Middle America's Worldview

Monday Night, 2 more days in this place. I was able to watch Farscape last night. It was pretty good.

Sunday, I mainly stayed in the hotel. I worked on my project planner for my current projects I am working on. Getting a good idea where I am at with all of them. This came in handy for the Monday meeting with our CIO.

I did happen to go to the Mall Sunday afternoon again to pick up something to eat. I browsed through EB games and found a bin of PC games for 25 cents a piece. I couldn't believe it. 4 for a buck. I picked up some for the kids. I then rethought it and grabbed some more for ebay. Figured if I can get at least a dollar out of them, it would be a good profit. Guess we will see.

Anyway, I stayed up Sunday night and watched Farscape. I been waiting a year for it.

Monday, was a quick day. A true Monday. We had a team meeting in the morning that lasted much longer than expected. Didn't get out of there till 12:30 p.m. Then had barely 2 hours before our 2 p.m. meeting with the CIO. It went alot better than expected. Everyone I spoke to, tends to dread them. Not that she is a bad person, rather you just not sure where she will be coming from.

We were able to meet the new guy tonight for dinner. He starts November 1st. Since I was in town, everyone was able to get together and have dinner with him. It was a nice visit. He seemed likes he will be quick on the trigger. Single, 6 foot 1 and around my age if not younger. He seemed pretty wordly, being in alot of places, ect.

Now I am back in the hotel, sitting in front of the P.C. yet again. The new Farscape will be on in 20 minutes. I was able to speak with the kids again on my way back here at the hotel. Kelli, is having to due a PTA meeting on her own tonight. I feel for her. She is not having a good week while I am up here.

Saturday and no on-call for me! So what does a wildman do all alone in a hip place like King of Prussia, PA? Well, let me tell you so far what I have done.

Last night, I watched 'Star Trek Enterprise', a rarity. Flipped through the channels each 30 minutes to an hour to remind myself there isn't squat on TV. Installed a couple more items on my laptop for good measures. Finally plugged in 'Resident Evil 2' to play on my pc in the middle of the night, till it crashed on me. ( a good hour wasted that way ) Not that I continued to use the infinite ammo cheat and had the walkthrough on hand. Since it crashed, I went to bed and tried to finish "The interrogators' book by Chris Mackey. I couldnt so finally turned the lights out about 1:30 a.m

I tried to sleep in, since no kids but I couldn't lay there for very long, so I got up an around. I finished my Interrogators book (had only 5 pages left) first thing. Called my wife and kids to check on them and say good morning. ( I am one hour ahead of them up here ). Got around and went to the mall to walk around and find some prizes for the kids. I found a sweatshirt a piece for the kids at the Disney store and a toy a piece at K-B's. I also found something for my wife to take back with me. Can't say, since she may read this later. : )
While there I stopped by and ordered some food for lunch and dinner at TGIF's to take back to the hotel with me. I also seen a very interesting software called the Rosetta software. It's a Language learner software. I had the guy give me a demo on the Arabic software (he wasn't doing anything anyway). I was very impressed. They had boo koo languages to choose from. Anywhere from Arabic to Vietnamese and all in between. I thought the name Rosetta was a cool idea as well. I didn't ask, but suspected from the famous 'Rosetta stone' found to identify ancient languages by archeologist. Look it up on the net if you don't know what it is.

I came back to the hotel, and found myself watching 'Frakenstein' on USA channel. I also ironed the rest of my clothes for the next week. I have my papers out and ready when I decide to do my work documentation, ect.

It's now 3:30 p.m .est and I am contemplating to go to Books A Million just to get out of the hotel for awhile. Maybe pick up that Wired magazine. I also recalled my wife and kids to check on them again to see how their day is going. Yeah, I miss them.

I received my laptop back around 5 today. Not all the applications are installed, but I at least have it tonight to replace my data, ftp, ect. Hopefully the remaining applications wont take so long to install in the morning.

My daughter is in a float tonight, of course I will miss it. But my wife will be taping it and taking pictures for me.

Today was a bum day. Yeah, only a couple of things went bad. But it's funny how a couple of things can bring you down though.

