Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to, when we take a little bit of needed and earned time out and cease our labors for the week and take a little bit of time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labors. It is the dawn of yet another weekend and another Big Ole Hairy Friday.

If you are looking for a little bit of free entertainment for the evening, Madagascar 2 is playing down at the Hazel Ruby McQuain Amphitheater on the river. It's a good way for a little cheap or free entertainment for the kids on the evening, just bring your favorite place to park your hind end, your favorite beverage (Non alcoholic) and something to snack on and enjoy a free movie on the big screen under the stars.

Michelle is planning a "Ladies Night Out" with a few girls from work this evening. I think they are going out to dinner and then on to see a Chic Flic. Not sure how many will be going, but she thinks it will be a nice turnout.

I hope everyone has a great Friday and a better weekend.

Subsititute BLOG

The plans for my original BLOG story have changed, so it is up to my the author to create some kind of a distraction. With that being said, enjoy the Dancing Monkey.





Move along, nothing to read here today.

Happy Birthday Joshua Nicholson

Late afternoon BLOG, my stupidity that I forgot to wish Joshua Nicholson a very Happy 3rd Birthday today.

Val had a birthday party for both Josh and his sister Erica a few weeks ago. I meant to do a BLOG earlier today, but it slipped my mind until my sweetheart reminded me on the way home that despite all of my electronic alerts, I forgot to post a blog for Josh.

Make sure that if you see Joshy today, to wish him a Very Happy Birthday on this very special day for him.

Hump Day

Well we have managed to make it to the middle of the week, just a couple of more days until another fun filled weekend.

I got home from work last night and got the opportunity to talk to Moke a little bit on facebook, he was sitting in a starbucks in Kuwait in the early AM so he could get a chance to talk to his girlfriend Ang. She was coming home from doing a few things and he wanted to talk to her from halfway around this big rock that we reside upon.

Hey have you heard the Brett Favre news? He is going to stay retired this time unlike the last two seasons when he came out of retirement to play one more year...again. This year he was considering on being a Minnesota Viking after being a New york Jet last year. Anyone think we haven't heard the last of this?

Enjoy your hump day, it's all downhill after today.

Season is Over

Another season has come and another season has gone. The 2009 MiHALEY'S softball season is almost now officially behind us and we look towards the 2010 campaign.

It is a sad time of the year for me, because it is the dawn of fall and football season that is just about to be upon us, as if that is a bad thing. It was a good year filled with its ups and downs, the feast and famine time periods with our bats as a team.

This culminates my 25th season of playing softball, I started way back in the summer of 1984 with Smitty's Fun Quads team (what ever a Fun Quad is). I'm sure there are numerous other seasons that could count if you included the times I played Fall League, but I was never too fond about going out in 20 degree weather 2 weeks after the World Series was over with and still trying to play.

I've made numerous friends through the years playing on a wide variety of teams. It's always the time of the year that I get most excited about, the time I look forward to when the snow is on the ground and you really can't have much fun outside. Another season has come, and another season has been placed into my memory bank forever.

Tidbits

* I have a few things say, and I thought a tidbits would be nice.

* First to the love of my life, thank you for the last 500 days since you have come into my life. It was 500 days ago that I took you to that god awful movie and I'm still trying to make it up to you. LOL Here is to the next 500 days.

* Softball season will officially end the regular season tonight. We're still on the playoff bubble for tonight's double header, but we are playing with a skeleton crew and it may be rough.

* We now have 93 geocaches found. Seven more and we will reach that 100 milestone. I have to say that I have enjoyed each and every one of them, no matter how challenging.

* WVMountainfest is now behind us. Despite less than favorable weather it appeared to once again be very successful for the area.

* Michelle and I are thinking about buying some bulk beef this fall. We are just putting a feeler out to see if anyone else may be interested in joining in and buying some local beef.

* Why are weekends so short and the work week so long? I even had an extended weekend. (sigh)Hi Ho Hi Ho....

Happy Birthday Daniel Bell

I would like to take this opportunity to wish my Nephew Daniel Edwin Bell a very happy 25th Birthday. Wow, has it been 25 years? Where has the time gone. Daniel is a grown man now and living in Kentucky.

Kamey no longer appears to have her Myspace page, so my ability to keep up with what is going on in his life on a daily basis (either good or bad) has been extremely limited.

