TALK TO A YO YO

It's hard to believe and almost as hard to say that I dread Fridays..  I don't know why.. I think the days leading up to Friday are the worst part and then Friday happens and it could all go to hell but never does, but I'm sure it will.. Went to watch the bear (bear junior i.e. Ian) and he starts by watching shows on the tube (what will they call it since it is a flat panel video thing and will be replaced later by the next great invention shortly) and it's Max and Ruby time.. Then a little blu's cloos (not sure how they spell it)   then that horrid big beat band (?) from Nick Jr. and I say horrid because it is just a step above moronic..  But I guess it is fun.. We head to the G's house as we go down the road he wants his window rolled down.. He had  a advert flyer he was going to show his grandma.. I say had because as we were heading down the road he starts to raise it up towards the window and I see this and as I start to say something about "be ca.."  he loses it out the window as the air current grabbed it out of his hand...  Ooops..  Anyone else (his dad or more likely his mom) would have hollered at him.. I just looked at him and shrugged, I guess you won't show grandma that.. He says he'll get another tomorrow..  I think he has that attitude about everything, toys included.. That if he breaks a toy it will get replaced by one just like it tomorrow..

As I'm watching him there at the house I notice him doing what he does with his    uh  hum    postirier and I remembered what I do when I see the cat taking care the business down yonder there and start my "Butts the matter"  "Butts the problem"   "Butts happening"   "Butts the situation"  (see saying Butt instead of what)..  He doesn't get it, pretty much he has the same reaction as the cat...

He has been wanting to play with a yo-yo for the past month or so.. He wanted a yo-yo in his happy meal and mom didn't know where that came from and I told her some show he watches and it could be any of the shows he watches.. I'd like to say he is a natural yo-yoist but he will have to learn over the years.. And the yo-yo I was showing him was a Yomega brand type and it has great play.. I'm not that good at yoing but I like to every now and then.. and everywhere we have gone in the past few years I look in stores for a unique yo, one I've not seen around.. I got a bunch of replacement strings from a toy store that was going out of business a few years ago (actually a fairly long time ago I hope the strings haven't deteriorated into dust)..

It has been interesting though to see him grow up this past year.. I don't think anyone would believe that I watch this little guy.  The weather has been interesting to say the least and anyone who doesn't agree that this has been the mildest winter in a long time needs to trust me when I say it has been.. We went to the park at least one day every month since last April after they got back from Poland..  Even a day this past December that I would have sworn was too cold, it started out at or below zero and when I picked him up at preschool he said we go to the park.. I told him I thought it was too cold but he wanted to go.. It was just under freezing out.. We get to the park at two swings on the swing and he wants to go home.. Of course he wasn't wearing gloves or a heavy coat.. I get that, not wearing a coat, I haven't worn an actual coat in years (before last year it was because I didn't own one, and this past winter it was because it really wasn't that cold)  but he is a little boy and should be told to wear one.. Even when he gets pissy about it..  but..  

BH

FRACTIONAL DAYS

The site this picture is from is : http://dainfagerholm.tumblr.com/  Some of the most amazing 3D GIF files I have ever seen...  The fact that they are drawn by this person and they are true three dimensional pictures..

Anyway, the week that was another one of those five dayers, I know most people have them...  This week has had a wind on pretty much all of them, like we can never get enough..  Yesterday Donald gets home from work while we are at their house and mom  gets up the nerve to talk to him about Ian and his grabbing himself and after we leave she says she probably shouldn't have said anything.. Maybe not but when she did tell him about it he said he thought it was just Ian being  a little boy.. I told mom I could see him itching if he were going through puberty but not now..  She wasn't sure if she should tell him about that or not..  


From Sunday when Bob & Freda were down on to Monday while we were in the waiting room at the hospital mom told me she wasn't sure she might have said something wrong..  She feels like she has to measure everything and think about what she is saying for fear of reprisal..  I told her they were down here on Sunday, if you are worried about what you are saying in your own home then.. But I know since what happened on Christmas day she is gun shy.. Not knowing what she might say to upset the cart as it were.. I don't feel the tension anymore..  I think things are getting more closer to normal even though I still feel I was the reason there was a blowup in the first place.. It helps to be an idiot I guess, and I am idiot supreme...

I pick up Ian at the preschool today, and we go to the park and yes there was a swing involved.. Then after  a little while he ditches the swing and moves on to other apperati in the park.. The swing anymore I get him to just slightly higher than starter height.. I figure he can get himself higher and what I try to do is show by example, getting into the swing next to him and pumping myself higher. The other day when we were there I was doing that and he hopped out of his swing and I nearly sent him into the monkey bar thing in the center of the park so today I mellowed my rate of assent and when he dragged his feet I stopped..  When he went on to other things I checked the time and it was 11:30.. Still maybe a half to a full hour and I knew     I knew the phrase he likes to utter was coming and sure enough it came out... "How's grandmas through with his works" (Ian thinks of everyone as he)  and I said she isn't ready yet.. I have her call me when she is nearing ready to go..  On this day that phrase would start early and often.. About noon he hit the large twisty slide doing that for a whopping five minutes then meanders towards me and starts to stutter that phrase as "H  H  How.."  and before he gets  the next word out I interrupt him and say "Let me try to guess what you are going to say, may I?"  and I proceed to ask obscure things, anything but what I know he is going to ask and he gets tired of me asking everything but the right phrase and he blurts it out..  So I say ok lets go..   On our way out his grandma calls and so thankfully we know the wait will be short..

After getting ice cream we go to the park by the softball diamonds and he plays there for  a little while then gets tired or bored and we go, but on our way he starts saying he wants to go somewhere else.. Anywhere but home.. How odd is it that he doesn't want to go home.. Home is where all those toys are.. Why he hates to go home just blows us away.. 


BH

SCENT OF

Programs updating left and right for whatever the reason.. I was checking File Hippo today and Opera was set with an update yesterday.. Freemake video converter updated which came as no surprise because yesterday it wouldn't open until I reinstalled it..  Aurora browser was acting up Sunday all day crashing all the time to the point where I was too frustrated to use it anymore and it got demoted to third and Firefox is now primary browser with Opera still being the default browser..  Chrome moved to forth (tied for third) but I refuse to trust it ever again.. Skype was deleted because I just never used it and constantly shut it down after a restart.. Any resources it used was more than I wanted to let it have what with either browser having i-Google as my homepage, and to that end I think I have that homepage set.. I haven't deleted any gadgets in nearly a month..

The E-books are being looked at (finally) and the amazement of seeing the overall amount given to these just surprised me.. Last year I kept thinking I'll give it to 15GB and then when that was eclipsed I thought 20GB.. when that was eclipsed I thought 25GB and then no more.. Absolutely no more at that point and so at the 35GB point I have finally decided to evaluate all those E-books.. Mostly the magazine (mazagines) file. It has over 10GB of e-books to look through.. I thought I'd treat them like magazines at the doctors office, you know skim through them.. But the trouble is I got so many to look at and they all interest me, it's the reason I got them, there aren't any for bull shit sake..   I got a Classic Rock mag and looked through it and a few stories interested me, stories about Van Halen, UFO and Thin Lizzy are very interesting because the encyclopedia books I have don't have nearly the stories these books have..  So then I have folders inside the folders that are labeled "KEEP" which I will decide how many I will keep and burn to a disc.. But I have set mothers day as the definitive decision day to keep or delete certain books and stuff..  Some are books on computers and others are on hobbies and stuff so.. I have a very short time to figure them out..


We had the Boo yet one more time this week.. This will be a five time week and already it is wearing on mom and myself as well... Lucy did something quite a while back when we were in Silverton that made me openly say I am glad I'm not in any kind of relationship.. Lucy said that I would be and I said if I have control over it I won't be..  These past few days being with Ian has made me think I sure am glad I have no way of having kids.. I think I see my uncle Denny's thinking and more than likely any idea of having kids was shut down after they visited us one summer..   It's really no one thing he has done that makes me feel this way.. I know his parents don't spank him they are more than likely afraid to.. I won't spank him, he's not my kid...

