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Dexter Season Finale Good or Bad?

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So this is my first write up about Dexter Series on Showtime. I am a huge fan of the show ever since the first episode I watched. For those that don’t know what the show is about, basically ”Dexter” Blood Spot Analyst for the Miami Metro PD and moonlights as a vigilante serial killer. .

So we just finished watching the final episode of season six this past weekend and I have to say this season was the least favorite of mine in the series. First of all it seemed highly predictable, and maybe since I have watched the show so much I can anticipate what’s happening next or maybe not. I do feel they veered from what Dexter is first and foremost, very very careful and meticulous.

Now, in almost every season of the show Dexter tends to veer from his path a little bit and seems to almost put himself in an impossible situation where there seems to be no hope to get for him to get out off. I think is what keeps people interested in the show, it gets pretty intense watching the show at times. In the end he seems to get away with by using his high intelligence and always going back to what his dad taught him to be careful and never get caught.

If you watch the show and have not watched this season you probably don’t want to read on because this will probably spoil it for you.

There were so many times in this season where I knew exactly where they were going with the story line before I think I should have. From the dead hooker in the hotel room to Travis sitting on his table in the church where his sister Deb walks in and catches him and seeing him for the first time as what he is, a serial killer. What really bothered me about the season finale was how sloppy he was, I mean he went to kill Travis at the one place he was told to go by his “Sister” Deb told him do some extra work. Of course she was going to bust him in the act, She knew exactly where he was going to be! I mean come one, how stupid is that.

The thing that was really annoying to me about the whole season was that Dexter in the previous seasons always went after the guys that beat the system somehow and escaped jail or even being found by the cops, or were untouchable by the law in some way. Which is what validates him being a vigilante serial killer in my opinion, but instead the whole time he was trying to kill the doomsday killer(s) while the cops were still hot on the case looking for the killer(s).

Overall it was a decent season though, cliffhanger ending with Deb wanting to bang her non-biological brother who she discovers to be serial killer at the very end was a good ending leaving us wanting more, I just was disappointed on how they got to that conclusion is all.

I know they are wrapping up the Dexter Series for two more seasons and I am personally excited to see how it all ends for Dexter! Hopefully they spend more time in the writing for department for the final two seasons.

This is just my opinion on the show and most just me reflecting on the last episode mostly. Thanks for reading. :)

~JW

 

First post in awhile.

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Hello World. lol

It’s been awhile since i have posted a blog post, been super busy with Riley’s Baseball and other things, seems like there isn’t much time for anything else these days.

Walk for Animals this year wasn’t that great, it was cold, rainy and pretty miserable. We did raise $500 for the event so that was awesome and thanks to those who donated. We did walk the whole 5 miles, all 6 of us. Cisco, Kasha, Rocky, Cassidy, Riley and I. :)

Riley’s baseball is wrapping up. He made Majors this year which was nice, he made some improvements and seems to be a lot more motivated then he was in the beginning of the year. I wish he could play more, but the League he is in only allows 9 manned teams with Subs, and now he is a sub which really is kind of a shitty deal, but what can you do, I told him if he didn’t want to sub he would have to step it up on the playing field. He seems like he enjoyed it for the most part. Hopefully he gets to bring home a trophy this year, that would be awesome.

Haven’t got to ride as much this summer due to schedule and weather. What a miserable spring/summer so far, storms and rain seem to be the theme these days. Hopefully get some riding in before the season ends.

Done a lot of Dog Park days with the dogs this spring, more then I have in the past. Here’s a Video of Rocky and Kasha Playing at Rice Creek Park.

Here’s one with Rocky(boxer/pitbull) and Kasha(Cane Corso) at Cassidy’s Parents place recently. Playing and having a good time with each other.

Riley got his first sportbike. :) it’s a Mini Pocket Bike. Thanks to the Francos, he enjoys it a lot.

X1 Pocket BikeRiley's First X1 Pocket BikeSome Video of him Riding it.

I’ll try and post up some more, but that’s all i have for now. Thanks for reading.

-JW


Random Thoughts of the Day.

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I keep thinking lately of these great things I want to blog about when I am out and about, but by the time I sit in front of a keyboard, I completely forget what I was thinking about. It’s really annoying, but I suppose if it was really interesting enough I would remember. So I am sitting trying to think of something to write about and nothing really coming to me. So my plan is to just keep typing and see what comes out.

