Well another Christmas has came and went. We are almost exactly two years before the Mayan Calender ends in December 2012, will the world end? Will there be a change? Anyway I am semi happy with my life so far. I know that my expectations when I was younger (better looking, physically stronger, more socially accepted) etc… are not quite what I was thinking of back years ago. I suppose many people look back to what they were and what they thought and see themselves now, and say “Damn, what the fuck happened to me”?

My past with my many trips to Seattle, Detroit, Windsor, Grand Forks, Sydney, and Juarez are faded. I still remember the horrible thoughts I was having at the times I left Chicago. They are gone now, certain things have changed me. I can’t help but feel that there will be unexplained things in my past when I left Chicago. It’s a part of the present me.

For the most part I am happy, I am not doing exactly what I want for a job, however the job I have now is an important one. I deliver blood and blood products to Chicago-area hospitals. It does not pay alot, but it keeps a few dead presidents in my wallet and a few in my checking account. I am very fortunate in these horrible economic times to even have a job! Many even more highly educated people are still on unemployment and have been for awhile.

On thing that sticks in my craw is that while on a photography road trip, I happened in a horrible town of Clinton, Iowa. I got a little drunk, and repeatedly asked the bartender for another beer. I was a little bit of a smart ass, and the female bartender’s large male friends threatened me with physical violence. The cops came, and this horrible Clinton, Iowa police officer, Officer Sattler told me to get my things and go. I was looking at his chest to see his badge number, he retorted “What are you lookin’ at my gun for”! Anyway, I was frivolously arrested for muttering under my breath basically. Even though Officer Sattler referred to his weapon, and used that reference to intimidate me..or who knows what he ment by referring to his firearm. Only Officer Sattler knows exactly what he was thinking. Sattler arrested me for three words spoken under my breath. After I hired a Clinton, Iowa attorney, my attorney said that Officer Sattler was considered by many in the area as a “problem officer”. So now thanks to that lovely Officer William Sattler of Clinton, Iowa…I now have one misdemeanor  in the US . Personally my thoughts of Officer Sattler’s conduct, about how he pretty much threatened me with his gun, and his impulsive nature of arresting me, and how they all teased me saying I was an “inmate” and a “convict” while I was in the Clinton, Iowa jail….made me think that Officer Sattler’s punishment for me was to mark me for life. I wonder how many people Officer Sattler needlessly arrested and marked for life.. Then again, there is a bigger power that can decide that. Officer William Sattler of Clinton, Iowa is a total bag of puss of a human.

Anyway, I am a man who has never went out of his way to cause anyone any harm, so I leave the nonsense with that jerk, over reacting officer to this…..we all reap what we sow. I know that I would never go out of my way to mess up another person, but well..I think I am the better man after all is said and done.

Anyway, here is to 2011. One more year before the end of the world.