Monday, December 27, 2010

Missing some one you love

We have been married for 5 months and Brian has almost non-stop scene then. This certainly not how we intended on being our lives together. I am very glad he can is able and is currently supporting our family unit. along with paying child support. I just get so damn lonely sometimes with out him here by my side. he is certainly not disconnected we Chirp a million times a night...... just wish he was here sitting with me. instead of on the wheel of a cab.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

don't ask, don't tell repeal

Today is a monumental moment, but please remember that "don't ask, don't tell" repeal is just one step in a much larger movement,
My marriage is still not recognized in 45 states (not even my own), in 31 states gays and lesbians can still be fired from a job or denied housing with no legal recourse. So today we raise a toast "so many miles behind us and so many more still to go".

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

I465 video quality

OMG this is the worst Video quality i have ever seen on a phone. why even add it as a feature so thoughts of you that might think that is a nice feature it is a complete joke see for your self.


HAHAHAHAH any questions??

Monday, November 29, 2010

Hey every body i got a new sweet text phone so that means more blog up dates!!!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

sitting here with a new seance of purpose the road is calling and it is just 5 months away. There still so much to do for both comfort and consideration of concrete life decisions . Constant humming of ..."o we are going to need this, I got that on the list......." "are we going to keep this in storage are we giving this to this person or that."

Every thing is coming together perfectly I got my permit on Friday morning Brian is just a few points away.
In the next 6 weeks we are making a detailed outlined for time,
"ie by this point post things to crlist, give poseessions to these people, by this date find storage, this date begin loading storage, cars must be gone by this time!!"
looking fwd to starting the training I need by X-mass
and it will take Brian a little longer (he has not driven a commercial vehicle before)
Looking fwd to seeing more of him over the holiday I hope!!

We are Inviting any one and every one to our Thanksgiving fun day!! come one come all any one that does not want to spend it with their crazy family join us, no place to go for thanks giving come over our house we will be eating at 1 or 2ish but we have a 24 lbs turkey so there will be left overs all day and night!!

We will still very much be in-touch with everything and every one on the road we will both have net-books with wireless internet !!! so No need to worry there.
Also from day one we will begin a daily vlog with our adventures (something we have both searched out but not seen any where on the web) We will up date every day with new pictures videos and testimonials for the newbies. Maybe even a real time track.
Will keep you updated as time gets closer!!
Happy trails,
Sky T-S.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Sitting at ghu listening to the pats hoping they beat the flying rats of baltimore. Thank god for sirius sat radio

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Well whats A few things,
looked for a job between Zbest and Howard county contractor I really hate working for someone else, I really should post more and hopefully i will cuz I am getting my self a Netbook, so I can surf on the couch.

Monday, August 16, 2010

the lyrics to the song i played at my wedding

for those of you don't know I played this at my wedding for the many people that i have lost a long this long dusty road of life that should have been there at my wedding.


Don't Follow

Hey.. I ain't never comin' home
Hey.. I'll just wander my own road
Hey.. I can't meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye.. don't follow
Misery so hollow..

Hey you.. you're livin' life full throttle
Hey you.. pass me down that bottle
Hey you.. you can't shake me round now
I get so lost and don't know how
And it hurts to care, I'm goin' down..

Forgot my woman.. lost my friends
Things I'd done and where I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors cold
See my face it's growin' old
Scared to death no reason why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I said
Read the page it's cold and dead..

Take me home..

..say goodbye ..don't follow

Friday, July 30, 2010

The key to a successful business is employee driven

There needs to be an end to gross outrageous polices and profits that treat employees as a commodity and not people.
As a former and future founder of my own Transportation company. Employees make the company. We will never put profits before people and at our core we have a philosophy "Treat others as you shall want to be treated" can be summed up in a few points

First we have the technology lets use and embrace it use mapping software, traffic.com, e-mail, text messages, cell phones, the internet can and will answer any question for dispatch so use it!! knowing as much info as possible allows every one to preform there jobs better

Ever vehicle has sat radio, gps, and will never be sent on the road if the founder him self would not feel completely comfortable driving it!! No one wants or needs to brake down on the side of the road, loss of money and temper. if you see some thing wrong write it down and tell some one at that point! no matter how minor. A shaking vehicle today, could be a blow out today!!!

Employee loyalty is priority number one!!

1. employee contracts are a great way to make the job clear persist and with in bounds that can be refereed to at any point,

1a. At least 1,000$ in petty cash to be kept in safe on premises at all times, reduce the need for employee to have to be submit expense forms.

2. pay ever week at the same time and place with out regard for inconvenience for your self. (post in clear view a clear chain of who is responsible for pay and what time checks will be handed out. explain what is paid for and what is not. First thing to remember they want to treated like adults and the need to be compensated not complicated!

