Wednesday

Jonny finished reading Wicked and it was 406 pages. Now he is on page 12 of Blood is the Sky. The book is telling how to make a log cabin.

Today Jonny listened to the parsha discussion for Tzav.

His lap top died. So he bought a new one.

Jonny is working on a data warehouse. He is moving data from Sybase to Oracle. One table at a time. The goal is to get 15 tables over there so the data can be queried.

Angelina started working again. She isn't supposed to be driving for another 2 months. She had a physical therapy appointment and it ran over. It will take them 2 hours to complete the initial processing. They only had 1 hour budgeted for this.

finally back at work

Angelina had to have surgery. Jonny is finally back at work today.

Jonny read and finished a few books. He read Good People by Markus Sakey author of The Blade Itself. This is crime fiction from the point of view of the bad guys. the book was 326 pages. Next Jonny read Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind, 89 pages. This was the prequel to the Sword of Truth series. After that he read The Android's Dream. This was a science fiction book and was 396 pages. Now Jonny is on page 3 of Wicked.

MRI on Wednesday

Yes it's true. Angelina had to get an MRI today. Jonny had to take half a day off to hold her hand. And what's worse. They didn't go to Hotel California to get it done. They went to the competition. Well Jonny better get to work now. He has been at The Hotel Hilton for an hour. He made a cup of instant coffee and sent an email to a friend. Then he went to the library to meet a friend that he met on the internet who he know wouldn't show up. But Jonny still got a DVD of two and 1/2 men. Angelina likes that comedy. Jonny got back from the bus ride a short time ago. He was able to be in and out of the libary and back on the next #2 bus, less than 15 minutes later. His coffee was still warm. Lorraine's Bat Mitzvah parsha speech isn't very inspiring. It is all about love thy neighbor. Over the weekend Jonny was playing with his pathetic candle. Today Lorraine got invited to yet another Bat Mitzvah. Jonny finished a book. Patriot Games was 503 pages. He later that day started reading D.A. Willis by Connie Willis. This is a very short book. Angelina is having trouble with her legs. She has numbness and pain in them. The doctor sent her for this emergency test today. Well Jonny had better get busy: going to the bathroom, irrigating hisnose, cleaning the bathroom, watering the plants, relaxing and letting go, taking a nap and touching base with Rob.

Only when the books are done

Is it true that Jonny only posts when he finishes a book? Jonny finished a book. He finished reading Night Judgement at Sinos by Jack Higgins. He thought it was a good read. The 289 page book was set in the sea near Greece and Turkey during the 1960's. But since the book was written in the 1970's the author tried to make it seem it was modern times.

Over the weekend before Thanksgiving, Jonny watched a movie. He saw a movie based on a Hemingway book by the same title. The 83 minute movie was called A Farewell to Arms. This is from Jonny's DVD collection. He brought it on the trip.

Right now Jonny is sleeping listening for the second time this week to Mikietz. The Hebrew word for prison is bora. At one point Yosef interrupts paro. This is because he feels he must give G-d credit for the dream interpretation. In the parsha Yosef says you will remember me. His mistake was to not trust in Hashem. It was a small deber. Apparently deber is another word for mistake?

Friday

Jonny will be in PA for the next week, not like it makes that much difference. Ah he is feeling a nap coming on, as soon as he finishes this coffee.

Jonny listened to the chanting of the Torah of Vayislach. He also did the quiz again yesterday and got a 7 out of 10.

Jonny finished his book Wikinomics. Also the book was 290 pages. He didn't feel like reading the acknowledgements or the footnotes. But there is a website he might check out at his in-laws.

Friday

Not much posting here by Jonny. He has been crazy busy at work. He didn't accomplish much. But he did finish a book. Jonny read Rachel & Leah and it was 418 pages and that included an acknowledgement at the end. It also included book club ideas. Jonny found the facebook song. It is embedded below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEhpwaOj9A

He is listening to the Torah chanting right now.