Lately we all have noticed the things going on around the world, Japan’s Earthquake / Tsunami, Libya’s war between its people and their government (as of yesterday, possible full out war with the Gadhafi and US/France/Britain/Others). The world seemed to be changing very quickly, I personally don’t remember a time where events like this have happened in such a short time. I am sure the religious peeps are going all gaga over the predictions of the Apocalypse possibly coming of age, and maybe they’re right to a point. I mean there does seem like there is something very serious going on around the world. Is it possible the world as we know it is coming to an end? Yes, it’s possible. I don’t think it’s how the people picture it though, not like the world would combust in one day, but I do believe with that the world is changing, with the Egypt people reclaiming their rights, Libya in disarray, the fact we are still in the Middle East doing god knows what, major Natural Disasters happening everywhere, birds and fish mysteriously dying in groups. I am not an expert in anyway on the subject, but I do know that there is a lot going on in the world today.  I am sure there are tons of blogs and newspaper/online news about the subject anyways if you care to look further into it. Although I did read a lot about the predictions of Edgar Cayce, if you get a chance, I would recommend looking up his predictions, very interesting stuff.

Anyways, I hope we (United States) decide to get out of all this mess in the Middle East, but more than likely won’t happen. Just want to show my support for our troops over there. Also want to support the Japanese too, I mean if you haven’t seen the videos of what happened there, it’s pretty bad, and the aftermath isn’t any better.

 

Thanks for Reading,

JW

My Son’s 12 Already?

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Riley Willett 12th BirthdayRiley has turned 12 this past weekend. Crazy to think about, 12 years later and it only seems like yesterday he was wearing stinky diapers and laughing at goofy faces and trying to explore anything and everything he could. For his Birthday, My mom and her husband came into town just for his Birthday, she doesn’t live in MN, so it was pretty huge for her to come since she never makes it up here in February. The festivities started with dinner and presents on Friday night, and then Cheapskate with his friends and family. I think he had a really good Birthday this year. He got a lot of presents, hang out with friends and family. Not much more you can ask for.

Remembering back to when he was a baby, it’s been a long journey so far with a lot of ups and downs, but nothing is ever smooth in life and you have to take things head on with no regrets. He lived with his mom for his first 10 years, but I always knew he should be with me, and after taking custody of my son 2 years ago, I realized how much I didn’t know about him, here he was, 10 years old and I felt we were total strangers. He even told me that although I have been in his life since day one, he never really thought of me as his dad, I was more the guy who picked him up once in a while bought him cool things. Obviously that hurt and I realized I really didn’t know a lot about him, a lot of things that I feel that I should have been more aware of, but I was blind to so many things due to lies and hiding truths. I noticed immediately his self-confidence was really low, which surprised me since he was always such a lively kid. He definitely had a lot of trust issues, growing up in a family where he felt like an outsider the whole time would be hard for anyone. He has confide in me a lot that I wasn’t aware of, the lies that were told and the mental beat down that he had endured at his old home was evident to me after having him full time in short period of time. He told me the lies that he was told about me, things that were not even close to true. It just really upsets me to think this is how he was viewing his own father based on lies. It’s really sad, but as I teach him every day, lies will always show up as lies no matter what.

I believe playing sports have had a huge impact on his self-confidence. As much as I tried to get him into sports while he was living with his mom, they never seem to want to bring the kids to anything. Taekwondo is where I believe is started, after he first moved in with me, he participated in a tournament in Wisconsin where he won his first tournament. That was huge. Then that same summer I signed him up for football, which was his first played team sport. Watching him progress was awesome to watch as a parent. Now he participates in Wrestling, Football, Baseball and Martial Arts. Try to keep him busy J

Anyways, seeing him on his Twelfth birthday was very enjoyable, how much more confident he is today is awesome to me, although he still has a long way to go, I believe he is making strides compared to where he was at 2 years ago and I am hoping for more positive things to come to him as he deserves it.

I am going to end this here. I just wanted to say that I am really happy that he is with me and Love the kid to death. Thanks for reading.

-JW

Random Thoughts of the day

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Where to start and how to end? Does that make any sense? I am really not much of a fan of winter, growing up in MN you would think I would be used to it, but I honestly can’t stand it all. I can’t wait for the spring and summer months to come, I even enjoy Fall as the Fall season always feels like my calming period or something.  Anyways, yeah, winter just plain sucks. I am not one to enjoy the cold weather; some people like to do things that are “wintery”, but not me. I am not a fan of Hockey, it’s boring and I really have no ambition to freeze my ass off on the ice, so I never got into it. Skiing, which was once fun as a child, I just don’t want to go out and do it. Cold is my enemy, my enemy is cold….. It makes me depressed and uneventful and the dreariness is blah to me.  So enough about the cold, it sucks and it will dissipate soon enough.

