Middle America's Worldview

I didn’t get a chance to see/hear the opening statements, but realistically the opening and ending statements are prepared and practiced by both candidates.

I did get to see/hear the debate and I must say I thought both candidates did well in attempting to articulate where they were on their stand of each topic. However, without being biased this is what I captured from the debate. It seemed to me Kerry had a good knowledge of the topics, with the exception of some that was corrected by the President. It also appeared to me Kerry seemed to attack the Presidents past 3.5 years, which analyst expected. I thought the President had to both defend those attacks, in addition to clarify his current position and future outlook of the topics. Note both seemed to be pretty articulate, but Kerry did not articulate what he would do, other than more alliances. Realistically we have more alliances during this war, than any other war in history. So I didn’t quite understand what he meant about that. The other thing that was interesting was Kerry contradicted himself within the Debate in regards to if Saddam Hussein was/is a threat. Rudy Giuliani commented on this after the debate.

In conclusion, the question is do you want a candidate showing experience, with a dedicated known goal in mind, or a candidate that can only look in the past without a clear articulate plan that has changed consistently. My vote is George Bush on November 2nd.

Ahhh sleep. Another thing that you take for granted until you lose it. Last night, I actually did not get a call from work! Unreal but great for me. I was able to sleep the whole night restfully.

We also watched the last of the Orielly interview with Bush. I thought it was actually good. Orielly also mentioned to show the whole 25 minutes the night before the vote, which in my opinion will be a tremendous help to the Bush campaign. But note, Orielly has also been basically pleading to the Kerry campaign to come on my show and be interviewed as well. He then would do a comparison between Bush/Kerry prior to the vote. We have barely a month left before this vote.

Another interesting piece last night was a look at how many states had a vote against gay marriage, nearly 8, I believe. Note Oklahoma and Arkansas are among them. It was asked to a individual last night by Orielly of 'why do you think most everyone are against gay marriage'. Her response was of course, this was a infantile discussion. Whereas not much discussion and understanding was put on this issue. I say BS, the public has continual indoctrination put upon them specifically about this discussion.

The great debate is tonight and yes, I will be watching it with interest. Now I hear on the news, there are 30 pages of the rules of engagements. They commented they can wear their lucky socks. Other than that thier SOL. Wacky that means Sh*t out of luck.

Starting early this morning. I had about 3 calls last night for on-call. Doesn't sound much but since it was basically every other hour after 1 a.m., it didn't allow a very restfull sleep. After 5 a.m. I finally resolved to just get up to stay.

I will be taking my mom to the doctor this morning, seems the pain pills are not helping her. So a run to the doctor early this morning, with a 9 a.m. work confernce call. I already emailed the two others to call me on my cell for it. Hopefully, it wont take that long, but you never know.

Since I also ready showered, took out the trash (trash day), ect. I checked out my bloglist and Jay found an interesting link of airbrushing.

Also on a link from Michelle Malkin, looks like CBS still doesn't know bi-partison. You would think they would learn. Here is the link.

I am looking forward to the presidential debate tommorrow night. But with the rules, it may be a sleep job. I tried to find these 'rules' online but couldnt. Anyone have a link for these rules?

Not a bad day today, actually. Yes, it's always busy, but it wasn't outright crazy.
At work I managed through a couple of conferences, and was able to turn on the Hemocare charges to OPUS. This is the one that was delayed last week. So considering, I call it a successfull day at work.

I managed to sneak away for lunch and attend a Republican lunch. Seems they are held at Pizza Hut within Poteau. It was a bit of a drive, but the meeting was interesting. No I didn't eat any pizza. The thing I could not understand was, the leader kept stating they needed to get organized and have volunteers, ect. Yet, she never made out some task for anyone. I asked a couple of questions and thats about it, jotting notes of her talking.

I started on 'The Interogators' book last night. It started off interesting, so it promises to be a good read. I also managed to watch Bill Orielly last night interviewing the President. Plan on watching the other two, tonight and tomorrow. Really curious if Kerry will do the same.

Going to take my son to therapy and carry my daughter along. My wife is having her tooth fixed at the dentist so she will be sore again for awhile. Hopefully this will be the last of it.

This evening I am tired. I really don't understand why I am so tired, but I am.

Sunday we went to church and then over to Kelli's parents house to help them finish the hall. They had painted it, but we put down the flooring. It took long enough,but I can't complain too much, they fed us lunch. heh heh. At least were able to get that far for them, regardless if it took the rest of the day.

Monday was another Murphy day. It could be worse, but why does it always seem so blasted busy? I was on support today, my one day for this week. Thank God. And it actually wasnt a bad day of support. I am also on-call this week, so here is crossing my fingers while typing for a quite week.

My mother was released from the hospital today. My wife was able to make arrangments and leave her work to take her home and run by Walgreens to drop off the scripts. But get this. The doctor wrote the script incorrectly. So here is Kelli taking off work, trying to get the scripts and my mom home around 10:00 a.m. . One of the two scripts was wrong. Walgreens makes the call to the Doc's office. They wait. I called 15 minutes later to see if they fixed it yet, while my wife runs some errands in town (staying in Fort Smith). Nope, so I called my wife back updating her and then called Walgreens back in 45 minutes. No go in 15 minutes, but they gave me the doctors office number. I made that call and low behold the lady answering the phone didn't have a clue and I could call back at 1 p.m. ( its 12:40 p.m. ). "One o'clock? where is the doctor?" "In surgery" she replied. "Do you have any notes on the call from Walgreens?" "no" "Do you have any notation whatsoever in the chart? Or is there anyone there that can get this corrected?" She sighed and said she can make a notation for them to call me when they get back. I can only assume 'they' were at lunch. I called back at 1:30 p.m. and spoke to first the lady I left a message with then with the nurse that was gone. I gave her the spill and she said she would call Walgreens. She called me back in 10 minutes to explain the doctor rarely orders that kindof med and that's why he had the wrong milligrams in it. But with this kindof med she could not order it on the phone, nor by fax. I had to hand deliver another script to the pharmacy. ( Yes you druggies, its one of those good kinds ) By this time, Kelli was at home and its nearly 2 p.m.. She tried to go into a reason of the delay, because I basically told her it was a shame due to my mom being discharged and now the correct script was written. But you know how it goes, one said they called and was waiting the other said, I didn't get the message till late, yada yada.
Anyway, I took off to grab the script, then took it to the pharmacy. Since that was going to take 20 minutes, i headed to the library to drop off 'Sleeping with the Devil' by Robert Baer. A book I highly recommend. I then grabbed the medicine, took it to my mom's house, dropped off a storage payment for her on the way back home and then hit the work again. During this little outage, my wife had to pick up our kids, the neighbor kid (she asked last night) and our lovely friends kid again. Dropped them off in their respective places, took our kids to the Chiropracter, speech therapy and finally home. Great Scott.

I will have to say while I was at the library, I happened to run across a friend of mine I use to work with long ago. She suggested the book 'Why America Slept' by Gerald Posner. I went ahead and checked it out as well as 'The Interrogators' by Chris Mackey an Greg Miller. She is a full blown Democrat and very smart. We know where each of us are on our viewpoints and chide each other when we can. She told me she was still kindof split on her decision for Nov. 2nd. I was a bit surprised. As we spoke, she couldn't really stand on her Democrat candidate. I won't go into the discussion but just wanted to note even only 36 days left before the vote, some people seem to not had made up there mind, yet. Or they have hesitation to say.

Oh one more thing, the library had 'Unfit for Command.' The book I wanted to get. It was out but I was able to reserve it.

