Its Finally Over

Well Christmas is finally over and this is the list of my stash this year.

Sony CD player for my work car

Family Guy Volume 4 (Freakin Sweeeeeet!)

3 Knives

1 set of Git-R-Done pilsner beer glasses

Cash

3 Geocoins

Sirius radio (because I got Brando a new one for Christmas)

Remington long sleeve shirt

Lots of Coffee and flavored creamers to try.

White Chocolate syrup for coffee

And last but definately not least 2 wonderful children to watch there eyes open wide and faces glow while opening there presents. This is what its all about. I try to remind myself to savor these moments.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

VACATION!!!

This past week and until after Christmas I am supposs to be on vacation. However my work must have not gotten the memo. I went in to work during my vacation twice so far on my vacation and have ducked several phone calls. Hopefully it is all over with until I get back to work on Wednesday.





Sorry to everyone out there in blogger land. I have not been on the computer very much to read everyones blogs so I have a bunch of catching up to do. I hope to get time to comment on everyones postings soon.





Brando got her BIG Christmas present early this year. We are saving the suprise for my Mom and Dad until we come down next Saturday. So if you see them or talk to them please dont let the cat out of the bag until after next Saturday. This is what my lovely Brando wanted for about a year. I wanted something different but due to the fact that she will be the one using it the most I finally seen the light and purchase what she wanted. Here is here present :

I hope it makes a good vehicle.

I wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Voice On

Today my voice is back such as it is. I am enjoying talking at normal levels instead of straining to have people hear me and repeating myself. Still a bit hoarse but I am sure this will pass. One of the people I work with has blambed me for there scratchy throat. I wish I could call in sick but there is alot to do and not much time left to do it. As well as the projects I am working on there are several others that I have to cover due to people away for training and vacation. This week will be over soon and I will have 9 days to relax.

We watched "A Christmas Story"last night and it was just as good as I remember. I need to watch "Christmas Vacation" still so maybe this weekend I will watch it. These movies are a MUST SEE before Christmas can go on...

I hope everyone has a nice weekend.

I am down wit it.

Today when awakening I felt a little achy. I went through my normal daily routine. Getup, Groom, Dress, Drink a diet soft drink and out the door I go. I listen to NPR news all the way to work to keep up on current events and also because its the only radio station that does not fade out half way on my 40 minute drive to work. I walked in the door early to help a unit that was in trouble and was getting ready to let my boss know where I was going. I opened my mouth to speak and nothing came out. I tried to clear my voice and it was a bit better but still hardely audible. I managed to express where I was going through charades and a quick note and off I went. I am now alot better since I have taken some medicine for my throat but still pretty hoarse. I have never lost my voice before and the experience was pretty freeky. Since I am the only one in the plant that can do my job I hope the bug stays at bay and is satisfied with taking my voice for a bit. Hurry up Vacation!!!!

Warning Cache Spoilers In This Blog

Warning: Spoilers in this blog!!! Do Not read the first paragraph if your a Geocacher in my area.

What do these things have in common? Flashlight....Cache container....Brandy....? The answer is that all of the above was in my car trunk this weekend. There was a cache that we suspected that had glow in the dark writing on it and so we took said item to the only dark place that could be found in the middle of a picked corn field. It was a humorus experience to say the least. Yuri kept telling me to open the trunk but I wanted to leave it closed for a cache or two.


Now you can read this part.

We had a really good time caching yesterday. We hit several stop and go caches which are my favorite. Any cacher that tells you that they enjoy tearing apart anything and everything around a certain coord and looking a fool for close to an hour to find a cache that my be missing is lying to you. I like the quick gratification caches which might say something about me. It was a little breezy but it was still a nice day for December. I hope to see several more days like this next week while I am on vacation. I hope to get a few caches in while I am off.

If you want to know more about our adventure you can read Brandos Bloggins.

Happy caching.

Catching Up

Hello everyone out there in Blogger land. I havent blogged for a bit so I thought I would get everyone one caught up on my extremely exciting life.

Work..Loaf...Eat...Sleep.

Well that wraps it up for another exciting installment.

I finally got all the Christmas lights up including the friendly horses. They are filled with Christmas cheer. Frosty fell over on the second day and broke his carrot off. How embarrassing for Frosty. With the aid of some tape and a pencil I fashioned a splint and now his carrot sticks out with all its glory. However I think Santa is a bit jealous. Also I have now notice that Frosty has the same smile as Bob on the male enhancement commercials. Whats that all about?

The blow up snowman was stuck in a unfortunate position due to the rain and freezing. I finally had to go outside and break him free. Maybe it was a vacuum problem on the blower. One will never know.

The tallest tree had blown over and was laying quite undignified on the ground. After applying some manual assistance and a nice metal steak we got that puppy sticking straight up and erect and I was pretty excited to see it so. The little tree next to it might have some inadiquicy issues but I am sure with a little couseling we can pull him through.

