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~ Glenn
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Lonely Is The Night
This week it was Billy Squire leading off the show!
Loads of football talk as I am AMPED about the Steelers going for their record 6th Super Bowl win!
So naturally I played a lot of Steeler stuff. Pittsburgh fans love their team and they love to sing about them too!
One song I did NOT play, but I wanted to link anyway because it is good and the kids who sing it are 11 and 12 years old!
We did our LOST update and I'll try to be more concise next week but there was a lot of football stuff to talk about!
Next week: More LOST! A Super Bowl recap! Hockey (well, football is over ya know?) and the proud and long awaited return of the "People I Hate" segment!
Talk with you all then!
~ Glenn
Loads of football talk as I am AMPED about the Steelers going for their record 6th Super Bowl win!
So naturally I played a lot of Steeler stuff. Pittsburgh fans love their team and they love to sing about them too!
One song I did NOT play, but I wanted to link anyway because it is good and the kids who sing it are 11 and 12 years old!
We did our LOST update and I'll try to be more concise next week but there was a lot of football stuff to talk about!
Next week: More LOST! A Super Bowl recap! Hockey (well, football is over ya know?) and the proud and long awaited return of the "People I Hate" segment!
Talk with you all then!
~ Glenn
Black Ice
So here's an interesting story!
Yesterday it warmed all the way up to 38 degrees here and rained.
Later in the day a cold front blew through and the temperature dropped 10 degrees in an hour. In fact all the wet roads and surfaces froze over pretty quickly.
Driving home I was very careful even though its only about a 5 minute trip.
As I approached the turn to my road I had to come to a full stop due to on coming traffic. Unfortunately I started to slide a little and actually went PAST the turn.
Luckily the only other car behind me was also be very careful and was a good ways behind me...or so I thought.
I looked into my rear view mirror in time to see his car sliding right at my bumper!
Note: Michelle and I had been discussing earlier in the day how happy we were that we were about to make our LAST PAYMENT ON THE TRUCK!!!!
To continue: The vehicle behind me continued to slide toward me so I tried to move over give him so room and he ended up sliding sideways into a drainage ditch. Just his rear passenger side tire...but enough that he was stuck good.
I circled back around and made sure the people in the car were OK and they assured me they were and they were going to call for a chain and a truck to get pulled out.
30 minutes later we were still on the road.
Fortunately two good things happened:
1) A PennDot truck came by. The driver stopped to see what happened and spread a large amount of ash in front of the car to help him get traction when he got pulled.
2) A man who lived within five minutes of here said he would be back with a chain to pull the car out.
While waiting (outside in the wind and cold) ANOTHER car started to spin out and head toward the stuck vehicle!
Fortunately two good things happened:
1) The driver of the truck coming the other way saw what was happening and had the good driving skills to swing down a side road and miss the on coming car.
2) When the sliding car went sideways he hit the ash and stopped! He drove away probably considering himself very lucky!
A few minutes later our good Samaritan showed up and in a few minutes the care was free and no damage was done.
The guy with the chain would not take any money. "Its what Americans do for each other." He said. Seriously.
Then we find out the guy who was stuck was leaving for a tour in Iraq this morning!
We both shook his hand and I told him that I hope he was safer there than he was on the road last night!
And we all went our separate ways.
Kind of restores your faith in fellow man to see how many people stopped to check on the car and the people inside.
~ Glenn
Yesterday it warmed all the way up to 38 degrees here and rained.
Later in the day a cold front blew through and the temperature dropped 10 degrees in an hour. In fact all the wet roads and surfaces froze over pretty quickly.
Driving home I was very careful even though its only about a 5 minute trip.
As I approached the turn to my road I had to come to a full stop due to on coming traffic. Unfortunately I started to slide a little and actually went PAST the turn.
Luckily the only other car behind me was also be very careful and was a good ways behind me...or so I thought.
I looked into my rear view mirror in time to see his car sliding right at my bumper!
