Middle America's Worldview

I slept in my own bed last night and it was great. We arrived home late evening yesterday and we are still in the process of doing laundry.
We drove in heavy rain from the other side of Little Rock, Arkansas to home. Yet, we did make it safely home.

The kids didn't make it very long being home. Their Nanna and Pappa already snagged them this evening and will keep them tonight and most likely tomorrow night. This will give Kel and I a night alone. Hmm, I wonder what we will do alone after being in the same hotel room for the last 2 weeks with the kiddos.

I refuse to check my buisiness email till tomorrow morning.

Kel and I had to get our news fix. Yes, I watched a bit of the Fox channel as well as G4. She watched E. One of the things I was surprised to hear was Batwoman was making a reappearance, as a lesbian. LOL
Check it here. Unreal.

We are traveling back home. We initially were going to stay a couple of days at Orlando and not even head back till Monday. We hit Gatorland, then a couple of outlet malls. We then proceeded to I-75 North toward home. We didn't make it too far out of Orlando, but we are heading home none-the-less.

For some reason, I woke up this morning stressing on an old job I had about 8 years ago. Odd that I would be thinking of an old job.

We hope to be home no later than late Monday. We still are not 'trying' to run home, rather take it easy on our trip home. Yet, I feel we all are ready to sleep in our own beds again.

We should be going through Georgia today. We stopped in a Marriott within Ocala, Florida last night. I hope we don't see as many wrecks as we had coming here.

The vacation is half over already. Today was a very relaxing day (except for a emergency issue that was resolved). Today, we didn't run from one ride to another, rather we slowly floated around a lake at Discovery Cove. It was very nice and did I mention relaxing? sigh.

Basically we hit Disney Friday and hit Downtown Disney first. Saturday we stayed half the day at Animal Kingdom. We basically hit all the rides by half the day. Our son started collecting the Disney Racer cars, our daughter the pins. I wanted the kids to get the penny press's. So I hit the penny machines.

That Saturday evening we cruised over to MGM since we had reservations at the Scifi Diner. We actually was able to hit a couple of the shows and rides that evening at MGM. We had a great time and were able to hit many of the rides, ect. we didn't expect too. The big extra was us seeing the parade that contained the Power Rangers, our sons hero's.

Sunday we hit Epcot. We again hit all the rides we wanted too. On the second day, we already learned the best way to do this is to hit the ones having the early hour. This allows us to hit the rides we want without the long waiting line. We didn't do the walk around the world, yet.
That Sunday evening, we hit Magic Kingdom. We had a supper reservation at Crystal Palace. We mainly walked main street and was able to watch the parade.

Monday morning we hit Magic Kingdom again. We watched the shows and hit the rides. Magic Kingdom is basically like a wheel with the 'lands' as the spokes. The castle lies in the middle. We started out watching Stitch great escape and worked our way around the other lands. The one thing I was looking forward too, but was disappointed in was 'The presidents hall'. It was suppose to be about the presidents but it was mainly about 'Freedom and equality'. Yes, it was a good message per se. However, it really wasn't what it was suppose to be. Plus it used the Civil War as a example of slavery(going with that equality thing). After reading about the Civil War, it wasn't a war about slavery (that was brought into it after the war started). So again, misleading the people. Oh well, Magic Kingdom was cool, but hot in weather.

Tuesday, we hit Discovery Cove. We swam with the dolphins and lazily relaxed. This by far was the most relaxing of the trip. I told the kids it was nice to just float, swim, ect. We didnt' have to run from one ride to another. sigh.

Vacation officually started for me yesterday evening when I fully shut down the laptop. Ahh felt good to shut it completely down. It's normally on all the time.

First day out we drove and drove and drove. We crossed about 4-5 states in our journey. We are crashed at a Best Western in Byron, Georgia. It has free wireless net access, so I can check my email and blog when able. I didn't bring my work laptop, purposely. So I get to use Kel's. We drove since 3:20 a.m. our time. We lost an hour crossing over to the new time zone. So its about 8:55 p.m. here. So that's about 16 hours straight? Most traffic was in the small part of Tennessee, and Georgia. Alot of wrecks in Georgia.

Going to crash.

It was a nice weekend. We were able to get the living room, hallway and bathroom ready for the painting. We are having some friends paint these while we are away. Kel literally has us packed and ready. We are officially packed and ready. I will be mowing the yard Monday or Tuesday, right before we leave to get it cut down well.

We also had time today to play with the kids on games, ect while we cleaned house. We had purchased Rags to Riches and watched it as well. I never seen it, so it was new to me. Not a bad movie, pretty cute. However, in the now, a single guy acuiring 6 girls for adoption, would probably be looked at more closely.

The kids had written a song a piece by themselves. I was actually impressed with what they came up with. They also gave breakfast in bed to Kel as well as give her a program, where they sung, and did knock knock jokes.

All in all, a very nice weekend.

It's nearing time for bed and only Monday, Tuesday left to wait for a getaway.

4 days and counting. We are outta here next Wednesday.