I just finished watching "The Ghost and the Darkness". It's been a long time since I have watched it before. Again, a really good movie. I was fortunate to find the DVD at a yard sale for 5 bucks. Yes, even without any scratches nor skips. I could not help but look up Chicago's Wildlife museum online after the show. The movie remarked the actual lions are still on display there. And the more terrifying part of the movie was the fact it was a true account, not out of imagination. The link to the museum showing two pictures of the lions can be found here. You will have to scroll down to the bottom of the page.

This is the reason I went ahead and blogged it. heh heh

I added a two new links on the side, one entitled Farenhype 911. Looks like it will be a good movie, coming out Oct. 5th. http://www.fahrenhype911.com/

Another is a blog, called Mongo's Mutterings that I will be checking out.
Mongos Mutterings


I also removed another dead blog as well. Your Daily Dose

Yesterday was a better day, thankfully. Yes, work was still busy, but at least it did not feel like bombs being thrown at me as opposed to the day before. Without going into detail, I am able to actually work on interfaces, and some issues as opposed to just trying to stay alive.

Learned new horrors concerning the Jihad war within Russia, Michelle Malkins site Look a little down Michelle Malkins blog to see "THE RAPE JIHAD". Personally I would shoot any sick psycho willing to rape 15 year old girls, religious orientated or not. I seen similiar footage from Africa. I recall National Geographic going into the jungles of Africa, witnessing tribal rituals that would partake in raping/sodomizing young boys. sic

Can't help but know about the Dan Rather/CBS blackeye on the issue of false documents. Initially they reported them to be true. Under scrutiny they are found to be forged some say fabricated. Then Dan pushed to say they are absolutely real, but I can't provide the originals. OK. Then news breaks out of phone calls being made in Kerry camp, CBS, Bill Berkett, hmmm. OK so we are a click or at least in communication with each other. Now one side says, I said nothing of the memos in our conversation, while the other side said, they wanted the memos for Kerry campaign. Another sad tale of He said/He said debate. Real issue? We got caught, where's my lawyer, who will take the fall for this. I heard a good comment last night on the news. You can't call them forgery because by definition forgery is a replicate of an original. Whereas the document never existed, so by definition it's a fabrication. Good point. I will be waiting for the book to come out. It's enivatable.

Plan to only rest this evening with the family. No running, working or anything like that. I am looking forward to it. Hope everyone had a good Friday today.

I said it, therefore it must be true, right?

Yesterday, was another busy day as most might expect for this week. But talking to other co-workers not in my group, they are having just as rough time as we seem to be. I also mentioned to our speech therapist that Murphy is working over time and she responded with 15 minutes of her hectic week. So it's not just us.

I managed to grab another cox cable receiver for the living room. So we are yet again complete with what we had, in addition to the channels for our kids bedrooms and my office. I must admit, when time allows, I enjoy watching the news in the background within my office. My wife was told something that made alot of sense in regards to the dichotomy of Cox and Dish. The cable guy pointed it out that with Dish, they do not have the same maintenence as Cox does. Consider Cox must put up all the new cable wires throughout the town and landscape to reach us, hire enough crewman to maintain those wires/boxes ect. This is opposed to Dish slapping up a satelite and do not have to maintain that hardwire. Considering this, Dish is reaping the profit as opposed to Cox just maintaining above the cost to keep alive, made sense. Just a thought. Because we pay the same for one as the other.

Other than that, my mother continues to go really well with her knee. My son continues to do really good. Now yesterday, he couldn't make up his mind at the speech therapy in picking out a toy, so after 15 minutes I just had to go. Carrying him out while he made a crying fit was not good. I had to give him a swat when we got home, but after that everything seem to be ok. This morning he was up and atem eating nearly 3 eggs (a record) and all the chores done. My daughter is a morning person similiar to me. So this morning was actually nice and I didn't need a cow prod to get anyone moving.

Yes, today will be a better day.

What a freaking mess. Monday flew like crazy. Here was the plan, then I will shortly state what went down.

Plan

Get up around 4:30 a.m. go grab my mother to take her to outpatient surgery

Get her in, should take about 2 hours.

Be back at home around 9 a.m.

I had scheduled the cable to be there 10-12 to setup the cable (should'nt be bad considering we had outlets already in place)

Go back to hospital and recheck on my mom since she will probably be asleep most of the first day.

Come back home, then return prior to our 6:30 p.m. PTA meeiting.

Goto the PTA meeting at 6:30 p.m.

During all this, I am on support all day for work. Sounds simple right?

Well Murphy had screwed it up.

I get to my mother on time, but she is not ready. I wait 10 minutes or so and then take her onto outpt services. We sit for awhile, then get the paperwork checked, ect. Then wait another little while. They take us up to surgery. Wait another 10 minutes. Get her in, I can't go back there till they get her ready for the surgery room. Wait another 20 minutes. ( see a pattern here? ) Get back there, see the doc. Everything will be cool, be about 1.5 hours. ok ok

I go back and wait in the surgery waiting room. I also had my wife bring my PDA to me , since I forgot it so I can call into a 8:30 a.m. conference call. 2 hours later still no update. I begin to ask whats the deal. Then finally the Dr. comes out, yes, all went well. She will be up in the room in about 20 minutes. "What's the room number, Doc?" " OH well they will tell you in 20 minutes." OK

I also had already made a call to the boss lady, I will be a little bit late. Then after another hour of no-updates. I finally get the lady to call for an update. Received the room number and walked up there. ( Also asking anyone if there is a cable outlet for me to work. of course not, no ) Then I sit in there till they get her in. I didn't get a chance to leave till freakly 12 p.m. I was so frustrated with the time-line. Yes, the main thing was my mother and I know the concern should lie there, and it did. But I knew she would be ok with this, I just did. But frail, a 1.5 hour procedure lasted 5 hours. 2 hours more if you count the time I got up. (sigh)

Now during all this time, my wife is running her freaking head off grabbing some errands and then being stuck at home, while the cable guy goes through 3 cable digital converters that were bad, then had to go to Van Buren (about 30 minutes away ) to acquire another one that would work. You would think they test them out first.

On top of that, we are still getting our friends kid at noon. I drove there on the way home to grab him and take him to the day care center.

Get home, get updates and hit the work.

My wife went to grab the kids from school at 3p.m. , take them to the Chiropracter, then Speech therapy, then grabbed something for supper since we had the meeing at 6:30 p.m.

When they returned home, we ate and I threw them in the shower to get the showers done. We all 4 went to the PTA meeting. The kids had their snack there. Came home, kids brushed their teeth, went to bed. I then ran to 2 errands, then over to the hospital to check on my mom with some flowers, ect. from the family. (sigh)

I got home around 10:30 p.m .

So that was Monday in all its glory.

Tuesday,
I had scheduled the call to change interfaces that would move Hemocare charges from Hemocare --> Invision to Hemocare --> OPUS. This was already tested and we had the prior meeting last Monday. Now the plan was if they had an issue then contact us because this call was the make or break for us turning this on. Well, the facilty had some charge codes they were concerned about and didn't quite understand. I asked when this was found, the answer? Last Thursday. Needless to say, I was aggravated. The project is now moved up another week, with another facilty up another week as well. Maybe we can get this up next Tuesday.

I had to grab another Cable digital converter for the living room. We found that there are an additional 5 kids channels on the higher channels. figures.

Had a really busy weekend this weekend. Friday night we had a chance to spend some quality time together without the kiddo's. We went to eat at Cuco's within Phoenix Village Mall, Fort Smith. It was actually reasonable and good food, having the fajita's for two. I grabbed 'Man on Fire with Denzel Washington' to watch later that night. It was a good movie.

