20190503 - Run Rule

20190503 - Up in the am and dropped J off at school, he's all dressed up for his concert tonight and looks good. In to the new office and up in the conference room by myself in the am getting things done waiting for folks to show up. J had a big concert competition today and L went to it, Gma&paW showed up for it too. Had a busy day of numbers and graphs. Finished the day up a bit early to head to baseball. The roads were a mess so I took 23 all the down through downtown to get to the game. It was a good game and the boys run ruled the team 12-0 in 4 innings. After the game we went to dinner with Gma&paW and then headed home for the night. D stopped by late to drop off some of the things from his room with a couple of his friends. J&I chatted with them a bit before heading to bed late.

20190502 + New Shoes

20190502 + Up in the am and dropped J at school on the way in to work. Took back-way as 270 is a mess.In to the office and in to the conference room for the day. Had a long day of brain rattling equations and discussion. Finished the day off and headed home. Home and fell asleep in a chair until called for dinner and G melted down because his Xbox was shut off to get him down the steps... Ate and then J drove me to the Tanger Outlet the back way up to 36. We went through a couple stores and I got myself a couple pairs of really nice shoes. Home and watched the end of the Blue jackets game, they lost. Everyone to bed, I was up til 3 doing things on the PC.

20190501 - J Driving

20190501 - Up in the am and L staying home with G who was up barfing all night... Dropped J off at school on the way in to work. Backtracked and stopped back at home and pulled the recycle bin in out of the road. Off to work the back way, better than sitting in traffic... Got to work and had a trip planned to go to Findlay today but that didn't work... so hung out in the office working on the reporting tool. L called in the middle of the day our sewer had backed up in the basement... I called around and got a crew to the house to snake it out. Finished out the day and headed home. Got home and got some things and ran out to the ball field. I got the scoring set up and then headed back home as G was not playing. J&I headed out, swung by the post office and then he drove me around the NE side of town and we found a bunch of geocaches.  Home and worked on some booster stuff tonight. Not up late.

20190430 + May Flowers a Day Early

20190430 + Up in the am dropped J off at school and did a loop back to avoid the crappy traffic on 270 created by the new construction. Working out of the new office today. Spent the morning heads down on some complicated calculations. Took a break at mid day to meet a Scouter downtown at the Scout Store. Usual BS with those folks, can't buy a patch without paperwork and signatures for God and POTUS..... UGH! we did manage to get some of the awards and the fellow I met first had saw the frustration and complication in the what should be extremely simple process... Back to the office and back on the screen, cracked the code and spent the rest of the day making sure things line up... Home and the flowers our friends from Holland gave us are blooming. Had a nice dinner for LJ&I, G had batting practice earlier and had McD's so he stayed on his Xbox. After dinner I headed to Panera Bread and hosted a Team App class, had 4 folks show up and they seemed to enjoy it and learn a lot. Home and watched the Blue Jackets win a very exciting ice hockey game. Got boys to bed, G not feeling well...

20190429 - 2:30 800m

20190429 - Up in the am and dropped J off at school and got the car filled with gas. Jumped on 270 and they have changed the traffic pattern so it was a NIGHTMARE... Finally got to work and got the week rolling. Had a busy day in my office getting a bunch of things done. Finished the day and headed home. Home and got L&G and we headed back across town to Dublin to pay $19 to watch J run in the 800 for 2 minutes and 33 seconds, a pretty good time for him. After J's run we waited and waited for him to get done and come join us so we could head home. Home and J&I cooked ourselves some dinner and we sat down to watch some TV. I headed out about 9 to get Doc and go to Bible Bangers where our friend Gregg that is becoming a police officer joined us for the first time in months. It was great to catch up with him and the other guys. We had a short lesson and then headed home. I stayed up to watch a show and then to bed in good time.

20190428 - Muddy Caver

20190428 - Up late as all baseball for the day has been cancelled due to drenched fields. G playing on the Xbox and L cleaning and running errands while I got some things done at the desk. In the afternoon we listed to D's game, Gma&paW went but D didn't play... LG&I took a walk downtown, G on his scooter to Coldstone for a sweet treat. We walked around down by the creek and then headed home. G&I settled int he living room and watched some TV until time to run and get J. I got to the church right before the campers pulled in and got J. He was all smiles. We swung through Wendy's to pick up some food on the way home. Home and we all sat at the table and J told us of his adventures and creepy things he saw. Very happy he went on the trip and had a good time. J got cleaned up and we watched some American Idol. I called D and discussed his approach in talking to his coach to get playing time before the season ends... up to him now, prayed for him. To bed and worked on a quick-start guide for Team App and Tuesday's meeting.

