Survivor Night

As some of you may have noticed, there was no Survivor night post last week. Blogger was having some serious problems and I lost my post.

Last week, Ulong was made a one person tribe. If you want to read about last week, Go Here and read about it.

Going into tonight's episode, we are still at two tribes, but the merger has to take place tonight. There are nine people left in the game, eight from Koror and one lone survivor from Ulong. Koror consists of Caryn Groedel, Coby Archa, Gregg Carey, Ian Rosenberger, Janu Tornell, Jennifer Lyon, Katie Gallagher and Tom Westman. Many of these names you don't know, mainly because they have not lost an immunity challenge yet. Ulong has one lone surviving member in Stephenie LaGrossa.

I checked the popularity poll and believe it or not the singing Wanda Shirk. That was a complete surprise, bit she was annoying. Stephanie has also emerged as the favorite to win the entire game. She has to be the sentimental favorite being the only member of Ulong left.



I look for a merge tonight, but you never know what the game holds.

The early part of the show keys on Stephanie and her one person tribe. She had to do everything to keep the camp going, from keeping the fire going to gathering food to doing everything by herself. She received tree-mail to let her know to grab her canoe and paddle to the Koror Tribe. She was in tears, because I think she was afraid of being alone. They are keeping the tribal name Koror.

The tribe soon had a couple local visitors who were there to teach the survivors how to fish Palau style. They all managed to bring in a feast of fish.


The immunity challenge now changes from tribe to individual. The immunity challenge was to stand on a perch in the water. The last person standing on the perch wins individual immunity and won't be the first member selected for the jury.

After three hours, and Jeff tempting people with doughnuts, Chocolate Chip Cookies and finally Pizza, Tom was the last man standing and won the very first individual immunity.



At tribal council the question of what alliances were going to fall into place and who successfully recruited Stephanie into their alliance and got the numbers needed. Personally I think it will either be Coby or Janu going home. Coby has ticked everyone off and Janu hasn't done anything since the game started.

By a 5-1-1 vote Coby was voted off and the first member of the Jury.

A nice Sunday afternnon

I got everything done early and mananged to make it to the WVU-Rutgers Baseball game at Hawley Field. When I first got there Rutgers was ahead 4-0 and had bases loaded. Coach Van Zandt got tossed from the game and it looked like it could be a long day. We shut them down after that and ended up winning 6-4.



It was a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon with baseball and a nice sunny day.

Tidbits

* congratulations to my niece Brittany, she has made the honor roll for the third time this school year. I'm extremely proud of her.

* It's calling for 76 degrees here today, so I want to get a good start on my days chores of grocery shopping, laundry and cleaning so I can enjoy some of the afternoon sun.

* Val started her new job this past Tuesday. She's working with my sister Pam in Sabraton.

* Amy is still in Chicago, she left Tuesday for a three week visit to Nick's sister Samira.

* I went to work yesterday for my first weekend at the NRAC since leaving. My Mailbox was gone, my computer was disconnected and obviously no one was around. We have a project winding down and I don't know how many more times they will need me to come in. I went in and did a little organization of where the project is currently at.

* Got a chance to have a nice little talk with Kim on the phone yesterday moring. She was blogging as I was talking to her. (How ironic)

* Stopped over yesterday afternoon and visited with mom. Sat on the pourch and BS'd for a couple hours.

* I also stopped by Jean's friday evening after work to say hello. Val and Erica Jean were there. Erica Jean has a walker now and is hell on wheels. So knows how to get around in that thing and knows how to navigate it very well. Actually picking it up and turning it when she comes to a dead end.

* I'm starting to look into other cell phone companies and plans. Ntelos just doesn't seem to have the ability to reach past Cheat Lake without going into either Analog or Digital roam. I'm leaning towards Cell One, but thats not a definate yet.

* I did manage to send Randy an e-mail this past week. I need to send another one soon. I'm very proud of him.

After the first week

After my first week at VARGIS, I absolutely love the job and everything about it. It's in my degree, what I was trained to do in college and it's quite interesting to do what we are doing.

It's a job that I actually look forward to going to daily. I don't know if it's the 762 mile drive each way that gives you a good chance to reflect on the upcoming day or just wind down after a long day. Maybe it's me getting a chance to learn a new marketable skill in GIS, I don't know, but I like the entire situation right now.

It's almost as if this is the light at the end of the tunnel that I had to travel through in college. While you are in college you do things blindly with the hope of finding a light at the end of that tunnel, I was fortunate enough to find it. It was a long journey, but well worth it.

