Hump Day

Well we have made it, we have made it to hump day and the majority of the work week will be in our rear view mirror after today.

Tomorrow WVU and Colorado Play so it won't be a normal day and Friday everyone will be recovering from Thursday Nights game, so today better be productive if you want to get anything significant done this week.

I am still coughing from this lingering cold that I got last week, it's like it wants to settle into my chest but it doesn't have the opportunity to. I guess the recent drop in temperatures and all the rain we have had recently are playing a big factor in my difficulty in shaking this.

Hopefully I can shake this by this weekend, I need to take Brittany around campus and help her with a homework assignment.

Happy Birthday Bill Filcheck

You never know what you are going to see when you read my blog. I do have to say that O had a little bit of support in writing this blog for one of my daily readers. Michelle is guilty as charged in giving me the idea to write this.

Anyways Bill, from George's Journal a very heart felt Happy Birthday to you for being one of my most consistent readers.

May your day be filled with surprises and happiness.

Happy Birthday Danielle Mascioli

I would like to take this chance and wish someone very near and dear to me a very Happy Birthday. Danielle has been someone who will always have a special place in my heart as she attended my graduation from college and I intend on returning the favor here in a few more years.

I've spent numerous hours helping her with her computer and trying to keep it running correctly. Except she hasn't had too much trouble since she started using a MAC a couple years ago.

Happy Birthday Danielle.

Monday

Yep it is once again time to put our noses back to the grindstone and get back to work yet once again. The weekend is over and I have to say it was not a very good one. It was cold and rainy most of the weekend and for the second week in a row the Pittsburgh Steelers absolutely choked away a game to a team they were dominating.

Limas Sweed is someone I have not liked since last season, he dropped a couple sure Touchdowns last season and dropped one yesterday. Who cares if you can separate if you CAN'T CATCH THE BALL!!! I also think it is time to let Jeff Reed go. He's blown kicks the last two weeks that turned out to be the difference in the game. It's been a nice run with him, but this is the NFL.

Oh well, weekend is over and hi ho hi ho ....

Kaiden's Birthday Party

Yesterday was Kaiden's first birthday party. Unfortunately for him as well as half the family is that he was sick and not feeling very well. It was a cold and damp day, I had initial intentions of heading to the Buckwheat Festival after the party, but the cold and consistent rain mixed with a battle of the flu put a real damper to that plan.

Of course like so many birthday parties now days, Amt had a little smash cake set up just for him. He wasn't feeling good and was a little bit cranky until he got a chance to run his hands through the sugary icing topped cake and got his first real good chance at a sugar rush. He seemed a little less cranky when he realized the sugary treat was at his disposal.

After everyone had the chance to eat, the time had arrived to get to why Kaiden even showed up in the first place (other than the cake), it was time to open up the goodies. You know all the good stuff and presents people bring and bestow upon you on your birthday. I'm talking toys and money that all your closest friends and family bestow upon you.

There is a bit of a sad twist to this, Amy has seemed to have misplaced where she placed Kaiden's birthday money. Hopefully it turns up for them so they can get him a few more gifts.

National Geographic Picture of the Day

Birthday Party for Kaiden

Today is the day, the day that the family assembles and we all get to help Kaiden celebrate his first year of being a part of the family. I think it is at 1:00 today, at the place where this picture was taken, but I am not sure.

Anyways as I have stated before we may be taking up a collection to donate to the church for letting us use their facilities for the party. If you have a couple extra dollars in your pocket, a donation would be greatly appreciated. They were going to charge Amy $50.00 to use the facility, but they are letting her have it for free. She expressed she would still like to make a donation to the church for the gesture, so any donations would be appreciated no matter how large or small.

I'll have my camera with me today.

Watch Out Morgantown

Take fair warning city of Morgantown, Hayley passed her written drivers test on her first try and has been issued a learners permit. I told her about my story of me passing me written test when I took it. Back in 1979 you got 25 questions, you had to get 80% (miss 5) to pass it. I missed eight on my first attempt, seven on my second attempt, eight on my third attempt, eight on my fourth attempt, eight on my fifth attempt (only four versions of the test) and five on my sixth, yes sixth attempt to pass it which I finally did. Funny thing is I passed my skills test the first time, passed all my CDL tests the first time including Hazardous Material test (I was licensed to drive gas tankers)and had trouble with the written portion for my learners permit for my drivers license.

Anyways, Hayley drove a little bit yesterday. I got off work and both her and Michelle were there to pick me up and all I heard her say was "I Drive?", how could I say no.

I think she was a little nervous at first, but she did fine. I don't even want to talk about dad teaching me how to drive on a ice and snow covered Bakers Ridge Road nearly 30 years ago.

