Poured a cloudy orange and copper color with a nice creamy off-white head that lingered and offered up good lacing. The aroma was the expected citrus and pine notes along with some softer fruits (that I’ll assume are the mango and peach notes). The flavor was citrus, malt, pine and butter. A tad too much butter flavor came through on this one for me. Not the buttery caramel that’s often talked about, more land o’lakes butter. Great mouthfeel with barely a hint of alcohol noticed.
- Location:midtown manhatten
- Mood:
naughty - Music:Ground control to major tom
Well I just had to write about something, and lo and behold the subject of love came up in one of my conversations with my brother the other day. So we were discussing the merits of the marriage system here in America vs the rest of the world and how here the statistics speak of a 50% divorce rate and so forth. It was a good conversation since my brother is not lacking in the women department but is not ready to settle down because he wants someone who will be in through the thin and thick.
So here I am today just thinking after lunch about the human condition for love, and I was struck with of course some small revelations from what me and my brother discussed yesterday. First of all there is no such thing as true love, this is not to say that there are not any types of love but the one true love business that is perpetrated here in the western hemisphere is a myth. Now the thing is I believe that the idea comes from something genuine. You know I believe that man has tried to grasp the same type of love that is given by God. This is referring to the Judea Christian god referred to in the Christianity and Judaism. Now not to say these believes are false but I think back in they day people tried to compare their lust, want, dedication etc. with the same ideal as that of love from god. You know for God so loved the world etc. you know true love is never ending and so forth. I mean we just have to look at the wonderful divorce rate here to see how much truth there is in true love lasting forever. I mean its sad I have had several of my friends get married in the last couple of years, I think its 10 so far and I wish em the best but unless they work at their marriages with dedication from now till they die they will just fall to the same statistics like everyone else.
I know that was sort of a tangent , but let me reiterate what I was saying. The truth of the matter is that this legend of finding the perfect person for you and knowing it from the get go is so outlandish that I can not believe that people who claim themselves to be athiests can believe in this bullshit. I mean you do not believe in god yet you believe in love. Does not make sense to me but I am just talking. Anyway I think what people have truly forgot is that love is encompassing. You know I do believe that you can love some one but I do not believe its something that you have to work on every day. You know like getting up in the morning and looking at your spouse and telling yourself that your love is to better that person in every way possible and support them to the shores of hades itself if need be.
Honestly all of us have fallen in love with someone. I have had my share of loves in my life and though I fell in love the opposite applies in that I or the other person fell out of love. So we all know that it is part of the human condition to search for that person who makes you stomach have butterflies, palms sweaty throat dry and all. But at the same time we should realize that is a farce. You can find a person that you claim you will spend the rest of your life with but in honesty if you told me that I would say great and good luck because in the end its all a fantasy. you should be looking for someone who you can tolerate for the rest of your life. lol. Seriously I mean its not love but people think that all that other stuff is , and in the end guess what they end up as statistics showing the rest of the world that they are hypocrites.
So here I am today just thinking after lunch about the human condition for love, and I was struck with of course some small revelations from what me and my brother discussed yesterday. First of all there is no such thing as true love, this is not to say that there are not any types of love but the one true love business that is perpetrated here in the western hemisphere is a myth. Now the thing is I believe that the idea comes from something genuine. You know I believe that man has tried to grasp the same type of love that is given by God. This is referring to the Judea Christian god referred to in the Christianity and Judaism. Now not to say these believes are false but I think back in they day people tried to compare their lust, want, dedication etc. with the same ideal as that of love from god. You know for God so loved the world etc. you know true love is never ending and so forth. I mean we just have to look at the wonderful divorce rate here to see how much truth there is in true love lasting forever. I mean its sad I have had several of my friends get married in the last couple of years, I think its 10 so far and I wish em the best but unless they work at their marriages with dedication from now till they die they will just fall to the same statistics like everyone else.
I know that was sort of a tangent , but let me reiterate what I was saying. The truth of the matter is that this legend of finding the perfect person for you and knowing it from the get go is so outlandish that I can not believe that people who claim themselves to be athiests can believe in this bullshit. I mean you do not believe in god yet you believe in love. Does not make sense to me but I am just talking. Anyway I think what people have truly forgot is that love is encompassing. You know I do believe that you can love some one but I do not believe its something that you have to work on every day. You know like getting up in the morning and looking at your spouse and telling yourself that your love is to better that person in every way possible and support them to the shores of hades itself if need be.
