Middle America's Worldview

I had heard there was a Mosaic found under the Prison within Iraq yesterday, briefly on the news.

I wanted to share this link to the article stating Prisoners and archaeologists were working side-by-side on Tuesday, gently cleaning the two mosaics as prison guards stood nearby. The rough outline of the original building was visible under the large plastic tent erected above it.

When I read the article, two things stood out to me. ..it is ancient and possibly the oldest church found in Israel, but that it clearly shows there was public Christian worship here at a time when Christianity was still outlawed in the Roman Empire and when Christians were being persecuted.. and ..they include a memorial to four women, at a time when women were not usually mentioned in such a way... I am surprised for them to be surprised on the fact it was a public Christian worship purchased by a Roman. There is an account within the bible where Romans approaced Jesus for blessings in addition to Jews. The other thing many may not understand is the fact woman were not persecuted or looked down upon by the early christian faith. Unlike many other religions, the bible clearly states for the man to treat the woman as Christ treated the true church. I know there are many who misinterpretate scripture for their own purpose and goals. However, those interpretations are not literal nor correct.

Another interesting note is the fact there are more than one reference to Jesus Christ. It was stated this is the oldest findings in reference to Jesus Christ. No surprise there considering He was a actual person, no matter what Peter Jennings thought.

The left is totally excited about retaining their two Dem Governor positions. It is hilarous to hear the left are trying to show this is due to further their insane causes. What is sad is I really didn't expect these true blue areas going red. I would be surprised if it had. Most propable for the Dem's excitement is the fact they didn't get their A##'s kicked again. They are losing on nearly every other ground, when it is given to the people to vote on. Look at yesterday's Texas marriage ammendment( ..An overwhelming 76 percent of voters approved the constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman... ) that was overwhelming approved by the people as an example. When it's clear cut and given to the people, they respond overwhelming against the far left's ideology. The Dem's know it and cry at night while they try to sleep. I guess we can allow some room for their small glee.

Pirates hijack ship off Somalia

"Several ships carrying UN food aid have been hijacked. Pirates have seized a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, local officials have confirmed. They said the Maltese-registered ship, Pagania, was attacked late on Wednesday as it sailed from South Africa to Europe with a cargo of iron ore. The hijackers are reportedly demanding a $700,000 (£394,000) ransom for the release of the ship and its crew, all believed to be Ukrainian. More than 20 ships have been seized or attacked in the area since March. "


What Nimrod started calling these terrorist pirates? This goes back to my rant a couple days ago. Let's call black..black and white..white. Let's get real people.

These are not Pirates of the Carribean. These are terrorist attacking ships for cargo and kidnapping. A fascinating read on Somalia could become springboard for jihad shows where these incorrectly called Pirates are coming from. So get real people they are groups of terrorist from warlords out of Somalia. Another recent article here points it out......sea lanes have been taken over by ransom-seeking, ocean-going warlords, officials say.

While I am on the terrorist issue, I just heard Paris has hit 5000 cars total burned out in Paris by the unrest. The first victim died in Paris due to being beat to death. I am actually amazed only one has occurred with all the burning and ravaging the landscape. Anyone recalls the Los Angelos riots, where the black community basically burned and destroyed everything in site? This sounds similar. The sad thing is, who will be the ones hurting over this? Those living in the neighborhood being ravaged.

It is interesting to note, France is second in Jewish popluation after Israel, over there. These riots are being led primarily by Muslim.

Unbelievable weather in Oklahoma allowed us to clean up the yard, cars and garage today.

Since we basically did nothing Friday night and Saturday, we caught up today with our cleaning and preparing for the week to come. It will be hectic as usual with all the errands, jobs, and ect. We went to Sunday School at Church but was going to leave early to lunch. I was caught by a teacher at school and had to ask how things were going. Again, I heard similar issues with the principle. Unfortunately, it appears no-one wrote it up. I continue to hear similiar occurances from more than on source, but the frustration on my part is simple. I cannot do anything until it's presented to the school board with paperwork. I guess we will see if they will write this up. I continue to convey this needs to be written up as a complaint and keep a copy of it for their own.

