Middle America's Worldview

Well, we actually survived the black Friday. We found some pretty good deals in chlothes and some movies. We also snagged a couple of games for the kids. It has become a tradition of the family at this point. Each Thanksgiving we stroll out the 'day after sales' and plan the assault. I have tagged with my mother-in-law for the past 3 years, this year marking our 4th. We are assigned Walmart with all the sales and admatch's. We made record time this year. We grabbed all availble, in and out within 2 hours. That was waiting 30 -45 minutes in checkout lines. Yes, a record for us. We are improving as the years pass on. Fortunately for us we do not have to wait outside in lines and weather.

My wife hits 7 stores to our one stop shopping. She constructs a grid and marks out the trail. This year her family came in from Texas. They tagged with her. I like she feared they would slow her down. They actually helped her and kept up with her. This surprised us all. They said they had a good time in doing it.

Saturday we just stayed home in our pajamas all day. Literally we showered and got back in clean ones. LOL

Sunday we hit church and then ended up staying home that evening.

Monday's work was busier than I thought it would be. I was expecting a quite day due to most on vacation. But I was sadly mistaken. It was 6 p.m. before I knew it.

The one cool thing was, Kelli's cousin grabbed first season of "24" at best buy. He said I would love it. I never have watched this show at all. I completed the second of around 6 dvds in the set. I am now officially hooked on this show. The only description I can say is intense. It has not only the main but many subplots that keep it moving like crazy. Any 24 fans out there?

I find this unbelievable and irratating. What's next, no Thanksgiving due to it deemed a religious holiday?

"Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams, are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."

"He hands out a lot of material and perhaps 5 to 10 percent refers to God and Christianity because that's what the founders wrote," said Thompson, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for religious freedom. "The principal seems to be systematically censoring material that refers to Christianity and it is pure discrimination."

So we have a principle that is erasing any form of Christianity from a Public School regardless if its our Nations history and roots. This is getting to the point of ridiculous. I am tired of liberals (on either side) that continues to neglect or rewrite history. I wonder if this is what the bible makes reference, regarding in the last days people will search the truth and shall not find it. Unbelievable.

Below are some links for this issue in California.

School bans history materials referring to God

Declaration of Independence Banned at California School or Red-baiting Liberals on Thanksgiving Day

Q: How could Neandertal man be too advanced for evolution?

A: In southern France, they recently found evidence of human habitation hundreds of feet deep within a cave. What makes this find so important is that it’s been dated as the earliest signs of humans in Europe. Only the Neandertals were thought to be the inhabitants of Europe at that time.
What they found in the cave was astonishing for such so-called “primitive” people. They found a “complex quadrilateral artificial structure consisting of specially arranged pieces of stalactite and stalagmite.” Also found was a piece of burned bear bone.

Now for the problem. The items were so deep in the cave, that the people would have had to have some kind of artificial light, such as a fire, torch or lamp. Also, the structure they found was so complex, it would have required the builders to be able to communicate with each other.

Such language skill and technological know-how easily fits the creationist understanding of Neandertals. They were a line of early humans living after the Flood and descended from Noah—but evolutionists have long held that Neandertals could not possibly have done these things.

Neandertals may be a problem for the evolutionists, but not for those who believe in Genesis.
Full article found here.
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Part of the above news can be seen at the bottom of this site.I have pasted it here.
NEWS: Fifty stone tools made and used by Neandertals in Ukraine have been found to have microscopic residues of wood, starch, and other organic substances. The residues on the bases of teardrop-shaped scrapers and combination spear-point/knives indicate that they were hafted on wood handles. Residues on the working edges and sharp tips of these tools show that they were used to process both plants and animals, including waterfowl. These artifacts came from two sites that date 37,000-32,000 and 80,000-40,000 years ago respectively. This evidence is important because it shows that Neandertals were more capable and flexible in tool making and food acquisition than had generally been thought. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences September 11, 2001)

