I like when things line up and I can just pick ‘em off like shooting rats in a barn at night with a pellet gun and a flash light. Man does that bring back some memories, but today isn’t about memories, it is about the here and now. Now being shout out Saturday and also Cinco de Mayo so I thought I would just combine the two into one Daily Dose instead of not doubling up and wasting your precious time and mine doing two posts.
As promised in last Saturday’s daily dose I will also be exposing some fellow @thesteemengine people who I am sponsoring into the @steembasicincome program today. I had said I was only going to do two sponsorship a week into that program because everyone knows that I am just a cheap bastard who is here for the money. Well that wasn’t exactly the truth, as I will be sponsoring five folks today, the other part of that is still debatable.
The main reason for sponsoring five from this one group at one time is because all of these folks are equally important to me personally and to the success that @thesteemengine has experienced thus far, so in my mind they all need recognition by me at one time. For those of you who are not familiar with @thesteemengine I have just one question for you, how long have you been living under that rock?
Briefly, yea me and briefly, let me say that @thesteemengine came about because some folks just don’t live up to what they say they will do or what they say they are about and that is a turn off. I’m not going to mention the name of the person who was leading the group that the @thesteemengine founders and myself broke off from to create @thesteemengine. I’ll just leave that as the Unmentionables for this daily dose. I also don’t want to misrepresent anything either, I wasn’t a founder of the group @thesteemengine , I was a charter member though, not sure what my number is but I would have to believe that I was among the first ten members of this fine group of people and talented writers. Why they let me in is truly a mystery that I can’t answer.
Here are my cinco compadres for today’s shout out and @steembasicincome sponsorship:
@ethandsmith , he is the fine young gentleman who discovered me early on here when I first showed up on steemit. He liked my “musings” , whatever the hell those are, but he is a great writer, organizer and young man. So if you are not familiar with Ethan you should get to know him. He is extremely talented in discovering useful tools and apps that can make your steemit and computer using experience more simple and enjoyable. He is the “Rail road baron” of @thesteemengine and we would not exist without the vision and leadership he brings to the group. I owe a lot to this guy, so thank you very much. He also does some great weekly recaps with his podcast, the Steem Engine Express.
@apanamamama is next on the list, she also is one of the main folks in our group and helped in the start up and continued success we are experiencing as our train steems along. She is also special because she is a native of Texas who just happened to flee the country and hide out in the jungles of Panama. Not sure why that is and it is none of your business or mine so don’t ask her, she is a fine person with a big heart, as big as Texas. When we get Texas back as an independent nation I’ll make sure that you are cleared to come back home. In the mean time just keep posting all the home school and home stead stuff, but if I keep pissing off the government here I may be your neighbor soon.
@enchantedspririt is next on my list and she doesn’t get enough credit from us members in my opinion. She is the lead curator for the group which means she has to read all the bull shit I write whether she wants too or not. I like having a captive audience; it gives me time to grow on people, kind of like a persistent fungus. When she has time she writes about astrological things which are interesting, so if you are into the moon, planets, stars and zodiac signs be sure and catch her writings. Thank you for all you do for @thesteemengine with curation and with the @theinbox . The “inbox” is
her own personal undertaking for those of you who don’t know, so if you end up in there be sure and throw a big up vote her way to show her some appreciation, even if you don’t end up in there, throw her a big one anyway. She does the curation work of @thesteemengine out of the goodness of heart; which is huge.
@catweasel is another that has made this list of mine and I’m not quite sure why that is, I haven’t even started on the Modelo’s yet so I can’t use that as an excuse. He claims to be a doctor and I might be inclined to believe that, my guess is that he is a proctologist, because some of his comments he makes to me seem like he has his head up his ass. Just kidding Cw, don’t get your fur in wad. He is a good guy who does his own curation trail called the Magnificent Seven, he claims he has a partner who helps him with it, but they remain nameless. Most all of my imaginary friends have names so if you need some help giving yours a name just hit me up. One thing I have learned from Cw is that he knows words mean things and he has proven it to me on more than one occasion. “Know new taxes” is what former President Bush said during his election campaign, preceded by “Read my lips”, and he promptly delivered on his promise by creating new taxes. Only a wise man or a good lip reader would have picked up on that, so I was left out. How do you read silent letters in lip reading?
@awakentolife is my final selection for this “Cinco de Shout Out Modelo Especial” edition with limes. He is an integral part of the workings of @thesteemengine , he is known in our little group as the “rail road cop”. He makes sure that you keep your ducks in a row when it comes to posting and commenting. He is also a professional basketball player who plays over in Italy. I don’t know that I have ever met a more positive young man in my life and I say that in all honesty. He comes from the war torn country of Croatia and he grew up dodging bombs and bullets, yet he posts the most inspiring motivational things. He is also quite the kook , I mean cook, and he shares plenty of his recipes with us and he isn’t afraid to tell you when he screws up either, like the time he was cooking lunch and fell asleep. That was some burned stuff in that pan, but he didn’t let it go to waste and that should tell you something right there about the kind of guy he is. Also it might tell you that the Italian basketball league players don’t make much money, but I don’t believe that to be the case, he appreciates everything in life, the good and the not so good and he just works to make things better for himself and everyone he comes in contact with.
The thing I despise about lists is that they appear to give some type of order or preference when they are written down and the truth of this list is that any of these folks could have been listed in any spot because they are all equally important to myself and our group. My list just happens to be in chronological order as to when I met them. I can’t stress enough how important these people are to @thesteemengine and myself, if you are reading this and are not familiar with @thesteemengine and these people then please come visit us and get to know the gang. Yes, we have some rules and qualifications, but seriously, they let me in.
I haven’t been given a title in our group, and that is fine with me because I don’t do anything special to contribute, so I might just be a “greedy bastard” or I may just be the hobo riding the rails of the rail road known as @thesteemengine.
If you have been listed by name in this daily dose you are invited to participate in @comedyopenmic challenge number 12 . Also your sponsorship has been paid by me for your @steembasicincome , enjoy.
Feliz de Cinco de Mayo ya’ll.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
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