20190427 - HOME RUN

20190427 - Up but not too early and got a couple of things done at the desk before LG&I Loaded up and headed to Grove City. It had rained all night so we were greeted with a 3 hour delay when we arrived... So we went to Waffle House for a big yummy breakfast. After breakfast we made our way back to the fields where we met up with everyone and I scored the game before ours of a team made of Giants we had to play next. 

Finally game time and we got into it against the GIANTS and they hit 5 home runs to start the game... We then put G in to see if he could stop them and his 4th pitch sailed over the fence. This made him made and it was on. For the next two innings he held them to only score 1 an inning. 70 pitches later he was tired and they started hitting off of him so they pulled him to finish the game. He was only one of the 2 that hit against these guys too. Due to his efforts we only lost 15-1 (better than the 22-0 the team before us suffered) 

With very little delay game two started... it was against some of G's old friends and for a team he tried out with in the past. Frustrated from the previous beating G got up the plate, took one ball and then done something I had not seem him ever do before, he hit a home run and the place went nuts! It started off a hitting flurry that would allow the victory in only 3.5 innings. What a HIT! 

Here is a snip-it of the automated game recap from GameChanger: ...Gahanna Lions 12U Blue pulled away for good with seven runs in the second inning. In the second Grant W hit a solo homer, Owen T grounded out, scoring one run, Cade S singled on a 1-0 count, scoring one run, and Landon G drew a walk, scoring one run. 

After the game we got our soaked selves to the car and packed up and headed towards home. I made a special trip to Canes to buy the home run hitter his favorite meal. We swung by the McClain's for some pizza and chat before heading home and got ready for bed but stayed up and watched game 2 of the Blue Jackets hockey game, they won!

20190426 - Hieroglyphs

20190426 - Up in the am and dropped J off at school. In to the office where a couple more folks were let go... so it was quiet in the office... I found myself faced by an immensely complicated equation; luckily we have a part time college math professor working here and he lent me a hand. I use to love algebra... Finished the day and headed home. J's ride for the caving expedition showed up right after I arrived. So we got him packed up and J vanished for a couple of days... LG&I then jumped in the car and headed to a Mexican place someone at work recommended and it was fantastic. We swung by Lowe's on the way home to get some ferns for L to put all over the house. Home and making sure things were lined up for the weekend and then L&I settled in and watched 'Glass'. It was pretty good, but L slept through most of it. Got G off to bed and didn't stay up too late working on things. D's games for tomorrow have already been cancelled.

20190425 - Proof

20190425 + Up in the am and dropped J off at school and headed to the big office today. At the desk getting all sorts of things caught up and cleaning up the reports for the tool we worked on all week. A pretty busy day and got enough done in prep for tomorrow. Headed home and went straight to D-Bats to pick G up, he is hitting with a different bat and doing well... can't afford another expensive bat... After practice we headed home and got J drove me to Meijer so we could finish off his list of things to take caving this weekend. We got our supplies and headed home. J spent the rest of the evening packing and G was on the Xbox. We finished off the night and got to bed in good time.

20190424 + Batting Pink Petals

20190424 + Up in the am and dropped J off at school on the way in to work. I’m to the new office and another full day of charts. Headed home and ran G out to Dbat for some swings and then J drove me to Meijer after sweeping the pink crab apple petals off his car to get supplies for his upcoming caving trip. Home and relaxed a bit before picking up the PC and working late into the night.

20190423 - Long Day, Bad Game

20190423 - Up in the am and dropped J off at school on the way in to the new office. In the conf room all day again looking over charts. We did take a nice break for lunch at Old Bag of Nails in downtown Worthington. At the end of the day I headed to New Albany for G's baseball game. L&G met me there and then L ran over to the high school to watch J run, but he wasn't running until later so L came back. The game was HORRIBLE. Probably the worse I have ever seen our team play. G had one play where he attempted to get the runner out at 3rd and got scolded for it... and his at bat was an atrocious strike out. We lost 18-1 in 4 innings... L headed to J's track meet where she got to watch him run and he got a new persona record time. G&I home, both very frustrated with the game. L&J home, J on a terror trying to defend his grades... it did not go well for him. got J settled and he came up with a plan. We watched TV for a bit but all to bed in good time. I did a couple of things on the computer but got some good sleep.

20190422 - April 22nd

20190422 - Up in the am from a good nights rest and dropped J off for school and got gas and headed in to the big office to start the day. Spent the morning documenting the process for the new metrics tool. Had meetings all day until 8:30 pm and headed home, long, not so fun day. Got home and everyone home from practice and Scouts, J argumentative about the caving trip this weekend. We watched some American Idol. Bible Bangers cancelled due to my long day.