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so it might be a little strange but I found my obit in the paper today. Will save someone alot of heartache in the future, either near or far.


A celebration of life for James William "Jim" Adams, 53, will be held at a later date.

He died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008 at Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas.

Jim, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other's courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle. It was primarily as a result of being stubborn and not following doctor's orders or maybe for just living life a little too hard for better than five decades.

He was born June 8, 1955 in Garrison, N.D. the son of James William and Ruby Helen (Clark) Adams.

He was sadly deprived of his final wish, which was to be run over by a beer truck on the way to the liquor store to buy booze for a date. True to his personal style, he spent his final hours joking with medical personnel, cussing and begging for narcotics and bargaining with God to look over his loving dog, Biscuit, and his family.

He would like to thank all "his ladies" for putting up with him the last 30 years.

During his life, he excelled at anything he put his mind to. He loved to hear and tell jokes and spin tales of grand adventures he may or may not have had.

He is survived by five sons, Jeremiah Adams and his wife, Nicole, Mica Olivas, Wade Olivas, Brice Simpson and Cole Adams; sister, Jerri Giegerich; two ex-wives, Vickie Harrison and Marilyn Williams; four grandchildren; two nieces; and two great-nieces.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother-in-law.

In lieu of flowers, he asks that you make a sizeable purchase at your favorite watering hole, get rip roaring drunk and tell the stories he no longer can.

just for richard

PLEASE

Yo mama

Little Carol came into the kitchen where her mother was making dinner. Her birthday was coming up and she thought this was a good time to tell her mother what she wanted. 'Mom, I want a bike for my birthday.'

Now, Little Carol was a bit of a troublemaker. She had gotten into trouble at school and at home. Carol's mother asked her if she thought she deserved to get a bike for her birthday. Little Carol, of course, thought she did.

Carol's mother, being a Christian woman, wanted her to reflect on her behavior over the last year, and write a letter to God and tell him why she deserved a bike for her birthday. Little Carol stomped up the steps to her room and sat down to write God a letter.

LETTER 1:
Dear God:
I have been a very good girl this y ear and I would like a bike for my birthday. I want a red one.

Your friend, Carol

Carol knew this wasn't true. She had not been a very good girl this year, so she tore up the letter and started over.

LETTER 2:
Dear God:
This is your friend Carol. I have been a pretty good girl this year, and I would like a red bike for my birthday.

Thank you,
Carol

Carol knew this wasn't true either. She tore up the letter and started again.

LETTER 3:
Dear God:

I know I haven't been a good girl this year. I am very sorry. I will be a good girl if you just send me a red bike for my birthday.

Thank you,
Carol

Carol knew, even if it was true, this letter was not going to get her a bike. By now, she was very upset. She went downstairs and told her mother she wanted to go to church. Carol's mother thought her plan had worked because Carol looked very sad.

'Just be home in time for dinner,' her mother said.

Carol walked down the street to the church and up to the altar. She looked around to see if anyone was there. She picked up a statue of the Virgin Mary, slipped it under her jacket and ran out of the church, down the street, into her house and up to her room. She shut the door and sat down and wrote her letter to God.

LETTER 4:
I GOT YOUR MAMA.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE HER AGAIN, SEND THE BIKE.

Signed,
YOU KNOW WHO

Dynamics: Sound and Social

So im sunburnt, really really sunburnt. Well just my forehead and neck. I went to the indy race in Kansas City yesterday. It is amazing to watch a car go 230 mph. I was with 100,000 people at this race. Some white, well most white. But racing isnt a redneck sport anymore, found as many lexus' as i did chevys. Was really strange, but a fun trip. I am still learning how to listen again, it was loud. Not sort of loud real real real real loud. No doyle, i didnt take pictures. Go watch your own race, do it now. Its fun

1 year later

So i havent been here in a month or so. Why you ask? I dont know, just kinda been going thru the motions. I received my apartment lease the other day, so what does that mean. Ive been here a year, did i get anything except a year older? I dont know yet, still trying to figure that out. And sooner or later I will figure that out. I was going to type/write about midwestern women tonight, but it occured to me that some of the people that i was going to write about might read this. So i have to figure that out before i devoulge any info that I shouldnt. Might get me in trouble and nobody really wants that.

