mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition was written for piano but this is a recording of ravel's orchestra version, which is actually more popular then the original.......it's about 2 hours to new years, probably will surf for a while, take a hot bath and hit the sheets long before midnight......i rarely stay up for it.........the last time was 2 years ago and then only because of the Y2K hype.....not that i every really bought into it.....after all it's just another day, it's only different because we arbitrarily set the new year on that date, no rea; logic behind it, just tradition and formality..........as willie would say..."full of sound and fury,signifing nothing"...........

oops, just realized that i had the wrong link for the pig latin translator, sorry about that, i realize how important that link is to you, i've often wondered why the use of the language disappeared??? :>).........anywho here is the below poem translated to that tongue

Erethay onceway asway away irlgay amednay Ireneway
Adhay away areercay onway ethay oldway ilversay eenscray
Utbay ustjay away ickquay actfay
Ethay irlgay ouldncay�tay actway
Andway icklyquay ecamebay away ashay-eanbay

onglay ivelay igpay atinlay!!!!

There once was a girl named Irene
Had a career on the old silver screen
But just a quick fact
The girl couldn�t act
And quickly became a has-bean

the overtures of Von Suppe and Auber and coffee, the music this morning is in an attempt to get out of the foul mood i'm in, no reason really for the mood, just got up on the wrong side of the bridge i guess..these pieces are light, aerie, and just plain fun...two possible results......i actually start feeling better......i end up chucking the cds/cd player out the window........if you look below you will see kind of a poem, free form which came tumbling out of the maelstrom which takes the place in me of a mind......if you look in the archives you may find embedded there other poems, mostly silly limericks, i once said that the fact that my poetry is written very irregularly is that the muses only descend on rare occasions, but when thinking last night its more basic, i'm reminded of a gag in a bugs and daffy cartoon, where daffy falls off a bridge. bugs wonders if daffy will remember that he can fly, nope daffy hits the water, then bugs wonders if daffy will remember that he can swim, nope daffy sinks..........it seems that the most probable explanation for the randomness of the appearance of poetry here is simply i forget that trollie knows how to write poetry.......while the cartoon story may seem like it fell off the truck, there is a connection to the music i'm listening to this AM........much of the music used in the older cartoons was classical, it was in the public domain, and therefore free, von suppe's music was used heavily, particularly by the bugs bunny cartoons......

It�s December 30
Year end
Should I look back
Why

Relive again what cannot change
Why

Learn from the past they say
But do they
Or do they just say
That to me

The past is
Well�past
Tomorrow is still
A blank page

I�d rather paint a new
Then scrape paint from the old

New brush
New paint
But a new picture
Why

i got to thinking about pig latin, ran a google search and found among other things an english to pig latin translator and an actually google search engine in pig latin....no gag ...links over there on the right or check here, see i told you so..........ervepray igpay atinlay.........

beethoven #4 and #7, and tea...the cd is part of a set of all 9 beethoven symphonies + a recreation of the partial completed 10th......not the greatest recordings on one hand, but on the other i got them for zilch, nodda, free.........my favorite way to get anything...worked today....well that really is not wholely true, i was at work today...really wasn't real busy....have tomorrow and the next off, and then 2 days work at weeks end.......did a little work on the blog today, added a one liner as well as the boggler and riddle and a mood meter......really don't know why i added the mood meter, i'm always in a lousy mood, everyone knows it but i thought what the hey, this gives me a chance to rub everyones nose in it.......i mean my bad mood......not what you were thinking......hey keep those thoughts to yourself this is a class blog....well 3/5 of class anyway........actually from time to time i've thought of translating my blog into pig latin.......or maybe starting a pig latin blog..........after all ancient languages should be preserved.......( oh boy)......

if you wander down on the right near the bottom have added a brain boggler and a random riddle, i've always loved those types of mental puzzles, in fact there are many who are puzzled over my mental condition, but that's another kettle of fish

another one of those strange days that are produced by the floating holidays, 2 day weekend, 1 day of work(today) 2 day break for new years, the 2 work days and then a 2 day weekend, just hard to get my head in the right place to get what i need to get done today.....have to redo a job i did last friday, apparently forgot to save changes, dang i had about 6 senior moments last friday and still counting.......need to reboot my head i guess.......

brahms #1 and the tragic overture, somehow i think that the tragic overture is appropiate this AM, not in a major disaster sense but in the sense that i usually wake in a bad mood, as if sleeping is my more normal state and being awake is something that is forced on me, something i'd rather not do...but i've never been a morning person, always taken an hour or so to get my feet under me in the morning.....but my morning coffee is strating to have the required effect and i'm starting to feel a little more normal......

trying to wear out the anon 4 disc and diet Dr. P........the spam email header of the week " your second income is coming"...dang i'm still waiting for my first income to show up......(hehe)..........why else would i be spending time writing in this slag heap i refer to as my blog when if i had two cents to rub together i could be wintering in the Bahamas..........ok i'd need more then two cents but i think my point is well taken, however speaking of my point if i comb my hair just right you'll never see it.......(rim shot)..........i should be on the stage.........but the last one left while i still had my head up my....................(no i will not say it, you've already thought it)..............

anonymous 4's la bele marie floats thru the room, it's their newest release, have just recently "discovered" their sound, just got this one today as well as portrait, i don't think that i've ever bought 3 cds by the same group before(i also have legends of st nicholas), i could very easily become addicted to the sound, heck that would be a headline for the Star...."55 year old troll becomes groupie for 4 middle aged woman who sing medieval chant and polyphony....film at 11"........i doubt that there's a mini series in it, but maybe an inde film.........nah...........

elgar..the enigma variations and coffee........some days, most days really i find that my life is just that, a set of variations on an enigma..sometimes i feel that i've almost got this living thing licked.. that i actually know what's going on, where i'm headed and why, that there is only one piece left in the puzzle, i find it and the dang thing doesn't fit, and then in a fit i scatter the pieces, and begin again............i don't think it's important to finish....but just to begin again........was reminded this morning of a crazy farside gag about the fact that there was a fourth wiseman, but he was sent away, and not remembered because he had brought a fruitcake...well i'm feeling like a fruitcake this AM.........need to get somethings done today........but am not really in the mood.......

jacques loussier trio plays handel i think i mentioned the group before, it's a traditional piano jazz trio, which plays jazz versions of the classics, original it was called the play bach trio, but they have now moved to other composers of the classical genre...telarc jazz cd.......really quite neat...a mixture of the two styles of music i most enjoy, classical and jazz....of all the jazz forms i think the piano trio is the purest and most versatile........i grew up listening to jazz/classical on the old WBEN_FM in buffalo....which reminds me for all you american football fans, what does bills stand for, Boy I Love Losing Superbowls...........

have added this day in history to the blog, if you wander down to the bottom it's hiding out somewhere on the right, it's appropiate, i'm i bit of a history buff, i'm one of those very strange people who push little lead figures around tables and recreate battles, in fact most of my strange behavior may be attributed to my habit of sucking on those lead figures...(hehe)....anywho i was taking about a guy named Rhodes the other day at work,he was a member of the 2nd R.I. during the civil war and one of the wags who likes to get at me for being old asked me if i knew Rhodes personally, i said no but i did date his sister, best part of that gag is the idiot didn't know that rhodes didn't have a sister....i actually dated his mother,..........i have to end this quick the nurse is coming with my meds........

sheessshhh!!!!!!!!!!!... i wrote a little, had fooled with the template, published and got out....oops forgot to post the writing....tgif....i guess i had a senior moment.....have added some links to kids from the blogboard....check them and it out.....links are over there on the right somewhere.......

this has been a slow day, it seems like the clock on the wall is stuck in some other dimension in which time flows at a much slow rate, i could have called this one in, just a few things to do, important things, but not enough to remain busy,,,,,,,ka-thump,,,,ka-thump (troll druming fingers)........ka thump!

and now for something completely different..Air Guitar Collection a Total Lost in Garage Fire ..somebody obviously has way too much time on their hands but this is a hoot......

we got just a little snow overnight, the storm that came up the east coast missed us, but to the east albany, little falls got hammered, 2 to 3 feet of snow, feel pretty good this morning, seem to have survived christmas intact, i really don't look forward to it anymore, more a sense of dred, did get links 2003 and spent sometime with that yesterday, not to bad.....got a gift card for a sporting goods store, probably will hold on to it until march, when they have their golf sales......not that i'm really looking for anything but can always use balls............