Saturday morning, Kelli's mom came to grab us and we hit the Greenwood yard sales. We spent half the day looking for bargains. Our biggest prize was a kids foosball. It looked new for 15 bucks. It will be perfect for the kids. It is currently hiding under a sheet tucked in the garage for Santa to bring to the kiddos.

That noon and afternoon, we helped her mom and dad pull frames, wall paneling from their home hallway. Her dad was cooked on the grill while we yard sale and had it ready for lunch. So we ate, visit and got to work. I didn't take to long. Saturday night I wrestled with the kids until they wore me out. ( Didn't take too long, heh heh ) The kids had their sleep over in the living room ( yes they love it ) since it wasn't a school night. I stayed up watching 'Braveheart' on DVD (that I found in a yard sale for 5 bucks ) while the kids watched 'Dino Thunder, Power Rangers'. My daughter and wife fell out pretty quick. My son, like me hung in there till late. I think he lasted till 11:30 p.m at least. I turned their TV off when my Braveheart went off at 12:30 a.m.

Sunday morning, we dragged our kids out of the pallet and we all went to Church. After Church, the kids and I went to visit my mother as my wife stayed home. I had a pretty good visit with my mom. She will have her left knew replaced in the morning. I plan to take her to the hospital in the morning by 5:30 a.m.

We returned home and currently the kids are creating posters for a poster contest at School. The theme is something for against bullying.

Our son continues to do great on the no milk diet. I had to tell the good news to my Sunday School peers. They were all glad to hear of this good news as well.

Great Scott, what a day of support today. The network was totally unstable and I had to continually recycle interfaces all day. Some more than once.
I am currently blogging as I keep an eye on my alerts when someone IM's me of another interface down. Probably take me a freaking hour to write this. LOL

Cable/Dish update: Well this morning, I was on the phone with both to disect this out, seeing my best options. Essentially it boiled down to this. I can get the same channels (in one reciever) through Cox for the same price as I am putting out for Dish and Cox. In addition I will have channels 2-99 in both kids room and my office. Currently we have the Dish Channels in our living and bedroom only.

I have this going down next Monday. Dish will discontinue and Cox will come up full digital.

Good advice Nixon, I gave them the lowdown this morning when I called into cancel.

The individual I spoke with initally asked why I was going over to another cable company. I told him full blown. Basically just told him the truth. Dish first said I could upgrade, giving me the local retailers that can do the work and call them to turn it on. I called the local retailers, they said no that was incorrect. If we do that Dish will fine us. Dish will have to give the yes and they call us. I called Dish back and the second representive said they could not upgrade us due to 'your an existing customer'. blah blah blah. So the guy said, "ok, let me transfer you to our cancelation department."
I was very nice nor raised my voice during the whole discussion. When the cancellation dept answered a lady asked me the same question. "Why have you decided to go another company?" I asked if this conversation wsa taped. She was a bit taken back and replied "I dont know."

So I gave her the whole story again in rich detail. She interupted saying it will be more expensive to go another company. I said no it isnt. She said, "yes it will, it will be cheaper in the first month but I assure you it will rise and be more."
'That is incorrect maam, yes it will be cheaper the first 3 months and then the price will rise, but it will be the same I am putting out for Dish and I will gain 3 rooms of cable.' Well that didn't go over well. You would think they realize we (customers) would research our shit first. grr. She changed tactics and started to ask me if I would like a 522 reciever sent to me with no charge, we can install ect. I kindly responded with 'with all due respect maam, Dish should have offered that yesterday before you made my decision for me. I am requesting you to cancel it Sept. 20th and send me my final bill via mail." She finally resigned her attempts and confirmed the date and amount the final bill will be.

Son update: Recieved tremendously good news today. My wife took our son to the Doctor and spoke with him. This is an alternative doc, registered not a voodoo but not really mainstream either. Anyway, he suggested we are on the right track. ( not that we can't see a major difference ourselves these past 2 days, with the non-milk diet ) Anyway, the thing I found interesting is he suggested to my wife, the belief our son actually does not have speech apraxia, rather since he has been missing 40-50 percent of input, due to the staring out, he is only developmentaly behind. He also stated, he would not be surprised our son would catch up in 1-2 years with his speech. Now I know we shouldnt be too overly confident, but with the last two days dramatic change. This is looking better and better. I have to say Thank the Living God. Yes, we wish we had this 2 years ago, so he wouldnt even be behind, but at least we have it now.

As promised, the election board sent me a sample ballot for Oklahoma. The 10 question s posed on the ballot can be found here. They are state questions, 705 through 708, 711 through 715. In addition there will be the following running for office.

Judicial Retention: Requesting to retain Note they are not running against anyone.
Justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
James R. Winchester - District 5
Rudolph Hargrave - District 8
Judge of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Charles S. Chapel - District 1
Judges of the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals
Joe C. Taylor - District 3, office 1
Ron Stubblefield - District 3, office 2
Glenn D. Adams - District 4, office 1
Larry E. Joplin - District 4, office 2
E. Bay Mitchell III - District 6, office 1

Coporate Commissioner between
John Wylie(D) and Denise Bode(R)

U.S. Senator between
Brad Carson(D), Tom Coburn(R), an Sheila Bilyeu(I)

District 2
Dan Boren(D) and Wayland Smalley(R)

Then of course the Presidential vote.

Well no-one replied to my recent 'Going Political' inquiry. Oh well.

I had called Dish Network to check on upgrading our current two room to 4 room viewing. I been seeing ads showing you can get 4 rooms, with dvr (ability to record, pause, ect ). So I called, since I way past my initial year contract. I was amazed at what I found out. I cannot get a new year contract with them, acquiring the new upgrades.

Here is how the conversation went.

Dish: "It is not offered to existing customers."

So I simply replied the obvious,
"So your saying, I need to discontinue Dish and reapply?"

Dish: "No sir, you would still be considered a existed customer. Because you would still be in our databanks."

Me: "Well then how do I get Dish in 4 rooms not my current 2 rooms? Because 4 rooms weren't available at the time I signed up?"

Dish: "We cannot upgrade existing customers with the 322 or 522 receivers."

Me: "So no-way on the upgrade in anyway?"

Dish: "We can send you a 522 receiver for 24.95."

Me: " Who would install it?"

Dish: "You would."

Me: "So there is no-way I can get Dish in 4 rooms? Just the 2 rooms I have it in now?"

Dish, rather stressful:" We cannot upgrade you to the 322."

(sigh) I said, ok thanks and hung up at that point. It just didn't make any sense to me. I was only trying to acquire a satellite feed in my kids 2 bedrooms and they wouldn't do it. They only wanted me to acquire a new receiver for the existing one I have.

So I called Cox cable to see what my options are there. See we have both in our house. I know it sounds crazy, but Cox is the only one in this area offering digital internet access. Where as Dish Network was the first offering more than 18 channels in this area. So after speaking with Cox. Sounds like we can get the same channels we currently have with Dish ( don't want to lose any ) and still gain channels 2-99 in the kids room. Not only that, but I should be able to splice the cable to my office so I can get Fox News in here while I work. I plan on speaking with Cox again tomorrow and set it up.

I explained all this to my wife and she said that was why some of her friends went over to another cable company from Dish, because like us, they were an existing customer and they would not allow them to simply upgrade. Crazy if you ask me. You would think they would, if nothing else but to maintain their customers for another couple of years, via contract.

Well it's Wednesday morning and I already have the trash out to be picked up. I finished off the brownies ( nice breakfast, eh ) and wanted to blog real quick before I hit the work again.

