I had a thousand things I could have done this weekend.  Errand running, the new Deadpool movie, UU services, Blacksmith Sunday, UU Potluck, visit my mother in Buffalo, etc.  It took me over an hour and a half to get home on Friday due to whiteout conditions.  The weather forecaster said temperatures would be in single digits, with wind chills down ( Read more... )

Friday, October 23rd, 2015 -- Went over to a friend's house to binge watch TV.  I'm going to have to cut back on some programs.  If she tapes 7 hours a week for me, and we watch 3-4 hours on Fridays, a backlog is going to develop really quickly.  In the meantime, I FINISHED my table-runner that I've been working on for the past two years.  I'm ( Read more... )

I spent the ENTIRE WEEKEND from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening at my mother's trying to get the place ready for an estate sale.  We stopped only to eat and sleep.  And one visit to mother.  Speaking of food ( Read more... )

I'd like to gloss over the last two weeks.  Suffice that my leg has been bothering me and I haven't been doing my best at work.  However, a few items of note:

Tuesday: Dinner at JoJo's Asian Food, near Lilydale.  Literally a mom and pop restaurant, they serve Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai food.  Excellent!  Review for my website shortly ( Read more... )

Thursday -- Back in late March, the COO tipped me off that the CFO would be asking for data for his annual cost report soon.  I started collecting the needed data.  On April 1st, he made his request, on April 2nd, I answered all the parts I could with a list of people to go to for the other parts. He thanked me and I replied that if he needed ( Read more... )

Prior to Thursday TLDR; someone at work tried to set me up to make me look bad.  It backfired.  The CFO is now extremely impressed with me! :)

Thursday: We had a water problem at work.  Everyone was dismissed at 3PM.  At quarter after three my boss sticks his head in my office.  "You know you can go home now, right?"  Me: "No!  This is the perfect ( Read more... )

Wednesday -- Several months back, I portrayed Bronson Alcott, the father of Louisa May Alcott at a pre-show at the Fredonia Opera House.  Several people from the Fredonia Festivals committee sought me out and asked me if I would be willing to do it again for Victorian Dazzle Days.  I said yes, not realizing it was the same weekend as Viking Village ( Read more... )

I knew it's been awhile since I updated, I didn't realize it's been over two months!

MAY
The local fire department was offering free rabies vaccinations for both dogs and cats.  We got shots for all our critters, though it took us two trips to run everybody thru.  It went a lot smoother than I thought it would, they were all well-behaved.  Later ( Read more... )

Monday the 8th -- I thought Tuesday was UU Board meeting, and I asked my wife if we could skip music practice because I didn't think I could handle two long days with only 5 hours of sleep in between.  In turns out, this was the smart move.  The Bills had a Monday night home game and Orchard Park was essentially a parking lot.  We would have been ( Read more... )

Thursday the 27th -- Set up day for Harvest Raid.  I hauled a pick-up truck full of stuff down to the event site after work.  My wife stayed overnight on site to be able to help set up in the morning.  I think the last time we slept apart was Dec 31, 98  when the snowstorm stranded me in Fredonia because all the roads got closed.  We "partied like ( Read more... )