Wednesday, April 27, 2005
I managed to actually get a lot of work done on our group final presentation today. I figure if I do a page a day I will be all set for finals week. I still have to start on my final presentation for my operations management class, but I haven't picked a topic yet.
I might have to go to my emergency backup for my Safety Managers class. I can't seem to get much cooperation from my primary pick. We keep playing phone tag and the guy I have been talking to doesn't seem thrilled about me visiting. Maybe he thinks I am a spy or something.
I was watching the Governator on Hannity and Colmes tonight. I love the way he si set in his ways and will not back down. The Unions are spending millions spreading lies and propaganda, but he has taken it to the people, and despite all the polls and lack on news coverage except on talk radio Arnold has gathered enough support and signatures to get his plans on the ballot.
Roger Hedgecock and a group of folks are in Washington DC to talk to congress about illegal immigration. You would think that since 91% of the people think this is a problem that members of the government might sit up and take notice. But they are not. i am glad to see that Roger and the folks are taking it to them.
Well I guess that's it for tonight.
Posted at 09:42 pm by RWO
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Got a lot of school work done
Well today I managed to actually turn in a term paper that isn't due until mid next month. I am trying to knock out these papers so I don't wind up in a time crunch during finals week.
I am really getting concerned about one paper though. I decided to do my final safety paper on National Steel and Shipbuilding's safety program. I got in touch with their safety department head and he agreed to let me visit but now I can never seem to get ahold of him to get a time set up. I hope I can catch him this week because I want to make my first visit this week. I hope it works out.
Besides that I am trying to keep a Ma RWO calm and happy. Women can act strange when they get the news that they have cancer and so I have to make sure I am understanding and supportive.
She actually was talking about moving out and getting an apartment so she wouldn't be a burden on the family. I nipped that one. She is sleeping now, which is good. Rest has to be good, I think anyway. I will have to talk to her doctor. Anyway I guess that is it for today.
Posted at 08:03 pm by RWO
Monday, April 25, 2005
Well some interesting news was on the radio while I was on my way home for lunch today. The embattled Mayor of San Diego had decided to resign. Here is the news story:San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy resigns
I think this caught a lot of folks by surprize. I think he had to, with all the problems the city has been having and the fact that he and the City Council can't seem to do anything about it.
I have been blogging about it for months, along with some of the other odd goings on. I guess the Deputy Mayor will take over on the 15th of July provided he, Michael Zucchet, doesn't get convicted of Federal Corruption Charges.
All in all this is not going to be great news for the City, because as bad as Murphy has been, the others that have been trying for the office are worse. Also the City Council is a disgrace and as long as they are in office we will continue to watch San Diego circle the drain.
I think the biggest problem is that the city employees union is in the pocket of the City Council. San Diego is broke because of a messed up pension plan, and the union will make no concessions. In the meantime you have these folks voting to raise the minimum wages, and stuff like that. These folks have to go.
And of course who is going to run for Mayor, the city counsel members. Well at least Murphy I think looked at the future, realized he was on a sinking ship and decided to abandon it before it went down.
I just hope someone with some sense, and not in the union pockets will run so I have someone to vote for.
Posted at 12:11 pm by RWO
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Ma RWO and I have been together now for 23 and a half years. Recently she has been sleeping alot and having to diet for a Gall Stone problem. Well now we have something more serious to deal with. She has breast cancer on top of the Gall Stone problem.
We don't know how far along it is, and I hope they caught it quick as it is supposed to be treatable if caught early. I guess we'll find out over the next couple of weeks. So if you are of the praying persuasion please pray for her good health.
Looks like we have to find a home for one of our poodles. He's a good dog but he has been bullying some of the others so we are looking to find him a home. I think if he were to not have any competition for attention he will make someone a great companion. I just don't want to have to take him to the pound as that would probably be a death sentance for him, and he is a good dog. He just doesn't get along with some of the others.
I guess that's about it for now. I am a little too depressed to write much more tonight.
Posted at 08:23 pm by RWO
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Well I am glad the weekend is here. I actually went to bed a little early last night and got up before I was really planning to. I was hearing a little bit of baby dog crying under the bed and when I checked sure enough our female had puppies again. Since I don't bend so good after hurting my back i don't know how many she had. I thought I heard two different voices, but when my daughter checked she thought she saw only one. Since we have a California King bed, she can get tucked quite a ways under there so I guess we will find out how many she had over the next couple of days, unless I can talk one of the kids to climb under the bed and get them.
After I got up I was a little lazy and decided to go get some breakfast at McDonalds rather than cook. I also had to gas up Ma RWO's car and with the gas prices the way they are now it is cheaper for me to gas up at the Navy Exchange. Ma has been lazy and has not gotten her ID card updated since I retired so I have to get the gas since they are asking folks to show ID's. On my way home I went to the drive up window and ordered a big breakfast with an extra order of hash browns.
