Middle America's Worldview

Been a bit for me to write in my blog. My plane was scheduled to go out 8:30 a.m. but due to maintenence issues it was delayed. At 9:30 they said it would be 11 a.m. before takeoff. So I ran to a TGIF within the Airport to get something to eat. We were able to get out of there by 10:30 but I missed my connection in Dallas. Fortunately I was able to get on the last flight out. I arrived home around 4:30 p.m. Once I was in the airport, I received a call from work. Already a couple of issues. So I basically hit the house and started working. After a couple of hours I was able to be with the kids.

I will say on the way back (Dallas/Fort Smith flight), I happen to sit with an intereesting lady. She worked for the Immigration Services and had an interesting history. She informed me of all the gangs in our area, drug trafficking ect.

Saturday morning, my wife had the yard sale. It was a good one and we did pretty darn good. She even passed a couple of Bush-Cheyney stickers! heh heh

During the yard sale, our friends and their kids came over. So my buddy and I took the kids to Mcdonalds to let them play and eat lunch there, while the ladies (our wives) tended the yard sale and have some time together. The kids had a blast and it was indoors away from the heat.

One the way to Miki-D's I stopped by the Republican Headquarters. Dick Cheyney is speaking in Fort Smith on Tuesday! The tickets were free, but you had to give your name and social to get one. I plan to go listen to him on Tuesday. I figured it was the only time I would get to see the guy so close.

After the yard sale, we all crashed for an hour. We went to my brothers birthday party. He knew about it but I grabbed him and one of his boys. My son, brother and his son went to my dads for a bit. We grabbed about 6 pizzas and headed back. It was ok, not many showed up but at least he had a 31 yr birthday party.

It's already 8:30 p.m. and the day is gone. It was nice not being on-call today, but I retain it for tomorrow. The kids already had their showers and currently watching a Mary-Kate Ashley movie eating snacks. I look forward to sleeping in my bed again tonight. Last night I didn't even need tylenol p.m.

I actually was impressed with tonights DNC speaking. I wa able to start watching while the daughters were speaking. Alot of promises were made, alot and I mean alot was themed around his Vietnam experience. In fact it seemed the main theme. Kerry even came out and after the 'thank you's' he saluted in front of the camera and said he is ready to serve. Nice. I was impressed with his speech. Many thought he would be a bit mumbo jumbo, but I didn't find him to be that. But I also have to say, the whole week seemed a bit like a used car salesperson ramping up a good cheer to sell the car. But Kerry seemed to rev pretty good tonight. I still was waiting to hear what Kerry had done in the last few years while in Senate. I honor his experience as a Veteren, as I do all Veterens, my dad included. Yet, I never did hear of his accomplishments to assist the military veterens while in the office. I did find a link of some of his Senate history.
Who is John Kerry

Today was a good day. I felt I was able to get some things done at work, and I was able to eat with supervisor/peer this evening. I had a good chat with her. It was nice to just sit and talk rather than grab togo and back in the hotel. I will return back to PA in November. I fly out early tomorrow morning and I will be glad to get home. I really miss the family and will be glad to be in my own bed. : )

Ever notice the phone rings just when your pee'ing? Aye. I am still on-call and you know it, nothing till I go pee and then the cell rings. Well, their just going to have to wait, or leave a VM.

Finished hearing Edwards speech. I figured he would be articulate being a lawyer. I found it interesting his 'hey, were not being hate-mongers, but you just wait to hear the attacks on us'. Gee, must had missed all the retorts from the liberal Senator's. He must had missed out on all those attacks this year, and the many conversations of no more bush bashing in this DNC. He sounds clueless to me. I also noted he said basically word by word, "we will hunt down AlQueda and kill them" as Bush had been promising from 9-11 till present, and he has been doing so throughout. Basically, I heard him saying we will be one america not a racial america. Not that the black americans are far better off during this adminstration than any in the past. But that's just the facts.

