Friday, October 08, 2004
Saturday, September 25, 2004
I couldn't have said it better if I tried
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/672upfks.asp
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Life, Work, Politics.. what else is there?
Now, onto other things....
Kemah Police Chief Roy Owen has announced his retirement effective October 31st 2004. I have so many thoughts about this man I could fill pages of my blog. But no.. I'm only going to say that I believe in Karma and as a God fearing Christian, I truely believe that those who commit evil acts onto others will get their due. Unfortunately in real-life, it doesn't happen as quickly as we would like. Also, I am not holding my breathe for getting my part time job back after he leaves. If I do, then I'll take the opportunity knowing I'm a better person and that I stood up for what I believe in and I did the right thing. I know I was right in doing what I did because City Council members, friends, family and people I've met since who have heard what happened have all told me I was courageous and strong. I like to think I'm a little like President Bush. I stand firm in what I believe in and I never waiver, EVER.
Work. ugh. I have worked every day for 3 weeks straight. We are trying to get the beta of our CRM package out and trying to release to the public at the end of the month. I Finished the manual and the online support documents yesterday, along with some code changes. We are so proud of what we've done with the software. We are very excited about it and believe everyone will love it. Hopefully sales take off and I hope I can take a weekend off soon. This 7 days a week thing is starting to get to me.
On a lighter note..
Whitney is doing really good. She recently brought home her 3 week progress report and she has straight A's. I am very proud of her. She really likes all her teachers and is starting to finally enjoy "the boring stuff" such as math and science. She spent the night Friday night with Traci and they went shopping yesterday so she had a really good day. Last night she found out 1 of her 2 best friends broke her arm so she was pretty upset. I told her that though she'd be in pain from it, she'll be fine.
Like I said, I have been working 7 days a week and have had very little time off. I haven't been on the waverunner in a couple weeks. Hopefully this coming weekend I'll be able to.
Jazzfest at the Kemah Boardwalk. I L O V E Jazz so I WILL make time to be there this coming weekend!!
Well that's it for now folks.
Friday, September 10, 2004
Life goes on
Whitney, her friend Samantha and I saw "Cellular" tonight at the theater. It had a quite a few moments where you saw it coming, but still, it was a great film. You know the film is great when the entire theather laughs out loud and is like "YEAH!! ALRIGHT!!" .. it was a very uplifting and feel good movie. I definitely recommend it!
Due to going out to see the movie, I didn't get waverunner time so I'll go tomorrow evening instead.
Not much else to report.. take care ya'all.
Kemahcoder
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Some things make no sense
Cal Thomas, Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129752,00.html
-- Thank you Cal Thomas for another wonderful article and showing that the democrats don't care about the people they spew their lies to, they only care about getting power.
On a personal note, do you know what scares me more than John Kerry becoming President of the United States? Ted Kennedy calling the shots! .. and you democrats think Dick Chaney is running the country? HA!
Visit Cal's site, http://foxnews.com/columnone/index.html
Animal Planet has new fans
Kemah Coder
Saturday, August 28, 2004
An experience to remember
When I went under the bridge towards the boardwalk, I immediately noticed the waves were out of control. I was going "into" the water more than staying on top of it and mind you that is a no wake zone so I couldn't hit the gas. However I ended up having to just to stay on top of the waves. When I reached the end of the boardwalk and started going out to the bay, I knew I was in trouble. I was literally going into the water more than staying on top of it. I gunned hard and did a 180 back towards the boardwalk, soaked head to toe. Keep in mind, there is a compartment that is supposed to be water tight where I keep my wallet (id/boat license) and my cell phone. When I opened it up to call Whitney, I found it's not so water tight :(
I then tried to go out onto clear lake and that too was rough, just not as rough as Galveston Bay. I turned back once again. I checked in on Whitney as I always do every 15mins or so when she stays at the boat ramp. I told her I wanted to get out there atleast once so I headed back out to the bay knowing I was in for a rough ride. I didn't care.. I was stressed and needed to let off some steam. I went out and knowing about the nowake zone, I had no choice. I gunned it out of the boardwalk area into the bay. Big mistake! Have you ever heard of a small craft advisory? I don't know where I can find out such information about the bay but last night it was in effect even if I didn't know it officially. I got the shit kicked out of me and quickly realized I was fool for trying to go out there. The waves were bigger than the wave runner w/me on it. I was in the water more than on top of it so I turned back for the last time. In the short time I was out there, I calling myself all kinds of names. I knew better but I just wanted to get out there for a bit and relieve some stress on those waves. It was more like the other way around. Mother nature always wins. Stupid me. Anyway I head back fully open throttle and have never been more airborne. Just getting back to the boardwalk entrance was a major fight and seriously hard on my muscles, not to mention the wave runner. I brought it in, got home, cleaned it out and took a shower. Yeah I had a shower alright but they were with bay water, this one was fresh hot water w/soap :)
Usually when I go out on the wave runner for a couple/3-4 hours, I get home and I'm fine and go to bed. It's the next morning I feel the affects of the day before. Last night I was feeling the affects as soon I was done showering. Sore muscles, walking kinda like a robot. Then this morning.. oh my.. total robot moves. That little time out there last night really beat me up. I've learned my lesson. Next time I encounter seas like that I'll know better not to be a fool.
