I Love My Wife...

I mentioned in a previous post about how my wife brought me out of a depression I didn't know I was in. I'm living a more vivacious life as a married man.

I've heard all of the arguments about how being single and how playing the field is a liberating and fulfilling experience. I beg to differ.

My wife is all that is woman.

Without so much as a word of opposition or gripe she's by my side through thick and thin. Nothing illustrates this point better than my endeavour to get back on Active Duty. I've told her about the prospect of me deploying, us having to move, us having to move every three years or her having to find a new job whenever we move. Nothing filled my heart with more joy than her unflinching resolve to support me when I told her about the option of us moving across the country, leaving our little slice of beach, to take up residence in the great state of Colorado. Her response was, "When? Let's go."

When people rush into a marraige after only seeing the surface of the perks and fun of having a help-mate to traverse life's peaks and valleys with, they never anticipate the trials that lurk in the deep, dark receses of the future.

I've seen marriages dissolve after a deployment, after a reassignment or when the stresses of military life interfere with the love a husband and wife have for each other...

Marriage. It's a job. It's a hobby. It's not the place to be selfish and no one has taught me that more than my wife.

That is all.

Don't be selfish and tell the one you love, you love them. Put them first and when you take the rose-colored glasses off, you'll see the world is rose-colored....

Thanks for reading,

WP

Just A Quick Note...So You Don't Thing I've Forgotten You...

Hi. 

How's things?

I hope everything's good.

I've so much going on right now and I'm having a hard time differentiating it all into posts. I'm going to, just not right now. Keep checking back...give me a day or three and I'll have something here for you. Thanks.

love,

WP

Shameless Site Plug

I found a magical site and this site contains a magical list:

Skippy's List.

Considering some of my audience is military or military affiliated I think this list will be have you literally, wetting your bloomers.

Happy Reading,

WP

Shameless Site Plug!

I hate the idea of contradicting my Shameless Site Plugs but I'm about to.

WWW.IMEEM.COM (If you click on the headline of this story you can go to the site....)

It's like Pandora.com but it's actual on-demand and you can type in an artist or a band and listen to it right away. Check it out and let me know.

-Piece

Obama...Taking a Stand...Shirking From the Challenge...and Offering Advice

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," President Obama told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

This is classic. I just finished writing a piece about how Limbaugh needs to take action but should wait for a more opportune time to pounce and this comes out.... I love it...Follow the link in the headline...

-Piece

Rush Limbaugh...Game On...But, Not Yet...

Rush Limbaugh needs to cool his jets. I'm not a huge Obama fan. I've seen/heard him speak and I'm still skeptical. But, I think what everyone is missing is; he's the new president. We should be skeptical of him! He's new, unproven, inexperienced.

That is no reason to jump all over him and challenge him to an on-air, verbal joust. I love our first amendment right to free-speech and the like, but can we let the man get settled first? I understand there are people in America who dedicate their children to Rush, name pets after him, tune into his show as if his words were the oxygen they needed to live. Limbaugh, while a staunch supporter of the military, apple pie and baseball, he generally comes across as a tactless, baboon, who's only looking to diminish the morale of the left-wing liberals of America.

With that said Limbaugh was recently a guest on Sean Hannity's program; "Hannity" and he made some great points:

"I mean, Sean, he is our president now. And he's not black, he's not from Mars, he's not — he's our president, he's a human being. We're a country comprised of human beings that the Democrat Party and the left have attempted to arrange into groups of victims, and that's who he appeals to, and the victims are the people waiting around for some grievance to be resolved."

Obama's camp made and makes every effort to make the American public more and more dependent on the government by convincing them, they are victims of something.

He goes on to say:

"Now I look at the things that he has said, and I'm very much concerned that our greatness is going to be redefined in such a way that it won't be great, that we're just going to become average. You cannot have this large of government role in the private sector with so many people thinking that just because they're Americans they're entitled to things, that this guy is going to pass them out and keep this country great and innovative, full of entrepreneurs, and — these things concern me."

