Dru’s New World

Every time the White House Drug Czar, John Walters, speaks of the Medical use of Marijuana he says things along the line of, “Snake oil” “Medicinal Crack” and everything you can think of someone saying whose job depends on keeping Marijuana illegal.
Here is the Question, If this is all true and the beliefs of the White House, then why has the Federal Government been giving it to patients for 30 years?
Yes today marks the 30th year since the Federal Government started giving Marijuana to Robert Randal May 10th, 1978. It was considered a Research program that during those 30 years have seen 34 members of the group. 4 of them are still surviving. and those four are still receiving their 10 ounces of Marijuana per month.
NORML has an article here
Now for some of you that think that Medical Marijuana users just want to get high:





HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEDICAL MARIJUANA (although you are really thousands of years old)

I will try to do anything to keep from Failure.  I will make sure I do not fail at something I do.  However when you work for other people that do not understand certain things about the new world of Technology sometime it feels like a set up for Failure.

Todays Project:

I am in charge of Network Security, we do have a help desk but for some reason they want me to set this laptop up for a special project.  The requirements: Windows XP, Office 2007, and Network Connection.

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 3800.

Well I am not a Master at any field but let me say this one thing.  I was curious so I did a quick Google search on this type of laptop to quickly find a review.  The review was written in August 2000…  Now I have this Machine that was around to see the twin towers get taken down, This computer was used by someone to watch the Summit meeting held by George Bush and Tony Blair for the summit meeting at Lajes Field in Portugal.  For all I know this laptop could have helped tally the Vote for George Bush’s Re-Election.  This laptop is older than my youngest daughter and my oldest wasn’t even in School yet.  This laptop probably had Windows NT 4.0, Office 98 and ran great… 

Now I am suppose to get this thing running secure with Windows XP, Office 2007 and Symantec Antivirus?

I am doing the live update for Anti Virus that has not been done since April 2007 and it comes up with - “Not enough Hard Drive Space”  I am trying to add the user account for the person, “Not enough Hard Drive Space”

So, I go to my boss and say, “Can I sent this laptop to the Smithsonian?”

“GET IT TO WORK” is his reply…

I am a Veteran of the US Air Force. I will always support the Troops that have volunteered to serve our country. Today I was looking around the Web and stumbled across this great group. Patriot Guard Riders. The reason I like this group is because of what they do. When you deal with most Veteran groups they like their parades and they like their publicity but they also like to provide thier political views and comments. If you are a Veteran in these Organizations and your view is completly different from the majority you can acrually be treated so bad you don’t want to show up to the functions anymore.

This is part of their mission statement:

We don’t care what you ride, what your political views are, or whether you’re a “hawk” or a “dove”. It is not a requirement that you be a veteran. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what your income is. You don’t even have to ride. The only prerequisite is Respect.

This shows you right there that they are there to Support those Members of the Veteran Ranks that deserve Respect.

I just noticed that My birthday was last week… Well I guess I forgot that one. Anyway, Someone else didn’t and made a Post on her site for me.
The reason I am linking this is because She got a really nice picture of my new house on there:
http://holliboyd.com/2008/05/happy-birthday-honey/

I am in the Market for a new job. When I was a manager I learned that the more fun your Team has the better quality of work you get out of them.
My Current Position is very Old School and all my fellow team members keep warning me every time I smile. Well seeing the lack of enjoyment in my position my Girlfriend sent me a Job she found. This is a company I have watched for a few months just because I stumbled on the Founders Blog and liked what I saw and then realized he was local to me.
Just a couple of statements from the position.
First what draws me to this - “We’re seeking bright, talented, Internet-savvy people who are gung-ho about learning the art of Internet marketing” - I am bright and Internet Savvy. Talented in what I have time to practice… My current Job doesn’t give me much time to read up on Internet Marketing but Those from Whiteseasons will remember how excited I was when I saw a Google Pagerank of 3.
“you do NOT need to know web design or programming” - This is good because I usually find the code I want and then manipulate for my needs. Why create something new when there is so many open source programs out there?
When I was a Manager I would notice that when I stopped all work in the middle of the day to throw a game of Darts, Those that participated would work harder after the game was over. This lead to my supervisor yelling at me a lot but we never stopped because every time we did this the project would beat the deadline. So this leads me to the last statement and the best statement, “There’s free ice cream at the office, we pay your monthly parking, we have pizza days, a ping pong table, and more.
Food and Ping Pong!!!! How in the world could it get better than that? Free Icecream - I may get fat but I would be one Fat, Happy employee… Hmmm… If I was to get a job like this somewhere I think my suggestion would be Weekly Dart tournament - The winner gets a free Ice Cream Cone.
Did I apply? OF COURSE…
Will I get the Job??? Probably won’t even get a call but it does give me hope that there are places out there like this.