More pictures from the visit

Mindy talking to Grandpa Ken.









Kari took these pictures of the cousins getting into things.








They are pretty darn cute.









Everyone loves to make some music.








Kari and Aydan.

Grandpa Morris visit

My stepdad isn't feeling real good, so we all went to visit him. Here are some pictures.



Charly took this wonderful picture of me and Aydan.









Mike and Luke are so cute together.








Kari and Aydan








Charly was entertaining Grandpa Ken's sister, Joann.








Grandpa Ken enjoyed the visit, I think.

short story - Whose favor should she be in?

The couple was leaving the grocery store. The husband was pushing the cart and the wife was following behind. As they reached the door, an item fell out of the cart of another shopper. The wife stopped to pick up the item for the other shopper, unbeknownst to the husband. As he leaves the store, he turns back to see that his wife is not following as closely behind him and he lifts his eyebrows as if to say "What happened?". His wife replies, "I stopped to help someone pick up something they dropped." Her husband shakes his head in dismay. He is single minded in his need to get out of the store where everyone gets in his way and his need to get home to relax. "I am just trying to find favor with the gods", his wife states. "Well, you are losing favor with me", he tosses back. They both smile. He knows he is intolerant, and she knows that he knows. It is just the way he is. At least he can laugh about his intolerance. She loves him anyway.

Did you watch the Obama tv show tonight? I DID NOT

I am proud to say that I did not watch the Obama paid television show tonight. Where does he get the money for this? I am leery of a person who has sooooo much money that they can pay for primetime television for 30 minutes on seven different networks.

Luckily cable and satellite have hundreds of other networks. Too bad he doesn't have enough money to buy time on every network. For someone who wants the "little people" to feel he knows what they are going through, he sure knows how to flaunt his money.

Biden interview shows his true colors

Interesting YouTube video.


I guess after Biden was interviewed on this Florida TV station, his wife was supposed to be interviewed, but Obama's campaign nixed that idea with this statement:

"This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.
McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."

miss fixit

Dave hates it when I do this, but I still keep doing it and I think secretly he likes it.

This is what happened: Dave wanted to get a bound double-sided copy of the MAC Football Preview to take with him on his job interview. So we went to Office Depot to get the file printed on nice paper and bound with spiral coils. The Office Depot worker was having problems getting the printer to duplex the test pages. It kept jamming up in the printer. I first suggested that maybe since the first page was one large graphic that we needed to try printing the second and third pages on front and back. The paper still jammed. So I suggested that there might be a small piece of paper in the roller. Dave was cringing. He hates when I butt in. But the worker was a smart young man and listened to me and found the offending small piece of paper in the rollers of the printer and the next try worked perfectly. We now have a nice 37 page bound copy of the football preview that he is so proud of.

Yep, my 56 years on this earth, 20 some of it working in an office with many printers, copiers, and computers, has given me wisdom that I love to share with others.

Oh, what else was funny was that Dave made a reference to something that Bender says in Futurama, "It is all everyone else's fault" The Office Depot young man, looked up at him and said, "What? Bender from Futurama?" He seemed impressed that Dave would be quoting from Futurama. Score one for Dave.

joe the plumber

I might be in the minority, but I think John McCain kicked butt last night. Sure there were some discrepancies in both of their statements, but I thought Obama was clearly bugged by how much McCain was on the offensive.

Now, this thing about Joe the Plumber. This is really bugging me. I liked the fact that McCain brought up the incident between Joe and Obama, but the media is taking it way too far. Why is the media crucifying him? He just wanted to ask a simple question. Now people are digging up all kinds of things on him.

Is this what will happen if Obama becomes president? If someone has a differing opinion or questions something the president does, will they be scrutinized and dissected and hounded?

my leaky faucet is fixed!!

My dad has been staying with my sister and she had a meeting to attend today in Pontiac. Cindi brought my dad over and dropped him off and he fixed my leaky faucet. I can't tell you how thankful I am, plus I got to spend more time with Dad and with Cindi. We went out to eat after Cindi was done with her meeting.

All in all it was a nice day.

Thanks Cindi and Thanks Dad.