Cycle of life.

I was talking to my wonderful wife yesterday about one of my thoughts on life. I believe everything runs in cycles. in general you will see the full outcome of something not right after you are done but after a period of time. I consider this period of time to be generally in 7's. I do not think you will see what a president has done until 7 years after. Most recent is the Republican supported but Democrat endorsed and President Clinton signed housing bill that is one of many reasons for the current economic struggles. But also on that is it has been 7 years since 9/11. We lost many brilliant minds that day and I believe we are paying for it now.

So why do I think this happens? I don't think it is an act of God in general. Maybe in some way it is. But this would be more like god works in mysterious ways then. But I think the people of the world in general have a short attention span. This generally sets things in a cycle. This is why in America you see a switch of Political parties in general every 7 years. This is why you see falls in the market every few years. After 9/11 people were all pumped up about America being strong and powerful. But the population as a whole became disinterested after a few years. Bad decisions were made and people became more interested in other things rather than keeping the market strong.

It was around 3 to 5 months into President Obamas 4 year term that people have started to lose faith in him. 7 months into his Presidency his approval ratings dropped drastically. This shows to me that you only get a short period of time in the public eye to make something work. The issue is that it takes longer than that. President Bush warned that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would take a long time. The American public was all for that. But, Once the public lost interest in the wars "in general that was after the first few months" you started to see backlash. Honestly this is what Osama was betting on. Vietnam was the same way. Their leaders knew of the worlds attention span, In specific Americas lack of an attention span. They knew they just had to keep picking away. Once that started to happen then the politicians got involved. There were rallies and other things. American soldiers were degraded in their own country. Support in the war was lost. Not that I am saying if it was right to be there or not. But American support fell. Because of that, troops had to pull back, getting many of them killed in the process or throwing away the victories of those that had given their lives to push things forward.

Those are just big examples that have effected our lives now and some of the affects we are only seeing now or have not seen them yet. I think we can all live our lives by a factor of 7. Not that that is a hard number. You can go more or less by a year or two before you notice the difference. It is like a wave of peaks and valleys threw time. I think we are in that right now with this economic down turn. We have hit the low, and it will take us time to get out of it. But we are out. In the next few years we will see growth again. over the next 7 years we will see growth in America and the world. This is the time we prepare ourselves. This is the time we make the good choices in our lives to prepare for the next downturn. Expect to see struggles in the market again in 8 to 9 years. Your life does not have to be in the same cycle as the stock market. You could be having the best times right now, or you could still be on your way up or way down. These are the times that we grow in our lives. It is not a straight track and we will be taken all over. This is how we learn the lessons in our lives is we learn from the bad times and put those into the good time so that when the bad times come around again we can better handle the storm.

Not everyone is alike.

    I have been looking over the past few months and years to my life and I have noticed one thing that almost everyone seems to have in common. They think everyone should be like them. 

I will explain.

    I don't drink. I have sipped a few differen drinks out of curiosity and have decided that it is in no way for me. I hate the taste, I do not like the places you have to go to get the "Good Stuff" and I don't like the lifestyle. But I don't mind that someone else decides to drink, as long as they do it responsibly. But I have been told my many a drinker that I have just tried the "Wrong drink" and they always will recommend a different one. Which I will reply with "I am just not interested" But always they will just say I have tried the wrong drink, It was mixed wrong, you tried the wrong brand.  But in the end I know it's just, I do not like it. it is not for me. 

  

    But this is not just to the drinkers or "Worldly People". Religion does it also. one of those is that if you don't see something as a miracle. You see it as good people, Good luck, or anything else. Not that you deny there is a god. Just that you don't think he controls everyone like a puppet. We all struggle with prayer, to which someone always answers with something like "You don't pray right". I have been guilty of this myself being of the mind that most people are lazy and want things given to them. It is not right of me to say, but sadly I do. 

    

    Being LDS, I also hear allot about the temple. I do not hate the temple. I have liked to go. But there are some things that have made me UN-easy in the past. The typical response I have heard is. "You just have to go more often." Or "You did not go in with the right frame of mind." All these answers are the same answers a drinker will give me.  Just worded differently. If I do not like something. Is that not my choice anymore. If I feel out of place or have a distaste for something that is my choice. 

   Most people accept that I do not like tomatoes. Why can't they accept that I don't like some temple ordnance. Or that I just do not like to drink alcohol. Why can't the atheist accept that I believe in god. why cant democrats accept that I think government should have a much smaller roll. Why cant the rich and the poor accept that the other is not a snob or lazy trash.  My thought is, They want you to be like them.  They want you to just accept and love everything they do. Being different to people is considered bad.

