very cool article.
Sep
15
2008
Sep
15
2008
Rain, humidity, and yes Tommy, MOIST air.
Say that out loud 10 times in a row “MOIST”. I sit here, laughing about that, it just strikes me as funny, I won’t give away anything, but I find it very humorous and I find myself saying the word as often as possible.
Anyway, it seems with all the hurricane action, it has sent a large amount of wet air towards us out here in west texas - always a welcome pattern, especially when we’ve had a drought season like this summer… Although, the Tipton clan out here doesn’t do well in sustained wetness - all 3 of my kids and myself have a “whooping” cough… I have tons of drainage now, so mine is more sinus/allergy than anything, but the sore throat is what gets me. It’s so raspy, no matter what i do, I feel like i need to clear my throat… sucks.
Worse than that - my 5 year old girl can’t hardly talk because of the hoarseness in her voice - I always call her my lil’ mouse anyway, so with this she’s really the ninja. Ninja Mouse is what my nickname for her is. she’s a cutey. Luke is coughing like you wouldn’t believe - it’s hard to imagine that sound coming out of such a lil’ guy… he doesn’t seem to feel too bad, always bouncing around and whatnot… but he’s tough like that.
Tay is just stopped up - i think she’s kinda like me, doesn’t feel good, can’t sleep, but not bad enough to warrant a trip to the doc - she doesn’t like going. She is a tough kid as well. Good kids. I feel very blessed to have the children God gave me - they are awesome and alot of joy in thier dad’s eye.
We had an open house yesterday - nothing really productive, but we did have some people come out just to see our concrete stained floors - and they loved ‘em, wanted to see who did the work, so they could hire ‘em… umm - no thanks, I did them myself and I’m not doing them for someone else unless it’s my Brother or my dad…
Happy week — it’ll end on Friday with a company golf tourney — that’s fun. I hope everyone has a blessed week and stays well.
Sep
11
2008
Ike who?
So apparently after having 0 rain for the entire spring and summer, we’re entitled to double our yearly rainfall in the fall (summer?) out here in West Texas. I mean I like it and all - it is just flat amazing that we are getting so much.
Looks like Ike took out a family vacation of sorts that was going on this weekend… no one wants to spend the weekend in an RV with 5 little kids cooped up out of the rain and thunderstorms. hmm. ^_-
House is still on the market, no bites, even though we’ve lowered the price even more - not sure what the deal is - we haven’t even had any lookers in quite a while - I think Labor day marks the official end of the housing market for the year out here. It’ll happen, i’m sure, but I don’t know if we can handle the whole “ON-THE-MARKET-FOR-EVER” thing… we might have to pull it down.
Outside of that - things are wonderful, we’re hoping and praying for some new change in that same manner we’ve been talking about for quite a while now… WOO WOOO; if you know what I mean…
Sep
01
2008
Aug
29
2008
Cool new site encouraging men to be good, responsible, loving husbands and fathers. Spread the word!
Aug
29
2008
Dance'n
So anyway, I have found at least a half beat to move to - i’m taking the bull and reaching for the horns - sooner or later, I’ll drag that badboy to the gound.
This week has been a week of a lot of work - i haven’t had time to eat, much less slack - so it makes it for a hard week - now, I get to go celebrate my son’s 3rd birthday, and hang out with the wife and kids - for a long weekend - I’m looking forward to that - we don’t have any major plans, we might hit up the movies or something - but we might just hang out with some PPV too - we’re crazy like that sometimes.
I sold the little honda civic - only got 1500 for it, she books out at about $2500 - but it’s a friend, helps them, helps me - all good. Glad to get rid of some insurance payment on that one - hopefully we’ll sell the hosue soon - we just lowered it by 10k - hoping it sells so i can successfully be debt free and a WHOLE lot more STRESS FREE!!!!!! I think that’ll help out tons with the day-to-day thing… I don’t know about where we’re going or what we are going to do - but I’m sure God will create a path. It’s all good.
Have a blessed weekend…
Aug
25
2008
The Rhythm
I can’t seem to get into my rhythm here lately - it seems like there’s always something putting a hitch in my get-a-long. From stress to engagements, there’s always something there. I’ve got to make some moves to find the beat that I run to. I think I’ve lost it in my adventurous being and I don’t like the feeling.
I think adventurous is alot of fun, but when you move into chaos, it starts to hurt a little. Here lately we’ve been making alot of moves and changes and I think it’s about time to settle down and dig in. I don’t mean to sound all cyptic, or deep mysterious - it is just coming out that way, at least to me.
Anyway, we had a nice uneventful weekend - well, uneventful except for Luke getting bit by something on his head and it swelling to the size of half an orange - that was a bit scary - but he’s good now.
We did watch a lot of Burn Notice on HULU - we’re watching all of season one so we can get more background on Season 2 as it happens. GREAT SHOW! if you haven’t checked it out - please do so - it’s a USA production - so head over there and check it out.
Football’s just around the corner; time to let those fantasy leagues rip!! Who you got in your top 10?
Aug
22
2008
At least it's friday
So I’ve been so busy at work, and then so tired at home, i haven’t taken the time or energy to blog much - as the one person who usually reads my blog has been out of school and offline - I don’t know that it matters much anyway - but I have noticed I have a few other readers now, so that’s cool.
Anyway, things are fine, same old thing just working away in my little cube and waiting on some answers, as usual. It seems my work comes in huge waves - I mean there’s ALWAYS something for me to do - but last week it was a pretty slow week as far as work - a lot of people were out on their last hiatus of the summer, and so their map requests were low - THIS WEEK, however, everyone needs something, and most need a HUGE project done - Ahh well, it makes the days go by pretty fast, I guess.
I’ve been staying up too late every night watching the Olympics - I got sucked in - and I have to say - I find it very weird that China is the best at everything this time around - I know I’m not a conspiracy theorist - but still - how is it they are beating out all the World Champions in everything in the games which just so happen to be held in China?? Kind of peculiar to say the least.
Regardless, have a great weekend, and get some rest!
Aug
13
2008
Hump Day
Man, this week is turning out to be a pretty long week. It seems like the days are dragging on and I think I’m at the point where I’m pretty much ready for the fall season, cooler air and some sort of change. I know that’s very cliche, but what can I say.
Some random thoughts:
- Presidential election time always brings more FWs than i’m willing to read - I see both sides’ emails all day long. (very few of each side are really true)
- Having really true friends is a scarce thing these days. Sure, there’s always the guys you know, but those friends that would give the shirt off their back are rare.
- I haven’t gotten to use my boat near as much as I wanted to this year - that sucks!
- My grandmother is turning 86 this September, and she can still beat most of her grandchildren in an arm wrestling match.
- My brother is about to be back in school, which means he’ll email me more, which is good - easier to keep in contact as he can’t talk on the phone long because of his children.
- Speaking of my brother, I really think he has a HUGE future as an author - the stories in his mind are awesome. I hope he goes into some simplified Sci-Fi of what he does now - it would be a huge hit, no doubt.
- I beat my dad in darts two times last night.
- I gotta get a new helmet - just don’t know which one I want now…
I know - random and you probably don’t care, but that’s what I got at the moment.
Here’s to a great hump day for everyone.
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