Mom talked to Donald about his (Ian's) grabbing himself and that it is getting worse as he grabs front and back.. Tabitha said she had an alergy to laundry soap of some sort.. I hadn't thought about that one.. So three things they could try, looser shorts, bubble bath and laundry soap.. Or it just might be a habit now.. When I see him grabbing himself I ask if he has to go to the bathroom.. When he is grabbing his rear end i have no idea what that means.. But I told mom when he starts grabbing his arm pits then it will be time to do something, or I should say it will be too late or they should have done something sooner.. He's inventing a new dance craze... I didn't think of that one...


BH

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE..

After yesterdays events it does humble you or me I should say.. The one thing that goes through my mind is why couldn't I have...    But it was quick...  I asked her how she felt right after the event and she said she didn't feel anything right then but was more than likely going to feel it today.. Today starts and my dread of asking so how do you feel starts her saying she felt fine.. Bruises here and there but not bad.. She says she rethought about the fall and says she thought she had a good tight grip on me, on my arm, and thought she was going to pull me down but didn't.. She thinks that that might have slowed her fall enough to not break anything.. I have to admit that when she fell back in September that I could swear I heard glass breaking.. I thought after there was no broken glass anything that it was her that made that crashing glass sound...  That's no joke, it sounded like a glass something fell and broke... The very first time she fell and hurt her back and ribs and set the situation moving forward I didn't think her balance was that big of an issue.. It took that happening to make me realize how bad her balance was and is and hasn't changed and never will change.. Not "it may never get better"   IT WILL NEVER GET BETTER..

Took the Ianater to the park today..  He was on the swing but then he went on other things.. He rode the slide.. Then I went on the lower twisting slide, and i'm not sure if that was when things started to go south for me  but the next thing sent it into overdrive.. The pukealator (merry go round).. I pushed him on it then he wanted me to go on it..BIG MISTAKE.. I rode the center thing, because I've done that before.. I closed my eyes and hoped the sense of motion wouldn't be as extreme and I've tried it this way before and that time it didn't work. and this time it didn't work equally.. He moved on the teeter totter and said hurry and come here and I told him to let me get my land legs back...

We got Ice cream and he turns to his grandma and says I NEEeeed a truck for my cars.. And she thinks he said something related to his uncle Chuck needs a truck and car or something and he then turns to her and starts to say slower and more definitively pronounced of the words   "I  NEED  a T   R   U  C K     trailer thing".. She got that as I was saying I know where this is going..  And where was this truck trailer thing??  Walmart.. Remember two weeks ago when he had that plan hatched out to go here go there then to Walmart.. He does that eye batting (kryptonite) thing he does but mom just says no.. He doesn't get too upset but he has her on the hook.. He knows it's just  matter of time, Grandma can't say no forever,  CAN SHE??.. 

BH

THE USE OF IT

I wasn't sure if I was the only one frustrated over things today..  We stopped by to pick up Lucy and Ian to go over to the hospital while Freda was having her situation situated, and we pull up and Ian was looking out the front door wearing his pj's and brushing his teeth..  We were going to get them into the car but as it turned out neither of them were ready.. We get into the house and here comes Ian ready to go, almost ready to go he wasn't wearing his shoes yet.. Then we are ready to go but Lucy needs to get ready by way of getting her hair washed and getting herself ready but we could go and take Ian with us..  Some aggravation starts to build.. Then we go to the hospital Freda was in getting her procedure we get into the waiting room.. Have I said Ian isn't a waiter before??  He isn't good at waiting and today he gets a playin' and that isn't the problem.. The problem is Lucy shows up conveniently about ten minutes before the surgeon comes out and gives the news and five minutes after that we leave and she does as well... So the importance of being there as she seemed to be wanting to go with us when we went in but she couldn't get her shit together in time so she could go when she did.. on our way home mom finally says something about that...  I thought I was alone... 

When we left the hospital Ian neeeeeded to ride the elevator and mom told me to go get the car.. Well I figured he would need to ride the elevator a few times so I waited for them in the entry way.. We made our way to the car which I had parked at the end of the old out patient lot there and as we got to the parking lot there I stepped by a car parked in a space and mom stubbed her toe on the parking block and went down..  HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    It was like slow motion and I thought of everything I would do and it came as a complete surprise that she went down and as she was going down the thought of go down and beat her to the ground was dashed and then the thought of holding her arm and keeping her from falling all the way was dashed as I thought I might do more harm than good by either pulling her arm out of the socket or breaking it...  I was totally fucked.. And then the thought of uncle Bob came to my mind.. I told mom I would rather die than have her fall and I thought of that at that moment..  and I would rather die than have my asshole uncle shit on me again... Just the way I feel.. I respect him but to me, the day he shit on me after mom fell nearly three years ago will forever change the way I feel about him.. 


BH

THE ART OF THE FAKE ORGASM

Alternative entry name could be word play, because i've been watching what I'm saying here and the words like "bomb" and "terror"  that get used get me more views..  And I get more views and think I'm doing  something right and getting views that way but if right is using the watch list words than I am doing just right old great then..  Google analytics brings this site to be viewed by the watchdogs for that type of behavior..  oh goody, look at that nice shiny black van across the street..  They sure are parked there a lot... We don't even have Comcast here...


I watched the move Primer: but what if it does work" and it is about time travel.. I think everyone would like to try time travel, I know I've written an entry about that elsewhere..  The thing I thought of was if you decided to time travel and you had the machine set to go back twenty four hours and just after you leave the site where your time machine is set is wiped off by a tornado, what might happen when you return??  Would your machine still work or what??? In this movie they have a cell phone that one of the guys forgets to leave behind and it rings while they were back in time.. It makes you think about just that small of a detail.. Because being back 24 hours there would be two of you..  and two cell phones...

Another movie I watched was "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" with Ben Stein..  My biggest problem with the movie or rather the subject matter is that they were and are more apt to fire teachers and universities for promoting open thought on all matters where creation vs. evolution are concerned.. What is wrong with open debate??  That is what America was founded on..   I tend to agree that the bible seems to be a myth filled book with many fables but I also feel like it should be up to the individuals to decide for themselves..  There are those who believe in that type of thing and that is fine.. The Tebow phenomenon is a case in point.. I don't know the depth of his beliefs but there are more people ripping him because of it.. He never has said that this is what he believes and that everyone should be the same as him.. I respect him for that and that was why I like him as a quarterback, the integrity he brings to his game..  He gets ripped for what he does, that "Tebowing" thing was the press making a mountain out of a mole hill..  Now New York gets him directly and he might be even more huge there than he was in Denver or he might fail and then end up in Jacksonville... 


Religion serves a purpose and for some it is a sense of community, a support structure of people you can lean on outside a family.. And others is is somewhat of a crutch to lean on when people don't think like you or that might be different from the norm, whatever normal  means... I like Tebow for the fact that so far he is a really good role model for the kids regardless of the fact that everyone tries to knock him off their imaginary pedestal..  He is human and will eventually make the mistake everyone thinks is beyond him, I just hope it isn't something stupid..

I'm not the most religious person anymore and for no one single reason.. I have come to my own conclusions and feel that anyone can change their mind anytime but that to me religion in the bible way isn't for me.. I believe in something but ...  I don't know what that would be.. I think everyone deserves to believe in what they want and to discuss their beliefs, their values, as they see fit..

BH 

COME ON... LET ME IN

When I start an entry I try to remember to put something in the post box at the top, or the box nest to "post" at the top of the page, not that the entry has anything to do with the subject, as anyone who might read this gets right of way.. An entry marked bombing instructions is more than likely to get ideas on how to drink more on a bender..  The last entry I was going to change the subject header but either forgot or didn't think twice..  

So I started the pepper starter plant thing today.. The instructions called for two teaspoons of water in the pot but I thought the little pill things (peat tabs) were too big to just have that much so I measured what two teaspoons delivered in those pots and then checked two tablespoons and went with that..  And the seeds got placed but seem to start floating out of the peat soil.. Oops, the directions said to spray the pots when they were planted so I skipped that part..  In three weeks they might need to be transplanted to a bigger container, if they survive the starter flood.. I guess we'll see...

Everyone else is doing their lawns today, it must be time to do that..  Everyone else on our block got their lawns done today and so I guess they are set.. I won't water until May, will everyone else jump the gun and water early?? 

