Mike's Page

Welcome to my page.  There really is no telling what you may find here - songs that have caught my interest, lyric snippits, sound bites, quotable quotes, thoughts, pictures, basically just a whole lot of whatever's.  So pull up a seat, grab a drink and burn 'em if you got 'em.  To get things started, what say we put on a tune...   

Ever get to thinking about all the vehicles you've owned over the years?  I do...

Appreciate a nice weapon?  I do, come take a look in my Armory...

Some of my favorite movie/tv bites....

There is some weird sh*t going on in the lyrics of this song, but dam good tune...

-Slipknot, "Psychosocial"

I don't actually, and she's isn't, but this song's a riot... 

-Theory of a Deadman, "Hate My Life"  

"...get your hands off of this glass, last call my ass!"; great tune...

-Nickleback, "Burn it to The Ground"

I know I'm a lucky man;

God's givin me a pretty fair hand;

Got a house and a piece of land;

A few dollars in a coffee can;

My ole truck's still running good;

My tickers tickin like they say it should;

I got supper in the oven, a good woman's lovin;

One more day to be my little kid's dad;

Lord knows I'm a lucky man.

-Mongomery Gentry, "Lucky Man"

Well the warranty has officially ran out; just had my first surgery.  I broke my ‘lunate’, a bone in the middle of the eight others in the wrist.  The fracture was misdiagnosed as bursitis back in 2001 and consequently went untreated for about 7 years.  Once they discovered the fracture the bone was dead, crumbling, and had begun to damage other bones adjacent to it; arthritis had also set in.  The solution ended up being a “wrist fusion”: removal of the broken bone, shaving down the other damaged areas and insertion of a permanent metal bracket to hold everything in place.  Procedure took about 3 hours and they kept me in the hospital 4 days for IV antibiotics.  Now all that remains is healing and physical therapy to make my fingers work again.  At this point I feel rather indifferent regarding the whole situation, just one of those things we older folks have to endure I suppose (smile). 

I got arthritic elbows boy, I got dislocated knees;

From picking fights with thunderstorms, and charging into trees;

And my nose's been broke so often, I might lose it if I sneeze;

And son, you say you still wanna be a winner?!

-Bobby Bare, "The Winner"   

Now the face, that I see, in my mirror;

More and more, is a stranger, to me;

More and more, I can see, there's a danger;

In becoming, what I never thought I'd be.

-John Denver, "Some Days Are Diamonds"

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

-Pierre Teilhard (de Chardin)

Individuation, in very general terms, are the processes through which differentiated components tend toward becoming a more indivisible whole.

-(Wikipedia)  

You say one thing then you do another;

you got it all wrong so you blame it on your mother;

your kickin' the dog cause you can't get the cat;

you know it ain't cool but you like it like that.

Everybody talkin' bout what it is what it ain't;

kiss on the devil and you piss off the saint,

but you got good love and you don't have to crawl;

you say you don't need nothin' but you got to have it all.

-Aerosmith, "What Kind of Love Are You On?"

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant;

an elephant's faithful, 100 percent.

-Dr Seuss; "Horton Hatches The Egg"

There's another world inside of me that you may never see;

There's secrets in this life that I can't hide;

Somewhere in this darkness there's a light that I can't find;

Maybe it's too far away, or maybe I'm just blind, maybe I'm just blind;

So hold when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong,

hold me when I'm scared and love me when I'm gone.

Everything I am and everything in me;

wants to be the one you wanted me to be;

I'll never let you down, even if I could;

I'd give up everything, if only for your good;

So hold me when I'm here, right me when I'm wrong;

you can hold me when I'm scared but you won't always be there;

so love me when I'm gone.

-Three Doors Down, "When I'm Gone"

Why must someone die?

So that the others can know what it means to live.

-movie "The Hours"

Many people say forgive and forget;

I say forget forgive, and just accept.

-movie "Grosse Point Blank"

You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine.  He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  
-Thomas Paine

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;

Who, if he wins, knows the triumphs of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

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