You begin to slowly realize that not everyone is in tune with you. Not everyone listens and sees the things you see. However, with that there is a certain feeling of failure that comes with it. Would you prefer to continue seeing the world you do? Or chose to curtail your view and take the popular road? There is no such thing as uniqueness; reason leads us all down the same path. Ayn Rand would be proud.Begin to understand that the fact that you see things differently and understand things in a different manner just means that either you

Prisoner of work.

Last night, Friday night, time to party. What did I do? Was in bed by 10 PM, like a good little boy. Now, its Saturday night, what am I doing? I’m on a comference call, probably will be on this call for a couple of hours.

I love work and work loves me.

~david macias

It is 1:26 AM on a Saturday morning, I decided to be a good boy and stay in. I’ve had about 10 phone calls tonight. Weekends are made for partying. It has been a crazy weekend and I might have to go to the doctor on Monday. Note to self, don’t get hit in the face by a soccer ball. You might end up seeing spots that don’t go away.I went for a walk around midnight today. I had a pretty late and huge dinner so I figured I would walk it off a bit. Interesting how many stare you get when you’re walking alone at night. I didn’t get shot or mugged, although I can see why people would fear such late night travels.

I’ve had a lot of time to think, while my mind doesn’t seem to focus on a single thing, it does seem to circle a common theme. That being my future. What about it? I don’t really know, perhaps I should think about it some more or worst, that is the problem.

Well, on another forum that I frequent, this youth pastor asked for help on how to crawl some of his kid’s blogs searching for keywords such as sex, death, cuss words, etc. Now, this is an easy thing to do, but this is not a how to on that.

There is something scary about that, I know blogs are mostly public, but there is some personal sense to them also. It is very easy to think that what you write will never be read by anyone, when in reality more eyes see it than you would believe.

So what did good old youth pastors do before the advent of the internet?

Does he also need to have weekly visits by the k9 unit to these kids’ rooms, just in case?

~david macias

So, I have been in Chicago for a couple of days now. I love traveling, I enjoy being on the road and would like to do more of it if possible.

However, this trip has not been fun. Got here Sunday and by around Tuesday I was feeling a little sick, maybe had something to do with the guy who was sick in my training class. Well, Tuesday around 7 PM I passed out, slept until 7 AM the next morning. Today (Wednesday) I still felt a little under the weather, but after a nap and dinner I was feeling much better. So I got to thinking, why would I get sick all of a sudden, then get much better within 48 hours?Stress. I think my body gets majorly down when I push myself too hard. Thus, resulting in some defencies on the imnune system. Now, is this a sign of age? Am I getting older and weaker? I don’t think so. If anything I think I am working harder than I had before, but only time will tell.

I think I need some vitamins.

~david macias

Mis grandes triunfos, son mis perdidas mas costosas. Mis mas grandes fortunas, son mis mejores desgracias. La estupidez humana es infinitamente abundante, como el mar y el espacio.

Las nubes negras de tormentas se aproximan, el rugido del rel

Unfreaking believeable, 10 years ago one of my favorite paintings, The Scream by Edvard Munch, was stolen from the Oslo Museum, however it was recovered 3 months later after the perpetrators were trying to extort ransom money from the musuem.

Well, ladies an gentleman it has happened again. However, this time it was not only the scream but also Madonna by the same artist.

The Scream by Edvard Munch (this was my expression when I read it had been stolen)

Edvard Munch’s Madonna

This leads me to believe that the Oslo museum has a huge security problem. I just hope the authorities are able to find these pieces before it is too late.

~david macias

Excellent film. I don’t think I could swallow 62 grapes whole, but I am sure somewhere someone has or someone is. The most perplexing thing is that you see the quality of life of people in such countries as Colombia or Guatemala and you think, what other options do they have? Money needs to be brought into the home, studying takes away from working and it costs money. What do you do? Why wouldn’t you do it? Is it really possible to "make it" in a 3rd world country?

Requeim for a Dream is the best drug movie to watch, but this one is pretty close to depicting the harsh reality of the drug world.

~david -out of grace- macias

Rather ironic and depressing when it comes down to it, you must make mistakes, take wrong turns, and generally just screw up in order to gain value insight to life.

So you might know, I play soccer, I love to play soccer. Soccer is the best sport in the world! :-)

Edit:
So here is a the source of my discontent.

Division III

Mondial III 25 8 0 1 61 15 46 9
*Team Red 24 8 1 0 61 17 44 9
Guadalajara 19 6 1 1 40 19 21 8
Infinity 15 4 2 3 45 32 13 9
Blinn 1 13 4 3 1 45 30 15 8

*Yes that is us in 2nd place.So today we played this team who we felt pretty confident that we would beat. However, guess what, we did not. First of all, they actually stacked the team. They took two of the best players from another team and had them play with this team. Something that is illegal according to our league rules.

Next, the ref was friends with a couple of people from the other team and called most of the game a bit lopsided. Finally, he gave me a yellow card which I and many of my team members felt that it was unfair. I went to head the ball, goalie comes out for it, slams into me, gets the air knocked out of him, and he leaves the game hurt. David gets a yellow card and a $5 fine. Goalie later returned and he seemed fine.

So, after going undefeated we lost one game one week before the playoffs. We should still be ranked #1 however; this should give us a wake up call. We can be beat.

Finally, the final score was 4-3, they were getting scared we scored 2 goals on them in the last 5 minutes.