This week didn't fly by like the past few did.. I don't know why the others did.. Last night I couldn't sleep worth a crap.. I fell asleep during the Justified show I was watching but then when I was ready for true sleep I couldn't fall asleep.. It seems like that is the way it is with me, I'll start to doze during the late programing that I watch but then when that show is over I can't get to sleep..    Last year I was into the hypnosis programs and set it up to listen to these over night and they might have worked but with a consequence of being put to sleep at undesirable times.. Such as when we went to do Christmas shopping, on our way back I found myself nearly doze on our way back home.. I caught myself and it was a struggle to stay awake that day and the next trip the same thing happened.. What I liked about those programs is that at one point I had them set in the right order and I went into the local walmart and literally didn't see anyone.. There were people there, I just didn't see them.. It was the afternoon and they were getting busy but it was so cool.. That was the only time that it was that way, and I chased that feeling via the hypnosis programs ever since.. Setting them up for sleep I took that with me when we went to Silverton and it wasn't working for me.. But by December that year I was in trances regularly and at the wrong times.. I stopped doing that after the initial time coming home that night and this past year I dreaded going to Cheyenne but there wasn't an episode of that type.. Thankfully and I stopped using that although I still have those.  I might start trying them again sometime if this keeps up...


BH

SID VICIOUS

So today, after having most of the week away from his highness, we get to take care of the nephew again.. He is fun to have around but can't seem to stay focused on anything for very long.. An attention disorder is probably coming his way down the road.. Hope not..   There were things he could do without his parents knowing way back. Like when he could sit up by himself..   Now he can do nearly nothing new, like today putting on his coat, which wasn't a coat at all but rather a vest..  The day will come where he won't need any help at all, I guess I should enjoy what little help I get to give him now..   Mom says he seems so much bigger today than just a week ago..  He is more important than he was before, he is the boss..  And quite the demanding little....  guy...

Tomorrow begins the growing season, I will start the pepper starter..  Then next week will be the salsa kit..  Hard to believe but what is really hard to believe is the number of eighty degree days we have had this month.. Remember that entry "deception of March"?..  This month has been right in keeping with what I meant.. One day hot the next cold.. We had rain yesterday.. we were coming home in a pretty good rain storm and I told mom it should be snowing, it is MARCH after all...

Programs that updated: Today Picasa updated, not sure what the update was about but it did update. It might have been a crash issue  not sure.. Paint dot Net didn't update but I decided to check the effects on their site to see if they were up to date and they weren't.. So I downloaded them and switched them out with what was there.. Tried to have only the new versions and they are really interesting.. Then added the ones I deleted and found that with all the effects that this program is quite good.. I've always said that Paint dot Net rivals any paid program out there..

A program that I got way back... Around the time of the old gateway windows '98 computer is that Artweaver.. It seams strange that I can't remember it ever updating.. It did in 2009 but that was very little.. In fact most of the pay version effects are available using other programs..

Finally... What's the deal with Freda??  Well she has to have surgery on Monday to check her sacroiliac(?)..  Hopefully everything works out.. We've lost touch since the blowup late last year and truth is I didn't think it effected us but I guess it did..   If there is anything I am more sorry about is that our relationship seems to have gone by the boards..   Nobody wants to have to have surgery, or maybe that is just me.. Me and doctors are like nite and day.. I'm not sure what that means actually we get along fine, it's a love hate relationship.. I love to hate them.. And that's all she wrote..


BH 

AND THEN... BUT THEN... THEN AGAIN

I was having a good day.. Was getting all set to take a video of the steam train that ran through on it's way to Arkansas to  a celebration.. I was all set to take the video, found my location after scouting for one for a bit.. Checked the tracker on the internet and everything was going swell.. Then, you know those no trespassing signs the railroad have posted along their rail  lines??  Funny thing, they are so visible everywhere and silly me.. i ignored them thinking this was a once in a rarity to get type of shot.. A truck pulls up to me and I guess with some of the things going on in the world they didn't want to take a chance on me with my video camera that is just slightly smaller than a beer can.. They told me to pack my gear and come with them.. They took me to the police station... BUSTED TAKING VIDEO OF THE CHALLENGER (steam engine)...


Yesterday I got the front yard dethatched and raked and set for spring/summer.. I never wanted to do that type of thing in March but this year it is April early.. So I did the yard.. Trying something new I think I will do only some of the backyard.. I did the front kinda quickly because last year I did the back first and some or most of the tines on the dethatcher got broken.. Split last year in half.. This year as well I'm putting the thatch (?) in the pumpkin patch as a weed blocker.. i am going to try to grow pumpkins again this year.. I gotta get new seeds because the old ones won't grow.. Also in the old pumpkin patch will be sunflowers and maybe one other plant.. Hoping to get everything going in a couple weeks since it feels like everything is two weeks ahead..

The Earthbox will be slightly different this year.. A project of sorts this years project will be the salsa project.. When I saw that salsa planter and got it I thought I'd try the same thing on a slightly grander scale. watering the plants will be different this year, I will run a soaker tube in the earthbox as well as water in the tube as usual.. Should be interesting..

We were at walmart today and mom decides to get the little guy some new shorts the next size larger because he keeps grabbing himself like he has to go to the bathroom.. Mom thinks it is either his shorts are too small or rubbing him wrong, or he could have an allergic reaction to  the bubble bath that they put in his tub water.. Or it could be medical but it's like we were discussing that this could become a habit, so why not stop it now... 

I saw the godfather last week for the first time ever.. The Godfather movie is just shy of three hours.. Marlon Brando in his breakthru role..  I'm trying to set movies to come that are classics, lie The Godfather or A Bridge Too Far.. Just want to see the movies like that..


BH

P.S.  the first part of the entry was bogus, I didn't get busted taking a video of the train.. 

WE'RE GETTING THERE AND I KNOW..

Freaks me out as I'm about to start writing this entry the all alert radio has that alert sound go off, and we're under a tornado warning... TORNADO WARNING!!??   How can that be??  The sun is shining!!!   Test message for weather awareness week...  A mock tornado warning... That's nice, usually now is too early for tornadoes but we had two tornadoes on Sunday east of here.. I knew when they had a tornado in Michigan a week ago that we could get one now.. Michigan is north and east of us, but it is the north part that is the tell here.. When the storms get to the point where they move up gradually (normally) we see them move from Texas through Oklahoma and on north gradually.. Was the storm in Michigan a freak situation??  Normally I would say yes but this year seems the norm and might be the way it is from now on.. I like those who don't believe in global warming..  It sure seems real to me when you have 80 degree days when the high is at best supposed to be thirty degrees cooler as a high...


Talking about Reader; Having more to choose from might be good but to me it seems overwhelming.. I did ditch six feeds because they were essentially duplicates although not exact they did have the same story stuff...

Program updates: last night the "Freemake" video downloader and video converter updated.. Anyone who has these knows what a great tool they are.. Initially I was downloading programs from Youtube to transfer to disc and watch on the dvd player at my convenience, then  a quick trial to see what these can do and I found that I can add a truck load of music to I-tunes or any player for that matter.. Video converter can change videos to audio so that is extremely handy.. 

Updated today: Aurora browser.. If anyone is annoyed by a browser updating constantly then Aurora isn't for you.. What I like about this browser is it keeps getting better daily and I can see it happening.. The future of Firefox browser is cool to mess with and it is better than beta by far.. I'm not a fan of beta, I just don't have the patience to deal with the crashes and bumps and missteps..  

We stopped by the boos house and Lucy was playing that "music" and five minutes of that and I'm ready to hurl..  What is it about that crap that I can't stand??  I can usually find something good in every music except for rap, hip hop and certain country music.. Now this "dub"  or mix or whatever it is called..  I tried, it repeats and builds then has that disco beat that reminds me of the old disco days when barf was what I would rather do than listen to that crap.. I admit I'm behind the times where music is concerned.. My taste is mine, and I try to stay true to it as I've said before.. I don't have any friends but if I did their taste in music wouldn't sway me at all. I don't think it would anyway.. I will try any music once but if I can't tolerate anything I'll stop listening to it.. Just the way it is.... 

