I don’t know what is going on but I think I have food poisoning or something.  Tuesday I stopped at Jack in the Box on the way home.  I got the double bacon cheeseburger and large fries.  I got the same thing for Judy and I got kid’s meal for Kevin.  I got home and Judy had already eaten but she also brought David home with her so we gave it to him.  Kevin was still sick so he just had juice.  Anyway later that night I had diarrhea and did not feel well.

Yesterday when I got home I cooked some canned chicken chow mien and after eating that last night every time I burped I could taste the noodle aftertaste and my diarrhea turned to liquid.  All night long I was heading for the restroom to either puke or go to the can.

By this morning I do not think I have anything left in my system to crap out or throw up so I am going to drink water throughout the day and I will get a couple cans of chicken soup to eat today when I get home.

David ate the same exact food I did the past two days and he is not sick, so I think I caught whatever bug the Kevin has.  I will just be real careful in what I eat over the next couple of days and hopefully everything will get back to normal.

Again I am getting very frustrated with Zynga games and then I read something posted in one of the groups I hang out with, that since they went IPO they are all about the money and they are trying to drive out the veteran players and cater to new players.  The way they are trying to drive us away is by overloading the missions and making it impossible to complete them without buying face book cash.  I have bought face book cash in the past, but I will no longer support buying it for Zynga games and am debating whether to just quit playing Café World.  Games should be fun, not like a job and they have taken all the fun out of the game.

They should also be banned from charging people cash for games that are still in Beta testing, full of bugs, and do not work 100% of the time.   All in all Zynga is losing me as a customer and from the group I play with they are going to lose many more.  When you tick off your customer base as Zynga seems to be doing, I do not know how they expect to make any money.

In the other newsworthy item here in San Diego the federal government went through and closed down three medical marijuana distributors yesterday.  They now have all these folks whining and crying on TV that they will have to go up to LA or Orange counties to get their fix.  Medical marijuana is just a hoax.  I am glad to see the government shutting them down.  These medical marijuana folks are the same folks that are doing spice.  Any legal way to get high is good for them.  That is why society in going down the toilet.  So much of the younger generation want handouts and want to be stoned all the time.  You survive by hard work and advancing yourself.  Not by occupying and trying to take more from those folks who have worked hard to get what they have.

Oh, and I almost forgot.  BZ to the prison parole review board that decided to keep former CHP officer Craig Peyer in prison for another 15 years.  About 25 years ago he pulled over and strangled college student Cara Knott in a deserted area off the I-8 Freeway in San Diego and through her off an overpass.  He has had his parole denied again.  This person should never be paroled as he used his position of public trust to commit a terrible crime.  People like this man should never be let loose on the streets.

That is my view on things for today.  It is time to get to work now. 

It is Wednesday and so far it has been a so do day.  First off I got up this morning with a bad case of diarrhea.  The only thing I ate last night was a double cheeseburger and fries from Jack In the Box and it actually appeared to be well done so either I have a stomach bug or something.  Anyway I think I have all the crap out of my system and so I am ready to get to work.

The ride in was uneventful until got to Highland and Beta to make my right turn towards the base.  I went through a huge pot hole and it kind of scared me by the loud sound and the shaking that happened when I hit it.  I was looking at the stop light so I did not see the hole until it was too late.

Because the Federal, State, County, and City budgets are all circling the drain, roads and other services have take a back seat to the pension funds, welfare, reduced rates for illegal aliens to go to college, K-12 education for illegal immigrants, and all the other things politicians are wasting money on. 

Yesterday I saw the selected one, Mitt Romney win another state.  If he is nominated I will officially leave the Republican Party.  I am so tired of their blind put the next one up there because he has been loyal to the party.   The political parties have broken our system of government and I think it is time for everyone to abandon them and become an independent.

As I complained yesterday, I do not need folks in Iowa, New Hampshire, or any other state with a population less than the county I live in picking who I will have an opportunity to vote for.  It is time to stop this crap and  either have all the primaries the same day in all states or better than that, just let everyone run that wants to.  Who is to say if we only have one Democrat or one Republican run?  Let them all go at it.  Make things interesting.