Honestly all of us have fallen in love with someone. I have had my share of loves in my life and though I fell in love the opposite applies in that I or the other person fell out of love. So we all know that it is part of the human condition to search for that person who makes you stomach have butterflies, palms sweaty throat dry and all. But at the same time we should realize that is a farce. You can find a person that you claim you will spend the rest of your life with but in honesty if you told me that I would say great and good luck because in the end its all a fantasy. you should be looking for someone who you can tolerate for the rest of your life. lol. Seriously I mean its not love but people think that all that other stuff is , and in the end guess what they end up as statistics showing the rest of the world that they are hypocrites.
I am sort of pissed of and I feel a rant coming on. OK so I am getting picked up from work yesterday when I am told that my cousin has called the cops on my brother who is sharing an apartment with him. Now I did not get all the details until earlier today but as I see it my cousin is in the wrong. I mean come on he is younger than my brother by about 9 years and has the mentality that the world is his oyster and that unlike the people who came before him he knows better. Now being arrogant is not a crime in my book, but WTF I mean you got to listen to the people that come before you because how the hell do you think you know better than someone who has gone through the same shit before you. And plus you can only be arrogant if you know what the hell you are talking about or doing.
Continuing on, now my brother came back from the army and started his own business which he has worked on for almost a year. Now my cousin on the other hand is a manager at a job where he gets more money than i was making at his age. Anyway I have always had an issue with him not understanding how he makes so much money but is always broke and living pay check to pay check. This is something that at his age he is 20 making close to 37K a year and has no money consistently. I mean WTF type of bills do you have that he has no money. I know he has a car note and insurance and his phone is turned off b/c he cant afford it, so he uses the cell phone from his work which he is issued and which they pay for. So now I mean other than the car and insurance and gas he should be good with bills. At least that is what I thought you know pay all your bills thus you are broke. But you know thats not the case thus the calling of the cops. Apparently my brother has being paying all the bills in the house, i.e internet, water, electricity, gas etc for the last 7 to 8 months he has been in the apt. My cousin moved in 4 months before my brother did, and would you believe this shit. He did not pay a single fucking bill the whole 4 months he was there by himself except for rent. I mean he got internet, cable, lights etc. and did not drop a dime on the bills.
Now young people are stupid at times but this is unfathomable. I mean not paying one fucking bill then getting the lights turned of and claiming to not have money. Now thats in the past , so I find out that he (my cousin) has not payed any bills again in the last 5 months, and owes my brother money from paying the bills from before he moved in. Each month he claims that he will pay him next month and behold he is sitting at home eating, not cleaning, not even taking out the trash and basically scratching his nuts and not paying any god damn bills but hitting the city left and right every weekend, and going out with his girls. Anyway so this is the kicker. My cousin tells me he is taking a trip next month to Europe for vacation. No sweat of course I am like cool man, he got a good price and he just purchased the tickets last week. Now what I did not know was that he just bought the tickets and once again did not pay any bills or pay my brother back any of the loot that he owed him.
So the story goes he gets home last night, my brother confronts him about not paying bills and since he refuses to pay any of the bills that he cannot use the internet since WTF he does not pay for it. Now my cousin for some reason fills entitled to this and is upset and breaks my brothers computer and well, my brother was in the army and lets just say that pissed him off and my young cousin got a bit tussled. Nothing to seriously hurt him possibly just his ego and jaw. But then he turned bitch and called the cops on my brother. Now of course the cops came and though my cousin thought my bro with go to jail, he unfortunately doesn't understand the law here. He was an instigator so if anyone was to go to jail it would be him. Phew.. now my cousin ran like a bitch after wards to who knows where and spend the night. I haven' t heard from him yet but I am mad that he would turn bitch in that situation. I mean he acts like a big man, does all things stating that he is older. He tries to act it, play the roll, and he wants to be his own man. In the long run, though he has had good resources in order to follow his dreams, he has fucking squandered them because of his lack of responsibility. I mean this is the dumbest thing I have heard in a while, how can you make money and not pay bills and fucking not clean not buy food, eat, sleep, use the damn internet, cable, and then have the audacity to act like a fucking 3 year old breaking shit that doesnt belong to you because you are upset that hey the amenities that you are using your are not paying for them. Ahhh it makes me sick, that he would believe such shit, and that his mentality is that fucked up. Honestly I would like to knock some sense into him but you know for someone like this I think he has got to fall on his ass hard before realizing that hey maybe I should listen to my elders who looking out for my interest, and are family. I mean come on. I was young once to but though I was stupid and had issues with responsibility I did my best to be a man. Sure I was arrogant and all but shit I kept my responsibilities my top priority. Any way just had to vent. Seriously people if you want to act old, have under age sex, have kids and sell guns, fucking grow the fuck up first. Thats why america is getting shittier every year because some dumb mother fuckers think that they are old and know shit and seriously just don't know the difference of responsibility and their assholes. I will leave it at that.
