Have you ever met someone that just doesn’t have a clue on reality? You see this person act in a certain way and wonder just what the heck is this person thinking. After awhile you just chalk it up to experience but if this person constantly comes back at you over and over again with more surprising remarks or comments you would finally come to the explanation that this person is getting fed the wrong information or is just a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. I try to give everyone a chance, but man oh man this person just worries me with what comes out of their mouth. Every time he pulls his foot out of his mouth he just sticks it in again, and again. Of course who am I referring to? Why our fearless leader George W. Bush the President of the United States of America.

Yes I know, I have talked at length about the President and his “faults” but it’s almost a daily act that Mr. Bush comes out with his talking out of his ass policy. I could dedicate a whole website to it, but I have better things to do with my life. (Like breathing, eating, sleeping, etc.) But this past week he has come out publicly stated that he would back a constitutional amendment that would make the only recognized marriage in our country one between a man and a woman. Talk about kissing up to his constituents, doesn’t he have a lot more pressing issues (Iraq, Haiti, The Sudan, the American Economy, mad cow disease or foot fungus) then to attack a persons sexuality and if they can be joined with the person they love? The last time the US government made a constitutional amendment to limit our freedom was in the 1920’s limiting the selling of alcohol, a little thing that was called prohibition, and we say how that turned out. Hmmm might give a new meaning to the Gay 00’s

Contrary to what you hear on most right wing talk shows or on a lot of evening news, most people don’t have an issue with “Gay” marriage, just a vocal few right wingers who misinterpret the bible to their own views. I’m so tired of them sending up the wrong message and if I hear one more time “The bible says Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” I will just scream. Not to generalize or such but it’s mostly the Christian religion that has issue with “Gay” marriage (and to my open minded Christian friends sorry like I said I’m not generalizing), a lot of other denominations are a lot more tolerant. I was listening to radio the other day and this woman called in telling the radio host that she was against “Gay” marriage because she wanted to protect her children from it. Ummm excuse me? If a homosexual couple wanted to marry they aren’t going to kidnap your children and make them convert to finish the marriage ritual. The thing is these are the same people that until 50 years ago thought the world was going to go to hell because Blacks and Whites were going to be going to the same schools or god forbid even marry, (yes folks in some parts of the country until the 1950’s it was illegal for an interracial marriage to take place). God, close minded people irritate me.

Don’t even get me started on these people on their views on Jews and Jesus, that’s a whole different subject that I’m not even going to get into. And to answer a few questions I have gotten from e-mails, no I am not going to see the new movie “The Passion of the Christ” at the theater, I will wait till video to watch it in the privacy of my own home, and be able to decide on my own what I think of it. Currently I’m neutral on the film; I will go into it open minded when I get to see it. But I have quite a few other films to see before I watch this one. Let people get out of it what they think, just remember folks; it’s still only a movie.

Ok, onto a little more fun stuff. This past weekend I took William to a toy store that has special events once a month or so. So this weekend they had a magic show for kids. Normally I would think man, how dull for an adult, but the magician Tommy Johns was great, he had both the kids and the parents entertained for a full hour. One of the great things about the show was that the magician brought up various kids to be his assistant for different tricks. And of course you guessed it, he called on William to be the bravest kid in the audience to help him with his final magic crick of the afternoon. It was so cool watching William get up there and be the perfect “brave assistant” for the dreaded pin through the balloon trick. Then for being an extra great assistant William got a very cool balloon hat, sword and sword belt made completely from balloons. William couldn’t stop talking about it the whole way home, I guess he had fun. Here are a couple pictures from the show.

Oh and if you ever want to hire a great magician for a party or corporate event take a peek at Tommy John’s web site, tell him the game at Fabersplace sent you.

Alright I know this was kind of longwinded but hey it’s being boiling inside for a bit. Have fun and remember to always look at the bright side of life.

Peace

Mike

P.S. Our buddy Odd Todd is sponsoring an Academy Awards Contest, it only costs a dollar to play and you can win a ski trip to Canada for two. Take a peek it’s worth it.

Yesterday I went to my accountant’s house to get my taxes done, (the one joy of being self employed, you can almost write off anything within reason as a tax write-off, and since most everything you do is tied into trying to get business for your company). Yesterday was one of those days when you knew that springtime was not far away and the weather was just beautiful (sunny and in the high 60’s), so I decided to drive around with my sun roof open to enjoy the day.

When I got to my accountant’s house I decided to leave the roof open since I felt the area was safe, and I was only going to be working there for about an hour or so. I had noticed a few stray cats wandering around the neighborhood, but didn’t think much of it, and went into the office.

