Out of time

So this semester has been especially tough for me.  I have gotten to the point were there is not enough time in the day to get everything done and unfortunately this means that my school work has suffered.  I want to use this blog to apologize the our teacher Holly as I did not want to nor am I happy with not having enough time to fully complete all of the required assignments that we have been assigned during the course of this semester.  I can only go forward from here hoping that next semester will be easier as I will be taking less hours and hopefully not be having to work two jobs to put food on the table for my kids.  Once again I apologize and I am border line disgusted with my inability to fully complete all assignments during the course of this semester.  I hope you understand and try to show leniency in my final grade.  Thank you for all you have done for me and I am glad to have been one of your students.

1987 Harley Davidson Soft tail

So I decided to buy a Harley off of a friend of mine for a reasonable price.  In my opinion this bike is pretty cool.  I will give you a quick description of it.  The bike is black with just about every nut, bolt, cover, gaurd, wheel, rack, line, and filter in chrome.  The gentleman that had this bike before my friend had it, put a 21" all one piece billet front wheel on it along with 16" ape hanger handle bars and a set of pipes that are border line defining if you happen to be to close.  This bike is 24 years old so it leaks a little oil which can be totally expected from an older Harley and there are a few nicks in the paint.  It has just under 64,000 miles on it, so this bike hasn't been a garage piece, it has been ridin quite a bit.  I just recently spent about 5 hours working on it.  I had to change the oil and also change out a few gasket to slow some leaks and well it did just that.  I took it out riding yesterday and put a couple hundred miles on it and let me tell you, with the weather being as nice as it was, that was something that I needed.  I needed a nice ride to clear my mind from all the stresses of everyday life.  I truely enjoy blanking out my mind and enjoying all the scenary that I get to see when out on the road on a bike. 

Easter Weekend

So I had an absolutely exceptional weekend with my children.  I got my girls on Friday after work and we just hung around the house, played some games, watched some TV and ate some snacks.  Saturday morning we slept in then went to the mall to pick out some Easter dresses for them and let me tell you, I am not one that likes to go to the mall for any reason.  However, this was a special occasion since they are both now old enough to have a say in their own personal styles.  My six year old had her dress picked out within the first twenty minutes and within the first thirty minutes she had her shoes picked out.  My twelve year old on the other hand had to go to at least five different stores for her dress, had to try on fifty different ones and the we had to break for lunch before we even started on the long search for her shoes.  When we finally left the mall both of the girls were very happy with their purchases and I was worn out.  When we got home we were pleasantly surprised by my parents and one of my nephews coming by, then within the next two hours both of my sisters and the rest of my nieces and nephews were at my house.  Which I was very pleased with considering they all live about an hour away and we don't get to see them all that much anymore.  About an hour later in the day we had another surprise, one of my friends that now lives in Dallas stopped by with her two girls.  They were in town for Easter visiting her parents and sister and we were very happy that she came by to see us.  So Saturday was a very busy and great day.  My daughters and I then awoke this morning and the Easter bunny had came and the girls were very excited to see all the candy and the little gifts that the bunny left for them.  We then started the long process of trying to get two little girls bathed, dressed, and all done up to go to church.  When we finally made it to church I was pleasantly surprised once again by seeing another friend of mine that I hadn't seen for probably ten years.  After church I took my daughters out to eat a good lunch and then we came back home and the girls spent the afternoon doing their nails and playing games.  I am very pleased with the way our weekend turned out and feel very blessed to have my children, family, and friends in my life. 

Freaking crazy people.

So during my tiny little lunch break that I got during my day today, I decided that I was going to read up on a little news that was happening in the world.  I don't generally pay much attention to the news because there isn't ever anything positive on it and Obamas' face is always plastered everywhere and well it's no surprise, but I don't personally care for the guy.  Anyway, so I was reading through some of the stuff on my AOL homepage and I came across one that says mother drives car into river killing herself and three of her children.  I thought what the hell is wrong with people.  So of course I read on when I should have just left it alone after reading the topic.  It turns out some loon in New York got in some domestic dispute with someone and then evidently got so mad that she just said screw it, I am going to kill three of my kids and myself in one of the worst ways to die.  That will teach'em lady!!  I mean this is a sad story, the women killed three innocent children, ages 5 and under, but the even shittier side is that she let her ten year old out of the car before driving into the river.  Good job mom leave your ten year all alone in life all f****ed up because you had some melt down over some lame ass domestic argument.  The world is so screwed up.  Look if any other jack wagons want to go off themselves that at least leave your kids the hell out of it. 

