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Author: Mr.Bryant

  • Family isn’t just blood, Apply it.

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    When the world Family pops in your head, what do you automatically think of?

    Your really close friends? Family at home?

    At this point in my life I have begun to think that the word Family can mean anything. Now I don’t mean that you can walk up the street and just claim that random hobo your family member, but in essence, you can apply it just like that.

    What got me thinking about this matter was while I was leaving work Monday morning after deicing planes all night. We hopped into the van and was on our way to the guard shack. As we rode along, dodging departing flights, I tuned in closely to the conversations going on in the back seats. What I heard was heart warming yet unnormal all at the same time.

    What I witnessed was the dividing line that separates an individuals outside life from work life, fall apart into a bunch of rubble. I was amazed by the closeness that these deice employees had with one another. They literally talked as if they were kids together on the block playing hide and go seek. I felt a little uneasy hearing their words since I kind of knew a few of them and their lives outside of work. Some of them have been through heartache while others just live and everyday life. The happiness in their voices carried a high tune as they spoke on relationships, news, jokes, and anything else that they shared.

    The entire time I couldn’t get over the fact that this was going on. My mind even drifted off, thinking about the other small little groups of people that considered one another family. I even caught a glimpse of the photo of Debbie (Head of the Deice Coordinators) along with the other deice coordinators. I even had stories fill my head from past conversation that I meddled in from family affairs to shit talk. The numerous thoughts that went through my head were a bit overwhelming but they filled me with joy that this was out here.

    I was raised t0 believe (mainly from my cousin) that family are the people who are in your family tree. As I grew older and began to make close friends myself, I quickly discovered that blood doesn’t make up family. Just because you’re “cousin” is considered a family member doesn’t mean you have to claim them, especially if they are a jerk and treat you like a turd.

    I’m glad to have had this experience.

    I’m glad I became a deicer at UPS.

    I am glad that I know what family is… a group of individuals that cares for your existence and will go out of their way to do anything that will help you grow.

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • Jaws Done Did It Again…

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    Aaron “Jaws” Homoki is well known in the skateboarding world for throwing himself down the largest obstacles. Now Jaws has done something nobody thought was possible…well at least not impossible for him. If you watched the Sorry, the first Flip video, Ali Boulala tried to ollie this 25 set at the end of his part. According to Boulala he didn’t get enough speed so it never happened. Here we are 13 years or so later and Jaws is doing a melon grab down this damn thing. He’s even on the cover of thrasher!

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  • Daily Quote #5

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    I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
    – David Bowie

    ps. Sorry I’ve been slacking on the daily quotes. Still getting in the swing of getting this quotes out. I thought I would share a David Bowie quote in respects to him.

    Please Share! 😀

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • Before John Boyega Was Famous

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    So you know how facebook has that little trending bar at the side of their page when you’re logged in? Well one morning after work while I was scrolling around on facebook, John Boyega was trending. All I really noticed was the word “Stock Images.” I clicked on the link and was brought to a page that displayed 4 group photos, all of which included Boyega.

    Its pretty funny due to the fact that he is in Star Wars as a lead role, yet you turn around and see him in college universities plastered on the wall with a bunch of other smiling faces.

    Just take a look at them yourself.

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    Here he is at someones college

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    Is he having fun or what?!

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    He looks like he’s having fun, lol
    I’d post more but I’m sure you can hit google yourself and see the others.

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • i promise i;m not highh

    Alright guys we gotta do this fast!

    I don’t do this often but… the lights are bright and I am currently on another level!!! I got the bright lights with the glorious looking keys and black bands that prove existence!

    Can’t you see? We got more perception than you think. Theres more that needs to be met with eyes and we can actually find this. We have the power and knowledge that excel us in a way that will create brilliance! For some people this may seem like a very confusing and enticing calling, but this needs to be rather taken on serious terms.

    There isn’t that much left, the time is here and now. The now can never be re-created so there is only one shot that can destroy the evils that lie within! You cannot desecrate the needy and lend to the poor. Thats more of analogy that was never thought of. Probably in the midst of the cannibals hands, the ties between corn shells will never be made. You got to think, its all fun and games until someone gets hurt.

    IM OUT!

    ps. Yo I’m sorry that you  had to read all of that rubbish. I do not take back anything I said so you can suck it! haha! Let them read this one and see if that face don’t change!

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • I’m in College Again!!!

    Hey guys, remember all that ranting and raving that I did the other day dissing my college? Well its all good now. I went up there today and met with an advisor who put me into another college algebra class. For a second I thought I wasn’t going to be able to go to school this semester but I really want to get a degree in Journalism so I gotta do what I gotta do!

