Back To Work

Yup, it's that time of the week again. We get up and put on our work clothes and head back to making a living. We played pretty hard this weekend again not really getting to bed early at all. Well last night I did knowing I had to be up at six.

We watched How to Train Your Dragon, a wonderful movie that I'd recommend. I made lasagne last night after a day of helping Ten's brother and nephew shoot the NJCCA World Series at the local ballpark. They really have a first class set up for their broadcast equipment.

Game of Thrones kicked into high gear with one of the major events that will trigger chaos in the seven kingdoms, the other big event should happen this upcoming episode. Episode eight I believe. There's another big event dealing with Khal Drogo that will have major implications but much later in the books and it will set Daenerys Targaryen onto a path she can't turn off of.

Looking forward to the final episodes, it's a wild ride!

Memorial Day

Remember today those who have fallen in service to our country and our freedom. Remember also those who are currently serving. Pray for those who are in the field right now and their safety.

Today I'm going to give Ten a hand with shooting the NJCAA games, I was going to yesterday but it was just very busy. The Date wasn't feeling well most of the day and I was tied up with helping some friends put carpet into their house.

All in all it was a busy and very good day, I'll be recharged for work again tomorrow. I've also been giving some thought on where to take my zombie story, as you know the characters are building a refuge on the shores of a lake in Idaho. One of the few safe places they've encountered. The characters are contenting themselves to a life of self reliance and learning to live with no conveniences anymore. Eventually they'll have to move south for warmer weather as Idaho gets pretty cold. I'll be giving it some thought for a while before it picks up again.

Pretty Nice Weekend

So far so good. We started it off with a cookout Friday night, attending up to two cookouts today. Ten asked me if I were available to help shoot video at the college world series here in town.

Have attended an impromptu game night at Tech Guy's house last night, and not gotten to bed before midnight both evenings thus far! Today is my brother's bday so I'll be calling later on and wishing him a happy one.

Busy weekend and it's not even half over yet! Who knows what is in store from here no out!

Amazing Success

Yesterday The Date went grocery shopping after a week of collecting coupons and organizing them. It seems like a lot of work but it's not that bad at all, you just look for value basically. How easy is that?

She purchased enough groceries to fill up the back of the Caliber and saved a grand total of 27% or just over one quarter off of our grocery bill! The bottom line was we paid roughly $125.00 for groceries yesterday. She saved enough off of our regular food bill to pay for an entire tank of gas in the Caliber!

With practice and monitoring sales in the stores a bit more closely that 27% can go up as well. I'm looking for an aggregate coupon site to assist in our money saving quest. I've found several but for the most part they are for large national grocery chains that we don't have access to here.

I'm just pretty happy as in these times it's really necessary to save as much as possible on your bills. The dollar doesn't buy as much anymore sadly.

Three Day Weekend Ahoy!

Argh mateys, tis a three day weekend on the horizon! I am not sure exactly where the pirate intro came from but oh well. Thing 2 said there is a John Wayne marathon on Memorial Day, we both are excited about that!

After work I was going to take Thing 2 fishing for a bit. She was napping and didn't want to go so I went. Filmmaker Friend Chris came with me and we just chatted for a while.

Not much happening today. I'd would have taken off work and extended my weekend a bit but my coworker is gone, put in for leave before I did. Since we are a two man shop then it was necessary for one of us to be there.

Oh well, it's good in that my leave barely topped one hundred hours this week, next week I'll have around one hundred six! It builds pretty fast for me. I like to keep it up over one hundred but not that much. Some guys carry over two hundred. That'd be nice but I take off more than they do. I enjoy some of the smaller things more than they do. And honestly a lot of them complain about their spouses more telling me that they are at work for a reason, they don't want to be at home!

Not me, my leave isn't that high!

The Thunder Fall

Yep my basketball replacement for my former beloved Storm is the Thunder which fell in the playoffs last night to the once lowly Mavericks. Yet ANOTHER fourth quarter lead squandered away.

The good news is that the Thunder are really good and really young. Next year they'll be scary good and when the Spurs and Lakers are entering rebuilding phases and the Mavs are peaking now that leaves the stage for the Thunder to shine. Shine for seasons on end too!

