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Wednesday, 06 May 2009

  • it's another day!

    Well, yesterday was a beautiful day. Temperature in the 60s or so, nice breeze. Even last nite, even though the temperature dropped a bit, wasn't bad - the hotel room i was in didn't even need the heat turned on (though I did turn off the air conditioning last nite.

    I am such a homebody - last nite I found the hotel, checked in, read over class materials, played with the flat screen hd tv, got online to look for a place to eat, went driving around trying to find the place, found it, ate, went back to the room, watched some television, talked with joyce, went to sleep. Nothing exciting.

    Today, I woke up early and just rested there for a few hrs, got up, got ready for my day, grabbed some breakfast, checked out, drove about a block to the classroom, and I'm ready for class - which starts around 8am.

    Then after class today, I will try to get back to Columbus before the storms reach our home. If I can get home early enough, perhaps I'll make it to Wednesday nite prayer meeting (we'll have to see what state life is in when I get back - who is where and needs what, how the van is acting, etc.).

     

Tuesday, 05 May 2009

  • It's been awhile... again

    without full internet access regularly available, I only get a chance to blog occasionally. I'm hoping that eventually full internet will eventually be available.

    I'm doing okay, in general. I'm counting down the days until I see another of my kids. Of course, I see Jawn every day - well, every day that the two of us are in the same place. But it's been 2 months since I last saw Ben, 4 months since I last saw Daniel, and about 6 months since I last saw Laura.

    We're planning for everyone to be together at the end of the month, at Laura's wedding. That will be so much fun.

    Weather is improving, which is nice. I'm feeling okay - good days and bad days of course. Rest of the family are doing okay as far as I know - Daniel's studying like crazy to finish up the semester, Jawn is working towards the end of his high school jr. year. Both are looking for summer jobs.

    We surely do appreciate the prayers being offered up for us and our loved ones.

Wednesday, 15 April 2009

  • long and winding road...

    well, it's been quite some time since I posted an update. I have been trying to get used to using a vista machine. but it seems that between nasty keyboards, the nastiness of windows update, etc. I don't get a chance to do much fun stuff online these days.

    even during spring break, most of my time was sent either chill-axing or running errands, or doing things with the family, and that leaves my internet doings behind.

Wednesday, 25 February 2009

  • it's been so long

    It is very frustrating having my blog sites, etc. all blocked by my isp. However, just can't financially handle changing to someone else right now. Too many stressors pulling at me every which way.

    I'm still cold, but the weather supposedly warmed up a bit today - into the 50s they promised. I was at work, then got chores done, and now am checking my email before the library closes.

     

    Hope everyone is doing fine.

     

    I'm supposed to run the sound board this weekend for a friend's wedding rehersal and wedding. Whee!

Thursday, 12 February 2009

  • quick hello

    Have to be quick about this. I popped into the library after running to Toys'R'Us for the latest free pokemon diamond character. I updated the laptop a bit, and it is griping about wanting to reboot. I have to get home quickly, so fix a bit to eat before Jawn runs to an orchestra concert tonite.

     

    Weather is chilly, but today quite sunny. The wind last night was frightful, but we apparently survived.

Monday, 09 February 2009

  • it is discouraging not to have internet at home

    so, while I have a bit of access at home, it is minimal, and lately has been reduced significantly. So my updates here, which already were minimal, now have to wait until I get to the library. And my normal schedule is to get up around 5am, get ready, head for work around 6am, work until 3:30pm, head home, run errands, pick people up, fix meals, head for church, etc. until 6-9pm, then watch a little tv or read and head for bed. Not much time available to get to the library. I got here today for the first time in a couple weeks, I think.

    My knee still aches - it's been about 3 weeks so far. I'm still relatively cold even though the outside temperature has risen to 50 degrees F. But, I just keep trying to do what I can when I can and keep moving forward.

    Have a great week! 

Saturday, 31 January 2009

  • Eating in whitehall


    For some reason, I have found more interesting eating in Whitehall over the past few years than in Reynoldsburg. Not saying there isn't anything interesting here - just more "next door". For instance, in Reynoldsburg, most of the eating I've done are at the chains. Oh, I have eaten a couple times at the little Oriental place on Livingston, just west of the high school. And I love the sandwiches at Vic's pizza. And I've not had problems at El Portal (though family members no longer wish to go there because of their own personal experiences). I've eaten at a half dozen or so other oriental places in Reynoldsburg - only the ones on Broad street just east of Rose Hill do I return to.

