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Friday, March 29, 2024

Big Ole Hairy Good Friday

Yes, it is once again that time of the week that we all look forward to when we can take time to cease the labors for the week and take a little bit of needed time out to enjoy the fruits of those labors. It is again the dawn of another weekend and a Big Ole Hairy Good Friday!

I'm lucky today, the entire company I work for enjoys this as a holiday, all with the exception of the one lone contractor which happens to be me. So I will be working today, but that's OK I'll probably work my own schedule since there is no one else there and I'll have no distractions. 

So what is on our agenda this weekend? I was thinking about taking a trip to Harry's to pick up some meat for the freezer. We really like everything he has and that's where we prefer to get our meat from. Not sure what we need, but steaks are always good as well as Hamburger. 

Just a heads up so you can prepare, there will be a Solar Eclipse on April 8. We will not be on the 100% range, but we are just outside of that area that will see this, it's going to be well into the 90% here which ios the highest number we have had here I know in my lifetime. If you want to view this event, use precaution. Gut yourself a pair of Solar Eclipse Glasses, I ordered some for me and Michelle off of Amazon, but I'm sure over the next couple of weeks people will have them everywhere selling them. 

Have yourselves a great day and the start of a great weekend.

Hi ho hi ho 


Thursday, March 28, 2024

Photo Flashback Thursday


Once a week I like to take a little bit of time out, time to look at some of the 30,000+ photos that I have stored on my computer. Little lost moments in time that I either captured with a lens, scanned or just stole from someplace on the internet. I like to find just one and post it up and recall or relive the picture to the best of my ability. Sometimes this is a pretty easy task and sometimes it's not that easy, one thing it has always been a lot of fun.

This is one of the pictures from one of the events of my 35th High School Reunion. We did a couple of  events, one was a cookout at Coopers Rock. Those of us who attended this event went to the overlook to have our picture taken. 

For those of you wondering, we graduated over 400 people in our class, this picture was just a small group of us. We had a bigger event that evening at Whitetail Crossing, a local establishment owned by a couple of our Graduates. 

The 40th never really happened as they were planning on doing it as a multi class thing for a charity event  at the Waterfront that just never came to fruition. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Hi ho hi ho

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Tuesday's Tidbits

 * Monday is completed, now we are staring straight down the barrel of a Tuesday and you know what that means. 

* It has been 21,999 days since I was born, that is 21 years using my new,  new, and improved 1,000-day Calendar. I may have to start adjusting in the very near future as I debut my new and improved 1,045-day Calender, like next week. 

* It has been 7,259 days since I graduated from WVU with a Degree in Geography. I do love what I do and I can see me doing this into my retirement years. 

* 5,847 days ago Michelle and I had our first date together. Seems like it was just yesterday and it was the third best decision I ever made in my life. It was 16 years ago this past Friday Night. 

* 5,057 days ago I proposed to Michelle in the backyard at 4:00 in the morning. She knew it was coming, and it is still the best decision I ever made in my life. 

* It was 5,094 days ago in front of our closest friends and family, for the most part, Michelle and I became husband and wife at the Marilla Center, married by a chiropractor and feasted on food Jeanie made. 

* I have now lived 2,231 days longer than my Dad did and I'm still going strong, slowing down but still going. I am recovering though. 

* Michelle has been living a clean and productive life and beat that alcohol demon 890 days ago today. 

* My older Brother Jonathan lived 21,273 days, I've now outlived him by 749 days making me Senior Supreme Sibling once again! 

* I have 2,855 days to go until I retire, give or take a few hundred days here or there, but I love doing what I do. Who knows though, doing what I do I may never retire.

* 313 more days until Phil steps to center stage once again for Groundhog Day. He and French Creek Freddie agreed on their predictions this year,  now lets just wait to see if they come true.  

* 288 more days to go until my Goodbye 2024 Blog is posted. Hopefully I can put some better content together this year. 

* There are 274 more shopping days left until Christmas 2024. You still have plenty of time to prepare and get ready.

* There are 258 days until I hit the age of 61. Yeah I know, I'm really older than 21. 

* There are 207 days until Brittany and Matt enter into the bounds of matrimony. 

* There are 176 more days until we go to Pittsburgh and beat the Panther's butts in their stadium. 

* There are 167 more days to go until the Mountaineers will try to get some revenge here in Morgantown for last weekend when Penn State comes to Morgantown. 

* There are 139 more days to go until Michelle and I celebrate our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary together. 