I had a friend forward me an interesting article relating biochips. At my company we work with Siemens using their product as a intergration server. I recall last year when Siemens brought out their biomouse. Ever seen or heard of it? It is actually a good idea. Basically all employees in a facility requiring access would have their fingers scan. Then you can have a pc or dumb terminal in the hallway with a biomouse as a point of access. Now the scenario would be a Doctor goes to the PC and touches the mouse. The thumb would be scanned and he would have access to his security level. He then would leave and a nurse would come by. The nurse would touch the mouse and she could immediately attain her required level of security within the system. Now a non-working civilian comes by and touches the mouse to see if anyone might had not logged off. He would only be presented with a blank screen. Technology like this has been availible for sometime. Pretty cool, eh?
As I read this article below, I just wanted to point out the technology is arlready here. Please note the last paragraph, which I will emphasize. Also note a chip in you today, doesn't mean you have been marked by the antichrist. Reading the bible carefully, the rapture must occur first. I suspect when the rapture occurs and millions of people vanish, chaos will follow. A chip would be an excellent means to help identify those that remain. You will probably hear more about BIOChips and embeddeed microprocessors within our items and even ourselves to desensitize our youth. It will help get the fear and stigma away from our generation and prepare for what is to come.
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GETTING CHIPPED

Well, after a day off-line I finally heard word of my laptop. I still do not know what the deal was.

I received a call around 9:30 a.m. (10:30 est) from my buddy in PCLAN. "You want the good news or the bad news." Crap I thought, my harddrive is toast. "Give me the bad news." No sense in drama. "Well, brother, your laptop is not here." " OK " I said hesitantly. I was puzzled as too why but listen for the rest of the story. " But the good news is it's in King of Prussia." Seems Fedex had dropped it off at the wrong address. How the hell can that happen, I don't really know. Especially since their dropoff was across town, 30 minutes away at a totally differenent address given. Needless to say, I called the guy who had the laptop. Fortunately it was a pimpled kid with time on his hands and needed a shell of a laptop for his 250 gig harddrive. I then called Fedex explaining to them the issue and requesting they promptly repick it up and delivery it to the correct address.
Of course they will, with an apology of the inconvience. Yeah, right.

So without a laptop nor access to my precious enviroment, I returned voicemails, spoke in my scheduled meetings and attempted to act like I was working. I received word around 3:20 p.m. my time by PCLAN that he fixed the issue. When I prompted him, what was the deal. He stated he really didn't know. He had to fix/repair the boot sector. Stated it looked intact and he will be fedexing it back to me overnight. So I should receive it sometime tommorow. I will note my buddy also stated it should arrive in the morning, as he requested it to be. Unless, it lands up 3 blocks away. ha ha Very funny man.

So I don't know what the issue was, other than a failed boot sector. Thank the God in heaven I didn't lose everything. I made myself another mental note to back up my files every week. To hell with the CD's. I will just have to break them before tossing them in the trash.

I agree Mark (mental_note). We are not very fond of Citrix either. It is a bit flakey at times. But what are you going to do? If you have to use it; you have to use it.

I see Dan Rather is stepping down. As if there was a choice in that ordeal. But of course the discussion on the news__is this the end of network news? Yeah, about 5 years ago.

I think I will add the websites I have created or had part of creating on my blog. They are not fancy. Having them there will prompt me in keeping better up in them.

Well, yesterday didn't go according to plan. My work computer crapped out on me, again. I had it on all weekend. I rarely turn it off. I had to be somewhere yesterday afternoon and took 1/2 day off. Since everyone is not on the bandwith I knew I had to deal with a phone dialing into work. I checked if I could still dialin RAS ( Remote Access System ) and get to my work. Yep, the old dialing into with a copper phone line. After being on cable for so long now, I had to ask the guys at Corporate to pull the string harder. After 2 failed attempts I was in. Once in I found I could get to my Lotus Notes easy enough, but nothing else. VPN nor internet access wouldn't work. Hence I could not really get into my work. I had my Monday morning work call. Each Monday morning the interface team has a meeting to hash out their projects, any issues, what will I be working on this week, any rollouts of new interfaces, ect. I mentioned the fact I couldn't get into Citrix with RAS and they responded, I can. Oh well maybe I just need to reboot my laptop. I was thinking it would refresh the memory blah blah blah.

After the call and I made re-arrangments of my evening meetings; I took the plunge and rebooted my PC. I was greeted with an unpleasant blue screen. The white information was giving me the message of a software or hardware upgrade is causing problems and my startup didn't startup due to possible damage that could be done(or something to that effect). Ahh crap. So I did what every intellegent I.S. person does in this experience. I rebooted my PC again___and again___and again. Shit. It still doesn't come up. I tried F8, F10. Looked at my BIOS. Attempted startup on safemode, safemode with networking, safemode with command prompt. I tried startup with last known working configs (didn't know that was an option till now ). Still the same blue screen with white lettering. Sigh.

