RETIRED WARRANT

It was nice to get back to work today as it helps me take my mind off the pain in my jaw.

This morning I got up and had a lot of energy, probably since I spent all day on the couch yesterday. Last night I stayed up until 2AM watching TV and chatting with my darling Laila. I just was not tired. Also I was waiting to take my medication before going to sleep.

Anyway, even though I only got a few hours sleep I was fine this morning when I got up. I took my time getting dressed and took a lot of time brushing my teeth. Because of my implant I am not allowed to use my electric toothbrush, so I am now using a soft bristle brush and I just brush longer now.

After I got done Laila and I couldn’t seem to get Skype to work, so we chatted for a while and then it was time to go to work. David decided he was going to work today, so I dropped him off on my way to work.

I was listening to the Rick Roberts show this morning and it was a riot. He usually talks about politics so I figured his show would all be about Representative Foley, but today was different.

His subject was the Chargers theme song, “San Diego Superchargers”. And it was a riot. He was saying that the song sounded like something “The Village People” would sing. His listeners felt the same way and they all want a song that would be more of a fight song. It was refreshing not to have to listen to the same old subjects that are being beat to death day after day.

Today on my way home I have to get a new computer chair. One of the legs broke off my old one. I was using a footstool yesterday and it was really uncomfortable. I don’t know how it got broken, but I want to get something a little more comfortable anyway.

I also have to get my tuxedo measurements to my daughter for the wedding on the 14th. Judy and I will be leaving the morning of the 12th to head for San Antonio. I will take my new laptop when I go and try and keep the blog up while I am gone. Since my work schedule is busy right now we will have to start heading back right after the wedding. I would have liked to stay longer, but the new class I have right now is fairly large and I don’t want to get too far behind.

Oh and that reminds me, I have to get my plane reservations booked for Christmas with Laila. She always feels better when I have my ticket in hand. I want to take a few extra days so I can spend the full 21 days there. Also the sooner I book the flight the cheaper the price will be.

Well, I guess that is about it for today. I have to get a few things done before the class gets back from lunch. I hope everyone is having a great week.

Well I have not blogged today until late, mainly because of the Vicotin. I have been taking little cat naps all day. I did have to take off work again today because I could not sleep last night due to a mixture of pain and the medicines I have been taking.

Laila and Pearl just got home from Saint Luke’s having Pearl’s burn looked at. Laila sent me a picture and I feel really bad. It really looks ugly and I can tell it is causing her pain. Hopefully the new prescriptions they gave her will allow it to heal faster.

I am going to go back to work tomorrow, so I will skip taking my Vicotin tomorrow when I am at work. It will probably hurt, but I am sure that teaching will take my mind off of it.

While taking my day off and camping out on the love seat all day, I managed to watch the Padres lose their first game of the playoffs. I would really love to see them make it to the World Series.

One thing that is really bumming me out today is the fact that I can’t eat any solid food. To keep from messing up the surgery I bought a bunch of those Carnation Instant Breakfasts, so I am drinking that for my three meals a day. At least that way I am getting enough calories and vitamins to keep me healthy.

Laila is finally updating her blog. It has been a while since she updated it. We were talking about her opening up her comments section again. The people that were leaving the nasty messages have quit playing blogshares, so maybe they will leave her blog alone.

She said that since she has closed the comments she has not been getting spammed so she may go ahead and leave them off.

Well I guess since I am still doing the cat naps on occasion I will go ahead and post this and lay down again. It is really hard to concentrate right now with the medications I am taking.

I received the following from Save the Children today:

I just got home from the dentist so blogging will be light today as I am sure once the pain medication wears off, I will be hurting for certain.

Today I had the base of my implant inserted (lower right side). First they drilled a hole in my jaw bone, and then he screwed it in with a ratchet type device. It was pretty painless and all, while they were doing it.

I stocked up on a lot of soft food and will try to eat when I get hungry.

Anyway, I will now lay down for a while and hope that this does not hurt too bad.

Well, tomorrow is the day where I will be getting my dental implant, something I have been dreading for a while because I know it is going to hurt and I will be on Vicotin for a few days. It always makes me drowsy, and does not seem to do much for the pain. I took the day off work because my appointment is in the morning. I have plenty of sick days on the books, and I cleared it with my boss already. I may have to take Tuesday off too, but will have to wait and see.

