20180512 - Sorting Shoes

20180512 - Up in the am and L&I planned the weekend. LJ&G and got busy doing things around the house, Dylan gone all day and spent the night at a friends and I headed to Home Depot to get some supplies. As soon as I got home I changed and L&I ran to Connor Barnett's graduation party. Amazing we are here and these boys have grown up. We hung out and shared memories with the Barnetts. We had to leave quickly to get to our baseball double header. It was a beautiful day and boys played well, hit after hit but lost the first game. We took a lunch break and fed both teams with wieners. Game 2 was a different story. G pitched the entire game and did awesome. He had his defense behind him and he allowed only five hits and one run over six innings, striking out one and walking zero. We had some friends from the team over after the game and hung out on the back porch until late.

20180511 - Singing!

20180511 - Up in the am and got things running, working from home. D brought home some friends home for lunch and then L showed up in a whirlwind of activity and got me over to G's school. G came out and we sat with some of his friends and had a picnic lunch. We then headed into the school and were joined by Gma&paW to watch G's 5th grade musical 'Rats', this is our last musical at that school, 13 years... home and back in the office getting more things done.  G and his buddies came to our house after school to play and Gma&paW back to meet up with J. D out to the ball field for a game tonight. LG, G's friend Landon and I headed out to the ball field to watch D, Gma&paW swung by the field to watch a bit too. D got in the last 2 innings in center. The boys won and we headed home. L&I went to the Rusty Bucket for dinner and left J&G at home with a plan for shared Xbox time. We didn't get a chance to finish our meal before L's ph was chirping and ringing with screaming boys on the other end fighting about Fortnight...  We finished quickly and went home. The boys claimed to have resolve things by the time we returned home, but it was too late... I had a little talk with them and sent them both to their rooms for the rest of the night... D home late.

20180510 - Teaching New Drink

20180510 - Up in the am and in to work and prepping for weekly call. Had the call and an interesting meeting HR called me into today... Finished the day and then headed home a bit early and straight back to the ball field for G's game. It was a good game, G went 2-4, but hit each time he was up. I did the scoring and music and the boys came back in the end and won, a good game. Home and got some things together and headed to Granville to a buddy's house that texted me last night inviting me to a bourbon and bonfire event. Hung out with a bunch of guys I just met sipping different bourbons by the fire out in the country looking at the stars and having good conversations. I invented a new drink tonight the 'Fire Maker' (equal parts Fireball and Maker's Mark over a couple ice cubes) YUM! and the others approved. Headed home and to bed by 1am.

20180509 - Best Burger

20180509 - Up in the am and in to work. Had a busy productive day. Headed out a bit ealy towards Circleville to meet up with G and the Lions for a game out in a field. G did a lot of pitching tonight and did great and went 2-3 batting tonight. We got behind early and didn't have enough time to catch up and lost this one. After the game G&I talked to the ump and got the name of a local place to eat and headed to Gibby's. G ordered a large pepperoni and bacon pizza and I think the ‘Total Pig Out’ burger I had may be the best burger I have ever had. Nice drive home with G D-Jing for me. Home and checked in with the fam and to bed.

20180508 + Working Folks

20180508 + Up in the am and headed to the voting both. After voting I headed in to work through some bad traffic and had to go an exit past where I usually get off to go to work. Finally made it into work and got my day started with a call. At the desk all day getting things done. Headed home and hung out on the back porch getting caught up on some Bible Banger reading while L did yard stuff, D &G at baseball practice, J playing the Xbox. After a while I headed back to the baseball field to watch the end of a game. Got G and headed home. Ran some stuff to the post office and got gas. Back home, D home and hiding in his room. Hung out on the back porch a bit more. In and closed down for the night.

20180507 - Missed Hit

20180507 - Up in the am and in to work. Had a full day and bailed out a couple min late and headed to the first varsity tournament game. Of course people texted me that Dylan had got in and got a hit before I got there... L&G were there to see it though. J went to soccer practice. I finally got there, checked in with some folks and then watched the end of the game, they run ruled them :-o Home for a minute to eat and then headed to Panera for a Booster meeting about the sport programs for 2018-19 school year. Then to get a haircut before heading home to pick up Doc. Doc and I went to Bible Bangers and it was a light night so home early. Up watching Netflix and getting some things done on the computer.

