If I take a gander back in my life, there's a recognition that I learned a loving soul from my grandparents far more than from my parents. In that retrospect, it's that my parents were busting ass on all the essentials to raise four boys—and guess what a handful I must have been.

In the US Navy, it's often said that the commanding officer is the nice guy and the XO, executive officer, the asshole. It's strangely parallels this thing we have with parents and grandparents. It's not a perfect analogy but I suspect many of you get it without any effort.

And it goes all the way down to the individual. Many of us have our Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde sides. I display mine on this blog regularly because I believe that there's value in that.

Wherein, living in a world where everyone lies, and lies to each other daily, and everywhere...I try to stand out as someone who never lies to you. That's why I publish a rant like this. Its chief value is that I'm never lying and polishing turds.

So what have I for you, today?

A bit of solemn, serious, and from the heart. Because in all my raucousness most of the time, here's a measure of balance.

I love and am proud of what I have accomplished here and I still need your help. It's all divulged in the video. The campaign has raised $4K of a $10K goal, 40%. But I have not yet attained crowdfunding, where it's a little bit each from hundreds or thousands of people which could put this to bed. That $4,000 is only from about 70 of the best people on the planet.

Be one of the best people on the planet.

This is really real. It's not lying to you.