Completely random here, but I can’t seem to stop having dreams about bugs. Yes, bugs! It’s gross and it’s keeping me from getting a good night sleep. It sucks because they just won’t leave me alone when I trying to sleep. Reason I believe is we recently got two Bearded Dragons, if you don’t know what they eat, you probably can guess by now, BUGS!! So now I have bugs in the house, Crickets and Dubia Roaches at the moment. It’s ridiculously gross, but it’s what they eat and yeah I have to deal with it. Honestly when they eat the bugs it doesn’t really gross me out, actually it’s rather entertaining watching them eat, but it’s just the idea of having them in the house freaks me out a little bit. But I need to stop thinking about them before I fall asleep or I am going to go nuts, not that I really sleep that well anyways.  

Anyways, I think I will close this one on that thought :)

Thanks for reading,

JW

Old Blogs

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So I came across these old blog posts I did in 2005 in my Windows Live Space that i haven’t logged into for about 5-6 years but decided to check it out today. I thought it was funny to see them since i have totally forget about it along with some pictures in the album.

Anyways, just remember I was a little bit younger and never blogged before. :) Kinda of funny to me I guess to see how i was just a few years ago in my writing. I started to blog then and just stopped until I created this one. Let me know what you think in the comments section.

Thanks,
JW

June 16th, 2005

Fighting

I was at college the other day and I saw a fight in the cafeteria, over god knows what. It seemed pretty dumb to me, I don’t even know if I would call it a fight, they yelled at eachother and then one guy through a punch (which only hit air) and the other guy jumped on him and they wrestled on the ground. It looked ridiculous, I am a black belt in taekwondo, and have been in my share of dumb ‘street’ fights, which i think fighting is dumb in the first place, but I love to do taekwondo, and I feel that people like to fight because of unsurities within themselves, or insecurities. I don’t feel that I need to get in confrontation to feel better about myself. I may be wrong, maybe people like to fight just to fight, maybe people think they feel powerful by fighting, who knows. I think that people should only fight when it’s absolutely necessary, when it right, not wrong, and most people of a sense of what’s right and wrong, but it’s what they choose. Anyways just some food for thought.

Later

June 17th, 2005

Who Knows Exactly

Who knows what we are supposed to be, or what we are supposed to be doing. Alls I know is that we all are under the impression that we go to school, get a job, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. I don’t know if that’s right, and maybe that’s what we are suppose to do. It seems to me that only about 2% of the people that I have met through my life are actually truly happy in this scenario, maybe even less. Those aren’t very good odds for finding true happiness in one’s life, but is it because we have our lives are mapped out already by some sort of preconcieved notion that we should do these things to be happy. I don’t know. Maybe everyone needs to start taking things as they come, instead of wanting something so bad, they begin to force themselves into a situation that they won’t be happy in. I know everytime I wanted something so bad, that when I got it, It never lived up to what I hoped it would be. Have you ever felt that you needed things so badly that you feel empty without it; and if you got it, did it really truly fill the void?. Who knows, I’m just really bored at work and I am just writing whatever comes to mind.

Later

July 18th, 2005

Kinda boring weekend

It was kind of a boring weekend, it doesn’t ever feel long enough. I started my summer quarter back at school last week, it’s kind of rough during the summer, but’cha got to do what’cha got to do.
Anyways, We started Kumdo at Kim’s school on saturday; very interesting class, for those people who don’t what kumdo is, it’s a korean style of sword; translated into the way of the sword.
I would have to say that’s about it for now..
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August 30th, 2005


Long Summer

It’s been a long summer, Haven’t done anything fun what so ever this summer, just Work And School,
Haven’t gone to TKD that much either, kinda of a bummer. I’ve Had My son Riley for most of the summer also, which is great, but can be very tiring with all the other stuff I got going on.
Manakto Starts up again this week, Just another thing to add to my already busy and Hectic schedule, but I do enjoy teaching, especially since it’s a subject that I love doing.
Oh Well, only until July will I be down with school, then Hopefully next Summer will be more exiting, hopefully I’ll be in Korea next summer fot TKD training, that’s the plan as of right now anyways..

