It has been 35 years since the event that is the cause of my declaration of April Fools as the Transcendian National Holiday.  A woman was involved.  I loved her quite a bit.  She left me and moved in with a friend of ours on April Fools.  I felt right foolish.  These years later, I wonder why I cared at all, or so much with crying and even a fist fight.

     At the time I only had the Transcend-O-Ray vision as my touchstone in my mind.  In 1982 or 83 I had developed the Transcendian Theory to the point where I needed to become a nation of airports and spaceports.   I was talking with Craig Heafner who worked in Advertising about how Transcend-O-Ray was a good name for a vision, but didn’t work so well as the name for a country.

     Craig suggested  Transcendia,  since many nations end in ia, so I went with that suggestion.  Then I worked on the flag.  A country needs a flag, and because Transcendian spiritual practice is to read the Bible reading for the day, and through the I Ching, for a full sense of time, I worked with Chris Hickey combining the symbols of the Christian Church, and the I Ching, so as to create the first Flag.

      Soon after that I married my first wife and she sewed together 6 flags.  When I wanted to pool property we had, and form an equity company and buy land for an airport on a highway, by some water, and some train tracks in Mexico on the Gulf, she and her family divorced me.

      This was a severe setback.

      I got fired from my job with Piedmont Airlines, partly due to knowledge of Transcendian Theory, and partly due to erratic behavior on my part caused by my fathers death, the impending divorce, the purchase of Piedmont by US Air, and an email I didn’t write.  -It’s a long story.

      Within a year I got really badly beat up and moved from Rochester New York to Manhattan.  There I ran a lighting and grip truck and flew the remaining Transcendian Flag over the truck on shoots all over Manhattan.  Many filmmakers became familar with Transcendian Theory.  In 1991 I wrote the Transcendian Passport.

     Prior to that there had been some really fine parties held on April Fools.  I gave a speech in Dag Hammarskold Plaza, that was not particularly well attended.   Many message rockets had been launched and I had received international press in Tel Aviv by then, but Transcendian Theory, was not fully complete, or realistic.  I was still making fun of myself some.

      Some of what I did was comic.  Some of it was just a work of conceptual art.  Transcendia, the Company, The Country, The Work of Art.  – When my art is very good it does contain elements of Strength Wisdom Beauty and Humor.

      In 1995 I discovered a major flaw in Transcendian Theory, and corrected it.  That flaw was related to my liberal belief that nations that did business together would have an interest in the well being of each other.  In fact this is only partially true, for in fact you are more likely to go to war with people you do business with, than those you are isolated from.

      We know of this in our daily lives when we read of Divorce between couples that have children.  It is a fact that I struggle with.

      However Transcendian Theory is right advanced due to my study of these realities.  I have turned to more of the nuts and bolts of internal operations and theories revolving around economics.

      Many of the nuts and bolts of the foundational theories for any real realization of Transcendia, as having real influence, and real places were good from the get go.  One set back is that I have not gone into smuggling and war, for real nations have armies and wars.  Last year I declared war on Asteroids.  That war is doing alright more due to luck, than anything really Transcendia has been able to do.  Transcendia has severe economic disadvantages.

     Even this website is not near as great as I need it to be, due to lack of money.  My working class orbits have not made contributions, and I can’t force them to.  I’m not even sure yet that I want them to.

     I did decide that as an economic basis for the economy of Transcendia, I needed to found an insurance company that covered all who did buy passports.   This would provide leverage and create a situation where labor would be more able to compete with capital.  It is not a joke, at least the way I see it.

      I am struggling now with foundational problems of finance for the reality is that without fungible assets, I will not be able to rent offices in all international airports to support the citizens who carry Transcendian Passports.

      So I guess what I am telling everybody in this years Transcendian Speech is Transcendia is broke, and needs some money.  The art part is the Flag, and I encourage you to buy the CafePress Black Hat with the Flag on it, as that is the best deal.  It is a very nice hat actually.

      Donations are important too, for I need to pay my webmaster if we want to make the place here on this website more interactive so as to hash out some of the other problems.  I have worked a good deal and wonder if Haiti is a good place to buy or lease some land for a Transcendian airport these days.

