Good Morning Tulips

Slowly starting to warm up on the mountain and a few of my tulips have woken up. This week on my trip to the bookstore I saw a few good games to play with Natalia and picked up Labyrinth and Cauldron Quest. Cauldron Quest has been a very fun game with already many plays. Labyrinth however seems a bit challenging for Natalia at her age. Finished reading Ten Tea Parties and a nice informative short book. Goes to show there were many of these protests and showed how violent they got and how one act from government caused the people to take action and change history. Nowadays we see government do worse far more often and no actions taken. A book everyone must read to see how we became a nation and how we are slowly steering away from our basic principles.

Another corpsman from my unit is getting mobilized and I am excited for him, while also another one returns from a mobilization . However, he is leaving a son behind and that is always never easy. It goes to show the honor, sacrifice and commitment we make. Amazed how these past 2-3 years there has been so many mobilizations from our unit.

This week so far will be normal work with the possibility of rain chances most of the week. This may mean I will get wet at work as usual. Never fails, but I do not mind, I'm not made out of paper.

This week I got my weekly correspondence from my ex wife's lawyer and this one is him informing me he is not longer representing her. I kind of will miss my weekly harassment letters from him. Truth is I hope to never be in the same room as such a sleazy dishonest person. But to my amazement a few days later I receive yet another letter from him. This letter dated after his removal of the case. Why does he keep bothering me? He keeps trying to alienate himself from the false abuse accusation and tell me I have an abrasive behavior. Yes I do, towards those trying to hurt my daughter and keeping her from being with her dad. 

Well here it is! This film still alone is well worth the wait.

Normal Days And A Visitor

This week cold temperatures on the mountain but no snow. Just a very light dusting that quickly melted. However the dusting left around the house revealed my raccoon visitor.Again, days at home with Natalia as she prefers to stay at home and play here. A few more games and we decided to "pimp" out Colt Express by making railroad tracks. Maybe look for better scenery next. I am very far behind on my reading this year thus far and don't see it picking up. Simply nothing interesting out there and no money for new releases. I continue to slowly work on my room downstairs and organizing.

Drill weekend done and I made another major decision in my life and will write more about it if it all goes through. Been working the morning shift at work unlike my normal closing shift and this week missing Natalia during the days she is not with me. But tomorrow I will see her again. So I hang in there. Also hoping to go for a ride this weekend as it has been awhile since I have seen my people.

"The people should never rise, without doing something to be remembered - something notable. And striking. his destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important consequences, and so lasting that I can't but consider it as an epocha in history."

- John Adams December 17, 1773

My ex decided to continue the schedule as before thus allowing Natalia to continue preschool, since she no longer takes her to preschool on her time as she stated. Amazing I have to beg to let my daughter go to school. Natalia however keeps informing me she doesn't sleep at her mothers house most of the time, but at her grandparents.

Rant: It never seizes to surprise me the people using EBT (Food Stamps) and even the free cash allowed to buy items. People that I would never imagine would need "assistance" using this payment. Clearly the system is being scammed.

Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 in 2018?

Easter

Natalia got to do some nice egg hunting in town for Easter. I simply like the small town atmosphere. This year however there were a bit more kids than I remember from two years ago. At least it was not very cold. It was a little cold again as all the sudden a few days ago we have gotten lower temperatures in the 40s at night. This past weekend my tulips have started to wake up! Temperatures continue to be lower this coming week but the chance of snow quickly disappeared. I had wished for some weather hopefully rain to not ruin the flowers but it was expected.

I want to mention this Easter Sunday at work as very busy and not expected at all. Busy all day and not just a few hours. People buying Easter items all day. What is the reason for such a boom and even on the same day?

The game Colt Express (as pictured) hit the table this week and it is rather fun. Also on our trip to the Thrift Store we scored three games and three books and all three games are fun and already played all of them a few times. One of those games is an ice knocking game which was also a hit this week.

Court again and no more extensions. As figured Natalia sadly will not go to the great school up here but to the ghetto in Moreno Valley where she will change schools often. It still amazes me that the courts love to say "for the benefit of the child". Never seeing evidence. For example Natalia hasn't been to pre-school with her mother in a month because her mother "has better things to do" as she stated to me. Now time will tell and hope Natalia doesn't follow in the path of her mother not finishing school and not very educated. The only schooling she receives now is from me and even that wanted to be stopped by changing schedules which would not allow Natalia to go to school. Yet this is in the best interest of the child. Also seems a person can make fake child abuse accusations and just get away with it spending money and putting the child through questioning for nothing. People always tell me the courts take this serious. Not from what I just saw. Now since this was done I am sure I will get more accusations in the future since no punishment was made for the false claims.

"This spot! It was driving me out of my mind! What a spot -- what a spot for a fellow to mind! My troubles were growing. The way it kept going! Where would it go next? There was no way of knowing."

- Dr. Seuss

Below I want to share a fan made trailer for the upcoming Batman Vs. Superman movie that may be coming soon. Seems like Wonder Woman will be also making an appearance.

A Normal Week

This past week consisted of just work which is good. Good if the pay was better for the amount and type of work I do. Also planted some English Lavender in my front yard and hopefully they don't die. Waiting for the few tulips to come up a well. Got another mountain bike ride in last week and this one was just me and Lou and a nice ride as usual. The green of Sycamore park is no more and the snakes I hear are out already. Won't be riding for about two weeks due to Easter and drill the next weekend.

As far as games I managed to save a few bucks and continue to put shelves up on the game room for the slow game collection and books. This week I got myself a few games that hope will keep me entertained many hours. I bought Dark City, which is another expansion for Marvel Legendary as well as Paint the Town Red. Also Thunderstone Advance: Worlds Collide and Colt Express which I hope Natalia likes and we play together soon.

Currently still reading The Menace from Earth and loosing interest as I just realized is a short story book and I do not like these. In between I read Batman: Year One and a little more on 1775: A Good Year for Revolution. Talking about books, I read many children's books to Natalia and think I should highlight the best ones and hoping to maybe do more on this area. Thus far I will start by pointing out a Easter related book called The Easter Bunny That Overslept. As the title hints this is about the Easter Bunny that misses Easter and wakes up late. Among this story he travels to the other holidays for help. A nice fun book.

This coming week we celebrate Easter Sunday and another trip to court on Monday. Again I have no idea why and no resolution has been reached as far as Natalia's schooling. My ex and her lawyer decided to spend almost a year since last May with false abuse allegations and the past months seeking every financial document I have going back to 2010. It has been probably worse than an audit. Clearly either wasting time and money or seeing if I have money to seek. Wrong guy! I structure my life around the care of Natalia and live a very simple life.

Rant: Last week on my ride we came across a guy whom after talking about Riverside plan to be "water wise" was telling us he works at a Ralph's plant locally and the amount of water they waste is ridiculous. The water waste in in the amount of thousands of gallons daily. He stated that to make a gallon of "drinking water" it takes about ten gallons. All that waste. Why are the cities not utilizing this excess water? Cities love to fine people and seek money. Why go after honest tax payers for fines when huge corporations are wasting so much. But much better idea is why not make a system to reuse this water? Hmmmm. I'm thinking too much. Lets just keep wasting, lie to people we are out of water and make more money. I am laughing at the fear tactics in play in California that we will be out of water in a year. Does this mean the end of California by next spring? The death of thousands? Nah! I'm sure we will all be here next year with yet another scam.

I will like to highlight a current project on a book that has got my interest for Natalia as well as myself for our collection. It is SisuGirls' Fearless Frosty. A story featuring Anna Frost showing that girls can do anything.