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| Friday June 20, 2008 | Posted at 11:28 am | 2 Comments | |
| Whoa, been a long time! | ||
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Wow, the neglect, the shame, the horror of it all!! Yeah, I admit it, this site gets less and less attention. I have been blogging more and more at my site, choosing to leave this more for generic family stuffs. Let's see, we've had Mother's Day, Father's Day, Mike's little league season, school ending, a beer fest, so much going on! Anyways, a happy belated Mother's and Father's day to all of you out there, including my own parents, in-laws, wifey, and yeah, me too! I didn't mention it here, but made mention on my other site... I was promoted to Assistant Manager. We're doing some restructuring with how/who we report to and better aligning resources so we have less headache working across departments and management. I think the changes are for the better. I am certain there are a couple of my co-workers that don't share that sentiment; I think that comes from the fact that they now have to accept direction from me. We'll see how that goes. So far, so good... We're in the process of reviewing resumes and getting ready to do interviews starting next week when I get back to work. I am very thankful that I am very involved in that process. In fact, my boss has said that he would like me to handle the first interview and do the weeding out. I like that he has that trust in me. Mike's little league team wound up being co-champions with another team. I guess they don't do playoff games or anything, which I guess is fine, seeing how we may have lost. Or, we may have won, in any case, more kids are happier this season since two teams won. This was Mike's last season. One of his coaches was a real nice guy, the other one, not so much... He seemed more concerned with criticizing any other kid accept his own. Own well, favoritism bullshit, happens everywhere. Congrats to Mike and his team! It was a good season. School ended a few weeks ago and now the kids are chillin out and relaxing after such a brutal year... Yeah right! Brutal my butt! I think I did more homework in my first semester of high school than Sam has done in two full years!! So now next year Sam will be a Junior and Mike will be in seventh grade. Back on June 9th, it was the 25th anniversary of my own high school graduation. There is a bunch of planning going on for a reunion this year. I won't be going... Two reasons: 1) I've seen maybe one name in the email list of people that I would possibly even like to see. Most of the people in the list are people that I couldn't stand in high school and I just don't see how 25 years would change that. The people who I was close with in high school I am still in contact with these days. Not going to spend a couple nights in a hotel and the travel costs to attend. 2) I have a wedding to go to on the day of the event, cool! A friend of mine, from high school, her nephew is getting married up here on August 8th, so we'll go hang with them and enjoy a good time. Beer fest was a blast! Except for the camping part. My back is still screwed from that deal. Screw camping. Next year, hotel city for me, baby! BP can pitch his tent, I am getting a hot tub room! I didn't take the camera, Michelle had that down state for a couple of graduations. Our niece, Cassie graduated this year and our nephew Paulie graduated this year too. Sam had a job interview yesterday at a nursing home as an aide assistant. Would be nice for her to get a job this summer. She wants to save money for a car and the amount we pay her for keeping the house in shape and the chores ain't gonna cut it. She has her road test on August 5th, so hopefully she'll be able to pass. She's been doing a VERY good job at driving! She needs to do more with driving my Yota, cuz, well, that is the only car of ours she'll be allowed to drive solo. I got my drivers license renewed yesterday. Wow, what a scary picture! My face is still red from the sunburn last weekend at beer fest. Combine the red face with an overexposed picture and I look bad! haha. I know, i know, I look bad any other time too, but this picture ain't helping me out at all! If you've been to my other website and have been prompted for a username and password and are wondering what is going on. Well, I've made the decision to make that an invite site only. In other words, if I don't want you reading what I wrote, you can't. There are valid reasons for that. I will discuss that there, not here. So if you'd like to read what happens at PaulHuml.com, drop me a line and tell me you want to read it. Chances are, if you're not in my inner circle of friends, you will be told to piss off... I think that is enough for now!! haha |
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| Saturday April 26, 2008 | Posted at 6:35 pm | No Comments | |
| Prom Night | ||
