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20221129 - UP in the am and ran to the school to get G and head to Sunbury for his last driving lesson. I had forgotten his paperwork so he and the driving instructor drove back to our hose and get it while I set up in McD's and worked. G back , all good. Home and Dropped G off at school and then on to work the rest of the day. After work G drove me to Delaware where he had baseball practice. I took my stuff and got more work done. Home late.
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20220903 - Up in the am late. J headed out to get some of his friends and they went to the Johnstown Flea Market. It was a pretty crappy weather day so L&I didn't go. We hung out and I booked a trip for L&I to Cancun for our upcoming anniversary. I ran to pick up the pizzas at our friend's and home and we ate and then watched the OSU Buckeyes season and home opener. The Bucks didn't play pretty to start, but got themselves together and beat Notre Dame! GO BUCKS!!!
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20220823 - Up in the am and headed to the dentist, everything looks good. Home and to the desk to knock out the things I needed to get done in the AM. Jumped in G's car and headed up to the school. I stopped to fill up the gas and G walked over and met me. G drove us to Jackson OH to get his car inspected. It took us about 1.5 hours to get there. We waited a bit, pulled in, gave the guys all the paperwork we had and hoped they didn't impound the car... IT passed inspection and the guy said there was a BMV just down the road. We went there and there was NO ONE in line so we walked right up to the counter, got the new title and new plates in one stop in about 15 min! AMAZING! I never thought we would get all that done toady! I found the world's largest apple water tower and a house made of stone from the Grand Canyon in Jackson so we had a look and G drove us home.
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20220805 + It was a busy day. L made some dinner for us and we just hung out at home. I sent L&G out to UDF to get me some ice cream.
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20220729 - Sent a bunch of texts to people reminding them to buy lotto tickets for the $1.3B jackpot tonight. Hazel and I walked down to the drive thru and got our tickets. G drove D&I to his baseball tryout in Olentangy berlin. D&I talked to folks during the tryout and Jim Long and his family were there. It was great to catch up with them. After the tryout Taylor went with us to Waffle House, but the cooks we like weren't there so we walked over to Chipotle for dinner. D drove G's car home, liked it, and we dropped Taylor off on the way. Home and hung out on the back porch with Gma&paB. Everyone headed out and to bed and L took me in to the garage and showed me that G had broken the hood ornament off of my E550... G was fearful for his life all day... I ordered a new fancier one and went to bed.
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20220628 - LG&I headed over to Easton for Landon's birthday party at a place called Pins. It was a super cool multi-floor game place that had little bowling lanes and tons of old video and pinball games. We hung out with the parents and the kids, all so big now, hung out and had a good time.
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20220624 - Up in the am and worked from home today. L&G headed out to his game and they lost. I spent the day at the desk and got a lot done. paid bills and came out of the office a bit late. I threw the ball to hazel for a bit and then L, Hazel and I walked back to the school to watch a little league game where they were playing music and whooping it up. Home and L&I watched a movie.
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20220531 - Up in the am and to the desk. L out for coffee with mom of one of J's friends. G and a buddy headed to the pool. Got through my weekly IT call and then L, hazel and I took a quick walk. Back to the desk the rest of the day. Finished the day and had some dinner on the patio with L and throwing the ball to Hazel. Headed to the post office and then high school to see a presentation on the plans for the sport facilities in the new school plan, nothing for baseball... Hung out and chatted with Jeff a bit about boosters before heading home. Home and took a couple calls about the meting. L&I headed out and went to Giant Eagle to get some gift cards for tomorrow nights Baseball Awards. We swung through home depot to get some license plate bolts and then home. Home and put the license plate bolts in with Hazel's help. J went to band practice G went out swimming. G home, J called, locked his keys in his car, so Hazel and I ran him his spare set. Home and to bed.
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20220525 - Up in the am and to the desk. L already doing party prep stuff. G and Trent up eventually and I got them started mowing the neighbors yard while L headed out for supplies. Back to the desk and G having all kinds of problems with mowing... I helped him get things running. Hazel heard a siren and we heard her howl for the first time today hahahaha! Back to the desk, L home and painted the threshold and walked around touching things up. J home for a minute before heading to work. I finished up my day and then listed some things on ebay. I headed out back with G and we put some stuff in the shed and then I got him started on stitching up the hole that started in the trampoline. Nate and Leo, his new puppy, came over to pay G for the mowing, let the dogs play and catch up from the winter isolation. We chatted for a bit and then J got home with JGF6, one of her friends and her dog Otis. So it was a pup-a-palooza in the backyard with dogs running everywhere, and they all got along. Nate, G and I headed out front to put new side lights in the Mercedes. We couldn't get them to work... Nate & Leo headed out and so did the girls and Otis. I went to move the car and the new side lights lit up! It was the light sensor, the lights only come on at night... They look cool! In and L&I watched Survivor. G had gone swimming some place and came home all in a tizzy because he swore they just saw the 'manchette killer' on Carpenter Rd. So we called the police and he filed a report. The rest of the evening was calm and we watched the season finale of Survivor and headed to bed.
