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Still Loving Every Minute

Do you like telling stories? Are you interested in writing? Come on and join me in a collaboration of writing the Fiction story, "The Experiment." Click on thisLinkand let's get started.*****I just got a part-time job,so it will be hard to write something everyday.I hope you reador re-read some of myFlash Fiction Stories,Poetry,and watch myMusic Videos.Today I have aPostfromNovember 11th 2016calledLoving Every Minute Of Our Relationship.*****

Does this ever happen to you?Where you are driving along in your car with yourWife,orSpouse,orGirlfriend,orBoyfriend,or Life Partner,orSignificant Other,orWhomever,and a song likeBruno Mars' Grenadecomes on the radio,and you both sing along?Then,when the song is done,they turn off the radioand ask you,"Would you jump on a grenade for me?"This happened to me.My answer?"Sure, if the pin is still in it."I probably could have gotten away with just saying that,but I had to keep talking."If that ever happened, I would have to re-evaluate our relationship. Like, why are people throwing grenades at you. Sure, you are pretty and petite, but what happened in your past that would make people throw explosives your way?" After about twenty minutes of theSilent Treatment,out of the blue she asks,"Would you stand in front of a train for me?"I said,"Hell no!"I sleep on the couch now.
This is,Loving Every Minute Of Our Relationship,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
- Victor Hugo -



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Okay Boomer!

 Do you like telling stories? Are you interested in writing? Come on and join me in a collaboration of writing the Fiction story, "The Experiment." Click on thisLinkand let's get started. *****When did I become the establishment?The other day I was asked"What is a Boomer?"when I mentioned it in my lastPostcalledPoet-Songwriter.Yes,the person who asked is not fromGeneration Z. "Okay Boomer"is a worldwide phenomenon said to be;"A dismissive retort often used to disregard or mock Baby Boomers and those who are perceived as old-fashioned and being out-of-touch." From Smol Nozomi on Knowyourmeme.com Yeah,I knew it was coming.I remember when my kids were littleand I was their"Hero!"Then,somewhere along the line,when they became older,I became"Daddy Duh!" Now I'm dismissed as if I don't know anything about what kind of struggles they are going through and how to help them."Life was so much easier for you in your day?"Yeah,right.

This is,Saying,Giving Advice When It Wasn't Asked For Is Just Pestering Your Children,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
- Will Rogers -

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Poet-Songwriter

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"The Experiment."*****You probably haven't heard about thisPoet-Songwriter,namedDan Bull,if you are aBoomerlike me.But he is chronicling historyand what this generation is interested in with his music.Here is one of my favorite songs by himand it's about one of my heroes,John Lennon.
Unfortunately,I've lived through this next song.This is,Wishing We Had Youtube When I Was PlayingJim Hauenstein,
And,
“If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards.”
- Violet Haberdasher -
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Where Are You Now?

 Do you like telling stories? Are you interested in writing? Come on and join me in a collaboration of writing the Fiction story, "The Experiment."*****I don't care what you think aboutAnonymous,I believe they were actually helping.Most of the time.FromNovember 9th 2016my story calledWhere The Hack Is Anonymous?
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I have a beef this morning.What ever happened toAnonymous?I know they have a very looseand decentralized command structure,but come on,what have you done for me lately? It would be very foolish to believe that everyone claiming to beAnonymousis trulyAnonymous.Yet,someone has to be. I'm all for theirIdealism.I loved it when they took on theKKKandISIS.I even wrote about it.The "Anonymous"Postwas about theKKK.I have also commented onISISin myPostsThe Smuggling Prince, Be Prejudice Against Terrorists - Not A Race, Religion, Or Culture, #OpParis - #OpISIS, #PrayforBelgum - #PrayForPeace,and This Anonymous Comments On My Blog.I believe in what they do,when they stand up againstTerrorist,Prejudice,Criminal Activity,Political Corruptness,andAll-Around-Douchebagswho need to beHacked.Still,I haven't heard about them for months.I am hoping they are not becomingWikileaks,just playing the game for the headlines, and are still taking on groups like theKKK,ISIS,
and those
Douchebags
in the
White House!

