This is probably one of the most important lessons I have ever learned in life: Talk is cheap. What people say doesn’t matter nearly as much as what they do. Words have no value when they are not backed up with action. They mean even less when someone’s actions totally contradict what they say, or swear, or promise. I can tell someone (a friend, a lover, a business partner) that I love them or care for them or value their place in my life all day long, 7 days a week. However, if at the first opportunity I get, I push them down a flight of stairs, then it doesn’t matter what I say in the least. What I do matters more than what I say. When a person that you love or value tells you one thing, but does another, you have to pay attention to what they do more than what they say. It might hurt and it might not be easy, but you’re going to save yourself a lot of pain and hurt in the long run if you realize talk is cheap when it’s not backed up by honest and sincere action. Believe me. I know. 
Entries from February 2009
Talk is cheap
February 28, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Tagged: gay marriage, heartache, life, love, promises, proposition 8, random, Relationships, truth
Word of the day: goad
February 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
–noun
1. a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
2. anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
3. something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.
–verb (used with object) 4. to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.
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Origin:
bef. 900; ME gode, OE gād; cf. Langobardic gaida spearhead
Related forms:
goadlike, adjective
Synonyms:
4. spur, push, impel.
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Their childish attempts to goad him were not only unsuccessful but showed their true stripes as well.
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Tagged: attack, childish behavior, goad, high school, hurt, love, mike martinez, random, Relationships, revenge, vocabulary, word smithing
Lesbian Links
February 26, 2009 · 1 Comment
I thought I’d show my lesbian readers some love today…
Mood: tongue & cheek
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Tagged: funny, gay california, gay marriage, glbt links, humor, joke, lesbian links, proposition 8, tongue and cheek
Mardi Gras Brothers
February 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Tagged: brothers, chris fleming, comrades, david bishop, family, friendship, mardi gras, mike martinez, photo, random
Someone needs to tell Dell we speak English
February 24, 2009 · 1 Comment
Nothing irks me more than calling customer service and getting someone on the phone that doesn’t speak good English. I mean come on! How can you provide good customer SERVICE when the person who is handling your call or your sale or your technical issue can’t effectively communicate with you? Geesh! I understand cost and benefit and all that. I’m a small business owner myself, but recruiting a company to provide customer service support who isn’t fluent in English (and I’m calling from California) is like sending a customer or a client a plumber to fix the transmission on your car. It’s just that frustrating. I’ve been a pretty good Dell customer for several years and now that I work for myself doing technology, web, and computer repair, I used Dell a lot to get spare parts and buy computers. Dell needs to fix this customer service fiasco and let me talk to someone who can speak English. It’s ridiculous that it take me 20 minutes to get something done that should only take half that time because I’m having to say, “Excuse me” or “What?” or “Can you repeat that?” over and over again. Give me a break.
MOOD: Frustrated!
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Tagged: call center, customer service, dell computers, English, ESL, mike martinez, Technology
Bank of America sucks
February 23, 2009 · 1 Comment
I hate B of A. I hate their banking practices, I hate their policies, and I especially hate their customer service. I had a horrible experience with them about 7 or 8 years ago that involved me being treated differently by a manager in a branch because of how I was dressed. Here it is all these years later and I decided to give them a try again because they have a branch right across the street from my post office. They misapplied and incorrectly dated payments to my credit card, then tried to hit me with a bunch of ridiculous fees. Getting them to admit their mistakes and then credit me the erroneous charges has taken literally hours of my day haggling and arguing with different managers. I think they intentionally try and trip people up so they charge these various fees and often times people just give up or don’t want to fight for their case so they wind up collecting this money from people. I’ve closed my bank accounts with Bank of America and I will never, ever use them again. First change I get to transfer my balance on my credit card I am going and I’m going to close that account to. Stay away from Bank of America…they’re borderline thieves and they don’t deserve people’s hard-working dollars and business.
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Tagged: b of a, bank of america, business review, credit card, post office, rant, world points
Word of the day: nocuous
February 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
nocuous \NOK-yoo-uhs\, adjective:
very hurtful; noxious
The most important conclusions are that the bile of nocuous or venomous serpents is the most powerful antidote to venom.
– Nature, May-October 1898
“Let us take for example a nocuous stimulus, such as a strong electric current or wounding or cauterization of the skin.”
– Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Conditioned Reflexes
by 1627 from Latin nocuus “hurtful,” from root of nocere “to injure, harm,” from causative form of Proto Indo-European *nek- “death.”
This info taken from: www.dictionary.com
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Word of the day: vicious
February 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
vi⋅cious Pronunciation [vish-uhs] –adjective
1. addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
2. given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal.
3. reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception.
4. spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip; a vicious attack.
5. unpleasantly severe: a vicious headache.
6. characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning.
7. savage; ferocious: They all feared his vicious temper.
8. (of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition: a vicious bull.
9. Archaic. morbid, foul, or noxious.
This info taken from: www.dictionary.com
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Underworld 3 rocks
February 20, 2009 · 2 Comments
So I saw Rise of the Lycans tonight for the second time (thank you Chris Fleming for finally paying for something…lol) and I just had to post a blog about it. I really, really liked this film. It’s very rare I see a movie twice in the theater but no one in the group tonight had seen it and I really liked it when I saw it a couple weeks and I made Chris pay my way so I was good. I thought Lucian was a wonderfully complex and conflicted character, which when mixed together in the right combination, makes for a riveting and sexy vibe that is fun to watch. The prison scenes when he’s mostly shirtless are way hot. I like how the story lines compliment each other and I love how the this prequel bookends right up to the start of the first Underworld. The action and fight scenes are a little graphic but after all we are dealing with two of the most sinister dark world species: vampires and werewolves. Finally, honorable mention has to go to the character of Victor. Oh my gosh! His character is both intimidating and powerful…and ruthless. His iron-fisted lordship over the coven is as good and convincing a performance as Michael Corleone in the Godfather II. This films gets an A from me and if you haven’t seen it yet and are looking for something fun to do this weekend, you should definitely check it out.
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Tagged: al pacino, film critique, godfather, michael corleone, mike martinez, movie review, rise of the lycans, underworld 3, vampires, werewolves
Quality beats quantity every time
February 19, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’d rather have 5 good, real, true friends than 500 fake, shallow, two-faced posers in my life any day of the week. I started growing really aware last summer that some of the people in my life weren’t really my friends, at least real ones. Friends stand up for each other. Friends go to bat for each other. Friends have each others best interest at heart and don’t lie or harbor ill will or jealously. I have tons of people I like to see socially. I see them across the room and they’re totally worth the walk across the room to hug and say hello to. I like to hear good things going on in their life and I appreciate their smiling, friendly disposition. I can even be friendly and civil to people I don’t really know or like, as long as they are friendly and nice back to me. True, genuine, quality friends are so hard to find and so hard to come by. I can count on one hand the number of people I trust and confide in and know they have my best interests in heart and will always look out for me. I’m OK with that. I really am. I’d rather have 5 true, quality friends then 500 who just want to know me because they feel they can get something out of me any day of the week.
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Tagged: friendship, life, love, mike martinez, quality, random, Relationships
