Jello Shots

When I got to work Terry and Shawn were having a smoke out back. We were talking about my ride along. Terry asked what I had going for the day. I told him I was done with my bug, so he told me to take off early. So I stuck around until around one pm and then left for lunch.

I hit the highway and I was on my way to Whatcom county. I was about twenty miles from Bellingham when Joe called and said he was sick and would not be going on patrol. So I turned around and headed home. I had planned on helping out my softball team at the bar on Saturday, but I would be going with Joe on Saturday, so I called Eric and he said I could come over tonight to help out in making the Jello Shots.

I got home and my parents were planning on going to the Eagles for dinner and invited me. I went down and I was not feeling all that hungry so I ate what I could and then I left to go to Seattle to Eric’s condo. My job was to pour the liquefied jello mix into the shot cups. Other put the lids on them and then Mark put them in boxes. After we were done I drove them to the bar. Mark and Gerry took them into the bar.

I was planning on meeting Dave at Billies Casino. I pulled out some money from the cash machine and started to play. The Four-card poker table was full. I played some PaiGow to start out. I was doing well, then the dealers changed and I started to lose. So I went to a blackjack table. I got a couple blackjacks in a row then the shoe changed and I went down hill.

I moved to four-card poker because the table had some spaces on it. I played for a while and was doing well. Then I got a straight-flush. That was a forty-to-one odds on my five dollar bet. Plus another twenty-to-one odds on a second five dollar bet. So I won more than three hundred dollars in the one hand, because I also got paid fifteen buck on the final bet. Dave and I were given another comp for a meal. So we decided to quit after a little while. I cashed in and I was up three-sixty. We got dinner. Then as I figured we would be going Dave suggested we play some more.

We went over to the four-card poker table again. I sat in the first position and I sat at an angle because there were two ten-six-seven’s playing pool. I keep watching the ten-six-seven’s and I was unable to concentrate on the cards. Finally they left and I got to playing. I was doing well for a while and then I could not get a hand. So finally I told Dave I was done. I walked out with another forty bucks for a total winnings of four hundred bucks on the night.

Would you let your daughter die?

Terri Schiavo has been in a coma for many years due to a medical problem when she was having an operation. He husband has since moved on and want to have her feeding tube removed so she can die. He claims that is what she would have wanted.

He parents on the other hand have not given up hope and want to fight for her to live. They are holding out what hope there is left. They are willing to take over her care and keep fighting for her. But her husband will not give her over.

The lawyer for her husband, Michael, said “It’s a constitutional right to say, “I don’t want medical treatment” and the state can’t force you to have it.” I will not argue with that, but show me anywhere in writing where she said that. It is not in writing. You only have one person’s word for it. And if my life were on the line I would hope that someone would not believe the word of one person over my life.

So we are to the point where the judge says pull the feeding tube which will starve Terri to death over the next few days to weeks. She will then die. But she has people who want to help her fight. So why not give her the chance? Why is the husband so willing to give up the fight even though other want to fight.

I think the most scary thing is that she is someone’s daughter. She is wanted by her parents and they have no rights in this whole thing. Their wishes are being superseded by a man who wants their daughter dead.

That would be such a horrible feeling for the parents. To know that your daughter will die and you have no ability to stop it, yet you could if the legal system would give them the ability.

Went into work sick and all

After trying to get a good sleep last night I finally got out of bed at around seven o’clock am. I went down stairs. I was a tiny bit light headed still and a bit of a head ache, but over all I was doing a little better. I do not skip work unless I cannot get out of bed. If I call in sick, I really am sick. So, I figured I could make it in today.

I got in and with a lot of people getting days off and vacation I was one of the few people in today. Jon helped me with the problem of the AppExports. It is done finally and I feel good about getting that off my plate.

I went home and we had some dinner I was not all that hungry so I nibbled at dinner. Then I went to my room and watched some old video tapes I had. I was starting to watch the Cabbage Patch Play from when I was in the fifth grade, but the tape would not go more than five minutes without it starting to be too degraded to play.

I went down stairs and watched Win Ben Stein’s Money as well as Deadwood. I spent a fair amount of time on the computer trying to get caught up on the shack. I was way behind in my posts so I had to go back five pages to get caught up.

I am siiiiiiick.

My day started out just like any other. I got into work and started to figure out why my box was not doing this one task. So I worked on it and I would fix one problem and then I would be lead to a new problem. Soon I had them all fixed and it was working for me. I was trying to get the new export stuff to work.

Around noon we had a company lunch and then we went into the meeting room and talked about the financial situation. Then some awards were given out to people who had put an outstanding level of work into the SR-Two project. They gave out some iPod’s and some other stuff.

After the meeting I was starting to go down hill. I did not really notice it until I went home. On the way home I was really light headed and I felt strange. My pulse was normal. There was a super awesome rainbow as well. It was so bright and vivid.

