I call this blog "the birthday month" because for whatever reason, there are quite a few birthdays this month that I know of. I will start off with mine, being on the fourth. My step father’s birthday is the same day as well. That gets cooler to me every year. Then both my parents, one of the 14th and the other on the 31st. I got a couple of cousins as well. I also have a lot of friends that are in May as well. To me, I always think of May as the birthday month.
Enough of birthdays, it’s been a little while since I last wrote. I have been working on the website a bit and its coming pretty good so far. Then I started getting back into reading. I am excited about this because I wanted to get back into reading since I came here, but I just always didn’t seem to do it. I needed to go back and finish this book I started a couple of years ago, and I did just that this last week. I feel pretty good about that. I hope to continue reading more.
Work has been going good lately. This past week, Francie and I went to New Oxford, PA to install three new PC’s in the southern PA District office. We finished up everything we wanted to accomplish, but it took a lot longer then we expected. We went Tuesday, hoping to finish up by noon. We didn’t get done until Wednesday afternoon. The week started off like that. We had to install a new PC for one of the employees here at the center on Monday. I thought it was going to be few minute job, but Francie and I had issues with this badge printer and it ended up taking up most of the day. This week was a good work week because we were busy, but some of the jobs should have been done a lot sooner than expected. The one good thing about all this is that I had learned about what to expect when being a little over confident in my timing. I think that is what it was, over confident.
The volunteers for the month of April had left this week as well. Tom and Maryellen Flory, and Dean and his wife Gloria served as hosts in the Windsor and Old Main buildings. It was a pleasure getting to know them. These couples were first time hosts and they are looking forward to returning next year. I had a good time playing games with them and being able to enjoy their company during breakfast and lunch. Today at breakfast was pretty cool. Larry and Alice Petry stopped by for a little bit before heading to Washington, DC. I thought it was great to see them. They, along with Dean and Gloria, and Jan and Roma Thompson, who were here signing their new book they wrote about the center, sang “Happy Birthday” to me since they weren’t going to see me on Monday. I thought that was great. I haven’t had someone sing happy birthday to me in years. So this was something I won’t soon forget.
A couple of weeks ago, I got in touch with Dan McFadden, the BVS director about my next project. I told him that I was interested in Trees for Life project in Wichita, Kansas. I haven’t heard anything yet, but I look forward to hearing something in the next few weeks.
Man, it seems like I haven’t talked to anyone back home in while. The only exception to that was my Grandmother, who I called on her 84th birthday this past Sunday. I think I will try to do better job on keeping up with the communication for my loved ones back in Cali.
Well that was my past couple of weeks. Be back real soon.
Enough of birthdays, it’s been a little while since I last wrote. I have been working on the website a bit and its coming pretty good so far. Then I started getting back into reading. I am excited about this because I wanted to get back into reading since I came here, but I just always didn’t seem to do it. I needed to go back and finish this book I started a couple of years ago, and I did just that this last week. I feel pretty good about that. I hope to continue reading more.
Work has been going good lately. This past week, Francie and I went to New Oxford, PA to install three new PC’s in the southern PA District office. We finished up everything we wanted to accomplish, but it took a lot longer then we expected. We went Tuesday, hoping to finish up by noon. We didn’t get done until Wednesday afternoon. The week started off like that. We had to install a new PC for one of the employees here at the center on Monday. I thought it was going to be few minute job, but Francie and I had issues with this badge printer and it ended up taking up most of the day. This week was a good work week because we were busy, but some of the jobs should have been done a lot sooner than expected. The one good thing about all this is that I had learned about what to expect when being a little over confident in my timing. I think that is what it was, over confident.
The volunteers for the month of April had left this week as well. Tom and Maryellen Flory, and Dean and his wife Gloria served as hosts in the Windsor and Old Main buildings. It was a pleasure getting to know them. These couples were first time hosts and they are looking forward to returning next year. I had a good time playing games with them and being able to enjoy their company during breakfast and lunch. Today at breakfast was pretty cool. Larry and Alice Petry stopped by for a little bit before heading to Washington, DC. I thought it was great to see them. They, along with Dean and Gloria, and Jan and Roma Thompson, who were here signing their new book they wrote about the center, sang “Happy Birthday” to me since they weren’t going to see me on Monday. I thought that was great. I haven’t had someone sing happy birthday to me in years. So this was something I won’t soon forget.
A couple of weeks ago, I got in touch with Dan McFadden, the BVS director about my next project. I told him that I was interested in Trees for Life project in Wichita, Kansas. I haven’t heard anything yet, but I look forward to hearing something in the next few weeks.
Man, it seems like I haven’t talked to anyone back home in while. The only exception to that was my Grandmother, who I called on her 84th birthday this past Sunday. I think I will try to do better job on keeping up with the communication for my loved ones back in Cali.
Well that was my past couple of weeks. Be back real soon.
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