We did get to go out to lunch today as a family and it was extremely nice. Making a list of todo's and just enjoying each others company without interruption was a true pleasure. There is a new (first and only one) Starbucks in Fort Smith. We drove by it and I had my first Mocha Venti there. It was pretty good. I should now have a worthy caffeine high to get stuff done throughout the day. : )

I watched two movies Friday night. I rented "Land of the Dead" and "Warriors of Heaven and Earth". Both movies were worthy to rent. I enjoyed both of them. Land of the dead is the latest in the living dead movies. The zombies are starting to think for themselves now. It was a pretty good storyline. Warriors of heaven and earth was a japanese movie with english subtitles. Again, the story line was good. I love the Seven Samurai and do not mind reading subtitles on movies.

One final event this week is worth mentioning. I received a Christmas present early. Yeah, really early. I was given the second season dvd set of Farscape. This is a big big gift. The prices for these sets are outrageous. I am truly gratefull for my wife willing to spend it for me. A great shoutout and thank you to Kel for it. It was nearly 11 p.m. before the kids and wife went to bed last night, yet I watched the first two shows of the set.

Farscape is truly a great great SciFi series. It is a shame only 4 seasons occured. However, I bet my wife is glad due to the prices of each. LOL

I grow tired of the incorrect perceptions people place on one another. At times, I have to point out the inconsistency, or lack of priorities in regards to school functions. Rather than my peers agreeing with me (or disagreeing with a valid example) they just wish to shuck it off stating he/she are doing a pretty good job. This is really irritating.

I am a fixer. Plain and simple. I receive tickets at work to resolve issues of interfaces, etc. I logically look at the flow and find the kinks and find resolution. I can't help but do the same thing in my home or other environment. Yet, when I attempt to address these issues, I get a ho-hum attitude. It seems they have this perception of their own rather than a reality view. This attitude of "it could be worse, don't rock the boat" is troublesome. Don't get me wrong. There are good qualities in most people, but this inability of addressing flaws because of fear or the person's insecurities is driving me nuts.

You can take this same issue with people and their God. Rather than looking at literal scripture, they have their own perception of how God should be or is. The statement of "I don't think God would do that" or "I don't believe God is like that". Why not just state, this is what my bible says or this is what the angel had told me as I was on my knees. The sad truth is, just because you want it to be true, often it's not. My point is, I rather have facts than perception of belief.

Take the same issue with a family member on drugs, spouse abuse, etc. There are always those in denial or looking only at their perception of what they want, rather than what is.

I don't know how to correct this, other than to continue pointing out facts and comparisons. Oh well, I guess I am just ranting.

It's nearly 3 a.m. here. I woke up around 1 a.m with a killer dry mouth and throat. After quenching it with water, I couldn't get back to sleep. I laid in bed tossing till around 2:30 and finally got up and came in here looking at blogs. None of the ones I daily read had anything new to say, so I scanned around.

I came across Busting Agenda that depicts the pro-homosexual activist pushing agenda driven drivel targeting nothing less than school kids. No, it's not about std's or aids,(that might actually be educational) rather it's conveying to K-3rd graders it's ok to be gay. If your parents don't see it that way, tough sh*t, their prejudice and don't know any better(my words). The article is long, but well worth the read.

A lot of the blogs are talking about the senate calling for closed session. Yeah, some thinks, wow, this is a good move by the Senate. Others are wondering what the hell? There is no reason for it. Well, I have a opinion on the matter. Basically the loony left are losing it again. This is not a good move, nor a right one. Let's face it, liberals continue to lose ground in the sight of the individual people, regardless how the major media attempts to portray them.

