I have been following this story because the owners of Jeddah remind me so much of me or what I would do if my “baby” was missing.   Read here about Jeddah.

If anyone lives in that area, keep an eye out for Jeddah.

I think I left my brain in Baton Rouge.  Man oh man all the new stuff I will have to do.  I can and will do it, but I guess I am just set in my ways and not real open to change.  I never thought I was like that, but I am wondering now.  To be honest, if it was a new program that I had to learn and do on my own, then I don’t think there would be any problem.  Buttttt, I have to rely on a couple other people to do what they are supposed to do in order for me to be able to do my job.

And I hate relying on anyone else.  Hopefully, everyone will do what they are supposed to do, but it might take a couple of tries.  I guess we will see.  I do know one thing.  I am not going to get in trouble for someone not doing their job.  I go out of my way to do a good job, and I do not want anyone messing that up.

I will know soon.  Our new system begins on August 1st.

I have not been posting because I have been out of town. I am in Baton Rouge, LA. In fact, I am sitting in a hotel room right now watching tv. My company is introducing a new system to our company. We have been doing training for the last couple of days.

I like learning new things, but when it comes to my company, I want to make sure I take really good notes, so I do not make any mistakes. I don’t think it is going to be hard. It is just going to be different. Most people are resistant to change even if it is better. I think this will be better, but I am just not use to it….yet.

I did get to do one thing that I have always wanted to do……I got to see the LSU campus. All I can say is WOW. I love LSU. I went to Lamar University in Beaumont, TX, but I have always been a fan of LSU. I wish I could have seen “Mike” the LSU mascot. That would have been neat.

I should be back to my regular office on Monday. It is always nice to go visit the other offices, but I sure like my little corner much better. I must be homesick…I even miss my techs!!!

Read this.  I can not believe some “human” could do this.  What’s more…I can’t believe he got away with it. I am writing a letter to the judge to express my disappointment. He said he wasn’t sure he did it because lack of evidence that the cat was alive. To me…it doesn’t matter….how could this “person” beat and chop up a cat…..dead or alive!!

I am not going to print the whole letter, but here are some of the paragraphs that I am sending:

“The statistics show that the young boys who begin with torturing animals then go on to greater acts against themselves and others.” So he will probably be back in your court room one day.

Maybe you will wish you had given him a punishment that he would remember and would cause him to think twice before doing something like this again. Instead, you gave him one year probation which is nothing but a slap on the hand. Did you also tell him that was a “no-no” and not to do it again???

Do you know how much animal cruelty goes on in this area? From your judgment, it seems obvious to me that you don’t have a clue. If you had given this “person” jail time, not only would he think twice before doing something like this again, but it would set an example so that others might also think twice before committing any kind of animal cruelty act.
But now, everyone will know that it is ok to torture and it is no big deal to kill something. How sad this is.

Nothing will change, but I will at least have my say! Will he care? I doubt it, but it made me feel better!

I just upgraded Chrissy’s blog to WordPress 2.6RC1.  You shouldn’t notice anything different, but if you do, sent her an email and she’ll holler at me and I’ll try to fix it.

Thank you for your support.

Mostly Cajun

Here are my results:

Your score is 2 on a scale of 1 to 10. You’d never vote for Barack Obama. You think he’s an inexperienced, incompetent neophyte who’s never accomplished anything notable — with the possible exception of making a celebrity out of his nutty, America-bashing pastor, Jeremiah Wright. He has made you want to bitterly cling to your guns and/or religion, praying he doesn’t become president, but preparing for the worst.

Wanna take the quiz?  Go here to this site.

is let the punishment fit the crime. The following story was on our local news site and has been in the courts for a while now. I saw the pictures. I will not post them here. They are too graphic. Only an idiot would believe his story. This “human” if that is what you want to call him should not be allowed to even look at ANY animal much less own one. Because I don’t want to get in trouble, I will keep my thoughts to myself on what I think should be done to him. But I am sure most my animal lover friends probably have the same thought that I have.