What a great weekend

So my birthday is coming up on Tuesday April twelfth and so this weekend my children, my parents along with my sisters and their children all came to my house for a BBQ.  The weather couldn't have been any more perfect for all of us to spend the day outside and to watch all of the kids run and play and for once to be able to be outside without having to wear more than shorts and flip flops.  It was a great day, my mom fixed my favorite cake, my oldest sister bought me a new study bible and my other sister bought me some lottery tickets that I won $22 dollars on.  My children got me a Harley Davidson wallet and my parents got me a new handy little vacuum.  I feel very blessed to have my family around to celebrate not only mine, but all of the special occasions that come along in life.  I could not have asked for a better weekend. 

Sorry it's late

Let me just start with man I am tired.  I have recently had to take on more work to provide for my family and had I known this would come I would not have signed up for twelve hours of Internet classes this semester.  Now don't get me wrong, I am not whining I am only saying that I hope that I at least pass all of my glasses since I have already paid for them.  However I do wish that my parent's would have kicked my ass and made me stay in college right out of high school.  I am convinced that had I stayed in then it would have not seemed so hard.  Well, at least finding the time to do the work is hard, if I had an extra four hours in my day I bet I could get things done on time.  I only wish that somebody had told me that 24 hours in a day is not enough time to do everything that needs to be done with work, kids, school, sports, home maintenance, and laundry.  I need a maid, one less job, 6 hours less of classes, and a beer!

Spring Break?

So this coming week is spring break and if I was ten or twelve years younger without kids I would be completely pumped.  Well that's not the case, I have two children and now am working sixty plus hours a week to keep up with bills during this economic downturn.  Don't get me wrong, I love my children, but sometimes at the end of the week after work, school functions, paying eighty dollars to put gas in my truck, then spending the only extra time that I can find on Sunday to sit in front of the computer and try to cram 12 hours of classes into a half a day gets a little old.  However I am definitely looking forward to not having any homework to do this week so that maybe I can catch up on some house and yard work since it is now the season for that to.  I would love a plane ticket to a beach even just for a day,  just to get away from the madness that has become my life. 

Just a little story

This is just a little story, a story of a man that was confused.  

There once was a man with two children, this man loved his children more than anything and was for the most part lost without them.  This man had a job, a house, a vehicle, was continuing his education to better provide for his childrens future.  Now this man seemed to be on the right track as far as everyone else could see.  However he felt trapped, trapped by a busy life with non stop expectations of the man he should be irregardless of any hardships that he may face or had faced.  Only he knew the true demons that haunted him daily.  This man never shyed from stretching himself to the limit emotionally or fisically for others and willingly placing himself second to others within his friends and family circle.  The one thing that this man could never let beat was a addiction, an addiction to heroine.  Heroine was this mans demon.  A demon that made everyhing else in his life disappear once injected into his veins.  Now some suspected that he had some form of addiction to some mind altering substance and yet failed to help him, failed to be there for him in his time of need and times of personal struggle.  This man would have died happily helping anyone, but instead he died alone in his bed leavig behind two beautiful little boys to be raised by their grandmother.  It was the demon that killed him, his escape from reality, his substance of choice to help him cope with lifes hardships.  He will be dearly missed and anyone who had the privilage of knowing this man will forever have a whole within their hearts because he is gone.

This little story is about my cousin.  He spent his life helping others while leaving himself struggling with life and searching for reason.  Matt died alone in his bed after injecting some bad heroine into his veins and was buried on his 28th birthday.  I will truly miss him for the man that he was and will forever hate the demon that took him away.  I and all who thought that maybe he had an addiction will never forgive ourselves for not stepping up and stepping in to ask the questions that would have been neccessary to possibly save his life.

Unemployment

Unemployment

Yes, I know that this is a hot topic all throughout the United States and well, it has been all to real for me.  See, I got laid off back in March of 10 and you guessed it I have had a hard time finding suitable employment.  Well the wait is over "Thank God"  I have now found myself a new and somewhat seemingly promising position with a local auto dealership.  Yippee!! That's right I am pretty excited about this opportunity.  The hours seem good, there's benefits, holiday pay, vacation, and I get to visit with people all day long about cars and trucks.  If there were a couple Harley's in the showroom a keg in the corner and a banner out front that read "The Heman woman haters club"  I would never leave.

Ex-deputy asessed nine years for murder plot

Ex-deputy-assessed-nine-years-for-murder-plot

A jasper county ex-deputy will be doing nine years in prison for conspiring to kill a girlfriend and mother of his child.  Simmons, 29, of Joplin, was convicted of conspiracy to commit second-degree murder at a three-day trial in December. It took the jury about 30 minutes to return with the sentencing recommendation the judge followed on Friday.  The trial featured a recording of a conversation between Simmons and his ex-wife, Misty Simmons, on Oct. 30, 2008, in a cemetery at Carterville during which the couple discussed the murder of Kimberlee LeClaire.  Simmons had been fired as a Jasper County deputy a month before for unstated reasons. He  had left his wife for LeClaire and had a child with her. The prosecution said at the trial that Simmons began having second thoughts and wanted to get back together with his ex while keeping custody of the child he had with LeClaire. This is when the murder idea came into play. The trouble was, his ex was involved romantically with another sheriff’s deputy at the time, had reported his loose talk about killing his baby momma to investigators in the Sheriff’s Department, and their conversation during the late-night  in the cemetery was being recorded without his knowledge.

