Middle America's Worldview

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.

Yes it works ! This is what I felt last night as I finally got a script to run correctly at work. It was a FTP interface using a script. The script allows me to pull a file within a time period as opposed to just polling for it every x amount of time. It felt good to get it going, correctly.

I was able to see most of the RNC last night on FOX news and it definitely seems Rudy G. received the spotlight and amazingly so he was pumping up the current president. I hear this morning on the news radio a lady from talk radio is going around stating the RNC is sending a subliminal message of 'Christianity' to the public. There is also news that the so-called peacefull protesters are actually not from New York anyway. These are leftist radicals who support John Kerry. I don't recall hearing radical rights burning crap in the DNC and I am pretty sure the media would spotlight that. Only day one and a dichotomy already seems present from the would be and incumbent.

My poor wife had to go to the dentist for a root canal. She has been hurting for over a week now and our regular dentist didnt want to do it or couldnt for some reason or another.

I need to mow mine and my neighbors yard today. This should be the last time on the neighbors yard then it will be the new residents responsibility. She is suppose to be moving in within 1.5 weeks.

I had to link the actual video track of last nights VMA show where the daughters received more boo's than cheers. (you have to scroll down a bit.) One person said it well. It was like going to a party and someone asked to do math homework, we didn't come to do homework but to party.

http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/2004/08/mtv-crowd-boos-kerry-daughters.html

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Sunday night. Guess no Deadzone watching tonight unless its by DVD. I have season one and season two. Nearly done with Season two viewing. Last weeks season finale was very good. Seems the question will be sacrifice Johnny's new love attraction or keep the future the same. I thought it was very cool the way he paired with his future self in the end. Nice touch.

Site update: I have added a couple of blog sites on the side.

Yesterday my wife and daughter went to see 'Princess Diaries 2' while my son and I watched 'Yu-GI Oh'. Yes, I can now officially pronounce the blasted thing. The ladies said their movie was cute and romantic. We will probably try to get Princess Diaries one and two on DVD when the second one comes out. I will see it then. Yu-Gi Oh is another whole ball of wax. I can officially say it was interesting. It brought the whole background, what it is, ect. into play. There were alot of little boys with one dad or mom there. Anyone recall the card game Magic the Gathering? I tried it, like...10 years ago. I found it similiar but extreme. Of course my 5 year old didn't get the jest of the gaming itself, but the visual art is what captivated him. I asked him part way in the movie if it was good. He replied 'yeah great movie dad' as he slurped more soda down. If this continues I see alot of card acquiring. I already checked online and was amazed of the fan based for this.

Today before church, our daughter woke up stating she was feeling sick at her tummy and head. My wife gave her some meds and she also felt a stomach ache coming on. We feared it may be the stomach virus that is going around. I went onto Church, which I was glad I did since it was a good sermon I needed to hear. When I was leaving church I called my wife to check on her, I was heading to do some errands, and she informed me not only did our daughter lie to us in regards of feeling bad, but our son also stated 'it was ok, because I lied last sunday so I wouldnt have to go.' Needless to say, it pretty much infuriated her as well as me. When I got back I had a long discussion on lying and why we do not lie to each other, because then we wouldnt be able to trust each other. Plus the fact giving our daughter medicine when she is pretends to be sick can make her sick. This after my wife already spoke to them and disciplined them. ahh the joys of parenthood. Amazing one day we all have a great time and it was a true treat to go out to the movies with them. Then this happens.

I began call this morning and will have it till next Saturday. Here is crossing my fingers.

I had to make an additional addition this morning's blogging. While perusing through my list of blog reading I could not help be fascinated by this post.

http://www.danegerus.com/weblog/Comments.asp?svComment=5846

Raining down on Saturday. Thursday the heat index hit 110 degrees. Then Friday was supposed to be hottest of the year. However, cooler weather is upon us this Saturday morning.

Friday I was on support and it was actually busy. Normally it consists of a couple of recycles here and there. But for whatever reason, it wasn't as simple. It did make the day go faster though. I also received my review Friday and the review was very positive. So, I am glad of that. It was only 2 months behind. My supervisor had her evaluation as well and it was 6 months behind.