evening guests just left, have eaten way too much today so will probably have trouble sleeping, was fun but need to get some sleep as i have to work tommorow and friday, i really hate it when christmas falls in the middle of the week, but i've got this bad habit called eating, and because of that i must work........drat.............

merry christmas to all.......went to a traditional candle light christmas eve service last night.......today has been relatives and gifts......quite tried right now.....may take a nap as we have people coming over tonight, none of which have to work tomorrow, but i do so will probably be a late night........

it's late. it's christmas eve and i should be snug in my bed, but then at 55 i stopped believing in santa a long time ago, and when i do go to bed rather the reindeer hooves on the roof all i'll hear is cats fighting over who gets to snuggle in the warm bed, sometimes i sware they take up so much space there's no room for me, at this point that's of a bigger concern then no room at the inn.........

doing a little surfing and found this,Rudolph a Girl? Analyzing a Reindeer Problem, it's on nationgeographic.com of all places, it's really funny, worth a read.......

ran up, ok drove up to the park which is just a little way from the bridge and took a few pics with the digi, they are included below for those of you who will not have a white christmas........

very pretty morning, really got very little more snow overnight, but we may get some off the backside of the storm that's coming up the east coast........have to get out this morning to do some errands..........need to go out and clean up the driveway and brush off the car.....

boy is this typical of the northcountry in the winter, the advisory that was to end at noon, which was extended to 5pm has now been extended to 5AM tomorrow morning, and add a little fog to the wind and snow, not a whole lot of snow yet but driving is interesting, when out shopping to the mall, almost ended up as a hood ornament on an ford expedition, i guess that when you're that big you don't think you have to look when you change lanes.....sheeessshhh!!!!!!.......

well the weather advisory has been extended until 5 PM, i don't need the weather man to tell me that, i only have to look out the window, we've maybe got about 6" of new snow today, but just talk to the ABF driver and he tells me they're getting clobbered south of us........i giess i left my altruism in my other pair of pants, but better them then us.......have to do some last minute christmas shopping, was hoping to get out tonight so will have to see, i never do my shopping til the last minute, there is a real rush of the old hunter/gatherer syndrome fighting over the last thing on the shelf........(hehe)

it's snowy and windy here this AM, we have a winter advisory until noon, and i'm sitting in an almost empty building, production is down until after the holidays but i'm here....still here.......3 days this week and 3 next,

anon 4 and coffee, am in a foul mood this morning, way past my usual normal typical morning bad mood, family get to gether for christmas at my sister's, to an age now where it's not just brother,sister,neices and nephews, but also grand neices and nephews, getting to the point where long term exposure to young childern is an extreme irration, i just don't have the patience for it anymore, and when you add the hype of christmas, the behavior index of young childern probably drops below zero, yah i know, i was probably just as big an irration to my elders when the roles were reversed, but then i guess that's part of family........will put a good face on it and maybe it won't be too bad....

left the house this AM for a little christmas shopping in the 'cuse(about 70 miles south), was snowing lightly when we left, on the way down hit a real mixed bag of weather which included a couple of miles of hail, nice when we got there, probably low 40's, was nice on the way back til we hit the Jeff county line, drove right into near white out conditions, just before our exit drove past about 4 or 5 cars that had ended up in the median, got about 4-5" of new snow, real wet packie, nasty to shovel snow.....winter left for 2 days and is right back again.....sheesshhh!!!!!!

pachelbel and coffee, a harmonia mundi disc of chamber works, i don't know if it is still true but according to an article i read a few years ago pachelbel's canon was the most recorded classical piece, in fact i've seen a recording that had only the canon, recorded by a bunch of different groups, and in different styles, now i will admit that it's a nice piece of music, but i don't like it that much, but speaking of canon's i see that the RC church is in the process of canonizing Mother T, which reminds me that there has been talk of canonizing me, in fact they probably will if they can ever find a cannon of the right caliber.....(rim shot).....( need to check the pun alert system seems to be non functional this morning).......thruth is that that's not the only thing non-functional this am, i feel like i'm about 3 bricks short of a load this morning......

music of percy grainger is bouncing of the walls, music for symphonic band (delos de3101) although i like the typical music for full orchestra, i truely enjoy music for concert band, or winds.... in the UK often refered to as military band, holst wrote 2 suites for military band that are just awesome....and a diet coke.... was i the mid 40's today, all the snow is gone, and seems like the yo-yo weather is back, i would perfer it to just stay cold...but then i rarely get a vote, if you don't like the weather here abouts wait 15 minutes it will probably change, there are to prevailing ideas on the seasons here in the north country, one is that we have two seasons...winter and construction(this is held by my friends who drive longhaul trucks).....the other is that we have three........winter just was winter and soon will be winter.......

morning was even weirder then i thought, one of those days where every job was like pulling teeth, took 3 times as long as normal, murphy was working ot this morning, but this afternoon things have smoothed over and now i can smell the weekend.....

it's mid 40's F this morning, rainy, ugly day, i feel like somebody has poured cement in my joints, this day could be really weird, most of the snow has melted overnight, and what is left is dirty, ugly mess......ugh!!!!!!

survivor is over, the end was not really a suprise, i could have called that one in my sleep but i was suprised that the vote was that close.........my archives disappeared again......if i had a buck for everytime i had to republish them i could retire......one day to go and then the weekend, and then just 1 day next week and 2 more off, i need the time........

bizet and diet coke..........L'arlesienne suites 1&2 and Carmen suites 1&2....light entertaining music , nothing that requires any thought or concentration to listen to and enjoy....probably about one step up from elevator music........which is about all i'm up to this evening.....what a wild ride this week has been...will take a couple of hour rest from the net tonight as the finals of survivor is on...in general i find "reality" tv to be anything but real, but in the case of survivor i'm hooked.......i've tried to come up with a logical ( read here "facesaving") explaination(s) for why i like it, but nothing that will survive the light of day or close inspection has emerged.........i'm so ashamed.......

it's been wild and wooly here again today, i've got one more job to complete before day-end but only take a few so i jumped out on line to see what's shaking. according to ye old site meter i got my first hit today off a google search, first time i've got a hit from a search engine.....most of my referal hits so far have been off the blogboard, which is kinda ironic because that's not why i post over there, but i'll take 'um. but the truth is that i really don't give a whole lot of importance to hits, after all this blog deal is for me, it's therapy, it gives me something to play with until spring comes and i can chase little white balls around fields in the forlorn hope that i can actually knock one in a hole

still with gabrieli and coffee.......i'm feeling mellow tonight which is not really normal for me except on weekends, i think i'm just to tried to be my mean, and grumpy self, i once had a friend who called me the most even tempered unbiased person he knew, of course what he meant was that i was always in a bad mood and hated everybody ( by the way he still goes in for physical therapy 3 days a week)...(hehe).........

the antiphonal music of gabrieli is bouncing off the walls of the den, it's a recording made in the 60's and remastered to cd, in fact i've got the old lp kicking around the house somewhere, very busy day at work was on a dead run from 8 straight thru until 4, in fact as i look down i see that i've not posted yet at all today, i usually post during the day a bit but had no time today.......did spend a bit of time over at BlogBoard, if you haven't checked it out the link is over there on the right somewhere ( to lazy to put it in the text).....

bach(magnificat in d)followed by a little vivaldi and diet pepsi........nutty day and then had to go back in for an hour to solve a problem...........i'm getting beat down to a pulp, but only 3 days next week and 3 days the week after, and with production down for the holidays the next two weeks it will probably calm down a little.......i haven't spent much time over the last few days on the blog, really haven't changed anything for 3 or 4 days which is a record in itself. music is my escape, it's my retreat, i listen to a piece of classical music and most of the stress of the day is wiped away, .........

the al gore blog check this out, one of the funnier things i've read in a long time, life long dems may want to pass on it but it's really quite droll.......

it's strange here we are a week or so before christmas and my only emotion is ....bah humbug.......as i get older i've gone thru who cares all the way to i hope we can get thru this alive and get things back to normal, half the staff is away on year end vacs and the rest of us are hustling trying to stay up........bah humbug......... very tried tonight...faure and coffee........got a chance last spring to sing in a local performance of the work, very enjoyable peice......not really difficult technically, but expression is critical.......and several good tenor section soli, always a treat........a neat part of it was that one of the pit musicians was my daughter, that was fun......

morning was crazy but it's smoothed out this afternoon....i think that with a little bit-o-luck i should be able to pull off doing double duty here for a while....

