I for one am really enjoying the recent drop in gas prices. However not everyone is. I have
several friends that are employed by the Texas oil industry and they are really vocal about
how the low prices suck for their industry.
I am in the construction industry and it has ups and downs too. 2008 for example, and not
just the construction field, retail, restaurants, all took a huge hit. I got laid off, and you didn't
hear me cry boo hoo. Nope I just started looking for a J.O.B.
Historically the oil industry pays more than other industries. By more, I mean it pays a
ridiculous amount more. Starting out about with no experience and no college degree,
$100,000 a year, and that is low for the oil field. I hear about people making $15k - $20k, a
month! Starting out in the construction field with a college degree and you are lucky to
make a quarter of that.
People getting laid off is no joke and I feel for them. However when I see them making
comments like "Hope y'all enjoy the low gas prices. Sad day for guys that bust
their rear ends to provide for their families". I can't help but think how much money
these guys did make when they were employed. I can't help but think that that industry has
been up and down for almost a hundred years and you didn't think to put back a few
dollars? I see all those jet ski's, Harley's and boob jobs you bought and posted on
Facebook. HEY you aren't the only people that works hard and bust their rear ends for
your family.
I guess non oil field people are now getting a much needed break in gas prices, so I guess
it kind of evens out. So suck it up, look for a J.O.B and save your money.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
2014 Movie Thoughts
Top movie at the box office was Guardians of the Galaxy, Meh. Great for kids and lots of action with a few Easter eggs to tie in with the Avengers, which I really liked.
Hunger Games, Meh
Captain America the winter soldier, good
The Lego Movie, didn't see it.
Transformers; Age of Extinction, Meh, ok.
Maleficent, nope
Interstellar, great movie. Kids will not like it, but if you have ever thought about black holes and time travel you will find it interesting.
Hobbit comes out today, I am sure it will be good but I am still mad that they made that story three movies.
Surprise movies that were nowhere on any good list.
The Signal about some MIT students and amature hackers that get blamed for a hack that they did not do. They try to track mystery hacker down and when they do it goes crazy. Great trick ending. Definitely for the sci fi fan. Good for people that like good low budget thinking movies.
There is another "The Signal" movie out there that got great reviews for a low budget film that I have not seen. Neat idea though. HERE.
Older but still great low budget sci fi films.
Cube
A Sound Of Thunder Time travel based on the butterfly effect.
The move Primer and MOON make all these list but I have only seen MOON, good movie but not at the top of my list. Great trick ending though.
Hunger Games, Meh
Captain America the winter soldier, good
The Lego Movie, didn't see it.
Transformers; Age of Extinction, Meh, ok.
Maleficent, nope
Interstellar, great movie. Kids will not like it, but if you have ever thought about black holes and time travel you will find it interesting.
Hobbit comes out today, I am sure it will be good but I am still mad that they made that story three movies.
Surprise movies that were nowhere on any good list.
The Signal about some MIT students and amature hackers that get blamed for a hack that they did not do. They try to track mystery hacker down and when they do it goes crazy. Great trick ending. Definitely for the sci fi fan. Good for people that like good low budget thinking movies.
There is another "The Signal" movie out there that got great reviews for a low budget film that I have not seen. Neat idea though. HERE.
Older but still great low budget sci fi films.
Cube
A Sound Of Thunder Time travel based on the butterfly effect.
The move Primer and MOON make all these list but I have only seen MOON, good movie but not at the top of my list. Great trick ending though.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Year end TV Review
Homeland fell flat for the season finale. Very little resolution and seems like it should have been one more episode. Most disappointed I have been with that show. Still great.
NCIS, why do I even watch that show. Highest rated show on tv and it isn't that great.
The 100, on the WB, I know, I know, but a friend told me about it and it is good with a decent sci fi premise. Should be on SYFY but they only show ghost reality shows now. Worth a watch if you like sci fi.
The Blacklist was is the best show on network tv by far. Good characters plus the great James Spader.
A close second was Hannibal. Gory to a fault but it really needs to be to tell that story.
Elementary is worth a watch, neat take on modernizing Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock is great on the BBC. Starring the weird Benedict Cumberbatch, who oddly enough is a great actor. Watson is played by young Bilbo Baggins fame Martin Freeman. Both have gained a lot of notoriety since Sherlock started and both want to continue to do this show, great for me.
Watched Luther on BBC a long time ago, good British cop show.
I stayed with Sons of Anarchy, why I do not know, but I did and it is over. Good.
Speaking of FX tv, The Strain was great. A new look at the whole vampire story. I will watch next season.
The Americans, looking forward to it. 80's Russian spy show, watch it.