Well time for me to get ready to start the work day.   

So today is the New Hampshire primary.  I am wondering, why is it that the candidates are selected from these small little states on the east coast.  I think the system needs to be changed and if they are going to use primaries they all have to be on the same day throughout the US.  Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and South Carolina do not speak for the entire US.

Yeah I live in the Socialist Republic of California and by the time we get to have our primary everyone has been chosen already, and though I am a registered Republican I actually vote Independent I would like to have a say at who is running.  That cannot happen under the current system which I think is totally stupid.

Tin Tin has something similar to kidney stones and will have to tolerate the pain for a couple more months until the baby is born.  If they operate to take them out it will affect the baby so Laila is going to keep her on a very strict diet and keep her hydrated.

Kevin has a nasty cold so he was not in the greatest of moods last night.  After we gave him some children’s Tylenol he settled down and went to bed early. 

Last night I watched the reruns on Fox and CBS, and thankfully tonight my entire schedule is new.  I will have new shows and I am starting DAMA with the other part of the class.  That means the whole day will be all new so it should be a great day.

Speaking of a great day, it is almost ready to start so I had better get going.

The holidays are officially over and today everyone in the building was back to work.  Since we finished the area last week my class was going to field day the classroom but we wound up doing a test equipment inventory instead. 

It was a little fun in that they knew what the oscilloscopes, multimeters, counters, and signal generators were, but when it came to the various attenuators, spectrum analyzers, and other specialized equipment I had to point them out so they knew what they were.

The junior class is going through their transmit practice PT’s so I was helping out there too!  My class is now gone for the day and I have the DAMA classroom all laid out for tomorrow so I guess I will help out in the lab this afternoon.

Over the weekend I managed to get my laundry done, get the car washed, the house cleaned and I also cleaned out all the old leftovers in the refrigerator.  I also washed up all the food storage containers and bowls, so I feel I did get some things accomplished for a change.  I even helped a neighbor move a couch though I paid for it later with a painful arm and back.

I am a little worried about Laila’s daughter in law.  She is about 6 or 7 months along in her pregnancy and I guess she was throwing up so bad they had to rush her off to the hospital.  I hope everything is alright and I also hope it does not cost too much as I know they don’t have it and since it is tax time neither do I.

Other than that I kept up with my games, watched some TV, caught a little of the Denver/Pittsburgh game, and watched the new offerings of TV shows.  I am getting so sick of reruns.  I checked out the schedule for tonight and everything I normally watch on Monday will be reruns.  Tonight both House and Hawaii 5 O will be reruns and I just do not understand why.  I also hear that possibly this could be the last season for House and when I read that it kind of depressed me, but I see that the story lines have been going south for the last couple of seasons so it does not surprise me that much.

I am wondering why they are bothering to even have debates on ABC and NBC.  The moderators are obviously liberal hacks and it just made the candidates look like fools.  The one thing the debates did do was drive the two most conservative candidates, Bachmann and Cain out and we are not left with much.  Of the ones that are left I guess the least offensive is Santorum. 

Well I guess that is about it for now.  I have just one more scat to redraw for my current Power Point Project and I can get quite a bit of that knocked out during lunch.   

I am in a happy mood today and it all stems from getting a lot of stuff done yesterday and getting some good news about an order I had placed and had received the wrong item.

We are getting ready to print out a new batch of SCAT packs and I had a lot of scats that I have redone, made more legible, corrected errors and all.  I finally figured out the proper settings for the copier to make them come out right and so I had to print them out in 8.5 by 11 format at home and then blow them up to 11 by 17 on the copier.  I got that all done yesterday and then enlarged them first thing this morning.

The second thing that happened was a parts order I had put in for a project I and a few others have been working on.  We are trying to repair our bad spares in the lab so everyone chipped in and we bought some components to repair the modules.  I ordered the components online as we can usually get them faster than getting them through the supply system.  Some of the parts received were wrong and I contacted the company.  I got an immediate reply and they are shipping me the right parts at no cost to me.  They told me to hold on to the wrong ones, but I will send them back.  I can’t use them and I am so happy to see accompany with good customer service so I will send them back to them.