I have a slight dilemma in politics, and actually asking for feedback on this one. I am currently registered as an Independent. The reason is because I make my political decisions on the candidate not the party. True I vote as a conservative. But here is the deal. In Oklahoma state law, you can only vote within your party for the primaries. Now Oklahoma is primarily built up by Democrats. Take this last sheriff election. Both candidates were Democrat. Since both were going for it, I could not vote being registered as a Independent. I do not foresee any Republican Sheriff coming on the November ballot, thus the Democrat wins by default. So I really am not having any say in the matter. You might think, what's one vote. But in the last Sheriff election, Gentry one by only one vote. So I personally believe each vote actually counts.

I have been told this year, by more than one person, Bush will acquire Oklahoma hands down. So much is this thought, the Republican Headquarters are having to buy their Bush/Cheyney yard signs as opposed to being given too. The reason? They see Oklahoma as a lock state, and they are pushing more on the swing states. ( sigh ) Sucks, but I guess you have to look at the big picture.

Back to my question. I have been thinking of changing my party to Republican. Mainly because I am currently locked out of both primary party votes and truthfully my conservative is swayed more toward Republican ideology. More-so now, due to the extreme liberals taking over the Democratic party. I will say this, I know of some 'southern democrats' that are so fed up with the liberalism in the Democratic party, they are also talking about changing their party. Some may think 'whatever' but I have to say this. Living in Oklahoma all my life, in this area, the mentality has always been, 'my granddad and dad has been Democratic, so I am Democratic'. But of course the problem is, Democratic party is changing, not the 'southern democratic. I was also told yesterday, even Brad Carson, the Democratic runner in Oklahoma for the Senate seat, is starting to stay clear of Kerry, because he knows Kerry is bad news.

So with that background, should I change to Republican for my same means of thinking or should I change to Democratic because that is mostly what is in this area?
By the way, I am voting for Coburn (R)for Nichols replacement, and I voted for Corn (D)for Senate. I value both men's history and ideas and highly respect each.

There are 10 things on the ballot in November 2nd for Oklahoma. I have asked for the Election Board to mail them to me. I will post them once I receive them. I like to know what and who is up to vote on / for before I go in.

Site Update: Messing around my site, I removed two dead bloggers and actually alphabeticalize my listings. You will also note some new headings and links over there.

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Adam Sessler

Received fantastic news today. Kelli called me around 3:10 p.m. telling me Tiffany ( the teacher assistant that has been with our son for 2 yrs ) said she been waiting all day to tell her. Our son didn't have a single staring out today. He not only finished all his work, he wasn't the last to do so. When the teacher walked the room, he kept an eye on her. He had energy all day and played like crazy. What is more, there were two other people, remarking to my wife how our son's skin color wasn't as pale as it had been before. A noticeable difference. Talk about great news. So even with him only drinking yoo-hoo a difference was made today.

Found out today also the prospect of a new peer doesn't look good. The lady they had heard (she has an interview tomorrow) isn't very technical. Not good. I asked my boss lady why isn't there so many people looking for this position, isn't there anyone out there needing an interface job? So much for a drop in job loss. We cannot even find a reasonable applicant.

Today is my dad's birthday. He turns 57 today. I surprised him this morning by wishing him a happy birthday. Also when the kids were in this evening, we had them call to wish him a happy birthday as well.

I am drinking the last of the silk soybean chocolate. I actually like it. Oh well.

I also found another Robert Baer book, called 'Sleeping with the Devil'. It's about "How Washington sold our soul for Saudi Crude". I will have to say how it is when I complete it.

I finished the book 'See no Evil, by Robert Baer'. I found it totally fascinating and insightful. I do highly recommend it. It portrays his career as a CIA agent on the grounds as a anti-terrorist group. It even brings it up to his findings on the oil scam regarding Roger Tamraz having Senator Kennedy's wife on the payroll, along with having access to Bill Clinton and the campaign finance. Yeah, it was very interesting.

Kids and wife are off to school and work. Getting ready to hit it again. I figure it will be busy day to get my projects underway. Looks like I will be moving a new interface out next Tuesday. I will also be migrating other interfaces off the OPENLINK and onto the new BeyondFTP server. I have a meeting scheduled this Friday.

Oh well, I hope to hit the town today and pick up the donations for the PTA silent auction. I also plan to hit the library again and find another similar book. I enjoy the fiction true stories more than before. Probably showing my age.

As expected, I was on the phone all freaking day. I then get a call about 10 till 5 p.m. asking to check a interface. I thought why not. Next thing at 5:30 I kept saying, I really need to go now. I wasn't on-call and couldnt get the on-call person at all and then find out they are not even going live with this interface tonight. crap.

So as my wife continues to inform me, I am not on-call nor would the others be doing this. I split and we race to pick up the friends kids from the babysitter to run to Fort Smith. We had planned to meet our friends ( 4H couple ) at LoneStar tonight since kids eat free and they had all the ribs you can eat.

Needless to say we made it on time but the couple was a bit late. ( GO figure )
Well the ribs were good at first but then they became more and more salty. I personally do not like salt on my food. Any of it. I mentioned to my wife it's pretty salty and she said the steaks were too, but she liked it that way. Well, I barely finished what was brought out. So that was a bust. Then when the bill came, they charged us for the kids meal. Well, I had to mention it and she came back and said only Sunday and Wednesday. No, I replied, that is not what Brady said the other day, its all week. You see, for PTA silent auction the manager had donated two lunch coupons worth 25 dollars to the PTA, in addition kept saying we are having kids eat free all week. Expressing his desire for us to tell all about it. So that is why I had to make a correction on it. They took it off the second trip back. But all in all, I enjoyed the conversation with everyone and the kids did very well for the time we stayed.

So now it's already 9 p.m. and I already threw the kids into their showers and bed. Hence also updating this blog.

Couldnt blog last night. I am finding at times, I am unable to create a post or get into Blogger. Must be pretty busy with the amount of users for it. They need to upgrade their processers, ect.

I managed to help dad out yestrday with the furniture moving and I was also able to just sit and talk. It was nice to chat on life, and catch up with everything.

I am interested to see how today will be with Braden. We went cold on milk and dairy since Friday morning. I guess we will see. I made some pancakes ( kind you just add water ) this morning adding a bananna. Everyone seem to like it. I am also the one that will end up drinking the Silk choco drink. No-one else likes it. He's been feasting on Yoohoo's, water and juice over the weekend.

I have alot of conference calls scheduled today. I don't expect to get anything done. In fact my first one is in 10 minutes from now.

We also learned last Friday, our peer is finally out. But in addition the individual that they were looking at, dropped out as well. He didn't take the position. This is the same one everyone expected to be in the team by mid-october. I already have my tickets bought to be at Corporate. But now we are back to square one, trying to find a person to feel the vacancy in the team.

Needed to catch-up on my blogging this morning as everyone else remains asleep.

The kids were out of school Friday so our friends kids stayed over here, and Kelli watched/entertained them all day. I heard them through the door as I worked. I didn't make any calls Friday, as I was trying to catch-up my work and projects. I managed to create a working charge interface that has been on my list for quite some time. I also learned in addition to NWTH facility in Amarillo going up on the new ordering system in December, they want the Aiken facilities lab upgrade to be done by November 1st. So it will be off to the races again. Consider this, each interface that currently touches the ordering system in NWTH will need to be modified for that one facility and each interface that touches the lab system in Aiken will need to be modified. So you have two separate facilities with about 20 interfaces per facility that will need to be worked on and ready for those individual deadlines.

Friday night the kids went to their nana and papa's. So what does the wild couple do without their little ones? We went out to eat a steak since Kelli was hungry for one. After she talked about it, I also became hungry for one. Yes it was good. We had to wait nearly 20 minutes before we had our drinks, yes I had a corona, but the food was good. It was a Logan's Run that just came into Fort Smith.

