There is nothing cool about humidity!

I simply forgot to post the blog yesterday. I was working on some DMACC stuff and the time got away from me and before you know it, I was in the shower and thinking...."Crap! I forgot to post to the blog today".

The weather is terrible. It is hot, hot, hot. It is going to be in the upper 9o's this weekend with high humidity. Welcome to August.

There are a couple things of interest this weekend. The 141 sale is going on. The highway that runs through central Iowa is highway 141. It runs from Des Moines, through a bunch of towns, to include Perry and then out to the west a bit. I am not sure how it got started but they have a 141 sale where everywhere along that highway, all through central Iowa, people have garage sales. Houses along the highway and throughout all the towns have sales, there are food vendors and all the things you would have at a carnival. I think the sales route is over 40 miles long. Anyway, it is this weekend.

It is also the tax free weekend. Every year before school starts, Iowa has a tax free weekend. All things you buy for school; supplies, clothes, etc are all tax free. This is a state wide mandate so it applies to all stores in Iowa. As you can imagine the stores will be a mad house.

Registration is Monday so it will be a long day. Once August hits, things seem to speed up. The days run together and there is always something going on.

The first of every month is a gamble on whether we will get the rent from our tenants or not. Last month we never recieved all the rent. We were still wating for $225 as of yesterday. It is the first so they owe another months rent. I hope we don't have to look at kicking them out. That whole process is a suckfest. Maybe they will pay ontime. (It would be the first time since they moved in)

I mowed the lawn last night. It was a hot bastard. I think I was soaking wet after I pulled the cord to start the mower. Humidity sucks!

Monday will be the Video blog. Have a good weekend.

If it wasn't for the tough times, the good times would be so good!

Work has been really busy lately but I think we are in pretty good shape right now. There is still a bunch to do but we aren't in a "panic" mode. Yesterday was a bit rough because I had a bad attitude to begin with and then it was busy and unrelenting. It is good to have that day behind me.

The weather is still hot and humid, nothing new there. August is about here and I will have to start getting ready for teaching the DMACC classes again. There is a required training and a couple of recommended sessions I need to go to. Add those evenings to my busy days and I think I am going to need some Valium to get me through. Anyone know a Dr. Feelgood?

Jess has been a big help. She has been offering to help at the office and she has been in quite a bit to help with stuff. Her and Drew have both been a big help. I think she can tell I am having a tough time.

Things will get better, they always do so it is just a matter of fighting through this funk. I feel much better today but I feel like I am going through the motions. Such is life!

How do you eat an elephant?............One bite at a time!

Is the future of the blog at risk?

I was thinking about the blog lately and how most days I really don't have much to talk about. Life is pretty dull when you primarily just work, eat and sleep. This is the case during the summer for sure. The kids don't have events and there really isn't a whole lot going on at work that is worth mentioning.

I think I may cut the blog back to once or twice a week. I am not sure which yet but at least until things pick up a bit, I might cut back.

I will keep posting each day until I decide what I want to do.

Off to think.......

Monday - July 28 VBLOG

Is George W, still in office? Economy still suck, so he must be!

So here we are at Friday already. This week has just flown by. I think it is a combination of all the things going on at work and without the kids here, my nights are quiet.

It has been good to have a week to myself but I miss those kids and it will be good to have them running around here again. I think I will call them today because I haven't heard from them in a couple days. I don't blame them, the last time they called I had a headache and kind of cut the conversations short.

The town is getting cleaned up after the big wind storm. The trees are all chopped up and on the curbs. I can't imagine what the city is going through trying to get all of this mess cleaned up. I am sure it is a huge project.

The rain keeps coming down here. I think it rains almost every day. It is supposed to keep up like this for the weekend and into next week.

I should have a shipment of 52 computers coming in today. The plan is to work this weekend and get the computers installed and that project done. August is just around the corner and time really starts to compress then.

I was thinking about the video blog and when I would record and post it. I think it would be best to do it over the weekend and post it for the Monday post. The main thing is I need to have some event to talk about to even make it interesting. I guess we will see how it goes. Life can be quite dull.

I hope you all have a good weekend. Here is a pic of Drew and Jess last year on their vacation:

I wish I was back at the beach!

We got more rain today, which is something we don't really need. Last night seemed pretty nice. It was mostly cloudy but the temp was good and there wasn't any humidity.

The kids are having a good time on vacation. They call me about every other night and update me on what they have been doing. It sounds like they have found all kinds of fun things to do. It is good for them to get away a bit. Hopefully, they come back refreshed and ready to start the school year.

I just heard my sumpump go off and that is a good thing. We have gotten so much rain that everything is just saturated. I think that is why so many trees were uprooted in the big storm the other day.

Life is dull - nothing else to mention. Here is another pic from California. This beach was awesome! I can't believe people live with this type of view in their neighborhood.

Hump day just isnt the same when you work 7 days a week

I think the video blog turned out pretty good. It was very easy to make the video and if I wanted to edit the video, that would have been easy as well. So far, the Apple experience has been pretty good. I have to work with it in a office setting to see if it can do as well as my PC.

I set it up on the network yesterday and it had a little trouble, but I eventually got there. I have to work with network drives and mapping yet. I also haven't used MSOffice on it much but it looks a bit different. I am not sure what kind of impact that wile be.

I had to go to Gene's house yesterday because on of his golfing buddies called me and said it looked like he had some tree damage.

I took my chainsaw, Nancy and a positive attitude out to his house and there were several trees down. One big tree down against the house but as it turned out, it broke a storm window but not the inside window and pulled the gutter off the house. It didn't look like there was any roof damage besides that. He was lucky. The tree is huge and it will take a company of some sort to remove it. I don't think a couple of guys with chainsaws are going to get that thing away from the house. In retrospect, I should have taken some pictures for the blog.

I have been enjoying this week at home alone. It is kind of nice to have the house to myself and it is always clean. I miss the kids but this has been a pretty good week so far. Almost like a little vacation.

I think the video blog is a pretty good thing. I think I will try to post one video blog a week. I think if I do more than that, you will get sick of seeing my ugly mug.

Here are some pictures from California:

Crystal Cove - Joyce and Nancy enjoying the awesome view.
Lost on the 5