3 inches of fresh snow over night, and a busy day ahead, was quiet yesterday here but had a problem posting

v thomson and coffee, it's one of the mornings when although the body is wake i think the mind is still tuck into bed, i've never been a morning person, i basically hate mornings, it was really the only good thing about working evenings, i could wake up when i wanted to, no alarms,

anonymous 4 and a diet dr pepper, i'm not sure if a diet soft drink really goes with medieval chant and polyphony but oh well, have wanted to get one of their recordings for a while, have heard them on classic fm from time to time, finally broke down and bought one of their cds, will not be the last one i buy, hauntingly beautiful

oh lord are you in trouble now, i figured out how to post pictures, below is a whitworth breechloading canon that i searched the gettysburg battlefield for 2 days for this spring,

baroque trumpet concertos, and coffee,,,,,,,,slow day so far, just surfing and hanging out......

elgar, the enigma variations, #9 is one of the beautiful peices of music i have ever heard, but it brings back a torrent of mixed mermories, it was played during the memorial service held in ottawa after 9-11(aired in the US), but is so beautiful, i get goose bumps,of course on this cd the variations are followed by Pomp and Circumstance Marches #1-5, #1 is the best known at least in the US as it's used for graduation, i played it for 6 junes when in HS over,and over, and over, we refered to it as Pomp and Circumcision, of course i guess i got off lucky my daughter played for SU graduation one year and if i remember right they played it over 40 times until everyone was in............so it's fair to say that my list of emotion for it varies greatly from that i have for the variations, more like i feel like i was goosed..........

britten and diet cherry coke,.....just got back from border's, most people have just given up trying to figure out what to give me for my birthday, of course i'm not much help,i never know what to ask for, so they usaully give up and get me a gift card to somewhere, well i ended up with two to borders and bought 5 cds, the britten is the first one in the machine, also a v thomsom,elgar, a neat 2 cd set of baroque trumpet concertos, various composers but all solos by maurice andre, and finally medieval chants and polyphony by anonymous 4.........so there will be several hours of contented listen to new cds i'm sure.......there is probably a span of 600 yrs covered in these 5 from the medieval to britten and the thomson, but i really enjoy a wide range of music, but with few exceptions it would all fall into the classical mode.

have found what i think is an appropiate newsfeed for this site......it's from SatireSearch� and will put up daily a listing of satire headlines......now that more like it

took the news feed off site, it wasn't updating often enough....still looking for a reliable one...will add if i can find one.....nutty day....have started several jobs which are half done because something more important keeps jumping up....

dang, 55 years old , how did i last this long with all the crazy things i've done..........but i don't really feel old,........well that's not completely true, physically i do feel old sometimes, but mentally, emotional i still feel young, i guess it's because in actual fact i never really grew up, i'm still trying to figure what i want to be when/if i ever manage it, but it's probably wasted effort because i doubt i ever will......i guess there is much truth in the old gag about the only difference between a boy and a man is that men's toys cost more...

it's 55 years to the day
that trollie came out to play
he may be old
but he ain't cold
so you best stay out of his way

in answer to rene's tag, we trolls aren't particular to any type of cake, we'll eat just about anything, but we would prefer that it was shaped like a biily goat.......rene is a co-worker/friend and he's the one who told me about the blogger site, and blogging so from one point of view he's responsible for all this...........send him the hate mail he deserves......(hehe)

busy day, spent most of the day trying to learn the purchasing software, i don't know it cold but took many notes and should be ok.......(knock wood).........feel much better today but not 100%........but several others at work have either had or in the process of having this particular flu strain, looks like it last 24-48 hrs......i have reached the double nickle to day in age.......don't feel any different, i look different, but then i always have looked different........(hehe)......

happy birthday to me
happy birthday to me
happy birthday dear trollie
happy birthday to me

spent some time watching space cowboys had the vcr tape for sometime but have never watched it, didn't even have it out of the wrapper, not bad, i'm feeling a little better but my stomach is still in open rebellion.........

music for recorder and lute/guitar by various composers and tea........and coricidin cold & flu.........first sick day i've taken in probably at least 5 years.......really feel lousy........and i'm trying to figure out how to move the pc into the john.....yah i know that's more information that you really wanted to know but tough i'm the one who's sick..........

now mozart and diet pepsi.........the `4 horn concertos with dennis brain, although i really enjoy the 4 i think i will have to look for another recording, brain plays in the "french" style and i much perfer the "german" or the unique style of barry tuckwell, but if i remember somebody gave me the cd, and i never look a gift horse in the mouth, especially if they're handing me mozart.........or bach...or any classical cd for that matter.........

have added a link to CNN offbeat news or try here, a couple really got me laughing these two in particular,Man who took credit for 'Bigfoot' dies and A judge said on Monday that he allowed a woman divorce her husband because she refused to share the couple's bed with the man's cat. (warning pun alert system just snapped on) i wonder what clause in the marriage law he used to justify that........

teleman and tea, the twelve fanasias for solo flute j-p rampal, light happy music, not a bad day at work, we've got someone out for the next several weeks so i'm trying to learn the computer procedures for purchasing so i can fill in, doesn't look to difficult but then we'll see..........has warmed up quite a bit, been mild today and should be through the week end........i think i'm just about done for the time being with adds to the site, but then you never know, in reality i'm adding most of this for me, i'm basically lazy, and this puts a bunch of stuff that i want and need in one place.......

i think i'm loosing it. check that i don't thing i had anything to loose to begin with, have added mamma to the site, and also world, US, and science newsfeeds........i think this thing is getting bigger then i had intended, but then what the hey

a nice morning here, rather pleasant, mid 20's which for this time of year almost constitutes a heat wave.....hello to rick who apparently stop by the blog last night and left a tag.... friend/co-worker....yes rick i probably did get a bit carried away with the winona thing....but i guess what set me off was that cnn thought it was newsworthy enough for "breaking news alerts"..........

holst/bach/handel and diet 7up.........interesting cd(telarc-cd-80038) fennell and the cleveland symphonic winds......has warmed up considerably since this am, turned into a lovely bright winter day.........got almost caught up with everthing that i didn't get done last week, one more job to finish.......been just doing a little surfing tonight.......kicking back and relaxing.....
i've been blogging now for about 6 weeks and have really gotten hooked on it... in the beginning i really had no expectation that i would find it this much fun, and intended not to really add much to the site, but have gotten hooked on gadgets, thinking of adding a search engine.......

it was very cold over night, -3*F at 8am...but it has some advantages...if it's this cold even if it snows we won't get very much, it also cools the lake and lessens the possibility and extent of lake effect/enhanced snow.....but eventhough we usually get a bunch of sub-zero days during the winter it is unusual to get them this early, more often then not they usually occur in Jan. or early Feb.

it's been a long day, haven't posted much but did do a little work on the site, added a weather link, and one more link to one of the "kids" off blogboard........went to a choral sing tonight, sang many of the old fav's...had a good time.......if you haven't checked out the blogboard yet click the gif to the right and check it out.......

The rather neat sounds of the jacques loussier trio's interpretation of bach is filling the room, the trio is a classic piano jazz trio that takes bach and translates it in a jazz style, (check it out telarc jazz cd-83474) and coffee..got a little fresh snow over night but nothing that will cause any problems, just kinda kicking back, doing a little surfing......

an answer to jilly's tag, if i may quote from the article "�� In a three-year span Winona Ryder filled 37 prescriptions from 20 doctors under a half-dozen aliases, according to a probation report that concluded the actress is apparently addicted to pain killers".......this behavior does not suggest a "recreational" or medical use of the drugs, but addictive behavior........i'm sorry but a person in her position shoplifting is not rational behavior, that there is apparently an underlining problem is what prompt my "now there's a real shocker"( tongue in cheek)..........my cynical side was over functioning at the time i wrote that....i hope that she can get help and get her act straightened out, but quite frankly the track record of actors dealing with drug problems isn't good.....