A Quick Tidbits

* This is going to be a short, quick tidbits, I have to go to work in a few minutes.

* Tonight is my first softball practice of the year, I'm going to go and play with some friends this year and leave my old team. It's just no longer the same. The new team also has two other guys who I have played with before also joining the team. I don't know how much I can play this year, but I'm looking forward to this season.

* Amy sent me an IM from Chicago last night, she said she took my advice and had some of the Giadonna's Pizza my sister Kim advised me to eat when I went to Chicago, she said she loved it.

* My commute to work is an hour long, but this time of the year it has been a pleasant and enjoyable drive. Lots of scenery and it really is a stress free drive. Almost relaxing. Let's see what I say after the weather gets bad though.

* Got my first hands on chance to work with Stereogrammetric images yesterday. The best way for me to describe it is using your computer screen as one of the old 3-D View finders we had as kids, only intensified to the extreme. It's amazing that you can see a guy in 3D peeing in his back yard, and be able to zoom it to the stream. (LOL)

* It feels different for me having to dress up for work, but I actually enjoy picking out my wardrobe every morning. Already wanting to buy more Dockers, threy are a little expensive for what I'm used to wearing, but well worth the price.

* Gotta Run. Have a good day.

First day at new job

I started the rest of my life today. It was my first day working for VARGIS and I feel better than ever about my decision to join this team. I really like what I see and as far as potential, the sky is the limit.

The computer I have is an absolute state of the art Dell, 3.6 Ghz with 2 300 GB Hard drives and a 40 GB hard drive. Dual DVD drives, one a writer and two 20" monitors. What a set up, even for a computer geek like me I was completely shocked.

If you go HERE and watch long enough, you may see me on the camera during working hours.



The building on the lower right is the commons. It has a Taco Bell, Chic Fil-a, Pizza Shop, Starbucks, Rib place, a place that makes wraps like blackbear and a salad bar. On the other side of the walkway (sidewalk crossing the picture) is my office.

I'm really excited now for what the future holds.

Sunday Mornings

I just love early Sunday mornings, they are so peaceful and quiet. This Sunday morning is no different. I woke up at my normal time of about 5:00 AM, but recently it's been 4:00 AM for the past few weeks. Thankfully we move the clocks ahead an hour today so my bodies natural clock is back on it's normal schedule.

Being this is Final Four weekend, it would not be complete with out me watching my all time favorite basketball movie Hoosiers. I don't know how many times during WVU"s NCAA run that lines from this movie ran through my head. It's not a true to life movie, but based on the 1954 Milan High Schoolteam that won the Indiana State Championship.

I'll watch the movie and probably start my normal Sunday routine of grocery shopping and laundry.

A ceremonial walk of passage.

Today is April 1, but it is more than April Fools day to me. It is a day that I feel that I take a ceremonial walk of passage in to the next chapter of my life while officially closing out the current one.

Part of my daily routine is to drive the WVU Coliseum and park my car for the day. It has been he beginning of my day for about six years now. I would park there and either walk to the PRT or to the Ag Sciences building to go to work. Since I graduated last May, it has primarily been me walking to work.

It has been a relaxing walk that actually has a breath taking view on some mornings.



Today is my last day to work at the NRAC and thus will be my last day to make this walk, I start working for VARGIS this coming Monday. It is going to be the final day of my college years you could say, even though I have already graduated. West Virginia University for the first time since 1999 will not be a part of my daily routine.

It is all going to come to a conclusion today when the work day is over. When I have to walk out of the NRAC and start that final walk to the Coliseum. That final walk is going to be a ceremonial walk of passage of me not only closing one chapter of my life, but starting the next chapter.



Although I am going to miss working with some people that have been very influential on my life, I look forward with great anticipation to what the future holds. It's also nice to not leave a job that I have worked at for any length of time for a better career opportunity rather than a company closing their doors and putting everyone out of work.

Survivor Night

OK, I have to confess I will be channel surfing tonight. Survivor is one, the WVU Womens basketball team is playing for the WNIT Championship tonight at the same time period against SW Missouri State.

Ok, before the show starts I checked some of the popularity poll results, and with no surprise Tom Westman is still in front and Stephenie LaGrossa has moved into a close second. Checking in on the "Who's Next" poll, Ibrehem Rahman is tops among survivor fans.