Friday evening, I went to help my brother move some of his furniture, ECT. During this same time, our slumber party hit off with about 8 other kids, totaling nine with ours. There were 7 6-yr old girls and two boys. I have to gripe just a bit on the moving. I arrived there after work and his wife was gone with the truck. I tried to get some boxes in my van to get going but he wanted to wait upon her return to see what they wanted to move. She came back in 15 minutes with one box of diapers. She plopped on the couch saying they needed to get some food for the kids (he has 2 little ones) after the first load. I asked my brother why she didn't get the food along with the diapers and his reply was she didn't think about it. I asked what could we move? Of course the answer was the boxes. so I filled the van (Ford Windstar) up with as much as I can put in it, as well as his truck with a large chair, ECT. We unloaded and came back. Then she left again with the van. She was gone nearly 50 minutes to get a Wendy burger and some fries. Of course we had the two little ones. I filled the van back up during this time and asked my bro for the key to unload while we waited for the truck. You guessed it. "I don't have the key, she does." I hate to gripe but they are the most unorganized movers. I feel for my brother because, from what I can perceive, I am not really impressed with his mate. But it's his life and choice. The heaviest item was the fridge. Once we finally were able to get it out the door, we were not manly enough to get it in the truck. Man, it was heavy. I called upon my friend (the one kicking off 4H), who was at my house kind of waiting on me to assist. Fortunately he did and we were able to haul it over to the other apartment. I am feeling it this morning.

I didn't make it back to the house till nearly 9 p.m. and the slumber party was still going on strong. My wife was exhausted already and her helper was remained sitting on the couch leafing through an LTD catalog. Around 9:40 p.m. a couple of moms came and picked up their kiddos. That brought it down to 4 girls and 2 boys. A bit more do-able. We finally put them down and started a movie. They crashed a bit after 11 p.m. We only had two wakeups during the night with the smallest boy.

We are hoping to go watch movies today. My wife still wants to take our daughter to 'Princess Diaries 2' while I watch 'Yu GI GO' with our son. I have a hard time keeping 'Pokeman and Digimon' apart and fear this will only add to it. : )

Site update: I have added 'On Donkey's mind' to my blog list of viewing. He happened to find my blog and posted. I checked it out find it thorough and worth looking at. Thanks Donkey.

Week is going going going.....

Already Wednesday this week. Geez

Monday night we had a successfull first PTA meeting. Kelli did well. We cut through the long agenda in 30 minutes, I clocked it. But of course afterwards it was an hour to B.S. It was the most time I seen my wife speak with the Elementary Principle and both leaving in one piece.

Did Tuesday really happen? I think it was a blur.

My schedule this week been basically, taking the kids to school, picking up the PTA first fundraiser, organizing it there. Replacing sold cards with new ones. It doesnt take too long though. I have a system now. I then return home to work, meetings ect. then at noon I or my wife transport our friends kid from headstart to a babysitter, due to them at work all day as well. So needless to say, it continues to be busy.

Today wasn't such a bad day at work, so far. I did speak with a friend of mine working in Mcallen Texas facility. I was a bit surprised she is still indecisive of who to vote for in Nov. 2 this year. I basically told her my view and will send her some weblinks to review. Basically ended it with, "I am not saying who to vote for but you really need to get educated, because this is an important vote." I did find it interesting when I asked her simply, "what do you find appeasing in Kerry?" and she stated she really didnt have any idea and there were none. I think Bush and the team needs to really gear up to what he accomplished to create a dichotomy of his decisivness, resolve, and accomplishments as opposed to Kerry's indecisivness, flip-flop, 19 years of liberal votes within the Senate, and non-accomplishments for our country.


Today I managed to find the time to deposit the money/checks for the last members and the fundraiser. We had kicked off the first fundraiser Friday and we have 2 weeks to do this in. I am hoping it will go well. From what I can see, it is far more organized than the past year. But I guess we will see how it turns out.


My coffee machine broke yesterday morning, so yesterday and today - no coffee in the morning. Bummer man. But I seem to keep functioning. : )

Criminy the weekend is flying. Friday was not too bad of a day in regards to work. It was a quiteness prior of next week's coming. We will be down to 3 working in our group. One is going on vacation and I get to test her projects in her absence. So she gave me the low-down Friday in regards of contacts, place of testing, ect.

My CIO contacted me Friday as well. She received my request to discuss Thursday and had some time. I was able to convey to her my perception of what was going on. It wasn't easy but it was needed. She was very receptive and evidently she also seen some things she was concerned about ( yeah, perhaps the fact she hasn't hit a 5 day week yet ) and spoke to her on it. Evidently she ( the peer ) will be back to work on Monday. Guess we will see. Since she was out all week and last Friday, next weeks support has been split up between the 3 of the remaining team. I have Tuesday and Friday for support.