OK, time to call in the pros. I called a PCLan group buddy of mine. Basically, told him what is occuring and what I had done. I received the one question I hate. "Did you recently install anything new"? Like what am I going to say? Yeah, that cracked warez I received online. The dude told me it was clean. Yeah right.__ The last thing I put on the stupid thing was the graphic driver, he helped me with. So the end result is me fedexing it overnight, hoping like hell they can fix it and resend it to me by Wednesday. Until then, I am a duck out of water. I literally cannot do anything without my laptop. I live online. I am going to have them send me the Citrix and VPN software on cd when they return my laptop to me. I can put it on my home PC for a backup. But still this sucks. I am suppose to be oncall this week, but I will lose at least tonight. I already lost last night oncall.

Well, here's hoping I get the thing back and not a call saying, dude I need to order a new harddrive, with the holiday coming up, it will be like next week.

Site update: I hadded a couple of links and I will be removing the John Kerry links soon.

It is currently a little after 7 a.m. Sunday morning today. I have already taken a shower and the coffee is nearly done. Kelli and the kids are still lying in bed. The kids had another sleepover in the living room. On non-school nights they love sleeping in the living room while watching TV. They call it a sleepover in the living room. : )

Yesterday morning the fog was really thick here. It remained this way till after 8 a.m.

We started to put Christmas decorations out yesterday. I arose 6 a.m. and pulled down all the boxes from the attic. (Pause, I had to go get me a cup of coffee, the pot was ready)
Man, some of them felt like they were lined with lead. We have nearly 15, at the time felt like 30, boxes including a box of wrapping paper. Fortunately for me this is only once a year. My favorite part of this annual event is pulling out the old pictures of the kids. You know the ones I am referring too. They look so young and innocent in those pictures. As they gain on the number of Christmas’s they really have changed. For some reason I am really looking forward to this Christmas. The toys we have for the kids this year are for the bit older. This year the kids actually bought gifts for others on their own with their own allowance. They are making gifts for those they couldn’t. The difference is it was their idea this time. They are just growing up and its times like these that really make me realize it.

We as everyone else are so busy we usually don’t have time to scratch our butts much less hold someone’s hand. But on mornings like today as I sit alone in my home office while everyone else remains asleep, I stop and think upon these things.

OK. I finally have a chance to blog some more in peace. Yes, it’s Thursday, Yes, I am glad tomorrow is Friday.

I have the yard done! I had to acquire the 10 extra bags of rock Tuesday night. I wouldn’t have believed it would take so much if I hadn’t experienced it first hand. However, the yard is done. If must say it looks pretty good. It will take me some time to get use to it. We had been buying mulch for the past 3 years and now we don’t have to anymore. The rocks will pay for themselves over time. So that is 60 bags put out, 50 pounds a piece.

We have the shelves put up in the garage as well. I can actually see the garage floor again.

The work this week has been basically the same. Busy as usual and time flew. But I rather it be busy than crazy.

We are going to get a futon. Kelli’s dad is giving us a futon for my office. So I moved the used couch out today and her dad is bringing the futon in the morning. Kelli and I will sleep on it while her family is visiting next week. It is hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week. Where has this year gone anyway? Her brother came later today and we moved it to the garage. It seems he is unable to take it yet due to something about his yard being worked on. Oh well. At least it’s out of the house, regardless if it’s in the garage. Once I have that out and the unused shelves, I will be able to see the garage floor again. : )

We were able to make it to church Wednesday night. This is a good thing. The bad thing is the service being so late. They do not start till 7 p.m. We had the kids take showers before we even left for church. This allowed us to get them into pajamas with a snack as soon as we returned home. I received another tape from by buddy. This one is called The Panorama view of prophecy throughout the Bible by Ed Hindson. When I finish the Isaiah tape, I will watch it. Being Wednesday night also shows the weekly show Lost. I had to tape it while I was away. Now I have the luxury of fast forwarding through the commercials, but I haven’t had the chance to watch it yet. I enjoy that show, and I am trying to watch it when I can.