Perhaps they can be as dominate as either the Spurs or Lakers were when they were at their peak of goodness perhaps not. They will be a dominate force in the western conference though and they are young. They were good this year and made it to the conference finals. That's a glaring indication that they'll get better next season.

So it's time to use the Cubs' motto for the Thunder and say, "Wait til next year!"

Where's The Tornado?

We had a catastrophic round of tornado warnings yesterday that failed to produce little more than a smattering of rain here. South of us though got hammered pretty hard. I listened to the company wide weather warnings all afternoon yesterday at work and rushed home after clocking out to make sure my family was safe only to find that the storm was dissipating above us. A little rain, not even heavy at any time, a little thunder, lots of lightning, and then it was just over.

Heavy damage for many other towns though. Many homes were torn apart by massive tornadoes, hail, and high winds. That's just part of living in this state I guess. We see these things, experience them, and I can tell you that there are millions of residents in other states that have no clue what a wall cloud is, a hook echo, a dry line, or power flashes. We see them and pretty much learn it by osmosis.

The devastating amount of tornadic activity however would keep right in line with the devastating level of events that have happened this year. Japan's troubles, Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri, and now Oklahoma have all had towns destroyed by weather events. Then we have once in two centuries style flooding in Mississippi and Louisiana that has destroyed millions of acres of crops and homes. New Zealand's earthquake.

It seems I'm forgetting something but if you think about it then you can add it to the list, the rather long list. The intensity of weather events has dramatically risen lately. Yes we've always had bad weather and earthquakes but the size and scale of them lately is way higher than previous events it would appear.

I believe we are in the clear right now for a few days, a couple of states need to catch their breath.

Storms Again

After last night's round of heavy storms we've got another one today in store. The strongest potential seems to be from three until eleven tonight. Yep we've gone from drought conditions to near flood conditions within a few days. Amazing what our weather can do!

Made tacos last night during the heart of the storm. The sirens went off once and quickly turned back off. With The Date and Thing 2 fitting under the stairs I made them plates and we ate:)

I moved the cars across the street so they wouldn't get flooded again so there I was, pouring rain, pants rolled up to my knees, and barefoot. Starting cars and moving them away from the flooded areas. The water was pretty high and I didn't want my shoes wet so they would have to dry overnight and still be damp this morning.

So that was my evening, The Date went to work and I stayed home with Thing 2. Thing 1 was with her boyfriend's family trying to save their chickens from drowning. It's a good thing, chickens will be desperately needed in the new economy if this one ever fails...which is more likely every month.

Whewww

That was one wild week, busy doesn't begin to describe it actually! From IG week to a bachelor party to a wedding, from the end of the world to the end of school, from the rapture to Harold Camping setting on a very healthily funded radio network to Third Thursday at the theatre, from flooding in our yard to again having dry grass.

Yep, every minute seemed to be filled with something that was on the go with little time for resting. Busy busy busy. This week should be completely different. I think we've got little to accomplish in terms of events. I believe auditions for 1776 are this evening so I'll likely be there to watch that for a bit.

Game of Thrones was very good last night, the table has been set for the two events that throw the seven kingdoms into chaos and start a war. Very soon things will get very ugly in Westeros and it won't get better!

In Coal, Randy Remines was offered another job as a continuous miner operator with more money, the president of the company, Tom, offered him the same money to keep him. Remines gladly accepted and finally proved himself to the owners as the man they needed on nights. Good for the underdog! Good for you Randy!

Now let's see what this week has to offer! Kickoff in three...two...one...

Still There?

Yep, thought so. Don't get disillusioned. No one knows what the eventual end may be, I'm not dogmatic about it but someday something will happen. Don't worry about it, don't anticipate it, if you believe Jesus is the son of God you're covered no matter what happens.

The only thing yesterday proved is that Harold Camping, the 89 year old mortal man, was wrong and sadly thousands of people believed him. They will be very saddened, disheartened, faced with mounds of debt, office ridicule, maxed credit cards, and going back to work on Monday. Talk about one of the biggest hangovers of all time!

