Happy Birthday to Me

So how did you spend your birthday?

I spent mine this way. I woke up at 4:00AM to make sandwiches for the wife and oldest son so they could scurry off to see the Pope. I learned from Ebone that sometimes a wife really does get up at the crack of dawn and make you a lunch before you go to work. I figured I would try to show my wife this and I might be able to get some lunches for work for myself. It doesn't seem to have worked. I went to work today, lunchless.

Anyway. I went back to bed and woke up at 7 something. All the kids were waking up. I got them all dressed and took them to skating lessons. One of them tried to tell me she wasnt' going to skate that day. I assured her she was. She did. I came home and the mulch I had ordered was in the driveway. Five yards of mulch. I spent the rest of the day shoveling and spreading mulch. Then we had a birthday dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. Now that was a birthday. Below are some pics of the visit of the Pope.

More Pics Tonight

Did you know how awesome tonight was? There was the college hockey Frozen Four, NHL Playoffs, Day One of the Masters AND the wife and kids went to a friend's house for dinner. Of course I had some school work to do but I was able to watch the sports, drink a beer or two and do the school. I also found time to get these pics for you.
The first is of Captain Redneck. His daughter in law just gave him his third grandchild and this is obviously him celebrating. Captain sure does love his GeeTars. The second just caught my eye. It said Human Cookie Monster so you know I had to click. I wasn't disappointed. Thanks to Break.com and DirtyButton.com for these funny pics.

Phone Pics

Here are a couple pictures from my phone I finally uploaded. The first is my Civic after the encounter a few months ago with the deer. The second is this donkey I saw this morning on the way to work that sideswiped a power pole. You can barely see the pole laying in the road behind him. It made this big blueish-green flash when it smacked the ground. Dude is lucky it didn't hit his car. Obviously my phone on zoom takes small ass pictures. Weak.

Salsaritas

The father in law forced me to go to Salsaritas again. He said he couldn't believe the burrito was so good so I had to show him. Actually I sent the wife so I could watch hockey.




Hopefully when he ate his, he didn't wear this shirt. Not a whole lot of burrito room in there.



By the way, that is just part of the spread at a usually Jiggy function. And yet the heathens still complain about lack of food.

300 and Nite of Fun

Well for all intents and purposes, Steeler Fan Boy’s life is over. He bowled a 300 game the other night. I won’t say he will die anytime soon, he will just never have anything in his life that will equal that feeling. He might as well just quit his job and go live in a cabin in the woods. Congrats man. By the way, I have bowled a 300 also. It just took me three games to get it. That counts too right?

As many of you that know my family, you know we are addicts. We are all addicted to noise at night. We need fans to get to sleep. Each room in my house has a box fan on the floor providing noise 365 days a year. They aren’t for cooling, they aren’t for airflow, just pure sleepful noise. So last night, the power goes out at 11:30pm. Mind you there was no storm in the area, no reason whatsoever for the power to go out. But it did. The wife went to try to get our littlest back to sleep and I scoured the house for a flashlight. Where is the damn moon when you need it. It was pitch dark last night. Well I found my cell phone and used the light from that to find one of the kid’s reading lights which I used to find a flashlight that ended up being in my room in the first place.

Then I hear the beeping. I am rushing around the house looking for the source. Some of the kids are still asleep and I want to keep it that way. I find the culprit. A UPS under a computer table. I get it switched off and no sooner had I shut the door to that room, the house alarm starts beeping. Great. Meanwhile the wife brought the little one to our room. I look all over the house for our portable, battery operated noise maker. It, also, ends up being in my room after I look all over for it. It makes tons of sounds. Waves, rain, birds chirping, Ebone hollering about the Bills and white noise. We use the white noise. I get that hooked up for the wife and daughter. Then I am off to disarm the alarm.

The alarm has no power to it since the power is off, but there is a battery inside. I will just open it and get the battery out and no more noise. I open the cover and the damn alarm goes off. I fumble for the key pad but, hey, the lights are out. I finally get it turned off and the battery out. Back up to bed and then half an hour later the power is back on. I turn off the portable noise maker, set my alarm clock for the morning and put my head to the pillow. Power back off.

This went on a couple times and finally it stayed on the rest of the night. So I get up in the morning and shower, take the dog out and grab my stuff for work. Power goes out again. I ran for the door and jumped in the car before anyone could wake up. So Christmas present list now includes a generator. It doesn’t have to be powerful, just enough for five or six fans.

In other news, just the mention of the Hawkmen coming to town was enough to bring illness to my family. The wife got sick and I had to take care of her for FOUR days. She claims it was two, but it was really FOUR. On Thursday night, she started puking late in the evening. That is one day, then Friday and Saturday make three, and Sunday I let her sleep in late so that is FOUR days. Damn that is over half of the week. I am a saint. Everyone seems to be better now but the Hawkmen are coming at the end of April so watch out.

I found a new way to get fat, not that I needed it. I love me some Baja Fresh. Not big on the Chipotle but love the Fresh. Now I am also a fan of Salsaritas. Another restaurant along the same lines, but they sell beer too. And you get to tell them exactly what to put in your big ass burrito. And, get this. It is half the distance to my house of Baja Fresh. Let’s just say that while the wife was sick I ate one on Friday evening and followed it up 12 hours later with one for lunch on Saturday. Why wait 12 whole hours for another 2 lbs of food? They didn’t open until 11am fatties, that’s why. But don’t let this make you think I am not ready for tennis, because it is on. I will be back up north in two weeks and we are already lined up to play. Just a warning to the guys that I am in midseason form. I took six people out the other day to the courts and none of them could touch my game. OK. They were my kids but, still, I was on fire.