Married In Ohio

For the third time in four years, my sports watch was stolen from the locker room at work. It’s “my fault” for not making sure it was locked up; but one wouldn’t think that that they would have to go to such lengths to protect such an inexpensive item from their co-workers. I can “understand” [...]

I know that there is no such date; but since I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to change the date on my watch it certainly seems that way. My team met our deadline at work; but it took some heroic efforts. So this “hero” is going to enjoy a well deserved weekend [...]

I am not completely recovered; but I am feeling much, much better than I did yesterday. I’m sure that Going to work and keeping my normal routine doesn’t help; but hat has always been my way. Anyway, California Girl and I decided to postpone or weekly photo session for a day (or perhaps two); but, [...]

That was my temperature on Thursday night. That’s definitely a fever for an adult, even more so when you consider that my “normal” temperature (at least on my home thermometer) is 97-degrees. I don’t believe in being sick which means that I try really hard to not let being under the weather disrupt my normal [...]

For the first time since we got them for our 20th anniversary two years ago, California Girl is without her half of our matching wristwatches. The battery in California Girl’s watch died last week and, since it’s supposed to be water resistant to 100m, the jeweler had to send it back to the factory service [...]

The Girl is now a high school graduate! Wow, 4 years went by quickly. It almost seems like yesterday that we were taking her to soccer practice before her freshman year. The Girl has a summer birthday so she’s not yet 18; so, although it doesn’t seem that way to us, she’s basically “grown woman”. [...]

We were busy attending some of The Girl’s graduation events so we didn’t have the opportunity until yesterday to celebrate our 22nd anniversary.  I’ve had the time of my life for the past 27 years. We’ve parented two wonderful children; but we still have a fabulous time even when it’s just the two of us.  We ate [...]

A person I know passed away unexpected last week so I’ve been a bit droopy the past few days. It seemed somehow appropriate that the funeral service was held outdoors in a cold, wet rain. I’m reaching the point where I go to more funerals than weddings; but it is still somewhat unusual and unsettling [...]

For the fourth weekend in a row, I was on the road, this time to pick up The Boy from college. We’ve put a lot of miles on our vehicle recently and it’s not happy about it. We got stuck in heavy traffic on the way out and the engine started overheating. The coolant level [...]

I would rather have eaten another hairy, nasty bug that have yet another unexpected car repair. The only “good thing” is that the car died today rather than when we were on the road far from home the past two weekends. Unfortunately, that didn’t make the repair any cheaper. It was especially painful coming on [...]