I hope everyone is having as much fun this Christmas as I.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I hope they are not looking at this.

What mental disorder do you have? Your Result: Paranoia You are constantly thinking about what others may be saying about you behind your back. You may also feel people have conspiracies against you, or they are out to get you. In crowds you may feel like everybody is watching to closely.
Manic Depressive
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
What mental disorder do you have?

ME!!!!

But dont let them know.

Tough time

I am trying to switch back to days. After sleeping in the day time for about 15 days I now have to switch over to sleeping at night. I normaly dont have too much problems with this but for some reason it is difficult this time. I tryed all the stuff I normally do but it seems like I start getting very sleepy around 5 oclock. Last couple of nights I have only managed to make it to 8 or 9 and my butt is really draggin by then. I hope to get all the way switched over by Wednesday.

Brando put up the Christmas tree yesterday and I put up a few lights outside. We also watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer last night. It beginning to look alot like Christmas. I hope to hear pleanty of Carols and Christmas songs on the radio in the next few weeks.

Yin just woke up and came into the living room and said Uh Oh. I asked her what was uh oh and she informed me that the tree is broke. I let her know that it is not turned on yet and not broken. Now she is curled up in a ball on the couch. We are not sure if we will be able to place prizes, as Yin calls them, under the tree due to curious little hands. We will probably find out in the next day or two.

Happy Gobble Gobbel Day

Just wanted to take this time to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I am on my last hootowl and will be rising and shining tomorrow to head south to the folks house for Big T-day with my family. I know my darling Brando will look at me from across the room with those eyes as I pile on another dolop of food on my plate. After I will be perfectly miserable and wonder why I ate that last piece of pie. I tend to over endulge a bit at this time of year. Wish me luck on keeping my stomach from distending and my wife from eyeing and telling me I told you so.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

Another weekend come and gone

We have had very busy nights on startup. The group has been getting back to the shop about 4:30 am to eat and have a break. We were hoping for a quite night because days left a couple of small jobs to check on. But just like clockwork, after first break we kept on working through our lunch and through second break. I will be glad when this is all over and I can relax. I am looking forward to my week off at Christmas. It is not getting here soon enough. I hope everyone had a nice weekend and dodged the deer on the roads. My bubby and dad is doing their best to thin the heard to keep them off the road.

Hectic

Today I arrived at work hoping to have a quiet evening since we have worked our butts off for the past few nights and things looked like it was starting to calm down. I walked in the door to be hit with about 10 different jobs and everyone wanting to tell me where they were on each individual job. I walked over to our coordinator and said "What is the priority of each job?" After getting a better view of where we stood for the night I set off to get some work done. It isn't much fun to have so much to do with so little time. Oh well that is the way it is out here....Feast or Famine.

It is pouring down rain now and we are inside hoping it will move out but the radar shows other wise. Looks like it is in for the rest of the night and probably the day. I am not looking forward to getting soaked. It don't look that deep now because it only came up to the waist of the ducks.

Thar He (Bo Bo) Blows!!!!

Today I was on a mission to get the remaining rebels from the super top secret project pond and get them to their new home. The first two fish were easy to catch. The water temp is cold so it slowed them down quite a bit. The last is a Blackmoor goldfish. He is of coarse black and the water with the few leaves that have fallen into it has turned into a dark tea color. He was really really hard to see. So after bailing out about 75 gallons or so of water. I was pretty well convinced that he didn't make it. The next bail I dumped in the yard had a good size little Blackmoor goldfish wriggling around on the grass. I scooped him up in a gallon container with a little water from the pond and hot footed it inside. Holding my prize with a sense of self satisfaction I exclaimed to Brando, "I found him!!!" She walked up to me and said after looking at the nearly black water in the gallon container, "Your joking right?" After she netted the contents so she could see him she learned otherwise. His fins look a little chewed but I am glad we took the extra effort to get him in the tank. Yuri named him Bo Bo. I guess he looks like any other Bo Bo that I have ever met.

The Big Crash

Today I Crashed. The days of 4 and 5 hours of sleep finally caught up to me and I slept like the dead. Brando asked me if I had heard Yin because she was bad and loud. I reassured her that I didnt even hear my head hit the pillow. I went to bed and 8 am and my eyes popped open a 3:30 pm. I feel a little more like I am among the living now. This turnaround is to be over in 4 days and then start up with begin which is scheduled through the 20th but may go long if their is any trouble. I hope everything goes smooth.

Thanks to Starbucks coffee is a necessity now. Now I want to try different types and styles. The stuff they sell at Caseys aint too bad but I still like Starbucks. But for $1.09 a cup for Caseys I think I will choak it down.

Brando just purchased a 29 gallon aquarium for the dining room and the fish that is in the super top secret project pond (a.k.a Area 52...one level of secrecy greater than 51) is gonna move in with us. She happened to wrangle 2 fish out into the there new glass prison and when I wake up I will try and get the remaining rebels. She mentioned that they were big in the pond and said that they are huge in the aquarium. I cant wait to see them. I will try and post pics in the next week or so.