Kemah Coder
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Long weekend, not much fun
Whitney and I did manage to go see Open Water. Good movie. Worth seeing. I didn't like the end though. oh well.
Anyway, hope ya'all had a good weekend and have a better week.
Kemah Coder
Saturday, August 21, 2004
Update on the life of the Kemah Coder
I had planned on getting waverunner time yesterday after work but started having major stomach issues as the afternoon wore on. By the time 6pm rolled around, I was not a happy camper. The good news is thankfully as I work this weekend and do a couple things on my time, it'll be raining/storming so I wouldn't be able to go out on the water anyway.
Have I mentioned recently I AM SICK OF SUMMER WEATHER? I was watching the weather channel yesterday and it's supposed to be in the 60's up in Minnesota where I used to live. Then I was watching the goo-goo dolls in HD in alaska last night and looked up their current weather. 50's !! What I wouldn't give for 50's-60's here right now. But nooooooooooooo we have to have 90's and blanket of humidity. Ugh.. I know.. 1 more month and it'll be over. I can't wait for no humidity to return.
Whitney started school this week and she loves all her teachers. One thing that ticked me off was her 2nd period was Career Investigation and the school allowed her to switch classes without consulting with or getting my permission. The upside is she brought home paperwork on what the new class ("Teen Leadership") entails and I laughed out loud. Ready?
"Teen Leadership is a program in whcih students develop leadership, personal, and business skills. They learn to develop a healthy self-concept, healthy relationships, and learn to understand the concept of personal responsibility." .. exhumm.. "business skills" ? LOL. Whitney learning something about business is like John Kerry learning how to stick with 1 decision and not change his mind. .. "concept of personal responsibility" .. exhumm.. I love this one. So many possibilities for Whitney. :)
I got subpoena'd yesterday. I'll be testifying against the DPS trooper that got my friend fired from the Kemah PD. Yes, I'll tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And in doing so will take pleasure in the fact that asshole trooper will finally get what's coming to him. I did speak with Ivan and he's doing well all things considered.
Anyway, that's it for now. Ya'all take care now, ya hear?
Friday, August 13, 2004
Iraqi boy helps the troops
Tankers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (search) knew that intelligence was key to battling the enemy. Capt. Chad Roehrman was at a checkpoint when he thought another dodgy informant walked up. "One of my guys came to me and said, 'Hey, sir, we got another boy who says he has information,'" he said.
What the boy had was information on a well-connected cell of 40 fighters whose leader was a former officer in Saddam Hussein's army. He was also the boy's father.
The Americans hid the boy in an armored Humvee and checked out his report of a weapons stockpile in his backyard. They found explosives, rocket propelled grenades and a complete weapons system they hadn't seen before. The father and another man were arrested.
After the bust the boy couldn't go home so he moved in with the soldiers. They gave him the nickname "Steve-O" and a bunk right next to theirs. He later gave them more intelligence that led to other arrests.
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Mr & Mrs John Q Public, meet Mr Flip Flop
rtsp://real.stream2you.com/rnc/RNC092004W.rm
Wow, MsNbc steps up to the plate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3395977/
When reading the article be sure to click the link "This Analysis". It is a remarkable read on the truth behind what Kerry plans to do if he should get in office ... That being a cut & run strategy cloaked in rhetoric of getting international support.
Saturday, August 07, 2004
Have a good weekend folks
Anyway I'm gonna chill out and maybe watch a dvd or two today and get some work done. No waverunner this weekend. Next weekend for sure if the weather is good. I might update the blog later. We'll see.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Here we go again
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Moore Hot Water
But, in fact, not only did the headline appear in the Pantagraph two weeks earlier and in much smaller type, it appeared above a letter to the editor, reflecting the writer's sentiments, not the news. The Pantagraph is now demanding an apology, an explanation, and compensatory damages, totaling $1.
