negative musical abilities
Well we made it home Saturday from our world wind tour. Jen and I both didn’t realize this until later, but this was the longest vacation we’ve had ever. The longest we’ve been away from home was about 4 days, but 7 day is like a whole new world. It was great seeing family and taking a break, but it was also nice to return home.
First stop was Florida and it was great. We were able to see my family, even was able to get together with some of my former co-workers for lunch, and of course I had to go to the beach. We were there until Wednesday and then we headed to Ohio. Jen was finally able to meet my grandmother, plus all of our extended family. The last time I saw her was somewhere in the range of 2000 – 2001 and it was winter is what we have concluded. We spent much of the time catching up with my grandma and hearing old stories of her singing days, which I loved hearing about. Yes singing days and I’m not talking about hairbrush in front of a mirror singing days. There was once a group called The Chordettes (Mr Sandman, Lollipop, Never on a Sunday) and she was ¼ of the group. Which by the way, I have learned that there are a lot of people with musical and singing abilities in my family and I missed every one of them, I actually have negative musical abilities. OH yea negative I actually throw people off. What in the world was I doing when this was being passed down? Anyways, Jen and I sat around looking at pictures and hearing stories of people she has met, her time on the Arthur Godfrey show, and stories about my dad.
One of the early photo’s of the Chordettes. Beautiful isn’t it.
By the way Dad, what’s this I hear about you and The Prince of Aruba and something about a meeting between your head and a tray?
I totally forgot to post this up. A few pictures from Ohio and Florida.
Catching Up
So it’s been sometime since I’ve updated anything on here. Since I had National Guard AT for that one week I’ve been playing catch up at work and can’t seem to get ahead. I can’t wait for a break, which I don’t know when that will be. This weekend I have drill and then Monday I fly out to Boulder, CO for work and then come back for another week of National Guard AT and then school starts again in August.
I hope everyone had a nice 4th of July. Jen and I went up to Richmond, VA to see some old friends from Florida for the 4th. We went up Friday morning and left for home Saturday morning. Oh I almost forgot, the weekend before the fourth Jen, her mother, and I went to the Faith, Family, Freedom Festival. It’s a Christian concert with fireworks at the end. So Newsboys was headlining the event and if you get a chance to see them in concert do it. The drummer from Newsboys did something that I have never seen or heard of it. He did an incredible drum solo and me explaining it does not do it justice. You just have to watch the video below, but overall they are just unbelievable in concert. Honestly I was a bit apprehensive going, mainly because I think as I get older the more and more I do not want to be around people, but I’m so happy I went.
Some other news tomorrow Jen and I are going to be going to take our test for our motorcycle permits. What’s probably going to happen is once I get my permit and learn to ride I’m going to sell my truck and get a motorcycle to use as my daily commuting vehicle. Gas is just getting ridiculous and my truck does not exactly have the best gas mileage. Don’t know how true this is, but I heard last week that gas will be around 7 bucks a gallon in another two years. As much as gas has gone up I wouldn’t doubt it. The week I went back and forth to my Guard unit I spend about 200 bucks in gas I can’t imagine how much it would be at 7 bucks a gallon. Fortunately, Jen will be working 5 minutes from my office so we could carpool if need be.
Started doing a bit of 3D work in between projects and I’ll posted it up later today.
Till next time folks.
