Friday, October 28, 2005
Weekend here I come
Yeah for the weekend! I'm excited. Well, the weekend always makes me excited! I'm still feeling great...so that's good. Yesterday I got a full nights sleep thanks for falling asleep early. This time it was not in front of the TV though. I was reading in bed...I think it was like 10pm or so. I was feeling pretty tired and decided that I would read in bed to test how tired I was. I guess that I was pretty tired since I only read a couple pages.
Work was busy today, like it has been for the last month or so. There is also a protected posting to go along with this one. It's only the second one that I've done...but it's there to read. I've added everyone subscribed to me to my approved list for the protected posting, so if any non-subscribers have been paying me regular visits, subscribe via this link and I'll add you
http://www.xanga.com/Private/SubscribeTo.aspx?user=jhartsell
Yeah, protected postings are pretty cheesy and really take away a lot of the openness of the whole blogging sphere, but it's a necessary evil in this day and age. Most of what I talk about is stuff that I feel comfortable sharing with anyone....but some stuff has to stay private. Not like it is super secret squirrel, it's just stuff that I don't want to share with Google and all the other search engines.
Well, enough on that...on to the rest of world.
It looks like New Orleans is slowly starting to clean up it's employees post Katrina. They fired 45 cops for desertion today. That's probably a good thing, although I hate to see anyone lose their job. Early on, in the immediate aftermath of the storm I watched a story on some news network about what happened to these officers. Yes, some of them were unable to get to work and some just up and left. Personally...I can't handle that up and leaving. Yes, I believe that family comes first...but how can you as a police officer justify leaving your post for your family? What if every officer did that? How is that keeping your family safe?
So....to play devil's advocate I would have to put myself in their shoes and think through what I would do. First of all, my family would have evacuated and if they have evacuated they would have been safe...because if you aren't safe evacuating, what the hell is the point of evacuating? Also, I know that Amanda would not be happy about being left on her own, but she is capable and tough enough to handle the situation, and hopefully she would not be as selfish as some of the wives that I saw on TV talking about their husband the cop. Ultimately though if these cops felt strongly enough to abandon their job they probably don't give a crap about being fired. It's the direct result of their action and they had to know that going into making the decisions that they made...or I sure as hell hope.
So would I have left my post? Hell no...but hopefully I'm never placed in a situation like that.
Well, between these two posts I've been typing for a long time...I need some food!
****Note***** The protected post is only available on xanga, so you'll have to register there to get an account. Sorry!
Yeah for the weekend! I'm excited. Well, the weekend always makes me excited! I'm still feeling great...so that's good. Yesterday I got a full nights sleep thanks for falling asleep early. This time it was not in front of the TV though. I was reading in bed...I think it was like 10pm or so. I was feeling pretty tired and decided that I would read in bed to test how tired I was. I guess that I was pretty tired since I only read a couple pages.
Work was busy today, like it has been for the last month or so. There is also a protected posting to go along with this one. It's only the second one that I've done...but it's there to read. I've added everyone subscribed to me to my approved list for the protected posting, so if any non-subscribers have been paying me regular visits, subscribe via this link and I'll add you
http://www.xanga.com/Private/SubscribeTo.aspx?user=jhartsell
Yeah, protected postings are pretty cheesy and really take away a lot of the openness of the whole blogging sphere, but it's a necessary evil in this day and age. Most of what I talk about is stuff that I feel comfortable sharing with anyone....but some stuff has to stay private. Not like it is super secret squirrel, it's just stuff that I don't want to share with Google and all the other search engines.
Well, enough on that...on to the rest of world.
It looks like New Orleans is slowly starting to clean up it's employees post Katrina. They fired 45 cops for desertion today. That's probably a good thing, although I hate to see anyone lose their job. Early on, in the immediate aftermath of the storm I watched a story on some news network about what happened to these officers. Yes, some of them were unable to get to work and some just up and left. Personally...I can't handle that up and leaving. Yes, I believe that family comes first...but how can you as a police officer justify leaving your post for your family? What if every officer did that? How is that keeping your family safe?
So....to play devil's advocate I would have to put myself in their shoes and think through what I would do. First of all, my family would have evacuated and if they have evacuated they would have been safe...because if you aren't safe evacuating, what the hell is the point of evacuating? Also, I know that Amanda would not be happy about being left on her own, but she is capable and tough enough to handle the situation, and hopefully she would not be as selfish as some of the wives that I saw on TV talking about their husband the cop. Ultimately though if these cops felt strongly enough to abandon their job they probably don't give a crap about being fired. It's the direct result of their action and they had to know that going into making the decisions that they made...or I sure as hell hope.
So would I have left my post? Hell no...but hopefully I'm never placed in a situation like that.
Well, between these two posts I've been typing for a long time...I need some food!
****Note***** The protected post is only available on xanga, so you'll have to register there to get an account. Sorry!
