Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

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Describing my immediate surroundings towards the beginning and a twist to the tale or possible solutions to issues towards the end of some blogs and how they relate to my expectations of the world at large.

  • 20100412-One’s Point

    Son: Aren’t you proud that I’m successful?

    Parent: Of course! Just as long as you finish college, you’ll do just fine!

    —

    Why look for approval?

    Don’t you know that the choice was yours all along?

    Why do you continue to lay the blame on your parents?

    Don’t you know that they have nothing to do with your final decisions?

    —

    If only you listened well, you would not have to feel less than a perfect person that you already are. Instead you continue to defy your parents!

    —

    Why do you want your parents to compete with others who are less secure?

    Don’t you know that they have already found their peace with each other and God?

    Why do you concern yourself with their simple ways in life?

    Don’t you know that they are innocent of all that you have accused them of?

    —

    You, your wife and your ungrateful relatives owe these two an apology!

    After all they have done for you, you continue to be the rebel. You had a choice to make peace. But you continue along the path of destruction.

    —

    What have you accomplished in your life? Have you done something to benefit humanity or just for please yourself?

    What is your point? Take a hint.

  • 20100412-Noticing Numbers

    Besides the usual double digits that I’ve noticed in the past but failed to enter into my weblog, today is no exception. The three of us decided to get some food at Valerio. The time was early evening and the rain had stopped. The clouds of fluffy, puffy whiteness came and went. Some blue skies were seen, too.

    Anyway, in order to be served in the order in which the customer comes into the bakery, one must take a number from the TURN-O-MATIC T80. And guess what? Our number came up to be 44. The color of the paper was green, by the way.

  • 20100412-More Spooks

    Yes. The rick rockets continue to buzz my neighborhood the whole of today. If they are part of the thugs in the Santa Clara County, you know what to do. They would turn into MY drive and make a U-turn going northbound on MY road. Then a low-rider would come out from northbound towards the railroad intersection and back in the opposite direction. Did someone make noise? Hmmm!

  • 20100412-Weathery Ways

    The whole day has been rainy. The skies are cloudy and gray. The rain stopped during the mid-morning and then started again. Then the sunshine came out! This was around mid-afternoon. The sun came out a bit also yesterday around 07:00pm or so I think.

  • 20100412-Still Stuck

    Well, I’m calling around for jobs but only know the head hunters. If former co-workers can travel long distances just for a small paying job, so can I. Then again, I shouldn’t ask for more based on current economic conditions. But I really need to get my butt out of the house.

    I still worry about my family, the parakeets because now there are eight tummies to feed but most especially I’m really worried about Paw and Maw.

    This morning at around 01:00am, she was making loud moaning sounds through her CPAC machine. I screamed: MOM! WAKE UP! Then I jumped out of bed to see if she was still breathing. I had a hard time waking her up. I had to squeeze her toes and slap her feet very hard, just to make sure she was semi-conscious. I had to pull off the CPAP mask and shake her, too.

  • 20100412-Healed Neck

    For awhile now, my neck has been miraculously `healed`. The pain used to be constant. The sound of snapping cartilage, tendons, ligaments and muscles no longer exist (sort of). I prayed to the Lord for answers.

    And one day, I decided to install `The Original Swedish Neck Pillow™`. The size is a Queen Medium – 24 x 12 x 4 (for $129.00). It was in the linen closet for several years until my lumpy pillows gave out. After using this neck pillow, my neck felt better the next morning!

    But there was one day that I visualize the release of an imaginary noose tied around my neck. I am somewhat a believer in reincarnation. But since I do not remember my past lives, I’ve read or heard something about physical problems manifested due to past life trauma.

    During my mock meditation that one night or perhaps several times during the day, I used my imaginary scissors to cut the rope around my neck. For you see, I’ve been having the sensation of something choking me as if the blood would be trapped inside my head and my eyes felt like popping out of my eye socket.

    Sometimes I sense that maybe my head has been cut off in one of my past live or lives. Going forward, my blogs are eerily similar to what I may have done in the past – said too much or wrote too much for my own good and at the expense of my own live.

    As per my previous blog entries and via one of my Yahoo! Messenger chatting session to a `gifted healer` of all sorts, I mentioned that one of my dreams was about my head being cut off with a short ax. There was another person in front of me who had her head beheaded too.

    So after praying for relief, that’s when the thought entered my small mind to use my EXPENSIVE neck pillow occurred to me. The space-aged foam helped stabilize my neck during my sleep at night. And since then, I’ve felt `more aligned` and of course grateful.

    Yes, prayers do work. Yes, the Lord is not sleeping. Yes, the messages of healing do come slowly at times but nonetheless manifests when the right time comes. Yes, the government is helping the best ways it can. Yes, there is relief from financial distress, too, which is why there is bankruptcy laws in place.

    The lessons are simple: Have faith. Don’t worry. Be happy. Know your limits. Stop spending. Keep working. Just know when to abandon ship, just like Captain Jean-Luc Picard did during the film `Star Trek: First Contact (1996)`.

    Ask for help, too, but sometimes that’s embarrassing. And as in one of my favorite songs from a rock band, `Journey`: `Don’t Stop Believing` (Songwriters: Schon, Neal; Cain, Jonathan; Perry, Steve).

  • 20100412-Prayer Journal

    `Rescue me from my enemies, O Lord; for I’ve sinned for being a helpful idiot. I ask for forgiveness, too, for offending you. Only you know what I want. I need your guidance, protection and faith in your will to do better. Thank you.`

    ~Moi in distress

    Psalm 35 (NIV) – Of David.

    1. Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.

