Speed Traps.

 

 

I was cruising around the internet today trying to think of something to write in my blog. I ran across this website, which I have seen before. This cracks me up. Someone has obviously spent a lot of time and effort into making this website, and some of the information is correct. It's called Speed Trap. Here is the website.

 

http://www.speedtrap.org/index.html

 

Anyway the website is all about how speed traps are terrible and it even has a list of many places that police sit and watch for speeders. It's amazing that I found some of the places I know of even in little Idaho. It goes on and on about how you can fight a speeding ticket and how the big bad government just wants to give you big fines and such for speeding.

 

Let me just say this, and I think it would cover almost any argument that website can bring up. The speed limit's are there for safety. Whether or not you agree with the actual speed posted I'm not going to argue but I think that all of us can agree that we need laws in our country to help us live with one another. The speed limit is a law. Everyone tries to bend this law and most of the time we get away with it. Anyway we all know that the penalty for disobeying this law is a fine. So if you speed, and you get caught then you get a fine. It's pretty simple. If you don't agree with it then go to your local government and fight to change the law don't just get on the gas and break the law.

Nada zilch zero nothing

Nothing to report this week. I have had the last 4 days off from work, and i have loved every minute of it. Not sure why but these last few days off have felt great. I'm not looking forward to getting up at 5am in the morning for the next four days but i'm looking forward to getting back to work.

Funeral and a new video

The funeral services were very good, and I learned a few things about my grandparents that I had never known. I see a lot of dead bodies in my line of work, but for some reason I did not want to see my grandfather that way. I think it has a lot to do with I would prefer to remember him the way he was. I did go and look, and he just didn't look the same. Of course the fact that he wasn't wearing his glasses probably had a lot to do with it. The amount of family that came to the funeral was amazing. I don't know how many people were there but I would guess there were over 300 people at the service. I learned that my grandparents have 50 some grandchildren 90 some great grandchildren and about 13 great great grandchildren. That is a lot of people. It's amazing when you get together with that many relatives. It really makes you realized how important families can be.

 

 

 

So on a happier note. I placed a new video on here; this is a video of a scout project that we worked on with our scout group. My wife was the scout leader and we were trying to teach the scouts the importance of taking care of our communities and our earth. As you can see from the video we went to our local park and did some cleanup as well as pulled some weeds from the tennis courts. The kids all thought the video was great, I hope you enjoy it.

Grandfather Died :(

     Yesterday I was having lunch with my wife and my son. We were talking about Grandparents. Kenneth has a lot of grandparents. Anyway I mentioned that I feel bad that my son hasn't really had time to spend with my grandpa. My grandpa has Alzheimer's..(don't know how to spell that). He doesn't remember who his own kids are most of the time, so he definitely doesn't remember me, or my son. I grew up around him though, and he is a very great man. He has 13 kids, my dad being one of them.

     Well my mother calls me early this morning and says that my grandfather passed sometime during the night. I was shocked. I feel bad, I wish I had a chance to see him one more time. He only lives about 3 hours away, and we hardly ever visited him. I feel guilty about that. As far as grief that he has passed. I'm trying to find my feelings for that. I know that he has gone to a better place, where he will have his memory and his health. I know that he will have a place in Heaven. I am happy for him, and saddened for my grandmother. My own feelings are somewhat distant, because i loved my grandfather, however in the last years I wasn't really that close to him. I was much closer to him in my years growing up. 

 

My prayers go out to my Grandfather and all of his family, especially my grandmother.

No man is above the law.

Ok today I was in our office, and I noticed a new picture frame on the wall. It has a quote in it from Theadore Roosevelt. I was very impressed with the quote, and decided to share it with you.

 

 

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor."

 

Theodore Roosevelt

December 7th 1903

End of the Glory

    Well I think the Best of MSN experience is just about over. I rather enjoyed the fact that they featured cops. I think this is one of the most misunderstood, and yet most scrutinized jobs around.

 

On to my blog rantings. Tonight I'm working night shift which is 6pm to 6am. We had someone hit a power pole tonight. They knocked it clean out. The power was arcing and started two fires. Luckily it has just snowed here and there really wasn't much of a danger of the fires spreading. The thing that gets me is this person puts it in 4 wheel drives and gets the hell out of there, before anyone arrives. So now I have pieces of his car, and I have to try to figure out who did it. The only reasons for leaving like that are 1. He’s probably drunk, and 2. He probably doesn't have insurance. Really pisses me off when people do that and it's surprising how many people do.

     Earlier tonight I got a call from a passerby saying there is a car in the ditch. I go out there and sure enough this guy was test driving a minivan, and slid through a stop sign and into a ditch. He had already called a tow truck in hopes that the cops wouldn't find out about it.   I'm not sure what the laws are in the rest of the world, but in my area it is against the law to leave the scene of an accident which causes over $750 dollars in damage. The way cars are made today, if you spit on them they cost more than $750 to repair.

 

IT IS NOT OK TO LEAVE THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT. Ok done yelling lol. I didn't site the guy, I figure he didn't damage anything that he wasn't going to have to already pay for anyway, and the roads were extremely slick. I did give him the what for about not calling us. I told him that I should probably site him just for that. Oh well most of the time we have a slid off I don’t' site the driver. It's only if they cause a lot of damage to another vehicle or if someone gets hurt that I do that. Now that's just me, some officers will cite the drivers every time, and I have no problem with that. Most of the time if you drive out of control you should get a ticket.

 

How to put your own vids on your website

I have been asked many times now, how to put the windows media player on my MSN Space. Here are the instructions and if you want to learn more visit this website. There are a lot of things you can do it just takes some learning.   http://spaces.msn.com/members/thespacecraft/     PowerToys are here!!!

Windows Media Player PowerToy: The Media Player Power Toy is designed to allow you to play audio and video files within your Space. While editing your Space specify the URL of a Media file located on the web in the Media Power Toy and hit Save. This will allow the people viewing your Space to watch or listen to the media file you have linked. You can customize the experience even more by altering the player settings (like auto start, times to play, and player mode) while editing your Space.   Please note that this PowerToy, like the others, is available in English ONLY for now and is UNSUPPORTED.                                                                    This feature is to be used for authorized content only. Please respect the creative efforts and intellectual property of others, and do not link to unauthorized materials.  Linking to unauthorized material is a violation of the Spaces Code of Conduct and Terms of Use.   Follow these steps to add this Power Toy to your Space: Log into Passport and Edit your Space. In the Address bar of your web browser add the text “&powertoy=musicvideo” to the end of the displayed URL. Click the Go button next to your web browser address bar. Once the page has finished reloading, click on the Customize tab in your Space. In the Modules drop down menu in the Customize tab there should be a listing for PowerToy: Windows Media Player. Click the word Add next to it and then click the Save button.   PS: oh one more thing, you will need to have your videos or music hosted somewhere on the net. I have been using www.filelodge.com, seems to be a decent one, and it's free.