Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is over with, hopefully there are a lot less deer available for you to hit with your car this week. Sounds like a good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,516 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,776 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,361 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,583 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,126 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. How many people keep track of hoa many days they have been married 11+ years later? 

* I have now lived 1,748 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 271 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,410 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. 

* There are 367 days until I hit the age of 60. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 290 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. I think we are ready to roll now. 

* There are 278 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 248 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 111 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? 

* 78 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, hopefully Phil does me a solid this year.

* 34 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 25 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 14 more days. 

* I have written 6,994 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* 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. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm now working 20 hours a week of Overtime making it 12 hour days. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, would you believe the real life mean coach is a friend of Michelle's? It's former marshall coach Bob Pruett. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday

All good things must come to an end, I'm not sure what that is for me because I worked both Saturday to help make up for Thanksgiving and yesterday to make up for time when I will be traveling to East Liverpool for Tom's funeral. However for all you people who enjoyed some time off, it's time to take our collective butts and get back to doing what it is that we do for a living and making this a better planet to live on. 

Michelle is off today, she has a Doctors appointment this morning. She's been having some trouble with her neck and has been going to a Chiropractor and has a follow up this morning with him. Either that or her Mom has an appointment this morning, not sure which one it is. She also has something she is doing this afternoon, so keep your fingers crossed. 

Looking at my week ahead, Michelle and I as well as her entire clan will be traveling to East Liverpool on Wednesday. It's going to be a one day event and everything will be done at the Funderal Home as well as a dinner afterwards across the parking lot. 

Other than that I will once again have a busy week, I will have next Sunday off which will be nice after working both days this past weekend. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

RIP Thomas Andrews

It is with a heavy heart this morning that I have to announce that Michelle's other-father of 45+ years has passed away. Thomas Andrews who has been in a nursing home since early this spring, around the time of Suzanne's fall. 

He has had deteriorating health for a while and has been on Oxygen the last couple of years. Earlier this week they put him in the hospital and they turned right around and sent him back to the nursing home under hospice care. 

Friday morning the word was sent out that his health was failing and it may be time to pay the final respects. Michelle was on her way to her Sister Chris's but only made it about a mile and a half down the word when she received the word that Tom had passed. 

Yesterday Michelle, Chris, and Danni went up to their family Funeral Home to make arrangements for Tom's Funeral. Jim, Chris's husband, will be officiating the funeral service which will be held on Wednesday. 

Happy Birthday Valarie Jo

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my lovely Niece Valarie Jo a very Happy Birthday. She is always there in times of need for whoever needs it and is an amazing young woman with a lot of fight. 

Not sure what She or Aaron has planned for the day, but if I know Val she will have something on the agenda if it didn't already happen yesterday evening and into this morning if the opportunity is available. Not sure of Aarons's Schedule, but something tells me he has something in store. 

Val is a remarkable young lady who is an inspiration to those around her whether she realizes it or not, her actions are seen by all and she is influencing the next generation whether this is her intention or not. 

If you happen to see Val today, make sure that you wish her a very Happy Birthday in addition to recovering from Thursday's overdosing of tryptophan. 

Happy Birthday, Val you are an inspiration to all. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a non-quiet household, Kiwi is once again bragging and claiming that he is the first and only bird to have a twitter account. Yes it is True, Kiwi does in fact have his very own Twitter Account. He is in fact an amazing little bird and he thinks he should be the most famous bird on twitter. I'm just waiting for him to talk Elon Musk into giving him his own spaceship. 

So what is up today you might ask? I'm working once again and am determined to get my 60 hours in this week as well as taking Thanksgiving Day off and all that had to be done with that. Michelle is going to run to the laundromat this morning to dry clothes and I''ll be working until noon. 

Why Noon you ask? The Mountaineers will be playing their final game of the 2022 football season today when they travel to Oklahoma State to take on the Cowboys at Noon. I have next to no faith in this years team at this point, but I live and die with the Mountaineers so I'll be watching it. The game will be on ESPN 2 (channel 36 here in Morgantown) starting at noon. 

