I started my day off with clarifying somethings with my boss' boss, Rob. I re-entered some tickets that Kevin had closed because Scott was let go. I did ask Kevin about the tuxedos. He told me he was joking. I told him he was funny. A bit later Kevin came to our area to install the computer for a new guy were getting on Monday. So, he was around ( Read more... )

I really hate Monday's. Well, full disclosure, all Monday's in which I am supposed to work. I suppose I would hate Tuesday's if they were the first day of the week as well, to be fair. I hate them more when it is frighteningly cold. I do not work well with cold and winter in general. I ache and I am a little cranky ( Read more... )

We had a family/friend BBQ today at the house. Our long time friend, Sherri, her youngest son, and boyfriend, her parents, and cousin's Jenny and Dalton and of course Dakota's dad, my brother also come. We had a good time talking, taking pics, acing silly and eating of course ( Read more... )

After leaving the TN Welcome Center we left and stopped at White House, TN. We stopped at our, now "famous" Walmart. This is the Walmart we stopped at in 2010 for Bryan White. While there, pretty late (or early lol) we saw a worker with a leaf blower go all around the empty parking lot on foot and in a car cleaning the lot of something (just now ( Read more... )

Almost every day my dog amazes me. She's really intelligent. A friend of mine called her my "human dog" once. She didn't know how right that statement is. Is my dog spoiled? Sure, a bit. But I think animals deserve to be spoiled. They depend on humans to love, support, feed, and bathe them. Their barking is like us talking. They have to communicate ( Read more... )

I spoke to my mom this past weekend about my great uncles involvements in the military. My grandfather Lawrence missed the cut off and was under the protection of a family so he didn’t serve. His brothers, Donald, Harold and Clifford all served. Clifford was MIA for quite sometime and was feared dead. He was imprisoned in a Japanese camp and lost a ( Read more... )

It's official. Brian Bird broke the news this morning, and early at that! The planned surprise was slated for 9 est but he apparently couldn't wait.


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April 10, 1912 102 years ago, The RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, UK on its Maiden Voyage bound for New York.


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Full Story Here - ice Dancing Gold for America

SOCHI, Russia (AP) - Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the gold medal in ice dance Monday, the first Olympic title in the event for the United States.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, the 2010 champions, took silver. Russia's Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov captured bronze.

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Since I took off today again, mom and I watched the start of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia online, live. They started a new team figure skating event this year. I saw a name that was familiar to me for Russia. But he skated a few years ago. We thought it was a relative but it him. Evgeny Plyushchenco Wow! He last skated in 2010 but also ( Read more... )