end of the world, the hobbit, xmas shopping etc....chuck!

well, here we are, at the very end of 2012...and if hadn't noticed already, the world DID NOT end on the 21st..actually i had a very pleasant 21st, i was alone! i got up early early and watched the sunrise! and enjoyed a nice yule/winter solstice alone! as for my xmas shopping adventure...it really turned out to be an adventure of sorts..... i didn't realize i had bought a ticket for the hobbit at the theater in pinetop, rather than the theater in lakeside..so i got to drive another 15 or so miles to the other, bigger theater to see  the movie..and of course, i always leave my phone in the car when i go to the theater, so i was oblivious to the fact there was a major power outage in heber/overgaard.  Some freakin idiot shot the main transformer and the power was completely out form around 1 pm until around 11:30 pm that night....i had several calls and voicemails form mom and dad telling me to stop and kfc on the way home and grab a big bucket of chicken....goodie! and we ate by candle and flashlight light...it got pretty chilly in the house, around 56 degrees before the power was finally restored.....and interesting end to an already interesting day! as far as my phoenix trip..i did manage to talk dad into stopping at trader joes! we couldn't find in on the way there, but found it on the way back..i got a case of misc 3 buck chuck! and a jar of 21 spice salute, and a fresh bottle of balsamic vinegar....and i ended up with a vicious headache as we made our way up the mountain, i guess I'm not used to the heavier air pressure in the valley.  as for "change in the air" it finally happened...the place i work sold and i have a new employer..very nice lady, even a small raise of sorts! i was making less than minimum, not I'm making minimum! oh joy! all in all, an interesting December to remember!  I was planning on excessive amounts of fireworks on new years eve, but looks like the weather will not be cooperating....oh well, i didn't get a chance to re-stock my supply anyway......maybe over winter I'll get to go to the fireworks store! other than that......not a heck of  a whole lot else going on......just finished my coffee and got the laundry going....have to venture out and try and find champagne... good luck! heh.......until next time......

its snowing! the end of the world and Christmas!

Greetings all! Tis a cold and snowy night here in good ole, nowheresville..er..i mean...overgaard Az.....we got our first snow of the week on wednesday..and its still snowing saturday night! which kind of sucks because i am going Christmas shopping, and going to see The Hobbit tomorrow...hope the roads will be clear....the weather has great freakin timing once again...heh......so far so good at work, first full week with new owner...i even got a raise of sorts...i'm now a legal employee making actual minimum wage! yay! no more below minumum for me! hopefully.....we've had 2 straight days of no business...par for the course in the winter here, and when it snows, nobody really eants to go outdoors......new owner will hopefully not be too surprised when it happens again...and it will...... but so far so good....we will be closed saturdays for the rest fo the winter.....which means i get a 4 day weekend for christmas!!! <* does backflips back and forth across the room*>  ya right...heh......but it will be nice to not have to work christmas eve for a change.....i'll have saturday thru tuesday off!!! woo hoo!!! mom and I have yet to start our yearly baking and making frenzy..ive decided to make snickerdoodles this year.....or at least try to......never had one before so it aughta be interesting......lets see...what else..hmmm.......oh ya! next friday is the 21stof December 2012!!! the end of the world!!!! um..ya right...i dont personally believe that, but mom is extremely paranoid of the fact and she is preparing and annoying everyone over it......I cant wait for 12:01 am december 22.....so i can say to her..told ya so!!!!! heh......I am going to extremely party on new years eve this year to cvelebrate the world not ending onthe 21st......things are definately get worse..but no collosal destruction in my lifetime......i really wanted to re-stock my fireworks supply, but never got the chance to get to snowflake......and i think they are closed tomorrow....bummer...i still have quite a bit left..so i'll make due i guess...heh......other than that.......i had a massive monstrous headache all day today and thankfully we closed up early today so i could come home and collapse......which i did......feeling a bit better now......I'm working on laundry tonight because i wont be home at all tomorrow..at least not until 6 or so pm......next weekend, I'm going to go down to Phoenix to visit my aunts before christmas......at least that the plan...i would very much like to go to trader joes and get some 3 buck chuck! we'll see if i can talk my dad into stopping..heh......thats about it for now......until next time....

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Thought I would quote David bowie today....because changes is what this blog entry is all about......the business, where I work, has been sold......and the new owner seems nice......unfortunately, there has been some........misinformation.......about me passed on......so it makes me contemplate, very seriously, whether i want to remain working there or not......also, my soon-to-be EX-employer has made some very erroneous assumptions about me that I cannot, will not accept...... so my decision may already be made......time will tell....the incoming owner is already making some big changes to the place, so things will be getting very interesting in the near future........I decided, last night, after watching the very.....um.......alright John Carter movie...pretty ok effects..but i dont recall them explaining why he could jump so well....i would have to guess the gravity onthe planet he ended up on is alot less strong than earth......they really didnt mention it was only a copy of himself sent to the other planet, his other self was...well...i wont ruin it in case you havent seen it..but i understand why it was such a flop......, to pull a semi all-nighter, and play, and ultimately complete, super mario 2 on the original, my original NES......i havent played in many years, but i still got through it......I wasnt in a good mood last night and wanted to get my mind off things, so i regressed to the early 90's remembering how hard it was to find a copy of mario 2 anywhere!!!!!!  It was crazy! oh, and if you had'nt noticed, I managed to do 2 blogs in one months...thats a record for me i think......Today, laundry and relaxing, because I dont have a day off until Thursday, Thanksgiving day.....and fro some odd reason, I have to work on black friday! I'm hoping some day to have black friday off so I can stand in the Walmart parking lot and midnight in the cold, trying to get my hands on a super cheap electronic nick-nack or another.....or maybe not!!!   until next time.....

