I’m seven days into my short notice vacation and it seems like it is going way way too fast. I’ve got 3 days of time off left before I have to go back in into work again. Blehhhhh…. Only 10,156 days until retirement according to the countdown timer here on my desk. Jessica just got back from her two and a half week or so long road trip filming at a bunch of Midwest region parks and we are glad to have her back. I was pretty busy running around or working for the most part so that made the time go by a bit faster than it would have had I just been sitting around waiting for time to pass so there is that I guess. I’m sure that Jessica will write something about her travels in the upcoming future because it was very productive in many ways. For now she will be busy working and doing editing of all the footage she shot on the trip and hopefully the end result will turn out good.
For the last four days or so we both put work on the back burner and just spent our time hanging out together since it will probably be the only time we will get for that until the Fall when she is off work again and we go on our Fall trip. She got back Thursday night and Friday we went to the lake to do some swimming, it was about the only thing you really could do since the temperature was around a hundred degrees. Pretty good time until I bumped into a turd that a kid pooped in lake right before their family hastily packed up their stuff and departed. Gross. I understand that accidents happen with kids but I as a parent would have removed the poo had it been Alexander who had the accident instead of just leaving it. Apparently Jessica knew that the kid dooked in the water but she didn’t say anything to me until after I had an encounter with it. Next time a little warning would be nice honey.
Saturday happened to be Hickman Haydays, which I had no idea about when I took the time off. Normally we miss it or just plain have no idea that it’s going on until I try to go to the store and it’s closed because of the street dance or we are just at work or something. Having us both off work for it was a nice treat because we got to take Alexander to the parade, which normally I would think would be pretty cool for a kid, but he already happened to be IN a parade in Beatrice when he was at the babysitters not all that long ago so I’m sure it wasn’t as cool as that. We walked from home and sweated like crazy because it was sooo hot again. That might have been the problem when it came to the enthusiasm that the kids had for running out and grabbing the candy, because I was flabbergasted. Candy was just laying out in the street and no one was grabbing it! Back when I was a kid we would almost degenerate into fistfights just to get that last piece of yucky grandma candy that you didn’t really want anyway but most of the kids showed no interest in it. I just didn’t get it… Oh well. After the parade we went to the park where they were having other activities for the Haydays, got ourselves a lunch of overpriced hotdogs, and went to let Alexander go play in the bounce houses where he promptly got launched face first into the ground which ended our Haydays adventure. He’s still skinned up all over his face and stuff but it’s starting to heal.
That’s about all I’ve got for the day, wanted to get something up since it’s been a while and I also wanted to test out the new server that is hosting the web site since I moved it over this week. This gave me the opportunity to try out a new theme to change the look and feel of the place since it’s been the same for a very long time and was feeling pretty stale. I also updatesd the program that runs the pictures on the site and will be adding new content there soon.