Breaking News – Earthquakes in Indonesia

rmiles7721September 12, 2007Site News

According to CNN two powerful earthquakes have been reported in Indonesia with preliminary magnitudes of 7.8 and 8.0 and a Tsunami alert has been issued.

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A strong earthquake measuring up to 8.0 in magnitude struck Wednesday near southern Indonesia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A tsunami watch was immediately issued for the area.
The earthquake, which struck Sumatra, has caused buildings to sway in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, the Associated Press reported.

Yahoo has a news report up now saying that the U.S. Geological Survey has reported ONE quake that measured a magnitude of 7.9 and was centered 9.7 miles underground in the southern Sumatra area.

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Earthquakes of this size have the potential to generate a widespread destructive tsunami that can affect coastlines across the entire Indian Ocean Basin
U.S.G.S.

I will post more information when I get it.

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Now THAT Was Long…

rmiles7721September 12, 2007Site News

That too but I was mainly referring to yesterday. I ended up not getting home from work until Ten last night. The meeting at the convention center lasted more than two hours yesterday. I think we finally got out of there around Six Thirty last night. About ten of us stopped for supper at this place called Johnny Carino’s Country Italian. I’ve had better Italian but it was pretty good. The waiter was good and handled us very well. Most of the time that you get a large party together like that they have a hard time and end up doing a really good job or they just suck, particularly considering that all ten of us work in the restaurant industry and that makes us a pain in the ass to wait on.

Apparently my VP and another one from out toward Kennesaw were in one of my restaurants yesterday trying to talk one of my managers into moving to a store out that way. It’s my guy that I have such a hard time with. The problem is that I did some checking around and the girl they want to replace him with is worse. Crap. I asked both of my other managers to put a bug in his ear that he doesn’t want to leave. Lesser of two evils and all that stuff.

I picked up the minivan we have rented for the week yesterday afternoon. I will have to go pay them a visit again this morning. The email I got after reserving the damn thing gave me a quote of just under $300 for the week, but I ended up getting charged just over $400. I did choose the extra insurance this time for some reason but that only adds $8 a day so I don’t know how they pulled another $75 out of there ass on this one. Once I wake up a bit more I’ll check the contract and see what they charged me.

Wordless Wednesday

rmiles7721September 12, 20074Site News

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Where Does The Time Go?

rmiles7721September 12, 2007Parenting/Family

I think I found exactly what I need to get for the older girl for stocking stuffers this year. She recently got her ears re-pierced and has been doing a pretty good job at taking care of them, so I am sure that we will get her some ear-rings, particularly since she has started looking at jewelry lately. I thought about getting her some animal jewelry. She’s not at the age yet where I have to get extremely expensive stuff so that would be perfect for her. I still have a little time before I have to start worrying about it but I do need to shop for her birthday since it’s at the end of next month. Ten-years-old. A decade. Sure doesn’t seem like that long.

Pulling My Hair Out…

rmiles7721September 11, 2007Parenting/Family, Travel

…what little I have left anyway.

Unfortunately I have meetings all afternoon. Once a year we have a big ‘town hall’ meeting for the management in the Atlanta area. In the past it’s been at the Galleria but this year I think they needed a bigger venue are we have to drive down to the Georgia International something or other down near the airport. That sucks. The meetings at Three which means we will get out about six. Just in time to drive back out to the west side in afternoon traffic. That really blows.

I have hooked up with one of the other district manager and will ride with her. I don’t particularly feel like driving myself especially since I will be in a rental car. Due to the meeting I had to reschedule the pickup time and have to go get my rental car at noon today, go to the meeting, go back to work and do audits and inventories, write about 30 posts, take the dog to the kennel, pack, throw the cats in the basement, clean the house, then drive to damn South Carolina, all in the next 36 hours. I will need an extra day of vacation just to get over the vacation.

BTW, we had thought about maybe going down to Savannah on Friday instead of hanging out in Beaufort. Any of you guys want to meet up that live in the area?

NEXT Saturday (I think it’s the 22nd) we are having a party and anyone that wants to join us at the house can email or call me.