On Friday night we didnt rent any movies or anything. In fact I cannot recall what we even watched. We spent the evening taking the kids to the first 4H meeting (I ended up entertaining 6 kids on the side while my wife got the low-down) and then to Gymnastics. Only one more week of gymnastics and I think we will be done with that round of experience. Since there was an 1 hr and half between, we ate out at a place known as 'The Barn'. A buffet of fish, chicken, shrimp, ect. It's always good but I get a cotton mouth afterwards. Must be due to the salt on the fish. It all tastes homemade and is ran by an old friend of my wifes and her parents.

Saturday, I managed to finish up on the PTA website by adding a couple more pages. Kell's Dad came by and picked the kids up to hang with him during the day, since her parents hadn't been able to see them all week. This allowed Kelli and I to get our PTA stuff organized, partly ready for our first meeting this Monday night, and paint some of neighbor's walls, ect.

Saturday evening, we went to her parents house and had some smoked ribs, chicken, tenderloin, with baked beans. There is a couple of guys that comes in town every other weekend and smokes meat throughout the weekend. Talk about good. Man, not only can you smell that good smoke smell for a block away but everything we have tried taste excemptionally well. The guys are making money hand over fist with it. They literally cannot keep up with the demand. The have a huge smoker planted on a trailer bed that they pull into a local grocery store. You can see them pushing a cart of rack of ribs, whole chickens, pork chops, tenerdloins,brisket, ect. smoking them till they run out. This is what we had Saturday night. I also had a good talk with her Dad and we enjoyed their company. Our daughter ended up spending the night and our son came home with us, not wanting to spend the night. Which totally amazed me, because both kids normally always want to stay there. While I was over there, I also setup their speakers and installed the kids games on their P.C. ( Just seem not to ever get away from this contraption.) Later that night, while at home our neighbor brought over 'Kill Bill, Volume 2' for me to watch. I thought it was better than the first one. It's a conclusion of the Volume 1. I enjoyed seeing David Carradine playing in a movie again. I hadn't seen him since the new KungFu series was attempted ( the one where his cop son was from the Shaolin Temple ). Its been awhile since it was on.

I was listening to a new talk show on the A.M radio that I hadn't heard before, called 'The Rusty Humphries Show'. His website is Talk to Rusty. Com. He had John Kerry's Citations on it that was interesting. I printed this off to give to Kell's Dad to look at. He was in the service for quite sometime and knows it more than I could. I look forward to his feedback.

I am planning to watch the DeadZone special 2 hour Season Finale, tonight. Also for those Farscape Fans, I seen the season 3 box set is coming on sale in the Best Buys Sunday Paper for 95 bucks. All 22 episodes in it.[sigh]

Nearly 10 p.m. already and the day once again flew like crazy. This morning started out pretty good. My wife took the kiddo's to school on her way to work, thus I had a bit of time prior of work. As stated I was on support today but did manage to work on a issue I been meaning to and follow-up on other tickets I had opened for awhile at work.

I placed a call to our CIO and requested some time with her ( spoke with the secretary ) but didn't get a chance nor heard from her. But I really didnt expect it. First day back you know she's booked solid with meetings. That's what I hate up at Corporate when I go there. "Oh your in town, can we do a meeting to discuss.. or review..." and then your basically in meetings all day and cannot get anything done.

I didn't even listen to the radio today in the background and yet it managed to fly by.

Last night after I wrote my review on GodSend, I took two tylenol pm's to wind down and thumbed through the tv channels and happed upon the end of 'The Deadzone'. Cool, I was able to finish it. I noticed I hadnt missed much of it but at least I was able to get to see all of it now. This Sunday is a 2 hour special end season. Has it been a season already? Crud, I didnt think it's been running a full season yet.

This evening, my wife and I put together the prizes the school kids will win on the fundraiser kicking off tomorrow morning. PTA is selling discount cards, those that stores/resturants/ect. will take a percentage off. Supposedly more stores are on this years fundraiser than the year before. This is our first one and we hope it goes well. Guess we will see.

I finished the PTA Website Wenesday, if you want to check it out, its at here. I pulled a template down and then revised it accordingly. Yes, I eventually will put the officers pics on there as well. And with me being treasurer, I guess those reading this blog will actually see my mug. : )

I am heading off to watch Orielly Factor. I haven't been able to see it much at all this week. It rained today and is quite cooler down here. Nixon, I wish I could push some of this cool rainy wind your way.