Seems I will be meeting the newbie on this trip. Looks to be Monday night around 6:30 dinner date at LoneStar. I look forward to meeting him. It's nice to meet the voices on the other end of the phone in person. Funny how they never look as you picture them in your mind though.

I seen the new wired magazine contains the article of Intelligent Design is killing Evolution. I will probably will have to get it before I leave this week.

Currently watching Smallville on the Family Channel. Nothing else is on and I don't foresee anything to follow.

I made it into Pennsylvania last nigth around 5:15 p.m. est. By the time I made it over to the Enterprise rental, drove to 'King of Prussia', stopped by ACME to pick up some drinks/foods, get into the hotel, and then back out to get something to eat, it was nearly 8 p.m. est.

I watched 'LOST' last night. I like the show, I finally have something to watch during the week.

The PCLAN group will take my laptop today and blow out the harddrive to put in XP (currently WIN2K). I am hoping like crazy I will get the PC back this evening. I will be without it all day today. They are then suppose to put LOTUSNOTES on it tomorrow morning. So I will be without the buisness email a full day/night and following morning. I will feel behind for sure.

I have my day setup to be in meetings and classes. I will show the olie script and beyondftp scripts to the team for an hour. I plan to sit with the co-workers for other items of interest they will show me.

I miss my family already.

I posted before on the other debates afterwards and will do so again. I thought it was an interesting debate. I am also glad it's the final one.

Overwhelming, Bush won this debate. Like the analyst mentioned afterwards, alot of people are watching the ball games and probably missed it. But the analyst also states, overwhelmingly, Bush won this debate hands down.

Note: below is an email sent to me, I found interesting enough to share.

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I just found this the most fascinating thing. Senator Kerry's own hometown paper in Massachusetts, a traditional Democratic town, has not only endorsed President Bush, but a ringing endorsement, and quite harsh against Kerry. Read especially the highlighted parts (in red bold).

This paper can be found at http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105%7E4746%7E244

Lowell Sun

Endorsement: George W. Bush for president

Sunday, October 03, 2004 - It's about national security.

That's the key issue on the minds of Americans planning to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election.

They must decide whether Republican President George W. Bush or Sen. John F. Kerry, a Democrat, can provide the leadership to safeguard America from foreign terrorism.

Americans aren't fools. They know that without safe cities and towns, America will lose its greatness. Our cherished freedoms and sacred liberties will be diminished, along with our opportunities for economic prosperity and our basic pursuit of happiness.
Our children and their children will live vastly different lives if we fail to guarantee a future free of turmoil.
Islamic extremists, both here and abroad, have one purpose: To destroy America and halt the spread of democracy and religious tolerance around the globe.
They'd like to be plotting in our streets right now. They'd like to be sowing murder and mayhem with suicide bombers and hostage-takings, and spreading fear in the heartland and everywhere else. They'd like to be wearing us down and bringing our nation to its knees.
Since the devastating terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, one American leader has maintained an unbending resolve to protect our homeland and interest against Islamic savages and those foreign governments appeasing them.

That leader is President Bush.

While out-of-touch U.S. politicians and world leaders have attacked President Bush's tactics, they can't question his steely commitment to keep America safe.

In the ashes of ground zero, where nearly 3,000 innocent Americans perished, President Bush vowed to find the perpetrators, in domestic cells and distant lands, and bring them to justice. He said he will do all that is humanly possible and necessary to make certain that terrorists never strike again on U.S. soil.

Can anyone deny that President Bush has not delivered? America the terrorists' No. 1 target has recovered from its tragic wounds and rebounded. It remains safe to this day.

What might a lesser leader have done, faced with the daunting task of deciding America's course against withering, partisan attacks from Democrats, media propagandists, disingenuous U.N. officials and disloyal White House operatives selling their souls for profit during a time of war?

A lesser leader might have caved in. President Bush has stood his ground.

In this year's election, the question isn't whether we are safer now than we were four years ago. We already know the answer. Sure we are and that's because of President Bush. The critical question is: Four years from now, will America be safer than it is today?

In our book, Americans have to place their trust in President Bush. He's proven to be as sturdy as a mighty oak when it comes to saying what he means, meaning what he says and acting decisively.