1. Their spotlight from the once one source media is going south (yeah the media still give them the light, but more and more people are looking at alternative news sources, ie the net and talk radio)

2. The false indictment didn't reach up to the top as they had hoped. Damn their luck.

3. Iraq is actually coming around. There will always be bombs going off. Do you hear the news about radical muslims in Europe causing chaos over there?
Per Gary Bauer....
Events in Europe this week offer a disturbing glimpse of the future, but you wouldn’t know it from the American media which has virtually ignored the developments.
First, there have been five nights of rioting in the suburbs of Paris by Muslim youth battling police. And in Denmark a number of young Danish Muslims have been arrested and charged with plotting suicide attacks in that country and throughout Europe. In Holland a group has been apprehended that was plotting to assassinate Dutch politicians who want to restrict further Muslim immigration into the country.
All in all, it looks like the strength of Muslim extremists is growing in Europe, posing a severe threat to the freedoms of many western nations.
Seems like an important story to me.
Yeah seem like an important one to me as well.


4. This new justice nominee is just another nail in their liberal coffin. The fact he is conservative has the same liberals chasing their tails. There really was no surprise the same three, Shumer, Durbin, Feinstein, would cry foul irregardless of the candidate. It was expected. That is what they get paid to do from their liberal money pouchers.

The Senate probably needed to reassess their situation (what the hell are we going to do now) and this requires time. It's just stonewalling on their part.

It's already Halloween night and the kids are in bed. We hit Halleujah night sponsored by the local church's. It was a crowd in a half. We had more trick or treaters this year regardless of the weather.

I seen the 100 most scariest moments in tv/movies the other night. I could'nt believe they actually put JAWS as number one. I wouldn't have chosen that one, personally.

I was trying to think of the most scariest movies I had ever watched. As a kid, I was pratically raised on them. I most likely watched them too young. Oh well.

The two movies that stand out, well three in my mind as scaring me was .....

3. Demons ( the first one )
2. Evil Dead ( I actually watched this on the old disk movies, anyone recall those?)
1. Shining ( Those twin girls in the hallway really, really freaked me out.)

Hope everyone has a really good and safe Halloween.

Author Richard Swenson, M.D notes
"According to isotope studies, 90% of our atoms are replaced annually. Every 5 yrs 100% of our atoms turn over; become new atoms...
In the last hour, 1 trillion trillion of your atoms have been replaced." Quote from the book 'More than meets the eye'.

Consider this for a moment. Our bodies are constantly regenerating each moment. How is it possible for our bodies to remain intact if it is changing 100% each 5 years? Evolutionists still have a hard time answering this question. How is the personality of the individual maintained? How are emotions retained in the new cells?

Everyone recognizes that the human body is made up of chemicals commonly found in dirt. But dirt can't perform the functions human beings can. You cannot produce any living organisms from simple compounds in dirt. There must be something else, some outside variable causing these attributes of a living being.

David M. Baughn M.D. says,
"We are continually being created from dust and returning to dust...we are no objects or machines that endure, we are patterns that have the capacity to perpetuate ourselves. WE are not things, instead we are processes." Quote from 'Contempary Scientific Principles and Family Medicine'.

At best we can only move it from one already living thing to another. Even in today's stem cell research we must take a living cell and place it within a living embryo to produce more cells.

Note the Bible has something to say of this.

Genesis 2:2 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Note in Genesis we are informed Jehovah God first formed man from the ground but then breathed in his nostrils the breath of life. This breath of life made man into a living soul. This would account our body having the chemicals commonly found in dirt, yet Jehovah God's breath of life would account to the outside attribute.

Genesis 2:21-22 "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man."

Note the story continues as Jehovah God caused man to fall into a deep sleep and took one of his ribs, closing up his flesh. Much like a surgeon would remove a kidney from a living donor. There is an old joke or belief questioning if God took a rib from Adam and put it Eve, then why doesn't all men have one less ribs than women? The answer is quite simple. If you loose a finger, does your new baby also have one less finger? Of course not, the man Adam would live the rest of his life with one less ribs, but his children would be born naturally with all their ribs.

The story continues, then Jehovah God takes the same rib and makes a woman. Later the man calls the new creature wo-man, meaning out of man. The man did this due to her being created out of his own flesh. I personally find this interesting. Why didn't God simply create a new creature from the ground and breathe again the breath of life? Later in the story, we are told man should leave his mother and cleave to the woman as a wife and the two shall be one. This is for another article.