I'd truly not wish to be one of that number tomorrow morning on the long drive to work that you had thought you made for the last time. Yep, Friday morning you were making your last commute. Tomorrow is it, no more anything but being caught up to paradise in the most historic event of all time...and then you're still there as you watch seconds tick off of the clock past the predicted time. Your heart sinking further as you get slapped by reality.

I'm sorry for you.

On to Skate and The Invader's wedding! That was quite the event! It was great to see Bobo and Nestor (can't think of a nick for him) and meet Skate's family! Of course it's always great when I get to hang out with Jamal and Teehee as they add the flavor to any gathering!

The reception was very nice, there were lots of attendees to help kick off the rest of their new lives together! The Date, The Things, and I wish nothing but the best for them both!

Big Day

First and foremost we have a rapture prediction today. The only difference between this one and previous predictions is that this one gained some media steam with clever marketing and people who are so desperate for a new and much better existence they bought into it.

I feel for these people. In my heart I hope its true but reality is far different. The End is simply the end of the Mosaic Law and the establishment of the New Covenant through Jesus.

That's it.

There will never be a third temple built (ever, Mosaic Law will never be reestablished and animal sacrifices will never be re-instituted), it'd be an affront to God and what Jesus did at Calvary when he fulfilled every single element of the Old Covenant or the Mosaic Law (Law of Moses). He declared, "It is finished." Completed, done, over with, he established the new.

I've blogged before how this is actually the historical perspective of the church until the 19th century when dispensationalism came about, leading this cry was the theory that pretty much everything was yet to happen in Daniel, The Olivet Discourse, Revelation, and much more.

It's so much more liberating as a Christian to know that I can rest in what Christ has already accomplished and completed. Granted what I've laid out isn't as sexy or dramatic as an upcoming tribulation period that sells books by the millions but I believe it to be exactly what was prophesied in the bible. It simply makes sense.

Followers of Harold Camping will miss out on that simple revelation but I pray they look further into the subject and come to a much better conclusion.

Second of all will be Skate and The Invader's wedding. We met in OKC last night to have a spectacular meal at one of the premiere steak houses in the nation, Cattlemen's Cafe and gallivant about the town on Skate's last evening as being a bachelor! Sadly I stayed for the spectacular meal and drove home after many pictures were taken and hugs were exchanged. I'll be at the church at 4:30 to put my tux on and fulfill my ushering duties in service of the nuptials.

After there should be quite the reception with much joy and joviality!

Heavy Rains

All night and they are still coming down hard. Our intersection is flooded but that'll go away soon enough as I raked out the accumulated muck over the grate. It'll drain now.

Last night was the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner followed by the theatre's Third Thursday which I teched for. Weird, about half way through the show we lost half of the lights. I scurried around looking for breakers that went bad and then The Date stepped outside and noticed lots of other places on the block were having problems too.

Thankfully it wasn't just the theatre!

I'm all set now for the last day of work for the week and what may come after that!

Almost Over

This very long week is nearly completed. These two days will be tough though as I'm in the shop by myself. My coworker is on his way to a cooking contest in Texas to qualify for a larger contest with a big prize and a trip to the biggest contest I believe, The Jack Daniel Invitational, or it is the Royal not sure which.

So that aside it's me and me alone in the shop for two days which makes for some very long and super busy workdays.

Tonight I'll be going to Skate's rehearsal at the church and then make an appearance at the dinner, I've got to be at the theatre by 7:30 to get set up and get the equipment going. Tonight is Third Thursday and I'll be doing tech until tenish or so.

Last night was The Date's only evening off this week, it was great to actually have your spouse with you in the evening! I believe it'll be different next week, at least I'm hoping so! She's working tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday with Sunday being her only day off. Long week for her as well as me.

Half Way Point

This has been a rough week and now it's half way over with. I know The Date is looking forward to it being over as well, she's really had a rough time this week.

The part time job has scheduled her to work every single evening save tonight. So she's been making sales calls during the day and putting books back on the shelves in the evening until nine. She needs a break.

