Come and Get Some Obama

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Got My Internet Back Today

We got power back a couple of days ago, and today a technician came by and replaced my cable, and now I am back online. I have missed reading all of your blogs. Been able to read a few from work, but now I can do it from home and not feel guilty.

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A Few Pictures From Ike At and Around My house

I spent 21 years in the USAF, and about half of them in Asia. Been through a lot of storms much bigger than this one, but Ike was not like other storms. I sat in my garage through most of it, and once the eye passed over, I new it was going to get worse, and it did. I have learned a lot about myself and my family through this ordeal, and how people can cope with loss of property and basic human needs, like electricity, the ability to cook food and most of all how we can survive without TV and Starbucks. I am pround of my wife and kids for their ablity to handle all of this. We were without power for 11 days, unable to get food, water or ice for three days. We kinda got use to living like folks did 100 or so years ago, and it's not that bad. Cought up on some reading, and drank a lot of beer. After it was safe to go outside, it was amazing to see all of the folks on my street, myself included jump right into clearing our street, heavely blocked by very large trees, and then everyone helped everyone else clear their yards of broken limps, trees and all sorts of other things. Of course the total clean up will take a long time, but we are now back to normal. Everyone is really worn out though, not just from the physical work of cleaning up, but the mental tiredness of being under such stress for such a long time. I am glad it is over. Our damage though bad, was nothing to compare to the almost total devestaion of Galveston and nearby areas.








My Back Yard

Pool Area

More Back Yard

Next Door

Couple Of Houses Down

Down The Street

My Grandson helping to clean up

Frying chicken on my 2 burner Coleman Stove. Best thing I ever bought

Next door, my daughter in the street

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

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Wednesday Hero

Click Image For Full SizeYeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer


Yeoman 3rd Class Margret Ueberlauer hands out toys to HIV infected children during a community relations project at the Camillian Center in Pattaya, Thailand. The USS Abraham Lincoln Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.

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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Got Power

Well happy days are here again. We got power in my area last night at 7:26 pm. Total of 11 days without power. Everyone on my steet was yelling and screaming and just going crazy when the power came on. We had just put a pot of chili for supper. Everything came back up except the AC. It worked for about one minute and then no more. Don't know what it could be. I checked the breaker and reset it, still nothing. I hate to call a repairman, big bucks, especially after this storm, they are jacking prices. I don't have internet at home, our cable was cut in half by an uprooted tree, i'll get to working on that today. At least we are not in the dark anymore. I have some pics i'll try and get up soon.

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Still No Power

Well we got word today that my area will not get power for at least another 10 days. It's getting hard. We lost power on the 12th. Stores are open, but you can't get meat eggs or anything that requires refridgeration. Getting tired of soup and noodles. The things we really need are candles or light source, but that is hard to find. Batteries are now available, but you really have to look to find them. We a sort of watch system on my street, all of us are armed. Lots of teens and other strangers around laste at night. I am at work now and we are running on generators. Not much to do, but keep the servers up. Should get off at 1700 today, don't know about tomorrow yet. Oh yea, sonic is open. Strange how half of kingwood has full power, and my half has none, so at least we can get a fatburger. More later.

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Well Ike Kicked Our Ass

This is the first time I have been able to get online due to IKE. I am at work and we are running on generator and have partial Internet, with ATT card only. We had very severe damage in my area. I had two trees fall in my back yard, and take out one side on my fence. There are many houses with trees on their homes and very large holes in their roof. We still don't have electric power. Today is 7 days without it. We are kind of getting use to it now, but will be gald to have lights again. Lines for gas were miles long, so waiting 2-3 hours was the norm. We have not had any meat for 6 days, but the stores are now starting to open up with generators, but stil can't get anything that requires refridgeeration. Been living on noodles and snacks for a while. Lucky I have a two burner Coleman stove, best purchase I ever made. I have pictures of my area to post after we get power back, and the way it looks, we at least in my area of Kingwood may not get it untill next week. You never know. We are very lucky it could have been a lot worse.

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The Second American Revolution

I am sure a lot of you have seen this before, but now is probably a good time to see and really listen to it again.

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Waiting On Ike

How boring is this. We have been getting ready at my office starting yesterday, I am tired. We have been raising systems off of the floor onto bricks, covering systems with plastic, shutting down most of the servers and virtual machines in the company. I backed up our 2200 yesterday to tape, took 9 hours, back and forth to the server room to many times to count, hell I got home last night and was to tired to even open a beer. I had to get my daughter to do for me. Not lazy. Tomorrow we will shut down the rest, only leaving our mail and phone switch up. As we are the corporate headquarters for the company we do all the customer support, well we are transfering that responsibility to our office in France. Guess that is about all we cn do now. Waiting for the storm is the worst part. It is suppose to hit us streight on sometime during the early morning hours of Saturday, so that means there will be a huracain party at my house. Stocked up of scotch and beer today, bought chips and dip and pizza. Should go well till the power goes off. The news said that our area could loose power for up to 2 weeks, now how in the hell can they say that when the storm isn't even here yet. If that happens it will be bad. At least I have a pool and we can use the water from that to keep ourselves clean, and if worse comes to worse I guess we could drink it, just add a couple drops of chlorine. Who knows. Anywho, that about it for now.

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Oprah and Her Sponsors

I borrowed this fro Political Beach Girl. I think this hits Oprah where it hurts. Hell I haven't been to Target in 2 years anyhow.

Here's a h/t to Sooshi Soo for listing Oprah's sponsors, here. And here's another one, The Roast of Oprah Winfrey. From Sooshi Soo - some of Oprah's sponsors are: Lowes, Chase, Visa, Wachovia, Frontline, Murad, Clinique, Philosophy, Pella, Pfizer, Bali, Disney/Universal and Target.

Okay, boys and girls, we can do the rest. Oprah is a big girl and she tackled the Texas Ranchers but she has now offended and insulted ALL American women - liberal and conservative alike. When she insults one of us for our achievement, she insults us all. When she touts her stance for women, she needs a disclaimer that her stance is ONLY for women who agree with her.

So, tune her out, turn her off, and do like Sooshi Soo suggests, use your time more wisely. We don't need Oprah; she needed us and now she has kicked us to the curb. Celebrities such as Michael Phelps and others should consider not being guests on her show. They don't need her either.

Like many celebrities, Oprah seems to have forgotten that it is we - the people - who have made her a celebrity. Those checks she gets through direct deposit are from money we paid to her sponsors. Her beautiful homes and furnishings are from us. I don't begrudge her her accomplishment but she sure begrudges Sarah Palin her hard work and earnest effort. Oprah won't ever be a governor of a State. We are the women viewers who "butter her bread" and I think it is time to stop.

I say we can shop at Home Depot; who needs Target? Remember the dust-up with Target over them not allowing their employees to say "Merry Christmas" a year or so ago? Well, last Christmas, I went into the local Target and had to laugh at all the Merry Christmas signs hanging from the ceiling.

So, when our money "walks", they hear our "talk." Let's send Oprah's sponsors a message too...and let's do it now - just in time for Christmas.
Labels: Oprah Winfrey

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