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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

Remembering an Old Friend. RIP Brother.

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The other day I was at Locke Park walking the dogs with Cas, and I started to remember things about this one tragic day there from my childhood. This is what I remember from my point of view at that time.

We use to go drifting down Rice Creek at Locke Park as Kids, it seems harmless enough, but sometimes the currents can get pretty strong and you may get pulled under without any real notice.  I and 3 others decided to go to the creek one day and drift downstream like we have so many times in the past. There was even one point where I myself almost got taken by the current under a log and my friend Jonny that was with us instinctively grabbed my arm and pulled me up and remember feeling freaked out by it. It was definitely a strong current that day, even with those shallow waters.

After we left, we stopped by my other friend’s mom’s work at the Fridley Medical Center, which was on our way home. When we arrived and went to go talk with her, she had this look of relief on her face and you could see in her eyes she was glad to see us as my friend had previously told his mom that we were heading down to the creek that day. She was telling us about how some kid drowned 20 minutes prior to us coming to her work and was worried it was one of us. We had no idea who was there that day since we didn’t see anyone else, the area that she was explaining was south of where we were actually at. So we headed home and I couldn’t help to think to myself who it could’ve been, but didn’t think that I would actually know the person.

Later on that day, the word spread to who it was and I was just shocked that it was one of my friends from school, a friend that I played baseball with as well. Some of our other friends went to the creek that day as well without us knowing. They were on the south end of the creek that day down by University Avenue. Jeff Dullnig, drowned in 2 feet of water, his foot got caught on some rope and the current was able to hold his head under water. I know some of the guys there that tried to help and some actually were able to pull his head up while he was gasping for air, but the current pulling them away and they were not able to sustain his head above water. 

It was a sad day for sure, I still get choked up thinking about it today, how this lively kid, could be gone just like that. I googled his name as I was thinking about this today and this is what I found. I have a picture with him somewhere too, once I find it, I will scan it and post it up here.

Although I wasn’t with him that day, I still feel like I was right there, still missing my friend to this day. RIP brother.

-JW

How do you judge someone?

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Sometimes I think we live in a world that can look pass judgments based on how a person looks, and I am not talking about how a person dresses, but based on a person’s race or ethnic background, then I realize that people still judge other people based on ethnic background or someone’s ancestry.

I think people should be judged on how they are as a person, not how they look on the outside. I think it’s amazing how people still in this day can’t look past on someone’s skin color, facial features, or cultural differences.

Myself being mixed with Korean always comes up, whether it‘s positive or negative, it seems that people like to think they know me just based on my looks. I am either embraced or hated just based on that one thing and really this should never be a reason to judge any person purely being based on what someone is genetically or physically. I never want to be liked or hated just because of what I am based on how I look.

How about we look at people for who they are, not what they are. Whether they are good person, responsible, intelligent, caring, helpful, outgoing, someone with integrity, honor, someone who is genuine, works hard for what they have.  These would be things I would want to be judged on, the type of person I am, not what I look like on the outside. Of course this will never happen, people are stuck in linear views and they are completely content on being in their fish bowl.

It is pretty sad to me that people use someone’s ethnic background as a deterrent to get to know someone, I mean it limits oneself to truly experience the full extent of the world for what it is, instead people want to live in a bubble and are content in that. I learned a long time ago that negativity will never change anyone’s point of view; if anything it will drive people away. People’s natural reaction to negativity is to be negative right back. I try and stay positive even in the face of negativity.

I remember as a child being treated differently just because I looked different then everyone else, being called every derogatory name there is, and it did hurt a lot, and it made me an angry person for a long time. It took me a very long time to just accept the fact that people are going to be the way they are no matter what I do, and myself being angry all the time doesn’t help the matter at all, it doesn’t help me be a better person, and all I can do is be me and hope that people see that side, instead of what is on the cover.

I could write about this all day long, but I am going to cut it off short because I think the point is there.  I do think unless you can sit in the shoes of someone who has been through this, and understand how even just words can be just as hurtful if not more than as being physically being beat down with a bat, you will never know how painful one person’s words can be.  

I hope in time that people can truly see people for what they are as a person, not just what they look like.

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