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20220523 - Up in the am and G at school and I jumped on an early call. I then packed things up and headed in to the office as J was getting up to return his Chromebook and L was cooking stuff for the upcoming graduation party. Stopped Home Depot to return the left over materials from this weekend's projects. Made it to the office and went over my CB list and unpacked the monitors, auction stuff and ladder. Gathered up some mail, checked in with Cory and headed home. Home and getting a couple of things done at the desk. Lonie called and they are letting him out of the hospital early, so I jumped in the car and headed to Lancaster. Picked Lonie up, took him to his car and then followed him home and made sure he didn't need anything. Headed home, swung through the carwash on the way. Home and made some left over Chinese and got settled at the computer for the rest of the day. L ran G to baseball practice. After work I started taking the front door threshold apart and figuring out how to clean it up. Then I did a bit of repair work on Shelly’s arm and nose. L&G home and we ate. Gary and Marlene stopped by to drop off a table, check out my car and chat for a bit. L&I then headed to Home Depot and searched for the stuff to fix up the threshold. We got a conglomeration of stuff I think I can make work and headed home.
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20220522 - Up in the am and updated the plan. I jumped in the car and return Bluetooth device to the UPS store. Home and got the cars out of the garage and L started cleaning it. We got G up and I bribed him to climb the ladder to trim the side of the house. His legs were shaking :-) We got the trimmings cleaned up and the D and DGF13 got here. DG&I did some prep work on our driveway. We got Doc to move his car and got his driveway prepped too. L ran to get us some lunch and pick up more stuff at the Home Depot. We got everything ready and then got ours and Doc's driveways resurfaced. CB called me in the middle of the job, Lonie called him and was in the hospital for his heart racing. I called and checked on Lonie. The drives look great! Stood out at the road and talked with Doc a bit, D ran to pick up dinner at Golden China, the neighbors came over with their baby to chat and Chris Pettit stopped by too. Boys home with dinner so I helped get Doc back in the house and then headed over for dinner. We ate on the
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20220521 - Up and got a game plan for the day. Headed out and held the ladder for L as she cleaned the dormers out front. I got a second coat on the back facia. Got G up and he helped L&I put new shutters on the front of the house, and then spread a bag of bug stuff around the house right before it started pouring. L&I got cleaned up and took stuff to Goodwill, ran to Home Depot and got order, L got more flowers and ran through Wendy's to pick G up some food. Home and unloaded car and gave G his food. Got the Mercedes and picked up the Mallonns and we headed to Forty Deuce for dinner. A really neat place that has a hidden speakeasy in it. The food was really good and we'll be back to go to the hidden section. We walked around Restoration Hardware a bit and looked at all the overpriced stuff. I took some pick of some kids there to get prom pictures. We stopped at the Mallonn's for a couple drinks and to chat some more. Home not to late but really tired and to bed early.
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20220517 - Up in the am and LJ&G at school. I got around and headed tot he Endocrinologist for a visit, all looked good. Home and had the morning internal IT call. I got a delivery and got some new wheel center covers on the Mercedes, grabbed some lunch and Hazel and I took a walk, saw guys climbing all over the Barnette's house working on the roof. Back to the desk for a call exploring new phone systems for the business and then our external IT call. L home, it was her last day of school. I got a couple of ebay things shipped and had to run to the shipping place for one of them, a big old heavy metal crimping tool, so they could ship it for me. It was right next to the new gyro place so I put an order in and tried to call L to let her know she wouldn't have to cook tonight. By the time I got her to answer the phone the order was placed and she had started cooking hamburgers on the grill... Home and we ate. The gyros are not near as good as the ones at Nazareth. After dinner Lori, Hazel and I took walk, Stopped to look at Barnette's new roof, to chat with Penn along the road, met a new neighbor, Banja and his wife Sara, and walked through the car lot guy peeing behind the building. Home and settled in for the night. J in and out studding for finals.
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20220515 - Gma&paB&W all showed up and we headed to the high school for J's last concert. They did a nice thing and introduced all the seniors and told what their plans are. The concert was really good, sorta sad this is his last one. Home and hung out a little bit.
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20220505 - Reconfiguring
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20220427 - Up in the am and had an early call and then headed in tot he Worthington office. Had a ok morning and then dove in to moving things forward.