I think the biggest question I have going into tonights episode is whether Ulong can ever win an immunity challenge from a yet to be sent to tribal council (other than the episode when both had to go) Koror tribe.

The show starts out with Tom showing maybe he's a better fisherman than Rupert Boneham was by beating up a shark and pulling him in for food. This is AFTER they got a big Giant Clam to feed everyone. (WVU women winning 8-2)

On day 17 is the next reward challenge the two tribes were told to build a SOS signal, Koror could only use three members because they have an 8-3 advantage. Of course Koror never tends to lose and won the rewards challenge and won three bottles of Red Wine, fighing equipment and many more supplies. (WVU women up 20-18) You know this had to almost crush the three person Ulong tribe.

On day 18 there was another immunity challenge, only this time in the tree mail they were given a puzzle to solve for practice on the immunity challenge. With Coby Archa calling for Koror, they kept the streak alive and sent the three member Ulong tribe back to tribal council once again to eliminate their tribe down to two members compared to Koror's eight member tribe.

Tribal council came down to Bobby Jon Drinkard, Stephenie LaGrossa and Ibrehem Rahman having to vote one of the three off (WVU Women up 36-35 at the half I think). Not knowing how the two person alliances were going to fall, it appears that Bobby Jon was the swing vote even though he was a horrible caller for the immunity challenge. The vote went 2-1 to send Ibrehem home.

The game is now down to ten players and something tells me that the merge will happen next week.

When it rains, it pours

As everyone reading my BLOG knows, I have accepted a job and start this Monday with a company called VARGIS. Thye were the first to offer and I really like what I see there. I think it has a lot of potential and it's a growing compoany that I want to be a part of.

AS everyone knows I graduated last May and had put out numerous applications in hope for employment. I had one interview last fall with the WV GIS Tech Center for a job, but ultimately did not get the job. I had been talking to Dewberry for months and was actually scheduled to interview with them in DC tomorrow, but I cancelled the interview being happy with the offer from VARGIS.

After all this inactivity, Caliper called me and wanted to schedule an interview with me. Obviuosly I declined the invitation, but I thought it was kind of ironic that there is a lot of activity for my services as of late.

I never thought I would see the day when I turned down 2 jobs in a pay range more than I had ever made in my life in one year in the same week. Life is pretty good right now for me.

One More

With the WVU Men's basketball season coming to an end this past Friday Night, the WVU Women had a chance to extend their season one additional game last night.

Playing in the Women's NIT Final 4 last night at Kentucky, the Mountaineers handed the Kentucky Women their first non-conference Home loss of the season and defeated the Wildcats 80-75 in Double Overtime.

ESPN has a nice little write up on the game.

The win advances the women to the Womens NIT Championship this Friday. We were hoping for a home game, but we are going to have to travel to Southwest Missouri State and kick their butts out there to bring home the Championship. I have complete faith that this team will bring this Championship home.

Good Luck Ladies!!!!

Welcome Home Part III

Last night, for the third Sunday in a row I went to the coliseum and welcomed our team home again. I didn't want this team to come home and no one be there for them. The past two weeks was in support, the season is over now and the fair weather fans may have dropped off and a smaller crowd than the 1,000 that were there last week would have showed up. WOW was I surprised when I found out it was 5,000 of us there to welcome them home.

A video of the teams entrance that I found on the net.



Chris aka Hector from the WVAQ morning show.


The crowd about an hour BEFORE the team arived.



Paul



Mark



Entrance



Team



Coach

Thank You Coach Beilein.

Our season ended last night with a 85-93 Overtime loss to the Louisville Cardinals. We gave this great team everything we had including shooting .667 from three point land in hitting a School record and NCAA Tournament record 18 three pointers.

This is the best coached team that I have ever seen in Morgantown. They have far exceeded any expectations that I had for them. We almost went to the Final Four for the first time since we lost the NCAA Championship in 1959. These guys have made me proud to be a Mountaineer fan and Alumni.

A little story about Coach Beilein. I was walking around the coliseum before class last year. I had seen someone whom I used to work with at Sterling Faucet years ago and was talking to him. Out of the Blue, here comes this guy who puts his hand on my shoulder and gives me a little wink and introduces himself. Charlie knows him pretty well but I didn't. He left a strong impression on me as someone who represents the University very well. When I walked away from that conversation I remember saying to myself "I don't know if he'll ever win a National Championship here, but I have a feeling he is going to take us to the Final Four." A little over a year later, he almost did it.

