Last Will and Testament

Still working on my last will and testament.  The thing I like about this project is that I have the rest of my life to do it.  As Buffalo Jones liked to say, I've got all the time there is.  And this thanks to God and his only begotten son Jesus Christ.  I opened two presents from Got this morning.  My eyes.  And now I sit here and type with my fingers and hands.  

Sitting in a nice chair with a nice hot cup of coffee after a good night's rest killing a couple of hours before I go in and work and the good job He has blessed me with that brings in a good paycheck which now thanks to Dave Ramsey and his seven baby steps program having graduated baby step seven after twenty years of effort, overly effort at work from studying Cisco routing and switching, but nonetheless, I will say that things could be worse as I sit here at sixty years of age preparing to read a little bit of George Washington's Final Farewell and Daniel Webster's oration at the Monument of Bunker Hill.

It is quite hard to believe that probably pretty much nobody could give you details on the Battle of Bunker hill much less have any idea when it was or what it was about here in the united States of America in the 248th year following the revolution.

But I will be gone within fifty years.  Perhaps within thirty years.  Possibly within twenty years or ten.  I could be gone in a few short years or maybe even tomorrow or today.  Washington is gone.  Webster is gone.  But they are not gone, gone, but in heaven with all those who have gone on.  And Jesus will come back to set things right and rule.  And that is why I can sit here and relax with not a single worry in the world and try to come up with some way to end world hunger.

It's down right incredible where we find ourselves today.  Those of us still living.  I had thousands of pictures from my phone on this external usb hard drive.  Could you imagine if George Washington had taken thousands of pictures of his life?  I went to do my routine periodic transfer of my pictures on my phone to my external usb hard drive and I found it to be crashed and dead and no longer useful.  I found this software app Disk Drill that drills down and recovers all of your files.

After about eight hours of recovery time it says voila!  All of your files have been recovered.  And sure enough there they were.  The thousands of pictures of my life from my phone over that last many years.  So I click on the button to recover them to a new hard drive and now they want eighty nine dollars to actuall get the files to another drive where I can use them.  So I said to hell with 'em and I don't like that tactic.  They suck you in making you think it's free and then they deliver on the promise which was cool but then they not surprisingly and should have figured ask you for eighty nine dollars if you want to keep your thousands of pictures.  I figured Daniel Webster did not have thousands of pictures of his life so i reformatted the disk and all of my old pictures of my life over the the many last years of having a phone with a camera are now gone forever.  What a terrible loss the world has suffered.

But it is all part of my last will and testament program plan.  Once all of your affairs are in order, and you are done working for the rest of your life, what an incredible thing.  Something I guess you live for and probably something some men never know.  Some men work until the day they die.  So the question becomes what is work.  Could you actually work on something you love your entire life until the day you die.  Yes I think of course it is possible because I am sitting here as living proof.

Yes confusion and misteps until you either hit rock bottom or go sideways for awhile, and then you find Jesus and things become clear and the peace of mind comes in and there is no reason to worry.  Your know some men are sitting in prison right now doing a life sentence.  Or a long term sentence.  This would be a terrible world to live in.  Thanks to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ I am not sitting in a prison cell today.

So I choose to write.  Yes writing is work.  It is more work that some people will ever do but a lot less than others.  Some men have taken the physical working route.  Some out of necessity others out of pure luck and many men make a good living at physical labor and there is skilled and trained good labor like welders and old Jim Burning Daylight up in Alaska on Kodiak Island.

And they are all alive in words.  Yes pictures are worth a thousand words but a thousand words could also be priceless.    Words will only ever be written by writers.  And words will only ever be read by readers.  I would say the great, great, majority of people in this world do not read much.  They are intentionally distracted with propaganda and fake news which has the end objective of distracting people from doing something better than sitting and watching CNN twenty four hours a day seven days a week.

So I can sit here and write meaningless jibberish just to practice my typing skills and then play the guitar for a little bit of practice there and then put on my shoes and get in my nice new car and take the long ten minute commute down the nice paved road to the nice office building and work on network engineering issues for a mere ten hours.  Practically nothing.  And at forty hours I'm done for the week.  So man I have nothing but thankfulness in my heart.  And I  can even read the good book while I'm there in the office.  And it's good for my diet and health program and it brings in a nice paycheck to help me get my things in order and prepare for moving on.

In the meantime yes I  like having that paycheck because it just takes time to think about all there is to think about and most things cannot be fully thought out except by sometimes many days of thinking about them.   Dave Ramsey says always take some time to make a big decision.   This is sound advice.  I am so lucky to have just by sheer stroke of luck and by blessing of God to have ended up here in my beautiful home on the other side of baby step seven.  And as Dave says, now it is time to give.  So who to give to.  A little here and there to some who you like and taking the time to decide where the big effort will go once I start to think about how big of an effort I want to go for.

Yes I would like to feed the children.  Are there children in this world who are actually and really and truly hungry?  I would  venture to say yes.  And me sitting here like a king.   So yes writing helps me think about what I  would like to do and boy howdy can you imagine what Dave Ramsey's last will and testament looks like?  I wonder how many pages it is.  He has two daughters I believe.  Wow, a heck of a darn guy and boy howdy if you ever get to the other side of baby step seven you'll start to appreciate what it takes to get there.

God bless America.