Middle America's Worldview

It was hard and busy last week. Essentially we had to get to Enid, Oklahoma for a new ordering system to be installed.

We made it there Sunday evening fine. Monday morning I hit the hospital as if on a regular schedule. Unfortunately, I didn't receive a quote, unquote time schedule, so it was a come in and be told how long to stay per day. One day, I was there nearly 20 hours straight. It sucked but hey this is a live.

Needless to say it was a weary week. Compound this on Wednesday night to find out I had to work on my dedicated travel day, did not set well. But alas, we worked through it.

We drove straight to Fort Worth, Texas early Thursday morning. It was about a 5 hour drive from Enid. I had to basically jack in and work the remaining day.

The Friday, I worked from the hotel, as I did the remaining of Thursday. I kept my regular hours on that day.

Friday night was quaility time with my wife. Some of Kel's friends watched the kids as she and I hit a fancy place called Texas De Brazil. I never been to a place like this one. The food was to die for. I was so stuffed, it wasn't funny. I thought it was cool. They had these simple circle green/red cards. You would flip it over to the green side if you wanted them to bring you the meats on skewers. Place it on red, when you had enough. You could easily had a feast on the salad bar alone. Afterwards, we simply walked the mall near the hotel as well as some bookstores. Ahh the simple things in life.

Saturday it was our turn to watch the kids. We took them to Chuckie Cheese (blah) to burn some energy off. On the way, we hit a new store (new to us) called Mardel. Man, I could spend some money in there. We acquired 2 christmas gifts there for the kids. Among other things.

Sunday we left for home later than I wanted too. After being away from home for a week, with or without the family, I simply want to get home. On the way, I was fortunate to be able to listen to "Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace" CD's. Simply put, they are awesome.

Now I find myself home, Monday morning. I have already mowed mine and the neighbor's yard. Made my necessary calls and followed up with work. Yeah, all that before 11 a.m. local time.

I still need to get some work done, some house stuff before I take the kids to speech this evening. I better stop blogging and get back to work. Later.