Category: Random Posts
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Welcome 2026!
Wishing you all the very best for 2026!
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Good Bye 2025
In what seems like the blink of an eye, another year is gone. We’ve survived yet another trip around the sun. While it’s still 365 days, the rotation seems to spin faster and faster every year. My resolution this year was not to make any resolutions, and I held to that. You can’t fail if…
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Holiday Shopping: Tis the Season For Chaos
Behold: the holidays, when ordinary humans become unhinged treasure hunters of truly mediocre items. Every December, humanity collectively forgets that the items we are wrestling strangers for—fuzzy socks, boxed chocolates, personal hygiene box sets, and oddly scented candles, are typically available every single day of the year. Suddenly, a mug that says “Warm Wishes” becomes…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving filled with pizza, or whatever non-pizza meal you’re eating. Remember – We should be thankful every day of the year for the blessings we have!
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Some Funny Memes…
I often feel old, but when I see memes like these I definitely feel like a dinosaur! Unfortunately, these references about Generation X are quite true. This image truly reflects the comment, “If You Know, You Know.” The rules were simple. Destroy the other players. Especially the ones that wore glasses or had something weird…
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New Music You Need To Hear
If you enjoy electronic dance music (EDM), or even if you don’t, you need to listen to my latest album… Ghosts is a 12 song release for those who crave classic trance music. Each track immerses the listener in a world of pure audio euphoria. The title track, Ghosts, is perfect for your Halloween playlist,…
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Halloween: How Soon Is Too Soon?
It’s not uncommon for Christmas lights to be up in November, but when is it okay to put up the Halloween decorations? In my neighborhood, we had people starting to put up Halloween decorations in the last week of August. I’m not talking about a pumpkin or a scarecrow. I’m referring to full on inflatables,…
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Interstellar Contact, Coming Soon!
An unknown object is rapidly approaching Earth with an expected arrival sometime around November, 2025. Could this be the first extraterrestrial contact? First of all, I don’t believe this is the “first” contact, if it actually happens. Aliens were here before, and probably are here now. If something wants to visit us from somewhere else,…
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History Repeats Itself
Just like how old music comes back around to be trendy again, so do the ways we listen to it. In my prime time as a DJ in the 1990s, I would hit up music stores at least weekly, if not more, to further my quest of finding new music, or older hidden gems. One…
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Ghost Stories
Ghosts, UFOs, and Sasquatch are real. I know because my TV, and the internet, have been telling me so. I used to be really annoyed by ghost hunter shows on TV because most were so obviously fake you’d have to be really dumb to believe they were real. They often had no plot, and more…
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Motivational Thoughts
Take these statements to heart – They just might make your day better! Follow Me For More Great Wisdom Like This!
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The Joys of Walmart
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller That quote is from the end of the classic 1986 movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, starring Mathew Broderick. The quote is very true, especially when shopping at Walmart. I was shopping in one…
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Merica’ 2025
We made it through another year of festivities, food, and explosions. What’s interesting about this great nation of ours is the wonderful ability to blow stuff up. When the Founding Fathers of our nation wrote, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” they probably weren’t picturing Carl from the trailer park launching flaming Roman candles…
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A.I. Is My New Buddy
Who needs people when I have perfect algorithmic validation? I’m that person who is skeptical of new technology. I usually hold out as long as I can because I think something may just be a passing fad. Or, more often than not, I just don’t care to jump on the bandwagon with whatever the latest…
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What’s New – Part 2
In my last post I mentioned my new books, but that’s not all I’ve been putting together! If anyone has read my blog for a long time, you’ll know music is something that is very high on my list of priorities in life. I was a professional DJ for many years, so music has been…
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Too Many Projects, Not Enough Time
Big things are afoot here in Martyland! I’m in the midst of exciting changes. Not just my socks and underwear (I’m overdue for both), but the entire world of my multi-media empire. What an amazing time we’re living in! Just like President Trump did with Elon Musk and DOGE, I had to do a top…
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Happy New Year!
I hope 2025 is the best year ever for you! Wishing you all the very best!
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The Right Mood To Write…
As I write this, it’s November 25th and I have not posted one thing for the entire month up to this point. I used to use lame excuses saying I was too busy or whatever, but in the case of November, I just haven’t been in the mood to write. If I’m not in the…
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Not Happy With The New Wheel of Fortune
Change is inevitable, and sometimes change is good, but change can be difficult to accept after 41 seasons (8,000 episodes) of a classic TV game show. Television producers have a bad habit of making change when it’s not needed. Examples of this include The Flintstones adding The Great Gazoo, Scooby Doo adding Scrappy, and Cousin…
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Knock Knock…Open Up!