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Sammi is off to prom tonight... She just got back home from having gone out to eat with some friends and she'll be going up to the school for prom. Then, they have a post prom party at one of the local bars, haha, yeah, I know what you're thinking! Just cuz we live in Podunk, doesn't mean the kids can have free run at the local boozers, haha. No, the bar is alcohol free and the kids are more or less locked in for the duration. They sign in and once they sign out, they are no longer allowed to come back in. It's a pretty cool deal... Kids can win prizes and stuff. I think the last couple of years they have given away a computer as the big prize. Of course Sam, the nerd she is (just like dad), has her eye on that prize. As does EVERY kid that attends. Once we lose Sam to the prom festivities, Michelle, Mike, and I will be heading to a wedding reception here in town for one of Michelle's co-workers. It should be fun! In other news, Michelle was part of the group who were named Telecommunicator of the Year for their efforts in the tragedy that struck Crandon last October. There are some mixed feelings about the recognition, as can be expected, due to the tragic nature. As well as the fact that it was, well, one of their own who did it. But, I for one am proud of her and the rest of her co-workers for their efforts and just recognition. Michelle wasn't able to attend the picture taking for the newspaper, she was teaching CPR that night in Rhinelander. She didn't mind not being on teh front page of the paper, haha. |
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| Sunday March 23, 2008 | Posted at 12:25 pm | 1 Comments | |
| Happy Easter | ||
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Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate this religious holiday! I won't get into my religious beliefs here, cuz it is my deal... Y'all do what you want and I won't make fun of your convictions. As for our house today, you can't tell it is Easter around here. Michelle is working today and the kids are getting to that age where they don't need baskets chocked full of candy and other stuffs. Besides, with 3/4 of the house dieting, we certainly don't need the temptation around here!! hahaha I'll likely make up some pork tenderloin for dinner today, maybe with a semi-fatty noodle dish, and a salad of course. Speaking of diet... I am at 81 pounds lost now since August 5th. I would love to get to 100 by summer time. For sure the goal is to get it done within 1 year!! Once I get to a hundo, I only have another hundo to go to be where the "charts" say I should be. Screw those charts! If I could drop 125-150, I would be happier than hell. The pounds these days are slow in coming off, but too, I haven't been doing everything I should. Caving to temptation results in less weight lost, haha. I haven't gotten a number from Michelle, but she tells me almost weekly that she is down another pound. I would bet she is closing in on 30 pounds. She looks hot, BOOM-CHICKA-WAH-WAH, but then again, I have always known that she was hot, wink-wink. Sammi is more secretive about her weight loss and that's cool! We just encourage her to eat well portioned meals and avoid unhealthy stuffs. |
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| Sunday March 09, 2008 | Posted at 1:04 pm | No Comments | |
| Sadness | ||
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Michelle's uncle passed away a few days ago. She'll be heading down for the wake and funeral. The kids and I will be staying home, they have school, and I don't have much vacation time to spare. My employer won't give me a day off for my own uncle, let alone Michelle's uncle. He was a nice man, but the kids and I didn't know him well. He loved fishing and going to the casinos. Godspeed Norwin! |
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| Saturday February 23, 2008 | Posted at 10:03 am | No Comments | |
| Where does the time go? | ||
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I had meant to get out here and post a message a few days after Sam's birthday but have totally forgotten about it. I was posting a couple posts on my blog this morning and figured, crap, better get caught up here too. Sam had a great birthday! She got a 16 gig iPod Touch. One gig for every year. Worked out pretty good, hehe. That is a cool little gadget! I am not a big fan of Apple crap and Steve Jobs is an a-hole, but this think was pretty cool! The Safari browser is pretty neat. Viewing web pages is nice! Had no problem getting it hooked up to the wifi at home, only had to add the MAC address to the router. Sam doesn't have 100's of gigs of music or anything, so the size for now is good. She's loaded up some of her favorite pictures and tunes and is happy as can be. Makes me lust for an iPhone now. And now since Cellone has been purchased by AT&T, it may one day, become reality. If only AT&T had MyCircle like Alltel does. Man, with the MyCircle and nights and weekends starting at 7pm, we only ever use a couple hundred minutes of our "anytime" minutes in a month. I never talk that much on the phone anyway, I just use it for the data plan so I can surf the web, get email, and take car of my server if need be. Michelle and I are gearing up for a "date day" over in