The point would be again, a living creature was derived from another living creature. The other interesting thing I would like to point out is the Bible doesn't mention Jehovah God breathing the breath of life in the animals, plants, ect. We only see Man having the breath of life, causing him, the woman and his descendants to be a living soul. This would place man and woman in a different level than the other creatures found on Earth.

I woke up in a funk this morning and it's not wanting to let me go today. Logically,I don't know why. Everything continues to flow for work and home. The kids and wife are not sick. Thank you God in heaven. I just seem to be in a blah today. I even sold another BBS Protoday and received a compliment yesterday from my boss regarding my work. Maybe it will pass.


Wednesday: I was able to attend church. It starts at 7 p.m. and is pretty late regarding kids in school, ect. However, it was a fulfilling time with the crowd.

Thursday: I took the kids to Jacks Skateland for our regular PTA monthly gathering. Half the attendance proceeds goes to the PTA. There were not that many showed up. That in itself was kindof nice, leaving us with plenty of room to skate and enjoy. I requested Def Leppard or Gun's N Roses to be played, but never heard them. I made it to the very end and then bit the floor. I ended up flat on my back for all the view and cheer. Yeah, it happens to the best of us. Oh well. I am not as sore as I expected to be this morning. At least I am willing to get out there and skate with the kids.

Friday: So far this morning, I have managed to go number over 100 pumpkins being on display for the School Pumpkin decorating contest, sell a
BBS Pro, catch up with work and get a load of laundry done. Here in a few minutes, I will go put the ribbons on the pumpkins during my lunch break.

I have cleaned the refrigerator out, removing the leftovers. They don't even look good to eat. I am forcing down some left over cheese pizza. Kel will be bringing something home tonight for dinner. I have requested some good barbeque sandwhich with jalepeno peppers from a restaurant close at hand. Their twice baked potatoes are to die for. LOL

Maybe I can sneak away before my evening confernce call to see if any movies are out to rent, worth anything.

Great Scott this day flew for me. I ran the kids to school and headed straight back to work. Next thing, I look up and it's 11 a.m. est. The morning was gone. I then attempted to take a break from work to view some .net stuff. Yeah, real fun.

I had to leave work a bit early anyway to run a couple of errands and this and that. Needless to say, by the time I came home it was already evening and time to eat. I am now sitting in the living room catching up personal email at 9 a.m est. Crazy.

On another subject, I am currently reading the dummy book on ASP.NET. I am looking around for some good free asp webhosting. So if you know of any, please feel free to let me know. I would like to play with it.

I wanted to post this interesting information, via email I received today.
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This past Sunday the people of Poland voted in a run-off election and gave a clear victory to Lech Kaczynski and his Law and Justice Party.
Today various leaders of the European Union bluntly warned the new Polish leader
to not violate human rights and pointedly told him he was "on probation."
The head of the socialist group in the European Parliament added that Kaczynski better govern differently than he campaigned. What is going on here? Is Kaczynski some sort of neo-Nazi that has the rest of Europe shaking with fear? Not at all!
What has Europe hyperventilating is that Kaczynski courted the "religious right" during his campaign. He has openly opposed special rights for homosexuals, and he supports the death penalty for heinous crimes. One horrified European Commission bureaucrat sniffed, "Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation contravenes…the rule of law and human rights!"
This is amazing. The Polish people vote for a conservative who takes family and faith seriously and a bunch of European socialists are warning him he better not govern according to those values or Poland will be ostracized!
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I would like to say go tell EU to go blow. However, in a ever shrinking world, I fear this strong arm tactic will probably work against Polands people by the EU.

Looking at the blog, I noticed I haven't even updated the blog for nearly a bloody week. Time just keeps flying for me.

I had taken Friday off to spend time with the family. One of the aspects was to actually not work, since this week at work was horacious. We were down one peer and I was asked to look at everything. Oh well. Nice to be known and needed. Regardless it was nice to spend time with the family, even though it was hectic.

All day Friday we prepared for our daughters party. We had a party consisting of 3 girls birthday's. I think about 30 plus kids, with parents were there. The big hit was the Karaoke. Our daughter wanted one, so we bought her one for her birthday. I have since been checking out the karaoke CD's seeing what is out there. I am amazed of the vast quantity and sheer magnitude of availble cd's. Who knew it was so popular to have such a diverse amount of choices? Not me.

