I guess I should have gotten back here eariler I really got a little confused when I seen the new page that they have for you first screen I had to put it back to the old style I like that one better and besides that is the one that I am use to,

        Well we got another snow and ice storm I don't mind the snow but man the ice they can keep that you can't do nothing on that and besides it is very dangerous to drive on and walk on , I'm still going to the fitness room for my workouts but now I have to take it easy for a while I am hoping that I didn't do it but there is a chance that I might have ripped a rotor cuff in my left shoulder it has really been hurting lately the doctor put me on some drugs and took a few x rays of it so I have to go back and see what the x rays showed then we'll decided what is next

Well it is late so take care and as always God Bless

I went out  today and picked up some other stuff for this new computer, one of the things that I use is a floppy disk drive 3.5 floppy drive, which I found one at Staples for a reasonable price so now that I have it set up the way I wanted it is just like my other one, the only thing that it does not have is a DVD burner but I do have an external DVD burner hooked up to my other computer that does have a DVD burner so it would be no problem at all to bring it out here to the laptop and hooked it up, If I recall my daughter had something similar happen to her she bought a computer with a DVD in it except it was only played DVDs and not a burner even though they did give her a burning program, Which at the time I did not realize that when she was home here in the states if we would a noun that we might've been able to get it corrected before she went back to Germany, but under the circumstance she did get herself a really good burner I believe it is a Sony, So now the three of us have almost identical computers as far as what they have in them, My son's computer though has a built-in camera, whereas my daughter and I both have external cameras but they work just as well, We really enjoy the web cam whenever we can see and also talk to each other it makes the long distance not as far as it really is.

Well I have to go for now So take care and as always God Bless

Today it is really bitter cold outside, they're all kind of warnings on the television about dressing in layers but you know   I've been checking the television they're giving warnings about dressing in layers but they will not give you the outside temperature.   I have come to the conclusion that television anymore really sucks even before the writers strike it just seems that your paying all of that money for cable/Digital dish and there is still nothing on, including all the pay channels such as HBO/Showtime/Cinemax all of what those channels want to show is repeat movies, I just cannot believe that nobody can come up with a new idea, instead they want to make movies about failed  television shows, The failed TV shows  could not make it on free television  why make a movie out of it. I just cannot believe that they cannot come up we send new idea even if it came up and bit him on the ass, even with some of the television shows today it just seems that they all they want to do is make reality TV, due to the fact that these are unscripted, I just cannot understand why they cannot come up with a new idea for a new show without sex/violence/very adult content. But I am only one person that doesn't understand it has to be me,

It was a pretty strange day today My son called me earlier this morning around 2 a.m. to  inform us  that he bought a track fone, so now we have a way of contacting him and he also has a way of contacting home whenever he wants to. But at that time he did not give us his phone number, later on in the morning hard time around 10:30 a.m. which would've been around 12:30 a.m. his time he's 14 hours ahead of us he called and gave us his  telephone number, which being truthful it is  a 15 digit number like my daughters telephone number is also the reason for the numbers being so long as they both are out of the country, luckily I had a calling card that I was able to call him back to make sure that his telephone did work. After many hours of trying to get ahold of my daughters starting at 11 a.m. this morning 6 p.m. her time I finally was able to get  a hold of her this afternoon  at 4 p.m. our time 10 p.m. her time, we were kind of worried about her due to the fact that she has been sick as of late, she told us that she is feeling a little better but not too much better  as we would've been  hoping, she told said she intends to make an appointment with her own doctor on Tuesday, instead of going to the base dispensary she has already gone to the Base dispensary and all they did for her was given her Tylenol, and not a prescription for Tylenol just over-the-counter Tylenol I think the doctors that they are using their are just interms/residents trying to get experience before going out on the own and unfortunately they have not seen every type of disease and or injuries and furthermore do not know how to treat said injury / disease so the best thing for her to do is to see her own doctor.

Well I have to go for now so Take Care and as always God Bless until next time

 Were having another sleepless night, but under the circumstances this is nothing new I'm used to having sleepless nights due to the fact that I put 25 years of the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift, so I guess that used I got used  to sleeping during the day and being up all night, that is one of the problems of people who worked all night shift have, even though I try to keep myself busy throughout the day doing different things usually when I do go to sleep at night I am totally exhausted.