Rhinelander today. She is up at the Sheriff's Department working out and will be home shortly. We'll go do shopping and stuffs and stop in for a Bucketheads' World Famous Garlic Cheese Burger. By the way, the owner of that website, BarAndRestaurantCentral.com is a friend of mine. If you want your bar and/or restaurant setup on his site, tell him Paul sent ya! Maybe I will get a kickback!! Hahaha Diet has kind of stalled. But I think it is just a bump in the road. We had a couple bad weeks there and are back on track, with the exception of this afternoon. Michelle lost 3 more in the past couple weeks. I gained a few, but then lost them. All is good! Got sick there for a while, pretty much everyone has had it in some form or another. Michelle has to have a CT Scan this week. She has a polyp in her sinus cavity that they found a few years ago. It is causing her some problems, so they want to see if it is getting bigger. If so, they may have to send chisels and air hammers up her nose to bust it out. Not fun... So, send the good positive ju-ju Michelle's way this week. The one good thing is, she really likes the doctor. This is the same surgeon that did both surgeries to remove the cancerous thyroid. This is his specialty. I dunno what else to say... Nothing that I haven't already said over at the other blog. |
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| Sunday February 03, 2008 | Posted at 10:24 am | No Comments | |
| Happy Birthday Sam!!! | ||
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My little girl is 16 today!! Wow! It was about this time of the day, 10-10:30 AM or so, that I finally got up to the hospital to be with Michelle. My dispatcher called me on the radio and said "42, you need to swing that rig around and get up to Waukesha Memorial Hospital, your wife is in labor". I dropped off my big-truck at the terminal and everyone in the office was like, "why aren't you up there yet? why didn't you go straight there?". It was our first kid, I knew Sam wasn't gonna come out that quick! So, I topped off my monster-sized thermos mug with coffee, jumped into my old pickup and made the 5-10 minute drive to the hospital. Michelle worked the previous night and told me in the morning not to take any out of town runs that day, she was going to see the doctor that morning and felt cramping all night long while she was working. I didn't even make it to the Marquette interchange in downtown Milwaukee, from Waukesha! At a few minutes after 5:00 PM that day, I was cutting Sam's umbilical cord, and we were all welcoming her into the world. She came three weeks early, so as a precaution, they kept her in an oxygen tent dealie so that her lungs would get pure oxygen and so that she wouldn't have to work so hard at breathing with her not yet, fully developed lungs. All was good! Afterwards, Michelle was zonked out, she worked third shift the night before and then blew out every blood vessel in her face pushing Sam out, haha. She was in labor all night long, while working, and never realized it was labor! Being so exhausted up at the hospital was probably to her benefit; she would take little 20-30 minute naps throughout the day. I hung out, watched TV and watched the neonatal monitoring belt that they had on her. I could see her contractions while she slept. It was cool! You could see the spikes get progressively bigger too! I was amazed that she was able to sleep through some of those. My how things change... No longer a truck driver, 12+ years into an IT career. No longer living in Waukesha County. Have another kid, Mike! After this Presidential election, Sam will be allowed to vote in the next one (hopefully there will be a better selection of candidates). She'll likely have her drivers license by the end of summer. She'll likely get a job this summer and we'll start seeing her less and less. In a few short years, she'll be 18 and an adult. Knowing how fast the years come and go, now that I am older, I suspect once I save and publish this, I will have to get busy on her 17th bday wishes, haha. HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY SAM!! We all love you very much!! |
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| Friday February 01, 2008 | Posted at 6:39 pm | No Comments | |
| Ok, ok, ok!! Enough already!!! | ||
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Jeez... "What no posting..." "you post there, not here..." I am a man, not a machine, hahaha!! I need to hire a blogger to blog for me! Ok, so yeah, I do neglect this space. That's only because I like my blog space mo' betta!! If you keep up with the other site, you may have seen the post about how we're torturing Sam by having her 16th birthday gift sit on the kitchen counter for a few days before she is allowed to open it up. We're so mean!! Maybe Sam will think she can come to this site and not see a reminder, well, I am here to say, not so my dear child...  Oh yeah!! If any of you are waiting on email replies from me, it may be coming. I am trying to get caught up this weekend. Got behind, yikes... GIANT SNOWBALL!!! If yer impatient, shoot me a reminder. You know, squeaky wheel gets the grease... Oh yeah, one more thing... Congrats to my Nephew, Brian, and his girlfriend. They made me a Great-Uncle today and had a bouncing baby boy named Evan Scott. The best part in all that is that Michelle's YOUNGER sister is a Grandmother, hahahahahahaha!!!!!!! |
