Uncle Jay Explains: Year-end! 12-22-08

Good video

A friend sent this to me and I thought I would share it with everyone.

2008 so far

Wow, I am looking and I have not posted anything in so long that it pretty bad. Lets see, this spring I graduated from TSTC with an accociates in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, I got a job in Kilgore Tx, but found out quickly that they were not whom I wanted to stay with for any length of time. For example, I asked the boss about moving up in the company and his reply was that I was pretty much stuck where I was. After I asked around, I found out that I was one of the higher paid people, even higher paid than the folks that had been there for 10 plus years. So, after working there for several months, the Lord was gracious enough to put me back to work in Stephenville. I am still currently working there and have been doing a few odd jobs during the week in Tyler. I did make a trip to Carlesbad Caverns the week after I got an apartment in Stephenville. I am hoping between now and Thanksgiving I can spend several weeks in Stephenville without going anywhere so that I will be able to gather some spending money to make another trip. I still want to go back to school to finish my bachelors but need to wait till some of what I owe already is paid off. No, I haven't found a gf, but then again I am not financially stable enough to support anyone at the moment either, so it all works out. Anyway, I need to get to bed. I have stayed up entirely too late. Night.

Hubbard, TX

I am sorry I have not posted here in forever and that this is going to be very negative, but someone needs to say it. I am living in Wacko, TX while going to school so I have a tendency to travel back to Tyler where my family lives once a month or so. I use HWY 31 because it is the shortest distance between Tyler and Waco and currently has the least road construction. Well, there happens to be a little town called Hubbard in between. It is just a HUGE nuisance. To begin with, it slows down the rate of traffic to 35 miles an hour. Secondly, it has a stop light. Third and the worst part is that I have ALWAYS had to stop at this light. Tonight I thought was going to be my lucky night. I am cruising at the speed limit (wow) and the light has turned yellow about one truck length from the white line. Not a big deal because it would have out a flat spot on my tires trying to stop quickly. Not gasing it or anything, I go through the light and it turns red while I am going underneath it. I go a long for a ways still going the speed limit and then get pulled over by a cop. Great. Fun Stuff. I have not done anything wrong, so I am not shaky or anything. I am tired and I have heard horror stories about cops, so I tried to be nice. He comes up and asks for my license and insurance. That is no biggy. I have both. Not a problem. He then informs me that I have ran the stop light. At this point is where I almost loose my cool. I know that at this point there is nothing I can do, but to accuse me of that is just WRONG. I did not say anything. I just kept my mouth shut. He asked me where I was going and coming from. I told him about going to Tyler to see family and was coming back so that I could get to work this morning. He then hands me back my license and then walks around my truck looking for something else to write me up on. I ALWAYS walk around my truck before a road trip for this reason. He then goes and writes up a ticket for running a red light and a warning because my license plate is partialy covered by the dealer border. WOW. At this point I was thinking about how in the world was I going to pay for all this? I have to move into a new apartment and have to get ready for this trip later this summer. What am I going to do? I then ask him what the hours are and what city and what not because I have lost it. I also asked him what it would take to keep this off my record. He told me that this could "EASILY" be taken care of by defensive driving. He recommended that I rent the video from a movie house, "It will only take 6 HOURS of your time." The time I am not worried about. It is the money to rent or to go to defensive driving that I am worried about. How come when you think you might have it all coming together and might be able to break even with all your bills that people like this come around? First, it was the head of my majoring department informing me that I was going to be stuck here for another semester taking 2 classes each semester for the next 2 semesters and now it is a cop whom is writing tickets to the people whom are honest workers just barely scraping by trying to NOT go the credit card route that everyone else does. Of course I was a dummy and did not explain any of this to the officer. He does not understand that some people are legal and do their best. He just wants to hand out tickets. He is probably the one whom made that light such that it is the ONLY light between Corssicana and Wacko that is not flashing yellow after 1am. I don't know what to do. I am going to have to do something. Walking is not the answer because then it would take weeks (need to pay bills) to get home. Any other way costs money that I don't have. Am I missing something? What do I need to do? For starters, I am off to sleep so that I can go to work and maybe attempt to make some money. Later.

Girls.

Well, I have realized that girls in the level of society that I am living in have alot different standards than I do. I guess that I am just talking to the wrong ones. I thought I had a good thing going. She was smart, had a good personality, and looked pretty good. Then came the fun two things that set us apart: she was not a Christian and she does not have the same morals that I do. I hope we can still be friends, but I don't want to get as close as she would like to unless we are alot closer to the same page. The interesting part is that she knows what I am talking about and can actually hold a conversation about some of the things that I have learned, so it is not like she does not know about Him, she just does not believe. So, I have decided that I am going to continue praying for her, but move on as far as gf and bf type stuff is concerned. We were actually doing pretty good and talking about all sorts of stuff that I have not been able to talk about since leaving a LETU due to the fact that no one else knew what I was talking about. Great stuff. Anyway, time to get back into the rat race, I have work early in the morning. Later.

Comments

Sorry guys, I had to turn off the comments again. It seems that the spammers are taking over again. Later.

Power Plants

This is very, very stupid. I am not sure if the rest of ya'll know about this, but is is big news here in Waco. They are wanting to build a coal power plant or two near Waco and alot of the locals don't want one here. This is kind of interesting due to the fact that the Texas power grid is starting to get close on its ability to keep up with power demands. It is predicted that withing a year or two we will start to see alot of black and brown outs. There are 4 ways to keep this from happening. 1. Install alot of windmills. 2. Dam up a few rivers and install power plants on the dam. 3. Coal plants. 4. Nuclear plants. All of these projects would cost alot of money, but the coal plant would be the cheapest. They already have a project that is being considered concerning building a windmill farm off of the coast of Texas, but this is old news and I have not heard anything about it in a year or two. It probably fell through. Rivers. We have already damed up too many of them and what few there are left don't have any water in them right now due to a lack of rain that has lasted 4? years or so. Nuclear. We all know that everyone is too afraid of a nuclear plant. Personaly, I think that a nuclear plant would be the cheapest way out. As long as you properly care for the plant and you don't hire stupid incompitant people (Homer Simpson) it should do pretty good. Everyone that I have suggested going nuclear with claims that it is too dangerous because of examples like Chernoble. From what I have read, that was caused by the plant not being properly taken care of. So, we are left with coal plants. So they are dirty polute the air a little. There is nothing that you can do that would be cleaner that would generate that kind of electricity and have it up and running in less than a year(I am not sure how long that they are planning to take to build these plants but it could be done in less than a year if properly motivated). Well, now I have shared my thoughts that are probably not well planned out when put on paper, but that is what my take is on the subject. Later.