Kelli has a friend over tonight giving everyone haircuts. My son hates haircuts so this should be good. At least Braden knows her and enjoys playing with her kids. 10 bucks a haircut is not bad and the friend needs the money too. It’s a win – win situation.

You might note these last two weeks I have been blogging only every other day or so. the reason is our home projects. Fortunately Kelli seems be to better each day. She had a CT of the sinus yesterday morning. We are waiting for the results. I told Kelli I am having a hard time to recognize the house. With 10 more bags of rock (60 total), I have the yard done. We also purchased a couple more storage cabinets to complete the garage. I must say it is amazing how much crap one accumulates over time. The trash people will love us today. I have a bunch to be picked up for them. But alas, it will be oh so nice to have everything organized.

Kelli's family will be coming in from Texas for the Thanksgiving weekend. Another reason to get everything in order now. We are also already looking to bring down the Christmas boxes from the attic to begin putting up lights this weekend. Never a freaking dull moment.

I will write in more detail later today. I am currently having to update my monitor drivers due to some bug in my laptop.

I am already dreading work tomorrow. I know the vise will be back on the neck in the morning. I will not bore you with work. I will move on.

Yesterday I was excited. I received my DVD movie in the mail. I bought The Seven Samurai from EBay on 10.26.04 and received it Saturday. It was shipped in from Hong Kong. I was able to acquire it for 8 bucks! I won the EBay bid for .01 and the shipping was 7.99. It was an unbelievable price. The DVD was a 2 DVD set, brand new in the package. Yes, it has the English subtitles. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I look forward to the opportunity when I do.

Kelli woke up feeling a little better than the day before. She has already met most of her sleep than she has ever had. Rather than the pain Saturday, she was just drained.
Her parents wanted to take us all out for lunch with her brother. It was for her brother’s birthday. She rested most of the morning. However, while she was online she checked into Home Depot. Can we say free credit? On a whim she saw if we could acquire any credit. Amazingly, we qualified for it. So we thought we would see if they had some storage appliances for outside and inside the garage. A little before the dedicated time to meet her parents at the restaurant we strolled into Home Depot to check it out. The store has been in Fort Smith for a little time, but we never been in it. We mainly shop at Lowes when we need anything for the house and yard. The prices weren’t as bad as we thought. Actually we spotted what we were wanting before we hit the store doors. Thanks to the outside display we identified the vinyl Rubbermaid tool house begging to come home with us. We went in and strolled around and noticed a couple more items of interest. During lunch with the parents and her brother, we mentioned our findings to her parents. They also were going to Home Depot after lunch. Her brother split for a hot date as soon as his food was ate. The rest of us met at Home Depot. I inquired her Dad would haul our items in his truck if I purchased them. He didn’t care to take them to our house. However, the kid (looked younger than me) asked exactly what kind of truck we had to haul the shed. I told him Dodge Ram, pointing out the red one in the lot. He looked at me and said he wouldn’t do it and asked if we had a trailer. Crap. I thought. How big is this box?
It was decided to go ahead and purchase it and Kelli’s Dad would come by in the morning with the trailer to haul it home. So the deal was done and I was on my way with another credit card payment. Ahh America the beautiful.

We also bought a couple of storage cabinets for our much needed garage. My daughter helped me put those together Saturday afternoon. Kelli pushed too hard being up and running so was knocked down 2 notches below where she started that morning. It was sad to have her want to clean and organize but couldn’t. Believe me, she would if she could, organization is her thing. I partied with the kids that evening and they fell out before 9 p.m. Since they had another sleepover in the living room, I watched the ‘Daniel, by Ed Hindson’, a walkthrough the book of Daniel by the prophecy scholar Dr. Ed Hindson. Telling everyone right now, if you never checked out his books or tapes, you really need to. I hold John Hagee pretty high on my ladder of good teachers in prophecy. Ed Hindson now is there, if not a little above. If you knew my collection of Hagee material, you would know that is saying a lot. Fortunately for me I have a friend in church loaning me copies of his Ed Hindson tapes.
Tired yet again, I went to bed. I looked at the clock in our bedroom, wondering the time and seen it was 9:30 p.m. What a wuss.

Kelli was up at 2:30 sick and with a splitting headache. She now had a rash from the meds and other issues. As she became as comfortable as possible, I was now awake. I went back to my daughter’s room and finished watching the Daniel tape. I went back to bed on to keep looking at the clock from 5 a.m. on to 6 when I finally got up.

