("THE" Jesus welcomes "Bill "the BRADNER.CC guy" Bradner", in the year 2056 A.D., into
HEAVEN with "Open Arms"!! "Way to go BILL, You ROCK!!":-)
Welcome
to Bradner.CC's "Journal 8; "A NEW DAY!!" (...AGAIN!!! LOL!!)" Webpage! (entries
from 3/29/2008 A.D. - present)
(*note AT 23:31 (EST -05:00 GMT)
on Friday, March 28th, 2008 A.D., leave "Kohl's Department Stores, #253 (Franklin Park) / 4865 Monroe St. / Toledo, OH USA"
as a "currently employed" Kohl's associate, for the last time! Woohoo!!) **I asked if I could leave. Steve said "So your
done?" I said "Yes, I'm done". :-), and turned in my "effective last night at 11:31p.m." resignation the next morning. (It
was getting too depressing for me to work there - So, I have taken a "leave of abscence" - WELL, that was before the world
economy "tanked"!! OUCH. I thank them and will always be grateful for the friendships and memories, the time, money and
effort they spent on me, and the valuable work experience I received!! BUT my working there was just "too hard" on me at
the time, and I think too maybe some others as well? (family, associates, customers, friends...) (As my last words said:
"It will all work out for the better." :-)
Sat., 3/29/08 - It's "A NEW DAY"!! Home at 12;01 a.m. (I had called Krista
back, asked her how Kylie was, and "Thanked her", bought some milk, sodapop and cigarettes at Speedway. Then drove to my
parents house on Naomi. :-) Make coffee, go to www.Monster.com - sign up and send in resume with Aquent marketing company
online for a job in the "Entertainment Industry". Watch CNN, update website. (created 18th webpage to BRADNER.cc - "Journal
8; "A NEW DAY"!!" "Hey IMAGINE THAT!!" LOL!!) watch CNN somemore, (EMAIL CNN - let Anderson Cooper I am now available,
LOL!), do laundry, wait for "call back" from THE leader in the "Entertainment Industry" (*note I leave out the details - "haggle",
"comprise", "accept offer", "instant stardom", "etc..", at least until "It's a "NEW DAY" AGAIN!!
3/29/08 - 04:30 am
- Call Kohl's let them know: "I won't be in today. Then emailed a "resignation letter" to the store, district manager, and
district maintenance manager. I did learn how to "Operate, Maintain, and Effectively use" many MAINTENANCE tools and equipment.
(Lo Speed scrubber / Hi-speed scrubber (1500rpm) / Falcon Autoscrubber / Battery-powered vac / Floorcare (Marble/Vinyl Tile/Ceramic
Tile) / the list goes on..!! Not to mention "8 1/2 more years of "Mid-level (2nd tier) Supervisory Experience"!! (Was given
much to take with me to my next position! Thanks Kohl's, you ROCK!:-) (*sigh)
Finally, shut-down garage, to bed,
sleep....To bed, say a prayer that tomorrow will be a "BETTER Day!!" LOL!!:-)
Thurs., 4/3/08 - HOME OPENER at
fifth third field Toledo!! I bought my ticket on wednesday (third baseline side / about 10 rows behind the Mudhens dugout!:-)
Watched the Mudhens WIN over Durham Bulls by 3 to 2!! (After I finally found parking - on Water Street, behind the WIOT studios,
for $10.00!! D@ng!! LOL) Home, update myspace sites, watch basketball, chat on yahoo.com, bed.
Fri., 4/4/08 - Sleep
in, walk to speedway with my new Insignia MP3/Video player AND new "Bluetooth" wireless headphones! (Shwweet!:-), home, clean,
walk over to library (closed!:-( watch baseball practice at Erme field next door. (Read news that our class president's (yeah
Whitmer class of '78) Dave hernandez's dad had passed away - Jesus Hernandez R.I.P. sir, your family will be in our prayers.:-),
call Krista, pickup Kylie at her mom's house. Home, kylie on computer, Bill make pizza, Bill and Kylie play "guitar hero"
until 10:30, Bill read to Kylie, kylie to bed. Bill chat on yahoo.com and watch ESPN highlights. Bed.
Sat., 4/5/08
- Bill sleep in, kylie call her mom and tell her "I broke my gameboy, dad will be mad"....put her mom on phone who told me:
"don't be mad at her, she's scared you will be mad at her". Bill laugh (not mad! LOL), put up games and charger until Kylie
gets another one (b-day or christmas:-), Bill do dishes, kylie play PS2, Bill surf web out in garage. Kylie on computer to
update her "Webkinz" character's pages. Bill watch bball in garage, Kylie make her bed, dress, play guitar hero. Bill shower,
dress, do laundry, Bill and Ky to new Menard's store on Alexis, buy counduit for lampost out front, paint, hang sign we had
made at "Busch gardens" in florida. Eat lunch, ride bikes, play bball in driveway. Marcos pizza for dinner, watch "the
BEE movie", eat ice cream, read bedtime stories to Kylie. Bed. Bill play "WSOP" on PS2 online. Bed.
Sun., 4/6/08 -
Bill and Kylie to church, home change clothes, bill take Kylie home, home, nap. lunch, watch bball, study bible study, to
bible study, eat, home, bed.
Thurs., 4/10/08 - Sleep in, out to garage to watch news, read morning paper, check my
webpages. I tried several times, (as did the recent two days too), update my "policelink.com" profile. (*note as it turns
out got my PL account "suspended for 3 days" because I posted in "LEO only" forum (Doyh!! Oh well the sanction has been lifted,
so I'm back on there. LOL!)
Fri., 4/11/08 - Call Larry Godfrey from Aldersgate, as Dad suggested, told him about my
employment situation. Larry said (and Krista recommended too:-) that I call the Unemployment office, and tell them: "I would
like to file for unemployment. I quit my job due to "unexpected extended leave of absence". (Told my dad, he said "Yeah
right" LOL!:-) (Krista had told me during the week that Kylie could spend the night here friday and saturday night. I
had plans (pizza, ping-pong, etc...). At 4:00 she called me, "Lois asked if Kylie could spend the night at her house (Lois
and her Ex (sandy)'s daughter Julie, and Kylie are friends.), you can pick her up tomorrow and keep her tomorrow night and
drop her off sunday. (long-story-short, "I forgot" DOYHH!!)
Sat., 4/12/08 - (see the last part of Friday 4/11/08
entry.) Sun., 4/14/08 - Sleep in. (I had already emailed Perry Johnson (AUMC - praise band, "Mountain Majesty" music coordinator/guitar
player) and told him: "I don't want to play in this performance (a "tribute" to Pastor Marilynn Schroeder, whom is retiring
to spend more time with her grandchildren) coming up (Sun., 27th), because I would rather "Hear the beautiful music from the
Pew" (AND get to watch the epressions on Pastor Schroeder's face, as she hears the wonderful strains of music being played
in her honor! :-), Bonny call - talk to her and Andy (Andy now has a 3.76 overall GPA, and thinks he will get a 3.96 this
semester to bring that up even more! Go Andy! Go Andy! You Rock! OSU Rocks!! You "da Gossard"! You "da Gossard"!!)
Talk to Mom and Dad on the phone (ask them how they are, how's the weather, what Dad thought about Tiger's chances for the
Masters, etc...) Update Policelink and ESPN profiles (put my bid in on ESPN for why TOLEDO should be THE "TitleTown;WORLD"!!
(I told them it is because "I" live here! ("The BILL BRADNER" LOL!!) and I am the greatest SportsNut in the world! Thus
by default, "TOLEDO would be the TITLETOWN of the WORLD"!! Yeah TOLEDO!! We ROCK!! GO TOLEDO!! You "da TITLETOWN"!!)
Mon.,
4/14/08 - Krista call at 10:00am, ask if I could pick up Kylie from school, so that she and Jeff could go to the bank and
get financing for a 2005 chevy impala. I said I would. Pickup Ky at 3:20 at her mom's house, right after she got off the
bus, drive straight to my house (I asked her: "Do you want to do your homework at the library, or at home at the kitchen
table?" She said: "at home". Kylie worked on homework. Bill log onto "http://unemployment.ohio.gov" to register my "Unemployment Application" (I selected "Quit job" for
"personal reasons" (they didn't have a "Hostile work environment" listed, or a "personality conflict with manager/associates",
so I went with that.:-) Bill and Ky ride bikes on sidewalk up to the video store. LOL!:-) Bill give Ky snacks (Apple,
cheezits, tea, slice of cake that Mrs. Wietrokowski gave to Ky and I, glass of milk), load up her bookbag and lunchbag, call
her mom to let her know we were on our way, drive Ky back up to Temperance. Wait at Krista's house for her and jeff. Jeff
get there first, unlock door and set Ky's things inside. Ky play in front yard with Alyssa (She and her other friend, are
going to be a Bedford cheerleader for the "T-BIRDS". Kylie wanted to sign up for the cheerleading camp, but it was $150.00
and with BOTH Krista and I unemployed right now, we just couldn't swing it. :-( Meet Kylie's friend Rita, walking her
dog past the house, say "Hi" to the group of 12 kids playing at the park across the street. Krista get home, show me her
new car (only 50,000 miles, Swwwweeeeet!). Bill back home, watch ESPN, update websites, watch News, work on myspace) Woohooo
I "fabricated" a new "faux photo" for my myspace page to post on our "SWITKIK"
(Now
"Defunct" - we haven't played since "last millennium", LOL!) AND, post the next day on Grant and Beth grohowski's profile page....take a look, (***see TOP of this
page, LOL)and let me know what you think! (I sure PRAY this one comes true! LOL! "Bless you all, I'll write more later!
Bill)
Tues., 4/15/08 - "GREAT AMERICAN TAXDAY PEOPLE!" Pay up! (LOL!) Bill sleep in, pickup paper from the porch
(thanks Greg!), out to garage to update this page. Watch ESPN highlights, have my morning coffee. Perry call, we FINALLY
got the percussion part straightened out for the Sun., 4/15/08 performance! (Jane Newmeyer is going to get one of her Bedford
students to perform the percussion parts for this show! (Jane is music director of the ENTIRE Bedford School district - which
was reported, by The Toledo blade, as having a "Above Average District Proficiency" for the STATE of MICHIGAN!! I recommended
one of her students (whom also is a member of our church:-) Jason Brobst! Alright! (Does our "Kylie" have a great school
system, or what!?!! and I'm hoping Kylie will play sandblocks on one of the songs:-) (All I have to do is bring the sheet
music to practice tomorrow night, and help the student with his drum part for the performance! Woohoo, I always wanted to
be a Percussion Instructor!:-) THAT WAY, I can videotape the service, and post it on OUR BRAND NEW "MOUNTAIN MAJESTY" myspace webpage!)!! Laundry, clean,
fix dinner (pizza bread, mmmmm, LOL:-), work on Mountain Majesty myspace webpage... .....
Sat., 4/20/08 - I went
to the BGSU spring intrasquad football game, and Kylie said she would rather go to her mom's house and play, so I called Krista
to make sure it was okay, then dropped Kylie off at her mom's. Well, long story short - I went to BG and watched the game
(Brown team won 7 - 3!) "Go BG!! You won!!" LOL!!:-) (*note to myself - I STILL can't find that "misplaced item" in our
house to this day - can't put my finger on it's exact location, (I don't know, a prayer to "St. Micheal - the "lost things
saint" and maybe it will "be there for me", but I don't want to "swear to it", LOL!:-)
Highlights for the week: Posted
more pics to my "Photobucket"....meet a "arbitrator" who's grandaughter goes to same school as Kylie (and get this her name
is "Munro" LOL!) Had a talk with some of the neighbors. (One of told me seems like you're being "awfully nice to my ",
but "I'm never going to have to get "upset" about you doing anything "inappropriate", am I?" (I assured him, "No, you will
never have anything to worry about, from now on, Sir!":-) (**Prayed somemore our own "Kylie" will be someday a REIGNING
"MISS WORLD LEO GRANDAUGHTER"!! (Although in my humble (and Male:-) opinion "They ALL have THE potential"!! Go "Ky-Ky" go
"MISS"!!:-)
(*check "prayers page" for "prayers about this and "safe travel" for all "Holiday travelers" (and their
guests, hosts, etc... "abib(?)e and "BE Merry"!!:-) (I have to sign off now, I am riding my bicycle to Dan Rodgers now
- to get my T-Shirt heat-pressed for the Memorial Day celebration.) (5/16/08**note to me - invite Kylie, Roxy, Leah, Greg
to "bake some cookies, (email ahead) and take to "TPD firehouses and police stations).
