The Five Best Posts Of December, 2018

It's that time of the month again for me.

It is time to look back at

The Five Best Posts of The Month Of December, 2018!

I cannot believe that

January 2019

is already coming to a close

and that last year flew by so fast.

I think I should discuss someday the phenomenon of how time flies,

as they say,

the older we get.

That would be a good psychological

and physical phenomenon to talk about,

that we all feel as we get older.

Another time maybe.

But today is a day to celebrate all

The Best Posts Of December!

 

 So here we go.

The Fifth Best Post Of The Month Of December, 2018 Is:

I Know - A Love Poem

Basically, the lyrics to my music video I Know. It is hard to say anything more about this Post. If you to Poetry and/or lyrics, you will want to read this Post and then listen to the music video.

The Fourth Best Post Of The Month Of December Is;

CIMON

My News Story about the floating robotic ball on the Space Station named CIMON and how the first interaction with an astronaut got a little reminiscent of the 2001 A Space Odyssey onboard computer named Hal, when the ISS Robot throws an unexpected tantrum.

The Third Best Post Of December Is;

I Didn't Get The Email

My explanation why I didn't have the music video I Know yet, as promised. Of course the video is up and running now, but I had technical difficulties getting it going.

The Second Best Post Is;

A Legacy

Something I wrote on how special my Sister has been in her career as being a Special Needs Teacher and how she has touched so many lives. Sorry, I didn't assign a picture to this story.

The Number One Best Post Of The Month Of December, 2018 Is;

My 1st Doctor Who Episode

The title says it all. I have been an avid fan of Doctor Who since about 1971 and I thought it was time for me to take a crack at writing a Fandom story. Mine is a musical of course.

 I hope you have enjoyed these

Posts

of mine

and if you have missed reading one

or more of these,

I hope telling you about the favorites from last month,

that it might entice you to check them out!

This is,

Enjoying Writing A Blog,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
- Ernest Hemingway -

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I Still Believe

 From my
November 22nd,2015 Post
called
What Do You Believe?

*****
When my eldest daughter,

was almost four years old,

she used to talk to her biological father,
even though he had passed away.
(His Ghost.)

When she would start talking to him,
her

Aunts,

Uncles,

and

Cousins

would stay away from her.

Being

Pacific-Islanders,

they still believed in the superstitions which have been passed down from

generation to generation.

Even after four hundred years of being predominately

Catholic.

One
Aunt
actually told me that my daughter was being possessed!

I,

on the other hand,

thought it was fascinating.

I was the only person in the family that would come up to her

and ask her,

"What are you doing?"

She would tell me

and point out where her biological father was sitting.

I remember telling her,

that she should tell her father,

that I was going to take care of her now

and that I would do the best job that I could.

She told me,

he knows.

This wonderful relationship she had with him did not last very long,

as her
Mother

and our two oldest
Sons,

kept telling her to stop talking to him.

So eventually,

she did.

I know,

non-believers will tell you it was just the imagination of a little girl.

I can understand this,
but I also can understand the need to believe our
Life Force
goes on after death. 

When I was little,

I had an imaginary friend called
Jason,
and I would talk to him all the time when I was lonely.

But I was scared to let anyone know about him in case they would laugh at me,

and I would feel foolish.

Yet,

to this day,

even though I am not a practicing religious man,

I try to pray everyday

or every night to thank my

Personal Lord

for all that he has given me,

all that he is giving me,

and all that he will give me.

Then I talk to the people in my life who have passed away,

that I still love.
I say hi,
that I miss them,

and I'll thank them for watching over me daily.
In my mind,
Jason
and now my loved ones who have gone before me,
are my
Guardian Angles.
Just like my daughter's first
Dad
is hers. 

If it wasn't for those people,
who I believe still watch over me,
and for my belief in a

Higher Power,

I don't know what would have happened to me in life.
I've been very fortunate
and lucky in life.
But I know one thing,

I am pretty sure I would never have had the chance to raise

Seven Beautiful Children

whom I love,
if somebody up there wasn't watching over me!

This is,

Even Though I Can't See Spirits Doesn't Mean They Don't Exist,

Deep Down We Are All Made Of The Same Stuff,
Which Is Energy,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” - Albert Einstein -

 