I got home and watched some TV for a few minutes before dinner. As I was eating I realized I was not feeling well. After dinner I went to bed. I took some cold medicine and then as I was laying there. I was so cold. I was shivering. So turned on my electric blanket to ten and put on some blankets. I started to warm up. I spent the evening just laying in bed and watching TV. I wanted to watch SouthPark before I finally would go off to sleep. I got some more water and a pitcher of water to have at my bedside. I still feel light headed and I am worried I will not be able to go to work tomorrow.

A good dinner

We had fatback and gravy for dinner tonight. It is one of my favorite meals. It is like a thick bacon. The gravy is also very good. It is an artery hardening good time.

I worked on Joe’s website. I had to get some of the admin pages created for updating products. I changed the DB from the way the were given to us. Because of this I had to create a new entry and update page. I was going to create a delete page. But I think I will just have the products put into the category of none. That will make it so they don’t show up anywhere.

March 12, 1880 – Palouse Gazette

This was taken from the March tenth, ought-five Whitman County Gazette in the “Good Old Day’s” section. If these were the worst problems we faced today.

While the mourners were following the remains of Mr. Hall to the graveyard last Friday afternoon, two or three heathenish louts, whose names we refrain from giving, on account of the respectability of their parents, amused themselves by dashing through the streets on horseback, uttering oaths and low bred sayings, and otherwise indulging in such conduct as rightly entitled them to ten days in the city jail. When will this city enforce its laws?

Traveling home with Travis.

This morning when my alarm clock started to sound at five-thirty in the morning I was able to get up and I did not seem to be tired. I got my truck loaded and I was under way. I stopped at Rosauers for breakfast and pop and then to get some gas. The trip over was pretty quick. Very few cars were getting in my way so I was able to cruise without many problems.

I got to work and we had a meeting. We talked about getting SR-two.one out the door now. SR-Two was deployed this weekend and is working so we can start to work on new things. I am still working on the project from last week… and the week before. I hope to get it done soon.

I went back to my desk and I was doing other things so I never really got started on getting the stuff worked on today. We were told we should leave early, but I still go out the door at five pm. On the way home I was listening to Travis Fox fill in for John Carlson. I talked to Travis on the air. Then I went into the house. We had steak for dinner and Bill’s dad came over. After dinner I worked on a new product entry for Joe’s website. I still have to make a few other pages, but this is was big one to get out of the way.

The rest of the evening I spent just watching TV and chatting on the computer.

Sleepin in.

I woke up on the couch where I had fallen asleep watching TV. So I went into my bedroom and went back to sleep. I was there for a few hours when a phone call from Ben came in. He was seeing what I was doing. It was just after noon. I had been sleeping. He teased me about still being in bed. He wanted to go golfing, but I realized that it would not be the best thing to do with my ankle. I wanted it to rest some more.

I got the checks made out for my home repairs and posted so the realtor can come and get them when he stops by the house.

I went to Rosauers and got some lunch and then to the Sheriff’s Office. I checked for some stuff in the coroners office that Pete said should be there. It was not. So I went into report writing. I got on a computer and check my E-mail. Dan was there and I helped him with a few things. We talked about stuff in general and he showed me some pics from his recent trip to Disneyland.

I left after a while and went to the fire station. Tim was working for Jenny and Dale was working for the PD. We were in the rec room at the fire station watching some TV and talking about what we were watching. It was a show about crime. The show went to someone’s house and asked the home owner if they could break into the house and steal stuff and then show the home owner why their house was a target and how to make the house more secure. It is pretty interesting to see the peoples’ reactions. I figure it will not be long before someone does a copy cat type crime and claims to be the show, but in fact not be the show and then steal stuff for real.

The show also gave me some ideas for making stuff more safe. One dealt with deadbolts and one dealt with bars on windows. I honestly think they could be something that people would be willing to buy. They would not make the house any more secure then the bars and current deadbolts, but it would make it more attractive for someone to get them and use them because it would be more user friendly and safer to use.

At seven o’clock was closing in I got some dinner and want home. I watched my Sunday night TV shows including the new “The Sketch Show”. There some really funny skits in it. I will continue to watch that show for sure.

Hanging out with Ben

I got a call from Ben to start out my morning. We planning on meeting up and doing a short golf lesson and hitting the a bucket of balls. I met Ben at the golf course I paid my fees and bought a bucket of balls. I pulled out the seven iron and he started by telling me a lot of things about stance, holding the club, and the swing.

After getting through the bucket of balls my back was really hurting, but I was ready to get going. Ben’s friend showed up and we started with our three-some. After the first hole there was a solo golfer behind us. We invited that guy to join us. He did so for the rest of the way we had a four-some. I was not having the best of days but I was holding my own. Ben would give me some instruction on the course when certain situations came up. He taught me how to get out of a sandtrap. After we were done with the round of golf Ben and I decided to go to the WSU baseball game that was underway.

We went inside and saw Mark from our softball team. We sat behind home plate a few rows back. The score was seven to zero in the first inning. The Cougs were doing well. But while we were there we only saw good pitching, with no offense to speak of. Towards the middle of the game Ben asked if I wanted to go to his place and get something to eat real fast then come back.

