No one will get the title for this post. It was something that one of the guys in my boot camp company used to say. I tend to be something of a non sequitur at times, but I was originally just going to post a quick link. More about that later.
About a year ago, I posted how I had lost the spiritlurkers.com domain due to a billing snafu. Today I am glad to announce that I have regained the domain name and have it pointed back at my site. The site is extremely broken right now, but I will be working on it over the next few weeks off and on.
I gave the neighborhood a good show this morning getting into and out of the garage. During the -22 windchill nights of the last week, the spring for the garage door snapped, so it takes a monumental effort to open and close the door. My back just cannot take any more attempts. In a fit or retribution after getting hit on the top of the head for the second time, I broke out one of the windows in the garage door earlier this week. Today I climbed in through this window to investigate whether I could fix the door.
In order to do this, I had to get up on the deck chair and squeeze through to my waist. I then had to pivot with my hips on the sill so that my head inside the garage was down while my feet outside were now up in the air. Using my hands to walk forward on the garage door I eventually was able to wriggle in. This whole process was repeated in reverse to get back out. With any luck, no one actually witnessed my break in.
Part of the reason I was out in the garage was to look over the mash tun I built and get some measures. I ended up getting 2 turkey fryers for Christmas. Between these and the mash tun I made, I am going build a three-tier brew sculpture. This is why the measures were so vital!
It's pretty icy out and I am enjoying the fire, which was built using boxes/trash from the unwrapfest and wood gathered from my foray into the garage. Hope you all are safe and warm tonight.
Oh yeah, here's the link about our Christmas that was the reason I started this post in the first place.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas
It's Christmas today, so merriness and blessings to you all out there. We had our annual unwrapfest this morning, but more about that later.
This fall I have not blogged much at all. I didn't even attempt NaNoWriMo. It's been really tough around here. After Heidi's strokes in October, she has had a series of hospitalizations due to her continued poor health. She has been diagnosed with coronary and renal artery diseases. Her blood pressure had been going through the roof and her EKGs had been becoming more irregular. Finally almost 2 weeks ago they put a stint in one of her coronary arteries. This seems to have given her a boost in energy. At least she hasn't been getting winded just trying to go upstairs to bed.
This has made things in a stressful house even more so. With Heidi unable to work Christmas was looking pretty bleak. For the first time ever we could not even buy anything for the kids. Luckily there was a church in town that was looking for flood victims to adopt during Christmas. It turned out 2 separate groups had adopted us. The Regina kids and the Chick-Lits. These groups took what was sure to be the worst Christmas and turn it into one of the best ever, especially for the kids. I'm not an overly religious guy, but sometimes prayers are answered.
I don't care about getting stuff. As a man though you feel like a failure if you can't even get your kids a toy for Christmas. Those worries are all over though now. My kids got electric guitars, doll houses, video games and pretty much everything they wanted. My mom really made my daughter's day by giving her an American Girl doll (that has a hockey jersey, stick and puck) of her own to carry around. She's just beaming.
Grandma actually got to see us in our early morning bleariness via webcam this morning. It was pretty cool actually that she could sit there in Vermont, but also be in our living room here in Iowa.
This year has been a real trial, but today sure helped put a better spin to it. I hope you all have a happy, healthy Christmas and New Year.
This fall I have not blogged much at all. I didn't even attempt NaNoWriMo. It's been really tough around here. After Heidi's strokes in October, she has had a series of hospitalizations due to her continued poor health. She has been diagnosed with coronary and renal artery diseases. Her blood pressure had been going through the roof and her EKGs had been becoming more irregular. Finally almost 2 weeks ago they put a stint in one of her coronary arteries. This seems to have given her a boost in energy. At least she hasn't been getting winded just trying to go upstairs to bed.
This has made things in a stressful house even more so. With Heidi unable to work Christmas was looking pretty bleak. For the first time ever we could not even buy anything for the kids. Luckily there was a church in town that was looking for flood victims to adopt during Christmas. It turned out 2 separate groups had adopted us. The Regina kids and the Chick-Lits. These groups took what was sure to be the worst Christmas and turn it into one of the best ever, especially for the kids. I'm not an overly religious guy, but sometimes prayers are answered.
I don't care about getting stuff. As a man though you feel like a failure if you can't even get your kids a toy for Christmas. Those worries are all over though now. My kids got electric guitars, doll houses, video games and pretty much everything they wanted. My mom really made my daughter's day by giving her an American Girl doll (that has a hockey jersey, stick and puck) of her own to carry around. She's just beaming.
Grandma actually got to see us in our early morning bleariness via webcam this morning. It was pretty cool actually that she could sit there in Vermont, but also be in our living room here in Iowa.
This year has been a real trial, but today sure helped put a better spin to it. I hope you all have a happy, healthy Christmas and New Year.
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