Picture of shoreline Isle of Palms  

entrance to resort hotel we are staying at in Ft Lauderdale Florida 

another picture of gas line with hundreds of people waiting 

One of many pictures of gas line in Ft Lauderdale Florida 

picture of building on the way to Orlando Florida 

Picture of Justin Moffitt taken in car during a recent trip 

Arrived in Orlando safe and sound

We arrived in Orlando Florida around 7pm tonight. We are in a very nice hotel called Quality Suites on US 192 if you know where that is. Anyway, we were very surprised that they were able to hook us up with a quality place to stay vs the RV nightmare when we went down to Louisiana and Mississippi the beginning of September. There are four of us in a split level suite with two master bedrooms a connecting kitchen and living room area. Of course there is high speed wireless Internet which is enabling me to write you this update. LOL... We are watching CNN and from what I can tell SW Florida got hit pretty hard. There is lots of flooding and property damage. Apparently there was loss of life thanks to people not heeding the warnings to evacuate. There is NO excuse for people to try and ride out a Cat 2 or 3 hurricane in a trailer park. What is wrong with these folks anyway? Orlando has beautiful weather and there are no signs of any affect from the weather. I would imagine that tomorrow morning we will get our duty assignments and I would imagine that it will be much further south of here. The state of Florida did not allow us to cross over the border with weapons so we will have to be unarmed which none of us are thrilled about. So pray for safety for those of us that might be faced with looters in the middle of the night. Hopefully not too much of that will happen here in Florida.



James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
http://moffittjc.myblogsite.com/blog
moffittj@bellsouth.net

Hurricane Wilma

As you can see Hurricane Wilma is bearing down on Florida and is projected to hit sometime early Monday morning and be on the other side of the state around 2pm Monday afternoon. I will be leaving with approximately 30 other security officers for Orlando Florida at 9 am in the morning and should get there around 4 or 5pm. Once the storm has come and gone then the damage assessment will begin and our customers will tell us where they need us the most. So, I wont really know what I will be doing until after we get there and find out where the most damage has been done.

The Dallas Cowgirls managed to lose the game to Seattle tonight with only 25 seconds left on the clock. Several times during the game Dallas got the ball in good field position and just could not put any points on the board. Cortes, the worthless kicker missed a 28 yard field goal. How pathetic is that. If it were up to me he would be fired tomorrow. Heck, I would fire him tonight and let him find his own way home. LOL... Dallas is now 4 wins and 3 losses in the NFC east. The Dallas defense played an awesome game today so kudos to them.

Hurricane Wilma 8:30 pm EST headed for Florida. Picture is from Intellicast 

Hopping mad

I was on the way out of my home a few moments ago to go find something to do to pass time until a meeting at 4pm. I decided that I wanted to use one of my light jackets because the weather has turned delightfully cool here in Goose Creek. The temperature inside is 75 F without the air or heater running which means it is aroun 65 F outside. Anyway, I asked Katy where my light jackets are located since I have not been able to find them. Katy was napping on the couch but she told me she would help me go into the kids rooms to find them. What a mistake that was folks. Good grief, talk about a nuclear melt down. Katy found her good leather coat in Justin's closet underneath a pile of junk. Well, anyway, lets just say I had to open up a can of whup A$$ on both of the kids today. We have told them a THOUSAND times that we EXPECT them to keep their rooms clean and in order. What does it take for them to get it through their thick skulls that we mean business when we talk to them. I HATE to use the belt on my children but today they have pushed us both to the limits.
It was just last night that I had a sit down conversation with the children. We had one of those "lets get to know one another" type of conversations. I gave the children the opportunity to tell me those things about dear ole Dad that bothered them and might be hindering their ability to have a relationship with me and/or keep them from doing what is expected of them. Believe it or not, after about 45 minutes of my coaxing them to share they sat down and gave me a list of "issues" that I can address to make things easier for them. Ok, fair enough, I wrote down the list of infractions, apologized to them for them and promised I would work on these issues. I asked them if my doing that would help them with regards to them allowing me to get close and/or their willingness to do what is expected of them. Oh yes, sir. That will help us alot. So, kewl, I figured that we had a successful discourse on stuff. Now this. I guess we can just talk ourselves until we are blue in the face and they are going to just do whatever it is they think they can get away with.
We have tried talking until we are blue in the face and we have tried taking away priveleges. I was HOPING upon hope that this would solve the problem. Take away priveleges they like and then they will straighten up and fly right. Instead it appears that what they do is just only do those things that are immediately obvious to us and then behind our backs get away with anything and everything they can. I know that teenagers like to push the limits but when it comes down to downright disobedience and being disrespctful I am going to have to draw the line.
Well, that is about it for now. Hopefully this experience will show them that we mean business and that they can expect us to enforce discipline on them if they choose to be disobedient.