NAMES: Found out that Tabitha is going to have girls..  So I'm figuring she has the names picked out already but just in case here's a few ideas.. Since the likelihood is that she won't use family names how about naming them after states..  Iowa could be a girls name.. Florida...  Maybe not.. How about Tire, or Iron.. Blanket is taken, Michael Jackson called one of his kids Blanket.. Why not cabboos..  or cheeseburger...   I'm willing to bet it it is something like Celine because she is, or was a big fan of that singer...  Maybe Gaga after that lot of oddness... I think I'd name them "to be determined later by the kids themselves".. Wouldn't that be cool to ask them what they want to be named...  Maybe not..

Speaking of names, I ride an exercise bike next to a freezer that has the states magnets on it and I thought of the names of them and how many are directional of a state next to them.. Like Virginia has West Virginia to the west (of course)  or North and South Carolina.. North and South Dakota.. We could easily have been called North Kansas or   instead of the two Dakota states we could have had North Dakota, South Dakota and Really South Dakota..

BH

THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL

So I guess a question that might be asked is where do I come up with the ideas for all these entries.. And my answer is I usually just sit down and start writing.. Sometimes an idea hits me and sometimes the idea is a blank.. An exercise in imagination to see if there is anything that is worth writing about.. Most of the time an entry hits me while I'm in bed early in the morning and it can be so vivid that I think there is just no way i can forget it.. But forget it I do and more often than not..  It takes me a while to type and get the idea onto "paper" because I was taught how to type (by my dad of all people) but was horrible at it, and do type mostly left handed..  An entry can take from half an hour to an hour depending on how many mistakes I make and how often the train leaves the tracks, if you know what I mean... 

Today the Broncos introduced Peyton Manning as their new quarterback.. I have mixed feelings about that.. First I know that John Elway wanted to try to make Tebow (Tim) into a relatively good quarterback but truth is I think he saw that as a project that even he might not get to where he wanted which is the super bowl..  Peyton is that QB right out of the bag but their is a catch.. He might not be able to take a very vicious hit.. I was thinking of this past season and had Denver had Peyton as their starter they might have won three or four more games.. Thinking that the second KC game should have been a win.. The first Patriots game with the lead they had should have been a win.. Buffalo should have been a win because the bills were horrible when Denver played them.. A couple of the early season Orton losses could have been wins.. They say he will get ten wins and ten wins this past season might have gotten a second round home playoff game.. When Mike Shanahan was the head coach the broncos had great starts and finished well with Elway as the QB.. After Elway retired he seemed happy to get to the playoffs on the road and getting their ass handed to them.. They were a .500 team through his last few years either being right on 8-8 or 7-9 or 9-7...  Ten wins seems like a dream right now but who knows...

Another though is that if Peyton goes down with an injury early in the season then Denver has a third rate QB as backup and they lose to the point where drafting Matt Barkley becomes a possibility.. I have thought all along that Barkley is better than Luck, and he has more character.. My main reason is because he could have left school early, before his junior year but stayed even though USC was on probation.. He could have left this year but is staying because he wants to win the hiesman  trophy and possibly a shot at the national title.. That would make him an obvious choice as  a first pick overall... 

And then there is Tebow.. Sadly it was easier to give up on him than try to develop him.. I have said all along that if he gets into another team that he will bite Denver in the ass... I would hope it would happen in the regular season and not the playoffs but you never know... And if he can't be traded what then?  They keep him and he learns from Manning??  No way, they will either trade him or wait until first cuts and cut him during fall camp.. What would be so bad about him ending up in Canada??  some other players have gone up there and come back and still played here in the NFL...

This week Lucy is off Tuesday and Thursday.. A welcome break from the boo but to screw that up we stopped today and took him to get ice cream.. Then went to the park.. They filled in the swing wells and that makes teaching him to pump himself next to impossible right now.. He can't help but drag his feet now.. He would rather argue than try to pump himself..  I don't get that..  But the thing I really don't get is when we get ready to go he doesn't want to go home.. He told his grandma she could stay over night and mom just tries hard to explain that we can't stay there.. What is going on with that.. He wants to come to Grandmas house but we don't have nearly the toys he has at his house.. Not anywhere near the toys... I told him I wished I had half the toys he had by the time I was four years old.. He got a set of hot wheels cars from one of the guys in Donald's band and he said he already had one of them.. And sure enough, I remember seeing that car from a set his grandma got him a month earlier...  Today he didn't say anything about going to Walmart to get a guitar or a truck with cars on the trailer.. I was at Walmart earlier in the day and think I saw what he was wanting.. The little guy has a steal trap memory.. He knows where the toy is and can get you there.. Just blew me away when he wanted that guitar a couple months ago.. He knew where it was and when it wasn't there was lost.. It was strange to see him looking lost, he knew where it was.. I go through the same thing now with other things at Walmart, they move things constantly... I know why they do but it pisses me off, enough so that I shop elsewhere when I'm in a hurry... 

BH

COMFORTABLY RUNG

So today starts out ominously.. Instead of getting on Facebook and checking my email I check a site called "Fan Nation" because I felt like today is the day Peyton Manning would decide where he would go.. He did decided but hadn't yet at that time.. I scrolled down to find that this site, while it doesn't support RSS feed does have a lot of sites they follow so I opened them all and picked and chose what  I wanted added in my reader.. The idea that I might have enough in there were proven wrong I guess... Why add any more at all??  Don't I think I have enough??  It would seem the answer is no.. The latest to be added were a few from the Christian Science Monitor.. They have about twenty feeds of various things some of which don't update or have been discontinued but I got some to read then delete..  The number of feeds that I have now, I like to think the number isn't at all that huge and in reality it isn't when you figure how many sites there are across the vastness of the internet.. I can't fathom counting them all, but the likelihood is maybe around a thousand..  Conservative number being that.. Likely the number is twice that slightly..  Hard to believe as it might be.. Obsessive??   I guess, but now the choice for any news or sports or whatever content gives me breaking news to the second.. When Peyton Manning decided Denver I knew via reader although it was released via facebook & Twitter simultaneously with RSS.. They are all connected..

I was looking at the lawn, looking at the date, looking at the weather predictions on line and I think spring has sprung.. The trees are budding and the grass is starting to grow.. The weather sucks because we will have crappy weather a month early and will last until August with the heat.. Yippee...

Aurora (FF) browser seems to be doing something different.. I watch the task manager and when I load a fairly good number of tabs it takes off.. The physical memory usage graph moves up into the upper box and that was expected while having all the tabs opened.. But yesterday while I was checking the final RSS feeds I noticed it go from the middle on the graph to the top box again.. I shut the browser down then start it up and it goes from middle of the graph to top gradually and I only have three tabs open.. Not sure if that is Aurora having an issue or what.. I was running Opera Saturday and didn't seem to have this issue..  Aurora updated three times last week, which might be normal with a developers browser, I don't know I've never tried this before..

Brackets time:  The NCAA mens (and womens) basketball tournaments are under way again this year and unlike the past three years I didn't fill out a bracket.. Strangely enough not only did I not fill out a bracket, I didn't watch a single game over the weekend.. I used to be a basketball junkie, I couldn't get enough.. And um but now I don't care and really stopped watching quite a few years ago.. The idea of throwing a ball into the great unknown and having it go through a hole in the universe just stopped appealing to me..

I'm pushing the nephew in the swing last week and I decide to ride a swing next to him and I try to show him how to.. Never mind.. Anyway he says push me higher, I neeeeeed to be pushed higher.. And I say well people in China need.... Something I suppose, maybe a decent diet, can you imagine eating rice for breakfast...  Rice for lunch... Rice for supper... And to throw people off maybe rice for a snack... 


BH

COMFORTABLY THUMB

I did just get done setting all the sites from bookmark to reader and as I was getting it done I discovered a few things.. One : that I watched as the folders kept getting filled with more sites and I was thinking as they got more and more that maybe this was overkill.. Too many pages, the concise on the reader now replaced as with the homepage with a bloated lot..  Second thing was that I had some doubled up sites, and I could easily have had more except that thankfully Google reader won't allow it.. It can see that a site is being doubled and won't allow it, however some were and the only way I figured it did was through the search engine.. There is a search for RSS for whatever I put into the search and if I already had the RSS from the page and the search engine found it then it did add the second page as a doubling up.. I'm not sure exactly why but there were a few doubles.. Third I figured out how to load the pages to folders without having to drag and drop which saved well over a day maybe even more.. 