I may seem bias, but I have to say. I dont like all that Bush is doing, but the main question that should be on everyones mind is, which candidate would be best to serve us during this war. Personally, I think it will be Bush. I will say again. The ideology of trying to bring in our so-called allies back to our way of thinking, helping us, ect. just doesn't jive. Trust me people, the fence is being dismantled and side-straddling is no long an option. Everyone needs to make a choice and those like France, Germany, ect. has already made their choice of not being our allies.

Spent all day today in being educated on the 'BeyondFTP' at Corporate. It was an all day thing. But it looked impressive. The individual that set it up basically wants to reaaaalllllyyy hand off the support to us (interface team). Guess who will be the person working mostly in it? Yep, yours truly. I am starting to feel like my hand is being in every part of this place. Oh well. To be fair, every team ( foundations, BOS, Orders, Interface, ect ) is feeling overwhelmed.

I was able to sit and eat with two of my peers. It was nice to just sit and chat. Sure most of it was about work, some frustrations. But I was able to get some personal information time to time. It was nice to get to actually know those I work with day to day. We ate at 'The Cheescake Factory' and I had a spicy cajun jumbali. It was good.

I guess, I will watch Edwards speech tonight.

I did manage to call the Election Board back in Oklahoma before it closed and found out that Tom Coburn, did win the Republican primary. I was a bit surprised, but pleased. So in November, it will be Tom Coburn against Brad Carson for Don Nickles seat. Nickles will not run again, so it will be important. There is also an Independant that will be on the ballot, but I don't see that happening.

My wife is thinking not to leave for Texas in the next weekend, not this coming. So we will see. I know I am still ready to get home, tonight and tomorrow night is left.

Sitting here eating a bit of my Dark Chocolate bar adn flipping the tv from Fox News to around the other channels. I am also rolling through the net.

Another day in the neighborhood. I took a couple of tylenol p.m. last night so, yes, I was able to sleep. Fortunately only one issue last night for support. A circuit went out that wiped out all Quest interfaces. This effected over 4 hospitals (on quest).

Seen on this mornings Fox News 35 bloggers are at the DNC party this week. Fox spoke with one of them. He wasn't to articulate but he did manage to state the fact that it is a persons unedited form of journalism.

I did get to see the discussion of Michael Moore and Bill Orielly last night. Talk about two separate worldviews. The discussion was basically like a hot potatoe being passed back and forth. Seems the only way Bill was able to get Michael to speak was to corner him and they did it that same time. I think Bill won the argument.

51 people killed in a car bombing in Iraq this morning in Bakubah. It was so bad, to effect 6 buildings. How horrible for those over there. I wonder if it will be brought up in the DNC, or will it be off their radar.

I am still waiting to hear a 'why' we should vote for Kerry. Seems they are not so much as making it a dichotomy of Kerry-Bush, rather Democratic-Republican. I think the non-bashing is baffling the news people, but I am not really surprised. Don't they recall Bush has been saying you can't run a Nation on hate. ( because of all the Bush bashing this year ) So it only makes sense they are trying their best not to present themselves as hate-mongers. Too me its too late. But I am sure there are those out there that will be duped. I get excited to hear people up here in PA that sees the facts, but amazed at some that still believe in the craziness of the liberal ideology.

Hopefully tonight I can sit with a peer for a dinner. He is also remote and in this week.

Ever had a sucky day? Well, mine was close. Had meetings all day, did a traing on VPS (Virtual Printer Server) to my peers. Needless to say, it was long, non-productive today. I was glad to get out and hit the Hotel room. I guess some enjoy to get out and hit the town, run around ect. But I personally much rather sit quitely here and watch a movie in peace.

I will be in training all day tomorrow. We are to be shown a new FTP server and this guy wants to hand the support over to the team. yeah.

I am tired and ready to go home. 2 with 3 nights to go.

