June 2008

So it’s been a pretty long couple of weeks since I got back from vacation. The have basically moved me into a new district. What’s really funny is that I now have the three stores that I turned down a year and a half ago. Funny how things work out. They do have three different managers in them than were there at that point and it’s a world of difference. I might actually make a bit of money out of them, which will be nice. It’s still too early to tell since I’ve only had them for a week but everything looks pretty good right now. The only bad part is the drive. My farthest store is about fifteen miles away. I had gotten used to only having to drive five or ten minutes but now it’s 20 to 25. They keep moving me west too. Hell, I have the last store before you get to Alabama now. Next thing you know they’ll have my ass in Alabama. I guess if i were a division that wouldn’t be too bad. I have applied for the promotion, so we’ll have to wait and see how that pans out.
The wife is back in town in one piece after going to hang with the blown-eyes in Texas over the weekend. She doesn’t seem too worse for the wear but I think she was a bit hung over yesterday. The nice thing is that now I can actually get a bit of sleep. After being together 20 years it’s a bit hard to sleep alone. The damned dog just isn’t the same.
I had to go back to the Tallapoosa store for drawer change tonight and the weather is great. It’s actually been pretty mild the last couple of days. Surprising for this time of year. I went out for a smoke earlier (yes, I am still smoking) and just listened to the crickets chirping and the deep-throated croaking of the frogs that live around my goldfish ponds. The gardens are actually looking pretty nice this year. I need to fertilize them again but they are doing much better than last year. We are obviously still in a drought but we’ve had quite a bit more rain this year than we did last, at least around here.
I’ve lost my train of thought. Time for a smoke and then bed. Five AM comes far too early…

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So I came across this site called flooble that lets you generate random blog posts and decided to check it out and give it a try. Hey, it beats writer’s block, that’s for damn sure. The results are below…

Today I was listening to a radio program about ingratitude on the African subcontinent. I was very interested by the topic, so I began explaining my friend Archibald about it, and he interrupted:

“Get out!.. No kidding?! Don’t tell me you’re into the African subcontinent too!“

But then when I got to the part about the ingratitude, Archibald subsided and began sobbing. But then just now, Archibald’s father told me that the reason Archibald was so freaked out was because he had to study ingratitude in class. Occasionally Archibald can be quite strange like that, but I need to make this work…

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Holy cow. I’ve skipped as couple of weeks again and we are all the way to the letter “W” now. I think perhaps I will take the time to pre-write some of the entries so that I don’t miss another week!

Anyhow, this week “W” is for Wisteria. A few years back I planted this bad boy at the base of my porch and it took a couple of years before it did anything but last year and then this it has really taken off. I have as yet to get any blooms but I am starting to train it outwards as a canopy with wire and I have no doubt that I will get flowers next spring or perhaps the year after.

I just don’t know what to say…

I mentioned earlier that I would get this up today, so here it is…
This Weeks Hero Was Suggested by Mary Ann

Staff Sgt. Jude Voss
1st Battalion, 3d Special Forces Group (Airborne)

His courage illustrates a combat truth to these veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam: Soldiers aren’t thinking about glory or ideals in the midst of a battle. They fight for the men to the left and right of them.
And that’s just what SSgt. Jude Voss did in September of 2006 when, without consideration to his safety, SSgt. Voss ran through enemy fire and the burning, smoking debris of a truck to rescue Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube. Sgt. Stube was in a bad way. Uniform burning and legs busted, but because of the actions of SSgt. Voss he is alive today.
Because of his actions that day, SSgt. Voss was nominated for and received the Silver Star Medal for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action. “I did what everybody out there would do” Voss said. “I was just the closest guy.”
You can read SSgt. Voss’s story here.

This is actually LAST Wednesday’s post that I never got online. No better time than the present, huh? Today’s post will be up later this afternoon.

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Capt. Jamie Riddle(Left) and an Iraqi Flight Instructor School student walk to the flightline before a recent mission at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. The Iraqi air force recently established the school for Iraqi pilots. Captain Riddle is an instructor pilot with the 52nd Flying Training Squadron