    My class is Tuesday’s and Thursday’s. I’m pretty sure I was supposed to go today but I don’t have a book or know what I am supposed to bring to class. I’ll just show up Thursday so my new teadcher can give me the low down.

    Anyways, have a good day guys!

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • Deice Season Is Here!!!

    The truck is nice and toasty and I got my eye on the watch. Tonight’s a snow event at good ol’ UPS. Eric and I are posted up in our truck eagerly waiting to spray our first plane of the year. I Always get nervous when I’m out here but that all goes away once we’re driving off headed to our assigned ramp. 

    If you don’t know what deice is, it’s where you go in a big looking Electric truck with the boom and bucket. You send one person up to spray a solution on the plane that gets rid of the snow. Immediately after you add another solution on top that repels ice and other frozen debris. 

    It’s kinda fun, we get to chill in a truck waiting for our names to be called on the radio. I can’t stay too long, we got to get ready so I’ll talk to you guys soon!

    ~ Keep it al smiles

  • Direction in life is plausible.

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    Have you ever been doing something, whether its work or your hanging out with your friends and you stop and question your existence? If you have thats fine and if you haven’t thats okay too. As people we tend to ask a lot of questions and although most of them never get answered, we are eager to find one. For me, the question I face today is what direction do I have in life? Its been some time now since I have walked out of Southern High School as a new graduate and now the words “Woulda, coulda, shoulda” are flying through my head.

    Those words are what my new high school principal said to us in a class meeting. During that moment I shrugged those words off and told myself that I got my own stuff going on. Now that I look at everything around me, I think I have become the very example he was giving us that day in 2012. I’m 22 now and attend JCTC, which I have been ever since 2012. You’d think that maybe I would be in U of L by now but no. I’m stuck in the same default setting that I was placed in when I graduated High School. Over 100 joints and 2 ex girlfriends later, here I am.

    I can say this, I’ve grown mentally but when it comes to where I am supposed to go in life I have no clue. I’ve come to terms with myself that I will declare a new major and go to school to become a Digital Journalist. I think that would be a great thing for me because I will be forced to make a change in my life once I graduate from school and look for a writing gig. That dream took a bullet to the chest today when I got an email from some lady up in advising informing me that I have been dropped from Math 150 because the class can only be taken by School to Work kids.

    I’m still pissed about that but I’m going to campus tomorrow to get shit sorted out. I would go right now but JCTC already shitted on my day and they sure as hell ain’t gonna shit on it two times in a row. I’m just tired of this. I try and try but I guess I’m not trying hard enough. What must be enough? Why in the hell did I place myself in a situation that requires me to go to a facility and work with a bunch of dumbasses and then turn around and go to school where I have to face the horrors of Math questions?

    All I want to do is make it in life and these folks that I have surrounded myself with tell me that this is the only way I can do it. They look me right in my cornea and tell me that I have to complete college because this is the only way. How? I still do not understand that to this day. The many years that I have spent at UPS I have ran into multiple people who have college degrees but are stuck at worldport due to a dead market. Wouldn’t it nice to get out of there? Its just so frustrating. I’m spending so much time and energy into something that I’m not developing in.  I can totally take all this well spent energy and apply it to something else. There is so much to do in the world but here I am in Louisville, Kentucky stuck in a dead end job going to a college campus where racism still exist.

    What the fuccck?

    I have no direction. I have no motivation. I have nothing.

    The problem is, I want something.

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • Daily Quote #4

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    The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
    – Confucius

    Please Share 😀

    ~ Keep it all smiles

  • FUCK JCTC AND THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

    DUDE I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM SOME LADY DOWN THERE AT THE JCTC SOUTHWEST CAMPUS SAYING THAT I HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM MY MATH 150 COURSE BECAUSE ITS ONLY FOR SCHOOL TO WORK. WELL IN THE FUCK DID YOU NOT HAVE THAT IN THE FUCKING DESCRIPTION? THIS IS WHY I FUCKING HATE SCHOOL! THEN THE BITCH GOT THE NERVE TO TELL ME, “SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.” BITCH IF YOU DON’T GO ON SOMEWHERE WITH THAT PETTY SHIT!

    I’M THIS CLOSE TO HOPPING THE FUCKING CAR AND DRIVING MY ASS ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE BUT FUCK IT. IF THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT ME WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THEM?! I’M GOING DOWN THERE TOMORROW LIKE INTENDED AND ASK THEM ABOUT THIS BULLSHIT. IF I CAN’T GET INTO SCHOOL THIS SEMESTER THAN FUCK IT. I’LL TELL IT TO THERE DAMN FACES TOO. FUCKING PLAYING WITH ME. IM TRYING TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF SCHOOL GODDAMMIT. FUCK FUCK FUCK.