TGIF - Bloggers - (or TGIFB)

Today, we (Phil and I) took MBA students to meet with a client........... Then I came home and ate lunch and started the wash.......... Then Jason came home........ Then Dennis came over..... Then Frank came over to pick-up the china cabinet I talked about yesterday......... The four of us got it in Frank's truck with no trouble....... and he drove off!!!!!!!!! He will strip it and then Sandy and I will be very happy.................. After he left, Dennis and I had a beer.... We had Southbound Ale from the Depot Street Brewery via the Acoustic Coffee House... it came this bottle

That is a pumpkin behind the bottle - while it is not yet officially fall, these were in the grocery store and I could not resist - compulsive buying is a short coming/ weakness/ affliction/ addiction of mine.......... Dennis and I enjoyed our beer and chatted and then he went home and I continued to do the wash.....and made a trip to the grocery store for supplies for tomorrow night when Dennis and Marie and Joe are coming to dinner...........Joe's wife Roz is in China teaching this semester and will not be here.........we do not want Joe to get too much in his head....that is my way of saying worry......

Now, with luck, I will show you a picture or two of a baby cardinal....

The little critter is eating sunflowers that we grew this year....... Mom and Pop have been around, but were not here today (staying out of the rain).... I suspect that it is still too early to know if that is a female or male....as everyone knows, males are bright red and females are more brown with and an orange beak......... if it comes back when it is grown and I know it is the same one, I will let you know its gender... Do not hold your breath..........

Sandy is taking me to dinner tonight and then we will come home an watch a movie....

All in all, this has been a really good day....

Thanks for reading and remember, take good care of yourself, peace, john

Happy Morning Blogsters -

My friend Michael sent me this picture and then my friend Dennis sent me this picture too!!

It had the following caption:

"We’ve all seen the faces of those ravaged by the floods of Sri Lanka and New Orleans. This “award-winning” photograph of the recent flood waters rising in Ireland captures the horror and suffering there. Please keep these people in your thoughts!!!!!"

I felt like that yesterday while I was cutting the grass at church in the rain. Fortunately for me, the really hard rain started while I was in Food City picking up some adult beverages so I could go home and look like the picture..........

I have classes on Tuesday and Thursday this semester. Yesterday was Thursday so I have completed one week of the semester.......WhoAh!!! Tomorrow, we are introducing an MBA team to a client in the morning and then I am going home.

Around 1:30PM Dennis and Jason and I will help Frank load our china cabinet into his truck and take it to his home to strip and refinish......this is very nerve racking because this china cabinet has wrap around glass................Frank is very trustworthy, like Dennis, "a reliable chap" (none of us are boys anymore) and so I trust him to take good care of our antique.........

Have a good day, and remember to take good care of yourself, cheers, john

Hello Blogos and Blogetts -

Today I met my two in-class classes both are sections of Management Information Systems. I have two sections with about 40 students each and then I have the Internet section (we started yesterday) with about 40 students and a Graduate Class with 11 students (that started last Friday). That class is divided into three teams and each of the teams is doing a real life consulting project. That class, called the strategic experience, is the culminating experience [final class] in the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) program - all together I have about 130 students...........I think I will be busy... However, I love this job and always look forward to the challenge...

On Wednesday nights at church I will be facilitating a class on stewardship....... that sounds exciting to me as well....

This afternoon - around the time we were fixing dinner we heard a loud clap of thunder and looked outside and saw this cloud:

It made me think how insignificant I am and that I owe absolutely everything I have to God.

Remember, take good care of yourself and be thankful for this day.... cheers, john

Hi Blogaroonies........... Hope you are well... Today was the first day of the fall semester at East Tennessee State University where I teach.... Whooahhhh! I started my students in an Internet course I am teaching. Tomorrow I will have class in my day classes and last Friday we started the graduate students on their consulting projects. We have two teams and I am team teaching this course with my chairman, Phil Miller.

Right this very moment I am listening to Aaron Neville sing Ava Maria.......... He is one of my favorite singers and that is one of my favorite songs.....pretty good combination.....

My friend Dennis is starting an NFL pool....and today I recruited four of my colleagues to participate.... Ruth usually wins.......we will try to change that this year.

The dogs are resting and listening to Aaron Neville sing Ave Maria.....my guess is that they do not want to sing harmony.........

Today after I left work, I came home and ate left over home made pizza... then I went to church and killed weeds....... I am trying to reclaim the volley ball area and the horse shoe pits from the weeds............ I will win, I am very good at spraying weeds with RoundUP!!!! RoundUP does not leach into the soil, so I am I think it is okay to use it........... If God is a weed, I am screwed. But then, if God is an insect, I am also screwed..... But then again, I think my God is a loving God, so I might be okay either way.....

Now I am listening to the Dixie Chicks - I really love the Dixie Chicks...... Not erotically, but that other good way.....Their music is very timely as are their comments...............

Well, I just got all signed up for the football pool.......... I am ready to go!!!

Have a great day, and take good care of yourself...cheers, john