Weekend stuff

The weekend I will be out of town and Brando will have to fend off the kids on her own. I hope the weekend is nice for the kids to play but again I am hoping it is rainy so while I am away I wont feel like I am missing out on much needed work around the house. It has been a little cooler around here but still pretty nice. Last weekend was brutally warm compaired to the previous.

This weekend I will be heading up to Danville to get further degrees for Scottish Rite Masonry. They are basically plays that explain the history of Scottish Rite Masonry. The ones we saw a couple of weekends ago were really neat. The area guys that put this on were amazing actors. They had props and costumes for them all including the white wigs and wardrobe. It was really good. I cant wait to see more up North were they have professional lighting, sound and a theatrical stage. We saw Degree 4th and 20th at L'ville and we should be seeing 9th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 29th, 31st and 32nd degrees in Danville. They will be serving biscuits and gravy for breakfast and taking a class photo which will hang in there hall. They have class photos in there hall dating back to when they first invented the camera.

Burn Baby Burn

Today I woke up and realized how burnt I am. My arms are on fire. So red they are almost purple. I carefully got dressed and went to work. I did pretty good staying out of the sun today until about 30 minute before going home. They informed me that I needed to stay over to help fix a problem. I carefully put my nomex coveralls on that ride on your shoulders, grinding the fabric into your skin. I never noticed how uncomfortable they were until today. I was one crispy critter. We got the problem fix rather quickly and I headed home. Brando asked if I wanted to meet them at Mickey Dees and have a sandwich. I had to get a happy meal because of the new TMNT toys, but its all good. We came home and watched the kids play on the playset from hell and play with sidewalk chaulk. When it got too dark we retreated inside and I started watch Trek Trek. Well thats about it for now.

Feel the Burn

As you can tell from Pilots post, we spent the weekend assembling the kids playhouse. It was a pretty interesting weekend. Last Sunday, Pilot and I spent 3 hours getting the frame started. We spent as much time looking and sorting boards as we did building. Here is where we were last Sunday.

Yesterday, we spent about 9 hours on the playset. We got alot done because we had alot of help. Our neighbors jumped in and really helped a bunch as well as Pilot. We all got all sorts of fresh air and sun. My arms and neck are neon. We got alot of the main structure done but still needed to get the roof on. It really started to get together. Here is where we were after 9 hours on day two.




Today we completed the playset with the help of the neighbors. We spent about 6 hours on the Playset from Hell. Pilot set this one out and I dont blame him. I was burnt starting out and got worse today. I guess I am a glutton for punishment, but I wanted to get it done before the rain tomorrow. After we got it together we went to Lowes to get some extras for the playset. Yin and Yuri picked up a steering wheel and a telescope. I am going to work on a bucket a pulley to haul stuff up to the upper deck and in a year or two will work on a zip line to get off the back deck toward the field. Here is the playset completely done. All we have to do is seal it with water sealer but we need a good dry couple of days to get that done. I hope everyone everyone had a relaxing weekend outside.

Last but not least, I wanted to thank everyone for there help in the Playset From Hell. With out the help of friends and family this project would still be on step 10. All in all we spent about 18 hours getting this thing together.

THANKS!!!

Let me tell ya little story bout a man named Rudy

Lass nite was pert near interesting. The new Television, or TV for us edgecated folks, was delivered yesterdee and after we got it all hooked up and what not, we settled our selves down infront of it and enjoyed the Hillbilly shows. It went one way and den da utter. We didnt know what was gonna happen next makin all kinds of strange sounds. At first we thought that the gray blob and the other gray blob was haven one of them there A-fairs but then the brown blob got in the middle and there was one hootenanny of a fight. They did the cowboy roll one way and den da utter. Til a blue blob broke it all up. A little white thingy looked like it was gonna be left out on the side lines fur a bit but it didnt set thar long. It was a virtual Payton Place in the little round box. The edisode got xciting when all da sudden the house begun to spin and all the things got stuck to the walls and then it sounded like one of them thar jet planes taken off. I yelled at Brando, "Grabs ups the chillins and head fur the hills!" and we tore off sump'n fierce. After the coast was clear, I dont know what that means since we dont live by no water, we came creepin back in the back room and all was still and quite. I grabbed up my gun and poked at the little metal box. The only sound it made after that was a loud buzzz. I am not sure why it shut off. Maybe the program was over. I can wait fur next weeks episode. I hope the writters can keep up this pace.

You Know What Idle Hands Are!

Well, I am feeling better today. I have only had to run to the bathroom a couple of times and only for #2 and not an upchuck episode. Brando has been lining up things for me to do when the weather gets better. You know how crap rolls so needless to say my big projects will need a little assistance. So I will be asking for my brother Pilots help. Here is a list of projects he will be helping me on in the near future. Some he knows about and some he dont.

1. Finish the Play set
2. Install the hide a stairs
3. Dig a much bigger goldfish pond
4. Install a stacking kit on the washer and dryer
5. Clean out the garage
6. Alphabetize my tools in my toolbox

I was just joshin about the last one. He has been a really big help with every project and if I call, he is out here in a flash. I couldn't have asked God for any better of a brother and I am not sure what I will do about him. And if you think I am saying this to butter him up for another project then you are only half right. He he he I really think I have been blessed with the best brother in the world and I KNOW that my kids have been blessed with the best KUNCKEL in the world.

