The Miller's Place

Today is a beautiful day.  Not only are we able to see the first live football in 6 months, but Matthew made his daddy proud tonight 🙂  The football in itself is enough to celebrate over.  It would be much better if it was another team other than Washington but it’s good enough.

So I am downstairs doing laundry and just put a load in so I sit down to follow up on a few things, start FireFox to view a few websites and ESPN.com pops up, my home page.  On the cover was a picture of Brett Favre.  No uniform or anything, just a head sho0t probably from one of his pressers this year.  Well Matthew caught a glimpse and looks at me and tells me “Brett Favre is back in football.”  I looked over in amazement because I had not told Michelle anything about Favre in a few days.  I can’t tell you how proud I was in that moment 🙂  He then proceeds to ask “Is he in Washington?”  Now bear in mind Washington was one of the teams rumored to be in the mix for Favre’s services but it hasn’t been discussed in awhile.  And no don’t get any ideas about Washington playing tonight and that’s where he got it from, No.  We hadn’t even discussed football being on tonight yet.  So not only did he catch Favre was coming back but knew a potential home for him.  Such love and pride came out of me at that time 🙂

Anyway just had to share the story.  As it’s been said many a time before…”That’s my boy!”

I just knew today was going to be one of those days.  It’s rough when you start off the day and it brings you nothing but trouble.  Most of you know I have a heavy foot and I tend to speed whenever possible 🙂  I just don’t like to waste time.  What’s the point of driving 55, yes over here on the left coast for whatever reason they want to limit driving to 55 even though most people drive 70+, when I can drive 85 and get there 10 minutes earlier.  Those 10 minutes I can solve someone else’s problem at work that I have to fix or actually do some of my work.  So anyway, one of my biggest pet peeves is people that can’t adhere to simple edict of…

Pretty Please?!

I mean really, how difficult can it be?  It really isn’t trust me, I have weaved in and out of traffic enough to know it isn’t hard at all.  So back to my point as I weave in and out of being on point.

I got a slightly late start, reasons will be posted tomorrow, so traffic was a little backed up to begin with, but soon as I got on 495 it spread out as usual, except for the wonderful young gentleman who was enjoying his Sunday drive, oh wait it’s Friday not Sunday, in the RIGHT lane!  He barely was going 65 and of course the speed limit was 65.  There were maybe 3 cars in the span of a mile and of course 2 of them were in the center and right lanes.  Well he finally moved past the center car enough I was able to pass him in the center lane.  Sure enough on my drive in I had 2 more similar situations which just made my 45 minute drive, 15 extra minutes thanks to these wonderfully polite drivers, so enjoyable.

This just the start of the day and it continued to not so much go down hill but pretty much stayed level all day long 🙂  In researching for pics to post 🙂 I found this wonderfully informative website which all of you should visit.

Slower Traffic Keep Right.  One of the best lines is:

Realize that it is not your job to keep people from speeding.

Try not to let emotions control your driving behavior. Consider that the speeder is making the roads safer for the rest of us. What is the bigger risk while driving on the highway – wrecking or getting a speeding ticket? There are more speeding tickets than wrecks so our biggest worry should be avoiding a speeding ticket. By letting the speeder get ahead of you then that person will get the ticket and you won’t.

So thats my day, what fun, sorry for dragging you all down.  Just a little look into my world.  So as I finish watching the taped episode of “Last Comic Standing” to try and cheer me up before bed, just remember…”Slower Traffic Keep Right”!!!

Digging through some stuff that had been packed up for forever, uncovered some really old stuff from my high school years.  Amazingly enough I had some pictures from my First Baptist Church days in Port Arthur.  That being said as well as a request by some of the FBC gang I posted some of them.  Enjoy.

Two other miscellaneous pics.  Michelle and I visiting my grandparents.  Me with two cheerleaders from high school, Jennifer LaHaye and Ellen Robbins.  My Senior Skip Trip 🙂 to Disney World with my grandparents, Kate, and Ryan.

Couple of weeks worth of photos just recently uploaded.  Hope you enjoy.  I also will be posting some more from my history in a little while 🙂  But in the mean time enjoy these.  Here is one of my favorites in the bunch.

Today was the first time the whole family went to church.  Michelle asked if I thought she would be fine and I said sure so we all took off.  Morgan slept through about three quarters of the service but when she did get up she enjoyed the video screens and the lights.  She was great though and never cried once.  As Michelle put it here’s a really good family shot of everyone, oh but of course with out you honey 😉

Scott

Yeah the last one didn’t last long.  If you are around in the next half hour or so it may look a little odd as I try out some new things.  Just bear with me and come back a little later and enjoy the final product 🙂

Scott