Continuing on, now my brother came back from the army and started his own business which he has worked on for almost a year. Now my cousin on the other hand is a manager at a job where he gets more money than i was making at his age. Anyway I have always had an issue with him not understanding how he makes so much money but is always broke and living pay check to pay check. This is something that at his age he is 20 making close to 37K a year and has no money consistently. I mean WTF type of bills do you have that he has no money. I know he has a car note and insurance and his phone is turned off b/c he cant afford it, so he uses the cell phone from his work which he is issued and which they pay for. So now I mean other than the car and insurance and gas he should be good with bills. At least that is what I thought you know pay all your bills thus you are broke. But you know thats not the case thus the calling of the cops. Apparently my brother has being paying all the bills in the house, i.e internet, water, electricity, gas etc for the last 7 to 8 months he has been in the apt. My cousin moved in 4 months before my brother did, and would you believe this shit. He did not pay a single fucking bill the whole 4 months he was there by himself except for rent. I mean he got internet, cable, lights etc. and did not drop a dime on the bills.
Now young people are stupid at times but this is unfathomable. I mean not paying one fucking bill then getting the lights turned of and claiming to not have money. Now thats in the past , so I find out that he (my cousin) has not payed any bills again in the last 5 months, and owes my brother money from paying the bills from before he moved in. Each month he claims that he will pay him next month and behold he is sitting at home eating, not cleaning, not even taking out the trash and basically scratching his nuts and not paying any god damn bills but hitting the city left and right every weekend, and going out with his girls. Anyway so this is the kicker. My cousin tells me he is taking a trip next month to Europe for vacation. No sweat of course I am like cool man, he got a good price and he just purchased the tickets last week. Now what I did not know was that he just bought the tickets and once again did not pay any bills or pay my brother back any of the loot that he owed him.
So the story goes he gets home last night, my brother confronts him about not paying bills and since he refuses to pay any of the bills that he cannot use the internet since WTF he does not pay for it. Now my cousin for some reason fills entitled to this and is upset and breaks my brothers computer and well, my brother was in the army and lets just say that pissed him off and my young cousin got a bit tussled. Nothing to seriously hurt him possibly just his ego and jaw. But then he turned bitch and called the cops on my brother. Now of course the cops came and though my cousin thought my bro with go to jail, he unfortunately doesn't understand the law here. He was an instigator so if anyone was to go to jail it would be him. Phew.. now my cousin ran like a bitch after wards to who knows where and spend the night. I haven' t heard from him yet but I am mad that he would turn bitch in that situation. I mean he acts like a big man, does all things stating that he is older. He tries to act it, play the roll, and he wants to be his own man. In the long run, though he has had good resources in order to follow his dreams, he has fucking squandered them because of his lack of responsibility. I mean this is the dumbest thing I have heard in a while, how can you make money and not pay bills and fucking not clean not buy food, eat, sleep, use the damn internet, cable, and then have the audacity to act like a fucking 3 year old breaking shit that doesnt belong to you because you are upset that hey the amenities that you are using your are not paying for them. Ahhh it makes me sick, that he would believe such shit, and that his mentality is that fucked up. Honestly I would like to knock some sense into him but you know for someone like this I think he has got to fall on his ass hard before realizing that hey maybe I should listen to my elders who looking out for my interest, and are family. I mean come on. I was young once to but though I was stupid and had issues with responsibility I did my best to be a man. Sure I was arrogant and all but shit I kept my responsibilities my top priority. Any way just had to vent. Seriously people if you want to act old, have under age sex, have kids and sell guns, fucking grow the fuck up first. Thats why america is getting shittier every year because some dumb mother fuckers think that they are old and know shit and seriously just don't know the difference of responsibility and their assholes. I will leave it at that.
