Boy, did we have a busy (and almost free) weekend. Friday night we went to the new house. We had a kitchen cabinet fiasco this week. The cabinets came in the wrong color. We ordered a Honey Maple color and they came in Natural Maple (no stain, just polyurethane). 84 Lumber blamed my contractor, but we are the ones who met with 84 and ordered all the stuff. Our contractor just gave them the o.k. to put the order in. Anyway, our contractor and 84 made it worth our while to keep the cabinets. (which i like better anyway). Then as they were installing them they found that there were a bunch of wrong sized cabinets and and extra sink cabinet, etc. 84 is coming over Monday to sort it all out.
We did meet our new new neighbors, they bought the house to the south of us Friday. Todd, Denise and Ethan who is 23 months old. Snap! He and Cooter are gonna get in a lot of trouble together.
We had a ton of family come over to see the kitchen and we had gone over before eating. We finally left about 8 pm and got 2 Little Skeezers Hot & Readys. That was about $11.50.
Saturday morning was my work's annual golf outing. It is just 9 holes for fun and then lunch and a putting contest. We had a great time. Uppa and Gamma watched Cooter. Our foursome was Main Street, Chuckles, Me and Juju. To keep it fair for everyone we drew matchsticks that corresponded to each person. We would all hit, pull a matchstick (with a letter the corresponded to letters after our names on the scorecard) and use that person's hit. My boss tries to mix good and bad players in foursomes to keep everything level, as some players play once a year at this outing only, and some play twice a week. Lunch was very good and the putting contest was fun also. After the outing we picked up Cooter and went to Aunt Kate and Uncle Roo's house for a family picnic.
Sunday we went to the Seawolves baseball game via Aunt Alyce. It was her work picnic and all the food and drink was free (including Yuengling). Sweet! I did pay for parking $3.00 as i still had all the golf culb and stuff in the truck from the previous day and even though the street was free, i It was a good game, but the home team lost. Cooter and Uppa got on T.V. Here is the link. After the game we went back to Kate and Roo's house to see Juju's Cousin Buffy who was in town for the day from Memphis. We were also scheduled to go to an old co-workers annual corn roast, but Cooter never took a nap all day. one minute in the car on the way to the roast and he was out. So home we went and to bed cooter went and here I am blogging about the weekend. Not bad, 15 ½ bucks for 3 days and a ton of fun times.
I killed something today...and i am glad it happened.
I am not a violent person, not in the least. But today i went over the edge. You see, today is the day I killed a spider... Not just any spider...the bane of my existence for many, many months. You see, every morning as I open my truck door to go to work there is a very large spider web from my side rear view mirror to window....EVERY MORNING! And every morning I knock the web off with no sign of any spider in site. I have to guess he lives behind the mirror. He is a smart little s.o.b.. Smart in the fact that he hides from me, but not in the fact that he has to re-weave his web every night. This morning i knocked off the web as usual and headed to work. I pulled into the parking lot and as i was closing the door, I happened to look down... and there he was. Repelling himself off the bottom of the door onto the ground. I didn't even hesitate. I may have even spouted a few expletives as a stomped multiple times to make sure the thing was dead. He was very colorful and big, maybe even poisonous, at least that is what i tell myself. I was protecting my son from future, possibly, maybe being bit by that horrible, venomous, deadly spider. I am a hero. Yea that's it. A hero.
That's why i blog. I just went from a killer to a hero in the space of one paragraph. I saved your life Cooter. You can thank me when you get old enough to read this. Love, Dad
It was a pretty good weekend. The weather was crappy, but I got a ton of stuff done at the new house. Friday we stopped over to the house before it got dark. As we were leaving a truck stopped in front of our house. I was our contractor's parents and grandmother driving around looking at his projects. Of course we invited them in. They are very nice people and very proud of their son. He does do nice work, but i was supposed to move in on Memorial Day!!!!!!
On Saturday I needed to paint, as the kitchen cabinets are supposed to go in Monday and Juju wanted to get it done before that all happens. Of course, she had to work her high school annual golf outing fund raiser all day. I called Uppa and Gamma and they came through. Uppa helped me paint while Gamma watched Cooter at the house. We painted the whole ceiling of the great room and primed the walls then went home for lunch. After about an hour went back to the house and put the first coat of color on the kitchen walls. The color is called New Penny and it looks awesome. Today I went back in the morning and put a second coat on the kitchen walls all by myself as Juju had to work for the Goat and took Cooter with her. This afternoon was my sister-in-law Candy's brother's diaper party. It was nice, Cooter got to play with his cousin G-Money and a couple other kids and I got to eat and drink beer. Man, it was a crappy day today. It rained all day... and not sprinkles... raining buckets.... I wouldn't be surprised if there is some flooding today. And it is crazy tonight, Juju has a nasty cold and is in bed, the cat is getting high on catnip under the table and the kid is crying and bouncing in his crib and not going to sleep. I am guessing he was given lots of sugar at the party. Crap. Keep your fingers crossed the cabinets go in tomorrow.
Here is a panorama of the big room. i am without any photoshopping programs right now so this is as good as it gets. That's right I was an Dark Knight, Angelfood, waterboy this weekend.
Things started off on Friday night. Juju and I went to see the Dark Knight. It was pretty good. As everyone knows by now, Heath Ledger stole the show. The Joker was effing crazy. The movie ran about a half hour too long, but other than that, a solid performance by all and a decent story line.
