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.