Kelli’s dad came a little before 8 a.m. I had drinks and breakfast ready for the kids, who were up watching cartoons. I left to grab our new projects at Home Depot. Since we arrived a little early, we ran over to Walgreens to pick up Kelli’s new prescription. (We had called the on-call doctor to get a new script since the one she was on was causing the rash, ECT around 6:40 a.m.) Of course the pharmacies (open 24 hours) didn’t have it ready (now just before 8 a.m.). Seems their voicemail box doesn’t light up when a call-in was made, as it use to. Getting the script, we ran over to Home Depot where they gathered the shed and some rock I had bought as well for our flower beds in the front. Yes, give me money/credit I just spend it. Well when they brought the box out, I can see why they looked funny yesterday. This bad boy was huge. It was probably a good 10 by 8 foot, approximately 3 feet deep. Needless to say the trailer was full. We brought it home and just couldn’t get ready to get started. Sigh, where’s my coffee.

Well, I didn’t make it to Church as desired. It took all day putting up the outside sheds. We also moved our garage ‘junk’ into the sheds. This made quite a lot of room in the garage, as we hoped. I haven’t put all the cabinets together yet and didn’t even touch the rocks. But I felt we cut into it today. Not just a dent, but a good cut. For an old boy in front of the computer at work everyday, that was a lot of manual labor done. I am already sore and will probably really feel it tomorrow. I must say my daughter really helped out on these projects and I was especially proud of her. She is 7 but I seen these other kids around here, and I was proud of her this weekend.

Now its 8:30 p.m. and the kids are in bed. Kelli also is in bed, but probably awake. I have the option of another good night sleep by going to bed now or watching my Seven Samurai in the living room. Hmm, if I go to bed now, my work day will get her that much faster.

I really enjoyed the seminar I had Thursday. The seminar provided more information than I had expected. I had to send a thank you to the company to allow me to attend it. It was a Grammar free – Proofreading, Fred Pryor seminar. So I am in hopes my blog writing will also be of some improvements as well. : )

Thursday evening and night my poor wife was still having a serious headache. She went to bed early in hopes to get rid of it. I was thinking she was starting a migraine. She doesn’t have many of them, but when she does have one it is normally a doozy.

Early Friday morning the kids and I took her to a Promed (Doc in a box ). She was nearly in tears at one point. No. It’s not a hemorrhage. However, the Doc did say she had a serious throat infection and found it a wonder she could swallow. Kelli responded to the Doc as saying her throat wasn’t bothering her at all, compared to the headache. According to the Doc the headache was due to the infection. So she got two shots in the butt and 2 prescriptions for good measure. Once we finally were able to get the meds we headed home. I was unable to get a movie for tonight but the kids found 2 movies at Wal-Mart as we waited for the scripts to be filled. Our son grabbed a Pokemon cartoon and our daughter grabbed a Hello Kitty.

Kelli went to bed when we came back home and stayed there all day with the exception of eating a little. Other than that I hadn’t seen much of her. I played with the kids all day. I also managed to keep the laundry and dishes clean. I must say I enjoyed my day with the kids. It was a treat for the three of us to play all day.

It’s nearly 10 p.m. already and I am beat. I can’t believe I am already tired, but I have to say I am.

One good note is both kids seem to be getting over their bugs. Only a cough here and there for our son, and our daughter seems to be all well now. Go figure.

Well my work week is officially over. I will be in a seminar all day tomorrow and probably check the email tomorrow evening. I talked to the boss lady and gave her my updates. Hopefully nothing will break in the next two days with my name on it. : )

Well, I sent my kids to school this morning. Since my son seems to be bouncing off the walls again and my daughter had no fever nor temp. But as you would know, I ended up going to pick her up around 10 a.m. So I was a bad Dad by telling my daughter to toughen up and suck it in. (Not really but it seemed like it afterwards). She was looking pretty pale and just laid down all day. Later tonight she got sick again and was praying to the porcelein god again.

At least my son is feeling much better. My wife still isn't her full self. But she continues to do it all. Amazing. She's my hero. : )

Drinking the rest of the wine myself tonight. We had a bottle in the bottom of the fridge for nearly 3 months and broke it open a couple of nights ago. So since my wife still has a belly ache, I took the job of finishing it off. yeah me.