Good news on the "job front"
too - call from "OH job services, they have a job that fits my requirements, I am going to call monday to get the details
to apply. "Life is good, hahahaha!":-) That same day, bonny drove up from cincinnati, we went to michigan picked up Kylie
and the 3 of us enjoyed dinner, games, movie, deserts, popcorn, phone calls (with M & D, and aunt Bev), etc.. Bonny and
Kylie also watched me perform sunday at Aldersgate AND videotaped...so look for footage of that on "Bradner.cc" soon! "That's
all for now...ttys, B:-) (*note - if Jeff doesn't want to be "friends with me", hey that's okay, I'm probably not good
enough to be a friend to him anyway. (Just please don't be mean to my parents. I've known them all my life, and I think they
deserve the best. :-) 5/18/08 - After church, home, unload drums, change clothes, take kylie home. Return home and then
after cleaning some more (wash,dry,fold laundry), and eating lunch (reheated pizza), I waved goodbye while "seeing bonny off"
(back to Cincinnati) and "layed down" for a short nap. To speedway, buy "Mocca Latte" iced coffee, call Mom and Dad, tell
them about performance and Bonny and Kylie and I's visit (and all about Bonny's "cleaning":-), they said "love you, see you
when we get home (June 8th! woohoo!)", go back to Aldersgate for bible study class. Met 2 members of my class in church
parking lot just as I was heading in. (Tony Edgington and Doug Craeger, they told me we had class from 2:30 - 6:30 (double
seesion), and we only have "one last meeting" - next sunday, at Karen Price's house, for "communion" and "last gathering dinner"
and study, then it's "onto graduation"!! (Woohoo, "Mountaintop" here we come!:-). Doug gave me his copy of information sheet
(directions, instructions for class, meeting time, etc..). Drive home, stop at speedway for one last "fillup" of "ice coffee"
for the night. (Had already "filled up the car" (my first FIFTY dollar filup! Dang!! After I dropped Ky off and stopped
and bought groceries and 3 new DVD's at target! (Raiders of the lost ark trilogy!!:-)) Down basement, finish drying and
folding last 2 loads of laundry, update website, move webcam down basement, pay "best buy" bill online, move PS2 back into
family room. Download last of data off of laptop onto flash drive, get it ready to take to Bets buy first thing in the morning,
so I can get it loaded with Windows Vista. Play PS2 WSOP poker online, eat popcorn, watch MAD MONEY DVD (bought it saturday
before Bonny came up! AND GRAND THEFT AUTO IV!!), sip coffee, bed. (**written EARLIER "Prior to, and in anticipation of:
"Sun., May 18th, 2008" - Grammie and Grampie home from Florida!! At 10:45 am, Bill will be performing at Aldersgate United
Methodist Church, with "Mountain Majesty" (The AUMC praise band:-). We will be performing 2 songs (the first is a "Tribute"
to Pastor Marilynn Schroeder, our pastor whom is retiring. (It is a 7 medley of 7 different Hymns and Gospel songs, arranged
by Perry Johnson - "How great thou Art / Hymn to Joy / I want Jesus to walk with me / Precious / Soon and Very Soon / Amazing
Grace / Just a closer walk with Thee". Our second song will be "Only a Heartbeat away" (by Marty Parks). We hope you will
come out and hear us, worship with us, and praise!
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY, 2008 A.D. "LET THERE BE PEACE ON
EARTH, AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME... (You know I will "Thank a Vet today, and our Father the trinity...":-) (I actually already
"thanked OUR father yesterday, but little does he know, I am going to "call he and mom again today, "JUST to tell them I LOVE
THEM" - and...maybe sneak in one more: "Thank you for being an American Veteran, Sir! I appreciate all you have donw for
our country, may God Bless you and yours Sir." ...It's a new day!! (and mine started off with a "public television" rebroadcast
of the Memorial Day celebration from Washington D.C. - and Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald siinging "A Prayer for Peace". (..ahhhh:-)
Before that I heard the singing of "God Bless America".. (I love that song!:-) (When I get to be a Big Rock star....I am
going to "combine those two into one song, do them ROCK and ROLL style (ya know "Heavy Metal" (but NOT disrespectful in ANY
MEANS....NO!! I'm going to do them as "tastefully, respectfully and "toe-tappin/hand-clappin-LY" as can "HUMANYLY BE ACCOMPLISHED!!"
- I "PROMISE YOU LORD"!! I really will...with ALL my soul and MIGHT, GOD!! - (***note to GOD - Hey, also "keep that little
PRAYER" I posted here (you know, the one about the "insurgents", just between you and I for now, okay:-) (*sigh...thanks) "THANK
YOU AMERICAN VETERANS!!! GOD BLESS YOU!! and "GOD BLESS YOURS!! MAY YOU FIND PEACE AND ETERNAL HAPPINESS IN THE LOVING BOUNDARIES
OF OUR LORD!!" (Amen) Worked on the websites (sent "Carleigh" a "friends invitatin from our "Swiftkik" myspace webpage
- ;-)
Tues., 5/27/08 - Sleep in (stayed up late the night before and worked on the webpages, watched ESPN highlights
- Man the Tigers have been having some "high-scoring games" (When they are "on their games - They sure get them Bats working!) Personal
highlights from the past week: - Neighbors put in a "nice flowerbed" (Mom's gonna love it!) - Created a new group on
Facebook.com - "God Bless The American Veterans!" (sent an invitatin to all those on my friends list! I put links to the
American Veterans Association website, and included
their general contact email address. (In case anyone wanted to send them a "Thank you for being an American Veteran" via
email. :-) - Created a short "GIF movie" to post on Bradner.cc for my Policelink.com profile webpage. It is a 12 frame animated
GIF of the "21 gun salute" by the Toledo Police Department, at the Civic center mall, in downtown Toledo, OH USA, during
the memorial day ceremony in 2006. - Attended 2 Toledo Mudhen's games at 5th/3rd field over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
(We didn't quit "fare so well" at the 2 games I attended (3rd game of 3 in home series with Louisville, and 1st game in 3
game home series with Buffalo. But, we're still in first in IL west, so I went ahead and bought my "Mudhen's sleeveless jersey,
and took it over to Dan Rodger's sporting goods, to have "Bradner Productions LLC" embroidered on the back, and an american
flag and christian cross stitched onto the front. Also while I was there, I checked on my "SWIFTKIK" jacket that I had "Myspc/SWIFTKIK"
added in embroidery on the back - sometime next week it will be ready. So be sure to "look for me "Sport'n that one!"" LOL!) Okay,
back to Tues., 5/27/08 - Did grocery shopping at the Anderson's, and finished laundry leftover from the night before, have
some McDonald's for dinner.
Wed., 5/28/08 - Sleep in until 11:00am. Read morning paper (God please be
with those victims and effected by the tornados - And please God no "tornado records" this year.) Speedway, afternoon "Mocha
latte iced coffee, and donut, pack of smokes. Over to library for an hour, add links to 4 swiftkik songs ( Swiftkik - All
my love / Swiftkik - Wanted / Swiftkik - Cross the line / Swiftkik - Leave me alone ) to myspace.com/SWIFTKIK MP3 download
webpage! Here ya go: SWIFTKIK - "ALL MY LOVE" SWIFTKIK - "Cross the line" SWIFTKIK - WANTED SWIFTKIK - RAMPAGE
Fri.,
5/30/08 - Mom and Dad leave florida to return to Toledo for 3 1/2 months! woooohooo! Bill do laundry, organize the basement
some (so it won't be a total shock to Mom and Dad when they get home!:-) Move stereo system from family room back down the
basement (speakers back out to living room, so Dad can play his "33 1/3 LPs" for he and mom again to relax. Take the last
of kylie and I's things out of their bedroom, put 4'x6' OSU rug that was on family room floor upstairs on floor in bonny's
old room. Do dishes in dishwasher. Finish folding laundry. Order $5.99 medium pepperoni pizza from Marco's, pickup. Eat
dinner in front of TV. Upstairs, webcam and chat on yahoo (thanks "Shut_the_front_door") Play WSOP08 online on PS2, bed.
Sat.,
5/31/08 - Only one more day til mom and dad are home! (They should be getting into bonny's from Tennessee about 5 pm:-)
Vacuum entire house, scrub spots out of family room carpet with soda water and toothbrush. Was all set to go see Johnny (and
Tammi's:-) Cappelletty's band play (Key's to Eden) at Bijou tonight, but I later had to "Nix" that. Heat up last of pizza
for dinner. Empty ice cube trays for mom and dad. Pay bills online (BB, At&T, Verizon). Prepare to go to bank 9 am monday
to withdraw child support payment ($377) and drive up to Monroe county courthouse to pay for month of June, on monday. Update
website, watch ESPN highlights, eat popcorn, enjoy "last night of freedom for 3 1/2 months" To bed by 3:30, so I can get up
at 7 and get to church by 8:00 (so I can pray "Dad doesn't KILL me" when he sees I have some bills that I have been "refinancing"
(thank god! 0% interest until september and december! aghhhhhh!!)
Sun., 6/1/08 - WELCOME HOME MOM AND DAD!! Glad
you could make it! :-) Welcome, come on in, and "stay awhile" - (YEAH, like 4 months!! LOL!) Bill to church, home change
clothes, go to Anderson's buy rope clothesline to "tie up 8 foot 2x4's that are base of "interior wall" plastic sheeting "vapor
barrier" to rafters of garage. (That is one thing I "have to get done" before mom and dad pull in the drive - Dad said "You
can put that stuff up, BUT, I want my garage back when I get home!!") Hug mom and dad as they finally walk back in there
Toledo home! Help them with there bags...then "get out of there way" (It's always "such a deal" for mom to "arrive back home"
- she has to "check everything out" and "inspect" and "critic" and "what not"....LOL!! So I think I'll just "go for a drive
for a couple of hours" until I was to go to my "final bible study session" at 5 pm (Karen Price house - communion, ceremony,
snacks, refreshments, hugs, well wishes, "See you at graduation"!! LOL. I didn't attend because I will be finishing the last
of my "mountaintop completion cerficate in the fall, when I retake the class:-) Home, visit with mom and dad, ask them about
their drive, watch TV, to bed. (Have to go to Monroe tomorrow a.m.)
Wed., 6/5/08 - Up at 7am, read paper in the
garage, sip coffee. Create a GIF movie file for one of my "myspace friends", model Carleigh Wallace in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
She
does some work with AMiginations Photography Studios down there, and I downloaded some of her photos from a shoot with them,
and created a 5 cell GIF. I posted it from my "Bradner Productions LLC" account. Mom and Dad grocery shopping at Krogers
(Dad said "Everyone must have gotten there Stimulus checks and spent them at Kroger's that day" LOL). Bill take a nap, mom
and dad to Arby's for dinner. Bill to speedway (Nora offer me a job, declined due to "insuffieciently low pay":-), home,
create a short MPeg movie file for my facebook and policelink profile pages.
Stay
up and update webpages. Out on backyard back step at 1:30 to have a cigarette before going to bed.
Thurs., 6/5/08
- coffee, newspaper (Read that the Redwings had won another Stanley Cup (4th title in 11 seasons, "Way to go Wings"!) Update
websites, help dad rake the catkins out of grass in the backyard. To state farm, get health insurance (months worth of coverage).
Home, eat lunch, nap. Dinner.
Sat., 6/7/08 - "KYLIE IS COMING TO SPEND HER FIRST WEEK OF SUMMER VACATION HERE WITH
HER GRAMMA AND GRAMPA AND I!! (Woohoo Kylie, it will be great having you here, and being able to see you and laugh with
you more than just three or four days out the month!! ("God, I'm in heaven" Thank you Lord for me being able to be here
with family! I love you!) Up at 6:00 am, make coffee, take coffee and paper out to the garage to read (So mom and dad
could sleep in, and I wouldn't accidentally disturb them). Bid "Falia" (Weitrokowski's Scotch terrier) a good morning when
Roxy let her out (to do her "business", LOL) at 7:00. Shake head at headlines of: "Unemployment rate SHREDS predictions"
(Lucas county here has 6.5%, Ohio 5.5% (**up.5 percent since April - I oughta know, lol), both higher than national. Read
about how "Stock market" had largest one day drop (with news of Unemployment rate, and Oil rising to $139 a barrel - I suppose
we'll see $4.50 a gallon at the pumps by July 4th!!) Bid "Mom and Dad" a good morning when they got up at 8:00am. Move
car for mom so she could drive to RiteAid to get some "home supplies". Go to Speedway to get banannas (sorry M & D, I was
hungry last night - I finished the last.:-( 9:00 - Climb ontop of house and garage roofs, clean twigs, branches, and limbs
off of roof. Clean catkins out of valleys on house roof. Clean bedroom, ride bike over to RiteAid to pickup prescriptions
(woohooo - saved 45% with the MedCo. prescription card over the cost of "no insurance"!) Call Krista make arrangements
to pickup kylie at 2:00. (Help dad repair the vacuum (clogged)), bring back down from upstairs our "Dominoe table" (which
is also versatality-wise used as our "Guesstures" table, "Thank you very much"!! Update website. Watch baseball highlights
on ESPN. Check status of Unemployment claim (no news on an approval and payments yet), and check for any possible "job leads".