This morning it was great to have company at church. Laila went to bed and my daughter, her fiancé, and I all went to the 9:30 mass.

Today was the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The first reading was Numbers 11:25-29. The second reading was James:1-6. The Gospel was Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48. Father Vano gave the mass today and started out with a story about his father. His father had managed to catch an infection in his leg last week and the doctors were considering cutting off his leg. His father did not want that to happen and said he would rather die first than lose the leg. After a lot of prayer they managed to cure his father by cutting out the infection and saved the leg.

He said that the passages from Mark kind of reminded him of that. He also said to not take the passages literally, where Mark was talking about cutting off your hand if your hand sinned, or your leg, or eyes. He said it was written for dramatic purposes. Besides I wouldn’t have any body parts if we were to do this.

After that he changed the theme of the mass to tolerance for other religions and other people. I think this is because of the stuff going on with the Pope. Father Vano also praised the work of Pope John Paul II and all the trips he made around the world trying to get people from all religions and backgrounds to get along and tolerate one another.

After church I was going to treat everyone for breakfast, so we set off for Hometown Buffet. The line was backed up into the parking lot, so I tried International House of Pancakes and saw the same thing. I went up the street and was going to stop at a place called Jimmy’s, but they went out of business and I decided we would just grab something and take it home.

Besides, that way I could catch the 2nd half of the Charger/Ravens game, so we went to Jack in the Box after I gave them several choices of places to stop.

When we got home they ate and then went off to one of the Indian Casino’s with the ex and her live-in, and I watched the Chargers snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Yesterday I really had an interesting trip. My dentist wanted me to get something called Arnica, that is supposed to help with the bruising. They suggested I buy it from Henry’s Market. I went online and found that the closest three were in Bonita, Lemon Grove, and La Mesa. Since the divorce I avoid the Lemon Grove, and La Mesa areas so I went to the one in Bonita.

The only problem was that I didn’t know that Bonitafest was yesterday and all the roads were blocked off and there were people and cars going everywhere. The 20 minute trip wound up turning into a 1 hour trip, but I did get the Arnica, and found a whole bunch of new Philippine Restaurants. Always nice to find them so that when Laila comes here we can check out different places, even though I know she is dying to go to Jack in the Box.

Well I guess that is it for now. I am going to lay down and watch TV for a while. I went to bed late and got up early so I am going to get a little rest. I got most of my chores done yesterday.

Have a great week everyone.

This morning after chatting with Laila until she went to bed I ran down to the post office to get the mail. The idiot light lit up reminding me that I was almost out of gas so I quickly ran down to the Navy Exchange Gas station and filled up the tank.

While I was at the pump I was behind some retired guy much older than me. He was having difficulty walking and even handling the pump and all. We both finished about the same time, but I had paid at the pump with my American Express while he had to pay at the window so I had to wait a while for him to come back.

When he did come back I found that he also drove like he walked, really slow and since he was going left out of the exchange I decided to go right and just take another route home.

Earlier today I had heard that there was going to be a big anti-illegal alien rally in National City, after their Mayor officially declared it a Sanctuary City. He did this on his own and without a vote of the City Counsel, and basically has a “I can do what I want because I am the Mayor, and they are not” attitude.

Anyway, now the minutemen have come to National City to voice their opinion. I was going to grab a flag and go myself, but they had a rally last week and some violence erupted. Laila told me to stay home so I decided I would listen to her.

Anyway the rally was supposed to be down by the National City Mail Library in a park. Knowing that the streets would all be blocked off in that direction I took 8th street which is a couple of miles from where the rally was being held. When I got to National City Blvd there was a large group of people holding the National Flag of Mexico.

They had all kinds of signs and all, and I was wondering why the border patrol and INS were not there rounding them up. This is not Mexico, and I am tired of seeing the Mexican Flag being paraded around in my country.

These people want to break out laws, and then flaunt the fact that they are here. And they are being enabled by crooked politicians like Mayor Inzunza.

When they are successful in taking over the United States and turning it in to a third world hell hole just like Mexico is, I guess the Canadians had better watch out because they will be next.

The legal residents of this country had better wake up and demand that something be done and fast. The illegal aliens are getting bolder and bolder. If you read World Net Daily, every day there are more and more incidences of crime committed against citizens of this country by people that are here unlawfully.

