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This would be the blog of one Marshall J. Wise or "Marsh" to my friends -- it's "Marshall" to the company or others who know me not. If you are friend, then 'tis Marsh. Anywho, this be just my thoughts and bloviations on life, reenacting, the world and other thoughtless provoking crap. Yes, I am a reenactor, yes, I own reenactor.Net... Remember: work to live, not live to work.

*(and yes, look up the word bloviate on google)

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Name: Marsh Wise
Location: Chambersburg, Colony of Penna, United States

Hmmm, "about me" huh? It's kind of boring. I'm a truck driver hauling U.S. Mail for a Postal Contractor. Reenacting Lessee, I am into reenacting... WWI, WWII and Roman. Doing the first two, I portray a German (no, I don't care one bit if you're offended), in the last, I do a 1st Century Roman impression. I find the Roman Empire fascinating. r.Net I have owned reenactor.Net (the biggest reenactor website on the planet) since 1998 and am constantly trying to make it better (for that, I really need 37 hour days). One good thing about r.Net is it allows me to meet and know a lot of really great and nice people who's knowledge just leaves me floored. How I think... Do you really care about how I think? I'm kind of a dork... If you read the blog, you'll see how I think (or don't think, if you listen to a lot of people).

Thursday, November 26, 2009

A thought... a profound and important thought.

...I was not angry since I came to France Until this instant.
Take a trumpet, herald; Ride thou unto the horsemen on yond hill;
If they will fight with us, bid them come down
Or void the field; they do offend our sight.
If they'll do neither, we will come to them
And make them skirr away as swift as stones
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings;
Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,
And not a man of them shall we take
That shall taste our mercy.
Go and tell them so.

Henry V, Act IV, scene vii

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Ideations? Again? Now?

Bosun, we shall beat to quarters! Get the stun'sls and t'gallents off her. Prepare to cut across their quarter and rake them as we bear...

Why do I feel so shitty? I just don't know. Money? Not right now. My boat/ No, pretty much caught up and have her squared right now. Work? Nah, it's okay right now... I'm handling things okay...though: it looks like I'm is be de' manager-person again, at least for awhile. Had a good talk w/ the boss man and he asked me if I could help. I replied I could. I shall endeavour to do my best for King and company! :-) Actually, things are going well and people are working together. I DO have good people and they know their jobs--it took some time for things to fall into place when we started here, but working well now. Still, I need some beer. And a couple vicodin would be nice.


Thursday, November 12, 2009

So much BS!

Wow! Our government sure puts out some BS! For that matter, am I alone (I know I'm not) in being tired of Orwellian double-speak coming from this administration and our congress. What lies. America these days is all form and no substance. Okay, there are still some good Americans, but SO MANY of them care only for their latest gadget, their new car, etc. Let's play xbox or watch MTV or the "Hitler Channel" and its History of Ketchup (or whatever blah non-historical crap they're showing).

It's sad. People talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk. I worry for our country. Health care... what a complete load of unwanted shit. Oh, we want health care, we just don't want the government involved and we don't want to pay for it--people here all want something for nothing--the bigger better deal it's called. No one is ever happy w/ what they have and they always have to be better than the Jones.

Why is that?