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20130930 - Up and in for a busy day at work. I bailed a bit early to get to D's game just as it started. The boys played a great game and D got a couple hits, scoring once and driving in 2 RBIs, that is 3 of the 4 points that won the game. I hope others see it, he is working super hard. Home and boys ready for bed and I packed some ebay sales for shipment. Then off to Bible Bangers, no Doc, he was already in bed.

20130929 + UP in the am and all to church. It was a good service. On the way home L dropped me off to get a haircut and then grabbed some lunch at KFC, then picked me back up. Home and we ate. J took a nap, DG&I moved more mulch. L cleaned out her garden. I then worked on some bills and then took D out selling wreaths, he sold a bunch. Home for a couple min, worked on bills then ran out to pick up G and his friends from a bday party. Delivered the singing goofy little boys to their homes and then home just in time for a Scout meeting where the adults for Jack's Den signed up for lessons through the end of the year :-) Up late finishing the bills and then trying to get ready for the week ahead.

20130928 - Up in the am and to the baseball fields. D had a tournament game and he played very well. he had several plays that looked like a prop baseball player, very fluid and perfect, maybe 3rd base is his spot... It was a rough game as errors crept in (none for D), and the boys lost their first game of the Fall tournament. Home and I started working on the card catalogs L had painted, trying to get them to fit in our room :-s It wasn't easy and I had to skip the beginning of G's baseball practice, but I got them in there with a bit of sawing and a BIG hammer... They look really nice.

On to G's practice and had fun with the boys, D was catching, J was gone with a friend and ended up staying the night. After practice DG&I ran to the store to get a present for a birthday party we rushed to that really wasn't until tomorrow :-( We stopped and got wings on the way home, running into my buddy Ed at the restaurant. Home for a wing feast and then settled in to watch the OSU game and post things on ebay. Lilly used G for a pillow and I ended up watching the game with a sleeping family. Everyone to bed and I stayed up watching more football and posting more things.

20130927 - UP in the am and in to work but not to the desk. Straight to the shop floor and the system was down :-o well just receiving. So I was helping fold boxes and asking the ladies what they thought about blah blah that happens back at OOBA. They were like, 'What is OOBA?'. I could not believe that they had worked here for months and 30 yards away the Out Of Box Audit area is unknown to them. So I took them on a tour of the shop floor that their receiving feeds everyday. They LOVED IT. They asked questions and some of the things we saw and answers they got improved the process INSTANTLY!!! I would have loved to hang out on the floor all day, but I had meetings to get to :-( Into the big conference room for the first meeting and the only time I left that room all day was to go out to eat with Richard, Dave and John.

After work I headed home and got the fam. We all headed to dinner at Panera. After dinner we walked across the road to the Gahanna high school football game. As soon as we got in the gate D vanished with his friends... J soon after and D talked the entire time. A person we know and some of his friends that built their own planes, flew their planes over the stadium during the Star Spangled Banner; pretty cool! We ran into lots of friends and it was great weather for football. We left at the end of the 3rd quarter with Gahanna up 40 something to 7. Home and boys to bed. I took pictures of stuff to post on ebay and then headed to the basement to watch more of the Zeitgeist documentaries and updated the blog instead.

20130926 + Up in the am and out to work. Meetings all morning and lunch with Kevin. Back for more meetings and then out the door late. Home and ate w/ LJ&G, D went to the 8th grade football game. After dinner L went to pick D up J got left at home alone to wash dishes and G&I picked up a couple of G's buddies and took them to their 1st Cub Scout Tiger meeting: give it another try ;-) the meeting went well and we got the buddies dropped off. Home, boys cleaned up and off to bed. I ran to store to find an OSU pollo for work with no luck. Home, couldn't sleep so up browsing online auctions for things to sell...

20130925 + Up and in to work. Full day of calls and meetings... Rushed home and changed and to G's game. When I arrived at the field, there it was... the feather... Things seem to be turning around... Gma&paW down for the games. G did good and hit off the kid pitchers, but the other team was bigger and creamed us :-( After G's game we headed to D's game where things were going better. It was a tight game but they squeaked it our for their first win of the Fall tournament.

Home and GpaW ran G and I to pick up the Black car from Tuffy where I had them give me a 'Professional' opinion (yeah, the same guys that have maintained the car for 10 years and replaced the brakes for $1,300 and didn't happen to notice the frame rusting through...??? I have had words with them on this...), they say it looks good. I ran through Wendy's and then home to eat. G read some to GmaW and then Gma&paW headed home and the boys headed to bed. Long fast day...

20130924 + Up in the am and in to work; more meetings, more calls... Stopped by the auction house to get the purchases for OhiOOddities. Home and nothing. Yes nothing on the calendar... REALLY? is that actually possible??? Relaxed a bit...

20130923 - Up in the am for an early meeting. Worked all day and then headed home. LJ&G were waiting for me and we ran the black car down to Tuffy to drop it off and have them give me a 'second opinion' on the frame work we had done. Home and we ate and the J showed us how to make the new craze ruber band bracelets. I ran to pick up D from baseball practice and then we stopped at Scouts. At Scouts we coordinated the painting of the baseball buildings at Jefferson and then headed home. D ate and I shipped ebay sales. I put the little boys to bed and then headed to Bible Bangers. It was a small group tonight so we ended early. Home and Jeff stopped by and we finalized how we are going to move fwd. to bed late and then J up in the middle of the night.

