I’ve got a rape/murder I’ve been reading about and looking into that I want to post but I think I am going to take the night off instead. My body is apparently telling me that it’s not quite over passing that kidney stone this weekend and I am exhausted after working all day. Maybe I’ll get it posted tomorrow morning prior to going to work.
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It’s been a pretty long and tiring weekend here at the Miles casa. I ended up going to the emergency room late Friday night with a kidney stone which I finally passed earlier this afternoon. It’s amazing how much pain something so mall can bring you. Getting the damned thing out was almost anti-climactic after the weekend. Due to the pain pills that the doctor gave me I slept pretty much 20 hours yesterday, thus the lack of posting here or anywhere else for that matter. Yesterday was the first time I’ve had to call in sick to work in about six years.
Hopefully all of you folks out there are having a great Thanksgiving, even those of you who don’t celebrate.
This year is sort of a first for me on Thanksgiving and it’s not a good thing. Those of you that know me from my old site know that I run several restaurants so Holidays are not something I get to spend with my family. We celebrate Christmas on whatever days I happen to be off closest to Christmas. Most years it’s the weekend prior to the holiday. Last year we celebrated a couple of days later. My kids are used to Santa coming at weird times.
Thanksgiving though isn’t a huge holiday in the restaurant business. You get a great breakfast and then it dies around 11am and picks back up from 7pm until about 10. No big deal. I’ve always managed to shoot out of work in time for the family to drive to my aunt’s house in Stone Mountain. This year however, due to my grandmothers health, they are eating at 2pm. I’ll be lucky to get out of work by 2:30 and that’s if my three store managers get all of their shit done on time. I don’t leave until they do. There’s no way for me to make the hour and a half drive to Stone Mountain so this year the wife and girls will be attending without me. Sort of depressing actually. I had to go in to work supper supervision tonight and the entire way to my Bremen store I was cursing under my breath and had decided that this would be my last fucking set of holidays working. It won’t happen of course but I certainly am not very happy about it.
I guess once I get out of there I’ll come home and put up some more Christmas decorations and then take a nap or something. Hopefully the wife will bring me a nice plate of turkey and dressing.
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 Have Every Right To Dream Heroic Dreams. Those Who Say That We’re In A Time When There Are No Heroes, They Just Don’t Know Where To Look
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So I’ve dumped all the action streams stuff and gone back to just displaying the posts. It was one thing having them at Shadowscope where I post several times a day but it’s an entirely different beast when I post here a couple of times a week and have 5,000,000 tweets showing up in between.
Came across this by way of Trench, the other dude with the awesome hair. Thanks dude.
Ann, did you ever think you were going to be a general officer, to say nothing about a four-star?' I say,Not in my wildest dreams.’ 
Spc. Kenneth Haines joined the United States Army in September 2000 as a fire support specialist and had been assigned to his unit for just over three years. He deployed to Iraq in October of 2006.
During his time in service, he received several military awards and decorations, including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and National Defense Service Medal.
Spc. Haines was killed by an IED that was detonated near his vehicle while on patrol in Abu Hishma, Iraq.
All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com
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
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I haven’t done much in the way of blogging in the last several days. Worked a ton of hours this past week but I have also been pretty sick. Some kind of bug has been going around, both girls were out sick at the end of the week and I guess I got the bug as well. Friday night I worked a double but I ended up sleeping in my car from 7pm on and the waitresses cooked. Had shit coming out both ends.
Since the girls had been sick Pete missed her field trip to the Georgia Aquarium on Thursday. She was not very happy. She’d been up most of the night previous blowing chunks so we wouldn’t allow her to go to school. To make up for it we took the girls to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga on Saturday. I was feeling pretty weak when we got out of bed but it’s not often that I get a full weekend off so we decided to go anyway.
Chattanooga is a couple of hours from the house so it makes a nice day trip. I figured we could go check out the Aquarium and then maybe go see the Chattanooga Choo Choo and hopefully go to Chickamauga. I’ve been to the battlefield but it’s been about 30 years or so.
We met Eric and Fiona for a nice lunch at a place called Big River. It was a pretty decent place. The beer was good too. They brew their own. The food was good but I couldn’t eat very much. For that matter I haven’t managed to eat much since Thursday. After lunch the girls and I parted ways with Eric and his bride and we went ahead to the Aquarium. Pretty cool. I’ve posted some of the pictures over at Flickr. The links are below in my Action Stream if you want to check them out. This one’s not the best shot but it is one of my favorites.
