We spent the first weekend of this month at the annual Family Reunion in the hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania.  Prior to going our separate ways until next year, we all met for the traditional Sunday morning breakfast at the local King’s Family Restaurant.  All was fine until Owen went looking for some Frownies and discovered these iconic treats had gone to the Big Pity Party in the Sky.

During the second weekend, Mom and Dad took Ross to Morgantown, WV to begin his freshman year at WVU.  Mom and Dad returned with a supply of Smilies, which are much better than Frownies anyway.

Owen is on the Tuscarora High School Cross Country Team again this year.  He’s been running daily with the team as they get in shape for the upcoming season.  He has also been interrupting his 24×7 gaming for a few minutes each day to study in preparation for obtaining a Learner’s Permit.

And last, but certainly not least, Owen decided he needed a newer faster PC to maintain his status as a big-time gamer.  He opted to refurbish his existing PC rather than buy a new one.  Once the parts he ordered arrived, he got Pop-Pop to help him perform major brain surgery on his existing PC.  Just about all of the major components of his existing PC were replaced.  The PC now has a new Motherboard, CPU, GPU, and an SSD as the primary storage device.  They also installed a copy of Windows 10 to manage all this stuff.