I think we have the best coach in the country here in Morgantown. I'm not saying that in support of the fact that I am a Mountaineer fan, I'm saying it because I think it's a true statement.

Thank You Coach Beilein, your coaching staff and this team for a great season. You allowed every Mountaineer to see the future of this program. I think when it is all said and done, the John Beilein era may be the best era to be a Mountaineer fan. Once again thank you. I will be there for the third straight week when this team returns for a hero's welcome these guys deserve it.

What a Night!!!!!!

Congratulations to both the WVU Men's and Women's Basketball teams. It was a glorious night to be a Mountaineer fan.

The WVU Women started off the night by advancing to the Women's NIT Final 4 by beating Wake Forest 65-52. Meg Bulger led the way for the WVU Women with 18 points. They advance to the semi-final game at Kentucky Monday evening. If they win that game, there is a strong possibility that they will host the WNIT Championship game right here in Morgantown. Way to go ladies!!!



The night finished off with John Beilein completing a twenty-six year old promise to his wife when he told her he would some day coach against Legendary Coach Bobby Knight.

The Mountaineers beat Texas Tech 65-60 to advance to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight for the first time since 1959. It was a great game, but it was also a game where I must have lost ten pounds from pacing. I guess you can say Bobby Knight was "Pittsnogled" as Kevin Pittsnogle pumped in 22 leading the Mountaineers to victory.

WVU plays Louisville Saturday in the Regional Finals and a spot in the NCAA Final 4. I'll be glued to the television again for this game.




Good luck to both teams.

Survivor Night

It's Wednesday Night and a special night for Survivor. Coming into tonight, I took a look at the CBS popularity poll, and with little to no surprise Tom Westman has been voted as the most popular survivor with Ian Rosenberger starting to close the gap.

The one's who appear to be the top two from each tribe to be voted off next are Caryn Groedel from the still yet to lose a tribal council Koror tribe and James Miller from Ulong. Personally I think it's Ibrehem Rahman that is the next one to go, but that's my personal opinion. I have noticed that Stephenie LaGrossa has voted every week so far for the person going home.

The show starts off with the Ulong tribe having some internal troubles, knowing that they have yet to win an immunity challenge and are in danger of becoming extinct.

At the reward challenge was a sharp shooting challenge with an airgun where they had to break plates. Stephenie was an absolute sharpshooter and won the reward. The reward was Pringles, Mai Tai's and a boat trip to Jellyfish Lake and the change to scuba dive with literally millions of Jellyfish. A much needed chance to relax for the Ulong tribe, which finally won something.





The scuba diving was perfectly safe, because these jellyfish were in fresh water and had lost their sting. They were able to swim amongst millions of beautiful jellyfish for what has to be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I was actually a little jealous and would loved to have been there with them.

The immunity challenge started out with some tree-mail with a footlocker, a flag and a rope. They had to tie their rope into a knot and secure the flag in their footlocker and then had to bring the footlocker. The survivors had to swim out and retrieve loads of wood. They then had twenty minutes to build a fortress around their footlocker and protect it from the other tribe who at the end of the twenty minutes changed sides and had to break the other teams fortress and retrieve their flag from the footlocker and run it up the flag pole. Koror won their fifth straight immunity challenge against no losses and sent Ulong back to tribal council once again to vote their dwindling tribe down from four members to three members to Koror's eight members.

Before tribal council, Steph admitted to the camera that she voted for Bobby Jon Drinkard, even though the survivor site said she voted for Angie last week.

At Tribal council James Miller and Ibrehem Rahman each received two votes each. On the second vote for the tie breaker, Stephanie changed her vote and chose to vote out James.

Life is good

Every once in a while we all need to take time out to ourselves and reflect on things. Things we need to change or just simply what direction our lives are going in and do we need to alter them.

Yesterday after work, I took a nice long stroll on Rails to Trails here in Morgantown. It was a semi-warm day and the weather was absolutely beautiful. Many people were out on the trails enjoying life. Just about everyone looking up in passing as if to say hello, great day.

I had my portable CD player and was playing probably my favorite album, Van Halen's Right Here, Right Now. Great live album that I love to listen to. I'm sure on my travels to Frostburg I will be listening to it quite often.

While walking I stopped at one point in the trail to just look at the river near the dam. To me in my lifetime, water has always been my serenity. Whether it be a stream or a waterfall or a river or lake, being around water always helps me reflect.