The Goat watched Cooter at our house and I went to bed as soon as i got home as i had to get up at 4:00 am to pick up food for my church at 5:00 am across town. Unfortunately, the runway light went out at the airport.... Why do you say unfortunately.... because i own a police scanner and it was really good listening. Planes circling the airport at different altitudes as they are trying to figure out what is wrong. Helicopters coming in and air traffic controllers making sure everyone can see everyone else. I mean, really there were only 3 planes and a helicopter, but it was still interesting to listening to the ATC coordinate it all. Finally, there was one never-used runway lit and the ATC told the planes they could “land at their own risk”...not very reassuring at the airport was covering their booties if anything should go wrong. Just as the first plane was landing all the lights came back on. Crap! Interesting airport night over and nighty night time about 11:30.
Woke up Saturday morning and met my Bro-in-law JT at the catering business to pick up the box truck and head across town. Got there a little after 5 am, got the truck situated and it was time to unload the semi and divide up the food. It was a crazy month as the first thing off the semi were big boxes of produce. We had sold 30 boxes and we had filled a pallet of food just with the first item. We had to do a lot of re-stacking in our truck as the food coming off the semi was all wonky. Got to church and kept the food in the truck until the last minute as it was pretty cool inside with all the frozen foods piled up.
Got all the food distributed, had lunch and went home. Cooter and i were bushed and he fell asleep in the car. I brought him inside and then had to jump Juju's car as the battery had died the day before. She took it to Monroe to get a new battery. She has a Passat and the battery is in a crazy place... right below the wipers in the middle of the car. There are plates and stuff you have to remove to even get to the darn thing. Whatever happen to the old days when you didn't have to take it to the mechanic to change a battery. Anyway, Cooter woke up about 10 minutes after Juju left and wanted to watch and dance to his Pooh video. Crap. No sleep for me. Juju got home late in the afternoon and i got a few ours before supper. After everyone was well rested we went to Sissy & Turnbuckles house to visit as Juju's aunt and uncle were in town from VA for Juju's father's uncle's funeral. It was a nice visit, but they decided to make smores in the chiminea. Not a good place to be with a 1 ½ year old. No matter how many times you tell him hot, he always runs right for the crappin' thing. After everyone taking turns occupying him we went home and straight to bed.
Sunday morning i got up at 6:00 am as i was volunteering to be a waterboy at our city's annual runner's club half marathon. I met Hatches and her brother, his wife their two kids, another of Hatches nieces and two people from Big Brothers, Big Sisters. After a bit of confusion about where we were to be, we set-up our water cups and doled out water to all these crazy people that think running is fun! After the race we got meal tickets to eat at a picnic at our local amusement park Waldameer. The race ended early as most people didn't do too much walking. The last runner quit at the BB&BS second water table and a gave him a ride back to the finish line. His name was Jimmy and he was from Pittsburgh. We chatted for a few miles and i extolled the virtues of my hometown. Met Hatches, the girls and their mom at wallyworld at about 10:30. Walked around the unopened park. (the waterpark opens at 11 am and the Rides at 1 pm) We ate the picnic lunch, which wasn't bad, a bit bland. Burgers, dogs, potato salad, macaroni salad, baked beans, ice cream, cake and my favorite, beer. I left for home right after eating as we were supposed to go to a graduation party. We bagged it in order to nap and then went to Juju's aunt and uncles for a picnic and swimming for supper. Overall. A pretty busy and rewarding weekend. Well, better get to bed, gotta work in the morning. I haven't been sleeping very well and i am not sure why.
P.S. I took some pick of the house the other day. I will try to post them tomorrow.
Poker was tonight and this is how it played out.
10 players. No re-buys = $100
2nd place – Lex - $20
1st place – Me $80
It was an odd night for my play. Usually i am pretty steady hovering around 500 chips. Then at some point i will make a move and either bust or get the chip lead. This happens usually about halfway through the field. I don't think it is a conscious thing. It's just that when half the players are out you should have double what you started with to stay above water...and usually i don't. So whether i get a few decent hands and “push a bit” or try to bluff a pot or two, i make my stand and let the chips fall where they may. Tonight a hit a butt-load of straights. I must have won 7 hands with straights. Mostly with two face cards. I definitely got better cards later in the night, but when i got the lead i bought quite a few pots with nothing. I lost a huge pot, about 2000 chips, to Oz when he got runner-runner heart to get the flush. (we both flopped 2 pair, i can't remember the community pair) he went all in with pocket 6's and one heart... i had 10's....and no hearts...crap. Honest me, no one saw the flush and as Oz was leaving the table i said “hey, you won with a flush”. At least i can say it was an honest win. that hand crippled me, but i got 2 great hands after that got a triple-up and double-up and was back in the hunt. I think i had about 200. the triple-up gave me 600 and the double-up gave me 1200. I just kept winning hands after that.
I don't like playing the first hand of the tournament and toss almost anything as the chances of winning the first AND last hand of a tournament are slim. I tell the person who wins the first pot of the night, "you win the first one and i'll win the last...."
Juju got her infusion of Remicade today and is feeling and moving much better. The goat picked up Cooter around 4:30 at day-care as the infusion takes three hours and started at two. Got to the goats after work and juju showed up soon afterward with New York Lunch (greek burgers and fries and gyros). As we missed the local Greekfest this year due to our Juju's arthritis acting up, she got a substitute. It was tasty!
Turnbuckle had to go over to the new house and fix some ductwork that the inspector didn't like. TB said he has done tons of new construction jobs and never had to seal every joint like the inspector wanted. they had to cut some walls and ceiling drywall away where the ductwork ran, but hopefully everything is fine now and we can proceed. not much new to say about the house. the progress is pretty stagnant lately, other than drywall and mudding and a new lawn nothing much has changed. I realize i haven't posted any pics lately, so i will soon.
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