Was it something I said?

so what work is available out there for me?

Thank Goodness for social media.   What a great way to blow off steam.   Wonderful therapy.  

Keep movin folks.....keep it movin. Nothin to see here.

pretend you see none of this. It is all about to change

Content.

Twitter. G+. Facebook. Youtube.

Mark A Burkenbine.

I have content. 

Money

If you love what you do, if you are any good at it, then you will keep getting better at some skill involved with it, and someone will notice

Money finds talent, skill, passion, endurance and strength....if you have these, you cannot hide from it even if you try.

Money finds those that aren't looking for it. 

breathing as a hobby

If I declare myself as CEO of ME on my taxes , with a mission statement to "be myself", and after these first 46 years, money obviously is allergic to me so I am clearly not going to be making any...after 3 years of no profit at ME inc , being me will be deemed a hobby by the IRS.

I could be on course to be ' a pasttime ' 

Don't mock me. If you click fast enough, this becomes silent web TV.



By the way....I would do Web TV for any network interested. :)


Have a nice day and thank you for your time

Mark Burkenbine

So , who would play the character of 'ME' in this production?

I wouldn't want that job. I would rather direct, so I feel like I have some control over my life. 

I am soooo looking forward to being a productive human being. SOON.( I would settle for FEELING productive.)

Have a good Monday, people.

& thank you for tolerating.

Situational engineering

Coroplast 10 mil....Super Strong, Super light.  Cuts like butter, zip tie it or put bolts in it. Much lighter than plywood.   ...Flawed pictures, but designs should work.    

The Scion XB is a unique car with a lot of possibilities. The problem with sleeping in it, is all your stuff will  have to be moved to the front seat.     The other obvious problem is height.  If you are under 68 inches, you can build the false floor and floor bridge behind the seats and be fairly comfortable. If you are over this height , the answer to these issues may be to build a pop out box.    Build the box to fit through the back , and make a border around the gap in the hatchback doorway. Add a few folding legs for support.  Keep your things in the back of the box, and this will provide plenty of room.   Maybe even a kitchen set up in the back of the box, opening to the outside much like many teardrop campers do.    

The A frame is a portable shed and cabin solution for many. Coroplast is light enough and sturdy enough to provide some shelter from the elements, and privacy.  I see a possible portable cabin that is wheelchair accessible, for those confined to a wheelchair but looking for an opportunity to spend some time in the great outdoors.   The big plus for a wheelchair in this type of A frame would be no lip on the entryway floor, and having a solid floor.

The tent on the roof could be an A frame, or a pop up box.   

Death IS My Kickstarter.

This will be my regular short blog feature and book on how death is making my life start up again.

Good morning.   Hope you all had a wonderful evening.  I would welcome you to my neighborhood, but that is someone else's catchphrase. Besides, not everyone would want a guy that is cheerful about his own death as a neighbor.  

To clear things up, I am not cheerful about dying.  Nor am I trying to cover my feelings of grief with jokes and fake smiles.  

I am genuinely  proud of many decisions lately, and am enjoying life. Not just the good times, I am even enjoying the struggles.  There are always plenty of struggles. 

You see, I have made many bad decisions in my life. Decisions clouded by what I thought was right when I was young, and what someone else expected of me. When you make decisions based on others expectations, it always catches up to you.  If you live life like someone else wants you to, when it goes wrong, it is still all on you.   

I look back to the months before I went to the doctor, and there were many signs of health problems, and I was feeling it.  It showed in my behavior that I felt something was wrong, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Desperation and fear mingled with some pain pulled my strings and made me dance like a puppet. 

When I finally went to the doctor, I quickly found out I did not have a brain tumor. That was my big fear. My mother died at 48 from a sudden bout with brain cancer. I am 46 now, and the thunder in my head was a cause of concern.  As it turns out, my blood pressure was very high.  These things combined can create some anxiety attacks.   

Then the Doc says we need more tests. "You have a thoracic aortic aneurysm. "   

The relief I felt from being told I didn't have a brain tumor did not last very long. 

Joke.    It is Very hard to borrow money when they know you are dying.  If I may borrow a hamburger today, I will gladly repay you on...Nope . Not going to happen.

Next up---Bucket lists. It is nice to do things you always wanted to...you know what is nicer? NOT doing crap  you never wanted to do in the first place

Til next time---Mark Burkenbine

Thanks for your time

Artistic integrity SUCKS!

From the book and blog column  'Death IS My Kickstarter'

You know, trying to write or create something that I find interesting is easy.  Trying to figure out who the audience is to try to make it commercially viable....not so easy.

Trying to let every little kernel of an idea get out there seems like a good idea, but there are obvious faults. Some are awful...some are pretty good.

Ever since I found out the Doc may be cracking open my chest soon, or my aorta  may just explode...I suddenly see things a little differently. 

I now see that I don't get to decide what is any good and what isn't.  I am broke and probably going to die a little sooner than I planned (but doesn't everybody).   So....every idea has to get out there and hopefully there are a few little gems in here somewhere.  Hopefully someone pays me, or pays my wife and kids after I am gone.

If not...eh. Who cares?  If nothing ever works and I embarrass my kids, they can say my mental health was deteriorating.  ( it is not, death is very liberating and greatly increases the ability to enjoy life).

You never know what will be successful.  A guy made a fortune selling pet rocks.    Just let them all go.   One thing is for sure, nobody remembers the guy who never did...

I hope I live a long time and make a crapload of money doing things that I want to do....or I live a long time and enjoy doing things I want to do.     I now realize this is how you are supposed to live your life in the first place.   

Ya all come back now, ya hear

--Mark Burkenbine

The Man Who Tastes Good- Episode 1

The Man who tastes good.
"Everybody wants a bite of me.  I can handle it. Can you?"

My parents first noticed it when I was a kid.  So many bug bites, and so many giant welts....but nobody else was getting bit. You could see the bugs swarming me, even in the dark. You could here their hum, almost like a hive.

There was a fear of catching Malaria  or God knows what else.  I was fine. I could handle it.

I did notice that I was being positioned at the campground to act as a buglight.  And my solitary porch swing was situated at the edge of the porch.   But I'm not bitter.

As I grew older and stronger, I noticed many oddities. The watches and necklaces that rotted against my skin. The watches would stop working.  The radio interference. And of course, the odd reactions to medicines, and the tastes of copper when I counted the pennies.

The bugs were getting bigger....and I started to have odd encounters with crazy eyed women.    At first, I didn't realize the connection, but you learn to put two and two together after awhile.

I am a short, bald, bespectacled,poor ,kinda pudgy individual who was getting more than his share of lovin'.    Of course , with the crazy eyes comes the sideshow of other issues.

It is all simple.

I taste good to certain things that bite.  I taste good.

And I survive...but there are other things out there that want a piece of me.

That is kind of the trick.  

There is an exchange of circumstance. You take a bit of me, I take a bit more of you.

The Man who tastes good, Episode 1-Introduction

Mark Burkenbine
Copyright 2014

All Things Burkenbine Introduction

Obviously I need to find work