After yesterday's marathon post Laila agrees.  Make smaller posts and have one subject for post.  And as usual she is of course right.  So I will try and keep one idea for post now. 

Today when I got up a disaster happened.  My speakers for my PC crapped out and I was not able to talk to Laila before coming to work this morning except on chat.  I missed hearing her voice his morning, as I have grown accustomed to hearing her on Skype each day before I leave.

Anyway I will pick up some speakers and a headset at the Navy Exchange during lunch and while I am there will go to the food court and get a good lunch, which will probably wreck my diet.

So tonight I will be all ready to hear Laila's voice again. 

Well it is the start of a new work week, and with less than three weeks to go before my trip to visit Laila, I hope to keep very busy so the time passes by very quickly.

After my little stomach adventure with the million year old English Muffins, I do feel a little better today.  I didn't really feel much like eating this morning and will eat lightly over the next couple of days to make sure I am ok.  I did manage to keep down some chicken soup and some tea last night.

I was a little disappointed with Bloghares this morning.  I was trying to get my tagged blogs bought this morning, but the pages took so long to load I didn't get it finished, so it was a huge disappointment.  Usually I have enough time to buy the stuff in the morning, sell it when I get home after hyping it up, and then buy it back later in the night. 

The next day I usually sell, buy and sell again.  So basically when the game gets slow like it did this morning, it damages the way I play the game and throws my whole week off. 

Anyway, Laila found some other game, that I will checkout when I get home.  I don't remember what the name of it, but I do have it book marked, so I will look at it when I get off.

I sold my Bow of Destiny at the Neopets auction for 3,900,000 so that took my account up a bit.  I also won over 100,000 neopoints playing the Black Pawkeet Slots.  I got 4 ship's several times, 4 pirates once, and 5 ships' once.  I was getting a lot of chests, but they were not aligned so I didn't get any huge winnings.  I still to this day, have not won a jackpot or managed to get 5 aligned chests.  Someday I guess I will get lucky get one or the other.

I have been listening with interest, to all the commercials, for the folks running for congress, to replace Randy "Duke" Cunningham.  I am not in that district, I am stuck with Bob Filner, but the commercials are all over the radio and television. 

They are all saying the exact same thing.  They are against special interest groups and illegal immigration.  Then they will get in office and do the same thing all the rest do, ignore illegal immigration and take money from special interest groups.  I am voting, no incumbents, as I am fed up with all of them.  Washington's ability to get nothing done other than take my money and waste it, has me very angry.  Anyway, something has to be done to get through to these folks.  Business as usual in Washington should not be allowed to be continued.

Another thing that bothers me is some of the comments I have seen posted on Laila's blog and other blogs I check out from time to time.  Why do people have to leave sexually explicit comments on people's blogs?  If they think they will stir a little interest from the person they leave the comment to, it will only result in turning the person off and maybe getting their IP blocked.

Laila is always managing to attract these jerks that will leave some comment that just upsets her.  Basically Laila and I were friends first, and even now that she is my lover, I still don't leave those types of comments on her blog.  I can tell you guys out there; some woman will take it as an instant turnoff when you start making everything sexual in nature.

You may think you are being impressive in your posts, but for good women like Laila, you are a turn off and will get your IP banned.  The other question I have is why are the majority of these stupid posts come from the United States and Australia?  I sometimes am a little embarrassed by the behavior of western men.

Anyway, I am wondering how high the repairs on the son's car are going to be this time? It sound's like it is going to be his transmission this time.  

I guess this week the anti-war folks will be out protesting the Iraqi War.  I wonder how these folks have all this time to go out and protest and where they get the money to travel all over the place?  I don't mind it when they peacefully protest; I just wish the press would not make a huge deal about it.  The pro war and pro troop rally's as well as the illegal immigrant rally's must always take place on the weekends, as people on this side all have jobs and can not afford to take off to attend the events during the week.

I hope I am not supporting these anti-war folks with my tax dollars and I also hope I am not paying for their travel.  It is time they got a job and a life.

Anyway I guess this entry has managed to grow to be quite lengthy so it is now time to go ahead and get this one saved.  Also time to get back to some constructive work.

Well besides the one great thing that happened yesterday I also managed to fetch my son's car back from the body shop all repaired.  Once he got his wheels back the phone kept ringing as all his buddies managed to get the word.

Actually I was quite surprised though, as he came home from the body shop, parked the car, and went to bed.  I figured he could be out running with his friends.  He told me he was just tired and did have to go to work today.  It was a little surprising.

I wanted to say something about something that was bothering me, but rather than go into a tirade I will just say, this is my blog, I have freedom of speech and expression which I earned while protecting this country during my 26 years of service, and I will blog about anything I want.  

