Life

Well, we are off to (hopefully) sunny Florida. That's not to say I won't throw up a blog post here and there before we return next Friday.

Here is the bird living underneath our deck this spring. We are replacing the deck in a couple months so he will have to find a new place to live.

This week: Started out slow today but may pick up tomorrow. Hopefully the IT guys will get my phone, internet and cable all working tomorrow in my new office. And the bill I've been working on for a few months might be voted on in the House, here's hoping. Thursday I'm hosting some colleagues in my office for lunch and basketball and I'm not sure what I'm doing on Friday. I have a lunch fundraiser than I might go down to the lake and work. Henry's soccer practice was canceled tonight because of soggy fields but he has practice on Saturday. We leave for Florida next Thursday so I'd like to get some work in at the lake before then.

Heading to the CBJ hockey game tonight with the family. Only our second game of the year I think. We could probably go to more games but its not always easy on schools nights. And we never buy tickets, the ones we are using tonight are $75 each and they are probably the cheapest ones we've ever had.

I'm off to the lake tomorrow to work. It was a successful week; my amendment was approved in committee on Wednesday although I had to stand up and briefly explain it, something I wasn't expecting.

Henry's last bb game is Saturday and he has his first soccer practice on Monday. I'm going back to the lake next Friday too because Directv is installing our service.

Here is Henry's basketball team. As you can see, he's not the biggest kid on the team but he's still one of the best!

Life updates: Sarah is in Atlanta for an AT&T class of some kind and gets home tonight. The boys were great last night. Henry has a basketball game tomorrow morning then I'm headed to the lake for the day to work. The furniture guys are delivering my new office furniture on Monday and Tuesday our IT guys come down to get everything hooked up. Wednesday I have a big issue up in the General Assembly and I'm taking the day off on Friday to meet a former State Rep friend who's offered to help work at the lake.

With a little luck and speed, we'll have all the basement framed in and we can start putting up some of the pine walls in areas that can be worked on. The fireplace presents some issues, we are really going to have to engineer it so that the heavy barn beam mantle doesn't fall down. We are also putting in a pocket door and building two bed frames besides building the bar. I'm hopeful that those won't be too tough. I have to bid out a new composite deck and the tile job which isn't going to be cheap. Ceramic tile itself can be had for a buck a sq. foot but I'm a bit worried what the installer is going to quote me. I guess that's why you get more than one quote.