need no drama, ya feel me.


Summer is on the way and the day's are simply gorgeous. I love this type of weather, not too hot not too cold. The high around 75 and the low around 50..... perfect. There is no need to run the air or the heat.... can we say lower electric and gas bill... hooray.


This week my college alumni is having a gathering and I am thinking about going. I am a little self conscience due to the weight gain... but hey it is what it is.... right. I hope all those sonorities and fraternity types don't get to strolling and throwing up their gang signs all night, not to mention the cat calls they do. Most of these people should be well into their mid 30's but you never know. It will be interesting to see who married who, who works where and generally where people ended up in life.

Well I'mma get outta here. I am a certifed taxi driver since I'm at home all day. Hope these folks have my gas money. See yall later

My "New" Passion

I've always loved nature and the beauty it holds. Some would say that I have been a naturalist from birth. God and nature goes hand and hand to me. I remember when I was driving to AZ and as I was rounding HWY 40 coming through NM I was astounded by the large mountains. The beauty of the mountains was the essence of God's handy work. The sounds of the ocean calms me, looking off into the distance of the ocean it is hard to separate the water from the sky. When I drive home from work the sky is orange, red and blue and this is another form of beauty to me. Lately I've wanted to catch the beauty of nature, family and buildings on film. Last year I purchased a digital camera and often find myself snapping away at things that appeal to me. Honestly, I need a better camera, the one I want cost roughly between 500.00-550.00, so right now it is out of my price range. But it would make a great birthday/Christmas gift!!!!!!! The pics above is just things that I saw and thought wow I gotta get a photo. It seems as I get older new things appeal to me, and I want to explore new talents and gifts. I hope new gifts keep coming, it makes life exciting.

Coming Out Swinging

Yesterday I was home and stumbled upon Rev. (Wrong) eh...um.. Wright on CNN. Rev. Wrong was doing what appeared to me a question and answer session with the media. According to the good ole Rev. he was speaking out because the media was NOT attacking him, BUT attacking the black church. I have a good nose and can smell bullshit a mile away.


Let me first say that there are some truths in Rev. Wrong's speech. The infamous quote " America's chickens have come home to roost" is something I agree with. Be real, we all know our government has shitted on other countries as well sold weapons to other countries. The twin towers were not attacked because America was such a lovable country with great leadership.



However, I do believe Rev. Wrong need to sit his ass down somewhere and let this man win the fuckin primary. What's with all the hating!!! This asshole all on tv cracking jokes and making a mockery of what Barack Obama represents. I was watching CNN screaming "Hell Naw, get your stupid ass off the camera." Actually I was wondering if Barack would let this ride, or if he would do something about this shit. We all have seen Hillary's passion, we've all seen her keep fighting regardless of how hopeless her candidacy seemed. I have not seen Barack get straight gansta, and that is what is needed to deflect the comments of Rev. Wrong.



Well, well, well Barack came back swinging today. Obama said his relationship with Wright may have suffered irreparable harm. "There's been great damage," he said. "It may have been unintentional on his part, but I do not see that relationship being the same after this." And I second that emotion. How the hell can they maintain a relationship when this man mouth is single handily destroying this man's career. Obama said he gave Wright "the benefit of the doubt" before his speech on race relations. Wright had shown "little regard for me" and seemed more concerned with "taking center stage. I could not agree more, honestly, it would not surprise me if Rev. Wrong was paid to humiliate Barak and throw shade on his candidacy. We just hafta keep an eye on him and see how things work out for him. Now if he because the spiritual advisor for some government official we will know what the deal is.

City Under Siege

During the weekend of April 18th-20th, 37 people were shot in the the city of Chicago. Unfortunately, 8 0f those 37 people died. April 23rd authorities found the bodies of five young people inside a ransacked house on Chicago's South Side, raising the body count in an already violent spring, police said.

Needless to say, most of the victims were predominately black, and the crimes occurred in low income neighborhoods. It seems that the economy and the crime rate can go hand in hand.

When there is a shortage of jobs and resources things seems to get out of control. When people feel they have nothing to lose violence dominate their surroundings. Inflation has caused our everyday needs to bear a cost that many people are finding hard to afford. However, this not to validate that hard times is a reason to hurt and murder people. And honestly, some people will hurt people regardless of the motive.

It is my personal opinion that when a city experience 42 murders within days of each other they must examine the needs of their people. What is the driving force behind the shootings, who is responsible, what demographic is affected, and what can be done to reduce the violence?

Easy Listening....... NOT!

Now that I am back in St. Louis I get to listen to more urban radio. In Cali most of the music was pop or west coast rap. So I grew to like songs like Bubbly by Colbie Caillat , Apologize by Timbaland, and It Won’t Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5. Although I craved a little hard core rap every now and again…. the music began to grow on me.


