I have a confession to make to you…I almost forgot about this web blog.

I know it’s been a very long time since I wrote an entry but a lot has happened in my life since the last entry.  If you read the previous entry which you had plenty of opportunities to since I haven’t wrote a thing in a very long time, you know that football season and come and gone for the Yellow Jackets.  That has occupied my Friday night for the past nine weeks.

Sitting here on a Thursday afternoon, I really have no clue what to do tomorrow afternoon and night since the previous nine weeks, I’ve been writing and prepping for the football broadcasts.  So what to do tomorrow night?

I know…I’ll be spending it with someone I met recently in Second Life.

If you’ve never heard of Second Life before, look it up at secondlife.com.  Its a virtual reality world.  Basically, everything you can do in your real life, you can do in Second Life.  Might think its crazy for me to say this, but my Second Life has been better than my real life as of late.

A couple of months ago, I met someone in Second Life who is from Texas.  We immediately hit it off and have become very very close.  She is an amazing woman.  She uses the first name of Kellie in Second Life and I’m so very blessed to have found her.

I told you that everything you can do in real life, you can do in Second Life.  So on October 8, 2011, in a very simple ceremony, Kellie became my wife in Second Life.  She has seen my real life photos and I have seen her’s.  We talk on Skype every night and are always together at night in Second Life visiting dance club or just hanging out at our humungous place.  Kellie is planning a Halloween Party on Sunday night and she has done an amazing job of decorating the land.  Amazing I tell you.  How did I get so lucky.

She also has just opened up a business of creating avatar photos for profiles on Second Life.  We bought a little studio where she can have her customers over and take their photo.  From there, she creates the avatar photo which the customer then uploads to their personal profile page.  She just started this business but has cranked out some amazing photos.  I’m very proud of her for doing this.

Kellie has turned my life around to say the least.  She is so amazing and I haven’t been this happy in a very long time.  Although we’re only together in Second Life for just a couple of hours a night, we still manage to talk on Skype for hours and hours each night.  I feel so close to her even though she is more than 12 hours away.

We have talked about meeting in real life someday but she has somethings that has to be taken care of first but when that happens, I’m very hopeful we can meet in person and see what happens.

Until then, I’m just enjoying the Second Life ride with her.  I love ya Kellie!

SEE YA AFTER MIDNIGHT!

I’ve really lost count as to how many times I’ve stopped and restarted this web blog.  I would bet its easily more than a dozen times if not twice that many.  Don’t ask me why I’m writing on it right now either because I honestly have no clue.  Its kinda like a craving I guess.

It’s almost like when you have ate something in a long time and then you start to crave it?  Then for the next three or four days, that’s all you eat.  That’s probably the best comparison I can come with right now.

The past couple of weeks have been crazy enough to make someone’s head spin like beetlejuice.  But all I want to say is that its really good to be back home.  Enough said.

Saw the cardiologist earlier this summer.  The appointment went ok I guess. Although my heart murmur has gotten so strong that the nurse couldn’t take my pulse.  How messed up is that?  That even stunned my cardiologist but he didn’t seem to overly concerned about it…at least now.  I’ll see him again in the winter so hopefully the murmur won’t be as strong as it was.

There are times though when it literally knocks me off my feet.  Like someone punched me in the heart and knocked the wind out of me.  A friend and I were out walking toward the high school one night about a year ago.  The strong murmur hit me and I immediately doubled over and almost went to one knee.  She didn’t know what was going on but I told her I would be fine, just give me a minute or so.  Sure enough, the pain let up and I was fine.  Haven’t had anything like that episode in a very long time.

But not being able to take my pulse because of it really bothered me.

Back home in time for the start of the football season two weeks from tonight.  The Yellow Jackets will open at home this year against Vienna.  Five home games this year which is good.  With all the driving I did last fall, I think I logged over 1,000 miles on my truck during the five Fridays alone.

My football broadcast partner is definitely ready to go.  Talked to him earlier this week and the rabid dog is ready.  I, on the other hand, am still trying to catch my breath before gearing up for the season.  I’ve heard the sponsorship is comparable to last year which is great.  I can’t thank my hometown for their support.  Hard to believe when I crawl into the pressbox in two weeks, it will be the start of my 24th season.  Where has the time gone?

About a month from now, the annual Popeye Picnic will roll around.  Thank God the Yellow Jackets are home this year but if I’m fortunate enough to make it next year, the Yellow Jackets will be at Carmi on that Friday night.  I will need an IV bag with Mt. Dew in it to survive that weekend, but I’ll worry about this year’s event first.

I’ve probably said this everytime I’ve relaunched this blog, but I will try to write more often now, especially when things really slow down a bit.  Sounds crazy with school starting, but the last two weeks have been hell.   When I was battling depression, this was a good outlet for me to vent.  I’ve been spending a lot of time in a virtual reality world and have met some really interesting people which has occupied a lot of my time too.  I’ve developed some close friendships with people from Florida, Michigan, Texas, the East Coast and Oklahoma.  They are like family to me now which is awesome.

Ok, back to work, maybe next time I’ll write more about my life in the virtual reality world.

See Ya After Midnight…