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Sleeping time... 2007-10-30 08:32:00 Over the past few years i have had trouble getting to sleep and then staying a sleep. When i would try to go to sleep, my mind would start to race and i might be physically tired, but my mind would be wide awake. I do not know the reasons for this, perhaps it is from when i used to abuse drugs as i required little or no sleep. I might have dammaged my sleep cycle from those activities. I have always been a lite sleeper and if i were to get woken up, it would take me hours to get back to sleep. I also have to have some noise in the room like a fan or music. When i lived in Texas, i had music playing all night and i slept better.While i lived in Massachusetts, i tried Ambien, but i did not like it so i switched to Lunesta. I stayed with it till i got to Richmond and then i had to up the dose to a 3mg pill. i have been on it for about 2 years and it stopped working on my. It would not keep me sleeping all night like it is supposed to do, so i decided to switch to 12.5mg AmbienCR. So far ...

Tree of ghostes 2007-10-30 06:36:00 Another pic from BG on saturday night. They had neat lighting all over the park. It was very packed as well with over 20,000 people that night as it was the last weekend of the season to be opened. I will post a few more pics later.Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Mack: News From the Real World 2007-10-29 19:01:00 Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me post this.   News From the Real World   Researchers from a Welsh university have discovered a 400-year-old clam off Iceland.  When the clam was transported to Wales it immediately demanded refugee status, a government apartment, social services in its own language, and a weekly check, and declared a bitter hatred of all things Welsh.   California prisoners are helping fight wildfires at one dollar an hour, while FEMA employees have held a completely fake press conference in order to deceive the American people.  Given their record, perhaps FEMA staffers should be the ones dressed in orange jump suits and working for a dollar an hour.    According to the BBC, many Bolivians consider a llama fetus to be sacred.  Perhaps the typical resident of La Paz drives around with a llama fetus on his dashboard, or carries one in a knitted cover.  Maybe Bolivians have silly ...

More trees... 2007-10-28 22:30:00 More cool lighting effects on trees last night at Busch Gardens.Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Cheer Comp! 2007-10-28 14:08:00 Fame Cheer from VA Beach & Richmond in Porthsmith today. Mass Cheerabration!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens 2007-10-28 08:27:00 WE went there last night to Howl-O-Scream and we had a blast! It was funny to see how sacred some people really are.  Most of the rides were working  and they were fun to do as always. We rode several roller coasters last night and we did a few haunted houses. I have a few pics to put up tomorrow.  It was well worth the money for it.  The park had over 24,000 people in it last night. I was really surprised about that and I was told that last weekend they had to close the park several times due to it being at max capacity which is 34,000 people!!!  Tonight is the last day it is opened for the season. At the end of the night, we rode the Loch Ness Monster 5 times!!    SO we will be going next year…   RMStringer +++++++++++++++++++ You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Max Ehrmann, &quo ...

Sweet tree... 2007-10-27 19:44:00 BG @ night.Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Rain... 2007-10-27 10:12:00 Over the last 4 days we have had 5.25 inches of rain in our area.  I am very grateful about this as we have been in very bad drought. We had only 1.11 inches of rain in nearly 60 days before the rain event that we have had over the last 4 days.  It is supposed to be cool and dry over the next week.   RMStringer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content. (Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)   Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Power Station... 2007-10-26 06:24:00 Nice clouds...Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Rain so far... 2007-10-25 18:16:00 Well, so far since it has been raining, we have gotten 3.75 inches of rain and we are expecting about 1-2 more inches by early Saturday morning!    RMStringer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here." - The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded   Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

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The Blog... 2007-10-24 21:35:00 I am going to try to give the blog more attention and have better content. I am working a new job, same company, but at a different site and i do not have access to the Internet at night. I have more time at home and i will try to devote more time to research to bring better content to you my readers.Thank you for your patronage...What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

A few memories… 2007-10-24 21:32:00 When I was born, it was in Austin Texas. I was born at Seaton Memorial, which is no longer there. It has been torn down. We lived in campus housing there at UT and some apartments on North Lamar Blvd. They are still there. Soon afterward, we moved to Kirbyville Texas where I lived until my 8th grade year then I moved to Jasper to live with my mother and I graduated from Jasper High school in 1989.Throughout my whole life I always wanted to live as far away from there as I could, I even said that I wanted to live in New Your City, I got very close to there, Massachusetts was about 5 hours from there. I also felt this incredible draw to Austin Texas. I did make it back to Austin, but it was not what I expected.I was a big partier when I was about 18 years old until I was 29 and I decided to get my life straightened out. All the while, I always had the vision or dream if you will about if I was able to go and live in Austin that my life would be complete. I would have the friends that ...

The New Pledge of Allegiance 2007-10-24 19:28:00 New Pledge of Allegiance! Since the Pledge of AllegianceandThe Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore Because the word "God" is mentioned....A kid in Arizona wrote the attached NEW School prayer.I liked it.Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the ruleFor this great nation under GodFinds mention of Him very odd.If Scripture now the class recites,It violates the Bill of Rights. And anytime my head I bow Becomes a Federal matter now. Our hair can be purple, orange or green,That's no offense; it's a freedom scene. The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice. For praying in a public hallMight offend someone with no faith at all. In silence alone we must meditate, God's name is prohibited by the state. We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks. They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible. To quote the Good Book makes me liable. We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,And th ...

Very Funny Clip... 2007-10-24 18:32:00 I think that it came from Bob and Tom Show. I think that the person is Rodney Carrington.What is your opinion?Blogroll Me! Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...