      Though much of Transcendian Theory is derived from Godwin Anarchy, I am turning to nuts and bolts Law, and am particularly needful of International Lawyers to make proper agreements with host nations for the confederated airport operations.

Money is a key element that Transcendia is short of.

As far as Haiti is concerned I’m real interested in fixing it up.

It also represents a loser nation in the Drug War, which Transcendia would like to end.

Money is a tool.

Friend of a friend of mine owns some land in Haiti he might be willing to sell cheap, since he won’t go there now for fear of being kidnapped.

I’m going to see if the land is available for purchase, and whether or not it would work for Transcendian purposes.

I do know that for one project 50 grand is needed.

For the Shipping Container Housing building project in Haiti we are looking at minimums and maximums that range from 750 thousand to figures in the billions.

In the next 4 months ramp up and actual ability by Transcendia, according to its infrastructure, may be able to handle 5 million with any degree of competence.

Sure enough more money would make more money, and I’ll take all I can get.

However I figure off the top of my head, that 5 million dollars would be about all I could deal with spending properly over the next 3 months, by myself.

So give, but don’t give too much.

Personally I myself feel that few bicycles really are properly designed for the real needs of most people, and that while many many bicycles now produced and offered, are lighter, faster, with smoother gear shifters, too many out the door of the shop are simply not fitted out to do what really we need them for.

My first job was as a paperboy, and I used the Sears Bike my parents bought me.

It was of course single speed, no gears and a back brake.

But I had to have it to make money.  I was young and strong.  The bike was red.

I bought baskets for the front, and baskets for the rear, and loaded that bike with 105 papers everyday for years.

I made money with that bike.

Right now I have a bike out on the porch less useful than the bike I had when I was 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.  Sure enough the one on the back porch is a better bike.

It’s got Shimano gears and all like that.

But it simply is not outfitted with hardy practical baskets like I had for the bike I made my living with when I was young.

I get in my car much more often than I should simply because my bicycle is not properly outfitted to carry much of anything.

Many years I did only ride a bicycle to get to work, but still I had to have places to put things, for I did not ride just for fun, but to get to work.

I rode from my home in Greensboro out to the job I had at Atlantic Aero where I worked fueling airplanes every working day.

Then it was ten miles out and ten miles back.

Then I had an Austro Daimlier that was fairly well fitted out, and light.

Took me 45 minutes either way.  Did it rain or shine or snow.

I was reliable and co workers would flag me as if I was the winner of a race for just showing up on time.

That was a great bike.

It got me around, and kept me strong, as you are the engine of the bicycle you ride.

And yeah, I was younger then.

I’d near now love to pick and choose or even design a bicycle system that worked for the newspaper delivery job, but well, that job might be done and over any day now.

Still I’ve sure do this enough to look and ride and say what the machine really needs to be, and have to go with it, to beat a scooter.

It possesses very little in the way of natural resources.

It has repeatedly been struck by Hurricanes, and recently a devastating earthquake.

Reported deaths are over 200 thousand.

The government is poor and not much able or willing to provide leadership or services.

The overall total population is around 8 million.

Little more than half the population can read.

Estimates are that 70 to 80 percent of the population live in abject poverty.

About 3 and a half million are estimated to be available to work.

Creole is the primary spoken language.  French is also spoken.

It’s got two sea ports, Port-au-Prince, and Cape Haitian.

Reported airports number either a total of 14 or 13, and of those 3 are paved.

There are few roads.

Short term the nation is in need of food, clean water, tents, and other forms of shelter such as represented by either unmodified, or modified shipping containers.

The shipping container conversion industry is recommended for short term and long term attempts to shelter and house the people as the storm season that lasts from June to October approaches.

Long term the conversion of shipping containers into living spaces represents an export industry.

Road building also represents a source of income for the people taking into account educational levels, that are low.

Due to shared language, culture, and experiences, as well as similar needs to rebuild I am recommending Sister State alliances between the US State of Louisiana and Haiti.  I am suggesting that education be an emphasis.

The Haitians need to achieve higher levels of education desperately.

Some teachers from Louisiana need to be encouraged to teach in Haiti, and some students need to be educated in Louisiana, primarily to return and teach in Haiti.