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Transporting In Time

   I am not a Professor of Physics or anything like that. I could never tell you how traveling in time works. I'm just a user.
   User of the Menology Corporeal Time Travel mechanism. And what I mean by user, I mean the MeCoTiT is as addictive as any of the drugs you hear about throughout history.
   Just like drugs, the MeCoTiT has its side effects on the body too!
   "Every transport ages the body an extra day," the Big Heads say.
   It's like when people used to smoke those cancer sticks and the Surgeon General would tell the public that each cigarette smoked takes away a day of your life.
   Back then people would only live to be fifty, sixty, maybe eighty years old and they still puffed away.
   I'm the same with the MeCoTiT. Losing one day of my future seemed little to me with the thrill of traveling through time when I started out.
   What the Big Heads don't tell you is, the damage to your body is compounded.
   A Noobie will start out traveling through time, not feeling a thing. His body may have lost a minute of its life expectancy on the first go, but the traveling back in time has already grabbed him or her by the synapses and endorphins.
   It's like this.
   You go back in time, stay awhile, and then come back to the date you started from. That's two minutes gone, off of your life.
   Nothing right?
   Think about the old legend of Krishna playing chess with the King of India. Krishna beats the King and for his reward asks for one grain of rice be placed on the first square of the chessboard. Doubling the amount of rice on each subsequent squares.
   One square, one grain of rice. Second square, two grains of rice. By the time you reach the fortieth square, you have one billion grains of rice.
   So if you count traveling in time one way, as a square on the chessboard, well, you see what I mean. The damage to your physical being is devastating if you keep on transporting.
   Once you start though, the body, the mind, and the soul needs it fix, again and again. Or, the mental withdrawals alone feels like it will kill you.
   Another thing, when you first start out, is most people are afraid to eat the food of eras gone by. They see livestock and vegetables slaughtered or picked live and then processed with chemicals to look fresh for years. People, of different time periods ate this stuff.
   Our Big Heads can't or won't figure out why our petri-dish grown food rots away when traveling back in time. Or, when you bring back samples of food from the past, it's all gamy.
   I believe your innards get messed up the same way over time. That's why you age so fast after using the MeCoTiT multiple times.
   You just don't notice it until you get further down the chessboard.
   What got me into trouble was the money thing.
   Replicating the currency with the right kind of paper and the hidden markings is easy. Just don't go back farther in time than the date you printed on the bills. The locals look at that as counterfeiting.
   Each MeCoTiT has its own fail safe system built in of returning to its original departure date and time. In case the user gets injured or losses the device.
   Mine is about ready to go off any minute now. If my Jailer is still holding onto it when it does, won't he get a big surprise.
   Well, my fate is set. The Police took away my MeCoTiT and I'm just gonna have to get used to living in the 21st Century from now on. As a Counterfeiter, with a record.

 This is,

Still Going To Travel In Time If I Can No Matter What It Does To My Body

Jim Hauenstein

And

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
- Stephen Hawking -

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West Africa Squadron

I have been holding onto to this story for almost a year now.

I wanted to write my own

Historical Fiction

on the subject but I could never come up with a good idea.

The events I am talking about is the

Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron.

"The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron at substantial expense in 1808 after Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Abolishing the Slave Trade. The squadron's task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. With a home base at Portsmouth, it began with two small ships, the 32-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Solebay and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Derwent. At the height of its operations, the squadron employed a sixth of the Royal Navy fleet and marines. In 1819 the Royal Navy established a West Coast of Africa Station and the West Africa Squadron became known as the Preventative Squadron it remained an independent command until 1856 and then again 1866 to 1867. Between 1808 and 1860 the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans."
- Wikipedia -

In an indirect way,

the formation of the

West Africa Squadron,

had an influence on the

United States

and the coming of our

Civil War.

The United States Navy assisted the West Africa Squadron, starting in 1820 with HMS Cyane, which the US had captured from the Royal Navy in 1815. Initially the US contribution consisted of a few ships, but eventually the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 formalized the US contribution into the Africa Squadron.
- Wikiwand -

With the

Royal Navy

and the

U.S. Navy

blockading

the

Slave Trade

I am sure the

Confederate South

were pretty angry with the

Northern States

for participating in stopping an influx what they considered a commodity.

 

This is,

I Like History

And I Hope I Don't Bore You With It,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
- Abraham Lincoln -

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When I Grow Up.....

Listening to
Babymetal
on my way to the library.
My
Post
Visual Kei
from
 November 12th, 2015
says it all.


*****
When I grow up,

I want to be in a

Visual Kei Rock Band.

Its not like some of you haven't enjoyed music from an

Androgynous Aesthetic Musician

or

Band

before.

What?

You say I'm crazy?

Tell me you have never listened to
David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars?

Elton John?

T-Rex?

Mott the Hoople?

Boy George?

The Cure?
Patti Smith?
Marilyn Manson?

Lady Gaga?
Hurts?
HIZAKI grace project?

D?
Nocturnal Bloodlust?
Babymetal?

Should I go on

and on

and on

and on?

I don't know what it is about

Androgynous Rock Stars

and the

Public

who loves them,

but when I grow up...........

This is me,

Showing My Age With The First Few Rock Bands I Listed,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“You don't have to have long hair to be a Rock Star, but it helps."

- Elizabeth Corva -

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My Favorite Sport

Since I have been talking about sports the last couple of days,

I want to promote the sport I love the most at this point in my life.

