Not a bad week…………………………………………………………………

As always, first the chronology:

12/08/24 – Sunday – Up at 8AM. Out for church with Kathy. Stayed late for Kathy to participate in choir. Home and lunch. Blew off going to Gary’s and helped Kathy put up Christmas lights and other decorations outside. Inside and a nap. Then to Logan’s Roadhouse for a great Steak and Shrimp dinner. Home and usual evening routine.

12/09/24 – Monday – Up at 6AM and out to work. Opened the main court room at 8AM. Manned the handicap entrance till noon when court was over. Home and Kathy was out at Walmart. Had lunch then took a nap till Kathy came home. Up and helped her unload the car. Did some chores around the house. Down to the shack to do some work. Upstairs for dinner and usual evening routine.

12/10/24 – Tuesday – Up at 6AM and out to work. Opened the annex court room at 8AM. Court started at 8:30AM. Finished by 10AM. Stopped at Country Mart on the way home for some lunch meat and some goodies. Kathy had a rough night last night so she was in bed when I got home so I sat down in the living room and did some things on my phone. She got up and we had lunch Then I took my nap. Got up and showered again. Then out to the HAM club Christmas dinner. Had a good time. Home and put the truck away. Had dessert then to bed for some exercises, computer work then some TV.

12/11/24 – Wednesday – Up at 8AM. Had breakfast and down to the shack to practice some CW and worked on rebuilding my AllStar Node. Up to help Kathy with making the soup for tonight. She had to make a run to the grocery store for some Tobasco Sauce. Had lunch. Back to working on the AllStar Node. Up for a little nap then cleaned up. Got things loaded in the car and headed for church. Setup for the soup supper before service. Had service then cleaned things up and home. Had dessert. To bed, computer work, TV and sleep.

12/12/24 – Thursday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Manned the door from 7:30AM to 4PM with an hour off for lunch. Home and dressed down. Helped Kathy get Zoom working on her cell phone. Then dinner. Down for a short nap then down to the shack for the usual evening routine.

12/13/24 – Friday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Opened the court room at 8AM and court started at 8:30. Ran till 1PM. Home and had lunch. Kathy was out and about. Went to bed around 2PM and slept till 3:30. Up and some chores. Cleaned up and out to Shelby’s Chorus Concert at 6PM. Went to Cheddar’s afterward with the Rice family for a late dinner. Home and dessert. Got in bed a little before 10PM.

12/14/24 – Saturday – Up at 8AM. Did chores around the house and the usual Saturday Morning routine. Started updates on my computers. Had lunch. Took a nap for an hour. Continued updating computers and cleaning up the shack. Perhaps I’ll get that done before Christmas. Usual evening routine.

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Now the specifics:

Lynn left a nice comment last week on what she is doing in life. If you haven’t checked it out take a look. If you can’t find it, let me know and I’ll start posting her comments here as well.

Last Sunday it was a nice day. Well, relatively speaking. No rain or snow and the temperature was warmer than it had been. So, I thought it would be a good day to put up the outside decorations so I blew off going to visit Gary and Kathy and I did the outside decorations. I think it looks rather nice.

In addition to the Christmas decorations we got more in the holiday spirit by going to the HAM club Christmas party at Cracker Barrel on Tuesday evening. Kathy and I sat with my friend Dave Mangum and his wife Ginny. We had a great time. Dave will be the president next year.

We had Advent service on Wednesday evening. Kathy made Pasta Fagioli. Everyone seemed to like it and I thought it was good. Of course we had left overs so we had it again this week.

Friday night we went to see Shelby’s Chorus Concert. It was very good. Much better than the band concerts we’ve been to. Then Mike took us out to Cheddar’s for dinner afterward.

I didn’t work too hard this week. Did a half day Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Worked the usual full day on the door Thursday. This coming week will be a little more hectic as we have Circuit Court and Drug court on Wednesday so that will probably be two full days of work. Will probably do a half day Monday and Friday with Tuesday off.

I have been trying to be more consistent with doing my physical exercises as it seems to be helping the leg issues. Still not 100% but definitely an improvement. Other than that, I seem to have this problem were around 7 or 7:30 I feel tired and want to go to bed. Then when I get there I end up watching TV till 9 or 10. I need to fix that. I hate wasting time. And beside that, I’m missing out on the CW traffic net at 9PM in the evening and I’m losing practice with my CW. Not losing ground but definitely not improving any. I still want to get my speed up to 15 WPM at least. Right now I’m doing 10 WPM at 100% and 13 WPM at about 75%.

I do have my doctor’s appointment scheduled for the 6th of January. Hopefully she can give me some guidance to getting some things resolved.

Well that’s about the story for this week. As always, hope this finds you safe and well. Stay that way and I’ll blog at you again next week.