After an hour or so of going over my financial wellbeing of 2003, and feeling quite satisfied with everything that was discussed. I decided to head towards home and grab some dinner. I turned the corner towards my car to see it completely surrounded by a almost a dozen cats or so. Of course with me walking towards the car, the cats scattered in every direction. I had noticed that a few of them had jumped off the roof of the car, and thought to myself, wouldn’t it of been funny if a few of them had fallen through the sun roof.

Wouldn’t you know it, As soon as I walked up to the car there was a black and gray cat sitting in the back window sunning itself? I had to chuckle and though, ha, gotcha. But thought better of it and opened the door to let it out. After a little scurrying back and forth between the front and the back the cat found the door and was free to wander the neighborhood again.

So I checked the car to look for any damage and found none (other then cat smell) and got on my way. I started driving and all of a sudden I felt something rub against my leg. Of course in shock I slammed on my breaks (thank god I was in a residential neighborhood) looked down at my feet and saw a beige and black cat looking back up at me. For almost half a second I thought about taking the cat home with me, but then I got back to reality and turned the car around and dropped the cat off back at the end of my accountant’s driveway.

After I let the cat out of the car, it turned back at me once and then strolled up the driveway and into the bushes to go join its friends. I then proceeded to thoroughly search through the car to see if I had any more hidden felines. I’m glad to report no more were found and no damage was reported (I did have to drive half the way home with the windows open to get the cat smell out of my car).

Hope you all have a great weekend

Peace

Mike

After being thrown into a strange vortex that has crippled our engines, almost beyond repair. We find ourselves somehow brought back to a time period resembling 21st century Earth. According to our long range sensors we find that in fact we have arrived back to Earth, early in the year 2004 in the month of what they used to call February on their calanders.

Our Science Officer has reported that this period is a very vital period in human history, in which mankind was almost at the brink of total collapse. Where society was constantly warring between the social classes and all the various governments were puppets to shadowy global corporations.

At this period of time the planet itself is being raped and pillaged of its natural resources to produce fuels and products, the natives of this era have yet to embrace a more eco-safe technology based on solar power and various earth friendly material because of lack of profit for those corporations.

Many diseases of the time which have been plaguing most of humanity could have been wiped from the face of existance if not for the lack of profit to giant pharmaceutical companies.

Each sector of this planet is still split into Nation-states purely focusing on its own selfish profit. The more powerful of these regions look at the weaker one’s as little children. Instead of bringing their levels up to modern levels these corporations are using the smaller countries impoverished economies for all their non technical employment so these global corporations can make larger profits. According to our records this plan will eventually backfire and these smaller countries will pull the larger ones into a global recession, which will eventually lead to a global revolution after the splits between the classes become too apparent.

Most of this era’s history is taught in our schools as the black age of humanity, an era that could be shown as humanity at its lowest point. In this period a few people in power could have helped fix all the woes of the planet if they weren’t thinking out of total greed. They had to wait until they were faced with the total extinction of humanity to change their ways.

My recommendation is for us not to make contact with the natives of Earth of this era, and for engineering to make the necessary repairs to our ship and return to our own era at most haste.

More Reports as they come ..

Captain Thomas P. Wrarrens reporting

Well here we are the day before one of the most wasteful and annoying “holidays” of all. A holiday so vile and evil, that many are blinded to how wicked this day really is. What day am I referring to, why Valentines Day of course? Before you get all defensive and start calling me an insensitive boob once again let me lay out a few facts that might bring you to my way of thinking.

First off let’s look at the background of this “Holiday”. Oh wait before a 150 years ago there was no Valentines Day before then. Do you remember from Sunday school a St. Valentine in the bible? (Old or New Testaments) This is another prefabricated financial holidays created by retail businesses to have the general public spend a lot of money (fathers day and mothers day are another two) and help boost there profit margins of large corporations. A holiday so vile and crass they named a massacre after it.

I was listening to the radio on the way into work today and they had a variety of female callers, telling the DJ’s that if their significant others didn’t spend a certain amount on them, they would feel under appreciated. WHAT!!!?!?! This was just proving a point to me, about how frivolous and shallow society has become that some people’s relationships would be coming down to one day, and if they didn’t receive a certain “gift” boom their relationship was doomed. OY.

Now don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to be cheap or ignorant here, I do have a point, and I’m about to finally get to it. Why can’t everyday be a “Valentines Day” for you and your partner / mate? Why do you just need one day to show them that they are appreciated? Shouldn’t everyday be used for that? Why not buy your “Girlfriend” a dozen roses just for the hell of it on April 5th. Why not take her / him for a romantic dinner on July 28th? How about writing him / her a love poem on November 14th? Why dose everything have to be rolled onto one day? Easy, so the retail stores can make a big profit in mid-February to make up for a weak X-mas season profit.