Have yourselves a great day.

Hi ho hi ho

Big Ole Hairy Black 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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Black Friday!

I hope everyone had a good Turkey day yesterday, I know we had a pretty good time for our first Cassville Firehall Thanksgiving since COVID. Smaller crowd than I anticipated, but this is the first year back and it should grow a little bit by next year. It was good to see everyone at the gathering. 

Today, or last night when it all started, is the busiest shopping day of the year. It's what has been known as Black Friday where stores supposedly put their best deals of the year out and people line up for the stores to open to see if they can grab one of those magical deals. It's been a long time since I went Black Friday shopping, I did it once with Jean trying to buy her a TV and it was a total nightmare. It kind of soured the day a little bit for me to the point I have never gone Black Friday shopping again. I think most people do it all online anymore, to be honest, just too easy and less of a headache. 

I am working both today and tomorrow to make up for yesterday, I'm trying to get all the hours available to me while I can, if you know what I mean. 

Have a great day whatever it is you are doing. 

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 whole lot of fun.

This weeks pic is from bowling Thanksgiving eve a few years ago. I think it was 2019 and we had all met up at Suburban Lanes as it has been a tradition amongst us since the early 1980's. It's one that Terri wants to see continue and it should. 

This weeks picture, it's my niece Val giving me her general opinion, or as we refer to it as the Hall Salute. I did a video years ago of a bunch of pictures I had taken and people were flipping me off, and would you believe that video got some play around the world? 

Anyways, Happy Turkey Day, Gobble till you wobble. 

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is over with, hopefully there are a lot less deer available for you to hit with your car this week. Sounds like a good reason to do a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,509 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,769 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,354 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,576 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,119 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. How many people keep track of hoa many days they have been married 11+ years later? 

* I have now lived 1,741 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 264 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,417 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. 

* There are 374 days until I hit the age of 60. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 297 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. I think we are ready to roll now. 

* There are 285 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 255 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 118 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? 

* 85 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, hopefully Phil does me a solid this year.

* 41 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 32 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 14 more days. 

* I have written 6,986 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* 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. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm now working 20 hours a week of Overtime making it 12 hour days. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, I just grabbed a funny animal one. 

* Today would have been Michelle's Dad's Birthday. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday and the start of Buck Season

All good things must come to an end, and yes that does include those fun-filled things we refer to as weekends. Now it is time for some of us who are not on vacation this week to stick our collective noses back onto the grindstone for another fun-filled week of doing what it is that we do for a living making this a much better planet to live on. 

In West Virginia today is the start of deer rifle season. It is arguably the most hunted day of the year in West Virginia and a season many men in West Virginia schedule vacations around. It's the day when basically the entire hunting population heads out into to woods seeking that trophy buck that they covet so much, or just simply to feed one's family. With that being said, let's hope for a safe hunt for all hunters everywhere, may they have the pleasure of returning home to their family safe and uninjured, and as icing on the cake with a nice trophy buck in tow. 

Me, I'm still working 12's for Duquense Light this week with the exception of Thursday. I'm going to make up for Thursday between yesterday and this coming Saturday. That way I can get all my time in and be as productive as possible when the deadline is fast approaching and not have it hurt me because Thanksgiving is not a Holiday. 

Michelle is also working most of this week, her office is shut down on Thursday, but I'm pretty sure that they will be open on Black Friday. 

Have yourselves a great day and the start of a great week. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday

Here Kiwi and I sit in a quiet household, which could be because Peanut hasn't had much to say for a while as she keeps looking out the door at the snow. Kiwi is asking me if this week is Thanksgiving and then asks why everyone eats a Turkey, another Aviary Cousin as opposed to say fish. I told him I do not have the answer to that question, and he thinks so in depth. He said he has a nice recipe. 