Are there too many RSS feeds in my reader??  Well thankfully they don't all account at the same time.. My old surfing habits, or I should say my surfing habit is to open tabs and as they get set I look at them.. From left to right or what I clicked to start through the latest which works great but slows the computer down which isn't good if you use i-Google as the homepage.. i-Google zaps resources BIG TIME especially if you have a lot of gadgets on the page.. I have gradually deleted gadgets as they seem to not be used.. Over a months time if I don't use some of the gadgets they get moved to the bottom of the page and if they remain there and don't get used they are minimized and then if they don't get opened I will open them after I forget what they are and then likely delete them.. I was averaging deleting a gadget a week there for a while.. I am closer now to having my page set with the reader taking a good lot of the load as far as looking at web sites.. What will be deleted first in the reader??  There is a folder called "not updating RSS" which simply put means I added the RSS with the idea that while the RSS hadn't updated for a while, if it took me to the page and it has relevant material then I will keep it to look at.. Some weren't updated since as early as last month while others were late last year or even earlier.. Those sites I will look at then decide if they should be kept or not.. The "STUFF" file is where things that I wasn't sure what to do with are at and am not sure I will keep.. A folder called "political horseshit" is pretty much self explanitory, it has political crap about the current presidential race that mostly is the republican side that isn't very true, or spins things too out of focus.. Sort of like FOX news which is in it's own folder called "FAUX news"  or fake news...

So mom saw the entry on FB of what Bob said about Freda and wondered what that was that she had done.. I downplayed it saying it was more than likely nothing too Earth shattering.. 

Friday I was doing that video of Ian riding his trike and I am thinking all the while I'm shooting of the deja vu instance that the video dad shot of us riding our trikes way back when.. Ian rides right up to me the same as the way we did with dad.. So strange to feel that.  We told him how proud we were of him riding that and pumping himself.. What a guy..

There was a temptation to start the pepper planter yesterday.. The idea was to try to start them yesterday and set them outside during the day then bring them in at night with it being unseasonably warm here.. But I decided that next Saturday I will start the pepper starter kit and then the following Saturday start the salsa kit.. Figuring two plus months on the starter of the peppers before deciding if I will transplant into the earth box or buy from a store.. So I guess the clock is ticking on the garden projects..  This should be an interesting season..

BH

WHAT DAY IS IT ANYWAY...

Ian as a bike rider, tricycle style..  Yesterday mom mentions the trike and so Ian needs it out of the shed, no problem.. We go out and get it and move it to the front and he gets on but can't seem to get how to get it to peddle.. Mom pushes him and he sort of pumps but gets to the neighbors fence and states that he can't get it.. My answer is you can if you try.. It doesn't come right of way. So a little effort and he starts to ride it.. I grab the cam and get back out to try to get video of this occasion and he is ready to stop and mom talks him into ridding a little more.. The bugs are out already and so that is   a distraction from ridding so he is more into watching everything around him and not so much the business at hand which is ridding the trike.. The other day when we were down there he got his bike with training wheels on it out of the garage and wanted to ride it.. It had two flat tires and I didn't know where a pump might be to take care of that.. I went into their house and Lucy gets home.. She goes out and mom is trying to tell him how to ride and Lucy then joins the fun but starts talking to him in Polish, so they were trying to tell him in two languages at once.. That couldn't be very easy to understand..   Lucy said she would have him riding the bike by the end of the weekend and after our go with the trike I'm thinking there's no way she will get him to ride without training wheels over the weekend.. Plus she would have to take him somewhere where there is more than twenty feet to ride in.. Their driveway as well as their walkway is just way to short and bumpy.. 

I can't help but think Ian might not like it when I say that phrase "you can if you try"..  He is so quick to give up or say he can't and we try to show him how to pump himself on the swings there at the park.. I told him I could do that when I was his age.. Same as the trike..  We rode trikes all over the block where we lived..  We drove trucks, trains, horses.. They were everything that we imagined they were.. 

Ian seems so out of place at the park.. He wants to play with the other kids but seems almost afraid of them, and just seems so out of place for a kid to be afraid of other kids his age..  When the day comes that he doesn't want to go to the park.. That will be the day they should worry, especially if he feels fine.. 

I read today an entry on Bob's facebook that his wife Freda had a procedure done on her hip or something anyway there was no knowledge of it by us and that is fine I just hope mom doesn't think anything about it, like they were keeping some deep dark secret.. It was something minor I'm sure.. There was no prayer circle type of thing called for by her followers or friends or whatever they are called on Facebook.. I read that little blurb thing there and thought I hope mom doesn't view this as anything more than just life continuing on...  The fact that it was done almost three years to the day that moms was done.. at the same city, not sure if it was the hospital or what and it really doesn't matter..  Everybody has things done like that.. No biggie (I mean I figure it was a big deal to her but..) ...

Proof that nobody really looks at my youtube without Facebooks nudge was proven last week after putting the wedding rehearsal for Donald and Lucy on my site.. I think I even put the link on my facebook and they neither one watched or indicated to me that they watched it.. Proof that they really don't give a shit.. I though she would at least indicate the link to her brothers but nobody has watched them yet.. Lucy is too busy with her ???  ???  ???    And Donald is also too busy.. He has school online and other things.. Whatever they might be.. They are so busy...  Oh well I'm sure they are that busy... They have a daughter about to give birth to twins this summer??  No wait that's not them... They have a daughter getting ready to get married this summer??  No not them either.. Well I'm sure they are THAT busy anyway...

BH

"HERE'S THE PLAN..."

Don't you just love to hear the politicians exclaim how we are going to leave our children buried in debt for generations to come??  Oh how that rings true, they are going to be in debt if the politicians and congressmen don't fix things now.. But what does it say when the congress continues to say we need to fix things and then do nothing to do so??  And because this congress seems fine to just keep getting us deeper in debt what makes them think the generations to come won't do the same...  Learn from the examples, do as I say not as I do..  If we go to war with Iran the way everyone says we need to then we will go deeper into debt..  We did a no no in Afghanistan and now they want us out sooner and I've said all along why are we still there??  Couldn't we get the job done sooner??  The bar kept being raised by president Bush and then when the troops cleared the last bar he did the most logical thing he could think of, he removed the bar.. Incentive was gone and our troops were told they would stay there until...   



So we watched the little guy today.. He is really easy to watch when we are at the park but I sure do dread having to push him in the swing.. My arm got messed up some ten years ago and still locks on me when I do something just right (what that is I don't know) and it has locked three times in the past two times watching him.. So add that to the fact that trying to get him to pump himself is nearly impossible and I have begun to dread taking him to that park. He wants to go to that park "way way far away" and he says it's in town.. I know where it is but claim ignorance to his wants because it is generally the same park, it has swings and other things like the main park but it has swings... so can we find one without swings?? Yes we can, the one by the baseball diamonds and when he wants to go there I am happy..  I try to show him how to pump but he doesn't want to even try.. By the time I was his age I knew how to pump, of course I had a play mate that I watched to figure it out, my older brother.. He has no play mates and sort of fears his classmates. The boys anyway..

We go out to get his grandma and went to get ice cream.. We get it almost eaten and he looks at his grandma and says "I found something at walmart to show you"  and then described what it was.. A GUITAR.. Another guitar, and was describing it to her and then said he also found  a truck with cars in it.. Mom asked him if he showed it to his dad and he said yes he did.. And I asked him what his dad said and he said he said no.. So what are we supposed to do about it??  Well he said let's go over to walmart and he show it to you.. But before we could do that the plan was dashed.. Mom had a dental appointment.. He said we could still go over and look (get it I'm sure was the idea) and she just said there wasn't enough time.. He then said    quote ok we will go to the dentist and then go get the truck at walmart"  and with that the plan was hatched.. He had this look when he was saying it that just melts you/us and it's extremely hard to say no.. It's like a kryptonite hypnotic look, and then you feel like you are in a trance  " YES... YES  WE   WILL GO TO WALMART AND GET THE TRUCK...  YES MASTER"...   The plan got dashed as when mom got out of the dentists office we didn't have the enough time to go out there.. Thankfully because I'm pretty sure he would have gotten something..  What a nut..

