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Jess and I slept in this morning. We were up semi-late the night before and since both of us had late shifts today, there was no need to get up. When we did finally wake up, we just laid in bed for another 30 minutes or so cuddling and talking. It was nice because there was no immediate reason to get up and leave one another. After we got up, we had a little breakfast, took a shower, and then I had to head to work.

Work was would be the craptastic part I was talking about. It wasn’t as bad as some nights, but it was just one of those night you wanted to finish and forget about. I left work, picked up some eats (a nice salad) and came home.

Once home I talked with my wife for a bit while downloading some new music. I have been in a musical rut lately, and needed something new and fresh. Since we just got done with watching season 2 of ‘Mad Men’, I decided to pick up some music from he 50s and 60s. After searching, I finally decided on some Frank Sinatra. I have never really listened to Sinatra before, so this would be new and fresh to me. I loaded the album onto my iPhone, grabbed the leash, and took Loki for a walk. It was nice to be outside late at night (about midnight), listening to some good music, and spending some time with the pooch. After about a 30 minute walk, we returned. Both the walk and the music were very good and just what I needed.

I am now off to bed with my wife. We have another baby Dr. appointment in the morning, followed by another full night of work. But alas, I have Wednesday and Thursday off. Maybe good things really do come to those who wait.

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I had this past weekend off, and I had a most awesome weekend. Jess and I spent Saturday afternoon at Claws N Paws animal park. We got to feed some of the animals and walk around in near perfect weather. After we left the park, we grabbed a bite to eat at a diner and then headed to a bar to meet some of our friends for drinks.

Sunday was a nice relaxing day as well. Jess had work in the early afternoon, so I took Loki to Kirby Park in the morning and we went for a nice 4mi walk. He loved walking someplace new! Afterwards, we came back to the house, and then met Jess at my parent’s house for a Mother’s Day cookout. All good there.

Monday wasn’t too bad at work. There was lot’s to do, but that’s just the status quo. When things started to suck was Monday night when I could feel myself getting sick. It ended up being a quite annoying stomach bug. I won’t go into details, but let’s just say it was nasty.

Tuesday saw me not wanting to get up to go to work. I was feeling like crap, but I was ignoring it for the most part since we were having an ultrasound that day. Also, I was only working ½ a day at work, so again, not too bad there. The ultrasound ended up being totally amazing! The first picture we got of the baby was him waving at the monitor. I guess I kind of just have it away there, but yes, we found out we are having a boy! We are officially having a baby boy named Jackson Shafer in October. Here are some pictures of him from Tuesday’s ultrasound.

Tuesday night I was feeling pretty sick. I woke up Wednesday and felt even worse. I ended up getting up at 7:30am, calling off, and going back to bed. I did not wake up again until 3:30pm. I pretty much spent the day lounging and trying to keep things down. I was finally starting to feel a little better around midnight, so I decided this would be a good time to head to bed. It was around then that I heard tires screeching and a bunch of bangs. Long story short, a drunk driver hit my sister’s car, bounced off of it, and ended up buried in the neighbor’s bushes. I got to spend the next hour with the cops instead of sleeping. Oh joy.

Thursday saw me waking up feeling just as crappy as I did on Wednesday. Unfortunately, I was out of sick time and needed to go in. However, on my way in I made an agreement with myself that I would take it easy and not let myself get stressed out. I am happy to report that I was able to do just that. I had a great night, got some stuff done, and did not stress out once. I came home to a very domesticated wife who had gone on a baby clothes shopping spree. Showing me her bounty, she went to bed and I retired to the couch to watch some Stargate Atlantis. After 1 ½ episodes, I ended up falling asleep. I woke up, and hauled my ass to bed for the night.

That brings us to today. Today hasn’t been that bad so far. Then again, I have only been awake for about 90 minutes or so. I close once again tonight (2-11) which is no surprise there. It seems all I do anymore is close. My only regret about closing tonight is that it’s beautiful out and I would love to take Loki for another walk at Kirby Park. Unfortunately, he’s going to have to wait until Sunday for such a thing to happen.

I can say with certainty that life is good!

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It all started on Saturday morning. While Jess was finishing up some schoolwork, I decided to make us some breakfast. Looking at what was available in our stores, I decided to make some egg and bacon sandwiches on English Muffins. They were quite tasty! After breakfast was done, we showered and headed to my parent’s house for the day. Saturday was my mother’s birthday so we all got together and spent the day with her. It was nice to just sit around and talk with the family without watching the clock or needed to be somewhere else. After about 6 hours we left and came home. We settled in for the night on the couch and watched ‘Role Models’ (hilarious!) and started the first disc of ‘Mad Men’.

Today we woke up to beautiful blue skies with more sun then we have seen in weeks. Knowing it was going to be in the 60s, I wanted to get some yard work done. Jess on the other hand, had some schoolwork she needed to get done and wanted to clean up the house a bit. I headed out before she did and started retrieving some landscape timbers I had purchased about 2 years ago and had in storage in my sister’s garage. After all 10 8ft timbers has been retrieved and relocated to my yard, I decided some lunch was in order. When I came in, I saw Jess lying on the couch. Apparently while I was gone she had gotten really sick to her stomach and had thrown up. She decided to take it today since she was not feeling well. I couldn’t have agreed more and left her be. After lunch, I decided to go to Tractor Supply to pick up a new pair of work gloves. I have a really nice pair that has apparently disappeared into thin air since I have been unable to find them for 2 weeks. Normally I wouldn’t care too much except that I got a nice 1/2in sliver in my palm while getting the timbers out of my sister’s garage. I was not willing to chance getting another one. I decided since I was a really nice day out to take Loki with me.