The stuff that comes on the radio in St. Louis leaves me scratching my head and feeling old. No really, can any of you tell me what the hell is a bust it baby? The rapper Plies has this song out called Bust It Baby and for the life of me, I can not determine if the term is a compliment or derogatory. Then there’s Lil Wayne song Lollipop, I can get with the song but it is too much for the radio. Especially at the end when he says…. So I let her lick the rapper. WTF. Most of the time I have to pop in a CD or just turn off the radio cuz I just can’t take it.

When T-Pain dominated the charts with I’m In Love With A Stripper, I thought black radio had it an all time low. But each day they let us know they can go lower than the day before. I guess our parents felt the same way, cuz I loved me some Too Short, NWA, 8 Ball and MJG, and Ghetto Boys. But the difference was most of their “good” songs never made it too the radio. Today anything goes. I wonder what the next rap sensation will be? Matter fact I don’t give a damn

Restaurants Charging More Giving Less.

The article printed yesterday was great for my economic recession rant. Going out to eat is considered a luxury in this turbulent market. Many restaurants are feeling the squeeze on their bottom line and thinking of inventive ways to save money….. Of course at the customer’s expense.

The Washington Post reported yesterday that many restaurants are buying smaller plates to make the reduced servings look just as large or lighter silverware so that even if there are fewer bites per serving, each bite feels heavier than usual on the fork. A la carte portions of high-priced dishes -- steaks, for example -- are getting pared back and surrounded by low-cost starches and vegetables.

Chefs are tinkering with recipes, swapping out expensive ingredients for cheaper ones. Managers are using behavioral science research to rejigger menus -- putting high-profit items in the top right-hand corner, for instance, where diners tend to look first.

Chris Mentzer, a menu re-engineering and recipe development specialist with

US Foodservice. Chris does house calls for restaurants in distress, and he's currently booked three months in advance.

"I've been so busy in the last year," he says, "we hired two extra people."
Mentzer and his colleagues show up with a scale and a laptop and weigh all the ingredients for every item on the menu. Then they start crunching numbers. If the food cost for any offering -- the raw materials, before the price of labor and other overhead is added on -- is more than 32 percent of the price on the menu, there's a problem

Fortunately, Mentzer has a lot of solutions.

"The first thing I tell them is to round up every price that ends with 95 cents to 99 cents. You've got an item $10.95, raise it to $10.99. If it's $7.75, make it $7.79. All the chains have done it -- Applebee's, Chili's, all of them. It's just four cents and your customers won't notice, but that could easily mean $5,000 to $15,000 a year for the restaurant."

Another tactic that's gaining favor: Spell out the price instead of using a number, because it's easier to part with thirty-four dollars than $34. Hypothetically, anyway.

Every business is thinking how they can lure you away from your money. Many are hoping you will fall for the okey-dokey and spend as usual. Now ya’ll know that when the economy turns the restaurant industry will continue this trend of giving less for more. Trust me go to Mickey D’s and eat on the dolla menu and you’ll be just fine.

Bitter.... Who Me?

Last Friday at a fundraiser presidential hopeful Barack Obama stated that people in small town American are bitter.

Here's Obama’s exact quote from the closed door fundraiser: “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Now y’all know his opponents Hilary and John were all over this quote, like flies on sh*t. Nowadays, every time Hilary opens her mouth bull-crap flies out. She had the nerve to say the comments were elitist, divisive and out of touch and did not reflect the values of Americans she met.

My question is who the hell did you meet? How can a person that made 100 million dollars last year be in touch with being broke, huh. That’s just like me saying that I can relate to the starving kids in Africa.

If this lady can not comprehend that Americans are pissed off about the economy, job loss, inflation, outsourcing, gas, and every other things that affect our money she is the one who is out of touch with the country.

All Obama did was state the truth. People are pissed off and when people are pissed off they don’t want to see immigrants and/or illegal’s “taking” jobs, who cares about trading with other countries when you can’t pay the electric bill.

Many of you have probably heard of East St. Louis, IL. I was riding through this area yesterday and saw dozens of old desolated factories and shops. It seems like one day all the factory jobs packed there bags never to return again. Unfortunately the town never recovered from the loss of these valuable jobs. The sad part is most of the jobs left in the late 70’s!!!!

Imagine working at Ford, Chrysler or GM, getting accustomed to making at least 20.00 per hour. You buy a house, put the kids in private school, let the wife stay home, and then BAM……………… you’re laid off. Many of these workers do not have training in other fields. The likelihood that they will find another job making the same level of money is slim. Do you think this person would be bitter?

White collar people are feeling the pinch too. Organizations are finding it hard to make a profit, with no money coming in people are being laid off. Looking for a job in this economy is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Not only is it hard out here for a pimp…. it’s hard out here for everybody including your average Joe Smoe.


As I write this I am bitter. I am bitter that college does not guarantee a good job, but does guarantee a big as debt. I am bitter that some jobs got the nerve to start grown ass men and women off at $8.75 per hour. I am bitter that gas keeps going up 10 cents every week. I am bitter that my dollar doesn’t stretch as far as it use to.