September 22nd,  2005

Finally

Finally, This quarter is done. Only one test and one project left and I get two weeks off, at least from school.
So what’s been going on, well same old **@# different day. Been busier than I have ever been lately and yet I feel like I haven’t done anything, oh well that’s how it goes sometimes. I think I’m going to do absolutely nothing this weekend exept watch Football and stare at the wall until I have to go back to work on Monday. That probalby won’t happen, but it would be nice. Anyways for those who care or matter, Later

October 6th, 2005

TKD

Well my break for school is almost over and I feel like I didn’t even have a break. Normally at night I would be at school, but since I didn’t, I did alot of TKD stuff. Last week I assisted Tom at Princeton, then the next night I went to Carlton College to Assist Aaron, and then worked out weds, then Friday I Taught at Manakto, and Saturday was Testing day, which everyone did very well. This week I took class on Monday, Conducted the Warm-ups on Tuesday at the Main School, then the family class on Wedsnday, also weds. I workout a new student before the first class. I’m suppose to go there tonite but I think I need a day off from there. And Tomorrow I go to Mankato to Teach, then we have a Black Belt Class tomorrow night followed by Make-Up tests.
Anyways, there’s the sum of my 2 week school break. I really didn;t do anything that I wanted to do, exept the TKD thing. Later

Am I that interesting?

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So it’s been awhile since I have posted a blog, to be honest I have been so caught up with everything going on lately that I haven’t even had the time to sit down and write anything. Anyways, so I am just going on a random spree here, and not even sure what to write about at this point.

I guess I’ll start with my recent boom in web traffic hits to my site. Those of you familiar with WordPress.com, knows that in the dashboard there’s a built in statistics report. It’s actually pretty cool, easy to read. I started this blog last January and it started off as a few hits here and there. I averaged maybe around 300-600 hits a month. Which is fine, I didn’t create this blog for mainstream, but more for an outlet for me. So I have noticed a trend lately on the stats. One day last week I actually had 798 hits on one day. It’s the big spike on the first chart below.

Daily Stats from mid November 2010 to December 22nd 2010.  

Below is statistics on my site just for the one blog post since I posted it last February.

Am I really that interesting? Probably not, it’s more based on one article I blogged about (Click here to see the blog). Animal Planets awesome show “Pitbulls and Parolees”. The new season kicked off and I started getting a lot more hits on my site.

If you look at the comments on that blog, you’ll notice that people obviously did not read the blog and assumed my site is related to Villalobos Rescue (aka Pitbulls and Parolees), which I am not at all, just like the show, admirers of what they do and like one thing I saw on their site enough to write about it once. I did just change the title of the blog to hopefully divert some of those who think i am affiliated with them.

I just thought that was funny and wanted to share. If you haven’t seen the show, I like it a lot, it’s an awesome show about pitbulls and the drama that goes with running a rescue with Parolees. http://animal.discovery.com/tv/pitbulls-and-parolees/

If you want to check out Villalobos official website: http://www.vrcpitbull.com/home.htm

Happy Holidays to everyone :) ,
Thanks,
JW

Random Pic of my son…

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I really like this pic, I took it while we were waiting at a buddy’s place and you can tell from the pic that he was extremely bored at that time. I love taking just random pics of people when they are not expecting it, or don’t know that you are talking them, natural reactions are more interesting to me then a posed shot.

I wish I could afford a good camera, not just a regular one, but an actual real camera, maybe some day. Photography has always been an interest of mine since i was a kid, but it’s an expensive hobby in which I can’t afford right now with my many other hobbies.

So back to the picture, it was taken with my phone (First Gen Motorola Droid), he thought I was texting or facebooking, but I was actually just taking some random shots and this one I thought came out great. Just wanted to share. :) You can click on the picture to make it bigger if you wish too.

Which side do you see?

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Some see the joker in me.

Some see the serious side of me.

Some see the responsible side of me.

Some see the irresponsible side of me.

Some see the intelligent side of me.

Some see the caring and nicer side of me.

Some see the not a care in the world side of me.

Some see the bad boy side of me.

Some see the dorky side of me.

Some see the crazy side of me.

Some see the sane side of me.

Some see the logical side of me.

Some see the creative side of me.

Some see the good side of me.

Some see the dark side of me.

