Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once against complete, can't think of a better reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,244 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,497 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. Has it really been that long? Wow. 

* 6,084 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. 10,000 BC, I was telling Peanut howlusy of a movie it was this weekend. 

* 5,295 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 5,333 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 2,470 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 1,128 days ago today. It was three years this past Friday. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 987 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,632 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.

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 299 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time. 

* There are 260 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 111 days to go until Spring 2025, my favorite season of the year.  

* 76 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. He and French Creek Freddie agreed on their predictions this year,  now let's just wait to see if they come true.  

* 50 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Hopefully, I can put some better content together this year. 

* There are 36 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. Time to start thinking about it. 

* There are 13 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

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

* I have written 7,749 blogs in what is now 20 years since I started blogging. Two decades ago.   

* Older Drone still needs to be sent out for repairs, not a big priority at this time. My little drone is awesome and I really like it....when I take time out to fly it.   

* Air conditioner is still in the bedroom window, it's going to be coming out soon...I promise I am going to get that out.

* Michelle had an interview last week, she will have an in person one this week. Feeling pretty good about this one.  

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 5th place among friends and family. I finally passed my sister Kim, Woo Hooo time to celebrate. 

* I have this funny feeling I am being watched, I'm getting some Sammy the elf vibes that he may be hiding and spying on me somewhere. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This weeks TicTok, words of inspiration from Denzel Washington. 

* Have a great day.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

I hope everyone's Monday is awesome and you do what you need to do to make this a better rock to live on. It's what we all strive and work for. Go make it happen. Give me some fingers crossed this week for Michelle in her Job Search, she has a followup interview. 

Me, I hate the down time I get but last week I started to do some GIS things at home, trainings and an attempt to expand my skill sets a little bit, it makes the downtime a little more bearable during the transition. It keeps me occupied and interested, and I'm growing my skillsets. It helps it keeps my interest and I love what I do, it's fun creating geospatial data and answering questions with analysis.

Is everyone decorated for Christmas yet? Michelle has has a little tree up for over a month, it started out as a Halloween Tree and now is a Christmas Tree, the house is and has been festive for a few weeks. She has actually used the sewing machine and made some runners for the Mantle and the top of the TV stand that all match. She had a set for Halloween as well, and let's not forget all of the candles that we have made. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it a good one.  

Sunday

Kiwi, Peanut and Gracie

Here I sit in a quiet household, Peanut and Kiwi have had a houseguest all weekend as Gracie has stayed with us the last couple of nights. We spent all day yesterday watching Football together and we are planning on doing that today as well as the Steelers and Ravens play at 1:00. All three are really big football fans and it shows. We are all Steelers fans here. 

Did anyone watch the Mike Tyson - Jake Paul fight Friday night? Netflix had a real problem with their servers in serving out this live event, there was a lot of pixelation and buffering going on that made it pretty much unwatchable. My internet speed was good, I could watch other things on Netflix, but the demand for that fight was just too much. I was able to stream it tethering from my phone to my computer and watch it. I was really hoping for a knockout, but father time catches up with everyone including Iron Mike Tyson. I stayed up waaaay past my bedtime Friday night, I was actually up until Saturday Morning watching the event. 

So what is on today's agenda? A little bit of grocery shopping, chores around the house and of course watching the Steelers this afternoon with all of the animals. You know it has been said that they are all three Football fans as well as Steeler fans. 

Have yourselves a great day today, make it special. 

Saturday Chess Rematch

Here I sit in a nonquiet household, Kiwi was preparing all week to play Peanut and beat her in a game of chess. He had studied all kinds of strategies for playing online Chess and he was very confident he was going to destroy her. Well Peanut is a Grandmaster in Chess and despite Kiwi's new strategy, they were to no avail as Peanut was just toying with Kiwi and absolutely destroyed him. It's now Peanut 2 and Kiwi 0 but Kiwi vows he will beat her, he is going to regroup and learn a few more strategies. Peanut is just going to sit back and relax as Kiwi is no match for her. Maybe we will be another rematch next weekend. 

Well there was no High School Playoffs last night, too many adults got involved with the court systems and denied the kids a chance to play. They have been postponed for a week and they will start this coming weekend. 

West Virginia is at home this afternoon with a game against Baylor, the game starts at 4:00 at Milan Puskar Stadium. Which means that there is a home game this afternoon, avoid the stadium area as there will be an increase in vehicular traffic around the stadium. 

Have yourselves a great day
 

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 is absolutely determined to get revenge from the chess game he and Peanut played a couple weeks ago. He's not aware that Peanut is a Chess Cat Master and is very good at playing chess. He is absolutely certain with his new found chess knowledge, that he is going to beat her. I just taught him how it is possible to put your opponent in Checkmate in only two moves (see illustration) and he thinks he's going to try that strategy on her, but I don't think Peanut os that Gullible. 

Are you ready for a little bit of High School Football? I am, too, and it is now the playoffs. Win or end your season with the last team standing. Morgantown ranked #6 in AAAA will host a game against Cabell Midland here in Morgantown. University is on the road to take on Huntingon. Clay Battelle did not qualify for the playoffs and Trinity forfeited their season earlier on. Good luck to both Morgantown and University High this evening. 

Have yourselves 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+ 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 someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a lot of fun.

This weeks pic goes all the way back to the mid-late 1950's, back when Dad still had his NBA dreams alive and he was playing for the mighty Van Voorhis School. My Dad by the way is in the front row and all the way on the left. If my math is right, this was about the time that Jerry West and the Mountaineers were the #1 team in the country. They played for the National Championship the next season, but lost. 

I hear Dad was holding out for a Nike shoe Deal, which hadn't been invented yet, instead of the common Chuck Taylor Canvas Converse that everyone wore during those years. I think I even wore them clear up to about Jr High School. It was Nike not existing at that time that Dad decided to give up his NBA dreams and go back to being a kid. 

Have yourselves a great day.