20191012 + Where's My Brother?

20191012 + Up late and got myself around. J up early and went to XC meet to support his teammates even thought he was not cleared to run due to a muscle pull he had. I headed to the auction houses to pick things up. They only had 1 of the 2 things I needed at one and the other was closed... so pretty much a wasted trip. Swung by and got a hair cut on the way home. Home and my keyboards stopped working, so dug an old one out of the basement. Tried to get quicken updated and something went wrong with it... Things finally smoothed out and I got some stuff done. D called and was bored at school so he decided to come home. As soon as L announced the D was coming home Lilly went to the door... G home from his sleep over and party. D got home and we chatted a bit. J home and then over to his buddy Conor's for his bday. LDG&I tried a new Mexican place for dinner, Poblano's, it was really good. Home and L&I watched some football. D&G went to movie Gemini Man in 3D. They said it was a great movie but the 3D was a bit over the top.

20191011 - Hamilton's Pub

20191011 - Up in the am and in to work. Had a couple of hot ones with the new paystubs coming out.  Got things sorted out and took a break to walk down to the jewelry store at lunch to pick up L's ring. Finished up the day and then headed home. L&I dropped G off at dance at the middle school and then went on to dinner at Hamilton's Pub. It was a new place for me and it was really good. Home and L picked G up and took him to friends for the night. J home, no more GF3... He is doing homework to get caught up for the grading period until midnight deadline. L&I watched Night Hunter, super good suspense movie.

20191010 - Might be a Claim

20191010 - Up and in to work, feel like a zombie today. Had many phone calls with Bill and State Farm today about Bill's car. $1,800 in damage... Despite being a zombie I manged to close out a lot of actions on the day and prep for tomorrow. Headed home and J@JGF3 and G at baseball practice. L&I had a quick dinner together and then I headed to the high school and met with the Booster Board about go forward plans. Home and hung out with L&G a bit. J home and all to bed.

20191009 + Sleepless Catching Up

20191009 + Up slow in the am and headed downtown to the Scout Store to buy awards and get J a new Scout shirt. In to work and chatted with Lonie and Kelly for a bit and then worked on final touches on paycheck changes and templates. Was a heads down day and finished late. Home and ate, L on a walk with Lilly, J shipped ebay and did homework, G hanging out in front of TV. After a while Bill & Tom stopped by. We worked on some baseball stuff and caught up. Guys left and LG&I watched a show about musicians surprising folks with performances. All to bed, couldn't sleep again, looked at clock last at 3:30am.

20191008 - Sign Up

20191008 - Up in the am nice and slow as there was a ton of fog overnight. Got the the desk and got things rolling for the day. Had a very busy day and got a lot done. Headed home and J there, her ate and then vanished to JGF3's. L&G showed up, they were at G's XC banquet at school today, said it was very emotional and fun. Had dinner with L&G and then headed to the bank and then the Scouts Board of Review. Went a bit early as I had to officially sign up as the Advancement Chair for the new Girl's Troop... We had 2 boys come in for rank advancements tonight. After Scouts I swung by and got gas on the way home. Watched some TV with L&G, J home late. D called me late and told me all about his coaching a flag football team at school. Sounds like he is having a blast! Up late doing things on the PC.

20191007 - Parts

20191007 - Up in the am and G home not feeling well today. I headed in and took a couple calls on the way in. In to the building and checked in with folks on the way up to my office. Got things fired up and running for the week. Sent the entire morning on the phone with the payroll company and then the entire afternoon updating everyone's deductions so payroll will be right Friday. After that I headed down to IT to hang out with them until the system issues were fixed. Headed home about 7pm. Home and ate, L out running errands, J drove himself to Scouts and G still on the couch. I helped Bill with some plumbing issues over the phone and had some parts he needed in my warehouse. J home from Scouts, another merit badge DONE! I picked up Doc and headed to Bible Bangers. Home, exhausted and hit deep sleep for about an hour and then up and down the rest of the night.

20191006 - Dead Back

20191006 - LJ&G up super early and headed to downtown Columbus for a 5K race. I got up nice and late and started going through the paper. LJ&G got home and it was a rainy crappy day so we hung out around the house. J got his chores done and then JGF3 came over and helped J go through his closet and git rid of all of the clothes that no longer fit him or have holes. It was a quiet day of relaxing and getting things done. G broke out in a fever and slept most of the day, missing his baseball game, we were glad for the break... L&I ran out and picked up Cane's for dinner. We all ate and L tried to buy some new shoes, but apparently they were not the right ones and he lost his mind. Some buddies headed over and we watched the start of season 10 of The Walking Dead, looks like it is going to be a good season. After everyone left and went to bed J&I took a trip coffee and half way around 270 to chat. Home and I got a call from work that we had a system down. All systems back up at 2am and finally to bed.