Afterwards, we hit Toys R Us and we found some good bargains for the School PTA silent Auction coming up October 9th. Then we hit Walmart on the way home and walked around there, picking up some more yahoo's, ect.

We had grabbed two movies on the way to the restaurant to watch later that Friday night, 'Jersey Girl', 'Punisher'. I was impressed with both. Jersey Girl wasn't as I thought it would be with, but I still enjoyed it. I was most impressed with Punisher it was a remake with John Travolta playing the mob boss. I stayed up till nearly 2 a.m. watching it. My wife barely made it through Jersey Girl, since we came home later than we thought we would. So there you go, a wild night out. : )

All day Saturday, we were at the Poteau Fall Carnival, assisting 4H with their booth. I helped sell raffle tickets for a smoker someone had donated. They will draw for it October 18th. Kelli painted finger nails, and put designs on the fingernails. The raffle was one dollar per entry whereas the finger nail painting was 2 dollar each. I heard more than once a lady saying the quality of the nail jobs was equal to a 40 dollar manicure.

Kell's parents brought the kids around 11 a.m. and so the kids were able to see the animals and play the games. They also had these huge blow up activity contraptions. One of those jump around with the net to hold the kids in and a big slide. The thing would take half our backyard blown up. But the kids had a blast and for the duration we stayed there, they did really good. But admittedly around 3 p.m. I and the kids were about faired out.

There were also a republican and democrat booth at the carnival. I stopped by both. I was able to pick up some Bush/Cheney yard signs as well as some Coburn yard signs. The Republican gal told me to please not to put them out till mid October( I planned to hit Pocola with them ) because, they were having problems with people picking them up and throwing them away. I mentioned I noticed a couple of my signs I had put out were no longer there. She said it was not only illegal but not right, but that was a problem they are seeing in this area. Figures.

We hit the house Saturday afternoon. Kelli bathed the kids as I ran the movies back. I called my Dad, since he was on the caller id at home. He wants me to help move furniture today, Sunday. I will be going over there after Church today. I also called my Mom checking on her and I will be taking her to a knee surgery not this Monday but next. She has to be there by 4:30 a.m.

So last night the whole family were pretty much wiped out and we all hit the bed before 9 p.m.

This morning, as I drink my coffee, the family remains asleep. Never a dull moment around here man.

Friday for me.

Yesterday evening my wife was given some astounding information. Our son is highly allergic to milk. The thought is this is what is causing his staring out. Those unaware, our son has small seizures called staring out. To us or the outside it appears as if he is just daydreaming or zoning. It was explained to us like a lightbulb that goes off and nothing comes in till its back on. He receives nothing as far as information for those periods of times. This news came at once, literally around 4 p.m. My wife came in all excited, 'this may be the answer we were needing!' . I couldn't help but be a bit reserved. Seems she was consulting women at church and doing research about it for quite some time. ( God knows when she had the chance ) Researching the abilty to dispell ADHD and staring out by diets. I was astounded of info online where kids with ADHD lost symptoms entirely just by their diet change. Did you know milk held the highest product of people being allergic? More so then peanuts? I didn't.

Kelli explained to me the means of the Dr.'s testing him for allergic. If I wrote it, you would think it was as crazy as I did when I heard it. But it had to do something with a reaction of the vega nerve. The other interesting aspect was this same Dr. consulted with another Docter in Tulsa by phone, giving out the symptoms. She immediately told him it was due to an allergic reaction of milk and by removing it from his dietary would elimanate 90 percent of his problems. This could also assist his speech ( speech therapy is where we take him each day ). This is what prompted the allergic test. Note the Tulsa Doctor was not told of anything but his symptoms. Want more interesting info? He mainly drinks chocolate milk every freaking day. The kid can't get enough of it. So it's looking more and more like this could really be it.

I don't mean to be skeptical and I hardly know everything, not much of anything when you look at the big picture. But my main fear is another setback in Kelli's resolve. However, she genuinely glows when discussing it and I have to admit it sounds verrrryyy likely. We will be going cold on milk around here for at least 5 days to see the results. It will take 72 hours for the milk to be clean from the system. We should see dramatic results by Monday. We had parent/teacher conferences last night and informed his teacher and assitant. They are excited to see if any improvement occurs as much as we are. The kid is smart, no doubt about it. Even with his staring out occuring nearly 50 times a day he is one of the first 3 to have his bee on the board. This means he knows his phone #, address, town, state, ect. I was impressed considering it was from the whole class of about 17 kindergarten students. So I will definitely post the outcome. I joked to Kelli's friends last night, rather the kids smelling booze on our breath, they will smell milk. We will become closet milk drinkers. : )

Yesterday morning, I assisted the Grandparents Lunch at school. I helped as a dishwasher. I figured l let the pretty ladies out in the front while I stayed in the back. At least that is what I told them. Personally, I rather do the job few like. It always make it go by much faster and I do not like just standing around out there. It seemed to go well. The plates just kept coming. There were a stack of them in the corner ( normally 3-4 stacks at at time ). My goal by mid morning was to hit that corner stack. But no sooner than I was nearing it, the next class of kids was dumping their trays on us and I was behind again. This along with the kitchen ladies putting silverware and pots in front of my plates ( they had only one of those steamed dishwashers running 90 seconds per turn ) kept me behind. I had to leave at noon to go to work, and never did make it to that freaking stack. Oh well. At least I was of some help.

The parent/teacher confernces went really good. Both teachers had good things to say on our kids. I was impressed and proud of both of them. Each seemed to be accomplishing above their peers and personally that's how I like it. Can't help it, you want your kid to be the best. No-one is perfect and mine included, but each teacher had good things to say about them.

I also ran to Walmart after 10 p.m. last night acquiring non-milk drinks, products for the weekend. Wish us luck.

I made numerous calls for the PTA today, requesting donations for our silent auction coming in Oct. 9th. A few immediately said yes. I picked them up the afternoon.

I had two conference calls I had to deal with today at work. Both went well. One was a project, we were able to put back on track the other was a follow-up call. I have my stuff done, but the other party still needs to complete their side of it before testing can occur.

I fixed another charge problem for a facility. Seems they were not charging a particular charge for the last month. Looking into it with them and the vendor, seems their Lab IS person made some changes incorrectly. Essentially this is the flow. A result is sent from Vendor A to Vendor B. Vendor B then creates a charge from the result and passes it to us with the result. Well there is a table between Vendor A and Vendor B that was not correct. Thus no charge was sent onto us with the result. At least it's fixed now.

I also managed to deposit more in the PTA fund today, which was also good. My wife picked up, yet another box of returns to go through. I will be glad when this stops to trickle in.

After I ran all over Fort Smith this evening and got home around 6 p.m., I wrestled some with the kids and gave them their showers. Fixing them snacks and later started to wrestle, play with them again, my daughter hurt her arm. She jumped on my back and right over me onto the floor. I was practically on the floor but that didnt stop her. She said she twisted it, bummer. Needless to say we stopped and attended the injured. She was ok as I held her through the rest of the cartoon. Kelli (wife) and I been so busy the past two nights, I guess they feel neglected.

Grandparents luncheon is tomorrow at school and I will be taking the halfday off to assist. I will probably be cleaning the dishes in the back. We plan on giving the school cooks candles and a fundraiser card for their troubles. Kelli asked around and it seems no-one in the past 4-5 years has ever given anything to the cooks. Unbelievable. Well, that will change this year.

