ALS Challenge

Being that I am lacking in technological gadgetry and other expensive recording devices, I am at a crossroads in my life. How often do we find ourselves in a situation of wanting to please others? We want desperately, or not so desperately, to show those who have made a request of us that we would indeed fulfill what is being asked of us however we are unable to meet that request. It is a maddening place to be. Wanting to do the “whatever” which has been asked and not being able to do the whatever. Worried that others will look on our failure to meet said request as something bad, that they may make a negative judgment or that they will think you are insensitive to the request and many other unpleasant things. You may be wondering what is going on that has me so perplexed. Simply put it is the ALS ice bucket challenge. As much as I would truly love to record a bucket of ice water being poured on my head. I say that without any sarcasm at all, I don’t have a gift for that style of speaking or writing and because there is not a font for that type of language. I have a bucket. I don’t really have ice though. The ice maker in my fridge broke and Stunt boy and I don’t really put ice in our drinks. So I would have to buy ice which isn’t terribly expensive or drastically all that far away either. But it complicates the effort just a bit. The bigger thing as I mentioned earlier is that I don’t have a way to record video of me doing the challenge and that is rather costly. Now I do have a camera and I could photograph the event. One of the bucket of ice and water Then one of me wet or some stage of not dry Then another of an empty bucket. You wouldn’t really know if I had just dumped the water out and then got into a nice warm shower then tramped down the stairs back outside and then took the wet picture. I’m smart enough to dumb the water and ice where I would be standing and to take my shirt into the shower too to get it wet. Because I’m not taking any photos shirtless. You’re welcome. However my camera isn’t charged so there is that and time is running out. So not pictures either. So with no way to really fulfill this challenge in some meaningful way or at least in some way that people will fully believe what I’m writing to you in this issue of my blog, journal, note, whatever this “this” is to fulfill my not one, not two but three requests that I am aware of to do this ALS ice bucket challenge. I am still under the clock on all three of them as I did not become aware of any of these until about 10:00 p.m. last night but all three of these challenges were several hours old once I saw them, one of them a full day old. But as I was not aware of said challenge I can’t really be held accountable as I did not get a phone call saying I was nominated So those of you who are reading I have been nominated by 1. KL USAF 50th Security Police – he challenged me as I was stationed with him at Hahn AB along with every other member of the 50th SPS who has also been challenged. 2. The Peacemaker – my brother who challenged me along with my other brother and a few others. 3. City Manager – who is the city manager of the City of Roanoke and I’m not clear if he challenged all citizens of Roanoke or all City Employees. Either way I fall into his request 4. Any challenges for which I have been named and as of yet I am unaware As far as you know the following is true Beside me right now is a bucket of water with ice floating around in it and some dirt, probably should have cleaned the bucket but I didn’t. It’s a blue plastic bucket rectangular in shape and holds about three gallons of liquid. Mainly it holds water but it is a multipurpose bucket I could put nearly any liquid in it and it would remain in the bucket. Now I’m going to go outside and dump the contents of this bucket on my head. I’m sure it will be refreshing. Be right back. Pause for water dousing Okay, I’m back. Miss me? I have to say really cold water wakes you up and takes your breath away. Kind of thrilling and painful the dog did not think this was very smart. Fortunately the neighbors weren’t watching me do something which is really rather odd. Now for the ALS part of the challenge I have gone to the ALS website and I have made my donation. I have donated for my son who misunderstood the challenge and while he did have a bucket of ice water dumped on his head, well mostly the water missed him, but none the less he was somewhat wet. I am also donating for myself and on behalf of my daughter. Who as far as I know has not been challenged or randomly dumped ice water on her head. So the money bit is taken care of Now on to the challenge part. In the interest of saving time I’m only going to make two nominations. 1. My daughter because I love her and I already paid the money so go. I would nominate other family members but they either have been nominated already or fall in to the next group of people. 2. Anyone who lives on the planet earth regardless of nation, age, gender or any other demographic qualifier you want to put in here I nominate all humans who live on the earth to donate what you can to a charity or research organization of your choice. If you donate to ALS, great, if it is another charity or research organization that is great too. The point is to give and to raise awareness of these issues which are under funded for a lot of reasons, which I will not get into right now. Give what you can. I won’t specify any amount because maybe all you can afford is 5 dollars. Maybe you can’t afford that. Give your time volunteering or pay it forward by doing something for someone who needs help. Feed someone how is homeless or something else. Whatever you do, do something that makes the world a little better. Not because you will feel better about it, or you can post something on social media to say hey I did this or you will make some money but because it will help someone else. You have the rest of your lives to do something good hopefully you choose to do something every 24 hours that makes the world better. Not because it pays well, not because it feels good, not because you’ll get something back. Just because you can, so go… the world is waiting for you to do something amazing. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. 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