What A Week

I haven’t posted in about a week, a ton has been happening.  

-I had class last week, 4pm - midnight

-My wife and son came down and we ran around Pittsburgh, and seen lots

-Went to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, My son had a blast

-Had a camp out with my wife and son, his first night outside in a tent.

-Went to Youngsville for a party

-Checked out a 2010 Ford Mustang Grabber Blue

-Had dinner with the In-Laws

-Now My son is fast asleep

Very short version.  Will update in more detail later this week.

They’re Gone Now.

Well my sister in law and her husband went back to North Dakota. We miss them already. My son misses them the most, then my mother in law. We had a great weekend with them before they had to go back.

When I got out of work Saturday, My wife called me and asked me if i wanted to go out to eat in titusville with everybody. So i went from Grove City to titusville via I 80. We went to a little bar that was near by. The food was OK. After dinner my wife, son, and I went home to get ready to go Sunday.

Sunday we got up and went to the Cleveland Zoo. All of us, our van was full with people coolers and luggage. It was a very nice day. We got there and the sun was just coming out. So the weather was really nice. Being mothers day all mothers got in for free, Witch was a nice surprise for everyone, my wife and i have a family pass, but the offer was nice none the less. Nine of us got it for a total of $30. What a great zoo. Nice and spread out, and lots to see. There was a few things that was disappointing. The elephants are gone till 2011. They are redoing the building, and the dinosaures exhibit is closed until may 25. So my mother in law wants to go back late June or early July.

After the zoo we drove 10 min to the Cleveland airport to drop of Aunt K and her husband. We said our good byes and watched them walk to there gate. Back to Minot ND, to the air force base.

We wish you the best and cant wait to see you in October.

Ford Surpasses Honda!!

This is awsome. FORD SURPASSES HONDA IN INITIAL QUALITY

Ford surpasses Honda in initial quality and remains in a statistical tie at the top with Toyota.
Ford’s initial vehicle quality improved 5 percent over last year.
Ford customer satisfaction continues to improve and is equal to Toyota and Honda.
Ford has five segment leaders: Ford Mustang, Taurus, Taurus X and Ranger, and Mercury Milan.
DEARBORN, April 17, 2009 – Ford Motor Company, continuing its rapid quality improvement, surpassed Honda in initial vehicle quality for the first time and reached new levels of customer satisfaction with vehicle quality, a new survey shows.

Ford is also statistically tied with Toyota at the top of the industry when it comes to initial vehicle quality, according to the 2009 U.S. Global Quality Research System (GQRS) survey conducted quarterly for Ford by RDA Group of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

“This is truly a significant accomplishment for us,” said Bennie Fowler, Ford group vice president, Global Quality. “Honda and Toyota have claimed bragging rights for years, but now we are seeing our hard work pay off. It’s evident in study after study.”

The latest GQRS survey measured 2009 model year vehicle initial quality in two categories: the number of “things gone wrong,” and customer satisfaction with vehicle quality in the first three months of ownership.

In the first quarter of 2009, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles saw things gone wrong fall by 5 percent to 1,228 per 1,000 vehicles, significantly better than Honda’s 1,422 things gone wrong per 1,000 vehicles and statistically equal to Toyota’s 1,150.

In addition, the survey shows that Ford Lincoln Mercury improved two percentage points to 79 percent in customer satisfaction with vehicle quality, which puts Ford’s domestic brands in a tie with Toyota and Honda for industry leadership.

“Ford’s commitment to quality is really paying off as they continue to rival Honda and Toyota on both initial quality and customer satisfaction with the quality,” said Donald Pietrowski, president, RDA Group.

The following models led their respective segments in the survey:

Ford Mustang – initial quality and customer satisfaction for sports cars
Ford Taurus – initial quality for large cars
Ford Taurus X – initial quality for crossover utilities
Mercury Milan – initial quality for midsize cars
Ford Ranger – initial quality for compact pickups
The new 2009 Ford F-150 recorded quality levels that equate to less than one problem per vehicle, as did the Taurus, Taurus X, Fusion, Milan, and Edge.

Ok Day.

Today was kind of a long day. Got up and went to work, Traffic was terrible.   There was a turned van in the median.  It had a baby on board sticker in the window I hope that everyone was OK.  There was police and ambulance already there.

When I got to work,  I grabbed my harness and box and went to the man lift and took it up to the fourth floor where “O” and I have been working.  We are between columns 6 and 7 and the brick is off 1 1/2″ in 4′, and the stud work is off by at least 1/2″.  To do my layout is about impossible.  So after about an hour and a half i got it as it is going to get. 

