Alan Hood

In my promise to give more of myself to this website I would like to share with everyone a song that I think is incredible.  Before you hit the play button on the video see if you can guess who the artist is just by reading the lyrics.  I am betting that very few people will be able to guess just based on reading the lyrics.

Gazing through the window at the world outside
Wondering will mother earth survive
Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her, sometime

After all there’s only just the two of us
And here we are still fighting for our lives
Watching all of history repeat itself, time after time

I’m just a dreamer
I dream my life away
I’m just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days

I watch the sun go down like everyone of us
I’m hoping that the dawn will bring good signs
A better place for those who will come after us, this time

I’m just a dreamer
I dream my life away, oh yeah
I’m just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days

Your higher power may be God or Jesus Christ
It doesn’t really matter much to me
Without each others help there ain’t no hope for us
I’m living in a dream of fantasy, oh yeah yeah yeah

If only we could all just find serenity
It would be nice if we could live as one
When will all this anger hate and bigotry be done

I’m just a dreamer
I dream my life away, today
I’m just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days, oh yeah

I’m just a dreamer
Who’s searching for the way, today
I’m just a dreamer
Dreaming my life away, oh yeah yeah yeah

I know that a lot of people are going to be upset by this however I am going to say it anyway.  And PETA you can go pee up a rope for all I care so keep your comment to yourself.  Michael Vick was wrong to participate in gambling and the brutal way that he participated in the killing of those dogs was inexcusable.  Pit bulls who are bred to fight and do not perform need to be killed.  No if ands or buts about it.  These dogs will never make good pets for anyone and are a potentially deadly hazard to anyone they come into contact with, so they needed to be put down.  Again the way it was handled was wrong, but the act itself was not the wrong thing to do.

We are a society that uses animals for our own entertainment on a continual basis, and fighting dogs is really not any worse than a rodeo, greyhound park, or horse race.  If you think I am wrong then you obviously have no clue as to the way the animals at any of those venues are treated.  Most likely you do know but you choose to turn a blind eye and continue to place your bets. 

Cock fighting is illegal but it’s okay to buy veal.  WTF you have got to be kidding me, it’s okay to practically starve a calf to death then slaughter it when it is only 1 year old or younger but you can’t let chickens fight.  This country we live in is absurd.  Torturing cows is just fine because some people like to eat fresh young tender calf meat, which by the way is laden with antibiotics and steroids, but I cant let a couple of dumb ass chickens fight to the death and eat the loser?  I have a hard time understanding the logic of the people who decided that one is okay but the other is wrong.  Wait maybe the cattle industry has better lobbyists than the cock fighters do, so they are able to come up with more bribe money, err I mean campaign contributions, making their cruelty okay. 

I love my dogs and if anybody tried to kick one of them I wouldn’t think twice about filling them full of birdshot.  My dogs were not bred for fighting, and dogs that are, have no place in this country.  If you want to stop people from fighting dogs then you need to outlaw all of the dog breeds that are raised for that purpose.  Don’t make Michael Vick out to be some kind of demon when he is only doing what other people do in this country legally every day.  I am sure that some incredibly brilliant person is going to say that the cleanup has to start somewhere and it might as well be with him, but you are wrong.  The cleanup needs to start with the industries that as of right now are legal in this country, like dog racing, horse racing, and rodeo.  Or better yet realize that chickens and pitbulls are really just the same animal as greyhounds, bulls, and horses, and the cruelty of fighting them is no worse than the cruelty that we overlook every day of our lives.

I have loved the internet since I first started playing with it 12 years ago, but I have always struggled to find the right place for me to set up camp.  I love building websites but I find the task of marketing them to be very tedious.  I have decided to continue to build sites and just ad content to them and let the chips fall where they may.  Well not exactly true I will still continue to market them on a very small scale, but mostly I am going to concentrate on the content of the sites, and hope that the content will be enough to make them long term sustainable businesses.  I feel like I have some pretty incredible ideas and websites, but they all lack good quality content, so that’s what I am going to concentrate on. 

The best time of year is coming up so I am making a commitment to share more about myself here on this blog and let everyone know what I am interested in.  Not in this post but I pledge to have future post about my awesome Dallas Cowboys the NFL of course Michael Vick and the show I love Survivor.

It occurs to me that I may be the least productive person on the face of the earth. Every time I sit down at my desk to work I end up fiddling with my sites or surfing other peoples site for so long that I barely get any work done at all. I know it is important to make the site look the best they can and to fix all of the little bugs, but what they really need at this point is just more content. This post is an effort to fill the need of more content by actually doing some writing instead of surfing. Wow, see how quickly you can write 100 words about not writing, pretty crazy huh. I have this problem with one of the tools in Microsoft Word called word count, every time I stop for just a second I click on the word count to see how far along I’ve gotten and usually it only takes me about 100 words to get to a stopping point.

