Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* It has been 22,405 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,045-day Calendar. 

* It has been 7,658 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. 

* 6,245 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. 10,000 BC and Pizza Hut. 

* 5,456  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 5,494 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 2,631 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 1,289 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 1,148 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,471 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.

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

* 246 more days to go until my Goodbye 2025 Blog is posted. Hopefully, I can put some better content together this year.

* There are 239 more shopping days left until Christmas 2025.

* There are 218 days until I hit the age of 62. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* Pitt comes back to Morgantown in 148 more days. I can't wait. Revenge time for Rich Rod!!!!

* There are 99 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are 53 days to go until summer. 

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

* I have written 7,922 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.   

* As far as the air conitioner, I was mowing grass Friday and thought to myself, it might be time to take the cover off of it and fire it up. 

* Life is much better when you eat Girl Scout Cookies, just saying, Ryleigh would appreciate it. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. I'm still in 4th place among friends and family. I've stayed pretty steady there for a while. 

* This is my favorite Tiktok for this week. Tell me Ants aren't smart.

* 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.

Here we go yet once again with another fun-filled week. Nothing out of the ordinary for me this week that IO can see. Still working on the project that I have been working on the past few weeks. Peanut and Kiwi on the other hand are dressing a little more business formal this week, me I'm at home working in shorts and a tee shirt. They like to look all professional I guess. 

Something I did over the weekend, I purchased one of Grandpa Hall's records. It's My Little Home in West Virginia and it's an old 78, meaning it is much more brittle than the vinyl ones we used to buy (33's and 45's). The 78 Grandpa Hall had a recording Machine where you would put in a blank disc and record right onto the dic. Only problem was, you got one shot and one shot only as the machine would cut the grooves into the record when you recorded. I'm hoping it will be here this week. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are taking a snooze after being up for three days analyzing the NFL draft and what teams should select what players. They have really done their due diligence in helping all the NFL teams make the correct selections at the proper time. They worked together in Unison and were using my two work setups yesterday, both have dual monitors, and they just plugged my personal laptop into the docking station out in the living room. Now they are beaten and tired, and I can see them napping all day. 

So what is on mine and Michelle's agenda? Nothing. No holidays, parties, luncheons or anything else to do, it could be a watch some movies kind of day. I was smart enough to cut the grass on Friday before the rain started. I saw a window of opportunity where I had an hour of sunshine and not evercast to knock it out before the rain started. It had grown pretty good over the previous 7 days with all the rain and then sunshine, I just wanted to stay ahead of it and managed to do just that. 

Have yourselves a great day, do something and make it special and just be thankful that you have electricity this Sunday =)

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit yet once again in a semi-quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut have been really invested in watching the NFL draft the couple of days and I would imagine that that will continue through today and the end of the draft. They have been doing all kinds of analysis and trade scenarios as to who will be the next pick, who fits where and about anything a GM would do. I know I shouldn't have let them watch the movie Draft Day. 

So hopefully by now everyone has their power restored. We here were fortunate as out power merely flickered a few times last Saturday Night, but many family members were without power clear up until Tuesday Evening and some Wednesday Morning. It's been 3 of the last 4 Saturdays where this has happened around here, we just were lucky enough to avoid the latest loss of power due to a storm surge. 

So what is on our agenda today? I did the Sam's yesterday so all we have left to do is our weekly menu shopping, that and plan out the meals for the week. Michelle has been taking care of that, so I get the easy part of helping carry groceries down and putting them away. 

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 and Peanut are happy, they stayed up half the night waiting for a Mountaineer to be drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft, but that was all for naught as we move onto day 2 of the 3 day draft. We are hoping Wyatt Milum will be selected. At the start of last season he was believed to be a first round pick, but he seems to have dropped a little bit since then. He'll be drafted though, he was a 5 five-star prospect out of High School and has always been a solid Offensive Tackle, but could play Guard at the next level. 

So what is on mine and Michelle's agenda for this weekend? I don't really know, hopefully the weather will be nice out and we can get out and do something fun. After being cooped up all winter, it's time for some outdoor activities. I actually mowed grass last friday for the first time this year, so we'll wait to see how the grass is doing before we make any mowing assessments. 

Have yoursleves 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 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.

Looking at this picture tells me a lot. Look at my sister Kim sitting on the couch, I can almost read her mind. "Does he ever shut up" is what I am imagining her saying in her head. 

Judging my the balloon on the TV I would guess this would have probably been Amy's Birthday party, which would be mid-march and if I were to guess the year I would say 1988. Dad had his camcorder out (see case) and Terri actually still had the old Adam Computer that we used for BST Hotline (I even remember the phone number, 296-3030.

Have yoursleves a great day

Hi ho hi ho