None. (I've put in over 6 applications at different companies in the last 2 weeks, and haven't received a call for an interview
from even one of those yet! :-( Sunday and Monday are usually my job hunting days (I'm thinking Toledo hospital, Promedica
and "THE City of TOLEDO!! ("Here I come Mr. Mayor", Wish me luck!) Pickup kylie at 2:00, bring her home!! Help her get
settled into her room for the next 7 days! (Check Mudhens for scheduled home games (I would like to take Ky and Grampie to
a game next week - Kind of as a "vacation treat":-) Get out fishing poles, clean up, lub, check tackle (I promised Kylie
a few mornings of fishing at Oak Openings next week) Get down bike carrier rack from garage attic. Cleanup, try on trunk
of car, take it for a short test drive around the nieghborhood. (I think Ky and I will do a little "trail riding" on a couple
of other mornings, when we are not fishing.:-) Eat dinner (Burgers on the grill - I've missed dad's "grillin" so much for
the last 8 months, my "mouth is waterin" as I type this! LOL! Games of dominoes, ice cream, bedtime story and prayers
with Kylie (Krista asked me not to say anything to Kylie about her 4th semester grade card - She had the lowest marks she
has ever received in 5+ years of school (in science and in math) But I'm not real sure how to approach some "father-daughter
"educational" mentoring, and summer-tutoring with Ky, if I am not supposed to say anything to her about her grades??!? (*The
good news is: SHE is with Mrs. WILEY next year (I asked Ky: "Mrs. Why-lee"?? Ky said: "NO DAD, Mrs. Willy!! ...and got
the news on a LITTLE WILLY gonna be runnin around the classrooms soon! Congrats Mr and Mrs. Wiley!! Woohoo!! (God bless
the teachers, for they are the "Apples of God's eyes"! :-) stay up watch highlights, eat popcorn, "Myspace", up in my room
so as not to disturb the rest of family. (It's difficult on us all, because I have to "sneak out" to the "driveway steps"
to have a cigarette late at night" (sorry bob and roxy, I know that I screen door "creaks", and at 3:00 in the morning that
can sound annoying. I just wish dad would let me get one of those "window exhaust" fans (ya know, with the 2 fan blades),
and tuck it in and out of my bedroom window that is over the driveway door - I could "puff" little "puffs" of cigarette smoke,
and I believe it would be "non-detectable" from anywhere in the house...that way I would never even make a "floor creak" or
"house groan" outside of my own bedroom to "possibly disturb" any other member of our family or ESPECIALLY EVEN THE NEIGHBORS!!
Sunday,
6/8/08 - Church! Halleluahah!! All attend church, home change in to sunday afternoon lazy clothes. Read paper, watch golf,
Kylie lunch (I am pretty much on a "sodapop strictly diet" right now until my "financial situation" improves and I can afford
some of "my own food" :-) Watch Kylie ride her bike up and down the driveway, to look out for cars for her. Play video
games with Kylie up in my room. Watch Dad and Kylie play ping-pong down the basement. Organize my "A/V Production" area
down the basement some. Prepare for dinner. Pretty much the same "routine" after that (We shoot for "a few hours of quality
family time, at this time of the day (turn off TV, play a board game, converse, etc... It's my favorite time of "my life"
:-) Read bedtime story to Ky, say prayers with her, tuck her in bed. Same "nighttime routine" with me (up to my bedroom,
try to "enjoy quiet entertainment" as quietly as possible to "improve my outlook on life" and "bring up my "positive attitude"
for whatever is going to happen tomorrow. "Good night lord, I love you...I am thankful I was born.":-)
Monday 6/9/08
- It's a new day! yup, shure is. *sigh) - Mom has blood work to be done at Promedica at 8:00, (to send results to her
cardiologist in FL, then she is "done for the summer"!!) Dad has golf games on Tues. and Wed. so he wants Kylie and I to
go fishing on Monday and Tuesday mornings, then he will give us money for tickets to a summer matinee movie on wednesday,
(maybe Ky and I can get in some "bike-riding on the park trails" after the movie) then he says on Thursday we are all going
to the TOLEDO ZOO, then Friday it's pack up and "ship Kylie back off to her mom's" (Awww, and Fridays are such good days!
:-)
Sun., 6/9/08 - Bill up first out to garage for a cigarette, pickup the morning "Toledo Free Press", make coffee,
take Ky's cellphone off the charger (her mom says I am to keep it in my room after Ky's bedtime and charge it for her at night)
put it on dresser in Ky's room (she was still "sleeping like a cute angel":-), say goodmorning to Dad, take laptop out to
garage, update Bradner.cc, sip coffee, watch ESPN highlights, hear papercarrier delivering papers, watch CAT in our backyard
(Falia didn't bark too much :-), myspace a little, set out Ky's breakfast bowl and cereal, go back in at 7:30 to shower and
dress for church. (Last night mom signed a card from the 4 of us, to give to Pastor Schroeder, with a honorarium gift check
from Dad, for her "pastoring"). To church, worship and praise, say "hi" to all of M & D's toledo friends with them (lots
of "hugs and you look great"s! LOL) Home, change clothes, ride bike to Anderson's with Kylie and get cantoloupe for snack.
Family fellowshipping, etc., until dinner time, games, bed.
Fri., 6/20/08 - Bill sleep in, ride bike to library and
speedway. Call Krista, make arrangements to pick up Kylie at her aunt Angie's at 8:oopm. Work on webpages, drop Mudhens
jersey off at Dan Rodgers. Return call to Office Max about business cards. ("It's WeB design! NOT WeD design!" LOL) Wash
car, eat dinner with mom and dad (hotdogs, baked beans, potato salad), drive out to Angie and Dave's pickup Kylie (had spent
night there the night before), home, time for 1 hour of "Guesstures" practice (worked on "Sounds like" guessture and "rhyhming
words":-) desert (Grammie made her brownies again), prayers, tuck Kylie in bed. Grampie read and work on crossword puzzles,
grammie to bed, Bill update myspaces, watch ESPN highlights, bed.
Sat. 6/21/08 - B & K over to library to sign up Kylie
for "Summer reading club" ("Catch the READING BUG":-), Ky pickout 4 books, update address on Kylie's library card, Bill and
Ky on computer there. Bill and Ky to Wildwood perserve to walk trails, Kylie read to bill, play on playground equipment (pack
lunch, sodapop). Dad work around house, Mom read paper and rest back in bed. Home, Kylie read, Bill clean, eat dinner (Arby's),
kylie read, watch TV, play guesstures, desert, prayers, bed. Bonny call on the phone, tell us Andy got a summer job. Email
Bev (she is coming in for her WHS 40 year reunion on August 23rd at Toledo Zoo (staying here a week with husband Dave), Bill
send in check for his HS class reunion (30 year) on July 11th and 12th, ride down to mailbox on bike and drop in mail. After
dinner, grampie give bill money to go over to hear "Toledo GLASSMEN Drum and Bugle Corp" at alma mater (WHS) for the "DCI Drum and Bugle Corp Competition"!! (First person I saw when I arrived at
the parking lot was "Patrowoman Robin" (Who always stops across the street to say hello to Julie, and hold her daughter Brea:-)
wave hello, but GA ticket, find place in stands. (I saw some GREAT corps - GLASSMEN, Crossmen, Crusaders, etc...!!). Home
in time to tuck Ky in bed (her and grampie read and watched movie (Raiders of lost ark) while I was at competition. Myspaces,
ESPN highlights.
Sun., 6/21/08 - Everyone up, eat, shower, dress for 10:45 worship service (Pastor Marilynn Schroeder's
last worship service before retirement) Beautiful service, especially children's moments (Kylie received a carnation and
a bag of skittles, got an extra carnation for grammie:-), home, change clothes. Eat lunch, B & K, put bill's bike on bike
carries on back of car, go back to Wildwood perserve. B & K take turns riding bill's bike, Kylie read to dad somemore (already
has 6 hours of summer reading in!), walk trails (Ky said "DAd, look at all the dogs, we need a dog!" LOL) Home, put bike
and rack away, get cleaned up for dinner (Chicken casserole), bill take Ky to Zoo on way home (to hear "Music under stars",
but doesn't start yet), drop Ky off at mom's early, bill back home do laundry, bed.
Mon., 6/23/08 - Dad up early read
paper, Bill showered, dress in slacks and tie, and out the door to downtown. Bill atttend "How to write a successful business
plan" seminar at "Toledo Regional Chamber
of Commerce" in their office at 300 Madison Ave. (Edison building). Our instructor was Bill Wuersell (famous Toledo area
Bicycle shop owner and well respected businessman!:-). Home, change clothes, read paper, see that "NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION"
named the "Toledo Neighborhood Blockwatch Program" (Mission: To form a partnership with community volunteers to create a
safer and more wholesome neighborhoods" woohoo!:-) was awarded NATIONAL RECOGNITON. We were nominated by Lucas Co. Sheriff
James A. Telb (I ALWAYS vote for him!:-). I am a long time acquaintance of Michael Dearth the programs chairman (Mike and
I go way back to the late 80's, several of the Rock bands playing the same venues, etc... and I was a member on Michael's
"TOLEDO MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION" back in the early 90's, a non-profit organization he created and chaired to "bring together
Toledo Bands and the Toledo MUsic scene" (I was nominated as the organization's treasurer, but never served in that respect:-)
Bill ride bike to library, research business plan writing, check out books on subject. On computer, update the Mychurch.org/Kylie webpage. (FINALLY got my "DISCLAIMER" posted on there, that
it was not her that "signed her up" and "put in the wrong age fot her", BUT ME!! (It's made for ages 13 and up, and when
I signed her up I hadn't checked age requirement properly, accidentally entered the wrong birthyear, now she shows up on there
as a 13 year old, NOT 10!! Ooops!!:-) But I think we will hold on to the username and account (I like the "Kylie" and the
address "Mychurch.org/KYLIE"...so I'll personally just update it and use, she can "take it over" when she is 13 for REAL!
LOL) Ride bike over to FIRST CHOICE HAIRSTYLIST/BARBERSHOP
on Alexis at Secor (Lindsey cut my hair, good job Lindz! Used my $3.00 off coupon and "added the $3.00 amount to Lindsey's
tip! whooohoo! Mom said "It looks great"!:-), Stop for icecream, home.
