Saturday

No plans, not much to do until Thing 2 gets off of work, and did some grocery shopping. After that we are going to attempt to paint the bathroom. Not sure what colors yet, I'll leave it up to Thing 2.

Over half way through the second reading of Ready Player One, again just as brilliant the first time I read it!

Other than that, not much is going on:) And it's nice!

We Made It!

A rainstorm hit at the right time last night and I slept all night through, I know The Date did as well, we were both exhausted after our workdays. I didn't make much in the way of supper, just grilled some hot dogs and opened a can of Bush's baked beans. Simple but man that's darn effective and filling!

I hear the birds singing outside this morning , welcoming the promise of a new day. It's nice, it'll be a nice day. Jet and Lydia are playing on the couch, they are both black so it's hard to tell anything is going on except you can hear them. The older cats are thinking about nap time after their breakfast and a long hard night of sleeping.

I'm close to half way finished with Ready Player One already. It's just so good that you really find yourself getting lost in it easily. It's interesting to see how Wade Watts deals with instant celebrity after finding the copper key and clearing the first gate. Everyone knows who he is and everyone either wants help or something from him. It's interesting for sure! I'll be finished with it this weekend, easily.

Enjoy your weekend!

Almost Done

Today and tomorrow and the week will be over with. Yesterday wasn't as bad as I thought it would have been. The morning was pretty quiet actually while the afternoon really took things to a new level of busy!

I suspect today will be fairly busy. That's ok, the day will fly by I hope!

Going to read Ready Player One again over War and Peace. Perhaps in retirement I'll tackle War and Peace again but for now I'm fine knowing I made it as far as I did. Fifty pages of that book is the equivalent of a full adult novel or all of the Twilight books combined.

As March winds down and we head into April I've already mowed like four times. We put down a weed and feed and things just exploded. I was hoping for more of a dead weed look in the yard like after spraying things with Roundup. I guess I don't know how these things work. The guys at work says it burns the weeds by them growing too fast or something along those lines and that they'll go away but not as fast as from a spray.

The Snowball Is Rolling Again

Last night The Date and I got our bills together once again and put them in order and started the snowball once again. With both of us working full time we'll have these hammered out in no time at all! I don't have exact dates figured yet but it won't take long.

I'm by myself from now until the seventeenth at work. Thirteen work days and it'll be hectic! I know the phone will ring off the hook constantly, that's the way it goes when there is one of us to man everything. Just the way it goes. He's earned the leave, it's part of our compensation for working there and you are free to use it whenever you wish.

War and Peace isn't going so well. I am roughly fifty pages in and it's a staggeringly deep novel and possibly too much challenge for me right now. I'm having a hard time concentrating on it, dense Russian literature isn't easy. I will probably have to postpone War and Peace and go with something a bit more fluffier right now. I've got a bajillion classic novels on my Kindle so it'll be easy to choose something a bit easier and then tackle War and Peace in the future. I'll browse my Kindle app today at work and see what I've got on there!

Busy Day

Yesterday was pretty busy despite my coming home six and a half hours early to go to Urgent Care for a sinus infection. I'd had just one too many sinus headaches over the past two weeks and enough was enough. I took the bathroom door off of the hinges and sanded the bottom smooth to shut over the new threshold R installed, got the final adoption papers filed with the lawyer, took Thing 2 to the doctor and got her some medicine for a bronchial infection, checked on a car for her with the bank, and last but certainly most important had lunch with my honey!

That is a rare treat, especially now that we are both full timers but what a treat it was:) How often do you get to set down with your spouse and have lunch? You can talk about your morning, while mine wasn't all that whippy hers was pretty good and made mine feel better!

We ate at BWW, the first time in a long time. We had the lunch specials with boneless wings! A nice combo along with your wife's company:)

Wednesday is when I'll be alone at my shop for nearly two weeks as my coworker is going to two cooking contests. One in Las Vegas and one in Tucson. It'll be a busy couple of weeks but I'm fine with that. He's pretty good and has a good chance to make it into a bigger contest. These are winner advances to the next round contests. He's taught me a lot about smoking and we talk over recipes and cooking techniques quite often. I'm a better griller but he's a better smoker!