Justified, looking forward to it. Also the last season but it will be missed.
Started watching Vikings, I am hooked. I wonder how historically accurate that is.
Speaking of the SYFY channel, they seem to want to fail. The greatest show they ever did was Battlestar Galactica. Which I loved, call me a nerd but watch it and then call me a nerd. It seems after they had legitimate success with BSG they decided to go a different direction with all the reality shows about ghost and costume design. Shortly after BSG they did Stargate Universe which was a loose spin off to the 10 year tv series SG1 whch was a spin off of the move Stargate staring Kurt Russel. SGU was great but they put it in a terrible time slot and it failed. Partly because of the severe nerds that wanted to stay true to the SGU series starring MacGyver. Oh well I think they have learned their lesson that they need at least one space opera to satisfy the masses.
Speaking of, they just did a mini series called Ascension, which oddly enough is how BSG started. The show was good, but they did not seem to give it 100%, just fell flat in certain places. Watch it and let me know. Could lead to a series with some potential. Ascension also starred the hopelessly unattractive Tricia Helfer, which should not hurt its chances.
Also SYFY is trying to make a series of the movie Twelve Monkeys, it will be called 12 Monkeys, see what they did there?
Longmire may be cancelled but it was a good modern day western.
True Detective was great, really graphic, but good.
Rectify is slow and uneventful but I could not stop watching.
And of course The Walking Dead, greatness.
NCIS, why do I even watch that show. Highest rated show on tv and it isn't that great.
The 100, on the WB, I know, I know, but a friend told me about it and it is good with a decent sci fi premise. Should be on SYFY but they only show ghost reality shows now. Worth a watch if you like sci fi.
The Blacklist was is the best show on network tv by far. Good characters plus the great James Spader.
A close second was Hannibal. Gory to a fault but it really needs to be to tell that story.
Elementary is worth a watch, neat take on modernizing Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock is great on the BBC. Starring the weird Benedict Cumberbatch, who oddly enough is a great actor. Watson is played by young Bilbo Baggins fame Martin Freeman. Both have gained a lot of notoriety since Sherlock started and both want to continue to do this show, great for me.
Watched Luther on BBC a long time ago, good British cop show.
I stayed with Sons of Anarchy, why I do not know, but I did and it is over. Good.
Speaking of FX tv, The Strain was great. A new look at the whole vampire story. I will watch next season.
The Americans, looking forward to it. 80's Russian spy show, watch it.
Justified, looking forward to it. Also the last season but it will be missed.
Started watching Vikings, I am hooked. I wonder how historically accurate that is.
Speaking of the SYFY channel, they seem to want to fail. The greatest show they ever did was Battlestar Galactica. Which I loved, call me a nerd but watch it and then call me a nerd. It seems after they had legitimate success with BSG they decided to go a different direction with all the reality shows about ghost and costume design. Shortly after BSG they did Stargate Universe which was a loose spin off to the 10 year tv series SG1 whch was a spin off of the move Stargate staring Kurt Russel. SGU was great but they put it in a terrible time slot and it failed. Partly because of the severe nerds that wanted to stay true to the SGU series starring MacGyver. Oh well I think they have learned their lesson that they need at least one space opera to satisfy the masses.
Speaking of, they just did a mini series called Ascension, which oddly enough is how BSG started. The show was good, but they did not seem to give it 100%, just fell flat in certain places. Watch it and let me know. Could lead to a series with some potential. Ascension also starred the hopelessly unattractive Tricia Helfer, which should not hurt its chances.
Also SYFY is trying to make a series of the movie Twelve Monkeys, it will be called 12 Monkeys, see what they did there?
Longmire may be cancelled but it was a good modern day western.
True Detective was great, really graphic, but good.
Rectify is slow and uneventful but I could not stop watching.
And of course The Walking Dead, greatness.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Well Eugene was full of crap. I kept waiting for one of the group to say "yeah we knew" but they all seemed surprised when he let it out that he was not a scientist. Come on, of course he isn't, that mullet was too cool to be used on a scientist.
I hope they elaborate on Ford's past.
Not a big fan of having dedicated episodes to each faction, I guess that is why I think the last two episodes were a little slow.
I am looking to make extra money, so a friend told me about Thumbtack neat site that lets you post needed services online and the contractors will bid/submit quotes for the work. So I thought that it would be good for me to get on there and submit some quotes. So the first day I signed up, posted some pics of previous jobs that I have completed, set my desired projects that I would like to submit prices for, and waited. They started really flying in, I found one I liked and submitted a price. I got my price in about 3 minutes after it was posted and I was the 10th submission. There is some real competition on this site. Looks like Thumbtack is better for the home owner than contractors.