Well since this week is the week of Thanksgiving, and I'm just a contractor for Duquense Light, I don't get paid holidays and no one is on-site as it is a site-wide Holiday for them. With that being said, I'm probably going to be working a few hours today to make up for Thursday's Holiday (no we are not Thanksgiving Fish). The good news I work from home and I'm not rushing around from here or there, I just simply log in and go at it. I've been working 60 hours a week, so I'm going to try to get as close to that as possible today and next Saturday. 

With all of that being said, the students are gone this week, so traffic should be a little less hectic this week with the majority of the population out of town. It should make grocery shopping this morning a little less crowded,but most of the people who shop were we shop when we shop are usually locals so there will be little impact on that. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up once again discussing some very important issues of the day, like why can't he get a pet Rhinoceros to keep him company in his cage. I don't think Kiwi understands the whole concept of available space and how big a Rhinoceros actually is. I know Kiwi wouldn't clean up the Rhinoceros poop so that is ultimately why I told him no. 

Well my plans for the day being that it is a home football game kind of Saturday, is to get out early this morning to the Laundromat and dry clothes once again. 

WVU plays Kansas State here this afternoon at 2:00. The game is on ESPN+ for you subscribers who want to watch it. 

There is some good news, WVU is on break this coming week and there won't be too many students around town as most of them will return home for the Thanksgiving Break. When they return it will be two weeks of classes followed by finals week and then they leave for Christmas Break until January 9th. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Let's Go Let's Go Mountaineers

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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday!

Are you looking for a little bit of High School Football? I am too, but football is done for all the teams in Monongalia County for this season. No one is left from our beloved county so my level of interest has dropped off the charts. 

There is some football here tomorrow as WVU plays host to Kansas State on Senior Day. This will be the last home game of the 2022 season and the day that the Seniors are introduced and walk out onto the field individually. There were some shakeups at WVU this week as Athletic Director Shane Lyons was fired on Monday. With that move I can see this being Neal Brown's last year here, it seems like the big money people are speaking and speaking loudly. Neal's a nice guy, but this just doesn't appear to be the right place for him, as our fanbase likes to get a little squirrelly when you have losing seasons 3 out of 4 years. 

Have yourselves a great day and the start of a great weekend. Be careful with all the extra traffic due to the home game today. 

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 whole lot of fun.

With the recent passing of my all time favorite stand up Comedian Gallagher, I thought I would repost this picture of the only time that I got to see him live. He had been to Morgantown to perform a couple of other times, but I always had something else scheduled that night and was unavailable, but when he came to the Met in 2007 I made sure that I was in attendance. 

Pam and George also went to the show and as Gallagher was walking down through the crowd to get onstage, we asked him to get a picture with us and this was that picture. 

RIP Watermelon smasher. 

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is over with and Kiwi is still bragging from Saturday. With that being said it is Tuesday and you know what that means. 

* It has been 21,502 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,762 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,347 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,569 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,112 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. How many people keep track of hoa many days they have been married 11+ years later? 

* I have now lived 1,734 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 257 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,424 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. 

* There are 381 days until I hit the age of 60. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 304 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. I think we are ready to roll now. 

* There are 292 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 262 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 125 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023. Have I ever mentioned that I hate snow? 

* 92 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, hopefully Phil does me a solid this year.

* 48 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 39 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 21 more days. 

* I have written 6,979 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* 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. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm now working 20 hours a week of Overtime making it 12 hour days. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, this is my one and only tictok that I have made. Go Kiwi

* Mountaineer Basketball team is in action this evening. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday

All good things must come to an end, that includes the fun filled weekends where wvu beats Pitt in Basketball and Oklahoma in Football. That always makes for a great weekend although that doesn't happen all too often. 

We did see our first snow fluries of the season yesterday morning, I know Michelle was doing her secret little snow dance she does when she wants to see the white powdery stuff littered all over the ground. As you can tell, I am not a big fan of that crap and prefer springtime weather. 

Looking at my week ahead there is nothing really on my agenda this week, I'll be working 12 hour shifts this week for Duquense Light as we are trying to finish up this project in a timely manner. I don't mind because I'll be a day short next week with Thanksging day next Thursday. We'll also be returning to the Cassville Firehall that day for the first time since COVID, so I will be looking forward to that as I am sure everyone else will be as well. 

