TGIM!...just kidding...

It is Monday once again, I'm off today...thankfully...we had a stove repairman out this morning to fix our gas stove..only to find out my Mother cleaned the stove so well she clogged all the gas jets..sheesh....that was 80 bucks well wasted...I dont have too much planned today...finish laundry..perhaps walk down to get the mail..depending on how my knee and hip are feeling...not too mention my foot and ankle...all on the right side of course.....and i thought i was too young for these kind of problems..sheesh....Ive gotten to the age where life stops giving, and starts taking away......Its getting harder to walk any kind of distances, my shoulder my prevent me from playing golf anymore...hopefully next week i'll go to the range and find out....cant hardly throw a ball to the dog anymore...I cant afford a doctor so i have to make due with excederin etc......sigh.....like the song says...life sucks, then you die!!! and boy dont i know it!!! I was kind of hoping to travel someday..if i dont somehow get rich and do it soon, i wont be able to...double sigh.......oh well......not getting anything done bitching and whining about it....not a damn thing i can do about it......venting feels good sometimes......about the only thing i can look forward to is a new bigger tv, 42 incher!, and a new receiver and some point in the very near future...i hope......i guess i should be happy with the small things that i can actually do and receive..i guess......I may not even be able to ride my bike anymore either, come to think about it......i'll find that out very soon as well......triple sigh......until next time.....whers my cane?....

TGIF!...Sort of...

well well, 2 blog entrys in one month....thats a record for me of late...lets see..i got monumentally adventurous last week and bathed and shaved my dog...a very interesting 3 hour adventure...shes cooler now..funny looking, but cooler......my garden is doing well, ive got 4 or 5 little lettuces coming up now..with more o the way...i'll plant seeds every 10 days or so so i have a constant supply of lettuce....we had a fire right outside of tiwn yesterday, maybe 1 or 2 miles from town...it burned our main power lines and poles so we had no power from around 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 am......we had candles all over the house, looked kind of cool =) I'm nearing the end of my monumental room and shed re-organization...ive got to get a few more large shoebox bins and i should be ready to start dissasembling my tv and rack system stands......i'm waiting for a check from a class action settlement ive been involved with sionce mid last year, when i get that i should have enough to get a new reciever and new bigger tv =) 42" vizio and a really nice pioneer receiver...my current receiver has lost its center channel.....not good =) I got elected president of the RCARC this last weekend.,..Rim Country Amateur radio Club, for those not in the know......I hope i can do half as good a job as the previous pres. he accomplished many good things...we'll see...I'm about to finish the 3rd book in the wheel of time series, the dragon reborn, i remember alot of the story from when i read them many years back......we've decided, as you may have read in the last blog, to get another dog and a couple kittens...none of us can live with multiple furball excitement in the house......moms looking for kittens, and i'm looking for a puppy, i'd love to have an irish wolfhound, mom and dad arent to keen on that idea..hehe probably because of their size......mom wants siamese kittens......if i can find her a couple siamese kittens, maybe i can sneak a wolf hound pup into the house..we'll see......nothing to exciting planned for this weekend, laundry, and roasting, roasting as in its going to be hotter than hell and he dont have AC..unfortunately......perhaps i can start emptying the tv stand thhis weekend and get everything hooked up on the new stands in preparation for new tv and receiver..we'll see......until next time...

Still trying...