I been teasing my buddy the 4H guy. They called us the day before to have our pictures in for the fair. So last night we found out we needed it done and turned in by 3:30 today. Not only was the ball dropped, but they hadn't picked it up yet. I created them some tickets for them to sell the Smoker Grill for the 4H fair. Didn't mind too but, darnit I have to put up with people calling me at work saying I have an issue needing resolved now, even though the issue was from last month/week, ect. I hate it when I have to deal with it at home too. Anyway, I teased him pretty bad about it last night and then later felt bad about it. I hear this evening, I wasn't the only one saying words to him in regards to communication. Bummer, guess I will have to apologize.

Kelli found some of these towelets to 'wipe/clean' the dogs with. Anyone seen these? We have 3 little dogs. Yes, 3. One momma and two sons. One son for each kid and yes each dog loves to sleep with the kids. So rather than me using the excuse of ' I haven't showered the dogs tonight, before its too late' she acquired these to wash them so they can sleep with the kids. Where might you ask does momma dog sleep? Why between Kelli and I of course. Towlets anyone?

I was able to drop off the 3 largest boxes to school for the teachers. These boxes contained the supplies provided by PTA. I noticed Cindy Steele ( secretary) was already polling them out before I left.

I also had a chance to sit with my daughter and go over some math problems she seemed to be having trouble with. Her trouble equaled to 80's rather than 100's. I see that she has a logical mind, similiar to mine. The other day the neighbors daughter came over for me to assist her in math reciprocals and such. With me helping her and then today with my daughter, it reminded me how much I enjoy math. It's simplistic logical ways. You do the equation correctly and it comes out the same correct answer. I like that, going back to 'just the facts' again.

I spoke with my son yesterday evening while we headed to the speech therapist. He told me he hated school and didn't like it. I asked why and he retorted because all they do is work, work and work. I had to giggle on that one. I tried to convey to him that was the reason you go to school, to work and learn. ( Try explaining this to a 5 year old wasn't really easy ). I also tried to mention the fact that momma and daddy still works, you will always work and working isn't a bad thing. I don't know how well I conveyed it to him but I tried.

I will take a half day off tomorrow to assist in the Grandparents lunch at School. Seems that only 4 PTA members have responded to help out. Figures. We have 38 members and only 4 replied back.

Guess I better get to work. I gotta make alot of calls today and try to pick these projects up. During yesterday's call with the CIO, she indicated she wanted to get Aiken (hospital) lab upgraded by November. So this will only be an addition to the project list. Oh well. I said it before. I rather be busy than twiddling my thumbs.

Well, the first day of the week went as fast as usual. During our CIO meeting the only statment of our peer ( who I have not heard nor seen all last week or this day ) was that the position was re-opened and we should have a new interface member by next meeting. Well, I guess that said it.

I was able to drop off the 3 largest boxes to school for the teachers. These boxes contained the supplies provided by PTA. I noticed Cindy Steele ( secretary) was already polling them out before I left.

I also had a chance to sit with my daughter and go over some math problems she seemed to be having trouble with. Her trouble equaled to 80's rather than 100's. I see that she has a logical mind, similiar to mine. The other day the neighbors daughter came over for me to assist her in math reciprocals and such. With me helping her and then today with my daughter, it reminded me how much I enjoy math. It's simplistic logical ways. You do the equation correctly and it comes out the same correct answer. I like that, going back to 'just the facts' again.

I spoke with my son yesterday evening while we headed to the speech therapist. He told me he hated school and didn't like it. I asked why and he retorted because all they do is work, work and work. I had to giggle on that one. I tried to convey to him that was the reason you go to school, to work and learn. ( Try explaining this to a 5 year old wasn't really easy ). I also tried to mention the fact that momma and daddy still works, you will always work and working isn't a bad thing. I don't know how well I conveyed it to him but I tried.

I will take a half day off tomorrow to assist in the Grandparents lunch at School. Seems that only 4 PTA members have responded to help out. Figures. We have 38 members and only 4 replied back.

Guess I better get to work. I gotta make alot of calls today and try to pick these projects up. During yesterday's call with the CIO, she indicated she wanted to get Aiken (hospital) lab upgraded by November. So this will only be an addition to the project list. Oh well. I said it before. I rather be busy than twiddling my thumbs.

I was able to drop off the 3 largest boxes to school for the teachers. These boxes contained the supplies provided by PTA. I noticed Cindy Steele ( secretary) was already polling them out before I left.

I also had a chance to sit with my daughter and go over some math problems she seemed to be having trouble with. Her trouble equaled to 80's rather than 100's. I see that she has a logical mind, similiar to mine. The other day the neighbors daughter came over for me to assist her in math reciprocals and such. With me helping her and then today with my daughter, it reminded me how much I enjoy math. It's simplistic logical ways. You do the equation correctly and it comes out the same correct answer. I like that, going back to 'just the facts' again.

I spoke with my son yesterday evening while we headed to the speech therapist. He told me he hated school and didn't like it. I asked why and he retorted because all they do is work, work and work. I had to giggle on that one. I tried to convey to him that was the reason you go to school, to work and learn. ( Try explaining this to a 5 year old wasn't really easy ). I also tried to mention the fact that momma and daddy still works, you will always work and working isn't a bad thing. I don't know how well I conveyed it to him but I tried.

I will take a half day off tomorrow to assist in the Grandparents lunch at School. Seems that only 4 PTA members have responded to help out. Figures. We have 38 members and only 4 replied back.

Guess I better get to work. I gotta make alot of calls today and try to pick these projects up. During yesterday's call with the CIO, she indicated she wanted to get Aiken (hospital) lab upgraded by November. So this will only be an addition to the project list. Oh well. I said it before. I rather be busy than twiddling my thumbs.

I was able to drop off the 3 largest boxes to school for the teachers. These boxes contained the supplies provided by PTA. I noticed Cindy Steele ( secretary) was already polling them out before I left.

I also had a chance to sit with my daughter and go over some math problems she seemed to be having trouble with. Her trouble equaled to 80's rather than 100's. I see that she has a logical mind, similiar to mine. The other day the neighbors daughter came over for me to assist her in math reciprocals and such. With me helping her and then today with my daughter, it reminded me how much I enjoy math. It's simplistic logical ways. You do the equation correctly and it comes out the same correct answer. I like that, going back to 'just the facts' again.

I spoke with my son yesterday evening while we headed to the speech therapist. He told me he hated school and didn't like it. I asked why and he retorted because all they do is work, work and work. I had to giggle on that one. I tried to convey to him that was the reason you go to school, to work and learn. ( Try explaining this to a 5 year old wasn't really easy ). I also tried to mention the fact that momma and daddy still works, you will always work and working isn't a bad thing. I don't know how well I conveyed it to him but I tried.

I will take a half day off tomorrow to assist in the Grandparents lunch at School. Seems that only 4 PTA members have responded to help out. Figures. We have 38 members and only 4 replied back.

Guess I better get to work. I gotta make alot of calls today and try to pick these projects up. During yesterday's call with the CIO, she indicated she wanted to get Aiken (hospital) lab upgraded by November. So this will only be an addition to the project list. Oh well. I said it before. I rather be busy than twiddling my thumbs.

I was able to drop off the 3 largest boxes to school for the teachers. These boxes contained the supplies provided by PTA. I noticed Cindy Steele ( secretary) was already polling them out before I left.

I also had a chance to sit with my daughter and go over some math problems she seemed to be having trouble with. Her trouble equaled to 80's rather than 100's. I see that she has a logical mind, similiar to mine. The other day the neighbors daughter came over for me to assist her in math reciprocals and such. With me helping her and then today with my daughter, it reminded me how much I enjoy math. It's simplistic logical ways. You do the equation correctly and it comes out the same correct answer. I like that, going back to 'just the facts' again.

