OK, time to whip out a couple hundred words and then take care of at least responsibility that I’ve been dodging most of the afternoon – I have clean clothes to get put away. 

I’ll admit, I was fairly productive. Got three or four loads of laundry done earlier in the day, and separated all of the clothes base don their respective destinations. 

Lisa is exhausted, and I’m hoping I can get this cranked out before she gets up and walks into our bedroom only to see my clean clothes splayed all over our bed. Yeah, that’s why I need to get this done and get my butt to work getting that stuff put away. 

Watched some sports today, the highlights being the Army-Navy game (great game, Army wins their third in a row), and then Kansas hosted News Mexico State at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. This is not Allen Field House… the Sprint Center has not been kind to Kansas over the past few years. Tonight, we got lucky though. Nothing was dropping from three point range, but thankfully our guys muscled up and got things done inside. 

Well, that’s the way the day went. Nothing else much to add. 

Peace y’all. 

Whoa, almost typed that title wrong and made myself a hundred days older. 

It’s Friday night! And we’re about as exciting around here as any other pair of fifty-five year olds as you’re likely to see in rural Douglas County. 

We’re not very exciting. Lisa is playing a game on her phone, ostracized from her recliner for a few more days until we get a new power supply in so she can power recline in style. 

Tomorrow, more of the same. Girls have finals all next week (crazy to think Bonnie has only one more semester!). Dane is focusing on getting his GPA up in an effort to qualify for some other scholarships. Lisa has her students to worry about. I might be the one getting off the hook easy, as the only thing I have to worry about is getting ready for some new Microsoft classes. 

About time to throw another log on the fire. 

Dane’s new system seems to be adequate for his needs. He’s back playing some games online with his friends. 

Back to the drawing boards tomorrow. I’ve got a few things I need to get down on paper, between my plans for the room out in the barn and my workbench. 

That’s enough for now. Have a great evening. 

Peace y’all.

Hey gang! It’s the old man again, on a bright, lightly-clouded night on this, the 6th evening in December, in the year 2018. 

Made a pulled-pork dish tonight in the Instant Pot. I don’t know what the status is of Canadian pressure-cookers in your day and age, but in this day and age, they rock. 

I have to admit, days get a little nuts around here when we already have Lucy and Freya at the house, and then, Colby, master of chaos, comes over as well. Things are pretty cool with the two dogs, but that third dog just takes things to another level. 

I have my Office 365 courses to look over, and I also need to make a run to the office to get my stuff packed up. I need to get my locker cleaned out and grab a couple of other items before this move takes place. 

It’s almost nine o’clock, but it feels so much later. That’s what I get for getting up at a decent time in the morning. 

I’m thinking another piece of cheesecake wouldn’t hurt, right?

I need to think about Christmas a little more. Lisa has taken care of so much of it. I need to get my stuff taken care of. 

That’s about all I have for tonight. I hope you have a great day,  and are having a nice Christmas season… but I have no idea when you are reading these… it might be Christmas to you, or you might be reading this in the spring for all I know. 

Regardless, I hope all is well in your world. 

Peace y’all. 

Sorry! I was formulating my initial sentence, then a thought popped into my head, and I didn’t start typing until several moments after I intended to. 

I hope I didn’t inconvenience you. 

Time. Relativistic time. I pause, I think, I record, but the time that I take to compose this sentence is lost other than the amount of time it takes for you to read the sentence in your real time. 

There’s probably something real deep right out of a Stephen Hawking book, but that’s not where my brain is tonight. 

Did my thing today with my webinar. I think it went well. I think the powers that be will happy with the way it went. I’m not going to say things went perfect, but I think there’s something nice and organic about things not going 100% smooth.  Powershell commandlets don’t run the first time every time, right?

In other news, no other news. Lisa is working into the evening, and Bonnie just came home to get out of her schol hall get a little more productive. 

Tomorrow, I dive back into the new curriculum heading my come the new year. Every major Office 365 course is being phased out, the same thing goes for the Azure classes I’ve been teaching a well. Lots of new one-day classes going on the schedule.  It’s going to be some work. 

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got to go with for now.

Peace y’all. 

Hey gang! It’s the old man here, coming to you live and coherent on a Tuesday night in early December, 21 days before Christmas. 

That reminds me. I should do some Christmas shopping. 

I’ll have some time. My class for next week just cancelled. 

Tomorrow I’ve got a webinar, kind if the last thing a coworker arranged with me before she left for brighter horizons and more responsibility.  I won’t let her down on her way out the door. She was a friend at work, and I’m sure we’ll continue to be friends on social media, maybe even a lunch every now and then. 

Now I’m starting to think more about Christmas. 21 days isn’t that much time. 

Thursday and Friday, next week, much of that time will be devoted to working on some new classes. Many of my current classes on Azure and Office 365 are being retired and replaced with a diverse array of one day classes. This is going to get weird. 

I should get to bed in good time tonight. Gotta get up and get going in anticipation of  webinar. 

Shampoo commercials can get weird. 

Time for the dessert round on “Chopped”. I’m going to kick back and watch what these chefs can throw together with several oddball components. 

Peace y’all. 

Hey gang, it’s been a Monday around here… at least my casserole turned out. 

Seriously, I’ve got a 45-60 minute webinar on Wednesday, and I’ve been putting a day into it. I’ll feel a lot better about it after I get the whole thing over with. 

