20260330

20260330 - Up in the am and on a call and then cleaning out email and getting the week rolling. Had a busy day and then had dinner and watched the news with L while we watched the news. Over to visit Doc for a min and then to Bible Bangers and everyone was there. It was great to catch up with folks. Home and to bed.

20260329

20260329 - Up in the am and L&I to church and then Bob Evan's. We stopped by Giant Eagle for some things on the way home. Home for a bit and L headed to Marlene's to work on some shower thing and Hazel and I headed across town to pick up an auction win. Home and got some reading done and then took a short nap before Hazel and I walked to Marlow's to pick up dinner. We then walked over to Creekside and had dinner on a big rock down by the creek. Home and started listing things on ebay, L home just in time to see an amazing finish in the basketball game that was on. Hing out listing things on ebay and watching TV the rest of the night.

20260328 +

20260328 + Up late and puttered around the house a bit. L&I took Hazel on a walk, it was colder than we thought out. Headed out to Bodega, a bar int he short north and had some really good greasy burgers and a beer before heading the the Short Nort Stage to see Miss Saigon. It was AMAZING! They do such a good job with their shows. Home late and straight to bed.

20260327

20260327 - Up late and on the PC getting things done. Got Jan 2021 P&L historically restored, had a call and got invoices processed. Hazel and I ran to Reynoldsburg to pick up auction wins. Home and wrapped up the week. L&I went to Rusty Bucket for a quick bite to eat. Home and watched basketball.

20260326

20260326 - Up in the am and dropped ebay shipments off on the way in to the Worthington office. Had the backflow preventer in the office tested today and moving forward on a bunch of little things. had lunch with the team. back to the desk and feeling pretty tired and achy. Got trash out early and headed to the ocularist. Home and wanting to go to bed, but threw the ball to hazel and bit, watched some TV with L, DGF13 and Hank over to play, then I got something to eat and L and I watched 'Anaconda' with Jack Black and it was pretty funny. Finally to bed and out like a light.  

20260325

20260325 - Up in the am and to the Dr. for a follow up on falling asleep, she gave me a new med to try. Home and to the desk knocking thing out. Took a walk with hazel, L home and now she feels like she's been hit by a bus. Finished the day, threw the ball to hazel a bit, had dinner and watched the news. Hazel and I went for a drive to pick up meds. Home and watched Survivor with L and headed to bed. No bingo tonight, just a relaxing night at home.

20260324

20260324 - Up in the am and had a challenge getting out of the drive, the trash truck had broken down... Dropped off a package at the post office and then in to the Worthington office. Got set up, worked on my bonsai for a couple min and then got ready for a morning of calls. Calls ran over lunch and I ate in my office while on more calls. Super busy day, finished up late but remembered to paint the door that I had ground down a couple days ago. Had extra paint so left a message on the side of the building for CB.

20260323

20260323 - Up slow and to the desk and on the ph. Got a ton done today. L home and gave Hazel a bath. Out of the office and had dinner with L and watched the news. Not feeling great so skipping Bible Bangers tonight. Helped L get the trash and grasses to the curb and then in to relax and watch American Idol.

20260322 +

20260322 + Up in the am and to church with L and then Bob Evans. Home and I got the laptop out and worked on invoices. L gave G a haircut before he headed back to school. Got those done and L&I took Hazel on a walk. On the back porch watching basketball, Columbus OH hit a record high for any day in March in recorded history with a temp of 86! Headed in a watched some more basketball. Bed in good time.

20260321

20260321 - Up LATE and headed out and helped Riley finish up the trimming of the grasses. Then headed in to pay bills. Back out and watched some basketball on the porch and cooked some pork chops on the grill. We ate and watched more basketball.

20260320

20260320 - Up in the am and to the desk getting things done. Had a full day and L&I headed out right at 5 to have dinner at Chili's. It was good, but it was so loud. Headed north with a nice drive to see the Curtain Players play of Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B. It is in a little church out in the country and we thought oh boy here we go again. We headed in and got our seats in the theatre. It is small and cozy with only about 100 seats. The play was amazing! We both really enjoyed it. Home late and to bed.

20260319

20260319 - Up in the am and headed in to the Worthington office. Had a full day and did a training during lunch. On the phone until late and got the trash out and headed home. Home and L cooked dinner and we ate and watched the news.

