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.

I will once again be doing the Sam's Club shopping this week, it gives Michelle a break from doing it after work and gives me and the Pets a chance to get out of the house and do something constructive. I think they like this getting out of the house, but Kiwi was complaining that there is no seed section and said he would rather go to Petsmart. Peanut is indifferent and in a different world altogether. 

So no big plans for the weekend, even though we are now in the month of April. I know April Showers bring may flowers, and that also means it is going to be time to fire up the lawn tractor pretty soon. My guess is our yard is going to me a mess this year as they have the temporary bridge up and will begin construction on building the new permanent bridge on my side of the road. Just means I have less grass to cut. 

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 is this past October, it was Brittany and Matt's wedding and Hayley and Tyler came down to enjoy the festivities. It was a fantastic day filled with food, dancing, music and the joining of two very special people into the bonds of matrimony.

I grabbed this pic as I think we were waiting for our turn to get in the food line for our Prime Rib. 

Have yourselves a great day.  

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is once again completed; you know what that means. It's time for a Tidbits and a challenging one at that. 

* It has been XXMMCCCLXXVII days since I was born, that is XXI years using my new,  new, and improved MXLV-day Calendar. 

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

* VMCCXVII days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. 

* VCDXXVIII 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 VCDLXVI 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 MMDCIII 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 MCCLXI days ago today. 

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

* I have MMCDXCIX 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.

* CCCVII more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day.    

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

* There are CCLXXIV more shopping days left until Christmas MMXXV.

* There are CCXLVI days until I hit the age of LXII. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in CLXXVI more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

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

* There are LXXX days to go until summer. 

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

* I have written 7,892 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.   

* How good are you on your roman numerals? Need Help? 

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying. I've made my order already. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm in 4th place among friends and family. I caught and passed Terri. 

* This is my least favorite TIKTOK for this week. Yes this is Morgantown. 

* Merry Christmas 

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday

All good things must come to an end, but this is an exciting day to end the weekend on. Now we have to take our collective noses and stick them back onto that grindstone known as life and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living to make this a better rock to live on.

Well my funding with Parsons ended last week, we have work to do but it's just a matter of getting money moved around and with the current landscape of everything, things are slowing down. I did hear on Friday they they are going to try to get me 80 billable hours for the month of April, but they will be meeting on that today (it's still March). I have a few other things in the works with a few other companies, one I feel pretty good about but we'll have to wait and see. 

I like working from home and that is what I am primarily trying to have continue, but there is always the possibility that I may have to start commuting, so I can't eliminate that as an option just yet. I want to continue to work in the Geospatial Sciences Field, but we'll have to wait and see. YOu never know I may have to start stripping...lol

Have yourselves a great day. 

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit on a quiet Sunday Morning. Our local Chefs known as Kiwi and Peanut, have decided that they are both Chefs and intend on making dinner on the Blackstone Grille this evening for Michelle and I. Something tells me Michelle and I will end up being the sioux chef and clean up bitch, I am the clean up bitch/sioux chef BTW. It's about time to fire it up now that the warmer weather has gotten here. Looks like some kind of stir fry they are preparing for us. 

We pretty much got all of our running around done between Friday and yesterday, so today can be a relaxing day and a chance to get ready for the week to come. 

So what is new with everyone else? I guess Val's husband Aaron got laid off a few weeks ago, but he is back to work at the same mine as my brother-in-law Roy. Not sure if they are at the same mine, I know Roy wanted him on his crew, so we'll have to wait and see. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a semi-quiet household, I'm early listening to Kiwi talk to Peanut about playing some Baseball outside, but I think in his description he has confused Baseball and Cricket. Maybe bird baseball is interchangeable between the two sports, so I am just going to have to sit, watch and listen and learn from these two. 

I did have to disappoint them, neither one of them got the WVU Basketball Coaching job that they interviewed for earlier this week. They are both heart broken. WVU this week decided to go into a different direction and hire University of North Texas Coach Ross Hodge earlier this week. He's still coaching his team this season and will take over the Mountaineers once the NIT Tournament has concluded. His team is in the Final 4 and will be playing on Tuesday and possibly on Thursday if they win on Tuesday. He's a defensive minded coach and Kiwi wanted a high flying offensive team, that is why WVU chose a different direction. They both said they would be ready to step in if needed. 

So what is on my agenda for the day? I honestly don't know. My work has concluded this week with Parsons for the time being. There is still work to be done, but funds aren't being released yet. I also have a few other things in the hopper so to speak, hopefully my downtime is limited. 

I did the Sams shopping yesterday, Michelle will do the regular shopping today, as she is much quicker at it than I am. Other than that, I'm just hoping we do not lose power for the third straight weekend. 

Have yourselves a great day.