Sunday, February 22, 2009

Tornadic week for me

Hello everyone,

Yes, it has been a long time since I have posted. Sorry, just have not had time to do anything or have not felt like doing one.

It has been Tornadic around our place this last week with so much going on. But it was literally tornadic on Wednesday of last week here. The picture above is one of a funnel cloud just west of Oxford Alabama from the Home Depot store. My friend Les took the picture while he was at the store. He is a manager for HD and was at that store when the storms broke out. He and I were online together during the storms and I forwarded his reports to James and Jason at ABC 33/40.

It has not been a easy week for Amy and I, but we are making it threw. The Mercury had to have brakes - tires - and other work. And work on top of all that.

The good news was that Winterboro Blue Knight Band brought back superior ratings from District competition on Friday. If you want to see the performance go to -
http://www.mogulus.com/whsweb360 . This is the schools news web cast site that Hunter is mostly heading up. Give it a look every few days for updates of news from the school and events that will be on a loop on this site. Hunter is working on a competition piece for state in video production now then will turn to concentrating on the news cast development.

As for this week, it should be an OK week. Not much extra going on. Lots of work as usual.

I will try to be better at posting, NO PROMISES.

JEFF

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Tired and frustrated

Hello everyone,

Have you ever just wanted to throw a computer out the window to make you feel better? I did yesterday and may still in the days to come. Mom's computer crashed a while back and ever since, I have been trying to restore her financial files. I do not think it can be done. I will say, my happiness with Quicken is very low right now. I was under the impression that you reinstalled the program then restored the data file and it was done. NOT!! I had at least 8 versions of data going at one point yesterday. and got all them so intertwined that it was not even funny. The 2 service reps that tried to help me made since, but as soon as I would get off line with them, I would do something and get myself right b
ack in the same mess. After 6+ hours yesterday, I gave up with a partially restored file that has a balance in the negatives of thousands. So I guess if any of you a re Quicken experts, I need help.

Anyway, I was so tired and frustrated last night, I had a headache to kill a person. So when I hit the bed with a sleeping pill and 500 of Alive, I was out of here.

Not much exciting has happened around me other than I am working halfway steady on a shift for RPS on the side now. I hope that being on a stead
y shift will allow me to better regulate my sleep and have more usable off time. I will let you know. I know I am going to work A shift in Pell City threw April as of right now. I think I will like working there. I have a good partner currently and a decent station.

I am loving my little car. The Alabama SMARTIES club is a lot of fun. We are going to do a car show in April that I think will be fun. For those that do not know, the caar i got was not the car i ordered. It is just like the car I ordered but was acually an "orphan" that I accecpted. My car came in a couple weeks ago and I orphaned it out. I did get by to actually see it. So I parked my LiL Guy next to it and here is a picture of th
em together below. I understand that a young man adopted it last Saturday. I sure wish I could have gotten it for Amy. Maybe later we can get Amy and Hunter one.
So, as you can see, they were twins.

Have a good night and several days till I talk to you again.

JEFF