When it comes to the war on terror, President Bush means to keep our military strong and our country secure.

John Kerry, on the other hand, has all the attributes of the shape of water when it comes to telling us what he believes and what he'd do for America. Like incoming and outgoing tides, Kerry is content to go with the flow. In a dangerous world infested with sharks, Kerry would be chum at America's expense.

We in Massachusetts know John Kerry. He got his first taste of politics 32 years ago in the cities and towns of Greater Lowell.

In his 20 years in the U.S. Senate, Kerry, a Navy war hero, hasn't risen above the rank of seaman for his uninspiring legislative record. He's been inconsistent on major issues. First he's for the 1991 Persian Gulf War, then he opposes it. First he's for the war in Iraq, then he's against it. First he's for a strong U.S. defense, then he votes against military weapons programs. First he's for the U.S. Patriot Act, then he opposes it.

Kerry's solution to stop terrorism? He'd go to the U.N. and build a consensus. How naive. France's Jacques Chirac, Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and other Iraq oil-for-food scam artists don't want America to succeed. They want us brought down to their level. And more and more, Kerry sounds just like them. In a recent campaign speech, Kerry said America was in the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

No doubt John Kerry sincerely wants to serve his country, but we believe he's the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Americans should think back three years ago to the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center. There among the mist lay the images and memories of fallen firefighters, police, a Catholic chaplain and ordinary working citizens moms, dads, sons, daughters.

President Bush, through heartfelt tears, told us never to forget the twisted carnage and the massacre of the innocents. Yet some of us are forgetting.

President Bush told us the attacks must never happen again. Yet some of us are wavering because of the brave sacrifice of soldiers that our nation's security demands.

Well, President Bush hasn't forgotten. Nor has he lost the courage and conviction to do what is right for America.

We know if there is one thing the enemy fears above all else, it is that George Bush's iron will is stronger than his iron won't.

The Sun proudly endorses the re-election of President George W. Bush.

I turn around and its already Tuesday evening. I leave tomorrow morning for Corporate and will be in the air most of the day. Everytime, I have to leave for a buisiness trip (about once a quarter) it never fails, one of our kids get sick. This time it's our son. He had a bad night Monday night up coughing and I had to get him from school today due to a fever. So the saga continues. I leave for a week and one of them gets sick. The sad thing about it, it's become well known among my wifes friends and they recognize it as well. Go freaking figure.

Today and yesterday was busy at work, yeah I know, nothing new. We do have a newbie on our team. He is suppose to start Nov.1st. The offer was made to him on Monday and they said he took it. They are trying to get him availible for a dinner with the team while I am up there for a week. It would be nice to meet him in person. Guess we will see if it pans out.

I was to eat dinner with a couple of other co-workers tomorrow night, but I don't land till 5:30 est and by the time I get my stuff together and settled in the hotel, it would be too late. Oh well, I planned to watch the final presidential debate.

Sunday Night! Sunday night the new Farscape comes on. Farscapers know SciFi had cancelled the program but the Scapers (known similar to Trekkies) saved the show. Thus Scifi is running 'The Peacekeep Wars' a four hour mini-series starting Sunday night. I love it and look soooo forward to it.

Gotta spend some time with the kiddos since I am heading out in the morning for one week. I always get the funny nervous feeling in the bowels of my stomach prior of leaving.

Yesterday's PTA silent auction went very well. I arrived there a little after 11 a.m. and started to move the long tables in from their storage. Man those things are heavy. We ended up with about 7 tables in there. Without busting a gut, we managed to get them all in and Kelli arranged the items very neatly across the tables to allow easy view and bidding. It lasted till 4:30 p.m. and we were out of there a little after 5 p.m. Overall, we attained a little over 700 dollars in the silent auction and dvd/vhs combo drawing. Nearly 400 more than last year! Plus there were not nearly as many showed up as last year. So yes, it went very well.

We bought about 30 dollars of tickets to let the kids play the games availible. I think they played everyone of them. Plus the hair paint, fact paint, bingo, eating nacho's, soda, ect. It went pretty fast.

