All I needed to learn,...

Robert Fulgham wrote a most wonderful book.  All I needed to know I learned in Kindergarten.

Really good book.

But for those addicted to a game few know...

1. Sharing is caring.  When you share, you grow.  As a person.  In the game, sharing resources helps others grow their cities and it forms a stronger clan. 

2. Take turns.  Sometimes, being first isn't all that.  And there are always other opportunities popping up.  Like tiles.

3. There are others behind the curtain.  Face to face, there's always someone and in general people are good.  What you do or say can go a long way.  So don't execute a person.

4.  Strength in numbers.  You do better as a team or family than being a lone wolf.  Make alliances.

5.keep your word.  Say what you mean, mean what you say.  It helps against counter attacks too.

K > V

So like yeah

I had a nice chat with my friend Mel yesterday.  These little talks, along with little talks with everyone else, help bring the optimist and hopeful guy out of me again.

Well, she referred to something as RAK.  Random acts of kindness.  I think if we have more of these than random acts of violence the world will spin a bit more smoothly.  I don't know.  Maybe.  But I'd be willing to try.  Droplet in an ocean.

Hmm.  As Bruce Lee said... Be water.

Let RAK > RAV.

🌎🌍🌏

Every day I'm shuffling

So I've missed and needed work shoes.  Not so much shoes to wear to work but more of steel-toes.

I wish I bought more of the Doc Marten fuego styles, but they got discontinued years ago.  So, I said I'll get black Docs.  None.  Lame.  So just as I was gonna say hrm...  Tada... These will do. :)

Danced with them in the kitchen before going to work today.

Racin shelf

So yeah, I've liked NASCAR for awhile.  Win or lose, I like Dale Jr...

From #8 to #88, always liked him.  I've collected 1:18 Diecast cars, and the had an idea to make a diorama of a racetrack using 1:24 scale.  Well, now there's the roof of one of his race used cars... As in yeah... Actually drove it...

And while talking with Melvin at work, this idea hit me... A lighted shelf... With the roof hanging from it, a place to show the 1:18 Budweiser cars, and the top to house the 1:24 diorama...  So I did a sketch... I'm planning to taking some time to make it during this holiday break...

Looking forward to it.

Por que

Why do i treasure Spanish, I am sometimes asked... Why my affinity for it?

Plain and simple.  In high school, I only paid attention to present tense conjugation.  No idea about past or future tense.  In English and Tagalog, I have the concepts of past, present, and future.  In Spanish?  No.

So with Spanish,... I only live in the present.

Lol.  :)

Coffee

So like, a few days ago...

So I just left Starbucks and it was really cool.   I get to the window and they tell me that the person in front of me already paid for me.  I think to myself who was in front of me because it wasn't my wife, it was a total stranger?  So I Asked the window, you know what, go ahead and please take care of the person behind me.  Pay it forward, pay it backward, people are still good.

And Lily, the mantra for today abides.

Tiny snowflakes

It doesn't snow much in this part of Texas. (We insistently told our teachers it would snow back in 1982 or 1983... And sure enough it eventually did.)   When it does, there's no guarantee of enough so that you can do anything with the snow... Fleeting moment that doesn't last.

I've been taught that no two snowflakes are alike.  They fall from the sky, drifting down until they land on earth a short moment.  They may land alone or it may land with other snowflakes.  They may bring joy to others by becoming snowmen or snowballs in a snowball fight, something to land on and make snow angels with, and at jokingly other times, pissed on.  Don't eat yellow snow.

In the last 24 hours, there've been acts of kindness and moments of kindred spirits having the same wavelengths connecting many people.  They've been stories that can make you smile and teary and others leaving you in wonder as to why.

It doesn't snow much in this part of Texas.  But people are like snowflakes.  In the grand scheme of things, they really are.  Each individually made and fall from heaven only to return back to the sky in a different form after a somewhat short stay.  If you've ever seen a snowflake up close under a microscope, they are fascinating, much like learning about a person beyond basic face value.  

So yeah, I am glad that this snowflake is blessed to land where there're other snowflakes and get to be thrown like a snowball, made into a snowman, and pushed around for a snow angel.

You can almost hear the laughter.

Unraveled and unglued

When you have a sealed container, everything is nicely kept in.

But lately, everything is coming unglued and unraveled and I'm scared I can't keep it all together anymore.

I'm looking for an escape but my escape needs an escape and I've for nowhere and nothing and no one.

Is this what it feels like? 

I don't know how I can take it but I am scared.  I am really scared.  People will say they're there and they will listen.

This can't be fixed by listening.

And I don't know what to do.

I need an escape.  And it's coming to where I don't have one anymore.

There was never a plan B for this and I am crying inside to where I can't sleep.