No photo today... just a rant about the freaking credit card companies. Let me start by saying that I am lucky enough to be able to come up with a little cash now and then to pay off/down a credit card. But not always, and like I said, I'm lucky. I happen to know lots of people aren't so lucky.
I've just spent a half hour on the phone with one credit card company, and I am totally fired up about how freaking ridiculous they are. GREEDY BASTARDS!
Yeah, my rate went up, but a lot of other people had their rate go up even more. OVER 23%!!!!! I ranted at them on the phone, what do they think they are doing??? Don't they realize how many more people's lives they ruined? Don't they understand how many people were on the edge already, and are being pushed into the black hole of bankruptcy court now???
So today, I make a new challenge for myself and the rest of you out there... STOP USING THE GODDAM CREDIT CARDS! That's right, let's all stop using them, and then, get them paid off, if you can, and BURN THEM! And... and... if you can't pay them off... go to bankruptcy court and tell them to POUND SAND!!!!
I mean it. They are PARASITES. We don't need them. They are only sucking the blood out of our country, and we don't need that! Next time you get an offer in the mail, call them up and take up their time for as long as you can. Just go on and on about nothing, asking a million questions about the terms and all that shit. I mean it. Ask every stupid question you can think of, and then tell them: "Pound sand."
If we work hard at it, we can put these bastards out of business in about 3 to 5 years , I figure. Think about it... we'll just find some other way. In fact, once we put the greedy ones out of business, others will appear that might have learned the lesson. Or not. I don't think we need to actually go burn down their ivory towers, but we have got to teach them a lesson. We have to remind them that they are here for us, not that we are here for them. My God it's like in the Matrix movies, we are all here just to be plugged in and sucked dry for life.
I'm pretty sure their only concern at our death is which poor sucker is going to pay off the monstrous debt that could never be satisfied. I used to think bankruptcy was a bad idea. I never wanted to go that road before. But I am starting to wonder. If they care so little, and if they insist on sucking everything they can out of us, then let them have it with both barrels.
Yes, color me done with credit cards. My new mission is to get mine paid ASAP, and burn the damn things. I will find some way to learn how to live without them. There must be a way, I know we lived before credit cards, and I know we can survive without them. We will just have to start living within our cash means. I haven't done that in a while, but I know I can. I know I can.
*expletive aimed at credit card companies*
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BURN YOUR CREDIT CARDS AND TELL THEM ALL TO GO TO HELL!
Clearwater Beach, Florida: Blue Skies, Palm Trees and Condo's Anyone?
If you are headed over the Clearwater Memorial Causeway to Clearwater Beach, you can see the Sandpearl Resort and Condo's long before you see any sand! And there is that other condo over there two... or rather and there are those other two condo's over there also...
Ya know, I just CANNOT keep up with it all. And darnit all, it's been way too long since I spent some quality time down on the beach. I think perhaps it's time to head down for a sunset stroll some day soon. Maybe some ice cream too, while I get my feet in the sand and my head out of the office!
Happy April Fool's day... and no, this is not an April Fool's joke.. trying to get back on this blogging horse and post more pics more often. Stop laughing! Oh, like you care anyway! :)
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: Construction? What Construction?
Seriously now, don't let all those half-built buildings, and the construction site netting, and trucks, and construction workers, fool you. Nothing going on down here. Nothing going on down on Clearwater Beach. No, it's not the Billion Dollar Beach. Nothing like that.
No matter what it looks like, Clearwater Beach is NOT being sold out to developers. Nope. That's not it at all. Nope, all the hotel rooms are not being replaced with condo's, sucking up all the parking areas. Nope, that's not it all. This is clearly NOT a case of turning a beautiful resort family beach area into a beautiful rich people only area. Nope.
If you ask me, this is why God invented hurricanes. :) Yeah, if I were rich, I would probably LOVE to have a condo on the beach. See, who says money is not good for you. Who says money is the root of all evil? Oh and hurray for #44, P.B.O.!
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: A Bad Day At The Beach...
I saw a bumper sticker out there once that said "A Bad Day Fishing Is Better Than A Good Day Working." I hereby declare the same can be said of Clearwater Beach.
A bad day at Clearwater Beach is better than a good day at work! Even if, like in the photograph above, you are driving a work truck out there to earn a living. After all, you could be working anywhere, but if you get to work down on Clearwater Beach, you are likely to have some great scenery!
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: Sand Key Condos Tipping Over!
This is what it looks like when condo's tip over and fall into the water. Well, not when they are in the water of course, but when they are tipping over! :) HEY, if this looks like fun, and if you love Clearwater Beach, how would you like to become a contributing member of this blog? Yeah, way cool!!! Leave a comment with your contact information, or find my email on this blog and write to me about it. Thanks.
Hey, life sucks today. Have a Merry Christmas! Oh yeah, if Christmas is not your thing, please just replace Merry Christmas with whatever is your thing, and then say it to yourself for me. Thanks.
Susan, I got your number, but I am very busy. I hope it can wait until after the holidays. LH and CC, same deal, don't know what I was thinking when I thought I would contact you this week. Way too buried.
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: Sand Key Condos Driving Shot
A driving shot of one of the many condos on Sand Key. I used to hate condos, but then realized how good it is to get more people to live in smaller areas. Good to keep them from taking up more land elsewhere. And of course, the condos on the beach really are just temporary you know.
I think this one will make a great artificial reef.
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: The Beatles On Clearwater Beach???
Did you know that when the Beatles were recording their album called Abbey Road, they were originally intending to call it Clearwater Beach? They all came over here to Clearwater Beach, Florida and started shooting all sorts of scenes. They came up with this really cool shot, but eventually decided the Coast Guard helicopter just wasn't working. So they had to settle for the Abbey Road scene after all that. But the Beatles always fondly remembered their time here on Clearwater Beach.
At least, that is to say, that's how it happened in my head while I was daydreaming about this photograph I snapped on Clearwater Beach recently. You have to admit, there are four of them in the water, and the one second from left looks a lot like Ringo! :) Haha.
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: INSPIRATION: Jeff Smith of San Diego, CA: Foster Grant Ironman Championship 70.3
If, by some chance, for some reason, you just did NOT find yesterday's post of Dominque Benassi COMPLETELY INSPIRING... I present another new hero of mine: Jeff Smith. According to the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 website, Jeff is an Engineer from San Diego, California. Wow!
I have to admit, I have been feeling a little sorry for myself lately, feeling overwhelmed at work and with things going on at home... but it only took a few seconds of seeing the determination of people like Jeff Smith and Dominique Benassi to slap me out of my self-pity.
As if all that were not enough, to celebrate Veterans Day is to acknowledge the tremendous, and often ultimate, sacrifice made by so many. I bow low, I give thanks. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: INSPIRATION: Dominique Benassi of France: Ironman World Championship 70.3
This is Dominique Benassi of Bastia, France. This, and more, I learned from the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 website. He is 47, an Electrician. As you may have noticed, he has only one leg. He finished the Ironman, swimming 1.2 miles, biking 56 miles, and running 13.1 miles, with a rank of 586 out of 1,254.
I don't know much more about him, but this is all I need to know to be COMPLETELY INSPIRED! I didn't expect that when I walked, with my two good legs, down the street to stand, with my two good legs, and watch the athletes ride by on their bicycles. I never expected to see a man with only one leg competing in one of the hardest races on this planet. Incredible! My hat is off to Dominique Benassi.
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Clearwater Beach, Florida: Sea Oats Flourish On The Sand Dunes
Sea oats grow on the sand dunes of the beach. They help stabilize the beach against wind and tide erosion. Please don't pick the sea oats.
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