20191005 + Run T-Bone Bunt & Dance

20191005 + Up too early for a Saturday... L rushed me out of the house to Worthington to watch G run. It was a big course and we have never seen someone get threatened to be thrown out of a XC meet before; some lady wouldn't get out of the starting lane... (rolling my eyes). It was a very cool morning and the boys ran very fast. G got a PR of 12:42. 

After the race we all headed home. I spray painted L car a bit and we loaded up my car and then G&I headed to Wilmington to watch D's scrimmage. We stopped at Waffle House on the way and ordered from the secret menu (Waffle House has an additional menu that you don't get to see unless you ask) and we both got the T-Bone & eggs w/ hash browns and toast and split a giant waffle. After we ate everything but 2 pieces of toast we continued to D's game. We walked to the field and D was not playing :-o so we sat way out in the outfield and watched. After a couple of innings D showed up on the field at 3rd base (confused as he never plays 3rd) so we headed up to sit in the stands and G videoed all the action. D got up to bat 3 times and liad down a PERFECT bunt and got on  base and advanced the runner, then he doubled to deep left center and then singled to right. 3-3 on the day! 

L went back to Worthington in the afternoon to watch J run, he hurt his leg and didn't run his best. After the race L took J home to get ready for Homecoming. Gma&paB came over and joined LJ&JGF3 at Creekside taking pictures. J&JGF3 then headed to Cap City Diner with some friends for a nice dinner and then on to the dance. After D's game G&I got with one of the coaches and pushed a huge grill across the football field to cook for the Family Cookout. We cooked about 150 hamburgers and 100 hot dogs and helped get everything set up inside. The coach gave his speech 20 min early while I was still outside cooking so I missed all of that... In and had some dinner. G and Nick, one of D's baseball buddies were running around the gym blowing powered sugar on each other... I finished eating, helped clean up, said goodbye to D and G&I headed home. G&I got home and to my surprise J&JGF3 were there, too many people for JFG3. After stopping by for a bit and changing out of their fancy clothes they went to a movie. LG&I settled in and restarted the OSU game so G&I could see the whole thing. Soon J&JGF3 returned from the movie, too scary for JFG3... Stayed up until the end of the game and then to bed

20191004 - Football Volunteer

20191004 - Up in the am and everyone gone. I headed in to work and got things stirred up quickly. Had an incredibly busy day that zoomed by. G had a big run this afternoon that went to an ice cream store. I headed towards home and swung by the house to pick L up. L headed home and I walked over to the football stadium. I got there and got the Booster table set up and got the volunteers selling programs and 50/50 tickets. L, J&JGF3 and G showed up to the game. L sat with a friend and I worked with the Boosters until halftime. Finally went to sit up with L to finish the game. Home and tried to get organized for an incredibly busy Saturday.

20191003 - Unplugged

20191003 - Up in the am and drove J's car into work. Started the am off with a load of people in my office and phone. Had an incredibly busy day being pulled in every direction but the one I had planned on going today. Headed home and then took the white car to Tuffy and dropped it off, picked up my car and got home. I tried to go through some Scout stuff J had supposedly been working on over the last 3 weeks until he lost his mind. I removed the rouge wireless network J set up and spent 2 hours working on the big TV in the basement and the surround sound to get them working again from when J and his friends thought they should rewire the TV directly to something else and broke it. I stayed up watching the big TV in the basement.

20191002 - Stink Bug Patrol

20191002 - Up in the am very slow and in to the office late. Had a meeting with the IT guys and moving many things forward one step at a time. Took a break at lunch to walk to the jewelry store and trade in L's new ring for a custom one that will fit her and go with her ring better. Back to the office to finish the day and headed out in good time. Called and ordered a pizza on the way home. Stopped at the candy store because the pizzas were not done yet and bought some stuff. Got the pizzas and headed home. J&JFG3 were there and L was dropping G off to watch  a volleyball game at his school. I ran up to Tuffy to drop off my car and L picked me up. Home and ate and then after a bit ran with L to pick up G, I turned on the ice cream truck music as we pulled up to the school to get him. Home and hung out watched Aladdin before heading to bed.

20190101 + 25 Years = 25 Gifts

20190101 - Up early, L got her first 23 gifts (Buckeye tree, clothes, candy...), J gone to school with JGF3 and I dropped G off at school with bananas for XC tonight and for his Bible Study. I headed in to work and got rolling, focused today on IT. Took a break and Lonie and I walked back to the jewelry store and I got one of the rings we looked at yesterday. Headed back to the office and crammed in more IT stuff. Towards the end of the day I was not feeling good about the ring... Checked with Kevin and Derek and they talked me into taking it back... Headed home and LJ&G at G's all Gahanna middle schools XC meet. I rested until they got home, they said it was a blast. L got change and we headed to Lindey's for dinner (gift 24). We had a nice relaxing evening and an AMAZING MEAL! Towards the end of dinner L headed to the bathroom and I placed gift 25 under her napkin, a diamond anniversary band that she loved. Unreal to us how 25 years have gone by. Home and got J&G to bed.