Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

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

* It has been 22,768 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, new, and improved 1,069-day Calendar. Mom is at 30,424, which would make her 28 according to my new and improved calendar. 

* It has been 8,022 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. 

* 6,616 days ago, Michelle and I had our first date together. Life has been much better since then. 

* 5,820 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 5,857 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 2,995 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 1,649 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,280 days, I've now outlived him by 1,505 days, making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* Old roommate Gregg proposed to his fiancée 227 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 2,122 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.

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

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

* There are 240 more shopping days left until Christmas 2026. 

* There are 225 days until I hit the age of 63. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are only 108 more days to go until Michelle and I will celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary......maybe

* There are 55 days until my second favorite season begins, Summertime!!!!!!

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

* I have written 8,333 blogs in what is now 21 1/2 years of Blogging. 

* It's Finals week at WVU, they should be pretty much gone by this weekend. 

* 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 TickTok, I have this song stuck in my head. 

* 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.

Kiwi and Peanut are both upset that Mommy and Daddy are heading into the offices and they both said that they would rather stay home today. I know they are planning on something, I just don't know yet quite yet. 

Typical week for me ahead, working on a number of different projects and delivering products that other departments can use. I'm feeling pretty good about it, however I do have an interview this evening for a job that I will most likely be offered. Significantly more money, but I would have to go to Washington PA every day and with everything going on in the world that may be a little too risky right now, but we'll have to wait and see. 

They officially put in a Market C where Michelle works, we already have had one. It's self service and you even pay on the honor system, and to be honest it has worked out pretty well. I think the University has one at the Hospital, there is one at the Mall and a few other places I have seen these types of places. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here I sit once again in a quiet household once again, Kiwi and Peanut are up playing a competitive game of Twister and Kiwi has a set of head phones on and he's listening to his Bee Gees music, Kiwi loves the Bee Gees. This game could be pretty interesting as they are competitive.  

No big plans for the day, other than just doing a little bit of relaxing and getting ready for the upcoming week. 

The NFL Draft in Pittsburgh has finally concluded, they have drawn record crowds believe it or not. How did the Steelers draft go? I guess we are going to have to just wait and see how it turns out. It's the start of a new era, so we'll have to just wait and see. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it memorable

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and Peanut are wanting to ride around on the yard tractor and keep trying to remind me that it was be it has been around 264 hours since I last cut grass and that they took a vote and voted that the lawn needs some attention, if  the weather permits. They have a task for me and that is to go fill up the two gas cans and they said that they will take care of the rest. I have a couple cans that I use and they both have zip ties on them to indicated that it is just gasoline and not something for say the leaf blower or anything other than what you have to mix oil in with your gas. I have a smaller can for mixtures. 

It's been a pretty good week, I can't complain at all,  it went by rather quickly. I have a job interview on Monday, but it's in Washington PA and would require a couple of hours of travel every day. It's more money, but I do have to say I haven't heard much from any head hunters since last summer, things really slowed down until a couple of weeks ago when I started to get bombarded again. It's more money, but I really feel I am on the ground floor here where I am (not literally, I'm on the second floor) in building a Geospatial Department with a wide array of skill sets. Hope has a hiring freeze right now, but if something doesn't happen where I get my offer by the end of summer I may seriously start to look. I think I am in a very good situation and my name is really out there and respected. 

So what else is up for today, Michelle's going grocery shopping and I may get tricked into doing some yard work by a couple of pets. It's amazing how much control over my life that they have. 

Have yourselves a great day, make it memorable. 

Big OIe 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 told Kiwi and Peanut that next Friday, not this Friday will be the last day for Students at WVU. They will still be here the next week taking finals, but other than that, that completes the school year for them all. It'll be nice to see a lot less people around town for a few months. 

Of course when the students are gone, that means roadwork. Last year was a nightmare here with them expanding the road, moving utilities and building a new bridge and everything. Would you believe that that new bridge was opened up last week and everything is paved down here in the valley. So I'm excited about that. Watch turning into my driveway, it's paved smooth but there is a big drop off from the road surface to the ditch. 

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.

This weeks pic goes back to the 1970's. I was living with Grandma Hall and Terri had come to visit for a week or so. I was just starting to get into cameras for the first time and of course ole Bonnie Hall stuck her tongue out at me, I guess that is different than flipping me the middle finger like everyone does. 

Believe it or not, that is in fact my sister Terri sitting beside her. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho