Category: work

Yes, I’m still alive

I really did have every intention of posting more frequently, but now I see it has been 1.5 months since my last one.  I’ve had lots of things I wanted to talk about (and I’ve posted many of the links to facebook), but I just haven’t had the time/motivation/energy to make myself post here.  I’m on vacation this week and spending it with my parents.  A nice change of pace.  Watching lots of football and college hoops.  Tonight, I get to see my niece’s band concert.  BTW, Happy Birthday, Mom!!  It has turned into another month of putting miles on the car, though not quite as many as in July.  I was out to visit my sister (and work in NJ) the week before Thanksgiving and now the drive down here.  It won’t be the 5K+ of July, but easily more miles than I normally put on the vehicle.  Thanksgiving was good, I hope you had good ones, too.  None of the kids were actually around on Thursday, Shane and Jen went to her parents’ and Erin had to work (and, of course, Matt was in ND).  Shane and Jen, along with Sherry’s Mom, sister, brother-in-law, and their 2 kids were all out the house for a second Thanksgiving meal on that Saturday though.  I do truly have much to be thankful for this year.  I’m debating what to do for my holiday letter this year.  I’ll probably only actually mail it to folks that I don’t have e-mail addresses for (or folks that I’m not friends with on FB, I haven’t entirely decided yet).  Oh, and I really need to work on that magazine/journal article I’m supposed to be writing.  I’ll probably do that this afternoon while Dad gets his hair cut.

What is going on?

Things have been pretty busy for me lately.  I took a brief vacation last weekend and visited my baby sister and got to see my nephew, the baseball star, play.  His team won both games, he scored the first run in one and drove in the game winner in the other (and according to my internet research, he appears to have won this past Thursday’s game with a solo homerun in the top of the 7th inning).  It was a good time, I always enjoy spending time with Munchkin and her family.  Yesterday and today seemed like they would have been great days to fly, but, alas, I didn’t get to.  I hope to get in some flying again in the next week or two, but that will depend in part on the work situation.  The company and the union are still negotiating although the contract expired last night at midnight.  If the union goes out, I’ll have to work in a new place and, I’m told, it will be 6 12-hour days per week for the first few weeks (if the strike lasts that long).  Ah, well, it isn’t flying weather now, we have thunderstorms and a tornado watch and they are predicting snow tomorrow and Tuesday.  Gotta love spring, huh?!  Oh, well, tomorrow is opening day of the baseball season and the NCAA championship game (in basketball), so I’ll try to OD on that and enjoy the snow.  It also just occurred to me that yesterday was the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis.  As I think I wrote before, I really came to appreciate him much more in the mid-70s, but I do remember the rioting that broke out after that awful day.  I’ll try to write something of substance in the next week.