Futureman from the magfest.. these guys are from the boro and are awesome!

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flame throwing at Magfest 2007

Even more pics!!

Enjoying a cold beer at Skip's

My brother and Leanna

My job at the festival...pumping beer! Oh what fun!!!


My brother after a night of heavy partying!!

More Vacation pics

Downtown Dunedin


Magfest campfire

A friend named Jeff

Time to go vending at the fest!

The meadows stage!
here are more pics from my vacation...ENJOY!!

Here are some pic from my vacation

my nephew Shane, sister-in-law Leanna, My older bro David, other nephew tristian, and myself


Dunedin Marina


My tent


Loanna and me drunk



The swannee river

I am coming home

I wanted to take this time and tell everyone I will coming home later tonight. I have enjoyed my vacation and I am looking forward to moving here in dunedin soon. I will be psoting lots of pics in the next few days. Stayed tuned for all my fun and pics.

The time has arrived

Well folks the time has arrived that I amm now on vacation. WOOT WOOT!! I am now off for 10 wonderful days from the bowling center and fixing to head right out of town to Dunedin Florida. I am so excited about this trip. I have talk with my brother already and he tells me that he has alot of things planned for me to do while there. On thursday next week we will be heading to Live Oak Florida for the MagnoliaFest. I myself have never been to something like this that last for 4 days. It will be something very different than I am used to. I am told there is a chance that I might be sleeping in a tent outdoors. Oh my god!! Me in a tent. lol! No running water, no radio, and no COMPUTER. wILL i MAKE IT? I want everyone to think of me while those 4 days are going on. No computer to cause drama with is something I wont be able to handle. I was also told the people at this fest are like modern day hippies. Lots of love there. hmmmmm. I am also going to be turning 41 on Monday which is kind of cool that I am celebrating my birthday out of town which is something I have never done before. Something else that I have never done before is take a vacation out of town for this long! Will I make it? Let's hope so. Well to all of my readers which will be about 15 of them I want to say goodbye for the week and I might be able to post some but not alot so stay tuned to see if I post any pics while down there.

lESS THAN 48 HOURS

I have less than 48 jours and I get to fly to Dunedin Florida for 10 days. I have worked 3 and a half years without missing a day or a vacation and I am really looking forward to taking a long awaited vacation. I am going down to see my older brother and his wife. I will be working Friday night then coming home at 8:30am and I will have to be at the airport at 10:30am to fly out at noon. I am so excited about taking this vacation I can't wait! We are also going to a music festival on Thursday thru Sunday and I get to work about 4 hours each day during this and can't wait to listen to some great music. I have not been very close to my older brother but it's time in my life that i do get to know him and all his friends. The Dunedin area is so nice that I could live there. I will be looking around while down there and if I see something I like as in a job I just might take it. My only fear is that I hope there is not any hurrincaes while I am there. I will be taking alot of pics and I hope to make a few post while I am there so stay tuned to the Drama Llama to see what all I am getting into for this next week I will be also turning 41 yrs old. Talk with all of you when I get back!!

Overseas jobs not doing well!

Well lately there has been news about all the toys in China being recalled and I knew something like this would end up happening when our Government started letting companies move overseas. These big companies think they could save money by sending our jobs all overseas but it just bit them in the ass! Now is it really safe to buy anything made in China?

On another note a few years back I heard that when you go to Mcd's and place your order through the drive-thru that you might be talking to someone in India. Alot of businesses have sent their call centers over to this country and when someone calls me on the phone and I cant understand them it bothers me. We have so many people here living off the government that these jobs would be perfect for those people to get on their feet and make a living. I have just read online something about the people of India stating that they don't want anymore call centers in their country. That makes me so happy now. it seems that most over in India are upset because the westerners treat them so bad on the phones but when you cant understand a word they are saying it upsets many of us here in the United States. I am all for someone having a job and making a living but when will the big companies realize that they need to help support those in this country first? Out sourcing of Jobs is not the answer to saving money in this country. What is the answer is some of the companies have unions that petty much eat up at the profits of companies, Like G.M. Their employees make about $65.00 an hour which includes benefits and they dont work as hard as the average person. Now Nissan isnt unionized and those people make a good living still and work hard for the money plus are actually very nice people to know. That company treats their employees nice with vacations, days off, and employee functions. The better you treat your people the harder they will work.




Here is some of the article about India.

That's a sentiment shared by many students at Sri Venkateswara College. On a recent Friday afternoon, a group of students chatted under the shade of a tree on the last day of classes before fall break Asked whether they would consider working at a call center, all eight said no, citing concerns about abusive customers and the long-term health effects of the jobs. "Earlier it was considered cool to work at a call center," said Nishant Thakur, 19, after the group had dispersed. "That died out quite quickly." Added Thakur's friend, Vishal Lathwal, 19, "If you work at a call center today people will think you don't have anything else to do or were a bad student."