Kiwi is still gloating and bragging that he coached the WVU Defense in the 4th quarter and he and he alone with his birds eye view is unscored upon this year when he is calling the defensive plays. We're going to have to negotiate him a better contract. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Thank You Kiwi

I have to really hand it to my Defensive Coordinator and Aviary friend Kiwi. Do you know what he did yesterday? When Oklahoma went up 20-13 on WVU late in the 3rd quarter, he started screaming his little lungs out at the defense. He was mad and upset that they let up that last touchdown that he decided to take over. WVU Offense managed to put 10 points on the board after that point while Kiwi's Defense shut Oklahoma down and WVU ended up winning 23-20 beating Oklahoma for the first time since the Fiesta Bowl when Stew took over. Thank You Kiwi, and he says to tell Neal Brown he wants some more blueberry-flavored sunflower seeds. 

It's Sunday, yesterday obviously a day when Michelle and I go and do our grocery shopping for the week. We have the menu planned out and we're going to Krogers this morning. It's something we enjoy doing and we do it every week. 

Michelle is going up to Pittsburgh today with her sister Chris. They are going to go through her Mom's old trailer and salvage a few things before winter. Not sure if they will be able to salvage much, but there is a freezer there that Chirs wants to get out of there. I'll probably be on my own for dinner this evening. I'll handle the homefront while she does what she needs to do back home. 

I did see my niece Amy yesterday. Michelle and I went to the Walmart on the other side of town and I went to the restroom, and Amy and Kynlea were walking out. Got to speak to her a couple seconds, Michelle saw Ralph somewhere else in the store but we lost track of them. It was nice to see her, I don;t see or talk to her nearly enough. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday

Here I sit on a quiet Saturday Morning, Kiwi and I are sitting and discussing the finer outs of frying eggs. I like just the egg whites and Kiwi thinks I'm a sick SOB for eating his aviary brothers and sisters. I guess that is the advantage of having opposable thumbs. 

The Mountaineers are playing at home today in Football. The game is actually at noon today against Oklahoma, and it will be broadcast on FS1 (Channel 30 here in Morgantown). If you are running around town today, be careful as there will be a lot more traffic than on normal days. Next weekend is the last home game for the season before they play their last game in two weeks on the road. 

I worked 60 hours this past week for Duquense Light, so I am off today. Last weekend I made up some hours prior to us being given the extra 10 hours per week mid week, this week I have them all in already and am not working today. Yeah Me. 

I did learn yesterday that Gallagher, who happens to be my all-time favorite stand-up comic had passed away. I used to love watching his Showtime Specials and I really related with his amazing brand of comedy. I was fortunate enough to see him live once. He's been here multiple times, but I was playing High School Sports on the night he was appearing in Morgantown so I never got the chance to see him until about 12 or so years ago. 

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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday!

Are you looking for a little bit of High School Football action? The playoffs begin tonight when #14 Morgantown travels to #3 Martinsburg for their matchup. Number 13 University High travels to Hurricane WV for their first-round game. #15 Clay Battelle travels to Williamstown WV for their first-round game. Good luck to all the teams tonight, hopefully, someone wins so I can keep talking about this next week.

I was going to have a big announcement about me starting a new job, one that the official offer came in September, however since it is hard to find housing in Fredericksburg that I have requested that I don't start until after the first of the year. What does this mean, at the very least I will be home for the Holidays. 

Today is a Federal Holiday, it is Veterans Day. A big thank you to all the veterans who served our country in either peace time or during a conflict. My nephew Moke served a tour in Iraq and Jonathan's daughter Sarah did three tours in Afghanistan and Iraq (two at one). 

Speaking of the Holidays, Jim and Chris are doing Thanksgiving this year at the Cassville Firehall after a few year hiatus. My sister Kim was talking about everyone going bowling after dinner as they usually do. Terri wants to keep that years long tradition going.

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 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 whole lot of fun.