* There are only 86 das to go until the start of summer

*  In 67 Days Michelle and I will be traveling to Pittsburgh to see Kenney Chesney and Zack Brown at Acrisure Stadium. 

* It has been ∞ (infinity symbol) several days that I have hated both Pitt and Penn State. 

* I have written 7,499 blogs in the now  over 19 1/2 years plus a couple of days of being a blogger. 

* Older Drone still needs to be sent out for repairs, not a big priority at this time. My little drone is awesome and I really like it....when I take time out to fly it.  

* I think I know where I want to do my next drone flight, out by the old county graveyard whenever I get to it. 

* Still playing Monopoly Go. Several family members are playing and I am back to 7th place overall among all my friends and family. Ang overtook me and is kicking butt. 

* Girl scout cookies? Help this little girl meet her goal. Get them while you can. 

* How about I start doing my favorite Tic Tok of the week? Looking for an entertaining TicToker to follow, check out this weeks Tiktok, talking about the PRT.

* Hi ho hi ho

Monday, March 25, 2024

Monday

All good things must come to an end, and that does in fact include those fun-filled things called weekends. Now it is time to take our collective noses and stick them back on to that grindstone of life and get back to doing what it is that we do that makes this a better rock to live on. 

Michelle did some deep spring cleaning all weekend, the middle bedroom was her target this time where she basically gutted it and took everything out to shampoo carpets and wipe down the walls. She has been like a machine with unlimited energy as of late. 

So what is up on the week ahead? I'm working all week, Friday is Good Friday which EPE recognizes as a Holiday, but I have the clearance to work if I want since I'm a contractor. I'm the only contractor that they have believe it or not as we are in the infancy stages of growing the Geospatial Division. They basically brought me in because of my strong resume in the Geospatial field to win a contract that they feel pretty good about. It's a large long term contract and may just be the first of many contracts that we may be getting. They are already an established world wide engineering firm, so we have that behind us, so I think the jobs may come pretty easy as clients are approaching us. 

Have yourselves a great start to a productive week and have a great day. It is Spring. 

Hi ho hi ho

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Sunday

Here Kiwi and I once again sit in a quiet household, he said he's not that talkative this morning. He sent a letter to Big Bird at Sesame Street and he found out through his intense research that Big Bird is a Muppet and not an aviary relative. He's kind of crushed, but he'll get over it. 

Day 2 of my weekend. Yesterday we did some moving around of some furniture and put some crap that has just been in the way up in the garage that is going to be demolished so they can haul it away when they start to demolish it. Michelle took everything out of the middle bedroom and wiped down walls and scrubbed carpets,vacuum sealed clothes we no longer wear, just basically decluttering it and making it more usable. We have the iMac in there as well as my gaming system that I rarely play. She has a sewing Machine that I think she wants to set up. just making the room more practical to use. There is a TV in there, but we never use it. 

Today we're doing our grocery shopping and some house chores before the start of another workweek. I've got a couple interviews this week on Monday and Tuesday, but I'm happy with my current employment situation, working for AliPro and EPE for the time being. Other than that it may be time for some relaxation. 

I bought Michelle a ticket for en event that she really likes. She is always into murder mysteries and cold cases, there is a speaker coming next week to the Met for Psychology of Serial Killers that I bought her a close end seat for for her to enjoy, She really likes these kinds of things, and as soon as I saw it I knew it would be something that interested her. 

Have yourselves a great day. 

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, Kiwi and I are up in deep conversation of the impact of social media on mental health and well-being. He think's he an internet Psychologist now and he thinks social media messes with Human's mental health. Me, I just like scrolling through tiktok. 

It is a day off for me and a weekend off for me. I got word on Tuesday evening that Parsons was once again putting our project on hold again (third time in a year, so it is feast or famine) Tuesday, so I am down to working one job. It'll pick back up as they have to move all of our data to the client's servers, hence why I have been working the past month or so for access to Fences, everything has to be switched to their servers by March 31, so not this Monday but the following Monday. Now it's just a matter of IT implementing the plan. 

Our garage is still standing, BUUUUUUT the old Valley Mart (owned by same people) is no longer standing. They have knocked down the building and hauling away. Right now there is just the big front canopy over the pumps that remains. They are planning on landscaping it and storing a number of the UHauls over there. I have heard they are going to build gas pumps in the back corner of the Back Corner of the current lot once they get that one done. 

So in a nutshell what does all of this mean? I'm off today and tomorrow. Michelle has been busy this past week, she shampooed both cars interiors, cleaned out and scrubbed the carpets of the middle bedroom and getting some things organized around the house. 

Have yourselves a great day!!!!