Page update I added a new blog and removed an old one that apparently died.

Well, finished the movie and it had some spooky parts in it. I jumped about 4 times during the movie. Basically the theme is parents loose their only son, who just turned 8, by an accident. They are in pain during their loss and Dr. comes to them saying he can help. This Dr. happens to be a genius in genes and promises to clone their loss child, everything perfect down to the hair on his head. They have 72 hours to make their decision, due to the genes stability.

Well, at first the husband says no-way, while the wife is willing. Then the husband agrees. They do it and the birth gives them a scare, but they have their son again. The Dr. relocates them, giving them this big mansion as opposed to their current apartment, new job, ect. Basically paying them for the experiment, but the story doesnt say that.

Something goes wrong. The Story fast forwards to the boys 8 year birthday. Shortly afterwards, he has these night terrors. Old memories of another boy emerges and the story begins of another identity coming through. I wont tell the end nor how it goes from here but the storyline basically is after the boys original death, new genes are awaken, hence the night terrors, memory, recognitive comes out.

So what we have here is a story about genetics that retain previous memories, slash life, that is resurfaced. Sound familiar, how about evolutionary thinking. The thought that life continues to improve, ie we get smarter, ect. Or life orientated, our make-up, thoughts, the way we act, say, do is all built in our genes and we cannot help ourselves in who we are.

But this is just a story right? Maybe at 11:15 p.m. I am reading to much into a movie. Oh well, I cannot help but analyze things and this story to me touched something.

I personally do not believe in Pre-ordained, ect. Because I think we are able to make decisions, and choose that which we love, eat, enjoy, ect. But there are those out there that believe in Pre-Life (you had many lives before this one and that's why you fear certain things, ect.) or the belief in soul-mates (the thought someone is your soul mate due to a previous life, you were married, loved each other) and you find each other again. It doesnt matter if your man-woman, man-man, woman-woman, because you will continue to reborn. But that logic doesnt really hold for me, becaue if that was the case, my luck my soul mate was the cow that was slaughtered for my McDonalds burger.

Anyway, you see my point. It's a scary story of what if and the possibility of a pre-life re-emerging, given the chance. The chance was due to cloning. The bummer of it was it happent to be a Psycopath kid with Pyromaniac tendencies. I will have to say the kid played a good part. He gets this glazed empty look in his eyes that nailed the character.

So, in short, not a movie for the kids. It had some scary stuff in it. But you pretty much knew what was going to happen as the story unfolded.

Well, hump day is over or soon to be. It is nearly 9 p.m. and the kids are in bed.
The kids had a good day at school today and that's always a plus.

Since my wife had to run our son to therapy at 4:30 p.m. and I had a trip to make to the Chiro at 5:30 p.m. We ate out for dinner. I left work early to drop off the movies with my daughter and hit the doc. I was out by 5:20 p.m. We ended eating at Panera in Fort Smith. Never been there, it had free wi-fi, so it must be hip, right? Well, it was a bit expensive and not really the place to take kids to eat. None-the-less we tried it out. I didn't think it was too bad. If I was single with a pretty good job, I can see hanging there, but my wife wasn't impressed at all. I would like to try their mocha sometime though.

I received an email today at work that our peer will be out all this week, due to health. Don't know the details, but I will be on support again tommorrow. I hope she makes it to work next week. I guess I will still make that call to our CIO tomorrow. I hate to give bad news about anyone, but we are hurting on this one. We have 4 people supporting, building, doing for 26 plus hospitals not counting outside interface projects. Considering there are a good 20 interfaces per some facilities, your looking at quite a load. Every consultant I have spoken to stated our company is the fastest paced, most worked place they ever worked in. There are suppose to be 5 in the team, but this chic hasnt been in a full week yet, and another peer is on vacation all next week. OK I will take cheese with the whine now.

On another note, I plan to watch 'GodSeed' tonight. A buddy of mine let me borrow his copy. So I will probably write about it in my next blogging.

Yesterday evening was pretty good. My wife had to bring our friends daughter over, due to them going to a 4-H leader meeting. No big. But it was a bit aggravating when they called around 7:00 p.m. from Walmart checking on her. Our kids were crashing out around 8:10 (around their bedtime) and they still hadn't came to pick her up. We finally put our kids to bed, note we already given them showes ect. as usual. My wife was in the process of asking our friends daughter if she wanted to take a shower so she didnt have to when she got home. Fortunately her parents came shortly after that. Perhaps I shouldn't be aggravated at something so insignificant but I also don't want it to become a habit.