As I write this, Kelli is reading about lipstick having lead in it causing cancer, providing a list of known brands using lead. Hmm, let's think about this. Lead poisening is known. Let's put it in lipsticks. Want to know if your lipstick contains lead? Apply some on your hand, use a gold ring to rub in it and if the lipstick turns black, you have lead in your lipstick.

Concerning the Election. I am glad it's over. Kerry did a good job in conceding defeat, but the Liberals seem to have a hard time accepting defeat. Listening to Rush and Hannity, when some liberals call in it gets down right scary to hear them. They bring up all kinds of conspiracy theories, still believing in the concept of Bush stealing the 2000 election. sigh. One guy actually was looking at the possibility of a judge ruling Bush in for another 4 years. The liberals are so out of touch in reality they cannot take this in. Unreal. Sad really if you think about it.
Oh well. What can you do. It's over people, Daschel is out, the exit polls was flat out wrong, the county map shows nearly all red.

2:30 a.m. and my daughter is up coughing so bad, she threw up. My wife is up with a high temp and fever as well. Guess I did jinx it, but with their health.

We gave our daughter some cough medicine and now she and my wife are lying in the same bed. sigh.

I can't believe it. Two days in a row for work to go well. I actually am gaining ground on my projects without feeling too overwhelmed. I know, I know, I just jinxed myself. But without call and my support day over with, I am only left with tomorrow. I have an all day seminar Thursday in Fort Smith, and I am scheduled off Friday. So a short week for me.

Initially we were planning to go to Texas this Friday visiting Kell's family. Her cousin will be going to Kuwait. But with everything going on and the fact her Uncle's family coming in as well we figured we wouldn't be able to get much of a chance to visit anyway. It would had been a fast trip to see him. 9 hour drive and 3 days doesnt give one much time anyway.

I couldn't believe the lady that never gave me feedback actually did on ebay. So my points rise again. Great!

Seems the bugs has hit our house. My son been coughing his head off the past 3-4 days. It seems to be better as of tonight. He is already asleep and not coughing his head off. My daughter has a rash we been working on. The doc called it viral and my wife has fever as of today. She says she feels achy all over and not good at all. Her blood pressure was down today. So all but myself have succombed to some bug or other. I been lysoling like crazy, pumping vitamens down them in the morning while drugs at night.

I went to Walmart during lunch today to acquire some dvd/vhs combos for the school. PTA approved to buy a dvd/vhs combo for the teachers in school. Seems the school really do not have the funds and all have only vhs players in the rooms. Well, welcome to the 20th century folks. Nearly everything is coming out in DVD's. So Kelli acquired about 5 last week and I acquired 5 more today. Talk about looks from everyone. Want attention? Buy 5 dvd/vhs combos and cart them to your van. I was able to use our PTA tax exempt number and they were on rollback for 79.86 a piece. What a bargain.

It's only 8 p.m. and all my family are already in bed. I put them all in bed early tonight with drugs. A benadryl here, a cough syrup here, ect. You know the drill. Since all are in bed early tonight and I am not on-call, I took some as well. I figured I could also use the sleep. So I think I will go hit the bed and watch the CMA awards with the wife.

The weekend flew as it normally does. Friday is just a distant memory now.

Saturday, we stayed home to clean house and try to winterize it. After our 30 degree mornings, it was up in the high 70's all weekend. I managed to mow the yard and Kelli winterized the windows.

Sunday morning we went to church and then off to a skating party for one of our daughters friends. I hadn't skated in years. I was surprised I managed to stay up on them throughout the 2 hours. I feared I would be alot sorer this morning than I am. It was the first time the kids actually went skating. Our son took to it great. He kept going down but didn't stay down. He was a trooper and really liked it. Our daughter on the other hand, bawled and whined up to nearly 15 minutes before we left and then only enjoyed it. Everytime she went down she wanted to quite. sigh. But in the end they both wanted skates for Christmas. Go figure.

I will have a short week this week for work. I have a seminar to go to Thursday and I am off this Friday. Initially we were thinking to go to Texas for a visit of Kelli's cousin but we nixed it due to funds. Hopefully they will not require a weeks worth in 3 days. I know they will want it but we will see.

Ancy this morning and I don't know why. Could be the after-stress of the election and our last Lab upgrade on one of our facilties combined with the fact it seems like we are constantly working.