I spoke with my son yesterday evening while we headed to the speech therapist. He told me he hated school and didn't like it. I asked why and he retorted because all they do is work, work and work. I had to giggle on that one. I tried to convey to him that was the reason you go to school, to work and learn. ( Try explaining this to a 5 year old wasn't really easy ). I also tried to mention the fact that momma and daddy still works, you will always work and working isn't a bad thing. I don't know how well I conveyed it to him but I tried.

I will take a half day off tomorrow to assist in the Grandparents lunch at School. Seems that only 4 PTA members have responded to help out. Figures. We have 38 members and only 4 replied back.

Guess I better get to work. I gotta make alot of calls today and try to pick these projects up. During yesterday's call with the CIO, she indicated she wanted to get Aiken (hospital) lab upgraded by November. So this will only be an addition to the project list. Oh well. I said it before. I rather be busy than twiddling my thumbs.

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Well, the first day of the week went as fast as usual. During our CIO meeting the only statment of our peer ( who I have not heard nor seen all last week or this day ) was that the position was re-opened and we should have a new interface member by next meeting. Well, I guess that said it.

My wife and I went through another box of the PTA card fundraiser today. I picked it up from school during lunch. amazing the amount returned. But we gained more funds for the PTA so I shouldn't gripe too much. But I will say this, I grow tired of parents not filling out their forms, nor teachers unable to adequately write down the kids name and money/cards returned.

Unfortunately this took time away from spending it with our kids. They did watch their evening shows, and played but I still, like my wife, feel guilty of having to take time away from them to do this other stuff. I realize there are alot of parents out there that do not give their kids the time of day but we are not one of them.

I finished my Deadzone last night. So now I have officially watched season one and season two. My mom will have knew surgery coming up pretty quick and I will let her borrow them to watch while she is down. Other than that, I couldn't find anything on last night worth a flip to watch.

Already morning and still working on my second cup of coffee. Kids and wife already off to school and work. The interface team has a scheduled meeting with our CIO today. Perhaps we can finally hear what will become of our peer and if we will indeed be acquiring one mid-october. This would help in regards of me getting my plane ticket in advance, ect.

I was thinking this morning of beginning a journal in addition to my blog. I been actually keeping my blog up ( which surprises me ), so I found a free journal online at http://xaltra.net/contents/download_file.php?program=1&mirror=0
. My plan will be to write my personal stuff in addtition to my current blogging. I will then copy/paste from my journal to the blog. This will allow me to write those more personal thoughts and experiences for my kids, and not feel like doing double writing. We will see how it goes.

I had a nice relaxing labor day weekend and I know it will be hard to get started back in the ball and grind mindframe again. I am on support for work tomorrow and I need to request a half day for Thursday. With everyone else coming back after a vacation and some probably remaining on one. I do not foresee a very productive week in respect with projects. It will be a good time to get caught up on my documentation and internal projects, ect.

My daughter lost her first upper front tooth this weekend. Talk about looking cute. I know its a sign of her contininueing to grow but I can't help seeing her as my little girl.

Ahh, another day off without being on-call. I was able to sleep in again this morning and man it felt good. After we ate at chinese yesterday, we ran to Walmart getting the essentials, you know chocolate milk, OJ, ect. Then we just bummed yesterday afternoon.
The kids played well together and they had a sleep over in the living room watching movies. I actually was able to watch 'sniper school' on discovery channel. A rare treat to watch a non-cartoon in the living room. : )

While the wife and kids fell out last night, I managed to watch the rest of my Deadzone dvd, with the exception of the last show on it. I fell out around 12:30 a.m.

It rained a bit last night as the ground is wet outside. Looks like it will be cloudy all day.

Good morning all.
I woke up this morning feeling pretty good. I watched the passion last night and yes cried in it yet again. We plan to go to church this morning and then eat out at a chinese restruant. Been looking forward to it all week.

I was looking through my blog list that I enjoy and was struck with a bit of aggravation at Nixon's blog today". He correctly reports on the media bias but also this flat out lie from the AP. It wasn't Nixon I was aggravated at, but the continued Kerry supporters found in the media making it more and more obvious. Nixon links to a blog reporting the outright lie. Within the report I see Oklahoma News Channel 4 reporting it on their site. But I could not find a single place on the site to email the editors, nor any living body. Grrr. That also frustrated me. So my question is what can one do to these outlets that blankets lies and you cannot hold them accountable? AP put out the lie that during a Bush convention, while Bush stated the news of Clinton's learned heart problem, the crowed boo'd while Bush did not say anything to them. This is a far left tatic to put dislike to the Bush supporters. Here is the actual audio of the same Bush rally. Check out Nixon's blog today to get the rest of the story.

Unfortunately there were no extra's within the Passion of the Christ DVD. My neighbor wants to watch it, which will be a good seed.

I stayed up last night with the kids watching movies. I made it through Superman cartoons and then we started 'Clifford the Big Red Movie'. I hadn't seen it yet, while the kids seen it, like twice already. My daughter fell out and I wasn't much behind. My wife already hit the bed in the back. My son and I began the movie around 10 p.m., I think. I fell half a sleep during the movie and managed to half way wake up. My son wanted to watch,yet another movie. I said no-way, it's time for bed. I turned the tv off and staggered to bed. The lighted clock showed midnight and my son was still wide awake. Fortunately he didn't argue.

This morning, I put all the cash and checks for PTA fundraiser into the bank. I am uncomfortable with all that money and was glad to get it deposited. When I was back home I managed to finish mowing the yard and weedeat both mine and my neighbors. It took some time but both yards look good now. I finally put my attempted garden to rest. I managed to machette the weed-trees down and finish it off with the mower and weedeater.

Afterwards, shower and rest. I was able to play with the kiddos the rest of the day. And yes we watched the Clifford movie and I did get to see it this time. Anyone played the game Shooters? No its not a drinking game, rather a dice game. My wife played it way back before the kids and I pulled it out showing my 6 year old how to play. Needless to say, she beat me in every game. Pretty humilating to have to count her chips for her (due to her not knowing how), but she was the winner of the game every time. Oh well, we had fun.

I plan to watch the Passion of the Christ, tonight. My wife hasn't seen it at all and she wants to watch it alone. I will be interested in her take on it. If my wife watches it tonight, I will probably catch a much needed adult show, due to all the cartoons watched today with the kids.

The speech from President Bush was phenomenal last night during the last of the RNC. He did exceptionally well. It wasn't too much over the top nor forcefull, rather a smooth speech. I was most impressed with his 'This is what I believe in.' and actually stated his positions on topics such as traditional marriage, ect. I have yet to hear anything from Kerry but his 4 months in Nam. It's like he is stuck in the past with no hope of moving forward. I picked up this similar theme from Bush's speech last night. He continued to reiterate looking in the future not the past.
His speech is found here.
But now that the RNC is over this week, I can actually watch something else for awhile. I hope to watch again 'The Passion of the Christ' and see if they added any extras within the DVD. I also hope to pick back up the remaining 'Deadzone' I haven't had a chance to see on season two dvd set.

I am glad to hear the Islamic terrorist in Russia has been pulled out of the kids school. Unfortunately, it sounded like it ended in catastrophe. As ambulances came in to pull the dead parents bodies from the grounds, a bomb went off and all hell broke loose. The islamic group hid behind the kids as they ran away. Last I heard they had some in a house held up, but that was earlier today. They found dead bodies within, mostly kids shot in the back. God help the parents of those children.
Dangerous has a good link on this as well. http://www.danegerus.com/weblog/Comments.asp?svComment=5950

Today wasn't too bad at work. Perhaps next week everyone can reply to my questions, request for the projects that are on a standstill. But like it always happen, they all will reply at the same time and then I will be wishing for a breathe.

