Padilla Found Guilty

rmiles7721August 16, 2007Site News

The jury in the Jose Padilla trial has found him guilty of conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas. His two co-defendants were also found guilty of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim people in a foreign country, conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists, and providing material support for terrorists.

Next they will get sentencing, which will happen on December 5th. All three of them are facing life in prison. They should have been charged with treason and given the death penalty.

It’s about time that they finally got this over with after having had him in custody for over three years now.

Not getting much done here…

rmiles7721August 16, 2007Uncategorized

I had to go out this morning and take care of a few things before I really got started at the house. I drove into town and mailed a care package to my nephew in Iraq. Just some stuff, candy, DVDs, Vodka Mouthwash; you know, useful stuff that they don’t get a lot of. Dealing with the Postal Service is always fun. Had to fill out some paperwork for customs. I made sure to send it priority so that if it can’t get delivered it will come back here instead.

After that I dropped a bunch of paperwork off to a friend of mine who is also a district manager and will be at our weekly meeting today. She was in the same boat that I currently am. A crappy manager, except that her’s finally quit so she is running the store as well as the rest of her district. I also dropped by the Elementary School since my daughter had forgotten her lunch today.

Had to make a run to Wal-Mart after that and pick up some lunch stuff for the kids and a scratching post for the other kids and then get a bite to eat at a fast food joint. Nothing beats a couple of good hot burgers and onion rings, washed down with a Dr Pepper.

I was going to work in the yard for awhile when I got home but after three hours of riding around in the car with no fricking air I am done for the day. I still need to straighten the house as well but I have lost any energy I had and all I really want to do right now is take a nap.

Entry Post Test

rmiles7721August 16, 2007Uncategorized

This is a test of the emergency broadcasting system…
No, actually I am testing the EntryPost plugin for Movabletype. Check it out if you get a chance…

Editor’s Note – Hey, this works great. When you submit an entry it sits and waits until I go in and approve it or edit it and then approve. Very nice. You can also use this as a way to contact me as well iffen you don’t want to send an e-mail. I’ll just delete the entry if it’s used to contact me, and go on about my merry way 🙂

Thursday Thongs

rmiles7721August 16, 2007Site News

U.S. Goes After Colombian Drug Cartel

rmiles7721August 16, 2007Site News


The only reason that the Colombian drug cartels are so wealthy and powerful is that we pretty much created them with the bullshit war on drugs. Legalize them and then there’s no issue.


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Thursday Thongs

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Only a few more weeks…

rmiles7721August 15, 2007Parenting/Family

I was wandering through Wal-Mart looking for strapping tape yesterday when I ran across a bunch of paintball equipment among the sporting good section and it got me to thinking about how much the Boy loved to go out with his buddies and their paintball gear and spend the afternoon just having a good time. The could go through two huge cases of paintballs in one afternoon. I almost broke down then and there and purchased a bunch of paintball guns and paintball gun parts. I would probably be better off ordering through an online paintball store though, which is what kept me from making the purchase. That’s one thing I never had the chance to do with him that needs to be rectified soon. He will be home for ten days around the middle of September and prior to me going back to work from my vacation I would like to do a couple of things with him. Maybe now that he has spent the last few weeks at boot camp we could play a couple of games of MilSim paintball.

Looong Day…

rmiles7721August 15, 2007Site News

Man today seemed like the longest day so far this week. I am tired, hot and I hurt. My feet hurt, my head hurts and my back hurts. The wife thinks I’m not drinking enough water which is probably the case. As hot as it has been working inside on the grill certainly isn’t any more comfortable even with air conditioning.

I had a couple of people not show up for work today so ended up working a bit later than I normally would have. This being the last day of the week I should have finished quite a bit of paperwork but didn’t get a single thing done. I am going to end up having to go in in an hour and a half or so and spend several hours getting my stuff finished. I’m not particularly happy about it, but I have stuff that I just have to get done.

Portrait Painters

rmiles7721August 15, 2007Photography

I am not a huge art critic by any means. My idea of fine art is a couple of Norman Rockwell prints, some posters from the Shakespeare festival and an oil painting of my kids. In my living there hangs the aforementioned Shakespeare Festival Poster (framed of course), a picture of Buddha from some art show and a framed photograph of a swamp scene with a dock and a boathouse. It’s actually a pretty cool picture. What I don’t have are any paintings of the family. We do have plenty of photographs of the kids that hang on the wall in the stairway but nothing large in the living room yet. It’s not even the money. It’s more a matter of time and getting everyone to sit down at the same time in the same place.

Paint Your Life is a company that will take your photographs and turn them into 100% hand-painted portrait. The paintings are all done by portrait painters that are skilled in wedding portraits, child and pets portraits as well. You can have your photograph turned into an oil painting, watercolor portrait, charcoal drawing or pencil sketch and it’s very affordable as well. Paintings start at $99 and the charcoal and pencil sketches start at $69.

All of the portraits are painted by artists and are not prints or computer generated. They can also combine more than one photo into a painting. Say you have three separate pictures of your children that you like and want them together…They can do that. Check out this example…


Even more so than getting a picture of my kids it sure would be nice if I could get an oil painting of my parents and give it to them for Christmas. If you want to see what some of their customers have to say, head on over to the customer testimonials and take a gander at what they have to say. Both of my Aunt’s are professional artists and painters and the paintings that I have seen are as good as anything that I have seen them do.

Dragging Today…

rmiles7721August 15, 2007Site News

That bed sure was comfortable this morning. I had a very hard time getting up and although I am on my second cup of coffee right now I still want to crawl back in the bed and go back to sleep. At least this is my Friday though. I was planning on taking Thursday and Friday off (the real Friday) but I have been having some issues in a couple of the stores and will end up working on Friday and only being able to take one day off now. I’m not particularly happy about it and while I don’t have any intentions of making people miserable the folks that are the cause of me having to work on my day off are going to feel my displeasure on Friday when I spend the entire day with them.

My left heel has been killing me the last few days. I don’t know if my shoes need to be replaced or what but it feels like a severely sprained ankle, except right in my damn heel. It’s almost difficult to walk on it Hurts so much. All I can do is get through the day day and hope I don’t have too much to do tomorrow that requires walking. I do have to get out first thing in the morning and work a bit on the new pond area before it gets too hot but other than that I’m going to try and take it easy. I wonder if that Freeze It stuff will work on my heel. I still have a little bit left that I haven’t used yet. I am afraid to try it before work. I’ll need it just as much when I get home as I do now though, so it’ll wait until then I suppose.