Diamond Dave’s Blog

Teri’s dead. Actually she’s been dead for 15 years, but she’s been kept “alive” (if that’s what you want to call it) by artificial means. Now that she’s dead, I’ll state my opinion. Why did her parents (and it seems, the whole entire world) wanted to keep her alive? All that time, money and resources were used to keep her alive LONG past where they should have. Its a quality of life issue folks. Yes, its very sad that Teri’s husband and her parents have lost her. But to be trueful, they lost her 15 years ago. If the good Lord had his way, she would have been in Heaven long ago, where hopefully she now is. Of course its not over yet, and won’t be over for a long time. I’m just so glad that Diana and I have Living Wills. I’ll make it perfectly clear to the whole world - if I were in the same situation is Teri was, please pull the plug! If there is absolutely NO hope whatsoever in recovering, please end my life. I may not be suffering, but the people around me will be. People are born, people die. That’s life. Its sad that Teri had to die the way she did, but we all must die eventually. So to Teri’s parents and all of her “supporters” - here’s my words of advice: Its sad that Teri’s parents and her husband had to suffer such a loss. But for all of mankind, its time that everyone let her go and be with God. There is absolutely NO benefit of keeping her alive any longer. Was starvation a bad way for her go? From what I’ve read, its not as bad as it seems. From what I was able to determine, she was not cognizant of her surroundings or the people around her. She was probably unable to realize what was going on. She did not suffer. The rest of us, however, did. Please put this to a final rest. Her life is finally done, both emotionally and physically. It will be a hard adjustment, as is any death. I still mourn the death of my mother over 4 years go. But time heals most wounds. I’ve moved on, I advise each and everyone of you who are “suffering” to do the same. Thank you.

Sorry for not updating the blog. Been busy at work.

So what the hell is going on with this Terri Schiavo case. Why is this front page news? I’m certain there are other cases like this in the country. So why is this getting so much attention? Why are politicians getting involved? Its not a case for congress to handle. It really shouldn’t even be in the federal courts. Its like the Scott Peterson case. I’m certain there have been other murders in the country. Must be slow news days and the media has nothing better to do. I can see celebrities, like Wacko Jacko, but Terri and Scott are nobodies as far as 99.99% of the country is concerned. I’m not going to take a stand one way or the other on the Terri Schiavo case, but please SHUT UP!

Speaking of Wacko Jacko - he probably deserves to be in jail, but it looks like the case is falling apart. The kid who was supposedly molested isn’t very reliable, and one key witness is now behind bars. And of course there are these people saying that the family that’s taking MJ to court are in it just for the money (which looks that way). But knowing how screwed up the court system is, MJ will walk (or is it moonwalk) out of the courtroom and back to his kiddie playground known as Neverland and have some more “Jesus Juice”. Sicko Jacko if you ask me.

Diana and I went to the annual Virginia DeMolay Advisor’s Retreat in Williamsburg. Its a free weekend (dinner, hotel and breakfast the next morning) so we took full advantage of it. Not much new in DeMolay as a whole (ISC or state) except for the usual (insurance, Youth Protection Video….). Afternoon speaker was OK but not great. Attendance was pretty low too. But the dinner was excellent. This was Diana’s first time, it was my 6th (I skipped one year). Worth it. We stopped in Richmond to see Heather. We finally went to TT Lounge and had a Boba (bubble tea) slush! Yum! Think of the bobas as you would large tapioca pearls but brown instead of white/clear, sweet and delicious. I had chocolate, Diana had vanilla and Heather had the green tea. Overall very cool.

Well, Martha got released today from prison. Many think she’s washed up, but I think she’ll return better than ever. She has that kind of personality that she won’t give up without a fight. She’ll make her millions again real soon.

Visited a small test ship today in Annapolis for a project I’m working on at work. Its called the YP-679. Here’s a link talking about it. Here’s another link with a picture and talking about a past mission for it. (Its better looking in person than the photo). We’re looking to put networked open standard sensors on the ship in April.