Monday, August 02, 2004
Time and Life and Death
Anyway, I've been told how opinionated I am. I mean I have very strong feelings about things in this world, in our country, in politics and in life. There's nothing wrong with that, by itself. Unfortunately the way I express myself .. well .. it doesn't come across the same way I intend it to. I'm told that I speak in a condescending tone and make others feel dumb. The real unfortunate part is those who have pointed this out are right. Now, do I mean to? No, absolutely not. In thinking about what they said, I know that my normal tone to anyone I talk to is not that. Normally, I am a VERY kind, caring, polite, respectful person. I speak proper english and say thank you and ALWAYS say Yes Mam/Sir.
Unfortunately I cannot stand ignorance, stupidity or incompetence. I cannot stand it when people speak of things they have no idea of because they believe what they hear someone else say or read or saw on tv/movie and then spew it out like it's the truth or just as bad, base their own personally beliefs about someone because of that.
If you know me, you know that I served in the United States Navy. Honestly today, I wish I never got out. Me getting out of the Navy was without question, my biggest mistake of my entire life. I haven't said that to anyone, ever. This is the first time I have ever spoken those words. Yeah I have a nice life. Paid well, have my toys and work hard. Would I have those things if I stayed in the Navy? Maybe.. maybe not. But I'd most certainly have a different life than I do today. Do I regret my life? Sometimes yes.
I'm not going to get into details but a small example of what I was talking about is when people believe all the garbage the hollywood idiots and far left oblivions spew. The thing that just irritates the living shit out of me is when people say things they know for a fact is a lie in order to convince other people who will just believe what they hear, without doing their own homework to find the factual truth. They give half truths, leave out important pieces of information and give false information to justify their screwed up HATRED. All this political bullshit Michael Moore and the Flaming liberals put out is based on one thing: HATE. That's right. HATE. If you're normal, just seeing the word HATE should give you an ill feeling. Should. You know who was full of HATE? Hitler, Stalin and Saddam to name a few. The extremist who have kidnapped the peaceful religion of Islam are full of HATE. They will murder their own people, women and children included, who do not share their feelings and way of life. There are people out there who want YOU DEAD or MAIMED. They'd be happy and jump up and down if you lost a leg, an arm or your HEAD. They don't care if you're republican, democrat, independent or libertarian. They don't care if you're black, white, hispanic, asian, chinese, japanese, french, german or russian. They don't care because to them, we are all the same and they want us DEAD. DEAD! YOU GET THAT!!? And there are people like Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Susan Serandon, Linda Ronstat, David Letterman and the entire far left of the democrat party of the United States of America who actually go out and say that the President of the United States puts out terror alerts to boost his campaign and the terror warnings aren't real. AREN'T REAL!!?? That he has intentionally lied to the american people and knew ahead of time there were no WMD's to be found in Iraq. That he "Betrayed" the american people. That he knew of the 9/11 plot beforehand and did nothing and let it happen. That he went to war to get Iraq's oil and "we're going to take over their oil fields". What PLANET ARE YOU LIVING ON if you HONESTLY, IN YOUR SOUL BELIEVE THIS?!!! When exactly are we supposed to get this oil from Iraq? When are we going to take over their oil fields? SHOW ME PROOF, HARD-COLD-FACTS that our President knew about the 9/11 plot and let it happen. SHOW ME PROOF, HARD-COLD-FACTS that our President knew beforehand there were no WMD's. And while you're at it, SHOW ME PROOF, COLD-HARD-FACTS, where EXACTLY did the WMD's go since every nation ON EARTH has said for over a DECADE that Saddam HAD those WMD's.
What HAS our President done since 9/11 that has pissed off a lot of people, mainly politians? He's done what was needed to be done and he didn't let WEASELS like F R A N C E stand in the way. He sent the best military on earth after the VERY PEOPLE WHO WANT YOU DEAD and he didn't stop by and ASK FOR PERMISSION! The United States of America doesn't need ANYONE's PERMISSION to defend itself.
Have you watched some of the street interviews on tv? or heard them on radio? Walk up to a random person and ask questions about what they think they know about President Bush and the war on terror and 9/11. When they start with the same shit the left have been spewing and you ask questions, they go "I don't the answers, I just think President Bush is lying". Anyone who thinks the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is going to L I E to the American people is an imbecile. Go to school and learn some history. The last president who intentionally lied to the american people did so to protect a personal, private matter that affected only himself, his family and Monica Lewinsky. He was impeached! Do you KNOW what would happen to President Bush if he intentionally lied to the american people about NATIONAL SECURITY? Impeachment would be the last of his problems!
The other reason I get so upset with people is because of my job. I deal with people every single day who don't read and make stupid, insane comments to me. They blame everyone but themselves for screwing up their job. It's never their doing. Instructions say do a,b,c,d,e & f. What do they do? Skip abc and do de & f. Then when it doesn't work, call all pissed off and demanding to know why it doesn't work. "well you should have done this or that". Well idiot, if you would have READ the instructions, you wouldn't have the pbm you do. Whatever.