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20220426 - Up in the am and LJ&G at school. I got around and did a couple things and then headed to the tint shop to drop off the car. Penn picked me up and brought me home. Had the weekly IT meeting and then did some mail. Took Hazel on a quick walk and then at the desk for the afternoon. Ran to the trophy place with Andy to line up senior gifts for he baseball players. Had to send a bunch of baseball messages because of all the changes... L home and she took me to Penn's and then she headed to G's game. Penn carried me to pick up the car, IT LOOKS NICE!. I headed to the ball field and G was playing left field? I headed up to the press box and L came up too, with Tom and Terrill. G got a K on a bad call, got on base with error to short and then got hit by pitch, but stole 2and 3 in one go. The infield played awful and we stopped counting the errors... They lost 16 to 3... Home and J was acting up. G&I ate, L and Hazel took a walk and then L&I watched some TV and I got some things done for Boosters. Not to bed late.
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20220425 - Up in the am and L&G at school, J off for some weird testing schedule. I got around and L called before I took off to let me know G was walking home. Apparently his Chromebook, or the 4 loaners they had ready wouldn't work so he couldn't do his state testing today and would have to make it up on Wednesday... I headed in to work and got a couple things done. Cory and I walked to lunch at Jet's and then ate. Back to the desk getting things done. I headed out a bit early to get home and get L and we headed to Grove City for G's game. We got there, got our chairs set up and it POURED, game cancelled... We headed home and ran through Rally's on the way to get some food. We picked G up at the school and headed home. Home and ate and watched American Idol.
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20220422 - Up in the am and working from home. In the afternoon L&I headed to Grove City to watch G's baseball game. We ran in to Clint and Theresa Shrek from our baseball team last year and caught up with them and I talked to JD a dad of a boy that is on G's team for this summer. Home and got some Wendy's on the way. Picked G up and headed home for dinner. Hung out a bit and then JGF6 showed up and we headed to J's choir concert. We met up with the Mallonns there and the kids did great, got all 1s. Home and J called, he locked his keys in the car.. I ran his keys out and then home to bed.
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20220416 - Up in the am and G&I headed across town so he could take his driving permit test. He passed! And I was able to get him a compliant driver's permit, the kind needed to get on airplanes. We walked out of the testing site and I headed tot he passenger's side of the car and G was NOT happy about that, saying 'I'm not driving home!' I said "Well lets go back in and give them the permit back then. Isn't this what you got it for?" Nervously he got behind the wheel, I took a Xanax and mapped out a backroad route all the way home. G took off and he did really good. It took us about 45 min to get from Morse Rd to Hamilton Rd., but he did it and we did it safely. We stopped at the bank to see if we could get a student checking set up for him but there were no bankers available... He drove the rest of the way home and L celebrated when he gave her the news. G then drove to Trent's to help spread some more mulch.
I headed home, got a couple things done and then DaveB picked me up and we headed to the car lot and test drove the Mercedes. Mercedes is the only kind of car Dave has ever owned so he knows them and really drove the crap out of it. We stopped and climbed around under it and and looked it over real good. We drove it back to the dealership where they had the other Mercedes pulled out for me to test but I didn't have to. I like the big blue V8 one and told him I would take it.
Dave ran me home and L&I cleaned out the big old white car we've had for the last 15 years, I gathered up the title and my checkbook and headed back to the lot. They were closing in only a couple of minutes, but the guy stayed with me, we struck a deal and we got all the paperwork done and filed. I jumped in my new car, 2010 Mercedes E550 and headed to the gas station to fill it up. Then I took it through the car wash. When I pulled out of the car wash G called to see if I could pick him up and if he could drive home. I said I would get him but not sure if he could drive. I pulled in to Trent's and blew the horn. G and Trent came around the corner and G lots his mind seeing the new car. Trent's dad came out to check it out too. Home and I had to take L on a ride. when we got home J and JFG6 were there and they wanted a ride. As we were pulling out Conor and Vaiden Mallonn were driving by so we followed them to their house and showed Penn the new car. Home and rides over for the night. We had some dinner and then I went out and programmed the garage door opener, set up my phone to work with it and learn some of the features. Pulled it in the garage and headed in to watch some TV with L. A busy transportation day!
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20220405 + Up in the am and LJ&G at school. I got up and around and got emails out of the way before my7 first call. Had our weekly staff meeting and then Hazel and I took a walk. Back to the desk to finish out the day. G's baseball was cancelled due to rain. L made us a big taco salad for dinner as we thought D and DGF13 were stopping by. We ate and then watched 'The Bubble' a long, not that great movie, but something to watch other than all the bad news on TV. I got caught up on some things on the PC. I retired early, J home late. to sleep late.