election fiasco, first snowfall....wwaaayyy to long between blogs

Greetings everyone! ya I know, its been since October since I have posted..my humblest apologies...i've said it before and i'll say it again, i'll try to do better..honest i will...anywho..onward and upward, we got our first snow of the season last night, folowing a very loud wind and rain storm.....so its freakin cold right now!  I bought a new yarrs revenge seeing as my original one partially died......so i'm a happy camper once again! ive got a couple mental lists of atari carts i want to get in the near future....they're pretty cheap on ebay so i can collect a few gems......also, i have a mental list of nintendo carts i want to collect, namely mega man series for the original NES, theyre not cheap nowadays, but shockingily enough, ive never played mega man! so i am going to save my pennies and start collecting them......I managed to get the raking done shortly before the wind started bloing pine needles down again...grumble....sometimes wonder why i bother =) I know I've mentioned in the past, change was in the air...well, the "change" has finally revealed itself....i cant discuss it here just yet, but i'll put it this way...i read my horoscope a couple weeks ago, and the last line read "there will be changes at work" well, as amazing as it sounds, ive never considered the fact that horoscopes could be accurate, just fun to read...change is indeed happening at my work....i will reveal more about it in the coming weeks... to be honest with you, i don't feel too good about the coming change, as a matter of fact, i may be leaving this job come december.......i dont know what i'm gonna do for work, but ive got a few weeks to figure things out......like that old song says "should I stay or should I go now!!!"  lets see..what else is happening? I had an alright halloween..i did my usual tradition..to a degree..no dominoes pizza, but i did have my usual 3 bags of candy bars, buttersingers, mounds, and reeses peanut butter cups, and plenty of coke to weash it down with, and i watched the first three nightmare on elm street movies well into the wee hours of the morning......and had a lovely candy hangover in the morning! well worth it tho! at least once a year anyway!  I recently bought a couple transformers..i got bumblebee and thundercracker....they sure made them a pain to transform! but kind of cool none the less..it irks me that they decided to make bumblebee a camaro, he would have been a really cool new beetle....so much for tradition! heh...... i'm still not done with the wheel of time series yet.....ive got 4 qand 1/4 books to read before memory of light comesout in early January...i'm almost finished with winters heart..try to finish it tonight......ive got tons of other books to read so i'm looking forward to this series ending...on the other hand, i'll be sad to see it go.....oh well....such is life i guess......actually, theres another small change that has occured lately..i've started grinding my own coffee bens once again, and ive started getting up a little earlier so i can enjoy my coffee in the mornings before work, as well as my days off....ive found some real good blends and beans at rather fair prices...don francisco beans as an example...i'm drinking a hazelnut cinnamon blend right now thats out of this world..i cant wait to use it to make irish coffee this winter!!!!  speaking of booze....heh....ive managed, using good timing with sales and finding coupons, to get some really quality booze the last couple months, namely, bacardi select spiced rum, beefeater london dry gin, and a bottle of makers mark bourbon..good stuff all! i even managed to try some new brews as well....dundee sampler packs, shiner bock, brewed in shiner texas! and a few new sam adams brews! i have to enjoy the goo dlife when i can! ive even been enjoying some fine pipe tobacco and premium cigars...arturo fuente and cohibas, as far as cigars go.....and i picked up a coupe of very good gl pease pipe tobacco blends that i really like...latakia blends..i lllooovveeee latakia! other than that..thats about all thats going on....oh ya...the elections....cringe....shudder.....wretch.....  i finally saw proof of the depth of stupidity in this country......of course, it seems whites are becoming a minority in this country, so the precipitous drop in intelligence in this country is to be expected...so i have decided, i am going to look into leaving this country and renouncing my citizenship....may not happen right away...maybe a few years in the future..but i am out of this god forsaken dieing country..look on the bright side..i'll be able to smoke cuban cigars, and drink cuban rum, and be out of the reach of the fda if it chooses to regulate cigars and pipe tobaccos, and all tobaccos..hopefully it wont happen, but i'm not holding my breath....and seeing as the 2nd amendment may well be in trouble now that odipshit got re-elected, so it will be for the best......i may not find a country with as good of firearm laws as the us..but i can live with it......i'm not a huge gun nut by any means......but i like the idea of being able to defend myself if need be.......as previous;y mentioned, i will try to be better about regular blog postings in the future....you've heard it before, hopefully i can keep to my word thisd time ;P......until next time......

Its finally Autumn!!! oh yay!!!

Its Finally Autumn!!! the air is getting colder, leaves are turning and falling....not here..seeing as we are surrounded my pine trees..but somewhere! I took the air conditioner out of the window and i can finally open the windows and air out the place! the dollar Stores have their fall, Halloween and Christmas stuff out all at once!!!  I've never seen that before..gotta be the earliest the Christmas stuff was put out.....and just so y'all know..there's only a mere 91 shopping days left until Christmas!!! oh joy! 

 I'm not worried about December 21st...nothings gonna happen, so i am concentrating on next year.....I managed to sort through the laserdiscs i have and got rid of a whole box of them yesterday.....a lot of old movies i just wasn't interested in and they were taking up way too much space....besides, i needed the space for my new Atari 2600's! that's right, i now have 2 Ataris!  what happened was i bought one from ebay..and the seller never communicated at all, i came to find out it was her first item for sale..so i figured i got screwed and had to wait another week to file a report with eBay... so i found another screaming deal and bought it..this seller communicated perfectly....i went to the post office to pick it up, based on the tracking number telling me it was there, and i had 2 packages waiting!! i got both Ataris at the same time!!! lol!!! the first artari seller earned a neutral for not communicating...at least i have a bunch of cool games....and unfortunately, my original yars revenge seems to have died...so i bought another one......such is life i guess....anyway back to fall......