Winona Ryder Report Spotlights Drug Use
now there is a real shocker.......i think i'll have to halve the time i was going to bet before she violated her probation.....while writing this i realized kind a a weird fact about me and this blog......the only times i seem to comment on the news is days that i'm totally devoid of original thought.......or in the case of today probably i'm devoid of thought period, original or otherwise........although i'm pretty well over the stress overload from the week.........

Iraq President Apologizes to Kuwait for Occupation i hope no one is too shocked if i doubt his sincerity, and suspect an ulterior motive to this..........boy am i becoming a cynic.....

have spent some of the day fooling around with the site, have added a meter, and listed with a couple of sites...icons on right..i wasn't sure if i really wanted to "go public" as it were but we'll see what happens........but the idea of wander-lust is kinda cool and by using it i've discovered some neat sites.......tea and no music at present......(there was a brief pause in this as att booted my wrinkled butt off line, this has become a all too frequent problem of late, to the extent that i now feel the att stands for always throwing-off trolls)......back on now have a little copland and groffe in the player and a diet coke........weather is not bad today ...probably mid 20'sF and no freah snow although we did get some last night

coffee and bach's b minor mass......just a very beautiful piece of music...it seems that i can listen to it regardless of my mood and enjoy it........i can't say that about many other pieces.......quite morning but i needed that, has been a very hectic high stress week

Actress Winona Ryder Sentenced to 3 Years Probation for Shoplifting okay boys and girls i'm starting a pool on how long she'll last until she violates probation...anyone interested in getting in email me.......mozart and diet coke.....we've had a bit of snow the last two days but nothing major.......actually there is a certian beauty to fresh snow......as long as it does come down in buckets......

man i've been on a dead run since 8 this morning......whole week has been wild...need to run close in about 15 and have everything that i'm going to get done, done. missed a few but that's what the make next week for.....about an hour away from the weekend....yiyiyipeee!!!!!

mozart and diet coke..........tired but one of those nights where i'll probably have trouble falling asleep........body is tired but mind is wired.........one day to go and then 2 days to kick back.......Men are mice: thereby hangs a tail an interesting article...i don't know if i'd make the same conclusions but what the hey.........i wonder if women are related closest to cats or cheese..........(hehehe),

old man bought a young girl from Nice
who insisted he sign a release
if when you're on top
your old heart does stop
i'll need it to show the police

what a riot, i had an inspected load going to bolivia...only 5 pallets, takes maybe 10 minutes to load.....yah right....2 hrs of going through the load with the inspector before i got permission to load......sheessshhh!!!!!!!......still have two loads for tomorrow...this week has been all kinds of fun

there once was a girl named olivia
who hailed from down in bolivia
all though she was dumb
when i asked her from some
a taste she would never gave-me-a

yah...yah i know but bolivia is tough

about an inch of fresh snow this am, that nasty winter storm with the ice on the east coast looks like it will go below us, or we may catch some of the snow off the back side of it.......this place is hopping again today.....

one of the cats died today, we had to put her down , tumor on the pancreas.......i'll miss her........she was about 16...basically grumpy, mean tempered, and a bit bitchie...........pretty much a spitting image of me......only she had 7 toes on each front foot and was better looking........RIP old girl...........

this day has turned into a real circus.......loaded a 20' conrainer for brazil....360 70lb. rolls loose........sheesshh!!!!!!!.....part of the problem is you can't send wooden pallets into brazil....if you do the load has to be impounded and fumigated, apparently to prevent the unwilling importation of bugs/virus' that might prove harmful to the rain forest......i'm all for conservation but only if someone else is loading the truck.......a 20 minute job (if on pallets) turns into 2 hrs.......

there one was a girl from brazil
who worn no pants as she ran up a hill
she went head over ass
and fell on the grass
and gave all the old town boys a thrill

cold, crisp day here in nature's cold storage area,.....in this bolg's ongoing effort to keep you up to date on important current events.....Prosecutor: Ryder needs counseling
, wow i wonder how much thought it took to reach that decision............as if it will do any good.........when will celebs be treated just like everyone else before the law........yah i know never but still......

and the troll "you've got to be Kidding" award for the month goes to:Band director accused of mailing raccoon head if you haven't read this you need to..........and i thought i was nuts.....

Mountain biking may be linked to infertility,nice scary headline, i'd hate to see what happens to the price of stock for bike companies, of course if you read the article, the study was done on riders who log at least 3000miles/year, frankly anybody that crazy shouldn't be allowed to reproduce anyway.....

hello....it got down to -17*F at the airport last night, apparently we had the coldest temp in the lower 48 states,.....unfortunately that happens more then once per winter.....still below 0 but is sunny and bright and not too bad.....as long as you dress right it is liveable...been wild around here again today with the out look for the rest of the work week about the same......

tchaik #5, serenade for strings, both have just lovely melody lines.......have kinda crashed out tonight......first day back after 4 off.....not feeling particularly creative tonight, but then sometimes when i sit to do this i'll be inspired.....more often then not i just end up with a cat in my lap.....but sometimes......just too tired.......

and i thought this morning was strange, i had "balls" flying in from every which way this afternoon, but i've got them all under control, i think......i've come to a conclusion....when i was younger if someone panicked( from my point of view needlessly) i tried to show them why there was no need to panic, that we had plenty of time to get it done....i now consider that wasted effort.....now i just do what they want right now.....if possible........much easier......

this has been a strange day so far....not bad......not really busy....just strange.........phone/pager have been bouncing off the hook, i guess that's only to be expected since most everybody has been off since last tuesday.......everyone is trying to plug back in. get reconnected to what's going on.....seems like i'm in the middle of all of it.....oh well......things are back to normal.....i've gotten pretty good at keeping 7 or 8 "balls" in the air most of the time........"splaaaaaaat!!!!!!!"......heck nobody's perfect....(hehehe)

well i guess winter has finally come...we got 12-18 inches of snow over night over the area, about 15" in my driveway, got that cleaned out but the street wasn't plowed, they made one pass down the otherside and i got out quick......only a 2 mile drive to work but it was interesting, most of the streets were unplowed and rutted.....could prove to be an interesting day...weather man says it will get down to 5*F over night..........

haydn(still 2 cd set the 6 london symphonies)and tea, i've got to quit messing with my template, everytime i do it seems like i have a problem with my isp, really slow, kickoffs, tick-me-offs....remember just because your paranoid doesn't mean that they're not actually out to get you........been updating links list.......more great sites who's reputation will be destroyed by being linked to rotting compost heap......(hehehe)........that'll get them for trip-tropping on this troll's bridge.........good grief i just realized i've misspelled haydn both times i used it today, both times different.....you'd think i'd hit the right spelling once in a while........sheessshhh!!!!

haydn and coffee.......from the spam email:"increase your breast size 100% naturally"........i also get many about increasing the size of my ...uhm....well of my...well you get the idea.....so which is it am i a boy or a girl......or both......sheeessshhhhh!!!!!!!.......yah i know they just shotgun that crap in all directions hoping someone will bite.....but one must wonder how effective it is........but on the other hand you humans do seem to place a high priority on size in your mating rituals........oh well...hayden and coffee....we got about 4-6 inches of snow overnight so the yo-yo weather continues......just wish it would get cold, stay cold and quit this waffling......

time to retire, no music on except that which is in my head, music has been an important part of my life, a relief valve,sometimes a place to hide, sometimes a way to show off, to shout to the world all is well,.......of course that has sometimes been misunderstood, some people think i'm a little nuts........untrue!!!!!!!........i'm a whole lot nuts......but i do play with a full deck....all 52 cards.....of course they're all jokers.......but oh well...........night all

quiet afernoon, watched remeber the titans never had watched it before, good solid thought provoking flick....added new link for blogboard, just click the gif.........

poulenc and coffee.......the weather continues to be entertaining, got snow yesterday, and rain last night into this morning so all the snow is basically gone...it's funny how many times when sitting here i have many things to say, other times nothing... and some times like today, confused..things to say, but no coherent thoughts, no way to phrase, the mind is a jumble of unrelated bits, i guess i need to run defrag on my mind......

from the spam emails: one i got today "tired of being fat"......how did they know?........do i type fat?....i don't have a web cam.....i'll bet it's racial profiling, it's racial bias again...all trolls are fat, where's my lawyer.....i'll sue........brahms#1, tragic overature and tea

snowy,cold,and windy......pretty typical weather for this time of year, not a whole lot of accumulation, maybe 3 or 4 inches.....but will really screw up the traffic out by the mall with the heavy shopping day.......just best to stay out of that mess....

