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Despite the fact that he was convicted in previous crimes and acquitted of others, he is innocent.

The DNA evidence (rape kit? clothing?) that would eventually clear him, was thought lost. Or, so say prosecutors. The evidence “surfaced” when a pipe burst in the room which it was housed.

Interesting that more and more people are being let out of prison, innocent. What debt does society, the state in which they were accused and convicted, and the legal system that failed them.. what debt do we owe people such as this? With time taken from their lives, with personal relationships ruined, not to mention lives of children involved, what sacrifice do we owe these people? Any?

Better yet, how many innocent people are wrongfully serving sentences for crimes they did not commit, learning to become criminals? How many are sitting on death row?

I just watched Air Force One fly over my house. Apparently, they parked it in Flint. Sounded loud and whiny… Well, that’s a lot of presidents I’ve been around or, at least near. Carter, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Jr.

Once, while stationed in Korea we were ordered to prepare for an inspection by then vice president, Bush Sr. We were in the middle of a pretty bad hot and dry spell and the grass was all brown and dead. Much like it is now. While painting rocks white with my squad, the First Sergeant ordered us to also acquire suitably green paint and paint the grass green as well. We found some of the green type of RADAR scattering paint used on vehicles and used that. Well, there we were rolling out the green paint onto the dead, brown grass. Of course, the entirety of the stupidity of what I was doing was so apparently obvious and painful… I could hardly stand it and still can’t. I wonder how much that paint cost per gallon.

Bush never showed up but, a cat did walk in the green paint and track it all over hells creation. There were little green kitty prints everywhere, right up to my last day at the place. I bet they are still there.

Anyway, that was the day I decided to get out of the Army at all costs. I’m sure you understand. It took me another 3 years to do it but, I managed somehow.

Paxtonland patrons know that I am frequently afflicted by another compulsion, Insomnia. Actually, Insomnia is a movie that has been directed by Christopher Nolan, who also did Mememto, a wonderful mindbender. Further research unveiled that he is also working with Jim Carey on another Howard Hughes biop called “Larger than life” which should be interesting as well. Anyway, Insomnia is scheduled to open in late may and stars Al Pachino and Robin Williams, among others… looking forward to it coming out on video as I never leave my house anymore… *sigh*

Yeah, I have one of those cool birthdates… The last one was 6/7/89 and next one is 1/2/03. Today I am indeed 35. birthdays are never really a huge problem for me. For some, they mark the inexorable passage of time. Like mile markers… counting the miles all the way to the “exit” (okay that’s bad, I admit). For the last couple, I just get a little moody and pissy… then I cheer up when its over. Now, I look at my birthday as a chance to party and hang with my wife, kids and friends.

My wife thought it was very sad that I never had an actual birthday party. There must’ve been one while I was in San Diego with my mother and grandmother, cause there are pics. But, I was too young to remember it. I was 2 (1969!). Anywy, my first b-day party was given to me by her. She had Mordred come, a couple of other friends and her parents and grand parents. It was great, the best b-day I can remember. I was… what… 28?

Anyway, to everyone who dropped me an e-card, a small note, and wished me well today. Thanks very much. I must be doing okay, cause there were a lot.

The paxtonland Forum (version 2.0) is up and running. Back from the dead, we’ve put things back together, given it a slight face lift and added more functionality. If you were a member, please register your name in the new forum. If you are a new member, please do the same.

Hopefully and with any luck, we’ll have a nice place to talk about many things. It will take a while for them to build up some real momentum but, the last version went very well. Now that we have our own domain, server space, and databases to run everything, it should be great. So get in there!

Well, as I threatened… I put up about 14 megs of pictures. There’s summer 2001, misc. 1999, 2000, and 2001. I’m sure I have more but, that’s all I can muster the energy for right now.

I started the snow removal process at about 6:00 am. I cleaned off my car and shoveled a path to it. It snowed completely over what I had done in about 15 minutes. It was coming down early this morning at a rate of about 1/4 inch every 15 minutes. Anyway, I made it out of the driveway and around the block pretty easily. But, that Buick is a pretty good car. Well balanced, heavy, and front wheel drive. My old car, the Corsica, would have been a nightmare. It was so front-heavy… that if my toe even slightly touched the brakes, I’d go pinwheeling down the street.

Well, here’s what we’ve got so far. Click for a larger image (pics will open in a new window):

I’ll take more pics if the kids go outside… Oh, you can look at the pictures of the Blizzard of 2001 too as a comparison.

I’m here, I’m in hiding, I’m not dead…

Not a lot of activity on paxtonland due to the fact that I’ve been focusing on getting through the holidays. I’ve spent a lot of time with my family and that time I can never regret. Soon, I’ll post the pictures from the holidays here as always (4th year running)

I’m a bit late due to the fact that I’ve been trying to focus on the Clinecta project and writing some of my first software in almost 8 years. Needless to say, I’m getting an invaluable crash course in PHP which is magical, by the way.

Rest assured that all is well here, I’m still firmly at the helm of paxtonland, and expect to see more as soon as I am able. Which won’t be long.

I’ve done a bit of optimization to allow the comments posting and searching to work a bit faster. Part of the reason that things are taking so long is due to the sheer size this place is getting to be. There are almost 1400 entries here for gods sake! I never realized there was that much drivel here.

A bit of javascript has also been added in order that you will be remembered when you post comments. That way, you don’t have to go to the trouble to re-enter that text each time. Also, spell checking has been added to the comments links thanks to spellchecker.net. It was pretty painless and works very well, for free even.

Spell checking has also been added to the authors posting menus. Let me know if you experience any problems with these changes.