My study indicates that unless the hobbling reality of educational deprivation experienced by the Haitian people is forcefully addressed, no amount of aid will offer much hope at all off really moving them up.

Of States, I feel strongly that Louisiana is better equipped to fill this role, than any other State for the reasons I have already listed.

The details of this, are to be worked out.

Something like that needs to happen as soon as possible if the concept of utilizing shipping container housing is to gain the needed traction as the situation in Haiti roils.

My webmaster assures me that the donation button on this site works.

I’ve put a good deal of time into work thinking and writing about ways to fix up Haiti, and would really like to succeed this time around.

UNTV failed.

I worked real hard on that too.

If I had some real money, this is what I’d do:  Buy a Home made from a Shipping Container, and pay to have it delivered to the President of Haiti.

Then I would work from there to buy the ones that are already there, and pay to move them first to the Food Distribution Centers.

Second I’d move them to the places where the Doctors and Medics are providing medical care.

Then I’d move some to make some schools out of.

Then I’d move them to the camps.

Then I’d move them to make communities.

I’d establish a Headquarters at the port of Port-au-Prince, and the other ports of Haiti.

I’d create Foundation Prep, and Transport, and Conversion crews and equip them and pay them to do the work.

I’d pay attorneys to create deeds and clear property documents.

I’d have to pay for Security Forces to protect the property.

From there then I would move towards creating industry appropriate to the people and the resources of Haiti.

Shipping Containers are strong, therapy and available.

Moving them is not as difficult as it might appear.

They will work as they are, here without modification as shelter when the storms come.

The industry of modifying them and making them into homes, is mature.

Nothing else is as strong, cheap, or available, or can be applied as quickly.

With the UN paying for a headquarters at the port of Port-au-Prince, to run a Foundation prep crew, a Transport Crew, and a Fixed Base Modification, and Mobile Modification Crew, a quick and strong shelter supply that will work better than anything else could be accomplished in Haiti.

I could elaborate, and explain many details of this, but this is simply a short short summation of why I am working to advance this utilization of shipping containers for the shelter needs in Haiti.

I’m going to try and remember all the jobs I ever had.

I knew a guy who said, "I don’t do resume`s, and I sort of  understood his attitude towards them.

One of the most disastrous jobs I ever took came about a result of my resume`.

That job was with Piedmont, and they had a problem with Transcendia.

– its a longer story, but I need to move on.

My first job, was as a newspaper delivery boy.  Started that when I was 11.

Painted a house.

Was a Boy Scout Camp Counselor, and was the Assistant Commissary Director.

Tried being a bag boy at a grocery store in Chicago for three weeks.

Worked at a Camera store selling cameras and making deliveries.

Eventually I graduated from High School and went to Canada and sold poems I’d written on the streets after moving into Rochdale College.

Was hired to be on Security there.  Nearly got thrown out a window due to conflicts over corruption.

Number came up high in the Lottery, so I could leave.

Went back home to NC, and worked sort of as a carpenter.

(Somewhere in there I worked as a hot tar flat top roofer.)

Moved with the girlfriend to Rochester New York.

Got a job at a stationary warehouse.  Then worked for the Humane Society.

Worked for a baby stroller making company driving a forklift.

Was a Pizza cook.

Was a reporter photographer and columnist for a newspaper.

Sold Cameras again.

Girl and I broke up, and I had a nervous breakdown.

Moved back to NC and worked construction again.

Had a job as a News Paper route Circulation Manager.

Got a job fueling airplanes at the airport.

Tried to start a photography business, and sold some photographs, but went bust.

Moved to Fort Lauderdale and managed fuelers at another FBO.

Got a semi job writing for a TV Show in Toronto.

Ended up back in Rochester New York, and did odd jobs of many sorts.

Wrote brochures, did some copywriting either freelance, or for an ad and marketing company.

Finally took a job with another FBO and was the Night Manager, before going to work for Piedmont.

Sold a Short Story to Gannet.

After I was fired by Piedmont, I drove a cab for about a year.

Then I did lightshows for a nightclub till I got beaten up within an inch of my life while on the job.

Moved to Manhattan and got a job running a Lighting and Grip Truck for Independent films TV and what not.

