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This is the weekend open track-back post for November 3rd-5th. I don’t know exactly how much time I will have for writing this weekend as one of my folks is on vacation and I will be fairly busy.

Open track-backs are a great way to get your writing noticed by people who might not necessarily have visited your site yet. By sending a ping to this entry it will be listed at the bottom. Sometimes they will get caught in the spam folder and I check that once every 24 hours and will publish your ping.

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Happy All-Saints Day, or something like that. I have quite a few things to write about today, but no time. Perhaps later today if my meeting doesn’t take too long. In place of any real content 🙁 I am giving you guys this open-track-back post. Feel free to link to it and the link will display right here on the main page so that disappointed people everywhere can find something cool to read 🙂

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I posted yesterday about the kid that died after being left in the car for seven hours while his mother worked at Hooters. Phoenix police have charged her with felony negligent homicide.

I read over at Fox News that she usually dropped her child off at a day care center prior to going to work. That answers my question about why nobody called her as day care centers don’t normally do this.

Also according to Fox, Hooters closed it’s restaurant on Wednesday and provided counseling sessions for the employees.

Apparently I was one of the few house, at least on my side of the neighborhood, that actually decorated for Halloween. There are quite a few people in my area of podunk Georgia that do the trunk or treat thing at the churches. Thanks but no thanks. Even our division (work) set up down there and gave out candy. That’s why I scheduled myself off . More power to them but I enjoy the traditional scary Halloween.

This is pretty horrible.

As a parent it just makes my skin crawl to think about leaving my child in a car for that long. I know when the Marine was still at home I’ve left him to watch the girls while I run into a convenience store or something, or I have dropped things off, but actually leaving your kid in the car?

How the heck could you forget that your kid was with you. I suppose it would be possible if the child were sleeping or something but even as absent minded as I am at some point in the day you would think that the mother might say to herself ‘hey, I don’t remember being at the babysitter today’.

I know that all of my babysitters that we have used as well as other care providers will normally call and ask where the kid is if/when I didn’t bring them. Who watches her kid that wouldn’t bother to call and check?

Just remember, stupidity is not a protected disability.

Pretty nasty is all I have to say.

This Week’s Hero Was Suggested By Cindy

Lt. Michael P. Murphy 29 years old from Patchogue, New York SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1 June 28, 2005 On Monday, Lt. Michael P. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor. His father was the one who accepted the award. Lt. Murphy will receive the award for his extraordinary, selfless heroism and steadfast courage while leading a four-man, special reconnaissance mission deep behind enemy lines east of Asadabad in the Hindu Kush of Afghanistan June 27 to 28, 2005 “We are thrilled by the President’s announcement today, especially because there is now a public recognition of what we knew all along about Michael’s loyalty, devotion and sacrifice to his friends, family, country, and especially his SEAL teammates,” the Murphy family said in a statement released earlier in the month. “The honor is not just about Michael, it is about his teammates and those who lost their lives that same day.” Murphy was the officer-in-charge of the SEAL element, which was tasked with locating a high- level Taliban militia leader to provide intelligence for a follow-on mission to capture or destroy the local leadership and disrupt enemy activity. Taliban sympathizers discovered the SEAL unit and immediately revealed their position to Taliban fighters. The element was besieged on a mountaintop by scores of enemy fighters. The firefight that ensued pushed the element farther into enemy territory and left all four SEALs wounded. The SEALs fought with everything they had. despite being at a tactical disadvantage and outnumbered more than four to one. Understanding the gravity of the situation and his responsibility to his men, Murphy, already wounded, deliberately and unhesitatingly moved from cover into the open where he took and returned fire while transmitting a call for help for his beleaguered teammates. Shot through the back while radioing for help, Murphy completed his transmission while returning fire. The call ultimately led to the rescue of one severely wounded team member, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Marcus Luttrell, and the recovery of the remains of Murphy and Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class (SEAL) Danny Dietz and Sonar Technician 2nd Class (SEAL) Matthew Axelson. Eight more SEALs and eight Army “Nightstalker” special operations personnel comprising the initial reinforcement also lost their lives when their helicopter was shot down before they could engage the enemy. Murphy was also inducted into the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon during a ceremony yesterday. His name was engraved beside the names of some 3,400 other service members who have also been awarded the nation’s highest honor.

One of the changes in the new Health Codes for the state of Georgia include not being able to have fingernails, not that it bothers me, as well as wearing no jewelry on your hands or arms other than a plain gold wedding band. It’s to help cut down on transmission of food poisoning. Even if you wash your hands regularly germs get on jewelry or can be trapped between watch bands and the skin as well. It kind of sucks because it means I have stopped wearing my watch altogether. I like my Mickey Mouse watch particularly, although lately I have had my eyes on a Lange Sohne like this one.

As often as I work it’s almost foolish for me to get another watch now. Luckily I always have my cell phone with me and I can check the time from it.

I ended up spending several hours this afternoon in a P&L meeting. Got home about six and had a bit. I have about an hour or so before I go pick up one of my cooks and take him into work. My SVP is going to be in my stores tomorrow and as a result I will most likely be in the nastiest one cleaning until at least midnight. Luckily I am off the next two days so I only have to deal with the preparation and not the actual visit, but I will have to deal with the aftermath.

Time to go out for a smoke. I don’t have anything particularly useful to post right now anyway. Being as how I am off the next couple of days I am sure I will have plenty of posts up.