Well I got home and low and behold, no extra order of hash browns. Normally this would be annoying and I would just blow it off, but it has been happening more and more frequently as I go to fast food places so I sent McDonalds an e-mail explaining why I will no longer be a customer.
Since the order is printed on the receipt, I see no reason for having my order messed up other than what I have observed at some of the other fast food places around town. It seems that when I go to fast food places anymore they are manned almost entirely by Hispanics, probably illegally here I might add. They don't speak English so the can't get the orders correct. As this happens to me I cross the places off my list of places to do business, and sent an e-mail to the corporate office.
Lately the Minutemen have been catching a lot of flack for patroling the borders in Arizona. They are concidered to be vigilantes. I don't think so, they are concerned citizens. The first line of defense as far al our contry goes is the borders. If we can"t secure our borders, we can't protect our country.
I have heard that the minutement are now targeting businesses that use illegals as a part of their work forces. I say go for it, and I myself am going to keep an eye out where I shop and where I suspect illegals are working, are places I will not shop.
Since the congress and the President can't seem to do anything about this problem, and as the silent majority are starting to awaken to this problem, as groups like the Minutemen are getting this problem some attention, some of these public officials had better take notice.
As out hospitals close, schools continue going in the tank and as long as you can not even get your order filled at a fast food joint, thier political futures are going to be in jeopardy. We are at war, and if we can't even keep illegal aliens from walking across our southern border, we are done for.
I find it funny that border patrol agents that are also reservists are highly sought after by the military to protect the borders in Iraq and Afganistan, but we do not have our borders protected in our home country.
I say if we get attacked again like 911, and it turns out that these folks that did it entered across the southern border that all Senators, Congressmen, and even the President needs to be impeached. Their job is to protect us, and other than a few like Tom Tancraedo I don't see that happening, or see it haopening in the near future.
Posted at 10:23 pm by RWO
Friday, April 22, 2005
Thank God it's Friday. Today I managed to get off early aagin and when I got home I managed to get a week ahead in all my classes. Wow that is a good feeling. I have final papers that will be due in all my classes do I will be able to start working on them in advance, which is a good feeling.
I was also able to get signed up for my Fall classes today. Every other time I have tried to sign up for the gerneral ed classes they have been full. Today was the first day and I managed to get into three of the classes I have not been able to get into in the past. That makes me happy as I will get them knocked out. It will be a shift in what I have been doing because none of these courses are related to my major, as in the past all of the classes were towards my major. At least its done and I am in.
Earlier in the month I challenge all the Neopets folks to play Plushie Tycoon. Well just to let you know my status, I had to restart tonight. Last week I was trying to play the game and do school work at the same time. I hired my workers but forgot to generate any jobs for the workers to work on, so I basically wasted 6300 points. I thought I could recover but it didn't happen so I had to restart.
Anyway I gave it a good shot to try and recover, but it wasn't in the cards.
Well I guess that is about it for tonight. I love the fact that I will be able to sleep in tomorrow. I hope everyone has a great weekend.
Posted at 10:55 pm by RWO
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Earlier tonight and I heard this while watching Hannity and Colmes. I was horrified that this little girl Jessica Lunsford was buried alive and left to suffocate in her little 4 foot grave in a plastic bag.
Here is a link to the story:
Prosecutors: Fla. Girl Raped, Buried Alive
I guess Jessica's father is in Washington to get his state representatives to do something about the sexual offenders laws. With all the crap that has been happening there I guess they had better take a look at them. Every time I turn on the news, there is another child missing or found dead there.
I used to feel that publishing the names and everything about these sexual offenders was a violation of their rights and may have been going overboard. After sitting on the Erskine Jury and after seeing this case and a few others, I have changed my mind. Actually I think they should be locked up the rest of their lives.
Jessica's father is pushing for death penalty for child rapists and a greatly reduced appeal time. After all I have seen and heard on TV that these folks can not be cured, I find I agree. This Couey guy was already a registered sex offender, however the police and officials lost track of him. Somebody has to get this under control. I liked one of the suggestions that Jessica's father had. Give him life in prison, but put him in general population. I find that a great idea. Let the other prisoners take care of a scumbag like this.
Anyway I hope this post made sense. Sometimes when I get upset like I was to find this out, I tend to add a little passion to my posts and go a little overboard. This is one of those times.
There is one more thing that bothers me about this case and that is why were the autopsy reports released to the press. Her father was a little upset to hear that on the news, and I really feel for him there. Releasing these results to the press and hearing how his daughter died just brings back the pain of her loss. Sometimes news is not worth reporting and I think this was one of those moments.
Well that is my rave for today. Hopefully I will have something nice to blog about tomorrow, but I just had to say something about this.
Posted at 07:41 pm by RWO
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Well I got off a little early today so I decided to knock out a couple of assignments for my classes. Well that was the plan, until I started working on our group project for the week. I figured it might take me an hour. We are doing it on Microsoft Project. I entered all of my workpackages in the past so all I had to do this time was add the material and manpower resources. Our project was supposed to be completed on Feb 2, 2006 and afetr entering all the jobs and everything it was right there. It was going to take 251 days.
