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+ images that I have either captured with a Camera, Scanned or just simply stolen off the internet. Little lost moments in time that I post up and relive tight here for everyone while I try to recall the moments around that image. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that image and sometimes it's a challenge, although one thing it always is is a whole lot of fun for me.

This weeks pic goes back to I think about 1986, Mom and Don were in from visiting from Georgia and them and Terri had stopped over to see my at my apartment at Barrington North. I'm thinking this was also the first day that I had a chance to see my Niece Amy, so that is how I can narrow it down to a year.

Obviously I was much thinner back then and even had a head of hair on top of my head. You can see a partial attempt to grow a mullet, but it wasn't that successful of an effort obviously.

Have yourselves a great day.

Wednesday

Kick in the Gonads kind of Day

Not doing my traditional Tuesday's tidbits today so I can do a little bit of venting about some of the events that transpired yesterday morning.

Last week I in a round about way indicated that I had officially accepted a contingent offer, it was verbally offered to me actually on Tuesday and I formally accepted the offer on Friday morning from FEI Systems about a job posting as a GIS Administrator position in Baltimore Maryland. It was a little less money, but I'm in need of a job and it would have put me in a good position I felt.

I was actually a little excited about the offer and Michelle started looking for places in Baltimore to live, and we were both quite happy with the direction it was going.

Then yesterday morning I got a call from the HR representative indicated that there was a notice of a decision to announce the winner of the contract and FEI Systems, the company I was going to work for, did not win the contract and the offer had to be rescinded. Talk about an unexpected kick in the gonads.

I never stopped applying for positions even after my offer came along, I wasn't putting all my eggs in one basket so to speak. So I guess the search continues.

Have a great day.

Monday Again

Ah here we go again, the start of another week of quarantine and in Michelle's case working from home. It's time to stick those collective noses back onto the grindstone for another fun filled week of doing what we do for a living.

I swear my days run together anymore, if it weren't for this blog sometimes I would lose track of what day of the week it is as every day appears to pretty much be a replication of the day before with the exception of a couple of days when I actually briefly get out for a little while.

Nothing new other than that, other than my desire to lay back down and go back to bed. No need for me to be up in the wee hours of the morning and that's logic I'm going to listen to.

Have a great day.

Sunday

Here I sit once again on a quiet Sunday Morning, no idea what is playing on the TV behind me as I am attempting to wake up and collect my thoughts for the day.

What does one do to combat sheer boredom while this quarantine is going on? I was binge watching survivor, but now I have been playing a game called Wormax. It's been a lot of fun and my strategies have gotten me to the #1 position a number of times in a room with 500 players in it.

I've also been playing a little bit of Facebook Texas Holdem, a game that I have played on and off for a number of years.

It's just a couple of things that help me pass the time way during my periods of sheer boredom.

Agenda for the day, shopping chores and paying the bills. Lots of excitement planned out for today, woo hoo.

Have a great day.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm up collecting my thoughts for the day and wondering where my co-author is this blessed morning. Nothing is on the TV because my stream has ended and it's pretty quiet in here.

This past week I started to apply for jobs not in the Morgantown or Pittsburgh area. I applied for a job in Baltimore and almost instantly I was getting emails about setting up an initial interview and included in that email was something that you don't usually get until you've had your first interview, the benefits package, which is pretty good. So I interviewed the next day and was extended a contingent offer (still have to pass a background check and drug screen) for a probable July 1st start date. More details will be made available as they become available. I'm still looking locally, but I have a solid choice to fall back on that I feel pretty comfortable with.

Other than that not much else is really up. Kim set up a Quarantine Zoom Meeting next Saturday for everyone to have a video get together. It'll be nice to see everyone and have some fun, this whole quarantine thing kind of sticks, but we have to do what we have to do to get rid of this pandemic.

Have yourselves a great day and make it memorable. 

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday....or something like that.

Well it has been a productive week so to speak. Had an interview with a tentative job offer and may have a short term one that will allow remote work until the Corona Virus is over with. Not too bad fro being stuck at home.

The NFL draft started last night with the first round, the Pittsburgh Steelers traded away their first round pick last year to Miami for Minkah Fitzpatrick  who had an immediate impact the very week they traded for him last year. Miami has the 18th Pick of the draft and that is where the Steelers would have drafted had they not made the trade last year.

Have yourselves a great day, the NFL Draft continues this evening.

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+ images that I have either captured with a Camera, Scanned or just simply stolen off the internet. Little lost moments in time that I post up and relive tight here for everyone while I try to recall the moments around that image. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that image and sometimes it's a challenge, although one thing it always is is a whole lot of fun for me.

This weeks pic goes back almost 13 years, back to Josh's first Birthday Party that Val and Bobby had hosted.

This weeks pic is a pic of my Niece Amy and her Husband Ralph before they were married and before Kaiden or Kynlea were even thought about. They were just young kids in love and the topic of todays Photo Flashback.

Amy also had a message for me when I tried to take her picture. Have yourselves a special day.