20260318 +

20260318 + Up late and to the desk for 3 straight hrs of calls... Got a lot done, Hazel and I took a walk and then back to the desk to finish out the day. L&I headed to bingo and we had a table of 18 tonight, couple new faces from work showed up. It was fun and L headed home and the work guys stayed and sang a bit. Chaff carried me home.

20260317

20260317 - Up in the am and in to the Worthington office. I was surprised to see that the drive was blocked off AFTER pulling way in between the two buildings for a tree leaning over the parking lot. I had to back out on to busy High Street and use the exit as the entrance. I got in to the office and got some cones and took them to block off the entrance right at High St so no one else had to back out on to the busy street... In and checked in with everyone ang doe the day rolling. had lots of meetings and the day went really fast. Home and we had leftovers for dinner and watched the news. L went downstairs to ride her bike and i headed to Planet Fitness. Home from my workout, cleaned up and to bed, up LATE working.

20260316

20260316 - Up late and to the desk, hit it hard and got a ton done. It was a crappy day so no walk. L home and cooked steaks for LJG&I for dinner. We all ate together and then I had to spend some time to get the TV in the basement working for L before heading to Doc's to give him a Hershey bar and chat for a bit before going to Mcd's for Bible Bangers. ScottH&S were there and we went through some of the Screwtape letters. Home and watched some American Idol and stayed up late trying to get the TV right, L messed something up with the picture... To bed in good time.

20260315 +

20260315 + Up in the am and L&I to church and then Bob Evan’s for brunch. We stopped a Giant Eagle for dinner supplies and ran into the Mallonns on the way out. Home and changed and realized I didn’t have apple cider vinegar so L Hazel and I ran to the library for L to get books but it was closed, no power, and then on to Kroger where the power was back on today, shelves full and I got the vinegar. Back home and wrapped the pork butts with foil and was trying to read on the porch. It was so windy the cover of my book blew off… L raking and doing yard work. The pork wasn't cooking fast enough so we put it in the oven and cranked up the heat. D and Hank showed up and ran and played in the yard. J&JGF7 showed up. Food was taking too long... DGF13, Grant and one of his buddies arrived and pork was done shortly after. I shredded it up and we had a feast! After dinner I took a couple containers of stuff over to Doc and Ms. Crews and visited for a bit. Home and couldn't sleep.

20260314 ‡

20260314 ‡ Up in the am and got some things done around the house. GpaW sent a pic of the pole barn with the roof blown off and a wall leaning out... no other info... Hazel and I headed out to pick up Auction items and went all over town. Home and unloaded our treasurers and then headed to Kroger to get some pork butts to smoke, Kroger was empty, apparently they lost power and stored everything away. pretty strange... Went to a different Kroger that had power and got the butts. Home and I listed stuff on eBay and seasoned the 20lbs of pork. We watched basketball and hung out. Put the pork butts in the smoker at midnight.

20260313

20260313 - Up in the am and to the desk. Day went fast. L&I didn't want to do anything so we ordered Chinese and ate at home and watched couple of movies.

20260312

20260312 - Up in the am and to the Worthington office for the day. Was a super busy day and DJ couldn't pick up lunch so I ran to Polaris to get it. Had lunch with the team, calls all afternoon, got trash and headed home. L at a play with her girlfriends, Hazel and I walked to the drive-tru to get beer. Home lit the fire table and hung out on the porch throwing the ball. Hank D&DGF13 came over to play. L home late and to bed.

20260311

20260311 - Up in the am and let Hazel out, didn't realize it started pouring rain... Got her in and dried off and on the laptop working on invoicing, then got on calls. J wfh today.

20260310

20260310 - Up in the am and dropped some packages off on the way to the computer place to pick up laptops for work. in to the office and got set up. Had lunch with the team, J here in the big training room all by himself today. Had the drain guys come out and clean out the drains from the sump pump and gutters. On the phone for calls. Headed out early, home, got L, picked up an auction win on the west side of CMH through horrible rush hour traffic. Dow to the Area District and had a nice dinner, $3 cheeseburgers!, at Brothers Bar & Grill. Walked to the Fury game and the ladies lost in 3 straight sets... Home and watched the 'Melania' movie in bed.

20260309

20260309 - Was up most of the night... Did get up and get on a couple of work calls and then had to go back to bed for a bit. Up in the afternoon and got everything I needed to get done done. Hazel and I dropped some packages off and then to the pet store to get her some food and a toy. Home and had dinner with L and watched the news. Over to Doc's for a visit and then to Bible Bangers, only me and ScottH were there and went over the Screwtape letters and caught up on stuff. home and finished watching American Idol with L and then read another chapter of the Screwtape Letters, watched Youtube videos on chapter 9 and 10 and headed to bed.