Off To Another Workweek

Thanks to a fine meal cooked by Crime Reporter last night I still feel stuffed! We had burgers, baked beans, pasta salad, chips, and red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting! All outside under a tree with a noisy bird in it.

That was a good time!

The bathroom is nearly finished, many thanks to R for putting the great new tile down! There are a couple of details left like painting and such. If the neighbor comes through tonight I'll start sanding the upstairs floor. He said his company has a floor sander and would bring it home with no problems. He's a good neighbor!

The Date is now on recovery from the show, she'll have post show blues for a few days but she'll also be able to heal up from lots of bumps and bruises she received from the show. Ankle, knees, elbows, shoulders, and other assorted booboos. I'm glad we got to do the show though, it was a fun one! Set strike went quickly yesterday, taking things apart is much faster than putting them all together! As far as I know the next show will start building their set next weekend. The Date is doing costumes for that show so it'll be a easy transition from the post show blues for her:)

Closing Night

It went well enough, the audience was the smallest of the lot and a bit more subdued than previous shows. With that said they still hit their laugh lines and still had a good time!

A fine show run and a fun show!

I picked up two scrips for Night of the Living Dead last night as well. This is going to be my show this coming October and I'll have auditions this summer so I can shoot the video parts with the actors and get it all edited.

Yes, this is going to be a fine stage directorial debut. The video/live action combination will be a great addition to this show! It's fairly short and is one single act, however this will be an added advantage in that there will be no intermission and once the show starts, we have the audience until it ends! Even if it were longer I'd probably still consider running straight through with no intermission. Horror movies just work better that way and this would be no different in that respect.

I'll put on a memorable show, that I promise!

Last Show

Last night a great audience! They laughed at everything and loved the show! Tonight is the last chance to see Wrong Window!

Awesome day out, bordering on hot and air conditioner weather but I'm sure we'll resist. Starting the search for a car for the soon to be sixteen year old Thing 2. Looking in the VW arena of cars available. Dependable, fairly priced, great mileage, and safe. Sounds like a perfect fit!


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Two Full Weeks!

Today is two full weeks of my honey working her full time dream job! Yesterday she had everything all to herself as her boss was gone for the day. She's really loving the way the show is going and has been really busy.

Tonight is the start of the closing weekend of the show Wrong Window. The comedy Hitchcock spoof that is very good and The Date has a really funny role in it! Well actually all of the roles are funny but I'm biased:)

Tonight, tomorrow night and that's it folks! Get your tickets to the show!

I received a tenth cigar bomb yesterday too! It had, ten premium cigars in it! Top shelf stuff too. I've got a tremendous selection and LOTS of extras to go around. So if any of you are interested in having a cigar, let me know or interested in learning the art of smoking cigars, again let me know and I'll hook you up!

The Ninth Bomb

Yes, one more box of cigars arrived yesterday! The ninth! It contained ten very premium cigars too! A couple are pretty hard to find. Awesome selection and another amazing gift from some generous brothers!

That's one of the amazing things about the cigar community, everyone helps everyone. They love sending boxes to people and the troops with their favorite cigars. They love adding this and that in there and surprising people!

The Cigar Asylum fits in with my natural generous tendencies and I'm considering joining one of their fantasy baseball leagues. I don't watch baseball but my humidor is overflowing and there is a cigar entry fee so it'd be a chance to send off some nice cigars to the troops and get some extra room in my humidor for the two entire boxes of cigars I still have!

I'll probably do it, it's only a five cigar donation for the troops and five for the winner.

All in all I'm really enjoying the cigar hobby and I've literally got more than I can smoke in a year at my slow pace of smoking them!

American Horror Story

Well after it setting on the DVR for months I got around to watching this show the past two nights. It was pretty good, like a long rated R ghost story. It was violent but not as bad as Sons of Anarchy believe it or not.