Well all, its Tuesday morning and another day at the grime. Of course the news is all around the DNC party in Boston. I had to run a script last night that took bloody forever, so I didn't get into bed till after 1 a.m. So I watched mostly the news, seeing what the Demo's had to say in 'why should I vote for Kerry'.

Now most that are getting to know me would say that I am already biased, but polls show most of the U.S. have already made their decision anyway as well. So in my view what did the cheerleaders have to say? Actually I agree that Bill Clinton was the most articulate, clear speaker for the night. I also agree what they say in regards to 'agree or disagree with Clintons politics, he's a great speaker'. But, through all the chanting, cheerleading, ect. I never heard a 'why should I vote for Kerry.'

I know, this DNC was not to do a "Bush bashing" but a 'why should I vote for Kerry'. I thought Clinton did the best attempt in what makes Demo's and Repub's different in worldviews. ( interesting he actually used the term worldviews ). But I never heard what Kerry would do diferently or what he would do now too help/raise America back on it's feet. But I have to make a notation that they are not using the name "Bush" for bashing but they are definitely slicing/dicing the 'current adminastration and republicans'.

Now yesterday during work here at PA Corporate, I had a small discussion with a couple of guys. During conversation another individual approached and basically asked me, 'do you think they (the democrats, ect) are voting agains Bush due to hatred or the fact he is doing such a terrible job.' I promptly looked him in the eye and said 'easily, hatred'. Of course he retorted that the Iraq war was all a lie, dah dah dah. It wasn't hard to see he was a 'left wing liberal'. I am not going into the discussion but I will say, he left mumbling. One of the guys ( in the original conversation ) came to my cubicle and actually said 'that was great' and he had prior discussions with the liberal guy and he just didn't know as much as I did on debating. My point? It's all in the facts people, even though I never would be able to have that liberal left make a turn on his view or positiion, by my discussion with him, others listening in see's the facts and learn from it. Let's face it, there are many out with their minds already made up, but others can still be educated.

So what I say is, show me the facts. What has Kerry voted on during his term?
I am pasting some interesting views of Kerry on the bottom of this post.

Today, I am on support and will be giving a little training class on VPS. ( Virtual Print Station ) Basically I probably will not get anything else done. I did manage to get some things done yesterday at work that made me feel like I accomplished some of my projects but we will see for today.

On the way to the hotel yesterday, stopping at TGIF's to grab for supper, I tried the taste of 'Samuel Adams' beer. The lady at the bar, let me try the taste. I wasn't impressed. The only beer I have ever tried and continue to like is Corona.

Tonight, Michael Moore will be on Bill O'rielly. I will definitely be watching that one.

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Interesting thing of Kerry's view.


In John Kerry's Own Words:

On Thursday, Senator John Kerry sat down for an interview with ABC News reporter Peter Jennings. Below is a portion of that interview.

Peter Jennings: "You told an Iowa newspaper recently that life begins at conception. What makes you think that?"

Sen. Kerry: "My personal belief about what happens in the fertilization process is a human being is first formed and created, and that's when life begins. Something begins to happen. There's a transformation. There's an evolution. Within weeks, you look and see the development of it, but that's not a person yet, and it's certainly not what somebody, in my judgment, ought to have the government of the United States intervening in. Roe v. Wade has made it very clear what our standard is with respect to viability, what our standard is with respect to rights. I believe in the right to choose, not the government choosing, but an individual, and I defend that."

Jennings: "Could you explain again to me what do you mean when you say 'life begins at conception'?"

Kerry: "Well, that's what the Supreme Court has established is a test of viability as to whether or not you're permitted to terminate a pregnancy, and I support that. That is my test. And I, you know, you have all kinds of different evolutions of life, as we know, and very different beliefs about birth, the process of the development of a fetus. That's the standard that's been established in Roe v. Wade. And I adhere to that standard."

Jennings: "If you believe that life begins at conception, is even a first-trimester abortion not murder?"