- Location:Fucking Jersey
- Mood:
pissed off - Music:Mike Jones
"Whyyyy?" Senoms shout echoed through the air of the broken town hall. Covered in soot and debris, his clothes were in taters while burn marks and blood enveloped his visage. Against his chest he clutched the now still body of Eilen his younger sister who had not had the good fortune of reaching her 11 th name day which would have been next month Senom thought. As tears of despair fell from his brow and destituteness took residence in his heart his gaze locked onto the only living soul left in the middle of the once great hall. Senoms eyes screamed murder at the man whom had brought death to his village.
His words came out ragged as blood spilled forth from his mouth.
"Why did you kill them all?"
Cackled laughter emerged from the stranger standing in the debris.
- Mood:
blank
In the midst of turmoil and struggle there is still the intense emotion of hatred and spite. But lo these things brought forth from the half buried graveyard of the soul linger as wasps protecting their hives. They are not a necessity for being insubstantial in reality their existence surpasses fleeting thoughts and extends beyond the beyond. In their essence they are a reminder of things forgotten and left half buried. Memories of a lost tomorrow intermingled with realities past lessons, some of which lay as regrets in the mindset.
Thus we are left with an ego that has forgotten and an ID which will not relent. With the fusion of thought idleness becomes a boon not wanted. Despair seems so tempting in moments when eternity exists within the scope of a day. Yet the mind can not prevent that which encapsulates it. Realities borders do not stop the emotional turmoil, but then what truly does. Time to wait it out seems to be the answer to such questions of being. But lo it is not to happen for that which is to change lingers in the tapestries of time. This intrigue of the heart may lay abound unfound lost in the darkness of the void still existing.
Thus we are left with an ego that has forgotten and an ID which will not relent. With the fusion of thought idleness becomes a boon not wanted. Despair seems so tempting in moments when eternity exists within the scope of a day. Yet the mind can not prevent that which encapsulates it. Realities borders do not stop the emotional turmoil, but then what truly does. Time to wait it out seems to be the answer to such questions of being. But lo it is not to happen for that which is to change lingers in the tapestries of time. This intrigue of the heart may lay abound unfound lost in the darkness of the void still existing.
- Mood:
calm - Music:metallica
An assortment of Vendretti star-ships hovered protectively over the planet designated as Heliun 5. The fleet surrounded the planet like a mother hen protecting its eggs. At estimation from the latest black ops intelligence report had numbered the gathered ships at 16,218 give or take a couple of hundred and growing. It was the largest concentration of Vendretti vessels ever seen in the history of humanity since the First Encounter 15 years previously. The report listed that there was a conglomeration of ships that included the Dreadnoughts considered as galactic class destroyers, Colony Destroyers known as Motherships and Jumpships which were designated as colony transports. Also present were Pincers, covert class ships and the Ghost, which were known as fighters and scout ships. By far the Vendretti's greatest stronghold in the New System since the First encounter it was Tacticals focus to figure out what they were doing on the second colony, Heliun 5.
Ever since the advent of war when the Vendretti forces massacred the two colonies of Ferandun and Heliun 5 in a slaughter which would go down in humanities history as one of its most tragic before the war, they had blockaded the planet not allowing any human incursions in the 15 following years. Tactical had designated Heliun 5 as Zero Delta, and classified as humanities number one objective. Several attempts had been made to retake the system in the following years but each had failed resulting with the mankind being beaten back out of the system. The planet and system were guarded so well that it had become their tactical base of operations from which they launched their incursion fleets into the surrounding galaxies. It had become humanities nightmare, but as nightmares are dreams, humanity never lacked for dreams that would dispel their nightmares.