BH

SET FOR SETS SAKE

Back in December (was it just that long ago?) I was working on what I thought was the ultimate, my own personal homepage that would be all things to me.. What I wanted was a page that reflected everything to do with the internet.. What then happened over the holiday break with having two then three full weeks to work on it, I added links to just about  every site and in doing so I caused the page to crash the lesser processor in the netbook computer.. What I wanted was concise, but ended up with a bloated page with sites I hadn't visited in a fairly long time.. But the ultimate was at hand and I ran with it until that fateful day when I was sitting on my brothers couch and saw the link to "Google reader"... I was wondering just what that was, I had seen it for a few years and then decided to see what it was all about.. The hair on the back of my neck tinged as I thought this could be a way to relieve the stress on the homepage on the netbook computer.. I thought I'd just add a few and try it for a while all the time adding any new bookmarks to my bookmarks site.. Then last week I decided to dive head first into using reader and took all the bookmarks that have RSS feeds and put them in reader.. And so for the past five or so days that is almost exclusively what I have been doing.. Overloading the reader with the idea that I will go through and see what stays and what goes and deleting all the related bookmarks and ended up with maybe a quarter of the bookmarks that I had.. And the adding of the RSS links took a long time relatively speaking, going through those is going to take a bit to do as well, but it will be worth it because then I think the entry here will be "the ultimate reader experience"..  I know I will add more sites but I doubt I will add links to any bookmark site.. Sure.. Right...


I got antsy yesterday.. The weather is unseasonal, very warm here now.. Seventies and possibly eighties which is twice as warm as it is supposed to be here at this time of year.. With the nice weather comes the threat of bad weather arriving early  (YIPPEE)... I'm not a fan of that crap assed weather and it is with that type of weather in mind that I swore... SWORE I would not buy a hail magnet this year.. What's a hail magnet you might ask.. A hail magnet is any lawn ornament that you have that is nice and something you like to look at.. In this case I got a new LED light for mom for mothers day... And so yes I broke my vow and got yet another hail magnet..

Speaking of hail magnet and maybe this is the greater offender I was looking at seeds yesterday and found a hot pepper starter kit and it includes the Anneheim, cayenne, jalapeno  peppers for the salsa garden.. Originally I was going to buy the Roma tomato and three peppers (habanero in place of the Cayenne) already started.. And still might depending on where these plants are about Memorial day..  How these will be arranged in the Earth box; I found the diagram for planting plants but there was nothing mentioned of a project like this that I am going to try.. I guess we'll see what happens.


I watched the nephew yesterday and he wanted to go to the park and play with the other kids there.. When we got to the park the usual happened, he went to the swing and I ended up pushing him for nearly an hour.. That gets old fairly fast as he doesn't know how to make himself go faster or higher.. And we try to show him and he just says he can't do it..  A sad fact starting to emerge from watching him is he is having trouble mingling with other kids his own age.. There is a trust issue, he takes a toy to the park but has to be very defensive of it.. A certain amount of fear that the toy will be taken away from him.. And as we were going to the park he said he didn't want the kids to get him..  What is going on at his preschool is starting to show signs of red flags in my book.. After we picked up his grandma he told her that some of the boys at preschool had kicked him.. If this continues he might start not wanting to go to preschool and if that starts his parents will be in for a long fourteen years of school.. He still has one more preschool and thirteen miserable years of school.. I should know I had a class full of dipshits I had to contend with and while it let up in high school, those first nine years were totally no fun and filled with dread..  I hate to see that happen with the little guy.. I hope his parents will listen and try to help him.. 

BH

COMFORTABLY NUMB

It sounds like he is coming.. Peyton Manning, AKA the home wrecker for one Tim Tebow..  Not that Denver would have ever been his home.. I thought it might but now weather Peyton comes or not the higher ups in the Bronco's organization have sent a message to Tebow, They really don't want to try to make it work with him.. If Manning comes will they trade Tebow right of way?? Most everyone says they will trade him and if a trade can't be worked out will they go into camp with him as a quarterback or as a utility player.. I think if a trade couldn't happen (ie nobody wants to trade for him) then he might stay and try to fight for his job.. Maybe..

Today the local radio station has something called "swap shop" where people try to sell/buy stuff on the air and they had some "music" playing before one of the segments and, I quote the music because it really doesn't qualify for me and mom, and she comes to me and says what do they call that shit that they are playing??  And I say it is what is hot here in America.. Not even close to what I like.. Shortly after the radio program goes off mom switches to the satellite radio and puts it on the fifties channel. What a change that is, and so much more easier to listen to.. That crap like what Lucy likes to listen to is ten to around twenty minutes per song.. The music mom was listening to the songs are close to three minutes maximum..  You get on the idea and get off and move on.. There's a reason the songs were shorter back then.. They wanted more songs because there wasn't much of it then that devil may care Rock and Roll...

Someone made mention they thought Ian was stuttering worse a couple weeks ago at his birthday party and they wondered why.. Good question.. Truth is this past Friday his stuttering wasn't as bad and that seems to be the case.. Tuesday he seems to be at his worst, then by Friday he isn't very bad at all.. What is the reason for this??  Why does it seem like he gets better by Friday and reverts back by Tuesday??  We have a theory, mostly we think it has to do with the fact that his mom and dad are there and don't pay very close attention to him.. And they play their idea of music LOUD!!  I don't have a problem with loud music, but I wouldn't have him listen to that crap.. It's not even rock music.. and even if it was it's not worth losing your hearing before he goes to grade school... My opinion..

When Lucy first started going with Donald I didn't think too much of it.. We got along because she had some taste in music that crossed into mine..  She was quite cool to talk to about things but just before she had Ian she was changing, starting to be more American (she's Polish) and certain things that I liked about her have disappeared, not just less evident but actually totally gone...  More American in that some things are more important and the one thing that blows us away is her change in fashion.. She is still heavier but now seems to be dressing with the idea that she isn't that way.. She came up to pick up Ian here and mom asks me after she left if I noticed her shoes and I said I didn't even care.. Turns out she was wearing those high heels she has gotten into.. I says you don't think she wore those to work and mom says no way, they would have been a long day of it.. We decided she changed her shoes to come and get the boo.. Why do that??  And by the way she was rather late Friday (she couldn't call before she left to pick him up??  She has trouble with that kind of technology even though she can work all sorts of other gadgets??)  and I'm thinking did she finally push her luck and get caught without a drivers license..  Or worse got in an accident..    Freda says Lucy told her that Tabitha needs to grow up.. This coming from someone who still hasn't gotten her drivers license (so far as we know).. She hadn't gotten it by October and more than likely still hasn't gotten it yet.. They must not think anything will happen.. Maybe Donald doesn't know, maybe she has gotten it.. If not then things could get really interesting if anything ever happens.. It will be three years this October since he license has expired...  Three years.. I got nervous when I had three weeks left to get mine renewed. Thought I was pushing my luck, afraid my vision wasn't good enough to pass the vision test...   I hope nothing happens but with Lucy liking to wear those kind of shoes, she is pushing her luck I'm thinking...  But "Everything will be alright"...

BH

IN A HURRY TO REACT

Just a few quick thoughts: As we changed the clocks last night I keep thinking why do we do this twice a year??  It seems like  everyone hates doing this and yet it is like  we have to or else.. Started in the seventies sometime, and I'm sure it was voted in by some lame assed country..  The government of pin heads.. Ok, I'm talking about the United States.. My country..

We have had a whistle that blows four times a day for the past   forever and when it blows everything is right with the world except for when it blows unexpectedly...Such as when we are having an electrical storm and the power goes out, when it comes back on the whistle blows and that means any time of the day or NIGHT.. This morning at three it blew and I wake up with it and when it was still dark I thought just what the hell is this about..


The Peyton Manning issue: My feeling is if he comes to Denver it will be a short fix to a quarterback situation that they could fix with Tebow just settling in.. No threats to his job so an interception won't bench him in favor of the waterboy... The offensive line has shown off Tebows ability ti scramble, something Orton couldn't do and Manning can't.. Manning has more in common with Morino than Tebow.. He is a great passer but can't run and if he goes to Denver he better wear roller skates...


