Hello!  I'm Jim Boyd, and I have a website!

 

Shoot... anyone can have one of those these days.  And those other websites are probably fancier than mine, with their clickable links, photos, animations and all.  But this is my website and you've landed on it.

As have most people, I have a bucket list.  It changes constantly.  From day to day, I don't know how it will change.  So I've decided to date it.

Here's my bucket list.  This is ABSOLUTELY NOT in order of precedence:

 

Saturday, April 7, 2012:

·         Complete that story on 'The Olympic Runner' for my good friend First Sergeant Joe Allen (who has been asking for it for many days now).

 

·         Meet Mel Brooks before one of us croaks.

 

·         Meet Tennessee State Representative Stacey Campfield and his people, because I know the future holds good things for him, and I want to meet him and his people before he becomes really famous.

 

·         Jump out of a perfectly good airplane while in flight. (Done)

 

·         Do something of which I'm not at liberty to discuss at this point at time. (Done)

 

·         Win an award in my field. (Done.  Won a Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.  24th Annual Emmy Awards.  (Thanks for the help, Wojo).)

 

·         Do something to help the maternity ward at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Manila in the Philippines where some 300 new mothers are crammed three to a bed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001422/Busiest-maternity-ward-planet-averages-60-babies-day-mothers-bed.html

 

·         Create a successful business that can support my family and give me the ability to help others in need (working on it).

 

·         Convince my wife to forgive me and love me again, at least as much as I have always loved her. (And to forget the boyfriend she has met since we started our troubles).

 

·         Rebuild our family.

 

·         Hug my daughter again and to be a force in her life.  To be there as she grows.  To let her know that she has a real father who loves and misses her very much.

 

·         Go to Las Vegas and blow a thousand dollars and not have it be a problem in our budget.

 

·         To own a house.

 

·         To pay all my bills and be debt free (ah-la Dave Ramsey).

 

·         Get back into shape (working on it) and legitimately pass the APFT (Army Physical Fitness Test) so that I can be a good example to my fellow Soldiers. (I’ve done it many times before, I can do it again.)

 

·         Finish at least ONE of my novels or screenplays, just to prove that I truly have it in me to write something that is good enough to earn public acclaim.

 

Now, here are some of my favorite quotes:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Hope For The Best, Expect the Worst

Lyrics and music by Mel Brooks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_TKXPPjhRk

(Audio 2:41)

 

Hope for the best, expect the worst,

Some drink champagne, some die of thirst.

No way of knowing which way we're going,

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

 

Hope for the best, expect the worst,

The world's a stage, we're unrehearsed.

Some reach the top, friend, while others flop, friend,

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

 

I knew a man who saved a fortune that was splendid

Then he died the day he planned to go and spend it

Shouting, Live while you're alive!

No one will survive!

Life is sorrow, here today and gone tomorrow

Live while you're alive

No one will survive

There's no guarantee.

 

Hope for the best, expect the worst,

You could be Tolstoy, or Fanny Hurst

So take your chances, there are no answers,

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

 

I knew a man who saved a fortune that was splendid

Then he died the day he planned to go and spend it

Shouting, Live while you're alive!

No one will survive!

Life is funny, drink your wine and spend your money

Live while you're alive

No one will survive

There's no guarantee.

 

Hope for the best, expect the worst,

The rich are blessed, the poor are cursed.

That is a fact, friend. The deck is stacked, friend.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

 

Even with a good beginning

It's not certain that you're winning

Even with the best of chances

Fate can kick you in the pantses

 

Look out for the

Watch out for the

Meet the wonderful Mel Brooks here (it's worth the time):

Part 1 (7:27)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZXjfRXvrTU

Part 2 (6:27)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUdojn8Emx8&feature=relmfu

Mister Brooks, I would like to meet you and have a lunch with you before you (or I) croak.

"Stay hungry. Stay Foolish."

~ Steve Jobs

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

~ Henry David Thoreau