September 28, 2012

I'm fighting with a Washington bureaucrat today and she is making me crazy. It's like I'm talking to a brick wall and trying to get thru to her. She has no concept of reality and practical application of laws, regulations and policies. She just wants to make up things as she goes along. Actually, that isn't too bad of an idea. I'd like to do that sometime. Make up my own rules as I go along and then have the ability to get away with it. What the heck was I thinking??? I could be there doing as I please versus here having to follow rules. Oh silly me!!!

September 27, 2012

Wow! I could see my breath in the air this morning as I waited for my morning train. And all that I could think of was "Wow!". It seems a bit early yet to see this. I still think we'll have an Indian summer hit us fairly soon; but we'll see that white stuff soon enough. I'm just hoping that it waits until after Veterans Day for that to start flying.

Welcome to Autumn

September 23, 2012

Brrrr. It was a brisk 33*F ... or a .5*C for the rest of you ... this morning when I managed to crawl out of bed. It's too early to turn on the furnace, so I turned on the fireplace instead. It took the edge off of the cool feeling in the house. I'm glad I got my one chore done yesterday. Now, if I can manage to get the other chore done before it's really cold then I'll be doing well this year.

September 22, 2012

Mother Nature is putting me on notice as to what I can expect soon enough. It was also a brisk 41F when I woke up. That's a cool 5C for the rest of the world. It's a comfort food day for supper; so I have a pork loin in a marinade since last evening. It was wonderful cutting some fresh rosemary for the marinade. It smelled so nice after I washed it. It's nothing like I was getting at the market. Now I just have to so what I can save of my herbs in my garden before it frosts.

September 21, 2012

I'm on cruise control at this time. This end of fiscal year effort is killing me like no other has in the past. But it is what it is and I think I'll continue to ignore senior management at this time. They're bouncing around like a bunch of African monkeys up a tree who are yelling and screaming cuz there's lions down there who are gonna eat them. Is it better to be a monkey or a lion??? I choose to be a lion and to watch the show. It's amusing anywho to watch them act like a bunch of jackasses.

September 20, 2012

I'm not sure if anyone at all even reads these things other than my one friend that I could strangle at times. UGH! But I guess it is what it is. But since I don't believe a whole lotta people are viewing this, I think I'll just be writing to myself on here from this point forward.

It was a lovely 39*F out there this morning when I came to work. That makes it a lovely 3.8*C for the rest of the world. Yeh, that's nippy. No wonder Miss Lily didn't want to leave the bed this morning when I went to get cleaned up. Oh yeh, she moved when I made the bed ... and then settled right back down where it was warm. I expect to find her there as well when I come home from work today. Life is rough if you're a cat.

September 17, 2012

It was going "BOOM" and "BOOM" some more when we woke up this morning. Miss Lily hates it when it thunders. She hides under the bed so she can growl at it from there. Big Boy ... the big chicken ... was no where to be found. He was probably hiding behind the furnace. It was a lovely 52*F when I managed to go out the door to go to work. Rain was coming down and it ruined that pretty shine Petey was wearing since Saturday. Yep, summer appears to be almost over around these parts.

It's been quite a while since we last spoke. It seems so surreal how things turned out. Was it all just a dream anyway? Life seem to be stuck in one gear now.

Uh oh, someone has Mr. Frownie face

September 06, 2012

I'm slowly but surely losing my mind with this end of fiscal year close out. It's always, rush, rush, rush and everyone ... absolutely everyone wants to be first in line. So many loose ends to tidy up and get squared away. One day seems to blend into the next and I can't believe where time has gone since last Thursday. I need a vacation or a long sleep come October 1st.

August 31, 2012

Oh yeh. This starts tonight. I'm loving life once again.

I'm sitting here drinking my morning coffee wondering why I'm here so early in the morning. Then I once again realize it's the end of the fiscal year and we're here to spend the last of the funds that the VA hospital has. It's a temporary thing that we experience each August and Septemebr. It does make me question why I continue doing this and then question how many more fiscal year close-outs that I have to go thru before I retire. Oh well, it's a short work week with a long weekend coming up. It will be nice to get out of town this coming weekend.

