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Top Ten Junk Science Moments for 2006

Yes, I'm a science nut. I love to learn FACTS about the world around me. I don't like lies. Scientist of this day have become puppets of society. True science is a slave to facts. I like this article about science gone wrong. You really have to read it first before you read this post.


1. Some Real Inconvenient Falsehood.
Just cause he "invented" the internet doesn't make Al Snore any smarter than the other dummies that believe that garbage about "Global Warming". I just moved to Maine. If there is Global Warming, I'm all for it. Please pass the aerosol can please.

2. Board of Health or Bored of Science?
Now who is pro life and who is pro choice? I happen to like trans-fats when I can get them and it's non of your business.

3. What Hurricane Season?
I know the drive by media was frothing at the mouth for another New Orleans type tragedy. NOAA said there was only a 5% chance of a below normal hurricane season. Well, if they were so wrong about what will happen this year, how in the name of Bugs Q. Bunny do they pertend to know anything about the future or even the unrecorded past?

4. Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?
DDT or malaria carrying mosquitoes and starvation. Hmmm. This is a hard one Montey Hall. W.H.O. do you think you are?

5. Cosmic ray study fails to penetrate lead-lined media.
I mean look what they did to Ben Grimm.

6. Stem cell fraud and futility.
This is so typical of leftists. They mask their real goal with catch phrases and spokespeople so much that the truth is meaningless. I mean I liked Michael J. Fox as that Alex Keaton kid, but then I found out he really wasn't a Republican. He only played one on TV.

7. Low-fat diet myth busted.
Once again stay out my bed room and my kitchen.

8. Woodpecker Racket.
Ok. I've been preaching this for some time. We don't know what is even on our neighbor hoods, let alone the whole planet. It really is a big place. Also, one thing I learned in High School science is that you cannot prove a universal negative. When with scientist realize their arrogance makes them even more foolish. "A fool hath said in his heart there is no God."

9. Food police indict SpongeBob Squarepants.
Now these folks better stay away from Count Chocula, Franken-berry, and Boo Berry, 'Cause they'll Snap, Crackel, Pop their neck. I think their GRRRREat. Oh brother.....

10. California’s Not-so-deadly Air.
I think these Holly wood nut jobs deserve LA. They live on a different planet than you and me. I wish they would pool their money, buy a rocket ship, and move back home.

Oh, and Merry Christmas to all. Praise the Father for his wonder gift to us through his Son, Jesus Christ who is worthy of all praise. Now that's a fact.

We're all connected....Again.

I finally got my internet up at my home. This was low on my priority list but I've finally got here. We've got the Christmas tree up. I've been working to put lights outside the house. There are 1.5 strands up. Yes, 1/2 of one isn't up. I"m gonna finish it on tomorrow. Last week seemed to fly by. Here is the weekend again. I sure need it. I'm not sleeping as well as I should. I wake up and look at the clock to see if I've over slept yet. Once at 12:oo, again at 2, and again at 4. I'll get used to the new home eventually. Speaking of which, if my house doesn't sell in KY real soon, I'll not be able to keep it. I can afford this house, but not both.

I'll keep you up to date now that I'm back connected to the information super highway.

I Baaack.

After being away 7 weeks, I am now back at my old Kentucky home. I got here a full 5 days earlier than expected. Let me give the full rundown.

When I left for Maine, I thought I wouldn't have any vacation time to come back and get my things and my family so my wife and I planned that I would come home after work on Wednesday of the Thanksgiving holiday. That would give me 3 days, not counting the holiday which I planned to spend with my family in the mountains, to pack up and leave.

Chris, my boss and nephew-in-law-in-law as he has come to term it, persuaded me to take the whole week of Thanksgiving off since we discovered I had 2 floating holidays that I had to spend before the end of the year or lose them. I also planned to use one vacation day that I would have acquired as of that week. But being the dramatist that I am, making it a surprise came to mind. I decided not to tell my wife I was coming in early. I also discovered I had forgotten that my son was in a play on the Friday night I was arriving. If I had remembered that I would have planned an earlier departure.