I want to try to leave the house today, and get out for a bit during lunch. I need to get some supplies. Yeah, Kelli could do it but I told her I wanted to get away for a bit.

We had our daughter home yesterday, feeling a bit sick. She didn't look like she felt good and Kelli seen a little bit of a temp. So we kept her inhouse yesterday.

We also went over to her parents house last night and helped them move in a huge entertainment center. I admit it was pretty. But of course it was pouring cats and dogs while we were doing it. I had a chance to see their new porch and what they had accomplished inside. The porch looks good. Only some finishing touches on it and it will be totally done. As far as their inner abode, it looks remarkable different. They pulled the remaining carpet out and floored it. They only require some crown molding and a few minor touches and it also will be done before Thanksgiving. It really is coming together. They are trying to get it all done before Thanksgiving due to their family coming in from Texas this year. And let me tell you, it's a huge family. Easily 30 coming this way.

Son Update: We are looking to acquire a second opinion on our son's findings. Just seems to coincidental it showed on this test as opposed to the later 3. That and other misgivings has us looking to make sure. No, not denial, rather assurance.

Ebay Update: The later person has paid for the 2nd sold pc game. So I will ship it out today. I haven't received one item yet, and there is one individual that gave me a positive response email but haven't posted a feedback. Go figure.

News Updates: I see this morning that they will now begin prosecuting Movies File sharers. Seems they have their cross-hairs on 200 unlucky souls.

I also read this morning the main reason of such a turnout for the polls was due to Morality. Seems most chose on moral reasons, higher than the war and security. Can I say again, I am glad it's done.

Well it was a long night for everyone. I had a facilty Lab and OPENLINK upgrade last night in addtion to watching the election on TV. I admit I had two tums initially when they kept referring to the exit polls showing Kerry to win by a large margin. But as the night progressed on, it became more evident those exit polls were incorrect. They should fire those people, because this is what occurred in 2000. Fortunately most were very hesitant as the night goes to call the states for either candidate. So it looks like Bush will be in 4 more years to the liberal demise. I find it fascinating that not only will he win by electoral but has the largest popular vote in history. Yes, it seems everyone came out to vote.

Another landslide was the state ammendments for 'one man to one woman' in marriage. No surprise there. They have always said the majority disagrees with the gay marriage, but now we can easily show that and the people did on yesterday's vote.

Looks like Oklahoma will have a lottery now. It passed easily. I was surprised the Oklahoma cigerate tax passed. The tax is per cigarette tobacco so the tax will be astronomical.

My man Coburn won the Senate. I know the Democrats was thinking Carson would win and it appeared to be close at first then Coburn pulled in the lead and remained.

Also interesting this morning was the Dow and Stocks are booming. So again, investors are more comfortable with Bush.

I was also pleased with Daschel losing office. This was icing on the cake for me.

All the way around, I am high in spirits this morning.

Monday actually wasn't as bad as I thought would occur. I was on support but it wasn't that crazy. Which in itself is a wonder. Perhaps I have just become a little pessimistic with it.

I did manage to move the remaining 13 interfaces over to BeyondFTP server today. I was pulled into 2 unscheduled confernece calls today as well. So it was busy but not chaotic.

Son update: We had the results called in finally from last weeks testing. We were informed he had 'underlying seizure disorder'. Basically it just means he showed signs of seizure activity or sharp like activity that could cause seizures. Not much to go on but we plan to make a call and get more specific. However, this also informs us it is nuerological so we really do not need to adhd test scheduled this Thursday.

I am having to visit our superintendet in the morning due to having to put some policies in place for PTA. In addition, our famous grade school principle was in a mood this morning. Seems when Kelli requested the secretary to ask Kohler (special education personel) if she could speak with him in regards to the adhd visit, iep ect. The principle stormed out of her office blasting Kelli stating she was not a docter and there was nothing to discuss, blah blah. Unreal man, it's a good thing I wasn't there. Kelli said it took her some will to composer herself and not jack slap her.

My last thoughts will be written regarding to the vote next week. Yes, I am tired of the voting and if you listen to the news its polls polls polls. Depends on which party is speaking they spin it positive their way. The fact is, they don't know. No-one knows what exactly will happen till tomorrow night. Whether it will be a win on either side or so close the lawyers come into play. So with that, I can only say I pray Bush does win. I hope each person able, will vote and they states can keep it fair.