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I made numerous calls for the PTA today, requesting donations for our silent auction coming in Oct. 9th. A few immediately said yes. I picked them up the afternoon.

I had two conference calls I had to deal with today at work. Both went well. One was a project, we were able to put back on track the other was a follow-up call. I have my stuff done, but the other party still needs to complete their side of it before testing can occur.

I fixed another charge problem for a facility. Seems they were not charging a particular charge for the last month. Looking into it with them and the vendor, seems their Lab IS person made some changes incorrectly. Essentially this is the flow. A result is sent from Vendor A to Vendor B. Vendor B then creates a charge from the result and passes it to us with the result. Well there is a table between Vendor A and Vendor B that was not correct. Thus no charge was sent onto us with the result. At least it's fixed now.

I also managed to deposit more in the PTA fund today, which was also good. My wife picked up, yet another box of returns to go through. I will be glad when this stops to trickle in.

After I ran all over Fort Smith this evening and got home around 6 p.m., I wrestled some with the kids and gave them their showers. Fixing them snacks and later started to wrestle, play with them again, my daughter hurt her arm. She jumped on my back and right over me onto the floor. I was practically on the floor but that didnt stop her. She said she twisted it, bummer. Needless to say we stopped and attended the injured. She was ok as I held her through the rest of the cartoon. Kelli (wife) and I been so busy the past two nights, I guess they feel neglected.

Grandparents luncheon is tomorrow at school and I will be taking the halfday off to assist. I will probably be cleaning the dishes in the back. We plan on giving the school cooks candles and a fundraiser card for their troubles. Kelli asked around and it seems no-one in the past 4-5 years has ever given anything to the cooks. Unbelievable. Well, that will change this year.

I been teasing my buddy the 4H guy. They called us the day before to have our pictures in for the fair. So last night we found out we needed it done and turned in by 3:30 today. Not only was the ball dropped, but they hadn't picked it up yet. I created them some tickets for them to sell the Smoker Grill for the 4H fair. Didn't mind too but, darnit I have to put up with people calling me at work saying I have an issue needing resolved now, even though the issue was from last month/week, ect. I hate it when I have to deal with it at home too. Anyway, I teased him pretty bad about it last night and then later felt bad about it. I hear this evening, I wasn't the only one saying words to him in regards to communication. Bummer, guess I will have to apologize.

Kelli found some of these towelets to 'wipe/clean' the dogs with. Anyone seen these? We have 3 little dogs. Yes, 3. One momma and two sons. One son for each kid and yes each dog loves to sleep with the kids. So rather than me using the excuse of ' I haven't showered the dogs tonight, before its too late' she acquired these to wash them so they can sleep with the kids. Where might you ask does momma dog sleep? Why between Kelli and I of course. Towlets anyone?