The HandyMan.

I'm not really that handy. I know how to use most tools, but it is not fun for me. Our garbage disposal is broke. I was decently proud of myself that I was able to disconnect it from the sink and take off the top and look inside, gross, by the way. The only problem that I could find in there was that it has a rust problem... oh and someone put peas in there after it had stopped working. My gut would be to just go buy a new one that works. Of course then I would have to install it, with my little helper. Check out all the comments my wife got on her post on why she doesn't like it when people don't leave comments. Leave a comment;). That one picture is a youth member who probably wants to remain incognito and Glory, asleep. She rarely falls asleep when someone is holding her.

New Job

My job is going swimmingly. This past week I actually solved a problem they had been having with their software for weeks. As I keep saying. It sure beats working for a living. If you want to hear me, click here and try to listen at near the top of the hour in the morning, like say at nine oclock. I usually give the weather at about that time. Not that the weather is extremely interesting. I don't have a lot to say lately which is why there haven't been any updates. I am preaching tommorrow as well, that usually cuts into blogging time too. I'm speaking on greed and doing the jungle jam "The treasure of the Sierra Marbles." Fun Stuff. If you want to see some recent pictures of my family, go to my wife's site.

Quirkyness

Not much to say, but if you want to hear a quirky love song check this out.

Weec Pictures

In case you really wanted to see where I work. Oh and if you want you can tune in go here.

The Mystery Structure

Congratulations Joy. By the way, drop me a note to let me know which Joy you are. The usual suspect, my sister in Law, has denied that it is her. It definitely is an Iron Furnace. Check out these pictures of a similar furnace. I am pretty sure the pictures I have are of Union Furnace. You can read about it here and here and was built in, get this, 1790. That makes it 217 years old. Although reading this site makes me confused and wonder which one we actually found. Apparently there were twenty of them in Fayette county pa. It might actually be the New Laurel Furnace. Shaun, if you read this, you know the directions in the area better, maybe you could pinpoint the right furnace.

The Camping trip.

Jared, Shaun, John, Cole and I went real men's camping this weekend. Almost. We did drive to a place that we know of, that we affectionately call "blue hole" that is not a real campground or site. It really is camping out in the woods. No bathrooms or electric outlet. I had originally planned for one meal to be an "only eat what you can catch, kill and gather." However, I hurt my back on Saturday and since I was planning to be the main one catching, killing and gathering, I am really happy that Jared brought lots and lots of hot dogs and Italian sausages. Smart man. My lower back still twinges every so often especially when I stand up. We still had fun and saw cool stuff. Blue hole is near Dunbar PA and it is basically a mountain pool fed by a stream where you can slide off of a natural water fall, or even jump off a 30 ft cliff into the pool. Straight up cool. One thing that was puzzling is that we went and looked at an old stone structure that Shaun had found before. We have no Idea what it could be except for some fairly wild guesses. My pictures aren't great, but I would be interested to see if anyone knew what this was. We are guessing that it is really old. You can see more camping pictures here.

Interesting

So what do these squirrels have against the US?

A link or two.

Issac Sairs is in Bangladesh. He is actually updating his blog once a week now. Check it out.

Who knew? The Pope likes wierd hats.

There is a new strong bad email.


My new favorite Joke.

Why did the punk cross the road?

Because he had a chicken nailed to his head.

First Week

So, surprise, surprise, but working again means less blogging time. Sorry for this weeks lack of updates. I am really enjoying my job. It is challenging and I have by no means mastered it. I still haven't been trained on the board yet, but that's alright as in most of the staff have been a little tied up with a change in the format. Now it wasn't a complete format change, but they refreshed their sound by deleting many old songs and just playing their best. They also purchased a professional sounding jingle package. You can hear the General Manager, Tracy Figley talking about the refreshing here at their revamped website. I plan at some point to take some pictures at work at put them on here, but I first need to remember to bring the camera to work.

Tomorrow, the troupe the did the drama at conference "Inside the mind" will be performing that same drama at Agape Community Fellowship in Hillard. I think this will most likely be the last time we do it.

Another note. I took my Dodge shadow in to get the oil changed. It has been over a year, mostly because I haven't driven 3000 miles in that year, but since I will be driving it 60 miles a day from now on, I figured I'd better do it. Good thing too, since it turns out my tires are all so bald that they refused to rotate them stating Ohio law. We went back and got new tires tonight. It is disconcerting when you pay more for tires than the trade in value on your car.