I would like to take this moment and wish Daniel a Very Happy Birthday.

A Day of some Firsts

I woke Michelle up early yesterday, it was the first Saturday where nothing was planned for a while and we decided to do a little bit of Geocaching.

Our first first of the day was Michelle's first trip to Apple Annies in Point Marion. Wouldn't you know there is a Geocache hidden there. I think she was impressed witht the delicious home cooked food. They were starting to bring their pies out as we were finishing up eating.

From there it was on on to Friendship Hill and me giving Albert Gallatin a little bit of advice on the art of reading a compass and geocaching. It was the first time either of us had been there and I have to say if you have never visited this historic site, take a few hours out and pay a visit.

From there it was on to Uniontown looking for caches and Michelle's first ever trip to the Uniontown Mall. It had been some time since I was last there, too many years to recall for me, but the last time I was there Value City was still located there.

We did pull into the parking lot of Sonic, a restaurant neither Michelle or I had ever been to and that we are getting two of in Morgantown. It's an old fashioned drive in with people on roller skates. I eagerly anticipate it coming to Morgantown.

After that is was back to Morgantown and both Mine and Michelle's first visit to Damon's for dinner.

Saturday Morning

Me and Hayley and both up and at em this morning. She went on about two hours of sleep and is already out the door assisting a friend on a party they are having this afternoon.

I'm contemplating waking my sweetheart up and doing a little bit of geocaching this morning. I twas thinking that I might like to spend the day in the Uniontown area doing some geocaches. It's a city we haven't really looked at, plus I would imagine there are a few up in that region that we should be able to find.

I've got Michelle's Coffee set and ready to start, maybe I'll wake her up once it's done and we can get a good start.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to. That time of the week when we cease our labors for the week and take a little needed time out to enjoy the fruits of our labors. It is once again the dawn of yet another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Friday!!!

Today is going to be a very short day for me, I'm going into the office a couple of hours and I'm done for the week. All my files are on the network and they are physically moving the servers starting last night.

No Free movies tonight on the Mon, but there is plenty to do. There is the 85th anniversary of the Metropolitan Theater tonight at the met. There is also Mountainfest running all weekend in the Morgantown area.

For me and Michelle, probably a few Geocaches and staying around home this weekend. It's our first open weekend in a while and we might just take advantage of it.

Have a great day.

Taco Bell Chihuahua Dies

By Rennie Dyball

Originally posted Wednesday July 22, 2009 11:40 AM EDT
Gidget Photo by: Sue Chipperton / www.tailsticks.comTaco Bell Chihuahua Dies
She charmed millions without ever saying a word, and managed to make fast food tacos adorable. Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco Bell ad campaign, died from a stroke on Tuesday night at age 15.

"She made so many people happy," says Gidget's trainer, Sue Chipperton. PEOPLE met both Gidget and Sue at a Hollywood animals photo shoot in February, where the pup was a consummate pro and delighted the crew with her playful nature.

The mostly retired actor lived out her days lying in the sun – "I like to joke that it's like looking after a plant," says Chipperton – and entertaining at shoots when her trainer brought her along. "Gidget," says Chipperton, "always knew where the camera was."


http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20293002,00.html

Thursday Tidbits

* Alright Bill, you asked for them, here are the tidbits.

* It has been 496 days since Michelle and I had our first date. Next Monday will be 500 days and we're still together. I must have her fooled into really liking me.

* Nothing planned this weekend, but Michelle and I have two weddings we are planning on attending the next two weekends.

* Hayley has been working the past couple of weeks at McDonalds in Westover. Michelle and I are both extremely proud of her, she has worked a crazy schedule and is learning some valuable life lessons at 16.

* Kim and Michelle are going to have lunch together today, hopefully they don't chastise me too much.

* Morgantown will be invaded with Harley's this weekend, it's Mountainfest weekend here in Morgantown. I anticipate a little bit of T-R-O-U-B-L-E as Travis Tritt is the headlining Musical act for the weekend.

