"They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." - Bil Keane
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Today's Quote 9-2-10
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Today's Quote 8-29-10
"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Monday, August 23, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Today's Quote 8-22-10
"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again." - Alex Tan
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Today's Quote 8-21-2010
"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future." - Ronald Reagan
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Friday, August 20, 2010
Today's Quote
"Don't walk in front of me. I may not follow. Don't walk behind me. I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Today's Quote
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Today's Quote 8-18-10
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tennessee Williams
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Today's Quote
"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." - Anthony Robbins
Jose Aviles
http://www.avigifts.com
http://www.avicast.blogspot.com
http://www.jose-aviles.blogspot.com
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Today's Quote 8-15-2010
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine
http://www.avigifts.com
Jose Aviles
Saturday, July 10, 2010
MY FATHER, MY DAD Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles
Today I visited the grave site of Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles AKA My Father. I found out this past Friday July 9, 2010 that on June 8, 2009 My Father passed away in a Veteran Affairs Hospital in Bronx, New York. I haven't seen and/or heard from my Dad since 2001. What makes me feel worse than anything is that in April of 2007 I moved to New York and lived less than 30 miles away from the Hospital where he spent the last minutes of his life. I feel so bad, I feel terrible and now I wonder (think)"Did I do everything in my power to find him?", "Did I exhaust all means to find him?". Those questions are going to be with me forever and I just don't have an answer to them and probably never will have one. Thanks to my awesome Wife I was able to track him down to an address in the Bronx and when I thought that I would find him I got the phone call from the Hospital to answer my questions and later told that he was gone. When I heard that it felt as if the ground was pulled from under my feet, then and only then I realized that the last time I heard his voice telling me that he witnessed the September 11 attacks in New York City was the last time that I heard his voice, that the week he spent with me in late 2000 or early 2001 was the last time that I would see him and now I would give anything to see him again. He was alone when he passed away and was buried with Military honors and a Chaplain and I wasn't there to pay him my respects. He was hardly around when I was growing up but no matter what, he was MY FATHER, MY DAD and I wish I would've seen him again. Today when I saw his name engraved in the headstone I realized that it was true that he was gone (until then I was kind of in denial). No matter what happened through our lives when I was growing up, nothing matters as far as why you wasn't around, what matters to me is that you are gone and will never forgive myself for not finding you earlier, for not doing whatever it took to find you, but above all you were and will always be MY DAD. DAD I LOVE YOU and I MISS YOU.
V/R,
Jose A. Aviles
SSG, US Army
LOVE YOU ALWAYS
Jose Aviles
Sunday, July 04, 2010
Good 4th of July
Well,
Today was a good 4th of July. Didn't do much during the day but in the afternoon my wife and I went to do a little shopping and came back home. I made myself a snow cone with Blueberry syrup and played the Nintendo Wii while my wife watched her favorite TV series on DVD (Charmed). After playing th Wii for a little while my wife and I went to eat at Olive Garden. We came back home and same routine, play Wii and watch "Charmed" (makes me feel like Charmed is more important than me). Now we are laying in the bed watching Charmed while our Puppy Precious is bothering us and walking all over the bed. Precious is bad (in a good, funny sort of way) but fun at the same time. I guess it's until tomorrow.
PS.
Precious won't be still on the bed, maybe it's time for her to go to her own bed.
Jose Aviles
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Life!!
Well here we are and nothing has changed!!! Why is that? Why is life so difficult? Why is life so complicated? Why is life......life??? I certainly don't know, I would love to know so the quest continues. It is late, real late and here I am thinking about life, thinking if I am the problem, if I am the cause of my own pain. Most of it is self-inflicted pain and some of it is not. What would have happened if nothing happened long time ago? Would I still in the same predicament? Would I still be going through the same? Who knows? All I know is that I want what I had before, I want it and I won't stop until I get it back.
Jose Aviles
Sphere: Related ContentWednesday, June 23, 2010
GEN McChrystal scoop goes viral before Rolling Stone publishes
On Tuesday morning, Rolling Stone's explosive profile of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal dominated the news cycle. McChrystal's dismissive remarks about President Obama and some senior White House figures are still leading the New York Times and Washington Post websites — and buzzing around Twitter and the blogosphere — at this writing. Politico even published the entire article online. But for many hours, one place you couldn't read about the Rolling Stone piece was on Rolling Stone's own website.
Magazine spokesman Mark Neschis told Yahoo! News that Rolling Stone generally does not put entire national affairs stories online, instead running them only in the print magazine. (One recent exception was Tim Dickinson's investigative piece this month on the BP oil spill.)
While a magazine understandably wants to reap the financial benefits of having a major, deeply reported story only available on the newsstand, the idea of holding breaking news for print doesn't easily mesh with the demands of the 24/7 online news cycle. Not to mention, with McChrystal summoned to the White House to discuss his comments made in front of reporter Michael Hastings, the public is going to want to know what he actually said.