\This one is one of my all-time favorites, it's of my Dad years ago when they visited Florida and he was sitting out and getting the ducks drunk by dipping some bread into his beer. It brings back the time when my Dad was not only alive, but happy and full of life. When you think about it, I'm pretty sure he was only about 48 in this picture, an age that me and all of my siblings have all passed. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is over with, staring at a Tuesday. I'm wish I was a Billionaire this morning but I'm not, so I guess I'll settle for the next best thing a tidbits. 

* It has been 21,495 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,755 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,340 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,562 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,105 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. Nice round number. 

* I have now lived 1,727 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 250 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,431 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. 

* There are 311 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. Although I hope there are some changes on our end. 

* There are 299 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 269 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 132 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023

* 99 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, You know I have not seen him or the family recently. 

* 55 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 46 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 28 more days. 

* I have written 6,972 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* 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. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Instead of working 10 hours of overtime a week for Duquense Light, I'm now working 20 hours a week of Overtime. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, this guys reactions are funny as hell. 

* I can't believe how bad the WVU football team is this year. I'll say that they are not living up to any expectations at all. They won't win another game this season. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho 

Monday

All good things must come to an end, and that includes those fun-filled things that we all refer to as weekends. Now it is time to take our collective noses and stick them back onto the grindstone for another fun-filled week of doing what it is we do for a living. 

If you are up for it, there is going to be a rocket launch this morning at 5:30 AM from Wallops Island that will be briefly available to see here about 3 minutes into the launch. If you are up and they launch, it may be worth a look out your window. 

I did not hit Powerball Saturday Night, this evening's drawing is going to be an estimated $1.9 Billion making it the largest jackpot in history. Don't overdo it and plat responsibly, I know everyone wants a ticket to dream, but your odds are astronomical to win. Michelle and I have our tickets plus I'm a part of a group that will probably be buying 1,000 tickets or better. Your payout is based on how many shares you pay for. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit in a quiet Household, Kiwi of course listening to the oldies with a pair of bird headphones he ordered. He's listening and singing along with the old Bobby Day Song Rockin Robin. He's got the tweeting down pat. 

Did you remember to turn your clocks back last night before you went to bed, or are your clocks set automatically? Daylight Savings time has officially ended and we won't push those clocks ahead until March 12, 2023. Most of mine do it automatically, except for 5 of them in the house and the 2 in the cars. 

Our schedule for the day,  going grocery shopping. What else do we do on Sunday Mornings? It's almost like a ritual for us where we go to the store after planning the week's meals and getting what we need for the week. As of press time we hve not determined this weeks meal plans yet, but I'll get right on that with Michelle. 

It's a Day off for me, so there could be a nap in store for me at some point today. 

Have a great day, make it a special one and make some memories. 

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here Kiwi and I sit in the early AM on a quiet Saturday Morning. We're up talking about me working today and not having it be a day off. You would think that a bird with the intellect at the level of my Green Cheek Conure could find a more interesting topic to discuss rather than if I'm working or not. 

As I stated I'm working part of the day today, I'll start at my normal time and am only planning on working part of the day. We're trying to get this network online by the end of the year for Duquense Light and they are throwing money at it left and right, so I'll take advantage of it while I can. 

With me working, Michelle is going to go and dry clothes for us today, it's something that I usually get up early and do on Saturday Mornings, but she is going to do it while I work. Teamwork. 

Don't forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight, if you don't you're going to be an hour early for anything you are trying to do tonight. 

West Virginia plays Iowa State this afternoon, the game will be on ESPN+ for those of you who subscribe to that. I have a subscription, but who knows if I will be watching. If we don't win this game we will lose out for the rest of the season in my opinion. This is the most winnable game left on the schedule and I'm not too sure how confident I am in this season. The game is on at 3:30. 

Don't forget to put a couple of bucks on Powerball, $1.5 Billion Jackpot tonight. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Morgantown Wins MoHawk Bowl

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 once again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday!

