Phone Adventure :)

I'm at my local church thrift store one Saturday and I see a  used cordless phone for sale.  I could use a phone for the other side of the apartment and/or bathroom I say to my self, so I get it.  There was a hand-set, a base, a power cord, and a battery.  It was old but good enough for the position of "throw around phone".  This Vtech, VT-9108 cost me the grand sum of one U. S. dollar with no tax.  It was a steal-deal imo, or so I thought.  I get it home and attempt to charge it up for use.  After plugging it in, I hear bubbling sounds and clicking sounds from the hand-set.  Upon closer inspection I find that the bubbling sounds are coming from the Radio Shack replacement battery.  I decide to stop the charge up because that puppy just might blow up!  I go online & find Batterymart dot com (excellent service, great prices, 5 out of five stars) and order a new replacement battery at a cost of USD $10.94 with shipping.  After a five day wait the battery arrives by USPS.  I open up the packages take out the battery and start the charging process.  The bubbling is no longer there but the clicking is louder.  I examine, fumble, and manipulate the unit to stop the sound.  It doesn't stop.  I think maybe this is the way it works so I let it charge up over night trying to sleep with the clicking sound.  The next day the phone doesn't work.

Thought interruption:  Just got a call from my father.  One of his close friends passed away yesterday.  She was cremated today.  Feeling a little bummed because she was my friend too but she had been sick for a while now so it was just her time I guess.  May God bless her soul.  

Thought resumption:  I'm a little handy in this area so I get some of my tools & disassemble the hand-set housing.  I clean off the terminals & lightly wipe the electronic components off.  I open up the base & do the same thing.  The phone still doesn't work and the clicking sound is still there.  I work on the phone for a couple more hours trying different things to no avail.  It was a wash.  I terminated my efforts to revive the Vtech & stashed it in a cabinet.  Oh well, maybe I'll "get lucky" next time if there is a next time.

BOP

Bruce Banner smokes

Hello everyone.

Why is it that when I have cheap cigarettes, the ones that cost a little less than six dollars a pack, no one asks for any?  When I travel with my Shields or Pyramids, I don't get the time of day from anybody but the second I "upscale" to good smokes, people ask me for some left and right!!  When I have my Winstons, I'm almost the life of the party!!  They're just too expensive even at six dollars a pack.  Because I don't give anymore out when asked, not many people talk to me when I go out to smoke when I'm at my mother's place.  I feel a little bad but then I don't ask anybody for cigs when I'm out so I'm mostly cool with my behavior.  BTW, I recently bought a Hulk doll action figure from a thrift store for less than 40 cents which would probably go for a little < US$21.00 if bought new.  For the Love of God, why does the good stuff cost so much and why does everyone want some of it??  The Winstons cost more than eight times Mr. Greenman.  If thrift stores sold cigarettes, this would truly be a better world!!  Yeah, cigs are bad but they are so good??!!!!!!!!!