Note: Michelle and I had been discussing earlier in the day how happy we were that we were about to make our LAST PAYMENT ON THE TRUCK!!!!
To continue: The vehicle behind me continued to slide toward me so I tried to move over give him so room and he ended up sliding sideways into a drainage ditch. Just his rear passenger side tire...but enough that he was stuck good.
I circled back around and made sure the people in the car were OK and they assured me they were and they were going to call for a chain and a truck to get pulled out.
30 minutes later we were still on the road.
Fortunately two good things happened:
1) A PennDot truck came by. The driver stopped to see what happened and spread a large amount of ash in front of the car to help him get traction when he got pulled.
2) A man who lived within five minutes of here said he would be back with a chain to pull the car out.
While waiting (outside in the wind and cold) ANOTHER car started to spin out and head toward the stuck vehicle!
Fortunately two good things happened:
1) The driver of the truck coming the other way saw what was happening and had the good driving skills to swing down a side road and miss the on coming car.
2) When the sliding car went sideways he hit the ash and stopped! He drove away probably considering himself very lucky!
A few minutes later our good Samaritan showed up and in a few minutes the care was free and no damage was done.
The guy with the chain would not take any money. "Its what Americans do for each other." He said. Seriously.
Then we find out the guy who was stuck was leaving for a tour in Iraq this morning!
We both shook his hand and I told him that I hope he was safer there than he was on the road last night!
And we all went our separate ways.
Kind of restores your faith in fellow man to see how many people stopped to check on the car and the people inside.
~ Glenn
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Baby, Baby
Yesterday was our daughter's 11th birthday!
Here is her story:
We had been married for just under a year when we found out my wife was pregnant. She had taken a test but didn't want to say anything to me until she was sure so she took another...and another. Three tests later we were pretty sure!
Our families were elated! This would be the first grandchild for both sides and we knew we were going to a a spoiled brat!
Everything went as you would expect and we were enjoying getting ready for our first child.
Unfortunately my wife started having some problems with her blood pressure. We learned this was due to pre-eclampsia (which reared its ugly head with our second child also).
With no history to go by the doctors were cautious, but optimistic.
However at 5 month my wife was put on bed rest. A couple weeks later she was in the hospital and and week after that I got the call.
I was working for a rental company at the time and my wife called from her room to tell me that they wanted to transfer her to another hospital because the baby seemed sluggish.
After calming her down I left to make my deliveries for the day with the intention of going Pittsburgh to see her that evening.
I had not even made it to my first stop when my mobile phone rang and a doctor on the other end was telling me that baby's heart rate was low and they were going to do an emergency c-section and they would NOT be waiting for me to get there!
On my way back to the store to get my car my parents called to inform me they were going to visit my wife. I informed THEM that she would not be in her room as they were taking the baby now!
I had never been to Magee's but made great time on the trip!
I found my parents in the waiting room and my dad took me to the nurse's station so I could find out what was going on.
The nurse told me that my wife was fine, but still in the emergency room. While I was trying to get all the information processed my dad was behind me asking about the baby. The nurse wouldn't answer him and it took me a few minutes to hear him and I asked about our daughter. i was told she was being taken care of and we could see her soon.
She had come three months early at a length of 12 inches and a weight of 1 pound 11 1/2 ounces!
I got to see my wife and I had never seen so many wires and tubes connected to a person who was awake!
She ended up in the intensive care unit for 24 hours.
I was able to see Veronica (I didn't want to call her "Roni" but even the nurses did for that very first day!) withing a few hours.
She was small and red and I didn't know how she was alive!
It was over the next three months that we learned all you would ever want to know about preemie's and their care and survival.
Girls are stronger than boys.
The less time they are on a respirator the better off they are.
Babies have a tiny hole in their heart that closes before birth...preemie's are not closed yet.
They like to be touched...but not stroked.
The list goes on and on!