During different stages of my existence,

I went through a period where

Major League Baseball 

was my favorite.

I could name every starting line-up on every team.

I used to go to at least one game during my team's home stand.

Until

Billionaires

argued with

Millionaires

and the

World Series

 was cancelled in 1994.

I never followed baseball again.

Then I was into

College Basketball.

I loved the atmosphere

and how hard the students would play for no pay.

But,

after awhile,

my interest waned.

Through all of this,

American Football

was a favorite of mine.

I love the

Green Bay Packers

and I even had season tickets to the

San Diego Chargers

before they moved to

Los Angeles.

Now to my favorite sport.

Formula 1

racing.

I have the

F1 App

on my iPhone.

I follow the

F1 Twitter

feed.

And I listen to the

F1

podcast

Beyond The Grid.

I think I like motorsports because grew up watching oval dirk track racing when I went to visit my

Uncle,

who was head of the

Pits

at the

Rice Lake Wisconsin Raceway.

I have been to the

Great Lakes Dragaway

 and to

Road America.

Even though

Formula One

is my favorite racing,

I have been only to one race in my life.

And that was when they raced in the city of

Phoenix Arizona

back in 1990.

There is just something about motorsport racing I like.

No one was hurt in any of these crashes.

We watch racing for the crashes,

but we always want the drivers to come out unscathed.

This is,

Waiting For The First ace In Australia On March 17th,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti -

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Still Whining About American Football

Yesterday I mentioned how I am beginning to hate

American Football.

It is because the

New England Patriots

are in the

Superbowl

for the eleventh time in their history.

Winning five of them.

But I am a little fickle.

(I never thought I would ever use that word in my lifetime.)

If my favorite team,

the

Green Bay Packers

were constantly in the

Superbowl

I probably wouldn't mind at all.

They call

Green Bay Title Town

because the

Packers

have won

13 Championships.

Nine championships

before the

NFL & AFL

merger

and four

Superbowls

since.

I don't like dynasties.

I want to see different teams in the

Championship Game

year after year.

But I know it has a lot to do with coaching.

That is why the

Superbowl Trophy

is called the

Vince Lombardi Trophy.

 I feel that

Bill Belichick,

the

Patiots

head coach,

is the best coach in the

NFL

today.

When he finally retires he might be known as the best ever.

Even though his team

and his quarterback are known for

Cheating.

But,

with so much at stake,

I believe what

Mark Grace,

the former

Major League Baseball Player

said is true with former

and today's

Professional Athletes.

"If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying!"

 This is,

I Wonder How Bill Belichick Would Fare Against Vince Lombardi In Head To Head Competition?

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I’ve had for a long time. But it has never been my purpose in life. My purpose in life is simply to glorify God. We have to be careful that we don’t let the pursuit of our life’s goals, no matter how important they seem, cause us to lose sight of our purpose. I coach football. But the good I can do to glorify God along the way is my real purpose.”
- Tony Dungy -

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Relapse

Even though I went to the

Doctor

and got prescriptions for antibiotics

and prednisone,

I relapsed with the flu over the weekend.

I was so out of it that I wasn't able to think about what I would write when I did have a chance.

I thought about writing how I am beginning to hate the

NFL 

because the same team,

the dreaded

New England Patriots,

seem to be in the

Superbowl

year after year.

At least the

Los Angeles Rams 

made it this year.

Then,

I thought about writing a positive take on all the doomsayers predicting the end of civilization as we know it.

It's not a comet

or an asteroid coming to destroy the

Earth.

It's not even

Terrorists

or

North Korea

using atomic weapons to disrupt our societies across the globe.

The new destroyer of our way of life?
It's

Technology.

 Did anyone see the

60 Minutes

episode two

Sundays

ago when a scientist from

China,

trained in the

United States,

said that forty percent of the workforce will be unemployed within twenty years?

A little ambitious in his predictions if you ask me.
But technology is on its way.

Like I have been saying all along,

as in my

Post

Be Important.

"You have to stay up on how the future is going to affect your ability to be employed. You have to stay important to the company

or the field of your choice, as in your profession."

Like when the

Model T

started a whole new industry for employment.

Replacing

Horses

which was the staple for mankind to help him with his work

and for travel.
This went on for over three thousand years!

Find out how the new technologies will affect you

and do something about it.

Don't be one of those

Conservatives

who wish nothing would change in life

and hoping everything will stay the same.

Motivate Yourself

because everything changes in life constantly.

That's what makes it so exciting!

 

This is,

I Guess I Did Talk About Football

And About Technology,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.”
- Ernest Barbaric -

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Reminiscing

Reminiscing about my kids when they were young.
Here is I
Post
I wrote back on
Monday, November 16th, 2015
called
The Derriere.

***** 
I am the proud
Papa
of seven children.

I started having kids late in life though.