We are trying to get yard work done before it gets too cold...mom has mentioned to me it may be time to get the furnace up and running once again...i wish we had a fireplace or wood stove, but unfortunately dad seems to be allergic to wood particulates, especially burning wood particulates, so even when we had a fireplace we had to use those fake logs they sell at walmart etc....sucks, but what can ya do? I dont know whats gonna happen with my job...now we have 2 suites, the main store, and a suite full of furniture, i dont know what he plans to do over the winter..lay me off and keep the other suite? it seems very unlikely the owners of all the furniture will be will or able to come get it and bring it back in spring...so wait and see..maybe we'll get lucky and the furniture will sell throughout the winter...then again..someone could come along and buy the store and have no need for me anymore...

So there's 2 ways i could be out of a job..and thanks to o'shithead I'll be competing with illegals trying to find a job....never thought I'd see the day where real Americans would be at a disadvantage... i really thinks it imperative that we vote that freakin stupid nigger out of office before its too late....if he gets re-elected i will definitely find a way to move out of this country before its too late.....

Anyway, back to fall/winter once again....none of us are really trying to think about the holidays just yet, but its hard to ignore what with the colder weather and Christmas stuff out in stores and all.  I told mom i would put up lights this year...last year we got snow an about the only weekend i could have put em up and that kind of screwed the whole holiday season..hopefully this year will be different...

Tomorrow is my folks anniversary..46 years! its also the first of the month,.,shopping day..so i dont know what the plan is yet...as far as i know I'm off tomorrow...but that could change...he has done it before...heh...i was hoping to be able to walk to the post office tomorrow before it gets too cold to do so, but i don't know whats happening yet so i'll have to wait and see...

Well, I'm almost done with my coffee, which means I'm almost done with this blog as well...laundry is started and I'm thinking of something to eat...so i will bid you adieu... until next time....

Happy Saturday Everyone!

Nothing too exciting lately to report...mom and dad went to a wedding in san diego last week, and i ended up having a pretty nice little semi vacation myself.  I made the trip to show low to dominos and got a pizza......i learned to grill chicken freakin perfectly..if i do say so myself! i scored a laserdisc player and a shitload of discs for it.....labor day weekend was rummage sale day here in town! i reactivated my netflix account...i was missing watching movies.....i watched the new conan last night..it was alright......if it wasnt frothe big titted babes throughout i twould have sucked! i watched the new fright night few days ago...it sucked.....it was nice Chris Serandon(sp?) had a small role...he was the vampire in the original fright night, in case some of you didnt know that......i updated my bluray players software finally....small update..but i had a few glitches with conan last night and it didint require a restart! first time for everything! i bought a weed whacker couple weeks ago....got the backyard cleaned up and will start working on front and side yards as weather permits...i even cleaned my garden up a bit...didnt feel like doing a garden this year..next year definately.......looks like i have a psycho bitch as a new neighbor..oh joy... she..i think it was her..was screaming at my dog last night because because she was barking at her and HER little dog......i could be wrong..but i did hear shutup!!! a few times....whether it was aimed at my dog ro not remains to be seen..i will be here on out cautious......Theres only 108 shopping days left until christmas...oh goodie.....its funny, the dollar stores have their halloween and fall stuff out 2 months ahead of time..funny thng is...it comes out a little earlier every year, and the selection gets smaller every year! still, its the only place aorund here to see fall colors......seeing as i live in pine trees......ive also noticed its getting darker earlier...at 7 pm its almost completely dark now......i'll have to figure out how to walk my dog in the winter so i'm not negotiating frozen, snow covered streets in the dark...i will probably purchase a nice coat and doggie boots so she can comfortably walk in winter..rather than sit around all winter......thats the plan anyway...we'll see what happens.......i did find a couple of interesting amiga and c64 sites recently..one was an ftp site pqacked with amiga and c64 software and cd images etc...really cool! and one has tons of amiga and c64 books and magazines on it..ive spent quite a bit of time downlaoded the last couple of weeks..and i decided to take the plunge so to speak and buy computes gazette, ahoy and cu amiga on dvd...i downloaded all issues of amiga world from one of the aforementioned sites......i also testd out a few of my floppy disks...my spindizzy and black magic still works! dont kow about the rest of them..eventually i'll get around to testing them....hopefully get my amiga hooked back up soon...other than that...nothing else exciting going on....until next time

still trying......summer coming to a close..maybe?

First of all, I got a message from someone concerning lack of ham radio info on this blog...this blog isnt about teaching anything, i mention ham radio from time to time because i'm an extra class ham and president of my local radio club...this blog is not for educational purposes..i'm not a teacher in any way, shape or form..sorry o disappoint you...now..onto my latest semi annual blog post ;P  summer seems to be slowly coming to an end once again, and once again i try in vain to post regularly to this blog....from what ive been able to gather, theres only 120 shopping days until christmas 2012, or, if you will, 116 days until the end of the world...ya right, not gonna happen.......i plan on super stocking up on fireworks for new years because i am going to be celebrating the non-end of the world that night..proving all the dillusional jesus freaks wrong will be a great day indeed!!!!!! of course, if the world does come to an end, it will be because of human destruction, which we are accomplishing every day on this planet, no some non-existant god deciding tocleanse the earth...the earth will cleanse herself if humans piss her off enough..how? by letting humans be humans......on a lighter note..my room/soon-to-be-shed reorganization is moving right along......might be a winter project shed re-organization/spring cleaning.....other than that....livin life one day at a time...as usual..enjoying fine cigars once in a while again...hadn bought any in wahile, but a friend talked me into it, glad he did..and i just bought some new pipe tobacco..G.L. Pease blackpoint, and Charing cross..pretty good Latakia blends! i have to say i'm mildly impressed! I recently acquired some old commodore 64 and amiga magazines on dvd...i'm thoroughly enjoying reliving the past.....i also downloaded a shitload of c64 and amiga diskfiles ((.adf and .d64) just in case my old floppies decide to die one day...i tried a couple of my disks the other day, still working! ands i even found a bunch of c64 and amiga books hat had been scanned in...even books about the kim-1! amazingly enough!  other than that....i posted a new vblog to my youtube page..havent done one in a long time....it takes so freakin long to upload its almost not worth it...
i have to remember not to be too long winded...heh....if anyone is interested...heres my youtube channel you can check out....   http://www.youtube.com/user/theonetruebeast   my vblogs are abut as interesting as my regular blog......meaning not very...=)    until next time....

