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......