And On To Another Monday...

So it's Monday again already. Middle of September and another Monday. In two weeks Stace and I celebrate our TWO YEAR anniversary (technically we are celebrating it next week)! Isn't that crazy? Two years already! And Porter turns THREE YEARS OLD this month! Wow... Just "wow". I expressed this surprise to a friend and jokingly said that I should go ahead and start getting Christmas presents together... I'm not so sure it was a joke, now that I think about it.

Terrell is a man I work with who I've been learning from since I started here. Not just work policy or server configurations, but I enjoy his views on life in general. This morning I was walking in and ran into him in the lobby. I wished him a good morning and asked how his Monday was starting out...
"Well I woke up looking at the right side of the grass, so how bad can it really be?"
See what I'm saying? We were driving to a remote steam plant to do some work when we were cut off in traffic, nearly causing an accident. Greg and I were pretty ticked off but Terrell laughed it off and basically said "We're okay, he's the one who has to live himself and besides, I'm so old I'll probably not remember it shortly anyway".

Well, as you've noticed, the entries here are becoming few and far between. Stace has mentioned that she is wanting to focus on her writing here very soon but I'm not sure what that entails exactly. Whatever it is I'm pretty sure it is not pertaining to this particular blog so I'm trying to decide what I want to do with this. It is a handy medium to use when there are things to post, however so is email and considering the 4 of you that read this are already included in most emails that come out of our PCs, it becomes a bit of a redundant practice.

Let me know what you think.

Be well.
J.

A Long, Deep Breath

As I look over the day's football schedule and open the doors instead of running the AC, I take a long, deep breath, revelling in the fact that Autumn is almost here.

Exhale.

Summer was busy and hot. We travelled some, lounged a little and worked a lot. I'm still with Duke and still really enjoying the new position. Stacey had an injury back in May or so and was told that running marathons was probably not the best thing for her so Seattle was out. We mourned that race on it's date as we were really looking forward to making that trip and her finishing another event. She is focusing more now on triathlons, which seems to be a bit more exciting.

June was a rough month as not only did my mother's mother pass away, but so did my Great Uncle Don. Grandmother Doris had been fighting cancer for 8 or 9 months, which says a lot considering the small amount of weeks she had been told to expect in the beginning. My mother and father took excellent care of her in their own home and I know that had a lot to do with her extended good health.

Uncle Don passed on due to complications from heart surgery. They were good people and will be dearly missed.

In the spirit of Life and it's continuing cycle, about that same time our good friends Lynn and Chris Paszkiewicz had their second son, Rowan. Or as I like to call him, "Rowan, son of Lynn and Christopher, brother to Afton". Of course you have to say it all formal and "Lord of the Rings" like.

Speaking of the "Family P", that brings me to photos as, if you remember, Lynn is a noted photographer in Kansas City and shot our wedding. http://www.studiopphoto.com/

I've been getting back into the swing of the camera finally and have done a few things. I shot our friend's Jamie's wedding in the beginning of August and am fairly happy with the results. I'll post a few here to share, just don't tell Jamie as I have yet to get them to her... Oops.