* One of the cats has been in heat this week and there has been a cat outside of the house for a couple days now just waiting for her to be let out. I wonder if any of the local Chinese Restaurants would like him? LOL

* Tomorrow will definitely be a short day for me at work, they are moving one of our servers that I connect to, so my license won't be available. Oh woah is me, what should I do (go home)...LOL

* A statement that I have lived my life by for years is "Adversity Builds Integrity". It is a saying I have always said, I feel that troubled times builds ones character. I actually googled the Phrase and it got TWO results. One of which was mine posting on the Scout message board. I modified the old statement "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner" and started using this phrase years ago. Being that there were two results and I am one of them, I have to wonder if I am the originator of that Phrase.

* Have a Great Thursday.

Busy Part of Week Over

This has been a very busy week so far at work, I had to attend a workshop the past few days for the NATCARB workgroup. It was nice to be able to go back to WVU's Department of Geography and Geology. This was the first time that I have had a chance to go back to not only my Alma Mater, but to the Department where I studied for the first time since they have relocated from the old White Hall to the newly remodeled building at Brooks Hall.

I got a chance to see the new GIS Tech Center since they moved along with the department. They have built a virtual reality cave that I know Dr. Harris was working on when I was attending there, but it is now reality and fully functional and housed at Brooks Hall.

Now my week starts to slow down a little bit, the deadlines have been met, the meetings have all been attended with the exception of just one.

I have one project winding down as we are starting to gear up for the one I was initially hired for. The rest of the week should be pretty smooth, we are shutting our internal network down on Friday to move it over to the new building, so that may be a very short day for me as this move is made.

The Planet Earth

This has top be one of my favorite DVD's series. Last night Michelle and I watched Caves, The Desert and the Arctic (one DVD of I think 5) of The Planet Earth. Being a Geographer I love this series, the camera work is nothing short of phenomenal and is a definite must see series.

The Discovery Channel pays the series that was shot over a few years by the BBC. It's a must see series for the entire family. I'm still working my way through the series, but we are in no rush to see this once on a lifetime documentary.

Michelle Not Up to Par This Morning

Well Michelle woke up this morning not feeling very well, running a fever,sore throat, coughing, eyes are a little on the swollen side and she is congested, she made the comment that she felt like her face could just pop off. She headed back to bed for some much needed rest. I will check on her later on and see how she is feeling.

Has it been 10 years?

Sometimes you have to take a moment and reflect upon your life and those who have been influential on who you are and what you have become.

It was ten short years ago that seems like just yesterday that one of the most influential men in my life passed away. Ten years since that fateful evening when you left us.

Dad we have all grown up in the last ten years, you became a great grandfather three times. All of these kids you can see you in, a tiny reflection of a man who moved on and the legacy that you left.

You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten, even 10 years later.

A Dat at the Zoo

Our planned day at the Zoo went rather well, despite the two groups showing up at different times and everyone being separated.

I know I had a great time, this is only my third trip to the Pittsburgh Zoo, hopefully I don;t wait 25 years until my next visit.

Of course we took a bunch of pictures from this weekend that I have hosted on my site.

For those who were able to make it, a big thank you. For those who weren't able to make it hopefully with my pictures you can enjoy our day with us.

The 28 toed cat

Michelle's sister suckered her Dad into one of her cats yesterday. A cat with 7 toes on each paw for a grand total of 28 toes.

I wonder if the fact that they live from a nuclear power plant had anything at all to do with this.

When I first saw the cat all I could think about was blinky, the three eyed fish from the simpsons.


Dave, Michelle's dad did become quite attached to the cat and took it home with him.

A Day at the Zoo

It is Z-Day, meaning "Zoo Day" and Michelle and I are in Pittsburgh. Last night we at dinner at Primanti Brothers, which coincidently happpens to be a few feet from our hotel we are staying at.

Today we as well as Pam, George and Calvin who will be joined by Erica and Josh will be joining us and Michelle's sister Chris and Jim, their daughter Amanda, and four of ftheir grandchildren as well as Michelle's Nephew Johnny and his wife Laura will all be joining up at the Pittsburgh Zoo together.

I'm going to see if they will allow me to wrestle a polar bear, I hear the odds favor the bear though.

Going out of Town

Michelle and I will be heading to the Burgh for the weekend. Today we will be going to Michelle's Sisters in Pittsburgh for a graduation party. I'm sure there might even be a geocache or two this weekend.

Tomorrow we are heading to the Pittsburgh Zoo. I'm ready to get out of town for a weekend.