Life of Brian
2008
Something interesting has occurred. Up until this year, two thousand and eight, I have had quite an easy time remembering events that took place from year to year. But as I'm thinking back to the year 08, nothing in particular comes to mind. Sure, there are things like birthdays, Christmas, and other holidays. Other events of that year seem to be melded together with many core memories that happened over the next decade. Sarah and I were still both working. My parents still in their home two hours north. My oldest sister also may have moved to Ojai. I had to ask my other sister where she lived as I do not recall that info. I left the shredding company somewhere between 08 and 2010. The machine shop that I had gone back and forth to hired me once more. It would be the last time I worked for them. I would leave within two years to work for Challenge Dairy. Challenge would be my last job before 'retiring' and taking care of the girl's full time. I spent five years at Challenge. The year 2016 would be my first year of being jobless. Except, I wouldn't really be jobless for long. A friend of mine told me about a job working for a private school near Ojai and I would be hired on for that position. My current occupation, if you can call it that, is also a job working for another private school in the area. Having done security for a good part of my life, I guess I kind of had the knack for it. I'd stumble my way into a couple of 'Volunteer' jobs in Ojai. One for a youth opera group and another for the Ojai Music Festival. Let me tell you. I have spent way too many hours walking around Libby Park. This includes every hour imaginable in a 24-hour span. I've had drunk people in my face telling me they are going to mess me up because I tried to politely inform them that urinating on the handrails in a public park might be frowned upon by the local Sheriffs Dept. I've seen individuals boxing one another and actually hitting one another so hard that they knocked the other guy out cold. I've had 5150's yelling in my face that they work for the government and they knew who my boss was, and they were going to get me fired for closing my car door too loudly. I've also seen an individual who we suspected was 5150 purchase a ticket and then sit on the lawn and enjoy the classical music like every other patron at the event without causing a single problem. I met many a nice person throughout these events and am very thankful for the opportunity. I no longer work as a volunteer for these agencies.
So, I guess I will wrap up this yearly journal of mine for now. If you go back and read some of the costs of items between 1975 and now, it is pretty amazing what we have come to in the year 2025! The world is heading down a troublesome path in so many ways. I will end with this. I am a firm believer that things happen for a reason for the most part. I also believe that history absolutely repeats itself. I can't help but feel that all the events of today, and the direction we are heading on a global level, have to be leading us towards another major population reducing event. If WWIII were to happen, it will not look like any war we've seen in the past. In my opinion. Hopefully, we can continue to live another ten decades with relative peace. Thank you for coming along with me for this journey of the past. It has been very enjoyable for me. I'll leave you with one last quote.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- George S. Patton Jr.