20260308

20260308 - Up LATE, L and Nicole to Gma&paB's. L called and said Rich had a plumbing issue so I called and checked in with him, he's got it figured out. I shipped eBay and got a couple more things done at the desk. Hazel and I took a walk and I threw her ball a bit. I got myself a beer and L put the garage door up just as i was taking the top off... Hazel and I ran to pick up Jets Pizza for dinner. hung out and relaxed the rest of the evening.

20260307 +

20260307 + Up in the ma nd L&I headed up to the Dolce's Maple Syrup day. As soon as we got off of 71 it started raining... We went and checked out the operation, it has changed a lot since the days I took the boys up. We visited in his shed and had some pancakes and sausage. Then to Gma&paW's house to see the work, things look AMAZING! L&I helped get their bedroom set up and some other small things and TV instructions. Headed home for a short stop and then to Pickerington for dinner at a Mexican place and then a trip through TSC so L could get some bday stuff for GmaB. Then to the Wigwam Event Center for a Pickerington Community Theatre presentation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It was entertaining for sure... Home and found that Hazel learned how to open the drawer in our bedroom to get to my stash of beef jerky and ate ALL OF IT! BAD DOG! To bed after a nice long day. 

20260306

20260306 - Up in the am and to the desk. Got on the phone and stayed there the rest of the day until 6:30pm. L&I headed to Texas Roadhouse for dinner, it was in the 70's and everyone in the world was out for dinner... so we scrapped that idea and headed to Joe's Pub and Grill, a place I have seen a million times but have never stopped at. We went in and it was a bit loud but pretty empty. We ordered and chatted and made plans for the weekend and after an hour with no food were questioning our choice... The waitress came out and apologized, comped our meal and then shortly after our food came out. It was worth the wait, everything was delicious! We ate, headed home and watched TV the rest of the night.

20260305

20260305 - Up in the am and in to the Worthington office through crappy hard rain. Stopped in the training room and gave Kasey a hard time. Up to the desk and Lonie here, got his bird toys and wood I got at the auctions for him. Got set up and got the day rolling. Had lunch with the team and then on the phone for a long time. Then Joe and I met and reviewed how to process vendor invoices and recorded it. A bit after 5 we wrapped up and I got the trash out. Headed home and was beat. L&I had leftovers and watched Survivor.

20260304

20260304 - Up in the am and to the desk. had a bunch of calls in a row and the day zoomed by. hazel and I went on a walk and then I packed up my laptop and some electronic supplies and headed to Signatures about 2:30 to help setup for bingo and Queen of Hearts tonight. They moved things around so David was up front selling QOH tickets and I spent several hours trying to get the microphone to play through the speakers on the back and front patio but failed. The place filled up early and bingo started at 5. We played bingo until it was time to pick the QOH. A young lady won, she is a nursing student and said she had no idea how she was going to pay for school. Happy she won. So here ends the craziness of QOH and hopefully Wed Bingo nights calm down. I stayed late and did some cleanup and karaoke.

20260303 +

20260303 + Up in the am and in to the Worthington office for the day. Got morning tasks done ,then had lunch with the team. Took the angle grinder to the door so it stops sticking then to the desk for calls and to wrap up the day. Home and had dinner with L and watched the news and hung out watching TV.

20260302

20260302 - Snowed overnight. Up late and to the desk. Got a bunch done and then L home. hazel and I took a cold walk. home and we had leftovers for dinner and watched the news. Got the trash out and the drive shoveled and no visit with Doc tonight he was sleeping. To Bible Bangers with Scott H&S. We talked about all the current events and what Lent is. Home and up till 2:30 revising an invoice.

20260301

20260301 - Up in the am, put a brisket flat in the smoker and L&I to church. It was Scout Sunday and it was good to see the leaders and catch up a bit. After church we went to bob Evans, that was incredibly slow, but we didn't have anything to do. Stopped at Giant Eagle on the way home and some groceries. Home and listed stuff on eBay all day. J&JGF7 were there for dinner and a visit. D, DGF13 and Hank came over a bit later and ate and visited. I finished listing stuff and burned a pot with sap in it. Up way to late watching funny videos on instagram.