                                                        We heard from both of our kids today I guess my daughter really isn't feeling that well, she's been having a tough time of it so far this year healthwise I sure hope that she gets everything straightened out, we also have heard from my son this afternoon, from what he says were he is located at I guess he's been eating off base that where he has been eating they have no silverware they have to eat with chopsticks he said it is amazing how fast you learn how to use them especially when you're hungry that you have two choices learn how to use the chopstick or eat with your fingers,

                                                       I'm still doing my workouts, and some minor stuff around the house I'm trying to watch my weight again now that it's a new year I really don't want to again all of that weight that I lost last year, amazing enough I only gained about 5 pound over the holiday season from Thanksgiving through New Year's so now I'm working extremely hard at trying to get down to the weight where I was at before Thanksgiving, I believe with all these workouts and all the medication that the doctors has me on its like I'm trying to help myself, I really don't want anymore angioplasties I believe if you have a heart condition you at least have to help yourself a little bit medications only goes so far and from what the doctor told me after my last heart catheterization he stated to me whatever you're doing to continue to do it because it is working,  unfortunately my shoulders still aching at times, I just can't figure out what the heck I  did to it, Thank Heavens my daughter left her hot and cold packs here when she went back to base because I have been using them and they do help a little bit and of course a little bit of pain medication also,

                                                      The weather here has really turned for the worst we had snow earlier this week and we were to get a major storm coming through but they canceled that but instead were getting the really cold weather this weekend especially is going down into the teens for highs and that is pretty cold but then again it is January and that is really typical January weather for this area, I just can't wait till late March or early April when ever the snow is gone and the temperatures warm up again and I can start riding the bike on the rails to trails I really enjoyed this bike paths is a great way to get the exercise you need plus getting out in two the fresh air and you would be really surprised at how many people you run into on the trails both walking and riding their bikes I believe it's the best thing the state of Pennsylvania ever came up with but then again I believe it is a federal program but I am really not sure about that but at this point in the game  I really don't care I just really enjoy getting out on the trails

           Well I will end this entry for now, So everyone take care and as always God Bless.

We did our workout today but we only did one set instead of two sets, for some reason my dang shoulder is still hurting and I really can't remember what the heck I did to it, But the one thing for sure that I really enjoy is taking my portable DVD player and playing the movies that my Daughter got me, The two of us right now are watching A Haunting I got threw the first disk she got us both season one and season two there are only three disk to the set but each disk has five shows on it so with a two hour workout I only get threw two show's but it is a lot nicer watching a movie then just listening to music for now anyway, and then we call each other and see how far we are like I said I finally finished the first disk and I know My Daughter is already half way thew her second disk, But I really enjoy watching them, she got me also the first and second season of Ghost Whisper's and that is another set that I enjoy, In fact when she was here this past fall the two of us watched the whole first season and it was great, and also it is a good way to get into shape you don't realize how much of a work out you have done until you see the timer and then you realize that you are almost done with the first set of your workout.

                       The fellow that I bike ride with and I are starting to plan what trails we are going to hit this year he said that he likes the trail in Oil City he went there by himself when my Daughter was home and that is one thing that I won't do is go with another person when my family is home on leave I rather spend time with my Kids that is more important to me than bike ridding In fact my Daughter and I went for a bike ride a few times when she was home and I have to say that they weren't' short one's either the few rides we took were at least fourteen and a half to fifteen miles and i really enjoyed ridding with my Daughter we had a good time even tho she almost killed her knees she didn't know that the bike I had her ridding had 21 gears and she had it in too high of a gear coming up a hill, she told me Hey Dad stop I'm having a little trouble my knees are hurting so I looked at the bike and saw she had it in too high of a gear so I put it in the gear that my bike was in then she had no more trouble in fact she passed me and I had to keep up with her she really took off like she does on her own, I don't know if she got herself a new bike or not yet she had a little bit of a accident with her bike it got caught in a door and with them being built the way they are today it don't take much to really get them smacked up and messed up for sure , she said she had the model Jeep where I have a Trek Navigator 100 and I also have a Trek Navigator 200 needless to say I like the Trek models , they are both a good street bike and a good trail bike and believe me I have rode both I have to ride at lest 1 1/2 blocks to get on the trail then some of the trail also goes on the Twp streets then onto the limestone of the trail so that is why I went with a street and trail tire and i have to say that it works out real well

I have to go for now so Take Care and as always God Bless untill next time bye for now