Wed., 6/25/08 - Dad golfing (Mom have the
car, go to STORES!!:-), Bill ride bike down to Speedway, say hello to Bobby Weitrokowski (DM in training, parent's live next
door to me), tell him I saw his dad in yard this morning while I was working out in garage at my "satellite work center",
LOL!), home, shower, change, drive dowtown park in summit st. garage ($3/all day!:-), walk with lawnchair and laptop to Michigan
and 10th to main library lawn, setup chair for "brown bag" concert, started to rain just as I got there, wait under a tree
until official announcement that day's concert would be cancelled. Buy hotdog from vendor there at library (Nick's hotdogs),
talk with other patron about new "Get Smart" movie, discuss "Toledo Blockwatch National recognitioin" with guard there at
library, say hello to "Alan Konop" (Defense Attorney), ask him about his son "Ben Konop" (Toledo/Lucas county Plan Commision),
tell him to "please tell Ben I really like the new RIVERWALK idea for downtown along the maumee". Walk back to parking garage,
stow chair and laptop. Walk over to Toledo Regional C of C, to say "Hi" to Mr. Wersuell (advisor - not in, in meetings, left
message, he called me back later in day, will call him monday), walk back over to Civic Center Mall, (see Mayor and his entourage
walking between courthouse and safety building (didn't disturb them - remembered the "time he had" when the Michigan National
Guard" came down to dowtown Toledo last spring, and tried to hold "training exercises" among buildings in downtown, on a friday
afternoon, when the Mayor himself wasn't properly notified about it!), stop at Mall, admire and pause at the Korea, WWII,
and Purple Heart monuments (pictures), walk back over to library, use computer (vote for Carleigh Wallace on Maxim.com) update
PL.com webpage, walk over to Toledo Blade, ask about "free new WILL SMITH movie" movie ticket giveaway (receptionist said
they were gone in "2 minutes" after opening the doors, LOL!), ask for application, fill out "Jamie Farr 2008 free ticket sweepstakes"
form (I got all 3 questioins right with out having to look them up! whoohoo!). Walk back up Madison, admire progress on
new DOWNTOWN ARENA (Blade announced the other day, clubhouse suite tickets are available NOW, include EVERY TOLEDO WALLEYE HOCKEY game, AND ARENA FOOTBALL game, and preferred ticket sales to
ever other event!:-), back to car, pictures of riverfront and steamplant from parking garage, exit, home. Just beat dad home
from golf (he shot a 84, but he said his team didn't win - only 4 golfers out of the group of 10 used the white tees (my preference:-),
the rest used the "longball" GOLD TEES! (Wow, those are some "heavy hitters" he's pairin up with!;-). Mom make sausage (Jonesville),
boiled new potatoes, and a tossed salad. (I was hungreee, 2 helpings of everything - only had that hotdog downtown during
the day). Rain....(pretty good "lightenin storm", unplugged the computer stuff down the basement - next day Toledo Edison
power company said 1500 still without power), did dishes/dry, watch ESPN and Fresno State (congrats on the 1st ever NCAA men's
championship national title!) defeat Georgia bulldogs. (Yeah, the "BULLDOGS" won! LOL) wait for rain to stop, ride bike over
to Monette's Market on Secor, buy 2 peaches, (wash, eat one right there in parking lot), stop at Handel's (sample there peach
yogurt - man, it was just as fresh and tasty as the real thing! LOL), ride back home, just caught a little shower as I pulled
in the driveway, make coffee, read some more of book from library ("The Gospel of Mary" - I left it sitting on the endtable
the first night I started it, dad picked it up after I went upstairs to go to bed, and read 1/2 the darn book that night,
LOL!). Play online WSoP PS2 (Mysc_SWIFTKIK handle - didn't do very well, had to "buy back in" 3 times before I started to
turn any kind of a profit, LOL). Bed.
Thurs. 6/26/08 (Beth Bacon's 48th birthday - she was a senior in HS, when I was
a jr., and I would call her (and Karen Hensing;-) on the phone and talk until 1 am, ALMOST every darn night - "personally
though, I think they were just "playin me for what it was worth" most of the time, LOL:-) Bill sleep in, dad had set out
the garbage at the curb already. Mom and Dad over to see his good friend John Welker at JIM WHITE HONDA in Maumee, OH and PUCHASE a NEW 2009 Honda Accord!! (Schhhhwwwwweeet!
Dad got 9,000 trade in for his less than 5 year old Accord! But he takes excellent care of everything he owns! This is funny,
Dad told me when he was taking the Accord for a test drive monday - John got in the passenger seat, hid a "remote" for the
car windows out of sight from dad, and after Dad got in and inserted the key into ignition said: "Hey Bob, you've heard of
the VOICE command on cars now, for radio, etc...?" "Well this one comes with "voice activated power window controls...watch"
Then John said in a command: "WINDOWS DOWN" (and unknowingly "hit the down button for the windows on the remote" LOL).
Well the windows of course "rolled down", and Dad laughed, looked, finally saw the remote... LOL! Dad told me about that
when he got home, we both laughted. LOL:-) Bill out to garage to read paper, coffee, work on Bradner.cc. Mom and Dad home,
Bill "oohh, and ahhh" over new car. Dad read owners manual, Bill work in driveway (invite mom to metropark to read, admire
nature, and enjoy breeze, while Bill ride bike on trails...she graciously declined, said she "had things to do around the
house"). Watch as Julie across the street give garbage men, cans of cold softdrinks as they stop in front of our houses.
Retrieve cans, listen to Jessica and her children out in their yard (like I said the other day, I'm done "worrying about Jeff"....he
will probably be dealt with better by "someone bigger and badder" (that's the way the lord works too, just "leave it in the
lord's hands! :-) Bill ride bike, over to Target on Monroe, Dan Rodgers Sporting goods (pickup Mudhens jersey), ride to
Speedway and library, Monettes Market on Secor, Dick Knight's "MODERN FLOORS" carpet store (stop in and say "hi" to Mr. Knight:-), Reggie's bike
shop (Secor, just below Michigan line) buy a waterbottle carrier (installed:-), snack and sodapop, home in time for dinner
and to "Bradner.cc" decal bike. After dinner, go over to "Good Shephard Church" on West Laskey road (wow, an entire 200
yards, lol) for the June BLOCKWATCH meeting for our "Sector #131 A/B"!! Listen to Officer Duncan, read crime report 6/21-27,
listen to Amy from "211 United Way services" tell us about "211 system". Barb Laraway asked me (in front of the entire group,
during the meeting, to tell "I've lived in this neighborhood for 47 years..." (LOL) cigs and "mocca latte"...home. (More
rain and thunderstorms predicted for next 3 days - It's been hard to get "bike rides" in between these, and the MUDHENS have
a 3 day homestand coming up this week! ("C'mon SUMMER SUN" where you at??!? LOL!)
Fri., 6/27/08 - Added updates
to Bradner.cc mainpage. Here is 3 of them: "There is a "Keith Dressel Memorial Ride" (sponsored by The TFD:-) on July 12, 2008 - call 419-460-6684 for
more details! 2007 was a great success, let's "do it again folks!":-)
(**2 more "Local LEO" (these`"celebratory" notes)
- Sgt. Robert Baumgartner, (TPD
- Burglary) is retiring after 43 years on the police force! (Wow! Thank you Dtv. Baumgartner, we hope you enjoy your
retirement Sir!) AND, in The Blade on 6/28/08 there was a story on "Retired Lucas Co. Sheriff's Detective Dan
Lacourse" playing in the WSoP "Main Event", competing in Texas Holdem! Way to represent Lucas county, The Sheriff's department,
and Sheriff's detectives Sir! (We wish you luck, we hope you "cleanup" out there, the way you have "cleaned up our streets
here in Lucas Co."! :-). Go over to OfficeMax on Alexis, pickup business cards for Kylie and I's new business: "Bill &
Kylie Bradner Productions, LLC" ($45.00 - 3 color, on white cardstock...I placed the order about a week ago, with an associate
at IMPRESS business solutions (their "instore" printing shop/office), his name was "Emmanuel". Well he took down my order
as I describied it to him, and said he would "fax it over to the printer, we'll call you in 7-10 business days, when it's
ready. I get a call they are ready, show my reciept, take them home, and get dressed for Mudhens game (new "B&K Bradner Productions,
LLC" custom embroidered Mudhens jersey (Emgrodierery done by "DAN RODGERS SPORTING GOODS STORE"!! After dinner, I go to the ballpark,
park for free a couple of blocks away, buy my "Standing Room Only" ticket (only $7.00 TYVM!), and go in to watch the game
and hand out some of my new business cards! (13th sellout game of season, 180th in history of Mudhens 5/3rd field - over
10,000 in attendance! By the way the HENS ended up winning 6 -1!! I stayed until the top of the 9th...got to see Mike Hessman's
(playing at SS that night) 26th HR on season! Way to go Mike! The victory put the HENS ALONE atop the IL West by 4 games
over COLUMBUS AND LOUISVILLE!!) Stop at speedway for another Mocha Latte, home, unload box of business cards, and look at
them more carefully....THEY HAD MY P.O. BOX NUMBER WRONG!! AND....THE WRONG SIZE FONT for the "Bill & Kylie Bradner Productins
LLC" (in red, I ordered 20font, they made it 18, I ordered BOLD they made it normal)....AND the "A/V/PRINT/WEB DESIGN" was
wrong too...(I ordered 18 font, normal...they made it 20, and BOLD), it looks "WAY TOO" "Lower-center" CENTERED!! Aghhh! Update
websites, to bed...until lightening storm woke me up, I had to get up unplug all electrical stereo equipment in bedroom, go
downstairs, get out flashlight, unplug all "Computer and A/V equipment" down the basement, then just curled up on couch down
the basement (because the lightening "cracks", "booming thunder" and rainfall noise on roof were quieter.
Sat., 6/29/08
- up at 7am, read paper in garage (thought I heard dog "howling", but "that's what they do":-). coffee, make gif for another
florida model "myspace friend" (Miss Melissa Rogers, WOW!), post on her page and my "Women gone Wild Willy" account. Shower,
dress, over to Office Max at 10am, RE-SUBMIT receipt and business cards!! (argghh...another 7 - 10 business days!) Home,
ride bike over to Anderson's (#17 MATT KENSETH car was there, a "farmer's market associate" kindly took my picture in front
of it with my cellphone camera). Talk with "Mike A(nderson?)" about NASCAR - offer him purchase of my "spare august MIS ticket"
(He said he or maybe his brother might be interested - gave him my business card with cell# and email - said "I would offer
to "split cost of gas" with anyone who lived in Toledo that bought ticket. Bid gbye, checked out DeWalt "tooltruck", and
"TENT SALE" there in parking lot.
Ride
bike over to Post Office, check POBox (received letter from a Mychurch.org friend, from Uganda, W. Africa! (Cool, I'm gonna
send him a CD, T-SHIRT AND Decal!:-) Ride bicycle out to sylvania to corey road, and WILDWOOD metropark. Drink sodapop,
ride trails (road University/Parks trail, over to reynolds, only about 1/10 way to UT...I'll do that one some other day.
Back to park...take cellphone pic of "TWO WEDDINGS" simultaneously at MANOR HOUSE!! (LOL! well not really "2 at once"...there
was one taking place in the GARDEN, when up pulls a stretch van limo...and A SECOND wedding party gets out to take "wedding
photos" in front of manor house! (I was ROGL!!)
Ride
back home, take nap, up at 6:30, go and get BK at drivethrough for M, D and I. After dinner, laydown for a little while...dad
called me to come down and "have a talk with him" (Uh,oh, I knew what that meant....PERSONAL FINANCES discussion TIME!
I just prayed he would say "We can help you out a little while longer (allowing me to avoid "breaking in" to my ROTH IRA savings
at this point)...which he did, BUT I have to: "QUIT buying drink after drink at the speedways (sometimes you have 4 purchases
a day, all for around $10!! You can't afford to do that....if you need a soda, have one here at home, it's less expensive"
AND "If you can't quit smoking, AT LEAST CUT DOWN - I would say you can cut back to "less than a pack a day" (You've done
it before...Do it!) Mom and Dad agreed to help me with my Insurance AND medical bills until I "get another job" ("Thanks
mom and dad. AND thank you for letting me "try again" the "business owner" thing. I guess, I'm still not quite ready yet
to be a "private entrepruener" AND "I definetely need the insurance a large company can provide":-) So the "B & K Bradner
Productions, LLC" is definetely on a backburner for now. ahhhh....(*sigh) update website, (make "GIF" movie (8 cells,
some ediited of pictures I snagged off her myspace webpage) for new "Model friend" in florida ("Miss Melissa Rogers") - friend
with both "Carleigh Wallace" (SEE Gif on one of myspace accounts, I made of Carly - AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN:-), and "Michelle
Baker" (WoohoooSS!lol), They are all working with these great photographers down there (FL), (Andy MacFarland, Rich Cutrone,
and others..) selling some of the pictures to this "AMiginations.com", who is getting their photos into MAXIM!! (SWEEET!
Good hard work "Pays off ..WELL!!!" LOL!) (***"But MOMMY...I want to be a "PHOTOGRAPHER OF THEM THERE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN TOOOOOooooo!!"
LMBO!:-) watch ESPN , eat popcorn, bed.
