A Star in the east.

MERRY CHRISTMAS.

It is the day that we celebrate the birth of our lord. And we have had a good day here in the panhandle of Florida. Darilyn had to work. I did not so I did the best that I could at putting together Christmas dinner. We exchanged gifts with the Florida family and each other and enjoyed it all immensely.

On another note, I find that I do not have many memories of the Christmas celebrations of my youth. I know that they occurred but there was not any that were memorable to me. So, I am enjoying them now. I have attempted to become the Clark Griswald of the neighborhood. My wife informs me that I have a ways to go to attain that status, but so what. It is enjoyable and fun.

May all who read this blog have a wondrous holiday.

P'Eister

Sunday before Christmas 2007

I thank you all for the comments posted. It is good to keep in touch and to have a place to enter my thoughts and musings. I have played with the idea of maybe posting philosophical musings and thoughts that come to me at times. Such things as what might be the cause of some form of behavior or my feelings about some happening or forms of conduct. Maybe just a satirical essay, if I am capable of such works. I don't know, but it could be fun.

Some of the thoughts that I have had are my remembrances of the father of us. I have my memorys and you all have yours and maybe someplace in the middle of it all is the actual truth of it. If there is any real truth.

All I know right now is that I have computed the length of time that TE was on this earth and it has come to my attention that I have lived longer than he did. And I am in no way ready to check out any time soon. Life has become very precious to me. I hurt like hell some days from getting older but so what!!!! I enjoy being around people and trying to stir up the pot and make them think and feel about life. The gift that we have all been given by the good lord. The chance to experience the joys and sorrows of our fellow man, our children, and the beauty of the world around us. I love my life. I love my wife. I love my children. I love each and everyone of my siblings and their offspring. I could not say that 10 years ago, but it is so much the truth now. I have a new home in Pensacola that we will be moving into in the near future. We spent today getting new appliances for the kitchen, a new dining room table... made of marble believe it or not.. and other diverse Christmas presents.

I have also spent the day trying to train a new golden retriever puppy who is nothing but love and mischief. But not a thing would I trade for the time and experience. I expect each and everyone of my sibs to come and visit SOON!!!!! Send me an email and I will post the new address to you all.

Tommorrow I have to return to the work a day world of retail, but I think that I will be looking forward to it with anticipation. There are grinches out there, but who cares. I will deal with them as they happen. So it is getting to the time that I must take this older shell for the young spirit that I feel I have found again and get some rest. So each and every one of you take care and the best of holiday wishes to you all.

I'M BACK

I have returned. It has been many months since the last posting. No apologies, just a fact. A lot has been happening since last I entered here. A number of locations have been attempting to entice me to come out of retirement and return to the work-a-day world of contract programming. I succumbed to the temptation in late November and accepted an offer to go to work in Sacramento only to call them the next day and withdraw.

It seems that my dear lady has some conditions that the doctor has deemed need to be investigated. So far we have found that she has serious disintegration of discs in her back. Probably associated with arthritis. She has had an echo cardiogram which was good. She has yet to take a nuclear stress test to discover if there are any other cardio problems. She also has problems with pulmonary functions. I have noticed myself a tendency to quit breathing at times while sleeping and we have taken steps to alleviate that. It has gotten better of late so that eases my concerns. We need to get these things resolved and we will. Until then I will continue to work at Wal-Mart.

We took a short trip in early December to Las Vegas to visit with mother-in-law and brother-in-law. It was a fun trip and well worth the effort. Upon returning, we have gotten back to our normal way of life. It has been in our minds to find another place to live that is closer to Pensacola as it seems all aspects of our lives revolve around people and things there. Then we found a nice 3 bedroom house on the west side of the city that was up as a lease option and fell in love with it. So, we decided to go for it and see if we can make it all come out with our owning the place. There seemed a better than even chance to overcome the odds and have a home of our own again. So, today we signed all of the papers to lease the house for 2 years with the option to buy it. And if all works as it should, we will be there for a good long time. I may have to return to the every day business of computers on occasion to put money back into the savings but it will be worth it to do short term contracts at high rates of pay when they become available.

That is about it from this end. Maybe I will be able to keep it up this time.

Peister ;o)