Middle America's Worldview

Criminy the weekend is flying. Friday was not too bad of a day in regards to work. It was a quiteness prior of next week's coming. We will be down to 3 working in our group. One is going on vacation and I get to test her projects in her absence. So she gave me the low-down Friday in regards of contacts, place of testing, ect.

My CIO contacted me Friday as well. She received my request to discuss Thursday and had some time. I was able to convey to her my perception of what was going on. It wasn't easy but it was needed. She was very receptive and evidently she also seen some things she was concerned about ( yeah, perhaps the fact she hasn't hit a 5 day week yet ) and spoke to her on it. Evidently she ( the peer ) will be back to work on Monday. Guess we will see. Since she was out all week and last Friday, next weeks support has been split up between the 3 of the remaining team. I have Tuesday and Friday for support.

On Friday night we didnt rent any movies or anything. In fact I cannot recall what we even watched. We spent the evening taking the kids to the first 4H meeting (I ended up entertaining 6 kids on the side while my wife got the low-down) and then to Gymnastics. Only one more week of gymnastics and I think we will be done with that round of experience. Since there was an 1 hr and half between, we ate out at a place known as 'The Barn'. A buffet of fish, chicken, shrimp, ect. It's always good but I get a cotton mouth afterwards. Must be due to the salt on the fish. It all tastes homemade and is ran by an old friend of my wifes and her parents.

Saturday, I managed to finish up on the PTA website by adding a couple more pages. Kell's Dad came by and picked the kids up to hang with him during the day, since her parents hadn't been able to see them all week. This allowed Kelli and I to get our PTA stuff organized, partly ready for our first meeting this Monday night, and paint some of neighbor's walls, ect.

Saturday evening, we went to her parents house and had some smoked ribs, chicken, tenderloin, with baked beans. There is a couple of guys that comes in town every other weekend and smokes meat throughout the weekend. Talk about good. Man, not only can you smell that good smoke smell for a block away but everything we have tried taste excemptionally well. The guys are making money hand over fist with it. They literally cannot keep up with the demand. The have a huge smoker planted on a trailer bed that they pull into a local grocery store. You can see them pushing a cart of rack of ribs, whole chickens, pork chops, tenerdloins,brisket, ect. smoking them till they run out. This is what we had Saturday night. I also had a good talk with her Dad and we enjoyed their company. Our daughter ended up spending the night and our son came home with us, not wanting to spend the night. Which totally amazed me, because both kids normally always want to stay there. While I was over there, I also setup their speakers and installed the kids games on their P.C. ( Just seem not to ever get away from this contraption.) Later that night, while at home our neighbor brought over 'Kill Bill, Volume 2' for me to watch. I thought it was better than the first one. It's a conclusion of the Volume 1. I enjoyed seeing David Carradine playing in a movie again. I hadn't seen him since the new KungFu series was attempted ( the one where his cop son was from the Shaolin Temple ). Its been awhile since it was on.

I was listening to a new talk show on the A.M radio that I hadn't heard before, called 'The Rusty Humphries Show'. His website is Talk to Rusty. Com. He had John Kerry's Citations on it that was interesting. I printed this off to give to Kell's Dad to look at. He was in the service for quite sometime and knows it more than I could. I look forward to his feedback.

I am planning to watch the DeadZone special 2 hour Season Finale, tonight. Also for those Farscape Fans, I seen the season 3 box set is coming on sale in the Best Buys Sunday Paper for 95 bucks. All 22 episodes in it.[sigh]