Sun., 6/30/08 - church in am, "Meet THE PASTORS"...LOL!! Pastor Dana, wife
Pastor Lilanthi Ward, (and their son Sameul:-)
We
got a new "Husband and Wife PASTOR team" at our church (they actually have 2 churchs to Minister to ALDERSGATE AND CALVARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH on Sylvania Ave, here in Toledo, OH ...so it will be
interesting to see how they work out their "sermon schedule". Didn't Send in 3rd appeal for UNEMPLOYMENT. (Dad kind of "instisted"
I drop it and "let it go" - actually it wasn't a problem with "anyone in particular" there - just a "technical problem" with
some of the "Company Policy and Operations" and they way they handled by some of my supervisors.) Put together "Number
One Fan of the Album Package" for Doyle Ayers (Aldersgate) - It contained: "2 autographed, "autographed CD" (Back in 3rd
Mill..), XL "Glass Cities" T-Shirt, Bradner.cc Decal, Swiftkik cassette tape and bundle of pens (have to include some of the
"precursive stuff", lol) and neatly packed them in a Shoebox, complete with a "silver bow". Call doyle, to make arrangements
to take to his house, present to him, and get a picture (for the website:-). When I called him, he said: "I can't talk to
you right now, My truck was just broken into and ALL My Equipment stolen" (Where was your truck? "My trucks in my driveway...I
was at church...etc..etc.." "I gotta go right now...I'm so mad I could "____ SOMEBODY" (Goodluck, I'll be praying for ya...)
**sigh) Bill offer to wait at church by police station for after Doyle finished with reports, wait, talk to Bea Piehl and
Maryanne Bell at church parking lot. Loan phone to guy from Alanon club next door, so he could call for rides. Call doyle
back leave message I will "present FAN award" later in week. Home, Bill ride bike to Kinko's (10 copies of CD cover, liner,
back cover), speedway on monroe (sang "improptu version" of "TELETUBBY SONG" for my "Melinda the Hottie"...:-), back down
monroe st. (use laskey and side streets to avoid Monroe st. traffic) to Best Buy - use $15 of rewards to buy CD labels for
printer, north on secor to Speedway (cigs, ice for water bottle), home. Money from Dad for Arby's, eat, work on "learning
new digital camera" (memory stick formatting), ride to Speedway and Family Video (called said "you gotta free rental coming":-),
home. Download some more songs to MP3 player ("You gotta Keep em separated!"). Out on back step for cigaratte. Bed.
Mon.,
6/30/08 - Up at 8, sip coffee read paper (Way to go Sardinha - for the Tigers!), too bad about Louisville winning the series
(I KNEW I should have gone to the other 2 games!), Dad show me "Help wanted AD" from paper for ALDI's hiring "Cashiers" in
Sunday's Blade (Wow DAD!, I didn't know you had "SUCH HIGH ASPIRATIONS FOR ME!!" LOL!!" That's what I really like the best
about department stores!! :-), update Bradner.cc....etc..
Wed., 7/2/08 - Bill to bank, cash check M & D gave me for
child support (only have enough left in 3 of my accounts combined for a tank of gas next week!), up to Monroe Mi courthouse,
ask Mark Grummon if he could please "calculate" this months (a little tricky - 6 month, "admin and health" fees in, plus "parenting
time credit" deducted, came to $368.75, paid, 2 receipts. Stop at speedway in Monroe, call Kris on cell, let her know I will
dropoff receipt for her in 30 mins, back to Temperance, talk with Kris about Kylie's "CHEERLEADING FOR "THE" BEDFORD T-BIRDS JUNIOR CHEERLEADING SQUAD!!" upcoming practices, games
and year-end banquet. To "Hiring EVENT" at "ALDI" family specialty foods grocerer (Airport Hwy). Home, dinner (McD;s), work
on website...Severe Thunderstorms (In addition to hiring event, I also got to attend some of "brown bag concert" on library
lawn that day (Great band, not sure who they were, but "tops" at R $ B, and Jazz/Blues...great stuff. Bed.
Thurs.,
7/3/08 - Bill ride bike all over west toledo again. Speedway about noon. Army recruiters, Sgt. Ryals and Sgt. Somers, from
West Toledo, Miracle Mile Army recruiting station there with the "GoArmy.com" Hummer and display! Sgt. Ryals give me a "free
"go Army" t-shirt, and we "yapped and yapped" about Army history (oldest of branches, 277 years, June 25th anniversary, 1)
Army-Airforce 2)Airforce 3)Navy-Marines 4)Marines..., Sgt. Somers took my pic with Sgt Ryals at back of display, then Ryals
took mine at side)
Ride
bike to Dan rodgers, pickup baseball pants, have "Bradner" nameplate and "Bradner.cc" heatpressed on army shirt, ride back
home, put on army fatigue shorts, back up to speedway. Meet a "Marty Russel(??)" from Whiteford road, up in Ottawa Lake,
MI (Retired USMC - Sgt./Korea) - talked with him about his "disability" and "DP" from war. Ride bike over to library, update
myspace, sign up for adult summer reading club. Talk with "Scott Dietrich" did tour of duty in Iraq. Back to speedway, army
was gone. home, eat. update sites, bed.
Fri., 7/4/08 - INDEPENDENCE DAY 2008!! Bill up, out to garage at 7am, read
paper, sip coffee. Bill to downtown to watch Bands (and stay for the MUDHENS and City of Toledo FIREWORKS displays) in "The
Toledo Blade's: "Battle of the Bands 2008" (Group acts, and solo artists are competing for 3 opening slots at upcoming "touring
artists" concerts - TED NUGENT, BO BYCE (American Idol), and a country singer) Mom and dad cook eggs, stay home, watch fireworks
on BCSN and CW5 local television stations. Bill hear several good bands, back to car (FREE METERED PARKING ALL WEEKEND!),
pickup change of clothes, to greyhound bus station, change clothes, walk to gas station buy a pack of cigs, and diet coke....grab
camera and head back down to riverfront. (See both displays got some good video of "some local "GUARDIAN ANGELS" citizen's
safety patrol group, walking right through one of my video shots of the fireworks, there was about 8 of them, LOL!) Back
to car, during finale, beat the traffic and was the "first car onto expressway from downtown entrance, just as diplay ended!
Woohoo, back to west toledo in 10 minutes, stop at speedway, use free coupon for Mocca Latta, home, sit on step, listen to
MP3 player and watch Matt Thiesman across street shoot off fireworks for those in attendance to his PARTY (girlfriend, who
moved in a couple of months back, her 2 sons, and about 10 carloads of friends, parked in front yard and out front!:-), until
11:00, laydown, (still hear Matt's fireworks until 11:46), update sites, bed.
Sat., 7/5/08 - Bill sleep in, back downtown
for "Battle of BAnds" (sit ALL ALONE in the ALCOHOL-FREE ZONE, for 4 bands! LOL! See picture)
See
some friends there ("Z-man", DJ for 106.5, and his 10 year old daughter, ate ice cream on my blanket, showed them picture
of "my Kylie":-), gave BRADNER.CC FREE T-shirt to nice mom, and family who let me set up just in front of them in shade from
a tree. Got autograph from "" guitar player for "THE
OLD DOGS" (a band out of Detroit that is playing at RIBFEST (downtown, same spot) on August 3rd. Dave Harms and girlfriend, stop by and say "Hi,
and Thanks for cheering for us!", and gave me a "FREE CD" his band released ( TINFOIL (Band out of TIFFIN, OH ) Listen to part of last band of Contest RESONANT SOUL before walking back to car and storing blanket
in the trunk. Walk back down to riverfront (I intended on giving "Resonant Soul" one of my T-shirts, but was stopped by a
"James Good" (BIG africa-american) who said he was with the "Church of the Latter Day Saint" (and gave me a book, that I asked
him to "inscribe to me", about Church of Latter Day Saint) and later had opportunity to Give T-shirt to MOM of 2 brothers
(guitars) in RESONANT SOUL (Toledo, Bowling Green, OH)!
(I asked her too if she
wanted me to take a picture of her standing at front of stage, back to the stage, in front of her two sons, on stage.) Back
to Mudhens field (they were losing 6-4 in top of 8th when I walked by), and asked 2 female Sheriff's Deputies, who were on
duty, for directions back to my car. Back to West Toledo, stop at Speedway, home, bed (exhasusted).
Sun., 7/6/08 -
"HAPPY 66th BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT BUSH"!Everyone
sleep in. Dad not feeling well, mom for walk, Bill read paper, (get over 9 hour sunburn without sunscreen on face). Bev
call, M,D,B talk on phone. Bill wash car, to gas statioin, see Matt from across the street. (TAlked about fireworks, he
said "sooy about that, more of them then I thought". Tell him I read in BLADE about APARTMENT FIRE caused by fireworks, that displaced 200
people! Matt by beer, bill home.) Dad take sleeping pill and stay in bed most of day (back to bed, miss dinner), mom
sip cocktail in driveway while bill update website in garage, mom and Bill eat dinner (MOM: "Well, I guess it's just you
and me now". :-( bill clean up dishes, watch ESPN highlights, make list for tomorrow (apply online at Buckeye Cablevision
dot com, and SUNOCO oil co). Say prayer that dad feels better.
Tues, 7/8/08 - Bill ride bike to Speedway, (saw Mr.
Gary Moore, who I used to work with at Kohl's - he said "things are the same at Kohl's", I said: "Tell everyone I said "Hi"
for me". Stop at Anderson's, buy 2 neon safety yellow T-shirts (future "women gon Wild Willy" shirts:-) and TED NUGENT tickets
for August 8th at Lucas County Rec center, stop at Dan Rodgers, drop off Hens jersey to have cross patch sewn on. Home to
library, caught in rain, thurderstorm and "Tornado watch" on ride home (stopped to seek shelter at "Sonrise Church" awning.
Home, eat dinner (spaggeti,...mmm), to downtown for free "Garage Rock" concert in Main Library parking garage. Concert cancelled
due to rain, walk over to Mudhens stadium, buy ticket on 1st base side beind batters circle (112 - row R, seat 4) Toledo
vs. Scranton...(TOLEDO won 10 - 2). Saw Brandon Inge, playing for Toledo on rehab, AND Ben Broussard of Indians, playing
for Scranton on field.
Later,
found out from people behind me that Mike Schmidt (retired - Phillies) was signing autographs on main concourse behind homeplate...got
an AUTOGRAPH AND PICTURE!
Watch
until top of 9th, drive to speedway, get Mocca Latta, home, listen to MP3 player, work on Myspace, bed.
Wed. 7/9/08
- read paper, coffee, in garage. Mom for walk. Dad's tooth not much better (anti-biotics aren't helping as much as we thought).
Dad work out, Bill update ESPN page, and Bradner.cc....Bill shower, down to Main Library for Free "brown bag" lawn concert,
(Kids day, "Just Kidding aroung" ("duet" (with some MAJOR crowd participation!! (Or should I day YOUTHLY enthusiasim on the
part of those "Just being KIDS in the CROWD!! (LOL!): "wheelsonbus,skinamarinkeydo,etc..I was ROFClapping:-), home, nap, dinner.
Do dishes, ride bike to library, update resume, upload to and check "CareerBuilder.com" for any "VIEWS" and "JOB OFFERS" etc,
on my resume. Ride to Handels (Gobuckeye sugarcone), home, drive to Speedway, mocca, home, update Bradner.cc. Email sisters,
brother-in-law, cousin about attending MUDHENS game on friday night, August 22nd! Bed. STAY TUNED - More to come!
Fri - Sat., 7/11-12/08 - WHS class of 1978 REUNION!! MCO Hotel.
Mixer on first night, dinner, conversation and reminiscing on secong (we had almost 1,000 in our graduating class!! I hope
EVERYONE is there! I looking forward to seeing them! (It was fun seeing all my CLASSMATES from Whitmer (back in 78!)
Thanks Katha, Terri, Kathy, Cindy, Marla, AND a HOST OF OTHER "TERRIFIC VOLUNTEERS"!! I thought the "first night went terrific"!!
(What a great bunch of people showed up there! I saw Sharon (from the library - with her friends (78) Kathy, and Mary:-),
of course Dave Hernandez (Class President!), his sister Suzie (another class officer!), Jim Fry, Greg Hill, Tim Chambers,
Ty Wumer, Steve Bell, Brian Greshen, Doug Craeger (Aldersgate!), Wendy (Myspace.com/WhitmerReunion1978:-), Tony Cicora, Tim
AND classmate wife Christine (Kiefer)Csurgo, Brad Bradley, Kim (Walzack), multitude of other "terrific looking alumni" (Personally,
I think we are all holding up "Just Great", TYVM!!), wonderful Spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, even "future whitmer graduates"
(Offspring of alumnus-es"! (Here is just two of the many pictures taken that night!) (***more can be viewed at the
MSN GROUPS "Whimter
Reunion 1978" webpage, setup by the "reunion organizers"!!