20180506 - Spring Cleaning

20180506 - Up in the am, D worked and L&I home depot. G home from McCains to change and back to practice. We painted shed, the boys emptied shed and L&I cleaned it out. D&J got TV installed on back porch and then D&DGF7 ran and got us Little Ceaser's Pizza and we ate watching TV on the porch. In and watching American Idol with L. Up late watching Netflix, relisting some ebay things.

20180505 + Tree Trimmers

20180505 + Up and LG&I to J's invitational track meet in Worthington. J did great in his event the 4x800 and his team came in 3rd out of 22 schools! Swung by Subway to get some lunch. In the backyard cutting up the huge chunk of the cherry tree that came down. All day J&G helped off and on. D home from baseball about 4 and then all the boys went over to McClains to help with mulch. D on to spaghetti dinner at the coaches house. Bill brought J home and had a beer, G spending the night at McClains. D left coaches early and went bowling with DGF7. J tried to get a friend over to spend the night but it got to late, he did stay up on the xbox until midnight.

20180504 + Hot Water

20180504 + Up in the am and working from home, nice quiet, knocking things out. D, DGF& and a friend of theirs came home for lunch. L came home and we ran to Costco to get a couple of things and have lunch. Back to the desk to finish out the day and then headed back to the school with L&D for the Jefferson Fair. G wsa to be the first person in the dunk tank tonight but I noticed steam rising off of the water when we got there. I stuck my hand in the water and it was scalding hot. I got with some teachers and the guys running the attractions, got a hose and started putting cold water in the tank until it was cool enough for G to start things off. All of G's buddies were lined up to dunk him and they took turns throwing baseballs to drop him, only 2 succeeded and and he was a wet mess. L got him changed, I taught the ladies how to reset the seat and G ran off to play soccer. I headed home soaking wet and got something to eat and J was in the basement. I got a couple more things done at the desk and then D&DGF7 showed up and ate and retired to the basement to watch J play. L&G home and G went downstairs too and L&I stayed up and watched a movie. Eventually D&J had a battle so we split them up and got them settled for the night.

20180503 - Games & GptsW

20180503 - Up in the am and in to work. We had visitors today so there was no room. Had the weekly call it went well. Finished up the day and headed home. Home and got changed, grabbed speaker and other baseball stuff and headed back to the ball field. G's team played a good game, too many pop-ups, but did great on defense. G pitched the first 4 innings and did really good. Gma&paW are down, they stopped by D's game to watch for a bit, he wasn't playing so they came over to G's game to watch the boys get a W. Home and GpaW&J ran out and got us some Panda Express for dinner. We had a nice dinner and then got the boys settled for the night. D home late, got him working on 2 scholarship that are due tomorrow... Up late with L coughing all over the place and she can't sleep.

20180502 - Last Home Game

20180502 - Up in the am and in to work. Took a min to make a call to ensure D played tonight. then the calls started... Had a crazy busy day and headed out early and made it to the varsity field just in time to meet up with L, get in line and go out on the field for Senior night with D. D got to start tonight and played almost the entire game, it was a blow out and the boys won their final game on their home field. Home and hung out a bit before heading to bed. What a nice evening.

20180501 - Good Enough To Sign

20180501 - Up in the am and J in to work with me. I gave him a tour of the place and introduced him to a lot of people. He attended the morning meeting for me, Joined a customer call with me, helped a it with shipping and then I got him started on a spreadsheet. We made some calls for a system down and then ran to grab some lunch with Justin. G had a field trip to middle school for the day and reported later it was a good time and easy.  After lunch I had to join a call and J went out to the floor and worked with a tech until we left. J&I headed out, stopped to get gas and then swung by the house to get L. L&I on to the high school to watch D sign his commitment to Wilmington to play baseball. There were 25 kids at the signing ceremony and it was pretty cool. After the signing L&I swung by the house to pick up G and we headed to Galena for his game. It was a horrible game. G pitched and did well, but the defensive errors were crazy, 13 for us (3 were G's) and 10 for them. Somehow we won the game... After the game we headed to Mudflats Bar and Grill in Galena for a good meal with the McClains and Tom.  Home and talked to D, he got to bat in the game today, made it on base and stole around to score, but didn't play in the field :-| Not up too late, very long fast exciting and disappointing day.