Iran: "We need to bomb Iran so they don't get the nuke"..  Eventually we are going to go to war somewhere where another country is going to say no.. NO NO NO..  You went too far, and that country will either be Russia or China.. Do we want to piss either of those two countries off??  Everyone is saying a quick strike and we could be out really fast.. They said the same thing about Afghanistan and look, WE'RE STILL THERE TEN PLUS YEARS LATER, Oh and how do you think we would feel if some country invaded us and occupied us for that long??  See Pearl Harbor, and then what happened??  Japan didn't totally invade mainland U.S.   If they had guess what would have happened??  Yep, we would have fought tooth and  nail to rid them from our shores.. Well we feel offended that they don't feel full love for us in the countries we are in...  See how we would feel, they really aren't any different than us... Time to reassess how things are done I think...

The republican party is going to get their candidate picked for the general election, but wouldn't it be kinda cool to see a "brokered" convention??  I mean I've  never seen one, and would just love to see what would happen in that instance..  Could be controlled insanity, sort of the way the republican party has been this past year or two... Could be interesting.. Our election process shown for the world to see...  A whole new way..

BH

TODAY AND THEN

Today I wake up and there is such a deja vu feeling.. Thinking back to when mom was in the hospital in Scottsbluff, and I would go up there..  Just the way the weather is, so nice.. It's a  "I'd rather be..."  type of day back then.. As in I'd rather be doing anything but this but it was March then and March has that deception of feeling like you should be doing something, like watering the lawn or something when in reality watering the lawn in March is a waste of time.. Waste of water anyway because there just isn't any good that comes of it.. ?I watered the trees this past Monday because it was so nice..

I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon getting my reader loaded with sites to check later as I put them into folders and try to sort them out.. Some will be kept and others deleted.. One thing is for sure, I am glad I don't bookmark anymore.. Google changed the way they do their bookmarks and it didn't make sense to me so I moved the majority to another site.. And now with the reader I have them set to be read rather than visited directly.. I was on a site via reader yesterday and found I spent nearly an hour there.. Something I rarely did when I went to the site directly and in fact I don't ever remember going to this site before reader..

Thursday night I went out at about ten and wanted to see if there was any northern lights, but the moon was too bright and there wasn't anything to see. After I got back home I checked to see what time the moon was supposed  set and it said about six in the morning, and I thought great that might give me a little time to see what there is to see.. But as the moon was setting the sun was coming up so no northern lights for me..

Mom gave Ian a few things yesterday for his birthday.. With the idea that these toys be left here to play with, she was going to give him a couple more but then thought better of it and will give them to him for Easter... There were a few things that she got well over a year ago but wanted to wait until about now to give them to him.. She thought about giving him a harmonica that was dads but then changed her mind.. I wasn't going to talk her out of that, he had three or four different models.. I would hope she would wait until he is maybe ten years old so he might appreciate that these were his grandpas... He never got to meet his grandpa and that is sad and nearly as sad he didn't get to meet any of his mothers parents... 

I had just gotten the "box of links" set on my homepage with CHASERS set on it.. Chasers as in tornado chasers thinking that sometime in late April or early May I would need it and then a few days later the outbreak of tornadoes in the south and east happened.. I saw the red boxes on the map but didn't think that anything like that was going on.. Someone on Facebook who lives in Perth Australia put an entry on her site that people in that part of the country should take cover.. Here I am in the right country and didn't know about it..  Hannah will be here in May to do her annual storm chasing.. She was up in our area last year and ate at the local Pizza hut on a day when the weather was nasty here.. I was watching their webcam and was stunned when they pulled off the road there and drove the driveway towards Cabela's then around that lake and came out by Perkins.. They then turned to go west, ended up just south of Lorenzo and parked for a few minutes then came back and ended up at the Pizza hut for a quick bite...  I had a really good view of the front door of the hut...  

BH

THE DECEPTION OF MARCH

I got the videos uploaded to my youtube site.. The reason the videos of us playing croquet are so short is because what I was actually after were the clips I put on there.. I edited it down to just as short mostly because of the upload time on longer videos.. It takes an hour per every five minutes of video and so the ultimate idea was to upload Wednesday night but the computer had other plans as it went into sleep mode shortly after starting the upload.. And by shortly I mean 1% finished, so when I got up and the computer was in sleep mode I thought it was done, not knowing the instructions were to run all night..  I'm not sure why it didn't do what I wanted it to do but, yesterday while we were gone I left it to try again and opened a program I thought would keep running and thus keeping the computer going.. And it worked..  The video of Jordan bopping Donald in the .. Area is classic...  The vid of Jordans temper was a must and the push the buttons one as well..  I might put the entire video up and try others, I definitely want to get one with dad in it but since I did the camera most of the time I didn't get dad very much.. I don't know why, but when Jordan and Tabitha were here and there were family functions I made a stronger effort to get them.. And now looking back I wished I had gotten more of dad but.... 

The start of this month (March) is always interesting with two family members having birthdays right almost back to back.. I have always had troubles with March, it is the month that bums me out the most, gives me the blues as it were..  I don't know why.. I guess it is the promise of warmer weather coupled with the fact that it is more winter than anything else...  We had the first two days this week in the seventies followed by a day where the previous days low was the high for the day, almost anyway..

Today I watched the nephew and things started out quite good and so from there I figured they would go downhill but as I am figuring on him turning into the holy terror, he doesn't.. In fact he seems to be the opposite of yesterday, very easy to be around.. When we get ready to go to grandmas house today, as with every day, he starts in about an hour before I want to leave and today was no different.. When I am ready to go and he says we go to grandmas house and I say well you know what you need first and he says a coat.. And I say you are planning to go barefoot then???  Oh yeah, shoes.. I have this thing where I go to put on his shoes and start where they obviously don't go, like his hands, or his elbows.. Today I try to put his left shoe on his right foot... That won't work??  Then I get it right.. We get into the car and I start it up and we set there and I say so where were we going??  GRANDMAS!!  Ok, just checkin' I have a short memory.. We get down the road a piece and again I say are we going the right way??  He looks confused and then says no.. I say is this even the right road, are we lost??  He looks more confused then I tell him maybe we just stay on this road and see where it takes us...  Turns out it took us to the right place.. (WHEW).. I have to wonder if he thinks I'm an idiot...  Not too bright..

He tried to fly a kite today.. We have flown kites every Easter, or try to fly kites every Easter, for as long as I can remember.. I can vaguely remember mom & dad flying an old Cawleys kite. Looked like a potato chip bag and I thought it was.. Dad put a tail on it and we went flying it up at the bins.. In more recent years we got wind scoops that could fly in nearly no wind, and then there were the stunt kites..  Ian tried to fly a kite here in the backyard and was just laughing and tee heeing and  just really liking it.. Must be in the blood..


Aurora browser updated Wednesday and I didn't think it performed as well as it had been.. Then today it updated again.. I got developers questioner and filled it out. It had to do with plug ins, did all the plug ins continue working with the update and my answer was sometimes and I wasn't too bothered because they would start working more often than not within a few weeks if even that long..

BH

JUST MAKE IT QUICK

I had a hangnail the other day and after brushing it across enough things I decided to pull it.. We were at the store and I stopped and pulled it.. It always feels ..  Well you know, and then that stinging feeling hits, and it reminded me of the olden days of yore when we would get finger injuries and, one in particular at the ice skating rink (the creek) and I went home,  went to the docs got it all set, but I remember seeing other kids get finger injuries and instantly start to limp.. That's a pretty nasty finger injury to cause a limp...

Taking care of Ian is tricky at best.. I don't know what I can do or not do as far as any discipline, or if I should even bother.. The only time he shows brat behavior is around me.. Maybe I am sensitive to that.. Like today we go out to get his grandma and we have to wait about a half an hour, and  before we go out after I pick him up he wants to go out there and wait out there and I say no because he is a horrible waiter.. And today I have him at the park and everything is fine and then while I'm pushing him in the swing my wrist pops, and this is something new to me because my wrists are fairly strong or they were.. And so as the twelve o'clock hour approaches I'm all for going out there right at about noon, but today we have to wait.. And he gets rather nasty when he doesn't get what he wants when he wants it.. And I won't argue, I get tired of that shit right quick..  So I told mom to call when she is ready, saving me the hassle of waiting with the waitless...

