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Brighter Smiles In Heaven

Heaven will smile brighter now that they have a very well liked Master Dentist! My dentist past on Tuesday from a very rare disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease or CJD. He was only 54. I met the good doctor years back when he started his practice in the small village I lived in. He was a kind and gentle man who cared about the people he saw. They were not just patients to him. I have a very large phobia about dentists and it took a lot for me to go. After the first visit with the fine doctor I found I was much more at ease with him. One night while I was sitting at home I received a telephone call and it was the fine doctor on the other end. He ask me if I could come over to his office because with me being the Township Fire Chief I might know where the slight smell of smoke was coming from. He didn't want to bother the rest of the department if it turned out to be nothing. We found where the smell was coming from in no time flat. His office bordered an apartment and when they cooked he got the smell coming through the walls. The woman in the apartment must of burnt a lot of food. LOL Well with my phobia and all I still found it difficult to go to the dentist as much as I should but one night I was in extreme pain from a bad tooth ache. I could not even pick my head up it hurt so bad. I called the good doctor and he told me to give him 30 minutes and he would be right at his office. When I got there he was there as well as a nurse also. He pulled the bad tooth and when I went to pay him he looked at me and said with all the help you do with the community "NO CHARGE"! That was the good doctor.
CJD is a rare and always fatal neurological disease that strikes about one in a million each year. CJD turns the brain to sponge. Early symptoms may include anxiety, memory loss, impaired thinking, blurred vision, fatigue and involuntary movements to name a few. Death is usually within the year of diagnosis. It has been recognized since the early 1920's. It has a variant form which many of you may know as Mad Cow Disease Although CJD can not be transmitted through causal or intimate it can be transmitted by way of transplants of corneas or brain membranes if the tissue donor has CJD.
The good doctor leaves his wife and 3 teenage children who got to spend time with him before his death. He was very well liked in the community where he lived. He had many friends. He was a very happy go lucky man. When he first found out at the Mayo Clinic that he had CJD he said "Well it sucks to be me". That is how he was trying to take the edge of of a bad situation. The good doctor will be missed. My heart goes out to his family and my prayers are with them.

Saint Patrick's Day in Chicago

This Saint Patrick's Day my wife and I will be visiting her sister in Chicago. We have tickets to the House of Blues to see a great Irish Band called Gaelic Storm. We have been to many of their concerts around our area. They were in my city just last summer. We saw them in Chicago last year during the Saint Patrick's Day weekend at The House of Blues also. The band members include Patrick Murphy the lead vocalist of the band, Steve Twigger, Ryan Lacey, Peter Purvis, and the beautiful Ellery Klein on the Violin. A band called Oval Opus will be the warm up band. I don't know much about them so I can't comment on them. My wife is Irish so we tend to celebrate the day. She won't wear green, she says she is on the orange side of the flag. She is Lutheran (that is Catholic Lite, same sins only half the quilt). I think she has every Gaelic Storm song recorded on her Ipod. She has bought so many T-Shirts from them. I think she paid the fuel price for them coming down from Wisconsin, where they will play the night before their first gig at the House of Blues on Friday the 16th.
We also plan to see the Chicago River turned green. They have been doing that since 1962. They use 40 lbs (18 kilograms) of green vegetable die and dump it in the river. It will keep the river green for several hours. We will also be walking down the mile (Michigan Ave.) Last year we ate at the Cheesecake Factory and I'll tell you they have great food there besides the great Cheese Cake.
We plan on driving to Chicago Friday afternoon after my wife gets out of work. I work 3rd shift so I will be sleeping while she's at work. It is about a 7 hour drive depending how traffic is around the big cities. It's great that we will be driving to a different time zone. The time change won't make it so late when we arrive. I took off on Sunday night so we won't have to rush getting back home. My step-son will be taking care of our pets while we're away. He was suppose to go with us until he got the second job at Tim Horton's. He and his girl friend are buying a house. They say the housing market is going down hill right now but you can't fool me cause my daughter and her boyfriend, my brother-in-law and his wife are also buying houses this spring. I will be doing a lot of moving people this spring!!! Can't wait!

Too Close To Home

Wow I can't believe what happened this morning in my neck of the woods. It seems a 17 year old boy went looking for his ex-girlfriend at her school. Someone at the school turned him away. The 17 year old then calls his ex and asks her where she was. She tells him that she is home and he asks her if he could talk to her for a bit. The 17 year old ex-girlfriend has her mother drive her to the school parking lot so she can talk with him. The mother senses something is up doesn't drive away but moves her car away from the two. All of a sudden the 17 year old boy pulls a gun and shoots the girl 4 times. She is hit once in the arm and 3 times in her chest. Then he turns the gun on himself and shoots himself in the head. The mother seeing this drives her car between the two teens. The boy is pronounced dead at the scene and the girl is now listed in serious but stable condition.
Now let me tell you, this is just too close to my neck of the woods. Both my two daughters are graduates of that school. My stepson and his girlfriend live about a block in front of the high school. This is not in some urban jungle. This is an affluent high school. This school is not infested with rival gangs from the hood. It is a high school of mostly middle to upper class students. This is a school where every parent would feel safe sending their child to learn and get a very good education. I feel for the parents of both children, what they must be feeling right now. The mother without knowing the condition of the shooter to put herself in the line of potential danger, all to protect her daughter. The police say that her car ended up over the gun involved. The school went into lock-down-mode until things could be straightened out. The body of the boy laid near the car for hours. No other students were endanger.
What we are now hearing from our local T.V. and radio station is that the boy had another ex-girlfriend previous to this one that he threatened numerous times. He repeatedly told her that if she was to leave him he would kill her. Looking back, was this an idle threat? Yes, she is still alive. What kept him from acting out his threats on her. We will never know.
What is going through the minds of these teenagers now a days? Doesn't life mean anything to them anymore. Why is it that you need to kill because things are not going the way you feel they should? How can we help our youth of today, our leaders of tomorrow? What about the next generation of children? Will they be even more troubled? What is it going to take?