3. set salary caps for every person in management including owner and do not buje on this point. spell it out in there employee contract.

4. post profit/loss statements every few days. (we have the technology to find out in real time lets use it.) company profits should never be a secrete. I never understood why you would want to keep info quiet.

5. pay percentages of profits back to employees. profit sharing is not a dirty word it will make employees more proficient and the company more profitable. Clearly spell this out in profit/loss statement IE you will make this much extra at the end of the ..... if our number continue at this point.

6. Seniority has does not matter in promotion performance matters.

7. COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY...... when asked a question answer it directly. do not respond with another question

8. list amount of profit going toward equipment improvements, amount spend on fuel, amount spend on food for employees, show where every dollar goes every day.

9. Include family participation , fun activities, understand how a job impacts a person and family.

10. Driver lounge with a/c, TV, and entertainment Dinner provided at certain time of day or day of week.

Inclusion remember every body knows 10 people and most know a lot more then that effective marketing is having employees referr friends and family to use company and then they tell some one elsa and so it goes ..........

Friday, July 23, 2010

2 birthdays and a wedding weekend

well the days have flown by and the days are now here my birthday is tomorrow, our wedding is Sunday at 11am sharp, and Brian's birthday is Monday yippie!!
i am so tired these past few days with planning and working a bunch of hours!! 7 jobs today a lone!!
the cable/ internet had to be temporarily shit off so that we could have the money for the wedding. We are having a penis cake and a strict dress casualness wedding attire. and a pot luck BBQ and beer reception!!
I am sure there will be many stories to tell!!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

1007 miles 2 and a half days pride the sky way

Well we went to 2 of the ten planned prides it rained both saturday at boston and sunday at washington dc pride. many of the pics are on my face book page!!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Martz, Me, Tip Top Mistake

Well first lets start by saying a month in to martz I am still not sure it is going to work out. They are just something like a burn and churn operation!!!!

Secondly I just am still in morning over the end of Art and I's relationship I realized that it had become toxic. Him always telling me what I should do and to go with direction in stead of just supporting my direction.

And I really have been in a funk today cuz yesterday I worked 15 and a 1/2 Hours for tip top. Not on the agreed apon 9 hours!! Then when it became clear I can not work 2, 15 hour days and told them i would not be able to do it today. They had the nerve to say if you do not work today we will not pay you for yesterday. Now all day i am going through a haze still tired from yesterday and Damn glad I did not Attended the event today.  (Would like to have seen Alex again though)

I really miss Jason today It has been 5 months scents his sudden passing. But the pain still lingers. The questions still remain, And the person I feel is ultimately responsible for his death mother coldness is still alive. And free. But In a bit of irony she has not seen here "supposed" grandkids sends the time of his passing. Well i wish nothing but eternal damn nation on that evil woman. 

People that I would have never suspected having difficulty with his passing have. Shawn and Gary both still beside them selves. These are tuff kids with really rough backgrounds. That have seen people around them die. He touched them in such a way that he stands out.

Another thing I have been focusing my time is the up coming wedding (s). we are having a ceremony here and going in front justice of the peace in Washington DC. 

Brian makes me literally pinch my self at least once a day. he takes the time to know all (I MEAN ALL) of my likes and dislikes. he never offends and never wounds, Never says spitfull words.  He also very much of a mind reader. he knows what will make me happy, sad, mad, smile, dream, love, touch, (even sneeze)

HE KNOW HOW TO MAKE ME SMILE, LAUGH AND HAVE FUN ON EVEN MY WORST DAY. He seems as if he has nothing to prove nothing, He takes on the world and me makes it his own, With his love I finally feel it back. It is as if everything i have every put out in to the universe I have gotten back every day for 7 months.

The money issue (the 800 lbs gorilla in any relationship) Is not a problem at all he gives equally and that is such a change from the past were I have either been the bread winner or the feeling like a leach.

I am ready to go when it is my time but I do not want it to be for 90 years so i can soak up every minute. welcome to sky part 3

love always,

sky tripp-shaefer



Sunday, April 25, 2010

"Don't follow"

"Don't follow"

Hey, I ain't never coming
Home
Hey, I'll just wander my
Own road
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don't follow
Misery so hollow

Hey you, you're livin'
Life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that
Bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can't shake
Me round now
I get so lost and don't
Know how
And it hurts to care, so I won't now

Forgot my woman, lost my
Friends
Things I'd done and where
I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors
Cold
See my face it's growin'
Old
Scared to death no reason
Why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I
Said
Read the page it's cold
And dead

Take me home
Yeah, take me home
Take me home
Take me home, yeah
Take me home

Say goodbye, don't follow

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/alice_in_chains/#share

This is the song i plan to play at My wedding For thoughts that could not be there that have died by the needles or the bottles

Friday, April 16, 2010

the end of an era and the start of something new

I have a confession to make I do not like kids, which is very odd because for the last 12 months I have been a bus driver and before that 3 months for bus monitor. I did this to push my limits, I did this to figure out why I do not like kids and i realized it 3 weeks ago. I do not like the maturity level. You can not have a regular conversation with a 5 year old.

