Summer time...

Well, it is summer. Like every other season, my head throbs many days ... seems to be weather related, but who knows.

The summer has been relatively quiet. After school was out, we spent a few days in Mt. Vernon, OH at a teen competition called BLAST, where my boys were competing and hanging out with friends. Since then, we've taxi-ed the boys around town and are currently preparing for them to take a trip to the real mid-west (to St. Louis). When they return, it's band camp time again! That signals the "end" of summer and the beginning of preparing for school and the marching band season.

Spring time in Ohio

Well, it's been five months since I last blogged here. Internet access has declined thanks to problems with my isp and a lack of finances.

SonFest 2007 at MVNU, Mt. Vernon, OH is going to include Jars of Clay! Other groups that you've heard of (Pillar, The Afters, and more) are going to be there.

See http://www.mvnu.edu/sonfest for more details.

It's been a long 2 months

Since my last posting, my father died (the day before Thanksgiving), my daughter moved to Tennesee, my two youngest boys flew to London, England with their band, to perform for the Queen on New Year's Day, and my eldest... well, Ben will always be Ben.

Healthwise, my arm is feeling better, but my cholesterol is too high, and I've got some sort of skin infection as well as something wrong with my inner ear. Oh, and a couple good friends no longer work with me, continuing to deplete my work group.

October already?

Wow - here we are, in october already. And what has changed? Not a lot - still spending more time on xanga than I do here. For that matter, I spend more time on myspace than I do here. On myspace, I find more groups making music available to sample.

the boys at home are working hard at school. the two that have been gone a year now continue doing their own thing - i hope they at least are listening to the advice being given.

as for me, i've been unwell for about 4 months now. doctors say it is carpal tunnel - but i'm not convinced that is the only thing wrong.

End of May, 2006

Well, another month gone. Yesterday morning, my grandmother on my dad's side of the family died. She is really going to be missed.

After a month, has anything changed?

Google continues to take over the world. Web pages, search engine, blogging, what's going to be next?

Marching through the years

Got an email blackmail message recently. As the world community grows, the scum apparently "rises" to the surface.

wouldn't you think that, after two months, dealing with windows xp would get easier? Instead, the machine has to be rebooted at least multiple times a week - sometimes multiple times in a day.

Healthwise, I'm breaking out in hives - either that or an allergy. Yuck!

Even more use of Windows - and even more regrets. Was informed this week that entire group needed to use Outlook calendaring. And company policy is that you don't get an outlook account unless your mail moves to outlook. So now I have the limitations of outlook instead of the openness of solaris, text emails, ability to grep, etc.

Sigh.

ugg - windows

i'm trying to use a new windows machine at work. when I try to start up a stream to a radio station, the stupid thing stops after about 20-30 minutes. On linux, it just plays (unless the server itself has problems).

And man did I have trouble even getting the speakers to play.

Oh well, they call it progress...

still struggling - my biggest problems seem, at least right now, with the two females in my life - wife and daughter.
Sigh.

Summer is unofficially over, now that we've suffered through Labor Day (well, I did get some extra sleep - that was nice). Time for the kids to get into the school groove. My two still hasn't had a full week of school... that will come next week.

well, two of the kids have, in fact, moved out...well, as much of a move as one gets when the person moving has no real new location, so they leave nearly everything behind. I've a lot of hurt over all of this, but I'm old and won't be around forever, so I guess it is okay.

back again

wow -nearly a month's gone by since the last post. Problems at home vary but continue - one "child" working away from home for a while... in theory. Another "child" determined to do whatever she wants, but still living at home, eating food there, because she doesn't make enough money to do whatever she wants...

Meanwhile, we try to continue life as best we can ... the four of us.

Yesterday, the boys removed an old dresser that was mine 30-40 years ago.
It's made of pressed wood, with a cardboardish type material for the bottom of the drawers. It never did stay together very well, and so when my wife got a newer one, the old one is finally being "put out to pasture". Kind of sad, in a way, to see one of the last pieces of my childhood being thrown away.

so much confusion over the past month. going through yet another crisis with kids, etc. having to do with jobs, etc.
I wonder if these things ever settle down...

Well, back to post a quick hello. Most of my time these days is on xanga because that's where the majority of people I know writes.

life continues at its hectic pace. my health improves slowly. my mind slowly seems to be improving. however, other areas of life continue to be ... stressful.

Well, I'm on the mend after work on a large hernia. Doc says I've had it since birth - it just got worse after I strained it - probably moving trees this past winter during the ice storm.
Should be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

health doesn't seem to be improving. Now my knees are giving me fits. Last nite, I almost fell in the basement trying to start some laundry. And now there are more tests the doctors want to do...

News in the past week or so - more health problems ... blah! Also, went to see the "All Things New" tour stop here in Columbus. Loved it - 3.5 hrs of fun.