When I read about a police officer in Houston being shot in the head four times by a illegal alien that had been in jail for a variety of offenses and was deported, and then I see the Mayor of Houston and the police Chief in Houston still support being a Sanctuary City I am dumbfounded. It is time we bounce all these politicians at all levels of government out of office.

When I see people again showing identification at the polls, I now suspect I know how people like Inzunza got elected. He had to have benefited by the illegal alien vote. One thing I am thankful to see is that as I drive through National City and see all the candidate for mayor signs I have not seen one with his name on it.

Well I have vented on that one enough for today. Yesterday I was startled that someone posted a picture of Michelle Malkin in a string bikini that was definitely a fake picture, and she was blowing up all over her blog about it. She did leave the picture up on her blog.

I noticed today she was a little more quiet about it. I think she should quietly take whatever legal action she may be able to take and not dignify thier attempts to insult her as that just adds to their blog traffic.

And I was also shocked to hear that congressman Foley, a fighter for children’s protection from sexual predators, is a predator himself and had to resign from office. I hope they prosecute this guy to the full extent of the law and I also hope the leftists see that when someone on the right screws up they resign.

Well time to get some meaningful stuff done for the weekend.

Usually Fridays are pretty quiet, but not today. Before I talk about that I guess I will go back to last night. Right after I got home from the dentist, my daughter arrived from Maryland. We helped her unpack and put all her stuff up in her room.

She brought her cat and is somewhere in the house but we have looked high and low, and have not been able to find it. I guess it will come out of hiding when it gets hungry.

Judy, Carlos, and David all went over to the ex’s house last night for a visit. When they got back we all sat around watching TV along with Laila and her kids in the Philippines.

Laila and I watched “Armageddon” last night and then “Deal or No Deal” before Laila departed to buy food for the wake. She was also trying to convince Pearl into going to the doctor to get her burn looked at. Pearl hates to spend money and did not want to go.

After talking to my son last night I went to bed. He kept talking half the night and I finally just had to get some sleep.

I got up a few minutes later than normal and got ready for work, said prayers with Laila and then left for work. I dropped David off on the way and got there in plenty of time.

I taught until 10AM when the class had to go to take their urinalysis. I hung out to attend the weekly meeting in th e other building and also did the weekly paperwork to submit to my boss.

I then was getting ready to write my blog entry for the day but then I would up helping work on an antenna system with one of the other instructors.

We then got a phone call that someone from the depot would dropped by, to swap some equipment with us so I then went and removed the equipment from the racks and put it on a cart. I then went back to helping work on the antenna until the guy came. He didn’t show up until 1:30 and I then installed and checked out all the gear. It all worked and I finally headed for home about 2:30.

Now I am waiting for Laila to get up, but that won’t be for a couple of hours. So I guess that is all for now. Time to start the weekend.

I was going to cook today, buy since I am really tired from moving all the equipment I think I will cheat and just go buy something.

Last night was one of the more anxious nights I have had in a long time. The night started out quiet enough, but then when all the stuff happened it all happened so fast.

When I got home yesterday I took my 1000 mg of Vitamin C which upset my stomach even though I had a full meal before hand.

Laila came online and then the phone calls started coming fast from her family. I guess the hospital where Alexandra died would not release the body until the bill was paid in full. Her brother didn’t have it and I guess the family took up a collection to get it paid.

Between all of the family and Laila they managed to scrape the money together, and Laila, her sister and Pearl set out to the hospital to claim the body.

There was a problem though, a typhoon was passing through Metro, Manila at the time and so here they are, out riding around town in a taxi in a typhoon, trying to get everything taken care of.

She texted me as she progressed but with the power going out all over the place, and cell phone problems things were intermittent. I have to say that I was really scared for their safety, and couldn’t go to bed until I knew they were safe.

They made it close enough to home about 1 AM my time and I went to bed. This morning I got up a little late, but with plenty of time to get to work. I could not get a hold of Laila, because her power was off. When I came home for lunch and a dental appointment I saw that she had text messaged me that everyone was fine and they were just leaving the funeral.

She did say that Pearl spilled hot water on herself at the funeral’s stairways and burned her left arm and hand. I hope she is all right. So now they are all home and safe but no power yet.

I hope when I get back from the dentist this afternoon that she will be able to come on line. The Typhoon went right through her area and there was damage. I hope they get her power back on.

Anyway, time to get ready for the dentist and also I hope my daughter will get here before I have to leave. I also hope I never have a repeat of last night.