the colors didn't grow on me, way too bright.........these however i like a lot.......but i will probably keep messin'

been messing with my colors, not sure i'm total satisfied with it, but maybe it will grow on me, reminds me of the color of mold, appropiate for a troll, and what grows on my mind........in the middle of playing with my template my isp kicked me off.......sheesshh!!!..double sheeesshh!!! in the middle of typing this got kick off again.......att stands for "always ticking-off trolls"

Tnn is showing a whole bunch of Bond films this weekend, no matter how often i watch them i am still entertained......actually they are the exception to the rule, i like both the movies and the books, probably because with the earlier ones they really made no real attempt to follow the books so in effect you had two different stories, and the later movies are only loosely based on the characters...The name is Troll....Bud Troll ......0054

thanksgiving morning, coffee and a cat, the cat is giving thanks for my lap, and is trying to clean my hands for me as i type.....alright i'll give up and pet you............

tea and a very interesting cd, got it thru the BBC music mag which i used to subscribe to,it's the examples of the work of 4 female composers who wrote in the 1800's when of course that was not the fashion, now i'm not particularly a feminist, nor am i a chauvanist, i refuse to take sides, but in the case of form/fad/fashion/tradition stifling talent.....let me at the billygoats......the music they created was brilliant........to deny one the right to use a talent based on an arbitrary set of rules.......off with their heads.......

have to run close in 15..never did get to finish inventory.....but just need to put it in final....monday is time enough....4 day weekend....yahoooooooooooo!!!.........taggie is being grumpy again.....well i geuss there are other's out there....or i could spring for enhanced board.......cheap and lazy are a dangeous combination..........old/cheap and lazy is even worst........but then if you threw out all my character flaws i've have no character at all......beware childern i'm what you become if you don't eat your vegetables...

there once was a man from spain
who ran naked around in the rain
because of that biz
he has rhumatiz
and is forced to walk with a cane

and i was hoping for a slow day....sheesh!!!!...haven't got within a hundred miles of month end inventory, well that's not entirely true...i did get the work sheets run.......just a trace of snow over night, guess we were on the back side of the storm Mass. caught...well as long as i get the rough count done i can clean it up next week.........or i could come in friday to finish it....yah right

we love you taggie, oh yes we do-hoo
and to you taggie we will be true-hoo
when you're not working boo-hoo
oh taggie we need you

yah,right........

oh joy, i just remembered i have a month end inventory to do tomorrow, i really love doing inventorties.......yah right.......if i ever meet someone who really enjoys inventory work...i'm going watch him/her real close, and kept as much distance between us as possible.....one advantage is day before thanksgiving... place should be dead, and maybe i can get it done without being interrupted 3 million times, i swear that one of these days i'm going to accidentally drop my pager in front of a forklift, i wonder if they'll believe i ran over it 30 times before i realized it.......probably not i have a history with pagers, i managed to drop one in a toilet, really that was an accident....i mean it really was, another time i was in a bar with a couple of guys from engineering and it went off, i laid it on the table when i went to the phone, came back and it was at the bottom of a pitcher of beer..........try explaining that one......

taggie is still down.........a pain but after all it is free.....brahms #4 followed by zigeunerlieder and tea........it's funny how somedays i'm just full of ideas and things to write, from the profound right thru the total idiotic........dead tired tonight which usually produces a stream of lunacy on my part but the well is pretty empty.......yet i still feel like i should try.......but then i usually do, most people find me very trying. reminds me of the old gag about the guy who was appling for a job when asked if he was responsible replied "i must be" and the interviewer asked why he said that and he replied " the last job i had everytime something went wrong they said i was responsible"......

oh where oh where has my taggie gone
oh where oh where can it be
it seems that lately it's always down
oh where oh where can it be

i hope that that's not a copyright infringement but i'm sure that dittie is in the public domain

cold nasty day this am, with snow on the way
but 2 days left and then a 4 day weekend,

to keep you up dated on the offline developements in the "he drops the_____" wars here at work, in retaliation for "he drops the turkey" and to keep up the thanksgiving theme, "i dropped the mayflower"........i was thinking of dropping the plymouth rock but i chickened out...(ouch...that one hurt me)

mid 30's F temp this morning, spitting a little snow, predicting snow all week......"i'm dreaming of a white Thanksgiving...." ( aren't you glad this blog isn't rigged for sound) (warning: pun alert system just snapped on) i have a great voice, in fact everyone i know says my voice grates on them........( i can hear the groan, i feel your pain........and i love it......hehehe)

sundays have become a very hectic day, must find some way to drop out an activity but don't see how........tea and silence too lazy to get up and turn the cd on........ah the wonders of technology the remote is within arm's lenght........of course the remote is of little use if there is no disc in the machine......dang.......beethoven..egmont,leonore,3....vintage recordings remastered ......toscanini and the nbc so. .............2 from 1939...1 from 1945............maybe not the best performance but certainly my fav of the 3rd was one i heard live down at SU.......my daughter was playing 3rd horn in it........the older recordings that have been remastered do a pretty good job as far as the strings and woodwinds are concerned but the bass sound like their playing into garbage cans........to tired to go on........night.........zzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

faure requiem is filling the room, along with the mozart requiem, and the bach b minor mass probably my 3 favorite choral works ( this week.....contents of the list and their order subject to change).......i was not real picky in choosing a cd of the bach and the mozart have heard serveral different recordings/treatments and like them all, however the faure i listened to serveral different recordings before i picked one. the difference is that i have never had the chance to sing either the bach or the mozart but have sung in the faure twice, i would not say that those performances were the equal of the pro recordings but hearing the music from the inside as it were gives you a totally different set of memories as how it should sound......i rarely watch a movie/tv show based on a book i've read........i more often then not end of hating the show because they rarely do the book justice. this also works in reverse, i watch the A&E series on the Hornblower saga, have all six video tapes, watched them over and over, then decided to buy and read the 11 volume set of Hornblower books .........i read and reread the books but rarely ever watch the videos anymore.....

mozart with witt and faure in the wings, and a diet pepsi.........witt is kind of a strange story almost nothing is know of the man and his work lived from 1770-1836.....in 1909 orchestral parts were found for a symphony in C in Jena, there was a note found with them indicating the composer as beethoven, which was generally accepted until 1957 when another copy surfaced and it was discovered that the composer was witt, nice piece of music.........i'll probably have to wait until 100 years after my death for my greatest to be understood also..........(sigh!!)................(.hehehe).............more likely then not that's 100 million years..... i might make it....i have been refered to by many as a dinosaur.....at work i get ragged on about my age.........i was talking about Plato one day and some wise guy asked me if i knew him........i said sadly no.....but i did date his sister.....

as i sit here reading what i just wrote over the last few entries, i was struck by the relationship between poulenc/praetorius....except that i listened to both last night, with a little mozart between them it really is more a contradiction then a relationship, Dances from Tersichore were writing in 1612, while down the hall, way down the hall in 1959 poulenc was working on Gloria, but then i think that anyone who has bothered to read this site realizes that it seems that the real contradiction is the old crazy troll. i've got old enough i guess not only to accept the contradictions in myself, but to revel in them, in fact i've gotten old enought that i also enjoy sticking them in people's faces and going.... nah,nah!..nah,nah,nah!

poulenc and coffee.......just a note on the links...boys/girls listed are either off the blog board or those who have stop by and were brave enought to tagged the troll, so as revenge i've linked their great sites to this peice of rotting brain droppings...checkout the blogboard here.....
no new snow overnight,but never went anywhere yesterday so will have to allow a bit of extra time to get that ____ off the car before heading out for the day...

Praetorius and tea......my first exposure to praetorius was thru transcriptions for brass, and of course that kid's classic "do you know the muffin man".......this particular recording is H.I.P.........and i much prefer it.......although i do think that sometimes the H.I.P. movement is carried a bit too far........i think the crumhorn is neat........but then praetorius' period used the recorder heavily..and though i'm just a hack i do enjoy playing the recorder.......but then emotionally i never really got past the fourth grade any who.......(sorry hip.....historic instrument performance)

i've been giving thought this afternoon to creating a troll version of the legandary statue the thinker, but the troll version would be the stinker. now if i can only figure out how to make a likeness out of old billygoat bones of a farting troll.......