I hope they elaborate on Ford's past.
Not a big fan of having dedicated episodes to each faction, I guess that is why I think the last two episodes were a little slow.
I am looking to make extra money, so a friend told me about Thumbtack neat site that lets you post needed services online and the contractors will bid/submit quotes for the work. So I thought that it would be good for me to get on there and submit some quotes. So the first day I signed up, posted some pics of previous jobs that I have completed, set my desired projects that I would like to submit prices for, and waited. They started really flying in, I found one I liked and submitted a price. I got my price in about 3 minutes after it was posted and I was the 10th submission. There is some real competition on this site. Looks like Thumbtack is better for the home owner than contractors.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Baby Girl was an 80's dancer chick, legwarmers, headband and really cute. Had no idea what was going on. Kids that are in their teens should not trick or treat.
Montel Williams seems like a good guy.
This weeks episode of the Walking Dead was all about Beth. Kinda boring till the end when Carol shows up! Really like her caracter. Called it!
They did not answer who was with Daryl when he showed back up to the group, but I am guessing it was Noah. They guy that got away when he and Beth were trying to escape the hospital.
I am hoping that Daryl and Carol ran into Noah giving them the idea to get someone on the inside to help get Beth out. He would provide great insight to the politics of that place.
Beth looked to be getting ready to go out with a bang.
Cowboys lost two in a row. Romo being out, the loss is still his fault, according to some Romo haters.
They play in London this week.
I don't get why the NFL pushes franchises on Los Angeles and even London. Los Angeles doesn't want one and the viability and cost to have one in London doesn't look to make sense. Would be neat to have one in London though. Be neater to have one in San Antonio.
Montel Williams seems like a good guy.
This weeks episode of the Walking Dead was all about Beth. Kinda boring till the end when Carol shows up! Really like her caracter. Called it!
They did not answer who was with Daryl when he showed back up to the group, but I am guessing it was Noah. They guy that got away when he and Beth were trying to escape the hospital.
I am hoping that Daryl and Carol ran into Noah giving them the idea to get someone on the inside to help get Beth out. He would provide great insight to the politics of that place.
Beth looked to be getting ready to go out with a bang.
Cowboys lost two in a row. Romo being out, the loss is still his fault, according to some Romo haters.
They play in London this week.
I don't get why the NFL pushes franchises on Los Angeles and even London. Los Angeles doesn't want one and the viability and cost to have one in London doesn't look to make sense. Would be neat to have one in London though. Be neater to have one in San Antonio.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Cowboys Cowboys Cowboys
Cowboys lost to the Redskins in OT last night. We should have won but turnovers and questionable coaching calls prevented that.
We have to remember that that was Washington's Superbowl and it was just another game for us. Also for a good "rivalry" you have to loose occasionally.
Dez is a beast, Murray is a beast, the offensive line got tested last night. Young but still good. Romo is a trooper, and I feel a little better about him going out with the back knowing that Weeden can play. What little we saw of him last night.
Baby girl is funny and smart. Says hi and waves to every living thing. That will make your day.
Been job hunting, not as hot a market as I thought.
Kids, Sugar, and Cokes here and here, found this interesting.
Baby girl may be 30 before she has a coke.
I see Christian persecution everyday, if there is muslim persecution in the US you will see an uproar of defense. Christians are the subject of punchline jokes every day in the media, and it is accepted, but the beheading muslims get a world of sympathy.
I hear secularist laying blame to Christan's for many historical acts, even the Oklahoma bombing, he was a former Catholic turned devout agnostic! Closest thing he had to religion was stating that science is my religion. So liberals are justified in persecuting a religion because of it past misdoings? Where is the tolerance for that?
We have to remember that that was Washington's Superbowl and it was just another game for us. Also for a good "rivalry" you have to loose occasionally.
Dez is a beast, Murray is a beast, the offensive line got tested last night. Young but still good. Romo is a trooper, and I feel a little better about him going out with the back knowing that Weeden can play. What little we saw of him last night.
Baby girl is funny and smart. Says hi and waves to every living thing. That will make your day.
Been job hunting, not as hot a market as I thought.
Kids, Sugar, and Cokes here and here, found this interesting.
Baby girl may be 30 before she has a coke.
I see Christian persecution everyday, if there is muslim persecution in the US you will see an uproar of defense. Christians are the subject of punchline jokes every day in the media, and it is accepted, but the beheading muslims get a world of sympathy.
I hear secularist laying blame to Christan's for many historical acts, even the Oklahoma bombing, he was a former Catholic turned devout agnostic! Closest thing he had to religion was stating that science is my religion. So liberals are justified in persecuting a religion because of it past misdoings? Where is the tolerance for that?
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