100205 - White Out

100205 - Got home about midnight and a decent nights sleep. Up in the am and worked a full dat and getting home stuff done too. I had to take a couple breaks today to watch to big white flakes fall and fall and fall all day. After dinner the boys couldn't stand being indoors for another minute, so the suited up and went out for some fun in the backyard. They had a blast, until the typical ending of Jack being pummeled in the head by a high velocity semi solid di-hydrogen oxicide shpere (snowball), and entering the house crying...
Everyone dried off and in for a game, Blockus, and some shows. All boys to bed and everyone else too.

100204 - Jack GOOD! Presentation & Flights

100204 - Jac had a Dr. appointment as a follow up to his surgery today.  Everything looks great, he is release back to full activity (watch out, her he comes!!!).
Up early and met with Tom & Lee that both have me seriously outdressed today looking dappper in their sport coats. We got to P in San Jose and they were expecting not so much in person but on a call. Good thing we were there as we gave a killer presentation.
Got done and headed to the airport where I jumped an earlier flight and hope to get home yet today before the snow shuts Columbus down. Now to Dallas!

Pick is of a giant guy with a hammer, ready to hit a mouse. One of the attractions on roadsideamerica.com

100203 - Slides & Caches

100203 - Up in the am, bfast w/ Lee and then we worked on slides for tomorrows presentation all morning. We took a lunch break and went for a walk to see if we could find some caches. First one found fast.


We took a moment to admire the view across the San Francisco Bay, watch the planes land and see the city across the water.


With no time to waste we had to take a very long detour to get to the next cache, a tricky one hanging around. But we found it.


Back to work after the fun and finished up. Tom and I ran the rental car back to the airport and Lee picked us up to take us to dinner.
L calledand she had a good but stressful day getting the Winger team suited up and to the OSU basketball game tonight. She at one point lost all 3 boys when they did not return from making the tunnel for the team... But all boys found and the bucks won so a good time.
Lee, Tom and I went to Kincade's for dinner and each of us had and outstanding meal. We rolled out of the resturant and back to the hotel ready for the big day tomorrow.

100202 - Make it simple

100202 - Up for a 7am call and non-stop until 7pm: redefining a definition I have redefined many times in many directions... Tom and Lee sit here in our mobile office. A nice dinner at the Elephant Bar and back to the room to see the season premier of LOST!!!

100201 - Impossible Fast

100201 - CRAP, do you mean to tell me the dirst month of 2010 is gone already?

Up and trying to get a million things done in no time at all. Work consumed too much of the time as I struggled to find time to spend with the boys before I leave for the week: I get only minutes with the ones that matter most... Off through Phoenix and in to San Fran. The lights on the runways are cool.

100131 + No time for L

100131 + Up and LD&J to church so D could acolyte and then L doing Sunday school. G&I on our own. We made some cinnamon sugar toast and tried to dub some videos but the transfer from camcorder to DVD didn't go quite right.. Then G&I packed up and headed out to get things done: we returned the camcorder, delivered some cash from Dave to Jim, Blockbuster, a sit down lunch at Wendy's, Dropped off some borrowed religious DVDs to Joe, got gas, stopped by Jeff's and helped take down some big Christmas decorations and talk business, finnaly back home!
Grant went down for a nap and J&I played the Wii. D joined us and we have fun taking turns playing Rayman's Raving Rabbits 2. Then D and I headed into the hobby room and worked on one of his Cheistmas models for a while. G got up and we all had some dinner. Then G&D took a bath and J a shower. We all headed into the playroom to watch 'The Horse in a Gray Flannel Suit'. All boys to bed!


Back downstairs for a quick snack and cup of coffee into the office and a couple hours of work. L poked her head in and said 'you didn't spend anytime with me today' :-( So now trying to finish up before she falls asleep...