If I've said it once, I've said it a billion times before......change is in the air......yeah yeah yeah, i know what you're thinking...as Magnum used to say.....so where is this change? I've mentioned it many times before.  well, it comes and goes, and lately, its been very noticeable...sometimes its vaguely noticeable, sometimes it overwhelmingly present..right now however, and lately, its been moderately noticeable.......i dont knwo what is happening, or what is going to happen, but something is going to happen..i don't know where, I don't know where, buts its coming.....theres also a weirdness hanging in the air lately..I dont know how long its been there, but I really started to notice it in the last couple months.....again, I dont knwo what it is, or whats going to happen, but i've the feeling something is about to happen......I hoep you all arent too confused, thats the best i can describe it.....I've got the odd feeling that my lie as i currently know it is going to change inexorably.....I'm not talking december 21 2012 change..thats not going to happen....i plan to have the mother of all fireworks parties on new years eve this year, and be lighting them well into 2013!! i mean, my life specifically......i know my fathers health isnt good, my mothers health isnt that good either.........but i dont know if thats it either...i just dont know.....I guess I have to wait and see......take life one day at a time amd take whatever comes, no matter what happens..............I'll keep you all posted......I dont knwo how to describe it except....the universe in general......seems....i dont know.....off..........I dont know if its my imagination, or what.........until next time.......enjoy the weirdness while you can, it may not last................

Is it fall yet?!?!

ok ok ok ok....I'm tired of the freakin heat already, I'm tired of no rain and drought already....sheesh!...grumble...ok, theres my rant for the day...lol! btw, theres only 167 more shopping days until christmas! not that i'm counting mind you, read it on a blog i check out pretty regularly......I even broke out my fall decorations yesterday, well, at least my fall leaf garlands i drape ove my door and window, and my little plackards that say, harvest blessings, and let it snow! of course, when it snows i'll bitch and whine about the cold then!! lets face it, if i couldnt bitch and whine about something i'd freakin explode!!! speaking of which, the 4th of July festivities here in town came and thankfully, went pretty quickly, i watched the pathetic parade as usual, and got sunburned as usual..and took picture as usual...I stayed home for the fireworks, as i freakin hate crowds!!! i heard em from the front porch, so it wasnt a total loss, and someone posted video of them on facebook, so i got to see em anyway! I did decide to treat myself Saturday night, Instead of going to the fireworks and arts and crafts show, which i might add, you have to pay to get into..what a joke...I went to the country club and had a lovely new york strip dinner! excellent food, excellent service, excellent atmosphere, and best of all, very few people around! then i went home, walked the dog, then layed on the couch on the front porch with all windows open and listened to the fireworks and just relaxed......kind of like what I did yesterday......i did manage to set up my new printer stand, and frame a wolf image i found online and printed out, its the logo from the wheel of time series of books, a chapter logo actually, pretty cool.  And yet another rant! I bought a box of banquet fried chicken, first thing i noticed, the price has gone up..7.50 a box now, next thing i noticed, only 5 pieces now!!! what a freakin ripoff!!!! third thing i noticed, the cooking instructions completely changed, now they say you have to cook the big pieces first, then throw the smaller pieces in then cook it more!!! i cooked em all at once for 52 minutes and it was perfect! hah!!!! then the biggest thing i noticed, was the breading seems to have changed, and the flavor was different, i hated it...never buy that again, i got to the point where i no longer liked kfc...so i started buying banquet...now that banquet sucks, i may have to make fried chicken homemade....!! it would probably come out better!!! rant number 2 over...heh......I managed to throw out 2 more big bags of video tapes the other day....i'm guessing it might take 8 to 10 more to get rid of 98 percent of my old coll4ection, i am going to keep a very few tapes..but not many......i'm still saving up for a dvd burner/vcr combo so i can digitize a few tapes i dont wanna lose....time will tell i guess.....not sure what I'm gonna do tonight, probably wait until they pickup my overflowing, as usual, trashcan before i start tossing more viddie tapes......and i need to start shredding soon, ive got tons of stuff to shred......sigh..ive got so many projects half started, or half done, i dont think i'll ever get it all done...need another 3 or 4 lifetimes to complete...such is life i guess......so be it.......................until next time.............

happy sunday......sunburned and loving it!

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Well well, Happy Sunday all,  We had our annaul 4th of july parade yesterday, and i had to work yesterday, which sucked, at least no customers! so i had time to go through my parade pics...a link to which is posted above......wasnt too exciting, actually, there seemed to be less people this year than last along the parade route......seems to be that way every year......from what i heard, the fireworks went pretty well, also what ive heard, the fireworks show was shorter than usual, even though the paid alot more this year for the fireworks than previeous years...hmmm......the parade was the usual, more advertising, there were 3 propane trucks in the parade, not decked out in patriotic stuff, just plain old propane trucks, it really anooys me how commercial the 4th has become.......some silly floats, but nothing spectacular....not that i was expecting anything spectacular......i did manage to get sunburned again, a yearly tradition for me, and of course my other yearly tradition, getting a foot long breakfast sandwich at subway......the town was, as usual, a madhouse, hopefully they are all going home today so we can get our quiet town back....sheesh.....and of course, unfortunately, my sister and neice came for a visit, and her car died about a mile from here, so she'll be here for a few days...grumble......such is life i guess....cant really make them walkhome....can i???? hhmmmm........ other than that, usual plans for me for a sunday, shower, then laundry......again, such is life.......until next time....