Did an off Broadway acting job, as the lead.

Did a Voice over for a national commercial.

Business failed due to a producers lockout.

Went freelance, in Rochester New York, and worked on some commercials there.

Moved to Fort Lauderdale again.  Worked as an aircraft mechanic, sort of, and aircraft mechanic helper.

Moved back to NC, and worked on some films and commercials in Wilmington.  Joined the union.  Shot a TV Pilot.

Wrote some articles for a magazine.

Ended up back in Greensboro and worked some films, and some commercials, but mostly worked as a stagehand.

Wrote, and or finished some books that haven’t sold.

Got a scholarship due to some poetry I’d written to Farr Associates Executive Leadership Workshop.

They said I was maybe a genus, and suited for either janitor or CEO.

Painted houses for 6 months and took a job with a construction crew in Chapel Hill, NC.

Did that for about 10 years while continuing to write.

Tried to get the UN to do better with TV.  That failed.

Was up for an appointment to the Airport Authority as I tried to save and make more all round useful to everybody the Local Community Airport.

Got pretty crushed on that one too.

Got fired.

Haven’t had a job in a year now.

Trying my hand at think tank work.

I’m a big supporter of Shipping Container Housing for Haiti.

That reminds me of a job I had scrapping a ship, and directing a Holiday Lighting rig over a bank.  Got up to 193 dollars an hour on that one.

Best pay per hour was as an actor though.

You can make a lot of money if you are willing to make a fool of yourself.

Establish a headquarters at the seaport with a radio link to the airport.

Inventory tools and materials.

Standardize Shipping Container Conversions for Housing.

Create Foundation Prep Crews.

Transport crews.

Modification crews that are both based at the port, therapy and mobile.

This is especially true of paper money.

Ben Franklin made money making money.

So I might try that.

Then I’d found an Insurance Company.

So I guess I’d take some money and literally make money with it.

This may be out of order.

There is the private money and the public money.

Any private money I might have, would be best spent on getting my teeth fixed.

Thank God my wife wrote a bad check so I got some penicillin, as otherwise the infection in a cracked tooth would have gotten out of hand, and I’d have died.

For Transcendian goals I’d get some offices at airports, at least, and get a staff that answered the phones in support of the Transcendian citizens with passports, who might get in trouble.

I’d hire a bunch of attorneys too.

Everytime I turn around these days I need an attorney.

Seems like everybody hates attorneys till they need one.

Lets see, what else?

Hire a staff, check.

Rent lease or buy some offices, check.

Make an Insurance company, check.

Buy or Lease an airport, check.

Is an army, a staff?  Yeah, Transcendia needs one.

Oh but I really want to buy or lease an airport.

A Port City lives forever.

I myself do not have a credit or bank card anymore.

Anyway, hope someone will put up a dollar or two.

The webmaster says the donate button works.

I’d sort of like to make a trip to Washington DC actually.

I’d actually like to work on this problem in Haiti.

Transcendia is poor, Haiti is poor, we’ve got a lot in common.

Hey at least they get donations!

On CR4 there is a good bit I wrote on the Shipping Container Housing for Haiti think tank thread.  The post number there is 424, or 414.

That particular letter to Ms. Cheryl Sarcy, is one of the best letters I’ve written in awhile.  Ms. Sarcy is the VP Secretary of the Red Cross Haiti Disaster Group.

You know you don’t get to write your life.

I know I was highly influenced by my father and have often thought that the experience of combat sort of made making plans seem a waste of time.

Sometimes I think the whole of life is just weird, and drifting is better than all this focus and attempts at willful direction.

I simply drifted to thinking a lot about how to use shipping containers in Haiti.

It’s called on me to remember or use about everything I know.

Wrote for TV, Wrote for Newpapers, Made Photographs, Made Movies and TV shows, Acted, even did Stand-up.  I spent years on the airport fueling and moving planes around, and got to fly.

Did some detective work.

Scrapped a ship and got to run a little crane.

Years of renovation work.

Studied and studied history and politics due to this thing Transcendia.

The Flag has taken a life of its own.

Anyway, time is passing, storms will come.

I’m no more ready than anyone else, and less so than many.

Nobody needed my hero Grant when things were going well either.