On a side note afterwards, I was able to sit outback with my wife with a bottle of wine and relax under the stars. It was very relaxing to get a chance to unwine. Much better than tylenol pm and flipping through the tv. I am going to have to make it more of a routine getaway for us.

This morning started out with a bang. Getting the kids up and taking them to school was chore. They were dragging. Once I hit the school I caught the superintendant in the teachers lounge to try to get some feedback on the papers we sent her Monday. She was more than willing to discuss in her office. Interestig how everything was hunky dory and she just wants everything to go well this year. This same super will not spend time with my wife but attempts to be nice to me. Guess we will see where it goes. I played politics before, but don't like it much. However, if I can get more action out of her than my wife, so be it. At least it keeps things moving.

I grabbed the PTA mail and headed out. I was also able to speak to my son's teachers and aid as well as 3 other teachers, nurse on my way out. All this without finishing my first cup of coffee.

I proceeded to get home and correct a problem at work right off the bat. I am on support today and do not see getting much accomplished other than that. I was asked by a peer where is other group member( the one I mentioned yesterday's blog) and I didn't have a clue since I just logged on. Seems she is MIA again today.

Another day another dollar, so they say. I was able to get my yard done last night as well as the neighbors. So at least that was accomplished. I had to do it after the kids were down and I finished last nights blog. I stil need to get my weedeater running to finish up the edges though.

Late last night around 12:30 a.m. pacific, my daughter came into bed saying she spilt water on her bed. I blame myself, probably didnt have a tight enough lid on it. So we changed her bed out and by the time it was done, I was awake. I am normally a light sleeper anyway. I got up and started on the PTA officer webpage. When I went back to bed, I had a restless night. Go figure.

I took the kids off to school this morning and put some gas in the van on the way back. I plan to take our son to therapy this afternoon. I am looking at 2 scheduled conference calls today. I received a call from my supervisor yesterday and was asked a favor. To speak with our CIO of IS concerning a peer. She hasn't been in a full week since she started and moral of the team is down. She was out last Friday, I didn't know of it till Monday's morning call, which she was out Monday as well. When you consider everyone's plate if full working nearly 10-14 hours a day and she doesn't even care enough to call into her boss to say she's absent. That's gotta stink. Since she is not making deadlines her projects our put upon us, in turn we get even more overwhelmed with the crap we have to do. So I told her I would make a call this Thursday. This is when she returns. I needed to talk to her anyway. My evaluation hasn't been completed yet by her. It was done and turned in nearly 2.5 weeks now. We are supposedly waiting on her (CIO)anyway.

I already went through my coffee till it was cold and have my pepsi by my side. About to turn on Swordfish soundtrack and get going. On another note, I learned yesterday evening John Edwards was in Fort Smith today, speaking. My wife chides me saying I wouldn't attend that one, but I actually would had liked to go, if I had more notice. I would be intererested in what he has to say.

Well, Monday is over with and as usual fast and furious. I was able to get some things done today at work. One of the conference calls was changed to Wednesday so that bought me another hour today.

After work, I was able talk to my wife a bit. She is overwhelmed. She is working for 3 lawyers, PTA president (trying to organize a previous non-organized unit ), and our kids school activities along with the kids antics and therapy, ect. Not to mention secretary for her Aunt's Nursing stuff. I listened and offered my services in anyway possible but there is not much I can to assist in alot of these. I am hoping things will get calmer if not more manageable before long.

I finished getting supper ready and ran to my Chiropracter while the kids and wife came back in from their running. The doc told me he didn't have to work to much this time and my 2 times a week will be cut to once a week after next week. Which is good for me. So it must be getting better. Again, I never put much faith in these guys but I must admit my wrist haven't hurted since I started and I felt better. Oh well, whatever works, right?

Kids already ate and finished their homework when I returned home. PreK and 1st grade having 30 minutes of homework, geez. And it's only the second week.