Happy Birthday West Virginia!!!!

First of all I would like to wish a very happy 149th birthday to west Virginia today!!!!!
Oh how I miss Morgantown!!! if its the last thing I do, I'm going to live in Morgantown again....and I wont leave unless I'm carried out feet first!!!!!!

There, I feel better now =)  onward and upward......I know its been awhile since ive updated this blog, my life isnt exciting enugh for a daily blog, yet, but i'm working on it...its frakin hot today...has been for some timenow, and will be for some time now.....and speaking of today, today is also the first day of summer! the Summer Equinox!  Blessed be! all you pagans, wiccans etc out there!!!!!! I plan to burn some incense to honor my ancestors goddess and god tonight!!! lets see....ive actually gone jogging once.....once...not being lazy, just very little time......busy at home and working all day to boot..... work is going as well as can be expected.....mom and dads health isnt great, and probably wont be improving...i'm trying to come to grips with that fact......my sister is having shoulder surgery this morning, i havent heard anything yet......earlier this month, late last month my poor dog had miserable allergies, we tried prednisone and special food..it didnt seem to help, i put her back on benadryl and her normal food and she seems to be doing better, next i'm going to try a higher grade food and see what happens......my allergies have been killing me as well lately, because of all the smoke from the fire about 25 or so miles fromhere..the smoke has been blowing through town......and speaking of smoke....ive decided to start smoking cigars again......I still enjoy my pipe, but a friend of mine has gotten into cigars and managed to talk em into it..so i have one about once a week....Ive really missed em! cant afford them too often, but its a nice treat to spoil myelf with one in awhile......I was of work ysterday, so onthe spur of the moment, i decided to take the next step in my monumental closet re-organization.....i brought all the bins that were in the very back and bottom of the closet, to the front of the closet, and all the bins ive already inventoried, to the back......wasnt easy..i even had a monumental collapse of bins whilei was trapped in the closet, but thankfully no damage......i couldnt believe how bad i sweated!! speaking of which, i got my air conditoner in the window finally....its a weird ac, it has no drain holes or anything for the condensation to drip out of..so i drilled my own =) i put 3 holes along the rear bottom of the thing..so when i put the thing away later in the year, i wont have grean slimy water like i did last time..and it would gurgle as it ran....strange.......oh, ands some sad news to report...sniff...my old trusty vcr finally died...not my oldest one mind you, the newer of the two......i stuck a tape, excuse me, tried to stick a tape in it the other evening and it got jammed, it kept trying to eject or play the tape and kept grinding it backand forth, i pushed the eject buttona nd ended up breaking it......i had to reachj inside the thing with one finger and push the litttle button way down on the circuit board...i finally got the tape out...maybe i can refurbish my older  vcr, but the newer one is a gonner....ive got alot of great memories with that vcr....such is life i guess......so now, i'm saving up to get a vcr/dvd burner combo so i can digitaze some of my videos...which is why i'm rearranging the closet, ive decided its time to get rid of my videotapes..especially the original movie tapes..so going to just toss emin the the trash, truth be told, i dont think anyone would want them anyway....and ive replaced many of them with dvd's anywho..so i should be able to get rid of 4 or 5 bins that way....with will lead to the main reason, i just came up with the other day, for rearranging my closet...i want to put a skinny 12" wide bookcase inside the closet door to hold all my videogame systems....i miss the old games, and its easier to have em all easily accessible in one place than trying to find cables for whichever system i want to use......so thats my ultimate goal........until next time... 

Blogger's backend....bleh....um...ok....shrug...

I havent posted in awhile, and it looks like blogger has shot themselves in the foot, they are telling me i have to use google chrome becsuse they no longer support the browswer i amusing now, ie 8, and theyre backend looks like crap now...if they think i am going to be forced to upgrade to google chrome, they are dreaming, i will find another blogsite if this doesnt clear up..and it doesnt look like it will anytime soon...so anyway...did our monthly shopping yesterday, and since i'm off today, i'm doing laundry!  nothing too exciting has happened since the last blog, ive progressed farther in my closet inventorying and organizing, and gotten the linux box situated next to my desk, not hooked up yet, but getting closer to the day i can get my amiga towered and hooked up and the linux box going again! slowly but surely....my poor dog has been suffering terrible allergies since the seasons changed, she got a shot that made em all but go away for a few weeks, then the vet decided to try, since they came back after the shot wore off, some pills with antihistemine/prednisone in em..they dodnt work any better than benedryl so i weened her off of em, and a specail no allergen food, which only accomplished constipation and very dark shit...poor pup..i'm weening her back on her usual food and soon benedryl....no more wasteing money at the vets, she doesnt seem to have anything that cant be treated at home...just allergies......i finally got my ankle braces i was shopping around for and am going to be trying out jogging very soon.  Ive got running shoes i bought when i was going to the gym a few years back, they are low cut so i had to be careful how i ran, i tend tio sprain my ankles if i dont wear high tops..pesky weak ankles...oh well, i'm also taking some vitamins now that seem to be making me feel better....heres to hoping...work is going ok....we've expanded into another suite and are selling furniture on consignment now......home life is still the same.....parents are doing ok, all things considered...ive decided, with a little goading froma friend, to start smoking cigars again. i ordered a couple sample packs and hopefully will get them today......theyre kind of pricey so i wont be smoking them regularly, but a once in awhile treat.....and i'll priobably be getting some fresh pipe tobacco soon as well...time to change brands/styles......also, ive decided, judging by the hot weather, its margarite/rum and coke/pina colada season!!!! so i bought some booze yesterday, and margarite/pina colada mix, i got good rum, and good silver tequila!!! now i got drink choices after work or whenever i feel like one!!! ive decided, after watching an instructional video on youtube, to mod my amiga tower a bit, gonna start with an led fan, then eventually put a transparent window in the side of it..doesnt look to terrible hard to do....of course, the way my luck goes, i'll fuck it up anyway!!!!! heh....thats about it for now...if anything exciting happens, ya right, i'll be sure to blog about it.... until next time....

