Blog Number 175

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

So a few blogs ago I mentioned some weird phone calls / messages left on my cell phone.  Well the wife has topped me in this category.  She received 22 phone calls yesterday.  All the calls were NOT attempting to call her but rather another number (that did not even share one common number with her cell phone number).  It does seem that all the people that are calling (about 5 unique numbers) are trying to call the same number, it is just being re-routed to her number.  She did receive a phone call from the owner of the number everyone is trying to call.  He actually apologized for the trouble and did say that he called Verizon (our cell phone provider) to try to clear it up but did not get anything accomplished.  It is very frustrating though since the cell phone rings so often.

I woke up this morning with a terrible pain on the outside of my left knee.  It was really hard to walk.  It did not hurt when I put weight on it but rather when I was removing the weight.  Also, it was painful to the touch.  Very weird.  It will keep me from my son's soccer game this morning as there is about a 1/4 mile distance between the parking lot and where the soccer field is located.  I have trouble right now walking from the kitchen to the computer so the 1/2 mile round trip is probably out of the question.  My leg did not hurt when I went to bed so I have no idea how I hurt it.

Next week my manager and his manager are going to Cordoba, Argentina.  My manager has never been there.  Also, my former team leader (whom I went to Argentina with in January) is going to Egypt.  I am jealous of all of them as I very much enjoyed travelling internationally and seeing new places (especially when I don't have to pay for it).  (Sigh) maybe I will get to go somewhere soon (note: the wife is not real excited about this prospect).

My mother will be here in 12 days for a short visit.  The wife and I were discussing how many visitors we have had so far.  So far, every month since we have been in Texas, either someone has come from Indiana to stay with us OR we have been back in Indiana.  We counted 6 times that either my mother or hers has been here (my mom's visit will make 7) and we have been back in Indiana twice (though I was in Argentina the 2nd time and the rest of the family was in IN).  So when we move in September (when our apartment lease is up) we will need to keep this in mind.  Do we keep in a smaller house so as to discourage visitors OR do we go big and encourage them?  Tough call !

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon