March 13th, 2010
Yeah, I rarely post here.
Robin and I did buy a house in Meraux, across the street from my parents. So except for 3 years after Katrina, I have lived on the same street my entire life.
We adopted a kitten a few weeks ago. We named her Sweetie.
Robin was pregnant but lost the baby due to the RH Factor. Robin is RH-, I’m RH+, and the baby was RH+ and that result in problems between Robin’s blood and the baby’s blood. It will happen eventually but we won’t tell everyone as quick next time as we don’t want to get everyone’s hopes up again.
Not much else going on.
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September 5th, 2009
I updated the blog that I haven’t posted on in over a year.
Robin and I are buying a house in St. Bernard. Not much else going on that is worth the effort of mentioning.
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September 1st, 2008
Well while I’m at it, I’ll post some political thoughts.
My last post linked to Ron Paul’s Exploratory site. That site turned into www.RonPaul2008.com which has since turned into www.CampaignForLiberty.org . The Campaign For Liberty is holding the Rally for the Republic this week. Too bad the Republicans aren’t allowing Paul to speak at the Covention, but they invited Rudy Giuliani and Joe Lieberman who isn’t even a Republican speak. They deserve to lose, but so do the Democrats. I think Sarah Palin is a good Vice Presidential pick for John McCain. Palin, with some federal level experience, would make a better President than McCain or Obama.
At this point, I am suggesting you vote for either Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, or Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party. Even Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party or Ralph Nader would be improvements over the choices given to us by the Republicrats. For the record, I will be a Presidential Elector is Congressional District 1 of Louisiana for Chuck Baldwin and Darrel Castle. I don’t know if Alan Keyes’ California supporters are acting on their own or on his behalf, but they have shown they have no integrity and if he supported their actions he also has shown he has no integrity.
There are a number of good candidates running through out the country. B.J. Lawson, House in North Carolina; Bob Bird, Senate in Alaska; Peter Vidrin, House in Louisiana; Bob Conley, Senate in South Carolina; and Darryl W. Perry, (write-in) Senate in Alabama. Most (perhaps all) of these people have an up hill battle, but would be better than the people they would be replacing.
(I don’t think I’ll be posting again for a while. Be glad I posted this.)
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September 1st, 2008
I haven’t posted here in a long long time. Not sure how people can blog on a regular basis.
I am in Baton Rouge right now (Kirby Smith at LSU where several LSUHSC employees are staying). I’m safe. I know a lot of friends and family evacuated the area. Hopefully we will all be able to go home Wednesday or Thursday. So far it is looking like we made out much better than Katrina.
Blogging is boring, but to anyone that ocaissionally reads this thing, you know I’m ok.
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March 15th, 2007
After half a year, I’m finally starting up the blog again.
So wher do I start? Democrats won Congress in November. Maybe it will serve as a wake up all to the Republicans. Saddam Hussein was hung. Good Bye. Ron Paul is running for President. While I admit his chances are slim, I have something to be excited about. I’m sure I’m not the only one sick of Rudy McRomney or Hillary John Barrack Roddam Hussein Clinton Obama Edwards.
I guess the biggest thing happening in my life right now is that in November Robin had a seizure and burnt her hand. Third Degree burns and required a skin graft. She lost parts of her little and ring fingers on her right hand. But she is recovering well and improving faster than expected.
Our Lady of Lourdes in Violet will be opening up sooner or later. The process of reopening it has begun. It may take a while. Robin and I are living in Metairie but will be going there sometimes once it opens. Abbey Youth Fest is this weekend. I still have posted part two of of from last year. I won’t be going as a chaperone from Lourdes but rather as a volunteer from the KC’s since no one showed any interest in going.
Louisiana Crawfish Festival is March 30, 31, and April 1 at the old Wal-Mart in Chalmette.
I switched the blog from bBlog to WordPress. The SQL Dump was close to 30 MB. I kept 5 comments that I knew were good and deleted the rest. I used this script to convert bBlog to WordPress. I have also required regustration to post comments. I know some people may not feel like doing that, but it will help fight the blog spam. I still need to set the lay out to match the rest of the site.
Hopefully it will be less than six months before I post here again. Whenever that is.
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March 8th, 2007
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
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August 25th, 2006
Looks like it has been almost a month since I last posted here.
I found out this week that a friend of mine died. My mom called me Wednesday morning to tell me she had been informed that our friend Gene died of a heart attack at the age of 65. I had known Gene and his wife Anita for about 10 years back when they use to usher at 6:00 Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes (before Katrina). I had lost touch with them after the storm. The last time I talked to them was in March. Please keep Gene and his family in your prayers.
This week is also the anniversary of two tragic events. A week before Katrina hit, 5 youths from St. Bernard were involved in a car accident, killing three of them. One has made a full recovery while the other was in a coma. I have not heard anything in a while on his condition. And a week later Katrina came. I don’t think I need to remind anyone about that. Some things are getting closer to normal, but somethings still have a long way to go.
I will leave some of the political stuff out for now.
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July 30th, 2006
I haven’t posted here in a while (like usual). Busy with married life. Been married two weeks now. And I really did not feel like going to work last Monday.
Wedding went great. But we were tired afterwards. Again, thanks to everyone who participated, attended, or got us a gift.
Pictures can be viewed here: http://www.printroom.com/ViewGallery.asp?userid=Nikon2005&gallery_id=433440 (pw = cotton ) and here: http://www.printroom.com/ViewGallery.asp?userid=Nikon2005&gallery_id=441483 (pw – hendricks )
Obviously we are still adjusting to things, but we are enjoying ourselves.