It was suggested to have our son do at least 30 minutes of excercise in the evenings to get him on a better schedule. OK so I grabbed a timer and told the kids we are going to do some excercises before their showers tonight. "Excercise with Dad, wow". They were excited. I started to set the timer for 30 minutes but my wife said let's start them at 10-15. "OK" I figured for them to get into it. So my wife was frantically trying to catch up on the computer while I get the kiddos in the living room to excercise for 10 minutes. We start out with situps, 10 of them, then some waist excercises then bicycling. "OK kids, lets do some excercises." "Yeah!" they cried joyfully. "one, twooo, threeee, (grunt) fourrrr, fiivvvveee, no Braden like this (that bought me some breathing as I instructed my 5 year old), siiiiixxxxxxx, (more grunts), ssssseeeevvveeennnn, (turning red), eeeeiiggghhhtttt (turning to bob the tomatoe from the veggie tales), nnniiiinnneeee, ten (long sigh). Dad's out of shape kids." Of course during this my 5 year old son is flopping like a fish out of water and my 6 year old daughter is knocking them out like a piston. We manageed to finish it of with some head-waist-toes and 10 minutes came in quick. "Whew, ok kids let's get your showers done."

Anyway, after showers I was able to read some books to them and they are eating their snacks watching tv now. My poor wife is on the phone trying to decipher her R.N. Aunts notes, ect.

Web Update:I found a little script called "chatango" and added it to my blog. Suppose allow online chat if both parties are on the page at the same time. I will try to setup a date/time to chat online. Anyone have any preference let me know.

Drinking in the coffee this morning, looking over today's schedule. I have 3 meetings (conference calls) scheduled for today, first one in 25 minutes. Kelli and the kids have already gone off to work/school. House is cleaned up and I am listening to the Swordfish soundtrack to get me into the mood.

I fell asleep last night watching Deadzone. What a bummer because I really like the show. At least I only had one call last night for support. I am off on-call till next week. The group has decided we only have one day per week to do support during that day. This has helped out tremendously on the assigned projects. Consider this, trying to get a handle of your todo's while supporting over 26 hospitals with possible issues, recycles, ect. It can be stressfull. This will allow us to dedicate at least 4 days on our projects. At least we can move along. My dedicated support day this week is Wed.

I guess I will go ahead and remove the 3 links from my previous post. No-one seemed to know or answer my inquiry on them. I noticed this morning Blogger is having issues with allowing you to post comments and update your templates. Perhaps someone is trying to answer and getting the same issue I am. I have also added a couple of moblogs on my side as well. I enjoy X-play on G4TECH.TV when I get a chance to watch it. I also have seen The Broken and find it fascinating. They will be on G4Tech.TV tonight and I plan on trying to catch it.

I guess I will be getting ready for work. Had to update the blog. I plan on creating a test blog and working with it as well. I noticed others doing the same. This will allow us to manipulate and modify without fragging our prod one.

When I initally started blogging, I really didnt know what the deal was. I made contacts of other bloggers, either through similar interest or another link from that blogger. Once you start a line of communication, you become somewhat acquanted. However, then the blogger seems to suddenly give up on the blog or rather no further updates on his/her life. So with that I wonder what became of

The Skoop on Skassy

,

Lisa is trying to figure it out

and

Just Blog me

? Must be part of the dying blogs.

One blogger I continue to converse with is

Nixon's Memoirs

. Although I haven't had the pleasure of meeting him personally, I find alot of similiarities. My wife had a friend online that she communicated for nearly 5 years prior of actually meeting her on a vacation. It was interesting, as the friends husband was telling me and my wife a story, ect. afterwards, Kelli (wife) would say, I already knew that due to email, ect. Just seems interesting people may be more willing to open up online rather than conversing with someone face to face.

So, if anyone knows where these dying blogs stand, can they let me know?

Well, they put a temp fix on the instability network issue yesterday. Seems they first thought it was a misconfigured router in Lakewood facility down in Florida, and was unable to get to it due to the storm. Then another email was put out stating it was actually a phone system that was messing up the WAN, effecting some of the other facilities. Geez, with simplicity for the users comes complexity on the system and sensitivity for changes.

Last night we watched most of the movies, yes, I nearly cried when Optimus Prime died on the Transformers movie again. For awhile I was a kid again. The 'our lips are sealed' Mary Kate and Ashley movie was ok but pretty cheesy. We also managed to put in a 'Pokemon the movie' in, is there any other parents out there having to figure this out? oh well. I am envisioning many cards to be purchased and figuring out how to play these games.

I been fighting a sinus cold all week. Allergies are crazy down here in Oklahoma and I am not the only one. My wife was hit with it full swing yesterday, started day before. She took some benadryl and crashed for awhile ( can't hold up to it ) heh heh

So the plan for the weekend is R and R. We been running like crazy all week and its time to rest.

