{"id":363,"date":"2009-02-15T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T01:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/?p=363"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T22:28:06","slug":"dungeons-disasters-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/2009\/02\/15\/dungeons-disasters-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons, Disasters, &amp; Valentines Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick catch up entry.\u00c2\u00a0 Not too many things have been going on at the Stapleton HQ.\u00c2\u00a0 On January 15th Jess&#8217;s Dad &amp; I began construction on the Nana Dungeon.\u00c2\u00a0 Jess&#8217;s grandmother Nana had decided to move in with Jess&#8217;s mom several months ago, but it was only now we could start construction on her room.\u00c2\u00a0 We took a part of Sandy&#8217;s unfinished basement and converted it into a bedroom\/dungeon for the Nana.\u00c2\u00a0 Moving takes place next weekend.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:ead36548-6f7e-49e4-a9cb-ccbdbf6330c0\" style=\"display: inline; float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-363 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/2009\/02\/15\/dungeons-disasters-valentines-day\/img00019\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG00019-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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href='https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/2009\/02\/15\/dungeons-disasters-valentines-day\/img00032\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG00032-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/2009\/02\/15\/dungeons-disasters-valentines-day\/img00027\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG00027-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On January 27th my company located in Paducah, KY was involved in an Ice Storm Disaster.\u00c2\u00a0 This required us to implement our complete disaster recovery plan and move to our alternate processing site.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 For those of you familiar with banking, you know that this is big crap.\u00c2\u00a0 From 01-27 to 02-10 I worked somewhere in the\u00c2\u00a0 neighborhood of 200 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, I was exhausted both mentally and physically.\u00c2\u00a0 Jess can now attest that she heard my cell phone ring so much that she now hears it in her sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I used 2544 minutes of cell time during the disaster and for some reason the side of my head glows in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>This is a picture just outside of our corporate HQ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/paducahcenter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Paducah Center\" alt=\"Paducah Center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/paducahcenter-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at that ice.\u00c2\u00a0 Now imagine what it did to all the data and electric lines in the states that it went through.\u00c2\u00a0 This storm went from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania but Paducah was considered the &#8220;epicenter&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It cut power to over 1.3 million.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the people I work with went up to 2 1\/2 weeks without power.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The damage from this storm will take months to repair.<\/p>\n<p>My work life began to return to normal somewhere around February 11th.\u00c2\u00a0 I am now setting ready to embark of about 6 weeks of constant travel.\u00c2\u00a0 Some long day trips and a lot of overnights.\u00c2\u00a0 No rest for the weary.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the 14th Jess &amp; I spent our 12th Valentines Day together.\u00c2\u00a0 Just to prove we still have that old spark we went to Wal-Mart to grocery shop then came home and watched some DVR &amp; DVD.\u00c2\u00a0 (see honey those young couples have nothing over on us)\u00c2\u00a0 I will have to say that in addition to her flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img-0105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_0105\" alt=\"IMG_0105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img-0105-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers Just a quick catch up entry.\u00c2\u00a0 Not too many things have been going on at the Stapleton HQ.\u00c2\u00a0 On January 15th Jess&#8217;s Dad &amp; I began construction 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