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I have certainly considered hanging myself after having to spend time in an AOL chatroom, but damn this is sad.

In all actuality, even though I may make light of this, it is a terrible thing. I really feel for the guys two children.

I wrote this little blurb last night and forgot all about posting it, but now there are links to the screen capture here. I thought long and hard about whether to post them here or not (about 30 seconds) and now they are below in the extended entry. DON’T CLICK IF YOUR ARE EASILY OFFENDED OR HAVE TROUBLE LOOKING AT DEAD PEOPLE. DON’T SAY I DIDN’T WARN YOU.

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Thanks to the Zero Boss I found this shot. Looks like someone misjudged the size of the body bag. Someone is handy with photoshop anyway.

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I was over at Jimi Morrison’s Head and came across this report of a Central Islip, NY teacher who is claiming she was fired because she is a witch. Obviously this has some connotations of possible discrimination but other than that I think the entire thing is stupid.

As I commented over at his site this is a non-issue for me. I recently had a girl who was about nineteen working for me that I fired last month. She very prominently dressed in Goth clothing, claimed she was a witch, and let everyone know that she was a lesbian. Other than the fact that she was obviously trying to garner as much attention as possible I could care less. The FACTS were that she worked like a slug, was not friendly, and not a single week went by that she didn’t call in at least once.

Her last week she called out four days out of five. She didn’t have to worry about it after that because I gave her plenty of free time to do whatever she felt was necessary for her personal sanity.

What makes the story of Lauren Berrios (the teacher) interesting is that she filed a $2 million federal lawsuit. According to Cnews:

While the school district was not under obligation to explain why Berrios was not granted tenure, its lawyer said Wednesday that Berrios didn’t get along with co-workers, had a condescending attitude and was eventually reported to Child Protective Services after telling tales about imaginary injuries to her son.

Not to make light of it but that is probably the more truthful explanation. I am sure that there is at least a bit of truth on both sides as well as lies, but damn.

…me that is. I actually managed to get out of bed by a quarter to five. I didn’t want to, but I did somehow manage it. I also got in those posts at the other sites that I had planned on. That’s probably ALL I am going to get finished this morning but I did get them finished. I have to start getting ready for work shortly and get this tired boy moving.

Two more days…two more days. Tomorrow will be the killer though. I will most likely end up being at work from 6AM until at least 10PM Saturday evening, just getting things ready for me to be gone for ten days. Food orders, paperwork, scheduling. I’ve not taken a vacation this long in quite some time, so I have to make sure everything is right.

I have also agreed to work on someone else’s PC. They are supposed to drop it off at work for me tomorrow. I already told him that the earliest I could look at it would be Monday and I am most definitely going to be sleeping late. I am planning on taking a couple of Benadryls before I hit the sack Sunday night and am going to sleep until I wake up and then I might sleep some more.

One of the waitresses that used to work for me brought her W2s by as well. I told her that I would do her taxes. That won’t take long. Most of the tax returns that I file for them are pretty simple little deals. The biggest thing is to insure that they have/are claiming their tips so that they get the maximum earned income credit. That’s where the $300 bucks that I have to write a check for goes I suppose. Either way I will charge her about $25. At least my tax software will have been paid for this year.

I had not planned to file a schedule C this year as I made very little money, but I may have to reconsider that. If I go ahead and redo it with my little bit of income that I actually did make (under Miles Consulting) I can at least take a loss and that may very well break me even. It really depends on what I did last year. I filed on for at least five years straight, but for some reason I think that I didn’t do one last year either. I guess I need to dig out that box and look. Whatever I did last year I will do again this. For 2007 I will need to go ahead and do it again though. With the additional income from advertising, filing tax returns, and just the three computers I have looked at this month, I need to.

I will probably be up until about midnight tonight. I have some other things I need to get posted on the other two sites. I may sleep in at least until 5 or 5:30 tomorrow. Every minute counts.

…why do they call it that anyway? I was wrong when I posted Wednesday that I only had three days left until vacation. For some reason I thought it was today. I still have two more days of work before I get another one.

Haven’t posted much today, barely even looked at my email. I had one PC to finish up. Replaced the motherboard and CPU, had to clean the front bezel as the power button was sticking in old food or something. It was just nasty. Then I had to reinstall Windows XP and all of their apps.

I booted up a second one that I was looking at for someone else and pretty much gave up for the night. Power supply fan is bad. CPU fan is bad. It’s a slightly older Compaq so the darn PSU that I want to replace it with won’t even fit the case. Tomorrow I have to look and see if I have an extra case lying around that I haven’t ripped the wiring harness out of and a CPU fan and heatsink. Haven’t even booted it up to see if her data is corrupted or not. The initial problem when she brought it to me was that it was locking up. No wonder if it was getting that how inside.

My nine year old daughter wrote out this little story for her homework tonight.

Prediction Zoo

One Day my Mom said “we’re going to the zoo”.

I said “to the zoo! I can’t wait to see the tigers and taste the peanuts.”

My Mom said “We’re not going to that kind of zoo.”

“We’re not?” I said.

“No”, she said. “We’re going to Prediction Zoo. Where you predict what you’re going to see.”

“Cool. Can we bring any money?”

“Yes.”

When we got there we went to a cave, I said my name and it went echoing. I saw something in the shape of a bat. Everybody screamed.

….

Later on we went to the real zoo.

Kind of cool. She doesn’t do it very often, but Pete likes to write stories. Hopefully there will be more soon for me to put online.

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.