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been awhile since ive blogged, as usual for me......sigh......oh well..lets see, since last blog......i tried to adopt a couple of beagles, one was 3 and one was 6..father and daughter.....they didnt work out unfortunately, the female kept attacking my golden, and drew blood a couple times......and the other one peed everywhere he could reach, so they went back...i'm still looking......i DID find an irish wolfhound rescue in arizona!!!! we shall see....but first, i need to find a couple siamese kittens to butter mom up with......i'm no closer to my 42 inch tv and new receiver than i was last blog.....although, i got notice from a class action i'm involved in the company being sued made an offer and i accepted...should put me right in the neighborhood whenever i get a check......hopefully soon......i finally got my laptop and external 2 terabyte hd set up...the hd has been in its box for about 3 months now..heh...tonight i plan to be up to all hours backing up my system and copying stuff tothe hd..clear off my cluttered hd, and of course, the battery in my laptop seems to have died...grumble....and dell only want 160 bucks for a new one...double grumble.....and i dont know if i mentioned in my last blog, but i lost my old dog, sombra, about 3 weeks ago..she had to be euthanized..she was over 100 in human years, so it was time.......i miss her dearly.....my other, younger dog is now the center of attention.  i may have paid more attention to sombra due to all her ailments in the last few years, so i have alot of making up to do......my poor garden got beat to shit in a massive hailstorm we had a week or so ago..thankfully, the only thing i lost was a green pepper plant.....the only green pepper plant in the garden, but oh well.......i should be harvesting in a few weeks...hopefully......our fourth of july weekend was a bust due to prolonged hot and extremely dry conditions,  the county refused to give the chamber of commerce a fireworks permit, and as a result, they had to send the fireworks back to the factory, not only are they out the 20 grand they spent on the fireworks, but have to pay a restocking fee of some sort to the plae they got them from....and they have to refund all monies taken in for the weekend, possible vendors, VIP parking area etc.....its rumoured the chamber might dissolve......bummer......not that they did a whole lot for the town in the first place, but still.......the parade was abysmal, a fraction of the spectators as previous years, and from what i heard, a fraction of the vendors as previous years....the parade suffers because they wont allow water along the parade route.  in previous years the fire dept would hose people down as they made their way down the route, and people had squirt guns and water balloons.  oh well, i took a bunch of pictures anyway, they are on my flickr page...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockyspics/


if anyone is interested...it was axtremely hot that day and i got sunburned for my efforts..hehe......on the other hand, the no fireworks made it quiet in town for a change, its usually a madhouse here with all the tourists, also, the forests were completely closed..which further halped keep people away...then a rumour went around that the fireworks would be held on labor day, which is untrue i hear....unfortunately, even though fireworks are legal in az now, they were not permitted for the 4th weekend because of the dryness. of course, many of my neighbors ignored the ban......i guess i'll have to wait until there is snow on the ground to use mine..heh......this morning, i went,with a couple members of the local radio club, to forest lakes, a town about 30 mins from here, to do some signal testing, we had very favorable results, were thinking of maybe putting a radio room at the forest lakes fire dept....we proved today that we can get a signal out on several bands...mainly 2 meter......and again, i got sunburned for my trouble..hehe such is life.......lets see..what else? oh! i turned in a resume to radio shack here in town, but never heard back from them......they were thinking of closing it, maybe they did......who knows......ive been getting back in to lucid dreaming lately, or at least trying...ive started writing down my dreams again, and trying to meditate as i go to sleep in order to remember dreams and hopefulyl become lucid.....pretty good results so far.....gives me something to do whiole i'm sleeping =) and ive decided to go back to wet shaving, i'm tired of my electric razor, it just doesnt seem to do as good a job anymore, even with new heads....so i ordered a safety razor and a shaving brush from amazon. I'm going old school baby!!!! hehehehehe thats about all i can think of.....until next time....