it's actually still early but with the amount of sleep i didn't get last night and the fact that i'm still fighting this cold...even though i took the afternoon off i am exhausted and i think i'll call it a night pretty quick.....i have radio set on..and a cup of tea.....have been having a absolute riot tonight posting at BF and exchanging a series of nonsense and just plain fun with nicky.....really a lot of fun......feel much better but so dang tired.....think i'll pack it in

now i have avoid any war like reporting here but i cannot in good faith avoid this one....lets chalk one up for free speach Star journo fired over war view
, what he did might not have been in good taste....may even be viewed as a conflict in interest but he did as an american have the right to his opinion......i hope that he pursues his legal options......

listening to a different net radio station...Dr Klassisk, it's out of denmark...have added the link to the listen to list........and tea ....am feeling some better,,,,but still haven't warmed up completely

i'm home...took a half vac day....feeling poorly and we have a heater problem in my area and it was dang cold which made me feel even worst....nothing much happening so i burnt a half day vac......have changed the pic again......am doing a little research that i've been putting off and just hanging out.....

did not sleep particularly well last night, woke up several times and very restless....well once more to work...have tried to catchup with what happened overnight in blogland.....too many of the people i read and fence with live in time zones well removed from mine so things really happen "while i slept" or to be more to the point of last night...while i slept badly.....i seem to be doing a run thru of my fencing partners series..so the nod of the day goes to khai, to answer her tag....seriously i very carefully watch my cats for any sign of fleas....they are indoor cats and so that is not normally a problem...i do this because and i know i will regret this statement...fleas unfortunately like me.....if there is a flea in the house it will leave the cats alone and chew the crap out of me....i'm a troll...what would you expect....

so i'm listening to atlas.cz and this annoucer comes on and of course i don't understand a word of it but that was ok as she had one of the sexy voices that melted the lens' in my bi-focals.....i find myself attracted again to the voice over the radio.....not the first time and probably not the last ....years ago i was working the 4 to 12 shift and would listen to an all night canadian radio station....being as close to the border as we are we can pick up the canadian station with ease...but i degress....this girl had the sexiest voice i have ever heard...i was in love.....but sometime later i saw a picture of her.....she played for that station celeb hockey team....she was about 6 foot tall and probably 195 of solid maple.....but ah that voice....but then i've always had a hankering for large women....but that's another story for another time....

have atlas.cz on the media player....sounds like a little big band/jazz....coffee and a little hunk of blue cheese....all is right with my little trollie world right now....can't and won't speak for your human world but the trollie world is getting along just fine at this instant.....probably go all to hades in under 12 hours when i got to go back to work but right now all is right with the trollie universe...

man what a riot, i felt like i was 13 again today, because of my sore throat my voice was totally out of control and was breaking up just like it did when my voice was changing, made for an interesting pratice...but feel more comfortable with the music, but it was intersting....good news on the round ball front as the 'cuse has made it to the finally four....really felt that had a sweet 16 team but am pleasantly surprised with them getting thru til the final four.......the drama of the day is over...have had dinner...made myself a little shrimp salad and some toast and i'm thinking about tea and blue cheese for the finisher........

have just eaten lunch....listening to mostly classical....have about 20 minutes to relax and catch up with whats happening on the boards et al and need to get to choral pratice...on one hand it is a waste of time i fear because the voice is way less then 100% today, but i need to be there anyhow....you can absorb some even if not able to full participate.....but would really rather take a nap....but only 2 more reheasals before the concert so one must do......

within the next couple of weeks i'm probably going to start another blog...whether public or private i still haven't decided but will use it to log my golf rounds and notes on play.....seems like it might help me...probable bore the heck out of anyone else but then i really don't give two hoots sbout that anyway.....this whole blogging deal is for my benefit anywho.....

i sometimes wonder where the ____ my mind has gone....and yes ladies and germs i did have one at one time but lately it seems that it's on a long vacation in the south and forgot to take me along.......i've had what one of my friends calls a "senior moment"....i was going to post about something completely different below...got side tracked....and then never did post what i original intended....