All in all it was a very well written show, the twists at the end really made it shine but it was solid all the way through. Not for everyone though, not at all.

It's Wednesday and by all accounts should be a pretty nice day out. Our inspection at work has gone well, I've had two over the shoulder inspections so far. They literally stand by you and watch you work. I passed without any problems or discrepancies. Pretty good for someone that's been there nearly twenty years!

I mean I should know how to do this stuff with my eyes closed, well I do. A lot of things I'm not very good at, the list is numerous but the things I do know how to do, I'm pretty darn good at!

Rolling Through The Week

It's Tuesday and we've got an inspection underway. It's a major inspection and there's a lot riding on it from our and the company's best interest. So far we are doing just fine but again it's just underway.

I received four more boxes of cigars yesterday, I'm not kidding. One box had two full boxes of cigars in it! It's been crazy! I'm totally speechless! I guess it means you can practically live in an online community as well. The Cigar Asylum town is a pretty nice place to hang out!

There's a lot of very cool and generous cigar smokers there and they are all willing to help a guy out! They send constant care packages to the troops via donations and funds out of their own pockets, they "bomb" unsuspecting people such as myself just because they can. They are fast to help and slow to anger, who could ask for a better group of people?

Rainy Day

This morning I got up, showered, put a roast and veggies in the crock pot, let the dog out, fed the herd of pets, and I'm making coffee while I'm blogging! The Things are on spring break so I'm not taking Thing 2 too school this morning. I'll kind of miss it for a week, it's nice to get up at the same time and have bonding moments while we are getting coffee in the mornings.

The radar shows it's going to rain or sprinkle at least most of the day. Fine by me, we need it. We have no show or rehearsal tonight so we won't have much to do this evening but chill out and rest! It'll be nice!

We'll get home at roughly the same time, by then the roast will be done, and we'll just be able to enjoy each other's company for the evening! Something we've haven't had an abundance of the past three years, evening time when families are traditionally together after work.

Last week was pretty nice but we also had tech week to go to every evening along with a show on Friday and Saturday. This week we really don't have anything until Thursday to do! Talk about nice!

House Hunting

We decided we'd take in a couple of open houses today. The house we were mainly interested in was sold before the open house even opened. The other two were similar to stepping back into the late sixties. Pink tile and all of that. All in all it was a bit disappointing.

It was a cool day, we didn't do a whole lot. The evening is being spent watching Frozen Planet on Discovery! Love these wildlife shows!

The show last night went well other than a couple of distracting distractions in the audience. A couple of loud elderly ladies in the front row couldn't help but telling each other and the cast about how much they disliked the show. Then the dreaded cell phone user who didn't turn their phone off before the show.

But the cast was on regardless and tech went well:)

It appears as if we'll have quite a storm headed our way and should be here in a couple of hours. Love sleeping in the rainy evenings! This was a good weekend:)

Slice Of Heaven

Opening night was great, the audience was so into the show! They laughed at everything! There were times when there weren't even laugh lines and they chuckled! It was very very good! The gathering after the show was a lot of fun as well! We just hung out at Pan's and had snacky food.

The actors were ON, everything flowed, the show ran great! I'm proud of my Honey and the rest of the cast!

The Date went and sang Karaoke after with a couple of the cast mates and R. Thing 2 had to go to work early this morning so I took her home and hit the hay! It was a long day but a darn good day!

The Date's first week of work went far better than expected, she's really loving her job! She's learning the radio terminology and the products they offer. She's getting her new responsibilities down and she's going to fit right in! She absolutely loves her new job! She's always been a spectacular idea person however now she actually gets paid to implement those ideas! How cool is that?!

Now for the least of what good happened this past week, I posted on Cigar Asylum, my online message board go to site for everything cigars, about wanting to use my last Walmart paycheck to fill up my humidor! Well one of the veteran posters decided to send me a box of cigars and told me to keep my last check. Well all of a sudden a few others get on board and Friday I wind up with four boxes of cigars! FOUR BOXES!