Hidden Demons

Last Night I was awoken with a startle from one of my dreams. The Dream Was largly based on me running around in this strange area. Honeslty I think it was inspired from the game I just purchased yesterday, "Little Big Planet". But I was not bothered by that. Although odd it was quite the enjoyable dream. But what Startled me was the short but sudden change that happened in the dream.

As I was saying I was wondering around. It was an area that I had just cleaned up myself and was very proud. Not even a speck of dust was to be seen anywhere and it was quite the large area. I was almost hovering around I was moving so fast. Alot of ups and downs. Stairs and solid wooden boxes. It was a very colorful dream.

After I had run away for a while. I noticed a very dusty area I had not seen before. I went in and it actually looked alot like a room in my parents basement except slightly larger and where there is a concrete wall was a large opening into what looked to me like avery nice home theater room. Well I started to walk over to the room and noticed some sort of demond in the room, smoking what looked like a cigar. although I was not sure. I only saw his arm and a slight profile of his face. He called my name with the frightening deep crackly voice. It starteled me so much that I woke up right then.

I woke up with such a fright that I am not sure if the voice was part of my dream or if it was something in my room. because I work up mid word but heard the whole word. It really freaked me out. But I like to consider myself fairly brave at times. So after a very quick scan of my room I went back to sleep. But still it gave me quite the scare and really made me think. What did he represent. What inner demonds do I have that I have either forgotten abot or apparently do not know about. What is in my dusty unused basement.

Sitting by the kitchen dreaming of food.

So I have been at my new office for a few weeks now. I have really been slacking on updating my blog and I am sorry to those 2 readers. So here is an update hopefully a very long and interesting one.

My new office is very nice I like all my bosses depending on the day and the job I can have up to 5 but usually it is just one or two. As you can see my desk is right by the break room. So I am getting up and drinking alot more water these days. A good thing but also the bathroom is a little further away and I am taking more of those breaks also. Ha it's funny how life evens out.
Also as you can see my life as a draftsman is full of clutter. paper paper everywhere comming at random times and coming in bulk. Maybe I have no choice but to be cluttered like this or maybe I just learned it from family. Either way I feel like a complete slob 5 days of the week.
But one of the best things of all is the fact that I am able to have money in the bank. I am not spending it on gas or snacks. or half as much soda "Water Breaks!!!" they are great.
I am still doing some projects in Revit. Possibly I will be taking some revit classes sometime soon and also I will be looking into taking some classes for a program called Microstation. I have not heard wonderful things about the program. But many govermenet entities require it. You know... To make things more difficult and less cost efficent. I love how my tax dollars are spent.
So then other news on the office front was the loss of the Junior Engineer at my office. I guess things were not working for either side and he was let go after around 2 months. So that added alot of pressure onto everyone in the company. Well atleast the draftsman that would be needing to pick up the slack and get to know his project that includes me. I think I am safe for atleast another two weeks. Actually out of what I heard I am safe for alot longer than that unless I really screw up. But you never know. I am hourly so that means first to be let go if things go badly.
On a good note. They have unofficially that this is the year that they take the entire company to Disneyland for a weekend. I don't have much more innfomation except for the fact that it will be sometime in early December. Also I am allowed and encouraged to bring one person along with me. As of two weeks ago I don't know who that is anymore. But that is another story I am still trying to cope with myself and would completly negate how I started this paragraph.
So I guess that just about covers it. I am doing well. I am making money and if I do well I will make more. and I have no other life to speak of still. Getting up and trying to get to work by 7am everyday is still a pain but I think I am getting better.

I was Tagged!!!

A: Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.



B: At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names; then goes to their blogs, leaves them a comment letting them know that they have been tagged and invites them to read your blog.



1. I constantly check my e-mail and myspace accounts. although I do not always reply to them because I say to myself I will later and then I forget.



2. I WRITE IN CAPS ALOT BECAUSE I AM DRAFTING MOST OF THE TIME THAT I AM ON A COMPUTER. SO I AM NOT REALLY YELLING AT YOU. I AM JUST NOT TAKING THE TIME TO HIT THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON.



3. I am usually ready early for anyplace that I am going. If I am late it's because I got the time wrong or I was waiting on someone.



4. I love to sit and Spec out new computers in my spare time. If I could build a computer once a week I would be happy. But that is an expensive hobby



5. Even though I don't go every day. I love to go jogging and if I had the time during the day I would go everyday. But I don't like to jog in the cold so that cuts out most mornings and nights right now.



6. I am currently Addicted to buffets. Right now I am in love with Sweet Tomatoes. Honestly I never thought I would be like my dad and crave a good salad this often. But dang it!!! I make an good salad at sweet tomatoes.

So I don't have 6 people to tagg. I know pathetic. But I am tagging the Burton Family and Kevin and Lachelle.