What else has been going on? I missed robin's birthday, not sure why but she is like the only person i remember her birthday and i forgot it. Robin had the thought that my brain was frozen because of the weather. It has been cold around here for some reason, we had snow flurries the past few days but no real snow. West nebraska got something like a foot of snow the other day.

Hanging it up

We all do it. Sooner or later, it is inevitable. We all "hang it up." In some form or fashion, its either leaving work for the last time. Waking up for the last time, its a great day or an awful day and sometimes just a day that ends in death. For a few years in my life I thought i was going to be the greatest basketball player of all time. (Have a hung up the game, NO) But it brings me to a old friend of mine named bob Knight. Who was a mean basketball coach that just retired. He retired a few weeks ago, no press conferance no flair, no nothing. He just left. With some simple words, no chair throwing, no slapping players on the back of the head. A simple, im done and im going fishing. I saw him give an after game interview a few weeks before that where he sat mostly and talked to his grandson and didnt really pay much attention to the press but his eyes had grown old. the fire was gone and you could almost tell it was time to go on. I re read a book called "Playing for Knight" by one of his former players. He talked about how it was harder but knight did it right and I didnt understand that until now where kids are paid, kids parents are paid and all sorts of things influence a 18 year old kid to go to the right school. Knight just said these are the rules and we will play by those rules and we will yes we will win by those rules. We will do what is hard and we will do what is right, he seemed to live by those rules in a life when nobody else did. I can imagine Knight reading an old copy of "old man and the sea" while he and his grandkids fade off into the sunset on a rowboat.

With that: if you are hanging it up on your time or someone elses, do your best to fade into the sunset in your time. Happy,smiling, the fire not so much inflaming in your eyes


till next tyme

oh how

Im not sure what i want to say today or if i want to say anything at all. I had a boring day. I worked a bit or alot of our budget for next year. Let me tell you thats no fun. I booked a ticket home for easter and a car. Ill be home saturday, sunday, and part of monday. I would stay longer but duty calls. I have a text document on my desktop that is usually open, its basically things i would like at somepoint to say something about. I didnt realize until a few days ago that I started blogging( wasnt called that then) a long time ago. In my infancy of college days, I spent alot of time at bars and alot of time watching people. In my days there i got bored an started people watching, and then people writing. I would put this on barnapkins and then type it later. which turned out to be the first 300 pages of my blog. No you cant see it. This freeflow unedited style of writing will be in great demand in the next 200 years so you guessed it ill be rich with my sisters talent or so she thinks

So today we talk about tom petty, defense wins champships, office sells tickets. and yes mom im right and your wrong. Im sorry that s just the way it is. why does tom petty get to play at the superbowl. He hasnt had a hit in like 20 years and the people in the crowd were like 15 and had no clue. Good movie on, be back another time to fuss at the tenny boppers

till the next tyme

random

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Things to think about

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?
And lastly: Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

Shrimp Creole, Shlitz Beer, Red Bull, Allentown PA, can I be your friend, chinese peanut oil, diet PEPSI, and body wash in your eye

Look at the title, you can tell it was one hell of a day. If you can experience all those things, good or bad, its been a pretty good day. Jimmy V, Valvano for those of you that dont know who that is. He was a basketball coach at Rutgers and then won the ncaa tourny with NC State. died of cancer umm 10 years ago or so. I read his book 20 or 30 times a year, yes its a real book like 400 pages, why???

