North Dakota Abortion

As you might know by now, I am from North Dakota.  Recently our legislature began pushing a new bill that would outlaw abortion past six weeks after conception.  This created quite the rousing for all North Dakota citizens.  Whether you are pro-life, pro-choice, or somewhere in between, isn't really relevant in this post as I'm not going to get into a huge debate about it.

The interesting thing I found in this story was the number of people on my Facebook feed that would openly post either for or against the new bill.  Again, don't want to debate, but I believe it should be up to the mother and only the mother.  I don't believe any slut that has had 9 abortions already should be able to get one either and I personally would never want to abort something that I helped create, but that's debating and we'll stay away from that.  The point of the post is why would you want to kill something that you created in your body? It isn't about if you can or can't do it, but why would you want to? What part of a person makes the decision for someone to kill a part of them that they took part in creating? 

As I go further into this, it's becoming harder and harder to not debate, but just hang in there.

Recently my sister lost her baby a little over two weeks before her due date.  My sister is over 30 years old and has been trying to have a child for awhile now.  How fair is that?  Someone who wants a child more than probably I could ever imagine, only to have nature decide that she can't.  On the other hand, there are thousands of people every day that forcibly end their child's life.

I understand there are many exceptions to abortion and every story is different, but I can't even fathom the logic behind that.  Someone that wants a child so much and is denied and someone who doesn't want one at all, only to have it destroyed.

It doesn't quite make sense to me but what am I to do about it?  If you feel like putting in your two cents to this post, I hope you do.

Been Awhile

Yeah...it has been awhile, but here I am again!

I've been away for a long time and I'm not really sure why.  I recently graduated from college (YAY!) and haven't been doing much of anything for the past couple of months.

By the way, if you know anyone looking for a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems, send them my way.

Other than that, yeah, nothing.  Thought I would at least throw something down tonight even though I don't have much to say. However, I have started uploading some new videos to my YouTube channel if anyone is interested.  http://www.youtube.com/user/33xacex33?feature=watch There's the link. While you're there you might as well subscribe.

Well, that's all I have for tonight.  Until next time, GET TO THE CHOPPAAAAAH!

Relationships

I'm pretty sure I've referred to relationships in this blog before, but I'm going to do it again, so deal with it.

Relationships...are just confusing.  All around.  Confusing. Friends, more than friends, not even friends, coworkers, family, it doesn't matter, relationships are just confusing.

The particular relationship I'm speaking of is a friendship I have with a female.  Now, it's not anything serious at all, just putting that out there.  It's just that I don't know what to think of the interactions I do have with this individual.

Here's the background story:

I was sitting at work a few evenings ago (on the computer of course) and I had a status on Facebook.  I'm just going to stop for a second and say life would be so much easier if there was more personal interactions instead of interactions over technology.  Anyway, this particular person, who I went to high school with, commented on my status, and we went back and forth for a bit, and then she pops me up on messenger and just gives me her phone number.  At first, I just thought "Cool, I got a number."  I didn't really think much of it, but then I started thinking more and more about it and here I am, confused.

I'm not trying to get all crazy over this or anything, but it just seemed really weird to me.  I had very little interaction with this person when I was in high school because she is a couple years younger than me and she gave me her number based on what?  That's what I don't understand and why I am so confused.  WHY?  What made her decide she was going to give me that number and tell me to text her?

I'm probably over-thinking the whole thing, but I like to think about things like this.

Relationships.

Well, that's all the story I have for you tonight.  Until next time, maybe it was the blue pill?

You Better Enjoy This

I decided I would throw up a post quick even though it is almost 4 am here.

I've been really busy lately. I'm in the middle of corn harvest on our family farm and taking 19 credits in college this semester so I haven't had much time to post anything.

It's been a crazy semester so far.  The first few weeks weren't bad, but now that I am trying to juggle 40 plus hours a week of work with 19 credits of school, I barely have time to sleep, let alone think.  Hopefully we'll be done with harvest next week though, and I can go back to a healthy mixture of school and booze.

