Atlantis

One of the coolest things about living in Titusville, is watching the Shuttle Launches. Atlantis Blasted off yesterday, it was my 5th launch, and remains the coolest thing i've seen, other than the thign Shelby does with her tongue and a chery stem...............







There are only 5 launches left...........try to get there...........

The long road home...........

Shelby and I returned to washington for the first time since we left last year. Jacob had concerts on bothe the 6th and the 7th. We had hoped that it would be a suprise but someone had let thew cat out of the bag(which could've been me) and , althoiught they may not have been shocked by seeing us, they were thrilled.

We met Jake's girfriend, Brittney, who was as pretty as she was sweet. We met Jake's bandmates, who were as talented as they were weird. We were re-introduced to Washington weather, which was fa-reeeezing!

We spent 5 days there, not nearly long enough. but, it was good. We were able to see how bad the boys have it there, and our goal is to get them both here by the end of 2010. They are are both great kids, and deserve better than what they are getting . I take full responsibility for that and plan on rectifying this situation swiftly.

Halloween

Halloween was going to one of the worst nights of my life and it almost turned out that way.

Shelby had decided that we were going to dress up and go to a party, then follow up by going out around Titusville in our retarded costumes. I'm not one to shy away from opportunities to embarass myself, but, i want to look decent while doing so............

We awoke to a note on the kitchen counter that said that Bill was in the hospital. Everything turned out well, he is fine, but had to spend the weekend in Parrish Hospital. It was an incredible gesture of solidarity from a father-in-law to son-in-law to go to extreme measures for the sake of saving dignity. Perhaps Bill saw my costume, perhaps he knew where i was going and his friends would be there too. Perhaps he, too, was in this very same predicament years ago and someone had saved him. Maybe he is just trying to save his own face in this town, which is a full time job since his daughter married me and we moved down here.

At any rate, faking that dizzy spell was a stroke of genius that saved the day for both of us...........