Just Checking In.

The drive home today was a treat, the rain storm slowed traffic down to a crawl on the freeway. All in all it didn't take that long though. Does any one know what you do when there is a firetruck/ambulance bearing down behind you on the freeway and all four lanes are clogged. Past experience living in a small town reaction is to immediately pull to the side of the road. Not a good idea on a clogged freeway because the berm at the side of the road is the only place for the emergency vehicle to pass. Enough on that subject, I just read Carrie's blog and it sounds like things are going swimmingly in the west. I do think the second baby and the familiarity there makes all the difference in the world. Finally is anyone else getting as sick of news reports and hearing about the economy as I am. I don't want to turn the television on anymore and that is out of character for a tv junkie like me. The doom and gloom and interviewing the fat cats who still don't, and I am afraid never will get it, is depressing. I am probably not as interested in hearing about it because after all that has gone down in the past couple of years I am extremely thankful that Faye and I are still gainfully employed. Things are very bad in our old hometown in Indiana, it has been in the headlines recently and not for good reasons. I and my family (I hope I can speak for all of them) are hoping and praying for all the people living in Elkhart. Their future does not look great right now and they can use the thoughts and prayers of all of us, along with any financial aid that can be spared. Faye has cooked a good supper and it is ready so that's all for now!

New addition to the family!

I really meant to post before now, no excuses other than distractions. Last Friday the 30th of January we welcomed Lily Noelle to the family. She is healthy and so is mom Carrie. They are home now and Faye is with them this week helping out. Reports from Faye are that she is a really good baby (like she would say any thing else). I will post a couple of pictures of Lily, I am not the photographer, I had my camera, but either I was holding Lily or I forgot to snap pictures. Thank you to Faye for taking the pictures and then emailing them to me!
The pictures are pretty self explanatory so I am not going to caption them. More later!

Erring Out

Well once again I feel a need to put some more private thoughts out there, not necessarily for any one else to read but hopefully as a means for self improvement/healing. It was conveyed to me some time ago that in conversation between two of my relatives that I became the topic of conversation. During this conversation one person said to the other you know I love him but he is lazy. When this was relayed to me my first reaction was how dare they I have always held a good job never been fired from a job, etc. etc. All of that indignant self defense crap. The typical I am better than though B.S. After settling down and giving it some long hard thought I came to the realization that the person speaking knew me better than I knew myself. My life has been me giving up when the going got tough. If it was not easy for me, or not on my terms, I quit. I could go on and on about this but it started when I was very young and continues even today. The things I claim that are or were important to me if I had to actually work for them I quit. I realize now that what I thought was hard work was no such thing because I was doing what I enjoyed, and when doing what you enjoy the most strenuous physical work is as they say a labor of love. I can't change the past even if I wanted to, I do however have it in my capacity to alter the future. I intend to do just that, perfection, probably not, my best effort, with God's help and a better focus, I hope so. I have in the past found my self feeling sorry for myself because of what I have accomplished so far in life. I may not have accomplished what I had envisioned for myself, I may not have the education I had envisioned, but I can do what I wanted to do when I was younger. What I envisioned when I was younger was to help people, to assist them in feeling better. I can still do just that, not necessarily with the same capacity as my younger vision, but in some capacity. I am not sure how, as I sit here I am going to accomplish that goal, but with some thought on the subject I am sure I will figure it out. Enough for now, as always I will report back when I feel a need, or actually have something to say or report. Bye for now!

New Year

Well here it is 2009 already. The first weekend of the year was a busy one spent out of town. My cousin Lyndsay got married on Friday the 2nd and we celebrated Christmas with Carrie, Abby and Matt on Saturday. I am posting a couple of pictures in case you are interested, the middle two pics are from the wedding and the top and bottom pics are from Christmas in January. The wedding was very nice and we had fun at the reception being entertained by Melissa, that's her in the red blouse above. She was dancing with all of the small kids and when she tired them out she danced solo. As always it was a blessing seeing Abby, oh yeah it was fun seeing Carrie and Matt also. Abby just simply makes me smile she is the cutest little girl, she loved to pass out the presents and also had a great time opening them. It is fairly difficult keeping this page current after spending all day on the computer at work I really don't feel like getting on at home. I was off work part of the day yesterday and all day today, I had a gout flare up over the weekend and it is still really painful today. I have been taking pain med's and also the gout preventative but from what I have read the preventative is not affective after an attack has taken place. Hopefully it will be better in the morning and I will be able to get back to work. I received a new Wii game for Christmas and it has been consuming a lot of my time, it is a Lego game Indiana Jones. It is not the typical game when you think of Wii, it is a sit on your butt and play more like the older video games. Well Faye just walked in from work and I have supper on so I will attach the pictures and sign off for now. Happy New Year to all, and I am praying for a better year for all.

The tree! and more!

First it is Happy Birthday for my better half so I hope she had a good day, and I wish her a Very Happy Birthday. We purchased, erected and decorated the Christmas tree in the living room today, Faye is finishing it up and it is looking good. The first picture is the finished tree so you can judge for yourself and the second is Faye working on the tree. Well the girls all did this rainbow thing, so I had to try it also. I am not sure of it's accuracy but I will share it with you.

Your rainbow is strongly shaded green.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is says about you: You are an intelligent person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Just Another Friday Night

Here I sit in front of the boob tube (tube is not very relevant anymore, but boob still is!) , during the commercials I check out the progress of the Linux install I am doing on the computer in the den. It crashed a couple of weeks ago and I tried everything to reboot to windows xp to no avail. My solution is to install a new OS and Linux is free, besides I have wanted to play with it for a while now to become more familiar with it. I got some new parts for the Christmas project I have been working on for quite a while now. I received an email at work today from Faye relaying the message from Abbs that she would like to see the new animation movie Bolt. We are going to try to figure out a way to take her during our Thanksgiving visit. I thought at first we could just stay an extra night but I forgot that Faye has to go to a Bridal shower on Saturday and it is in Fort Wayne, IN about a three hour drive from here. Don't give up on Grandma and Papaw yet Abby we will try our best to see the movie. It's time to check the progress on the other computer so I am going to sign off for now.

HURRAH!!!!!!

Well we made it! Lissy and Chad are husband and wife. The events leading up to the wedding were fun, but the wedding itself was beautiful and the reception was simply loads of fun. We ate we danced and tried to converse but the music as usual made it difficult for conversation. I thought every thing was going great before the wedding and then Lissy walked off of the elevator, looking so beautiful and memories of Lissy through the years flooded me and I lost it. I turned away as quickly as I could but it wasn't fast enough and as it is on occasions like this the tears were infectious and Lissy did her best to hold back so as not to ruin her makeup. She did wonderfully and the wedding came off without a major hitch other than the lost license, but it was found and will be taken care of. It was good to see relatives and old friends and catch up with them as much as possible. I am adding a couple of pictures so you can see how great the couple looked. Enough for now pizza is on the way!