BOP

WARNING:upcoming rant-read at your own descretion

SON OF A BITCH!  
Lately I have been depressed a lot.  I have been feeling down and out of sorts & not wanting to do anything.  Recently it has gotten a little bad.  I have not left my apartment for two days now (ordered food in but I should get out tonight) and I really don't feel like doing anything.  Now, believe me, I am kind of a nut case (not dangerous to anybody though) and I have seen therapists & psychiatrists but I have always prided myself on being able to function most of the time.  I usually get the have to do stuff done at the expense of want to do stuff.  Recently it has just been hard trying to live and go on.  Trying to live for and play the money game is okay but it gets tired when you can't make any progress.  Being stuck where you are really sucks.  Meaning: I live for my parents, my fish, and my plants.  When you are near or at the bottom, no one really wants to have anything to do with you, especially women.  Unconditional love??  No such thing.  Relationships will always have strings and/or requirements.  Reciprocal relationships that is.  Is it possible to receive from giving?  Is it possible to give from receiving? Life is complicated!!  Damn man!!  You love someone and they don't love you back or they think that they are loving you back by just receiving from you?!?!?  I swear to God man, if I win a lottery jackpot select people will get windfalls then I will "get lost" with the rest of the money.  People like to run marathons, hike trails, swim oceans, canoe, ice skate, etc.  Fuck that!!  I will do a little walking in my area and call it a day.  Read, internet, A.D.I.C. (my dream company), write, blog, maintenance....  A simple life.  Oh yeah, I would pay for hookers on a regular basis since I have no love interest or rather no one is interested in me.  With the money I would have false friends and superficial love but I guess I'm okay with it.  Why am I blogging right now?  What has given me the strength to rant on my computer?  I don't know.  I usually write out my posts on paper before I go to the keyboard.  Feeling like kuh kuh!!  Does anybody out there have any advice for successful living?  Something other than get right with God or take cocaine like everybody else?  Where else can one find meaning?  Where else can one get "the power" to go on living?  The other day my mom told me to go to hell.  We have reconciled a couple of days after that call.  My mom is my mom but she is also a friend.  The author of Blackrageous wrote recently about friendship and being a good friend.  She talked about keeping secrets.  I think that showing who you really are in front of that person (at least some of the time) and them accepting you is a sign of true friendship.  Damn, I need a couple of beers!!!  Let me tell you, it sucks when you're out of beer!!  I guess some of the crappo left over stuff tried from experimentation has to be settled for.  Lol...I drove drunk the other night.  I know you shouldn't do it but it was kind of fun.  It was 3am so not many people (mostly just me) were on the road.  I drove to Walmart which was about five minutes away from my home.  I promise not to do it again.  I just needed some kind of change and that was it.  Deadly change but change none the less.  The pool hall in my area recently closed down.  Where do I go if I want to get my ball & stick on??!!?  Son of a bitch ass bitch!  That really sucks!  I'm hungry.  I have to buy something to eat.  Got to go...BOP will talk later maybe.

BOP 

Yupper Do

"Money can't buy happiness".    -proverb?



"People who say money can't buy happiness don't know where to shop".    -some comedian



"People who say money can't buy happiness don't fucking have any.  Look at the smile on my face -- ear to ear baby".    -Jim Young
                                               fictional character in the movie Boiler Room



You can't please everybody all the time.  I usually visit my mom every Saturday evening mostly without fail.  Tonight I called her to let her know that something came up and that I could visit her Monday or Tuesday night instead.  She told me to "go to hell" and hung up on me.  Holy Smokes !!!  -  no kind of understanding from her.  

Shit happens yo.

BOP

T.T.T. index theory

Finding T.T.T. along the side of the road during a walk is kind of a hobby of mine.  My T.T.T. index theory postulates that the better the quality of T.T.T., the better the economy is.  When people are prosperous, they tend to throw away "good" or better than average quality T.T.T.  When the economy is in decline, people want to hold on to their wealth thereby clinging to good quality stuff & discarding low quality stuff.  The picture above shows a plethora of low quality T.T.T. all collected on one walk.  The peace time economic conflict is getting fiercer.  Being that I go hungry toward the middle and end of the week, I personally know.  Darwinian economics is scary sh** for those of us toward the bottom strata of the economic totem pole.

A preacher recently spoke on the power of words.  I believed in his sermon except that words on green pieces of paper have more power than the spoken word being that they are backed by the federal government and their guns & weapons!  

"Money talks and bullshit walks."  -Angelo Errichetti, former mayor of Camden, NJ

America, what would our forefathers think of the world now?

Mick

Burgess Meredith played some memorable roles not to mention the Penguin on Batman the TV series and Rocky Balboa's trainer in Rocky (the movie).  I found out the other night that he did some writing and directing too.  I saw a little of a movie he wrote, directed, and co-starred in called The Yin And The Yang Of Mr. Go.  A very young Jeff Bridges starred in this movie.  All I can say is after the first fifteen minutes, I searched through to the end looking for nudity which there was not much of.  I hope his other stuff was better than this.  Anyway, from what little I know of him, he was a good guy & the stuff I saw him perform in was good soooo...rest in peace Mr. Meredith.

BOP

Luck

I'm angry.  Over the course of several years I have read many many books on money & personal finance to try to prosper if not just to get rich.  Okay.

Power comes form God but then there are challenges, obstacles, learning experiences, & tests.  Okay.

"The ultimate expression of power is control."  -Mazda commercial      
Okay.

"You can do everything right and still lose."   -Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Okay.

In the picture above, who is the real winner?  

Golly gee willikers Batman!  

We all end up here though.

BOP