Married In Ohio

After twenty consecutive weeks of six and seven day work weeks, I finally had a three day weekend. I really enjoy my Christmas and Independence Day vacations but five months is a long time to go without a break; especially since I worked so many weekends. My telephone did not ring and I did not even turn on my laptop. It was bliss. I just caught up on mundane chores and generally “decompressed”.

If you have a blog that I frequent regularly, I apologize for not visiting this weekend. I had planned to visit everyone on Sunday or Monday; but was too busy relaxing. Every year, it seems like Memorial Day Weekend takes longer and longer to arrive. I’m already paying for my three-day weekend at work; but it was worth it. I must admit that I spent a not inconsiderable amount of time playing computer games on our new widescreen monitor. The wider display made some older games seem new again.

If possible, I have also developed even more distaste for spammers. On Saturday I inadvertently deactivated the spam filter for comments. In a matter of minutes, the moderation queue was overflowing. It’s a nuisance for real people, but the CAPCHA (code words) stops thousands of bogus comments on every post. I wish they would go away. Their advertisements never show up. They are just a waste of bandwidth and processing time.

P.S. California Girl is taking The Boy to a pre-graduation event. We plan to have our photo session when she returns.

I’m home. Actually, I got home yesterday; but, since the taxman waits for no man, alive or dead, I needed to finalize our tax returns. I’ve been a road warrior in days past; but I really, really hate being away from home on weekends. This past weekend’s trip was different since I was traveling with The Girl to out of town soccer matches. I know that that is the way of things; but I miss spending time with California Girl; especially after a long week. I hadn’t realized how much I enjoy uncomplicated weekends with my wife. She usually attends the games too, but this was one of those rare occasions where she was unable to come along.

We missed a lot of sex this from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. It’s been a long time since we’ve not had sex on a Friday or Saturday night. We don’t have a specific schedule (for us, sex is anything but routine) but weekends are “prime time”. I’m not sure how the logistics would have worked in the hotel room; but we have always managed to figure something out. Thankfully, I had a very good homecoming when California Girl and I were reunited. We are in the same situation next week too. Maybe I’ll try to come home early on Friday so that we can have a good sendoff.

P.S. The Girl has been playing really well. They may not always get the W; but she has really elevated her game.

Too Bad Its Monday. For a variety of reasons, Last week was a very trying week at work. I usually don’t let what goes on at the office leak into my private life; but this was one of those weeks where it did despite my best efforts. The weekend was good but I am dreading going to work, and not just in the usual way. I need a long vacation; and probably a new job.

I’ll be sure to stop by and catch up on everyone’s blogs when I get home on today.

Married in Ohio was intermittently inaccessible late Monday evening while I was performing a software upgrade. It should have been offline less than 5 minutes; but it ended up being almost 10 times that long. I learn something every upgrade even though I don’t want too. It certainly would be a lot easier if I had a scratch monkey. Our blog certainly isn’t as valuable as Mabel; but it is still very frustrating when things don’t go as planned. Anyway, my point wasn’t to complain about software upgrades; we’re all very familiar with how much of a headache those can be. Excerpt; for a slight increase in speed; you should not notice anything different. If you do see something weird, please let me know via a comment, the shoutbox, or an email.

The new computer we got the kids is finally set up and configured. I stayed up most of the night on Saturday installing and configuring software. It was supposed to be a belated Christmas present but I didn’t expect it to be nearly as late as it was. Despite “guaranteed 3-day shipping” everything didn’t finally arrive until late on Friday. So I couldn’t really get started until Saturday. And, when you keep computers for as long as we do, there are a lot of software and documents to migrate. We’ve got all of the CDs; but, because of the new OS, I spent a lot of time on the Internet looking for updates.

The kids were very understanding, but I wish everything would have arrived when promised. It was very frustrating to receive a box every day; but not get the most important pieces until last. Plus, California Girl and I got them things that wouldn’t run on their old computer for Christmas in anticipation of the new one. We did get them other gifts; but their “big present” was MIA for three long days.

And yes, we know, everything could have been avoided if we had shopped early. But, it’s hard to hide a computer. And, we’re very cost conscious and the best deals did not happen until very close to Christmas. This is the first time that they’ve ever gotten a brand new system rather than a hand-me-down; so they were excited. Especially since, unlike their old computer, it can run all of the latest games and software.

Things are getting even crazier at Midwestern City Boy’s office than they were last week. He has been working 16-hour days, leaving no time for blogging (and not as much time and energy for sex as we’d like, either). One can’t ever make up for missed sex, of course, but we’ll try to do a post tonight.

It’s been so long that I had an off day that I almost didn’t know what to do with it. I woke up around 9:30 for some Sunday morning fun with California Girl; but I didn’t finally get out of bed until almost 2:00 in the afternoon. I’ve been on critical projects with deadlines that require heroic efforts to meet before; but I can’t recall a time when so many things have been going on at once. I especially dislike working long hours around the holiday season. I know it comes with the job but, wrestling season is right around the corner and I’ve don’t plan on missing any of The Boy’s meets. It’s his senor season and I don’t want to miss a moment of it.

In case you were wondering, this is what I do on my day off. The picture is actually fro the last time I had a day off; but you get the point.

I haven’t replied to comments (and shouts) since last weekend so I’m going to do that. Then I’m going to go catch up on everyonne’s blog. If I get around to it later this evening, I’ll post a video that we made this afternoon.

And, before I forget, O-H-I-O!!!

For those who may have been wondering what happened to our Two for Tuesday post, we didn’t get around to it because Midwestern City Boy was still at the office working like a dog last night.

However, he just called and told me that he has managed to fix the problem he was working on, and he will definitely be home in time to have some fun this evening. So, don’t worry, we are still alive in Ohio.

I’m finally done working for the week. Despite it being only three days, I actually ended up working more hours in a “short” week than I do in many long weeks. Work gets like that sometimes but I hate when it happens around holidays. Anyway, California Girl and I did get to have our weekly photo session. So, here is a photograph of California Girl and her main competition for my time. I probably should have shown something work-related rather than something fun; but, as much as I’ve been working recently I didn’t want to open anything up, even if it was only to be more realistic.

And, in case you are wondering, I chose California Girl.

For some help relaxing and unwinding after a long “short” week talk to your significant other.