I never told my wife I was coming in early and she never knew despite the fact that my mother-in-law had come to KY and spent 2 weeks with her knowing when I was coming and the fact that I wanted to surprise her and despite the fact that everyone else (well almost) at our church knew. I had a friend that works at the Lexington Police Department whom I have helped several time with my previous job pick me up at the air port.

For once most things went as planned. I feared there would be a problem with flights leaving and arriving on time, but this time there was only one 15 minute delay before I left Portland. I arrived on schedule. I must have badly under estimated the time it takes to drive from Cincinnati to Lexington. I had 30 minutes to get to the play which I knew I couldn't make, but I thought an hour would be plenty of time. Despite my police officers best speed and effort it took 1 hour and 30 minutes to get to the church for the play.

The actors were out taking their bows when I tip toed in the back door. I sat and let the play run out. After the lights came back on, I wanted to surprise my wife in some flashy way. Nothing presented itself. I decided to sneak out the side door to call her and lay some ground work for a surprise. Unfortunately her cell was turned off for the play. I poked my head in the side door to see what she was doing when I saw my middle son not too far away and he saw me. He ran to me and cried and cried. This whole daddy being gone had very rough on him. While I was consoling him, my daughter showed up. She grabbed me too. I knew I had to get to my quickly before someone else broke the news before I did. On the spur of the moment, walked over and sat down next to here and said "I don't think I like the way that play ended." I've never seen such a look of surprise before. (Well, maybe when I purposed, but that is another story.) I won't forget how nice it was for everything to finally be right again.

More news on events to come.....

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Happy Brithday to Me

Well today's the day. The big 35. I've been looking forward to this day since, well, never. Life is flying by.

Backwards weather

Ok. Looking at this you'd think that the weather was switched around. Who says it's cold in Maine? It's colder in Kentucky today. So far all is well. I actually felt like I did some honest work today. Made a nice database design for a project. Hope it works out well.

The house. The house. Down stairs carpet gets put down tomorrow. Cabinets coming soon. Start the realestate agent on the job next week. Wohoo. Can't wait to get my family back together.

Check out this web site.

http://googlefight.com/
The winner is number of most google results returned.

Happy Birthday!

October is a busy birthday month.

Joel and Kelly(Maine) are the 3rd
Michelle's is the 10th
Lanine's is the 21st.
Mine is the 26th
Caren's is the 31st.

There's more that I'm not thinking of.

The Wheels are starting to turn

After 2 days of wondering around in the dark, I'm beginning to see a little light. I know there is a bunch more to learn, but yet I think I can make out a tree in the forest. Let's just hope the light at end of the tunnel isn't an on coming train.

First day under my belt.

Met lots of people that I'll never remember, but whom I'll get to know real well over the next X number of years. Saw our finished product in several states of completion. Real neat stuff. Couldn't take pictures. I'm not even mentioning what it is, but those who know, know. The software I will support is the project management for the who thing. Gulp! WOW! Little ole me.

I was a little sluggish today. The day started too early and I am still not over the 18 hr car trip. I'm going to bed on time tonight. This will be a short blog entry.

Looking for a house for my family to move into. Saw a new one today. It looks real nice. Kitchen is nice. Basement is nice. But I've got a few issues. Only 1 bath. Cost the same as a bigger house around the corner. I only see places for 3 bedrooms. The basement which could be used as a master bed room is too much like a kids play room. I don't think that will work. But it is all up to the boss.

Can't wait for day #2.

Arrived...

Exactly 18 hours after I left my old home in Kentucky at 5:30 am, I arrived in Maine at 11:30 PM. I'm worn out. I need to sleep. Night.

Resignation leter

Letter of resignation,

This communiqué is to place notice of my resignation of the position of Programmer Analyst III with the Kentucky State Police as of September 29, 2006, to take the position of Software Development Leader for Computer Science Corporation in Bath, ME.