The second night of our reunion at
the Hilton (MCO campus) Grand Ballroom, on saturday night, was amazing)!! So many former friends, classmates, and acquaintances!!
(Tony cicora said hello, (guitar player) - he brought up rock music and hockey (mentioned Jim Finucan, and my neighbor, Jeff
Lipscomb:-)..Pictures, Pictures, Dinner, Dinner, Conversation, Dancing and... DRAWING!! IWON tickets to JAMIE FARR 2008
OC tournament! (Plus "Champions tent" passes, FREE PARKING (although Carey Siddel offered me free parking at her house, on
street across from Highland Meadows course!), and GOLF BALLS, bag tag, tees and more!! Sweet! (Went home "very happy" with
our "Class, reunion, and memories!":-)
Sun., 7/13/08 - Up early, out to Sylvania early, park, (video - you'll see why
when I mention "uploading it to LPGA.com, and post it her, LOL), bus, comps, GOLF, GOLF, GOLF!! STARS! STARS!STARS! (After
the awards presentation, came within inches of autographs from "CASTRALE, CREAMER, WIE, SHARP (oh i like her:-), AND a MULTITUDE
of others! **note - I'll have much more to add here soon! (Photo's of prize, video for LPGA.com, photo of me at course
(no cameras, cellphones, etc. during tournament play, TYVM, LOL)
Mon., 7/15/08 (**remembered I once was involved in
a motor vehicle accident, in west toledo on this date (I think it was 1980 ir 81, I was home from college, working during
summerbreak (Flower hospital "Laundry division", down on Cherry St., woohoo!), I got off work (1st shift), and headed to Mr.
Dave Marinez's house for band practice (The "contra band" - hey, I didn't name it, LOL). On secor road a "senior citized"
navigated his continental from a side street, directly in my path, within a "unstoppable" stopping distance in front of my
car...BAM, my (chevette) hit his car, left rear quarterpanel, my car spun 360 degrees, my head hit, broke and "pushed out"
the windshield. I was taken to the hospital, given a CATscan, my car a "total loss". (Dad says "that explains your "BRAIN
DAMAGE" now -- "hit the brakes...you'll be normal! LOL!":-) Ride bike to the library (you like the shifting of gears there...lol),
update Bradner.cc about Farr tournament, class reunion, stop at speedway, say hi to Zach, Bob, Nora, etc..., home shower,
eat dinner (leftovers). Downtown to see GARAGEBAND
concert series concert in basement of Main library parking garage (remember last week, I went, it was cancelled because
of rain, walked over and saw mudhens game:-), well July 7th was last one, (I thought they would reschedule it, but maybe band
was booked, not enough notice, etc.), used a computer in library computer center (and am sitting here "typing this now", LOL),
check careerbuiler.com job postings, update policelink.com webpage. Back to car, drive over to east side, walk river along
International Park to see where river walk will be. Home after dark, (stop for icecream at Handels, even thou would have
cantaloupe at home (along with video games after retiring to upstairs for evening - on home computer - update "stubhub.com"
with new listing for MIS tickets, order BRADNER.cc two color nameplates from "sons of the father", bed :-).
Wed., 7/16/08
- To bank, deposit check! Over to washington branch library, check email, update Bradner.cc, andersons - buy 2 more neon
shirts for ""Women gone WILD WILLY" TOUR 2008 A.D.!!" (With "Presented by.... "Bill & Kylie Productions, LLC" / "A/V/Print/Web/Concert
Design" / Toledo, OH USA!! on the back)...Back to main library, 12:15 - 1:15pm, (again! woohoo!) for "brownbag concert"
(oh and it's a good one - John Rae Trio Jazz!! I luuv "all that JAZZ", LOL) 3 more down here, after today's until august
6th. To bank, withdraw spending money, at library send Paula Creamer a "ASK A PRO" question on LPGA.com.
(I
hope she is able to answer mine...I'm sure she receives hundreds of questions~! :-) Finish up-, stop for cola, down to
downtown ($3.00 parking all day baby!:-)
Fri., 7/18/08 - Noon - 1:15 pm, Levis commons shopping towne, Perrysburg,
OH (found on library website:
Fridays, June 6 – August 29, Noon – 1:30 p.m.
June 6: Stone House June 13:
Chris Buzelli Trio June 20: Bobby May Trio June 27: Hepcat Revival July 11: Chris Shutters Band July 18: Kyle
White July 25: Alan Smith Uptown August 1: Kerry Patric Clark August 8: Dan & Don & Dave August 15: Extra Stout August
22: Jeff Tucker August 29: Quartet Bernadette
Take camera with me, for more "Bradner.cc" videos, work on NEW SONG
(finally - I-D-E-Aing "I got the gas, you got the car.....I made out on this one, ALOT better by far!!... LOL!! (I do best
at the comedy ditty's - that's where my money is going to come from! ;-) Apply at christian bookstores. Mail "Bradner.cc
on Myspace.com "200th FRIEND" FAN PACKAGE - to "Fifi" in NJ. (T-shirt, CD, autographed promo photo, cassette tape, pens,
bumpersticker decal, personalized thank you note!:-) Home (Kylie here this weekend, Yeah!:-)
Fri., 7/18/08 - Kylie
come to spend the weekend! Bill wait until her mom had a chance to take her out to Aunt angie's, so she could do some swimming
(Krista is watching 8 children during the day, whew - and for only $50 a week! wow, that doesn't even pay gas!) Bill drive
down to BGSU, to order 2 copies of his college transcripts, they will be mailed at "no cost" - kewl, in next 2 -3 days!)
Bill to Perrysburg's Levis Commons, just in time to see "KYLE
WHITE" perform at the "lunch at Levis" friday afternoon concert! (I worked with her mom, when she and I worked together
at Kohl's, and then even walked down a couple of times to see her at Monac school, where "Brenda" is an assistant admin.)
After the show, Bill greet Brenda (Big hug!) Say "Hi" to Kyle (she remembered me and "called me by first name":-), Bill buy
(only $10) her CD "Blue Hole in a Grey Sky"
CD PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED
(woohoo!), "Mom" take a picture of Kyle and I, Bill offer to buy "ice cream cones" and help "load out" (Kyle graciously decline
- luncheon date, Sue was already helping her:-), bill call Krista, make arrangements to pick up kylie. Bill pick her up at
her cousin's house in Perrysburg (she stopped her swimming long enough to get dried off and change of clothing before the
ride home.:-) Kylie work on her webkinz page, then cleaned up for dinner (somemore of Grammie's lasagna:-) after dinner we
played "guesstures" (Kylie won - we played individual!:-) Bill read to Kylie, kylie shower, bed. Bill start to head downtown
to Jazz Festival (to hear 5 horse johnson - only make it as far as Speedway then it got to be to late, and Bill buy bedtime
Mocca Latta and home again.:-)
Sat., 7/19/08 - Bill and Kylie up dressed, breakfast, load up bikes on bike rack (accidentally
lost "Bill and Kylie Bradner Productions, LLC" magnetic sticker off of trunk, but hey, I wanted a "red, white, and blue" version
anyways. Bill and Ky stop at library, check in at "reading bug" table, (Kylie recieve 2 prizes for the 7 hours, she had read
at my house so far). Bill and Ky out to Wildwood Metropark, ride University trail out to west end of trail and back (6.2
mile ride, TYVM!). After ky to shop, use her money to buy "webkinz" (grey tailed cat) - "Smokey" (like her real one:-) home,
bill nap, ky computer, mom read, dad work in yard. Dinner - PIZZA! After, play dominoes (everyone won 2 games, except bill:-(
Ky read, bed, Bill work on computer upstairs, bed.
Sun., July 20, - EVERYONE to church! Pastor Lilanthi speak on Matthew
22:16, the "commissioning"!! AFterwards in narthax, Bill and Ky sign up for "church portraits" (July 29th, tues, 4:35 pm
- free directory AND 8x10!). Home change, bill take ky home. Bill downtown with drumsticks for Jazz festival. East side
to ask for info on Willis S. Boyer tour, pictures, home nap. Dinner - leftover pizza. Toledo Zoo concert band series (started
last week, but after the FARR, I was FARR from "having the energy to attend a concert that night too, LOL)
Mon. 7/21/08
- Bill to library, work on computer, ky to math camp. Grampie mow grass. Grammie read. Bill call bev, ride bike to costco
(find bathing suit for bonny, call bev back), bill ride by 1 day sign, order replacement, R,W,B, - B&KBPLLC magnetic sign.
home dinner, back to library, monettes, speedway, home,internet, bed.
Tues., 7/22/08 - to AUMC for vacation bible study,
I offered to play "hand drums" for Jane Newmeyer, on sunday 7/27/08 - at the VBS worship service. (I have only one more practice
that's on thurs.:-) **Saw Mr. Ayers there, he said "I got your "#1 Fan package" you dropped off, I like it...I've been listening
to it all the time". (I told him "You are my #1 fan!! Because you volunteer SO MUCH at your church! TY!! (oh...and "don't
REALLY listen to my CD too much...I don't wanna be held LIABLE, LOL!:-) Right after I left the church, received a couple
TXT messages from Dave...we met at SHOWCASE MAUMEE 18 an hour later and saw "BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT!!" -- IT ROCKED!! home
1:30am, bed.
Watched
this '50's, '60's and '70's band from the roof of the Downtown branch of the T-LCPL!! They were good (and MAJOR bonus - they
played "BEEP BEEP" my ALLTIME FAVORITE CAR SONG (from 1958, about a caddy and a nash! - I LMBO playing out the lyrics on the
roof, overlooking the band and the audience down below - it was a blast! LOL). Stop at Washington Branch on way home, use
their Wifi to update site. Home, and Mom tells me: "Your sister Bev and her husband Dave from California stopped in, they
said "Hi, and they were sorry they missed you!" (I said "WHAT!!? They aren't comin till next month...are you kidding??"
I guess they had a wedding in Indiana to go to...so they flew into Detroit, rented a car, stopped by on way to Ohio Turnpike,
LOL. This wedding Dave is bestman, and toasting B & G before they head to "Fiji Islands" for honeymoon!) Bev left me instructions
to look up a "Kathy MacDonald" for her to go to their "40 year reunion with"...I said "You want me to email info to your cellphone
in Indy? LOL:-), nap, eat dinner (3 heated lasagna and salad..mmmm). Move car into driveway, listen to some KidRock on headphones,
upstairs, internet, (send bonkers a myspace friends request), bed.
Thurs., 7/24/08 - Lunch at Levis Square, lunchtime
concert. Bill drop off application at One government center, for "communications operator" at 19th, city HR dept! (Wish
me luck on "getting the job" please!:-) Bill to AUMC, to assist Jane with "Adventure VBS" music program again!
(I have a blast doing
this, those kids are terrific!:-) Bill home, internet, bed.
Fri., 7/25/08 - Lunch at Levis - Jane Newmeyers husband is performing "Alan Smith
Group", at the Towne Center at Levis Commons (Perrysburg, OH - presented by the "Perryburg Arts council")
Meet
Jane there, sat up front and watched Alan play (I also had met 4 other members of his "Alan Smith and the Uptowne Gypsies"
before: "Jason Quick"
(Lead Guitar, although I had performed with him on Bass, with the AUMC praise band), John Borrelli (Acoustic guitar, shaker,
Vocals - had met John a few times before too - he does some amazing "rhythm tappping" on his acoustic, sounds just like percussion
equipment!), and Alan's daughter "Star" (was there with Alan's grandaughter "Ramona"!) The bass player I couldn't really
see from my vantage point, but he was outstanding too!
Alan
and John were playing at "Manhattan's" downtown tonight, (John invited me when I talked to him after the show - but I have
to either take in Lucas county fair, or the mudhens, not sure yet. ...may just stay home and relax, LOL) Back to church,
drop off CD of "rainforest adventure", Jane let me copy, to learn my part for our performance sunday. HOme, type up "Police
communications Operator" application for City of Toledo (I turned in, "Police records clerk" application there yesterday).
Got it in just before deadline, met the 2 HR department managers, said "I hope to hear from you soon". To library, call Krista,
Kylie is coming down tomorrow, we are going to "Dragon Boat Festival" at international park,
then, to Del Taco for dinner and wifi internet surfing (Webkinz), then home for dominoes before bed. She will spend the night,
church and performance sunday, bike riding, Roast for dinner, Zoo concert, drop Ky off, home, internet, bed.