When I Was a Kid

I got this from STEPH A beautiful Aussie Lass that I read every day.

• When I was a kid I wanted to be a police officer. To catch the bad guys.

• When I was a kid I got into a fight with another boy in sixth grade. We became best friends all through school.

• When I was a kid I fell deeply in love with a little girl that actually looked just like STEPH. No Kidding. We were never boyfriend/girlfriend though.

• When I was a kid I would always get into trouble chasing said girl.

• When I was a kid I always wanted to be the class clown. It didn't get me anywhere.

• When I was a kid we lived in the country and I would ride my bike for miles to visit friends.

• When I was a kid I always dreamed of being rich and famous. Still waiting!

• When I was a kid we didn't have video games. No one did. We actually played outside.

• When I was a kid I loved going fishing with my father. I still do things with my father. We go to Baseball games.

• When I was a kid I couldn't wait for summer to play Softball. I still can't wait for summer so I can play Softball.

I know these are not the big earth shattering things but writing them down brought back a lot of memories. Thanks STEPH. You Rock!!

When Will It End?

Today I heard on the radio about a 14 month old baby boy gunned down while in his car seat. He was in the back of a car driven by his mother. His twin sister was not in the vehicle at the time. She will live the rest of her life with a big void in it. A big hurt for her brother that she should have been best friends with. The police say only one bullet pierced through the car and hit the little boy. The bullet hit the little one in the head.
What had this little boy done to deserve such an awful fate? They say it was a vendetta against the mother's associates. Boy I bet the shooter feels really proud that they shot that big bad little baby. They haven't caught the person that pulled the trigger so we don't know if it is a man or a woman. All I can say is that they are a coward!!! I not very bright coward. I say this because the get-away-vehicle was a tan H3 Hummer. Like there is a lot of them out there. You can probably count them on your hand in my area.
The police think they found the vehicle and have questioned a suspect but have not made an arrest. I hope the person resists and some one will have to put them down!

In other news around my neck of the woods we have another really smart guy. He killed his wife by strangling her. He used his parents tool-and-die shop to cut her up. He reports her missing after a week goes by. He then cries to the reporters about her missing.
Some one finds a zip-lock bag with latex gloves, metal shavings and human blood in it in a woods by the their house. Other body parts turn up in a nearby park. So this really smart guy goes back out into the woods and retrieves his wife's torso and brings it back to his house and puts it in his garage. He thinks that the police amy find it out there. The police say that while he is killing his wife they're two children ages 6 and 4 are asleep in the house. Fearing he is going to get caught he borrows a neighbors truck and hightails it up north to Wilderness State Park. Police traced calls from his cell phone to the park and went after him. So the not so smart guy takes off on the run in only a t-shirt, socks, and pants in 14 degree weather (that is -10 degree Celsius). He is on the run for ten hours and police find him under a fallen tree. They probably could of saved the tax payers a lot of money and just left him there and watched him die of exposure. Which the doctors said may not of taken very long with those conditions.

How can we as humans be so evil?Opening fire on a car because you think that they may have some one in it that you don't like. They don't even stop to think any more. To kill your wife who you promised to love and cherish. Why, because she went away on business trips. Here in Michigan and the rest of the world I think there has to be something done and done quick to end these brutal slayings. Gun control is not the answer. The bad people will still get guns. We as humans have to start to change. To raise our children to respect others. To respect life. We have given in to the idea that they are free spirts and need to grow without intervention. Is it the lack of discipline, the lack of compassion, the lack of an adult figure in their lives? I don't know the answers I wish I did. It is just so easy now to just kill some one because they either looked at you wrong or said something you didn't like or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I didn't start this blog to get on a soap box like my loving wife tells me I do sometimes, I started it to just write about things. I would like to write about things that are fun and enjoyable. Maybe one day I will.

Update: This IS Going Too Far

Well it seems we do have a few intelligent people left in the world. The Circuit Court Judge in charge of the case ruled even though Michigan law doesn't explicitly define sex with a dead animal as a crime, but he does say that the sodomy law is to actually protect society and to prevent people from acting like animals themselves. This now has been upheld by two courts the District and now Circuit. It seems that they should just get on with the trial. The Judge also upheld the indecent exposure charge. The Judge wrote that it was irrelevant whether the patch of woods was public or private, there was a substantial risk someone would see him. Ya think!!!
Oh and by the way the guy was also ordered to undergo a second psychiatry exam.

I would lie to thank all of you that have commented about this and I will keep you all up to date on what is happening.