    In Whitehall, there's three ethnic restaurants on Hamilton, one just north of Livingston (Ethiopean), one just north of Main (Latin Cafe - Caribbean and Mexican), and one a few blocks north of Main (Vietnamese, Thai and Laotian), as well as a Greek place just off Main and Hamilton (Greek Corner). And of course there are a variety of chain places there that I return to on occasion - Sonic, A&W, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Chick-fa-la (most of which are located close to Hamilton Rd). Alas, the one east side Indian restaurant that I liked is gone now (Bombay Garden, across the street from Red Lobster).

    There's lots of other places in East Columbus to eat - a number of choices in Gahanna and New Albany.

    If you try out Latin Cafe, try Mofongo - a garlic and plantain concoction that can come with a choice of meat or seafood if you wish. It is yummy. It is a bit pricey though ($13 for an entree and a iceberg salad).

    At Indochina (I think that might be the name), I was there on the weekend and had a weekend special of a beef stew (with a variety of herbs that I could and did add on my own), 2 Viet spring rolls, and a Thai tea that was so yummy.



Thursday, 29 January 2009

  • more weather

    well, this morning is a bit different for reynoldsburg. Normally, it closes its schools when the weather is bad. While most of the local communities are closing this morning, Reynoldsburg, along with Pickerington and a few others, are goin with a 2 hr delay. I suspect this is because of the lack of "free" weather days... most of the five days allowed per district were used back in September during the wind storm which took out electric for 4 days. Any days off from this point on will result in needing to make up days.

    The newsheads this morning were talking about pro soccer games starting in a month or two. I wonder if it will ever warm up enough to feel like spring...

    Temperatures will reach about 25-26 today, and tomorrow night, drop down to perhaps 3 degrees...

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Saturday, 24 January 2009

  • Do you remember....

    your high school days? Okay, so if you are reading this, you are likely, in most cases, to barely be out of high school. So that doesn't count. If someone happens to surf around and hit this entry though and are of my age or older, then this is more for you. And for those who believe they know me pretty well.

    Two interesting things happened this week.  The first is finding this web site: http://www.tchsyearbooks.com/ .
    See, Tyler County High School was the first county wide high school in West Virginia. Founded back in the early 1900s, it was around until 1993, when educators and politicians thought it better to build a brand new school and move. The old building is now a museum.

    The above web site was created to put all the original high school yearbooks up on line. For instance, check out
    http://www.tchsyearbooks.com/1973_index.htm, where my high school senior picture, as well as those of my classmates, can be found. I am probably in some of the other photos in that book. And of course, there are some pictures in the 1970-1972 books as well. I'll have to dig around and see if I can find some more specific pages...
    A week or so ago, I noticed that over on Facebook, some of the college yearbook pictures began to show up (tagging me - lvirden - ) in at least one.

    Quite amusing.

    Also, interesting to me anyways, was that at the funeral of my friend Bill Cotner yesterday, some of the family brought some of the family photo albums - with pictures dating clear back to the late 1800s. In some of those pictures, I saw some of the Virdens from their family tree. That was interesting. I didn't see any names that I recognized, but it was still quite interesting.

    Yesterday, temperatures reached the 40s outside. That was so welcome. Today, however, they are back down in the 20s or lower and I am again hurting from the cold.  Maybe some day I'll be able to afford to be a snowbird...

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  • I'm a Christian fawther (sic) who loves his wife and kids, likes to go to Christian concerts (all types, though my favorite tends towards folk or pop) with my kids, likes to surf the net (xanga, http://wiki.tcl.tk/, etc.), likes to read manga (Naruto,Nodame Cantible, and more) and watch anime (Haibane Renmei, R.O.D., Someday's Dreamer, Fruits Basket), likes to eat and cook (I love lots of ethnic types of food, but tend to cook more traditionally), coaches Teen Bible quizzing at Reynoldsburg Church of the Nazarene, hangs out with my kids and their friends, sometimes plays video games (Pokemon, Tetris, etc)...

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