I have enjoyed the opportunity I have been presented working for this agency. While KYOPS and CRASH has been my mainstay through out most of my employ, I have enjoyed the opportunity to craft software solutions the most. I thank Jeanne Clotfelter for her faith in my abilities and expecting the best from me. My relationship with John Carrico has brought about the most challenges by requiring me to look for means to accomplish goals I initially thought were unrealistic. I would like to applaud Angie Taulbee for her growth since we began working together a few months ago. I know I have the systems I have supported in able hands and hope they are better now than when I assumed the responsibilities. Also, I would like to thank Jerry Wright for being an excellent example of someone who gives 100% every day regardless of pay or position and showing respect to others in their fields. I know I’ve left out so many names some of which are Keith Hellard for laughs, Paul Galliher for complexity, Angie Douglas for reminders, Rick Cunningham for reminding me to make everyday special, Teresa Brown for spirit, Bob Holtgrave, Paul and Dave Kalan, Steve Roadcap and Ken Campbell for leaving me problems to clean up, Michelle Roberts for VBA, Vince Schmit for no spoons and for making “Your Vocation, Your Advocation”, Wes Willoughby for network support, the Command staff for.. .um… commands, and finally for Rob Miller for the opportunity.

Lastly, I somber just a bit to think of that group picture we made some years ago and scratch out those who are no longer with us. I never though I’d be the next one. Head up, hands raised, and thrilled at what’s around the bend.

Excelsior!



Chad Cornett

Programmer Analyst III

Life turned upside and shaken and stirred.

What a difference 3 months make. Lets start at the beginning.

End of June 2006.

It all started with a push of a button. This button may not have the power of the one in the White House, but my life could not have been more turned upside down. It was pressed not by the President of the United States of America, but by Bonnie . This is the daughter of the lady, Jean, my father-in-law lived with. She called my wife to tell her that Mary'sfather had fallen and taken a turn for the worse. She should come if she wanted to see him in this world. My wife, his only living relative, rushed out, took the kids and spent 2 weeks at his side. She returned around the first week in July.

3 days later we were heading back for the funeral. This was very difficult as I was the one who actually lead the funeral due to uncontrolable circumstances. We did a nice memoral video slide show that you can see here. Thanks to everyone who sent flowers and cards.

A few days before the funeral while we were franticly running around making arrangements, my wife's niece's husband, Chris Hastings, asked me to submit a resume for a position that was opening up at his work. I was busy at the time and said I would when I got around to it. Still later I was sitting at my mother-in-laws computer preparing the memorial video and the message to present when he called again to ask if I had time after the funeral to do a phone interview. "Sure, sometime later," I hurredly said getting back to scanning, croping, and color correcting old photos.

Monday. The funeral went ok. I put the chairs out at the graveside. I helped put the Video presentation. I comforted my wife. I gave the graveside speech. No complaints. I was glad I could do this for Mary. I've never felt like I was everthing for my wife as much I was that day. After the message was given at the grave side and the video was played at the reception at the church, I sat down and the tears flowed. I was strong through what I had to do and when it was done my strength was gone. I could see how I felt for just a moment. It felt good to let it out.

Tuesday, the day after the funeral, I took my family away to have some time to ourselves and relax from the stress of letting go of "Granpa Jack". They were playing in the ocean when my cellphone went off and it was Chris again. Now he was asking for me to come all the way to Bath, ME to do a face-to-face interview. I agreed. I thought it was be a great time to get away by myself drive and think. Remember, it is still legal to think and drive.

Wednesday.
I drove the 45 minutes to Bath and sat down with a lady, 2 men, and a faceless voice on a hands free phone. I didn't consider this to be a serious job interview. I lived 1100 miles from here. These folks didn't really know me and I didn't think we would connect. But I found these people were mostly transplant too. They hard working IT professionals and we had lots in common. The job needed VB experience, knowledge of SQL servers, and FTP scripting knowledge. This was right up my alley. But I still never thought it would work. I mean, when does somebody who knows what they are doing ever really get the right job compared to vice-versa? I've never been the relaxed as I was in the job interview. I guess it came across as confidence. B-D

Later.
When we arrived home, we were exhausted. I took a good long time to shake it all off. I waited to hear that someone else had received that position. But everything I kept hearing from family there is which house I should buy. I became short with them at times because I still didn't think this was real. Well after much up and downs, stops and starts, which I didn't know about, 2 months later I am packing my stuff up and heading for Maine. My family will follow by Thanksgiving, Lord willing, after the house sells or is ready to sell. I'll be working for CSC an contractor for Bath Iron Works, "lead shipyard for 10 surface ship classes produced by the U.S. Navy, more than any other U.S. shipyard."

