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
Monday, April 11, 2005
Sorry I took a few days off blogging. Wanted the house to look good when the wife got home. Can't sit next to the computer all the hours I used to anymore. I guess I am going up in age and don't have the energy that I used to have.
I went back to work this morning. The leg felt good and I had a fun but long day. I filled in for one of the Navy guys that had watch and his class was doing the Frequency Shift Keying and Phase Shift Keying Alignment labs. The labs are both very touchy as the equipment is co old, we do not use external frequency standards, and we secure all the gear over night.
I always like these labs, because this is one where you can dazzle the students with the knowledge gained over the years. It gives me a chance to show them a few tricks and amaze them when they get off track, by knowing exactly what they did. All in all it was fun. I spent the rest of the day updating and improving some of the Power Point lectures.
After that it was time to get busy with school. We are in the last five weeks of this semester and it is time to start knocking out the final projects, or at least get started with them. Thank God, there is no summer school.
I will not have much time to do anything but work and school for the next five weeks as it is getting hot and heavy in school right now as the semester winds down. As long as I don't blow it, things look as if I will get straight "A's" this semester.
I hope the dogs let me get some sleep tonight. They were very restless last night and kept barking at or with the dog next door. There was nothing out there so they must have just been discussing things in dog talk.
My oldest daughters birthday is coming up and I have to think of something cool to send her for her birthday. My youngest daughters birthday is also coming up but ma will handle that.
I haven't had time to check my usual hangouts so I am not quite up to speed with the news, other than catching Fox News on the fly. So I guess I will stay out of the political scene today. Anyway, everyone have a good week.
Posted at 10:32 pm by RWO
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Well today was get all the homework done day. In my Project Management Class we are using Microsoft Project. It isn't a bad program and I seem to be catching on with it pretty good. The only thing I hate is that they have us doing all kinds of minor detail stuff, to get us to exercise the program. Just like all Microsoft Programs, there are several ways to do the same thing and I am always worried about doing something dumb that will cause me to make a minor mistake with the assignment. So far I have been getting everything right though.
After that it was, hit the discussion boards. In both my Facilities Design and Management Class and my Operations Management Class I have the same instructor. He loves to use discussion boards. I wiould rather do it in live chat like we do with the Industrial Safety Manager's course. Anyway in the one class we have been discussing outsourcing as well as lack of technology gains in third world countries.
We have had some very interesting discussions about that. I believe that you can outsource the easy stuff, but when we make technological gains, we have to go in and entirely retrain the workforce. I believe that this will at least slow down some of the outsourcing in the future. As the technology gains grow outsourcing decreases until they catch up, then it increases again.
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In the other class we have been discussing Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and ISO certifications. Kind of boring there.
Well I wonder if I will make it until the Pope's Funeral tonight. They are going to start broadcasting it at Midnight on Fox News. I guess it actually starts at 1AM, so I hope I can stay awake that long. Since I hurtt my back I have adjusted my sleeping hours and seldom stay up late like I used to.
Ma RWO called again from Sacramento. She says she is bored. I guess she has toured just about everything she could tour there, and wants to come home. I guess she also misses her dogs. I know they miss her. Phillippe, her oldest one has been sitting on the stairs looking out the window since she left. He only leaves when he has to go out and do is nature thing and to eat. He is really depressed.
I can't believe all the crap I have been seeing about folks being upset because the President is having the flag flown at half mast, because of the death of the Pope. It makes me wonder how low can some of the people in this country go. The Pope is a Head of State, though the Vatican is a small country. When a Head of State passes on the President has the authority to have the flag raised to half mast. Get over it secularists. The more I see this stuff come out in the press, the more I see that the radical left is going to die out. Why, you might ask? It is because day after day, this stuff gets into the press and ticks off more and more people who usually are not involved in politics. Don't forget, what happened to John Kerry when the conservatives started to wake up and say, "what is happening to my country?"
Posted at 10:16 pm by RWO
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Well today was a little busy. I went ahead and finished up a few more papers for school and then went to the dreaded dental appointment. Now my gums hurt. It always amazes me that now matter how minor the work is, it always hurts when you come home from the dentist. At least it was nothing major like last year. Just a deep cleaning.
Ma RWO has been calling me everynight since she has been gone. Tonight she was complaining that they have a little league conference or something at her motel, and that the kids are driving her nuts.
While she has the little league folks to deal with I have to deal with her dogs. They miss her and so they are hounding me for attention. They are really a pain when I go to bed because they all come to bed with me. Since she isn't here, they hang out on my side, and I don't have the heart to kick them out of the bed.
Right now she is worried about weather as she comes home either Friday or Saturday. If the weather is good she wants to come home Friday night which means she will get here Saturday morning. But they are talking rain so she might start out Saturday morning and return Saturday night. I don't think I like her driving through the night so I have recommended that she come home Saturday during the day.
It has been pretty cool watching all the ceremony happening over the death of the Pope. I will probably stay up late and watch the funeral since I took the week off. I remember seeing the funeral of Pope John the 23rd, though I was very young. And I remember the funeral of Pope John the 6th. The pure numbers of folks that are going to Rome to see this event are overwhelming and speak to the respect this man gained.
One thing I do worry about is that this funeral would be the perfect time for the terrorists to attack, and I am concerned that the police in Rome may not be able to handle the huge crowds. I hope and pray that these folks do not cause a catastrophy by attacking duiring this holy time.
Well I guess that is it for the day. Time to hit the pit. Have a great week.
Posted at 11:48 pm by RWO
Sunday, April 03, 2005
It's Sunday morning and between the change to daylight savings time and the fact that Ma RWO had to leave for Sacramento has really tapped into my sleep. I hate daylight savings time and really can't see a point in having it these days. Maybe back when they implemented it, it may have been a good idea, but I don't see a purpose of having it now.
I'm sorry and at the same time relieved at the passing of Pope John Paul II. Sorry because the world has lost a good person, an example for all to follow. Relieved, as he is no longer suffering. I am Roman Catholic, but I have been more of a non-practicing member. I try and live my life as an example for others, but I don't attend church regularly. I believe you can believe in God, but do not have to go to a special building to do so. I also do not believe that I have to have the bible interpreted for me. I can read and take my own meaning from my readings.
Anyway, it is interesting to see the fact that all religions are honoring this man. He has made his mark on history and will be remembered.
Well now that ma is on the road it is time to take a little cat nap. Have a great Sunday folks.
Posted at 08:42 am by RWO
Friday, April 01, 2005
Well I have just made it home from work to find that the Pope is on his deathbed. I hope and pray that he passes quickly and peacefully. It has been a long time since we have seen the election of a new Pope. God Bless you Pope John Paul II.
I also found out that my tag board has been getting spammed. I cleaned it out, hopefully it will stay that way.
On a lighter note, I managed to become a plushie tycoon this month on Neopets. Laila made it too. Congratulations for making it and I know we both hope to do even better next month. The new competition starts in 2 days. Join in and take us on. I have been surprized at the number of blogshares players that are now playing on Neopets.
I have been contacting National Steel and Shipbuilding right here in San Diego to get research for my final Industrial Safety Project. I figure that would be a great place to get some safety statistics amd tips from.
Well I have to check the group project to make sure no one else decided to try and fix it up. It is due this evening and just in case I had better check it out.
Posted at 01:34 pm by RWO
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