20130922 - Up in the am and G&I took Doc to the 'Hood' in black car Doc got repaired for us. The car ran good and looks and feels solid. We got to the hood and G wandered around Doc's block with the dogs and explored the piles of this and that everywhere. We then went to the Cole's house in Blacklick and help pack up a bit for their move to a new house today. G&I split off to get gas and swing through the house. We got our load to the Cole's new house in Westerville and unloaded it. We then had to run to a bday party for one of G's buddy's. I headed back and helped a bit and then had to get G...

G&I headed back to the Cole's and then back home where I had all the adults from J's Cub Scout Den to figure out how to hand things off... We came up with a plan that should make things better where J&I can do things together and the load of the Den spread across all the parents. I think it will work. Now prep for next week....

20130921 + Up to a raining morning and J&I out for a special treat. First stop was the post office and then 2 different McD's for some bfast. We then made our way to the Ohio State fairgrounds to buy a couple tickets and stand in a huge line to get on a bus. That bus delivered us close to our ultimate destination 'The Shoe', The football stadium at the Ohio State University! Uncle John and Aunt gave us tickets (that Lucia dropped off 20130919) to the game!!! :-) We went up 472 steps to our seat in C deck and the rain stopped just in time to watch the band come in (one of my favorite moment in time). J was mesmerized... The game got off to a fast start and we were well in the lead early on. We made a trip down to get some snacks and then enjoyed more for the game. I loved watching J watching everything. Looking all over the place with his sharp eyes and commenting on the most minute thing going on. Than halftime and fabulous Script Ohio (one of my other favorite moments) and today there was a special treat. The Ohio School of the Blind marching band did a Script Ohio in the shape of the braille, scyced with the TBDBITL that the tuba players dotted the 'i' at the same time. It was super cool.

Halftime festivities over and people leaving by the thousands J&I set out to find some of our friends we knew were at the game. We first went looking for our friend Bill the police officer at 14b, when we got there he was already gone; he was called out early to direct traffic because of the mass of people leaving early. J&I leave early? Not a chance, not during one of these 'several in a lifetime moments' we were experiencing. On to the next friend and we ran into the tuba players!

We found our friend Roger in section 22a. There was plenty of room so we hung out in the 23rd row :-) Close enough? NO WAY! I stayed up with our friends and J made his way down to the 3rd row for the 4th quarter and coming back to check in and tell us all the cool things he was seeing and the pictures he was taking. WOW!
Game over, OSU 76 vs Florida Rattlers 0!

We made our way to the line to get on the bus and it was HUGE, almost reaching to High St from the stadium :-o Jack decided we should walk back to the car :-o so we cut over to the oval and then up past the Student Union and onto High St. We walked a bit and then ducked in to a sub shop and got some grub. We ate facing the street watching the people going by. Back out on the road and we decided to see how the bus line was. It was a lot shorter so I was spared the several mile hike.

Back to the car and J&I headed home. Home and we hung out for a bit and then went to Home Depot for some supplies. We then met up with the Mallonns for a nice ice cream treat to celebrate Connor's bday! What a fun full day!!!

20130920 - UP ad in to work and a full day of meeting... Jack was a helper at school for a kid in 2nd grade, also named Jack -> http://mrshofmanns2ndgrade.blogspot.com/ I Left work late and met the fam at Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. The boys and I found this cool car on the way out. Home and we watched a couple of the old (1966) Star Trek, boys don't like them as much as the new movies. I stayed up late processing pics and videos.

20130919 - Up and into the office early today. Walked the floor and then had meetings all day. Did get a call from D's principle letting me know all eyes are on D at school to try and help figure out what the sudden change is. I also took a break to have lunch with Dave P. Got the new iOS 7 installed on the iPhone, not sure I like it... On the way to the car, n the middle of the parking lot... a feather...

Home, checked in with DOC on the cars and then in and had dinner with the fam. Hung out for a bit and then ready for a the first Pack meeting of the year!

Do you see what is missing? J&G are NOT in this picture... G quickly decided that he did not want to participate in Cub Scouts. J after a HUGE screaming fit about getting dressed for the meeting and restating he didn't want to go, forfeited his scarf and his membership as a Webelos Scout. I went to the meeting, told the 2 leaders that neither of the two little Winger boys would be participating in Scouts... I then told the adults in what use to be my Den that I would be stepping down, and the planning meeting we had already scheduled for this Sunday to get their help (because I was already overwhelmed with volunteer positions) would be a transition meeting and I would be out as well. I was very sad at the meeting; Scouts for the last several years is the only thing J&I did regularly together... :-(

Home and cousin Lucia stopped over for a nice visit.

I don't get all the feathers recently... How can all these bad things happening be the right path...???

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20130930 - 1st Tournament Game

20130929 + Door 2 Door

20130928 - Make it fit

20130927 - Gaining Yardage

20130926 + 2nd Try

20130925 + Work, Loss, Win, Safe

20130924 + Nothing?

20130923 - Snappy

20130922 - 2 New Hoods for G

20130921 + 76 Thanks to John & Mary!!!

20130920 - Bull Horns

20130919 - Early & Scout Out