Catching up

Wow, what beautiful weather we are having today. Wish I had a convertible and a full tank of gas, would take Angela somewhere for the day. Maybe later our 29Th anniversary coming up on 4/4, need something creative for a gift, any suggestions?

• Been busy time, as you saw in last post, I went to Singapore and China for work a couple of weeks ago. It was very interesting, not much time to sight see, but a little time to shop.
• Brandon got new job at Best Buy, full time, manager of the mobile communications area, gave 2 weeks notice at the bank. Miss him and Julie a lot.
• Corey loves the hospital, seeing all kinds of interesting people. moved into new apartment so we are empty Nester's again.
• Going to see Tyler and Rachel week after Easter! Cannot wait, he got an invitation to audition for BBQ Pit masters on the Food Network, will let you know how it turns out.
• Went to Brock's (Kyle and Kelley) birthday party last Saturday, he was wild with excitement, looked more like Christmas with all presents he got.
• This week annual visit from Easter Bunny, look forward to pictures next week.
• Gotta go get ready for meeting

Pressing On! Go to Church this Sunday!!

Photos from Asia

Hello from Asia!

Made it to Singapore last night, uneventful flight, except the food was really bad and very long flights, 14 hours to Hong Kong and 4 hours to Singapore.

Watched "The Blind Side" and "2012" movies, both pretty good.

Weather here hot and humid, about 80 last night with 100% humidity. Preparing for session tomorrow, our to dinner tonight with the Abbott group.

Report tomorrow

When will it end?

I want to acknowledge, that I was skeptic on the whole Global Warming thing. I thought it was just another way for the liberals to take control of even more parts of my life and introduce more laws that limit my personal freedoms.

But I think the last few weeks have proven me right! I have about 20" of climate change on my front lawn and the global warming temperature currently is about 20 degrees outside, which for the record is about 20 degrees below the normal for today.

I can never remember a winter like this with major snow storms one right after the other. I have piles of snow beside my driveway that are approaching 5 feet high! I did see a snow plow come down my street today, which was awesome, since it took a week last time.

Had a great Valentines day, got the Queen some jewelry, I got some real Goumas candy, local family candy makers, and a card. The outside of the card was fine, it was red in color and something about puckering up. I opened it it started playing the song, "... this kiss, this kiss ...", really romantic. Then I read the inside of the card and it said happy BIRTHDAY! The Queen did cross that out and write "Valentines" above it.

Said she bought it without having her glasses on. Went to Japanese Steakhouse for dinner.

Pressing On!

The end is near! Updated

We got the news this week that Tinker needs to be put to sleep. He is getting older, has lots of arthritis, and has issues with people. Hate to see it come to an end, but I will not miss taking him outside early in the cold mornings.

Corey has another job interview at the hospital this Friday. So pray for success for him. Brandon likes working at the bank in Kansas, and Tyler is back to school after a long weekend due to the weather in Memphis.

I remember when we lived in TN, it was NOT unusual for school to get cancelled if snow was forecasted! Seems strange in Ohio, but until you find out there is one salt truck for the whole county! It keeps Interstate 40 clear, and not much else. Usually the ice or snow lasted about a day, then it warms up in the 40s and everything melts.

Angela had minor eye surgery, doing well, I am traveling a little, not a lot right now. So all pretty quiet.

Pressing ON!

Bad week, so far

Been a crazy week at work so far, but pushing through to the end!

Started Monday with taking Aunt Rhoda to Doctor to remove a melanoma on her ear. 6 hours later I had to leave and go to work, but Corey stayed with them. He got home about 4 PM (see twitter update on left).

I get to work, log on Monday afternoon and all my files are gone from my computer! I had a message from IT Security saying they were moved to a new folder, only 2 problems: 1) I could not open the new folder, and 2) when I could, no files! been waiting since then and they are still not there. Getting harder to work, saving things on my desktop.

Yesterday, I was working and the power went out in my office. I laid down on the floor to reset my surge protector at the same time a co-worker came in my office, saw me lying on the floor and thought I was dead!! She called "Jeff" and when I answered, she didn't no whether to hug me or hit me. Sorry Melissa.

Went to viewing hours for Pauline Larch from church last night, great lady went to be with husband Art in Heaven.

Then the Queen and I went to Bake and Brew on N. 21st for dinner. Had the hash brown crusted fish = GREAT! Stopped by the "good" goumas store for a dessert. Only had 2 chocolate covered marshmallows, could have had 22, they were so good.

Ended the night watching Massachusetts save the country by electing a Republican Senator that can stop Obamacare before it destroys the country.

Today has been uneventful, the power went out again, but I stayed in my chair and Melissa was fine.

Corey has 2nd interview tomorrow at LMH, praying for him a job!

Pressing On!

Stossel's Latest on Crony Capitalism: Seriously?!

Stossel's Latest on Crony Capitalism: Seriously?!

I signed this and hope you do too!

One Nation Under God

Christmas has left the building

We put away all inside decorations today. Wow, it was tiring and took about 4 hours.

It would have been quicker if Corey was home, but decided to stay in Kansas until today. Wonder if that was part of the reason? Takes a while to take down 4 trees and all decorations Angela likes to put up. But it does make Christmas fun and memorable.

In all truth, it probably took over half the time getting the basement back in shape to put stuff away. found lots of Yard Sale stuff, and baby carrier, evenflo bouncing seat, etc, that we can give away to someone.