Blogger has new back end...and happy hump day!!!

well well well, and well! its been awhile since i've posted a blog, I can tell because blogger has a new back end and this is the first time I've seen it! looks ok i guess, needs a bit to get used to..i can handle it tho! Today is Wednesday, or humpday to some...i was off yesterday, and worked Monday, so it actually feels like Tuesday to me!  Had an interesting breakfast meeting this morning, i get together with my ham radio club every Wednesday for breakfast.  There was ony one waitress today, and she got so overwhelmed even the cook was waiting tables...it took forever for her to even notice we were there! one guy didnt even ever get his toast...he was grumbling all the way out the door.......been an ok day so far..mildly busy at work, well, not busy now, seing as I'm writing this blog right now!  Ive made a few changes in my room lately, i got rid of the wire mesh shelves and put in a wooden skinny bookcase by my desk, scooted the doesk over about 8 inches or so, and put my linux box between the bookcase and desk... and I am currently inventorying/re-organizing the closet...i realized i was at an impasse because i needed to put things somewhere, and the closet was packed! so in order to get my room re-org done i had to get the closet inventoried and re-organized. I've also decided to get rid of most of my old video tapes, at least the original movie tapes that is...i'll keep the ones ive recorded over the years, but i came to a realization, you could say I had a revelation! an epiphany!!!! I realized i no longer need my original video tapes, i never watch em, ive got alot of them on dvd/bluray....and ive got 6 big bins full of tapes taking up space in the closet...if I could get rid of even 3 of those 6 bins, I'd have shitloads of room!!!!!! and I'm also considering putting all the stuff thats in shoebox sized bins right now, into big bins...i'd have even more room!!!! Its an ongoing project....i'm doing this so i can get my amiga 1200 out of its bin, also in the closet and get it set up.....but i need room!!!! heh......and maybe even my c64 might get a new home....its also in the closet......only time will tell what will happen!!!  I also have plans to overhaul my sheds again, mom wants my skinny smaller shed because she is convinced the world is going to end in december, and she wants to prepare for survival, even tho she always says, shes ready to go, if she dies, oh well....talk about a walking contradiction!! lol!!!  Well, Its official, the final book in the Wheel of Time series, or EPIC series, being finished by Brandon Sanderson, seeing as Robert Jordan died in 2007 I think....will be out in early January 2013...the 8th or 9th, can't remember...i'm about half way through book 7, a Crown of Swords" if i'm lucky, i might be able to read through the series again, after this read-thru, before the new book comes out....then i'll read Brandons books, people seem to think hes doing a good job with the last 2 wheel of time books hes written, i'll find out for myself soon......If the world ends in December, i'll really be pissed!!!!! maybe they can rush the book out by November!!!! heh, wishful thinking...i'm not worried however, the world IS NOT
repeat IS NOT going to end in December!!!! hell, I'll be long dead before we destroy this planet completely....and believe me, we're doing a good job right now of destroying it!  for a change its overcast and very cool today......its gonna be in the 100's next week tho, at least in the valley, or phoenix, for all you non Arizonans! I decided not to do a garden this year...just too much work for too little output, that and we still have tomatoes and zucchinis in the freezer, and they need to be tossed, they dont smell right...heh...so i'm not going to waste my time nor my energy this year, and maybe not next year either! I think thats all the news thats fit to type...or something like that....... until next time....

Happy Easter! blah, now onto laundry...

Its easter once again, seems like only a year ago easter was here..wow, how time flies...oh well, time for laundry...lol! story of my life... things have changes a bit, not monumentally, but a bit, i'm working saturdays now, and have mondays off, spring has sprung, which means yard work, which means i have to get up on the roof and clean the gutters once again.  which means i wont make the same mistake i did last year and not put my ac in the window...it was quite miserable last year, although, the year before i really didnt need the ac..lol! the weather cant make up its mind......and of course today, laundry.  i wont be making bread today seeing as the loaf i made last weekend hasnt been finished yet......and i might work on my room a bit.  I was planning on getting a new desk, we have some nice desks at the store for like 30 bucks! bigger and better than my little desk, but no matter how much i measure and plot, i cant get it to fit and have room for the other crap i have too...so all i'm gonna do is move the existing desk over a foot or so, so i can have room for my linux box! and maybe start getting my amiga 1200 out of mothballs so to speak.....we'll see, ive got mountains of magazinesa i need to read piled up infront of the desk, so those need to be moved first......sigh..so much to read so little time =) and as the title hints at, this is easter sunday...whoopie....mom is gonna make a ham for dinner.....thats about the extent of my easter holiday......i went to an estate sale yesterday and got a really cool old, but super sharp straight razor, i'm shopping around for a honing stone and i'll be learning how to shave with straight razor! cant wait! hopefully wont accidentally behead myself! lol!!! the estate sale was at the home of this towns long time barber, Tibs, they call him, hes had some health setbacks and can no longer work, so hes moving out of the area.....and he had a good collection of straight razors etc......and alot of other stuff to boot..i might go back there today to see whats left =)........until next time.....