Limbaugh is right to be concerned as are we all for the simple reason the American people are getting bombarded with double-speak and conflicting statements. During a recent visit to a Camp Lejeune, NC, the biggest amphibious Marine Corps base in the world and a gymnasium full of Marines, he announced a time frame to get end the offensive military presence in Iraq and focus fully on the rebuilding and supporting the fledgling Iraqi government. Married up with that announcement is the announcement that Guantanamo Bay is closing down. Why would these two events coincide? I'm hardly saying everyone incacerated in G-bay is a terrorist but certainly there are terrorists there and once they're released to an Iraq void of a mass military presence who else is thinking this is a bad idea?

Limbaugh:

"...he plays both sides. He's going to placate the far left Fringe Kook base, his Web site people, and OK, he's going to close Guantanamo, but he's not going to close Guantanamo, because he — and he's not going to get out of Iraq in 16 months, he's going to say so, but he's not going to saddle himself with defeat of forces in Iraq or Afghanistan, and he's certainly not — I can't believe that he's — he will willingly release people at Guantanamo who will come back and revisit terrorist acts in this country.-

-Not on his watch. They would have loved for that to have happened during Bush. They would love surrender in Iraq when it's on Bush's shoulders, but I don't think he's going to do it, and I think — but he's got to say things that make his Fringe Kook base think that he is being true to his campaign promises."

However backwards his comments are and whether or not he is going to be able to please everyone I think we should give him chance to shoot himself in the foot if that is what is going to happen. I say give Limbaugh his shot...but let's even the odds and make this entertaining.

Thanks for reading,

WP

I'm Boycotting Sears Automotive...

I went on an adventure this past weekend, 28 Feb, 2009 after finding that one of the rims on the GTI was bent.

I remember hitting a pothole going about 60-ish a couple weeks back and didn't think anything about it. Big mistake. I should've had it checked out immediately. I would fill-up my tire with air to about 35 psi and by the next day it would be sitting at 16 psi.


To rectify this problem I quickly retreated to ncdubs.org to hunt down a second-hand set of rims for not a lot of money. A fellow Volkswagen enthusiast screen named: JeffyDahmer who happened have a set of rims for the right price. I made the arrangements to purchase these wheels and headed down to Wilmington.

The night prior I called Sears Automotive in Wilmington and made an appointment to have the tires on the old rims taken off, put on the new rims and put them on my car. I didn't expect this to be difficult for the technicians at Sears Automotive.

The wife and I walked around the mall for about 2 hours and found our way back to Sears to be greeted by the tech who was working on my car.

"There's a problem with the wheels," he informs me.

There certainly was a problem. The offset of the rim wasn't allowing for any sort of free motion and the rim was getting hung up on the brake caliper. I was disappointed and kicked myself for not thinking about this.

"No problem," I said, "Take two of the rims that aren't bent, put the tires back on them and put them back on the car."

After I was told it was done I went to pay and was promptly overcharged. When I brought it to the gentleman's attention he first tried to tell me I was wrong, until I showed him where I was previously charged the correct amount. He reluctantly changed it to the correct amount and I paid him.

The following days I noticed my front passenger tire wasn't holding air. I called the Jacksonville Sears Automotive and told them I went to Wilmington and I think they might have messed up my tire. They agreed to check it out for me.

I arrived at Sears in Jacksonville at 6 p.m. and by 8 p.m. only to find the retard in Wilmington put the ONE bent rim back on my car and that was the express reason my tire wouldn't stay inflated. Fortunately for Sears a fantastic individual in Jacksonville told me to bring in an unbent rim and he would get it fixed for free.

So, over the course of four days I spent $4 to fill up with air everyday, spent a combined total of 4 hours in Sears and $118 to get the work done initially and wasted a trip to Wilmington.

After I call back down to Wilmington I'll let you all know if I'm successful in either getting a refund for the work to compensate me for my wasted time or get that mouth-breather fired.

Thanks for reading,

WP