September 12, 2007

I wrote a couple of days ago about the lady that my wife works with and her son who was killed in action. I saw the report in our local newspaper, and here is his obituary…

Apparently it will be five to seven days before she gets his body back home. That’s actually much faster than I thought the Army could move, but I know this is just a terrible wait for his parents.

Tennessee executed convicted murdered Daryl Horton this morning, becoming the first inmate to be electrocuted in the state since 1960. Horton lined his three sons and their half-sister up in his uncles auto repair garage in 1997 and shot them with a rifle because his wife wouldn’t let him see them. He said that he had planned on killing his wife and himself but he turned himself in instead.

Burn in hell dude…

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Saturday we are going to visit out friend in Hilton Head with the boy after he graduates. She and most of her kids will be moving to Cyprus as soon as she can get her house and business sold and this very well may be the last time we get to see them. The eldest daughter has already moved, but she is going to art school in England, living with relatives there I suppose. Not that she is settled in I’m sure she’s looking for jobs in London so that she can support herself as quickly as possible. She’s quite a good artist but London jobs are not that easy to come by. It’s probably a good thing they are from England, at least she has family there that can help out until she is gainfully employed.
I hate job hunting. The last time I was seriously looking for a new one was when I thought I was leaving my company to do something else back in 2000. It ended up that my company offered a job in IT so that I could stay with them and eventually I did get back into the operations management end of things. I think that I would not like to be looking for a job in London right now. I don’t know what the unemployment rate is over there but I am sure that it is higher than where I am at.

Staff Sgt. Richard P. Ramey
27 years old from Canton, Ohio
703rd Ordinance Compan, supporting the 82nd Airborne Division
February 8, 2004

Richard Ramey always knew what he was going to be. Once, while in the third grade, his teacher asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up. His response? “I’ll go to war and fight” Concerned by his answer, his teacher called his mother, Julie Ramey. She told her “No, that’s my son”.
SSgt. Ramey was killed when insurgents attacked his and other convoys in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
“Richard loved to do his job. No matter where it would take him,” said his mother. “He really felt deeply that he wanted to protect people that couldn’t protect themselves”
In a statement released through Fort Knox, the Ramey family said, “He was adventurous and smart, combining both qualities in what he did for the Army. We knew his work was dangerous but also knew he wouldn’t have wanted to do anything else”.

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According to CNN two powerful earthquakes have been reported in Indonesia with preliminary magnitudes of 7.8 and 8.0 and a Tsunami alert has been issued.

Yahoo has a news report up now saying that the U.S. Geological Survey has reported ONE quake that measured a magnitude of 7.9 and was centered 9.7 miles underground in the southern Sumatra area.

I will post more information when I get it.

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That too but I was mainly referring to yesterday. I ended up not getting home from work until Ten last night. The meeting at the convention center lasted more than two hours yesterday. I think we finally got out of there around Six Thirty last night. About ten of us stopped for supper at this place called Johnny Carino’s Country Italian. I’ve had better Italian but it was pretty good. The waiter was good and handled us very well. Most of the time that you get a large party together like that they have a hard time and end up doing a really good job or they just suck, particularly considering that all ten of us work in the restaurant industry and that makes us a pain in the ass to wait on.

Apparently my VP and another one from out toward Kennesaw were in one of my restaurants yesterday trying to talk one of my managers into moving to a store out that way. It’s my guy that I have such a hard time with. The problem is that I did some checking around and the girl they want to replace him with is worse. Crap. I asked both of my other managers to put a bug in his ear that he doesn’t want to leave. Lesser of two evils and all that stuff.

I picked up the minivan we have rented for the week yesterday afternoon. I will have to go pay them a visit again this morning. The email I got after reserving the damn thing gave me a quote of just under $300 for the week, but I ended up getting charged just over $400. I did choose the extra insurance this time for some reason but that only adds $8 a day so I don’t know how they pulled another $75 out of there ass on this one. Once I wake up a bit more I’ll check the contract and see what they charged me.