In addition to having to work at night, call center workers must sometimes cope with abusive and racist remarks from overseas customers upset with jobs being shifted to India. In an infamous example two years ago, a Philadelphia-based radio show host pretending to order hair beads from an Indian call center operator berated her as a "dirty rat eater." While the abuse was for an on-air program, Indian call center workers say they've encountered similar sentiments from real customers. Within six months to a year, their dreams of making "lots of money" and buying motorcycles and other consumer goods fade, says Vinod Shetty, a labor lawyer in Mumbai and advocate for call center operators. "The burnout is very high." The Indian government is concerned about stress-related conditions like high blood pressure at call centers and other outsourcing companies and is working on a health policy for the industry.

If you want to read more then jump on over to this this and leave me your comments about jobs in general going overseas and how it affects you as buyer of goods and services.

A Special thank you for Kathy T.

Kathy T. is one of the best writers around and everytime she writes something it always is great!!. She has been writing for the D.N.J. and today there is another article that was wrote wonderful.

Two other people in my life have dedicated nearly every waking moment this month to helping a local family in crisis. Mark Gunn of the Smyrna Bowling Center and Murfreesboro resident Yvonne Moon were very much affected when they heard about the plight of La Vergne resident Brandon Brewer. Brandon is well known in the county as a very sick child. At birth, the doctors diagnosed him with Hirschsprung's disease, an illness that prevents his body from absorbing nutrients. His family pays $10,000 every month for medicine, prescriptions that are not covered by insurance — an amount that doesn't even touch other massive medical expenses.

pLEASE GO AND READ MORE ON THIS WONDERFUL ARTICLE!! and then go visit here over here at her castle or over here at her kingdom!!

Get you game plan ready for Black Friday

Yes folks its about that time again for all those sales that happen on Black Friday. The website is already showing some great deals!! Please go and bookmark this site and get your game plan ready for the big day and make sure you have enough family helping you fight those crowds to get the best deals around!!

Parents are one of the reason to blame for kids

I knew I was right abotu something. I had said before that parents are one of the reasons that kds act out and do criminal things. This woman bought all kinds of weapons for her son which was an outcastNow I think she should also be put in jail for doing such a thing. go read more about this stupid parentand her son onCNN

Is this very healthy?

I was having lunch the other day at the local Sonic and noticed a young man going in from his break and noticed that his pants were hanging down to his knees. Now my question is this. He will ending up pulling his pants up during his shift and does he wash his hands everytime afterwards? If he does then great but most likely he is too busy cooking someone's food to stop and wash everytime he reaches back to pull up his baggy pants which is touching his underwear or boxers. I dont want someone touching their boxers while pulling up their pants then fixing my burger. How gross is that. Is this something I should contact the heath dept about? How many places let their employees have baggy pants? How many nasty hands have fixed my lunch/dinner?

ALL DRESSED UP

Here I am all dressed up getting ready to go to the awards gala last night. I'm bringing sexy back. yahooooo!!!

What size would order?

I am reading about what men are ordering now and it would surprise most of us. I know myself I would order the one that is 6.3 inches long and not the 5.12 inches long. If you want to know what I am ordering then go to this article I found in the Tennessean!!

Last nights award gala

I went last night to the 3rd annual National Learning Congress awards gala and it was a great evening with the best music I have heard in a long time from the band Soul Incision. This band is a group of doctors and such at Vandy and by night they play some of the best music around. They had the Opryland Delta Ballroom hopping. If they ever play somewhere and you have the chance to see them please do . Here is a clip of the band a few months ago and enjoy them for I did. I will be posting my picture of me dressed up in a few minutes.

Discrimination at work

I am going to post something that will hopefully get people to wise up and take a stand. Are you one of many that goes into work everyday and bust his or her ass for a company and in turn finds out that someone makes fun of you and calls you names behind your back to fellow coworkers? When you say something to the bosses the say they will take care of the problem but don't. I know of someone that has worked so hard at doing a great job and has been praised for his hard work and in turn after a period of time their hours have been cut so much they can't make a living and this is all because of someone that has told the higher ups that he should take this person's place which it's known that this person isn't able to do the job but this person doesn't like faggots!! This is 100% wrong in my book and it will be addressed at the right time and place! Harassment on the job should never be allowed to happen and if certain folks don't take a stand then it will continue to happen!
Please go and read more about what can be done to fight this kind of discrimination!! Well in my 41 years on this planet I have seen the discrimination and it just pisses me off to this happening at this day and age! Many people just keep quite about this and do their job but it's time we stand up and fight this for many employers need to know that shouldn't happen and we aren't going to stand for this. I have received an email today about this same problem and I am going to work and help fight this for I have been know to be a victim myself. here is a part of the email and we will talk more in a minute about what needs to be done.

This morning, a letter signed by more than 90 national and state advocacy organizations that work on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people was delivered to Congress, asking for more time to garner support for ENDA as it was originally introduced. Some 2,500 congregations were asked to activate their memberships to call Congress. Students are also calling and e-mailing Congress and launching Facebook accounts to build support, working from 120 LGBT campus resource centers. Action alerts, blog postings and opinion pieces supporting a trans-inclusive ENDA have been flying over the Internet.