Vacation!!

rmiles7721September 11, 20072Travel

I probably have mentioned it several times but I will be out of town from tomorrow afternoon until Sunday afternoon for my son’s boot camp graduation. I have several things scheduled to post so there will still be a bit going on here and I will try and post some photos up there. Hopefully I can look a few people up in the area on Friday afternoon as well. I would kind of like to hang out in the general Beaufort area if there is anything to do. If anything you can look for the nearest bar stools to find me propped against one 🙂

Not that I particularly want to get or stay drunk but I am so stressed out because of work that I am going to do my best to relax and have a good time.

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It Sucks When It's Someone You Know – Seven U.S. troops killed in Iraq

rmiles7721September 10, 2007Site News

One of the teachers that my wife works with found out that her son was killed last night in Iraq. Our thoughts go out to her and her family. With my son graduating from Parris Island at the end of the week I can only imagine the horrible feeling she must have right now. The wife and I haven’t really discussed it but she was pretty distraught over the whole thing.

Our brave children are doing something that they believe in and deserve all of our support as do the families of those slain and those who are currently on active duty.

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This is also going to be posted on all of my sites this evening.

Raising Hell Helen

rmiles7721September 10, 20074Site News

I am so going to hell for this but at least I will have company. I’ve got my gear for Helen, have you got yours?

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Having spent the last two decades in management I have become quite adept at shifting blame, so you can blame this one on the jews. They make more sense than the rest anyway.

When my church loving nine-year-old (we let them make their own choices, I just won’t take them) saw the shirt and realized that we were taking a picture she says “I want to be Mary!”

Bwahaha…

Jeebus Rules Man!

Christmas Lights and LED String Lighting

rmiles7721September 10, 2007Site News

It’s a bit early for me to be thinking about Christmas being as how it’s not even Halloween yet but I have been thinking about them the last few days because some of the stores are starting to put decorations out. I went in to the Home Depot the other day to get some of the clear rope light. I needed a couple of strands to go around the new pond and garden and I was thinking about getting it for my daughter’s room as well. Since the boy shipped off to boot camp the girls now have their own rooms. We moved one of the beds out from under the bunk and now the youngest girl has a sitting and reading area underneath and we wanted lights for it. I was kind of worried about putting a light within her reach since she’s just four but now you can get the LED version. It’s a little more expensive but they last much much longer, are cool to the touch and use less energy which means that in the long run I will save more money than I would have otherwise. I went ahead and got the LEDs for the pond area too.

That’s what got me to thinking about Christmas lighting. If I can afford it this year I want to spend a little extra and get LED Christmas tree lights rather than the same old ones I have been using for the last 20 years. Aside from the same benefits I would get from the LED string lighting they are also much clearer and brighter. I love Christmas decorations and never really thought that there would be much difference until I actually some some of the outdoor LED christmas lights in action. They have a bunch of them at the local Wal-mart already and they are pretty sharp.

Still Dragging…

rmiles7721September 10, 2007Site News

I don’t know if I am still suffering the effects of the two benadryl I took last night or if it’s just sleep deprivation but I am beat. I have been sitting here trying to type and am nodding off. Just made a fresh pot of coffee so perhaps that will take the edge off. Let’s hope so otherwise I might start drooling into the keyboard and electrocute myself. That would not be a pretty site…

I managed to get out of work early enough to get home before anyone else today, thus having a few minutes to write. I did start a load of laundry and as I said before, a pot of coffee. We really need to have all of the laundry done tonight to make it easier to pack tomorrow. I have a ton of stuff to do and now I get to spend most of tomorrow afternoon and evening at a freaking town hall meeting at the Georgia International Meeting Center somewhere near the airport. Damn.

My boss was under the assumption that I was going to start my vacation on Wednesday rather than Thursday and I am really considering going ahead and doing just that. It would certainly make life easier here because the girls could ride the school bus home Wednesday afternoon and we could leave as soon as the wife got home rather than trying to shuffle everyone around and hoping I am staffed at the store I am running Wednesday.