    2. Take up shield and buckler;  rise and come to my aid.

    3. Brandish spear and javelin [a] against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

    4. May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plot my ruin be turned back in dismay.

    5. May they be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away;

    6. may their path be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

    7. Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me,

    8. may ruin overtake them by surprise—may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.

    9. Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation.

    10. My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, O LORD ? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

    11. Ruthless witnesses come forward; they question me on things I know nothing about.

    12. They repay me evil for good and leave my soul forlorn.

    13. Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,

    14. I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.

    15. But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; attackers gathered against me when I was unaware. They slandered me without ceasing.

    16. Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked [b] ; they gnashed their teeth at me.

    17. O Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my life from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.

    18. I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among throngs of people I will praise you.

    19. Let not those gloat over me who are my enemies without cause; let not those who hate me without reason maliciously wink the eye.

    20. They do not speak peaceably, but devise false accusations against those who live quietly in the land.

    21. They gape at me and say, “Aha! Aha! With our own eyes we have seen it.”

    22. O LORD, you have seen this; be not silent. Do not be far from me, O Lord.

    23. Awake, and rise to my defense! Contend for me, my God and Lord.

    24. Vindicate me in your righteousness, O LORD my God; do not let them gloat over me.

    25. Do not let them think, “Aha, just what we wanted!” or say, “We have swallowed him up.”

    26. May all who gloat over my distress be put to shame and confusion; may all who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and disgrace.

    27. May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “The LORD be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant.”

    28. My tongue will speak of your righteousness and of your praises all day long.

  • 20100412-Feathered Flight

    I just saw before my eyes a VERY small feather of a `V-shaped` kind! It was around 12:23AM. The color is white and floated slower and gracefully. The size of this feather could be compared to the small pinkie tip of a fingernail.

    I am still listening to Soul Love II (The Beckoning) by Digital Angel Donna DJ. That’s the kind of beat I like.

  • 20100411-Old Song

    This is one of my favorite songs from the early eighties and right out of college. It just brings back memories.

    After 7 – Ready Or Not by emiamericarecords — April 03, 2008

    Here are the lyrics by L.A. Reid and Baby Face (Kenny Edmonds, songwriter):

    I’ll give you the sun
    The Rain
    The Moon
    The Stars and The Mountains
    I’ll give you the world
    And all that you wish for
    And even more
    Girl I love you more than you could know
    And that’s for sure
    I’d climb the highest hill
    Cross the widest sea
    Nothin could discourage me
    And I pray that you will be
    Always there for me
    Forever more, ohh ohh ohh

    Chorus:
    Ready or not**
    I’ll give you everything
    and more
    All that I’ve got–it’s yours
    I’ll give you everything
    All that you’re looking for

    I’ll give you my heart
    My soul
    my time
    My love is a fountain
    I will be your earth
    Oooo and all that you need for
    and even more
    Cause girl I love you more than words can show

    My love is pure
    I’ll walk a thousand miles
    Sail a thousand seas
    Nothin will discourage me
    And I pray that you will be
    Always there for me
    Forever more

    Ready or Not–Don’t you know, don’t you know you should know?
    I’ll give you everything—ooooo
    And more—I’ll give you more, you’ve got to know it baby.
    All that I’ve got—baby it’s your little girl.
    I’ll give you everything -– every little thing.
    All that you’re looking for.

    Oooohhh everything is not anything.
    If your not here to share my dreams.
    You don’t know what it means to me.
    If you’ll accept my love.

    Oooohh I dedicate my love, my soul.
    My heart beats for you.
    Girl I can’t get enough
    So I wait for your love
    There’s nothing that I rather do–oooo ooooo IIII

    Repeat Chorus** 3x

    After 7 – Ready Or Not | VIRGIN

  • 20100411-Prayer Journal

    From our parish bulletin and via http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/w/w165.html, here is a hymnal prayer:

    We walk by faith, and not by sight;
    no gracious words we hear from him
    who spoke as none e’er spoke;
    but we believe him near.

    We may not touch his hands and side,
    nor follow where he trod;
    but in his promise we rejoice;
    and cry, “My Lord and God!”

    Help then, O Lord, our unbelief;
    and may our faith abound,
    to call on you when you are near,
    and seek where you are found:

    that, when our life of faith is done,
    in realms of clearer light
    we may behold you as you are,
    with full and endless sight.

    —

    Words: Henry Alford (1810-1871), alt.
    If you have Alford’s original words, please write.
    Music: St. Botolph
    Meter: CM

  • 20100411-Searching Cache

    Ah! I see the thugs are searching the Google cache. It’s amazing how one tries to help a `fellow brother` and the others try to hurt the helper. It’s really an Ouroboros, where one pocket goes into another pocket and back around, thinking that all is well. Well, what are they going to do? Make an unemployed and homeless bum go broke and all because the `higher levels` continue their naughty ways?

    Why won’t you see what is going on here? There is really no escape. No one can go far when the system fails to protect the innocent. I’ve read about many stories and now I find myself stuck in one. I just don’t understand what is going on, except the poor and stupid get the end of the bad stick.

    I’m sick and tire of being open and honest and no one will seem to hear my cries. Then again the government is doing all it can to help. It wouldn’t go this far if only idiots would just do the right thing. I know the intel community is reading my blogs. But like anything else, insignificant assets just fall through the cracks, get lost, stolen and forgotten.

  • 20100411-Rainy Day

    Today has been rainy. The skies are filled with gray clouds. The winds blow cold. The trees bend to the winds. Everyone seems stuck indoors. Laundry is being done. Cooking has been done. I didn’t know it takes three hours to cook two dishes this morning!