Am I God? That's laughable. Am I perfect? Laughable. Am I always right? so laughable. Do I think I have all the answers? Stop, seriously, you're killing me.
No, I am human like you, I make mistakes. Sometimes really big ones. I rarely have the right answers.. I rely on my genius boss for those.
What I do though is I stay informed. I don't watch or listen to hatred or bias. I read A LOT. If you knew how much I read every single day, it would scare you. That's probably why I don't have time to update my blog site, because I'm always reading, or working.
Couple hints to stay informed ;
Watch Special Report on FoxNews channel at 6pm EST, Daily. (a real fair and balanced look at the days news events)
Watch The Beltway Boys on FoxNews channel at 6pm EST every Saturday (a real fair and balanced look at the weeks events)
Watch Fox News Watch at 6:30pm EST on FoxNews channel every Saturday( a real fair and balanced look at the MEDIA coverage for the weeks events)
-- All of these shows have democrats, republicans and independants. They are NOT slanted towards republicans if that's what you're thinking. --
If you're going to surf the net for news, ALWAYS goto all three major sites to get a REAL FAIR AND BALANCED view. Cnn is the most liberal and anti-republican slanted site. MsNbc is fairly so but not as bad, FoxNews is the least liberal slanted, of course. UsaToday.com is about 70/30.
Make up your own mind, but for gods sake don't take 10 seconds or 10 minutes and think you know. watch those sites for days and weeks.
Want a secret? Look at the daily polls. See how the wording of the poll slants one way or another.
What is "liberal" ?? Why do people like Howard Stern and Hollywood want the republicans out of office? If you really honestly don't know what the term liberal means, ask me, or better yet, look it up.
Finally in tonights posting, do you know what the R E A L L Y ironic thing is about the liberals wanting the republicans out of office? The more LIBERAL you are, the MORE the extremist terrorist want you DEAD. They're the ones who want women to cover every inch of their bodies except for their eyes. They're the ones who don't believe women have a voice. They're the ones who believe nightclubs are houses of sin.
The worst part of all this.. they want me dead too. and my daughter and my mom and my dad and my sister and my grandmother and my friends and my friends kids ...
Maybe now you'll have a little bit of a better understanding why I get so worked up about what people say about Our President, the republican party and terrorists. And when I worked up, if I come across as condescending and treat you like you're stupid, then I apologize. I have to work on that. It's a major flaw of mine and I don't mean it, especially if you're someone I care about. I'm not an angry person in life. I don't treat people like shit. But when I do get out of control, just slap me once or twice and tell me I'm being an ass.
Friends are hard to come by.. especially good ones. Treasure yours for you never know when they'll be gone.
Kemah Coder
Saturday, July 31, 2004
Cardio is when you're heartrate is faster than it is now
Anyway it was a very hectic week with the bosses gone on vacation so sorry about not posting more this week. I did manage to get an hour in the jacuzzi this week and Friday after work I went out on Galveston Bay on the waverunner for an hour & a half. That was major fun but the big boats give me real workout. So the subject line was reality last night, believe you me. I have to admit though it was really cool going by the Kemah Boardwalk on the water instead of the boardwalk :-) I'm really sore today so I know I had good workout yesterday.
Anyway I'm taking Whitney and her friend Courtney to see The Village at the movie theater so I gotta get.
Until the next time..
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Got sleep?
Monday, July 26, 2004
Lunch
I care for her but she believes that Michael Moore CRAP!
Then there was last night. We talked on the phone for over 3 hours. We had a blast and laughed our butts off. I just don't know if she was pulling my chain about her political views or if she was serious. She says Bush is a liar and we went to war for the iraq oil and, ready?.. we're going to take over the oil fields. I think she was just yanking my chain for fun.. but if she was serious and honestly believes that shit that moore puts out and believes (but has no proof of) that Bush intentionally lied to the american people, what do I think?
I guess I'll go get all the "facts" and post them. Maybe that'll clear things up.
Later people...
Kemahcoder
Heinz-Kerry starts the DNC with her own flip-flop
The convention hasn't even started yet and Kerry's wife starts her own flip-flop.
"We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics," the wife of Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) told her fellow Pennsylvanians on Sunday night at a Massachusetts Statehouse reception.
Minutes later, Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, questioned her on what she meant by the term "un-American," according to a tape of the encounter recorded by Pittsburgh television station WTAE.
Heinz Kerry said, "I didn't say that" several times to McNickle. She then turned to confer with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and others. When she faced McNickle again a short time later, he continued to question her, and she replied: "You said something I didn't say. Now shove it."
