Trip To INDIA

In October of 2014 I took a trip to India to be exact Mt Abu India. This was for spiritual retreat for my self. Not to go into any detail about the trip other than to say that I miss it. That is all I want to say and I felt it was worth noting in my blog. But if you feel you need details of this trip you can go to MixBook and view the book I maid of the trip.

96 Olympic Games (20 Years Latter)

In 1996 I got the chance to leap out of my comfort zone of Iowa and travel to another part of the country. But when growing up in Iowa and not traveling any where out side of the Quad Cities would be considered another world of foreign land.
I say this because this was my first time I went to Atlanta for the 96 Olympic Games. But this is not about looking back to my experience of going to that event. A reminiscing moment happen a few days ago.
Every year I work the BET Honors this is the one week of the year that makes me feel that the seven years I worked to to get my bachelors degree was worth it. It was at the 2015 BET Honors that I got to meet Dr. Johnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D. she received the BET Honor for education. Twenty years latter I got the chance to tell her that after the 96 Olympic Games I wrought her a letter thanking her for letting those people who worked the games to stay on Spelmen College campus.
She was a joy to talk to in that few moments I look forward to corresponding with her more in the future. 

STAR TREK

I would think back to my childhood to reflect over some of the bonding moments with my dad. Of all the little moments that stood out the most is STAR TREK. It was my dad that introduced me to the show watching it when I was a kid when it came on as re-runs. When I told him that he could see it on NetFlix his face just lit up. So I am making him a profile and give him access my account.

72 BOTTLES OF VIRGIN OLIVE OIL

I don’t understand terrorist these days, you don’t hear them blow them selves up.

Before they would make a video say they are going to do the drastic thing and they’re going to paradise where the will get 72 virgins. They don’t specified what kind of virgin. You think women, could be men or 72 bottles of virgin olive oil and rubber glove.

Now before you get offend of this joke. This has nothing to be with Islamic religion because I've tested it and refined telling it to Islamic friends and the give a great laugh to the bit. It is the people who are not Islamic who get offend now isn't that strange.   

GOMER PILE

I grew up watching classic TV shows like I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, and Andy Griffith I still watch them today but there is one show I have not seen. Since the military repealed don't ask don't tell. I have yet to see a rerun of Gomer Pile. Is this some kind of conspiracy theory? That they don’t want us to know that there has been a gay man in the Marines all this time.

As you read that I hope you understood it. I did it for a bit in my stand up, and there was nothing and I found that disappointing. But it made me understand the expanse between generations and how the younger generation don't understand there was sitcoms before the 80's and they didn't have to rely on jokes on sex.

Most times I have to explain the joke and it looses something when you have to explain a joke. Sad world we live in.        

MOM and GOOGLE

I am originally from the mid-west a thing to know about the mid-west is that there is nothing to do. There was a time I took my sister and her two daughters on a road trip to Chicago and on our way back the girls are arguing and one of them says, “I can touch the back of my throat.” And she said this a few times it was strange so my sister turns to her and asked, “What do you mean you can touch the back of you throat?” so my nice said “watch” so she sticks her finger in her mouth and suddenly she just blew chunks. (make throw up noise) and it was just awful. There was so much of it and the smell; I just can’t believe so much can come out of a little girl her size.

One day out the blue my mom call me. She called me to ask me how do I get Google off my computer?

Mom, you don't get it off it is a web site. Well I don't like it. Why?

They know every thing. Ya, mom it is their job to know every thing.

I just don't want them to know any thing about me. What? I don't want them to know any thing about me. So you don't want them to know you’re a 75-year-old woman sitting in a recliner watching home and garden on cable.

Laughing at the Stitches

The blood was running down the back of my head really not realizing it until some one said something. Running off to show mom crying for her to make it all better.

There was a wooden pallet out in the street I don't remember where it came from but some of us neighborhood kids where trying to tear the boards apart. What would make this so much easier is a claw hammer.
One massive swing I was about to get the first board, but that swing the claw end of the hammer gashed the back of my head.

I was taken to the emergency to get stitches. As I was getting the stitches the doctor said this is go ing to tickle. Saying that to a kid like me worked because it did.    

Dumb Luck

Went to the casino with my friends John and Crag.  I played a few dollars on the slots didn't want to loose to much. But Crag played black jack and lost a $1000. I don't get it there is nothing behind the lost it is just lost. I told him you could have given the $1000 to me and let me kick you in the nuts. That would have given you your moneys worth.
John on the other was playing the slots and won $1000. Crag said, " That is just dumb luck." Because John had never been to a casino. Now how is winning money dumb. Grag sounds like the dumb one.

That phrase does not make any sense. If your dumb and you win some money are you any smarter or are you still just dumb? What if a smart person almost gets hit by a car crossing the street is that dumb luck?