Kerry: "No, because it's not the form of life that takes personhood in the terms that we have judged it to be in the past. It's the beginning of life. Does life begin? Yes, it begins. Is it at the point where I would say that you apply those penalties? The answer is, no, and I believe in choice. I believe in the right to choose, and the government should not involve itself in that choice, beyond where it has in the context of Roe v. Wade."

John Kerry's Own Actions:

Kerry Has Voted At Least Six Times Against Banning Partial-Birth Abortion.

Kerry Has Voted At Least 25 Times In Favor Of Using Taxpayer Dollars To Pay For Abortions In United States.

Kerry Voted Against Unborn Victims of Violence Act - "Laci and Connor Peterson's Law"

Nonpartisan National Journal Scored Kerry's Votes Most Liberal In Senate For 2003. Kerry scored a Senate-high 97% liberal rating for 2003, beating out Sens. Barbara Boxer (91), Hillary Clinton (89), Ted Kennedy (88), and Tom Daschle (80). (National Journal Website, "How They Measured Up," http://nationaljournal.com, 2/27/04)

John Kerry says he believes that life begins at conception, yet does not have the conviction to protect life, and instead promotes abortion -- even up until the moment a child takes their first breath!

Why didn't I just go to sleep? After I ate last night took a (yes just one) tyelenol p.m. I went to bed and started to watch The Deadzone series on my laptop. The next thing I know it's 4:30. I turned everything off and finally tried to sleep.

I was awaken this morning with the housekeeper trying to come through the door. Fortunately, it was locked on the inside. I got up, showered, ate and called my beloved wife to check on her. She had 3 dogs, 2 kids sleep with her last night. So no rest for the wicked or insane. < Sorry honey, heh heh>

100 days till election? The only thing on the news is the big party at the Democratic Convention happening in Boston and the missing Hacking woman. I think I have a resolution for both accounts. I say we acquire our suspects, crank them up with truth serum in a public forum ( this would allow all to see and keep questions to the topic ) and start out with the questioning. This would keep cost down and we would get to the bottom of the real deal. Now for the politicians, we get both candidates in the same forum, crank them up and ask them the important questions. Each candidate would be able to answer honestly and soundly. Being the skeptic in me, I realize this is not full proof, due to those extremist finding means to reduce the effect of the truth serum, but we can work out that bug.

Also yesterday, I was speaking with a lady at the Fort Smith airport. She was returning to New York. I don't know how the conversation ended up on smokes (no I don't smoke) but she said a pack of cigerattes cost 6.50 to 7 bucks per pack. I responded "Are you serious?" Talk about mindboggling. I don't know how much a pack is in my area, 3.50 - 4 ? But, it is tremendously less here than in NY. I asked her how many did she buy to take back. She bought 4 cartons. Seems for about 60 bucks a carton up there runs around 22 here. Great Scott, I would have someone just mail them to me. My mind couldn't help thinking that would be a good little black market. Think about it, goto an indian smoke shop for non-tax smokes and mail them to someone up there. It would still be cheaper for them. So anyone in NY or another state reading this can contact me to work out the details.

I gotta do some work, but I don't want too.

Finally in my hotel room with my shoes off in PA. The airplane trip was late out of Dallas into PA. Something about a plane coming in wrong. I don't know. There was 21 airplanes in line to get underway and I think we were the 20th in the line. We were about 1.5 hours in delay just to get off the ground at Dallas. Once in the air, it was pleasant enough. Seems there was a Mary Kay seminar/class in Dallas over the weekend. I sat by 2 elderly ladies that were reallllllyy into it. Fortunately, they were tired and I had my son's gameboy. They crashed and I played 'The Legend of Zelda'! I was kicking but in Hyrule and only cursed under my breath from frustration a couple of times. : )

This morning my wife's parents basically forced her into going to Kholes with them. They wanted to buy our kids some school close. No harm there but they can get pushy on certain things. She left with them a little before 7 a.m. I had the coffee going, thinking her dad would stay for us to chat ( he makes a good debater and actually knows what's going on in the news ) but he left with her and her mom. Oh well. I finished up the packing of the laptop and let the kids sleep in.

