I have quit smoking AGAIN!!! This is day 2!!
For those who don’t know me well. I was quit 7 years and started again on a construction job in Albuquerque in 2001 Then I was quit for a year after I got home from Iraq in 2006 and started smoking again on a construction job in [...]

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I live on the west side of the Cascade Mountain range. We have a lot of wildlife, redtail hawks, bald eagles, deer, coyotes, foxes, you name it, we got it.
I was sitting outside watching a pair of bald eagles circling overhead. They obviously had their eye on something yummy. Then all of a sudden a [...]

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FINALLY, Tiffany has completed those damn parenting classes. The ones where she was calling me every night after class and giving me parenting advice. Argh!!! Oh my God give me strength….(to not choke the crap out of her)!
There was a graduation ceremony at the prison. I took Keelen and Ethan and his parents came. It [...]

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I recently posted a blog “US Soldiers Electrocuted In Iraq” (click here to read it). It would appear that maybe our politicians have taken notice of this senseless tragedy. The Democratic Policy Committee in the Senate, chaired by Senator Byron Dorgan and The Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chaired by Congressman Henry Waxman [...]

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Cal didn’t get to come home this weekend. He was stuck in Akron. He gave me a call to tell me there was one hell of a storm going on. During our conversation the tornado sirens went off. Damn that triggered an Iraq flash back. They sounded similar to the “take cover” alarms that would [...]

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Last week Keelen and I went to visit his other grandparents in Idaho. We both had a great time. We went to the Zoo and Discovery Center, rented paddle boats and played at the park. He had a wonderful time and I got a chance to get to know his grandparents better.
Normally Keelen doesn’t eat [...]

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