March 2007

I regard some of my employees like they are my kids. I certainly don’t take care of them like I have to with my kids, thank god, but otherwise I have a fatherly instinct toward them. I have hired and trained quite a few over the years, and they have gone on to go to college, join the military, and go on about their lives. Hopefully I have enriched the lives of at least a couple.

I just got a text message from one of the girls that I hired a couple of years ago. She is leaving for the Coast Guard today. I sent her one back congratulating her and wishing her the best. I know that the job she did for me was nothing particularly ground breaking or anything, but I think that the discipline and hard work did her some good.

…last night.

I don’t have much of anything to post this morning other than this. The car is warming up in the driveway. I think I finally finished up at around 11:30 last night therefore I didn’t wake up until almost six this morning, about and hour later than normal.

As usual, blogrolling.com is dragging butt, and my page won’t load right away because of it. The two blogrolls that I joined recently are going to be getting stuck in entries and then linked to from the main page very soon I suppose. One of them requires that you have it on the front page, so I may have to drop it. I will wait and see. It’s just not a good thing for the page to take 30+ seconds to load just because of one little script. Impatient people like me tend to close the page and go on to the next site.

Looking over at ‘On This Day’ I see that we were in New Orleans two years ago tomorrow. I may relink/repost some of those photos this evening when I get home. It’s time to go back.

Growing up in the south as I did, most of the religion that I was exposed to was Southern Baptist. Church on Sundays with my Aunt, sometimes on Wednesday evenings with supper to follow, some youth stuff, and occasional picnics. I was just not really aware of other religions and how they operate.

I got a quick introduction in my early twenties however. My wife and her entire family are Catholic. It’s an entirely different way of life to be a Catholic. Even the catholic bible is different than the one I grew up reading. Southern Baptists spend a lit of time reading, re-reading their dog eared pages. Catholics handle their bibles extremely reverently, and except for the few priests that I used to know pretty well, treat them with much more pomp and dignity than I have seen before.

…golf. It isn’t really as important the last couple of years as it used to be, but all of the upper management in my company plays golf. It’s just one of those things that I never found the time for. I wouldn’t know the difference between golf clubs and cavemen clubs though. Several of the other managers I work with play and I have had the offer once or twice. If I eventually decide that I want to start working the promotion chain I may just need to learn.