Well I started entering the resource info and when I got done my project was 708 days long and was going to finish in Mar 2008. I just about put my fist through the screen. Anyway I started checking the dates of the starting and finishing parts of the project and found one where I somehow entered or changed a date to 2007 and that was all it took to mess up the whole thing.
It only took me three hours to find the mistake. Anyway now it is corrected and posted in the shared files section for the rest of the group to see. Now as long as one of them don't mess it up before Friday I am done with that.
But now due to that I still have work to do. Actually I think I will save that until tomorrow as I am starting to burn out for the day.
I am glad that they picked a new Pope today but disappointed in some of the press. They should get off his back and see what he does. Of course some of the left press would attack Jesus himself if he came back, so I guess it is to be expected.
Anyway, I guess that is about it for tonight. Oh, Happy Birthday Randine. I tried to catch you on chat but you logged off. I guess you didn't know I was on. Present will be on the way shortly.
Posted at 08:09 pm by RWO
Monday, April 18, 2005
Well, I have managed to get myself busy again and have neglected my blog. School work has been coming hot and heavy, and with the kids gone all the time to work and school I have to help out a lot more around the house or live like a pig in a pig pen. I like cleanliness. Also with Ma RWO working too, I can't expect her to do it all so I have been pitching in.
Well the Mayor of San Diego, Dick Murphy has managed to make the Time Magazine list of Mayor's, as one of the bottom three in the country. He has been all over the TV saying they have just looked at the negatives and none of the good things he and his administration have done. Frankly I haven't seen where they have got much of anything done.
They have had their share of problems though, like the big fire a couple of years back, all the flooding from the messed up storm drain system, sewage spills, the pension crisis and the corruption cases going on against a couple of City Councilman. Granted it is not all Murphy's fault. The City Council is right up there with him in the blame department. I would like to see the whole bunch kicked out of office, but that won't happen. There are too many folks that want San Diego to be San Francisco South.
My gosh, I keep seeing these cruise ship survivors running all over and whining and crying about the heavy seas. They need to cruise the South Pacific on a Frigate or Destroyer during the Typhoon season, and they will see some heavy seas. Yeah, I guess I am being a bit harsh, but to hear them talk the ship was going under. Take it from someone who has been in really rough seas and had a severely damaged ship that had to limp back to port for repairs before being able to get underway again, there are bigger waves than they have seen out there. I am glad they didn't have anyone severely injured though. I have seen people seriously hurt in heavy seas and the injuries can be pretty bad.
I am kind of interested in the election of the new Pope. I hope they get one elected in the next couple of days. It must be driving all the news folks nuts with the secrecy involved.
Well I guess that is my thoughts for today after taking a brief break from homework, Now I have to get back to homework. Have a great day.
Posted at 06:59 pm by RWO
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
San Diego City Council Strikes Again
San Diego is broke and teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Well today they were debating whether to raise the City's minimum wage from $6.75 an hour to $10 an hour.
Back when I was in high school I started out making minimum wage. As I started switching from job to job, I started landing jobs that paid above minimum wage. That is the way it works. You start out low and start moving up.
Well of course the San Diego City Council passed it. What it means is that anyone who works for the city, or contracts with the city will pay thier workers a minimum wage of $10 with benefits or $12 an hour without benefits.
Well, happy bankruptcy San Diego. And farewell Tony Young, you have lost a constituent. These people are so stupid I can't believe they got elected.
Now the city will have to pay more for sevices, more for thier workers, and the City does not have the money. So as you bleeding heart handout folks may have a happy night, and the brainless morons I saw speaking on the news say they can now raise thier families I would like them to look back at this night in a few months.
Minimum wage increases are not free. After they are implemented, the folks having to pay the higher wages must increase thier prices to cover the loss. They are not going to give it out of the kindness of thier hearts as they are in business to make money. So now everyone pays more for the services. This means inflation which means the prices go up. Now the folks that got the raises are right back in the same boat.
There are those that say this will not affect them but I have to beg to differ. Let's take the folks that clean up the offices. If they have a contract with the city they have to raise what they pay thier workers now. These same folks provide services to other businesses. The other businesses such as you local mall now have to pay more for the services so they will charge the businesses in the mall higher prices. The shop owners will get that back by raising thier prices. So everyone is hurt and everyone pays. Within a few months these folks will not even have thier games realized and may in fact have lower spending power for thier higher wages.
As the city goes down the tubes I have to laugh. These folks are still spending like it is going out of style. The way these floks are spending would have me tossed in jail. If I wrote a check for $5,000 and only had $1,000 in my bank I would be in serious trouble, but not the San Diego City Council. Spend, spend, spend. Maybe they will also go ahead and give themselves a pay raise before the city goes broke.
All I can say is I am starting to get happy feet. It is just about time to abandon this sinking ship.
Posted at 11:20 pm by RWO
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