We tried to mend some relationships that were broken before we left. Some people who are close to us feel like we leaving because of them. That is not so. If you miss the Providence in this, you aren't looking. we have houses available close to family. The company actually agreed to the dollar what I knew we had to have. I feel like I'm walking in thin air and the Lord is laying down the steps in front of me. I just have to take the next step.

I'll miss Kentucky...some. I've never been afraid of new places and new people.

‘Living fossil’ rat caught on tape

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist.

They took video and still photographs of the "living fossil," which looks like a small squirrel or tree shrew, in May during an expedition to central Laos near the Thai border.

Known as Diatomyidae, scientists have nicknamed it the Laotian rock rat. The creature is not really a rat but a member of a rodent family once known only from fossils.

You know "Scientist" really need to come to grips that they don't know everything. These dinosaurs they come up with are nothing more than another cyclops monster.

Per Wikipedia

Another possible origin for the Cyclops legend is that prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls - about twice the size of a human skull were found by the Greeks on Crete. Due to the large central nasal cavity (for the trunk) in the skull, it might have been believed that this was a large, single, eye-socket. The smaller, actual, eye-sockets are on the sides and, being very shallow, hardly noticeable as such. Given the paucity of experience that the locals likely had with living elephants, they were unlikely to recognize the skull for what it actually was.

Just as they couldn't locate this rodent, searching for God through science is just about as fuitless. Except for the fact that we can see what "God hath wrought".

Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

New Internet.

How fast is your intenet? I just switched to cable internet. It's not a great as I thought. I think it may be my router. Check your speed.

In the "It's All Just An Accident" department

It takes time for everything, including what happens in the human body.

• Fingerprints form six to eight weeks before birth.
• Fingernails grow about four times faster than toenails - about .02 of an inch (0.05cm) per week.
• If a child below the age of 12 has their finger tips and nails severed above the first crease of the first joint, they can regenerate. Regeneration takes about eleven weeks. Adults do not have this ability.
• At the time of birth, the human female possesses 400,000 egg cells in both ovaries. Of these, only about 480 may ovulate during her entire reproductive life. And of these, only five per cent or so will be fertilised. On average, it takes 72 seconds for a mature egg to be pushed out of the ovary. The fertilised egg remains within the oviduct for about three days before it enters the uterus.
• In the testes of the normal human male, a thousand sperm cells are produced every second. It takes about two months to manufacture a fully mature sperm cell. After ejaculation, the sperm swim for the egg cell at the speed of 15 cm (5.91 inches) per hour. This is the equivalent of a human swimmer covering about twelve metres per second. Sperm reach the fertilisation site in about 50 minutes and remain alive for roughly two days.
• The amniotic fluid that surrounds the embryo and fetus during development is anything but a stagnant pool. While over 98 per cent of it is water, between one and two per cent is made up of substances such as fetal hair, skin cells, enzymes, urea, glucose, hormones, and lipids. It is constantly and completely replaced about every three hours.
• In the fetal brain, nerve cells develop at an average rate of more than 250,000 per minute. At birth, a child's brain contains close to a trillion nerve cells. After birth, this rate of neuron growth slows down dramatically.
• Taste buds are among the earliest sense organs to appear in the fetus. By the third trimester of pregnancy, fetal taste buds are responsive to chemicals in the amniotic fluid. The life-span of a taste bud cell is about 10.5 days.
• Twins are born, on average, 19 days earlier than singletons. Their larger combined size stretches their mother's uterine muscles, causing earlier contractions which push the twins out (there’s an old joke: A mother-to-be carrying twins doesn't give birth for 60 years! When doctors check her out with ultrasound, they find two little old men inside saying over and over to each other: "After you").
• A lactating mother produces about three pints of milk every day. Even so, if milk is not continuously removed from a mother's breasts, the ability to continue secreting milk is lost within one or two weeks. However, if the mother continues to have her breasts stimulated, milk production can continue for several years. Milk begins to flow within 30 seconds after an infant begins to suckle. During this time, nerve signals move from the breast through the spinal cord and then to the brain. The brain then secretes the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin travels through the bloodstream back to the breasts where it causes milk to be released.
• On average, nerve regeneration takes four to six weeks.
• Gums are renewed every one to two weeks.
• Eyelashes, which are more plentiful on the upper eyelid than on the lower eyelid, are shed continuously. Each of the more than 200 hairs per eye lasts from three to five months.
• The vibrations in the air constitute sound waves. The higher the pitch, the greater the frequency or cycles per second. Adults can detect sound waves that have a frequency between about 16 and about 20,000 cycles per second. Yet they hear best at frequencies ranging from about 1,000 to 2,000 cycles per second. Children hear higher-pitched notes better than adults. After puberty, this sensitivity declines at the same time as the voice deepens. Thus, our ears are best adapted to the pitch or sound frequencies of human conversation.
• The ability of the brain to detect the location of a sound depends on the differences in the time of the arrival of the sound to the two ears. We can detect the source of a sound even if it arrives in one ear a hundredth of a second before it gets to the other.
• The body loses water through the skin (from simple diffusion) at the rate of half a litre per day. The body loses about the same amount of water each day from the lungs - in breath. A breath lasts about five seconds. Inhaling takes about two seconds, exhaling about three.

