Not much going on tonight. I should probably go to bed soon. I was up very late last night as I left work at 12:30am along with a couple of co-workers I’d stayed behind to help get a project out of a ditch for. Was a very long day such that it was hard to make it to work this morning. We had to do a little more with that same project and then the rest of my day was full of odds and ends tasks. Had lunch with Melanie … Continue reading

Celebrated my grandmother’s 91st birthday on Saturday. Her birthday was actually yesterday (the 8th), but our family gathering was Saturday. Had some great aunts and uncles there and a few distant cousins. Only a couple of my first cousins were there, Tim, with his wife, Beth, and their 11 month old, Perry. Brian and his girlfriend, Kelly, came as well. Got to watch my dad and his brothers play basketball together behind the church hall we were using. Brian joined them but didn’t do much better than I would have. … Continue reading

I haven’t posted anything in quite awhile. The time I normally used to post messages has been taken up e-mailing a new friend, Melanie, who I met last night at the Starbucks in the Barnes & Noble in Alpharetta. We talked for hours. I’m sure we were both a little nervous at first meeting in person, but after a bit, it was like we had sat and talked like that for years. Had a great time and hope we have a chance for dinner or something soon.