Well, Kelli's friend wasn't able to spend the night here before leaving. She left out this morning. I did get a chance to discuss with her during dinner last night. I was fascinated with her knowledge of the Iraq war and her thoughts on it, as well as the Euro, ect. It was a short discussion but an intersting one. Essentially she thinks the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder made a mistake in not assisting and it was not the same view as the German people. She also mentioned the burdening taxes, ect on the German economy.

I was on support last night and it was a booger. I had continued calls up till after midnight, then it tapered off. The only reason was the facilities gave up and put themeselves on downtime. The network was unstable and we continually recycled the connections only to have them drop again. Siemens is working on the issue with our Network group. Hopefully they will resolve this with ATT, or its going to be a lone weekend.

I plan to rent Transformers the movie and a Mary Kate / Ashley movie for the kids tonight. Popcorn and movies at home. Looking forward to it.

This week, my wifes friend from Germany has come over the states to visit. Initially she attended a wedding in Texas but this week she is staying close to here. I was fortunate to meet her Tuesday, and visited again last night. She is an interesting individual. She has gone to school/college most of her life and can speak 5 languages. She has a hard accent and at times has that confused look as to what your trying to convey to her, but you can also see she is definitely a warm, well knowledged person.

I was able to speak with her a bit during lunch Tuesday, about the main dichotomy of here and over seas. She said society in whole, school system and just from one town to the other as differences she see's. Their main means of transportation is by train or bicycle. Gas is horribly expensive, and with only the short distances of travel, they mainly cycle it.

I am on support starting tonight throughout the weekend. The family will be able to go out to dinner with her tonight and I hope to be able to discuss with her again. I find it fascinating to hear first hand of others view. My wife was able to spend some time with her during the week. But I feel she could have more time with her, were it not for her Aunt's hoggging her friend.

I will ask my wife to see if we can have her spend the night prior to her leaving.

I miss the days of Dragnet. I recall the same plea over and over again. "Just the facts ". When I went to school we had a bad ass English teacher that drilled it in our heads, just the facts, just the facts. I hated English, as you can see in my grammer. But as I grow older and notice the news, mags, and stories, it seems their English teacher did not have the same adament desire.

If you noticed the 'news' are more of ideology than facts. Its not how it is, rather than how it is perceived to be. This is something I learned the hard way while I debated online. Regardless of how many facts you throw at some people, they still choose not to accept it. What the hell. You can lead the horse to water but cannot make that horse drink it.

So in debating, I come to the simple conclusion. The opponent will not change my view, I will not change the opponent's view. I may find more information from the debate, but the major outcome will be those on the sidelines listening in on the discussion. The kicker is which opponent has the most information on the subject as well as the resources to back it up. The problem is the side-liners probably will not take the time to go look at those resources, if given, rather take whichever sounds the best or fits into his/her own ideology. This is what I am finding more and more of. There is so much spin on the same subject matter you can lean left or right.

Where's the days of facts? If either debator addresses their view of the facts, they generally leave some of it out or word it in such a matter of their view. I guess I am just ranting tonight but does anyone else see my point here?

Drop, crash. As I began working this morning, both my kids and wife was still in bed opening their eyes. I heard an unmistakenble drop, crash. My first thought was a picture must had fallen off the wall (happened before). I looked down the hall then in the other rooms. Nothing unusual or obvious. Then it struck me. The ice machine in our new fridge. The new fridge we acquired yesterday has a water and ice machine in it and I am not use to the sounds.

On another note this morning, I read the following in an email article and had to pass it on.

"Kerry for President camp just handed me the kind of story I can't keep away from. The new "religious advisor" to Senator John Kerry previously joined the lawsuit filed by atheist Michael Newdow to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag! Kerry's new "religious advisor" - Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson - was one of thirty-two clergy members to file an amicus curiae brief in behalf of Michael Newdow. This is the woman that John Kerry plans to send to America's religious groups as his representative. Polls show that almost all Christians and the vast majority of even non-Christians in America, do not want "under God" removed from the Pledge. So what religious groups is she going to represent John Kerry to? Gay Unitarians? "

Kids are back safely from their trip, and I am so glad. It's amazing how much I missed them bugging me. It's like being a week at Corp., first couple of days were nice but then I was ready to have them back. It sounds like they had blast and was spoiled like crazy. Kell's mom and dad (nana and papa) had to tell me the story of them at a biker bar. Seems they had picnic tables there and sat outside watching all the bikers drive in and out and the food was excellent (or according to nana -to die for). My son loves motorcycles. But everyone made it home safe. Still washing their dirty clothes. : )

In addition to the kids coming home, Kell's parents brought back a freezer, refrigerator, couch and love seat. We get the refrigerator and her brother will get ours. We were told we would acquire it, which will be nice since this one has a built in water/ice. I never had one of those before, so we are looking forward to having it. Ours is a bit smaller but its the perfect size for her brothers place, as he does not have on yet. ( he moved out recently ) So it works out well.