A few minutes later, with new gloves in hand, I started my project for the day. I was torn between working on the garden (reframing, turning it over) or coming up with a solution for Loki sneaking under our chain link fence. I decided to work on a solution for Loki. What I came up with was basically a miniature retaining wall. I got about ½ way through the project when I suddenly ran out of rebar. I thought I had enough, but I was sorely mistaken. I was then off to Lowe’s, Loki in the shotgun seat. When I got there, I saw my new store manager. She had seen Loki when he was still a puppy, so she came over and was playing with him though the car window for a few minutes. Taking Loki out of the spotlight, I we headed back into the store and I grabbed the extra pieces of rebar that I needed. About 90 minutes later, my wall was complete. I am rather happy with the way it turned out. It’s structurally sound, inexpensive to make (less than $25), and only took about 3 hours from start to finish.

After I was done, Jess finally came outside. She was starting to feel a little better, so she brought her laptop outside and did some of her schoolwork while I cleaned up the tools in the yard and reattached the chain link fence. After that, I put some chicken in the oven for dinner while I cleaned out my car and took a shower.
Afterwards, I made some vegetables and my famous fried rice. We had dinner and watched some more ‘Mad Men’.

This was one of the best weekends I have had in a long time. Now I get to start my last week at my current/old store. Hopefully everything should go smoothly and I will be able to leave with a clean conscience.

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After staying up until 4:30am last night (losing that hour to DST sucked!) I stumbled out of bed around 10:30am this morning. Coming into the computer room, I sat down and checked my email. There on my Mac’s dock was the bouncing blue sphere telling me that there were updates from Apple to install. I looked at what was available and most were run of the mill. There was an update for my Airport card, one for iPhoto, and one or two others for some applications. I let the Mac install them and reboot as it requested without thinking.

I really wish I hadn’t.

About 30 minutes after rebooting, my Mac started its random rebooting again. This was one of the issues I had for weeks along with the graphical freeze ups, so I proceeded to reset the PRAM. Knowing already that this is kind of a Mac ‘cure all’ I thought I was in good hands. After rebooting and holding down Option+Command+P+R until it made the happy sound twice, I hoped that I had cured its ills.

I would be mistaken.

Since then, the Mac has continued to randomly reboot whenever it feels like, usually when I am right in the middle of something. In fact I am writing this on my PC for fear that it will reboot on me in mid-sent

Just kidding.

I did notice that after its last random reboot that it can no longer see my external HD. This also started happening during my last round of reboots. I’m not sure if this is a symptom of the issue or part of the issue itself. Right now it’s too late to really worry about this and something I will work on for the the rest of the week. For now, it’s time to end this weekend by going to bed.

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Yeah, that’s a lot. However, being industrious people, we managed to fix quite a few of those issues. By 3pm we had all the bills paid, the court summons was satisfied and settled, we spoke with Jess’s dad about her car and he agreed to help us out with it, Bob is not in pain and not bleeding, so we will see what he looks like on Monday since our vet is closed on the weekend, I fixed my laptop, and we made plans without the need for a hotel room on my birthday weekend. Jess even managed some time in there to go get a ‘feel good’ haircut. But after that horrific morning, we not only needed to get out of the house, but to eat and begin car shopping. So, that’s what we did. We hit up Abe’s Hot Dogs for some delicious LHA action (lips, hooves and assholes — the contents of any good hot dog) and began a task I really loathe — car shopping.

After about 3 1/2 hours of driving around to various car lots, we encountered several cars that Jess liked but really only one that was within our self-imposed price range. Finally getting hungry around 7pm, we decided to get some dinner. We hit up Olive Garden for some good eats, and then went to Target to pick up a birthday present for Jess’s grandfather’s 80th birthday party next Saturday, and some new Halloween decorations. Then on the way home, we decided to stop at Blockbuster and pick up something to make us laugh for the rest of the night. We ended up selecting ‘The Love Guru’ and the new ‘Harold and Kumar’.

Before starting our movie night, we wanted to lighten the mood in the house, so we went upstairs and got all the Halloween decorations out. Forgetting what we had purchased last year on clearance, we were surprised with all the cool stuff that was in our Halloween storage tub. We even found the costumes we bought Loki last year, but being a mere puppy, he refused to wear. Being that he is a year older, not to mention much calmer,we decided to give the whole costume thing another shot. Jess put his spider costume on him and much to our surprise, he loved it! We’ll have to find the little Batman costume we also got him and see if he’ll tolerate that as well. We both agreed we have to dress him up and take Loki trick-or-treating with Kyla and Gavin this year. By the way, I think the most disturbing part of the photo of Spider-Loki is that fact that it’s not Photoshopped. For some reason, his eyes naturally glowed green with Jess’s Blackberry flash. I don’t think the dog is of this world…

After the costume parade and putting up some decorations, we settled down on the couch with Loki and Jess. We made some kettle corn, cuddled under my warm Skull blanket, and laughed our ass of at ‘The Love Guru’. It killed me in inches that I really enjoyed it since it was Jess’s pick and I was convinced it would be stupid. Live and let learn I suppose.

Today, we’re off to day 2 of car shopping. We’re going to finish hitting the local lots and then maybe head south to the Allentown area. Jess’s dad is looking down there as well, and we might try to meet up later in the day and take a look together at some cars. I would really appreciate having someone with me who know more then my very limited knowledge of cars. Why can’t we be shopping for computers or electronics?

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