grrrrr

So, I and the kids took my wife to lunch and a movie yesterday in Pueblo, colorado.

I don't know about your experiences but I noticed everyone seems to have lost their ability to pay attentiion and be polite.  On top of the fact that everyone seems to be driving massive trucks or suvs which take up about as much parking space as tractor trailers, they drive wherever they want to drive as if the size of their vehicle dictate their privileges instead of politeness.  I'd like to destroy every large truck or suv in the nation for they are the cause of our gasoline woes.

that's right you people who insist on driving vehicle which get eight blocks to the gallon and you drive them everywhere all the time, pulling your boat and a trailer with quads on it -- you people are the reason gas prices continue to be elevated. 

stop buying vehicles that get poor gas mileage you boneheads and stop driving so much this is the only way to get the attention of oil producers -- hit them in the pocket book.

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and another think, what is with you people who feel the need to back into every parking space and in the process you cause large lines to form and usually you idiots end up taking up two parking spaces.  Just park your frigging vehicle already.  what do you think if there's an emergency you're going to be able to get away faster?  as if you're more prepared for a terrorist attack if you back into your parking spot.  stop it.  you're annoy the normal people.

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stay strong

keep writing
Darrin Coe

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greetings all

well, I went to the neurosurgeon today and it looks like I'll be living with pain instead of having surgery at least for the foreseeable future.  The doc didn't seem  to think my sxs were terribly significant which was cool.

haven't done much writing in my novel, but at least I've been thinking about it.  I'm sort of at a transition spot about half way through the book and I'm not sure how to do the transitiion.  Do I write about how the characters get to the next location and what actioin and relationships can I develop toward the finale?  Or should I squish time and just ahve them already at the next location, age everyone appropriately and move on abit.  It seems I'm bogging abit and I really don't want to slow down the book but I'm not sure how to keep the pace moving.  j

I"ve also been thinking about another novel in which an inmate in a colorado prison tries to start a peace movement among the other inmates.

I'm also pursuing distance jogging/running to replace my fighting.  right now I'm doing two miles every day at lunch and longer runs of 4 to 7 miles when I get a chance which is usually on the weekends.  I'm going to try to start competing in 10k runs with the goal of running a marathon sometime in the futiure.

alrighy then

stay strong

keep writing

darrin coe

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I’m done

So, I'm done fighting, at least for the foreseeable future.  As a matter of fact I may be done engaging in any type of intense fight type training.  Heck I may be done training athletically.  the bone spurs in my neck continue to impinge my spinal nerves and I'm beginning to lose the use of the last two fingers on my right hand and things are getting weaker over all.  we'll see how bad the damage actually is after the MRI on friday.  I guess it'll tell us if surgery will be necessary or not.

I'm at a crossroads, right now I'm scared to do anything physical for fear of tweaking the nerves in my neck, I've gone from two and three hard workouts per day to nothing, not even hard walking -- standing completely upright hurts and makes my right hand tingle uncomfortably.   So now what do I do?  I can't do the one activity I have some passion about and I don't just want to sit around being sedentary.

I guess I'm one of those folks who needs some type of challenge, something to really strive after and I'm having trouble finding something, now that fighting's out the window.  I guess I could really go hardcore after getting published as a fantasy author, but that just doesn't seem to be motivating me to action like a good fight training session.  I was going to take up running and shoot for a marathon but right now I'm worried the constant up and down will jar and damage the nerves more where the spurs are hitting them.

I know God's got good things for me and my family but I'm having a hard time being patient.

stay strong
Darrin Coe

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aaarrrrggghhhh

so I got up this morning really depressed because I have an incredible amount of pain in my neck and back, so much so that fingers on my right hand are going numb.  anyway, I went to start up my laptop and it would work.

I spent 4 hours on the phone with hp technical support only to come to the conclusion that my two day old laptop had corrupted files.  the lady on the other end had only limited competence in the english language and here supervisor seemed even more limited -- hello English anyone.

so I took it back and exchanged it and now this one works, at least for now.  maybe I just get a new one every week -- what in heaven.