Umm, hey buddy did you think that since she was your ex that maybe you now had something that wasn't there before?  What a dipsh**!  Now I don't condone this type of behavior, but what the hell is wrong with people.  Telling your ex that your thinking about killing the person you left her for?  Evidently this guy didn't get enough sh** the first time with this gal.  I bet he doesn't go running after her again nine years from now.  Wow!

Judge orders man to stand trial in indentity case

Judge orders man to stand trial in identity case

The husband of a Joplin woman that was sent to prison this week for a baby for sale scam waved his right to a preliminary hearing on trafficking in stolen identities.  Wilks G. Sims Jr., 55, waived his hearing in Jasper County Court and was ordered to stay in jail until trial by Associate Judge Richard Copeland. The judge set March 7 for his  initial appearance in a trial division court.  Joplin police reportedly found various forms of identification for at least 81 people when they searched the home of Sims and his wife, Alice H. Sims, 29, at 1921 S. Wall Ave., after her arrest Dec. 8.

Documents seized contained  people’s names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and checking account numbers. Seized utility bills also showed that they had arranged for electrical, water and gas services to their home, and had started cell phone accounts in other people’s names.

His wife was sentenced Monday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to felony stealing by deceit. Her conviction stems from a down payment on a baby she accepted from two undercover police officers in the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant in Joplin. She claimed to be pregnant and had advertised the unborn baby for sale on Craigslist.

Really?!!  What the heck is wrong with people?  Now I don't know about you, but I am kind of thinking the prison is the right place for these people.  What kind of person, whether they are really having a baby or not, puts an ad on Craigslist stating that they have a baby for sale?  It sounds like these two were a match made in the county jail. 

Charge dropped due to absence of victim

Charge dropped due to absence of the victim

Back in November of 2009, a charge of second-degree domestic assault against Quincy E. Richards, 22, at a hearing in Jasper County Circuit Court. The assault charge that has been pending for over a year was dropped on Wednesday when Jasper County prosecutor’s office was unable to get the alleged victim to show up to testify at a preliminary hearing.  Richards was accused of choking the victim until she lost consciousness.  Richard plead innocent to the charges and the preliminary hearing has been rescheduled multiple times due the alleged victim not showing up.

First of all if someone is going to file charges, why in the hell would they not show up to court?  Now I am not saying that this guy is innocent but by her not showing up to court multiple times, sure doesn't make sense if he is guilty of the crime. 

On another note no matter whether her story is true or his story is true, it definitely sounds like there were some serious issues in tat relationship.

Really?

Michael Jackson's mother sues AEG.

I know that this is old news, but come on! 

Michael Jackson's mother Katherine is suing AEG, the company that Michael had a contract with for his next tour.  Katherine is suing AEG over negligence, stating that Michael's contract with AEG stated that they would take care of his health needs.  Katherine has stated that AEG didn't do their part by hiring a doctor that they had not done a background check on.  She is also suing them over the fact that Michael's son watched his father die at the hands of Dr. Murray.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am getting a little tired of hearing all of this stuff.  Michael Jackson chose his lifestyle.  Nobody forced him to get to a point in his life where he needed to be medicated on a constant basis just to get through his day.  Now I am not trying to be heartless in this situation, I do think that is a sad way of life for his children.  However, I am not really sure what they would have thought later on in life, had Michael lived.  All I am trying to say is, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous, all they do is get rich fast, live fast, party hard, and die young.

Woman in Huntsville Alabama almost raped by intruder.

Woman in Huntsville Alabama almost rapd by intruder.

I found this video on  youtube.com.  A women in Huntsville Alabama was almost rape by an intruder, when he climbed through her bedroom window and climbed in bed with her.  She screamed and her brother came to her rescue. 

I couldn't believe that this was actually aired on tv.  This is something that belongs on Americas Funniest Home Videos.  My initial reaction to this interview was almost in disbelief. 

On a serious note, this story could have not ended so funny, had this intruder actually raped this women. 

Just like the video says, you need to hide your kids, your wife, and your husbands to, because they are raping err-body out here.