With all that, our basement looks a lot better. I told Angela, that if we didn't get it cleaned up, they might want to film and episode of "Hoarders" down there. But not now, it looks great, just need Angela to go through a bunch of toys we have accumulated over the years.

That's all for now, trying to decide to leave my OSU Train up a little longer in celebration of the Rose Bowl victory!

That's all for now, back to work on Monday!

Pressing On!

Great Start to 2010

Buckeyes win the Rose Bowl! Pryor finally plays to potential, all is good in Buckeye land tonight!

Corey and Blake headed home from Kansas in Saturday

Family met at Bonner's for food and game. Traditional food of pork, sauerkraut, and black eyed peas for New Years.

Angela and I a little sad, 1st New Years with none of the boys around. Life goes on!

Looking forward to a fun, successful, and exciting 2010!

Jeff Salyer Family Christmas 2009

No place like home for the holidays!

I am still at work trying to get out of here, but my boss just called a meeting in a few minutes. UGH!

I am really looking forward to this Christmas. One, because I am tired, it has been a long month of December and looking forward to two weeks off!

Two, the main reason is the family is coming home! Tyler and Rachel - Brandon and Julie both will be at our house for some family time. I miss all of them and can't wait to see them and spend sometime with them, as short as it may be.

Holidays really became special when we moved to TN and came home to Ohio for Christmas. The 1st Christmas, the boys were small and it was an ice storm and it took about 5 hours longer then it should. But we made it. Every year afterwards it was special to go home for the holidays.

So Hug your kids, they grow up fast
Do something fun, to create a Christmas memory
and keep Christ in Christmas, HE is the Reason for the Season!

God Bless all of You!

Things I Don't Get - December 2009

1. How Tiger Woods, who had affairs with 10 women, and still counting, could ever sell anything to anyone ever again?
2. Why people don't like snow in December? Better now than March or April.
3. Why people believe in global warming when it has gotten colder every year since 1998
4. That we can do anything about global warming or global cooling? This planet was made by God himself, and I cannot believe man can do anything that has an bigger impact than that.
5. Why is it if you fill a glass with ice, then add water, it does not overflow the glass, but people think that if the ice caps melt, all coastal towns will be underwater.
6. Why people take Christ out of Christmas, make sure you tell cashiers and waiters, Merry Christmas!. Most can only say Happy Holidays until you say Merry Christmas first.
7. Is there a limit to how much debt the USA can handle? I think politicans would say no, but I say YES!
8. Why people think big government is the answer. The people of this country can solve problems better than polticians. Just at Hurricane Katrina, private citizens are still there working getting things done.
9. Why the Browns can be so bad every year!
10. Why I am so lucky to have the great family that I do!

Sad Thanksgiving

Angela's Uncle passed away the day before Thanksgiving, so that put a damper on the occasion and made us change our plans.

We had planned on meeting Julie (Brandon fiance) this Saturday, but because of the funeral we came home today. We are heading right back in the AM for the funeral in Kentucky, so tomorrow will be a long day.

We also missed having Brandon, Julie and Jordan ( Angela's niece) at Thanksgiving dinner, but that is what happens when kids grow up, they go their own way. It was good to see Tyler and Rachel, we had a good visit with them.

But the meal was great, the food wonderful and a good time was had by all. We all went around the table before we ate and told one thing we were thankful time. Regardless of what is going on in our lives, we have much to be thankful for.

Here are the pictures I took




Pressing on! Go the Church this Sunday.

More Singapore Pictures 2009

Pictures other people took while I there. See me in action!!

Trip pictures from Singapore 2009

Singapore #1

1st impressions, are WOW there are a lot of people here! During the 1 hour cab ride from the airport, all we saw were hi rise apartments. Cab driver said 85% of people live in this type of high density housing. Hate to see what would happen if some kind of natural disaster hit.

Long 2 days ( It is Monday AM here). Flight was delayed out of Chicago by 4 hours, glad they had an "extra" 747 sitting around because ours broke down. Watched a few movies on the flight over, slept a little read some.

Singapore airport is new and clean and nice, English language everywhere easy to navigate. Walking to baggage claim, heard Kenny G music playing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" over the PA. Large Christmas bulbs (6 feet across) sitting around as decorations.

Site seeing today to get adjusted to the time change, working Tue & wed, home Thurs late, love to all

Jeff

Cades Cove 2009

During our recent trip to Gatlinburg we had one of the best and most unusual experiences we ever had.

Cades Cove is wildlife preserve that also has old houses and churches on the premises. We drove around awhile and then we came to this old church

We walked inside to stretch our legs and discovered a piano, Angela sat down and began to play a few old hymns.

As we started singing and Angela kept playing, a strange thing happened. More and more people showed up and began singing with us! By the time we stopped the number of people in the church had doubled to about 40!

There was one young single guy there by himself, Chris, who just happened to be there when we started singing (What's the odds of that? 100%) He was a believer who had moved to the area looking for work. As we kept singing he started crying. He had been feeling bad for himself and decided to get some fresh air and visit Cades Cove this day at this time. We talked to him later and found he was just moved by the moment and the spirit.

He was looking for encouragement and found it in the strangest place, in a 200 year old church with a bunch of people he had never met before. God was really blessing that day.

All in all, it was our best trip yet, 16 people total, had a great time, can't wait to go back.

More pictures at http://www.gatlinburggang.blogspot.com/

Family Hayride 2009