Well, let's see.
Time for the old journal update...
My last journal was 15 May 04. Allot has happened to me scince then... Couldn't really talk about it until it was all said and done....
On 17 May, I was arrested. I've never, ever had a criminal record. The original charge was DUI. Yes folks, I was busted for having 5 mixxed drinks in 5 hours then starting the key.
Now befor you kind people start yelling" That F'n drunk, Kill him" etc etc... Let it be known that I am and always have been very much against DUI's. I've lost hella too many freinds, even a girl freind, from it. The truley morbid part of it is that I met the undertaker/ mortician that prepared my girlfreind for the funeral.. He told me in detail how he had to use 3 tubes of super glue to put her skull back together for an open casket service... He didn't realise who I was until I told him afterwards. He appologised for my loss. This was 14 years ago.
Let's just say that from that moment on I didn't want anything to do with Drinking and driving, that that was one hell of a insperation. I found all the info I could on the subject and had multible training breifings from working on base with the Gov.
Well, now back to 17 May04.
I was shooting pool with a freind. According to all those cards with a chart on it, I with my body weight should only drink 1 every hour. I did, and I did not gulp them down.. took me an hour between drinks. I had 5 in the 5 hours.
My buddy from work and I left the bar, he went his way home and I was on my way home. I foolishly sped 59 in a 45 beleaving it was a 55 zone. The p[olice pulled me over and informed me of my error. He smelt the bacardi on my breath and it went down hill from there. I had to do a feild sobrity test and failed after 5 tests. I case you've never experienced this, it's really an evil game of "Simon Says" that the vast majority of people fail, even if they haven't been drinking or stoned.
We then go to the police station where I blew a .081. Fl.'s limit is .08.
Well, to make a long story short, this machine has a history of "bowing high" according to it's maintance records. I knew I wasn't drunk. As you can tell from my ealier life experience, my policy is always "if I'm drunk, I don't turn the key. PERIOD"
I'm now convicted of a Wet Wreckless Driving from a plea bargain that I took just to get it over with.
I'll be doing 12 months probation, 50 hours community service. I'll be paying the courts $475 for fines and court cost. I'll be paying the police dept. $140 for the privledge of having them arrest me. I'll be paying probation $50 a month for stopping in and saying "Hi". I've got to take 2 classes- DUI and Victim arrairness at around $300 a peice.Another $4000 to the lawyer.
Grand total is $6000 or so. However, if I finish the community service and classes , as well as pay my fines by 6 months I get off probation. I also have a "Buiness Only Lisence" for 6 months- that means only driving for life's nessesities.
I tell ya folks, if you think you "handle 10" drink 7..... trust me on this. It ain't worth it.
Now for a better story. I come home on 4 Jun and find this:
Yes folks, that is my house. That tree laying on it is\was the one my grandfather planted in 1966... damn it.
Well, I can't get it to work... look at my pics. It's the first one.
Time for the old journal update...
My last journal was 15 May 04. Allot has happened to me scince then... Couldn't really talk about it until it was all said and done....
On 17 May, I was arrested. I've never, ever had a criminal record. The original charge was DUI. Yes folks, I was busted for having 5 mixxed drinks in 5 hours then starting the key.
Now befor you kind people start yelling" That F'n drunk, Kill him" etc etc... Let it be known that I am and always have been very much against DUI's. I've lost hella too many freinds, even a girl freind, from it. The truley morbid part of it is that I met the undertaker/ mortician that prepared my girlfreind for the funeral.. He told me in detail how he had to use 3 tubes of super glue to put her skull back together for an open casket service... He didn't realise who I was until I told him afterwards. He appologised for my loss. This was 14 years ago.
Let's just say that from that moment on I didn't want anything to do with Drinking and driving, that that was one hell of a insperation. I found all the info I could on the subject and had multible training breifings from working on base with the Gov.
Well, now back to 17 May04.
I was shooting pool with a freind. According to all those cards with a chart on it, I with my body weight should only drink 1 every hour. I did, and I did not gulp them down.. took me an hour between drinks. I had 5 in the 5 hours.
My buddy from work and I left the bar, he went his way home and I was on my way home. I foolishly sped 59 in a 45 beleaving it was a 55 zone. The p[olice pulled me over and informed me of my error. He smelt the bacardi on my breath and it went down hill from there. I had to do a feild sobrity test and failed after 5 tests. I case you've never experienced this, it's really an evil game of "Simon Says" that the vast majority of people fail, even if they haven't been drinking or stoned.
We then go to the police station where I blew a .081. Fl.'s limit is .08.
Well, to make a long story short, this machine has a history of "bowing high" according to it's maintance records. I knew I wasn't drunk. As you can tell from my ealier life experience, my policy is always "if I'm drunk, I don't turn the key. PERIOD"
I'm now convicted of a Wet Wreckless Driving from a plea bargain that I took just to get it over with.
I'll be doing 12 months probation, 50 hours community service. I'll be paying the courts $475 for fines and court cost. I'll be paying the police dept. $140 for the privledge of having them arrest me. I'll be paying probation $50 a month for stopping in and saying "Hi". I've got to take 2 classes- DUI and Victim arrairness at around $300 a peice.Another $4000 to the lawyer.
Grand total is $6000 or so. However, if I finish the community service and classes , as well as pay my fines by 6 months I get off probation. I also have a "Buiness Only Lisence" for 6 months- that means only driving for life's nessesities.
I tell ya folks, if you think you "handle 10" drink 7..... trust me on this. It ain't worth it.
Now for a better story. I come home on 4 Jun and find this:
Yes folks, that is my house. That tree laying on it is\was the one my grandfather planted in 1966... damn it.
Well, I can't get it to work... look at my pics. It's the first one.
Thanks for your concern about my mom. She seems to be in the clear.