Icewind's Ramblings

We’ve had cold temperatures below zero for a couple weeks now and it is slowly warming up (to about 5 degrees) as we are getting some snow this afternoon and tonight.   It is nice to see the flakes floating around as day turned to nightfall giving things a soft glow from the street lights. I am glad this is a short week as everyone at work seems to not be into things or it is taking a little longer to get into the rhythm of the New Year.   To think back to an event in warmer times I thought I would share this with everyone.   This is some pretty awesome pictures from last fall @ the 2011 World Submarine racing Championships in the Gulf of Alaska. It’s pretty neat if you like submarines and with all of the water activities here during the summer months it seemed like a natural.   As Jimmy Buffett says, “This one is for all of us with a little pirate in them.”   Well, what did you really expect to see . . . it’s a submarine race . . . Now h...

All the voices in your head decide to play on the same team. This is a joke we've all heard before and it's funny, it really is . . . However, with most humor, the reason it is funny . . . is because it's true. When people see me and I’m smiling . . . I just think funny things to uplift my day! Ice

I ran across this older post on my gaming board, The Amazon Basin and it gave me a chuckle on parenting and children coming of age and dating.   I thought I would post on my blog so others may gain insight into their own experiences.   This was written in 2006 and brought with it several events that have run full circle now in my family’s life. Enjoy. As my youngest daughter has grown up and started dating it has become apparent that I needed to break out the rules again for dating my daughter.   Before the holidays I had a strange thing that happened and wanted to share it with you.   On one of the weekends before the Thanksgiving holiday some little girls stopped by the house to sell some gift wrapping paper for a school project.   This happens every year and talking with the neighbors kids was nice seeing how they were doing and what was happening in their school.   One of the young girls asked me if we could get the car that parked at the edge of ...

America is all about celebrating our freedoms and differences.  I believe the American people are getting wiser.  I hope so anyway, and I'm sure that there are those that would beg to differ, and that's ok, too.  Here's the thing that you have to realize during this election process.  Any candidate for the Presidency must raise a shitload of money in order to get the job.  That's just a fact.  It has been that way for many years now and probably will not change anytime soon even with the revisions in elections laws. Another fact this is often missed by the public is that the candidate owes these people for contributing enough to get him or her elected. I would like a list of donors from each candidate before the elections are done.  I think that would actually be a better way to tell who to vote for.  It shows more of the people and special interest groups and how much they are willing to pay to have a certain side in office. Those are the...

Well, damn. I accidentally hit "enter" right after I typed the dang title to this thing and so some of you are just going to hit a blank spot until I get it done.   In the meantime, I think I've lost the thought of what I was going to say and I'm hoping that by typing it will come to me . . . nope . . . damn. Yeah, pretty much, I just don't feel like blogging tonight.   I think I will fix some dinner, kick back and play about an hour of Starcraft 2 and watch Hawaii Five-0.   Maybe it will come to me then. Ice

Yeah, I know . . . just the right time of year. I was sitting here today trying to figure out what my first post of 2012 was going to be and this theme kept coming back to me as the day wore on.   What is it you ask? It struck me, though, that it's all an illusion. The people we are surrounded by . . . all of that . . . it's all an illusion. Not real. What is real is that we are all utterly and completely alone with no one to rely upon but ourselves. And, strangely enough, that's the only truth that matters. All the rest . . . are just mirrors to perfect the illusion . . . the illusion of being connected. Welcome to the New Year; may you seek the things that interest you, find your way through this maze called life and at the end of the day find joy. Ice