Well she is over Florida

My daughter left tonight for Argentina. Right now she is over Florida, I listened to JFK tower and watched her on Radar. I have a program that lets me track aircraft. She had a little problem with an overweight carryon, but other than that everything seems to be going ok. She was texting me while waiting for her plane. I did that for about 2 rounds before I just called her. I still don't know why people rather text instead of just talking. Wait till they get old and can't see the letters or remember how it works in the first place. Just checked at 1:00 Am she is just east of Kennedy Space flight center doing 454 kts at 32000 ft, with 5 hours and 34 minutes to go. They just turned to a more southly heading. Well I better go to bed. It is going to snow 5 to 10 inches Sunday night into Monday. Why am I not in Florida. And of course I have a Dr appointment for 8:15 on Monday.

Well she left me

Sounds drastic doesn't it, Well my oldest daughter is packed and on her way to Argentina. Today has been a bad day. Did you ever have a day when things just didn't go the way you exactly wanted. It is just an uneasy feeling a person gets. My daughter is leaving the home nest, (OK she left years ago) but having her with me for the last few months has been really nice. And letting her go has been difficult for me.(not like I had any control over them for years(fathers never feel they lost control over their kids)). I can't really complain over their independent action, I was never one to be told anything. Not that I'm not happy with her choice and I have met her whole new family in Argentina and feel that they will take care of her. It is just that she will be so far away and I just can't hop in the car and see her in a hour and a half. (OK make that 50 minutes, I drive fast). Well it is going to take a while to get used to it. Of course I have skpe and magic jack so communication won't be a problem. Well more to come on the subject later. One advantage is that I got to take both my daughters and my grand daughter and of course my wife out to dinner at a really good Mexican restaurant. (Not TexMex). We haven't done that for a long while (all of us getting together at the same time). On another matter. I noticed my sister-in-law has been writing in her blog again( after i proded her about not writing for a month). She is good at it and it seems to allow her to relax and she is good at writing about things. She retired from her work a few years ago and then felt obligated to get a part time job in a gym. She evidently forgot the meaning of retirement is not to start working a new job. I didn't retire to change job titles. Anyhow she quit the job on Thursday (good for her) (she would have been better at being a greeter at WalMart, she tends to be good with people. Anyhow, retirement means that you can now go and do things that interest you and enjoy it. Working as a volunteer in some work or going on trips or doing something. Since I have been retired (2 1/2 years now) I have found lots of things to keep me really busy. And I still get my traveling done. I do watch certain programs but on my schedule with my DVR's (2) i reschedule tv when I have the time to watch.
So any how I'm glad Robin got untied from the job, now go out and do something.
Like writing, I'm not an expert in writing, but I know what sounds good.
I better stop, don't want her heas to get too big.
Tomorrow is laundry day, I enjoy that, I don't know why, but I do.
Checking the weather, I see they (the weathermen) are calling for a mixed event for Sat night and Sunday. As a formal teacher of meteorology, that means the weatherman don't know exactly what is going to happen, just that something is going to happen. Not an exact science.
Midnight wasn't very happy with all his sisters and niece coming into the house today. He gave a glance and then departed for the nether regions until his relatives all left.
Well I probably forgot things I wanted to say, but there is always next time.
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I'm missing a blog

Somehow i lost a blog entry. I remember writing it, but I can't find it. A little like getting up to do something and then not remembering why you got up. I would be worried about that if it wasn't for the fact that I been doing that since I was a little kid. Doctors say it is because my mind (yes I have one) works on many levels (I counted five once in a test) and I just replaced the thought with another one of more importance. When I was teaching I usually operated on 3 or 4 levels. Anyhow I just remembered why I started this blog. Midnight has been helping me watch TV, he tolerates my programs but if I let him alone with the remote control he would change the channel. On my older set, I would come home and find the TV on. At first, I thought I was getting forgetful, but after it occurred several times I realized it was Midnight turning it on. As you probably remember, my oldest daughter is leaving the country and moving to Argentina leaving her elderly, disabled father to fend for himself in this cruel world. An example of this cruelty, she forced me to make her
(actually her Mothers) Mac and cheese dish. Actually I thought it was very good, no one has gotten sick yet. My lack of cooking ability goes back to my high school days when I took Home Economics, which taught us how to cook besides other things. I was actually really good in that class getting all A's in it. Then came the luncheon for the Prinicpal of the School. Well I made shrimp salad (my speciality at the time) and the Principal ate it and got sick and was out of school for a week. Well that experienced scarred me for life. Never again could I cook. Everytime I tried to cook, a disaster occurred. I decided to cook a hot dog one day. Simple thing, just put water in a pot and throw in the hot dog. Well I got a phone call from Mary (my future wife and my daughters Mother) and she and I were talking and talking and then I heard the fire trucks coming and remembered the hot dog. Well the fire trucks weren't coming to my house but the pan could never be used again. So as you can see I have a history of lack of cooking skills. Also as part of the problem, as a science teacher, I only knew the metric system and could not figure out the english cooking measurements.
On another note, my oldest daughter is leaving in 3 days, having her with me for the last few months has been nice. I guess we got reconnected only things. I'm sure she now knows that I have gone off the deep end with my animal sounds that I make all the time. Maybe that's why she wants to leave her aged,elderly father for the high life in Argentina. Either way the time together is getting less and less and soon she will begin her next part of her life. I try to look at the plus side of this, but I think she knows that I will miss her very much. And hopefully I can visit her once a year.
Well that's it for now

