I came home today a week early from my meetings. The bride ended up in the emergency room again last night. The same symptoms as last time only this time they were accompanied by a horrendous headache. She called me in California to say that a friend was taking her to the hospital. She was given morphine for her head and it did not help. The bride was released around 11:00pm when they could not find anything wrong. We talked on the phone for awhile and she assured me that she was okay. I was talking with one of my work associates this morning and when the bride called in tears saying that she was not feeling well and wished I was home. I gave my signature authority to the representative for the Air Combat Command and I caught the first plane headed home. She is asleep on the couch and I will be taking her for some test in the morning. I may show up at work for a couple of hours to take care of some business and explain to my supervision what is going on.
I will admit that I am a little worried

I have spent the entire morning in the emergency room with the bride. It seems while she was at work her right side went numb. It started in her leg and ran up her side, shoulder, neck and face. She drove herself to the ER and I met her there. They ran all kinds of test and scans, they found almost nothing. She is to follow up with our primary care Dr and a neurologist. Depending on how she does will determine if I go on my trip

This weekend will be spent getting ready for a two week business trip. I am planning on buying some new slacks and blue jeans, maybe a couple of shirts. I’ll leave Monday the 23rd of April and return Friday the 4th of May. The bride and I take off on the 9th of May and will be gone until the 19th. I just don’t travel as well as I use to but I am sure that I’ll have some fun on both trips.

I turned in my travel voucher for my last trip and was notified the voucher was paid. While I was looking it over I noticed that I had claimed my lodging twice. I was over paid by $310. I immediately sent an e mail notifying anyone who would listen I had been overpaid. I was instructed to go in and amend my voucher. I will receive an e mail with instructions on how to repay the money. I did something like this a number of years ago. I found the error and I reported it. I was sent a letter telling me to repay the money. The letter made it sound like I had stole the money and they had caught me. I am sure that the e mail will be along the same lines.

There is going to be a big gun show the weekend of the 28th. I really wanted to go pick up sound clips and ammo. I was going to spilt 1000 rounds of .223 with buddy Nate but I did not hook up to give him money. So Nate if you read this and you want to pick up the ammo from the outfit from Montana I am good for the coin. That being said if you find some 15 round G19 clips for around $20 I am good for a couple, maybe a couple of 25 round clips for the mini 14 or at least one 5 or 10 rounder.

I should be able to blog once in awhile while I am gone. I know all two of you will be waiting for my wit and wisdom. Nate don’t feel obligated it is no big deal there will be another gun show. Dave old buddy keep me in your prayers.

Massacre at Virginia Tech University, 32 dead for no other reason then some whacked out man decided to kill. It is a shame beyond belief.

The anti gunners have already started to raise their battle cry. “No Guns, guns are evil” I have even heard it is time to repeal the second amendment. What I saw in this tragedy was a microcosm of an unarmed society. Nobody at the school was allowed the chance to defend themselves. The University trumped state laws buy not allowing concealed permit holders to bring their weapons on campus. They violated their constitutional rights. They became no more then sheep herded into a slaughter house to be killed.

The crazed gunman did buy the guns legally. It has been reported that he ground off the serial numbers making the guns illegal, making him guilty of a felony. So because of the guns used in the crime the anti gunners want to repel the second amendment.

"University gunman left violent writings". It has been reported that the writing were so disturbing, hateful, and violent that the gun man had to go to counseling. Possibly the first amendment should be put on the chopping block. Why somebody should be allowed to foster and compound hatful thoughts that they may or may not act on. First amendment has got to go.