Wednesday

For the Protesters

Two days down for you working stiffs, two more ahead of you after today. Now all you have to do is get up and over the noon time hump and it's all down hill as you work towards another fun filled weekend.

Well I had my first interview yesterday as well as a contingent offer for employment. Not going to say much about it, but we are looking a mid summer start and it is with a pretty good company. The good news is I should get my official contingent offer letter today that I'll need to sign so they can go forward with a background screening and drug test. I'll keep everyone up to date as things progress. I will still be looking around, but this will get my foot into the door where my profession is pretty prevalent. The bad news, it's not in Morgantown or even in West Virginia or even Pennsylvania but it is on the East Coast and Michelle and I have been there numerous times. I'm still a Steelers fan though, despite potentially being in enemy territory..lol

Other than that, I do have all of my unemployment finally straightened out. They were so back logged that it took a few weeks to get it taken care of on their end. I'm good to go and up to date now, so that is always a good thing.

Have yourselves a great day, make it memorable.

Tuesday's Tidbits

* This is the I'm getting cabin fever and I'm bored version of Tuesday's Tidbits.

* It has been 20,593 days since I first set forth on this earth and made my presence known to all.

* It has been 5,819 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography.

* 4,420 days ago Michelle and I went out to see a movie and have some pizza. It was the start of a long relationship that continues to this day.

* 3,644 days ago I proposed to Michelle, 4:00 in the morning in the back yard.

* It was 4,086 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, Michelle and I tied the knot with the help of a co-worker of hers.

* I have now lived 807 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going.

* I have 4,256 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there.

* The next Backyard Brawl where we beat Pitt's ass in Football is only 863 days away.

* 287 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day. I haven't seen my furry little buddy in a couple of weeks.

* 272 more days to go until my Goodbye 2020 Blog is posted, recapping my year.

* There are 247 more shopping days left until Christmas 2020.

* My next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 222 more days.

* There are 145 days to go until Michelle and I set sail once again to the Caribbean. Hopefully the events of the past week don't rain on this parade.

* There are 98 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Ninth Wedding Anniversary together.

* There are 86 days until Michelle and I head to Pittsburgh to see Reba in concert.

* There are only 61 days until the start Summer 2020!!!!!

* I have written 5,998 blogs in the now 15 1/2 years since I started blogging.

* No drone flights this weekend, but that has pretty much been my recurring theme this year with that. I do have a plan to fly Hayley's wedding venue sometime this spring for her.

* Michelle is working from home still.

* BOPARC has released their softball packets for 2020, The Senior League Packet has been released. We are going to be Whitetail Crossing once again this year if the Corona Virus doesn't cancel the season.

* This Corona Virus has still pretty much shut down everything not only here in the US but around the world. We are #1 in the world in infected people now.

* Speaking of the Corona Virus, you can track it here.

* We did have our first grass cutting of the season this past weekend.

* They STILL have not found Mountie Python, the 15' snake that escaped in Sabraton this summer.. He even has his own twitter account.

* I'm STILL converting some old VHS tapes to Digital Format for Trish. I really need to get back on this as I am such a procrastinator.

* Have yourselves a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

Here we go again, it is that time of the week that most of us hate the most, it is the start of another week of doing what it is we do or used to do for a living. It's time to stick those collective noses back onto the grindstone for another fun filled week of doing what we do for a living.

So what is on my agenda for today? Well to be honest with you pretty much nothing. Still waiting for my unemployment to even be processed and still sticking in resumes all around for when these quarantines are completed and we can get back to normal.

Have a great day and try to keep yourself occupied and entertained.

Sunday

Here I sit yet once again on a quiet Sunday Morning, Peanut is no where around and I'm here flying solo once again. I'm watching Division III on Amazon, if that tells you how bored I am at this point of quarantining.

Big news for the day? We're going to head to the grocery store and do some grocery shopping. Chili is on our menu for the day.

Other than that it's just another day, I'm actually starting to lose a perception as to what day of the week it is as there is nothing to really use as a base other than we go shopping Sunday Mornings. Peanut just showed up and is meowing.

Have yourselves a sanity filled day.

Saturday

Here I am once again, stir crazy on a Saturday Morning. My little co-author is no where to be found and I am once again out here doing this blogging thing all solo. Peanut must think it's the Catrona virus and she needs to sequester herself in the bed with Michelle.

It's once again the weekend I think, our days seem to run together anymore, I just know Michelle doesn't have any conference calls today, so that tells me it is a weekend day.

Plans for the day, not sure we might try to briefly get out a little while today and do something, although the weather doesn't appear like it is going to be cooperative at all.

I did apply for my unemployment two weeks ago and the claim has yet to have been processed. It's starting to get a little bit frustrating to say the least, but that's just because there are so many people filing that they can't seem to catch up on all of the new claims.

Have yourselves a great day today, try to keep yourselves happy and entertained.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday....or something like that.

