All Things Burkenbine

By Mark Burkenbine

Welcome to my little world. A collection of reality, fiction,and social media blog posts. Pure honesty and a series of blogs and projects that will continue to grow.
An attempt to learn the process of creating, writing, publishing and producing anything and everything.
Wear the old boots when walking through this pasture. There is a whole lot of me out there.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Burkenbine
• Release date: Sep 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301288328

Mark Burkenbine

Goooood morning everybody. I am a 45 year old male that is scraping through life in the Midwest. I enjoy walks on the beach, Easter egg hunts and vanity publishing. Hobbies are writing, bowling and finding a cream to get rid of this rash. Turn on's : a good steak dinner, getting bills paid, and NPR. Turn off's: Starving children, War, and this rash. Goal is to one day bring peace to the world, and be debt free, happily married and have dinner regularly with all my kids. Oh, and have a beer with my brother (we have never done that) Hope you enjoy my stories. Longer stories on the way. Heck, maybe this will help me find work. Thank you for your time --Mark Burkenbine

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All Things Burkenbine

Mark Burkenbine

All Things Burkenbine

Mark Burkenbine

Copyright 2013 Mark Burkenbine

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Table of Contents

Finally...movement

Our Democratic System- A new civil service?

Utopian Views

Narcissism and ME

Patience? C'mon. Baby needs a new pair of shoes....

Artificial Intelligence?

Outstanding in My Field

Peanut Butter, Duh

Ah...The Moment of Truth

Keep the dream alive

181 Million Blogs against 1/ Thank you contributor and friend

A Rule of Engagement--Part 1: Nonviolent Debate

Classic Repost Thursday: Finally---Movement.

Work stories--don't leave the porch

My Life’s Work...

My Life’s Work 2...

Drink Water/ Fitness Campaign Pitch

Let the Internet garage sale begin and other local news

BREAKING NEWS---Success!

My Ass is Feeling Squishy...A little about the author

Welcome to the Great Internet Time Suck.

Quality Control Breach: Refund Issued

Classic Repost Thursday: Add Vice for Bloggers

The ATB is Going Viral...

Resume and skills...Part 1

Resume /Skills Part 2

Classic Repost Thursday--Morning Drive Top 5

Classic Repost Thursday- Drink Water/ Fitness Campaign Pitch

Thank you for your support.

A life worth LIVING

50 ways

Touched by an Angel? Nah, Sprayed by Skunk

Brief Content Rundown

Coffee in its proper dosage

Flat Tires

Introduction Audio Link Trial Run

Yaks and Yeti

ATB Video Resume/ Introduction

NO CLASSIC REPOST THURSDAY--Seeking Title Sponsor

Heaven on a Heart Shaped Plate

ATB Real World Adventures

Job interview results

Redemption Credit

Preview

HO KEE … a bowling adventure fantasy

Meaningless Post Saturday comes to a close....

I'm funny. I'm smart.

I'd Spit in the Face of Adversity, but....

Kindle?

Blood Sweat Tears...Funny Stuff. (Censored)

Doppelganger.

Preview 2

State of the Blog Address

News, from the World of ATB

Faith.

Pins...an ad pitch to bowling in general.

For the other readers...

A New World?

Construction Report

Friday Morning Traffic Report

Thanks for dropping in

Happy Lunch Hour

Well, back to work.

For my kids

Add Vice for Bloggers video series

Add Vice for Bloggers: Help from the Collector's

Junk Foodie

Dribbles

A little about the Author

Marrying Amy

I Quirk-ed

Bowling a Tournament in Every State

Random doodles and signs

What would this be without a song

Our dog Reese

Helping a Hundred

Ho -Kee , a Bowling Adventure

Add Vice for Bloggers

ATB-All Terrain Bowling

Mark in the Middle

Guess That Disability

Preface

A good day to you.    Thank you for stopping by and taking a look inside my world. This is my first published work, but far from my last.

All Things Burkenbine...Mark Burkenbine is my attempt at a conceptual blogging network.  Pieces of me blowing across the internet in twenty blogs and social networking with sometimes just a string holding it together.

Believe it or not, this is just the start of this concept and my little production company. Every blog involved is a standalone project, with a few more coming. I hope you enjoy watching the stories grow as other media is brought into the fold.

My own opinions are everywhere in here. I hope you find at least a few interesting, or funny.

Wear the old boots when walking in this pasture. There is a whole lot of me out there. Beware the fragmented sentence...I use it with reckless abandon.

Swing for the fences. Blog to win.

Thank you for your time

Mark Burkenbine

ALL THINGS BURKENBINE

Finally...movement

Goooood Morning Everybody

I originally was going to call this blog Pen to Rest. Maybe I’d pick up hits from mistypes of Pinterest.com and hope thousands of people would be happy with their mistake. Then I found out there was a song of the same title.

So here we are... The other reason for Pen to rest was to tie in with a ritual I have.

Every night and morning I tend to write something down. Writing is kind of a laxative of the brain for me, and apparently I share this affliction with hundreds of thousands of other bloggers. The people of the world have obviously been suffering from a form of Mental Constipation for centuries.

Type in BLOG on your search bar and Google with explode with all the listings. Blog hosting is where the money must be. So many have the mental constipation that Blog hosting sites have acted as a mental toilet for the brain. A place where we can put this crap so we can sleep soundly.

This is a blog, which means I did not research just how many bloggers there are. Based on the Google search explosion I witnessed, its maybe a million plus. -Which means the blogging septic tank will begin to leak as it reaches critical mass. The blog hosting sites will get in trouble for illegal dumping. Big Government will have to step in and sick the EPA on the blog hosting sites. New regulations will ensue.

Prices for the Blog septic service will rise as the market shrinks and then the rich and powerful top 1% of bloggers will have cornered the market...the rich and powerful with their Quality and proper grammar and punctuation; and blogs that don’t stink, so no risk in violating EPA standards.

One day we the downtrodden might all have to go back to keeping this crap inside.

I hope you found this nugget, this mental corn, at least somewhat entertaining.

Thank you for your time, Mark Burkenbine

Our Democratic System- A new civil service?

Corporate and personal corruption. Term limits. Lack of diversity in represented opinion. We have many issues with our national level system of government. We also have many processes that work better than any system ever created. From my view of this, it appears most issues are byproducts of the actual election process.

It is too easy to influence candidates. Many government positions are practically entry-level positions to various media and corporate opportunities. What if the candidate selection process were suddenly a civil service lottery? All eligible candidates would now be in the shuffle. If chosen, you have no salary, you get a stipend for food and various needs, your bills and debts are frozen for the term served. No campaign promises. No re elections. No multiple terms.

Granted, people will find a way to corrupt it, eventually. It is what we do. However, something has to be done. This systems septic tank is full. Nothing good seems to be coming from it