Not sleepy

Last night it was pretty tough sleeping as well as I needed to, but I guess they got what they needed, at least that's what Tara said in the morning. I was wired for sound and it was quite the experience. I had 10 to 15 leads coming off me and running to the their stuff. They had audio and video as well. I still managed to sleep. Oh, yeah, they have confirmed that I have apnea and I guess I do actually snore. Who'd a thunk?

For lunch today I took out this year's batch of interns; Beta(IT), Haley Bop(General Office), Andrew (Tool Shop) and Troy Boy (Engineering) (All interns are nick named so that we don't get too attached, they generally leave us after the summer). I guess they wanted to hear my life lessons. As I sat there I thought, right, like I've got life lessons to share. As we talked I pointed out a few things that I have learned and discovered it's been a pretty good ride so far. As I sat there I also realized that I am 30 years older than those interns and so maybe I did have perspective that they could appreciate, who knows. They were probably just glad to stick the old guy with the check.

Our Day at Epcot is going to take a few day to get through the pictures that I really like, so hang in there, eventually, buy fall, I'll move to current events.

At the entrance in front of the big golf ball, the ride/attraction is called Spaceship Earth

In the line to get in to Spaceship Earth


The Boys during the ride

Holly and Bob during the ride

After answering some questions we got our individual futures

Spencer looking at his future self, an animation with his picture put in for the head

This one is my future self, kind a blurry, but you get the idea


It was a cool "attraction" and a great start to the day.

I have a Birthday Shout Out for Holly's Uncle Butch. I don't think he's a regular on this, but you never know. Hey Butch, Hope you have a great birthday!

Have a great day!

Pat

Tuesdays Child is Full of Sleep

I did a presentation with a customer today. Funny how easy that's gotten to be in the years since I got out of college. I did some prep by doing a practice run with a couple of other guys and it went really well when I was with the customer. I remember being in college and having problems getting out a coherent sentence, let alone a 60 minute presentation. With age come many blessings, like not being able to see clearly who's sitting in the audience and not being able to hear very well, so questions don't mess with my timing or delivery. I may not be aging well, but I'm happy.

Tonight I'm going to a sleep study. I have been cramming for this all week, then I finally read the instructions and there's no prep other than no alcohol and I have to bring my own jammies, which must consist of a pair of shorts as a minimum (I think they've had problems in the past). The test is going to once and forever put to rest the theory that I snore or have apnea. Silly Holly seems to think that I do, I'll show her!

Back to our Florida trip, we had a cookout on the Sunday night after we arrived with Jean and Linda. Here's the gang hanging out after an awesome bratwurst dinner.

Linda acting suprised at how many pictures I take

Linda and Holly

Jean just chillin on the couch

Bob having fun

Have a great day!

Pat

Back to work, and juggling again

Before we get going I have a Birthday Shout Out to Larry, my brother in law. Larry's a great guy that my boys love. He's really good with the automotive stuff and one of those crazy entrepreneur types. I really respect those guts. Anyway, here's a few shots from my limited collection.

Teaching Spence to drive the boat

Looking stoic

Larry, I hope your day was all that you wanted.

Work was pretty good, I have to get the projects all moving again, that's the toughest thing about being gone, having to remember all the details that you'd spent the week trying to forget. Oh well, it's a living.

Have a great day!
Pat

Sunday, resting and refreshing

We went to church today and it was good to see our friends. After church and dinner, I went for a ride on the Honda. A friend, Tim, decided it was too hot and humid to ride and so I rode alone, that's OK, it was a great ride. But at the same time, it's hilarious.

You see, last week I rode a Harley for a day, we put over 350 miles on in a single day and the high was about 100 with high humidity.. It was awesome, the motorcycle ride was definitely the highlight of my visit to Florida. We started in Crystal River at the Harley dealership. We is Matt and I, Matt's a friend of Bob's. From Crystal River we rode to Hudson, stopped and had a pop on the coast at a nice little place that was right on the gulf. Next to Dade City then Zeypherhills for lunch. We continued on 50 through Orlando. Not such a good idea to hit the center of Orlando during rush hour. It was near Orlando that the rains came. Not bad and not long, but we did get wet, just as Matt had predicted. We finally cleared out of there and zoomed on to Titusville, for another pop stop, up Hwy 1 to Daytona Beach, we saw some cool bikes on main street, but it was already to dark to stop. We had dinner near Daytona and then back to Ocala on 40, through the Ocala National Forest, lots and lots of deer at 11:30 12:00 PM on that stretch of road.

It was a great trip, lots of miles on the bike, not too much rain, not too much traffic, lots of open rode riding with the stereo cranked and me playing air guitar and there were no freeways used.

Here's a shot of me on the Harley that I rented.

Here's our first stop

Here's Matt on one of our early stops.

Titusville stop

Have a great day!

Pat

Home again!

I have discovered that my laptop will not allow me to post to this blog at all. Tough break, but now you'll get the reflected version of the trip. Bound to be much more thoughtful, more insightful and much deeper. Wow, did you see those girls!!! Just kidding.

Good flight down on Saturday and Bob picked us up at Sanford Airport. We were off. On the way back to Bob's we stopped in Deland at a strip mall Mexican restaurant for dinner. Bound to be bad was all I was thinking. Then came the chips and salsa, wonderful, really zippy, homemade salsa. Dinner was great too. No photos were taken, so we have to move on.

Sunday was a pretty casual day, Holly and I went shopping for Ian's Christmas/Birthday gift. A new laptop was given to the lad, as you can see, it was well received.



I'm intending to ration out the photos and have some material for longer than a day or two.

Have a great day,
Pat

We're outta here!!!

Happy Friday! Happy Vacation! Good Bye Cold Michigan! Hello Warm Florida!


Pretty weird when you figure we're saying this and it's late July. Aren't we supposed to be well into heat? Where are the dog days of summer? I am so tired of being cold on my motorcycle.


Hey, speaking of motorcycles; check out this photo of my Honda and Victor's Honda. I thought that my 750 was in good shape, then I saw Victor's 550. Wow, it is super clean. He's a cool guy with a cool blog that can be located at Victor Sultana or http://www.victorsultana.com/ If nothing else, check out the juice video, very cool.



Anyway, we're off to Florida to visit with Bob and Sue Jean and, who knows who else. I'll take some photos so we have some evidence that we really did go and see some folks.


To those in Florida, give me a call, hit me with an email, whatever, I don't know our agenda day by day, but it is flexible and we can work in something I'm sure.


I'll try to post while down there, otherwise, have an awesome week, I know that we will!
Take Care,
Pat

Photo of the once in awhile

Pretty good day here today. I had a meeting with some one about 45 minutes away and was pretty well caught up on my business calls, so I called my brother for a nice chat. He got me all caught up on the news that worth knowing, Taylor's coming home for a leave, Kelsey is trying to get a teaching gig in Korea, Bryce is doing great with his job, Dave is considering the need of a passport and Judy is probably still wondering what's up with this family.

While Chatting I mentioned my blog and he said that I should consider changing the name to "Photo of the Once in awhile". Not really catchy, but I appreciate his point. Not that I intend to change my behavior, so I must need to rename the blog. I wonder if I can or if it will break everyone's link? Too Techy for me, I guess that decides it, it remains as is.

Anyway, here's what you get for harassing me. Maureen and Dave, looking good!

Also, here's a Birthday Shout Out to Jeff! Here he is with his lady, Jean. Great seeing you this summer, hope it's all well on the way back south.

Have a great day!

Pat