Jonny just found out from Angelina that Alberta is going try out for HS basketball this afternoon. Jonny rode his bicycle to work today. He was planning on going to a bar after work with Ryan if it works out. Jonny still needs to get a nap in. Jonny has left over Spaghetti for lunch. He needs to run downstairs and drop off his time sheet, get a fork and recycle some batteries.

No loan for you

Jonny finished a book. Last night he finished The Vendetta Defense. It was 518 pages including acknowledgements at the end.

Jonny and Angelina were just denied a loan this morning. They have too high of a debt to income ration, something like 51 to 28.

Jonny must go to a meeting now.

Friday

Today was a messed up day at work and Jonny really wants to take a nap. He had a meeting in the morning. Penny Fuller was there representing the department, so why did he have to go to it? After the meeting he gave Rob Schneider a call. This was because he is Jonny's boss.

Yesterday Jonny finished a book. He finished The Great Divide. It was 330 pages. Lorraine picked him out a new book. Jonny is now reading The Vendetta Defense. It is by the same author of Death In A Strange Country. That book was about Venice. The author's name is Lisa Scottlin. That might not be the right spelling. Jonny is too lazy to look it up. It is taking an act of a miracle to write this blog.

The other reason to call Rob is because of the party. The meeting was about getting rid of VASE. Jonny has the backup spreasheet open. But he was too lazy to plug in the iron key. He isn't too lazy to make paragraphs. But he won't reorganize them, because he wants to keep the flow of the time line of the free flowing thoughts.

The party was a brunch outside of Death Valley. There at the party Jonny saw in passing Matthew Lillard and Fisher Stevens. Fisher was wearing his usual nascar jacket. Matthew was wearing his usual I'm 50 something and life is hard scowl. Also from the old gang Jonny got a big hug and awkward chat afterwards with Melissa Barker. She had 1 more child than Jonny did to catch up on. Her oldest is now a freshman in college. While Alberta is a freshman in high school. Jonny talked to Lea Thompson at great length about bicycle riding. His mentor was impressed with his adventures in the Bandameer Park trails and pulling Jesse the 9 year old 8 miles.

The only other thing of note is that Angelina is thinking about making Kreplach. Jonny found out about a new holiday. Something to lookup called Rabana Raba or something like that. Purim, Yom Kippur and this third holiday are the times to eat the delicacy. Angelina bought a couple of knishes for the occasion as well. They will try to get there early so as not to sit in the back of the building. Look in this blog next week for the review of the sermon given tonight.

Happy New year

tonight is the Jewish new year.

Jonny finished a book. Appropriately it is a Jewish book. He finished Exodus by Leon Uris and it was 599 pages. Very interesting part about the Yemen people being sent to Israel.

Monday

Jonny's officemate Beverly is working in a different office. So it is quite dead in there. Jonny just cleaned the bathroom. He didn't ride his bike to work today. That is because he took Lorraine to the first day of art camp. Angelina took Jesse to his ultrasound. Zsa Zsa accompanied her. Angelina paid her back buying her a cup of coffee. Wendell told Alberta she could go to his beach house on Labor Day weekend. And Angelina said fine but first she has to clean her room. Yesterday Jesse and Jonny went for a bike ride. They went about 5 miles with the trailer bike. Jonny has been begging for that hitch for 8 months. Now they have it and it hasn't been used once. They will use it for the their up north vacation to Boyne. Jonny hasn't been reading much. His last book was Critical Care. It was kinda gross. Before that was Exodus and he didn't finish it. Jonny reserved it from the library. He also can get $7.99 off a book at Nicola's bookstore if he so chooses to do that. They send that coupon once a summer as a birthday present. Jonny has redeemed two books that way so far. Over the weekend he watched some TV. He and his wife watched several Criminal Minds episodes. They are so graphic, sometimes they have to fast forward past the gross parts. This week the parsha is Ki Sese.

Monday

This week feels like a short week. That is because Jonny is going on a beach vacation. He and his son Jesse are going to his parent's beach house. It will be a lot of fun.

Last week's parsh was Eikev. That parsha has the shma prayer in it. This week is the parsa of Re'eh.