I'm still trying to do a daily blog, and since my last post was early may...failing miserably....i'll keep trying...lets see, since the last post, i bought the latest 2 books in the wheel of time series, the gathering storm and towers of midnight, both co-authored by Brandon Sanderson, i'm pretty much finished with the shed re-organization, i have the bench all set up as a ham radio bench with my scanner, power supply and signal amp all set up, including a longer cable so my antenna cable reaches all the way to the bench now...also added a lamp to the far left corner, and i even installed a shelf about the left side of the bench for my future on the air light box i'm working on...among other things...ive made alot of progress in my closet as well, ive got almost all the small bins combined into larger bins, and ive still got 5 or 6 larger bins empty and ready to house all the stuff in the base of my old tv stand...i finally bought the cd bookshelf and 2 entertainment centers, which will be stacked on top of each other, the tv stands will be stacked,  not the cd bookshelf...with all my cd's on their own shelf, i'll be able to get rid of 3 or 4 big bins out of the closet to make even more room in there.....I finally got my garden in the ground, it finally warmed up enough to do so, especially at night...i planted lettuce, wich is now finally coming up...doesnt take long according to the seed bag, 2 tomato plants, one green bell pepper, one zucchini, and 1 cucumber....i thought i'd try cucumbers just to see if it will be as prolific as zucchini usually is......Mom had foot surgery a couple weeks back and is recoverign nicely, shes walking with ut the cast and walker now, and is already not needingthe wheelchair anymore, she'll be out dancing again before we know it =) we had some friends up this past weekend for diner and cards lateinto the night...but it was a sad weekend unfortunately...my old dog, Sombra, had to be euthanized(sp?) Monday morning, i kept her as comfortable as possible over the weekend...she was around 15 or so, prettty impressive for a black lab.....I miss her dearly, but at least she is free now...we'll see eachither again some day......I watched the movie black swan last night, what a freakin weird movie that was......good effects i thought......it was ok over all......ive recently started snacking on beef jerky again,i hadnt had any in so long, but the book series i'm reading right now, wheel of time, keeps mentioning dried meat, cheese and bread etc, and it made me hungry..hehe......i'll probably get some good cheese one of these days to nibble as i read......I think I have an idea how i am going to organize my desk to hold several computers, i'm going to put the laptop on the keyboard drawer and the amiga and c64 on the top of the desk and side shelf respectfully.....probably get a fan base to go under the amiga so i dont have a re-wired case cooling fan leaning on the side of the amiga keyboard again...i cant tell you how many tinme ive accidentally stuck my fingers in the blades of that fan...hehe......mom has been wanting a kitten or two since our 2 old cats passed away last year, now, since we only have one dog..at least for now..hehehehehe....dad agreed to help us find a couple kittens..preferably siamese....it'll be nice to have kittis in the house again....i'm sure my golden retriever, Orfhlaith (orla) will be thrilled to death to have a couple little playmates to hang with......other than that, thats about it for now......until next time......

finally! Bin Laden is DEAD, spring weather!

I was talking on my ham radio when i heard the news about bin laden being dead......i was kind of surprised..i figured he was long dead already...oh well......i'm sure alot of people thought that as well, and of course...Obama took credit for the whole thing...bastard......Its finally nice warm, very little wind weather! I swear, the wind and cold lasged longer this year than years past......as a funny aside..i forgot my password for this blog! lol!!! it hasnt been THAT long ince ive loggged on..sheesh!!! i'm still going strong with my shed and room and closet spring cleaning......ive thrown away multitudes of old magazines, that, for the life of me, i cant remember or figure out why ive kept them..ive emptied 4 or 5 big bins of magazines, with severl more to go....i'm also tryting to clean off and organize the benchg in my shed to use as my ham radio bench......so far so good, just need to figure out what to do with my commodore pets! i'm still trying to figure out what to do about my room and closet, ive decided to get an entertainment center that will hold all my components and the tv..so i can get rid of the huge component case, so i can make room for a cd/dvd/bluray floor to ceiling shelf...so i'll have a strait, unblocked path to the closet.....ive alaso picked out a couple towers for my amiga......and i bought an s-video cable for my c64, gonna have a retro computer power room when i'm done....probably going to rearrange my little desk so i can put 3 computers on it..hopefully, and i have the adapter to hook all puters to the tv as well! 26" computer monitor anyone?!?!?!? of course, my lcd tv isnt new enough to have a vga port on it..but oh well..so be it.....such is life....i've also decided to start combinng the massive multitudes of small bins in to larger ones...try to incorporate and compact.,.so to speak......i'll need access to my c64 and amiga software and hardweare, buried in the closet eventually =) ive also started reading Robert Jordans, wheel of time series again..its been too long..and the last book will be out late this year or early next year..so i wanted it all to be fresh in my mind when it does..unfortunately Mr. Jordan passed away before he could write the last couple books, so someone else is finishing his epic...and from what ive heard, hes done a pretty good job......if i hadnt mentioned, and i hadnt..its Friday! i have to work tomorrow, and i'm doing my monthly shopping tomorrow after work tomorrow...i had a pices of cake for breakfast today.....breakfast of champions!!! so its started out to be a prety good day so far...we'll see where it goes from there.....until next time....