Get this. There was over 100 entries to win that dvd/vhs combo, but you will never believe who won it. I wasnt in the room at the time of the drawing, but as I came back toward the silent auction room, with the kids, Kelli was coming down the hall. She told me to go and give Whitney a big hug. ( she is a 6 year old ). I asked why. She told me that Whitney pulled the winner of the dvd/vhs drawing and I BETTER GIVE HER A REALLY BIG HUG. Yep, I won the bloody thing. I couldn't believe it. So I did give her a hug. LOL Kelli said she had Whitney pull the name and was blown away, informing the crowd 'you seen she did it, right?' So that made my evening.

We left there and went over to our friends house, who invited us over for supper. It was nice to sit and chat while we ate spaghetti with them. We left after 7 p.m.

The dvd/vhs wouldnt play dvd's so I had to take it back to Walmart today (Sunday) and exchange it for one that did work. This one now works. So I have it in our bedroom sitting pretty. heh heh

Today, we are having a lazy day. Actually got to lay down for some time.

Well, I must say both candidates seem to come out swinging. I thought both did well in different questions, respectively. Now, I am not going to say Bush did the best, just because I support him. Howeever, I was very pleased with him continueing to put the spotlight on Kerry's record. As I posted before, I couldn't understand the media nor anyone seemed to care what occurred 20 years of his Senate career. Seemed everyone cared more of his 90 minute posturing than his 20 year record. Wow, some comparison. My wife is signed up with the DNC website and the first debate we were emailed a very thorough request to go onto every major news website (they handidly provided the links) as well as requesting to write to our local news outlets, papers, ect. The request was basically supporting Kerry/Edwards and "Let our votes/expressions be heard". Well it seemed they were more hitting the online polls this time around. I must say if nothing else, the liberals seem to be half-way organized when it comes in appearance. But like Bush so eloquently quoted "You can run but cannot hide" regarding Kerry and his Kerry's record.

Today will be a busy day(as if). We will have the silent auction from 1 to 4:30 today. They will open the doors at 11 so we can get our stuff in and arranged. Our kids will stay at our friends house between 11 to 1 p.m. They are looking forward to this and it will help us out in organizing. I already put 5 bucks in a drawing for a combo dvd-vcr player. Wish me luck.

Gotta run to Fort Smith, prior to. Need to pick up 2 more donations and drop some chicken and dumplings off to my mom's.

It also looks like it will be raining again today. Pretty cloudy out there.

Well, we had a great rain yesterday evening, night and most of the morning. It definitely cooled everything down here. It stopped raining around 9 a.m. this morning, but remanined cool. Or so it seemed looking out the window.

Need I say TGIF? I was on support and it was actually busy, they hit me in waves with tickets. I managed to get most of the scripts on the Document Imaging FTP's. So that was good. Other than that, I pretty much stayed in front of the computer.

I seen part of the new JibJab on the news this morning. So I had to make it over to the site to check it out in it's entirety. I noticed they really changed the website up and making money selling them out. Still hilarous though.

We have our PTA silet auction tomorrow. I will be glad to get it ove with. We have nearly, if not, 50 items to be auctioned off. We hope to do well. My wife worked her butt off acquiring donations, setting up the system to make it presentable and easily to work.

I had news today that our son stared out today. He hasn't had any dairy products, so I dont know what the deal is.

My wife cooked chicken and dumplings tonight and man was it good. We haven't had it in quite sometime and was expectng it to be still raining. It was very good. I had to have 2 bowels of it. Cookies are being brought out of the stove now and they smell, gooooood.

I am looking forward to watching the next Presidential election tonight.

Hope everyone has a good/safe weekend.

I have heard stories of Arkansas stealing/shredding/stomping Bush/Cheney signs. I know the ones I personally set out in Fort Smith, have disapeared. However, I was not aware of the amount of attacks across the states.

Why is the news not reporting these attacks on the Bush/Cheney campain offices?

I been trying to look online to locate all of them and it wasn't an easy cookie cutter.

Michelle Malkin has actually charted them up to now.

Liberals are so lovely part 1

Liberals are so lovely part 2

Below I found 3 actual stories from news sources.