I managed to complete a home project by Sunday. Let's just say I am not really the handyman nor furniture inclined. I am sure it would take most 4 hours to knock it all out. It took me all weekend.

Tonight at Church we continued the "Purpose Driven Life" again. I was able to attend it and enjoyed it, again.

Yesterday, as I was reading the book, I ran across the statements referring each individual is pre-wired (note not pre-destined) for a purpose God has given us/them. This, to me, is interesting. Would this mean each of our interest, special abilities, have been given to us by God? If so, wouldn't it also be logical our inherent issues, weaknesses are also given to us? I think so. Keeping in mind alot is also dependant upon our social surroundings, place of birth and enviroment we grow up in, helps develop our personalities. This to me, creates a crucial requirement to have each child in a well founded family enviroment during development. I can see why many activity groups are so pro-family. I myself view traditional pro-family to be the best enviroment as well. For those individuals that call some mom-dad families can also be abusive, I have to say that is not a well founded family enviroment. Realistically, this ideal enviroment is dwindling each day/year and generation. I look around and see these kids trying to act more adult than their own parents and it is very troublesome. Then you have these wolves in sheep clothing indoctrinating the youth with misinformation is disheartening. I wish there was a means to bring the light into their freaking dark world. Perhaps after the "Purpose Driven Life" book is read, I will find a means and purpose to assist somewhere to change the landscape of youth.


I have heard somewhere God will not give you no more than what you can handle. I have to wonder how many people understand that when they

I dont know if we actually had a weekend. A weekend is something you sit or lounge while watching t.v. right? Hmm, didnt happen here.

Friday night, I can't really recall. I had rented two movies and watched most of the first one, Kingdom of Heaven and Unleashed. I fell asleeep on Kingdom of Heaven. I was able to finish it Saturday. It turned out better at the end. Now Unleash on the other hand was a really good movie. An actual decent storyline with action. Rare anymore to find a movie with a decent storyline from Hollywood.

Saturday, we had the PTA silent auction. I took the kids around most of the 4 hour duration. PTA did pretty good. Not as good as last time, however, we didn't do raffle this time. We will definitely have another one next year with a raffle.

Sunday, we ran to Tulsa. Kel's aunt is working at a new facility and acquired an apartment up there. We were able to check it out and visit a bit. Kel was able to check out some stores. I want to take the kids to a LaserTag up there. We simply didn't have the time. Oh well. It's not like we wont be up there again, visiting.

There was power surge at Corp that knocked everything out, including the phone lines. Needless to say, I barely made it home before a conference call with the critical task force and CIO was in play. So I basically was on the laptop all bloody evening till after midnight. I then received a couple of on-call calls during the night. Needless to say, no sleep and glad I am off on-call.

So tonight, I am sitting here drinking a wine and relaxing without a cell phone.

Q: Why do cultures throughout the world have legends that sound like they came from the book of Genesis?

A: There was a missionary to the Australian Aborigines that attended one of our seminars. Since Ken Ham knew that cultures all over the world had Flood legends similar to the historical account in Genesis, he asked this missionary if the Aborigines had any such stories. Ken then explained to him that the reasons these stories abound all over the world is that they were handed down from the time of Noah, even though they were changed somewhat.

The real record, of course, is in the Bible. This evidence attests to the fact that all cultures are of one race, descended from Noah … and ultimately Adam.

A few years later, this same missionary recounted the event of an old Aboriginal elder who told him that the Aborigines had a story handed down for generations, that woman was made while man was asleep. Remembering the earlier conversation with Ken, the missionary opened the Bible and read the account of the creation of Eve (Genesis 2:21-23).

The aboriginal said, "how come you have the same story we have-but your story is better." The missionary was able to lead this man to the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you would like to learn more about how various creation and global flood legends from different cultures compare to the biblical account, take a look at the articles on AIG's Q&A page on this topic.

The fight for Civil Unions by some states believe it will appease the Homosexual movement. The article shows civil unions taking effect in Connecticut for the first time legallyl. I personally believe this will not appease those gay couples wishing to be married.

