Friday

Friday is an off day for this dude! Well, at least for the director stuff. Around this time is my annual thank you to my former employer, Kroeschell Engineering: it's when they send me my annual ESOP shares installment. I am hoping this is the last year we take the $. The next few years it should hopefully be going to our 401k. I'm kinda glad that maybe I held off this year! Last year we did a major overhaul in the house - at least major to me. We finished putting in the Pergo floors in the rest of the house, thus finally getting rid of the disgusting carpet. When you have a mini zoo with a dog and two cats, the fur piles up. At least with wood floors, you can sweep it up. With carpet, man, what we tore up was way disgusting! Nobody has been as sick here at home. Hmmmm...

This time around we got a new couch for our basement. It actually arrived last week but today it was about getting some shades for the basement windows and rearranging the room. The windows open into window wells and look real ugly. It made a huge difference. After six years of living here we are finally going to see if we can make that room more welcoming. I think we are making headway. Much of the rest of the $ we got, however, ultimately went to 3 places in this order: a nice tithe to the church, beginning to pay off Mary's parents who so graciously helped with getting this house six years ago, and getting a savings account to where it should be. Although it is starting to look like there are going to be things sucking up some of that savings: the water heater is giving signs of decay, a new car battery, etc. - you get the idea.

I did close the evening out watching a western of sorts: "The Assasination of Jesse James by that Coward Robert Ford". Long title for a movie. Started a little slow but picked up about midway through.