Freaky... I was thinking about this place the other day, and decided to stop by and see how everyone was doing myself. Had today off, had a dentist appt this morning.. Finally breaking down and getting upper dentures. My upper teeth have been a mess since I was a teenager, never seemed to matter how much I brushed, I would have two to four cavities every time I went to the dentist, have had 3 different teeth pulled in the last 10 years, and finaly got tired of messing with them. Todays appt was to make the mold for the final denture casting, right now I have four teeth up front on the top, the rest were pulled back around xmas. About two more weeks and I'll go back in and have the front ones pulled and the dentures put in. For some reason my bottom teeth have always been in great shape while my top went to hell, so they are all still original, and only had one cavity they filled today as well.
Other than that, the kids are doing ok. Oldest daughter is turning 20 this July, she's finishing up her first year of college, and doing well, I think shes gone from being a Dental Asst, to a Nurse, to now a Teacher, but thats alright, took me 16 years to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up, if she figures it out in the next three years, I'll be impressed. My oldest son turned 18 back in Sept, decided he wanted to strike out into the world and pave his own course. That worked for about three months and he's back living with his mom again now. I guess he took it seriously when I told him a couple months ago that if all he is going to tell me is lies, I'd rather not hear it, as he doesn't talk to me much anymore. Thats ok though, he will realize soon enough that I actually knew what I was talking about, at least a little bit of it. The only thing that really bites my ass now is that he was a Senior in High School, I guess that going to school thing was a bit too much to handle, he tells me hes in the process of getting his GED, but I'm not sure if thats just to appease me or piss me off more... The middle daughter is also a Senior this year and is doing really well, got the college she wants to go to picked out and actually picked a small community college about 30 miles from here, she was our ADHD kid, doing much better with that, but relieved to know she'll be close by also. The youngest daughter is 16 now, dating four or five different boys in any given week, and having a glorious time messing with their heads I'm afraid. Still getting almost straight A's in school, yet I hardly ever see her doing homework, maybe thats what she keeps the boys around for. My middle boy is going to be getting his drivers Permit this June, and is already bugging me about which car he gets to practice in. Not sure yet about that, just got a new Sebring a couple months ago, still have the Suburban and the Eclipse, and the wife is in an Avenger now. Probably be the Burb, it's still bigger than most of the vehicles on the road, but it still scares the daylights out of me to think about him driving, even after I've got four that have been driving now for quite a while. The youngest boy is turning out to be my only football player, track starts in a couple weeks and he is excited about that, not for track, but the coach told him he should do it, so he's doing it. Going to have to have a talk with this coach sometime, seems like anything he tells the boy to do, the boy does. This could work in our favor.
My wife is in her Masters program now, she got a supervisor job about a year ago and has been doing well in that, although she still is in Social Work, so still gets to deal with the dregs of society on a daily basis. But she also gets to help people too, I try to remind her of that often. I'm still doing mainframe programming, I'm a team lead now, so I have four people under me that I assign work to, review their code, write up documentation, all that good stuff. I still get to code myself every once in a while, so it's not so bad. Thinking about moving up to to a Supervisor position there as well, but then coding would be a very rare thing, not sure if I want to give that up or not. Only downside in the present job is that I rarely get time to surf at work much anymore, and don't really feel like doing much on a computer when I am at home now.
Long Island is 100 miles long. Urban on the western end, farmland on the eastern end. It's pretty diverse. I'm about halfway out now so I'm getting the best of both worlds.Hiyas Greenie!
I'm at a crossroads with photography. There are a lot of things I could be doing to make money at it but I am unsure whether I want it to become a job. I enjoy it so much, I'd hate to lose that by it being an obligation. I went to your site last night and saw you have your own business thing goin on. Is it a side thing or are you investing time/$ in it?
Same as me