woke up this morning and we have just a covering of snow on the ground....except for piles that the plows made most if not all of the winters snow was gone....almost to give the spring snows a clean spot on which to lay....nothing stuck on the roads or sidewalks...but the ground is still cold enough to allow it to stick there...won't last very long but it's somehow pretty even if i've seen far too much snow for far to long this winter

i have another wild and crazy sunday in the offing......will probably not post much today as i will be on the go most of the day

mostly classical on the player this AM and my morning cup of.....trying to catch up on what happened overnight here is the land of blog...have read my boards and taggie...jj stopped by last night...new layout on her site...and i find myself saying this about her as well, it seems that in blogs i'm not attracted to blogs that i always agree with but rather those which are well writen and are entertaining which her's is, .....in life as well as on the net ( and yes i actually have a life off the net) i find that i'm more attracted to those i disagree with most of the time then to those i agree with....how am i going to test my beliefs if i only listen to those with whom i agree.....besides i love verbal fencing....even if i get nicked from time to time....great fun.....oh my there i go again running off at the keyboard and forgeting my manners......here is where you'll find her.............

it's turned in to a nice, quiet day/evening....it's been warm today but has rained lightly for the most part all day....could turn to light snow overnight.....yah i now it's almost april but heck we had a snow storm on mother's day one year. i have had my head in the sand most of the day...i'm still praticing my ostrich response to the war.....have the brazil station on the media player and a cup of tea...and thinking about raiding the frig for some more blue cheese ( see below...i'm to lazy to repeat myself)....have been doing a little verbal fencing over at BF with evil edna....check out her blog....i don't always agree with her but she writes well and is always entertaining......

have had a strange afternoon trying to get images to load on a message board....oh well....firgured it out...just me being dense...or maybe just exhausted and not remebering what i did before.......( a short interuption)....lilly the smallest and youngest of the cats just wandered in...annoucing her presents with that pitiful little cry which i believe she has a patent on....oh i so lonely..no one cares..please rub my tummy....i've never seen a cat that not only loves to have the belly rub...but in fact demands it...oh well where was i ......oh me being a blockhead...so i've spent sometime now that i got that figured out...uploading some pics to use as avatars...which reminds me...one more to do.......

man...sometimes this internet thing confuses me.....

It�s been an interesting day. Was at work until 11:00 got everything basically done, just a little to finish Monday. Decided to take a run past the golf course just to see what shape it was in. Clubhouse is still boarded up, but on the whole not too bad. I�ve seen it wetter, but besides me all that was out there were Canadian geese and a few seagulls. Decided to head to the mall and went right past a place that sells the greatest blue cheese, stopped in and bought a � pound. Needless to say not all of it got home as I nibbled on it the rest of the morning. Although one does not normally think of upstate New York as an Amish area over the last few years several families have moved in. particularly into one section of St. Lawrence County. One of the families makes some of the best traditional hard pretzels I�ve ever tasted, and another makes excellent cheese. The blue, which is sold at the store I stopped at, is wonderful. Great flavor and a creamy texture which with care you can spread. Now if you can only get somebody up here making old fashion German beer�.nirvana�.
Spent some time in Wal-Mart and Kmart just looking at the golf stuff. Didn�t see anything I need, or even want for that matter. Of course want is the important part. I often buy what I don�t really need. Got some lunch and got home. Have been fighting off an infestation of the bouncing cat. Smoky has been alone too long this morning and as I type this I�ve throw her off my lap at least a half dozen times. She�s a lovely, loveable little critter but has a bad sense of timing.
Well I want to surf for a while and do my daily walk thru blogland. I have about 8 or 9 sites I read daily and another dozen or so I hit from time to time so I�m off. And before somebody tags me , �yah I know I�ve been off for a long time.

i'm pathetic, i just have to keep tinkering with this dang blog....as soon as i say to myself that's it ....everything is done....i start the process all over......pathetic......i've added a guestbook.....why......was it a rational decision,,,,was there an underlying need...of course not......whim.....because i could.......who the heck knows......but added it i did.....i'm pathetic.......

check this out, and click on the gulf war 2 icon on the right.....intersting point of view....great presentation........

i was re-reading the taggie this morning ,,,,nothing new over night and realized that what searchn wrote probably makes no sense at all if you try to place it only in the context of this site.....there are references there to this site, this taggie,her site,her guest book, and bitchfest.....and sometimes even understanding all that you still can't make heads or tails of it.....but then why is that necessary.....sometimes i think we miss half the fun of life trying to make sense of everything...and forget the joy of senseless pleasures.......some times the funniest things make no sense......where do you think nonsense came from......keep up the good work searchn.....it's in keeping with the underlining motto of this site.....making no positive contribution to the world just having fun since oct 02.........and keep 'um guessing

i've got a new trollie variation....kind of looks like the animation from tales from the crypt....might wait to put it up for All Hallow's Eve...might only wait til this afternoon...may wait for ever

i think i've become paranoid after the incident last week where my template got deleted....ok ok so i've always been a little paranoid....ok ok a lot paranoid but it worst now....everytime i change the template i'm save in a backup copy......of course i'm also saving one to disk in case my hard drive goes.....but then remember...just because your paranoid doesn't mean they're not actually out to get you......