Jonny finished Jericoh's Road. It was 288 pages. He is on page 324 of Exodus. Alberta was reading it at the same time. The two of them also started watching the movie.

Jonny watched some Scrubs. Angelina and Jesse watched Criminal Minds.

Jesse got a DSI for his birthday. He is extremely happy.

Lorraine went to camp. Over the weekend the family drove 4 hours each way. They toured the camp and dropped her off. Jonny and Jesse played catch with a baseball.

Thursday

As usual Jonny is mighty busy at work.

This week is the parsha of Eikev. Last week was Va'etchanan.

As a good Jew Jonny watched part of the movie Exodus. He is also reading the book that goes with said movie. Last night Jonny dropped Alberta off at the JCC so she could attend an annual Ann Arbor event including Israeli scouts.

Jonny finished a book. More like it was a book on tape. More like it was a book on CD. The book was unlike any other John Grisham books. It wasn't about lawyers and it wasn't set in Tennessee or New Orleans or some place south. The book was called Playing for Pizza. As usual it is time to look up the AMAZON results for the said book.

In other movie news Jonny watched the movie The Conflict. It was not a Jewish movie.

Jonny painted the side of the house. This was because the fish burned. The burnt fish put soot from the grill on the siding. The fish got burnt because Angelina was depressed about not getting any classes to teach in the Fall. So they burnt the fish by mistake, they got distracted.

Over the weekend Alberta went to a two day sleepover. She called it a Shabbaton. Right before he took her they almost lost power. There have been a lot of storms this month.

Well back to work even though it is late.

Other movies Jonny seen recently are:

• The Proposal
• A Walk In The Clouds

Thursday

North of Nowhere, 322 pages. That was an awesome book says Jonny. This was the 4th book in the Alex McKnight series by Steve Hamilton. Jonny has started Exodus by Leon Uris. This is truly a Jewish book. Jonny is listening to the Chumash. This week there is a double portion of Mattos and Masei.

Yesterday Jonny, Rob and another guy had a nasty meeting with Penny.

Jonny is still waiting for Jesse's and his trip to see his parents to be finalized. Kristina and Wendell are on vacation. So they can't purchase the tickets now.

beach trip

Jonny finished Deception Point. He also finished The Cardturner. He looked up the reviews on AMAZON for The Cardturner and they were very good. Jonny thought Deception Point was even better.

Jonny still hasn't gotten approval from Angelina for a beach trip. Below is some emails from Kristina. She lays it on thick.

As you try to work out which weekend to come visit us, consider having the whole family come to the beach for a week long vacation after all camp and summer classes are done, but before the fall semester starts. We could join you at Bethany on the weekend, leaving everyone a chance to enjoy different activities.

Hi Mom,
I think at some point in the future we might consider a week long trip to your beach house as it is a very generous offer. This year will be extremely difficult if not impossible to find that week. Maybe next year.

In the 11 years we have lived here I think you and your family has maybe visited us once. It's easy to say "next year". but I wonder if it will ever be.

Monday

Jonny fell asleep at work again today. It was supposed to be a short siesta.

This morning he arrived at 9 AM. At 9:15 he looked into emails pertaining to the VASE governor's meeting. 9:30 emails about meetings for the double entry of data into VASE and another system for record and verify. 9:45 was testing the VASE demographics automation. 10:00 found Jonny working on the same thing.

Over the weekend Jonny finished a book. He finished reading 355 pages of No Man's Dog. Also he went to Bay City for a soccer game. That was a 1 hour and 40 minute drive. Today he listened to the parsha Beha'aloscha. His compost bin is in full glory. Jonny's parents calle over the weekend. Jesse spoke with them for about 2 minutes before the phone call got yanked away by circumstances of the day. Jonny took a nap as soon as he got to Bay City. He had to drive 5 girls. They watched DVD's both ways. Jonny had a muscle spasm you don't want to know where. A lady in the car next to him slammed her door into his at 3 minutes to game time and woke him up. Jonny didn't need sun screen at the game. But he did over the weekend when the family did some planting. They planted broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, marigolds, various flowers. Last night Jonny helped Lorraine with homework. Last night Jonny watched some of the last Saturday Night Live for the season.