Since my last post a few interesting things have happened. Congress voted to fund unproven embryonic stem cell research, but President Bush vetoed the bill and Congress could not override it. (It was Bush’s first veto.) I can at least see the argument that the children that these stem cells were taken from were already dead and that instead of throwing them away they would be used for a meaningful purpose. But doing this would create more a demand for embryonbic stem cells and therefore would result in the deaths of more innocent unborn children. Not to mention this funding (or funding for adult stem cell research for that matter) is unconstitution (as is a majority of what Congress has been spending money on).
Congress passed and President Bush signed the anti-southern discriminatory Voting Rights Act. I think it passed the House 390 – 30. Only one member from Louisiana, Richard Baker, voted against it. My old congressman (Charlie Melancon) and new congressman (Bobby Jindal) both voted for it. It also passed the senate I think 100 – 0. Way to look out for Louisiana fellas.
Isreal has been at war with Hezbollah. Isreal, a sovereign country has the right to defend itself against Hezbollah, a terrorist organization. I wish Isreal the best but hope they can keep civilian casualties in both Lebanon and Isreal to a minimum.
Coming up on one year since Katrina. Things are starting to improve but are moving slow. Our old neighbor from St. Bernard sent my mom a picture of their house and our house a few days after Katrina. Water went down 1 – 2 feet from its peek at that point. I need to upload and link to the picture so everyone can see sometime.
Advice for all future husbands: when throwing the garter, tie it to something with a little weight because that thing does not fly very far. Robin’s nephew ended up catching the garter because since he was the shortest one there – he was closest to the ground and everyone let him get in front.
Til next time.
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July 7th, 2006
8 Days left until the wedding. Time is flying by. BTW, we registered at [url=http://www.target.com/gp/registry/registry.html/ref=cm_cw_sr_1/601-5651500-5873752?%5Fencoding=UTF8&type=wedding&id=7E16H4IOAHVD&jsebd=1]Target[/url]. We just got a gift in the mail today and I haven’t opened it yet (I want to wait until Robin is here) so I don’t know who it is from, but we didn’t tell too many people we reg’d at Target yet.
Hopefully thing with North Korea and Iran settle down. We don’t have the resources for another battle right now.
Three guys got in trouble for trying to sell [url=http://www.BoycottCoke.com]Coke’s[/url] trade secrets to Pepsi. Perhaps we would have had New Pepsi like we had New Coke 20-something years ago.
If you are a member of the [url=http://www.reformparty.org]Reform Party[/url] then you should consider supporting [url=http://reformparty.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=457]Wyatt Chesney[/url] in 2008. 
If you are in Georgia, then I hope you consider voting for [url=http://www.GeorgiaFirst.org]Ray McBerry[/url] on July 18 in the Republican Primary for Governor. Probably a long shot, but maybe my endorsement will influence at least one voter. Or not. And if you are in Cynthia McKinney’s district, please vote for anyone but her.
Not much else going on that I can think of or feel like writing about.
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June 27th, 2006
18 Days. Damn.
Here is something on a more serious note. About a month or so ago, one of my friend’s nephew shot himself in the head. After about a week or so in the hospital with no improvement, he died. He was health and had nothing to be depressed over. But he was on a drug called Accutane. Accutane has been known to cause suicide. Another person who committed suicide after being prescribed Accutane was the son of Representative Bart Stupak (Democrat – Michigan – CD – 1). Rep. Stupak has sponsored a bill restrictions on the use of this drug. Please tell your congressman to support [url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-2956]HR 2956[/url].
Here is a story I read the other day about Colorado State Representative Ted Harvey. http://www.family.org/cforum/commentary/a0040927.cfm . On the last day of the legislative session, the House was going to pass a reolution commerating the 90th Anniversary of Planned Parenthood in the state of Colorado. Rep. Harvey knew he had to do something but didn’t know what. Well he was at a pro-life dinner and the guest speaker was [url=http://www.giannajessen.com/]Gianna Jessen[/url]. Gianna has cerebral palsy as a result of her mother’s failed abortion. So Rep. Harvey talked to Gianna and invited her to the House that day to sing the National Anthem. After getting an applause for telling about her struggle with Cerebal Palsy, Rep. Harvey then told everyone how she go cerebal palsy. To quote the article, the silence was deafening.
Lousiana Governor Kathleen Blanco signed the Abortion Ban that only goes into effect if Roe V. Wade is overturned. I really hope this bill actually does more than take up space on paper and hard drives.
It looks like the [url=http://www.constitutionparty.com]Constitution Party[/url] in Louisiana will start going somewhere. As a result of a law passed in 2004, becoming a major party in La. requires 1000 members and 1000 dollars. Currently the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Reform Party, Libertarian Party and Green Party are all major parites in La. Hopefully the CP will join them.
I wrote to Representative Charlie Melancon (Democrat – Louisiana – CD – 3) a couple months ago regarding the Voting Rights Act and the discrimatory pre-clearance requirement placed on Louisiana and several other southern states and got a reply. Well last week a group of Republicans stood up to oppose this requirement in the bill. I don’t have a problem with the bill in general, but I do have a problem with this requirement. Please tell your Congressman to oppose the pre-clearance requirement in this bill. [url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-9]HR 9[/url] and [url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-2703]S 2703[/url].
Well 18 days will be here before Robin and I know it. If I don’t post here for a while I at least have a good excuse.
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