Normally, I drink a Jagermeister before bed. You come home and you're all wired up, but you know you must go to sleep like right away, because you'll have to get up again, so you need something to calm you down. It's not good.
Later, I'm going home and paint. I've been doing seascapes, underwater seascapes. I've never been deep sea, no, but from watching TV programs and looking at photographs, I've done a bit of research. Sometimes I bend it a little bit, make it more abstract.
I use oil, acrylic, pastel, anything. I know the smell of turpentine is bad for you, but I like it.
The cooking, the painting, all the good stuff" to me, that's life! I can't be going, "Oh, poor me, I've got to go to work, it hurts so much," and believe me, when you get older like me, your body hurts, but you go anyway, and once you get there, you realize, that's funny, I'm glad I got up.
An hour into work, the pain is gone and you're running, you're moving and it's sunny outside, so you think, OK, at least I'm doing something right.
The last guy I voted for was Reagan. I don't know if I'm gonna vote this time. I don't really like any of them. I believe the President should be a veteran. Before you send kids into war, you should know what it's like.
The ultimate sign of love for this country is to put your ass on the line for it. Not to be confused with being drafted, which is forced enlistment.
I think our biggest problem is the economy, and the family unit has gone to sh*t. You used to be able to beat your kids. If I wasn't afraid of my father growing up, I wouldn't have listened to my mother. I was just a bad kid. My father would hit me in the face, but not with a closed hand. You know what, I learnt. Respect your mother.
For your dad to hit you, and for it to be effective, he has to be respectable. He has to be able to say, "This is why you're getting it. You have to do what I do. That way, I won't have to do this any more. Follow what I do. I get up every morning, I go to work, I stop at the bar after work, I come home and there's dinner on the table. This is the good life, kid."
They don't want that. Kids don't want that any more.
I'm getting a new place. I'll have this basement to myself, and it's only $300, with everything included, all the bills. It's unheard of.
I might take a vacation, which I haven't done in ten years. I like to fish. I'll go fishing, but at this point, I don't care if I catch any fish. I'll cast a bare hook out there, sit there, watch the birds and just relax.
I can't think too far ahead. I'm the kind of guy who will work until the day I die.
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