Trip to Las Vegas

Our Neighbourhood

I am in Las Vegas at the moment - a place I wouldn't normally consider going to, unless to visit Rachel's grandfather who lives here.  I would have phoned him already but I am having problems with my telephone.  Oh well.  As I took off out of Minneapolis I flew right by our house.  Emma says she saw my plane, but I didn'd see her waving.  Oh well.  More on Vegas later!

A New Challenge

My dearest wife, the Lovely Rachel, has challenged me to restart a blog and update it regularly.  So here I go reactivating this blog, with the shameful date count of the past attached to remind me of past failures.  Forgive me blog for I have failed you!

However a new year, a new start on this old blog.  And here is the first item of interest - a visit to the dentist with Elisha.  And there I realised something that I just had to included it in my blog of the week.

A Dentist.  A Dental office is a place where you exchange one form of discomfort for another, in the hope that at the end of the treatment, there will be peace.  Until the next cavity, that is.

Hope you enjoy that,

Derek

Snow Part 2

I fell on the ice the other day.  I lay there looking at the clouds above me for a few moments.  It was calm, peaceful even, as I contemplated life after a bang on the backside of the head.  I was rather annoyed that I had to get out of the truck in the first place; what should have been a 10 minute salting job for my two guys (and a little snooze for me) had turned into a half hour "shovel out what some other crew had missed" job.  Slipping over and landing on my head was like the icing on the cake of a 23 hour shovelling shift.

Anyhow, laying there on my back I ran a brief self check to make sure I hadn't really hurt myself.  Had I blacked out?  Not that I could recall.  Was I seeing stars?  Nope, just clouds.  Did I feel sick?  Sure did, but 23 hours in the snow explained that.  And as I got up, I thought to myself "Why am I still doing this job?"  I guess the bang on the head must have made me smarter.  Still, I was into work the next day, so I guess it wore off pretty soon.

Snow Part 1

It's coming up to midnight, and snow work begins again soon. The boss was nice enough to give us Christmas day off, but in 45 minutes it will no longer be Christmas day, and I will be out again clearing snow - the remainder of the snow that fell on Friday. It's the snowiest December on record in Minnesota.

Snappy Answers

How true it is that you think of the best answers after you could have used them. So this morning when Rachel told me "that wasn't a very long shower", I replied "Well, no longer than usual".

Then I came up with a list of other responses:

"It's cause I'm a guy"
"I didnt wash properly"
"The water got cold"
"I ran out of soap"

Another Difference between Spring and Summer in Minnesota

Spring is when the motorcyclists start appearing on the road, along with the boats. Summer is when the Police motorcyclists appear.

The difference between Spring and Summer in Minnesota

This is easy to explain - most of the time anyhow. In Spring, when your car is warm, you roll the windows down. In Summer, you turn on the A/C. Which is an astute observation, but on that is perhaps best not shared with someone who responds "My car doesnt have working A/C".