Long ride short distance

Yesterday I had the unfortunant pleasure of takeing Omni Access our local Dial A Ride here. I had to go about 35 miles inside the county. Normaly by driving it would. only take half an hour. By normal bus it would take an hour to an hour and a half. By Omni Access it took over two hours. After I got on we picked up a bunch of other people and dropping them off at individual  residences witch was out of the way where I was going. That made me late for what I had to do. The place ended up being closed. I got there with ten minates to spare for my ride to my next destination. Who ever does the routing for Omni Trans are idiots who need to learn to ride their own system. That would certainly get them to see what the passangers go through. Even for "shared" rides to go longer distance then normal local around town it souldnt take two hours. Longer distance passangers sould have seperate rides from people going in same town local. These transit agencies have never realy seemed to care about what the passangers go through. This includes not having the oppertunity to use the restroom anytime within the longer distances that take two hours or more. When nature calls it doesn't matter where you are. It is not a right or privlage but a neccessity. A denile of a neccessity is a denile of basic human rights. The mear fact these transit companies know they are the only game in town or in county keeps them doing the things they do. It seems passangers don't have rights or recourse. If you had to depend on them to get you to work, you would probably lose your job. I may lose certain benifits thanks to Dial Aride getting me to my destination appens I will not be very fter the place closed. If that happy.

IMVU VS Second Life

As you may have noticed, I am into virtual worlds. I have been playing on Second Life for a year and a half. Over the weekend when I couldnt get onto Second Life, I desided to downlowd IMVU. With IMVU you can log in using your Yahoo or MSN account. Still have to download their program. When you go into IMVU you choose an Avatar from the free ones they provide. It also comes with a hand full of outfits, and misclanious things. Unlike Second Life, I t comes with free rooms and furniture. The rooms include an apartment, a yacht, and a house. You can buy more with their credits. Credits can either be baught with real money or can do things like take survey's. You also get one free chat room to name and do as you wish. Walking and moving around is quite diffrent from Second Life. In IMVU there are certain stand and or pose spots you click on. Second Life you can move more freely. Its more of a chat site then Second Life therefore it is not laggy. I never expierienced any issues while using it this past weekend. Chat rooms very. For me I was mostly looking in the Transgendered rooms. Would I recomend IMVU yes. From a scale of 1 to 10 I would give it a seven and a half. My screen name on there is tgurlchristin. Try it you might like it.

Freedom at a price

As we get ready to picnic or bbq, we must not forget the real reason you are having this day off. For several centuries now, men and women have sacraficed their lives and even their freedom so that we could have ours. We have many freedom's in the US that we tend to take for granted. Sometimes those freedoms make us more vulnrable to outsiders who want to do us harm. But, we sould NEVER give up our freedom for any reason. Lives have been lost fighting for your right to speak openly and for your right to carry an AR 15 Assalt rifle. My opinion on the second one will come out in a later post. In addition to lives lost for us, we also can't forget the many soldure's who lost limbs. They have to live the rest of their lives like that. Do they regret it, probably not. If you ask them if they would fight again they probably would say yes. War is hell but often nessecery. So when your chowing down on that freshly grilled hamburger, and enjoying your day off, just remember those who made this possible. My hats off to the men and women who have served and are currently serving in the armed forces and I salute you.

Birthday reflections

Today is my Birthday now it is a time of reflection. Birthdays are a time to reflect back on what the year has braught. That means good, bad, and leasons learned. Plenty of leasons leanred at 40. This year has had its share of ups and downs. I am a musician living my dream. I have had my share of small gigs this year and even one larger one. Also recently started this blog wich seems to be getting its share of readers. Also my Second Life hasn't been all that bad either. Over the past year friends come and go. But you can always count on the true friends to be with  you for many birthdays to come. We are currently in the Gemini astriological sign. Gemini is the sign of the twins. That certainly fits for someone who is transgendered. There is alot you will probably learn about me as time goes on while reading the blog. All I ever ask of anyone is they keep an open mind. My political views are more moderate then conservitive. But enough about me it's time to get back to reflecting.

Hero or Villons?

With the anniversury of the death of Bonnie Parker and Clied Burrow, the is a new movie comeing out. Like Hollywood, it will portray them as hero's rather then the notorious criminals they were. In the heart of the depression, Bonnie and Clied robbed, killed, kidnapped among other bad acts. They would do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to get away from the cops. They left a trail of bloodshed and tears through out the south and midwest. Whats so special about this criminal couple? People were afraid of them even law enforcement. The day they were killed by the Texas Rangers, my late great grandfather who was a Deputy Sheriff for Beinville Perrish Louisianna, had a short but nerve racking run in with Clied. The family story goes my great grandfather was sitting having breakfast in the local sandwich shop when in walks Clied.  
Just the mear fact of who Clied was made him very nervus. When they were shot later that day, they had a partialy eaten sandwich from that sandwich shop. Now at the time my great grandfather didn't know if they were there to eat or to rob the place. That goes to show how fearful people were of these two. So in reality they were not hero's. More like vicious criminals. The real hero's were the Texas Rangers and my great grandfather for not having an itchy trigger finger.

Fort Hood Injustice!

On November 5th 2009 a mass shooting occured at the Army base in Fort Hood Texas. Sense then, the suspect in the shootings has collected $278,000.00 in government pay. All this money is while he is in the brig awaiting trial. The ironic thing is, while he is collecting thousands of dollar's, the victom's of this horific incident haven't been able to collect a dime. The DOD (Department of Defense) has declaired the shooting an act of "workplace vilence". Therefore enying the victom's any compensation from the millitary. Now, isn't it the duty of our government to take care of our men and women who have faught for our freedome's? Last time I checked YES. So I have to wonder why the accused shooter is getting our hard earned tax dollar's. It's a real injustice that we are paying him to sit in jail. Not to mention paying him a good sum of money to do it. Yet, the victom's of tramatic event isn't eligable for a dime.

Waisting time!

Our senant and congrass sure seem to be busy lately. But, they are not busy running the country or makeing important decisions that will impact us for a long time to come. Nope, instead they are holding hearing after hearing trying to get to the bottom of who's responsable. Theoreticly THEY are the ones responcible for not getting anything done.  History has told us all these congressional hearings realy never do any good. Look at what happend in 1997/98. Congrass and the Senant came to a hault. Why did they come to a hault? All because our President at the time desided to have oral sex with an intern. Grant it, we discovered later that the very people putting him on trial for impeachment, was doeing the same thing. Bill Clinton never did resign dispite the fact that he was "impeached". So even if they find wrong doing on the part of Barok Obama, will it even do any good. I mean its into his second term. He can't be elected anymore. So I ask whats the point in all these hearings? I say to our law makers QUITE WAISTING OUR TIME AND GET BACK TO WORK LEADING THE COUNTRY!