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Updated – Brianna Denison’s Body Found!

It’s got to be pretty frustrating for everyone concerned out in Reno right now. Brianna Denison disappeared five days ago and right now they have very little evidence and few leads as to her whereabouts.

Police did say yesterday that they planned to interview about 100 registered sex offenders that live within a mile of the home where she vanished on Sunday as a routine part of the investigation.

Police are also saying that the two attacks late in the year on University of Nevada at Reno students don’t appear to be related to Denison’s disappearance but they are not ruling out the possibility.

Stuff like this just makes my heart wrench just thinking about the little kid hanging out with her dead mom for three days.

According to Hammett Shanta had been struggling with Nausea and had been to her clinic in St. Paul and to the emergency room as well. They had given her medication for vomiting because she was not able to keep anything down. She had also been on the phone with telling a nurse that she had been throwing up blood.

When the girls was found she was covered with her mother’s blood where she had been lying with her mother sleeping.

Her home phone was out of service and apparently the only other option was her cell phone, which was out of minutes. Don’t people know that cell phones will dial 911 whether you have minutes or not? The cell providers are obligated to put calls through to 911.

Airmen from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at an air base in Southwest Asia prepare a C-17 Globemaster III for an airdrop mission Jan. 14 to deliver humanitarian supplies to coalition forces in Afghanistan

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 am on the ninth day of the Chantix and yesterday was supposed to be the day that I quit smoking. I did OK I suppose. From the time I got up at 4:30 a.m. until I got home from work last night and went to bed 18 hours later I smoked maybe ten cigarettes. You may think that’s a lot but considering that I generally smoke at least 2-2.5 packs a day just cutting down to ten is like quitting smoking for two of you. 🙂

Yeah, maybe my warped sense of logic is stupid but it is mine.

I feel like cutting the heads off of people and crapping down their throat right now.

Haven’t had a smoke yet and I have been up for about 45 minutes. I made sure not to bring any home last night because I want to try and go as long as possible today. Undoubtedly I will end up smoking at some point but if I can improve or cut yesterday’s in half I will consider that a win.

I think perhaps the Chantix isn’t quite so good if you are/have to deal with depression. A friend of our’s was taking it and had to stop and of course I am crazy as a shithouse rat myself but the last three or four days I have really been a bastard to everyone.

I’ve been trying to be quiet and keep to myself and when it’s really bad I just nap but I don’t have those options at work, which is where the real short bus fuckers reside. I am right on the edge and am really afraid I am going to snap on one of them. Luckily today and tomorrow I am at my best store and if I ask them to leave me alone they pretty much will.

Traded my off days with one of my manager’s who wants to go skiing the weekend prior to my vacation. That puts me working eight days straight this week but I did manage to take this coming weekend off, which is cool. That means I can go meet up with some blogger types Saturday night and have a few beers. You know, like the Bar Social Butterfly does…

The day that is…

It’s sprinkling outside at the moment and the local news says that it’s supposed to change over to snow later in the morning and we should get 1-3″ of snow by this afternoon.

Darn, I am not particularly looking forward to that.

Snow always means quite a bit of the staff calls in because they are afraid to get out on the roads and I have to pick up the other half and bring them to work as well as find them a way home.

It’s great for business if it’s during the week but it actually hurts my weekend business because that is when we are normally busy anyway. People are in less of a hurry and it takes a crowbar to get them out of the booths, particularly if it’s snowing hard.

The last time I think we really had any amount of snow at all was January 2005 or maybe even 2004. Although I drove back and forth from my house I ended up getting a hotel room across the street from the store for my employees. If the roads get ugly today I will do the same thing this year.

The bad part is that after it snows it’s supposed to get really cold which means the stuff will stick around another day and also freeze anything left on the roads.

While it’s still somewhat tenuous right now there are some similarities between the disappearance of 29-year-old Rossana Miliani in December 2005 and the deaths of Meredith Emerson and Cheryl Dunlap.

Rossana was last seen in Bryson City, North Carolina on December 7th 2005. A store clerk from Bryson City told a private investigator that Miliani came into her store with a white man in his 60s and appeared extremely nervous when they bought a backpack. She also rented a storage space there. The State Bureau of Investigation is considering the possibility of a connection but won’t comment any further.

Miliani had been vacationing in Cherokee, North Carolina at the time of her disappearance. She called her father on that day and had spoken of hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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The 2nd white van belonging to Gary Michael Hilton has also been found. It had been abandoned on a road in White County and towed to a scrap-metal yard. Apparently the van has been stripped and is in bad shape but investigators will be processing it for evidence next week.

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One bit of information I was unaware of is that Transylvania County Sheriff David Mahoney (where the Bryants disappeared/died) confirmed that the North Carolina license plate on the back of Hilton’s van when he was arrested had been stolen from a vehicle registered in Transylvania County.

Have to get back to work today. With the interruption of a bit of snow and having to go in for a couple of hours yesterday it sure seems like my days off were awful short.

My boss is on vacation this week so that means not quite as many meeting I hope. The talking heads are mumbling about more snow on Saturday but that doesn’t particularly bother me as I already have to work anyway.

I really don’t have a hell of a lot to say this morning. I’m still trying to drag my head out of the sleeping fog and having a hard time of it. A shower should cure that.

Have a wonderful day everyone…

It’s been interesting trying to implement all of the changes at work to follow some of the new laws that the state of Georgia is requiring as far as the health code. It seems as if it wouldn’t be that hard to make everyone do what they are told but the big problem in my company as well as the couple of other’s that offer the same type of service is that we don’t pay our hourly employees enough. Facts are facts but the majority of them make between $6.85/hr to $7.25/hr. It’s not a lot and hardly enough to support a family without working two or three jobs.

I have my own opinions about the poor and how they keep themselves poor but the fact is that we don’t pay very much and until we offer higher wages they pretty much have us over a barrel. I certainly can’t fire everyone in my organization because I just physically can’t work that many hours.

Some of the changes are stuff such as wearing gloves when preparing ready to eat foods, proper hand washing, having hair restrained, and no jewelry on the hands and arms, even including medical jewelry. I think all of the changes are great and will make for a much safer and healthier environment but actually executing the changes has been a challenge. Heck, I can’t even get all of my managers to follow the rules, which makes it doubly hard to get the hourly employees to. I am going to end up having to give the managers written warnings I guess. If I can start wearing stupid gloves after doing it one way for 21 years, they can certainly make the change.

Here is this week’s Wednesday Hero:

Cpl. Phillip E. Baucus
28 years old from Wolf Creek, Montana
3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
July 29, 2006

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p align=”center”>Marine Cpl. Phillip E. Baucus was the nephew of Montana Senator Max Baucus. He joined the corps in 2002 and was sent to Iraq in March of 2005.

Cpl. Baucus was killed alongside fellow Marines Sgt. Christian Williams, 27 yrs old from Winter Haven, Fla. and Lance Cpl. Anthony E. Butterfield, 19 yrs old from Clovis, Calif. during combat operations in Al Anbar province.

“Phillip was an incredible person, a dedicated Marine, a loving son and husband, and a proud Montanan and American,” Sen. Baucus said. “He heroically served the country he loved and he gave it his all.”

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 site, you can go here.