Hell, you don’t even have to like animals to realize this guy needs to be thrown under the jail or worse.

Jury Deliberating in Horse Dragging Case

A jury has begun deliberating in the animal cruelty case involving a man charged with dragging his horse to its death.

Victor Guillory is accused of dragging his horse, Bobby, on Gaulding Road in April of 2005.
Guillory said he was exercising the horse and never intended to hurt the animal.
The jury began deliberating after closing arguments concluded Thursday morning.

Last year, a judge declared a mistrial because the jury couldn’t reach a decision.
Testimony Wednesday focused on injuries to the animal’s hooves.
A deputy said the horse had been pulled or dragged about two miles.

The veterinarian that treated the animal said they were finally able to get the horse onto his feet and into a trailer to transport him to a clinic after medicating him for his pain.

She said when they brought Bobby into the stall he let out a groan before flopping to the floor. She said it’s unusual to hear a horse groan.

The veterinarian said she discovered severe road rash on the horse’s right side the next morning after he died.

It looked like burned leather and had burned through the skin and into the muscle in at least one spot.

“It’s very painful to relive this the second time. It’s even worse the second time than the first. More pictures, more graphic details were shown in this trial than the first. And when you see the horse try to get up and he can’t, it just broke your heart,” says Cindy Meyers, Humane Society of Southeast Texas.

If you read this post, you know about my problem getting other co-workers hotel rooms.  It was finally taken care of.  I basically sent him an email and told him to either pay me the money he owes me or call the hotel immediately and take care of this.  I almost cc’d it to his boss, but I didn’t.   He did call me later and said he took care of it.  I checked my credit card and my account was credited that amount, so he did take care of it.  He never once apologized or said anything else about this problem.

If someone had made me a hotel reservation and guaranteed it with their credit card and the hotel had made a mistake and charged their card instead of mine, I would have felt awful and immediately fixed it.  And then I would have apologized to the person profusely.  THAT is what I would have done.  He didn’t do anything.

I haven’t talk to him since…..until today.  He called me today.  Here is how the conversation went:

Him:  Hi Chris…how are you today?

Me:  Fine (I would have normally said, I’m great and how are you, but I didn’t because I was still mad)

Him: I am going to be coming to the area this week.  Do you know any good hotels with good rates?

Me:  Nope, I never stay over here.  I know some stay at the Best Western or Holiday Inn.

Him:  Oh, well I called the casino and they want $299 a night.

Me:  Yep, they are high in the summer. (I know he was hinting for me to try and get a good rate for him)

Him:  Well I guess I will call around.

me:  Ok…bye

Now, I normally would have said, “let me see what I can find for you”.  But I didn’t  I didn’t even offer to look up the phone numbers for him.  I almost felt bad afterwards, but I had told myself that I wasn’t going to do that anymore, so I didn’t.   But I know me well enough that if he had been nicer about the other situation and shown a little bit of remorse for all the problems he put me through, I would have probably helped him out, but he didn’t so I didn’t!!

Like I said…”Chrissy’s travel agency is closed”!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven’t posted in a while because our company is monitoring our activity which is no biggie for me because I don’t go to the kind of sites that they are probably looking for, but I don’t want them to think I am posting while I am supposed to be working.   I do get on before work and during lunch sometimes.  I figure that is my time that I am not getting paid, but I haven’t even been doing that much either.

And after being on the computer all day, I just don’t really feel like getting online at home, but I decided today I needed to post at least something.

Nothing really going on.  I went yesterday and got my hair cut and highlighted.  I am soooo glad I finally found someone who does a good job on my hair and doesn’t charge an arm and a leg.  Even some of my techs said it looked nice.  Were they fibbing????  I don’t know, but I would hope not.  I like it.  At least I don’t have anymore gray….at least for now.

Woman Shoots Herself While Trying to Kill Mice

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

POTTER VALLEY, Calif. —  A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person.

The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff’s officials said.

But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman’s kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man’s groin before ending up in his coin pocket.

Authorities did not release the shooting victims’ names.

The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.