It won't be long before she can turn in her notice to the library and quit and get down to a single job, that'll be nice for us and especially her.

Tomorrow evening I'll be running the Third Thursday, they have guitar players come up and perform on stage in the Turpin Theatre. Tech Guy asked me last month if I'd fill in for him on lights and sound, I told him I would and I enjoyed it so I told the theatre I'd do it each time they had the show. It's free and really pretty good!

This weekend won't be as busy as last weekend, Skate and The Invader are getting married and I'm an usher for that. It should be a good time:)I'm proud of them and they will soon be off to Germany for his first assignment of his new career!

Skate has been a part of our lives for quite a while now and we've seen a lot together, been through a lot of shows together, and I'll miss him and her. I know he'll be super happy with his new career though, he was born to do media and he'll be a star!

Inspection Week

This is one of the worst weeks at work each year. A team of inspectors comes in and turns everything upside down. They ask stupid questions, get blank stares, and ask followup stupid questions.

Then they write things down that really will have no bearing on your employment status or pay so ultimately they don't matter. Everyone gets in a twist about this each year and it becomes unbearable to work around everyone and yet it happens.

I'd like nothing more than to skip the entire week and stay home but that's not going to happen. They don't let you off except in rare occasions where you have something preplanned and paid for and before the date of the inspection was set in stone.

Yep, it's a bad week so the best thing to do is stay under the radar as much as possible, keep quiet, and hide if possible:) It doesn't happen like that though, they always find where you are or are going to be.

I'll be glad when it's over.

Coal

I've really been enjoying this new show. It is from the producers of Deadliest Catch and I've got to say that if I had a choice of being on a crab boat or being in a coal mine as a camera crew, I'd take the crab boat.

I'm not claustrophobic but the mine just looks way more dangerous. Coal documents the start up Cobalt Coal Company in West Virginia as it starts from the basics and two new crews. Of course there's a day shift and a night shift. To pull a profit each day they need seven 20x20 cuts on each shift. They use a continuous miner to do this. A massive piece of equipment that has a ripper head that just tears into the coal and pulls it back behind it and onto a conveyor belt.

They work in a 44 inch tall area, so bend over and measure 44 inches out and try not to think of the thousands of tons of material above you.

There are two operators of the continuous miner, Andy Christian and Randy Remines. They both have done the job for years and while Christian is the better operator I tend to like Remines much better. He's an underdog guy, he's had three heart attacks and has been diagnosed with black lung disease. He's old enough that a lot of mines won't hire him anymore. In the first episode he had a note from his wife giving him encouragement on the bottom of his lunch box. It was actually pretty touching.

The first episodes focused on how the day shift was keeping the company afloat while the night shift was snake bitten and couldn't do anything right. They brought in a younger miner operator to compete with Remines and Remines came out on top. I was actually pretty happy about that because it seemed as if he were hanging on by a thread at that point.

While the company seems to be getting by on a shoestring budget they are showing progress now until last night when the continuous miner broke for good. They had to finance a new one at a cost of half a million dollars.

This has seemingly solved a lot of equipment problems and they should be able to pull a small profit each day now. It's a great show and one I'd recommend you check out and be thankful you aren't a coal miner.

Workday Saturday

A massive thanks to R yesterday! He absolutely and pretty much by himself replaced our upstairs windows. The ones that had over time just rotted away. I'm not blessed with the home repair gene. I NEVER watch the home repair channels. My skill set is elsewhere, I can cook, I can do my fair share of mechanical repairs, I can shoot and edit.

Home repair just isn't me. I don't know what I'm doing so I don't do it. Anyway R did an outstanding job! I don't even see how one person could have done it, it required four hands at least over the traditional two.

So now we've embarked on the journey of getting the house in shape enough to possibly sell.

Beersnob has an appointment tomorrow morning to talk to a local charity about doing some work for them. Bouncing some ideas around and see in what areas we can be of use to them. I'm excited about the prospect but I have another assignment for him to pursue as well that I'm equally excited about. More on that later if it materializes.