so much for saturdays......new carpet, new tv stand, new room?

as you can tell by the title, my saturdays are gone for the summer once again, in other words, i have to work saturdays for the summer, and i'm off sunday and monday, wonderful, i was hoping against hope something woudl change, even though change is in the air, its not changin yet! THAT OK, i can get caught up on personal stuff whilst i sit and wait for my possible 1 customer a day, if that......download stuff and put it on my zip disk, or, whatever needs doing, searching and buying on ebay etc etc etc......daydreaming! such is life i guess...no point sniveling about it, cant do anything about it.....of course, that gives me a pretty full sunday to get things done, like laundry......i'm about 3/4 done, maybe finish it tomorrow...of course, i might be going to walmart tomorrow as well..sigh....no rest for the weary......ive got a loaf of bread going in the bread machine, just took the paddle out and it should be in the rising and baking mode right now......i was considering buying a newer bigger desk for my room, but after many measuring sessions, and moving it around multiple times in my mind, no matter where i mentallyput it, its still too big, so now, i'm considering putting in this very skinny bookshelf i have in the shed in place of the 2 wire mesh shelving units i have in my room, onyl thing, once again, is where to put it and how to move things to make good use of the little room i have =) still sorting thing out, but i'm pretty sure i'm not buying the desk...even tho its below dirt cheap....still not warranted......i just got an mp3 player the other day, its pretty nice..i listened to a few binaural beats tracks last night and a guided meditation, got a pretty good nights sleep, but dont remember my dreams unfortunately......i was going to get up ono the roof today and clean ou the gutters, buts its extremely windy once again, so no-go.....and i dont know if i will put in a garden this year or not....havent decided yet, if i do, i found asparagus roots at walmart, surprisingly enough, they are supposed to grow for 2 years....if i do a garden this year, i'll definately try those...the lettuce i tried last year didnt go too well...i got maybe 2 small bowls worth of leaves, oh well, live and learn =) we got new carpeting in the living room, and mom and dad finally decided to get rid of their fake presswood oaken monstrosity of tv stand! they bought a more modern, more than half the sized of the old piece of crap cabinet, looks good, or at least it will when i get everyrthing moved over to the new stand....as for new room, as i mentioned before in this blog, i am thinking of rearranging at least the desk side of my room to try to get enough extra space for my new linux box! doesnt need alot of room, buit ive got alot of crap to move around...but itll get done sooner or later, i'm gonna put my ac back in the window this year, i didnt use it last year and regretted it....so this year, its gonna get used...there are no drain holes in the case so the last time i used it i ended up with slimy sludge inside the thing...which required me to take the thing apart and thoroughly clean it out..i plan on drilling a few small holes along the underside back edge of the case for draining.....other than all that....nothing new....the weather is trying to warm up, but not succeeding to well....or succeeding very slowly....i'm looking forward to geocaching this year a bit around town..and maybe a few out of town..who knows......mountain biking, walking, hopefuly a round or 3 of golf! we'll see.....until next time...

change?/spring? is in the air, same ole same ole/and new....etc...

Is the title of this blog confusing enough? good! because i have not yet begun to confuse...First off, i keep mentioning change is in the air, well, i still feel it, but i no longer know from which direction its coming, or from which source.  I thought my job situation was about to go through a major change, as in new job,or at least job search, now, that doesnt seem to be the case now.  As shoultz used to say " I KNOW NOTHING!!!!" like the song says "the more i see the less i know" aint that the truth...oh well..so be it..such is life... and speaking of life, i still dont have one...i've resigned myself to the fact that i wont have a life until mom and dad are gone...if something happens to dad, mom can no longer live alone......and her health isnt going to get any better, so i really cant find work outside the area..and theres really no jobs in the immediate area..so again, i dont know, i just dont know, like my grandma used to say...  I had a good St Pattys day for a change, mom and dad were gone for a couple days, pattys day included to i threw a corned beef brisket in the crock pot and some carrots, taters, and a head of cabbage and ate very well that evening...i put it in early morning before i left for my radio club meeting and tendedit all day....its almost impossible to find corned beef in this area so it was a nice treat! so was all the snow we got that evening and the next day..around 8 to 10 inches! It wasnt coldenough to hard freeze thankfully so it was mostly gone the next day...and i could get my car out of the driveway to get to work monday! heh...and speaking of nice treats, i got a couple free puter towers.  One was an old win98 machine, 256 megs of ram, 40 gig hd, the only reason i took that one is for the 40 gig hd! the other tower however, is quite an older powerhouse, its got a pentium 4/3.4 gig processor, 2 gigs of ram, and the best video card ive ever seen in my life, an ati radeon with dual dvi-d outputs, hi-def baby! i bought a dvi-d to hdmi cable and it works great on my tv! can you say 42 inch hi def monitor? hehehehehe......it also has tons of fans in it, 5 total including the power supply fan, which is a 500 watt monster, 2 of the fans are led backlit, really cool electric blue! and theres led's on all 4 corners of the front of the thing, all blue, not including the hd activity and power lights! and the side of this thing is see through!! it has a plastic window in it with a lock! no key unfortunately, or i should say fortunately, it wasnt locked or i would have to do some drilling =) i also got a cordless logitech keyboad with it, no receiver unfort, but i found one on ebay, havent tried it yet tho... I'm trying to get caught up on my magazine reading, ive got mountains of mags going back a year or more! i started reading qst's last nihgt, the magazine for ham radio nuts like myself...i actually read march 2011 issue last night, thats how far behind i am! i'm trying to make room so i can finally get my old trusty amiga 1200 out of mothballs, or at least out of the closet, the tower i chose for it is short enough to sit on the left side of the desk under the shelf i put onthe wall......sao ive got alot of rearranging to do.....and i will probably put my ac in the window this year, its promising to be a miserable summer again like last year, hopefully no major fires like last year...heres to hoping!  i may or may not do a garden this year..if i do, there will be 1 ONE, and i do mean ONE! tomato plant, maybe one ONE 1, and i do mean 1! zucchini...maybe no zucchini since i still have zucchinis in the fdreezer from last year, probably have to toss em......and i dont know what else..i tried lettuce last year and it didnt do well, maybe fresh herbs? or herb? hehe, no, no herb i'm afraid! be fun to try tho! so, we'll see....havent decided yet if, or what, i will plant....I did see asparagus roots at walmart, might try it once..see what happens, supposed to grow 2 years! thatd be cool! as i said, we'll see =) lets see, what else is going on? oh ya! the store, my place of  employemnt got broken into and robbed a few sundays ago, they took alot, and dropped alot..oddly enough, so we spent the day inventorying and cleaning up..and other businesses have been hit since, and a few houses from what ive heard...so much for safe small town..lol! oh well, not much more to say, not that i can think of, i'm expecting a cordless trackball today, in our store order, a logitech, for tower i got a couple weeks ago...i forgot, i put fedora 16, the free version of redhat on that tower and it seems to work very well! i also downloaded some linux stuff to put on it, firefox, openoffice, cd/dvd burning software etc......i have a wireless router in the shed somewhere i have to dig out..then i shold have internet on it..woo hoo! we'll see.....and as the title says, spring is in the air, well, that means its pine needle raking weather! yay!!!....nleh... oh well, its gotta be done! maybe start today, maybe walk the dog, maybe both! i dont know yet!!!.......until next time....