You know, sometimes I think the Jehovah’s Witnesses might have the right idea of every day should be celebrated with your loved one’s not just on special days.

Ok I have said enough for a now, I’m sure it won’t be the last time. I’m off to go mail a card to William (ok so I’m a hypocrite, but I’m also a Dad of a 4 year old who loves just to get mail). Like Stephen Stills said it many years ago "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with."

Have a great weekend

Peace

Mike

Well here we are the day before one of the most wasteful and annoying “holidays” of all. A holiday so vile and evil, that many are blinded to how wicked this day really is. What day am I referring to, why Valentines Day of course? Before you get all defensive and start calling me an insensitive boob once again let me lay out a few facts that might bring you to my way of thinking.

First off let’s look at the background of this “Holiday”. Oh wait before a 150 years ago there was no Valentines Day before then. Do you remember from Sunday school a St. Valentine in the bible? (Old or New Testaments) This is another prefabricated financial holidays created by retail businesses to have the general public spend a lot of money (fathers day and mothers day are another two) and help boost there profit margins of large corporations. A holiday so vile and crass they named a massacre after it.

I was listening to the radio on the way into work today and they had a variety of female callers, telling the DJ’s that if their significant others didn’t spend a certain amount on them, they would feel under appreciated. WHAT!!!?!?! This was just proving a point to me, about how frivolous and shallow society has become that some people’s relationships would be coming down to one day, and if they didn’t receive a certain “gift” boom their relationship was doomed. OY.

Now don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to be cheap or ignorant here, I do have a point, and I’m about to finally get to it. Why can’t everyday be a “Valentines Day” for you and your partner / mate? Why do you just need one day to show them that they are appreciated? Shouldn’t everyday be used for that? Why not buy your “Girlfriend” a dozen roses just for the hell of it on April 5th. Why not take her / him for a romantic dinner on July 28th? How about writing him / her a love poem on November 14th? Why dose everything have to be rolled onto one day? Easy, so the retail stores can make a big profit in mid-February to make up for a weak X-mas season profit.

You know, sometimes I think the Jehovah’s Witnesses might have the right idea of every day should be celebrated with your loved one’s not just on special days.

Ok I have said enough for a now, I’m sure it won’t be the last time. I’m off to go mail a card to William (ok so I’m a hypocrite, but I’m also a Dad of a 4 year old who loves just to get mail). Like Stephen Stills said it many years ago "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one your with."

Have a great weekend

Peace

Mike

February 8th

Here’s a few things I have found interesting with having my own website that I have been meaning to talk about for a few weeks now. First off, let’s talk about SPAM. At first SPAM was never really an issue for me. Just a few a day, no big deal, just would usually delete them and boom get on with my e-mailing. But in the last six months I have bombarded with at least 100 junk e-mails a day. Most pertaining to how to increase the length of my member, or how to satisfying my better half. Gee thanks folks, but I have never ever got a complaint about either of those subjects. Another favorite is for pharmacy free prescriptions, offshore gambling, fixing my credit legally without claiming bankruptcy or how a very beautiful woman or one of her friends is ready to meet me in the former Soviet Republics (OY). Or since I have a web related business, how I could easily save hundreds or thousands of dollars on projects by hiring some unknown company in India or Russia to do all my web development (sometimes that would be nice to outsource my work, but one has to be really busy to be doing that, and sad to say things are a bit slow on that front right now, but it should change, it always dose). So anyhow the worst kind of SPAM of course is getting bombarded by e-mails claiming to be from your friends, and it ends up being some virus or some telemarketer making a claim, and doing it all the while by ghosting off of your friends e-mail address. It really sucks if I go away for a weekend or go on vacation for a week or so I can have my server filled with over six or seven hundred junk mails. It's such a frippen waste of time, and effort just to deleate, and have even deleated important stuff thinking that it was Junk. Arrrgg what a frippen waste of effort. I have contacted my ISP and even my site host, and they just claim they are doing all they can. Any suggestions would be really helpful. Thanks

A quick shout out to a new Michael Faber, counterpart, This makes about 9 Michael’s that I have met though the website, this Michael Faber is in the Midwest, and thinks that possibly we might be related to each other down the line. Have gotten that one a few times from past Michael Faber’s, I think the closest one that I might have been actually related to was the Michael Faber in Savannah, GA. I actually never met the man himself, but a few of the waitresses at the diner that he owned said there was a strong family resemblance. (Looked more like the son then Michael himself, hmmm). Keep those e-mails coming in. I’m hearing about more and more readers to the site all the time. I actually got a great reaction to the story I told about Cheryl and the Ski trip. It’s always nice to know that people are actually reading the site.