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Bullies Storm Republican Office
Newsradio 540 WFLA ^ | October 5 2004 | Newsradio 540 WFLA

Posted on 10/05/2004 2:34:19 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

Bullies Storm Republican Office A group of protestors caused a commotion Tuesday afternoon at the Bush-Cheney Headquarters at SR436 & the 408. The protestors rushed the front door and Orlando police spokesman, Sgt. Brian Gilliams says what happened 540 WFLA News Byte Bullies at Republican Office Once inside, the protestors used a marker to draw on posters and scribbled remarks. O-P says one employee at the office was slightly injured and police are considering whether to file misdemeanor battery charges against the unidentified protestor. It is believe the intruders were protestor labor policies of the Bush Administration.

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Laptops Stolen From Bush Campaign Office
Three Laptop Computers Containing Campaign Plans Stolen From Bush's Wash. State Headquarters

The Associated Press


SEATTLE Oct. 1, 2004 — Three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen overnight from the Bush-Cheney state headquarters office, Republican officials said Friday.

Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., after the last campaign worker had gone home from the office in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, someone threw a rock through the office window of Jon Seaton, executive director for President Bush's state campaign, said Chris Vance, state GOP chairman.

Vance said two of the stolen laptops belonged to Seaton and Chris Taylor, head of the office's get-out-the-vote campaign. A third had been slated for a field office.

The computers contained much of the Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for the state, Vance said.

"This looks like it was politically motivated," Vance said in an interview from the Republican party offices in Tukwila.

Bellevue police confirmed the burglary Friday afternoon but offered no support for Vance's claims about motive.

"No evidence at the scene indicated this was politically motivated," police spokeswoman Jessamyn Poling said.

State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats knew nothing about the break-in. "We think it's awful and we definitely condemn the actions of those who stole these computers," she said.

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Source from article below.

Bush-Cheney Campaign Headquarters Burglarized

October 2, 2004

By KOMO Staff & News Services


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BELLEVUE - The state's Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in Bellevue were burglarized and three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen, Republican Party officials said Friday.

Sometime between 2 a.m. Friday, when campaign workers went home, and 8 a.m., when the office reopened, a person threw a rock through the window of Jon Seaton, executive director for the state's Bush campaign, said Chris Vance, state GOP chairman.

Stolen were three laptops that Vance said belonged to Seaton and Chris Taylor, head of the office's get-out-the-vote campaign. A third computer had been slated for a field office.

Information on the computers included much of the Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for the state, he said.

Leah Yoon, Washington state Bush-Cheney campaign spokeswoman, declined to comment on what was on the computers, but said they did not contain advertising schedules, as had been previously reported.

"We've already been violated enough," she said.

The headquarters are located northeast of downtown Bellevue, in an area with several office buildings.

"This looks like it was politically motivated," Vance said in an interview from the Republican party offices in Tukwila.

Bellevue police confirmed the burglary Friday afternoon, but could not confirm Vance's claim.

"No evidence at the scene indicated this was politically motivated," police spokeswoman Jessamyn Poling said.

State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats knew nothing about the break-in.

"We think it's awful and we definitely condemn the actions of those who stole these computers," she said.

Vance said a similar incident occurred in 2000 when a joint Bush-Slade Gorton office was broken into and a laptop was stolen. Gorton is a former Republican senator from Washington state.

"Somebody is trying to get a look at the Bush campaign plan or disrupt the campaign plan," he said.

In recent months, there have been several complaints of various acts of subterfuge against the Bush campaign, Vance said.

The party's office was called by Republican voters who said they received telephone calls alleging Bush would reinstate a military draft if re-elected, which Vance said isn't true.

Cars with Bush bumper stickers also have been vandalized, he said, and campaign signs have been painted over with swastikas and burned.

"There's always some tension in the campaign, but this is out of control," Vance said.

This was sent to me by my wife and I thought it to be of interest.
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Subject: Kerry's Visit to Cannonsburg,Pa.

John Kerry brought his "front porch meeting" to our
Canonsburg, PA neighborhood on Labor Day morning. Since you will never hear the truth from the TV or print media, I thought you should know from someone who was 'almost' there.