Wasnt long a phone call and they want me and the kids to meet them in Ihop to eat with them. Needless to say, they politely asked us to come now. We did eat breakfast there, but thereafter myself, her dad, and my kids got haircuts. All this paid by my wife's parents. I don't know what the occasion is nor why their willingness to spend it now. But, I am gratefull for their generousity. ( prob spelled that wrong ) but heh its after midnight here.

The morning basically flew and before long I had to hit the airport for the flight. I did get to eat lunch with the kids and spend a little time with the family alone before leaving.

Ever look at other peoples shirts to see what they are wearing? I can't help myself. I normally always read other peoples shirts they wear. Some are funny, some candor and others are pretty generic. When I have to travel, I like to wear christian shirts. Ones that actually have meaning. I don't get much comments, nor stares, nor even converstation starters. But I do notice others read it. I guess you can't help yourself (much like me ), you have to read them, just to see what it says.

Anyway, I am in Dallas and a couple stopped to say 'Hey that's the shirt we were going to buy'. They evidently had forgotten to pick it up but wanted to buy it. Needless to say they looked at my tag in the back to see who made it (it was Gilban). Like I cared for her to look at it. Although my twisted mind later thought, what if she had a needle of something and stuck me. oh well. The guy asked if the sandwich I was eating was any good ( I had an hour layover in Dallas ) and wished me a good trip. Only a couple of times that has happened to me in regards to a shirt I am wearing. Please note I have many Christian shirts, ana I normally only wear these T-shirts. I just have alot of them from gifts and I enjoy wearing them. I can't really sit at a bar drinking a Corona with them on, but that's probably better for me anyway. This shirt had simply on it 'AMERICA' with a flag under it and then under the flag 'One nation under the Son, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Psalm 33:12'

So that was basically my day, mostly traveling. Its after 1 a.m now in Pennsylvania. I arrived at the airport, grabbed a rental car (National), drove to 'King of Prussia' ((yes its a real place with a huge mall)). I stopped in an ACME first to grab some bread, chips, pepsi edge, sausage links, mustard and yogurt (healthy huh) then hit my hotel. Now I sit here munching chips, eating my second sausage link with bread and mustard, sipping pepsi edge. There is nothing on TV, no surprise there. I already called my wife on each stop and arrival at hotel to let her know all is well.

So if you read this, those 4-5 that do and see any grammer errors, ect. Sorry but it's late and getting a bit blurry.

Man, I am glad it's Friday. Something about it just makes it better. I am flying out to PA tomorrow but at least I get to come back Friday. I know I won't get anything accomplished while I am at Corporate, I never do. Too many meetings, interuptions ect.

I got my Bush/Cheney 04 bumper stickers in today! I didn't think I would get them before I left. I can now at least take some with me on my trip. I plan to at least put them in my windshield (tape them not actually sticking them ) on my rental. I also met Daniel Hill this morning and acquired some Tom Coburn yard signs. I put them up around Pocola on my way home. I met him around 7 a.m. this morning and then went on to my Chiropracter. Still doing that bid. I admit my wrist had not hurt since going to him (it was an old sport injury), so something must be right.

I took two tylenol pm's and I am feeling it. I also gave my 2 kiddo's a benadryl the same time ( alergies )but they are not feeling it. They wrestled me to death and I had to steal a break, hence writing this blog. Man, where do they get their energy?

I am already packed for the week out, and plan to spend the morning with the family. I am leaving out around 2 p.m. tomorrow and we plan to hit Mcdonalds for the kids prior to.

I did find a cool website, http://www.cwfpac.com/. It contains a scorecard of your Representives and Senators. Also they have a thing called Megavote where you can put your zip code in and recieve emails of your Senators/Representives votes, upcoming legislations, ect. I signed up for it and will let you know how it is. It sounds cool, bue we will see.

