what have we here?

I have occasion to go to Chapel Hill somewhat infrequently now that my children no longer dwell in the environs of said fair city. However when I do go, I occasionally take my camera in order to take a photo for my daughter who thinks highly of her time there and enjoys an occasional photo from said fair city and being that I love her I indulge her and take photos such as this one of the football place in Chapel Hill. Well upon further examination of some of the photos I recently took and careful work in various labs we were able to make some startling discoveries. Some disturbing discoveries, some discoveries that will give you "the fever"













You can see the shot of football place (and the heels losing to Wake, it is a sorta nice photo)s, but then in some other photos, some things began to emerge that we need to be aware of.
I am not sure but I think I recognized one of the people in that group working out with Obama during the much over publicized non-event last fall. and in the photo below, I do believe the fit looking person celebrating in UNC togs in some triathlon type event celebrating over a dookie looks very familiar and disturbingly like brother you-know-who. Now celebrating over a dookie is always a good thing, but the togs, that is another story.

























Again, I do not want to jump to conclusions about who is who in these pictures acquired in my investigations regarding recent trips and worked on in various labs but this is a most troubling development, just take a look at who is all buddy buddy and who may be sitting courtside! - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK ! !

a little follow up from yesterday

In yesterday's post I mentioned two things that might need clarification

one, just because there were two of our staff are naturalized citizens, most of the staff are more (or less) normal-
here is a photo of most of the Raleigh based staff.
















second, Patt is leaving to visit the grandkids in April, but not until the 24th.
Below is one of my favorite photos of our recent visit. Look at the smile on Patt's and Julianna's face. In fact Julianna just plain exudes joy in that picture. and she was so happy to be "cooking with her Grandmama.

of course where will I be? I reckon, Raleigh, yeah I think it will be Raleigh. Patt, Patt will be visiting Grandchildren.

new day at the office take three

yesterday in the office was a bit unusual in that we celebrated the man to my right becoming a citizen of the United States. He was the second member of my staff to do so in the past two months the man to my left became an American citizen also. The one to my right was originally a citizen of the country whose capital city is Conakry (done anyone besides Andrew know what county that is) how about some guesses) the other guy;s home capital was Beijing. One had been in the US 18 years the other 9, so these guys are not recent arrivals and both are registered professional engineers and one a phd. in engineering. They permit landfills and other solid waste facilities-

other than that it is kinda quiet around here, waiting for March to end and April to get here. That will be a busy month as Patt will head to visit grandchildren then and leave me here - nope no jealousy here, just me back here by myself while Patt is going to visit all three grandchildren and me staying here in Raleigh, so Patt will be holding Isaac, talking to Julianna and Lydia and I will be here - no problem. That will happen in April. Yes in April, Patt will be going off to visit the grandchildren, and not me, nooo, not me, but am I taking this news well, -- of course being the mature person that I am, no problems at all, Patt is going to visit Laura, Matt, Juliann, Lydia, Isaac and see their friends too is my guess, while I will be here - where here. while Patt is visiting and holding grandchildren, playing with them, listening to them, and holding them some more. and where will I be - here -- Yep in April I will keep you all posted, you can probably bet on that.



















be very careful hitting the enter key!! otherwise you have published a post,
and I just did it twice trying to get the title done for this one.

new day at the office

new day at the office

Jen's Birthday

Jen's birthday is March 25 and Wake is not playing basketball so I thought I would write about her and her birthday.

Jen is from near the Hudson River in New York, Here is a photo of her telling that to Stephen, Stephen is trying to remember
















and here another photo of Jen and Stephen in Central Park in New York City. Jen and her Mom were showing Stephen and Patt and me how to cross the street, move through crowds, and in general not get lost in the City and be comfortable there. -- and we were.













HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN,
I AM GLAD TO SOON BE YOUR FATHER-IN-LAW!!!!!

one and done again

We did find the American Airlines arena where the games were to be played











I went looking for the Deacon, and found an Arizona Wildcat, tested and tested and sure enough it was him. The wildcats even beat the Utes of Utah, despite being underdogs. and looked good doing it. Utah even looked good losing even though they lost to a lessor team. Now about those Deacons Once again I looked for the sorry things, but nooooo, no Deacons anywhere in south florida-- just one heck of a lot of people.




























there is that impostor, sorry rascal would not get close to me, and if he had I would have whooped his sorry butt
the Deacons played one sorry sorry game, ---tell them all to go away, start over next year with a new team















As you can see we had plenty of friends and neighbors on the way home. this was I-95 north out of Miami at 12:45 PM oR on friday night- well actually real early on Saturday morning. Yessirree, lots of friends and neighbors, just how many of them do you want. Patt, I think we need to look down here for retirement potential so we can find some friends and enjoy ourselves in traffic.

pictures of an airplane for Julianna and Lydia

Julianna and Lydia, here are some pictures of your GrandDaddy with the airplane he flew in today with his brother, your Uncle Mark. We flew to Florida to watch basketball --

J



There is a a photo of the little airport we stopped in for gas in south Georgia, not much of an airport at all, kind of glad that was not our destination.





We did see some nice views out our window, especially along the south Florida Atlantic Coast.












also there is a picture of me with an airplane that your GrandPa from North Dakota's uses. That picture was taken several years ago and was one of the coldest days I ever experienced. There is also a picture of him here too.













and I just had to put in this picture of the big truck I got to ride on the day I was in North Dakota..





And you can see Mark and me sitting in the airplane while Mark is flying. We have on headsets to keep the sound of the airplane from hurting our ears. Also I have a picture of me with a shirt that your Mom and Dad gave to me. I think it says I am a GrandDad. And I am glad that I am. Say hello to your brother for me and give him a little kiss too.

love from your GrandDad


and now Mark and I are going to watch Wake Forest play basketball - ask your Mom and Dad about that too.

Fill out your brackets

it is time for the tournament - teams from as far away as North Dakota are in this years tournament!
and check out the video for a preview of the expanded field.

Wake Forest, Mark and I are on our way to sunny Miami Florida to see the Deacons play the Vikings of Cleveland State, where ever Cleveland is. (and we are certainly counting on the Deacon showing up this time.)



NCAA Expands March Madness To Include 4,096 Teams



more to follow. as we March through March.

and it took me a while to fill out this bracket

the hands and faces

well I was going to write about our ride home from Atlanta and the final day of the ACC and I was going to post some more photos but my goodness but that got changed. 

check out those photos of Isaac Luther and his sisters.   

Matt and Laura sent them and I have surely enjoyed them and the knowledge of grandfatherhood.  Unfortunately getting this posting correct has not been without some obvious difficulty.  

I have really enjoyed looking at the hands and faces of the children.