Finally if you haven't been to Laila's blog, she is my mystery woman.  We have been friends for a while and after things went bad here we went from friends, to game buddies, to lovers, to soul mates. 

At lunch after blogging my last entry I ran off to Jack in the Box to get some lunch.  I was going to skip lunch and just catch something when I got home, but the guys made a lunch run while we were in lab and arrived just about the time I was finishing the last post.

The smell of the food was overwhelming so I had to make a run.  Jack in the Box is pretty close to the base so I decided to go there and was thinking of tacos, but got Chicken Strips instead. 

On my way to Jack in the Box I saw what I consider to be an accident waiting to happen.  I saw this beat up little black Toyota pickup truck.  In the bed of the truck, were 5 ten-foot sections of wrought iron fence.  It was all placed in the left hand side of the bed of the truck.   The wrought iron was not placed lengthwise in the bed of the truck.  It was standing on the end so it was going up ten feet from the bed of the truck.  I was sure that these clowns was going to tip over on a turn and kept my distance.

Speaking of that, California has a law that says that when a school bus is stopped and picking up or dropping off passengers they will display red lights and a stop sign.  That means traffic in both directions will stop.  On Friday and again today I saw people on residential streets, blow right by the buses.  This was in my neighborhood of Paradise Hills in the vicinity of Rancho Hills Drive and Reo Drive, in case any law enforcement folks read my blog and would try and catch some of these people.

I have noticed a kind of lawlessness with the drivers in the neighborhood.  They do not stop at stop signs or red lights, they do not obey the right of way rules, and now they are not stopping for school busses.  I wonder how many have licenses, as these people seem to be unaware or just don't care.  One of these days a little kid is going to get hit in the neighborhood, and then maybe law enforcement will get involved in ticketing these lawbreakers.

Anyway, enough on raving about drivers, the chicken strips were good, but I do not recommend the buttermilk sauce that comes with them.  I took one bite and it was terrible, so I used catsup instead.  He chicken strips were good, but now tonight I am going to have to have a salad or fruit for dinner to compensate for the fried chicken strips.

Fried Chicken two days in a row, which is not good for my new healthy diet, though the new woman in my life will like it as she thinks I am too skinny.  Well I guess that is it, lunch is almost over.

Today I got up early, but then rolled over and went back to sleep.  I guess it was not wise to sit up until 2 AM last night and then try and get up by 6 AM.

I chatted online for a little while and then took a really nice hot bath as the weather we have had the past couple of days aggravated the nerve in my lower back.   It isn't bad, just annoying to have that minor but constant backache all the time.

After the bath I left for church.  I found a better way to get to the parking lot that was much faster than in past weeks.  I got there about 10 minutes early so I had a chance to kneel down a talk to God for a few minutes.  I thanked him for some things and asked for a few more.

Father Ron gave the service this morning.  The first reading was from Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 (26B).  It was where Got told Abraham to sacrifice his son, and after he was sure Abraham was going to do it, had it stopped at the last second.  Abraham had displayed total faith and commitment to the lord.

The second reading was from Romans 8:31b-34, which talked about God's love for us, and that he, gave his son to us.

The Gospel was Mark 9:2-10 where Jesus took Peter, James, and John up to a mountain and a cloud appeared and from that cloud a voice told them "he is my son, listen to him".  As they were coming down the mountain Jesus told them to keep it a secret until the Son of Man arose from the dead.

The church bulletin asks the following questions.  What does "rising from the dead," mean to you, personally, in your own life?  Relate and experience from your life that demonstrates your understanding.  What can you do to help ensure that you have the faith to continue the journey when you are "down the mountain"?

I would like to say that I have risen from the dead spiritually.  For quite a number of years now I was neglecting going to church and all.  Now I have been attending regularly and will continue to do so.

The sermon today was that Abraham was ready to make a huge sacrifice in demonstrating his faith in God, and after demonstrating that faith God shows him e does not want bad for him or society.

Our sinfulness demonstrates lack of this ultimate faith.  We sometimes do things for personal gratification, that we know are sins.  We will always pay for them in the long run. 

He then went on to talk about how the church as a community must grow this faith in God.  He said this week is a perfect time to get on track as Wednesday and Thursday they are holding confession and will have 15 priests there to make sure it goes quickly.  He also said that he would like us to stay for the entire service on one of those nights to pray the Rosary and ask for community forgiveness. 

I have been putting off going to confession, but this looks like the best opportunity to do it, so I will attend one of the services and get it done. 

He also said that since St. Patrick's Day falls on the third Friday of lent, the Bishop said we did not have to fast this Friday.  That is a good thing though I don't really plan on making corned beef and cabbage.

After church I went to Popeye's fried chicken and got a 3-piece meal with cole slaw.  I have been staying away from fried food and eating more fruit and salads but I decided to spoil myself today as I have been fasting on Fridays.