I don't know who even reads these posts, but obviously someone does since I can see my blog gets views.  So I thought it would be a kind gesture to share what's happening in my life.  Nothing exciting, that's for sure.

I suppose though I should get sleep while I can.  Until next time, don't take the red pill.

Slender

Now that college has started back up again, I was bored tonight and was looking for something to do.  Lately, I've been hearing a lot about a game called Slender...

For those of you that don't know, Slender is an Indie-based game about a man named Slenderman, I guess. Basically, you start with a flashlight and have to walk around a wooded area in the dark and find 8 notes.  I got two...I'm not going to say much about this game because I didn't play it much so there's not much to say. I will say this though, I don't know what it is about the game but it is freaky as all hell.  Not like piss your pants scary, but like psychologically frightening. I'm sweating and all my muscles are tense from playing the game for all of ten minutes.

Maybe another day I will try to play it again, but for now, I'd like to sleep tonight.

Until next time, remember, "Always watches, no eyes."

End of Days

Summer is coming to an end...

That's not all bad.  Living in a college town it's actually kind of nice when school starts up again.  Don't get me wrong, I love the summer, but it's nice having everyone back too.  The school year means actually getting to see more than just the friends that hung around town for the summer.  Also, it means many more parties and the bars will be packed again.

I hate school though.  Honestly, if it wasn't for the potential to make so much more money, I would have never gone to college.  It's not that I was ever a bad student, I just hate going.  Nonetheless, it is coming... Hopefully this will be my last semester and I will go off and do an internship next semester, and then onto the real world.

Hopefully it will be a good year for everyone that is attending some form of educational institution, but I just remembered I still have to sign up for another class.  Until next time, let the beer flow and the books open.

Activists

These days it seems as though there is an activist group for just about everything from gay rights, guns laws, political, and the list goes on for days.  However, there is one group of individuals that really gets under my skin.  Anti-gun activists...

Coming from North Dakota, I was basically born with a gun in my hand.  By the time I was 8 years old, I already had 3 guns to my name.  Now, I could see how some people might have a problem with that, but if you teach a child how to safety and responsibly shoot a gun at a young age, that will stay with them until the day they die.

Anti-gun activists are basically trying to take gun ownership away from normal citizens. This, I have a problem with.  By no means do I think the average person should be able to own fully automatic weapons without some sort of special permit, but these people are trying to take away more than that.

I've been hunting since I was very young, since I could legally shoot and kill an animal.  Well, now this brings in a different group of activists, PETA. As far as I'm concerned, PETA can go straight to hell.  For the most part, what I use guns for is hunting.  I don't hunt just to kill animals for the hell of it.  I hunt for food.  Since I was very young I have been hunting and if I didn't hunt, that would erase at least 50 percent of the food I eat.  Although I do hunt animals I don't eat, those animals are predators of the food I do eat and predators of my family and pets.

Now, my list of guns include a BB gun, .22 rifle, paintball gun, shotgun, rifle, assault rifle, and pistol.  Are you going to try to take those all away from me?  I can tell you exactly what I use every one of those for and not one of them is used for harmful purposes.  You can argue a self-defense weapon is harmful, but if you come unwelcome into my home with intent to hurt me, my family, friends, or pets, I'm going to shoot you until I'm sure you aren't going to hurt anyone.

On the other hand, with the recent events in Aurora, Colorado, I can understand how some people would want to keep guns away from citizens.  However, you have to look at the person that was involved in this tragedy.  The guy was a mentally ill person with all the freedom in the world to buy multiple fully automatic weapons and 6000 rounds of ammunition.  The guy had issues, don't get me wrong, but he should have been red-flagged long before anything happened.  I mean really, you can't tell me his name didn't appear on some government screen with what he was buying.

To conclude this rather long rant, I have owned and been around guns my entire life and I have never shot at a person, been shot at, or been hurt in any way from a gun. If you take away guns, you're taking away my lifestyle.  Until next time, try to take my guns or my life, we'll see who comes out on top.