Musings

Looking forward to a return trip to BG this coming weekend. I know, I know, its Monday, but its hard no to look forward to Friday when I'll be meeting my nephew for the first time. The whole family will be together for an early Thanksgiving, and get this: we will be populating my parents' 3-bdr house with ten people this weekend. Three of which are under the age of 15 months. By Sunday we will all be grouchy and cranky from lack of sleep, which is when the true meaning of family comes out. Right? Tim is even skipping the home OSU football game to come. What a guy!

I wish I had more interesting posts (a la Edwards or Manahan or Wags or anyone else) but the bottom line is that my life outside of work (which is also boring) is 99% taking care of babies. The other 1% (from this weekend) was devoted to sweeping my chimney, buying a shop-vac, and attempting to make a window screen.

Come to think of it, I've acquired a good number of skills out of general home maintenance. Let's see... I've been a painter, a plumber (removing a sink, snaking a drain), chimney sweeper, a carpenter (built a bookshelf), a demolition man (removing a workbench and cabinets), a general contractor (adding moulding to two rooms, patching holes in wall from demolition), a landscaper (mowing, trimming, and edging), a gardener (planting, weeding, and watering), an auto mechanic (replacing my car's distributor), and probably some others that I'm forgetting. I am not boasting about these things, but rather am listing them to show you a window into what I do with the 1% of free time available to me on weekends. Justin pitches his scripts. Mr. Edwards lectures on C.S. Lewis. I make a screen. And the world keeps turning.