Hospital gunman shoots mother then himself

Hospital gunman shoots mother than himself


Today, a man upset over his mothers medical condition, shot and wounded a doctor before shooting his mother and then himself.  This all occurred in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  The shooter Mr. Davis, was at the hospital checking on his mother and asking questions about her condition.  Evidently he got some information that he didn't agree with so he pulled out a gun and shot the doctor then went to his mothers room and shot her then himself.

I wonder why they do not have metal detectors at hospitals?

I am not sure what the mothers condition was, but I am pretty sure that killing her wasn't the best treatment that she could have gotten.

This article was pretty disturbing in the sense that a person would shoot and try to kill a doctor that is trying to treat this persons parent.  It is fortunate that the doctor did not suffer a fatal gunshot wound and he will survive.  I would imagine that he, along with many other hospital staff will probably require some psychiatric help following this event.

Snowmagedon!

I am not linking anything to this post.  I just want to rant a little about this beautiful weather that we have been so blessed with this past week.  OK, well that is a little sarcasm there.  What the heck happened to global warming?  Now if this type of weather keeps up my kids will be in school until July and the summer will be shot to sh#t..  Oh well I guess there isn't much that can be done about it so I guess we will just have to suck it up and ice our muscles from all of the shoveling.  Thanks for reading my thoughts and I hope you have a better time with the white stuff than me.

Missouri plowing first estimate reaches $5.5 million.

Missouri plowing first estimate reaches $5.5 million.


MoDot has said that the first estimate for plowing Missouri highways after the icy blizzard that has halted nearly the entire state is roughly $5.5 million.  They have also said that they will continue to plow and salt the roads even if they have to use all of their $42 million budget.  Modot is here to make the roads as safe as possible and if the budget is used up entirely they will cut back on spring and summer projects.

I never knew the real numbers involved with MoDot and I will have to honestly say that I really figured that it would cost more to take care of the highways in Missouri.  Then again there are some pretty bad roads in the state.  I guess now that I know what their budget is I can understand why some of the roads are in the condition their in.  I think maybe it's time to find some more money to budget in for the highway departments throughout the state.

Three Carthage residents die on Oklahoma Turnpike.


There were eight people in a Chevrolet Avalanche heading to work at a mushroom plant in Miami Oklahoma.  The eight were heading west on the Oklahoma Turnpike when the driver lost control of the vehicle and then plummeted 60 feet over a bridge into Spring river.  The driver, and front passenger both trapped in the vehicle died of hypothermia and a third passenger died later at  local hospital due to complications from injuries sustained during the accident as well as from hypothermia.  The other six were also transported to area hospitals where they remain in serious condition.

This is tragic, my heart goes out to all of the families so tragically affected by this.  These guys were simply trying to make it to work to provide for theirs families when some of their lives were cut short.  I understand what they were thinking by risking their own lives to help provide for loved ones as I myself have a family to support.  However sometimes in life you have to compare the risk taken to the reward received. 

Astronomers claim to have found a galaxy 13.2 billion light years away.

Hubble telescope sees a galaxy 13.2 billion light years away.

Apparently astronomers have seen what they claim to be the oldest galaxy ever seen.  This galaxy is said to be 150 millions years older than any seen previously by mankind.  This galaxy has been sighted by the Hubble telescope and is said to be 13.2 billion light years away.  The image seems to be very grainy at best and red in color and they say it would take many of these to make up a galaxy the size of the Milky Way.

This is pretty cool.  The technology that NASA has is amazing and to think that it is possible to see something 13.2 billion light years away is just absolutely amazing to me.  It is still hard for me to imagine how this can be done by any piece of man made equipment.  I am not sure how these things are done, but even further more intrigued by the fact that after all the years that mankind has existed on this planet that we are still finding amazing discoveries that God has created for us to explore.

1970s Marijuana Kingpin Arrested at Seniors Community

1970's Drug Kingpin Arrested at Seniors Community

A key member of a Miami based Marijuana smuggling ring was arrested by U.S. Marshals on Thursday, 31 years after skipping out on a federal trial.  Mark Steven Phillips who is 62 years old was a Kingpin that was part of the "Black Tuna Gang" that by some estimate had imported some 500 tons of Marijuana in the 70's.  He was one of 13 that were facing charges by a federal court in 1979, but Mark skipped out on the trial and has been on the run ever since.

This is amazing to me that this guy has been on the run for 31 years in the same city that he was busted in.  I mean come on 31 years?  I realize that this guy was not a mass murder but he was a fugitive of the law and one would think that it would not take 31 years to track this guy down.

A little about me

Here we go.  My name is Jacob Eggerman, I am a 31 year old male with two daughters.  I have spent the last thirteen years living my life a little in reverse by today's standards.  I have just recently decided to come back to college to finish a degree.  I have got about 57 hours of credits under my belt and I am currently listed as a Criminal Justice major.