Around ninety cigars headed my way from four different brothers on the board! Not only that but Icehog3 (who got the ball rolling) said he was pretty sure it wasn't finished yet! How generous these guys are huh? That's why I love the cigar community, they are all about sharing what they enjoy with others, it lends itself nicely to my nature as I love to share what I enjoy with others as well.

Good Lord above my humidor is full and I'm heading over to Beersnob's later on to share my new found bounty with him. He helped me with my cigar smoking activities through the rough times and I'm going to return the favor and stock up his humidor today!

This morning I sat out in the yard, watched the sunrise and enjoyed a Rockey Patel robusto to welcome the day!

Opening Night

If you haven't gotten your tickets for Wrong Window tonight or for any of the showings then I urge you to do so! It's a fantastic show and simply hilarious! There are so many Hitchcock references it should be a drinking game!

I'm glad things worked out the way they did and I quit Walmart when I did. Doing tech for this show and my honey is a fun treat. She has made it through a week of tech rehearsals, her first week of work, and survived Daylight Saving Time, along with the help of a lot of coffee.

I'm thirteen and three on probably my best bracket. My other bracket though is fourteen and two. We'll see what today's games hold! I'm enjoying the heck out of the March Madness app! The streaming audio has been really good and smooth! It's pretty amazing, there's practically no buffering at all! Not to shabby for a free app!

So get to the show tonight and treat yourself, it's been a fun show and you'll enjoy the heck out of it!

The Madness

One of my favorite sporting events of the year starts today! In fact it might be my second favorite. I like fantasy sports first, probably March Madness second, Super Bowl third (mainly because I enjoy fantasy sports more than the actual games anymore) and the two NASCAR races at Bristol.

Everything else is watchable but mainly if I'm in the mood. I'm all for the sports surviving in the sports world though, I just need to be in the mood to watch. Today I've got two brackets going in the work pool, five dollars a bracket and it pays three places. I've won the whole thing once, last time Duke won the championship! I believe I tied for second one time as well.

So today you get to follow all of the first round games, I can do it all on my iPhone. Got the March Madness app and it'll give me live game audio, video if I paid 3.99 for that option but over 3G it'll be worthless, and push updates on scores, close games, buzzer beaters, and of course upsets! Not too shabby for a free app!

Let the madness begin!

Tech Going Well

We lined out the fireworks effects last night and have all of the lighting and sound effects pretty close. I have to tweak a couple more and that should lock them up for the show. The actors are ready for an audience, they want to get the laughs and know when to pause everything. They are right on and will pitch perfect opening night!

My honey loves her job and is trying to hire two new people to sell ads. She works with Ten now, the former manager of the defunct and dearly departed Oklahoma Storm and also fellow fantasy football owner and competitor. Ten usually puts together a strong team and is one of the teams you really dread to play because somehow they always score a ton of points. But as I've blogged about him before, he's a great guy and fellow conservative and we have enjoyed the occasional political discussion!

It's practically summer out now. Temperatures are in the eighties and I'm starting to believe the easy winter we had is an indication of a harsh summer. Last year was blistering hot but the winter before that was very rough as well.

So now we're going to kick this day off and get things started!

Great First Day At Work

My love had a fantastic first day! She loves her new job! She has her own office and she gets to do what she loves to do! She's going to be super amazing in this job and have a good time doing it!

Tech rehearsal went good and bad. Good because of the actors, they had their lines down and did a great job. Bad because we are still having to retool the fireworks effects and it's just got working as well as we'd like.

We are going to try another technique tonight and see if that works better. Hopefully it'll suffice! We'll see!

Big Day!

I'm all excited that my honey is going to her first day of work! I hope she's pleasantly SURPRISED and it turns into a CHOCOLATY good day! It's going to be her dream job and even though we've got the start of tech week tonight and it's a traditionally busy week. It's going to be a good week and that's going to start today!

Congratulations to my baby, I'm proud of you, I love you, and I'm so happy for you!
You're going to do great today!