20180524 - Rough Night

20180524 - Up and in to work. Spent a good part of the day walking around and letting people know I would be leaving. People said nice things and are sad to see me go. I cleaned out tons of email and am working on getting things lined up and handed off. We got a bunch of windows replaced at the house today and they look awesome! Home and back to G's game, he had a pretty horrible game and melted down a couple of times... The boys barely won, when it should have been a blow out, many boys had a rough night. Home and tried to talk to G about baseball and he exploded and was sent to bed. Ate and then shut down for the night.

20180523 - Wrapping the Year Up

20180523 - Up in the am and in to work. Swung through McD's to get coffee, L washed my cup last night and the coffee I made this morning tasted like soap YUK! So I got some coffee and some bfast sandwiches and headed into work. In to work and it was a pretty busy day getting things written down and outlining what I do on a daily basis for a smooth transition. I finished my day and headed to the ball field where I met L&G for G's game. It was a good game, but a crappy one for G. I got a call from an exec of my customer congratulating me on the move and several texts from other customers and coworkers about the news... The boys won and we headed home. I ran into Coach Thacker, G's coach from last year, and had a nice chat with him. Headed home and swung through Arby's to pick up some dinner. Home and ate with L&G. D got home from DGF7's game, they lost their State semi-final game tonight. L ran to pick up J from an all day pool party, he is very sunburned. I got some things shopped and then worked on the PC watching Netflix.

20180522 - Resigning and J's Last Game

20180522 - Up in the am and in to work. I called my boss and left a voicemail and then got busy with my daily stuff. At lunch I called my boss again and left another voicemail and a text. Back to more work... Finally my boss called me back and I had a nice discussion with him and let him know I was resigning. He was disappointed but very appreciative of everything I have done. I informed a couple of other key folks of my move and they were stunned. Home and JL&I headed to j's last soccer game. It was a thunder night and the game was delayed a couple for several hours (it felt like). They finally played and it started raining... they played through it.  It stopped raining and J's team took a proper final beating. We swung through the Home Depot to get a photocell and headed home. D got home so I got him to help me hold the flashlight while I worked on the lamppost, not smart with no depth perception and in the dark... But we worked it out and the lamppost works again! In and up late on the PC.

20180521 - Possibilities...

20180521 - Up in the am, L had a rough night taking care of G and not feeling well herself... D is done with school and in bed, J&I up and out, G home sick. I got to work and started the week searching for an order for someone that walked in the front door... Then I got things on track and started knocking them out. L texted and had gotten G into the Dr. he does have strep throat... Finished the day and then headed home to have a stand up dinner and then to a Booster meeting. Home for a quick stop and then on to a Boy Scout meeting. Home to get Doc and on to Bible Bangers. Good meeting and home and up late contemplating and finally signing my offer letter for a new job!

20180520 - Carpet Carrier

20180520 - Up way too early and G still has a fever. I got ready and headed to Grove City with a swing through McDs. When we got there the fields are too wet, won't play till noon... Home and relaxed for a bit before starting the day. J and I ran to the Home Depot to return some metal rods we didn't use in the grill repair and we got 6x8 carpet and tape to replace one by the steps in the garage and fluorescent bulbs. Home and J ripped up the old carpet and prepped the floor. I installed the new lights over the laundry area, secured the banister on the basement steps and then headed out to the patio and started popping up bricks that were unlevel and trying to make them a bit more level. J came out and helped. D got home from his friends and helped for 3 min and then played with a fishing rod until he went to a friends Graduation party... J headed in for a break and I cut the carpet to fit. Had some guys stop in and offer to the seal the driveway at a reasonable price, so I let them. Talked Doc into getting his done too. When they were done I yelled over to Doc "That's the quickest we have ever done that!' G still horizontal on the couch with L attending his every wimper. J&I went to Jack's soccer game, he played a lot but they lost 7-2, I sat by Jeff and we chatted most of the game. After the game J&I headed back to Home Depot where we returned the wrong carpet tape, got the right kind of carpet tape and a big 12x20 carpet for the garage. On the way home we drove through Panda Express to get dinner and then a stop at Panera to get chicken soup for G. Home and we all ate on the back porch and listened to G's team on GameChanger. After dinner J helped me install the carpet by the steps and then in the garage. It looks great and we are getting more and more ready for this party...

20180519 - Tree Monkey

20180519 - Up WAY TOO EARLY and LG&I headed to Grove City for a baseball game. The boys started off slow as they do (and me) in the early morning. They played well and won the first game. After the game L left me at the field and had the keys to the car and it POURED rain. Home and got J off the Xbox and got a couple of things done around the house. I got J up in the crabapple tree with the chainsaw and he cut out the dead. I dut the dead out of the front pine while he chucked up what he had already cut up. I then dug into the lamppost that has not been working and got a good shock in the process. Dylan showed up for 4 minutes today, then left to ump a game and then vanished for the rest of the day and spent the night at a friends house. When J had all the wood cut up and drug back to the stacking area he came back up and I taught him about some electricity, now that I knew which wire was hot... J ran to the hardware store for me and got a photo-eye, but it was the wrong one... not to worry we got everything wired up, tested and the right part ordered from Amazon. We even got the lamppost painted and had some gold paint to refresh the eagle on top. J back to the basement and LG&I back tot he ball field. There was no way we were going to play tonight with the line of teams waiting for fields and we were all happy to drive another hour today... So we headed home again with no game this time and I got a couple of things done at the desk before LG&I headed to the McClain's. We hung out for a bit and G was acting odd. When we got him home and checked he had a 102.4 fever. L up with G all night.

