Well here I am, asleep at the wheel again. Letting life escape me as I have done so many times before. Getting all too tied up in work, neglecting the ones I love so dearly, not even taking time to let them know just how much I do love them, care for them, miss them and such. I rarely take time even for myself when I get wrapped up in something. This I have done for the past six weeks or so. I have done this once before and it almost cost me everythign I hold near and dear to myself. I am not the perfect person that some people think I am, just a person bent on surviving in a world that will chew you up and spit you out like noones business. All my life I have felt this way. Getting chewed up or chewed out was a way of life for me for so long that I had forgotten how to enjoy life. As short as our lives are, whey do we do these things? I am not the only one who does this. Look around and you will see many a person, businessmen and women, Policemen and women, Firefighters, Teachers, Politicians, the neighbors....everyone. Are we all so tied up in trying to "Make It" that we forget how to live it once we have "Made It"? There comes a time when we must just stop and throw up our hands and say "Enough is enough" and live life. Not let its rants and raves control us as we all so often do. For this I submit myself to the courts mercy of being guilty as charged. I must now pay my dues and ask for forgiveness from those that I care for and love so much. Will they understand and forgive me, well that remains to be seen.

An update on my life, have quit working for a contractor at the Mercedes plant for reasone of that I am not politically motivated, not do I tolerate it very well. In fact I am more often incorrect in that arena of life than anything else. Anyway, I went back to driving big truck, 18 wheelers, for a person who had claimed to be on thing and turned out to be something else, lesson learned to be files away. Am now working for a Hoist and Crane company, doing what I like to do, troubleshooting electrical/mechanical problems and learning the installation side of it as well. As with any new employment, I must prove my abilities to them during my probationary period, of which I am not worried. Am certain this will go fairly simple for me. Now I just have to regain my focus on other aspects of my life and remember that life is not a joke, but the real deal. And the readl deal does have an ending. Just how we end it is up to us all as individuals, not big brother, not the neighbors, the so called looking out for you politicians, not the local preacher, not the teachers, the police, the firefighters, nor anyone else....just us, ourselves.

And in saying all this, I am leaving to go out and enjoy life..........Be Well all and Be Safe!!!!!

Stay tuned for the next episode of "Has LIfe Escaped Me?" starring the rants and raves of "The Yankee" co-starring the beautiful, talented and ever loving "Belle". Until then folks.....remember, same Bat channel, same bat time......