In Eskimo-Aleut apparently there are many words for snow. In the troll language there are also many words for snow, I don�t know about E-A but in troll they are all 4 letter words. Most of which you are probably familiar with, but possible not in reference to snow. Well we got 6+ inches of the snow overnight. From the perspective of upstate New York, particularly from one who lives in the lee of Lake Ontario, 6 � of snow is usually described as only 6 �, I�ve seen it snow a foot of snow an hour, and get 48� of the stuff in an afternoon, so from that point of view 6� is nothing. However from my troll point of view, this particular morning���..dang��.I really do hate this _______.

another evening, another cat on the lap, this one however is not behaving...strike that this one is behaving very badly so this will be short.......

the russians and tea.......same as last night but just dog lazy tonight....it's suppose to get cold and snow tonight......2 days off then a short week next week....thanksgiving next thursday and friday off....i need the the time off........i feel like i've been drug thru a knothole backwards,.........twice.............and there was a nail in it........

I�ve decided that I should attempt to explain the �He drops the ______� tags that have been appearing. I work in a factory and have for the last 30+ years. The way humor is expressed ranges from the profound thru the profane and out past the limits of the mind to comprehend. I had a clerk a few years back that was quite a character. He loved the WWF and also jumping out form many and sundry places to surprise you. This was usually accompanied by �He drops the elbow�, on one particular occasion he just about gave randy the big one. He�s gone but the game has stayed and evolved to the point where it's become verbal fencing as to who can come up with the craziest thing to �drop�. Usually this involves some trait or hobby of the individual, for example the "he drops the beagle" was probably randy who raises field grade beagles. I think some of us stay up way too late at night trying to think of new things to drop, although I must admit that �He drops the turkey� is a classic.

the tag war continues.....it should be blatantly obvious from the tenor of QC54's tags who the real turkeys are......

ah the boys from QC are at it again(see tag board)....obviously they have an extreme case of dropsy......or at the very least have gone to the dogs...if it is clinical dropsy it's quite probable that the collection of fluid is on the brain.........

I�ve always loved the pun .the play on words, word(s)/phrases with double meanings (yah I know there�s a French phrase for that but when I typed what I thought it was into the word processor one of the options was �cheeseburger�, I don�t know whether that means I wasn�t close�or I should stop stealing software from Mickey D�s).
But then English has always been a foreign language for me. Troll is much simpler. Almost non-verbal. We are big time into punctuation. As in� I�m going to punctuate your mush with this club���..�

good morning boys and girl and all the ships at sea the troll is taking the planet by storm .....( alice cooper's "elected" can be heard playing in the background).......i've been in an "alice" state of mind for a bit....i'm roaming the plant singing "billion dollar babies"....you'd best alert the national guard......or at the very least the mental health unit......remember the bell might "troll" for you........( warning:pun alert system is off line)

well it turns out that QC54 was tom after all....will have to call down the curse of the crows on him......3 cups of coffee and i think that i'm alive again, well as alive as i ever am, probably will watch surivor at 8, yah...yah... i know but i'm hooked on it....it probably indicates a major character flaw, or more probably a total lack of there of, but then i'm a troll and if you don't like it well.............!!!

I�m sitting here trying to type, I have a cat on my lap. While it may be comfortable for her, it makes the process for me a tad difficult. She has settled down a bit so maybe I have half a chance to finish this. I feel like a worn out dish rag to night, that�s one of the things that my granny used to say on days that she was tired, well that�s about how I feel today. No energy left. And not any real power of concentration, just can seem to focus on anything right now. However this is pretty typical for this time of year, the changeable weather always seems to effect me like this���Rimsky-Korsakov followed by Borodin and coffee. Had a problem earlier to day, my achieves disappeared, but republished and their back.

I don�t think that I�ve mentioned this but I�m a golf nut, well okay actually I�m just plain nuts but I also happen to like golf. Probably not until golf season starts again around here, that would be March or April, I think I will probably start another blog to record my activities on the course, I�ve always thought about keeping a record, but never have, this may be an easy way to do it��of course the way I play I may keep it private.

I sitting here off line using a word processor, and it doesn�t recognize �blog�, well dang

i've obviously made a tactical error, i gave tom and randy the url for my blog, if you look at the tag-board the comment from QC 54 is one or the other or both.....actually it probably took both of them to figure out how to use it, and they are the QC deptment here......sheeshhhhh!!!!!.........i may be crazy and nuts but i have no intention of trying to explain the comment......

was talking to randy and tom about blogging this am, if those two rascals get involved.....there goes the neighborhood.......

sitting here with my morning coffee trying to wake up......not working so far...nothing funny to say, or profound, or even profane,

several people here at work have computer pets, cute, cuddily stuffed animals that sit on their monitors........i have one too....it's a gargoyle.....my daughter bought it for me .....she said she saw it in a store and it reminded her of me so she got it......i guess i can't get too upset over her sense of humor after all...(Warning,Warning,Danger Will Robinson,Danger...PUN ALERT_PUN ALERT) she is wearing my genes......

this is a test.....if it was a really troll crisis you would be required to sing four choruses of the troll national anthem

the troll's got himself a tag-board
and i'm not expecting a horde
give me a tag
don't make me nag
or throw your butt into a fjord.

it's a warm but rainy day today, Nov. weather can be so weird up here, cold and snow one day....mid 50'sF the next........much as i am enjoying today i would rather that it just got cold, and stayed there for a while....when it yo-yo's it drives me nuts......okay so you won't have to burn any gas to drive me nuts....it's a short trip.....

ccccccccccrazy day so far, been running around like a chicken without my head.......added a tag board.......

time to drop off for the night, snuggle into my bed under the bridge, i've got an early in tomorrow..........but not sleepy.......

handel and tea, got the complete Messiah in the player.........your lucky this blog ain't rigged for audio as i will probably be singing along for most of the evening

the mellow is starting to return.....but i'll be outa here in 10.......

what is it about people now a days that they must have instant gratification, why is it that they can't accept an answer they don't want to hear, even if it's the only one there is and why do they need to do this with only 2 hours left in a day when i have been in a mellow mood.
......poooooffffffffff!!!!!!!!.....ah .........actually i feel better now......more my normal bad tempered self..........thanks i need that........i was almost on the verge of changing my opinion about humankind............release the billgoats..........

remarkable, i've made it almost thru the day and i'm still pretty mellow........

sheeshhh!!!!! i've got to quit reading google-news here's the headline "US Scientists Link Brain Damage to Snoring" now i may be wrong but my first impression is that this article is about snoring causing brain damage.....if it was it would explain a lot about me...i've been know to snore the siding off the house.......but if you read the article its about the causes of sleep apnea ......somebody is in need of a new headline writer, if interested in article go here

in a mellow mood this morning......boy i hate that......although at least so far there doesn't seem to be any thing really shaking this morning.....something will probably happen to foul my mood......i would rather come to work grumpy......i hate wasting a rare for me mellow mood on work......

bizet and tea........i'm in a light classical frame of mind, any thing heavy tonight would depress me.......jenny one of my cats is wandering around meowing in her bitchie sort of way, they been home alone too long to day....she's been reading me the riot act ever since i got home......warmed up a little and the snow melted off the sidewalks, ground isn't frozen yet, so won't have to spend time on that......surfed a little.....played a few games but don't seem to be able to concentrate on anything to night........0 attention span.....so this probably will end up more stream of conscienceness then normal......or to be prefectly honest you should call me brook because all i'm doing is extruding a stream of bable.......ouch thats two terrible puns in one sentence.....or fragment......but then my mind is fragmented tonight any who........speaking of fragments i think i'd better pull the pin on this...........

i was reading google-news and was attracted to this headline "Astronomers Track Runaway Black Hole in Milky Way" which had the tag "A runaway black hole is streaking through the Milky Way galaxy, dragging an aging star along to snack on as it heads in Earth's general direction, astronomers reported Monday"..... my first reaction was where is Bruce Willis when you need him.........but don't fear we have plenty of time to find him after all it won't get here for another 200 million years, and miss us by 1000 light years....i'd like to know what the writer's definition of general direction is.........any who if interested article is here

