enjoy the second quarter of 2008 by having one new and fulfilling experience in April, May, and June. Woo Hoo!

I found this very appropriate and fullfilling in the Count your blessings department!

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2008/sb20080627_027663.htm?campaign_id=rss_smlbz

I have grown rather fond of the m&m’s commercials the last several years. I love the adamas family one! Anyways here is a story that caught my attention.

Kindof funny!
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20080623/NEWS-MARS-NAKEDCOWBOY-DC/

He is getting it pretty fast now! :)

I love the Radio Mystery theater. Although I allready had all of these on mp3 this is a great site for those looking.

http://www.mysteryshows.com/CBS-Radio-Mystery-Theater/index.php

Very fullfilling! takes me back to childhood sneaking with small transister radio inder the covers because it came on teh radio late at night (10)  :)

Rode in to work friday n bicycle. Had to leave home at 04:20 (The “O” is for O my Gosd its Early) I usually get up at 4:30 and off to work at 5:30. The ride in was great… not much traffic at all. Ride home at 17:00 was different story… lots of traffic. The round trip was 44.86 miles and time in the saddle of 3:10:51.
Want to do it 2 ro 3 times a week. This will really help with my cycling goals and will also at this point save me $7.50 a day in gas alone.
Heres to a great summer! :)

Had a swollen ankle this morning. Was not a horrible one but definately uncomfortable. On way home from work went to the pediatrist and he set me up with anti inflamatory and an injection at the site. Sounds bad and it definately hurts when he is injecting but oh what wonderful stuff! Feels almost like new right now!
Getting old blows! :)

I know some might be getting tired of my entries about this. Its on my mind a lot I guess as this has really hit me hard.
I found out something today that makes me laugh! As I have been writing lately about my Friend Walt who passed away last Sunday. We worked together for many years. Well at our workplace if you were sick you would call in the morning when you were suppose to be there and let your boss know you were not coming in and to put you down for sick leave. Sometimes you would just relay that message through whoever answered the phone.
Well someone told me that Walt last week, literally a few days before his death,from his phone at the hospice, called in sick. No doubt it was his insatiable sense of humor, that even in his last hours of this life he was laughing and joking around! This makes me laugh but it also gives me that sting again of sorrow that I miss my friend.
Here’s to life and a life abundant!

Hmmm? Calling in sick now that’s an idea… :)

I have worked Aircraft maintenance for the Colorado Air National Guard for some 21 plus years now. In the early 90’s as a full time technician with this fine organization we went through a time were literally not many people left. We had a good 10 years in there that mostly the core group of people remained the same. We worked together and went on Temporary duty assignments all over the US and world together. Involved in Real world contingencies including most recently Operation Iraqi freedom. When you think about it we spent more time together than we did with our own families. In a way we were family. I used to say jokingly a very dysfunctional family but regardless family. When you are in this situation you grow close. There were different personalities and different beliefs and all of that but there was no doubt that we cared and were there for one another.
Today I went to the funeral of a Dear Friend that I worked with for many of those wonderful years. Walt was his name and I will miss him very much. As with most funerals there are many emotions that go through you. For me, seeing and sitting with many of the people I had worked with over the years was a trip down memory lane. It took me back to those years when we were together for so long. Some of these people I still work with but they have moved on to supervisor positions and the like, so we don’t work side by side like we once did. Many have moved on and retired from the military to pursue other careers. Many have retired to leisurely days of honey do lists, travel and the like.
Literally on one hand I think I can count the remaining people that work on the flight line were I started. I have moved on as well and work in the Quality Assurance Office.
While it was really good to see them it was also a reminder that those days are now gone and even more so with the lose of our dear friend Walt! Those days are now relegated to the past and while good memories, made me desire them once again and saddened me to realize they were gone forever. That is how time is; it moves on! Life goes on and new generations of young people I now watch doing the work I used to do. It is indeed humbling.
I am so grateful that this situation as it occured, allowed us a chance to say goodbye before he passed away. As Walt said and we all would agree it was a gift. A bittersweet gift of a brief moment in time to say we love you and goodbye!
I love you too Walt and I am going to miss you!

I got to say goodbye today to a friend. His name is Walt and we worked together for about 18 years give or take. In many ways we grew up together in our careers and with our families.
I remember when he and his wife were expecting their 4th child about the same time we were expecting our 1st. I would tease him about starting a baseball team etc. Well I guess that is kind of ironic now that we have five. I got to talk with him about good memories and the good times we had together at different locations all over the world.
It was very bittersweet. You see Walt has Cancer and this last week was told that he had about two weeks to live. He was very open and transparent with his situation. While we enjoyed a time of sharing and seeing one another along with about 20 or 30 other of his former work buddies, we also had some time to talk in a very frank and serious manner about how thankful we were to be able to say goodbye.
Tears were shed all around and we all were able to say goodbye to our friend! As many of us are, Walt is a Christian and he also was not afraid to share with everyone what that meant to him!
Saying goodbye has always been difficult for me. This one is especially difficult but I am indeed thankful that I have had this opportunity.

My Baby William is crawling!