I'm developing into a fan of isolationism, tariffs, and closing our borders.  I want U.S. jobs in the U.S. and when I call technical support for something I spent 1000.00 dollars on I want to speak english and be understood.

anyway, working on getting my novel onto my hard drive so that i can write while sitting in my lazy boy.

also, I went to the doctor today and found out that I have bone spurs in my cervical vertebrae and they are impinging on my cervical nerves -- yippee -- I get to have an MRI on friday to see how bad things are.

this means I'm pretty much done fighting and training for fighting which means I have to find something else competative that will motivate me to stay fit because of couse, my kids and high blood pressue don't seem to be enough.

ttfn

stay strong
keep writing
darrin coe

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yipppeee

I got a new laptop.  It's so exciting, now I can do innane and worthless blogging along with websurfing from the comfort of my lazyboy.  I can  become just as much of a vegetable on my laptop, doing useless myspace surfing as my children become when they play their nintendo DSs.

Actually, I bought it for school.  My program requres that I log into my classrooms and send in assignments throughout the week, so I gotta be able to connect whether I'm on vacation or sitting in my lazyboy.

But of course I'm not doing school work all the time, so now I get to be plugged in even when I'm not in my office. 

I'm hoping this will motivate me to spend a whole lot more time writing.  I hate sitting at my desktop to do my writing, mainly because our home office is in chaos all the time and my office chair is terrible uncomfortable for me because I have a neck injury from fighting and when I use my desktop computer my right arm tends to go numb.

The lazy boy is much more comfortable for computing.  Now I have to transfer my writing from my 3.25 in disk to my laptop and I have no clue how to do that.  Maybe I can email the manuscript to myself and then save it on my laptop harddrive, or I guess I could go by a thumb drive and save it to my thumbdrive.  I have no clue how to save it to a disk (If anyone knows how to do that please email me or drop me a message with instructions.

well, gotta get ready for church so rock on everyone.

Stay strong

Keep writing
Darrin Coe

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I’m lagging

I must apologize.  my blogging has taken a serious turn for the empty.

I’ve been sick, I’ve just started working on a ph.d in clinical psych., and I’m trying to get ready to fight in may (we’ll see).

anyway, hopefully getting over being sick will improve my energy and motivation.  Not that blogging on myspace is any type of earth shattering endeavor but sometimes it’s fun to drop a note or put out my opinions.

I’ve done very little writing although I did do about a thousand words last week.  I went back to my fantasy novel set in the world of Eoc.  I’m at about forty two thousand words which for me is almost halfway done.  Once you’re halfway, and the book doesn’t totally suck, then you’ve got to finish.

I’m also still reading and doing research for the alternative history I want to write which will star theodore roosevelt fighting paranormal monsters like vampires and werewolves, perhaps a demon or two.

So how would the old west have been different if the existence of lycanthropes and the undead been out in the open, and accepted?

stay strong

keep writing
Darrin Coe

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Not feeling well lately

Yep, it's been one of those fortnights.  I've been fighting something off for like two weeks and have had no motivation to blog whatsoever, although I've been motivated to do a number of other things in the bathroom.

I've been doing much reading of late:  "an uncommon man: the triumpth of herbert hoover" by richard norton smith, as well as "the cowboys" by the publisher of time-life books.  I've also been reading "darwinism under the microscope" by two people whose names I can't remember. 

I've decided to scrap my current novel in favor of a new idea.  I'm going to try my hand at alternative history vis a vis laurel hamilton only I'm going to use an actual historical figure.  I'm going to write an alternative western starring teddy roosevelt during the time he was a cattle rancher in north dakota, only this time all the monsters are real and the great hunter and police commissioner will ply his trade to hunt the monsters and solve the crimes.  fun eh?

