Just a quick update, not a whole lot since my last post. As far as myself, well I decided to "bit the bullet" regarding my partially torn bicep tendon and have the surgery, scheduled it for November 22nd. Really wanted to avoid it, but it came down to either living with the pain the rest of my life or having surgery. Not too hard of a choice when it was put that way. So now the hard part is waiting, I would have done it sooner but already scheduled my vacation then so figured I've waited this long what's another couple of months. Until then, I'll just keep taking the meds and "grin and bear it". Other than that, just waiting for basketball to start. We have our coaches meeting this Sunday so practices should start soon, I can't wait.

Mary is doing well, she actually started a job this week. She is watching 2 girls, one of them is Meagan's friend from school, after school every day and also most days off. Will be nice to finally have some extra money coming in. Lately she has been great in dealing with all the cable/internet problems we have been having. Very frustrating and she deals with it well. In the past 2 weeks we have had AT&T out here 6 times. If it was not for limited choices and some features of theirs that we really like, I would have canceled it by now. We'll see, it seems to be fixed now, but if problems continue they are going to lose business. Good news is Mary got them to give us various compensation for all the trouble. Let's just say she did good. Way to go honey!!!

Meagan is doing good, although not today she is sick, stayed home from school. She is getting back to the swing of things with school and doing well. She came home the other day with a form to join a book club thing from school and was really excited about it. I guess you actually have to be approved by your teacher in order to join, which she was. She absolutely loves to read, which is great. Wish she was into sports, but hey that's OK she is who she is, and I would not change that at all.

This past weekend we took out all of the Halloween stuff, a little early but we are ready for it I guess. Looking forward to this weekend, we are going to try to go to the Long Grove Apple Festival and then on Saturday we get to babysit our niece, YEAH!!!

That's it for now, nothing too exciting, but that's not necessarily bad.