Brent’s Thoughts

Yeah so it is a busy time of year and I have been working with less than optimal conditions so excuse me for not posting much. Smile

Well a few peices of bad news to start with.

First DSL is not available at the new house. It could be someday, but for right now it isn’t. I am too far from the POP, but they are talking like they are going to upgrade something to get it out in that area someday.

I did get the directtv switched out with the DISHTV dishes that were on the house, so now we have TV to watch. I did that right after the big ice storm that we had here, so that was a real treat trying to work with the equipment while it was covered with ice.

I have no network wiring in the new house so right now the xbox has to sit right next to my main computer or you can’t watch movies on it. Hopefully, now that the ice has pretty much melted away, I can get something done with all of that.

Water pressure at the house seems to leave something to be desired. Of course, I kinda got used to the immense pressure that we had at the SG Trailer.

So yeah it snowed a bit here last Thursday. The bad part is that before it did, it rained a bunch and froze. So we had a ton of ice on stuff and it really screwed up our ability to get more stuff moved into the house. With no TV stations and no internet, I really felt kinda cut off from everything that was happening. It was pretty crazy.

By the time Xmas rolled around it has broken up just enough that we could leave and head over to the farm for Xmas. They pretty much got nothing over there. Xmas was great. I got to spend some time with everyone and just hang out. Not much of anything to do and lots of fun to just play games and chill.

The good times continued when we got home, since maxx and Paayal stayed with us for the next couple of days. I think they had a good time and I know that Pauline and I did. It was nice to have some time to hang out and not have an agenda or anything to accomplish. Just time to spend with maxx and her. We played several games of Monopoly Party, Rook, and a couple games of Clue. maxx and I also spent some time playing Burnout 3 and generally yelling at the screen and stuff.

Now it is back to work and install goofy programs that people buy, but don’t take the time to find out how long they take to setup and install.

So Mom agreed to enter their new house into a parade of homes in Burkesville for Christmas. I think the proceeds are to go to a scholarship. She had been working on getting the house decorated for several weeks now and on Saturday she thought she could work all day and be ready.

Instead she was woken up by Dad to the tune of Stacey having seizures again. So she had to spend Saturday in the hospital with her. When she called me to tell me about it, I was in the middle of running a swim meet for Bowling Green High School and couldn’t leave. So I told her that P and I would be over there Sunday morning to help her.

We got over there about 7:30-8:00. We dropped some stuff off at the house and then went to see Stacey at the hospital. She seemed pretty groggy but I thought it looked about like she was normally when she was them. Mom decided to ride back with us and see if we could finish the house up before it was time for the people to show up. We worked pretty steady until about 12:30 and got everything ready. I went back to the hospital to take dad a sandwich and stuff. Stacey was looking a lot better. We ended up talking about stuff and I realized that it was after 1:00 when people were supposed to start showing up to look at the house. I called Mom and she said that they had about 10 people in the house and no one from the homemakers group had showed up to help her and P.

So I headed back to the house to help. By the time that I got there a few people had shown up to help them and things were moving along pretty good. One lady accidentally spilt some candle wax down a wall at one point, but the lady, Virginia, that runs the florist shop in Burkesville had come to help and she used the “Warm Iron and Brown Paper shack” trick to get it off. It cleaned up really well and I don’t think anyone really knew too much.

Mom and P sold over $100 of the “glass block, Xmas lights, ribbon and bow” decorations to people that were walking through and liked them.

Toward the end of the night things started to settle down a little and I was talking to a couple of the older ladies about my relatives and stuff. We were in the middle of talking about something and one of the ladies hurriedly excused herself and left. I thought was kinda odd until like 2 seconds later when a huge foul smell wafted through the room. She had dropped an F-Bomb and beat a hasty retreat. Smile

Things turned out pretty good though and we had well over 65 people go through the house.

I snapped some pictures of the decorations and put them here:
http://www.brentnorris.net/gallery/farm_xmas/

By the end of the night Stacey was sitting up and eating and stuff at the hospital so I think she is ok too.