It's been a while..........

I know that I haven't been around lately, but things are going well with the family and work is actually real good. We went to Vail, CO back in January on my company. Besides my meetings, Jenn had a full day spa and massage, we went dogsledding and snowmobiling. I prefered the snowmobiling. The views were awesome at 12,000 feet! Then last month I was in Germany for two days (all meetings, very little fun). I did get to fly business class though..........that was cool.

I did have something strange happen to me the other day. My friend asked me if I wanted to fill in for someone in his dodgeball tournemant. After I stopped laughing, I did it. Jenn (lovingly) told me I was too old to play and that I would get hurt. This only made me want to do it more. Needless to say, I'm sore as hell today and nothing is broken. It's not as easy as I remember from 1983.

On a non-related note, I want to congratulate the NY Giants for taking out New England! Also, I always liked Joe Girardi, but he needs to be consistant when talking about "dirty plays" during spring training.

Mr. Mom - The Sequel

So we're back from S.C. and all I have to say is thank God for the DVD player! It was nice to see everyone.

Again, I'm sorry that I haven't been posting or getting to to may of your blogs, but I was laid off from my job just before we left for South Carolina. I've been home with my daughter during the day and have spent most of my free time talking to recuiters and applying for jobs. I guess I should have known that when a small company called me out of the blue six months ago to come and work for them (more money and closer to home) that it was too good to be true. I was told they were looking to change and grow by the VP in the interview, but when he "quit", things slowly went back to the way they were and over the next three months, most people he hired were also let go.

I will do my best to check in when I can. For now, I'm not sure how much I'll be posting since I have other things I have to take care of. (like upgrading the electric in the house; "220, 221.......whatever it takes")

ROAD TRIP!

Jenn, Allie and I are driving down to South Carolina to visit my Dad, Step Mother and grandmother. My little sister that lives down there just had her second baby a few weeks ago, so this trip works out perfectly. We bought a dual screen portable DVD player for the car so my daughter Allie can watch Elmo while I drive the 780 miles over two days (and my wife can play games). I'd normally do the drive in one day, but she'd never make it.

I'm sorry that I haven't been by to many of your blogs in the past week or so. Things have been crazy over here in the Maniacal houshold. I'll explain when I have more time. We'll see you when we get back.

......back to work we go *sigh*

So we're back from out trip to Ocean City, MD and we had a great time. It started off with lots of traffic on the NJ Turnpike. Some asshole got into an accident near Great Adventure (Six Flags) and caused 10 miles of this crap! Of course with us barely moving, Allie woke up and our friend Tara had to entertain her for over three hours in the car (thanks Tara!).


Once we got there it was really nice. Our condo was right on the beach.

We enjoyed watching Allie experience the beach for the first time.

We hung out at the bar, played cards, boogie boarded, and went to dinner on the boardwalk. We never did get to play golf.............Tropical Storm Alberto has other ideas for us the day we had it planned. I had to settle for mini golf the last day.

As always, it was way too short. Can we go back?

Hi-ho, Hi-ho.......

............it's off on vacation we go. *whistles*

So I won't be posting for a week or so while my wife and I take a vacation with our daughter and some friends. No we're not going to Wally World.............but we're going to Ocean City, MD. Never been before, so it should be cool. We rented some condo's with a great view of the ocean. Hopefully Allie will sleep most of the way down in the car. Gonna play golf for the first time in at least four years, so I'm going to suck royally. I'm gonna sound like this most of the time.

Anyway, enjoy your week and I'll hopefully have some good stories when I return.