Also I'm trying to get in touch with a few people from my past, If anyone knows these following people, please send them to the webiste for them to get in touch with me. I just want to say Hi and touch base.

• Eric Rassmussen - Last known area was in Northern Virginia
• Dale Rawlings - Last known area was in Gaithersburg, MD
• Joe Ferraro - Last known area was in the Baltimore area
• Brian Kruise - Last known area was in the Baltimore area
• Howie Green - Last known area was in the New York City area
• My Sanity - Last known, who knows last seen running and screaming down a dark alley in downtown Seattle many many years ago.

Anyway I’m bushed from Hurricane William, (two fun filled days of non-stop action as always with my favorite four year old, including William paining his bedroom wall, and his dad, pictures to come).

Hope you had a great weekend; I’ll have more to talk about tomrrow.

Peace

Mike

Well here we are 24 hours since the end of the Super Bowl, and you know looking back at the game, it was one of the more memorable one’s to have watched in some time. First off let me say I’m not even going to talk about the Janet Jackson incident during the half time show, other then that if anyone who believes that it wasn’t planned has another thing coming to them. Geeze how slow do they really think we are. Please!!! Give me a break. It was such a planned publicity stunt from the start. She’s just jealous of all the publicity that her brother Michael has been getting and it’s been quite some time since she made any kind of decent record anyway, so why not get something that will get everyone talking about her for a bit.

Heck, no one is really talking about one of the best played Super Bowls in quite some time. Yes it did start really slow, but towards the second quarter of the game, both sides seemed to get over their big game gitters and started to play. Congratulations to the New England Patriots on their win, and hey my prediction almost came true with a come from behind win by Carolina. Oh well, now I know why I’m a web designer / artist / writer / ecclectic human being and all around fun guy, and not a sports bookie.

Ok onto more things of interest and the other reason we watch the big game of course were the TV commercial. I have been watching the Super Bowl for as long as I can remember, and this years crop of commercials were kind of a let down. There were a few really great ones, but overall it I felt kind of like, “That was it? When are the good ones coming?”

Alright, now with that said here’s my top 5 commercials from Super Bowl XXXVIII (remember, these are my choices, you might have your own, and if you want to post your choices, get your own website, JUST KIDDING).

5. Pepsi / Apple Computer – Free Music Download Giveaway – A joint marketing ploy using the Teenagers who got busted by the music industry for illegal music downloads to help hock Pepsi soda while the song “I fought the law” was playing in the background.

4. H & R Block – The Willy Nelson Talking Doll – Everyday people asking their own personal Willy Nelson for advice on how to spend their money. Just makes you think about how some people start their day by getting advice from a magic eight ball (you know who you are).

3. Linux – Muhammad Ali – Shake Up the World – A kid watching TV and viewing old footage of Muhammad Ali boxing, then the TV transforms into the current day Ali sitting across from the youngster, telling him to make a difference and not be part of the norm.

2. Chevrolet – Chevy Trucks - A commercial showing kids with bars of soap coming out of their mouths, as they go from child to child showing them, you wonder what could of caused this then they show a new Chevy Truck with the roof folding back, and a young boy going Holy S__t, and him ending up with a bar of soap of his own.

And my number 1 pick was

Pepsi – Thirsty Grizzlies – Two Grizzlies break into a cabin and start going through the refrigerator foraging for food, when they find their isn’t anything to drink. The next scene you see one of the dressed as a mountain man and writing a check for a six pack of Pepsi. The shop owner asks for ID and the bear gives him the cabin owner’s driver’s license. The shop owner compares the ID to the bear and lets him take the soda. (Guess you had to see it).

Hmmm now that I’m writing about it, I think a better commercial comes to mind as the number 1 pick

Budwiser – Clydesdale Donkey – The name says it all, showing that any dream no matter how funny or ridiculous can come true.

Honorable mentions to: Pepsi - Young Jimmy Hendrix, Fed Ex - Alien, Lays Potato Chips - Old Folks fighting for a bag of chips (hmmm with the cuts in Medicare and Social Securities, you might be seeing that in real life).

Ok that’s it for tonight, I’ll talk to you all soon

I’m off to see the a man about a horse

Peace

Mike

P.S. Here’s a pretty funny joke I was sent the other day:

A small boy was lost at a large shopping mall.
He approached a uniformed policeman and said, "I've lost my grandpa!"
The cop asked, "What's he like?"
The little boy replied,
"Jack Daniels and women with big boobs."