One more thought before I go. I just wanted to express to my wonder family that I have seen very little of lately that I REALLY REALLY MISS THEM. Who new a week could be sooo long. Well back to the grind. I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Halloween starts in November

Today my lovely wife Brando, darling daughter Yin and I went to Wally World. We headed back to the home and garden stuff to see if they still had any halloween stuff marked on clearance. Brando asked if I needed any fog juice for next year. "How much?", I asked. She informed me that they were $2.12 marked down 75%. After stammering for a bit I answered in the affermative and she asked me how many? I said, "All of it." We walked way with 16 half gallons of juice. That should get us for next year and the next. It beats buying it for almost 9 dollars a half gallon. They didnt have much else we were interested in. After picking up Yuri from school we retreated to the house and watch Cars on DVD. I really like this movie. I recommend it to anyone.

Greetings from the graveyard shift

I am typing this in the wee hours of the morning so it may or may not make sense. How is that any different than any other time you might ask? None at all. It is 3 in the morning and we just got in the shop from unhooking our control wires from a valve. It wouldnt have been too bad but it is on the third floor and it is raining. I am soaked and cold and ready to be done for the night. The good news is that quiting time is as 5:30 am instead of 7. Today on the way home my febble sleep starved gray matter was doing the micro sleep thing. I would focus hard on the road just to snap away with a quick jerk of the wheel and theat scared question in the back of my brain of " just how long was I out?" My car on auto pilot took me home where I crawled into bed to stare at the ceiling until 9 am. I awoke at noon and went to the living room to see Brando and Yin for a bit. Feeling tired again, my tired but went back to bed until 3pm where I awoke feeling pretty good. My brain hasnt switched over yet because with all this sleep one would think that I would not be too tired right now but my eyes are droopy and my typing will put the spell checker through its paces. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Goodnight Princes of Main and Princesses of Narnia.....or something like that.

A Place For Everything

And everything in its place. We finally got everthing out of the yard. However the garage has seen better days. The mausoleum and stones are all put away and waiting to amerge next year. All in all we had a really nice Halloween and my stress level is almost back to normal. After working like a dog today to get everything picked up we retreated into the house to spend some time talking with Pilot and Knittergirl, drinking warm Chocolate Silk coffee and watching The Village. This movie is possible one of my most favorite movies of all time. I remember talking with one of my coworkers about this movie and he told me that the movie was bad and disappointing. I think it could be a bad movie for someone with limited intellect and no imagination. I watched it the first time and really enjoyed it and enjoy it more and more with every subsequent viewing. Maybe the place for me is in The Village.

All Over

Well my favorite holiday has come and gone. I must say that I did my best to have a good time and for the most part I did. I stress terribly around this time because of all the stuff that goes on at this time of the year and throw in a training trip for work and it just about puts me over the edge. I hope that now that all this hub bub is over I can now relax. I dont remember stressing so much last year but I dont think I was this busy. This weekend I plan on trying to find a place for all the Halloween stuff and getting the yard back in shape. I also need to get the pond cleaned out and check to see if the fish are still kicking. I hope to get back to my ole self again soon. I dont think I could have stood to wait for Halloween any longer. I had fun but I can honestly say that I am glad it is all over. The final tally for the night was right at 100 tots and this year we handed out beanie babies and playdoh with a hand full of candy. Brando made sure to tell Yin and Yuri to get plenty of candy at one of the local parades because she wasnt going to buy candy for the tots. We went through the candy and picked out all the good stuff. Does this make us bad people?

Tonight Is HALLOWEEN!!!!

Tonight is the night. Looks like the weather is shaping up even with a 5 to 6 mile an hour wind it is still better than rain. It looks to be a bit nippy tonight also so I hope the TOTs are bundled up a bit. I plan on getting some pict tonight and hope to post a few.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Halloweeeeeeeeen

Tomorrow is Halloweeeeeeeen and I am as gitty as a school girl. I hope the weather is ok and it looks like the rain will be moving out about noon to one oclock so I hope rain isnt an issue. I am hoping to have more kids this year than last. I know we had several but there was a few moments where no one was at the house. It would be nice to have a even steady stream. Awww I will be lucky if all my stuff works tomorrow and I should be thankful for that.

What is all the weeeeeeen about you might ask. Brando has Yin on her potty trying to coax her to make a pee pee and now you know about the weeeeeeeeeeeeeen. That reminds me I have to go use the bathroom.

Im Home

I made it home last night around 9 oclock. Brando met me at T town and we ate out before heading south to the house. I must say that I am really glad to be back home. Vegas is a nice town but I wouldnt want to live there. The final tally for the trip of coffee and gambling ended up with Vegas taking me for a big whopping 11 dollars. Oh well the guy I traveled with didnt fair so well. All in all I am glad I went and glad it is over.