At 10:15 Jonny did the same thing he did at 10. At 10:30 he had had enough. So he walked down stairs to see Rob. He stayed there a brief 30 minutes. At 11 he relaxed and let go. 11:15 AM Jonny worked on his evaluation. Then he had lunch, then watered the plants and by 12:15 he was past out.

Jesse gave Jonny a book from his collection. This won't take long, it is a kid book. The Secrets of Droon Voyagers of the Silber Sand. A thrilling journey into Droon's Past by Tony Abbott.

Friday

Jonny finished a book. He finished reading 493 pages of To Say Nothing of the Dog

completed some stuff

Yes Jonny has completed some tasks. He made brisket chili over the weekend. he finished his 8 shelf by 34.5" built in to the wall bookshelf. He also finished some books. Jonny is done with The Zookeeper's Wife, 340 pages. He is finished with the The DaVinci Code, 454 pages. He has visual studio, and visual source safe running properly on his computer at work. He rode his bike to work today. Yesterday Jonny went to the Red Hawk and had some Great Lakes Edmondt Fiztgeralt Beer. He listened to the parsha Tazria discussion for the second time this week.

Monday

Jonny was real busy last week.

He finished a book. He finished reading The Zookeeper's Wife. This was 340 pages, including the details explaining the chapters. There were reading group discussion notes as well. Jonny is on page 327 of The DaVinci Code. So he plans to finish that book tonight.

Over the weekend he made brisket chili. It is super hot. No one else in the family will eat it.

This week there is a double parsha. Last week there was none. Last week was a repeat of Shemini. This week is both Tzaria and Metzora.

Jonny has been struggling to load software. He is in the midst of getting DbArtisan and Visual Studio.

The bookshelf is finished. It is 8 shelves 34 inches wide. Last night Lorraine helped load some books onto it.

VASE is running slow.

Angelina obtained a 20% discount one of Lorraine's camps.

Anglina wants to buy a portable DVD player. Jonny researched a nice Philips brand for her. They have them reconditioned at Best Buy for $69.99.

Angelina called because Jonny didn't fill up the cars with gas while she was away. It wasn't on his list. She also called to get his Trader Joe food order, but he was in Rob's staff meeting. Lea didn't show up for it. Jonny thinks sometimes he would have been better off to follow his mentor's example and skip the boring, heavily laden with network talk meeting.

Angelina's substitute tested out some students. So she is mad about that.

two books to read

Jonny finished listening to Nerve Damage. It is not recommended. Jonny is on page 49 of The Zookeeper's Wife. He is reading that for the Synagogue book club. Angelina was nice enough to pick up DaVinci Code for her husband at the library over the weekend. Lorraine had to go to services and Jonny heard the announcement about the reading group. So now he has two books to read.

Jesse and Jonny rode their bikes to the science olympiad, over the weekend. Also over the weekend, Jonny took Alberta to her soccer game in Wixom.

After work on Friday Jonny took the liberty of going to Red Hawk. He had two nice glasses of milky stout for the inflated price of $5.60. Luckily it was happy hour so that was the price for normally one glass was the price for two glasses.

Angelina was busy spending money. She had her handyman over. He was putting up crown molding in the living room. This amounted to about $300 maybe $400. The handyman was able to get another job out of her. They requested his services to remove the cap of a railing. The cap is about one foot wide flat board the goes in a angle for a total of 15 feet.

Friday

Jonny finished a book. He read 430 pages of Hollywood Crows.

Today he listened to the Torah chanting. This was parsha KiTisa.

It is almost time to start planning for Pesach.

Jonny has gotten back into doing situps at night.

He has some strange dreams again. But this time he woke up with a splitting headache. It hurt his head too much to remember the dreams.

Lorraine lost her cell phone. She is really scared of what Angelina will say.

Jonny finished a program to link primary diagnosis forms to consult forms and to link consult forms to treatment summary forms.