Site update: I have removed

Jyeah

Jordan

from the list since they haven't been blogging for some time now. I will keep Nixon's cousin blog on for a bit more.

I am on call till Sunday Morning. I am so glad its Friday. TGIF man. Regardless of being on call there is something nice about it being Friday. I am actually off this Monday for Labor Day as well. So I will be off Sunday and Monday without fear of being called for work. I hope all have a good/safe weekend.

On a differnt note, I was called 'middle aged'. Eek gads, I never was actually called middle aged nor thought of myself as already there. I gripe about time flying but must we be reminded how we are subjected to it as well? Oh well.

I had a chance to actually blog tonight as opposed to only in the morning. I was short today, I admit it. I didn't get much sleep last night, my head hurt all day and my ear continues to bother me. I was able to get into the Chiropractor today. I am now down to once a week. I asked if he can adjust eustachian tubes. He said no, but could do sinus. So yes, he whacked my sinus's with his instrument. Guess we will see if it helps. Funny thing is, he knew which ear was bothering me, without me saying. I continue to find that part fascinating. And no, I wasn't pulling on it. heh heh

I receieved the following piece in an email from Gary Baur that I found interesting and wanted to share it.
"Let me tell you something about those “peace protestors.” The New York Sun
polled 253 individuals who participated in the “United for Peace and Justice” march earlier this week. Fifty-two percent (52%) agreed with this statement: “America is overall a negative force in the world.” Sixty-two percent (62%) opposed U.S. military action in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban. And worst of all, 67% agreed with this statement: “Iraqi attacks on American troops occupying Iraq are legitimate resistance.” Lending credence to Miller’s words, 76% said they planned to vote for
John Kerry in November."

I must also in fairness mention one of the group that was beating the crap out of the New York cop, was not a regular leftist peace groupy, rather an unstable individual that has record. So I guess he wasn't chanting 'No Bush - Peace man' while beating the crap out of the cop. Still I heard nearly 1000 protestors have been arrested, thus far.

On a totally different note, I also received a prize from my wife yesterday. She bought me 'Passion of the Christ' on DVD! I was very surprised. I havent seen it yet on DVD due to the Republican Convention, but plan to do so. She has not seen it yet and I am unsure if she will. She doesn't like violent movies and I frankly do not know if she can handle it. News reported 4.1 million copies of the movie sold in the first day alone. Amazing. I am not sure if this was in America alone. Can you imagine if only half went to vote on November 2nd? So if my wife happens to read this particular blog, Thank you.

I wish everyone a good night and a safe labor day weekend. I also continue to pray for the hostages in Russia to be released.

Site Update:Wacky Southern Housewife happened to visit my blog and post. So I have added her to my list of blogs and will check her blogging out. If 'My Journey written by France' and 'Jordan' doesn't restart blogging, I guess I will remove them. : (

I also added a contact on the right. You can contact your congress and media, ect.

Thursday morning, finally. I was awaken last night twice for on-call. First time was around 12:30 a.m. for a simple recycle of one interface. I couldn't get back to sleep for squat. I was up just enough to get my mind free of cobwebs and aroused. I turned for nearly two hours chanting to myself, 'you gotta get some sleep or your going to feel like crap tomorrow'. The chant wasn't much help. The last time I looked at the clock was just prior of 2 a.m. I then was awaken around 5:40 a.m. by another on-call issue. So I am on my second cup of strong coffee.

Yesterday at work, three more facilities were hit by viruses. I ended up on support till nearly 3 p.m.,so basically all day. It was a busy support day too. I was trying to kill the tickets as they came to me but they just seem to continue to come at me. I didn't get much done other than maintaining support all day trying to resolve issues.

I was able to see again, the RNC, last night. Yes, Zell Miller was a bomb in the room. He threw more zingers than twinkies could muster. He was forceful, made an impact, and I think only repeated 4 words. I could see he was the type of individual that said it once and that was it. My favorite line, among many, was the spitball comment. I was again impressed with Cheyney's speech. He came out with the joke of Vice President. Incidentally, that was the same one he used in Fort Smith, during that convention I was able to see firsthand. Seemed to me Zell Miller made the noise, Cheyneys wife gave us a pause, and Cheyney came out swinging in his cool, smooth, articulate manner. Finally, someone is addressing the 19 years of Kerry's voting record as opposed to the 4 months in Nam it was so proud of. I only hope those that have not made up their mind actually listens and looks into it.

News: I see the Islamic terrorists still has the kids and parents held up in the school this morning. They reportedly resleased 3 children and their mothers. I heard on the news they appeared to be infants from a distance. So, we have reportedly 350 hostages, on day two they release 4 (2 babies and maybe 2 moms). Giving this rate, they will be in there, around 232 days? I get this by dividing 350 by 4, then times 2 ( for the days). Anyone know what the hell they want, other than releasing their Islamic brothers in arms? Again, can you imagine the impact if it was here? I don't know if we would have another Waco, but if we cannot figure out how to stop these islamic facist, then I can only see their same attempts here. Remember, these facist believe in the more horrific, the more publicity they will recieve.

I feel a sinus cold trying to come on. My right ear began hurting yesterday, and I woke up with another headache. geez.

I was up early this morning. My wife is still throbbing with the root canal and unfortunately for my kids, their time to the dentist is today. Hence, up and at-em today. I just spoke with them and they are already done at the dentist heading to Walmart for a prize and some essentials. I have already vacuumed, cleaned the bird cage, animal box, and started the laundry. My next task will be mopping the floors since I have the rugs up. While I cleaned the bird cage ( outside hosing it down for good measure ), I filled the bottom with clean litter. On my treck back into the house (Note this is a large cage with wheels ) the bottom came out and litter spilled between the garage and kitchen tile. grr, I kicked the remaining bottom that clung to the cage. Yeah, that did good, the remaining litter flew in the garage more like a blanket of snow. Just more for me to sweep up. I managed to reapply the bottom and clean up my mess, moving on. But that's how it started this morning.

During this I also was running a script within a couple of facilites to populate the PIDX. Basically the script auto-loads patient information as opposed to someone manually keying them in by hand.

Well frail, I just received an IM stating that the one doing support today at work has a virus. I will be taking it up for a bit. Oh well. Yesterday, a facilty had a virus that required them to shut down all their routers ect. so as not to contaminate the network for the other hospitals and corporate.

News: This morning I also woke up to hearing of yet another terrorist attack on Russia. This time the douchbags have taken a school. Reportedly, anywhere from 200 to 400 captives, mostly kids. Unreal. Yes, they are Czek Islamic terrorist. I think we all should have compassion and be outraged for the families over there having to go through this horrific ordeal. Can you imagine this occuring here in the United States? I have no doubts if our current President, and prayfully our next, didn't take on the offense on any/all terrorist that scenario could very well be playing out here today as opposed to over there. The terrorist even stating if anyone of them are shot, they in turn will kill 50 children per soldier killed. I pray for the families and that country. Because it seems pretty relentless on them this week.

I watched the RNC last night again and was impressed with Arnolds speech. He was the one stealing the show, it seems. I felt bad for the Bush girls. They were obviously nervous and frankly their attempt of humor fell flat. Oh well, they did say it was their first public appearance. While I listened to Laura Bush, I was only thinking, this lady sounds intellegent. She stumbled over a couple of words, but her message was very articulate and seemed to me, a bit long, even though it was only 22 minutes.