So if you have to order electronic components order them from Mouser Electronics.  This is not the first time I have used them and they have always come through.  This is the first time I have had an order that was incorrect and they corrected it right away, so they have a lifelong customer now.

Other than that today the class is testing out of DAMA and I am looking forward to a quiet weekend.  So with that in mind I will get this saved and finish up the work day.  Have a great weekend.

This week is almost over already and actually it has gone by really fast.  We have been pretty busy this week getting the systems part of DAMA knocked out and though it has been a struggle at times we managed to get through everything and will test out   Since DMR will not be ready to go until Tuesday I guess we will just field day the lab on Monday. 

Last night since there was not much of anything on before Prime time I went ahead and watched Fox news, and I have to tell you, I am getting angrier and angrier at all the Main Stream Media pushing Romney down our throats.  Even on Fox all you hear from the talking heads is everyone should just bow out and unite behind Romney.  I am sorry but that is unacceptable to me.  If they decide to just anoint Romney then the election will be just like it was in 2008 with McCain.  This time I will not hold my nose and vote blindly for Romney.  I will vote conservative for Congress, Senate, State and Local, but I will vote third party for President and just ensure that the conservatives take the house and senate.

Romney is not a Conservative, and the way his PAC’s are running a negative campaign behind the scenes turns me off.  Sure Gingrich is not the greatest choice but he does not deserve to be slimed.  Santorum will be the next victim of attack ads.  Now with Bachmann out I guess the lesser of all evils would be Santorum.  Now we will have to see what dirt they have drudged up on him.

Other than that it has been great to see that prime time TV is now showing original programming again.  Reruns and specials have meant a really boring past two weeks.  Monday was boring as the only new episode of Hawaii 5-O.  Tuesday was great with new episodes of NCIS, NCIS-LA and Unforgettable.  Last night I watched that celebrity show on CBS where stars acted like salesman and stuff.  It was not too bad.  After that I watched Harry’s Law and then the only show I had been waiting for last night Revenge.  Of all the new shows I like Revenge and Person of Interest best.  Harry’s Law is pretty good but usually I just DVR it, and tonight when I get home I still have a DVR’ed CSI to watch.  I sure wish they would bring William Peterson back to CSI.  Fishburne and Danson just are not cutting it and with Helgenberger leaving the show it may make it unwatchable for me.

Well that is it for today.  I guess I had better get ready to start this review.             

After yesterdays disaster of a start to the day, today is going much better.  I got up on time, got my Café World stuff done and since Laila was at her reunion thingy I left early to avoid traffic at the base.  The ride in was quiet and today they had both gates open so I actually got to work about 15 minutes earlier than normal. 

I went ahead and ran over to my lab and lit everything off and everything came up right away and everything was working great.  That is a huge change over the way things have been working lately.  So far I have not heard of anything that will take the students away for any duties so this morning I hope to get all the practice PT’s knocked out and then get the graded PT’s out of the way this afternoon.

Tomorrow I will review for the test and then Friday they will test out and be on their way to DMR and I will get the second group from this class.

I watched a bit of the Iowa Caucus stuff last night.  It was a shame to see Bachmann come in so low and it looks like she will be dropping out.  I was a bit surprised with how good Santorum did and if I had to pick one of the top three I would have to go for Santorum.  I will never go with Romney or Paul and it looks like the rest are finished.

Now I watch for the media to start dumping on Santorum as they are really for a Romney/Obama race where they can McCain the Republican Party again like they did in 2008.  I for one have kept my news watching to about a 5^th of what it used to be and do not even believe half of the stuff I see on Fox anymore.   

And with that said I guess I will get this saved and get ready for the work day.  I have everything ready to go and now it is time to get on with it.  It should be a great day if they remember what I showed them yesterday.  Time will tell.

