Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is over with good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,700 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, new, and improved 1,069-day Calendar. mom is at 30,354 which would make her 28 according to my new and improved calendar. 

* It has been 7,952 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I love what I do and am thankful to still be working in my field. 

* 6,546 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Life has been much better since then. 

* 5,750 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. I've been the luckiest guy since that fateful day. 

* It was 5,787 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, it was a great day with friends and family. 

* I have now lived 2,925 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 1,579 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,442 days, making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* Old roommate Gregg proposed to his fiancée 157 days ago, I'm happy for those two. I asked him a couple weeks ago if they set a date yet, he said we would be the first to know. 

* I have 2,192 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows, though, doing what I do I may never retire.

* 350 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. I'm still mad at the damn rat

* 317 more days to go until my Goodbye 2026 Blog is posted. 

* There are 310 more shopping days left until Christmas 2026. 

* There are 287 days until I hit the age of 63. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are only 171 more days to go until Michelle and I will celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary......maybe

* There are 30 days until my favorite season begins, a lot of people love different seasons, I am a Spring person who loves the Springtime. 

* It has been ∞ (infinity symbol) days that I have hated both Pitt and Penn State.

* I have written 8,252 blogs in what is now 21 years of Blogging. 

* Progress on my Selfie in Space, right here. We are ready for liftoff and holding. 

* I need to get some new bullet points. I like to keep a certain number that are regular, I need some more count downs or count ups. 

* This is my favorite TikTok, does anyone remember my brief career as a truck driver years ago? I ran rolled steel and Michelle's first father in law met his demise like this. 

* Have yourselves a great day

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end—but if you’ve got to wrap up the weekend, today’s a pretty exciting way to do it. Now it’s time to take our collective noses and press them firmly back onto the grindstone of life. Back to work, back to the hustle, back to doing our part to make this spinning rock a better place.

Kiwi and Peanut are bound and determined to build that waterfall in the back yard. Peanut is analyzing 3D data and created a TIN Model  based on some data they had flown and and plan on building a DEM with the TIN. They want to do an analysis on the best way to bring water into and exit the waterfall. They are bound and determined, I'll say that much. 

So what is up with us? I was sick all weekend. I woke up Friday morning with a sore throat from hades and it just never let up. Runny nose, fever, coughing, you name it I felt downright miserable all weekend long. 

So what is on my agenda for the week? I've sat down with half of a department and trained them to use mobile maps at work, provided feedback to the developers, and now I have another week of addressing the other half of their department. They work in teams, 12-hour shifts, and you rotate week to week between the day and night shift. I'm too old to do that. I like my regular sleep pattern, so I'll teach those young go-getters how to use the maps. 

Have yourself a great day and a let's get this week started. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit yet once again in a semi-quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut have stayed up all night playing Cards, I think they are playing Texas Holdem, they also ordered a case of Creme Soda and they had Popcorn, they must have eaten all of that. 

So what is on today's agenda? Not much of anything, probably a few chores early this morning, the ones we do every Sunday morning and that should be pretty much it. 

Michelle already got all of the grocery shopping done, so it's going to be a relaxing day, which might have a nap on the agenda, believe it or not. The older I get, the more I really appreciate 

I'm feeling under the weather, have been since Friday Morning, so my creative juices just aren't flowing.

Have yourself a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit on a semi-quiet Saturday Morning, Kiwi and Peanut have been up all night practicing the "If You Don't Know Me By Now" song that mine and Michelle's Wedding Dance, I think they have got their two-part harmony going with Kiwi taking the lead and Peanut doing the melody. They want to surprise her when she wakes up. They said it is Valentine's Day and they want to surprise their Mommy. 

It is Valentine's Day, which means that it is a special day for my Valentine and love of my life. I am so lucky for this wonderful woman to have came back into my life. 

Anyone ever hear the story of how Michelle and I first met? I was driving a route truck for Mister Bees years ago, and I was trying to drum up some new business and went to Patty's Valley Mart to see if I could enlist where I once worked at as a new customer. Michelle was the manager of the store and caught my eye. In a trip that should have taken me 10-15 minutes to set up, I think it took me a couple of hours to actually set the store up, all because of this really attractive manager Patty had working for her. Little did I know it was glimpse at my future. 

Michelle was married at the time and I was just getting ready to start college. Pan ahead a few years, I'm out of college, Michelle's first husband had passed away leaving her a widow and the window of opportunity presented itself once again with a chance encounter at WalMart. That was the year we did Christmas at Klaer Lodge and I had invited Michelle to come and spend Christmas with us. She stood me up, but that's another story..lol

Happy Valentines Day to my lovely wife Michelle and to all the happy couples out there. 

Make it special. 

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes, it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday!!!

Kiwi and Peanut are feeling both happy and a little sad. It is Friday (the 13th, mind you), but Phil saw his shadow, which means spring isn’t quite here yet. They’re both clearly ready for warmer days—doors open wide, fresh air drifting in, and that unmistakable hint of spring beginning to fill the air. Kiwi says he can’t wait to see the daffodils push through the soil and make their cheerful springtime debut in the backyard.

This is actually one of my least favorite times of the year. Football and the Superbowl are over with, Baseball really hasn't started, it's still cold and wintery outside and I'm just sitting here waiting for my favorite season of the year, Springtime where everything is reborn. Whoever came up with the acronym SAD (Seasonal affective disorder) was an absolute genius because they just came up with a good technical name for Cabin Fever. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Photo Flashback Thursday

Once a week, I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned, or just stole from somewhere on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up, recalling or reliving the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task, and sometimes it's not that easy, but one thing it has always been a lot of fun.

This is a picture of me actually outside of my office at Frostburg State nearly 20 years ago. By this time I was working remotely from home pretty much exclusively, but still went to my office (about an hour drive) every once in a while. I rarely put myself a the center of these images that often, it was due for an exclusive. 

I was acually looking at the Campus on Google Maps and I have seen a lot of changes that have occured to that campus since I last worked there. The Washington Redskins used to do their training camp here, like the Steelers do St Vincent's College. 

Have yoursleves a great day, make your own memories. 

Hi ho hi ho