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I'm sorely concerned regarding our current financial situation here in the good ole U.S. of A.  Many of the same factors that led to the great depression are developing once again.  We had prosperity under clinton and bush but now we'er stagnating as easy credit and institutional financial failure are being corrected for in the market.  We are also operating from a massive deficit with huge tax cuts and a dollar that is shrinking in value, while europe's economy struggles and asia's economy seems to be booming.

A financial tragedy can be averted by only by slow measures that will add up over time not massive change the likes of which all the presidential candidates seem to be talking about.  Obama and Hillary scare me because the sound far to much like FDR who was a snake, a trickster, and a deceiver who's programs extended the depression even after Europe began to recover. 

Consider the following statements as you consider who you'll be voting for in the upcoming general election:

"Instead of a nation of self reliant people they would produce a nation of sycophants eating at the public trough."
                             --- Herbert Hoover

"Liberty dies of the water from her own well -- free speech -- poisoned by untruth."
                             --- Herbert Hoover

The more "change" that barak and hillary promise the more we place our own liberties at risk; we risk the loss of individualism and the ability to make our own choices because they would have us believe the State knows best.

What they haven't discussed is how are we going to pay for all this change they so desperately want you or us to believe.  Who's going to foot this bill?  China?  They're already footing the bill for our overspending.

We need a fiscal responsibitliy, resulting in decreasing the size of government  and entitlement, yeilding a return to personal liberties and responsibilities.

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stay strong
Darrin F. Coe
                              

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scary hillabilly, don johnson and M&Ms

Yep, yesterday I lost a most beautifully crafted blog last night due to my computer locking up just when I was retrieving a photo of Hillabilly – a very scary photo.

It looks like Hillabilly is on the downward slide and we're going to be stuck with the love child of JFK and FDR – I wonder what obama's middle initial is?  He'll never be considered a great president without one.  If he just goes with B.O. that could smell fairly bad to the historians.

John McCain's pretty much got it wrapped up.  I don't think I can vote for a 71 year old who's already been diagnosed with cancer.  Of course we could all hope he picks a really cool running mate, gets elected, and then passes peacefully with his family around him. 

If Obama gets the nod from the Dem's McCain's not electable in that circumstance.  If Hillabilly gets it then we're in for a really tight race between two people who will never take a good photograph their entire tenure.

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I believe:

Someone is making a boatload of money marketing Styrofoam as rice cakes.

Cellphones are parasites that suck your brains out your ears and inject cranial novacaine through the mouth. 

 that if green M&Ms where really sexually enhancing then "melts in your mouth and not in your hands" would be a pharmaceutical slogan.

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Arrrgggghhhh!!!

I spent a half hour writing a blog earlier this morning and lost it due to "un unexpected error"  I curse thee myspace and may small parasites infest the hairs upon thy left cheek.

Ok, so on to other stuff

first, I've done no writing.  Last week was a total bust.  I spent my time either reading my book on Teddy Roosevelt 

or watching blue collar TV

and both endeavors were spent completely stoned on pain medicine.  The world could use a little more neurontin.  Let's put it in candy dispensers on street corners. 

Hopefully this week they're be a little less pain and a lot more writing -- even if it's just blogging.  Blogging sounds like something you do with boogers on lampshades.

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so it looks like john mccain will face obama (I know there's still some question -- call this a prediction)

thus age vs wisdom

balance vs imbalance

liberal vs. liberal

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in other news:

the economy is in the toilet because of our occupation of Iraq.  It is not a separate issue.  There is no war on Terror.  George Bush made it up so that he could increase military spending and make all his oil and military-industrial buddies like him more.  You see when George was in school he had to tie a bottle of beer around his neck to get people to like him.  He learned this from Barbara when she would tie dollar bills around his belt so that the other children would play with him. 

