Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Thanksgiving 2017


Thought I was going away didn’t you?  Well I’m still here.  Thanksgiving was one of our most successful holidays yet.  Julian got a little drunk and obnoxious towards the end of Wednesday evening, but recovered quite well for the rest of the weekend.  No issues with food, nobody burned, no strange rashes….A good time was had by all…



Working on setting up a quick trip to Ft Campbell to get Windows 10 installed on one of my laptops…apparently this takes an act of god and approval from congress before it will happen.  I’m just looking forward to a day on the road without anything else to think about….

Back in a few, I have a meeting…

Well the meeting ran long…it was also somewhat pointless and could have been handled in a short email, but we decided to waste an hour instead…

Christmas gifts starting to arrive…I have this time of year.  I’m not opposed to gifts, I would just rather not have to reset my budget or lose ground in paying off bills each year because we decide to overspend.  I didn’t put any emotion or thought at all into Patty’s gifts this year (to be fair to myself I did get the Game of Thrones live tickets for her birthday and Hamilton tickets just because so I don’t feel too bad) I just went through her Amazon wishlist until I reached the budget I had set.  Aidan will be here this year (he may be calling himself Emrys, but I’m not willing to make that change).  I’m hoping to encourage him (and myself) to start exercising more.  He’s young and already in very poor shape.  That is a bit upsetting.  I don’t feel like we have a real father/son relationship…I feel like I’m more of an obligation he would be happier not dealing with…it may just be his age or his generation….

Still haven’t watched The Last Waltz yet…mostly a logistics issue.  I did manage to catch Planes, Trains and Automobiles a few times Thanksgiving day.  I live the idea of sticking to traditions…

Hard to get over here to the laptop and not have anyone else around at the same time…Guess my blogging may just become something I do to take a few minute break from work….
Got to see and catch up with Kami on Saturday.  It had been about 10 years since we last saw each other and it’s been 24/25 years since we were in Germany.  I still think of that time as my college days and have fond memories of my friends from that era in my life.

Friday, November 17, 2017

Front row seats to the end of the world…


I guess you can say that I’m too old for this shit.  We have an incompetent president and staff (who are systematically destroying every policy put in place by the previous administration), an opposing party that isn’t any better and a country that just doesn’t seem to give shit about fixing anything, they just want to bitch about how they were wronged by the other side….I don’t have a side I just look at the qualifications or the individual or the merit of the argument in question… Checking social media only makes me angry these days… I almost wish I could build an anachronistic town that is permanently stuck in the early 90’s…Life seemed so much simpler then.  The music was better for sure.  Anyway, I don’t want to get too negative right now…

I’m trying to get myself back into blogging…mostly so I have something to look back on a remember what life was like when I was younger (maybe try and capture the mood, spirit and events of my life in way that will accurately tell the story years from now when I look back)…I still go back regularly and read old post from 10+ years ago when I was still fairly active in blogging.  Blogging for the fun of writing seems to have gone out of style now…most blogs are political rants.

Favorite entertainment medium right now is podcast.  I love putting on one of my regulars when I get in bed for the night…something about the familiar voice that I find comforting.  Two favorites are Never Not Funny by Jimmy Pardo and The Chick McGee show.  I think Pardo has it down a little better (and makes regular updates) but Chick’s views on life resonate with me…

I feel like I don’t really live any more….not sure exactly when I died though…I still love music (bluegrass in particular of late), but I don’t have the desire to attend a concert or festival…Most of that stems from not having someone to go with.  Patty and I don’t really have the same taste in music.  At 44 I find it almost impossible to meet people I can be friends with who have enough similar interest.  I’m glad I’m with Patty, but I really wish I didn’t live in the Midwest…it’s depressing here. 

I need a hobby…I’ve never really gotten into anything.  I tend to lose interest once I learn the basics.  I think I might try astronomy though…I’ve always loved looking at the stars….maybe that will get me back into camping as well (they two seem to go hand in hand to me). 

Okay so this is day one of trying again…Not my best post over, not my worst. 

More later
Tim