I started thinking about the last eight years of my life. Since Helmick shut down I have found and lost someone I loved very much. Was re-introduced to someone whom I hold very dearly. I decided to completely re-shape my life, I knew society was changing and I had to adapt to those changes. I lost everything I possessed. Retirement, my car and even my apartment that I had for over ten years. I was forced to swallow my pride and ask my father for assistance. I made the decision to go to college while I briefly lived with him. I lost him less than thirty days before I entered WVU. I lived with my younger sister until I could get on my own feet and did so. I've seen silly family feuds come and go. I saw five years of college in what at times appeared to be an endless journey. I saw myself accomplish a lifetimes dream. I saw a change in jobs and learning new skills to coincide with my major. I saw Deans lists and made some great friends. I did all of this hoping to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Not only did I see the light, I'm at the open door and walking in. I'm getting ready to start a portion of my life that I have worked the last eight years for. I have to reflect back and thank everyone who has helped me reach this point of my life. It's a realization that if you work hard enough, dreams do in fact come true.

Anyways, I was reflecting upon my life, past, present and future and I could only come to one conclusion. Life is good.

Live Weather Feed

Saturday I drove my mom to Frostburg to show her the city and where I'll be working. She pointed out something to me that I thought was a nice little feature. Frostburg State has a weather cam running on campus.

Frostburg State Weather Cam

Welcome Home, Part II

Last Sunday I joined roughly 400 other Mountaineer fans welcoming back or Big East runners-up basketball team. They had went from a bubble team to an NCAA team and we wanted to show them our appreciation.

Yesterday, for the second week in a row we met the team again, only this time we met the team that had just advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. I can't really estimate how many were there yesterday, but I would say easily twice as many as last week. It could very well have been 1,000 fans there greeting them yesterday.


The Man, the Legend. BIG CAT









Hopefully we can do this again next Sunday.

What a game

WOW, what a game last night. Our team that was a bubble team two weeks ago and managed to make it to the Big East Championship, received a bid to the NCAA Tournament. We played ourselves from a bubble team to a #7 seed in that tournament.

Last night, we showed out invitation was not a fluke by beating pre-season #2 ranked, and the team that was ranked #1 for two weeks in December. Wake Forest was upset they did not receive a #1 seed in the tournament and had to settle for a #2 seed.

Lat night they jumped out to a 13 point 40-27 haltime lead. Key the drama. West Virginia managed to pick away at that lead the entire second half and took the lead late in the game. Wake managed to tie it and send it into overtime.

During the first overtime I thought we were going to win it, we dominated the scoring in the overtime period, but once again Wake Forest hit a big 3 pointer late in the OT period and we had a failed drive at the end to send it to a second overtime.

We dominated the second ovetime sending Wake Forest home and advancing ourselves to the Sweet 16. This may have been the best basketball game I have ever watched WVU play.

Tidbits

* My niece Brittany worked as a page in Charleston on St. Patricks Day. Kim has put a few Media Files up the days event up on her website. I'm very proud of her, she looked very professional.



* I bought another car yesterday, I traded the Corsica in on a Cavalier RS. The Cavalier I think is a solid deal, Gerald managed to put me in a car that will actually be a pleasure to drive two hours a day in. It has a 3.1 Liter engine 5-speed for a small car, so it has a good bit of "Get Up and Go."

* Jean and I went to the Country Inn last night for some of Nick's wings and to visit everyone.

* Nick bought a Toyota Tacoma truck the day before I bought my car. We took a little ride in, it looks like a real sweet truck that's easier on gas mileage than his old truck.

* Amy is going to take an eighteen day vacation to Chicago. She is going to fly out of Pittsburgh to Chicago April 5th to visit her Aunt Samira. I have a feeling she is going to love Chicago.

* Congratulations are extended to JD and Chrissy Lewis, Terri told me last night that Chrissy in the early stages of pregnancy and will be expecting a little Lewis running around in a few months.

* I need to send Randy an e-mail today, I keep intending to but never seem to manage to do it.

wvchallenge@wvchallenge.org
Subject: Cadet Hamrick

* I'm planning on going and visiting Mom today, we have more pictures to scan and maybe add a few pictures to the albums.

* As I'm writing this, I'm also chatting on MSN with Guangzheng Hu in Beijing, China. He's stil trying to talk me into coming to Beijing. For the record, I only pretend to speak Chinese.

* I think the snow is done for the year!! Did I ever mention I hate snow?