Sun.,
7/27/08 - Dad up at 6, water lawn, Kylie up at 7, Webkinz down basement, mom up at 7:30 - kylie's laundry, Bill up at 7:45
- sports section. Mom and Dad to church, Bill update webpages, Kylie eat cereal and play "Let's ride". Bill shower, kylie
dress, B & K to church at 10. Bill perform in "Jungleland Adventures" VBS worship service. B & K home to change into swimsuits,
out to Ortner's for Cousin Britney's 9th Birthday party and swimming. Bill and Ky home at 5:00, change. Dinner (Roast..mmmm),
Bill drop Ky back off at her mom's for Math camp tomorrow. (Kris give bill copy of Ky's cheerleading schedule) Bill to Zoo
for "under the stars" concert (Phantom of the opera, Cake walkin Jazz band, Opera singer). During intermission, bill see
Kylie's classmate Rebecca Crane, say "hi" to her and her dad (Mom and little brother were back in the amphilatheater). Home,
internet chat, bed.
Tues., 7/29 - Bill pickup Ky from her mom's, before her mom leave for Aunt Angie's to babysit (6
children, arghh!). Ky bring her yellow dress, wear a polkadot shirt, balck skorts and white patent flats. Bill and Ky to
Del Taco for lunch and webkinz internet. Next over to Sanger branch of library, use computer there. Bill talk to interesting
WWII vet, "James"...told me of his experiences getting into Navy Airforce, Rubber landing craft (coral explosive setting,
pre-"H" hour group). (Ky tells me Rebecca Crane, has been "Webkinin" for her...arcade, curio cabinetting, etc.:-) Ky in dress
for AUMC church directory potrait. To church, get potrait taken, fill out directory info, get free 8x10, and order sheet
of proofs. bill and ky back home, change, eat leftover Roast for dinner with G & G. bill and ky to washington branch library,
Ky get her 8 hour summer reading club reward. bill drop ky off, home, ride bike to speedway and over to library. Home, internet.
bill & K to church to have picture taken. Drop her back off at home.
Wed., 7/30 - Bill up read paper in garage, coffee.
Ride bike to speedway, buy Mocca Latte, cigs. Ride to library, talk to Tony somemore (Yesterday he went I listened to him
about his thoughts on "Breast cancer" and "women that use the library". Bill update website (bonny was going to Pro tennis
match last night, (she goes to so many matches there in cinci, to see Nadal - I'm surprised she hasn't met him yet:-) she
had called last night, to tell us to buy 6 tickets to mudhens game on fri. 8/23/08. (It seems Andy might be going, and dad
said last night, if he is not, that he (dad) would go! woohoo!:-) Bill ride bus downtown before noon, to see main library
lawn concert, buy mudhens tickets, and walk over to courthouse to check the docket ("no appeal on the docket today...")
Bill back home, Ky 1st cheerleading practice of fall schedule (at Smith road elementary school). Talked with lady next to
me at library (Bonny - working a jigsaw puzzle, on shockwave.com, and told me of other sites "www.jigsaw.com"!! (The "oaf" across from us was "pounding on his keyboard keys" during that time,
so it kind of ruined the discussion. (Probably jealous of "superior intelligence", LOL) Speaking of "Superior intelligence",
I checked my careerbuilder.com after that, and received another "great job lead" from my nost recent resume!! (customer liason,
"I feel great about this one", and ADRIAN rocks Woohoo! Financial independence and final investment push required for "B&KBPLLC",
here we come again!! p.s. Pick Ky up from cheerleading practice 7:30, back to washington branch library, ky check her
mychurch (sent her a message on there about Hasbro's
Monkeybartv" I know she'll have fun checking out. (While I'm on "Scrabble.com"
LOL) To Handel's for icecream desert before home, (something amazing and wonderful happened to me later that night, I'll
fill you in as the story develops :-) Home, tuck Ky in, prayers, (Math camp tomorrow:-), Bill on internet (for Jon Stainbrook
"friends add" - I had joked with dad earlier that if Stainbrook didn't approve my "friends request soon", I was going to join
the Obama campaign, he said "you'll have to move out if that happens" (gave him the old, go back to florida and vote joke
:-)
Fri., 8/1/08 - Bill pick Ky up at 7:00 take her to Whitmer high school for cheerleading clinic with WHS cheerleaders.
drop her off at 7:30 with lunch, gatorade, and cellphone. (She sat right down next to some good friends in her "Senior" ("I'm
in the SENIOR squad DAD!", LOL:-) squad plenty of time before the start of the clinic! ("Good Morning, welcome cheerleaders
and coaches to the Whitmer Cheerleading Camp"!!..:-) I paid "Paula" for Kylie's T-shirt (her registration was already paid),
and waved bye to "Our SENIOR SQUAD cheerleader" (she waved and blew me a kiss back:-). Bill to bank and Monroe, pay childsupport.
bill call Dan Rodgers (our "Women gone "Wild Willy"" t-shirts will be ready for pickup at 2!!) Bill ride bike to the library,
log on to computer, update webpage (I'll add pictures of CC (Cheerleading Camp) soon, I took 3 or 4 before and after errand
to Monroe. Mom to Safety building downtown, to get a copy of Jeff's accident last night (he was rear-ended in a 3 car accident
the night before (missed work, Krista took him to the hospital for X-rays - they said there he had whiplaxh). Krista and
Kylie's friend Julie pick up Kylie at 3. (I meet them at WHS at 2:30. We walk over to auditorium and get to see the "BEDFORD
T-BIRDS" CHEER in the ehibition at the end of the clinic! (Each of the attending cheerleading squads got their turn to "take
the matt", on the stage in the main auditorium, in front of everyone (other teams, parents, coaches) to do a short routine!!) We
were so excited for "Kylie and her T-Birds", we "cheered like "Wild Childs"!! LOL!!
Tues., March 17th, 2009 - "Happy St. Patrick's Day"!!
(I see the First Lady added green dye to the Whitehouse fountain, a "chi-town tradition":-) Newspaper (Help wanted ads),
read that BGSU women got picked for WNIT! Way to go Falcons! Laundry, dishes, toledoblade.monster.com (no leads), shower,
pickup mail. Get dressed in my best IRISH GREEN (F.B.I., and St. Patty's day bowler hat - "Full Blooded Irish", LOL) Drive
over to Del Taco for my "tradition Irish dinner" (6 tacos, LOL) Ahh, stuff like this just make me love this "neighborhood"
(city) sometimes... Watch "Dancing with the stars" "WWYD?", update websites, twitter, facebook, myspace "texas hold'em",
email, bed.
Friday, 3/20/09 - Kylie come back to spend another weekend. (Saturday we may try to get to a "MS benefit
concert" at Tam-O-Shanter arena in Sylvania (Ky's free admission, but it depends if I can get the money together for my ticket
or not:-), reward movie (High School Musical 3 - I think she has this one at her mom's, but I wanted to get her a copy for
here too!:-)
Tues., 4/7/09 - Krista, Jeff and Thomas come pickup Kylie, after Kylie was here, for the first half of
Kylie's SPRING BREAK!! (It was a cold 5 days - we stayed indoors most of the time - cooler weather! 30s, Brrrrr) Kylie and
I did make a couple of trips out to Maumee to visit with her cousins, and one special one, to where their horse "Annie" is
stabled! (We each got to ride her around the barn! Then I got to get out the acoustic, and do some "good ole-country boy
crooning! Yehaw!)
We rollerbladed, we
shot some baskets in our driveway, and did see "Monsters Vs. Aliens" in 3D on the first day of her vacation. She also attended
my Bible Study dinner and class (on Sunday, 4/5/09), and my teacher, Mrs. Schultz called her a "very astute student", we watched
a couple of DVD's together and one trip to the library. Billiards, Air hockey, Foosball, darts, and many games of UNO! We
had a good time, and she "thanked my" and smothered me with many "Hugs of Thanks" goodbye:-). On monday we had our talk about
the "BIRDS and BEES" (something every dad looks foward to)..and mostly all I heard from kylie was: "Mom already told me that",
"I know that", "I know how it works", "we studied that in health"....she didn't have many questions for me, somethink she
does have a pretty good idea of how "mommy has a baby". (I think mostly she was just "getting it out of the way", when she
started with "Mom has talked to me about sex....How come you never talk about it to me too?" (I thought "Okay.." that's something
between a mother and a daughter. *sigh*, so I answered: "What would you like to know?" Anyways, long story short "Whew, glad
that talks over with" and "I don't talk about, cuz "I ain't never gettin any"!! LOL!! At least we ended with our agreement
again: "We both "abstain from sex" until AFTER you (kylie) are 18!" deal!, shake on it!) Bill and Kylie buy 2 VITO's pizzas
for the 5 of us, we ate in the family room, then Kylie got out the blocks for Thomas, and her "little engine that could" book/train
set. After dinner, we all went upstairs to show Krista, Jeff and Thomas, Kylie's bedroom, then play Wii on the TV in my room.
Kylie got out the "funny cowboy" hat, clown wig for her brother, and a couple of my guitars for a "photo-op" with her brother.
Bill, Kris and Jeff talk on the couch. Bill tell Krista he is "happy for her, that she got another job (more than $10/hr,
wooohoo!). Walk them all back downstairs, one more hug from kylie, bid them "adieu". Bill clean up, laundry, news, internet,
bed.
Thurs.,
4/9/09 - Bill to "Maundy Thursday" worship service at Aldersgate at 7:00 pm. Home, clean, bible study homework, bed. Return
Bonny's call, and give her a "yes" to her invitation for me to come down to her house, for easter service and dinner.
Fri.,
4/10/09 - Bill to "Good Friday" worship service at Aldersgate at 7:00 pm. Enjoyed the one act play "Trial of Jesus" that
was performed during the service. (Tony Edgington (one of my "Job reference" references) was Pontius Pilate, Chuck Snead
was baliff, Doug Creager was Prosecutor, Duane Brown was Peter, and Dave Lahmers was Caracss the Pharasee - It was very entertaining)
Home, call Kylie, let her know I am going to Bonny's tomorrow, and wish her a Happy Easter.
Sat. 4/11/09 - Bill leave
for Bonny's at 11:00, reach Piqua at 2:30 before Bonny called to check on me. Arrive at Bonny's at 3:15. We talked and took
a walk, played Wii and watched the golf match. Skyline chili for dinner. To bed about 11:30.
Sunday, 4/12/09 - HAPPY
EASTER SUNDAY!! HE IS RISEN!! bill and bonny to Bonny's church Trinity United Methodist church just down the street from her in Milford. 8:00am sunrise service.
Everyone was so polite in greeting me and introducing themselves. It was a very nice service (lots of different choirs and
musical groups!) Home, eat breakfast, Bill play Wii, call G & G, and Bev, visit over the phone. A friend came over to join
us for dinner, sit down to a delicious, homemade "Ham and Mashed Potatoes" dinner at 2:30. Bill pack and leave at 3:00.
Traffic was busier than on the way down (and alot more OHP troopers out with there radar guns!:-) Home at 7:30 (stopped for
some groceries on way home). Call Bonny at 8:30, let her know I got home okay...told her to keep the "Wii Sports" game I
left in her Wii Console. Email, unpack, eat, internet, call Ky let her know I got home okay, bed.
Tues., 4/14/09 -
Bill "add" more friends on facebook (one of them was "Kayla" who I had worked with at Kohl's - played it off with a laugh
and a smile Bill drive over to the new SAVERS store on Expressway drive (old MC sporting goods) to see the line for applicants,
still a few people in line, and it was raining too hard, so I will go back tomorrow morning. Go thru Del Taco's drivethru
order my 6 hard shell tacos, home, eat, watch news ("HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAN STACHACK" (Diane Larson said it was "40"?!? LOL),
laundry, bed.
Fri. - Sun. 4/17-19/09 - Kylie spend the weekend. Nice weekend so we made it our little "Nearby on I-75"
weekend. Roadtrip to University of Toledo friday, 7:00pm at the Glass Bowl, for the UT Football team "Spring BLUE vs. GOLD"
intersquad game. Meet some wonderful college students that took Ky and I's picture together, standing on the Astroturf.
Arby's for dinner. Video (watched BOLT again), call G & G, bed.
