JDI'S Travel and liesure

                                                           Traveling by thumb The first time I hitchhiked I was 7 maybe 8years old. Living in Little River, California. It was in 1973 or 1974. Exact dates are hard to remember when considering it was almost 40years ago. We lived in what was then a hippie community, and most people up and down Airport Road knew my parents.  Needless to say, I have been traveling by thumb ever since. Not always, but I have never been in a place I couldn't get out of. Growing up in such an environment can be educational, but mostly just a lot of weed and moving around. After a while in my teenage years, my parents probably regretted letting me hitchhike. It wasn't nothing for me to get out on the road and stick my thumb out if I wanted to go somewhere.  On the flip side of that, it wasn't easy to get ...

Writers are in demand? I have a question. When did getting a job working for someone else start costing money out of the applicant's pocket? I may be old-fashioned, but I used to fill out an application and then interviewed for the position. I have been looking online and found several advertisements for online jobs. I was looking to apply but all I found was a place to pay for access to a site where I would be a contract worker. I am in business for myself. If that is what I was looking for, I would have invested in a business opportunity. Put it out there that you're an employee of some internet company, but you are paying your taxes, you are paying a fee to apply to not get any benefits; you pay for some site to claim that they are a placement agency yet you are still doing all the work to find and apply for gig work. Word definitions are just what? a guide to mean maybe it means you are an employee. Or my favorite, it's free! HAHAHAHA that is just so funny. I have seen ...

It is my belief that social media is killing society. I have looked up definitions. Social adjective, not single, a group of over one. Social media is a party killer. I am talking about these symptoms of the society killer. You walk into a room full of people and everyone has a phone in their hands and is not engaging each other at all that we can see. But typing away, and then one person laughs, looks at the person standing a foot away, and says good one. Two teens are sitting on the same couch typing away on their phones. One says to the other, let's go then. Sitting not even a foot apart, yet using social media to talk to each other. Or texting. No one else around, so talking secrets is out. So yes, I believe social media is killing society. Take this test for yourself and let's see what happens. The test is for those two girls to put down their phones and only use landline home phone to call people for one week. You will actually have to engage people in the actual world. I...

  Mena, Arkansas I love the state of Arkansas. I took my nephew Steven there to visit some friends of mine, Dave and Margo, who live in Cove. About 15 miles (24.14 km) south of Mena. Dave and I were drinking beer and Steven had found places to fish. Dave had a little fishpond, and the neighbors had ponds too. All was going as planned, Steven had caught dinner. But we wanted to go to the bar. That meant going to Oklahoma.  When we got to the bar, the doors were open, but no electricity was on. There was a tornado that landed in Mena, knocking out the power as far as Hatfield. That was in Mena, not where we were. That point in my life, I was a drunk. A working drunk, making a good living as a welder. That being said, the time to go hammered me. Steven was having none of me or Dave driving. He took the keys and chunked them and I got angry but gave in, and he drove home. The morning was a rough one; I had a hangover that was pounding. My hangover wasn’t the only thing pissed at m...

  Leaving Tulsa I had quit a job in Arkansas and went back to Tulsa. I left on foot a couple of months ago to go paint water towers again. Jerry Ferguson out of Cherry Hill, Arkansas hired me back. Two years ago I worked for him and had to leave Arkansas and move to Tulsa because he was semiretired and would not work more than a couple of weeks. Then take 3 to 4 weeks off.  Jerry could afford to do that, but Mike and I couldn’t. So I had gone to Tulsa where I had friends and knew I could work as soon as I got there. Dave and Margo lived in a little 14-foot travel trailer, where I slept on a hand built wood bed. It was just like I said. I was working as soon as I went to Standby personnel.  Standby is a day labor place. I was in a permanent job in three days of being there. K&M Shillingford heat and air. Started as a temporary employee working for Standby. But on the second day I was hired on. Just had to get paid from Standby until my contract was up. Two months, they...

   Chicago Traveling to Chicago can sound overwhelming and scary. There is a lot to do in Chicago. I have been there twice. When I was 14, we went and did a few things.  But in 2005 I was working as a welder for HMT tanks. We were working at a gasoline tank farm. Making decent money so when I had time off we were Tourists. While there we went to the Sears Tower, to the 104th floor, to the sky deck. Rode the express elevator. Fucking awesome! Fast lift, 104 floors in 30 seconds.  It was a beautiful day that day. I could see across Lake Michigan. That was sweet. The sky deck floor made mostly of glass. Even 2 feet (0.61 m) of the floor all the way around was glass, you could walk on it and look down. That was freaky, looking down between your feet and see 1,500 feet (0.46 km) down. Freaky feeling, almost like a carnival ride. The Adrenalin pumping fear and excitement. The ride down was like 30 seconds of driving over those little hills that make your belly fall behind ...

 Chicago Traveling to Chicago can sound a bit overwhelming, and scary. There is a lot to do in Chicago. I have been there a couple of times. When I was 14 we went and did a few things.  But in 2005 I was working as a welder for HMT Tanks. We were working at a gasoline tank farm. Making decent money so when I had time off we were Tourists. While there we had the opportunity to go to the Sears Tower, to the 104th floor to the Sky deck. Rode the express elevator. Fucking awesome! Fast lift, 104 floors in 30 seconds.  It was a beautiful day that day. I could see across Lake Michigan, that was sweet. The sky deck floor, made mostly of glass. Even 2 feet (0.61 m) of the floor all the way around was glass, you could walk on it and look down. That was freaky, looking down between your feet and see 1,500 feet (0.46 km) down. Freaky feeling, almost like a carnival ride. The Adrenalin pumping fear and excitement. The ride down was like 30 seconds of driving over those little hills t...