Kim and I went out last wekend to celebrate or 15th wedding anniversary. We took in lunch at Olive Garden and took in a movie while Gannon watched Gavin. Gannon had some help from an older friend
The rest of the week was boring and uneventful. Had a mad minute at work on Friday, but handled this “emergency” fairly quickly.
We had some freak shows from the Westboro baptist church show up Saturday to spread their hate message. Our city did a wonderful job of recognizing their contstitutional rights by granting the permit and then blocking off all street access to where they where at. It was wonderful and I laughed when I heard about it. Noone was able to really see them or hear their nasty hate messages. And that is exactly what is required, that noone give them attention or be hoaxed into a reaction to their insane shouts.
Weather here in North Carolina has finally caught up with the rest of the country and temperatures are freezing, literally. I haven’t been out yet this morning as it is still dark out as I write this and I still haven’t had a second cup of coffee.
The conference playoffs for the NFL are today and I can’t wait to watch the Giants versus Packers in Green Bay. It is supposed to be around -4 degrees. That should make for an interesting game.
I was little disappointed at first that the Colts did not win last week, but after chewing on the fact that the fans booed a 14 year old being recognized for the NFL’s PPK competition, I am glad they did not. See more about what I have to say about this at my MySpace sports blog.Â
Kim and I went out yesterday for our anniversary. We started out with a little trip to the Olive Garden for a nice little lunch which was peaceful. It was kind of nice not to have to worry about someone throwing food or sticking food up their nose. After our lunch we took in a movie titled “Atonementâ€. I am neutral on this movie. I would not recommend it unless you are really into cinema stuff. I am an action guy, but can deal with a good romance as long as I am with the wife. However, this movie did not even have a real romance feel to it. Anyway, after the movie we headed home to find our babysitters (Gannon and his friend LJ) washing dishes.
This was the test run for the boys to see if they did well with Gavin and they did super! LJ is such a breath of fresh air when it comes to young kids today. He says “Yes sir†“Yes ma’am†and calls everyone Mr or Mrs….WOW! I challenge you to find that in a child’s vocabulary today.
Kim and I will be collaborating on a new web real estate project and I think it will be interesting. I don’t know how excited she is yet, but I will definitely need her enthusiasm, because is deals with girly things.
This a hoot, but I expect the minister didn’t appreciate it.  A minister was completing a Temperance sermon.  With great emphasis he said, “If I had all the beer in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”  With even greater emphasis he said, “And if I had all the wine in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”  And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he said, “And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”  Sermon complete, he sat down.  The song leader stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, nearly laughing, “For our closing song, let us sing Hymn #365. “Shall We Gather at the River.”  Smile, life is too short not to !!  See you at the river.
This week was slow and painful. As most have seen on the news we have had some very tragic things taking place here. In fact the site where the poor girl was buried is about 2 miles up the road from us.
Been to the doc for my back and still getting shots and other crap done to it. Nothing neew there I guess.
Gannon continues to do well in school and band. He will trying out for the school soccer team in about three weeks. I think he is a little excited.
Gavin continues to fight potty training, but his language and speech skills continue to astound me and his use of workds in the right context is just utterly amazing sometimes.
The dogs continue to do what dogs do. Sade had surgery on her eyes and is wearing the big dish around her head and it looks as funny as can be.
Finishing up my class in about a week and I will be done for good. No more school for me..EVER. I may take some technical certification course here and there but nothing that requires me to read and write so extensively.