The reason I waited for 18 months to find other job (see below), Is because I did not want to what happened in 08 again. I do not want to be unemployed and making ends meet by doing crappy work!!

well I found a new job Martz/Grey lines in dc I start training Monday at 8am. It is a union job, it is full time, It is not driving kids and watching kids, And it has awesome benefits. It is a little further from the house but it is one shift a day. 8 or 10 hours then go home and not 3 hours go home for 4 hours then go back for another 3 hours.

So wish me luck.........

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

tuesday april, 13, 2010

Finally msnbc has come to Sirius/xm radio channel 90 thank goodness. and my unemployment benefits have been reassed and now i get 271 a week awesome (way better then 75 dollars a week). It is a good week all around!!

Thursday, March 18, 2010

I got engaged I popped the question to Brian on valentines day pics are on my Facebook. we had 2 blizzards in one week spent 13 days with no school. I have been sort of not feeling this blog thing for a minute. With face book and picasa. I update well at least ten times a day (lol almost). But here is something i just had to blog about read below:

As I left the parking lot @ elk ridge elementary I realized that there was 3 kids in 1 seat at the
light. I asked _________________ to please move. She said “no”.Again and again I asked to move to the seat behind her. And again and again she refused. After making the left on to parkway .I pulled off to the right in a safe place.

Stood up from the drivers seat and told her you need to move..... she responded “You WHO??” I
responded you. She then said “no I am not moving”. I responded “OK what is your name??”. She said my name is Charley brown.” then a varied number of different. “Names”. So I asked the other kids on the bus. “what is her name so I can write her up and we can go home”. That is when she began screaming at me she did nothing wrong. And I had no right to write her up then she stood up from her seat and and started screaming and saying no no no no. in the middle of one of her words he attempted to spit at me I moved a side. I Then asked again In a much louder more a firming voice “if any one on the bus knew her “real name” so that should could be written up and we could move on”. At this point the back 2/3's of the bus stood up and started screaming at me to stop picking on her and she did nothing wrong, and what was my beef with her!! Among other very threatening things.

It was at this time I felt threatened to the point I called 911. I told them the location and that I needed an officer on the seen

After getting off the phone with 911. I saw a federal K9 unit officer and flagged him down. He
informed me he was rather limited in this jurisdiction. He waited with me until about 30 minutes later a Howard county officer arrived on seen. Before the county police arrived Jeff Poole owner of tip top arrived. Also several of the parents arrived also and tried to unload there children from the bus which I did not allow to happen. I was then told to drive to the park n ride by the county officer. Where he then escorted_________________off the bus.


well that was fucking unbelievable.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

January 17th 2010 The web connected over kill Big time??


This article up in my e-mail this am.......

Ford triumphs with Touch, Sync; brings connectivity to fourth screen -- your dashboard



Does any one else out there think this is really really creepy. Don't even begin to get me started with the fact of all the Data mining that the company is going to do "for you". But most importantly who will control that data. can't you see this as a huge "innovation" of privacy. I am self professed techno geek but this is like way way out there man. imagine my car telling me I go to burger king to much and i need to lose weight............. Or microsoft saying that know I steal music and they are tracking me too!!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

january joke!! F*CK tiger

LITTLE JOHNNY

It is near the Christmas break of the school year. The students have turned in all their work and there is really nothing more to do.

All the children are restless and the teacher decides to have an early dismissal.

Teacher: "Whoever answers the questions I ask, first and correctly can leave early today."

Little Johnny says to himself "Good, I want to get outta here. I'm smart and will answer the question."

Teacher: "Who said 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Susie says, "Abraham Lincoln."

Teacher: "That's right Susie, you can go home."

Johnny is mad that Susie answered the question first.

Teacher: "Who said 'I Have a Dream'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Mary says, "Martin Luther King."

Teacher: "That's right Mary, you can go."

Johnny is even madder than before.

Teacher: "Who said 'Ask not, what your country can do for you'?"

Before Johnny can open his mouth, Nancy says, "John F. Kennedy."

Teacher: "That's right Nancy, you may also leave."

Johnny is boiling mad that he has not been able to answer to any of the questions.

When the teacher turns her back Johnny says, "I wish these bitches would keep their mouths shut!"

The teacher turns around: "NOW WHO SAID THAT?"

Johnny: "TIGER WOODS. CAN I GO NOW?"

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