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Wednesday, 07 October 2009
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With a long time away from xanga, I had to remember how to work it! With Cindy close to 5 months pregnant, working at the auto shop I opened along with everything else doesn't leave much time for the computer! We're still running the ambulance although Cindy goes as an observer only. She can;t pick up much, but she is pretty much over the nausea and mood swings and all that. We still don't know if it's a boy or girl so we haven't come up with names yet. If you have any ideas let me know! The baby's due in March and Cindy's doing fine. Other than having a pig we're fattening for Christmas and a few chickens, there's really nothing new here. We've also got a stupid dog I kind of wish would run off. I haven't even gotten the bike out much lately. I doubt they would even start right now!
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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bike crash, fence and plane "crash"
Well I always thought if I ever ran anybody over on the bike it'd be one of those rose salesmen who walk around in between traffic...........last Sunday a guy running back to his car from a taco stand ran out in front of Cindy and I on the goldwing and I hit him going about 40. He wasn't injured "much" and we were both pretty much ok.......quite a few bumps and bruises, and a totally destroyed back hard box from the goldwing. jejejeje he had a bag of tacos with beans and hot sauce and everything. when I hit him all that went flying and Cindy thought it was all blood and guts! hey, sun baked beans and hot sauce are not very good for a bikes paint job! Mejicojohn helped us out, as Cindy didn't really want to ride back on the bike, and we put together a little party here at our place to relax a little, well, a storm hit while we we out in the big building cooking out, and took out about 100 foot of our stockade fence! It started shaking like a snake and the the whole thing came down. We hired a couple of guys to come help, and it took 2 good days to repair the damage, but it's back up now and looks great. On Monday we got a weird emergency call, it seemed a plane had gone down near us, and the emergency crews couldn't find it, so they called me to take the bike and run up and down some of the highways and ranch roads and see if I could locate it. We finally found it about 35 miles away from where it was reported, and it turned out it wasn't a crash at all, the guy said the engine was sgutting down and he was able to set it down on a rock ranch road out in the middle of nowhere. About 20 truckloads of soldiers showed up, 4 ambulances, 2 fire engines, a bunch of press, and several other vehicles, big show for nothing! I guess it could serve as a training excercise though. hehehe the guy had about 3 hours to unload anything he wasn't supposed to be carrying, but we won't go into that..............................!
Friday, 01 May 2009
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ambulance upgrade...........
We've had to make a needed upgrade to our ambulance. Due to the distance from us to the nearest hospital, about 40 miles, and due to accidents often occur on the highway north of us, making the run to the hospital sometimes over 70 miles, and thats not including the time it takes for us to get the call and make it to the site!, we've had to figure out how to be able to carry more injured persons in one trip. We recently worked a roll over with 6 people spread out through the brush. We rescued 4 little girls, which was over our capacity, and had to leave the mom, who was least injured there to wait for another ambulance. One little girl, a 4 year old died on the way, and the mom died soon after the second unit arrived due to internal injuries not apparent during initial examination. Tuesday we went to a head on and with help from the nuevo Laredo fire department and their jaws of life, were able to cut a lady out of a car and I guess saved her life. We have installed a hanging stretcher from the brackets that are factory installed in the ambulance, where we'll be able to carry an additional person if needed. That will make our capacity to correctly carry injured persons 4, and if we move the gurney over a little bit, we can put one more back board on the floor next to the gurney, but that doesn't leave much room to attend to the patients on the way. The new addition is the orange thing right above the side bench seat. Most of the time, we are the only help available, and the time it takes for units to come from Nuevo Laredo puts us well over the "golden hour". On a sort of funny note, Piedras Negras doesn't attend to the highway as a rule, we go sometimes well within their jurisdiction, and still are routed back to Nuevo Laredo instead of Piedras Negras hospitals. On tuesday, 2 red cross ambulances left for this last crash, and ran out of diesel right outside of Piedras, an ambulance and patrol truck from Guerrero showed up after a while, and both were left sitting their as they also ran out of fuel at the crash site, and a volunteer crew from Piedras showed up, demanding to transport the patient due to jurisdiction, We didn't pay them any attention and went on about our work, when they tried to pull their ambulance back onto the highway, it died, also out of diesel. We all left and later found out that they flagged down tractor trailer after tractor trailer until one gave them a little diesel to get back to piedras. Imagine if they'd loaded this seriously injured person and ran out on the higway going back? It reminds me of the parable of the 10 virgins in the Bible................
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
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8000 murders over 2 years!!!!!!!!!!!
I recently read an article titled: "Mexico, more deadly than Iraq". It was more of the "scare Americans into staying home" stuff. The article stated that there were over 8000 murders in Mexico in the past 2 years. Wow, that sounds like a lot. I guess people ought to be scared. I went to the FBI website and researched murders in the US. yeah, I know. Probably nobody cares about the truth.............. In 2007 alone, there were over 17,000 murders in the US. If we appled the same number, even though it would actually be higher for 2008, that would mean over 34,000 murders over that same 2 year period........26,000 more than Mexico..........If 8000 made Mexico more deadly than Iraq, what does 34,000 make the US? Really, I'm just asking.................
Come visit Mexico! Deadlier than Iraq, but tons safer than the US! jejejejejeje
Monday, 16 February 2009
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drama update..........jejeje........!
I'm actually not even sure if anyone sees this anymore but thats fine, I have other things to do......... After days in court, everything from immigration, deportation threats, justice department, child protective services, etc..... for some reason I came out on top. The empire is secured, a "non agression" fence is going up to separate the properties, and Cindy will be coming to live here in the next few days. Cindy and I were actually legally married Today around 3:00pm!!!!!!!!! The civil part is done, Cindy is my wife!!!!!, jejejejej a lot of people said there was no way, but I believe God openened the way!!!!!!!!!!! We'll throw a Big Mexican wedding, invite all the Manosos, and probably spend way too much money, here we do all that with "padrinos" so I hope we can come up with a pile of padrinos!! I'll put up some pictures later, Hey, who says HOPE is dangerous!!!! Without hope, you die.................! jejejejejejej yeah, thats Spanish for hahahahahahaha!
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