Welcome to my life…..

Brothers and Sisters, this is about tolerance for all, not tolerance for one. Civil rights have nothing to do with this issue. I love all my brothers and sisters, what they do is a different story. Because they may live there life differently than me does not give me the right to treat them any differently, and apparently California Law agrees with me.

CALIFORNIA FAMILY CODE:
section 297.5
297.5. (a) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.

There you have it, in the CODE. Civil rights is not the issue. I agree with the No people on the fact that we do not know what might happen if No passes. All we have to go on is precedent. The precedent we have is Massachusetts. How has it gone? It is possible to live together peacefully after this measure passes. Please watch a short clip about the real issues:

04.02.2008

Our police story made the news. We were the headline story on Fox news Chicago last night. It made our night!

Copy and paste to browser to see the full story:

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=15EEA97C456C985482A843CDD3534052?contentId=6203343&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

Everyone should vote and then click to see the comments. Some of them are pretty funny. You need to check this second; we are not sure how long our story will be posted.

04.01.2008

I read Andrea’s police story and had to write one of my own. I want you all to first look at the date… April Fools Day, yet the story that I am about to tell is NO JOKE!

I got home from work Tuesday about 4pm (yeah these past few weeks have been nice) and vegged in front of the History Channel (my new favorite). My roommate Brent came home with his boss around 5:30pm. They hurried and changed to shorts and cleats and said they were off to play soccer down in the park between the apartment complexes. I was invited and said I would probably come down after the show was over (sorry it was interesting).

I arrived around 6, laced up my cleats and joined the team. We were playing for a total of maybe five minutes when a police officer came over and yelled at us that we had to stop and that he would be needing all of our ID’s. He then began to explain to us that we were all getting tickets (mind you there were about 20 of us) because we were not allowed to play on the wide open field at the park. Apparently there is a city ordinance stating this fact. One of my favorite parts was that there was a man carrying a briefcase watching it all go down and when the police asked for his ID he said, “I am the president of the homeowners association, and I am glad you are here” (what a punk, we are sure he is the one who called the police) We joked later we should have said, “yeah right you were playing right along with us” that would have been classic as he probably would have gotten a ticket as well.

For the record, there was not a sign on any post or entrance to the park. As he starts taking everyone’s ID, he gets to Brent, two other individuals, and I. The four of us did not have our ID’s. We told the police man that we had ours at home, and the other two at their hotels. He then said, and I quote, “Well then you and I have a problem, we will be taking a ride in the patrol car to go get your ID’s.” We all about died laughing when he said this. He then left to his patrol car and began to write out tickets for each and everyone of the ID’s he had taken. Chicago is pretty chilly still and after about 20-25 minutes we wondered if the police man had just left. But no, we checked and he was still in his patrol car writing out tickets.

When he finally returned we were all freezing (we were expecting to run around and get all sweaty) and then he lightened up and said, “I’m sorry I have to do this.” No warning all tickets. He then said he had to because 1. He had already written out the tickets and 2. The homeowner dude was lurking so he couldn’t just give us a warning. The cop did finally realize how ridiculous it was and told us how we could fight it and probably win. Then the police man left. So the 4 of us without ID’s got a great and wonderful story and don’t even have to deal with the crap of fighting a ridiculous ticket.

And we wonder why Americans are over-weight, because we build parks where playing and running around is not allowed, thus children stay inside in front of video games all day long. To that I say good riddance Chicago!

03.31.08

I managed to find myself a part time after work job going to events and passing out flyers for a company my friend works for; $15 an hour :). Monday night was the annual “eat out awards”. It was a dress up nice event where they ate hor’dourves and drank wine and such. My job during the night was coat check duty.

Normally one would think this job was the worst one, first because you don’t get to partake of the hor’dourves, nor do you get to watch the awards ceremony. As the woman in charge was going up to take her place in the ball room, she said in passing, “oh, the coat check is complimentary, but if they tip you, I don’t care if you keep it.” I didn’t really think anyone would tip and forgot about it the rest of the night.

Well turns out when it was time to leave, we were returning coats and people just kept handing us money. Even after I said it’s complimentary they insisted and gave me wads of dollar bills. All in all we ended up with around $100 for the evening. It surprised me that people would hand us 5 dollar bills for an umbrella or a single coat. I didn’t complain and loved every minute of it. Anytime people want to give me money for nothing, I’m game.

03.10.08

…grabs phone numbers more swiftly than 26 ninjas

I just couldn’t let this one be forgotten.

Enjoy!