In the Company of Perverts

We used to joke that Brookville, Ohio was the home of the four-way stop but apparently it’s becoming the home of the pedophile.

As with any city or town across the United States, there are times that stories break about sexual offenders and child molesters but these last few weeks the boiling point has been reached and the stories have bubbled over.

September 2nd, 2010, Adam D. Hardy, a former assistant band director at Brookville High School was indicted on one count of sexual battery for having an 18 month relationship with a 16 year old girl.

September 3rd, 2010, 81 year old Samuel Moody was indicted on two counts of gross sexual imposition of a child under 13.

And also on September 3rd, 61 year old Michael Windham is currently being charged with 5 counts of felony illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material while they build future charges against him of having sexual contact with at least two boys over a five year period — since they were age 13.  This story is continually breaking with more grotesque material as it is revealed that there were numerous sex acts with these boys at his house, at a cabin he owns and at a church where he was a prominent leader and that he paid them, took pictures and showed them pornography, including home movies of him and his wife having sex. And he is also co-owner of K’s Restaurant, a popular Brookville eatery.

If I wanted to widen the circle by only a few miles and include such areas as West Alexandria, New Lebanon and Lewisberg we would have an exponential growth of accused, indicted, arrested and convicted persons.

It’s disturbing and raw and a very cruel reality that there are sick sick people out there and we need to increase our efforts in protecting our children and the importance of communicating with our children.

Blowing the dust off

I’m a bad bad blogger. Let’s wake this place up a little.

Been a long time

Haven’t visited the old WordPress in a while.  Haven’t been slacking, just been really busy.

Upon logging in, was notified of 5 Plugins needing updated and that I am now up to 227 subscribed users.  Nice number, but many of them have a .ru address attached to them, and unless I really translate well into Russian, I’m thinking there’s some spam/phishing schemes getting through the filters.  So I’ll most likely send out an email to all of my subscribers and whomever doesn’t respond will go bye-bye. (Maybe I should send it multilingual?)

Let’s see, grandbaby Brooklyn is 6 months old today.  Brooklyn’s mommy, Andrea, has been having some awful health issues and has been keeping us all worried.  Joshua and Morgan both graduated high school. Work is taking a lot of my time.  Been attempting a re-edit of Mortal Death for an iBook release.  Let’s see.  Many other things happening/have-happened, but it’s time I get some of my routines back.  And hey, the blog used to be one of my routines.  I read somewhere that for something to become an actual routine in your life you must do it regularly, methodically, religiously for 6 months and then it becomes a true blue routine in your life.

Why I will never go see Alice Cooper again

They announced that Alice Cooper will be playing at the Fraze Pavillion, in Kettering on July 18, 2010. I love me some rockin’ Alice Cooper, and have seen him before. Too bad I will never go see him in concert again.

Back in 1987, I went to see Alice play at Hara Arena. Damn good show, and he uses such great theatrics. We had a blast. Thing is, three of us went and I am now the only person alive from our little group that went that night.

One died from complications after being in a horrific automobile accident. The other died from gunshot wounds that I talked about previously in one of my stories, The Glow.

So, Alice, rock on dude. I’ll stay at home and listen to you digitally.

The iPad for Christmas

My prediction is that today begins the Christmas season for Apple.

And why is that?

Because today is the first Monday since the release of the iPad, and today you will potentially have hundreds of thousands of people bringing in their iPads to show people.  You will have an exponential number of people getting to finally hold an iPad in their hands and play with it for the first time.  And then begins the best Christmas marketing that Apple could ever hope for.. because in the coming months those people will remember how it felt to use that iPad and they will want it, and they will want to buy it for their families.

I have mine packed and ready to take in to work today.  I was asked last week if I would be bringing it in for show-and-tell, since I was the only one in our small office that had one pre-ordered. So, currently, 1 out of 12 that will see it today.  I bet that number changes by December 26th.

Lawn King of Tampa Bay Website

One of my latest projects.

www.lawnkingoftampabay.com

On to the next. (Which is proprietary work for a big client and won’t be making the Internet rounds)

How Symbolic

25 years ago today the first dot com URL was created:  Symbolics.com.

Now there’s 100,000 dot coms registered per day.

When Sundays become Mondays

Stephen and Andrea and grandbaby Brooklyn were up for the weekend. Friday was Stephen’s 27th birthday, and his first birthday as a Daddy.

This picture is from last night while there was shopping going on for Brooklyn. She was trying on shoes and enjoying it. Her daddy should be really worried at this point.

I am trying out the MacJournal for my blog entries, so this is also an experiment on how it will transfer images over to WordPress.

Alright, I have work to do. I have a biggish project to wrap up. When you have a multi-billion dollar company as a client you want to keep them happy.

MacJournal

I acquired a copy of MacJournal through the MacHeist and am trying it out as my new word processor slash idea tool slash mind mapping application.

I have already created a new journal to keep my notes of the second volume of the Chronicles of The Collected. Yes, it might actually come to life. Years ago I had a title in mind for this novel after Mortal Death, but it has been lost into the ether of my mind… or my harddrive.

I have freelance work to get onto and some sleep I should be trying to catch. Stephen and Andrea and grandbaby Brooklyn will be here in the morning. Friday was Stephen’s 27th birthday and we’re going to do a little celebrating and cooing over the baby.

Olympian

Sitting here with my back out of whack for some weird reason that I’m sure has to do with my freaking age.

And I cringe as I watch these kids snowboarding on the Olympics. Right now Louie Vito just ran his second run, a 39.4. No podium for a (somewhat) local boy done good.

Now Shaun White, there’s going to be our champion. I think he won it from his first run.