For no particular reason I�ve been thinking today about truth, and more precisely how we can tell the truth in such a manner that our reader/listener will be deceived, will come to an incorrect conclusion, how be it they will reach the conclusion we want them to reach.
I�m reminded of an account of an article that appeared in the press of the USSR during the height of the cold war. It was the results of an auto race where both cars from the USSR and US were entered. The press reported that the USSR car finished second, while the US car finished next to last. This was absolutely true. The obvious conclusion is that the USSR car beat the US car, but that was incorrect. What the press had failed to include in the account was that it was a two-car match race��.it reminds me of the old line about polls and statistics � figures never lie, but liars often figure��..

i've been trying to solve a major problem this morning, but have had to dodge a whole mess of minor ones that have been jumping out of the woodwork, like the old gag says" when your up to your butt in alligators it's hard to remember your prime objective is to drain the swamp". got 3 to 4 inches of snow overnight, i didn't even bother to shovel/blow it, just drove thru it....not bad.....lake effect in the forecast but looks like it will go below us.......

added links to the boys/girls of the blogboard, check it and them out.....links to right

wish i could thing of something funny, or profound or even witty to write to night, dang i'd even take half witty, which would be a step up from my usual standard but this weather has me in a funk........

got a few inches of snow this afternoon, and some reports say as much as 7-10 inches possible over night.......as i get older i have lost my sense of humor when it comes to snow......i'm not sure whether it's age related or the fact that i've lived almost my entire life in regions that experience lake effect snow and i'm just sick and tired of shoveling/blowing the _____ stuff. i've got an early in to work tomorrow so if it does snow i'll have to get up about 5 am to take care of it.......sheeesh!!!!!!!!!!!! at least it hasn't been real cold yet, normal that does hit us here until Jan/Feb. i can remember one day a few years ago when it was -55*F with 45-50 mph winds, wind chill was something in the neighborhood of -100*F, needless to say nobody went anywhere that day.......

oops that wasn't a little snow i saw, that was between an 1/8 and 1/4 inch of ice, dang took 20 minutes to get the windows on the car clear.....but the driving wasn't bad.........Hummel and tea.........

CPE Bach and coffee, he worked for a time for the king of prussian who was pretty good on the flute, assuming that the flute works of cpe where written for him.........we just had a pres who played the sax as well as monica........i wonder if the court of prussia had interns..........which reminds me Bill C. got kicked off his school curling team.....he had a great out turn but his intern sucked......(rim shot)......got just a little snow over night, is cold and windy this am...........

moody blues and green tea..........believe it or not i just don't listen to classical........only 99% of the time.......i listen to rock about as often as i drink green tea for that matter............weird mood tonight.........i might actually be turning human...........nah no chance of that

still Grofe and Copeland with Holst in the wings....tea... i not sure if that really fits my mood tonight but it's what's in the machine and i'm too lazy to change it.....was out briefly and we've got a touch of freezing rain....lovely....

went down to the 'cuse for lunch and some shopping, it spit a little snow on the way down, looks like they got a little, maybe an inch or two over night, we ain't got squat yet....but then i'm not complaining

Grofe and coffee...........with a little Copland to follow.......if you haven't checked out the BlogBoard, link is to the right...do it now or else you will be summarily declared to be billygoat and i will find you(hehe).........

been getting a bunch of emails lately, on the surface they are from someone in the congo, promising me much money if i allow them to transfer funds thru my bank account.... now i might have been born yesterday but i wasn't born this morning......any who....... i was doing a little surfing last nite and found this, apparently it's a wider spread scam then i thought.....this is a good site for checking out rumors....

finally got WRR on his way......took just over an hour to load, but discovered i had room for one more pallet.....took a little over 2 hours to get a decision on what to add........(ka-thump.....ka-thump.....ka-thump( troll drumming fingers)).......almost time to head out for a little dinner and then two days under the bridge...ahhhhh!!! i do hope the billygoat is fresh at the local bistro tonight.......

did i ever mention that i hate fridays...........

wet,cold and nasty this morning and the weather isn't good either...(rim shot)....got a load going to west coast whse with WRR, man's trailer has a floor that if it gets a little wet is about as slippery as i've ever seen, everytime i load it i hum the skaters waltz to myself...he apparently was coming thru Tenn. last weekend during the bad weather and had a scary ride.....

i got to get my eyes checked, i glanced at an order for Cal-Davis and thought it was for the Dept of Pornology....what the hey what would they want with irrigation equipment, besides i thought that dept was at Cal-Berkeley ;>).......looked again it was the Dept of Pomology....ok what the hey is that.....jumped on line and the first hit on the search was their home page,see here, pomology is the science of fruit and nut production and distribution, well you learn something new everyday, but you would have thought that a nut case like me would have know that

slept right up to the alarm this morning, rarely do that.......woke up with a start....so fog is deep under the bridge.....even a little more that usual.....but fact is i'm not a morning person any who......

holst "the planets"..........mars is storming my ears as i write this.......it was one of those days, my other choice for days like today would be wagner.........but high pitched fat ladies.........nah stick with the holst..........and a diet Dr Thunder.........at this point in the day i love my computer........of course it's the one at home ........not one of the three i use at work......20 some odd years ago when i started in shipping the first thing i'd check out before hiring a worker was how strong his back was.......now the first thing is whether or not he has any computer skills.......times change.......when i was in HS we still used sliderules and what computers there were, were card readers......

i have a love/hate relationship with computers, a few weeks ago blew up the monitor on the manifest system, been getting by with a 13", got a 17" today but apparently in the process of changing the moniters ( remind me never to do that again mid run) one of the programs got confused and could not find the data for day end reports, which i had to re-enter ( pain.... agony....) then i started the day end on the other program and the printer had a spazz out, ejecting a continuous stream of gobble-d-gook.......sheeesh!!!!!....on the bright side the new monitor is a big improvement.........

Just saw tom for the first time since the wedding. Told him it was nice that I could finally talk to him man to man, that was provided he had actually managed to �..Well you know�� amid much laughter he called down a curse of crows on me�..It�s a running gag between us�we both live in areas of the city where the crows will sometimes roost for the night, 100�s of them, and the racket can be quite disturbing�

Beethoven 1&3 tonight and tea.......made tuna salad for supper....i've got a cat that as soon as the mac starts to boil is rubbing against my legs waiting for me to open the tuna.......she seems not to care about the possible mercury problem.......it's "give me the tuna and nobody will get hurt"......

this day is just getting better, had to tail a truck to the scale house to get a full weight, and locked my keys in the car, no keys in the pocket, car locked, there they are laughing at me from the ignition, earth to troll....earth to troll.............

wet, and turning colder this am, had a nice warm weekend, a little unusual for this time of year.......looks like it will be a busy morning....the clown car is parked outside.......i hate that when it happens.............i feel about as sharp as a wet noddle this morning..so it could be a long day....when i have days like this i look up and say "Lord why me?" and he replies "Because you're driving me nuts, you really are"

mozart and diet pepsi.........with a twist.......i thought it said for the twisted and that would be a good thing to have listening to mozart........it's stopped raining......works done......and mozart......things are looking up, came up with a couple of limericks about Monica and Bill C but i refrain from posting them here,i have no intention of making this a XXX blog.......

There once was a girl name of Ryder
who wasn't a very good hider
they saw her quite clear
and yes oh my dear
to the house of slams they may slide-her

in the words of the old rock ballad "rainy days and mondays always get me down"....amen....you preach it Sister Karen and i'll turn the pages....it's the double whammy today......a rainy monday.....

