What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years?
 I think that a lot of the technology that we currently have we will still have it will just be more advanced. AI will get better. We obviously still have cell phones. They’ll be more satellites in the world, but the one technology that I hope that we work on in advance to a greater degree is water desalinization because that’s one thing that we definitely need. The oceans aren’t going away, but if we can desalinate and purify water so that it’s more potful for consumption that will help and if it can be done with green energy that would be even better so that rain out at the end of the desalinization process through solar or geothermal heat won’t cause more climate change.
I know a lot of people are gonna put on this post that the book they’ve read the most is the Bible, which I find insane because most people have never read the whole thing I have but it’s not my favorite book. I did my thesis paper in College in English literature on Moby Dick which I’ve read probably five or six times. I’ve read the great Gatsby a couple times I like the classics. I’ve read a couple Stephen King novels a few times. I will admit that I did read the Harry Potter series more than once, but I’m a reader so I wouldn’t say that there’s a favorite book but the one I’ve spent the most time with my nose in is Moby Dick.
If you’re asking the question as a traditional learner sitting in classrooms, I would say I’m a learner. I do continue to take classes. I do have a college degree and I’d like to read, but I always refer back to what my dad told my son years ago, cause my dad went back to school and my son said you and my dad are weird every time you’re bored you pick up a book or you go back to school and my dad told my son very frankly that boy the day you stop learning is the day they start throwing dirt on your face.
What’s one habit that has improved your life the most?
The one habit I’ve had my whole life is I’m always on time. There has to be something major happen for me to not arrive on time. Major accident, sickness, birth of a child. Those are excuses for not being on time, but I was raised with the philosophy that if you’re on time, you’re probably late and I’ve tried to instill that in my child too so it’s a good happen to have just on time
What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it?
I would have to say my hard years have been almost every year since I graduated from high school financially is always been up and down, but I would say since 2013 in my separation force have been more something you would describe as hard years because I’ve just been primarily alone and now that my son is 21 and married married and out of my house, I am 100% on my own.
Across the nation, from the steps of the Capitol to the smallest town squares, over seven million Americans took to the streets in the historic “No Kings” rallies, a movement defined not by anger or destruction, but by an unwavering belief in democracy itself. The marches—peaceful, orderly, and inclusive—spanned generations and political backgrounds. Teachers stood beside veterans, parents pushed strollers, and students carried handmade signs echoing the sentiment that birthed a nation: “We will not be ruled by kings.”
Despite the movement’s nonviolent discipline—its organizers emphasizing peace in every statement and its participants leaving parks cleaner than they found them—the Trump administration and its echo chambers at Fox News predictably cast the protests as “anti-American” and “dangerous.” In the alternate reality of MAGA media, democracy itself has become an act of rebellion, and dissent is labeled as treason.
Within hours, headlines began to twist: “Radical Left Mobs Disrupt American Life,” “Protests Threaten National Security,” “Patriots Under Attack.” Cameras zoomed in on the rare outlier moment of a single shouting protester, looping it endlessly to feed a narrative of chaos. What Fox ignored were the thousands of moments of grace—the quiet songs sung in unison, the police officers shaking hands with marchers, the speeches quoting the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
The irony, of course, is painful. The “No Kings” rallies are perhaps the most American thing that could happen in this moment: a people standing up against the creeping notion of one man above the law, one voice above the many. The Founders themselves would recognize these crowds not as rebels, but as heirs to their cause.
But in Trump’s America, patriotism has been redefined—not as love of country, but as loyalty to a man. To challenge him, to question his authority, to say aloud that America belongs to all its citizens, not to a single gilded ego, is to be branded an enemy. And so, seven million peaceful Americans are slandered as violent, anti-American, and dangerous—when in truth, they are the living proof that democracy still breathes, still fights, and still refuses to bow to any would-be king.
Family vacation with my X-wife’s family in 2003… actually got to relax go parasailing, scuba diving and go to a luau . This was memorable before my son and was stress free. Haven’t been on an actual relaxing vacation since then, haven’t taken more than two days in a row off in more than 15 years.
Being “Romantic” is a means of expressing or performing actions in the hopes of eliciting an emotional response that will result in a pleasurable physical reaction.
Hate to break it down to a purely psycho-social action.
Tomorrow is never promised and I can only hope that prepared my son be happy and fulfilled. Once we step through that curtain to whatever lies beyond we can only hope that what we leave behind does more good than harm.
What are the most important things needed to live a good life?
OMG if I could definitively answer that question I would write a book and make millions. This question absolutely cannot be answered and have that answer fit every person everywhere. All I can say is good luck wrestling with this query.
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