This is,Hoping There Is Still An Anonymous Out There In The WorldAnd People Like Edward Snowden,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“The thing about a hero is, even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep on digging, he's going to keep trying to do what is right and make up for what has gone before, just because that is who he is.”
- Joss Whedon -

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The 5 Best Posts Of September 2019

I have fallen behind again,on giving tribute toThe 5 Best Posts Of The Month!So,for the month ofSeptember 2019,here areThe 5 Best! The 5th Best Post Of The Month Of September 2019 Is;
30% Interest An original fiction story by me predicting a future where you can sign away your children's future by buying a spacecraft and have them eventually pay it off. The 4th Best Post Of the Month Of September Is;
Reflecting Back On The Drake EquationAn equation written up during the 1960's by Dr. Frank Drake predicting how many inhabited planets there should be in the Milky Way Galaxy. The 3rd Best Post Of The Month Is;
Hope And Faith Another original fiction story by me, talking about how sentient Androids will not become the dreaded killers of humanity but instead, will want equal rights under the law.The 2nd Best Post Is;Let's EatMy post about one of my favorite dishes of all time. Chicken Adobo and the recipe on how to prepare it.The Number 1 Best Post Of The Month Of September 2019 Is;Smalls Jazz Club My explanation about how I found this wonderful Club while streaming and how you can stream the music played there. I have also listed a few other Jazz clubs from New York at the end of the post. There you have it.Another blowout of viewers to these 5 Posts.Thank you for also clicking on my stories timeand time again.
This is,Saying When I See My Fiction In The Top 5,It Makes This All WorthwhileJim Hauenstein,
And,
“It is in the doing that makes the being worthwhile.”
- Jeffrey Fry -
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It's Sunday

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*****It'sSunday.I really don't have the time to sit hereand think up a new idea for aPost.So,since it isSunday,I figure it is a good day to show acts of kindness.
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This is,Hoping Everyone Has A Great DayAnd Peace In Their LivesJim Hauenstein,
And,
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
- John Lennon -
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. -
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
- Jimi Hendrix -
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The Beauty Of Street Art

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Re-posting the story
Answering That Question You Did Not Know Were Bugging You.
From
November 7th 2016
in honor of my friend
John.
Who taught me the beauty of
Tagging!
  
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Trivia Question.Who said;"I was born in Lisbon, 1987. I belong to a generation that is extremely consumerist, materialist and greedy. With the production of things at its highest, the production of waste and unused objects is also at its highest. Waste is quoted because of its abstract definition: one man's trash is another man's treasure. I create, recreate, assemble and develop ideas with end-of-life material and try to relate it to sustainability, ecological and social awareness."
A clue?He is aPortuguese Street Artistwho turns trash into animalsand more. That's it.By Joveyou've got it!It isBordaloii
Beautiful examples of whyStreet ArtorTaggingshould be admiredand appreciated.
Check out myPosts It Is Art & A Message For Future Generations&Continuing The Story From Yesterday,they explain my view on the subject ofStreet Art.
This is,Answering That Question You Did Not Know Were Bugging You,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.”
- Banksy, -

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Love Thy Neighbor

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"The Experiment."*****I know I am going to get a lot ofHate eMailsfor saying this,but I have to get it off my chest.There is a lot of reasons whyHate Crimeshave escalated during this administration.ForWhite Supremacists it's the code phrase"Make America Great Again!"Which meansMake America White Again!TheHate Crimeperpetrated inMilwaukee Wisconsinis a perfect example whereWhite Peopleforget that their families wereImmigrants Too!This is,The Last Time I Brought This Subject Up I Got Emails Saying I Was In Trouble,
Fear For My SafetyJim Hauenstein,
And,

"White Americans - What, nothing better to do? Why don't you kick yourself out - You're an immigrant too" - Jack White - That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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The Crossing Guard