Rain rain go away

Don't ya just hate when the weather affects your mood. I know you should live above the clouds and be a thermostat not a thermometer or even a pair of thermal underwear. But this rain is really affecting me. First of the week I had a splitting head ache. This wasn't a surprise since it was raining outside. I've had to live with these most of my adult life. When there is a shift in the weather, I know of it in advance with a headache. Really annoying. I guess I need to move the Phoenix or something.
After 3 days the mental clouds began to part, but the real ones are still around. It's dark and dismal enough to put me in a real melancholy mood which affects everything else. My middle boy was supposed to go on a field trip to the zoo today. He was looking forward to this for some time. His "Nana", mom, and sister were going to go with him, but the trip was cancelled due to rain. My wife took him out to MickeyD's instead.
Singin' in the Rain? yeah right.

Tater 2

My friend Daniel's wife just gave birth to their second son, Jonathan Tyler, on this past week. Wanna see more? Just look right through here.

Chirstmas in April

Just received my upgrade to my work computer. It's pretty responsive. It should be with 2, yes, 2 gigs of RAM with a P4 3.6GHZ. Also it has dual flat panel monitors on a X600 series Radeon, 160G drive, a DVDRW drive, and an optical mouse. But I'm stuck using windows 2k until June when we upgrade some of my vital support software to a version compatible with XP. Oh, the pain. The pain. Some of the cool keyboard extra keys apparently don't work with Win2K, so I'll just limp along for a few months.
I know its a work comp but how I'd like to take this baby home, except for the fact in has Insmell in inside. amd64 pwns insmell.

The Pain...The Pain

You know I'm not a big sports guy. Sports are fun as long as they are just that...Fun. When it gets serious, I don't like it. Although I'm the one who usually get too serious with it, so that's why I don't play. Plus the fact I'm not built for it. My legs are misaligned. My arms are slightly "double jointed". In these later years my knees are not swell every time I walk around Wal-Mart.

This past Tuesday there was to be a softball game at the church's college property for the men after work. I thought it'll be fun. Why not? I actually had forgotten about playing at lunch time, but I talked to my wife on the phone and she encouraged me to go even so much to tell to buy me a new glove. I did and I went.

All was well in Mudville. I am very self conscious about my sports prowess or lack there of, but I got on base the second time I batted. I didn't do too bad playing first base. Yeah, I missed catching some balls, but then again who didn't. But then the fun part began. On one particular at bat, I got on first due to an error of one of the outfielders. Great. The next batter hit the ball directly to the short stop. Yes, a made to order double play ball. In microseconds, it flashed through my brain an instance from my youth.