She did great and I was very proud of her, of course Michelle who was riding in the back seat jumped out of the car when we got home and had to puke because her nerves were shot, so I think maybe I'll do most of the teaching...LOL

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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.

OK Football fans the Undefeated University High Hawks are at home tonight taking on a 1-3 Hedgesville team. Should be an easy victory for the hometown Hawks. The Morgantown Mohigans travel to Buck. Upshur to try to extend their winning streak to two games. Clay Battelle puts their undefeated record on the line tonight against Clear Springs Maryland and Trinity High School travels to Parkersburg tomorrow to play Parkersburg Catholic.

The Mouintaineers are off tomorrow but will try to extract revenge for last seasons loss Thursday Night against the Colorado Buffaloes.

Who Dey are the words the Bengals will be speaking after the Steelers smack them around and abuse them on Sunday afternoon. I'm 0-2 on the year in fantasy football, so I need to start to pick it up a notch and win this week.

The new kittens and the mother are doing good so far, there are only two from the litter. We were thinking that there could have been more, they said there may be a chance up to 24 hours, but that window of opportunity has passed and we have ended up with two kittens.

Have a good Friday and a great weekend.

Happy First Birthday Kaiden Dalton

It was just a year ago today when the world got its first glimpse of Kaiden Dalton. I do have to say that this is one photogenic kid and it has been an absolute pleasure watching him this first year.

So from your Great Uncle, Kaiden I am wishing you a very Happy First Birthday today.

Amy and Ralph are planning a celebration of this day on Saturday at the church that they were married in. We are going to try to take up a donation for the church for letting us use their facilities for the day.

Buckwheat Festival

It is once again that time in north central West Virginia that we all look forward to. It's a time when fresh sage sausage and is on the stove and the smell of Buckwheat Cakes tickle the nasal passages as we all forget our diets for a day or two.

The 2009 Buckwheat Festival kicks of this morning at 8:00 AM and will include the traditional Firemans's Parade this evening.

I'm sure we will be making our traditional track to Kingwood sometime before this weekend is over with for my once a year Buckwheat Cakes meal!!!!

Fat Cat to Skinny Cat

There was a pleasant surprise for us yesterday as we arrived home from work, Sophie our pregnant cat, had given birth to three kittens. Unfortunately one was not alive by the time we had gotten home from work and Hayley went out and buried the one who was still born.

AS I write this Thursday Blog on Wed night, the mother and her two kittens are doing fine but there still could be more on the way.

I would take a picture of her, but I don't want to disturb her as she is finally peaceful this evening.

Fat Cat

A couple of girls were curious how big Sophie, our pregnant cat was getting so I told her I would take a picture of her and put it up on the internet on my Blog.

I have one kitten from this litter claimed, do I hear two people who want one of these furry, fuzzy and adorable kittens once they are birthed and weened in about six weeks.

It was a nice relaxing evening at home for Michelle and I, both of us still battling a case of the flu bug over the past week. It was a relaxing evening of extreme home makeover and it was a trip early to bed for yours truly.

I do have to say that Michelle made me some more sugar free pistachio pudding last night. If you have never had it, you won't like it and you should avoid it like the plague (that just means more for me.) =)

Have a good Hump Day, obviously one of our cats did.

Tuesday Tidbits

* I missed my call on yesterdays BLOG as I was sick and ended up taking yesterday off from work die to an illness.

* I did hear an interesting story yesterday about University of Oregon Football coach Chip Kelly. A fan sent him an expense invoice as a joke for his expenses to traveling to a game that Oregon lost. Kelly reimbursed him out of his own pocket, what a classy move on the coaches part.

* I guess my brother Gary has fractured his foot while at work Sunday. Val too him to the emergency room and he had x-rays but the he didn't stay around to get the results. I called last night and he was sleeping.

* Coach Bob Huggins is hosting a Slam Dunk Cancer on October 2 at the Waterfront. The cost is $100.00 per ticket.

* Just a little side note, I love sugar free pistachio pudding.

* I managed to lose for a second straight week in Fantasy Football. I could be out of the money this year before it even begins.

* Thanks for the story Bill, what is this world coming to when the police have to gun down a 71 year old woman. She was planning on taking out her 58 year old boyfriend.

* Anyways, yesterday was the last official day of summer, we have entered the Autumnal Equinox and have officially entered the fall season as of 9:18 PM tonight. Good bye summer, I will miss you.

Monday

It's time to get back to earning that money and stop enjoying the fruits of your labors for a few days.

It has not been a very good sports weekend for me, both the Steelers and Mountaineers went from dominating early to losing the game late in the game to pulling the off the loss from the jaws of victory. Oh well, line up next week and do it again.

