Too much of something, anyway.

A lot has happened since my birthday a month ago.

On June 15th, a thunderstorm blew through our area.  A microburst occurred in our neighborhood.  Two houses were damaged.  One of them was ours.  We had 2 trees toppled,  One smashed into the corner of the garage roof and (pardon the expression) hit the deck, driving it about 3″ deeper into the ground.  The other, larger tree landed on the garage roof.  Insurance is paying to replace the deck and the entire roof structure of the garage.  We are about 1/3 through the project (I hope that’s right!).

At work we are servicing a customer that already has a number of machines and are paying (and assisting us) to update and modify them to run some new products.  I must remain vague, unfortunately.  I have been swamped, working between 55 and 60 hours each week.  At least the pay’s good!

In the middle of all of this, I have to leave for England soon for a service trip that I have been postponing since April.  The aforementioned customer is not very happy that I am “abandoning them” in the midst of their big project, but this has to be done too, and this is a good time for me to pause and do something different.

I’m sure there’s more, and I will update this as I remember.

But I saved the best for last:  on July 7th we celebrated our 31st anniversary.  I love my wife very much, and I hope she can stomach at least 31 more miserable years with me around.  I love you, Lori!!!

There.  I think the wheel in the cage has coasted long enough.  Time to start running in circles again!