January 2008

Usually if I am going to do something stupid or clumsy to hurt myself it will happen within that first twenty or thirty minute period after I wake up.

Not that I am limited to doing clumsy stupid things to the first part of the day or anything. I’ve been seen in the emergency room countless times to get sheet metal pulled out of my eye, get my forehead seen up where I cut it open on my car door (no, really), jammed spikey things through the bottom of my shoe into my foot, jammed spikey things into the palm of my hand etc…The list goes on.

This morning  I woke up as usual and stumbled into the kitchen to make coffee and greet the day, fixed a cup and went to have a seat at my desk and try to think up something wonderful to write before I went to work. My hand must have been pretty close to my desk as I sat down because I ended up with a 1/4 inch long splinter in my finger, right at the edge of my nail. Of course their was much gnashing of teeth but since everyone was still asleep we skipped the wailing and cursing.

Once I located the tweezers (woke the wife up and asked her where the hell they were) I managed to dig them up under the nail and pulled the damned thing out.

Damn, that was more fun than a barrel full of monkeys…

Time to go to work

Gary Michael Hilton, the scumbag who has been busy getting himself charged with murder and kidnapping in the death of Meredith Emerson in north Georgia, sits and languishes in a Dawson County Jail. He is now being investigated in five cases, two in Georgia, one in North Carolina and two in Florida.

I have mentioned several of them so far.

One of the two most talked about recently is the murder of 46-year-old Cheryl Hodges Dunlap, whose body was located in the Apalachicola National Forest back in December of last year. Just like Emerson, she was decapitated.

Florida law enforcement officials now say that they have enough evidence to charge Hilton with murder in that state, according to Leon County District Attorney William Meggs.

Police from Ormond Beach (on the other side of the state) are now investigating whether he was involved in the murder of Michael Scot Louis whose body was found spread among three trash bags on December 6th near Tomoka State Park. The Ormond Beach police are checking DNA evidence from the body to see if it matches Hilton, who is from Florida originally.

The Dawson County (Georgia) prosecutor still has not announced whether or not he is going to seek the death penalty against Hilton. It’s not completely clear whether he will be bound by the promise made by the Union County DA. Even if he doesn’t seek the death penalty it’s quite possible that he will get it from one of the other states where it seems that Hilton made his little death caravan.

My, we have been a busy boy lately.

When I first started reading about Gary Michael Hilton a week ago I had gotten the impression that he had no criminal record and was a bit of an eccentric. Now I think he is far from eccentric but pretty much a psychopath and he has a long string of criminal activity dating back to the early seventies all over the southeast.

In 1983 Hilton was convicted in Clayton County for carrying a pistol without a license in a trial that also saw him convicted of a drug charge.

Between 1979 and 1995 he had a string of charges ranging from stealing a shopping cart, theft, possession of marijuana, hit and run and arson.

In 1972 he was charged in Miami with dealing in stolen property.

Like anything else having to do with health care providers have really made the leap into the information age over the last decade and now software is one of the biggest growing areas in the health care market. Assisted living software is no different, offering packages that make documentation and assessments as well as billing much easier than it used to be.

With a large portion of our country aging quickly I don’t think that the growth in assisted living providers is going to slow down any time soon.

I mentioned however briefly last night something about fitness equipment. One of the cool things that a company I write occasionally for did recently was to give away three elliptical bikes for a review. I am not one of the folks that got that one but I just though it was the coolest thing.

Those things aren’t cheap in the least and it’s awful hard to write a review on something that you haven’t tried or at least seen. It’s one thing to write one on a web site or piece of software that you can download but it’s quite another altogether to do it for something like that.

I mentioned earlier that the one I posted this morning was actually from last week. Here is this week’s Wednesday Hero.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go here.

RePete is spending the day with me. She has her five-year-old checkup today and when they are that small I have always kept them home with me two or three days a year since my days off rarely coincide with theirs. My ten-year-old got bent out of shape about it this morning because she didn’t get to stay home but I did the same thing with her as well as with her brother when they were that age.

Anyway, she is taking a quiet break from playing and I let her watch some TV. Damned Barney is on and there is a Christmas show on. Three elves (midgets) are on and one of the kids asks “Did you wrap all of those gifts?” and at that point they go into a rap song about wrapping Christmas presents…

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WTF?

Tags: Stickball, MarineCorps, Christmas

This is, believe it or not, LAST WEEK’s edition of the Wednesday Hero. I was so busy sleeping off having worked New Year’s Eve that I was remiss in posting it…

1st Sgt. Eric Crayton
From Sparta, Georgia
 
Sgt. Eric Crayton, the first sergeant for the Extension Detachment, Company C, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, serving Christmas dinner to Soldiers at the Pegasus Dining Facility at Camp Liberty, Iraq.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go here.

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