help wanted, great pay?

Posted on February 28, 2008

Burger King is hiring … in Baghdad. Yes, along with Subway, Pizza Hut and probably McDonalds. Sounds like a sweet gig … if you are aspiring to make about $900 a month, free rent and board and oh, … sometimes mortars go off about 5 yards from your french fry station.

The Green Zone is a fortified area inside Baghdad with all the comforts of home. Here is a legit photo of a new Burger King opening in Baghdad. The folks that the US defense dept. draws from outside the US to work these places … they are … well, poor people from other countries who feel $900 a month is well worth getting shot at for a flame broiled whopper.

Privatized security is the big money job. Driving dimplomats to and from the Baghdad Airport. Sounds secure.

Here’s a story on job seekers in the Green Zone.

I’ll have to stick with printing tshirts this week.

hg –

only visiting this planet

Posted on February 27, 2008

Last Sunday one of the icons of my youth left the planet. Larry Norman, shocked the Christian culture back in the 70’s … and never stopped being who he really was. Larry died of heart failure at his home in Salem, Oregon.

Larry was cut from a different cloth. Some thought he was too radical for church … he was but, he would tell you he didn’t come to preach to the converted. Larry is credited with over 60 albums. Started his own record label years ago. Still clear to his message.

It’s humorous to me those that will ‘now’ compare him to a great prophet or great Christian icon … when most main stream Christians would not even claim him when he was alive.

I liked Larry. His music. And his methods.

hg –

motivate to create

Posted on February 25, 2008

Well I’m off on another journey. A new thing, if you will. I can just feel your eyes rolling back in your head, sighing … what now wayne? I’m trying my hand at motivating myself to create a new me. The old me is getting to be a worn out record of the past. The new, I hope to be a healthier version. My focus is on my health.

I am happy to report a 6 lb. weight loss since Thursday. Lower calories, lower carbs, and lots of exercise. My target is 198 lbs. … which I will complete … with a lot of work … by my 52 birthday.

There are a lot more things I want to do before I leave planet earth. One is to be able to run again. I always liked running. I will do it again. Until then … I tend to shuffle .. it’s not even a jog yet … but it will get there. I’m working on wearing out a pair of shoes by the summer. Maybe even play a little softball … if you know of a team that needs a pitcher that can also block the hole between short and second … I’m your man.

I’m using the “kick butt” trainer from BL … jillian michaels as my plan of attack. I need to change a lot of other things in my life … but, this one is first.

cheer me on … motivate

hg –

jason kidd returns

Posted on February 23, 2008

Michael was able to beat me to the punch on his blog … since I was ill all week. Here is a blast from the past … we sent Michael to Jason Kidd’s basketball camp when he was in 8th grade. It was Michael’s first time away from home without chaperone’s that he knew. It was a little overwhelming to take him to Southwest Texas State and drop him off.

It was good for him. It is also good for the Mavericks to have a really good ball handler on the floor. Kidd does turn up the intensity of the game. In case Mark Cuban blinks into my blog: It would be cool to have Michael come out for a shoot around at a home game for some home town pr … Michael is 25 now. Cool story … huh, Cuban? We would be able to do this all for 11 court side seats … at any game of your choosing, Mr. Cuban.

We sacrificed so much for him to go to camp that week. We had to eat bologna and macaroni for a month. (not really, darrah)

It was worth it for the picture.

hg

the dead moose ministry

Posted on February 19, 2008

Story out of Anchorage, Alaska. (Check out last line of article.)

Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the sky about 20 feet in front of his patrol car. “Falling rock!” he thought, ready to steer clear if it bounced onto the highway.

The thing didn’t roll or shatter. It turned out to be a moose that fell from cliffs next to the highway.

Drivers often see Dall sheep on the cliffs but rarely moose. Peterson estimates the animal fell 150 feet or more.

It was windy that night, Peterson said, and a gust may have startled the moose into a fatal fall.

“They occasionally have bad days like the rest of us,” said wildlife biologist Rick Sinnott. “They slip and fall. Maybe he was reaching for a branch and the snow just gave way.”

Sinnott has heard or moose dying in strange ways — breaking through ice and drowning, jumping off railroad bridges at the sound of a train, falling off small banks. Once he saw the remains of two bulls that died during a rutting battle when their antlers got hooked together by a single piece of barbed wire.

A fall off a cliff probably doesn’t happen often, he said.

Peterson treated the dead animal the same way he handles moose killed by cars. After snapping photos, Peterson called one of the charities that salvage road kill.

Names of charities or ministries that would pick up road kill ??
Moose Meat Minstry
Bullwinkle Memorial
Moose Can Academy
Road Kill Food Bank
Holy Scavengers, Batman.

HG –

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