After the latest marathon weekend of work and little sleep, I’m ready for a long weekend!  It’s very relaxing.  And as I sit and type this I’m at Caribou Coffee in Alexandria enjoying some free Wi-Fi and a hot cup of the Dark Roast of the day.  Life is good.

We’re in Alex today for Kari Blair’s wedding!  That’s kind of exciting.  Beth is a personal attendant so she’s helping get stuff ready, and more or less being a gopher.  I’m an usher, which means I don’t have to be to the church until 3:30.  I’ll likely go earlier to help if needed, but for now I’m just relaxing.

We’ll be spending the rest of the weekend in the LP with my parents.  It’s been a long standing tradition for my whole family to come back to the LP for Memorial Day Weekend.  We hang out and have a good time.  Monday there is the parade in town and the ceremony at the cemetary afterwards which we go to.  Then around 12noon the Hibbs come over for some grilling out.  It’s a fun weekend.  I think tomorrow morning my dad, brother, and I will be going out fishing.  That will be fun.

So it should be a good weekend.  And if we remember we’ll take some pictures.  Beth commented the other day that we have 0 pictures from 2008.  That’s kind of sad.

Work is slowing down a little bit.  The columns are coming to an end, because they are all candidates now.  And 60 days from this past Sunday (July 20th, I think) we can’t do much at all for them.  So it will be some fun and interesting projects that are kind of out of the norm from the daily tasks.  I’m looking forward to it.

The end of session was intersting.  There were numerous retirement speeches given (8, I think).  The great people who represent our state and are moving back to the private life.  Many of them had a common theme of wanting to spend more time with their families.  It made me wonder how life would be different if I had one.  The constant leaving home and going to St. Paul.  It would have been a great honor and privelege, but it is nice to have a family life as well.  It caused me to ponder about being an elected official.

I’ve been catching up on some TV shows lately.  I’ve gotten into How I Met Your Mother recently.  People at work watch it, and so I’ve began watching it.  That’s a fairly funny show.  Last fall Beth and I began watching Big Bang Theory.  When the strike hit we tapered off from watching it.  Now I’ve watched the last four episodes.  That show is hilarious!  I really like it a lot.  That might be my new show.  If you haven’t seen it you should.  There are about 4 episodes you can watch online for free.

That’s my life in a quick recap.  The pool should be up and running in about a week and a half I think.  The yard is turning green and we’re getting rid of some of the weeds.  The outside is starting to look nice, and the fence will be fixed next week as well!  Life on the home front is well.  Hope it is the same for everyone else!