I have to say, for someone who lived a very busy life working two jobs, I'm about ready to go stir crazy sitting around the house. Human Resources departments aren't contacting perspective clients about employment opportunities and that makes the stir craziness just a little bit less bearable.

I did complete my certification to list for RTI, I used to be a lister a few years ago, but stopped when I started at NETL. Now I've opened my availability of it back up as I am on a search for a new full time employer.

There are only so many seasons of Survivor one can watch and only so many movies one can watch, I'm ready to get everything back to normal or at least some semblance or normalty.

Rant over, have a great day. 

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+ images that I have either captured with a Camera, Scanned or just simply stolen off the internet. Little lost moments in time that I post up and relive tight here for everyone while I try to recall the moments around that image. Sometimes it's pretty easy to find that image and sometimes it's a challenge, although one thing it always is is a whole lot of fun for me.

This weeks pic goes back to either the late 70's or early 80's, my Sophomore year class picture. Being they were taken earlier in the year, I'm guessing it was taken in the late 70's.

If you stop and think about it in all reality, this picture was taken around the last time the Pittsburgh Pirates actually won the World Series. Yes I did have a full head of hair during those years.

Have yourselves a great day.

Wednesday Funnies

How about a NO Tidbits Tuesday

Here I sit in the early AM, I just woke up for a restroom break and realized I completely forgot to write my tidbits blog yesterday, so today you get a real live blog as it is happening.

So what's on my mind, absolutely nothing in these early hours. Michelle went to the office yesterday, but I was on the phone with a former co-worker who also was laid off at the same time I was, so she took a solo trip to Fairmont and Clarksburg as I conversed with Charlie.

Other than that, not a whole lot going on, just staying home and Binge watching survivor, I'm on Survivor Cagayan now, Jeff Probst is doing his best in helping me keep myself occupied.

Have yourselves a great day, I'm going back to bed.

Monday

Here we go again, another fun filled week of us either doing what we do for a living or just trying to find employment or simply just waiting to go back to work. I'm in two of those scenarios, looking for a job and waiting for RTI to restart.

I know Michelle may have to run down to the old Fairmont Office to pick up the mail as they are transitioning to the new office and she is working from home. I may ride down with her just to get out of the house and break the feeling of being being a house hermit. It's just not my personality.

I do have some training to do this week with RTI, I'm going to go back to doing listing again as I'm looking for a new job, I have to do a little bit of certifying and before I can go out and list anything. I did it a few years ago before I started working for AECOM, but once that happened I didn't have time to do it as it takes a days commitment to do a segment.

What am I doing other than that, well obviously putting in resumes left and right, but nothing is really happening anywhere because of the Corona Virus, so to prevent going stir crazy I have been watching seasons of survivor. I am currently watching Survivor Caramoan, another fans vs favorites show. So far I have watched Heros vs Villains, Micronesia, Redemption Island and South Pacific. I have watched the first I think 10 seasons before I got too busy and didn't have time to watch it anymore. I have missed it and it helps to keep you sane.

Have a great day.

Happy Easter

Here I sit on a quiet Easter Sunday Morning, I'm the first one up this morning despite it being a late night binge watching another season of Survivor. Peanut is once again no where to be found and I'm flying solo once again.

I would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter despite what is going on in our world. The Corona virus is something none of us have ever experienced in any of our lifetimes and still has not seemed to have peaked. It has changed our society as we know it including the most religious Christian holiday of the year. 

If I have to think back to what may be one of my fondest Easter Memories, I have to think back to when I was a kid living with my Grandparents. We had an Easter Dinner one year when we lived beside the church as we would usually have family gatherings. I remember my Dad setting up some kind of a scavenger hunt where Sharon, Lynne and myself would be occupied running all over the place trying to win a prize. I think it was more to keep us occupied and out of everyone's way as they were preparing food. Our prize, those damn knuckle busting clack balls that I never could get the hang of. That and some toxic bubbles in a tube that you put on a straw and blew a bubble. I'm telling you some of the toys from my youth were just down right dangerous.

We got our grocery shopping done yesterday morning, so today is going to be a planned relaxation day. We're going to have a small ham for dinner, but nothing really out of the ordinary with the exception of some deviled eggs and some brown and serve rolls.

Have yourselves a great day, make it special and memorable.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, I'm the only one up and I've actually got a college football game playing on the TV from last fall. My co-author Peanut is no where to be found and I'm flying solo writing this.

Considering that tomorrow is Easter Sunday, Michelle and I are going to get our Sunday chores done today, since most things will be closed tomorrow. I'm not excited about facing the potential crowds this morning as we go to the grocery store considering that simple fact. Hence why we are going to hit the store early this morning to avoid any potential craziness.

No other plans for the day, the weather is kind of crazy as it was actually snowing yesterday as I was getting ready to go and do our Sam's Club Shopping. It was the first time I was out this week and it was strange, most things were shut down and it seemed like everywhere I went people were wearing surgical masks. I would say it is a movie scene from from apocalyptic movie, but that is the reality that we live in.

Have yourselves a great day today, go binge watch something.