On S.D 794.4 at 14:00 zulu time, Operation Demon Seed was commenced. The Epsilon System which hosted Heliun 5 as the 5th planet is relatively a newer solar system with a 4 billion year old red dwarf star known as El Yah and 6th planetary orbital bodies. One planet and one moon of the second planet were found to be hospitable enough to allow for human colonization. The 7th moon of Siruis the 2nd planet and Heliun 5 underwent 67 years of terra-forming before becoming inhabitable for humans. The rest of the system planets and moon were similar to gas planets like Jupiter and Neptune and were to inhospitable for human occupation even if terra-formed. Each of the heavenly bodies had a elliptical circuit around El Yah ranging from a 100 to 239 day difference from the Milky Way Calender. Heliun 5 was one of the last colonized planets before the Vendretti threat appeared. The colony had only been occupied for 50 years before the emergence of the Vendretti which ultimately killed all its colonists and took over the planet.
At present the space forces of the Vendretti had formed a armada in the shape of a cats paw that engulfed the planet. There was approximately four different fleets spread ten thousand miles apart from in each other on patrol at all times around the planet. Those ships accounted for 11,00 of the enemy vessels. Two other fleets consisting of 4344 vessels floated in orbit around Siruis awaiting any enemy intrusions into the planetary system. The remaining ships patrolled the outside edge of the solar system always on alert.
At 14:11 five Prophecy Class Star Jammers designation V109, X113, X101, VZ11 and X249, the latest technological marvels built by the intergalactic Union Defense Department arrived at point Delta through a new form of travel called a slip stream. This method of traveling was more precise in jumping in space than using hyperspace to reach ones destination. Instead of jumping from one point to another point in hyperspace, slim streaming used massive anitmatter drives to fold the space of two separate points into one. The Union Defense Fleets new ships never seen by the Vendretti engaged the outlaying fleet without hesitation after slip streaming into the system. They unleashed sub ether oscillation photon cannons, resonate particle wave detonators and antialasing shield modulators inhibators
Ever since the advent of war when the Vendretti forces massacred the two colonies of Ferandun and Heliun 5 in a slaughter which would go down in humanities history as one of its most tragic before the war, they had blockaded the planet not allowing any human incursions in the 15 following years. Tactical had designated Heliun 5 as Zero Delta, and classified as humanities number one objective. Several attempts had been made to retake the system in the following years but each had failed resulting with the mankind being beaten back out of the system. The planet and system were guarded so well that it had become their tactical base of operations from which they launched their incursion fleets into the surrounding galaxies. It had become humanities nightmare, but as nightmares are dreams, humanity never lacked for dreams that would dispel their nightmares.
On S.D 794.4 at 14:00 zulu time, Operation Demon Seed was commenced. The Epsilon System which hosted Heliun 5 as the 5th planet is relatively a newer solar system with a 4 billion year old red dwarf star known as El Yah and 6th planetary orbital bodies. One planet and one moon of the second planet were found to be hospitable enough to allow for human colonization. The 7th moon of Siruis the 2nd planet and Heliun 5 underwent 67 years of terra-forming before becoming inhabitable for humans. The rest of the system planets and moon were similar to gas planets like Jupiter and Neptune and were to inhospitable for human occupation even if terra-formed. Each of the heavenly bodies had a elliptical circuit around El Yah ranging from a 100 to 239 day difference from the Milky Way Calender. Heliun 5 was one of the last colonized planets before the Vendretti threat appeared. The colony had only been occupied for 50 years before the emergence of the Vendretti which ultimately killed all its colonists and took over the planet.
At present the space forces of the Vendretti had formed a armada in the shape of a cats paw that engulfed the planet. There was approximately four different fleets spread ten thousand miles apart from in each other on patrol at all times around the planet. Those ships accounted for 11,00 of the enemy vessels. Two other fleets consisting of 4344 vessels floated in orbit around Siruis awaiting any enemy intrusions into the planetary system. The remaining ships patrolled the outside edge of the solar system always on alert.
At 14:11 five Prophecy Class Star Jammers designation V109, X113, X101, VZ11 and X249, the latest technological marvels built by the intergalactic Union Defense Department arrived at point Delta through a new form of travel called a slip stream. This method of traveling was more precise in jumping in space than using hyperspace to reach ones destination. Instead of jumping from one point to another point in hyperspace, slim streaming used massive anitmatter drives to fold the space of two separate points into one. The Union Defense Fleets new ships never seen by the Vendretti engaged the outlaying fleet without hesitation after slip streaming into the system. They unleashed sub ether oscillation photon cannons, resonate particle wave detonators and antialasing shield modulators inhibators