On top of the two losses, yours truly now may have what Michelle had last week. I think I am on the verge of bronchitis, it started Saturday Night with a very sore throat and then got into my sinuses. Same thing happened to Michelle last week, so I am pounding the Vitamin C and hoping for the best. Hopefully I can avoid the severity like she had late last week.

Calvin's Birthday Party

Yesterday Pam and George hosted Calvin's 14th Birthday party at their place. The family assembled and Calvin had a few friends over to help him celebrate his special day of the year.

He was as rambunctious as only Calvin can be soaking in all that is his birthday. I don't think he stopped for very long as he was entertaining some of his friends.

We have another Birthday to celebrate this coming weekend as Kaiden turns the ripe old age of one. They will be celebrating his first birthday party at the church where they were married a few weeks ago. Rental for the facility, it's tables and chairs is something is not free, if everyone could pitch in a couple extra dollars this should not be too much of a financial burden on Amy and Ralph.

Tough Loss

Last night was a tough one to watch as a Mountaineer fan. We went down to Auburn Alabama and in a heavyweight match up came out swinging hard and taking control of the game. We dominated in the statistics and controlled the game all except for a couple KEY statistics. Six turnover lead to 24 Auburn points and WVU's demise in the 30-41 score in the revenge game from last season.


Late in the game Jarrett Brown injured his arm, forcing us to blow a redshirt year from Geno Smith, a true Freshman, late in the game. The only report I have seen on Jarrett's status so far is that he injured his shoulder and should be fine for the next game.

I do have to say that stupid mistakes was our problem. We ran the shuffle pass four times, two times with a little success, the next two times it lead to interceptions by defensive linemen, one to put the icing on the cake as we were trying to win the game.

Recent Computer Infection and Repair.

I was doing a little hacking a few years ago and managed to get a very bad piece of malware. Not knowing how to stop my computer from acting strange I had no idea what to do so I searched the internet for possible help. I found it in the Tom Coyote Forums and we got my system back up and running.

Fast forward to now, and my computer had slowed down significantly and started acting strange, especially in google searches. If I would do a search, and select the search result about 50% of the time it would redirect me to some site that honestly had nothing to do with the search results. My browser (Firefox) had slowed to a crawl to a point where I installed a lite version Google Chrome Browser just to be able to surf.

I had considered setting my computer to an earlier time, but there were no restore points, something was preventing them. Time to lookup TomCoyote again.

However the site no longer exists but migrated into WhattheTech. I quickly re-registered and started the process of repairing my computer. I followed their directions and started my own thread and did what they asked me to do. After a couple rounds my computer is back to normal, no longer infected and running quickly.

I think it all started on facebook when I clicked a "Cartoonize Yourself" link. I think that is where it all started and the computer went downhill since then. Almost to a point where I was going to reformat and wipe my system out.

I'm back up and running, Thank you Whatthetech.com

Happy Birthday Calvin McClain

I would like to take this opportunity out to wish my youngest Nephew a very Happy Birthday. Today is Calvin Michael McClain's birthday, but Pam is planning on having a little bit of a party for him tomorrow afternoon at their place.

The family will all be getting together to join Pam and George in helping to celebrate Calvin's birthday.

Happy Birthday Calvin. I hope you get everything that you want and that you have the Happiest of Birthdays.

Big Ole Hairy Friday

Yes it is once again that time of the week that we all look foreword 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.

It would not be a fall weekend without a little bit of football talk. It's High School Football Night and the Morgantown Mohigans will attempt to break their two game losing streak tonight when they host East Fairmont. They are inducting this years class into the Morgantown High Sports Hall of fame, my old Wrestling coach Bob DeAntonis is one of the inductees. Way to go Big Wood. The University High Hawks try to extend their undefeated season as they travel to Elkins to play the Tigers (is that still their nickname?) Clay Battelle travels to Hundred to play the Hornets and try to extend their undefeated season.

Looking for College, WVU travels to Auburn Saturday Night to have a showdown with the Tigers. We beat them last year here in Morgantown, but I am sure this SEC Powerhouse will be looking for a little revenge. This may be the best team we play all season. The game is Saturday Night and I would imagine a game between these two powerhouses will be televised.

Looking for the Big Boys? The Pittsburgh Steeler's continue the defense of their Super Bowl Championship by traveling to the Chicago bears for a 4:15 game Sunday.

Looking for something to do this weekend? The Mason Dixon Festival will be held this weekend at the Hazel Ruby McQuain Amphitheater and if you are looking for a little bit of Wine and some nice Jazz, the West Virginia Wine and Jazz Festival is also this weekend st the 4H Camp, Camp Muffly.

Have a Great Weekend!!!