easter weekend...

well well, its been a bit since ie posted......this past weekend was easter weekend....and i got to be blissfully alone for a change...i actually got something accomplished....it started out i continued spring cleaning in my shed...its amazing, has this ever happened to any of you? you find acquire something you are convinced you have a use for....only to find it years later and havent a clue as to why you would keep such a thing in the first place..well it seems half of the stuff in my shed falls into that category, so nedless to say, ive thrown out quite a big of crap......like the 5 or 6 boxes of old magazines ive built up over the years......that ive now thrown out...no idea why i decided to keep all of them...i took a break from the shed and got the garden cleaned up and ready for planting season....i havent decided what to plany yet however......i figurd, my allergies were bad enough, thy werent going to get any worse..so i cleaned ou the garden area......on easter sunday, I grilled a ham steak and slathered it with suateed mushrooms...i added yams, sweet corn, and warm crusty rolls....deeelicious if i do say so myself! and i just did!!!! heh...i even squeezed in washng the dog into my busy weekend.....hopefully tonight, after my ham radio net, i'll be able to continue my shed inventorying...i started it last july i think....heh... until next time....

oh dear....oh crumbs....oh bother......

I got a letter from the IRS today....groan!!....But wait...what is this?......they seem to have made a mistake processing my tax return.......?!?!?!?!?!?!......the first letter i got weeks ago stated, i had made a mistake calculating my tax form....its a 1040ez..its not rocket science right? well, the letter i received today stated..without actually stating, i may be owed more money than i just got........!!!!!!!!!!.........apperently my "miscalculation" was an oversight on their part....so i did as i was instructed, and filled out and signed a form and dropped it back in the mail......we'll see, maybe it wont take over three weeks to get a response...ya right!! what am I thinking....its the best news i got all week so far, so i cant complain....well, yes i can complain, but i wont...=P other than that..pretty quiet day, had breakfast with my amateur radio club like we do every week....now...its windy cold and raining...so much for spring eh? I got a movie in the mail from netflicks today..paranormal activity part 1..aughta be pretty interesting.....unti next time......

Sunday strangeness...

Today was a reird day, I was feeling a little under the weather.  I got a headache about mid afternoon today, heard from a buddy of mine, that i was just about to call, I had the phone in my hand heading to his number in my contact list, when the phone rang...weird......I took a nap late this afternoon, and dreamt I worked in a football factory......ev erytime i would finish a football and pick it up..it would deflate in my hands......they alway had a pinhole in thewm somewhere..sounds like the story of my life..hehe......now, checking my facebook and twittter etc..nothing much going on..saw a good movie last night....."howl" about allen ginsberg when he wrote Howl, and the subsequent obsenity trial, which he won of course!!! the movie had quite a bit of homosexual tones and visuals..of course, Allen was homosexual......the animations that went along with his reading of howl were amazing......it was kind of a biography of Allen of a sort....i really liked it, as far as they read the entire poem throughout the movie......all in all a good movie...now, seeing as i'm still about 3 or 4 months behind...i'm going to go read some readers digests......until next time...