THANKS A MILLION PILOT

Blogger SUCKS

Last night I finally was able to type out a blog that I thought was half way coherent. Which obviously took me a long time to do. After reading it and proof reading it to make sure I was getting my idea across, I reluctantly pushed the publish button on the bottom of the screen. Waiting.......waiting.....waiting..... Your blog was published successfully came on the screen. I then click view blog. Of course it only shows the blog I posted last Sunday. So I hit Cntl F5 for the cache to update on my computer and force the refresh on the page..... The only thing that showed up from my post was the Title. I click back, back, back and recover post only to discover to my horror that my well thought out post is gone forever. I wanted to throw a temper tantrum and be a big baby, but instead I decided to throw an even bigger temper tantrum and scream at the top of my lungs, throw the laptop across the room and stomp up and down on it. (Just kidding) I just set there fuming in disbelief, deleted my post of the Title only and shut off the computer and went to bed. Like I said BLOGGER SUCKS.

And whats with this crap of BLOGGER not remembering your log in name and password even after you click the remember me box. SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS!!!!!!!

Brando is Back

Brando got home today safe and sound. I survived the experience none the worse for wear. We invited Cunckel Pilot over for back-up in case I needed help. We all went outside and blew bubbles all over the yard and we charged up the Jeep and the kids drove it all over. After running around outside all morning we drove to O town and ate at Burger King. After our fill of Whoppers, the kids played in the play area for about 10 minutes and then drove to Wal-Mart. We made a pass through and picked up a few things including the strawberries that we use to bribe Yin to take her medicine. We got home and played outside a bit until the battery ran down in the Jeep and then it was time for Yin's nap. Cunckel and I went inside to watch Apacalypto. It was pretty good but Yin woke up about 10 minutes till the end and I had to turn it off. Shortly after that, Cunckel said that he was going to head to his house. Thanks Cunckel for all the help. This morning we woke up and went outside to blow bubbles again. And we tried to teach Yin to drive the Jeep with the aid of brave Yuri. She did pretty good but needs a little drivers ed training. Mom came home bearing gifts. We were all happy to see mom. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Bach'in it

(Here is a picture of a swingset that is close to the one we got for the kids. I think the book says assembly time is 10 minutes...shouldn't take more than 5)

This weekend my lovely wife is going for a much much needed vacation from our house. She stays at home all the time and raises our wonderful children. I have several things that have pulled me away from the family lately and it is a nice change but I miss everyone terrible. You dont really know how much you will miss your family until you are away. I hope my wonderful wife will be able to put this aside and actually have fun this weekend. Brando has been working like a dog to get all the laundry caught up so she will only have to come home to a Rushmore size mountain of dirty laundry instead of an Everest. So with that, I will be home with the kids for a change. I am not sure what all we are going to do but, I know it will be interesting. I hope the weather cooperates so we can all spend a little time outside. Rain, rain go away... I hope that soon I will be able to start on Yin and Yuri's swing set. We purchased it a couple of weeks ago and there is some assembly required...as in nothing is assembled. I hope to get all the wooden structure up and seal it before putting on the plastic components.

Slow days rant

Today at work we are doing some little jobs that need finished up. It is pretty slow and are trying to get the shop straightened up. It is a bit of a mess from years of people just throwing things in the nearest drawer and not taking the time to put it were it goes. I hope after all the effort, it will be kept nicer. Some people take no ownership of the job or tools used in there job and as long as it workered for them that time then who gives a crap if anyone else will ever need to use it. Usually this means that the tool is thrown in the next available spot they can shove it. Sometimes the tool is broken and they do not inform someone that they need to purchase another. Some leave the tool laying around where it gets lost and my favorite where the person grabs the electronic tool out of the locker and uses it or sees that the batteries are ran down and just puts it back in the locker. I would like to strangle everyone lazy ass out here that wont go that extra inche to keep this place half way picked up.

Other than that life is good.

The Only Good Thing About Mondays

The only good thing about Mondays is Star Trek. I love coming home to watch Voyager and then watch Enterprise until I finally have to get a shower and jump in bed to get a few hours sleep. God bless reruns on Star Trek. With all the Trek on TV latel, I have found my inner-trekkie has begun to re-emerge and I cant get enough. I would really like to get to a convension in the coming year but feel that I might just have to settle for re-runs.

THANK GOD 4 TREK TREK!!!

Home from the South

We just got home from visiting the folks. Mom is doing really well and seemed to be feeling alot better than she was last weekend. However all the hair that had grown back in the last 6 weeks is now gone again. But it beats some of the other problems she was having. I hope the numbness goes away soon.

The kids really had a good time and really missed Nene and Paw paw. We also got to visit my Grandmaw. The visit was way too short and I hope next time we are able to visit longer. We ended up getting down there on Saturday and I had to be back today for work tomorrow.

I had a really good time but I am also glad to be home. Yin seems like she is coming down with a snotty nose. Hopefully we will get her on some medicine and get her cleared up. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Go South Young Men

Tomorrow we head South to visit the folks. I hope they are able to handle our bunch. Yin and Yuri have been really missing them and so have we. I am really glad mom does not have to have any more Chemotherapy. I just wish the side effects would subside so the kids wont wear her down so much. Hope to see everyone down there. We should be rolling outta here in the morning. Wish us a safe journey.

All good things come in fractions and start with T.