Is it really already nearly 8 p.m.? Well, I finally received my laptop around 2 something and it was as i feared. I couldn't get into some things I needed and some missing programs I needed.

I was on the phone with PCLAN for nearly 2 hours and finally got up and running. I also was hit with a lab issue to work on right off the bat. I was on the pc and phone for nearly 4 hours and will end up resuming tomorrow. Get this. After about an hour I asked the facility if they had a real pt issue and the answer was no. They were seeing the issue with a test pt. Go figure. They didnt have a real patient example.

My father-in-law had came by and was still here after 6 when I was done. He seen a 'this land is your land' with Bush and Kerry on the news that was crazy. I found it online and we watched it together laughing our butts off. Its found here and you can click play to see it. I tell you it's hilarous if your a Democrat or Republican.

The guy called me back in regards to the Tom Coburn for Senate yard signs. I will be able to pick them up tomorrow before work. I told him I hadn't seen any in Pocola area at all. He was grateful and seem to be pleased. I am doing this primarily to be active and I found it interesting AFA and James Dobson is supporting him.

I still need to install some of my software on this buisiness pc. But I am glad to get it back. I noticed they installed Win2K rather than the original XP and it now has a 25 gig harddrive. woo hoo. But it does suck I lost everything though.

Day 2 of my back to work and I still cannot do anything this morning. They supposedly sent my PC back to me via Fedex and I have yet to receive it. Yesterday I took the time to weedeat the yard and clean the house up. I should be getting it in about 2-3 hours. I called my supervisor and informed her I am still waiting on it and will plug in as soon as I receive it. They are going through a GW upgrade as I write this, so you know they would love me to get into the game. But I cannot yet.

I am in the process of creating a PTA website for our School. I have been selected to be treasurer and my wife is President. Cool eh?  I know it will be a royal pain in the a@@ but it will be good for the school and kids. The last year pres-vice pres didnt do much of anything. In fact looking at the past record it hasn't been much of an impact in quite some time.  So I am looking forward to making a difference in that regard.  I will post the site later when I get it up and going.

The GOP primaries for Oklahoma will be voted on next Tuesday. I will be flying out to Corporate this Saturday so wont be here. I found out I cannot even provide an absentee ballot. I am registered independant. I did this because I do not find myself voting on a specific party, rather on the basis of the candidate. But with Oklahoma law, only registered republicans can vote for the primary republican vote. The same with Democratic primary. But I still can vote on the ballot for Novembers election. I suspect I will be changing my registery this year to Republican. I am in contact with Tom Coburn's office to at least acquire some signs for his candidacy. Since I cannot vote nor will be here, I figured I can at least put up the signs, ect in my area to support him that way. I do not see any signs for him in my town.  Tom Coburn's site is located here.  I been speaking with a Brian Treat out of Muskogee, number is 918-684-4308.

I have also started to listen to AM radio talk shows. I find them more stimulating than the background music I usually listen too and there are some good information coming out of them.

 

My buisiness computer is still at Corporate and I start back tomorrow. What a drag. I cannot do anything without it. Seems the harddrive crashed hard and they are replacing that one and having to install all new software. I hate it. Not only will I be behind, I will be further behind now due to not even having it back yet. I left 2 voicemails on 2 different peoples offices and no word back nor any vm's in my bin at all. Very frustrating.

I leave for Pennsylvania on Saturday and return next Friday. I dread it. I never get anything done while I am up there. I am swamped with meetings, ect and constant disruptions.

We drove to Little Rock and back today. My son had another Dr. visit and followup. Seems most checked out ok. He is still doing well from last Monday so this is good.

School starts in less than 3 weeks! Our kids school start on the  11th. I will be gone one of the 3 weeks and I am the new PTA Treasurer. Much to do and no time to do it in.

