20051231 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! 2006

20051231 - Saturday, Up had some bfast, cleaned up and then to the barn. Loughman's over to play. Jack helped GpaW feed with the tractor. Howdy, Katie & Jake played in the hay. Everyone up to the house for more playing, lunch and playing. Good to see family and friends! Everyone rested and then off to the indoor waterpark to bring in the new year! Spent the evening in the pool and then playing UNO. LD Gma&paW & I are watching the ball drop in a hotel room. Jack didn't quite make it..... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

20051230

20051230 - Videoed 1/2 the contents of the house, changed the smoke detector batteries and then headed up to the farm. Opened presents and then took J to see the Christmas lights at the fairgrounds. Set up flat screen for GpaW and stayed up late watching 'Sling Blade'.

20051229 +

20051229 + Thursday, Took the car into the shop to get serviced, Boys and I dropped things off at 'Got Stuff' to sell on e-bay. Had dinner then ran some errands: Target, Dicks, they employ the dumbest asses... Home frustrated...

20051228

20051228 - L & the boys to her friends to play. I took several calls and got my hair cut. To McDonalds playplace for dinner.

20051226

20051226 - Gma&paB stopped by for a visit. L & I finished cleaning out the house. We watched 'Polar Express'. I stayed up and got all my year end stuff done.

20051225 + Holiday Fun

20051225 + Sunday, Merry Christmas!! Boys up early: Jack only wanted to eat candy, Dylan tore into it... Pretty great Christmas, not excessive, everybody got something they liked. Jack, & now I, are sick and took a big Christmas nap. Worked out good, gave Lori time to build all the stuff so I didn't have too :-D

20051224 - Sick House

20051224 - Christmas eve day - J woke up sick today, I stayed with him while L&D went to Nicole's, and then met up with Gma&paW for church. D is singing tonight. We will all eat when they get home and then off to bed so Santa can stop by (pic is of sick Jack on Christmas eve).





20051223 +

20051223 + Fast day at work. Got all my PCs archived and synced today. D& I to see 'Narnia' in the afternoon, very good show. Home and all played. I stayed up late wrapping gifts.

20051222

20051222 - Thursday - Howdy on the couch all day. J was really bored... D perked up this evening and we watched some Christmas shows. Up late doing year end stuff.

20051221

20051221 + Judy Kidd stopped over for dinner. As we watched 'Blue collar comedy', D began to scream... He had gotten sick in bed. I was up with him until 05:30, he got sick all night.

20051220 - Last of the Christmas shopping

20051220 - Home - Jack and I out finishing up the Christmas shopping. We left the house at 6pm and got home at 9:30... we went to a couple of toy stores... We sang songs and looked at the lights. Work - Nice slow day. Wrapping up the year, winding down....

20051219 +

20051219 + WORK - Slow day. Did some work, took some calls. Organizing the SUN stuff for work to be done by the end of the week. No real word on how the INOV8 discussions went. Little pissed that I am not more involved. Taking things slow, getting things organized to clean up last year and start a new one.

HOME - Good day. L took howdy and Jack to story time and then to see Santa. After work I played Dino attack with the boys, I put a t-rex puppet on my hand and chase them around, they love it. finished cleaning out the playroom, making room for Santa to visit in a couple of days. Put the electric blanket on. L not feeling to good. Talked to Max today, his sternum is becoming more stable, still can't watch shows that are too funny.

20051218 + Brunch

20051218 + Lo to church early. The boys and I hung out, reading the paper and watchin 'Little Bear'. When lo got home we packed up and went to Big Boy for brunch. When L was prego with Jack, Dylan and I went every Sunday for brunch. Now Jack is 2. It amazes me how fast time goes by and how fast these little people grow.

Bird houses r painted, dinner is done. Decorating cookies and then to play bull rider... Oh my back....

20051217 + Making cookies


20051217 + D is helping L make Christmas cookies. Both D and J helped me make birdfeeders this morning... Ran errands tonight. Damn stressful. Too many assholes out holiday shopping and on the roads. D is on albuterol and he is all hyped up. So a pretty tense night. Home, L wrapping presents and I am supporting her by watching 'Daredevil'.

20051216 - Test of Mobloging

20051216 - So this is my first attempt to send a blog to the web from my phone. I have even included a pic. Let's see what happens....

20051216 - Figuring it out

20051216 - Fast couple of weeks. I still have no real idea how to use this thing. What I want to learn is how to write my stuff in here and like burn copies of it every year or export it to a word doc. Then i will abandon my paper journal and do everything digital... there is even a way to send things to this blog from my phone, that would make it really simple, i could do it from anywhere at anytime. That would be too cool...
Christmas is almost here, we have all of our shopping done.

20051209

20051209 - Up at 4:30am and to MFE, then DFW, 1st class al the way home.

20051208

20051208 - Up into the plant, fell like shit! Had Motorola meeting the want well, we have a plan... Took Arno and Ger to airport and brought sandwiches back for Jason, Scott and Eric. Worked on invoices with Luis A. Got lots cleaned up. To Logan's for dinner, bed by 10pm.

20051207 - Best and Biggest Friends

20051207 - Up early into the plan, meetings all day finalizing plans. Azhar and Vince got in to it. Very productive day. To dinner in McAllen Texas on this night with Ger S., Jason S. and some others. We were looking for a place to eat and one of the guys, I think Eric R. want to eat here but there was a long wait. There were only a couple of places to sit and Ger and Jason decided to share a little wicker love-seat. The rest of us watched as the two squeezed in and the furniture made unnatural noises expecting it to explode. It held up and as I recall it was one fantastic steak dinner and we returned to this location many times. Ger and Jason I consider to be two of my best and biggest friends that I have MANY memories with and we keep in touch throughout the years.

20051206

20051206 - Up early to Reynosa. Dug into the mclaims process. Shott's solution will help. I came up with a screen that will really help. To shop floor, AWESOME! Picked up the Innovate Team, Arno and Ger and downloaded the day with them. up till 2am.

20051205

20051205 - Up at 4am, fell on my ass on the front porch going to the taxi! BAD START! Good flights to Reynosa with Jason and Scott. Innovate team bought the wrong tickets - go figure. It was half day but got to see the plant and go to Pharr. Big dinner, bed in good time. Found a WHITE HAIR on my head!

20051204

20051204 - L&D to church, J&I hung out. Had a big lunch and then headed home. Got home and cleaning the garage. D fell and hit his head and bit through his tongue and scraped up his arms. He had to get 5 stitches. , got to see his skull. To bed early.

20051203

20051203 - Up and put on bird houses and then to Gma&paB's. The boys went to the Polar Express with L, Gma&paB. I went shopping and I got pants. Boys had a great time. Stayed up late talking and playing sodoku.

20051202

20051202 - Up in the am, crappy day, had some calls. Got pizza in the PM and Jim, Carey and Liz over. Jim and I finished the toy box, very nice. The kids played and had a good time. I got D from school today.