The residents who live on the street where the event took place were not allowed to attend. Kerry shipped in approximately 90 invitation only VIPs. In addition, there was a hard luck case about a woman who was about to lose her job at USAIR and another was an elderly woman who was having health care problems. Neither one was from this neighborhood. The street was closed to all traffic the night before and all residents on the street were REQUIRED to remove their
Bush/Cheney signs.

The sympathetic police officers on duty told us that Kerry used eminent domain to claim the street for his purposes. Residents who have homes within the perimeter (approximately 1 full block) were kept behind a line away from the partisan crowd. The rest of us were not allowed within the 1 block cordon. A neighbor from across the street came to the line where we were being kept and asked us to come onto his property. The police told us that we could stand on this man's FORMERLY private
property! This was set up so that Kerry's views could be heard - but not the neighbors. About 30 neighbors' shouts echoed down the street, "Let the neighbors in."

We could barely hear Kerry speaking with his microphone because press buses were used to block us from view! This morning's papers are reporting hecklers tried to interrupt Kerry as he spoke to the neighborhood gathering, but he turned our chants to his favor by calling us rude. Even though most of the media were there to record our stories of not being included in the neighborhood forum, not one of them printed
or aired the truth. This is what America will look like if Kerry becomes president.

Get registered and get all of your friends registered to vote if they have not already. Kerry thinks he is better than the rest of us and he has the media on his side to make him out to be what he is not! Finally, last night as I drove down the street where the rally was, I was shocked to see Bush/Cheney signs in almost every yard on the street!
Please send this e-mail on to as many people as you can.

LET FREEDOM RING!

Wednesday night already and it's getting late. I am not on-call but one of the facilities is doing a lab datamove onto a new server. Since I am over lab now, I am having to change to the new IP's and then wait to turn them on. 2 down (HSS lab and Quest((results, adt, ect))), one more to go. The lady I am working with will call me back in about 30 minutes. Hopefully will be done in time for me to watch Orielly at 10 p.m. : )

I have been asked to call some known Republicans basically reminding them Nov. 2 is the date to vote and asking them to please go vote on this important election. Not that you would have to be living under a rock or in a cave to not know this by now. But I am doing it regardless. It's my feeling of contribution and maybe some of these people need reminding. I find it interesting, because I didn't feel uncomfortable calling vendors for donation to a cause, like our PTA for school. But I do feel a bit of uneasiness to call people and ask them to go vote. Can't explain why, but I just get the feeling of speaking to a vendor, I actually have a purpose for the call. Rather when I remind then ask them to go vote, I don't feel like there is a result or goal in mind. OH well. Some have simply hung up on me, some have said I am going to vote -lets leave it at that (whatever that means), and some actually asked certain questions of the candidates. I guess they wanted to know if I am some lackey or actually have a clue.

My son went to the pediatrician doctor for a follow-up and according to my wife, it didn't go as bad as expected. Basically the interesting part I found was the doctor agreed he had a milk alergy and noted it in his chart. But didn't agree it could be the result of his staring out spells. However, she couldn't explain why the dramatic result (his improvement) either though. It sounded like a lot of non-believers. Yes, they see the result but really can't accept the result. I understand the Doc's fear of parents using alternate medicine. It's basically having a kid coming in burning with temp from 4 days of the parents trying to do a chicken dance to cure the evil spirits inhabiting the kids body. But like I told Kelli, she (the doc) should be able to view each parents common sense individually. Let's face it, there are some people having kids, that are not nor ever will be actual parents.

I said, I won my first bid on ebay yesterday. My paypal came into effect today. But this chic had only cashiers check or money order as payment. Well there's my first lesson to look. I was assuming everyone was on the paypal bandwagon by now. Oh well. I will acquire one tomorrow and send it out to her. I already emailed her twice on it notifying her.

We are suppose to be getting rain in this weekend. I hope we do, we need it.

Had to jump on here tonight after the debate and say, Cheyney plainly whooped Edwards Ass on the debate.

Looks like they both grew tired midways during the debate, and the analyst are already stating, Cheyney won the foriegn policy as Edwards won the domestic. But I love seeing the fact of Kerry's record coming in to the spotlight. Finally, after he wouldn't mention it in the DNC, the media has ignored it, Cheyney presented the public Kerry's bad record and MIA 70 percent of national security meetings.