I spoke with a gentlemen midway to Little Rock asking the consensus on peoples view, Kerry or Bush. He basically told me he would vote for a hounddog before Bush. I informed him Kerry hasn't even been doing his current job, missing 2/3 votes but managed to not support Defense for our troops, vote against the partial birth abortion ban, ect. But his mind was already settled. I truly do not understand why individuals would put our fellow americans in harms way, only for the reason of hatred.

Alot has happened during the last few days. One, my buisiness laptop crapped out. I hadt to fedex it out yesterday. I am on quote, unquote vacation. But the primary purpose was a procedure for my son. The procedure went well, and he is doing great! This is the best part of the vacation.

My wife took the catering food over to the wedding and we left that same Saturday evening. We drove as far as we could toward San Antonia, Tx. My wife has an aunt and uncle living in New Braunfels, near San Antonia. We crashed out nearly midnight at a hotel then proceeded on the following morning after a breakfast in Cracker Barrel.

We made it to her Aunt and Uncle house around 2 p.m. Sunday. Monday morning our son had the procedure in Austin while my daughter and I checked out Austins Nature place. It was cool for kids. She was able to dig in the sandpit uncovering dino bones, ect. She didnt care for the Nature trail. The procedure only took 45 minutes ( amazing with modern medicine ) and he also was able to see the dino site. We ( wife, kids and one of her cousins ) then ate at Joes Crab shack for lunch. It was good. I had a cobb salad, one of my favorites.

We then hit some outlets on the way back to the house. MY son was already doing very well. I was impressed most with the Bible Outlet. I wish I had more time to go back there before I leave. I was looking hard at a book ( Debunking Dwarnism ) and probably should had grabbed it.

Tuesday we hit the Schlitterbahn. Talk about a cool place. It was a water park and a half. We didn't hit the Master Blaster due to the tremendous lines but i did manage to hit the Black Knight with Kell's cousin. We also hit the tubes, and some body slides. The kids loved the kiddy pools, pirate ship ect. We had a tremendous good time.
Coming back to the house we ordered pizza and was wasted with the sun all day.

Wednesday we hit Seaworld. We managed to see all the shows; Shamu, the dolphins, Viva, ect. Again the kids had a blast. It was very spread out and we had rented a double stroller for the kids. This saved us because we could move faster and it was less hard on the kids. That night I ran to Hastings and rented a game and a couple of movies for the kids. Kell's cousin rented Spiderman2 for the PS2. Yes, I had to play it while here also. I was impressed with Hastings selection here. It is better than the one we have and I seen DeadZone season 2 there. I nearly grabbed it for only 39. This is the first time I seen it. I hadn't but may grab it before my trip here.

Today is Thursday, my 9 year anniversary. Kelli and I have plans to spend the night at the Drury Inn at the Riverwalk while the kids stay here. Since my son is doing so well, and the kids are looking for some time without us (pratically already asking when we will leave at 8:30 in the morning) we look forward to some quality time alone.

I recieved word my brothers in the hospital as of yesterday, last night. I didn't hear it from my family rather from Kell's aunt. ( The one in OK ). Seems he is passing more kidney stones and one is too large to pass. I get very aggravated at my family, because my son went through a procedure Monday and they have not yet called to check on him, knowing our cell numbers. Nor did they care to cal me informing me my brothers in the hospital. What can you do?

As unbelievable as it sounds, all those batch files I had to send for the facility last night had to be backed out this morning. I received an IM from the hospital stating their all duplicated charges/credits.

I was totally frustrated. So basically it was for nothing and I had now more work to do. Fortunately the interface was still there and I only needed to restart it. But I had to go into each batch (a data file full of 48 ((charges)) and 49 ((credits)) records. It was not a good morning.

Its now midnight and I cant sleep for nothing. I laid in bed well over an hour, so figured I can blog. I have tomorrow then I am off for awhile. I can't wait.