Still, it's not as if Rolling Stone didn't want to generate buzz, as Neschis explained: "I gave an advancer to the AP."
The Associated Press got things going Monday afternoon, in a short piece about McChrystal's frustration with U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, but didn't go into all the gory details that would later surface.
NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell quickly tweeted: "Rolling Stone quotes Gen McChrystal says Amb(ret Gen) Eikenberry 'betrayed' him with leaked memo last yr doubting Karzai story is out fri."
Clearly, competitors can't wait until Friday to pick up a copy, especially when McChrystal has already been summoned to the White House. Neschis said that other news organizations requested a copy, and published more details from the magazine article. However, Neschis said that he did not provide a copy to Politico or to Time magazine's political writer Mark Halperin — but both published the entire story Tuesday.
Still, with the story published on Politico and elsewhere, the genie was out of the bottle. MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski read straight from the text of the article while Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates sat at the table for an interview. (Rolling Stone itself took a few more hours after the MSNBC broadcast to break down and post the piece on its own site.)
Bates, in the "Morning Joe" interview, said that the magazine had fact-checked the piece over the previous week and that there were no objections from McChrystal before publication. Considering that McChrystal has already apologized, presumably he won't later claim he was quoted out of context.
As to how Hastings got such caustic remarks out of McChrystal, Bates explained that Hastings got "really unprecedented access" with the general and his staff.
"We reported this story over the course of several months," Bates said. "We were with him on a trip in Europe that wound up getting extended because of the volcano in Iceland. So our reporter was kind of trapped with him for about two weeks in Paris and traveling from Paris to Berlin. They couldn't fly, so they had to take a bus. So we really spent a lot of time with him and really got to look behind the curtain, and hear how he and his men, top men, talk among themselves on their own."
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Lee DeWyze is new `American Idol'
LOS ANGELES – The new "American Idol" is Lee DeWyze, a paint store clerk who overcame his shyness and prevailed over soulful Crystal Bowersox in the singing contest's ninth season.
Host Ryan Seacrest said on Wednesday's finale that the 24-year-old DeWyze of Mount Prospect, Ill., edged Bowersox, also 24, of Toledo, Ohio, in viewer votes cast after Tuesday's performance show.
Although Bowersox drew higher marks from the judges for her performance this week, the panel had reaffirmed its respect for DeWyze's talent and his character — and the audience agreed. He'll release a single, "Beautiful Day."
Wednesday's finale also marked the departure of judge Simon Cowell, walking down memory lane through film clips, a parody song by Dane Clark and the return of ex-judge Paula Abdul.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
What can I do?
Well what can I do? It doesn't matter what I do it always seems that I'm doing it wrong. Just when I think that I'm doing good, in just 5 minutes I messed everything up. Damn if I do, damn if I don't. I just know that I have done everything in my power to do everything that I thought I was supposed to do. I LOVE her with everything I've got to offer and it just seems that is not good enough. I will never be able to be the Man that I'm supposed to be, I have tried to do everything that I can to shoe that I have changed and that I am willing to do anything to make it work. What can I do? What can I say? It is a loose-loose situation for me.
Jose Aviles
Friday, April 09, 2010
What a life!!!
It is amazing how much we have to suffer in this life. One think that is doing the right thing and apparently one is not. Going above and beyond of what one think is expected it is not enough. What is easier? What is one to do? What can be done? Nobody really knows the answer, no one is perfect, no one and what makes it harder is LIFE. If both individuals are pulling the same direction there is no problems, but if they are pulling opposite directions that's where complications start. How do you fix it? How do you make it better? How can everyone get alone? That is the mystery........... That's the unknown.
Jose A. Aviles
Sphere: Related ContentWednesday, March 24, 2010
My 3rd Anniversary
Today is my 3rd Wedding Anniversary with my AWESOME wife. She means the world to me, she is everything in my life. I know she has my back and will always have my back. She is my friend, my confidant, my lover, she is everything that a man would want in it's life. Today marks the 3rd year from the day that we said "I DO" and will continue to "DO" forever. Sometimes I might act like I take her for granted but I don't, I know I have the best of the best and I try to cherish her every time I get a chance. I love to spoil her and I will continue to do just that because she deserves that and more. She deserves the best and one day I know that I will give her the world or I'll die trying.
Love You
V/R,
Mr. Jose A. Aviles
Sphere: Related ContentMonday, March 22, 2010
Health Care Bill
What is going to happen with this new health care bill? Nobody knows what's going to happen, nobody knows where this will end up? I don't think that this is going to be good. I can see a lot of debates ahead, lot of debates.
V/R,
Mr. Jose A. Aviles
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