Month: October 2016

People lose their heads when it comes to politics. Let’s do the dirty work and dissect a normal political conversation nowadays. First, you have the aggressive (usually uneducated) partaker who “of course” feels strongly about something or someone. Then you have the voice of reason who gets sifted up because he/she is making “too” much sense. Then you have the overly wise scholar who joins in the last minutes and advises an overcomplicated reason of why people should or should not do or think, to solidify his wise stance.

This sounds like a nightmare because it is. Especially when you hold such talks on a medium like Facebook. As i’ve told Lindsey so many times , you just cannot have a “productive” connection between two or more people on that site. For the most part, Facebook is built on an ego centric foundation and permeates on personal, subconscious  reachings for attention and whats more, the concept of you sticking your flag in the ground and proudly standing by it with no room for thought. Sure there are things in life you should feel strong over. I’ll even give you the political subject being 1 of them. But when you crossover from an already toxic conversation to hurting people for your own gain, please stop.

I’ve long said and lived by a simple saying: “It’s not what you like, but what you’re like.” I’m not saying I’m even right in aligning with that concept. But it makes sense to me. I won’t force you to live by it and certainly won’t make you feel bad if you disagree with it. But maybe, just maybe you’ll actually read it. Even a more preposterous possibility, maybe you’ll think upon it.

I get it, its election season. People are on edge. People care deeply about this. I do it too. As noted on this site, I am a Libertarian. I am passionate about that. No doubt you’re certainly passionate about who you stand with. But its sad when we can’t have normal, logical conversations with other humans. Even more tragic when we hide behind pixels and deliver hurtful blows.

Please stop hurting other people and condemning them for who they are voting for. Everyone is different and from some of the awful stories I’ve heard coming out of Facebook recently, I thank God for it.

It’s not that I’m unafraid of storms, but the overreaction to them is confusing at times. Maybe being a firefighter has helped me deal with really bad situations. Seeing people at the worst moment of their life, seeing things my brain just can’t understand, or just simply preparing for the worst but knowing we could handle it because it’s our job. Anyways Hurricane Matthew came and left, not as serious as advertised but still many, many affected negatively. My prayers go out to them. Thank God, our home was largely unaffected.

In other news yesterday night my well-documented iPhone 6 was showing some wear. The battery started really flaking out. The big problem was my battery would always read 100% and then just die so either the indicator was wrong or the battery is going. This is comical to me considering I really was trying to make it a third year with my 6 and hold off buying the iPhone 7. I tried a bunch of different stuff, I googled and troubleshooted, but in the end I went to bed thinking about what model of the iPhone 7 I was going to buy before our trip to Connecticut in a few days. Luckily, I woke up this morning and while driving to work I saw my battery starts to drain down! I’ve never been so happy to see battery loss. Phone is temporarily fixed and lives on to see another day!!

Starting this week to get prepared for Connecticut I’m excited and looking forward to the long drive with family and seeing everyone up in Connecticut.

Fall weather hot chocolate and maybe foliage. What more could you ask for?