snow is gone

Well it didn't last long, so that's a good thing. My oldest daughter, (the one who is abandoning her old elderly father to live the high life in Argentina) wrote in her blog about things you need and things you don't need. That got me thinking. Why do people buy things. Well I buy things because of need and I love electronic gadgets. When I was a little kid I convinced my twin brother and my parents that I should have my own room. Hence my brother moved into the back room and I got the middle room. We used to share the middle room which was smaller than the back bedroom. So why didn't I take the bigger room. Well I knew that it was the coldest room in the house. Well over a period of time, I bought my own TV for my room (I tend to save for things), bought my own reel to reel tape recorder (a Webcor) and when the telephone man came to do some work on my parents phone in their bedroom I was able to convince my mother that I really needed a phone in my room. When I got my Ham radio license I got my Ham radio equipment in my room. Hence sending me to my room when on very rare occasions when I was bad was not all that bad. Sunday night I always watched What's My Line while laying in bed. I also hooked up headphones so I could watch TV without anyone knowing it. I also bought an air conditioner for my room. And so I got use to having my own list of necessities. I guess that is why I like things. like a 21 inch LCD monitor for the computer (my eyes aren't as good as they used to be)(That's what I tell people). A 52 inch LCD High Definition TV, (same reason as the 21 inch computer monitor). 1500 cable channels (not sure why I have so many, haven't looked at half of them). and a high speed internet connection (20 down, 5 up). I had originally intended to move to the Mountains of Arizona before I met my wife 5 years ago. I had intended to move there the day I retired. So back to the neccessities of life. If I had moved there would I have all the neccessities that I have now. I like the outdoors and I like hiking in the mountains, so I wonder if I would really need all those neccessities I have now........wish I knew the answer to that, but then is it really that important. And finally, my sister-in-law still hasn't written anything in her blog. Maybe she forgot how to turn on the computer.
That's it for now

Viewpoints

Just looked out the window and it is snowing, I mentioned before my dislike for snow. Strange that I used to live in Colorado and when I was teaching, Snow could lead to a snowday. Still remember the school closing number (470). I guess the reason I don't like snow is the shoveling and the fact that people don't remember how to drive in snow and run into things. Had a friend who grew up in Southern Florida, he never saw snow so one winter he drove up to Pennsylvania and stayed around until it snowed. He went out to drive in it and promptly totaled his car. As far as I know he has never returned to the cold North. Midnight came by to see what I was doing and left to go back to watch TV. I have to place the control so he doesn't change the channel. I noticed my sister-in-law who yelled at me for not keeping up with my blog hasn't written anything in a long while. Time to heckle. My oldest daughter leaves in two weeks, she makes a really good Mac and Cheese (almost as good as her mother's) so I need to have her make some Mac and cheese for me before she leaves. We have made all the arrangements to keep in touch (Skype and Majic Jack) but it is not the same thing as actually seeing her in person. Not sure if she understands that. But she gets her independence and her spirit from me. I never liked being in one place and life is too short to wish you had done something. It would have been nice if it was South Jersey she was moving to instead of Argentina, but whatever makes her happy is the most important thing. Besides I went down to Argentina to investigate where and with whom she was going. Her new family passed with flying colors. I feel very secure with them. Argentina is nice also except for the drivers and the fact that you can't get a few important items. On another note, as you know Midnight is a black cat, he has the habit of sleeping on black chairs or anything dark. I almost sat on him again today, maybe I showl put a light on his head so I can see him.
Well I wrote enough.

It's Feb already

I'm Back. When I told my friends I was going to retire some of them said I would be bored in a year. Well It is 2 1/2 years and I'm not bored yet. So there. Anyhow that's my excuse for not writing. My sister in law is in Florida. It was 37 degrees there last night. She went down there to get warm. I guess she didn't go far enough South. Midnight, the namesake of this story has been busy sleeping and stalking imaginary creatures. He actually found and tracked a bug last night. He kinda of lays down and points at it. He used to bat it with his paw when he was younger. Now he sits and stares until he gets all attention. It showed here on Tuesday (about 4 inches). When I lived in Colorado that amount would be called a light dusting. I'm starting to plan a trip to Argentina to visit my oldest daughter. Of course she is still here until Feb 28, but I think there is a law that you must see you daughter at least every 6 months or you lose your status as a dad. Same Idea as passports and all. Hopefully she will be able to come home at Christmas and renew my status as Dad. Last Christmas she was in Argentina, Christmas didn't seem like Christmas last year. Maybe I shouldn't say that since she may read this and it sounded mushy.
Anyhow, midnight just came in and meowed at me and turned around and left. Not sure what he wanted. Usually he comes in to get petted and then he leaves. I guess he saw I was typing.
I was thinking that I heard once that as you get older you learn more and become wiser. But I also read that as you get older you tend to forget more. Maybe if you don't learn to much you will have less to forget.
Now I know where I went wrong. Actually I like learning and teaching. I guess that is why I went into education. I like reading, my eyes tend to not allow as much as I would like but I have a magnifying glass so I can read the fine print. Just seems the fine print is getting smaller everyday.
Well time to go and making chicken noises at my daughter. Maybe she will think I'm going wacko and decide not to go to Argentina and stay here to take care of me in my old age.
Naw, she is to smart. She will see right through my plan. Well it is fun to annoy her.
OK I wrote enough.