They now have the same legal status as married couples, but it hints in the statement, "..they could't find words to describe their union." What does that mean exactly?

I posted a blog on the attempts of california gay activists pushing their agenda on the people irregardless of the peoples vote, proposition 22. The people clearly voted marriage is between a man and a woman. This view holds true throughout the states (that I can see) when questioned to the people as a whole.

However, those wishing to have their own ways, continue to seek routes other than that which is constitutional. The article does state this at the bottom. Guess we will see.

I found this article to be interesting, albeit a little old.

South African Expert says circumcision procedure is best 'Vaccine'. The article goes on to point out "the association between circumcision and a reduced risk of HIV was noted as early as 1987, when Dr. William Cameron of the University of Manitoba in Canada reported findings from a study in Kenya."

I did a quick google and found these related articles.

CTV article

Syfi News article

Boston Herald article

When I read this in the local paper, circumcision from the Bible actually came to my mind.

Check this site out for Circumcision practices around the world.

You find the first story of circumcision in the Bible with Abraham in Genesis 16:1-3, 15-16, 17, 21:1-2

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs. (WEB)

This web page goes into more detail on the Biblical view of circumcision throughout all cultures.

None the less, I thought it was interesting none-the-less.

I feel like I actually had some rest of the mind this weekend. I was able to finish the great "Dark Tower Series" this weekend. I great great series. I began it years ago and now the tale is told, to me. I think I will start "The Chronicles of Narnia" series next, in preparation of the movie coming out December of this year. I have never read the books. However, I see it was really compared to the Potter series and I noticed many quotes from C.S. Lewis in the book "The Purpose Driven Life".

I was able to stay home and play with the kids most of Friday night and all day Saturday. We ended Saturday night playing Hide and Seek in the house. I absolutely loved it. : )

Kel had over done it this week and weekend. I can't keep a good woman down. : )
I took the kids to Church with me Sunday morning and she was suppose to 'take it easy' at home in bed, since she already over did it the day before. Alas, when I came home, looking in her eyes, I knew she done something. (shaking head) No, I didn't spank her (wink) but I do worry about her initiatives.

The Church has started a group to go through the book "The Purpose Driven Life" written by Rikc Warren. I had been given this book sometime in the past, but have never got to it. Well, last night I had attended the second week at Church. I need to catch up, but they were giving the books out to each individual to read and go through. I picked one up for Kel. So now we have one each. I will be now going through this book. Hopefully, Kel will too. I would like for each of us to read it on our own time and then perhaps discuss it between ourselves. Guess we will see.

I start on-call again today. blah. Maybe, it will not be bad. I already have offered my time late late Sunday night for a live. We have a Rx (Pharmacy) conversion going on around midnight Sunday (into Monday) that will go through Monday night into Tuesday. It consist of two facilites. It's not like we have never stayed up all night before.

Guess, I better get back to work.

A complaint filed yesterday regarding the display of the Ten Commandments and Mayflower Compact. ACLU and James Green verses Haskell County Board of Trustees and Sam Cole.

I called the US Federal Courthouse in Muskogee, Oklahoma to find out the file is under ACLU of Oklahoma. The case number is O5CV4O6 (not zeros). As of noon today, it still was not on the shelf.

I also contacted Dan Boren's office asking for his thoughts on this. Dan Boren is the Congressman for the 2nd District. I was told my inquiry has been sent to him up in the D.C.'s office. I am still waiting for a reply.

Tina Izadi, staff attorney for ACLU of Oklahoma stated; "It's not approaching religion in a neutral fashion.. It's endorsing a specific religious text. We're hoping that Stigler will act accordingly but we're investigating." This is found online here.

Seems that has changed now that James Green stepped up. I am not certain why now or if ACLU approached him first. I will pursue this.

I do find it interesting back in November 2004, ACLU stated they would not sue over the Ten Commandments and Mayflower Compact monument. Another article is found here with ACLU stating they are waiting on the Supreme Courts decision.