Well we have had another bad day. Last night I was all set up to record the nightly television shows for Laila to watch later. She had a court date scheduled so that we can start getting some of this legal stuff out of the way so she can come to the States.

She left bout 6 PM my time and I kept Chikka on so that she could text message me at home.

In the meantime I had a bunch of paperwork to do for my new class so I knocked out what I could of that and watched a movie, while waiting for her to contact me. About 7:30 she called me on the phone, but I guess her cell phone dropped because we could not hear each other.

She got home about 7:45 my time and so I didn’t have to record anything for her. She said the court date was moved to October as the Judge was out of the country. She still had to pay an appearance fee, and I have to tell you, I am getting really sick of all the delays and additional costs involved. You would think that if the Judge was not going to be there, they would notify the parties involved in ongoing cases know that before they waste the time and expense to appear.

Anyway my son cooked some Carne Asada last night and I ate that, but was feeling a little rundown and tired. We watched “House” and the two “Law and Order” shows. Sometime during the night she got word that her niece had been admitted into the hospital for dengue fever and needed a blood transfusion. She was still trying to find out more information about what was going on, when I went to bed.

This morning I woke up really early. I was having to go to the bathroom a lot and had heartburn, probably from the Carne Asada my son made. I tried to go back to sleep but lay awake thinking if the court cases would ever get over so that Laila ad I can get legally married soon.

I got up when the clock went off and actually got ready for work and all before my coffee was even finished brewing. I went over to fire up chat, but I guess I got another of those Microsoft updates that rebooted my PC. Since I have it password protected it will only boot up as far as the windows log on screen.

Anyway I finally got my coffee and got on line, and as soon as Laila came on I found out that her niece had died overnight. I guess it was more serious than anyone knew and her family had taken too long to get her to the hospital. It is a shame as her niece, Alexandra, was only 9 years old.

Now Laila is of course feeling the guilt we all feel when we lose a family member. Why didn’t I spend more time with her? Why didn’t I help my brother’s family more? Anyway, she was in tears and after we dedicated our prayers to Alexandra this morning I tried to calm her down the best I could. I really don’t know what else to do other than try and be supportive as possible.

This morning I dropped my son off at work on my way to work. When I parked the car I saw that he had forgotten his backpack in the car. I have to fill a prescription for Monday’s dental surgery at lunch so I will try and drop it off with him.

Judy didn’t call last night, and every time I tried to call her David was on the phone. They should have made it to Texas yesterday. I hope to contact her tonight and see how they are doing.

Anyway, I guess that is it for now. I have a bunch of stuff to get done this morning at work, so I had better get hopping.

Last night I stayed up a little late watching TV but I didn’t sleep in that late this morning. I got up and made a fast breakfast today Laila and I did our regular routine.

I also watched Fox News and was watching all the stuff about Bill Clinton’s meltdown on his interview with Chris Wallace. I guess the truth hurts. Laila will disagree, but since I was in the military during the Clinton administration and lived through the lean years when we were getting our spare parts from decommissioned ship’s and were firing missiles to keep his scandals off the front page of the newspapers and out of the press, I will not change my opinion.

Laila has a different opinion and does not understand why he is being beat up in the press, but then she gets her news from the Clinton News Network CNN. She also lives in a country where the opinion of the people is controlled by what the government there will allow them to see on their media. Anyway, I had better get off that subject because I don’t want to get my lovely Laila mad at me.

Laila went to bed just as I was leaving for church this morning. Today was the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The first reading was Wisdom 2:12, 17-20. The second reading was James 3:16-4:3. The Gospel was Mark 9:30-37. Father Cholo gave the mass again this Sunday. I guess he will be the one giving the 11 AM mass each Sunday. The message today was about importance, and the fact that was we are all equal servants of God. There are no servants of God that are more important than others. So I took that to mean I should be humble and less cocky in my real life as well as spiritually. I am sometimes guilty of that, especially when I teach. I get a little over confident at times.

Now I am watching football and hoping to hear from my daughter who will be departing Maryland tomorrow morning and heading for San Diego. I hope they take their time and don’t try to travel too far each day. She said they are only going to drive during the daylight hours, and I hope she stays with that plan. Especially with the weather being the way it has been back east lately.

Anyway, I have some paperwork to do for work and I had better get it done. I hope everyone had a great weekend.