Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is over, now we are staring straight down at a Tuesday. Good time for a tidbits. 

* It has been 22,728 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, new, and improved 1,069-day Calendar. Mom is at 30,382, which would make her 28 according to my new and improved calendar. 

* It has been 7,980 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. 

* 6,574 days ago, Michelle and I had our first date together. Life has been much better since then. 

* 5,778 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 5,815 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 2,953 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 1,607 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,470 days, making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* Old roommate Gregg proposed to his fiancée 185 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 2,164 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.

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

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

* There are 282 more shopping days left until Christmas 2026. 

* There are 267 days until I hit the age of 63. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are only 150 more days to go until Michelle and I will celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary......maybe

* There are 2 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 since I have hated both Pitt and Penn State.

* I have written 8,284 blogs in what is now 21 years of Blogging. 

* Sunday was 18 years since Michelle and I had our first date. 10,000 BC was the movie. 

* Are you wearing Green? It's St Patricks Day!!!!!

* I'm still waiting for Parsons to send a carrier for their equipment. 

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

* Looking for Girl Scout Cookies? Ryleigh's Page

* Looking for Girl Scout Cookies still? Arabellas Page

* This is my favorite TicTok of the week. I know it is AI, but it is funny. 

* 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.

As Michelle and I head out to our offices today, Kiwi and Peanut have decided to alter their plans a little bit concerning the water flow into the backyard for their waterfall. I need to tell them that the stream is going to have to rise up and possibly cross itself for this thing to work, but they are both hard-headed and want to do it their own way. Far be it from me to tell those two what to do, like they ever listen to begin with. At least they are wearing safety equipment.  

So whats up for me? I'll teach my second and third classes this week for our outage management system. I may have to travel for a day, but I would prefer to do it through Microsoft Teams and screen share rather than travel 2.25 hours each way. You can't get anything done when the majority of your day is spent driving. 

Other than that SPRING Starts this week!!!

On that note, have a great day

Hi ho hi ho

18 Years Ago

It was 18 years ago today that Kiwi and Peanut's Mommy and Daddy went out on their first date together. Kiwi was tell us about the date Dad, so I sat them down and told them the story. 

18 Years ago, Michelle and I went out on our first official date together. I had asked her out to go get some Pizza and see a movie, which, in case anyone didn't know, was 10,000 BC. 

Michelle had spent all day getting ready and getting advice from Hayley, like don't drink Pop it will make you burp. 

I did pick her up and I think we went to Pizza Hut first to eat, then it was on to the movies to see this movie that I actually picked to see. Don't Mess with the Zohan and Semi-Pro weree both playing and I chose this movie. Don't ask me why.

I told Kiwi and Peanut I made Mommy wait 777 days before I actually asked her to Marry me and we have been together since that date. There is an old saying that today is the first day of the rest of your life, that could not be any truer for me on that evening. 

Best 18 years of my life and we have a Conure and a Cat to boot. 

Have yoursleves a great day. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a semi-quiet household. Peanut and Kiwi had one of their all-night board games. Right now they are in an intense game of Battleship and trying to figure out each other's strategies. I think Kiwi is cheating with his birds-eye view every time that Peanut yawns from being up all night. 

We put Pearl in the shop yesterday at Hartsells, part of the exhaust had come undone, and we took it to Brian to have it repaired. He always does great work, and to tell you the truth, I can remember going there when it was an Esso station years ago with Grandpa Hall to get gas. I graduated with Brian and have been friends with him for going on 50 years. 

So what is on today's agenda? Breathing a little easier as the WVU students are out of town on Spring Break!!!! I don't know who is happier, them for being on Spring Break or me that most of them are gone for the week. Traffic should be less backed up for the next week. Michelle will be doinggrocery shopping and me, I'll be me. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Big Ole Hairy Friday the 13th

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 think Peanut and Kiwi are taking this whole Friday the 13th thing just a little too far, but hey if that is what makes them happy and floats their boats then so be it. They do keep things lively and entertaining around here to say the least. 

No big plans for the day, well I guess that really isn't true as we have to have the exhaust repaired or replaced today on Pearl. It broke off at the between the mufflers (had dual mufflers) and the manifold. We're going to take it to Hartsells this morning and have it repaired. It's broken in half, so something tells me this may not be a cheap repair. Brian did do the exhaust last time, so it may still be under warranty so that could save us some money. 

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.

I played around a few weeks ago with AI, like it is something I always do for my blog, and I had it create an AI image based on what it knows about me. I did have to upload a picture for it to use, but this is what it made. I have no idea why it has me drinking coffee, yuck. 

Have yourself a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Lucy's Journal

Lucy’s Journal Entry – March 11, 2026

Dear Journal,

Today turned out to be one of those days where the plan changes halfway through… and somehow gets even better.

This morning I was exploring the garage with Kiwi, Peanut, and the Quackers when we discovered something very interesting tucked behind a stack of old boxes. It was a big dusty bag filled with Ed’s old softball equipment! There were gloves, a bat, a few softballs, and even one of those hats that looked like it had played about a hundred games.

Kiwi immediately hopped up on the bag like he had just discovered treasure.

“BALL GAME!” he squawked.

Peanut flicked her tail like she was a professional athlete who had been waiting her whole life for this moment. The Quackers, of course, started quacking excitedly and waddling around the garage like a team preparing for the big championship.

So we carried (well… mostly dragged) the equipment out to the backyard to start our big softball game.

Now, there were a few problems with this plan.

First, Kiwi kept trying to sit on the softball instead of hitting it.
Second, Peanut thought the glove was a toy and kept pouncing on it.
Third, the Quackers refused to stand in the outfield and instead followed the ball every time it moved.

We tried to bat, but the ball kept rolling under the porch.
We tried pitching, but Kiwi kept yelling “MY TURN!” whether it was his turn or not.

After about fifteen minutes of total chaos, Peanut sat down in the grass, looked at the softball, and then very deliberately nudged a big red rubber ball that had rolled out of the garage.

Kiwi tilted his head.

“Kick… ball?”

The Quackers looked at each other.

QUACK QUACK!

And just like that, softball was officially canceled.

Kickball, however, was a huge success.

Peanut was surprisingly good at guarding the bases. Kiwi took his kicking very seriously and did a little victory flap every time the ball rolled across the yard. The Quackers ran after the ball like a feathery stampede every time someone kicked it.

At one point Kiwi kicked the ball straight toward the garden and the entire team—Peanut included—chased after it like we were in the championship game of the Backyard Kickball League.

We laughed, we ran, and we probably broke every official rule of kickball ever written.

But it didn’t matter.

By the end of the afternoon we were all laying in the grass, tired and happy.

Softball equipment discovery: successful.
Softball game: not so successful.
Kickball game: legendary.

Sometimes the best games are the ones you didn’t plan.

Until next week,
Lucy

Wednesday