Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers
It has been a slow winter and spring for blogable happenings so this will be another short entry just to catch everyone up. (I could spend a bunch of time blogging about work but that would bore everyone and get me fired.)
Since my last entry we moved Nana up to Sandy’s house. Ricky, Jess, Sandy & I moved Nana on the February 21st into her newly completed Dungeon.
The only thing we need to get done in her room is install the closet door. Just have not had the time to get over there to do it. Besides that the dungeon is nicely fished out including two of Sandy’s flying monkeys standing guard on the other side of that door.
Jess has continued to do well since her surgery. She completed all her incomplete work from her Gall Bladder adventure and earned another A. If she pulls off another 4.0 semester this time she will have a perfect 4.0 average for her entire Masters program. (No pressure sweetheart) My walking brain box also aced the first part of her Praxis exam with minimal effort, she will take the second section later this month. Jess has also applied and been approved for graduation in the May. (Please no gifts unless they are $1000 or over) She will graduate with a MA in Special Education with an Autism emphasis, and also be considered “highly qualified” per no child left behind. We are currently exploring several avenues of employment for her including full time teaching.
In other Jessica news she has been released from her therapy and pain management regimen from the wreck. She is getting along very well and is managing on Advil only as needed. Her “pin-prick” migraine headaches from the wreck are still with us (they seem to come and go in sets) but not at the frequency that she has been dealing with for the past year.
In Jake news not much has been going on besides working a whole lot. The disaster put me behind on several things. That in addition to working very intensely with one of my customers (in the middle of no where) lately has left me pretty pooped out. My only major home project lately has been to send Comcast packing again. I signed up for their Cable internet service (we are a Direct TV family) because I needed the extra speed for work. The service then proceeded to go down 7 times in 60 days one time for 30 hours!
This is not just and ISP service this is my livelihood. I work out of a home office and my phone is VOIP so when I loose my internet I loose everything. I had Verizon DSL for 19 months and they never went down; it was slow but never went down. This is addition to at night when my cable node was full of users it actually got slower than my DSL. So I called Verizon and got my service back for $15 less a month then I was paying before I left so it did work out. I heard from an undisclosed secure source that FIOS may be coming to Huntington this year. Believe me if it would help I would string the Fiber to the house myself to get this service. We will just have to see what happens.
To relax in my free time I have been making frequent updates to Opinions by Jake (it really is cheaper than therapy) and I also have been making my own Video on Demand system. I have been taking all my DVD’s and converting them to an MP4 format and cataloging them in iTunes. That way when Jess buys me my Apple TV (hint number #573 honey) it will just all flow to what ever TV I wish in the house. This also has the added benefit of me being able to take several seasons of television and many many movies with me on the road on my work laptop with nothing else to carry. I know this is geeky but it really is relaxing to me.
That wraps up this short update from the Stapleton Mansion. Good Night and God Bless.
PS: Forgot to mention Jess killed her 8th DVD player in March. Believe me finding a 9th victim for the serial killer was no easy task.