My dad passed away a a few Saturdays ago. We had the funeral last weekend. His passing was expected, and came peacefully at home. The pastors that preformed the ceremony asked us to write a down a few of our fond memories of him. I’ve decided to share them here.
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The new year of 2007 is a new beginning for most. For some, like myself a recent college grad, it’s a new chapter in my life. I get to look for a job where I will no doubt, spend the better half of my middle age life. What’s next for me? Who knows? Certainly not Fate, God or even Me. But I do know this. The next few weeks I will spend time reflecting on what matters to me. Loved ones like friends and family are not always going to be around forever. Sometimes you forget that wrapped up in your daily so-called life. So before you skip the next family gathering or even just lunch with your friend, think twice about going. Because Life is just a series of moments. Go out and make one for yourself.
So fine, I’ll blog, why not. Looks like no one has posted for a while so sure, I can use this to post something fun, insane or just rant some. Where should I start? Maybe discuss the obvious news items, predict future on things, comment on society, give advice or just banter on about nothing? What is the purpose of blog, what should I be doing here, maybe pouring my heart and soul into it, discussing life with the little message block like a diary? Oh maybe, I should regurgitate something that I read, saw or heard about? Or maybe this is just giving me something to do while I’m bored or procrastiating something? So where to start… I guess this is a blog entry, about… what to blog, what a blog should be, maybe what it shouldn’t be. Why should anyone even be reading this. Am I just wasting my time typing away at something no one will give a shit about? Or is there some cult following of people who wander website to website reading random blogs.
Well with that, I will share random crap that goes through my monitor to my head. I was bored, looked up the bio for Steve “O” from Jackass. Interestingly enough, he is named “Steven Gilchrist Glover.” He actually attended a University of Miami for a little bit before going to clown college. Now the really interesting part, points to rumors that his father is actually an executive. “Ed Glover – Director, Enterprise Security & Customer Engineering, Sun Microsystems. He was a Senior Manager and a Regional Practice Leader for Price Waterhouse in the area of Security and Business Continuity. Prior to that, Ed was the Chief Security Officer for Del Monte Foods, a subsidiary of RJR Nabisco.”
Not impossible, but just odd.
But alas, who knows if this information is true, mostly derived from Wikipedia, I can’t imagine it’s 100% verified. The little bit of additional research just points back to Wikipedia, quotes or outright steals the entry. Interesting either way.
Now my thoughts on Jackass. I have watched most of the Jackass crap out there. I own the DVDs. I somewhat enjoy it, does this make me a bad person? Maybe I just like seeing people do things I would never consider doing. Or the morbid curiousity of what reactions they get out of people or themselves. Whatever reason, it’s just stupid humor. How much is scripted? I think a good majority for the movie, but for the most part, you give a camera, some cash and beer to some people without a care and see what comes out.