100130 - Friends Basketball Dancing

100130 - Everyone up, L&G headed to Dleware with Nicole, Sam & Lena so GmaB could see Lena. DJ&I out on errands: regitered J for spring soccer, a Geocache, beer & chips @ Meijer, Chinese Lunch for D&I, Subway for J, drop off a movie @ Blockbuster, quick freezing rinse for the car, home for lunch & to get the beer in the fridge.
We had our lunch and were loading the scooters into the car as our freezing method of transportation after we would drop it off for an oil change @ Tuffy, when Dave, Katie & Jake Loughman showed up! They followed us to Tuffy and gave us a wa ride home.
The kids played and played and Dave & I had coffee, beer and awesome relaxing conversation. L&G home and more play and conversation.
The Loughmans headed home and our boys got dressed to go watch D's basketball game. D got his team pictures taken and then in to play. Gma&paW came down to see the game and D got the first basket of the game. It was a good game and D is getting better each game. After the game a bunch of the families went to Signatures for a late dinner, a band and dancing.

Home, all boys to bed & I stayed up watching a movie and a bit of work...
Today was a great day!

100129 - Night Out x 2

100129 - up and full day of stress and motion at work, all over the place, but progress. The big boys had pictur day at school today. After work L took off for a Girl's night out & I headed out for a boys night put with JG&Grumpy(D). We went first to Home Depot where we got some treads for the basement steps and G took a ride back out to the car.


We then had dinner at Long John's, with minimal chaos... Home and D&j vegd out in front of the TV as G&I built a tent in the living room and did puzzles. G tired and to bed first. J fell asleep on the couch shortly after and D&I stayed up watching a History Channel special on machine guns until Midnight.

100128 - Shoes Treasure Mountian

100128 - Up got a good breakfast and off to our meeting. We had a good meeting with the folks at Nike and more to follow.


I then forced Harald to take me geocahing. We found the treasure and then headed to the airport. We got a bite to eat waiting for the flight and Harald told me stories from his family in Germany during WWII.


Got on board the flight and got a terrific view of Mt Hood on the way to Chicago. Made it home just before midnight.
First time in Oregon = success!

100127 - 18 to 1

100127 - Up and saw the boys off to school. Then a quick morning of touching base and then off to the airport. Flew to Portland today through ORD without event. Talked to my buddy Dave in route and several others.

When I got to Portland I met up with Harald and we found our hotel. After checking in we inquired with the Bell-hop on a good place to eat: he recomended Adenas and said it was a topless resturant... After traveling all day I didn't feel like going to a topless resturant, I wanted something quick and quiet. Seeing the disapointment in Harald's face I conceeded and off we went. We got there and to my dismay not a topless person in sight, but rather a topas resturant... We had a mix of very tasty and delicious dishes and some great conversation.

Not being far from the hotel we decided to walk back from dinner. In route we passed a book store, 'Powell's City of Books' to be more specific
(www.powells.com).


This place is HUGE: I'm talking 1 city block and 5 stories high. Well I had to go in there! We strolled in and explored for a bit, ending up in the religious section, where I found a couple good books. Then back to the hotel and ready for tomorrow customer visit.
This trip is 18 hours of travel, for a 1 hour meeting...

100126 - Good Pace

100126 - Up and saw the boys off to school. Grant has a fever... Doing Phase 2 related stuff all day. Howdy went with me and played his DS while I got a hair cut. A good dinner at the table with the 3 blabbers. Down to the basement for some Wii fun, then showers and bed. L and I watching tv, on our laptops, surfing and writing test scripts.

100125 - All directions

100125 - Up, boys off to school, chained to desk phase 2 stuff, too many calls, too many new projects poppin up, FRAZLED. I did make it to the kitchen for dinner, Grant didn't eat at dimmer time... L took D and a couple of the neighbor boys to basketball practice tonight while I got to stay home w/ J&G. We built a HUGE dinosaur army and got them all lined up, had Mary Poppins playing on the TV so we had something to sing along with, and dumped all the transformers out and played with them. L didn't like the mess much when she got home :-0 Cleaned up the mess, all boys to bed.
I then picked up Doc and we headed to McD's to meet the Bible Bangers. It was a pretty good meeting, but tonight I got more out of talking to Doc on the way there and back.
Grant up in the middle of the night burning up, got him medicated. Not much sleep time left...