* P.S. Since I posted this, I finally sent Randy an e-mail. Hopefully a few others can follow up and do the same, this is a heck of an accomplishment he's in the middle of doing.

Why Couldn't I have been this smart

SaveToby.com

Take a look at the bottom, he has made $18.462.12 of his $50,000 before paypal cut him off.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Just wanting to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day. I also want to wish me niece Brittany as she spends today working as a page in Charleston.

Survivor Night

Well, because the NCAA Basketball Tournament will dominate the TV tomorrow, Survivor will be broadcast on Wed Night this week.

I have started a Survivor Thread on my forum for those who wish to discuss, complain or just gather and say something about the show. I welcome everyone's comments, if you have not already done so please sign up for an account.

This weeks episode starts off by showing how bad the survivors at the Ulong tribe. After tribal council, they managed to get lost in the woods and the weather didn't help much. When they made it back to their shelter they ended up sleeping in a bunch of mud.

For the rewards challenge, Jeff told them that the winners of the rewards challenge was going to eat that night, only it would be at Tribal Council. Both tribes will be forced tonight to visit tribal Council and vote a member out. The challenge was a swimming obstacle course where you had to work as a team to retrieveSaki Bottles at the bottom of the beach and had to gather a total of six of them to win the rewards challenge. Ian Rosenberger showed he was a very strong swimmer and gave the victory to Koror.

At Koror's very first tribal council, Willard Smith was the first member of the tribe to be voted off the game. After tribal Council, Willard gave everyone a word of encouragement before everyone crossed over to the Jury side to eat stewed bread and rootbeer while Ulong sat through for their tribal council.

At Ulong's tribal council, you could see that they were all getting very frustrated having to watch Koror eat while they continued their losing streak and had to vote yet another member of the tribe out. They all seemed to be blaming everyone else. Before the Vote, Koror voted once again, this time they were allowed to vote who from Ulong was to be given immunity from the vote. They voted to give Ibrehem Rahman, who ironically was who I thought the Ulong tribe was going to vote out, but instead he has been given immunity fior this vote.

When it was Ulong's turn to vote, they voted to a tie with Bobby Jon Drinkard and Angie Jakusz. The remaining three players voted again and voted off Angie, who was king of my darkhorse favorite. She was the last player chosen from the tribe, but was one of it's strongest players.

A side note, the show is on next Wed Night once again because of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.



Willard



Angie

Job Offer

Yesterday afternoon was filled with a good bit of excitement for me, I officially received a job offer from VARGIS to go work for them in Frostburg, Maryland. I interviewed there last week and felt real good about coming out of the interview.

Yesterday those feelings were justified when I received the official offer that I am accepting. It's just a small matter of dotting the i's and crossing the t's. I was having server problems yesterday as were they, so it should be finalized this morning. The entire employment package has already been discussed and negotiated where it is feasible for me to accept this offer.

In more than one way, I feel like I won something. Not so much the job, but I have stayed the path and tried to get a job in my particular field of study that I have worked four years in college getting some great hands on experience from some of the best teachers anyone could ever wanted to have had. Many college graduates never work in their field of study, to me this is what I wanted to do and have not been distracted looking for employment in other fields.

My official start date is Monday April 4th.

Welcome Home

To the Big East Tournament runners-up West Virginia Mountaineers.

Sunday Mornings

I tend to love the early morning hours. A time when the rest of the world is sleeping and I am wide awake.

Today should be a nice relaxing Sunday that starts out as all my Sunday mornings do with a nice little grocery shopping trip to Super Wal-Mart in Grafton. I go there every Sunday and I think I enjoy the nice little peaceful twenty minute drive along an old country road the most.

It's a time you can just tune in the radio. I really enjoy the Sunday Morning program when they pick a year and dedicate the entire hour to music dedicate to that year during that time slot.

I did manage to get everyone's pages completed yesterday for my website and I also switched the new design to the main directory so that it is now the page that loads when you use my George-Hall.Net name. I already had the formatting for each page done and the script to change the pictures when you revisit. I'll add additional pictures for everyone eventually, but I used a format when everyone has a picture of them displayed at the top of the page and then I tried to write a little something about each person. It's currently set up where everyone has two images that load with their page, that way theoretically it looks different every time you visit. If you want to see an example, just hit "F5" on your keyboard and it will reload the page.

I think navigation should be a little easier for everyone and can even help you understand who is who and who has what kids just by using the navigation.