Unexpectedly the kids are off to their Nana and Papa's for the night. I rented two movies for Kel and I. We are watching 'Rumour has it'. It's ok, but not all that. Those that have watched it, may understand. Basically, one guys has sex with 3 generation of women. It's a attempted spinoff of 'The Graduate'.

I also grabbed 'A sound of thunder'. Yeah, that ones for me. As I looked through the movies and read the back of them, it just seems they all sound the same anymore.

The plan for this weekend was to clean the house, and finish preparing for our trip.
However, it appears Kel's mother has plans for tomorrow.

Seems like anymore, I am pissing and moaning about something on my blog. If it's not about the political situation its about my busy life.

Well, why break a going thing. I have been really humping it at work these past, now, week and half. Since we are going on vacation in like 6 days, thank God, everyone wants their pet project done now.

I been counting it up. I have rolled out nearly 50 interfaces since last Monday. I kid you not. One of my peers asked if I am going for the record. In addition, I have worked on new projects and a merge of two facilites. The merge consist of two facilites currently on two separate systems, going to one system. Basically a conversion of the systems. So for the past nearly 2 weeks, I have been basically turning on the music (loud) during my non-conference calls and hacking away. No news. No interruptions. So in a nut shell, work has been busy. Top if off this week prior of vacation, I am on call.

The problem with on call, other than it comes out to 5 bucks a night, I get the most stupid calls. Tired and exhausted, the family crashes (including me) before 9 p.m. tonight. This is highly unususal for me to go to bed and be asleep so early.

Low and behold, 11:30 p.m local time, I get a call from work. What is it about? Interfaces down...network outage...no. Some facility showing their radiology connection is down. OK. The facility says a (name withheld) consultant says she is working on it. OK. But I can't find her number anywhere.

I get up and look on my contact list for her number. As I begin to look, I see she is on sametime. We use Lotus Notes at work and Sametime is the equivalent of its IM. I simply tell her this. She doesn't first see her then know how to add her to her contact list. Sigh. This is what I get woke up for?

So as usual, once I get woke up, I have a hard time to get back to sleep. Yeah, I know more pissing and moaning.

I have noticed a continueing disturbing trend with the American Public. Rather than a continued fight for the current rights of the state and the people, there is a tendency to only rise on the removal of those rights. This is a slow rise to boot.

The history of American shows it to be the youngest country in the world, but the most prosperous. Many have fought and laid down their lives for the simple right to vote, attend public meetings, ect. Only to have their descendants neglect in the simple task to register for voting.

I attended a district board meeting recently. One of the two attending representives mentioned the fact there were so many (about 4 inches of paper)new legislation items entered daily, no one can physically view it all. They must simply rely on the special interest groups to inform them what is more important at the time. This basically puts the groups that scream the loudest or has the representives same interest or ear in power. No longer are there many in the public that have any clues as to what new legislation or changes are being put in place. Much worse, many of the public citizens are clueless of their current representives.

The main form of information are the portals from TV. It already has been determined the majority of these are bias.

So what are the public left with? Simply those citizens wishing to be adequately informed. This requires work. Unfortunately, many of the public view this as un-necessary work or simply un-interested in this until it effects them on a personal level.

This brings us to my concerning view of the American People. They are called to action by having to react to a cause against their rights as opposed to be proactive and fight for their current state and individual rights.

Wake up America, your rights, legislation are being removed, changed in front of your very eyes.

As I had stated before in a prior blog, I was bumbed by not finding my backup of geneaology files.

Well, we went to Tulsa this weekend and spent Friday night with my wife's Aunt. She also has a laptop and cable internet access. I had to check on my Ebay and seen where I had installed the Family Tree Maker on her laptop. I thought, hmmm.

I checked into the FTW folder and low-behold a Geneaology folder was in there containing all my lost files! I must had given her all my backups, letters, pics ect. Totally elated, I could have hugged her.

It was pretty obvious by her response, she had never really looked at them. However, at that point, I didn't care. I will be able to pull off all the files when she comes back in my town (I didn't have my memory stick and she doesn't have a cd writer). I was able to email most of the gedcom files to myself. I checked the folder and it about 100 megs of data.

So, this allows me to check, update my info, after 5 years of me not touching it, without having to re-enter my already contained data.

I have no clue what the parameters are as to how they evaluate this.

Is it really May already? Man, this year is flying.

I guess the news will be covering the illegal alien parade today. I understand the arguments, I see the points on both sides. However, the points spoken on either side, touches around the given subject, without really addressing it.

They are illegal immigrants pouring into United States. That is the concerning subject. It's not a needed working class. It's not a means to emphasize those wishing better for themselves and their families. It's not about immigration. It's about illegals invading our country with the expectation of amnesty. Pure and simple.

I will probably turn the news on and off during the day. However, it probably will be pretty much repetitive after the first hour of broadcasting.

It's ironic, by obvious organization (but by whom?), the illegals pick Labor Day to not do any labor. I recall their first walkout showing Mexican flags in the streets. The bias news had to comment on this. Low and behold, across the nation, it was quickly changed to United States flags during demonstrations.

The news needs to ask, who is organizing this massive stunt, rather than perpetuating the incorrect cause.

May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day....