Long dark week in Cincinnati

Okay, so we had a wind storm on Sunday all day long. It was very windy, thought I saw Toto go by once. Anyway with all the wind over a million households (you guessed it) ours included lost power at about 12:30pm Sunday. Just long enough past kick off that I was heavily in football salivation mode. So I thought, okay so the lights are out for a few hours no biggie. Well here I sit six days later and no power still. You got it no power still. Everything in the fridge and freezer is gone, and I just finished grocery shopping on Saturday evening. And you have never seen physical comedy until you watch me try to take a shower in 40 degree water. Lather here rinse there, ssssshhhake and shhhivver here, rinse there, a few profanities utttteeeeerrrrrreeeeeedddd hhhhheeeerrrreeee. Well you get the idea. I went on an exercise and diet strike this week too. I figured if I have to live in the dark, and shower in the frigid waters of the north, then at least I'm going to enjoy eating, and its not like I can run on the treadmill without electricity. I did do a 5 mile run through the neighborhood on Tuesday and lifted weights, but that was the extent of my exercise this week short of walking back to the kitchen for a second helping of caramel apple. So Duke Energy was in the neighborhood tonight and I had mixed desire to shoot at them, and hug them for being there. They told me that they had to replace two poles, several transformers and trim some trees and that by late morning/early afternoon tomorrow we should have power again. I hear the hallelujah chorus somewhere in the distance and joy fills my heart. People are at wits end, and I will tell you this experience has convinced me that I both need to buy a generator and a gun. Because if power ever goes out for more than a week, it is quite clear I'll need both.

Football season is here, and all that means...

The weather is turning a bit colders, sweater weather is just around the corner and I can feel it. I'm not sure what season I like the best, whether that be fall or winter, but I think I'm excited that Fall is finally on its way. I love the changing of the leaves, and the smells of fall. I love fires in the fireplace, although I don't relish raking all those leaves. Anyway the first week of football season is over and it was a doozy. First of all I'm very pleased because both of my fantasy teams won this past week. Next I'm pleased because I nailed just about every game I called. And finally I'm pleased because my Eagles absolutely kicked butt this past week over St. Louis. 38-3. I know it was the rams. People at work keep telling me not to celebrate to wildly. I get to see the real challenge on Monday night of next week when the face a resonably good Dallas Cowboys. So I am in my glory as the NFL football theme runs through my head. Don't you just love football season.

Natonal Air Force Museum

Yesterday was Labor Day. Don't quite understand why everyone doesn't work on a holiday called labor day. Maybe they should call it Leisure day instead. Anyhow, we all took a trip up to Dayton and went to the Air Force museum that is located at Wright Patterson Airforce Base. It has everything from the Wright Brothers (including actual artifacts from the first planes) to the modern day stealth bombers and even a section devoted to Space exploration. It is housed in 3 jumbo air hangers and took us almost 4 hours to walk through the whole thing. You could really spend a whole day their absorbing and reading non-stop, if you don't have two little boys tagging along, that is. I particularly liked the Holocaust portion of the museum. There was violin the from one of the jews that suffered through Kristallnacht and was forced to play his violin while the nazis tortured his father and destroyed all his earthly possesions. Quite remarkable stories in that portion of the museum. Anyhow I'll post some pictures in the coming days.