Nov 17 2006
Daily Notes 11-17-2006
Hello everyone!
Today we have visitors from India.
The company we use to input some of our data entry is here to go over some new processes we want to put in place and to meet some of the new staff that have come on since they were last here. Since Wes is out of town, I’ve been appointed hostess. I’ve just left them with their first group and will have to run back up in about 30 minutes to get them to their next appointment which is lunch with the CEO.
They’re supposed to meet with Carlos and I to go over IT issues, but I really don’t have anything for them (other than the same old stuff of poor spelling and inaccurately typing the text messages).
Yesterday I took home the 5 dogs I was fostering for my friend, Kathy, who had a stroke about a month ago. She looked bad, but not like she had had a stroke, more like she’d been seriously ill (which she had!). The dogs seemed to be happy to be home and I’m happy for them to be out of my house. It was quite a strain on me to take care of 5 extra high-maintenance dogs. It was a strain on my other dogs, too as the house dogs have let me know by breaking their housebreaking. I hope things go back to normal here real soon.
Leaving in the morning for NC and a dog show. I am looking forward to having a couple of days away from the routine. I think it will be fun. Ken’s staying home and Charlotte is going with me. We’re spending the night in a hotel and having dinner with friends. We’re hoping the breeder of the Cresteds we’re showing will come, but I doubt she will. She’s been invited other times and has never shown up.
I will be glad when January rolls around and the White House foreign policy gets a make-over. I am really tired of sword-rattling George W blustering about. Let the Saudis and the Koreans have their nukes. While I don’t hold a lot of hope that rational thought will prevent them from using them on anyone, digging our heels in to prevent them from developing them is just making them more adamant that they will develop them despite the pressure from all and sundry not to. This is setting the stage for more conflicts and war and we can’t afford to be fighting any more wars. We already have too few troops, equipment and supplies to maintain the two wars we’re currently fighting. Let’s work instead on negotiating a peace with these countries that will allow them to decide on their own that they don’t need nukes in order to play with the big kids.
Well, that’s my .02 on the matter and if I put another $2.03 with it, I can buy a gallon of gas 🙂
Got to run…need to gather up my lambs and herd them to their next pasture.
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4 Responses to “Daily Notes 11-17-2006”
Did you get rid of one of the girls that had been fighting? Maybe she just wanted to go home.
I heard on the news that some of our men from Tennessee came hame but had to leave their tanks, truchs or what ever over there, so now we will have to pay a big amount to replace them here for training purposes. Thats Life I guess.
Love
Mom
BTW, Mom – it’s the Iranians that are working on a nuke, not the Saudis. Of course it’s also the Iranians that are talking about blowing Israel off the map – so I guess that’s nothing to worry about. :^)
You are correct that our current diplomatic stance isn’t helping things. I don’t think anything will stop them at this time. And, you are also correct that rational thought (by our standards) is probably not going to stop them from using them. Iranian/Muslim culture doesn’t have the same motivators that Western culture has. Never forget that they are willing to kill (martyr) innocent Muslims because that just means they’ll get to Paradise sooner than everyone else.
I finished the new Vince Flynn book this past week – “Act of Treason”. Good read. I almost felt cheated by how quickly it went though. It wasn’t as long or as involved as “Memorial Day”.
Eddie
Check this out:
http://lifehacker.com/software/blogging/hack-attack-set-up-and-host-a-blog-on-your-home-computer-214455.php
Looks like a good way to test new stuff then upload to your host when it all works correctly. There are also a bunch of WordPress resources in here (templates, widgets, etc).
I may have to set this up on my portable hard drive for internal use.
Eddie
Hi Mom — no the girls who had the fight were two of my whippets.
Hi Eddie — thanks for the link — I will check that out! Sorry about the mis-identification of which Middle Eastern society is doing what. That was a case of brain thinking one thing and fingers typing another 🙂
Love,
Margaret