I'm sitting here on a Sunday evening pondering the wisdom of a number of decisions. I can sit here and run them all thru my mind and come to the same conclusion ... It doesn't really matter now does it? People are going to do or say as they please or call shots as they see them. I'm not holier than thou and I'm definitely not noble. But I do know when to call it quits when people are being nasty. I called it quits with Multiply. You don't like it? I guess there's nothing more to say.

Ah, the end of the week is here. Saturday. Kick back day. Time to relax my pea brain and recharge the hamster. Time to let out a collective sigh of relief knowing Joe Biden didn't surrender this country to Panama. Don't even start on me. It's not that I hate or despise Joe Biden ... I just think he's an idiot out wandering around without competent adult supervision. That's what you get for electing a politician to an office. Where's his wife at anyway???

August 21, 2012

I believe that it is important to pray every day and especially more so given all of the problems that we as a country have seen recently. And much to the chagrin of some of my liberal friends, I especially pray for the President of the United States. Yes, I realize that some may be shocked and some may poo-poo at the thought of me praying for the POTUS. I know some of my conservative friends are equally shocked. But let me say my prayer and I think you will understand where I’m coming from. Dear God, Thank you for the day. Thanks for my friends and family. Thank you for my kids and my two grandkids. Thank you for my pets. Thank you for everyone that loves and cares for me. Thank you for watching over me. Also, thank you for President Obama. Please watch over him and keep him safe from harm. Because God only knows if something happened to him then Joe Biden would be President and we’re all screwed after that.

August 20, 2012

I hate breaking in new shoes. They're stiff, they're tight in all of the wrong places, and the new shoe leather is slippery on a carpeted floor. There have been a couple times when I went to turn a corner this morning and it was a new adventure in balancing myself. One would think that I was trying out for the Russian circus with the way that I caught myself in mid-turn. It was like "whoaaaaa ... Daddy didn't wanna go there at all." Such is the life of a dazzling south metro urbanite. It's a pretty doggone interesting life, huh? Hey! Feed the fish while you're here. It's kinda interesting.

August 17,, 2012

OK, it has been wuite a while since I posted last. It's been a hetcic week. The network has been going up and down at work, my boss took off and left me in charge, one problem after another popped up, my home network went down, and now our network at work has once again pooped out on us. It's enough to make a grown man want to pull his hair out! Thank Gawd it's Friday. I could use a couple cocktails tonight after what I've been thru this week.

August 11, 2012

It's been kinda nice just to sit here and slowly drink a couple cups of coffee. Lots to do this weekend and there never seems to be enough weekend to do all of the things that I want to get done. I'm sure we'll manage none the less. Big Boy the cat decided that he wanted to play this morning. He was attacking my hand as I laid in bed thinking he could get away with it. He still hasn't figured out who is bigger than whom. He was none too happy as I grabbed him and made him lay there for a while. He got even tho ... he pushed back his ears, flicked his tail and then passed some gas when he walked away when I finally let him go. He's a rude cat.

Ephraim Lewis

August 09, 2012

What a day! What a day! What a day! And I'm glad it's over. And we'll leave it at that. The good thing is that the heat wave has broken here. There's plenty of good weather left around these parts, it's just getting cooler. That means Fall is not too far away for the north woods. And that's good because we're soon to enter into my favorite season of the year. But it also means cold weather is not too far away and there isn't a whole lot of time left before I won't be able to get outside chores done. The bottom-line is life is good ...

Blood on the Dance Floor

August 08, 2012

Experiment, experiment, experiment.  Try this, try that, see hat happens when I do this or that.   Ahhh, the joys of breaking one self into a new web site.  It is interesting when we try this.  

Wasn't there someone who looked strangely like me that counseled someone to not be afraid of change??  Famous last words that tend to come back and haunt one self.

August 07, 2012

Still adjusting and still looking around for a new site to settle in to.  I hope this doesn't take to awfully long.

August 06, 2012

OK, so I have to learn how to use yet another site.  OH well, we learn, we adapt, we move on with life.