Are you looking for the little bit of High School Football that is left this year? This is the last week of the regular season, the playoffs begin next week. By the Way, anyone hear who won the MoHawk Bowl last Friday? Let's see 6-1 and #10 Morgantown is hosting Linsley tonight at Pony Lewis Field. #15 University High is on the road at Spring Mills and should win this one. 6-2 Clay Battelle is at home against the Hundred Hornets and 6-3 Trinity is on the road against Madonna. Good luck to all the Monongalia County teams, I think they can all win tonight and have all 4 teams with 7 wins on the season which is a pretty good year. A Guy I used to work with has a really good prognosticator for the High School Playoffs. 

I had an interview yesterday with Who's Who to appear in their next publication and database. I remember as a kid going to the library and reading through this book about people. It used to fascinate me and now it looks like I may be one of the people included in that database. Here's Warren Buffet talking about his first encounter with it.  It will be something I can put on my Resume and it might get some attention, although at this point in my career that has not been a problem as I get contacted by head hunters multiple times a day. I am officially a member of Whos Who and will have my biography published. There will be a mention of Grandpa and Grandma Hall as well as my wife Michelle. 

It might be worth taking a couple of bucks and getting yourself a Powerball Ticket. It'll be your ticket to dream what you would do if you won the $1.5 Billion Jackpot (as of Press Time) that will be drawn tomorrow night. Just so you don't go too crazy, the odds are 1 in 292,000,000 that you win the Jackpot, so just throw a couple extra dollars at it if you can. 

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 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 whole lot of fun.

For this weeks pic I thought I would turn the clock back to the beginning of the Summer. Ralph and Amy held a big family get-together at their home. Bella being the Diva that she is wanted me to take some pictures of her and kept making sure that my attention was on her. 

She and Ryleigh were at Pam and George's when we stopped by this past weekend, I thought it would be a great time to bring a picture up of her for my Photo Flashback. 

Have yourselves a great day

Hi ho hi ho

Wednesday

Tuesday's Tidbits

* Monday is over with, staring at a Tuesday. One of a few good reasons to do tidbits today, that and I survived Halloween. 

* It has been 21,488 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calender. I do have to say I start to feel my age of older than 21.  

* It has been 6,748 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. 18+ years ago and still doing GIS and enjoying every minute of it. 

* 5,333 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together, the pizza hut is gone, the movie was 10,000 BC and it sucked to high heaven. Heck, even our Pizza Hut is gone. 

* 4,555 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. 

* It was 4,098 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, we poured sand into a vase and said our I do's and we were hitched. Nice round number. 

* I have now lived 1,720 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,266 days, I've now outlived him by 243 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! We did find him, just never had the honor of a face-to-face meeting. 

* I have 3,438 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. 

* There are 318 more days until the Pitt Panthers bring their butts to Morgantown so we can extract some revenge on our game this year. Payback Kitties. Although I hope there are some changes on our end. 

* There are 306 more days to go until the Mountaineers travel to Happy Valley and get another shot at an old time Rival, Penn State

* There are 276 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Twelfth Wedding Anniversary together. Moke and Ang celebrated theirs yesterday. 

* There are 139 days until my favorite season, Spring of 2023

* 106 more days until Phil steps to center stage again for Groundhogs Day, You know I have not seen him or the family recently. 

* 62 more days to go until my Goodbye 2022 Blog is posted, it's been eventful, and looking for more fun stuff to post. It's going to get interesting in the next couple of months. 

* There are 53 more shopping days left until Christmas 2022, everyone is putting their Christmas stuff out already. 

* The next Anniversary of my 21st Birthday will be in 35 more days. 

* I have written 6,965 blogs in the now 18 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* 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. 

* No Drone flights this weekend, I'm seriously a slacker. 

* Still working 10-hour day for Duquense Light, busy busy busy, and still loving it. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? This is this weeks tic tok, Nick has been doing a lot of tictoks lately.  

* I can't believe how bad the WVU football team is this year. I'll say that they are not living up to any expectations at all. 

* Have yourselves a great day.  

* Hi ho hi ho