Great Night

A full eight hours of work followed by a full eight hours of play, what can be better?
A full seven hours of sleep after the playtime of course.

Last night was filled with two parties, thanks to the Bakerballs and the Pagoda Building Editor for party one. Master Baker inquired as to Beersnob and my knowledge around Super Bowl time of the fine art of cigars and if we could teach it to others. He said he was working on an idea to have a wine tasting party and that cigars would be a welcome inclusion.

Always eager to share knowledge and possibly gain more local cigar fans we agreed. Last night was the culmination of those efforts and The Date and I attended. Most of the people we didn't know but we did know a handful. Chianti and her Hubs, Beersnob and Mrs. Beersnob, The Bakerballs, The McAbbotts, and a few others.

The wine tasting was running later than normal so by the time the cigar tasting came around it was time for us to leave. Thing 2 was house managing the theatre show along with Theatre King and had to be picked up and taken to the next party. The cast party for the show to be exact.

More friends were there and again we enjoyed a few hours of happiness and joy surrounded by friends and new found friends. Hollywood Actor, Red, Teehee, Weezy's Mom, Filmmaker Friend Chris, Court, T, T's New Beau, and a handful of others made for a great party!

All in all what a great evening and what great friends!

I See Things Getting Better

With The Date doing well with her upcoming promotion for the marketing company and with the first adoption hearing less than month away things are getting better.

I see them as positive, inspiring, and a sign of an upward trend. Good is happening right now:)

The next year will hold a lot of events, good and bad. There are some challenges for sure. I believe that the rough roads we've traveled so far have done a pretty decent job of preparing us for the times ahead.

Ultimately we'll see of course. With the marketing company and their strong vote of confidence in her idea it has really boosted her morale. I think it was a pure stroke of brilliance and something so obvious that it is amazing no one thought of it years ago!

The best part is that she will be able to continue towards her next degree.

We're doing good, Thing 1 is doing good and we have her with a psychologist now.

Blessings abound!

Hearing Date

In the matter of adoption we have our first hearing date set, June 7th at 9:30 AM.

I'm not sure what the procedure is from there though or how long it takes. They just called me yesterday and told me where to be and at what time. They also said that the bio had disappeared and gave no response to the papers sent to him. We knew he had disappeared three weeks ago as child support quit coming in.

It was always sporadic anyway and not something that could be trusted on a regular basis so thank everything good that my job made up for it in bad times. I have a strong feeling he's gone for good and that the 90+k he owes to the girls and The Date will never be recovered. Fine by me, I'd just as soon he never is mentioned again and any traces of him are long forgotten.

Things are on a definite uptick, once you bottom out then you can only climb back up again. The Date has gotten some very good news on one of her ideas to market a new promotion. She's been contracted by the company I contract for with Diva shoots to launch this idea as well. It's all hers and it should make a splash. In fact the corporate office is interested in making it a corporate wide promotion depending on the results here. That's big fellow readers.

Again we hit bottom a few weeks ago, not as bad as a couple of years ago, but it was bad enough. Thank you for your prayers and good vibes sent our way. We are climbing up and good things are on the horizon!

I finished reading Foundation last night from Issac Asimov, fascinating scifi. I can see exactly why it's a fundamental story in the scifi genre. I'm moving back over to George R.R. Martin now though and diving into A Clash of Kings!

The End Of SG:U

I watched the final episode of the best scifi show on TV last night. Sad, there just isn't a lot of scifi shows out there that would qualify for that title either.

Stargate: Universe was a great and gripping show. It had compelling storylines and was a continual story arc with few standalone episodes. I really loved the flawed characters and gray areas they explored in morality.

They were trapped in a ship on the other side of the universe, galaxies separated earth and the Destiny (which was an incredible looking ship and surpassed my favorite scifi ship the USS Cygnus) which had programming to explore and the people were along for the ride at times.

I can't explain why they cancelled this show other than production costs had to have been pretty high. I'll miss the characters and I'll miss Stargate universe so to speak as this was the third series and likely the last. I've read of nothing on the horizon to replace this magnificent show in the Stargate realm.