It was also in a double play ball and I raised my hands as I slid to interfere with the short stop's view of first. He threw the ball any way and hit my hand. Ow. Who ever was umpiring, declared both were out since I intentionally interfered with the play. Yeah, right. My hand throbbed for some time afterwards. No, I won't do that again, and no, I'm not sliding in. Knees hurt too bad. He'll just have to throw around me.

Back to the present. I saw the short stop, a former marine who served in Desert Storm. Very strong man. Eagle scout type of a guy. Captain America. (no it wasn't Steve Rogers) He tagged the base and cocked his arm about ten feet away. Thought, "NO HE DIDN'T JUST…" That's last thing I remember lying on my back. No. I hadn't slid which he expected me to do, and hit me directly in the head with the softball.

I'm not a guy to make a big deal at getting hurt because let me tell you I've seen 'em. Cause if I was, I'd be making a big deal all the time. But it took just a bit for me to get up. My first words were, "I think I need to go set down. Wait, what am I saying? I'm out any way." Well, this time they let the guy stay on first base since I wasn't out of the base line. Taking one for the team I was. I played the rest of the evening with a HUGE knot on my head. I went home and put ice on my head.

I got such a head ache. I tried to go to work the next day, but came home early and went the doctor who said talk a pill and put ice on it. (Wow. Thaaanks.) I called in sick the next day to rest.

Shoulda stayed home and played MVP baseball.

Half-Life 2 Episode 1....and I just wasted money on a car.

If you don't know what Half-Life is, you must have been locked away "in stasis far from Earth, thought, and time itself." It's just the coolest FPS ever.

Half-Life 2

Better than Wolfenstien(even for it's time),
Better than Dumb, err, Doom,
Better than even Duke Nuk'em 3D(But you never really loose you first love)
Better than Quake 1, 2, 3, 4
better than Unreal
Better then Serious Sam, (snicker, snicker),
Better than Rainbow 6 (although I loved that one, tangos down)
Better than Medal Of Honor
Better than Call of Duty 2....well, Equal in Quality, but too short, HL2 wins
Better than Far Cry only because of modability. Far Cry Rocks.


Download Steam.
Buy the Valve Complete Pack
Play the original.
Play the Sequal.
Relive the story.
Love it.

I just read about the upcomming release of Half-life 2-Episode 1 . I sounds like Gabe Newell and the good folks a Valve are about to release a serial PC game. Wow a serial PC Game! The more things change the more that are the same. Episode after episode of new content. For you Quake and Unreal tournament folk, that's called a story. Yeah a story with a plot and a goal for the player that includes something else other that blowing the an opponents head off. Now I like virtual violence just a much as the next guy, but mindless maleviolence just doesn't do it for me.

My old machine just doesn't have what it's going to take to tackle this new game. I gotta get a AMD 64. Just gotta. My video card is a 9800 pro. I think that will do, but only have a AMD 1800XP that just won't cut the mustard. AMD 64 is the only game in town as far as I'm concerned.

'Star Wars Kid' cuts a deal with his tormentors

Check out this story

Boy, I just got snickered at, but never got $300,000 bucks. Man, maybe I never knew any good lawyers.

Ok. Now I'm really confused

According to the BBC,

Research presented at a major European science meeting adds to other evidence that cleaner air is letting more solar energy through to the Earth's surface.

But just a few moths ago they said,

They believe soot is twice as potent as carbon dioxide, a main greenhouse gas, in raising surface air temperatures.

Now which way is it? I think the gas from these greenhouse people are raising my temperature. I'd like to nuke 'em all.

Duh of the day....

"When you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch. In some cases, there really is no way to recover without nuking the systems from orbit," Mike Danseglio, program manager in the Security Solutions group at Microsoft, said in a presentation at the InfoSec World conference here.

From eWeek

And then what happens to your Microsoft License for XP?

Math humor....

I've been helping my wife do her college math. She is really coming along very well. How I'm able to help her I don't know. I never took any college math.

