Friday Night Date Night

It's a little lonely here on the North Coast of Ohio tonight. Cathy's been in Minnesota for a week now and is really enjoying her time there, although I know she misses me being with her, as I miss her being here with me. I'm so glad she can be there for this time and soon I will join them and get to hold Anika and play with Uma and see what Joy and Sach have done with the remodeling of their new house. I'm also looking forward to seeing Nirmal and Suresh. It's always so nice to spend time with them.

Tonight, Ralph and I worked on getting the computer back to a more healthy status. I mostly worked on the computer and Ralph lay at my feet while I rebooted the computer about two dozen times trying to coax it back to life. At this point it looks like the patient might recover. I was prepared to reinstall the operating system, but a few updates and patches and things seem to be pretty good.

Apart from that, the Presidential Debate is going on in the next room and I am listening with one ear in that direction.

Tomorrow after work, I will do some more testing on the computer and see if there has been a full recovery.

Next Friday night, however, will be Date Night in Minneapolis! I'll be looking forward to it.

Till then, sleep well.

Friday Night Date Night

I worked at the studio a few extra hours this evening and Cathy shopped. She is leaving next weekend to go see Joy and Sach and Uma and be there for the birth of our second granddaughter and Uma's sister, so she needed a few last minute items to take along. (I get to join her in a couple of weeks for a long weekend visit!)

As a result, we ate in this evening and enjoyed left over marinara and pasta. It's been raining here since last night and will probably rain all weekend. Certainly not as bed as the folks along the coast of Texas are experiencing tonight.

Yesterday I mentioned my flagpole and the flag I display near the road. I thought I would offer a couple of photos.




This tree, with the branch sticking out on the left, is where I hung my flag on 9-11-2001. Since then, I strung a line between two trees and display the flag as above. When the flag was on the branch, it would sometimes flip back on it's self and get wrapped around the branch. This newer arrangement eliminates that problem. The top of the flag as you see it is about 12 feet above the ground.

This is our flagpole.




This photo is from March of 2006. It was a foggy evening and I went out and took this photo after driving home in the fog. I like it.

Enjoy your evening and I will see you tomorrow.

Friday Nite Date Night

TGIF!

That's the feeling at the end of the week! (Of course, some of us have to work Saturdays too, but that's no reason for not enjoying the evening.)

Fridays are usually a night to go out and eat. Relax and enjoy good food and friendly service. It's always a dilemma, however, of where to go. Good food? Upscale dining? Comfort food? White table cloth? Buckets of beer? Pizza? Seafood? Beef? Mexican? Indian? Italian? So many choices.

One of our favorites and regular places is Burgers-n-Beer in Willoughby, a suburb next door to the west. Great burgers and fries and their fish sandwiches are also very good. In cooler weather their Chicken Tortilla Soup is the best we've ever tasted!

Cathy ordered their Italian Burger - burger on a toasted roll with provolone cheese and marinara sauce. She always orders "extra - extra" sauce on the side. For me, it was their Steak-burger with LTO. We also ordered a basket of fries.

As always, it was great. I took a picture of our meal with my cell phone and it came out poor! (Just imagine.) Here's my poor results.



Luckily for you, I looked around the world wide web and found this video of Burgers-n-Beer just for you! After watching it, I'm sure you will want to try one of their burgers.

Enjoy!