My enthusiasm for writing tonight isn’t at a peak. I’m tired, and I’m looking forward to having a glass of milk and a few cookies… Pepperidge Farm Sausolito’s.  I’ve got a weakness for that particular cookie. 

So the pursuit of two hundred words begins, this free flow of thought to pursue a simple pledge, all while watching Jimmy Stewart become George Bailey, and Lionel Barrymore just being evil. 

I wonder how close Barrymore was like in real live to the Potter character he played in that classic movie. 

More stream of thought rattling out of my cranial unit. I can’t help but wonder now how close I am to fulfilling my pledge. 

Some days I’m more than ready to throw myself into the writing. Sorry, gang, tonight isn’t one of those nights. 

I’ll get up early in the morning and head into work. I’ve got an Exchange 2019 deployment to look into, and maybe that’s part of my distraction this evening. It does seem rather natural to be distracted, and that’s the excuse I’m going to throw out there. 

In the meantime…

Peace y’all. 

It’s a cool, crisp Sunday evening in rural Douglas County. My lovely bride has been doing Christmas stuff with the daughters all afternoon, while I braved the downstairs living room to watch the Chiefs-Raiders game while Dane worked on setting up his new computer in the background. 

My lap served as a perch for several dogs throughout the course of the day, with Freya, Lucy, and Colby each taking their turn. 

The main thing for me is that the Chiefs won, and moved to 10-2, inching closer to another AFC West Championship, and, hopefully, home field advantage through the playoffs. 

Also hoping Eric Berry is able to return sooner rather than later. 

Tomorrow, I’ll keep busy working on my presentation for Wednesday, and looking at the other content I need to stay on top of. Lots of new things coming down the line for me to pay attention to. 

There’s always something. 

As time permits, I’ll get out to the barn to work on some things, like my workbenches and a few other organizational steps that have to be taken to make the garage functional and practical for the uses I have planned. 

It’s hard to believe it’s December 2nd already.  We’re about 6 weeks away from completing our first year here at the new place. Might be about time to stop calling this the new place. 

That’s about all I’ve got for today. Time to stick my nose back into the books and the research, for work and pleasure. 

Peace y’all.

What’s shakin’?
I’m getting into the information gathering process for a webinar I’m going on Wednesday of this coming week, and I do like the opportunity to shw off some of the new features in a new or updated product.

So, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer. I teach people how to work with some of the server and cloud based tools that come from Microsoft. I’ve been doing this for 23 years this past August. 

One topic that I have enjoyed learning about is the email product, Microsoft Exchange. I’ve had a role in a number of books on the subject, and I’m looking forward to getting more familiar with this version. 

Other than that, it’s been a pretty mundane Saturday around here. Picking up the house a bit, doing some laundry, watching a few games on TV, including an overtime victory for Kansas over Stanford. 

Right now I’m watching the Mountain West Championship. There are bigger games on (Ohio State v. Northwestern), but this matchup between Boise State and Fresno State on the blue turf of BSU is a lot of fun to watch. They’ve got snow coming down at a pretty good clip, and that ball is getting free every now and then and sliding all over the place. 

Anyway, the scores will all be in the history books. 

Peace, y’all. 

This is my update for November 30, 2018. I would absolutely love to post this to my blog site as I write it, but apparently there is some sort of issue with either my DNS, my ISP, or my blog-hosting site that is  preventing me from properly connecting and allowing me to post my daily 200-word blog post.

I guess this kind of sucks.

I’m a Chiefs fan, and today I received some news. Apparently the Chiefs running back, Kareem Hunt, had an incident last February at a hotel. There was video. There was a police report, and although the report stated there was no reason to file any charges at the time, Hunt reported to the Chiefs that the whole incident was something a lot less than what it appeared to be, and the Chiefs cut him.

Damn, that was quick.

In other news. it’s been a good day. Lisa and I went out to dinner, and had a good time, made a few plans for the weekend.

I’m watching a little bit of the PAC 12 Conference Championship tonight, and I’ll catch a few more tomorrow. Kansas hosts a basketball matchup with Stanford tomorrow afternoon.

The fire is pretty tonight. Lisa is asleep in her recliner.

Peace y’all.

Good evening, every body! Fat old Grampa Bob here on a beautiful, crisp November night. The clock just rolled over to 9:00 PM. Lisa and I are sitting in the living room watching a playoff match between the Sporting KC soccer club and the Portland Timbers. 

Go Sporting!

Today will be one of those news days that you might read about in the future. Today, Trump’s fixer plead guilty to a few things in order to work out a plea deal, and right off the bat he confesses to lying about the Trump Organizations efforts to build/develop Trump Tower Moscow, and then we find out (apparently) that part of the Trump Tower deal included a penthouse suite for Vladimir Putin, worth $50 million. 

Wow. 

Trump headed out of the country for the G20 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trump says he’s cancelled his meeting with Putin, but there was smoke out of the Russian news that Russia intends to proceed with the meeting. It will be interesting to see who wins.  I have a feeling Trump will capitulate if Putin forces him. Trump has always behaved like Putin has something on it. In your time, you might discover the truth. I hope I’m around to find out what it was that compromised Trump. 

I’m not a Trump fan. 

I love my country. 

This guy is not good for our country. 

I hope his becomes a cautionary tale. 

Peace y’all.