I know there are plenty of random readers who see my posts, but I’ve come to realize most of my e-mail subscribers never see the stories I work so hard on because the notifications probably end up in spam folders, or in the trash. In the world of blogging, writers are often brag about how…
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You Need a Good Laugh
Here are a few random funnies to get you through your day… Q. Why did the scarecrow win an award? A. Because he was outstanding in his field! Q. Why don’t skeletons fight each other? A. They don’t have the guts! Q. Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? A. He just needed a little…
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Political Shenanigans
While I am a strong advocate of democracy, election season is my least favorite time of year primarily due to the over abundance of political ads. But, the bright side to this is the ads are getting more and more entertaining. Election season is that wonderful time where television commercials and social media feed transform…
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I Went To Buc-ee’s (Oh My!)
If you haven’t heard of Buc-ee’s yet, you will… First, I have to let you know up front that Buc-ee’s is a highway travel stop, also known as a truck stop, or convenience store that is located primarily in Texas, but they also have other locations in the southern and Midwest United States. You may…
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A Motivational Post
When it comes to success in life, regardless of what you choose to do, you usually need to have luck or skill. It doesn’t hurt to have both, but what happens if you don’t have either? Life throws many variables at us which we can’t control, or have minimal control over. Luck falls into this…
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Merica!
It’s the time of year when we celebrate our freedom by blowing up as much stuff as we can… Those who live outside the United States probably get confused when they to try to understand why we do what we do here in America, but for that matter, there are many Americans who are confused…
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The Incredible Vanishing Blog Writer
Sometimes I think I’m an internet magician. I just randomly disappear from the blogging world. I did it again. In a POOF, I wandered away from the writing world once again (it’s getting to be a bad habit). Maybe I was abducted by aliens. Maybe I fell down a well. Maybe I was abducted by…
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Vinyl Records – History Repeats Itself
You can’t find CD’s anymore, but nearly every store sells vinyl records now… Back in my younger days (waaaay back in the 1990’s), I was a professional DJ for many years of my life. . There was no internet yet (gasp!), so when we wanted to search for new music we had to go actually…
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The Cool Thing About Being A Writer
You probably wouldn’t recognize me standing next to you in an American grocery store, but people in third world countries know who I am… I don’t have a ton of followers, but I do have a lot of readers. Most of my readers are in the United States, but many are scattered all over the…
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Things I Didn’t Know I Needed (Part 2)
Life is so much better when you find something you don’t how you lived without… A while back I wrote a post about finding something that was the best thing ever – a flamethrower.(Flamethrowers…The Thing You Never Knew You Needed) Since I wrote that, I’ve had a few more more opportunities to experience that same feeling…
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True Story…
If you don’t believe it, try it. You’ll see…
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Conversations With My Dog
Sometimes dogs have pretty enlightening things to say… We look at dogs as our pets and we have historically referred to ourselves as their “masters”, or keepers, but my dog pointed out humans have completely misinterpreted this concept. My dog pointed out that we (humans) are clearly subservient to them (dogs)… We are at their…
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Tipping On Take Out Orders: Yes or No?
There is an increasing expectation to tip when picking up your take out orders, but should you? Should you tip when it comes to delivery? Absolutely. Should you tip when you’re dining in at a restaurant? Of course. Should you tip when you are picking up a simple to-go order? I’m often told I’m a…
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Another Use For My Flamethrower…
Yellow jackets are mean, nasty, and have no place on this planet. My flamethrower helped make the planet, or at least my backyard, a little safer. I was walking through my some tall grass in my backyard on a fine summer day. As I took a step, I felt an intense pain in my right…
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I Saw an Amazon Train…
It may not seem very exciting that I saw a train, but it’s the back story that makes this interesting… Everyone has a seen a train at one time or another, but the train I saw was an Amazon train. This train was comprised of however many hundreds of flatbed rail cars stretched over what…
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Today’s Driving Lesson
If you drive a vehicle, please read this… Wherever you live in the world, and whether you ride a skateboard, a bike, a motorcycle, a car, a truck, or even a shopping cart at the grocery store for that matter, what I’m about to tell you is extremely important. We all know (or at least…
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Life Really Is About The Journey…
People can learn a thing or two from dogs… There is a quote by American author Ralph Waldo Emerson in an essay he wrote in 1841 titled, Self Reliance, which said, “It’s not the destination. It’s the journey.” This has been twisted a few different ways over the years, but the most common saying now…
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Senseless Babble & Random Rants
It’s been a while since I’ve vented, so here we go with a few things: #1: I don’t like Whataburger. Our Super Bowl champion quarterback Patrick Mahomes loves Whatburger. It’s his favorite restaurant. When he came to Kansas City, the restaurant had no stores here. He wanted it, so he bought into the franchise and…
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Flamethrowers…The Thing You Never Knew You Needed
Sometimes in life you come across an item you didn’t know you needed, but once you have it, you can’t live without it. A flamethrower is definitely one of those things. I will admit my first thought when acquiring a flamethrower was simply adding another tool to my zombie apocalypse kit, but once I utilized…
Words with Pizza - Featuring Marty the Pizza Guy 