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| Tuesday January 01, 2008 | Posted at 11:43 am | 3 Comments | |
| Happy New Year! | ||
 From the Huml house in Crandon to all you peeps of the world. Hopefully 2008 will be a great year for you and yours. My medical deductible will be met by tomorrow afternoon, so I think this year, I am going to look into my sleep apnea problems and possibly look to get something done with my back. Might as well... We'll be hitting the diet hard and heavy this year. I am at 66 pounds lost now, having put on 4 pounds this month. I expected to gain more, so I am happy with only 4 pounds. Michelle only gained 2 pounds, even though they were eating almost daily up at the jail, one day, she even brought home some of the goodies they had. Yummies! We had family visiting us this, it was nice, loud if anything... They're packing up for their return trip to the Madison area. I think I am gonna leave it at that... I still have a couple beers left and a bunch of hot buffalo wings that I am gonna use to try to give my gallbladder some last fits of rage. Might as well since the doctor gave me a bunch o' goofballs! |
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| Friday December 28, 2007 | Posted at 5:39 pm | No Comments | |
| Vacation... Finally! | ||
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Was all geared up to be on vacation this week, and then, due to the surgery to yank out my stone encrusted gallbladder on Jan 2nd, I had to move my vacation forward one week. I happily left work today and won't have to return until Jan 7th. The boss man is taking my on-call next week so I don't have to deal with it, but now I will have to go back to work and be on call the week I return. That sucks... I dread being on call anymore, the quality of programming is really in the crapper. Just as I was leaving they were dealing with more of that... I held up my hand and said "I am on vacation..." and headed out. Well, not really, I listened to a programmer bitch about it and then left, haha. Good luck, Clair! Hope everyone has a groovy new year! Not sure if I will get back out here to make another post beforehand. I am sure I will make a few more posts this year on the other site. |
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| Sunday December 23, 2007 | Posted at 11:51 am | No Comments | |
| Merry Christmas!! | ||
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I normally post this message on Christmas Eve... Well, I had to make a very special call to the bearded one in the North Pole and ask for a very special favor. I have asked that Christmas, for our house only, be moved to the morning of December 24th. Now mind you, that does NOT change the actual birth date for Christ, it simply gets us early delivery on goodies, kinda like paying for next day air, you get it sooner, haha. There still will be Christmas services, for those of you who partake, on December 25th. Please don't confuse our early Christmas with any actual change in Christ's birthday. Anyway, we've always celebrated our Christmas on Christmas morning, usually followed by a ginormous spread of bacon, sausages, eggs, toast, french toast, pancakes, juices, coffees, and all kinds of other stuff. Well, this year, Michelle has to work Christmas day, from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. Sure, it sucks, but that's the way it goes when public service is your career. We considered asking Santa if he could drop them off on Christmas Eve, like he does at so many others houses, but, Michelle is singing at the church service on Christmas Eve, and by the time we get back home, it would be pretty late to start that stuff. Unfortunately, for me, I was not able to convince my surgeon to see me last Friday, so now, I have to see him on, what is now, our Christmas day, at 11:00 AM and the clinic is an hours drive away. If you're wondering why i have to see a surgeon, and you don't keep up with my personal blog, oh well, stay in the dark. So, I will be waking the kids up early this year!! Yeah, me, I will!! Why?? I want my breakfast, damnit!! hahahahahaha I am not one of those people who look upon this holiday with selfishness, I am not a materialistic person and don't want presents and all that stuff. No way!! I want my breakfast!!! haha Although, I must say, my bass guitar is by far the coolest thing ever! I have learned a couple variations of jingle bells, haha. No, I will NOT record it and post it!! Merry Christmas!! Again, we are not changing the birth date of Christ!! Jeez, all these friggin CYA statements. Someone is still gonna email me and say "you can't move Christmas...". Well, guess what? We are!! And I will have plenty of photographic proof that he came one whole day earlier, so there!  |
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