Beth had a procedure on her back on Friday. She has 'old lady spine' so she had a a steroid injection directly into the nerves in her lower back. She had been super nervous about it the last few days, seriously second guessing her decision to not get put under for the injection. She had thought that she has a high tolerance for pain, and it only lasts for a minute or so, and she didn't want to have to spend hours recovering from anesthesia, so she wouldn't be out under. But, on the other hand, some people find the pain excruciating. So leading up to the procedure, she was thinking maybe she had made the wrong choice. In the end, after discussing with the nurses, she decided to go ahead without it, and was glad she did because she said it was no big deal at all anyway. They say the back pain should be much better in 3-5 days afterwards, so we're hoping.
Also Friday my team at work had a team building event, playing cricket! A couple of the guys on the team are from India and big cricket fans, and I'd talked about getting a group together for a scrimmage with one of them a couple times so he made arrangements for us to get together for some learning about the game and practicing, then a local cricket club would come over to the pitch and we would have a game. It was a lot of fun! Raj brought some equipment and taught us the rules, we spent an hour or so practicing the game, and then we played a friendly. We split the group from work up into two teams with the cricket club and had a basic game. The club was very friendly and super excited to help us learn the game. Fun time.
The 'Blackburn Run 4 Others' 5k and 10k race was this Saturday. I opted to run in the 10k, and I did all right! A pretty good time, for me, of 56:46, good for 3rd in my age group and 22nd of 37 overall. The new shoes definitely help.
Looks like Missy has a job! She got an interview at Lowe's and it went pretty well. She has to do a drug screening, assuming she passes that she will start training next week. That'll be good. She says she isn't supposed to use her employee discount for family, though...
Missy's birthday was also Saturday, she is TWENTY. The baby. Our little girl, no longer even a teen. To celebrate her being now all grown up, we got her several sets of little cute toy animals for her birthday. They're called "Calico Critters" or something like that and they were all she wanted. So yeah, grown up but still our girl.
It looks like our time away from Comcast is already about over. Monday, I took the internet equipment back to the T-Mobile retailer because we continue to have problems with connection. Alex can't keep connected with his chats and games, and Missy says hers is buffering all the time. We're still in the trial period, but not for much longer... anyway, they suggested replacing the SIM card in the gateway because maybe it was bad and not connecting to the signal well enough. Or, maybe we're in a dead zone. We never get more than 3 out of 5 bars for connection, even though our speeds are faster than they have ever been, connectivity is the issue. So, if the SIM card thing doesn't help, maybe back to cable we go.
Today was the annual Father's Day extravaganza at church. There was only one service and afterwards was the big party. Cookout, bouncy houses, dunk tank, bingo, and all the regular stuff! Beth and I volunteered to host bingo this year, but it was a little chaotic because we didn't have enough chips for everyone and there was confusion about how to keep your score card (also limited card quantities, and all tear-off sheets from a pad) and when to clear it. But we did the best we could.
Finally, for Father's Day this year Beth got me a drone. A quadcopter type, but a cheap one. I have always thought it would be cool to have a drone but never have, so Beth got me one. And the cheap one so I can learn how to fly it without worrying about crashing too much. It does have all the fun stuff on it, too. Camera and all. Not sure how good the video is but we'll find out. It's supposed to be able to follow a moving subject, land itself, auto return, everything.