Sat.,
4/18/09 - Out of house before 10:30, pack the cooler with pop and apples, and sandwiches. Drive to University of Findlay,
for the "Intercollegiant DRESSAGE Association" National Championship. Stay for a couple of hours, photo ops with horses and
arena, "picnic in parking lot" across from UofF farm. Faux fishing, return up north via I-75, traffic backup at BG, stop
at BGSU, take a "hill-climbing" (and subsequent "rolling-down" thereof:-) of "BILL's HILL" on golf course there, more pictures.
Home Pizza for dinner. DVD rental "Bedtime Stories" (Adam Sandler), Bill laundry, bed.
Sun.,
4/19/09 - Sleep in, Bill cook oatmeal and bacon for breakfast, Ky make bed, dress, Bill drive her back to her mom's. Visit
with Krista and Jeff in their dining room, Papa stop by, Thomas "clown it up" for us, Bill "hugs and kisses goodbye" from
Kylie. Bill home, finish laundry, dishes, study Bible study for 3 hours (double lesson), snack, to church (help Tony Edgington
and Chuck Snead put Chapel back together), desert, bible study, return DVD, rent "The Day the Earth Stood Still", popcorn,
movie, bed.
Mon., 4/20/09 - Bill return DVD, drive to Monroe, MI..meet "Josh Miller" who called Wood County CSEA to
find out why they sent me a letter saying I was more than 2 months behind in my Child Support. Resolved issue, printed me
a "Payment reciept" showing "no arrears, completely caughtup", said to "Keep paying state of michigan", Michigan will pay
Ohio, Ohio pay Wood County, and Wood County pay Krista (whew, if you ask me, it would be alot easier to just "close the michigan
case", and I pay directly to wood county, but Josh said "Amelia" at Wood County CSEA want to "keep the payments they way they
are right now"..asked Josh "what if they send me ANOTHER statement saying I am "in arrears" (when actually I have "always
been current":-), he said "call me again, I'll get it straightened out again". Cool. Drop off DVD, to best buy, buy Ky and
I "Mario Cart" and controllers for the Wii. Home, call G & G, watch news, play Mario Cart, check email, myspace, bed.
Mon.,
4/27/09 - Grocery shopping at Kroger's. To bank for banking. Library, then Fed-Ex. Take 2 copies of resume, cover letter
and references (with photos) to Mayor Carty Finkbeiner's "Community Relations" Executive Director, Mrs. Jaunita Greene. Subway
for dinner, ice cream for desert.
Tues., 4/28/09 - :Pickup Kylie at her mom's at 6:30pm, take her over to her school,
for "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" program GRADUATION CEREMONY!! (Congrats Kylie, we (your mom and I, your family(s))
are VERY PROUD OF YOU! Keep up the good work!
Wed., 4/29/09 - Pickup Kylie AGAIN at 6:30, take her over to her school
for the SPRING MUSIC PROGRAM CONCERT (she's singing in the 5th grade choir, way to go Ky!)
Fri,. 5/1/09 - Bill to JOB
FAIR at lucas county rec center, then out to Nana and Papa's to pickup ky (said she wanted to go fishing!) Kylie spend
the weekend 5/1 = 5/3/09 (We completed a project for her, a poster to hang in her Middle School's hall, proclaiming her
as "5th Grade STUDENT OF THE WEEK!!" (for week on 5/11 - 5/17/09 - WAY TO GO KYLIE! We're PROUD of our "Student of the WEEK!"
"You go girl!"
Wed., 5/6/09 - Pay bills (Auto insurance/Cell/Best Buy). "Jam session" with Roger Stein at "Crossroads
Guitar Shop" on Tremainsville road (at Wernets Corners)..with Shop Owner "Jack Little" (We jammed pretty good - only the
second time in 2 years we've been together.) A few things I didn't like....Jack was "performing business" while we jammed
(gave some guy $250 for an Epiphone guitar, Case, Amp and Digitech pedal (guy said he'd be back with more in another 2 weeks)..and
another big guy who came in, went behind the counter where I couldn't see him, came back out a minute or two later, with a
"pack of strings"..Jack took $5 from him (added it to the "WAd of Bills" from his pants pocket....then when we were done (3:00
- 4:45, whew, LOUD too!)...Roger found an article (he held it up but I couldn't make out what he was holding, from behind
the same counter), and asked Jack what it was...Jack says: "It's not what you think it is...it's "SAGE", I burn it from time
to time, to "chase away the evil spirits"...(IT STUNK TO ME, a "Stinky Sweet" smell)...I'm not gonna Jam there again, if he's
got any of the "Sage" there again....I'm "Allergic" to it...(just like I'm allergic to "Pot")...gotta give a call to Roger
later this week, and tell him: "I'm not gonna Jam there anymore...that SAGE stuff makes me sick, and "ruins my performance"
on the drums...don't want to be around it...I'll Jam with you both IF it's in a "different setting" with no "Drugs or Alcohol"
around the band! :-)
Mon., 5/11/09 - 6pm, FINAL BIBLE STUDY CLASS of the SEMESTER (woohoo! "Praise be to Jesus"!
At the Schultz's home in point place. Pastor Dana will be there administaring communion.
May 30th, 2009 - Mom and
Dad home for summer!! Woohoo!
Fri. June 12th, take Kylie and her neighbor friend Erica, up to MIS to watch the
ARCA race. Both the girls said the love it (convinced me enough to take them again next year!)
Mon. - Sun. June 15-21st,
2009 - Kylie come and spend a vacation week with us. HIghlights: We saw "UP in 3D", Fishing trips to Oak Openings, playing
Wii until late at night, bike riding, cookouts in the drive with G&G. Take Ky back home on Father's day, after church in
the morning. Dad made steaks on the grill, in honor of us "Dads" for dinner. Mmmmmmm :-) (Krista had operation during
this week, to remove palaps and cysts, partial hysterectomy. Kylie and I visit her 3 times in hospital, play UNO, take her
"get well cards")
June 28th - July 5th, "Jamie Farr Owens Corning Kroger Classic at Highlands meadows golf course.
Bill buy tickets, receive free weeklong parking pass from friend at church. Bill go over and watch LPGA golfers everyday!
July
3rd, 4th 5th - Kylie's weekend here. Bonny up for the weekend (home on Monday afternoon the sixth.) Highlights: Bonny buy
us tickets to see "ICE AGE III in 3D", Bonny, Bill and Kylie to downtown riverfront to watch Fireworks display. (could also
see Mudhens postgame display from our vantage point) Bill take kylie home sunday afternoon, Bill to Aldersgate Angels youth
softball practice at Close Park. Monday 7/5/09 - Dad have outpatient surgery to remove Melanoma area from his right arm.
Bonny drive mom and dad to and fro, then she leave for back home to Cincinnati. Monday night Bill softball game at Willys
Park (We won our 3rd straight, after losing our opening game. I pitched 2 wins for our team in a double header the monday
before.:-)
July 9th, Dad recoverying well from operation, stop taking pain pills. (I saw his "arm wound" where Melanoma
was completely removed for first time on wednesday the 15th, and area on upper thigh where they took skin graph from. He
started doing part of his morning workouts that morning again too. He is recoverying nicely, AND the doctor said "test results
showed NO MELANOMA in his LYMPH system!! When doctor gives him a clean Bill of health, we can say "DAD beat the Germans in
WWII and CONQUERED cancer 60 years later!! Way to go DAD, we're proud of you! (Special THANK YOU to all of our family,
friends and neighbors for all the cards, wellwishes, thoughts and prayers. We appreciate them very much! Thank you!:-) (Bill
mow the front yard - been little rain lately, the lawn is looking a little brown, I'm "Praying for rain"!:-)
July 17-19,
2009 - Kylie's weekend here. Pizza and dominoes on friday, "Harry Potter and 1/2 blood prince" matinee on saturday, then
Bill and Ky "Par 2 miniature golf" on saturday night. (She made almost as many "holes-in-one" as I did!:-), dominoes. Sunday
morning, Bill and Ky to church, G & G sleep in. Kylie "PB&pickle lunch", Bill take her home. Bill to AUMC youth bantam softball
team practice. (At our AUMC game on monday, we won again, 25 - 7!! Our record is now 4 - 2, only one more win and we are
assured a "500 record" for the season!)
Thurs., 7/23/09 - Bill to mudhens game (after mom's "chicken and rice casserole
dinner":-) HENS played a RECORD SETTING GAME!! Beat Syracuse Chiefs (Washington Nationals triple-A) 18 - 1 (12 runs for
hens in 3rd inning alone! Saw Carlos Guillen (Tigers) on rehab drive in 2 runs, saw 4 homeruns in 3rd inning alone! (back-to-back-to-back!)
and MOST RUNS ever scored by mudhens at Fifth-third field since they have been there in 2002! Way to go HENS!! Definitely
the best MUDHENS ticket I have bought so far! (found out in a family email, that our sister Bev in California, had a "AWARD
WINNING photo" in the CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR!! WOW!! (A portrait she shot of her hubby Dave!) ("First place" and "Best of
the Best" awards!! Way to go Bev!!)
Fri., 8/14/09 - Bill sleep in (way late:( then shower, to Best Buy to purchase
Madden '10, to APCU to transfer funds, to Krista's to pickup Ky for the weekend. Amy was there, met 2 of Ky's friends Amber
and Krystal, hugged Thomas bye. B & K stop at dollar store, get 2 bars of soap for WHS "soap game"...then to home. Kylie
read Dad, G&G her book (she has already started on the 2nd chapter and has a outline of what the 3rd chapter will be, and
2 new characters she will introduce in the 3rd and 4th chapters. We all really enjoyed hearing her book, and from a "college
grad standpoint" IT SOUNDS GREAT!! I'm SERIOUS, and I'm not saying that just because I am her DAD either!! We are already
making plans to turn it into a movie...and she promised her writing will not interfere with her schoolwork this fall! I wish
I could tell you more but I will say, YOU TOO will SEROIUSLY LOVE IT!! Just wait! It's GONNA BE BIG!!) Grammie made Kylie's
favorite summer dinner - Garden (or boiled) dinner. Eat, Kylie on the computer, bill cleanup, Bill and Ky to football game,
watch 1st half. (scrimmaged Sylvania Southview STATE champs!) Uncle Dave texted us to invite us out to play video games.
Stop at Family Vid, get FREE 5night rental of MADDEN 10 for Dave's PS3, call G&G tell them we'll be home at midnight. To ortners,
play video, eat pizza and wings, Ky chat with cousins, massages. Bill and Ky back home at midnight. Ky straight to bed.
Bill update website til 2 am.
Sat., 8/15/08 - Ky up, down basement to use computer. Bill play Madden10 on XBox. After
lunch B&K over to Trilby UMC for festival. Home dinner (Pizza), bill take Ky home at 7:00, cousin Alexia come to spend night
at Ky's. Bill home, to bed early for race next day.
Sun., AUGUST 16th - Sprint Cup Series 400 at MIS!!! (I'm hopin
to see Jimmie win this one (Edwards did last year, and Jim the championship, but this year I'd like to see Mr. Johnson win
there AND THEN the Championship TOO AND HENDRICK Motor Sports the TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP!!)
Sept. 14, 2009 - Turn forty
NINE! (The year of "Gold Rush and INvesting"!!?!:-)
Oct. 6th, 2009 - M & D head back to FL (OR are they going to wait
until the 13th, so we call ALL celebrate their anniversary here together?? I hope they wait!;-)
Oct. 8, 2009 - M &
D - 60 year wedding anniversary!
10/9/09 - Ky turns 12 (only 1 more year until TEENAGER (arghhhh!!:-) Look out "movie
dates"!!
Thurs., 11/2?/2017 -- "Happy THANKFULS-GIVING" DAY!! Well things went as I had planned (made plans
way back in 2008 to be "retired at 48, and a multi-millionaire by 2010!! Woohoo! You have to love "good planning, and good
luck":-) (**No better place to be than in the "Son" (Jesus, the SON of GOD that is)!:-) Spend the day with Loved ones. Bill
spend afternoon at one of his mansions on one of his private islands in the Caribbean, with many of his "beautiful, talented,
young, equally as rich, Lady-friends"!! (Tell them "all the great success I am enjoying with my 5,000,000 shares of First
Solar stock (FSLR)!!"
12/25/2062 A.D. - wakeup, coffee, read paper, say my morning prayers, ("Thanks for the loving
miracles last night...";-) lunch, celebrate Christmas in "grand style", eat, worship, internet, nighttime prayers, bed.
**hint
- Here's a good prayer I said first thing in the mornings: "Thank you GOD again giving me a "NEW DAY"!!" Amen.*