I'm sad it's over but happy it happened and I enjoyed it.

Theatre King

I'd like to take a few moments to talk about Theatre King. A man I met during Christmas Carol and really enjoy him being around the theatre. With his gruff voice he loves taking roles that will entertain the children for the big show each year. He'll sign things and take pictures until everyone is gone. He's one of a kind and I'm glad that he's found a home at our theatre!

He did something very nice for Thing 2 yesterday and while I'll protect the integrity of the act by keeping the details to myself all I can say is that he's a great director and actor but that pales in comparison to his giant heart!

I know Beersnob and I would love to have a cigotch with you and chat over many things but I also know you don't drink anymore and I doubt if you'd enjoy a premium cigar. That's ok though:) It's an honor to know him and I know our lives as a family are better for it! God Bless Theatre King and I look forward to the next time we work together!

Very Nice Mother's Day

Thing 1 and I made The Date breakfast when she got up. I called my mother and asked her to come over in the afternoon for a chicken alfredo dish we were planning. So I had two mothers in the house and both were very full by the end of the day:)

It was hot, very hot out. It feel as if summer were making an early arrival but the drought isn't helping much either. We definitely need some major storms to roll through and moisten things up! Or better yet one of those slow moving soaker storms that seems to linger for three days! It's been years since we've had one of those!

Regardless yesterday was nice, today will be nice as well as The Date begins her new job! She'll keep the library job for a while and with any luck at all she'll be able to quit it in under a month:) Now that she's graduated she will begin the enrollment process for OU to get her bachelor's degree, they have an online school for working people and it's perfect for her!

Things are looking up my friends and fellow readers.

Oh and as a side note on the water bill fiasco I'd like to tell you that we got a cut off notice again, 15 days. The funny part that makes this worthy of posting? The notice says we have a $2.98 credit!!! I can't make this up! I guess I'll have to go down there and collect 2.98 from them so they don't cut my water off!!! And this all started with their mistake on my bill! I showed it to Beersnob and we laughed quite a bit over it!

Happy Mother's Day!

Call your mothers today!
Just a friendly reminder from your friendly neighborhood blogger!

Good Shoot

We had a shoot last night and it went better than the last shoot in which sixty mile per hour winds and clashing schedules made it less than desirable. It turned into a nice rebound shoot.

We had an outline of what we were doing and made the best of it. It was a nice event and a good turnaround on editing and posting.

It was opening night of the new show at the Theatre and The Date house managed along with T, Jamal, and Aiaka. They had a great time and we hung out at the pub for a little bit after the show.

A nice Friday and a nice start to the weekend!

Respect

Ok so Thing 1 is bringing over new dating prospects lately. Here's my thing, when I was that age and I'd meet the parents of a girl I'd walk to where they were at, look them in the eye and shake their hand. I'd show them the respect they deserve for their family and home. It was also a sign that I would treat their daughter with respect as well.

Fuzzy wouldn't get out of the car if I were sitting out in the front yard, he'd text Thing 1 and ask what he should do.

The guy before last night's guy did what I was talking about. He looked me in the eye, introduced himself and shook my hand with a firm grasp.

Last night's guy took my parking place, didn't get up off of where he was sitting, put his hand in the air and waved...yup...not impressed, NEXT!

If a prospective dater will make the effort to show respect then I know that he will treat my daughters well. He won't eventually be selfish, jobless, bum. He will care about their well being and sacrifice for them if need be to put food on the table.

Now there are a lot of other factors that come into play but for the most part it comes down to one simple showing of respect to get me behind you to start with, otherwise FAIL! NEXT!

Busy Day Ahead

I know I've got a lot at work I'll have to do today. Yesterday was a busy day but it was a nice evening. I made another pretty tasty Kung Pao Chicken stir fry and Crime Reporter came over and ate with us.

We got caught up on Deadliest Catch and I watched one of the last few remaining SG:U episodes. Sad this series is ending, it's great scifi. The first season should go down as one of the great scifi seasons in TV history, it's that good to me!

One more episode and it's done. I hope they wrap it up nicely and not let the fans hang on a cliffhanger.