I went to the chiropractor today. I never been to one. I have an old sport injury in my rt wrist and it's probably carpal tunnel settling in. I picked up a case of bottle water the other day and it hurt like hell. I must have kinked it. I also have a sore spot under my rt shoulder blade, that's been going on for a week. I kept thinking its a pulled muscle, but it just wont go away. The past two days, I've taken loracet and Celebrex to ease the pain.
My wife has gone to him and speaks highly of his practice. So anyway, I went today and he put a electric box to my back shoulder muscles. It's not a tinge unit but something else. Supposedly this continues to work after its turned off. I don't know. I know I cant sleep worth a flip and I can't take a tylenol pm due to being on-call tonight. It sucks.

I also know my back is still sore and he is suppose to adjust me in the morning. I guess we will see. Guess, I will flip the tv in the living room since everyone is asleep and I don't want to wake the wife.

As you know, I ran scripts all weekend long. The revenue caught up nearly 2.5 million dollars for the facilty. Fortunately they fixed the issue and this is now done.

Yesterday evening, as I was leaving the office I received a call. I felt I better answer. BOS ( Buisiness Office ) at Corporate had a few in the room on a conference call to me. They explained to me that another facility had an issue with charges. Seems this hospital had not been looking at their charges for the past 7 days and was missing revenue.

What's the deal with these people? Seems no-one looks at their daily reports till its too late then expect IS to clean it up. Anyway, last night I spent nearly 2 hours creating a new interface to move the files over for the hospital to recapture their missing charges.

I asked my wife, what was the deal? Am I the revenue man or what?

We have today and tomorrow, then have to drive to San Antonia, Saturday. My wife is catering a wedding Saturday and we plan to leave afterward. I am ready to get off this roller coaster ride.

I hope everyone had a good and safe Fourth of July. It's been another delay, since my blog. Last week was just too busy in itself. This weekend was busy but nice. I was on-call all weekend but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I had feared.

For work I had to run 3 olie scripts. An olie script is a neat little program that allows you to paste repetitive keystrokes within the ordering/registering system at work. So rather than a person entering in 1000 charges, you can set this bad boy up to enter them for you. Not everyone knows it, so it was deemed to me to do it. A hospital had contacted us about 2 weeks ago to request help entering in nearly 2.4 million bucks of charges from April through June that were missed. Eek gad.

So I wrote the script and attempted to run it. But it wouldn’t run on my P.C. Stupid thing kept dying on me. So the PC LAN group was able to set up a PC at Corp (in Pennsylvania) and set it up to allow me to PCAnywhere into it (from Oklahoma). I placed my files and script on that machine and ran it from there. It was good I could. We had thunderstorms Friday and Saturday and it kept disconnecting my connection to Corp. But the script remained running on the machine at Corp. Pretty cool, eh?

Of the 3 scripts (April, May, and June) I ran, May was the largest. It had over 18 thousand charges to enter. Needless to say it ran nearly 23 hours. Yes, I stayed up late babysitting it. But by Sunday morning / Saturday night they were done. While this ran, my wife organized the house out. She and I (mostly she) cleaned out all the closets, rooms ECT. Since it rained nearly all day.

Sunday we went to church and then I ran to grab a 16 inch July 4th Cookie from the Cookie Company. A couple with their 2 kids came over and we ate together. The kids played in the backyard in the pool (large pump kind, you find at Wal-Mart now). I brought out the water guns and the fun really began. The wives stayed in the house (chickens) while Erich and I first fought the kids then each other we were all drenched. We had a blast. My wife and I did manage to play some more tether ball, but she beat me again. Oh well.

Then at night we popped our fireworks and watched the neighbors as well. The friends didn’t leave till 10:30 p.m. We pretty much crashed after that. I didn’t get called but maybe 5 times all weekend. It was nice.

Monday we were off and I was not on-call. Alma, Arkansas has a small water park we had not known. So we took the kids over there and played for nearly 2 hours. It wasn’t bad at all. We had a blast and I was pleased to see the kids (5, 6 yrs old) go down the large water slides with no problem, alone! Cool.

That’s my weekend in a nutshell. Hope everyone enjoyed there’s.