The holidays are over and so here we are back at work again and I have to tell you that while I was looking forward to getting back into the groove after all the time not teaching, so far the morning has been nuts.

They wanted us to be in early today so I got up early and I left the house at about 6:15 instead of 6:45 like I usually do.  There was almost no traffic at all until I got near the base and then it was worse than I have seen it in years.

All the students are back meaning the base is supposed to be back in semi full operation.  This morning they only had the 1 gate open and then they only had two people manning the gate.  T make matters worse I was behind a dump truck who was trying to get on base without a work order and it took them about 5 minutes (maybe a little exaggerated) to convince him he could not get on base and turn him around.

So instead of getting to work early I was actually a little late for muster, though everyone else was too.  Then after getting here and getting everything set up for the day I found that 1/3 of my class has urinalysis this morning which will delay me getting caught up.

So needless to say, my new year is not starting out that great.  Maybe when I get rolling along with the class things will be a little better.  And speaking of that I guess I had better get over and make some last minute checks to make sure everything is still set up for today.      

I woke up in a great mood this morning.  I got up on time and in fact had my shower and all about 10 minutes earlier than normal.  I got down stairs early and Laila and I finished our morning prayers early.  Because of all the difficulties getting on base in the morning over the holidays I left the house early.  On my way to the freeway I did not see a single car on the road until I got to Plaza Blvd and the freeway was very quiet with very little traffic. 

I decided since I was ahead of schedule I would stop and get some breakfast and since there was only a small line at Jack in the Box I figured I would stop there this morning.  That was when the morning started its turn south.  I got stuck behind some moron, who decided to read the entire menu before ordering, and then I don’t know what he ordered but it took forever for them to get it to him.  So while waiting in the line at Jack in the Box I managed to lose all the advantage of leaving early.

I got out of there and headed to the base and again there was that line to get in the gate.  If people would use just a little common sense the gate would not be a problem, but people do not use common sense.  There are a few alleyways that feed into the road that heads in the gate and there were many folks actually letting the folks from the alleys cut into the traffic.  Then you have the same nice people that let the folks from the alleys cut in that were also letting all the people coming off base to make a left turn on to National Ave which also held up the folks trying to get in the gate from the direction I was traveling.

So here I am sitting there in line and the light turned green.  I moved one car length.  It turned green and I moved another car length.  By this time I am getting steamed.  I should have already been at the intersection but do to people having their head in the clouds and being nice to folks cutting in line I was not even close to the intersection.

Anyway, I finally made it to work and even though I made it with plenty of time to spare, the ride in put me in a bad mood.  I did eat my breakfast and I still have 20 minutes to go before we start working for the day.  

Today we will work on a broken Multiplexer and I have to get everything set up for my class since we will be back to normal on Tuesday.  So I guess I will get this closed out, try and get into a better mood, and get ready to start working.

After yesterday and the mess at the gate I got up a little early this morning anticipating a backup.  I switched on the news while drinking my morning coffee and low and behold there was a news traffic report saying traffic at the base was all backed up.

Well I left early and managed to get here on time but not after waiting in traffic for quite a while.  Anyway I am here and we have about 45 minutes until it is time to start the work day.

Anyway there are a couple of things annoying me today. The first one is the fact that the government is broke again and so they are asking for another 1.2 Trillion Dollars.  STOP THE FREAKING SPENDING ALREADY.  The country is not just broke, it is bankrupt.  When are these Washington clowns going to figure out that they cannot spend money they do not have.

Next I guess only Romney and Paul managed to get on the primary ballot for the state of Virginia.  It is a primary and as so anyone should be able to get on the ballot.  All these other folks Bachmann, Huntsman, Perry, Santorum, Gingrich, and even Cain, Palin and anyone else should be able to be on the ballot.  This is a sure indication that our system is broken and it needs to be fixed. 

Well I guess that is all I will complain and moan about today.  One of the ET1’s is returning from vacation today and he wanted me to hold off on fixing one of the DAMA units until he got back so I actually have something meaningful to do today, once he gets here.  So I guess I will get this saved get setup to get started on the DAMA unit.