I am home, it took a little while to get here but I made it. I left Terra Haute Indiana yesterday around noon. The airport is in Indianapolis we had plenty of time so we stopped at the Indianapolis 500 motor speedway. It was a lot of fun we went through the hall of fame and even got to take lap around the race track. It was in a bus but still fun. The two gentlemen that were with me dropped me off two hours before my flight and life was good. We had heard reports of some weather related problems around the Dallas, Fort Worth airport (DFW). This is where my connecting flight was. I figured no big deal I would still get home. They (don’t you love “they”) slipped my departure time buy a half an hour. No big deal I had a three and a half hour lay over in DFW. We roll out from the gate and the pilot shuts the plane down. Explaining that we won’t be allowed to leave for a while and he is saving gas. So we sit for about half hour, no big deal I have a lot of time for my connecting flight. Soon we are off and flying heading south west 28,000 feet and making great time. About the time we are scheduled to arrive we are still flying and flying and flying. The pilot comes on over the radio and explains that there are a bunch of planes in a holding pattern. We circle DFW for about an hour when a flight attendant comes through and told us that DFW had been evacuated due to tornados at the airport and surrounding areas. I guess that everybody came back to the airport because we landed. My 8:50 pm flight was now scheduled for 10:15 pm, cool. I got to my gate and was waiting. They came up with a new time, 10:45 again cool. 11:15, 11:45, and 12:15 am, 12:30 and so on and so on. We were given the excuse that the flight that needs to connect with our air craft was setting on the tarmac and could not get to the gate. 01:30, 1:45 we boarded the aircraft. I got a blanket snuggled down into my seat and was ready to go home. Then it happens, the announcement saying that the aircraft had to have a “hail” inspection and the flight was canceled. We march off the plane and line up in the terminal to try and find out what is going to happen to us. It is almost 3:00 am before I get to the ticket counter and say “just get me home” I get booked on another airline for 8:30 am. No offer a hotel and I am turned down when I ask for a food voucher for breakfast I the morning. I toddle off to my new terminal and to look for a piece of floor to call my own. I find a nice chunk of floor right next to the window and the gate I need. I think I doze off around 4:00 am and I wake up about an hour later to a cold air drifting in form the window and the sounds of the airport coming to life. I grab a bit of breakfast and some coffee, board the plane around 8:00 and I am off for an uneventful flight home. I do manage to catch a couple of cat naps on the flight. That did help. I am home safe and sound, but I don’t have any luggage. I have had a tracer put on my bag and I just called the 1 800 number but they can’t seem to find my stuff. I am sure it will show up, and if it doesn’t I needed some new clothes anyway.

The hotel I am staying at has a compter and it is hooked up to the internet so here I am . This part of Indianna is very pretty and the folks are very nice. Talking wih some of the locals there is a lot of hunting and fishng to be done. The price of homes is cheaper then Utah (by half) and the property tax is a lot less. I was telling all this to the bride the other day and she asked if we were going to retire there. I said it was something to think about. Sometimes I think I would love to pull the plug and just move anywhere, other times I think that I really do like Utah and we have so many friends there. I am sure that is where we are going to stay. I will be glad when this trip is over. I will only be home for a week before I head out again.

I leave on a business trip this weekend. My plane takes off at 06:00 Easter morning. I am not crazy about this but it is just life, and I have 327 days until I can retire. I’ll be gone all week returning late Friday night. I expect to walk into the house around midnight.

I’ll be home for a week then be headed it for two weeks. This schedule is really messing up my spring fishing plans. Reading the fishing report (aka lying report) in the paper most of the local waters are having some great fishing action.


My youngest son is coming for visit today. It will be good to see him for a couple of days. His wife could not get off of work so it is just him. He has admitted that he is homesick. Living in the Denver area it is only an eight hour drive so we can se each other a couple three times a year.

The pastor of our church bought a new house. We went over to inspect the place and found it was beautiful. This is a brand new home they moved into in February. It is a rambler with a walkout basement. They are young couple with two small children and this house will be prefect to raise a family. The only problem I came across with the house is the bride now has a case of new house fever. The house we live in now will be paid for in thirty six months. I don’t think I want to start over again, but I will wait to find out how I really feel about this. I am sure that the bride will let me know soon.