Some times discussing the work has gotten way too emotional. Both of us are way too independent to admit we can't do something or don't really know.

Well to lighten the spirit of things check this out.

Roy Mullins

My mom's dad, "Pampa" Roy had been very sick. Some sort of blood desease that required him to have blood transfusions very often. 2 weeks before Christmas we visited with him. He was lucid but couldn't remember things. He commented that he hated getting old if it meant you couldn't remember anything. 3 weeks ago he took a decidly drastic turn for the worse. He had constant in house care. They stopped giving him some of his medications. We knew the time was short.
Soon he had to be admitted to the hospice ward. After church on Wednesday night last week I stopped by the hospital and visited. He was sleeping. Apparently that's all he had been doing. His wife, Dixie, was there and we had a nice chat. When I left, she walked out with me for the first time in a while to go home and sleep. She'd been there a long time. The next day I took my sons with me and we sat and visited. Papa,(as I call him. Pampa was his word) was still sleeping and hadn't woke.
He had lost any weight he had left. Nothing but a skeleton. He had been steadily losing weight for some time since had contracted the blood disorder. Tuesday, almost a week ago, on my way to work, I recieved the dreaded call. He had passed away the night before at around 11pm.
This was tough. I'd been through this once before. My other grandfather had passed away about 10 years ago. I had been in the very room whe the Angels swooped down. It makes you feal so mortal. I had incriminations about the how little time we had spent together. How well we actually knew each other. Then I realize, it didn't matter now because there was nothing that can be done to correct it.
You just think everyone will be around for ever. But it just isn't true

Roy Mullins
Funeral Time: Friday, March 31st at 10:00AM
Mullins, Roy, 81, formerly of Knott County, husband of Dixie Lee Mullins, died Monday, March 27, 2006 at the Hospice Care Center. Born in Amburgey, KY, he was the son of the late Leander and Allie Gibson Mullins. Mr. Mullins was a Union College graduate, a U.S. Army World War II veteran, and a German Prisoner of War. He was retired from Kentucky State Government where he had been a director of the Department of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement. He was a former Vice President of Arch Mineral, a Knott County Court Clerk for 12 years, and a principle and teacher in the Knott County School System. Mr. Mullins attended Southland Christian Church. Survivors other than his wife include two daughters, Lanine Little, Lexington, Lana (Charles) Cornett, Hindman, KY; a sister, Ruby Faye Mullins, Amburgey, KY; a stepdaughter, Lisa (Robert) Tudor, Frankfort, KY; a stepson, Mark (Kelley) Cheatham, Danville, KY; 9 grandchildren, Michael Little, Jr., Emily (Jeff) Frohlich, Debbie (Heath) Todd, Michelle (Jeff) Fugate, Chad (Mary) Cornett, Justin Cornett, Jeanne Faye Mullins, Stephanie (Jeremy) Gibbons, and Jason Mullins; 11 great grandchildren; a special niece; and two nephews. He was preceded in death by a son, Rickie Neal Mullins; and a sister, Audrey Mae Terry. Funeral services will be 10 am Friday at Hindman Funeral Home, Hindman, KY with Pastor Jeff Fugate presiding. Burial will follow in Rest Haven Cemetery in Jeff, KY. Grandsons and great grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Visitation will be 3 – 9 pm Wed. at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Harrodsburg Rd. and 5-10 pm Thurs. at Hindman Funeral Home with a service at 7 pm. Memorial contributions are suggested to Cardinal Hill Hospital, 2050 Versailles Rd., Lex. KY 40504.

Thanks, "Pampa". You will be missed.

Rainy cooped up day.....

Today, I've been inside most of the day. My daughter is sick so during church this morning my wife stayed home and watched. I took the boys with me. Tonight, I'm still home with the boys and girl while she is at choir practice. Hopefully she will be back to get the boys before the evening service. No use in them doing the normal hanging out during since they can be with me.

I'm excited about getting to work tomorrow. The KSP needs me. I've been out since Wednesday with the flu. Real bad stuff. Hate it that Annabell has it.

Sunday March 5, 2006 - 06:30pm (EST)

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