Now, I have been watching over children crossing at my corner of Temecula Parkway and Consuelo Avenue for sixteen years. Over those years, I've learned most of the children's names and most of their Parent's names.   I wear a plastic orange vest and carry a big red and white stop sign.   Yes, I'm the volunteer Crossing Guard for this neighborhood.   I've seen things over the years that would make your hair stand on end. Cars swerving around the kids when I'm holding up my sign in the middle of the crosswalk. Kids running past me in front of oncoming traffic as I'm walking back to let the cars through. Emergency vehicles aiming themselves at me with sirens blaring and lights flashing, while I pick up a toddler under each arm and their parents scoot their other children across to the other side.   It wasn't until three years ago, when I witnessed a group of kids take back their pride, their dignity, their childhood, and I believe became lifelong friends, that I am most proud to have worked these city streets.   First I need to tell you why they all became good friends. His name is Duncan Pitts. Bully extraordinaire.   Duncan was growing up with the fear most children, in any generation, ever experience and endure for as many years as he did in his young life without someone finding out.   I myself judged him wrongly. Because nobody ever knew what could possibly be so bad about growing up rich in the most influential family in the city and living in the largest house in town.   This family had money. They bought all the property along both sides of the cul-de-sac street called Loma Linda Hill, leaving all the lots empty.   It's a pretty good size street too. It could have held eight other homes with large yards bordering those curbs, but now are the unkempt front yard of Mister Bonaparte Pitts and his wife, Abigail.   Duncan never let anyone come near his home to find out about the daily childhood trauma he was living through. Beatings from both of his drunken parents and the constant psychological and verbal harassment by his two drop-out older sisters.   He endured the same daily routine about his toughness and manhood by his family year after year. Never letting on how miserable his home life truly was to the rest of the world.   So, what choice did he have but to become the most notorious bully in the city of Temecula. His anger and frustration had to be funneled somewhere. The poor boy was trying to live up to what he was being taught at home. About what it took to be a real man. Being the only male heir to the Pitts family fortune.   Duncan, like most bullies, new how to pick his victims. It was the 8 bicycle riding freshmen of our local High School.   It was an easy choice for the second year student. He wasn't athletic and didn't workout daily. So taking on a baseball, basketball, or a football player was a losing proposition. The wannabe gangsters in town were not a good choice either. You take on one of them and that group comes in force the next day to avenge one of their own. And why take on the loners like himself. You can never tell what kind of rage they might be hiding inside those quit mouths of theirs.   So there rode in the eight geeky nerds onto the school grounds the first day of school. One at a time. Two gamers, two brainiacs, one otaku, and three cosplayers. All in all, seven pairs of heavily taped goggle glasses and one wearing outdated contacts. The perfect fish to fry. Three girls and five boys, not one weighing in over one hundred ten pounds.   Duncan was even thinking about rotating the punishment he gave out to those kids so not to intimidate the same one twice in 1 week.   It started out slow. Name calling from afar. Then the old standing in front of your victim real close so he or she could smell the onions you had on your hamburger for lunch.   That grew into taking every last cent those kids had before the start of school. Even though he had more money then all of them put together. It just was part of the natural progression.    Things picked up and started becoming a little frightening for the eight when their locks on their bikes were picked and they were moved to other locations on the school grounds. Sometimes, both tires were slashed and the owner would have to walk his or her bike home. Much to the delight of Duncan Pitts.   Why didn't the kids complain to the Vice Principle you ask?   They did. But with no eye witnesses no one dared to suspend the son of the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. If it wasn't for last year's charitable contribution from Bonaparte Pitts, the football team, the mascot, and the cheerleaders would still be riding to away games in the yellow county school bus instead of the brand new wi-fi, multiple TV, air conditioned luxury bus.   It was just a couple of kids anyways. Why upset a good thing? Their parents never even contributed to the annual bake sale.   Then one of the brainiacs, a math genius, saw a pattern in her harassment. One week she was victimized on a Monday. Then she wasn't bullied until Wednesday of the following week. Friday the next week after that. Skip a week, then get hit on a Tuesday. Then Thursday a week later. And finally, back to Monday.   That meant, either Duncan, was being nice to her during those other days by not bullying her, or she was one of eight kids being victimized.    The first day back from the Thanksgiving break, Shirley the math wiz, waited for Duncan to drive his brand new Mini Cooper to school. She waited for him in the park, kitty corner from the cross walk I work.   I could see her metal handlebar basket and the top of the front tire, with the pink side walls, sticking out in front of the dual plastic yellow slide across the street from me. The large slide did hide Shirley and the rest of her bike though.   Why was she there? I was thinking. By this time of the morning she usually was the first one at school. Trying to beat the bully before he arrived. It was still fifty-five minutes before the bell rang and if she didn't hurry she wouldn't be able to reach the safety of the school building and her first period class.   Then everyone could hear the black and white trimmed Mini Cooper come skidding through a stop sign a block away. Turning right at the corner of Loma Linda Hill and Temecula Parkway, heading our way.   Luckily I wasn't holding up my sign in the middle of the cross walk because of no children to protect or I would have had to report his license plate number to authorities since he was traveling at least 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.   The car zoomed past me and from the corner of my eye I saw Shirley take off from behind the plastic slide pedaling as fast as she could. She was chasing after Duncan Pitts as he drove his car to school.    This went on every day for two weeks, only missing Wednesday on the first week, Friday the second week.   Shirley met with each bicycle riding victimized nerd to set up a meeting on the Friday, 1 week before the Christmas break. She only had five days to convince the other seven that she could come up with a viable plan that would stop them from being bullied after the 2 week break. To Be Continued...I wrote this on my cellphone, that is the reason for the format and the green coloring. 

This is,I Thought About Being A Crossing Guard OnceBut I Couldn't Make The Commitment Of Being There EverydayJim Hauenstein,“Help someone, you earn a friend.”
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The New Uber & Lyft Drivers Of The Future

Okay,Okay.So you think you live in aRat Race.Check these drivers out.TheScientistswho conducted this study say,while these guys are driving,their stress levels go down!Didn't we learn this type of behavior learning fromPavlov's Dog?Not the driving part,but training animal behavior.
This is,My WifeAnd Kids Train Me In The Same Fashion,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“If canines can be conditioned to salivate over nonexistent food, may not men one day be likewise taught to salivate at the prospect of nonexistent facts?”
- Nicholas Meyer -

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