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  • About Me

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    clevemcs

    Male, 57
    Pavillion, WY, USA
    Member since March 26

    • About Me

      My passion is to help people. All of my life I have enjoyed talking with people and giving a compassionate ear. I have always had a great respect for the elderly and enjoy playing the piano at nursing homes for their enjoyment. I serve as a pastor in central Wyoming and am active in working with Alcohol Prevention groups and AA to help me with my own recovery process. Would love to hear from others with similar interest.

      My passion is to help people. All of my life I have enjoyed talking with people and giving a compassionate ear. I have always had a great respect for the elderly and enjoy playing the piano at nursing homes for their enjoyment. I serve as a pastor in central Wyoming and am active in working with Alcohol Prevention groups and AA to help me with my own recovery process. Would love to hear from others with similar interest.

    • Website

      http://openamind.wordpress.com

    • Interests

      Check out my playing www.myspace.com/xenoman53 http://www.jazzmatrix.com/cleveland/ Trumpet, guitar, piano, harmonica, hiking, camping, bookstores, and good conversation.

      Check out my playing www.myspace.com/xenoman53 http://www.jazzmatrix.com/cleveland/ Trumpet, guitar,

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  • Journal

    • It is Done

      Mood September 22, 2009 11:34am

      Greetings everyone. Classes are over for the summer and I now have about a 2 week break before the next class. It has truly been a busy summer taking …

    • Almost finished

      Mood September 6, 2009 11:36pm

      Greetings to all of my friends on Daily Strength. Sorry I have not been active on here and it has been for a good reason. School! This quarter I had …

    • Still busy and no let up until August

      Mood July 5, 2009 11:19pm

      Greetings to all of my friends here on DS. Since my last Journal entry I have not slowed down at all. In fact it has been one of the busiest summers …

    • All Things are Possible

      Mood May 30, 2009 7:30pm

      This week has been busy in preparation for our trip across country to be at my nieces graduation next week. We leave tomorrow and will return next …

    • Memorial Day Weekend

      Mood May 22, 2009 6:31pm

      Many will be traveling during this time so be careful. This Sunday the Prasie Band will play for the entire service. Its going to be great. Next …

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      From SST October 8

      Don't know if it's true but it is funny!









      If you don't laugh out loud after you read this you are in a coma! This is even funnier when you realize it's real! Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.



      Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.




      Hi Sue,

      Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

      Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all
      Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

      As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool.
      So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature..
      It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.

      Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.
      What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water.. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.

      Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.

      The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it.. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.

      When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

      I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

      Needless to say I aborted the dive.. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.

      When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.

      The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.
      So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

      Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'

      Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

      May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

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      From mrkyboi October 1

      No problem. Mark

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      From mrkyboi September 30

      Thanks for accepting and also look forward to chatting. Mark

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      From SST September 29

      Take the time to read this and think about it.






      F A M I L Y

      I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
      "Oh excuse me please" was my reply.


      He said, "Please excuse me too;
      I wasn't watching for you."


      We were very polite, this stranger and I.
      We went on our way and we said good-bye.


      But at home a different story is told,
      How we treat our loved ones, young and old.


      Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
      My son stood beside me very still.


      When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
      "Move out of the way," I said with a frown.


      He walked away, his little heart broken.
      I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.


      While I lay awake in bed,
      God's still small voice came to me and said,


      "While dealing with a stranger,
      common courtesy you use,
      but the family you love, you seem to abuse.


      Go and look on the kitchen floor,
      You'll find some flowers there by the door.


      Those are the flowers he brought for you.
      He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.


      He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
      you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."


      By this time, I felt very small,
      And now my tears began to fall.


      I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
      "Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.


      "Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
      He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.


      I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
      I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."

      I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
      I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
      He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
      I love you anyway."


      I said, "Son, I love you too,
      and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."


      FAMILY
      Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
      that we are working for could easily replace us in
      a matter of days.
      But the family we left behind will feel the loss
      for the rest of their lives.


      And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
      into work than into our own family,
      an unwise investment indeed,
      don't you think?
      So what is behind the story?


      Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
      FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU

    • High Five

      From Mikasa September 28

      Have a great day and give yourself a rest

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  • Goals

    Goal Completed on Sep 6, 09
  • Support Groups

    • Close Alcoholism

      First attended AA at age 15 with parents. In and out of AA for 30 years before I realized I had a problem. Most of my spiritual help has come through the church. it was not until 7+ years ago I hit my brick wall. AA has been a great support during this time. I am pressing on towards 8 years of sobriety one day at a time.

      Treatments

      AA Meetings Working / Worked
      It has been great for me.
    • Close Depression
      Type: Seasonal Affective Disorder

      As an alcoholic I have to deal with depression every 6 months. Sometimes I hit lows in between. When I first moved to this area I had about a year of depression. I deal with it by trying to stay positive, read positive books, and play my musical instruments.

      Treatments

      Positive Thinking Working / Worked
      Staying positive in a negative world is hard. But reading positive literature helps.
      Writing Working / Worked
      I empty my negative thoughts on paper and tear them up and throw them in the trash.
    • Open Diabetes Type 2

      Diagnosed as type II in December 2003. Watching numbers every day and fighting the food intake.Constantly watching diet and have settled into a lot of salad and vegetables. Cutting back on red meats has helped maintain my numbers.

      Treatments

      Janumet Working / Worked
      Works great for me.
      Januvia Working / Worked
      worked for awhile.
      Metformin Working / Worked
      Worked for a while.
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