So “O” and I started putting up our panels.  Once we got the left bay done the second bay went really well.  Trying to find our flashing was kind of a pain.  All the flashing was gone from the second floor and third floor so I had to go back down to the ground and opened a few crates and had to dig out some more.  The problem is that i got into the crate for the third building.  My foremen cant find the extra flashing for the building I’m in right now so he will have to order more so we don’t run short in the third building.

Found out today that in about a month that we are going to from 6/10’s to 4/10’s and some of us are going down to the new area for the pitts pens.  Weneed to do a prelayout for when we get there in late summer early fall.  That there is about a years worth of work, at least. 

After work today, “O” was going to pick up his new bike. He got a Harley.  He was like a kid in a candy store.  He was trying to decided what helmet would match his bike the best.  It was so funny.  Between doing layout on our panels and him thinking about his bike all day,  it was just funny day.

Speaking of “O” He just texted me and he made it home safe and sound and says that he loves his bike.  Congrats to you and I hope you enjoy!  Cant wait to see it tomorrow at work.  If its not raining. <LOL>

Well I talk to my wife a little bit today.  She had so much to say today.  We got mail at the house today that we have been waiting for three weeks.  So we have to do that and get it sent back in.  She had several conversations today from other friends that we haven’t heard from lately.  And then when I was getting dinner tonight she called me and said that the front window in the front door was broke.  My father in law was going to go over and take a look at it for me so they would be safe until I got home.

I’m not going to be able to get home tomorrow. I have to work late, So im going to go home Thursday night. Cant wait to get home and see my little man, and my wife. She has been waiting to make me a new dish, eggplant parmesan.   Ive never heard of the dish but ill try anything. 

My wife is calling, so ill post more later.

I was asked to day to do a post about the Ford Focus RS8, So check back soon.

What a weekend!

Well I had a long weekend but it felt like a short one.  I came home at 11am because i got rained out at work.  So I surprised my wife by just showing up.  She was so excited as well as my son, JJ.  JJ came running down the steps and gave me a huge hug.  What a great welcome home.

So the rest of the day Friday I spent doing some running for my wife and doing some of my own running.  We had to get everything ready for the party.  When I got back from my running around, JJ and I went out and mowed some of the lawn before it started raining.  He loves ridding the lawn mower.  So then it started raining and we then went into the house.  We went in and realized that it was after 5, so JJ and I made some dinner.  My wife was out shopping with my mother in law. 

After dinner JJ and I decided to watch a movie, He loves Elmo so he went over and picked up a Elmo movie so that is what we watched. While watching the movie my wife came home, she had chicken for dinner, so I had to eat again. It was OK, she makes better chicken then KFC.

Well Saturday morning, we got up and eat breakfast.  Then we JJ and I got dressed and headed outside to do some more things to get ready for the party.  We first got the lawn mower out and we only got two passes mowed before we had someone pulling in the driveway.  (I knew who it was, it was a surprise for jj and my wife.)  My sister-in-law and her husband pulled in.  JJ just started waiving.  We pulled over and shut the mower off and JJ was not happy that we shut off the mower.  He wasn’t sure what to do,  his aunt came over and picked him right up.  He just kinda look at her.  It was kinda funny.  Then his uncle said hi and started talking to him.  Then he started warming up.

Once JJ was ok with them we jumped in the Ford Windstar and headed to Wegmans to see JJ’s grandma.  She was so excited to see JJ,  her daughter, and son-in-law.  Grandma didn’t know we were all coming to surprise her.  When we got there we ended up having more of a brunch with her.  I was fun having everyone together again.

So needless to say, when we got home JJ needed to take a nap.  So my wife went and laid him down and I went back outside to finish law work.  I also had to finish everything else, set up tent, tables, chairs, get drinks put in the fridge, and help my wife finish everything else, inside my wife.  She had most of it done already.

Then the day of the party!!  Everyone was there from aunts, uncles, great aunts, and great uncles, to grandmas and great grandma’s.  Everyone had so much fun, there was kids running everywhere,  all of them boys but two girls.  They sat quitely and played by themselves.   The boys, however did not play so quitley.  They were loud and running everywhere and getting into everything.  But what can you say boys will be boys.  JJ was in the mix at some points being the ring leader.  It was so funny. 

The party was great, and everyone had a good time.  The weather was great and you really couldn’t ask for a better day overall.  Most of all the food was gone and all the pop and beer was just about gone as well.  So needless to say clean up was kinda easy.  Nothing need packed away or stored anywhere.  After everyone left we went over to my in-laws house and watched twlight for the tenth time. But its a good movie so it was ok.

When the movie was over we said our goodbyes and went home, put JJ to bed and then I had to pack for the week, because it was back to work on monday morning.

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