He said you should do 3 things everyday, you should love, you should laugh and you should have your emotions bring you to tears. He talks about knowing where you are going and where you have been. Remember the bad times cause they will get you to the good times(if you make it to the good times, and it is all relative) He talks about the first time coaching a college basketball game and being inspired by the great vince limbardi, but that not holding a candle to his loving italian family. Remembering the lows of the first firing which was superseeded by about 15 minutes by a crazy homeless man telling him he was fired. I am pretty sure he knew then it was time to pack up the boxes and move on.(no i didnt get fired.) he was passionate about what he did, and enjoyed getting out of the bed at all costs to get the job not because it was the right thing to do or what they paid him to do but because it was what fueled his life. With that being said, I work alot more than most and Im ok with that. it is not abnormal for me to spend 80 or 90 hours a week at work or at home on this laptop doing what i love to do or what I really love. Its not the paycheck and im not sure what it is, but today I got a little closer to understanding why I do it and why I dont mind it. I had dinner with a person that works from our company from Allentown PA. She tells me of how much I have helped her in the last 9 months and how things would be different if i wasnt around and what can only be fixed by the grand old wizard of the textbook world himself, adam. Usually i am the talker, i like to tell the story, i like my voice to carry over it all it comes from a loud talking sister that can breathe thru her ears. it didnt give me much time to express my passions. That is how i got to where i am, now i do not shrink from or deny that one voicestris sound you around here and around my building comes from me. Not waiting in the shadows, not caring if wrong or right. But being the person of ideas, great or flops that is me. Back to Allentown, you cant keep a good man down - woman in this case. God Bless you my old friend as im here for you.
So you laugh, you learn, you love and you cry, thats a full day, thats a hell of a day. I love chinese food, not sure why but im pretty sure peanut oil and rice is addictive but im not complaining. But i like it all best with diet pepsi, not sure why. YOu dont ask questions about these things, you just go with the flow, you dont want the great mouth watering taste leave so you dont tempt the fate. I had dinner tonight at crappy beer night at buzzard billys, its a little cajan resturant downtown in the haymarket. Yes we have a haymarket, i dont see them selling hay these days. its a great little place to have some shrimp creole. might be the only shrimp ill eat in nebraska :), you get to work in the morning and act alive with a little red bull and m & ms. Yes i know thats bad for you but, get over it. Oh yes, this morning when i took a shower for some reason i got about an ounce of body wash in my eye. no we are not talking about the suds, this is pre foam soap. it hurt for hours. my eye is still red. my addvice is dont do that.

So I laughed, I loved, and I cried(it was one hell of a day)

till the next time
AC

PS, if you make a white russian and put coke in it, it is called a Colorado bulldog and tastes alot like a coke float. Not sure where people come up with these things

if??????

If your ears are always growing, then why are older people hard of hearing?

State of the Union/I am not a smart man jenny

Forrest Gump is alot like George W, but a little smarter. While watching the Stat of the Union(SOU) everyone fell asleep. how did we elect this guy president, he dont put complete sentenances together. what the hell are we doing here. such an exciting time here in the world and we get, Hello. Its really bad when i get to make fun of the way somebody talks. Ok no more SOU, off to two and a half men. Its a funny show atleast most times :P


dont have anything else to say except to say im tired and going to bed

enough from me now
AC

Chaos Theory

So, what are we doing here. I dont know you dont know we dont know, why do we care. My life /job can be defined by the chaos theory. Most people could say that but they dont really know: the chaos theory has something to do with fractul geometry. But basically says if you look at all the things in the world, patterns form and the things that are random arent so random to us. I havent figured out my sleep pattern in the past 9 months. If you look at the randomness around us, patterns show up and in that even great beauty. I am not sure what is going on, but its random. bed at 8 up at 2, bed at 10 up at 2, bed at 8 oversleep to 9. Not really sure what is going on, i can be tired but it doesnt matter. But on friday night and saturday night i can sleep like 20 hours if i want to. Its still cold here, not that it wouldn't be. When i woke up yesterday it was 8 below, temperature not windchill that was 25 below so quit complaining about your 30 degree mornings. You don't do much when its that cold outside, usually get inside as fast as possible and sleep alot. I had green eggs and ham , wait no i didn't. I had scrambled eggs of regular color for breakfast. I got this bacon, like the real stuff and I know its bad for you but i crave it. Its better than any bacon Ive ever had and that's saying something growing up in the south. Im almost have it figured out, its like it has its on secret ingredient and it just lures you in for more and more. so i dont really understand that. Im like the only person that cooks breakfast most every day. I told my boss that i get cranky and yell if i dont get food and he says that i should show up late everyday if thats the case cause me cranky just docent add up to a good day. For lunch i went to jimmy johns, its a sub place around here. its super duper good, not sure why but it is. I always get the number 9 which is an Italian sandwich. I never like them before moving here, who would want to put oil and vinegar on a sandwich. that just sounds nasty, but add some good cheese and some other junk it ends up being pretty good. I just done a spell check and realize I dont use appostriphes. thats random.

Enough for now me