Which means,

my last three children were born 1 year apart from each other.

Which means,

I had three kids in diapers at the same time!

The oldest of the three was a little instigator.

Always daring the younger two to do something funny

or foolish,

depending on the idea,

while she sat back

and watched.

(Then they grow up to be teenagers and are still a handful.)

Like all parents,

whenever my kids got an

owie,

I would say,

"Should I kiss it to make it feel better?"

Kids all over the
World
believe if there parents kiss their

boo-boos,

everything feels so much better.

One day,

after a long day at work,

I came home to find the three little ones watching the 

Disney Channel

on
TV.

As soon as the eldest one saw me,

she leans over,

from her sitting position,

like she was pointing her butt at me

and says,

"Daddy I fell down and hurt my bottom. Will you kiss it and make it feel better?"

All three kids,

still wearing diapers mind you,

started rolling on the living room floor hysterically.

They wouldn't stop laughing.

That is baby humor at its best.

And no,

I did not kiss her derriere!

This is,

Still Willing To Kiss Boo-Boos If They Ask Me To,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.” 

- Rodney Dangerfield -

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Professor Boris Kamara Rakoczy

   My name is Professor Boris Kamara Rakoczy. Professor Boris for short. I am head of Supernatural Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. A prestigious Paranormal Research University based in Budapest since 1635. Being a non-believer of the supernatural myself and studying the phenomenon of the paranormal is a double edge sword, even in today's world. You would think by now that even the most rural of Hungarian would be educated enough to stop believing in such fantasy creatures like Vampires, Witches, or Ghosts. But then I would be out of a job.
   I no longer teach the history and folklore of the old Hungarian culture at the school. My job now consists mostly of debunking what people believe are haunting them. My grant money is paid directly to the University by the Hungarian Government to finally put an end to Witch burning, ritual Vampire burials, and Ghostly visitations. Bringing the Hungarian people into the 21st Century instead of our countrymen belonging to the 16th Century.
   It is easy to stop a village from burning a suspected Witch if I reach the crime scene in time. I can prove that the mass hysteria the villagers are experiencing over seeing flying creatures is due to the town's Baker. Scrapping off the mold from his old bread does not completely clean the bread. What the Baker does not know is, the colorful mold he sees on the surface of food is just the tip of what is going on inside bread. He is trying to make a profit and the villagers pay by their hallucinations.
   When one of the many elderly secluded backwoodsmen apparently die suddenly and there is a rash of children waking up in the morning with small looking bite marks afterwards, it is not because the woodsman is rising from the grave in the middle of the night to feed on sleeping kids. I can prove that bed bugs are passed along through the school system from one child to the next.
   As far as phantom spirits go, it could be something as simple as having great eyesight on a very clear and bright day and a person sees for the first time the little microbes swimming on the fluid covering their eyes. Before microscopes, people were actually executed for seeing these microbes on their eyeballs.
   Ghost are usually the easiest to debunk with the local villagers.
   But not this time.
   I saw one myself!
   I am in the town of Kiskunfélegyháza where I have witnessed my first true sighting.
   My mentor, Professor Liechtenstein, told me he witnessed a ghost phenomenon back when he first started. He said the only way someone has ever seen a real ghost is by the lack of clothing on the specter.
   We have all seen the pictures of supposed ghost, the way movies depict ghost, and the way writers describe a ghost to their readers. But according to Professor Liechtenstein, the clothing a person dies in does not pass on to the next realm with the deceased. When we die, our spirit leaves behind all worldly possessions.
   So it was quite the shock when I saw a female strolling along the river in her birthday suite.
   I do not know what I am going to say to my superiors. They will think I have gone mad.
   My next step is to track the specter the first chance I get and see where it leads me.
   I will continue this correspondence once I have further evidence.

This is,

Professor Boris Kamara Rakoczy Telling You To Stay Tuned

By Jim Hauenstein

 And,

“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -

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Saw My Doc Today

In honor of seeing my
Doctor
today,
I would like to bring back this humorous
Post
I wrote from
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015.
It is called
How Humiliating.

*****
I recently told all of you that I went to see my
Doctor
in my
Post,

A Couple Of Observations.
Here are some more observations I made of that day.

When I went in to see my Doctor, I said, "Hey Doc, I accidentally swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills!" She told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Did you hear about the newest "High Tech" they are using in the delivery room? It' cordless!

I found out the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer while I was there. The taste.

Isn't it a little bit unnerving that doctors call what they do, a practice?

At least I know I drive too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I started complaining about this pain I was having to my doctor,

she said, "We've run every test we can think of and the results show you're out of money."

What I would like to know is, "What do you call a doctor who finishes last in his or hers medical school class?" Answer: "A Doctor."

 

This is,

Hoping My Doctor Has A Sense Of Humor Before She Cuts Me Open,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.”

- Edward Rosenbaum -

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