Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers
Just a quick catch up entry. Not too many things have been going on at the Stapleton HQ. On January 15th Jess’s Dad & I began construction on the Nana Dungeon. Jess’s grandmother Nana had decided to move in with Jess’s mom several months ago, but it was only now we could start construction on her room. We took a part of Sandy’s unfinished basement and converted it into a bedroom/dungeon for the Nana. Moving takes place next weekend.
On January 27th my company located in Paducah, KY was involved in an Ice Storm Disaster. This required us to implement our complete disaster recovery plan and move to our alternate processing site.  For those of you familiar with banking, you know that this is big crap. From 01-27 to 02-10 I worked somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 hours. Needless to say, I was exhausted both mentally and physically. Jess can now attest that she heard my cell phone ring so much that she now hears it in her sleep. I used 2544 minutes of cell time during the disaster and for some reason the side of my head glows in the dark.
This is a picture just outside of our corporate HQ.
Look at that ice. Now imagine what it did to all the data and electric lines in the states that it went through. This storm went from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania but Paducah was considered the “epicenter”. It cut power to over 1.3 million. Some of the people I work with went up to 2 1/2 weeks without power. I may have had it bad but at least I had a warm home to be in and my after work life was fairly normal. The damage from this storm will take months to repair.
My work life began to return to normal somewhere around February 11th. I am now setting ready to embark of about 6 weeks of constant travel. Some long day trips and a lot of overnights. No rest for the weary.
On Saturday the 14th Jess & I spent our 12th Valentines Day together. Just to prove we still have that old spark we went to Wal-Mart to grocery shop then came home and watched some DVR & DVD. (see honey those young couples have nothing over on us) I will have to say that in addition to her flowers.