LOL....someone is using "freewinona.com" and its a tacky commercial site selling among other things free winona tee shirts, some how there's a lesson in that but the fog is thick under the bridge this morning and right now it eludes me......Brahms 1 and coffee...

good grief it must be a slow news day,Is Winona a serial shoplifter?, this message is done as a public service in this blog's ongoing effort to keep you informed, i mean there can't be a more important story.........boy CNN must be really off today i didn't get a breaking news alert on this one..........well any who........Shubert 5 and diet pepsi.........yah i know but how else am i to keep my boyish figure, actually i have the body of an 18 year old.......and if he ever finds out what i'm doing to it he'll kill me.......(yah i know old gag but then i ain't no spring chicken)

The leaves of fall lay on the ground
As I rake, I�m reminded of my past
Like pages of a tattered book
They lie around me as the leaves

Some brightly colored
Some dingy and old

Some forgotten
Some remembered

Some remembered
That would be best forgotten

I rake them in piles
No order
The good with the bad
All in a pile

I bag them
For the trash

But in my haste
A few escape

But whether
To trouble
Or to cheer
Ah there�s the question

Job�s done
For another year

Tchaik 5 is roaring out of the record machine ( yah i know it's a CD player, but it's hard to leave go sometimes of childhood memories), a cup of tea.....one benefit of the blog is to give me somewhere to put the droppings when the poetic muse comes over me as it does from time to time, too often in the past i've just written them down on scraps of paper and most have been lost, mislayed or destroyed(which in most cases probably wasn't a bad thing) now i have a place to save them ( now there is a scary thought)........ i have loved limericks ever since reading Ogden Nash at a very young age, although i do sometimes write in other forms/styles.........ah the second movement of the Tchaik.........what a horn line........

there once was a girl from down under
who made an incredible blunder
she put on her thong
but did it all wrong
and tore the poor thing asunder

there once was a girl from Madrid
who went out to purchase a lid
but when she was high
she hooked up with a guy
nine months later she now has a kid

i found these two bits of wit, written on a plank under the bridge this morning. of course as usual i may only be half right

But let's return to the girl from down under
Who made that incredible blunder?
Her rear now exposed
She sexily posed
And the applause it echoed like thunder

what a crazy day, everything seems to have happened this am, got it all taken care of and this pm is just plain dead.......zzzzzz......but it's friday and still an hour before dayend reports so it could turn nuts again.......has turned into a great day, if it holds tomorrow and they say it will, will have to get the sticks out of moth balls and play a little golf........if i can find a course still open........one of the wits around here mentioned the other day that when he entered politics Tom Dashle changed his name, according to him he added the d to the front and apparently dropped two letters another s and an o.........the funniest part is D is AofG......tell me how you really feel about the Dems. will you D.........

been on a dead run since my feet hit the plant floor this morning, only a couple hours in and i already feel like i've been drug thru a knothole backwards.......TGIF............on the bright side it's near 50*F this morning, as opposed to yesterday morning when it was 15*F......ah late fall in the Northcountry.........

Winona
Nuts!!!!!! i already had my free Winona blog planned, today has turned into a class A nightmare(or is it PC to say nighthorse/), my mommy told me i'd have days like this......but not everyday..........

checked my Email, and there was a breaking news alert from CNN, okay i say to myself who did the CIA fire a hellfire at this time, but no it was way more important that that "Winona found Guilty", sheeeeesh!!!! who really gives a billygoat's butt? i'm betting that even before you can say "Jack Robinson" there will be a Free Winona web page....but it begs the questions: why wasn't this settle quitely? and just how much did that circus cost the Califonia taxpayer?..........dang that billygoat i had for lunch must have been grazing in farmer Smith's pepper patch because i've been betching fire all afternoon.........

midterm elections and the party of the president gains ground......you could knock me down with a feather, ........tom just wandered thru, he's getting married this weekend, first time out in his mid 30's, have enjoyed busting on him about that, he's a good sport about it......looks like the weather may warmup a little this weekend......maybe we'll have a little indian summer.....

tea, Hummel followed by Barber, kind of a mismatched pair but it's been one of those days, spent the afternoon singing a series of rock hits of the 60's to myself at work ..........ah Barber's "Adagio for Strings" there will be a brief pause for reflection.............voted after work.........mostly out of habit, none of the races really seemed to instill any emotion at all in me....

Death,
by remote control, ain't technology wonderful......... i guess it redefines the term "due process"...........

been trying to chop wood this morning, swing the axe but no chips are flying, i've got things to do today and need all my wits but only half of them have shown up so far............it's going to be a long one.............

when younger i can remember hearing those who were older talking about "the Good Old Days", and silently to myself going "sure, yah okay, who would have wanted to live then rather then now (now being defined as 40 years ago +/-)
i caught myself the other day talking to a driver, and realizing that i was doing the same thing that i had thought a weakness and silly in my elders all those years ago, it's funny how things tend to go/come full circle, that being said there is something to be said about the good old days.
when i was in HS probably 85-90% of all the students in my school, came to school with a pocket knife in their pocket or purse, but never once did i see one used as a weapon, nor i doubt whether more then a very few even ever considered using it as such, not that there were not disputes then ended in a knockdown dragout, but there was an acceptable level of violence that was not overstepped, ah the good old days.......

weird, driver is in process of blowing a load of resin into one of the silos, first of all the product is made in Texas, shipped by rail to Canada, and then shipped back across the border to us in a dry bulk trailer, but he mentioned that they X-rayed his trailer when he came thru customs, well i guess i can half understand that, a dry bulk trailer does bare a strong resemblance to a bomb on wheels... i really have a hard time understanding man's hatred for man......

please forgive my typing/spelling but i got this new keyboard made by Freud and Sons and my fingers keep slipping off the keys.

there's about an inch of snow on the ground this morning, actually quite nice, i can't see the dirty brown ugly leaves anymore.......just checked my email, usual load of spam, but i guess that's what i get for posting to usenet...... 10% of the spam is golf related (post mostly to rec.sport.golf)......30% seems to be concerned with my financial well being, however i got the idea that their real concern is their own.......30% are worried about my size and potency,well not mine exactly, but you get the picture......the last 30% are trying to sell me pictures of young catholic school girls or some other form of that particular type of photo/movie......good grief. in fact i rarely open any of the spam,particularly that type but sometimes when the email subject is truly outrageous, i do. one of this mornings had the subject line of the week so i did, they were nice enough to include free samples........ have you ever noticed that the average age of the alleged teenage girls in that type of photo is at least 35.......oh well....coffee and Holst....

a little tea, the strains of "The Art of Fugue Vol.1" echo thru the room,the cats are all sleeping, the roses are all snug in their beds for a long winters nap, it's spitting a little snow, checked to make sure that the snowblower runs, i'm way too old a troll to shovel that white____ anymore. election day is right around the corner, it would be nice to actually have a choice, but all that's running is a bunch of billy/nanny goats, i look at the ballot and all i can think of is "LUNCH!!!!!!!!!". it would be nice to have at least some emotion either positive or negitive about it but i see them all between two slices of bread, and plain old white bread at that.

still no snow here, the lake effect went below us which is good news since i really need to put the roses to bed for the winter, hate to do it before the tricker/treaters descend, because i fear that my roses cones might be too easy of a target, woke up feeling sub-par oh well...but rather mellow this morning, i wonder if maybe it's because i don't have to work today, nah that couldn't be the reason

what a disappointing fall this has been. no color. we had a dry summer and never had a killing frost until mid Oct. the leaves are just turning a ugly brown and falling off, bummer. the snow seems to be going below us, the 'cuse is supposed to get 3 or 4 inches this PM, but we ain't seen more then a dusting, at least if we got some snow it would cover up the ugly leaves.

some snow on cars this morning driving to work, nothing in town but outside probably got some. aches and pains i get when the weather changes. the young troll who had this body thought it indestructible, the old troll who now lives in it knows he was wrong. i've often thought if i knew then what i know now, but then the sense of indestructibility usually goes hand in hand with being a bonehead so i probably won't have listened even to an older me.

temper, what do you mean i have a problem with my temper, i'm in total control of it, i can lose it anytime i want.

i have a love/hate relationship with computers
computer: do you want to quit this program
troll: yes
computer: are you really sure you want to quit this program
troll: yes
computer: are you really really totally sure.........
(at this point troll throws computer out window)
later in day boss suggests anger management classes
(at this point troll throws boss out window.....)

man it's cold this morning, they're predicting lake enhanced snow for tomorrow, burrrrr!

a little tea, a little Faure, a little blogging, ah!!!

what can brown do for me today? they can shake their can and get here to make their pickup so i can run my day end reports and go home, that's what brown can do for me today

what a rush, first two days this week 4 hrs look for work,4 hrs find no work, so today the dam bursts, i may have to move out from under the bridge

work, a necessary evil, it's days like today i remember the old gag about they call it work because all of the of the good four letter words were already taken.......

this is a learning thing, if you what to contact me try going under the bridge

i can help but notice the blog spelled backwards is golb, b and f are both formed with the lips so where is the fairway. i think that the thing about the different areas fighting over who will put the snipers to death is a little wierd, after all whatever happened to innocent til proven guilty....i've got it how about a game show "Who wants to be an executioner" the winner gets to blow away the snipers in a way of their own chosing.....civilized my wrinkled _____.