Well we learned last night that Thing 2 along with another girl won top honors as soloists at tri-state. That's a pretty big honor and the teacher didn't even know it until last night. She wants to go to Japan as a missionary now, actually she just wants to go to Japan and hang out but figures if she does it under the banner of mission work it'll be cheaper:) Yeah, we'll see on that:)

Spring Concert

Last night was filled with orchestral music for me. It was the middle school spring concert and the awards concert.

Thing 2 won top musician for 8th grade! She got a trophy for that and she won a medal for auditioning at national orchestra honor band and a solo at tri-state.

I'm very proud of her:) Thing 1 went to a prayer meeting and bible study. I'm glad she's getting involved in a church with teens. It's a good activity for her and needed.

The Date had to work but I got most of the concert filmed before the battery died. Beersnob has got the charger as we needed it to charge multiple batteries at one time for the cook off two weeks ago.

All in all it was a good night and one that Thing 2 had been looking forward to for a long time! You can't help but love her to pieces!

Is It Wrong?

Yep, I was in a celebratory mood yesterday and last night after hearing about the departure of OBL from this world. The man who celebrated the deaths of thousands of people from Kenya and the bombings there of American embassies, to the USS Cole, to the first world trade center bombing, to finally knocking the buildings down, and likely countless other terrorist acts.

He celebrated death and destruction on a grand scale. He was so bad of a man that we went out of our way to declare we were not at war with Islam. He was not a representative example of the entire religion, he was evil.

So after we hunt him for ten years, find him, and kill him, we bury him in accordance with Islamic tradition. Why? Because we are better than they are, that's why.

Because we celebrate life, building things, good things. We celebrate all that is good and can be good in the world. We are not them. When the Palestinians danced in the streets celebrating 9/11 we got sick about it. Now it is no surprise that Hamas has condemned us for killing OBL, again down the hatch, he's burning right now.

We treated the world's arch enemy with respect and dignity as we buried him at sea in accordance to his faith. The man who was behind the deaths of literally thousands of people is dead now, we killed him, and I was happy about it.

He's In Hell Now

Osama Bin Laden is now facing divine justice and will soon be sent to serve his eternal sentence in hell along side the other hijackers of 9/11 that have been there nearly a decade now.

Down the hatch, may he burn forever.

One of the few events that could unite the left and right has happened. A SEAL team shot this madman in the head and dumped him into the sea. God Bless the SEALS and our military!

Great Graduation Day!

My day began at a quarter till six. I got showered and got to work before seven. After nearly a five mile walk of very very turtle like conditions in high wind we mounted a static display aircraft where I work. A T-33 if you care to look it up here. It's a big jet, heavy.

After I left work The Date was getting prepared for her big day. T took her out to lunch while The Things and I got ready ourselves. The auditorium was packed. Glad we got there early and found seats.

The graduation started and it lasted around an hour followed by a nice reception from the school to the graduates. Then the surprise really started. T went to the theatre to open it up for the guests of the surprise party while I stalled at a gas station. I sent Thing 2 inside to use the bathroom, Thing 1 fixed a fountain drink. It worked well enough under the guise that we were going to the pub for celebratory lunch with reservations at 5.

It didn't dawn on T that the teens couldn't get into the pub so I sent the Things ahead of me from the parking lot as fast as they could while The Date talked to her friend from out of town.

Finally we arrived inside the theatre to a rousing SURPRISE! T had pulled off one of the great surprises after tons of hard work and secrecy! A dozen framily members were there to help us celebrate this milestone of The Date's educational career.

The framily decided since a camera was present they would recreate shots from Awkward Family Photos.com and since we were at a theatre and had access to the prop and costume rooms they proceeded for a couple of hours to stage recreations. I turned on the stage lights to add to the ambiance and hilarity ensued!

The biggest surprise was yet to come though. R, with the help of Thing 2, had been secretly painting our living room walls while we were at the ceremony. It was even a secret from me.

All I can say is thank you so much for making this a very memorable day! The Date and I were both very touched by the kindness and generosity of our framily!