I think this will now allow Bush a platform, come this Friday night!

Today, I was actually able to go to lunch with my wife! I couldn't believe it. Quite a dichotomy of last weeks two days. I am on support tomorrow so will be literally shackled to the pc all day, but thankfully I am not on on-call this week. So there is a light at the end of the tunnel. heh heh

My wife has been doing Ebay for some time now and I am now attempting to bid on a product for christmas. I can see how addicting it can be. I cursed already for the 5 other bids I lost on the same product. Seems you have to wait 3 minutes before the end to start the bidding war. Once bitten twice shy. I will learn.

I also grabbed 2 more donations for the silent auction Saturday. I will be glad when this is over as well. We have about 41 donations for the PTA silent auction. The toys also came in yesterday for the card fundraiser. We divided them out last night to separate teachers. I loaded them in this morning for the school. So we should be finally done with the card fundraiser as well. : )

WOOHOO my first win on the ebay! I was bidding as I write this and actually won that product! My paypal will be processed tomorrow and I am on my way to Ebay!

Today was actually a nice day. It was quite peacefull today at work. Shh, don't tell anyone though.

Someone contacted me today with a list of Republican contact list. I was asked to call these in Pocola reminding/requesting them to vote Nov. 2nd.

I also was excited today to find a Christmas present for my wife. Can't say what it is due to her reading this blog at times. But, I was glad to order it. Yes, Christmas. We already have a lay-a-way off for the kids Christmas, and need another one for some other things. The lady I ordered it from was amazed it was for Christmas, but when you only get paid once a month, then you need to thin it out. : )

29 days left for the vote and I keep being surprised by supporters of the want-a-be with his record, ideology, ect. (shaking head)

If you have a little time on your hand plase check out Kerry's voting record here.

Here is also Brad Carson's Voting Record.

The weekend was good for us. We thoroughly cleaned the house and rearranged the kids bedrooms. It was nice to not having to go somewhere. Sunday on-call wasn't as bad as Saturday. So we spent all weekend cleaning house. We chose not to go to church either.

Only one meeting scheduled today, which I am on now. Other than that, today looks quite good.

I was surprised the polls are showing Kerry coming up to Bush, regarding the presidential race. I am surprised by a) people are easily swayed and b) most prefer flash, rather than substance.

Taking a breather right about now. As before I am on call all week and quite frankly it's been a busy morning for work. Keep getting calls. But this was the reason for us to stay close to home, just in case.

I stayed up last night watching 'Gladiator' and 'Bad Boys 2'. Both of which I acquired on dvd for 5 bucks a piece at a yardsale. I finally managed to watch them. I hoped to sleep in, being my only chance, but started to get calls early this morning.

Today ( between work calls ) we been cleaning house. Kelli been cleaning with a fine tooth comb in our daughters room. I can't say all she came out of there for yardsales, because I am sure it would be embarrasing. She completely cleaned her closet, shelves, ect out. It looks much better and I commend her doing it. While she been doing that, I cleaned the office and trying to cacth up on the floors, laundry, ect. I also managed to pull the fall decorations down from the attic and put some summer stuff up. We actually are making good progress. The weather is nice and cool outside but we happen to be working inside today. I mowed the yard Thursday, so I wouldnt have to worry about it this weekend.

Yesterday, I also ran to the election board and checked out Pocola's precinct of all registered voters. Yes, you can actually do this and its free. I have 5 buisiness days to keep them before returning them. It is a list of all registered voters. A word to the wise. It list your name, affiliation (Dem., Rep, Ind ), address, mailing address (sometimes they are different), voter id #, date of birth.

We also recieved good news last night and this morning. Last night my mother called and informed us she felt much better than before. This morning, we found out the neighbors house sold and they are closing it Tuesday or Wednesday. Supposedly the prior owner is to send us a check on the week of the 10th to compensate our work on it throughout this process and make good. No value was given but we are excited it's finally closing and we may get some extra money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yes, today will be a better day.

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

Plan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Then of course the Presidential vote.

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

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

Here is how the conversation went.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Me: " Who would install it?"

Dish: "You would."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday for me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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