We at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force are immensely proud to be part of this moment. Our staff mounts a full-court press in the halls of Congress, on the telephones and over e-mail, to convince our congressional leaders that separating transgender people from the rest of us is unacceptable and unsupportable.

Why have we all worked so hard together and in such a dramatic way over this issue? For over a decade, the Task Force, and increasingly our organizational colleagues, has re-embraced transgender friends, family and colleagues as part of our community and part of our movement for freedom and equality. We believe the social disapproval and punishment of LGBT people varies only by degree. Yes, we can be fired if we identify ourselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual. But it isn't always about who we love; sometimes it’s about a refusal or inability to disguise ourselves — “pass” — as heterosexual.

The freedom to express ourselves and be ourselves is at stake when any one of us is punished and persecuted for stepping outside the rigid rules of gender conformity. Lesbians, gay men and bisexual people historically engage a whole range of dress and behaviors that challenge the traditional gender code. Women who are too masculine and men who are too feminine often suffer job discrimination and harassment at work, just as our transgender sisters and brothers do.

This also includes those that are transgender people and if someone is doing their job and a good one at that then why should people discriminate against those. Maybe alittle jealousy? We as a community need to stand up and fight those businesses that are letting this happen.

I would hope that everyone will contact your senator and let them know your not going to stand for this kind of work harrassment and we all need to do something about this now!

this guy has talent with mixing music

This guy Mr Gees has some really good talent watch this video mix and judge for yourself...go to youtube.com and subscribe to his videos

Toe Tapping good ole gospel music

Here is a great gospel song I love and it gets me going. do watch and enjoy and tap those toes!!!!

Shooting at Ohio school...

Here we go again people with yet another school shooting happening. This has to stop for our kids are there to learn not kill. There is alot we can do to stop all of this madness. The N.R.A. needs to help stop this and stop trying to let guns be sold to everyone. The parents that these kids belong to need to be held accountable for the actions of these kids. If the parents were around the kids then this craziness might not happen. Also the music these kids listen to isnt the best. Rap isnt the best music around.

I also found that most think that the life at home does have alot to do with these kids acting out like they do. Here is something I found online and will add more to this post as I find it.

Parents love to blame musicians like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre to
bands like KoRn and Limp Bizkit for their child's problems. Music is
an excuse for bad parenting. "One should look at the family background
of the person committing the crimes" (Foster 3). Most criminals come
from dysfunctional families, which would explain why a person would
turn to crime in life. Another reason a person would turn to crime is
being sexually abused as a young child. This would definitely cause a
person to go a little crazy. When someone hears some lyrics from
Eminem, they do not go out and do what he says. Lyrics from Eminem and
other similar lyrics are for entertainment only. If people did
whatever they heard, then everybody would be evil and corrupted I hear
far worse words and phrases during school than on a rap album, and the
words do not effect me or anybody else otherwise everybody in school
would run around shooting people and doing drugs.

Click here for the whole story

Kids also feel that they are in jail when in school...this from Crime library

Here is some more info on school killings....

Another conspicuous trait is the feeling of entitlement. "School killers feel entitled to be treated well and they react angrily when they are rejected. A majority of violent kids at school admit that 'school feels like a jail sentence.' They feel the rules are unfair–there is one set of rules for the popular kids and another set of rules for the unpopular or the rejected. They almost exclusively feel that other students---and teachers---pick on them or bully them."

Now we as parents need to stand up, talk with our kids and explain to them that they can talk to us anytime they need to. Don't put your kids on the back burners.

I noticed last week that 2 young men in the area here were stopped by police again, this being a regular thing because their parents work all the time and let them be free and run the streets all the time and they dont give a shit about what they do. One of these kids stole a handgun last summer so now I fear for the kids in the area!! call me a rasict because I dont care but parents need to watch watch their kids watch, listen to and surf. Grow up some of you and take care of your kids! Teach them wrong from right!!

Do people really care?

I have thought for quite some time on what to write about and here it is today. This might piss some people off but hey I am always one to do so. I have worked so hard on this fundraiser for Brandon Brewer and when the night of the event came around, I knew right then who really cared and who was my true friend. We had worked so hard to get media coverage for this and it was all over the web and only those that showed up or donated are true people in my book. I figured that at least some of the blogging community would step up but hey its a click type of world out there and i should have known better to even think that they would step up and help out this very sick child. Heaven forbid that they ever need anything from me. This really makes me think about what kind of people there are in this world. I think if everyone that blogs would have donated at least $10.00 we would have made alot more money to help this young man out. I know things do come up in one's life so there is always time to donate to a great cause. Email me or comment if you still want to donate.

I want to give a big thank you to those that helped, Kathy T., Gunner, Michelle, Yvonne Moon, Senna Mosley, The Smyrna Bowling Center, My MOTHER, Wsmv, D.N.J, Rutherford reader, WGNS, FOX 17, and everyone that showed up to bowl. These people are true actual people in my book that do really care about those less fortunate. God will end up judging those that are like they are and in the long run we as a group that care will prevail!!