But no one truly can see all the sides of me. Funny thing is, I am always the same person all the time, never putting up a front, never showing something that I am not, so why is it that people only see what they want to see in someone rather than the whole person? I feel like I am one of those two way mirrors. People look into them and only see their reflection and are always curious what is on the other side but never take the second to get close even to see what’s on the other side, they just make their assumptions and move on.  But if you do get real close and really look hard, you can see everything on the other side of the mirror and you might just see something you really like or never knew existed.

Just my random thought of the day :-/

Completely Random Thoughts

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Random thought #1

It’s been a busy few weeks, Riley started his football season, and work has been crazy busy with projects and deadlines, also I started training this week for a possible MMA fight in the future. I have been thinking about doing a full contact fight for some time now, and figure it’s now or never. I have no aspirations of trying to be a career UFC fighter; I would just like to take my shot at some real fights and see where I stand. I am not jumping into this blind of course, I have committed to working out with some people who will help me train in their respected specialties. I do have over 10 years of Martial Arts experience, plus some other training I had when I was younger, golden gloves boxing for a little bit and of course high school wrestling.  I’ll probably post more once I get into it more. J

Random thought #2

My brain feels like its on cruise control lately. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed with things I get sort of spacey and just go through the motions without and any real emotion. Maybe it’s the weather change, it’s been cold here lately and kind of depressing as fall approaches. Maybe it’s because I am stuck in MN and there are very few things that excite me anymore here. If I could move to another state or even country I more than likely would.

Random thought #3

So with Riley’s football consuming 4 out 7 days, it’s pretty hard to do much else. And yes, that’s 4 days of time when I am not working, meaning my days fill up with work and his activities and usually not home till about 8:30 at night or later. My house is a disaster area lately; I have neither the time nor the energy to even do my laundry on a regular basis let alone clean the rest of the house. It ends up being whatever I need that day is what will go in the wash. It’s crazy.

Random thought #4

Boxer Pitbull mix riding in the carI did get to hangout with Rocky all day last Sunday, which I haven’t had much time to do.  I took him to with me everywhere I went, and he even got to jump on a trampoline that day, he seems to like those a lot.

He is seriously the best dog, not even joking around. He’s not perfect by any means, he will chew shit up in a minute given the opportunity, but as far as just being an awesome dog, he’s it. He listens well, never whines about anything, quiet, obedient(for the most part anyways), anyone who meets him usually loves him, and keeps me company when I want it most.

If you ever have the time to take care of dog, understand how to take care of a dog, I will strongly recommend adopting one. Make sure you pick the right one for you and yours, but it can be one of the most rewarding things for you and the dog. I am obviously more particular on pitbull breeds, but i also know what it’s like to misjudged, descriminated against, and just plain casted aside. I picked Rocky because of his calm demeanor, and the fact he’s just like me, he’s a  mixed mut who just needed a chance to show how awesome he was.

Random thought #5

Well, with the summer wrapping to quick end, I am going to try and get some bike time in before it gets to cold out. I headed out to Wisconsin last Saturday to meet up with some other riders. We hit some twisty’s that whole day and got home to then headed back on the road again, I racked up around 500 miles of just messing time. By Sunday I was completely exhausted and soar, but definitely worth it. Coming on the 18th I am heading to Rockfalls Raceway in Wisconsin for the Sport Compact Race day with the Bike to see what it does in the quarter mile drag. I have some friends going that day too, so it should be a lot of fun.

Random thought #6

So I was told this week that i have time commitment  issues. I’ll have to agree with that and disagree. I think I over commit my time to many things. I just never tell people why I can not do something or why I can’t be somewhere. I tend to commit to many things at once. I think my issue is not with commitment, but time management. I do forget things on a regular basis. I have a tendancy to take a lot in and naturallly somethings will get lost. I say yes to things that I want to do, or that sound good at that point in time. and if it’s not at that moment, then I’ll probably forget the whole conversation took place until someone or something reminds me what an ass I am for not going or doing something.

So yes, i have time management issues, not commitment issues. Now if it’s relationships? That’s a whole nother blog at a whole nother time ;)

Last Random thought of the day

Anyways, just completely random thoughts today, with me being spacey and all, I’ll have to find something this winter to peak my need for doing fun things I guess. Maybe Snowboarding? Or Snowmobiles? I hate the winter, so we’ll see. Hope everyone reading this blog isn’t as messed up as me. Or maybe your are..hrmm.. think about it.

-JW