Roni was given a medicine to close the hole in her heart. If it did not work they would do another and then surgery would be a last option. the first dose worked.
She had been on the respirator for a few weeks when I told her as we were leaving from visiting one night that it had been long enough and she should start breathing on her own. That night we called to check on her and the nurse informed us that she had pulled the tube out on her own and was breathing fine! (Probably the last time she listened to me and did what I told her without whining I should add!!! LOL!)
We went through the training of how to bath her and hold her and dress her and wondered how parent brought a baby right home without all the lessons!
We watched as she had IV's placed in veins in her head because all the other ones had been used.
We transferred her to TIC so she could grow and get big enough to finally come home!
Veronica the day she came home in April of 1998!
Veronica the day she came home in April of 1998!
Through it all we never doubted that she would fine.
So far so good!
Roni is great in school, has a fantastic personality and is involved in many activities!
We were blessed that everything worked out so well for us. Twice.
Despite her believing that she is already a teenager i don't know how we could ever have been the same without her!
And despite the fact that she acts too much like I did when I was her age!
So I am the proud father of a pre-teen! How did that happen?!?!
But I am proud and I know my wife is too and I know the Veronica is special...because I saw her grow into what she is today from that cold day in January 11 years ago.
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~ Glenn
January 27, 2016 Edit:
Roni at 18:
January 27, 2016 Edit:
Roni at 18:
Monday, January 26, 2009
I can't drive 55
Look, would you people do me a favor?
If for some, person reason you are unable to drive the posted speed limit will STAY THE HECK OFF THE ROADS!!!
If I have to follow one more person leading their own personal parade through the back roads of my county I may have do something drastic!
I understand that some older folks feel more comfortable driving slower...perhaps they would feel even MORE comfortable after they PULLED OVER AND LET THE 20 CARS BEHIND THEM PASS!!!
And in foul weather a good many people want to be safe...and the safest thing for them to do is TO STAY THE HECK HOME!!!
Honest to goodness people...if the sign says 45 then do at least that. If you can't then get out of the way. You must not be any hurry anyway!
Oh, and to all you people who drive in the passing lane on the highway? The ones who are in the left lane long enough to declare residency? THE SAME GOES FOR YOU!!!!
Pull over!! If you are passing someone even slower than you (as if) then DO IT! And then PULL OVER!!
And if you are trying to keep ME from speeding? Well until they give you a badge and a siren YOU ARE NOT THE PROTECTOR OF THE SPEED LIMIT!
Its not even that I speed! I just want to get around the slower traffic and some moron is coasting along in the left lane for 100 miles while a trail of cars get caught behind them.
Of course George Carlin can explain it better than I ever could.
Enjoy!
~ Glenn
If for some, person reason you are unable to drive the posted speed limit will STAY THE HECK OFF THE ROADS!!!
If I have to follow one more person leading their own personal parade through the back roads of my county I may have do something drastic!
I understand that some older folks feel more comfortable driving slower...perhaps they would feel even MORE comfortable after they PULLED OVER AND LET THE 20 CARS BEHIND THEM PASS!!!
And in foul weather a good many people want to be safe...and the safest thing for them to do is TO STAY THE HECK HOME!!!
Honest to goodness people...if the sign says 45 then do at least that. If you can't then get out of the way. You must not be any hurry anyway!
Oh, and to all you people who drive in the passing lane on the highway? The ones who are in the left lane long enough to declare residency? THE SAME GOES FOR YOU!!!!
Pull over!! If you are passing someone even slower than you (as if) then DO IT! And then PULL OVER!!
And if you are trying to keep ME from speeding? Well until they give you a badge and a siren YOU ARE NOT THE PROTECTOR OF THE SPEED LIMIT!
Its not even that I speed! I just want to get around the slower traffic and some moron is coasting along in the left lane for 100 miles while a trail of cars get caught behind them.
Of course George Carlin can explain it better than I ever could.
Enjoy!
~ Glenn
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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