20180518 - Porch Sitting

20180518 - Up in the am and working from home. D ran into school fo a bit to return his pc, J home sick and G called in the middle of the day wanting a ride to his 5th grade Laser Craze field trip... he got a ride... L home and I worked until D&DGF7 came home with dinner. We ate and then D had some friends stop over for a fire and wiffle ball in the backyard while we hung out watching some movies and preparing for the weekend.

20180517 + Assemblers

20180517 + Up in the am and in to work. I got the report and presentations ready for the day and then started the calls. Calls lasted all day and I headed home a bit late, passing G as he rode his bike to baseball practice. Home and the Brenden, the son of one my Bible Banger buddies, needed to borrow a tool and stopped by. J had mowed the yard and then he helped Brenden fix the loc on his car door. They got it as far as they could and I helped them finish up. Gma&paW stopped by after a follow up visit to the eye dr from her surgery yesterday and to drop off some drinks and picnic tables for he party. GmaW doing ok, but doing too much for just having surgery yesterday and far too much riding around in a car. L cleaned some stuff up in the backyard and I fixed the grill enough to try and make it through another season. G home and he and J hung out in the basement on the Xbox, L&I on the back porch relaxing and trying to plan the next 72 hours. D home and working on some college and work stuff.

20180516 - D's Last Game

20180516 - Up in the am and we watched J open his bday presents, he seemed pleased with what he got. Then everyone headed to work and school for the day. I was at the desk all morning trying to catch up on email and then had calls. L went to G's field day back at the grade school, her last one... Finished the day up a bit early and headed home to get L and head to D's baseball game in Marysville. I gave J&G money for them to go to Subway to get dinner and they promised to get along and stick to the Xbox schedule. L drove so I could get some work done and we got there at the bottom of the 1st. It was a good game and Gahanna was in the lead the whole time. D got in to run and uncharacteristically got picked off stealing second. The bottom of the 7th up by 1 2 out, 2 strikes and BLAM a kid hit a walk off double ending D's and his friends high school baseball careers. The boys cried after game huddle and it was a quiet walk to the bus. Home and hung out, J looked at Apple watches, thinking he is going to take some of his cash and return the watch we got him. D went to dinner with some of his friends and got home late. Not much of a bday for J but he seemed ok with it.

20180515 - Heavy Rain

20180515 - Up in the am and in to work, talked to Mary Ellen the entire way in. In for meetings and nowhere to go as the place is full...  Took calls from wherever I could throughout the day.  Headed out early to get L and head to D's semi-final game in Hillard. On the way home it was raining so hard I could barely see out the windshield and 270 was down to 15 mph... Home and the game had been cancelled, but not G's game, so we packed up and battled rush-hour traffic to get to the field in Reynoldsburg. We got there and the field was flooded, thank you for an hour drive... So we followed Tom to a pizza place and had dinner with some of the team at Vic's pizza. The service was terrible and G was last to get his food by a log margin... After we ate we ran to Best Buy and Target to finish bday shopping for J. Home and met up with D&J and closed off on some end of year open items for them. TO bed, but up late watching Netflix.

20180514 - Singing J

20180514 - Up and in to work. We had customers in today so I had nowhere to go...  Made it through the lou cramped day and headed home. We had to divide and conquer this evening... L&J hung out a bit and then headed to his choir concert. G&I headed to the high school to attend the XC meeting for J, it sounds like a lot of running... We then headed over to MSW to watch J's choir concert. The concert was good and we saw a lot of parents we have doing this with for years, each year the choir getting smaller. After the concert LJ&G attempted to go to DQ but it was too crowded and we met back up at home. Home for a couple min and then I got Doc and we headed to a full house for Bible Bangers.  Home, got D's birth certificate out for his lifeguard job, got his electronics down and headed to bed, looking for bday presents for J on the PC.

20180513 + Nice Dinner

20180513 + Up in the am and J&G gave L their Mother's Day cards and gifts. After coffee I headed out to the garage to give it a good cleaning. We took everything out of the garage, the boys helped a bit and then vanished to the backyard to play wiffle ball. In the afternoon, I hadn't finished yet so L took J to his soccer game. G headed to the basement and D helped a bit with fixing benches. I got things buttoned up as L&J got home. We all got cleaned up and jumped in the car and headed to El Vaquero for a nice dinner. Home wound down from the weekend.