happy leap day! my once every four year blog!

Just kiddign folks, yes today is February 29th 2012, leap day, and, i just found out, a sad day as well, Davy Jones, singer of the Monkees dies today, heart attack from what ihear, he ws only 66, too bad, too young to go this soon....he will be missed, i used to love the monkees tv show! oh well,  i dont know what the numbers are, but theres probably not too many people who die on leap day.....not that it matter really...anywho, ive been doing the same old same old, things dont change for me..unfortunately.  I'm about 3/4 of the way through zelda: skyward sword, i dont have alot of time to play recently, looks like we're getting new carpet in the near future, i really hope i'm at work that day so i dont have to move furniture around...we got snow day before yesterday, didnt stick arund too long thankfully... I had my weekly breakfast meeting with my ham radio club this morning, i tried the corned beef hash..pretty good...as you can see, my life is pretty boring, same odl schedule, same old chores, same old same old...hehe sor5y of my life pal! i bought a new memory card for my phone, and a new zip drive..both 32 gigs...well...not much to report, and its even been over a month snce ive blogged...heh...i do like to keep life boring and predictable..but this is rediculous!!!! lol!!!  until next time...

My first blog of 2012!! woo-hoo!!.......bout time.....

Greetings one and all, finally got around to doing another blog...and as it happens, the first blog of the new year! just grabbed my last cup of coffee for the day, and just started my next to last load of laundry, the usual for a sunday...monotony..gotta love it!! embrace the monotony! heh.....as you may have noticed..at least i hope you have noticed...a new banner on my blog page......a banner for originalabsinthe.com...what is absinthe you ask? well, its an anise flavired spirit made with wormwood.....green in color..and exceedingly bitter straight up...which is why most drinkers use the old ritual of a sugar cube, water and an absinthe or slotted spoon...ive never had it but i am very curious....it used to be arround 136 proof!  it still hovers around 90 to 150 proof depending on brand..and now the ban in the US has been lifted...i am saving my pennies to buy a bottle, i'll consider it a once in a lifetime treat....seeing as it takes me so long to empty a bottle of booze it may well just last a lifetime! another reason i put that banner on my site if they will give me a free absinthe spoon for advertising their site..and after a year of advertising their site, a free bottle of absinthe! so i may end up with 2 bottles depending on how long it takes to drink the one i am going to buy!! the pictures i am putting inthis blog are of an absinthe sppon and glass, and the bottle i am saving for..only 140 proof!! woo-hoo!!!! ok, i'll calm down now......at that alcohol level it will probably last 2 lifetimes!! anywho......as previously stated, i am doing laundry right now...i think i am goingto finally get around to fixing somoe c64 keyboars..i finally have the parts and tools necessary to attempt to build an external c64 keyboard......ive seen pics online of someone who has done it..so i am going to try it...mainly because it will be hard to have all the wires attached to the keyboard,  and all drives etc nearby and be comfortable to type...so my hope is to have a long keyboard cable so i can sit on the bed and type...pr play games or whatever......need to figure where to put the 1541's or 1571's depending which i choose to use...and i am still planning to build an amiga tower of sorts..tower the cd and hard drives etc but not the motherboard or anything...i found out what it would take to build an external amiga keyboard and i have no intention of trying to solder on my miggy motherboard......ive got a little folding stool i can sit on......as ive mentioned before..change is in the air...well its still there, and the feeling has grown stronger as of late...i'm thinking and working more and more to starting my own business of some sort...either an online business, or a discount office supply, i dont know...i'm constantly thinking about the possibilitlies....something weird is going on and i dont want to be caught up in it..so we'll see......main hurdle is financing..if i can solve that conundrum i'll be well on my way! other than that..normal sunday..ive got to go to the store for milk..mom wants to make pancakes for lunch! and the games start in a bit..so i bid thee adieu....until next time....