Unfortunately dependant on which state your in, the Supreme Courts decided 5-4 differently. Texas says its ok and Kentucky says it's not. The difference appears to come down to if it is alone or part of historical documents.

The monument in Stigler has the Ten Commandments on one side and the Mayflower Compact on the other side. In addition, it is placed alongside three other monuments honoring people who died in the Civil War, the Trail of Tears, World War I and World War II.

The 8-feet, $2,500 monument, funded by efforts of Stigler-area residents and church members, was erected in November last year after approval from the Haskell County Commission.

I will keep tabs on this story. I am also still waiting for the ACLU of Oklahoma to return my call back 2 months ago. : )

Last night, I came into a quite dark home. It wasn't empty, because everyone was asleep in their beds. I had made a late evening errand to pick up PTA silent auction items.

The past week I have been reading the last of the Dark Towerseries by Stephen King. I started this story many years ago and it is coming to a close.

I put away the items of donatation and items of purchase from Walmart from my errands. I let the dogs in to sleep in our beds, each going to their dedicated master. I turn the alarm on, house is secured.

After my nightly ritual and checking on each sleeping body, I pull out my escape and make me a drink. Taking both in the living room I sit comfortably in the recliner. I open the book, my current escape from realism and continue the story.

As I read and escape from my worries, thoughts try to enter into my mind. They remind me of everything I should be doing during this time of solitude and quiteness. You should be studying up those XML and .NET stuff. You should be doing a thorough cleaning of that filthy office in there. You should be reorganizing your PTA stuff. I simply turn the page and read on. As I read the words disappears but the story continues in my minds eye, unfolding before me.

I take a drink. It is Barcardi Rum and coke. I think I should not be drinking. I look forward to these quite nights sitting here with my drink either reading a good story or watching a decent movie. Either way is a means to escape my worries and relax. My reasoning mind reminds me this drink is similar to melatonin or tylenol pm, it just puts you in a relax state to sleep. When exactly does a drunk become a drunk? Probably recalls the first drink in his/her life, but not the one that they need. I take another drink and turn the page in the book.

I sit here till my eyes are closing and the words no longer disappears as the story plays out, rather blurs. I get up, putting away my two items and head to bed. I get a good night sleep.

As I type the President is speaking of his new nominee Harriet Miers. I personally do not know of her, but I am sure she will be scrutinized beyond belief. Given the fact Judge John Roberts produced more documents and provided more info on himself than any nominee in the past, I can only expect the same for this nominee.

I was told by friends and family, the new nominee would undoubtly be a woman, probably a black or hispanic. Looks like they were partly right.

Seems Bush has known her for 10 years. I bet the liberal groups will love that.

The weekend is nearly over. It was busy one for our family. The kids friends spent the night Friday night. Around 4:35 a.m. I thought I heard crying from the kids room(they all slept in the same one). Rushing in the hallway, I found two girls giggling in the bathroom, behind door closed. I went back to bed and told Kel the two girls are in the bathroom giggling. So she went to check on them.

We had a yardsale all day Saturday, (hence the reason for the kids friends to sleep over). There were 3 other families which brought over their stuff as well. There were more stuff out there, than I had ever seen.I had placed the yardsale signs out and found the boys woke up while I was out. So the girls woke us up around 4 a.m and the boys were up around 6 a.m.

During Saturday, the idea was for Erich and I to watch the kids, while the girls did the yardsale. Well that didn't happen. He preferred to be a rooster than a work horse. I ended up taking care of the kids all day. It wasn't bad till around 12 p.m. when they grew tired and cranky (ages 4-7), fighting with each other. I made them lay down for a nap in the living room. One of the girls didn't like this at all. None of them fell asleep, but I had about an hour of rest. I told Kel he preferred to be a rooster and had to explain my meaning. He preferred to be outside speaking with the girls than watch/take care of the kids. You have to understand the group of ladies(wife included) are not hard on the eyes. (smile)

Oh well, someone has to do it and the kids will not be little for long.

Our daughter's room is done. We repainted the four walls(all a differnt color) and placed a new headboard in. Color beads were placed as window shades. The room definitely looks teeny bopper. She is 7 going on 20. Unreal.