More work this week………………………………………………………….

As always, first the chronology:

7/27/25 – Sunday – Up around 8AM. Out to church with Kathy. Had to go to Country Mart for some lunch meat after church. Then home and lunch. Did some chores around the house then a nap. Up and out to a Japanese restaurant for dinner. Our grand daughter works there and we basically went to see her in her work environment. Home and usual evening routine.

7/28/25 – Monday – Up at 6AM and off to work the handicap entrance to the main court house. Had a short day so went to the office to check up on some administrative things. Home and lunch. Some computer work and a nap. Had dinner then Kathy got a call to go out to a movie with Julie and the twins. So I stayed home and took care of the animals. Of course it started storming so that precluded playing radio and of course got the dogs stirred up. But we had a nice time all together in bed. Kathy came home about 9:30 so all was good.

7/29/25 – Tuesday – Up at 8AM and down to get my haircut at 9AM. Home and Kathy suggested I go to urgent care about my soar throat. Went to Taylorsville and saw a very nice nurse practitioner that checked me out and said everything was OK. Back home had lunch. Down to my desk and did some computer work and re-ordered Sirius SM for the truck. Upstairs and Kathy I went to J-town to the bank then to Long Horn Steakhouse. Stopped at Kroger on the way home for some groceries and medication. Home and usual evening routine.

7/30/25 – Wednesday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Manned the handicap entrance to the main court house. Worked from 8AM to 4PM with about 30 minutes off for lunch. Co-workers wanted to go to McDonalds to pick up food and come back and eat it. Got the food free. McDonalds here does that for all first responders. Went back to court and ate. 4PM started home. Got dressed down and took a nap with Kathy for an hour. Had dinner and usual evening routine.

7/31/25 – Thursday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Covered the door to the Circuit Court Clerks office from 7:30 to 4PM. The guy that covers tomorrow has issues with his wife so I’m going to cover for him tomorrow. Finished up and home. Took a nap then dinner. Usual evening routine.

8/1/25 – Friday – Up at 5:30AM and off to work. Covered the door at the Circuit Court Clerks office again today from 7:30AM to 4PM with an hour off for lunch. Home and had some sweets. Dinner then usual evening routine.

8/2/25 – Saturday – Up at 8AM and out to do yard work. Finished up about 2PM with a break for lunch. Inside, cooled down and took a shower. Dinner and usual evening routine.

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Now the specifics:

I missed telling you last week that my efforts to fix the old keyboard was not successful. I could find no documentation on the internet about it and no place to get it fixed. So I took it out to the Morton building to get it out of the way here in the house pending our garbage people telling us how to get rid of it. Of course it’s been two weeks now and Kathy hasn’t gotten that done so now it’s in the way in the Morton building.

It’s been just a little over 1 year now since I started my new career with the Spence County Sheriff’s office. Don’t think I have regretted it. A little extra effort getting through the academy and some busy weeks but all in all a good experience. I have met a ton of new people. Most of them fantastic. Made some new friends including the Commonwealth Attorney for Spencer County. Now we have three new hires so that works out great. My usual schedule is now two days a week. which is perfect. This week was a little unusual as one of my co-workers had some medical issues with his wife and I did his shift. I would say this was a successful new career endeavor for me.

Got the field mowed for the first time this year. It has been raining so much that it was hard to get enough dry days to get it cut raked and bailed. I didn’t take any pictures as I’m not sure when they will rake and bail it. I’ll get pictures when it’s all cleaned up.

I have been having a soar throat off and on for the last 3 or 4 weeks. Nothing really bad just annoying. Since I’ve been on the wife about getting her knee looked at I figured I better go get it checkout. Long story short, everything was good. Tested for COVID, Flu and Strep. Everything was negative. Nurse Practitioner checked my nose, ears and throat and found nothing. Checked lungs and heart and again found nothing. But Kathy did make an appointment to get her knee checked out this coming week.

Last Sunday we were headed up to the Long Horn Steakhouse when we decided to see if our grand daughter Chloe was working. Sure enough she was so we went over to try out the place she is working. It is a very small authentic Japanese place that had several Korean dishes on the menu. I had the Korean sesame chicken it it was fantastic. Very authentic and well cooked. Kathy had another chicken dish that was more Japanese. I think out grand daughter was a little put out that we showed up but she will get over it.

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