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And Finally:

I believe:

Angelina Jolie could use a frozen burrito

The real war on terror should be waged against the men in this country that believe masculinity is somehow related to the amount of beer you drink, the size of your penis, what you can shoot, and how many women you can abuse.

presidential candidates should be required to dress as the opposite gender at least once during the campaign. 

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stay strong
keep writing
darrin coe

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I believe

greetings to a brand spanking new week, hopefully it's less physically painful.  My left knee has been killing me and I've been doing far to much pain medicine so I'm pulling back on the training a little.  If I fight in april or may I've got plenty of time and I'm not going to lose my fitness by slowing down for a week.

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I just remembered that I never shared with you the results of my last phone conversation with my first grader's principal, regarding his project on what jesus looked like.

I'll just share a few excerpts:

I asked, "what is this opt out letter going to consist of?"

She replied, "Oh, I'm not sending out an actual letter, instead I'll be announcing before Jensen's project begins that anyone who does not want to listen to a presentation on Jesus is allowed to leave."

I said, "well we want jensen to be able to do his project as all the other kids and don't want him to be separated out or discrimated against."

She replied, "I don't want him to be discrimated against either but I have an obligation to protect the other children in his classroom."

-- end of excerpt one --- Remember this is all over a 7 year old doing a presenting historical evidence regarding what Jesus looked like.  Not sure what she's protecting other first and second graders from?

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I asked, "does the school district have any written policy that is direction how you are acting in this situation?"

She replied, "No, I've been in constant contact with the superintendent of schools, Dr. Gouldy, and the district's legal counsel."

I responded, "So there's nothing written down by the district?"

She said, "No this is based on state law, it's based in the constitution.  It's separation of church and state."

--- end second excerpt --- This shows how backward and uninformed this district is.  number one: the phrase separation of church and state is not in the constitution; number two: I douibt she, or dr. gouldy have ever read the entire constitution and it's various amendments (I have several copies myself and recommend everyone make sure they have at least one copy and acutally read it once in a while); number 3: this is not a separation issue because it is student initiated and not school endorsed.  If he wanted to get up and preach that would be considered protected speech under the first amendment as long as he didn't ask for other students to engage in a conversion decision. 

and finally, I mentioned that my son might want to have a guest speaker come in.  My son would like to have his grandfather, who is a preacher come and talk about where Jesus lived and when he lived (no preaching) and we were told that a speaker would not be allowed -- that's blatant discrimination.  Luckily we decided before we were told that he'd not have a speaker come in..

Yes, they're going to let him do the project but they continue to put into place requirements that no other child has to have on their projects and in effect they are engaging in viewpoint discrimination..

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In other news:

It's superbowel time (spelling on purpose).  I'm one of those unamerican jerks who does not get excited about major sporting events, and as a matter of fact I believe the vast majority of team sports in america are designed to belittle the majority of children who participate in them.  They take away from a focus on true education, true excellence, and true growth.  You want a kid to grow physically, and mentally in a sport, then get them excited about individual sports like wresting, martial arts, MMA, golf, tennis, or track and field.  Then they can compete against themselves and always be improving.  There are far more opportunities over a lifetime, if one trains in an individual sport than if one plays a team sport.  Look at randy coutoure -- competting in MMA and he's over 45, the same can be said for mark coleman.

I also hate the superbowel because it supports the basest consumerism, barbarism, and commercialism in our society -- I'm surprised King George didn't try to have it declared a holiday -- he's done dumber things.

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And Finally, I'm introducing a new feature:  I believe

I believe the world would be a better place if world leaders were required to pop bubble wrap for 15 minutes before meeting with one another.BUBBLE WRAP BIKINI -- ONE MINUTE OF PLEASURE, 15 YEARS OF INCARCERATION.

I believe supermodels should be force fed at least one piece of fudge per week.

I believe  someone with an MBA should know better -- has anyone seen my constitution around here lately -- and we wonder why the economy sucks potatoe pancakes?

Bush's $3 trillion budget is US first

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Stay strong
Keep writing
Darrin Coe

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