So we drove to Ben’s and I had a beer and a TV dinner. We started to watch some of the Best of Will Ferrell. As we got into it Ben said we would go back to the game at three pm. So we left and walked back into the stadium. We got our seat. Started to get into the game. A guy from the other team hit into a double play and the game was over. We sort of laughed about the fact we came back for one more play.

We went back to Ben’s apartment. We were going to watch a couple movies. When I got there he had the idea to hit the softball for a while. So we went to the playfields and hit the ball about thirty times each. Then we went back to Ben’s apartment. We watched Caddyshack and Anchorman. I had never seen either of those movies. I was laughing so hard during them. Ben made a couple bags of popcorn. I could not believe how funny those movies were.

I talked to Ryan and we decided to go to dinner at Applebee’s in Moscow. So Ben and I rushed over there. We sat down and ate. JT was our waiter. He gave us all free pop. That was nice of him. After we finished eating we decided to hit the bars in Pullman. Ryan was the one who really wanted to go. So Ben got his car and drove us to My Office. We got on the trivia and I had one more beer. We played trivia until about two in the morning. Ben offered me a place to stay for the night, but I decided to head back to Colfax and sleep there.

Today was a blast. I have not had a day like this for a while. Just being busy doing fun stuff, one thing after another. And on top of that getting a chance to hang out with Ben so long without other people around. It was just a wonderful day.

New golf clubs

I went to work and with my project finished, aside from the adding of the new type for the appexport, I spent time trying to step through the process to see where I could fix it.

Around noon a group of us went to lunch. We got some subs and I was given a coupon for a free sub and pop. So lunch did not cost me a thing. That was nice. Free lunches… nice!

I stuck around until about two o’clock pm. Then I hit the road. My cell phone was totally dead and I could not find the charger when I left my house. I was hoping it would be at my house in Colfax. While I was looking for it before leaving to go to work this morning I found the golf clubs that Jon gave me a while back. So I took those to Colfax with me.

When I got in I went to my house and put my golf clubs in my golf bag. Then I called Whitcom and let them know I would be on and available via radio only. I let them know my cell phone was dead and being charged. I put the phone on the charger and drove down the fire station.

I hung out there for a while and talked to Carl, Tim, and Ken. Tim and Ken left on a call and I chatted with Carl a little more. Around eight o’clock I went home and got my cell phone and then headed to Pullman. Ryan and I were going to watch Third Watch and go to see Hostage.

I also talked to Ben about golfing tomorrow. We are planning on meeting up around ten am. I called Phil, Ron, and Mark about golfing with us. None of them were able to go.

I got to Pullman and grabbed a pizza from Little Caesars. I went to Ryans. We ate the pizza and watched some TV. Then we went to see the movie. It was pretty good. The ending was lacking for me. Some loose ends did not seem like they were tied up for me. Some movies have been doing the recently and I don’t like that. But over all the movie was pretty good.

We headed back to Ryan’s apartment and watched SouthPark. I left and went home a little while after one am because I wanted to get a decent night of sleep.

Finally! The box is working!

So the build is working. I got my box built and everything was working. The VI I had been assigned was rolled back and there was still something with reporting of application exports I needed to do. The DBA got the code I needed to add for the most part. All I needed to do was put it into the Webpage and make it work. There were a few things I had to fix, plus there was some data I had to figure out how to link to the SQL statements. Once I got that complete it all worked and life was good. I was able to check in my changes and move on with life.

When that was done the day was almost at an end. So I went home and watched some TV. Joe had sent me an E-mail about a new product to add to the database. I was going to try to get some other stuff done with the site, but by the time dinner was done I wanted to watch CSI. So I was watching that while the Cougs were playing Stanford in the Pac-Ten tournament. I was flipping back and forth. Then the game was down to the final minutes. The TV shows I like were done. Ryan called me and we watched the game together.

With less than ten seconds the Cougs were driving they had one last shot at the buzzer and it fell short. The Cougs lost by two and were knocked out of the tournament. It was disappointing, but the Cougs had a decent year and it will look better next year.

I got Joe’s addition made to the Website and I did not work on the other admin stuff. I was getting tired so I went to my bedroom I watched some TV before I decided to go to sleep.

No work this evening.

I spent some time archiving my old blog and moving it to a new server, I also started this new blog. The name is from a line in the Pink Floyd song Time. That song makes me reflect on my life thus far and reminds me that many times I am wasting it.

I spent the day at work trying to get my box rebuilt yet again. We have been working on the scripts for building the box, trying to get them perfected. So that is why I have been having problems with it.

I went home tonight and never got on Joe’s site. There were a few things I could do, things I will have to do for administration purposes, but they are not critical as I have other ways to handle those admin things, so I let myself relax tonight. I spent most of my time reading the Shack and watching some TV.

Welcome to the new blog

My old blog is still around and will always be around, it is just time to start on a new one. This is one where I am not advertising it as much. So if you know where this is, it is because I told you.

Welcome to Scotty Blog v.Two. Shorter of breath – one day closer to death.

PS if you go to http://blog.scottyanderson.com/blog_old/2004/11/sun-is-same-in-relative-way-but-youre.html you will see where this blog name comes from.