Tuesday we went to the coffee corner where his mom works, and he gets his usual something, then as we get ready to leave he wants to go through the book store next door and he finds something he really wants and make no bones about it, HE WANTS THAT..  It's a book with a train thing on it and he's a train nut (I was too when I was his age so I kinda get it).. He doesn't take NO very well especially when it comes from his grandma.. I was sure she would cave but she held firm.. It was just his birthday Sunday and the little boy has more toys now than I had before I was in third grade easily..  Yes he is spoiled and yes mom seems to be proud of her work but lucky me I'm the asshole uncle who says no and has to deal with him when he gets rambunctious..  

Fridays are so not looked forward to by me anymore. He will start in his "how we go to grandmas house"  "I need to see my grandma!!"  I try to hold him off until about eleven.. I tried to go an hour early a few weeks ago but it seemed to overwhelm her so I take the abuse for an extra hour.. Fun...

I just wish Lucy would at least offer to pay a little for the gas, I mean yes mom is going down to work anyway but.. And I am no baby sitter and the older he is getting the more he needs a baby sitter.. I thought it would be the opposite..  Just a short four months ago this was easy, now it is getting harder to do.. 


A couple weeks ago after I picked up Ian from preschool I noticed something I have never noticed before.. I don't know if it was because I was tired or what but I turned to take him home and there's a wood fence on the north side of the street and I turned to talk to the little guy and noticed something odd.. I could see through the fence..  Not like ex-ray vision but rather that strobe effect where the spaces in the fence go by at a certain rate and you don't look at the fence but rather look beyond it..  I had never done this before..  So wild to see peoples back yard and dead bodies.. Er not dead bodies, that was a joke..  Seriously..  Just a joke..

BH

SOMETIMES YOU ARE THE DOG, SOMETIMES YOU ARE THE FIRE HYDRANT

I heard someone on the radio (rail road frequency on the scanner) use this line "Sometimes you're the dog.. Sometimes you are the fire hydrant" and I was thinking that is just the way I feel anymore, going from high as a kite two hours before mom fell to feeling like I let the world down back in September..   But now some six months after that event she has gained almost all her mobility back.. There was a time right after the first of the year when she was ready to go back to the  chiopractor  but gritted it out.. She was doing fine until about a month ago when I brought the boo home an hour earlier on a Friday morning and she started to hurt almost right when we came in.. That happened once before shortly after that ordeal started and I loaded him up and took him back home because I knew she wouldn't be able to handle another two hours of that.. 

The big news out there is that of Rush Limbaugh or as I call him Lumbar as in lower lumbar because he is rotund..  He made so statement of stupidity that showed his true self and everyone is up in arms saying he should be fired.. I respect his right to free speech, but I also respect everyone elses' right to complain about it because this is supposed to be a free society free to say what we want.. So where do I stand on this??  I don't know enough about any of it because I don't listen to Rush, I couldn't care what he does or doesn't say, he means nothing to me.. People who do listen to him and take his word as gospel need to check their point of reality.. I listen to John Stewart, Bill Maher and other shows including Opie and Anthony and form my own opinion.. I rarely side with everything they all say, anyone who falls into that kind of admiration of anyone is destined to be slapped hard someday.. That might have happened by Rush to a good lot of his listeners last week..

Peyton Manning is a free agent as of today, which came as no surprise.. I listened to Dan Patrick and he called it back in December.. In fact there has been very little he has been wrong about.. He called the end of the NFL lockout almost to the day.. He called the NBA lockout to the exact day.. He said they would start on Christmas day or they would lose the entire season and he nailed it..  So where does Peyton end up??  Ultimately I've heard he will end up in the pregame show of NFL or CBS network, he will more than likely never play another game although he will try.. I hope he can come back because everyone loves a comeback story.. But I've heard he can't turn his head, he has no mobility in his neck.. He turns his whole body to look side to side..  The end could be near for him, a nasty hit from his blind side would be toes up on his career..

I was checking the videos and seeing if I could load a video from the stuff I transferred from tape to dvd, and it turns out I can.. and did.. So now a few things have to be worked out, such as getting the videos edited for upload to my Youtube site.. But there are snippits I want up there.. Some from Donalds wedding rehearsal.. Some video bits from way back when we were playing croquet...   Way back when we could actually play a game, before gadgets were the rage... 

BH

FOR NOW EVERYTHING IS COOL..

So Ian had his birthday party...  Everybody got there (eventually)..  When we got there he was saying he was waiting for his friends to show up.. I said I didn't know you had any friends, joking of course..  He meant the guys in his dads band.. Ok, gotcha...  Mom isn't sure how to react to anything any more.. I think we should try to return to normal somehow.. Mom says she is on the verge of saying hell with it and just trying to forget some of it.. Driving to the party Saturday evening she said something about two months ago and all i could figure and all I can tell her is he was looking for a confrontation for some reason, whatever that was..  He was needing to blow off steam for whatever the reason and did...  and that was all I said..  The thought that what happened did might have some people say so what's the big deal, we do that all the time.. That isn't us normally, and was such a stunning event.. I'm not sure everyone in the family knows what did happen, and maybe it should remain that way.. I don't like what happened and if it would have happened to me I would have stayed away from them.. More than likely would not go to Jordan's wedding regardless of what might have been attempts to change things.. It didn't happen to me directly and I can forgive and forget what happened, since I really don't know the particulars.. 

Things are still a bit.... uneven, not back to normal.. We went to see Tabitha at her parents house and it felt strained.. I can only assume they told both daughters what happened.. Feels like they know, or maybe it's me..  Jordan has been home at least three times since the last time she stopped in a couple weeks after the new year and hasn't made any effort to stop in.. Mom says it doesn't bother her but I know it does.. I keep trying to think what dad would think of things and he might have gotten pissed off but then again he probably wouldn't have thought anything about it.. I doubt that he would have gone out there and in fact I doubt that there would have been a blowup.. Dad had a calming effect on everyone... 

Two days of what I think has been incredible weather.. Seventies for two days, and while I have been looking at garden things at Walmart for the past month, anyone else might think it is too early to start planning a garden.. But I think planning stages is a good thing.. Thinking about what to try to plant and how.. I was looking at the started pellets and have changed my mind about starting plants that way.. I have a starter tray that I used ten or so years ago and the first time I used it the plants got taken by rabbits or something.. The next year might have been the same way but the pellets weren't the same size so.. Today I think I found the same size that I needed way back then.. Still thinking about trying to start from seed..  The letter to uncle Bob still fresh in my mind but I would like to try it one last time as the definitive yes it works or no throw all those supplies away and NEVER try that again..

Went through my music collection on the computer, editing it down a little.. The plan was to get the music on here down to a nice number, but more to the point I wanted the songs to be  a somewhat concise collection and cross section of my entire taste in music and have music from everyone I have digital music from.. Quite the undertaking.. Started in late January, I did  little and then decided to put a strong effort into it, i had been wanting to do this for a year.. Now it is done.. Now I will start a list of the top 10% and call it such and that will entail around twelve hundred songs, since I still have twelve thousand songs on here.. No repeats.. That is twelve thousand individual songs, no repeats via live versions and studio versions...  Making a choice that way was tough but I tried to keep studio versions prime, except where live versions were definitive (in my mind)...

Aurora browser is now THE  browser.. I now run everything on Aurora (Firefox development foundation browser aka FF 13)  I was stunned when the sharing plugin was added to the ability of Aurora to work as well as the stumbleupon toolbar..  A few more tweeks and Aurora will be the exclusive browser, dare I say default.. Now the rankings is Aurora, Opera (default), Chrome (I know hard to believe Chrome has moved up so far but more than likely won't ever be default but you never know)  Comodo Dragon...  With Firefox tied for forth, but not represented in the start up section..  Aurora is so much more stable than I thought it would be. Usually  a beta program is horrible, but this thing works great.. I'm not saying it doesn't still have it's moments, every browser and every computer has it's toss it in the trash days.. But I like this browser.. The thing I like most is Firefox gets constant feedback from it and anytime I have trouble it gets sent automatically.. That might sound like an invasion of privacy but I don't think of it that way.. They get valuable information about the stability of their browser and I get a better browser.. A win win situation in my mind.. And besides if you think you are completely anonymous on the internet guess again..

BH