MokshaMike's Blog

So, as I said yesterday, today, I've got some legal issues to get off of my chest...  Not mine, someone else's but it's really affecting my life...

I'm going to leave names out or change them, as well as relationships, just to keep from rocking any boats... Okay... Here we go....

About two years ago, it came out that a very close friend of mine may be in a spot of trouble.  Turns out that over the past three years she had been embezzeling monies from the plumbing company that she worked for...  Finally someone had caught on... And thank god because who knows how long she would have continued on...  Anyway, she gets caught, and is immediately fired.  This is a woman who has been married for 14 years, has two children, and not much else (with the exception of a loving family and friends, which I'll get to in a moment).  Her husband is basically a lazy alcoholic, not the kind that beats his kids and goes out to the bars all the time, no, for the most part he just drinks at home, only instead of grabbing a glass of milk or tea when he's thristy, it's a beer...  Having recently also lost his job, he was going to school to drive truck... how that was going to work with the beer, I don't know... 

So, she loses her job, he's in MN for schooling, no money in the bank, no job, rent's due...  What to do...  She calls her best friend (my mother, whom I share living expenses with).  Crying begging pleading apologizing, she explains to my mother the situation.  How she had to do it "for the kids".  How she's so sorry, how she has no idea how much money she stole, all of this crap...  And my mother, being the nice kind caring to a fault person she is, agrees to allow this woman and her husband and her two dogs and two cats and two kids (one of which is emotionally impaired) to move into our home.  At this point, yes I live in the basement, but it's a walk out, with wall to wall windows, finished walls etc... (it's no dungeon).  Actually, quite a nice little apartment for the money... And now my world comes crashing down.  Mom moves in down the hall...  Giving up her upstairs half of the house to her friend and family and menagerie of animals.

As time passes and she goes to court and trial and eventually prison, things around the home go from a slight occasional tension to present day frustrations of counting the days until they get out. 

But the thing that really burns my goat is that this  womans husband, father to two children, has not once taken these kids to a movie, to a ball game, to the zoo, bowling... Nothing.  No McDonalds is their treat... And while I do feel some responsibility to make their stay (the kids) as easy as possible, I can't forget about the fact that most of that money went to spoil them...  Video game systems, movies, horses.  Things that they had and did and did no work for... It's stolen.  I can't imagine the guilt that someday may be associated with the bit of time they had to spend away from their mom...

Moving on...  She's coming home next month (A year and a half for stealing $150,000+!!!!), and now she's getting ready to deal with all of the civil proccedings that are associated with white collar crime...  Lawsuits, repayment of the money stollen.... Not to mention probation on a federal level and an alcoholic husband and dealing with the reality that her life really is never going to be the same.  She's someone who has been given everything in her life and threw it all away, on a pretty consistent basis. 

There's an attorney to come to the house on sunday to asses the families possesions...  Televisions, game systems, furniture.  They are about to loose everything... Not my problem.  But what is my problem is that this is now being brought INTO MY HOME.  This is something that I or my mother shouldn't have to deal with.  She has raised this womans children for the past year and a half.  Taught the girl to drive, dealt wiht the boy and all of his medication.  Did the grocery shopping for them...  Pretty much went from a truely stress free life, to being stressed all the time...

Okay done venting... 

Hope everyone had as beautiful of a day as I did, and that all this b.s. venting didn't bring anyone down....

Have a great weekend!!!  I know I will!!!


Mike

So today was the real test...  The heat, the humidity...  Could I "hang" with the guys...  I did!...  No sweat... Well, actually gallons of sweat, but hey, gotta love it, right?

If you've been with me from the beginning (only yesterday...  LoL....) you know that I work outdoors for a living...  And todays heat and humidity was a real struggle.  The first time it's been this hot since I landed the fertilizer gig.  I have been wondering how I would handle it, and seems I did alright.  It was a struggle towards the end, but I managed to get through, and a bit early too!!!

I haven't really noticed much damage to lawns from the heat the past couple of days, but I'm sure that that's to come soon.  I have however noticed that many lawns are suffering from too much moisture.  A disease called "red thread" is setting in, and is causing quite a stir.  It's a simple fix however with some nitrogen rich fertilizer to help strengthen the diseased areas.

Other than that, a beautiful day down here in "Can-tucky".  A bit overcast, and the air was heavy, but no rain!!!  People are getting their pools ready to go (the ones that haven't already) and I'm sure weekend pool parties and back yard cookouts are about to kick into high gear....  I can't wait!!!

Well, that's all for today...  Tomorrow I've got some legal stuff to get off my chest... 

Have a great night/day what ever!!!!

Mike

So, I've got a blog or two rotting away in various dark corners of the "net..."  But this is my first here at Fox8.  

"Please allow myself to introduce myself..."  My names Mike, a guy in sweet little town south of Akron called Canton.  You may have heard of it.  It's an exciting little burg (if you know where to look) that I've called home all my life.  Let me correct that... Most of my life.  I've also spent meager bits of time in Ann Arbor Michigan, and also New Philly (Ohio).  But I've always had a mailing address in Canton. 

I'm a crisp 30 years old, just coming out of my youth and stretching my legs in the "real world".  Yes, I'm sorry to say, but Peter Pan  finally left Never-Never Land.  It's an exciting leg of the journey.  The biggest difference that I notice is that the prices of the things I like are much higher than they were when I was young.  A real Ferrari is much more expensive than an R/C one!  But that's just fine...  The rewards are much greater as well.

I have no children, and don't plan on it...  But I spend much of my time with friends and family that do have little tots.  Its nice to be able to go home when things get hairy.  I work hard for my money, everyone does I guess, but I really do.  I spread fertilizer for a company in Ravenna, and find myself regularly walking 5-6 miles a day.  It's nice, very nice... Being outside, in nature.  Watching birds chase each other in the sky, and hearing the breeze caress the branches of the various trees that can be found in the neighboorhoods I call my office.  It's said that to be happy at work is the best pay one can ask for.  It's true.

In my free time, I find myself wandering the woods, trekking through my memories, playing a video game here and there, messing around on the Computer, and generally just trying to make myself a better person.

I don't have much money in the bank, not much to my name even really, but that's just fine with me.  I have what I need, I love what I have, and fortunately I wont for little.  I drive a fuel effeceint Korean car and listen to just about every kind of music under the sun (with the exception of Christian... )

Raised a Christian, I find myself enthralled by all the religions of the world.  It's something that took my family a bit to warm up to, but it's always a great jumping off point for conversations.

I've got a few tattoos, I think metal is better suited to buildings and such rather than in someones face, and I keep my hair relatively short...  It helps hide the grey that's starting to invade!!!

I can't really think of much more...  So there you go.  That's me in a couple of hundred words.