My daughter just purchased a website and started her own photo gallery. Last year after she got her first cell phone she started taking pictures like crazy and needed a place to store them all so she decided she would put them on the world wide web for everyone to look at. Her site is www.taysphotos.com and she has done a great job of putting descriptions on all of the pictures so that she will be able to find the pictures she is looking for in years to come. As a father it makes me well up with tears when I see the baby pictures, because I know that those days are over and we can never get them back. And of course when Lisa found out about Tayler’s site she had to have one of her own. Which can be see here www.hoodigans.com

Another little piece of good news I sold globosys.com for 300.00 which always makes me happy. I truly love to sell things, cars, and domain names; really it doesn’t matter, if I sell it for a profit it makes me happy. Buying things makes me happy also, but not as much as selling them. When I buy cars the best part of the transaction is when the car leaves my possession. I have to admit though the key to selling cars is all in the buying, you have to buy them right to make money, so it can be fun to barter on the purchase.

Hoodala, yea I know it’s a pretty funny name. It came from my login at work; everyone at work uses the first four letters of their last name and the first three letters of their first name. Well mine is hoodala and when some friends noticed it the all started calling me hoodala. I know who cares, well it stuck enough for me to register this domain name and start this little web site. I figured since i have some other websites for business purposes I would use this one just for me.

If you are reading this then you are one of the very few, because I don’t advertise or link to this site in any way. If you do see it please send me an email admin @ hoodala.com and tell me how you stumbled upon the site I would love to hear it. If you have a blog or a website submit it to my links section and I will gladly add your link to the list.

Alrighty then if you care to look around further I will mostly be talking about life liberty and the things that piss me off. Work related junk, and web related items will be the norm here, because that is what I like. I love the internet and couldn’t live without it, and wonder how mankind survived the first million years without internet access; god life must have sucked before the internet came along.

I guess the difference is that I do want to work; I just don’t want to go to work. I want to work on my websites all day and not have to report to an idiot. Still just dreaming for now. Mark my words 1 year and this will be my full time job.

BANG ON THE DRUM

Todd Rundgren

I Don’t Want To Work

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
I Don’t Want To Play

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day

Ever since I was a tiny boy
I don’t want no candy
I don’t need no toy
I took a stick and an old coffee can
I bang on that thing ’til I got

Blisters on my hand because

CHORUS

I Don’t Want To Work

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
I Don’t Want To Play

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day

When I get older they think I’m a fool
The teacher told me I should stay after school
She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands
But my licks was so hot
I made the teacher wanna dance
And that’s why

CHORUS

I Don’t Want To Work

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
I Don’t Want To Play

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day

BREAK

CHORUS
I Don’t Want To Work

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
I Don’t Want To Play

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day

Listen to this
Every day when I get home from work
I feel so frustrated
The boss is a jerk
And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And I pound on that drum like it was the boss’s head
Because

CHORUS 4X

I Don’t Want To Work

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
I Don’t Want To Play

I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day

Not dreams more like nightmares, this it the time of year when the weather in Phoenix is just so nasty it is hard to believe that humans intentionally inhabit this godforsaken land. Imagine living inside of an easy bake oven and that’s what it would feel like to be in Phoenix during the summer months. Well maybe more like an easy bake oven with a humidifier pumping into hot wet air into it. It is really funny that when I moved here from Albuquerque the motto that you see everywhere here is “but it’s a dry heat”. There is nothing dry about this place in the summer. Don’t believe the hype it is nasty humid here. Albuquerque is dry, this place has irrigation, swimming pools, and golf courses everywhere and the humidity is out of control. Maybe it’s not like living in Miami or Houston but I think it is probably worse because it is humid and 118 degrees yes you heard me right 118 degrees. The heat and humidity here during the summer are making his place less and less attractive every day. I know it will turn nice at the end of September but for the next 2-1/2 months this place is like living at the edge of hell. If you are brave enough to visit our fine city in July or August the do yourself a favor and leave your cloths at home, they will only get soaked with sweat the second you go outside here. Plus we need a few more naked people running around, you can never have too many of those.

Hello everyone my name is Alan Hood I am 39 years young and live in beautiful Mesa AZ, with my wife and two daughters. I have lived in Oklahoma and New Mexico but love Arizona and don’t plan to leave any time soon.

I have worked most of my life in a professional sales environment and currently for Verizon Wireless in the Chandler customer service department. I am also a licensed home inspector in the state of Arizona and a licensed insurance agent.

My hobbies are mostly geared towards family involved activities, however my girls don’t like professional and college football the way I do so some Saturdays and Sundays are spent doing man things. Mostly you can find me and my family exploring Arizona or riding the rides and looking at the fish in California. Escaping the summer heat is one activity that everyone in lower Arizona enjoys.