Yesterday, all day my wife and I just shopped. We were looking for calendars/organizers to buy the teachers, from the PTA. No luck. Seems to be the wrong time of year. We will probably have to order them online (internet) for them. In looking for them, I think we hit 20 stores. MOstly we browsed around while in them but it was nice, the fact we didn't have,"I want to go home", after ever other store. So we spent most of yesterday evening out and about.

During the weekend we also managed to clean out and rearrange our garage and today I deep cleaned the floors. Even took out all the rugs to beat and hang in the sun. Kelli and I worked on getting geared for the PTA this week. We will have a member drive during open house Tuesday night. Unbelievable to think school starts this Wed. My daughter will be in 1st grade and my son in Kidengarten. Man time flys.
I mentioned I had started on the PTA website and the site is located here.

I can't recall if I mentioned us putting on a lay-a-way for Christmas while they were out. Well, we put on a PS2. Yeah, its as much for me as them. : )

I haven't updated all in awhile so I thought I better do so. The kids have gone with their nana and papa to Texas for a wedding. That's right, Thursday, Friday night and Saturday without my precious. We feel lost without them. But as much as I miss them, I am really enjoying time alone with my wife. Thursday night we ordered pizza (didn't have to have pepperoni) and watched 13 going on 30 all before 9 p.m.! yeah, you might think, 'wow, what party animals'. But it was nice to be able to sit watch and relax before anyone else was in bed.

Friday's work day was pretty good. I was able to accomplish alot and felt like I was all over the place. I worked on 2 projects, on 2 conference calls, assisted 3 people, and was able to update some documentation. All in all a productive day. I am still seeing the Chiropracter, had a visit at 8 a.m. before work today. Same thing, keep up the excercises and see my twice again next week. But I have to say my wrist has not hurt at all since I been going. So something is working right.

Friday evening my wife and I enjoyed the evening out. We ate out at LoneStar steakhouse (I had a peppercorn steak and my wife ate steak and shrimp) yes it was good. We then gathered some supplies, cookies, soda for PTA. Did I mention my wife is PTA president and I was voted Treasurer this year? Can't recall if I did. Oh well. We grabbed the stuff. I also grabbed two movies to watch, Swordfish (seen it before but wanted to again) and Hart's War(haven't seen that one), both for 1.99 each so couldn't pass renting those. We also were able to leasurely walk through Walmart, so we put on a Christmas layaway for the kids. Have to start on it due to being around the corner and the fact I get paid once a month.

Anyway, the evenings have been really nice but we continue to call the kids to check on them. They are being spoiled rotten as usual and enjoying time with their grandparents. School starts on the 11th here. The school has an open house on the evening of the 10th. PTA will furnish the refreshments, hence the soda's and cookies. We will also have a member drive that evening. Another exciting event is my buddy will be starting up a 4H here in Pocola, which they have not had before.

The other best thing, is the spontaneity my wife and I can have without the kids. I will leave that to you imaginations. : )

Dick Cheyney in Fort Smith today, 8-3-04 

Very cool. I had the chance to take an extended lunch to go see Dick Cheyney in Fort Smith today. I stood in line for nearly an hour to go through security. It was held in the Fort Smith Convention Center. Cheyney was a bit late arriving and spoke for about 35-40 minutes. I was able to tape nearly all of the speech and of course taking as many digital pics as possible. I am posting one of the better ones of him. I was able to shake his and his wifes hand. I am grateful to have a good job to enable me to be able to escape for such things. Of course I will put in that same time if not more but I cannot gripe. I figured this would be the only chance to actually see him in person.

He spoke very clear and was very articulated. I was very impressed with his speech.

Per request, I found the speech on the Bush Cheyney Website. It is here.. http://georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=3164

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I guess, I will watch Edwards speech tonight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Interesting thing of Kerry's view.


In John Kerry's Own Words:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Kerry's Own Actions:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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