Well we stated doing our workout again today over the holidays I gained about 6 lbs and that is one thing that I am not happy about but the blame is mine no one forced anything into my mouth so now I have to work it all off again, so the way that I have it figure out it should take me about 2 weeks to get back to where I was before the holidays so we'll see, I have to get back into some type of shape before I start the biking season for 2008 that is a great way to get into shape is biking last fall before I put the bikes away for the season I was ridding about 14.5 miles round trip that is from Ebensburg to Nanty Glo and back again this year I want to ride from Ebensburg to Twin Rocks and back again that will be about 21 miles round trip so that is what I want to do this year but first the way I have it figured out is to start I'll ride from here to Buela and back that is about 6 miles round trip for the first 2 weeks then to Nanty Glo for 2 weeks that will be the 15 miles then to Twin Rocks and back that will be the 22 miles who knows I just might make it to Vintendale and back but that I'll have to work on because that will be a ride and a half because with that I think that is like 24 miles or something like that to be sure I'll have to go back on these blogs and get the right mileage if I still have the pictures on this site, But that is this summer just for now it is working out in the fitness room and getting back into shape

We'll I'll close for now so Take Care and God Bless  

We took my Son to the Pittsburgh Airport and man what a ride we hit some major rain and wind in fact at one intersection went threw what was like a lake I hope that I never have a ride like that a again I couldn't even see the road no lines no nothing and of course this was in a construction zone with traffic coming at us, I don't even know why they call it Pittsburgh International Airport because it isn't in Pittsburgh and you can't get a direct flight for Pittsburgh to anywhere out of the country in fact it seems like you can't get a direct flight anywhere from that airport, If your going West you have to go either to Chicago or Dallas Tx I have to say I really hate the drive to Pittsburgh and it is so nerve racking I think that the problem is me I have been retire now for a while and I really really don't like heavy traffic and like this mooring with the rain and all of the construction and it being 4 am and dark and not know the road anymore because they are always changing things but anyway we got him there , the Good Lord got us there and back safely we were back home here by 07:30 and that was with stopping for breakfast, so now we're getting the house back in order from Christmas and getting all of the inside put away for another 11 months ha ha

So I'll let you go for now so Take Care and God Bless

Here it is another day, or should I say night scene it is 8pm or later, I got the rest of the Chtistmas display down this mooring and got all of it put away, after that I had to go down to my sister's house and take down all of her outside display so I got all of that done and met my Son at the mall so he could cancell his cell phone scene he is going out of the county and his phone would'nt work in the country where he is being deployed to so we got that taken care of and had to get his truck taken care of with the insurence people so we can get it fixed when he is deployed we took care of the P.O.A the other day You know the Military don't tell the parents what they have to go threw when your child is being deployed the stuff we have to do so we can handle our children affairs like filing their tax's paying their bill's and handeling stuff like that let along with the stress not being able to see our loved one's

                 Like I said in other blog's with my Daughter we can web cam and I have to say that is really a God's Blessing the way that this messenger's help us out it is really nice being able to see and also talk to our children, These people who put these messenger's together like that Don't get enough credit they really do a great job and as a parent of 2 in the active military I Thank You

Well I got to go for now so Take Care and God Bless   

Well the idea I had about getting the computer upgraded kind of fell apart the computer was too old to do anything with the parts are really high in price and that is if you can even find them, The way it was explained to me was what I wanted done the memoria would have been about $120.00 a piece and I would be needing 2 of them then the upgrade program that I would need would be about another $100.00 so that would be about $300.00 without the sales tax's so the fellow at the computer store said that it would be cheeper to buy a new computer and it already has all the updates and everything else along with the newer programs so the Wife and I decided to go with the new computer and you know he was wright it was a lot cheeper with going with the new computer then getting the old one upgraded, What really worried us was that if we ordered the parts and they didn't work we would be stuck with the parts so all in all this was the better way to go and luckyly I had the boss with me that would be the Wife she really likes the laptop in the living room so we both can talk to the kids, Like this Christmas we use the web cam to see out Daughter opening her Christmas Gifts and she got to see us opening our gifts so it was really neat it was like she was here with us, and that really means a lot to us and just to be able to see her and now her brother is leaving the area so he'll also be able to web cam with us here at home. Thank Heavens for Yahoo Messenger and also MSN Messenger I think it is great that they have stuff like that for us Military Parents so we can keep in contact with our kids

                      Well go to go so Take Care and as always God Bless