Today, March 22, 2007 marks 3 years of not smoking. This is a big day for me and it has been very tempting to smoke, but I have made it this far and I am very proud of that.

I have been getting a few google searched coming to my page on why I have a concealed carry permit. I will not go into all of that again, but these recent searches have been in regards to California permits. When I called CA before moving I spoke with someone who deals with permits and what I learned is this. Please note that this was for the San Diego area some areas are not as hard to get a permit from what I understand, but not as easy as other states.

• You must have a valid reason for having the permit
• Background Check
• Personality Interview
• References
• Fingerprinting

Lets start at the beginning. A valid reason? please keeping my ass from getting popped by some wanna be gangster should be reason enough. If you are a business owner and have to carry cash you can get a permit. If you do security work you can get a permit and I believe there are some other reasons that you can get a permit. A background check and fingerprinting are standard in most states. The personality interview, unless it is a polygraph or you are really screwed up that is pretty easy to pass I would think. Even a polygraph an be beat if you know the tricks. “Have you ever thought about killing someone” that is probably one of the questions and how many people can truthfully answer No, that is one type of question they ask on polygraphs, something maybe 0.01% of people can answer No to. I wonder if anyone has every answered, “Well now, that depends on the outcome of this interview”. References, that isn’t bad, and it would help in case you screwed up the interview.

The carrying debate is a difficult one because I see it from both sides. There are A LOT of people I would not like to see carrying a gun, but originally I was not sure how I would conduct myself. I think that having the power in some ways sobers the experience and helps you to control yourself more. The other side of this is that if more people carried guns, I think less people would be likely to act the way they do. There are guys that think they are bad ass and think they would just walk up and punch anyone pointing a gun at them and maybe they really don’t care enough, but the likely hood that guy that beat you up as a kid will is very unlikely. Think about it, some 280 lbs. man walks towards a 120 lbs. geek pointing a gun at him, that kid is going to shit his pants and probably fire the weapon out of fear and that might keep that man from approaching him like that. It is a debate that has valid points on both sides and it will never stop.

I recommend you visit Packing.org to read more information about your state, it is a great resource and it will even tell you what states you can carry in if you have a permit in a certain state.

I am this tired…

Tuesday night I got about 5 hours of sleep and then had to drive 4 hours and come home to do some work.
Wednesday night I got about 8 I think.
Thursday night I got 4 hours and had a meeting 1.25 hours away
Friday night I think I had about 7 hours of sleep
Saturday I worked and got about 6 hours of sleep that night
Sunday I worked from noon to 6am Monday morning, took a nap till 8, took another nap until 10:30.

I have a lot of work to do today once my login issues are fixed. Then I have to learn Joomla faster than a kid learns to pick his nose and then my next post on this topic will be

3/12 - 3/23, 4 hours of sleep total.

I would be tired, but the money could buy me a lot, haha

Recently my dad asked me what I thought about moving to Israel. My dad’s side of the family is Jewish and of Russian/Polish decent. I do not really fit the “image” of what you would think about as a Jewish child. I am a blonde hair, blue-eyed Caucasian so I fear I would stick out much more than my dad would. He has a darker complexion, but even if I was tan I would stand out much more.

That aside, I don’t really want to learn Hebrew, I plan on learning Arabic because I feel it will be a useful language in my future. I have considered seeing if a family friend who has worked in the middle east for 20 years knew of a job I would be qualified for. He is located in Egypt, which would be an awesome place to visit, however I do not know enough about it to know if I would want to live there.

There are so many things I would like to talk about on my blog and a lot of them have to do with my personal life. I do mention some things about my personal life and voice my opinion when I get the opportunity, but to really go into detail about how I feel is a line I would rather not cross.

The internet is a very powerful thing and it only gets more powerful every day. I worry that someone will be able to search and find information that may alter their opinion of me by reading out of context or without reading about events leading up to those feelings. I have been debating having a friend register a domain for me under private registration so nobody could access those records and find out who actually runs the blog. A lot of my friends no longer live here and for the time being I am not leaving anytime soon giving me nobody I can really talk to. I have a couple people to talk to, but I do not feel like I can bring up some topics, and for the childish reading this no I’m not gay.

I will probably have to get a private domain to express how I feel, which I guess wouldn’t be so bad. My friend Josh expressed his personal feelings too often in his opinion and had to move his blog after all the search engines already indexed everything.