Jasonisms

It's been a while since I've blogged. Not for want of writing, but because I've just been spending my writing time elsewhere. Usually GDocs, but occasionally back over at Google+ which Google finally fulfilled the prophecy and turned it into a ghost town. The reason for writing today is to comment on something I've had happen twice now: A month ago I was driving along and noticed someone on the side of the road who needed help. I stopped and offered my assistance only to be told the woman had been stuck for 45 minutes with no one stopping to help. Earlier today I was existing the highway and saw a guy sitting in his car on the side of the road. I looked at him as I passed and he looked at me. So, I swerved and pulled over on the side of the road. He met me about half way and explained how his tire and spare were both flat and his cell phone was out of minutes. He'd been waiting for at least an hour. He said two hours, but I later learned he was following someo...

I had a blog post - or at least an idea I thought should be converted to a blog post - and then I sat to write. Suddenly, everything I was thinking I'd write about disappeared. I really need to take note from now on. Oh wait! There it is! I remember! ... Last Friday my team at work had our quarterly "team outing." This is supposed to be a time to get together with your team in a more social setting, getting beyond the co-workers relationship and developing stronger relationships. Of 17, 5 of us showed up. Well, five at first. After the manager and a couple of other people left, another co-worker and her girlfriend showed up, bringing the total back to four. After three more left a final co-worker showed up. Of 17 total team members, 7 showed to the team outing. Which is pathetic and any manager worht their salt should be wondering why their team didn't, or wouldn't, show to a fun event. Our department has soft  start and ending times. That is, we can sta...

So, I stopped in here for two very real reasons: [1] I needed to grab a few things so I could make lunch this week (at work) and [2] I needed to use the restroom. As luck would have it, King Soopers had both and my most pressing need was the lavatory ... ... and that's where the trouble started. I used the stall for (reasons I won't get in to for the sake of all our stomachs) for it's intended purpose only to discover not one but both rolls of toilet paper were out. I think we can all agree we've been in this situation before whether out and about, in a port-o-potty, or even at home or work. So, I made my way over to the other stall expecting to find TP only to end up disappointed. No bueno, to say the least. Naturally there was no stockpile of TP in the restroom and going into the women's restroom would have resulted in the kind of attention I didn't need and no one wanted. After tidying up as best I could I decided to find a manager and let them k...

Earlier today I sent my brother a text message. Now, with normal people this might not be anything earthshaking, but for me it's actually something to note. Not that my brother and I don't get along, it's just that we're two very different people living two very different lives and rarely do we have anything common to discuss and, if you know anything about INTPs, I abhor small talk. That being said - I sent my brother a text message. It was a simple link to an article I'd recently read that was relevant to his career field. A few short minutes after hitting [send] my phone rang. It was my brother. A few months ago my brother had informed me our father was sick. He'd already been through kidney failure, some sort of cancer (esophagus, I believe) and a few other things I didn't even know about. This time it was his kidney and the perpetrator was once again cancer. But, my brother, an RN, said there wasn't anything to really worry about. So, I didn...

Earlier today I had the perfect idea to blog about. It was something both interesting and profound and would have changed your world view - or at least helped you align with mine - but when I finally sat down to write ... nothing . And so, here we are. Me, with nothing really important to write about and you wondering why you're reading this in the first place. So, let's see ... I started talking with a co-worker recently whom I had very little interaction with in the past. He had worn a "Hail Satan" shirt to work and one day I commented on it in a positive manner. He admitted he only wore it to upset the christians, but he was assured by the HR department that as long as they're allowed to weird their crosses and pro-christianity apparel, he can wear the apparel of his religion. He's actually quit intelligent, having a master's degree in religious studies. He knows far more about Abrahamic religions than I do and I know my fair share. He also teac...

Religion has no place in policy which our Constitutional founders expressly stated and yet, there are countless people on the Christian right who would ignore the founders' intent to pursue their own agenda. The Christian right that denounced every Democrat and left leaning politician for an array of supposed slights against their faith have unanimously backed the "porn star" President, #DonaldTrump. A man whom is thrice divorced, has never read the Bible, attended church services before becoming president and who is the antithesis of all that the Christian right espouses. But, it was never about religion and all about power. With Donald Trump the Christian right found their willing idiot and they're taking full advantage of the time they have to cement their foothold on the federal government for years to come. And, of course, the MAGA-morons over in #TrumpNation will never make the connection when they realize it's the religious right holding them back, not th...

A great, if long, read for anyone who has ever entertained or succumbed to the draw of geneology and/or DNA testing. This particular part denoted my own feelings on the matter, although I do feel it would be fun just to see what happens: Furthermore, over the past two centuries, it was not uncommon for last names to be changed, misspelled, or misattributed. Records were frequently lost, recreated, or even forged. We think of our identities as relatively fixed now because we have traceable identification cards, birth certificates, and social security numbers from a very early age. But none of that existed until recently. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beastly-behavior/201801/the-meaning-and-meaninglessness-genealogy