Hubble Watches Light from Mysterious Erupting Star Reverberate Through Space wild photo's of a supernova taken by the hubble, really wild....have added a link down below to hubblesite.org.....

listening to radio set.gregorian chant and a tea........really am blown out tonight and need to probably put 1/2 a day in tomorrow...i really dislike saturday work but it is sometimes unavoidable....and month end is one of those times.....between inventory and trying to get every possible shipment out the door it makes for a "fun" 3 or 4 days.........yah i know i bitch about it every month but this is nothing....you should here me bitch about year end.....which is six months away....i'll probably be bitching about that for 6 weeeks prior......if you every meet someone who enjoys doing inventory i would suggest getting as much distance between them and you as is possible because there is something dangerously wrong with that individual....don't get me wrong after 30 some odd years doing inventories i amn quite good at it, i have the math tool set that made for the job, but i hate it hate it hate it!!!!!.........

end of the month friday....they really should fall on the 13th of the month.....the good news is that we got everything out that needed to be out......including a whole pile of stuff that got dumped the last minute out of the blue.....the bad news is that i didn't get within a 100 miles of inventory or MRP today.....so my usually quick hop in and hop out on tomrrow morning will probably turn into 1/2 a day if i'm lucky.....i've got nothing planned for tomorrow it's just the principal of having to work on the weekend......

a wild day is in the offing this will be brief.....

things could have gotten very dangerous...lilly the youngest and smallest of the cats, is very curious and a bit of a scamp...while i was taking a bath she was walking on the edge of the tub and showing a very curious glance at...well at a certian body part...now this cat just loves to chase and bat things....fake mice...golf balls... and particular any thing that dangles....i think at this point you've probably figured out my problem even if i've done my best not to come right out and say it.....well i was afraid that she might fall into the tub in ...oh my....how should i say this...in pursuit of her "prey"...and having a cats usually hatred for being wet....well it ain't a pretty picture.....fortunately i put her on the floor and she went away.....talk about the disarming of a weapon of mass destruction, or rather mass dis-memberment.....ok so many not so massive but i'm both fond and attached to it....or is that it's attached to me....no matter....cup of tea but no music...i have an early in and am dead tired so will probably call it a night

look before i post this link, this is not one of my strange jokes....read the article.....Sperm may sniff out their way to eggs , yah i know but even i'm not strange enough to make this one up

i use my page, i've got over 70 links over there on the right and i don't have all of them stored as "favorites"/"bookmarked" ....i'll come here and use the list to surf....because of that the one thing that bugs me is that i have to constantly use the back botton to come back here.......well no longer i just inserted code to open my links in a new window......70+ times ....i think i have ctrl v cramps.....

it's been a moderate day....not too bad...but i'll feeling a little rocky this pm....cold still got hold of me pretty good but i'm way to busy to let it get me down or to even worry about it.....i come from a long history of people who refuse delivery on things they don't want....several years ago when dad was in his late 60's he had a fainting spell in church... was taken to the ER and in the process was given an EKG....doctor comes in and asked him when he had had his heart attack.....quote dad "i've never had a heart attack" quote the doc " EKG's don't lie" so dad asked if the doctor could tell when which as apparent about 6 months to a year before...then dad said you know about 8 months ago i felt really poorly for a couple of days....chest pains but i had been working hard around the house so i figured i pulled a muscle....so i took it easy a few days,felt better, and thought no more of it.....well i guess if dad can refuse delivery on a heart attack, the son can and does refuse delivery on a cold.....

river is not any higher this morning so it looks like we've dodged the bullet....i've been thing of search engines and just as a joke..i've been thinking about what type of words i could insert in a blog entry to get more search engine hits...in fact how i could write a silly parody which would include all the key words but used in pun meanings......sort of a search engine trap if you will....but then i really don't want that kind of hit but it might be fun just to try......

i've have basically taken the night off from the web....other then paying my daily calls on my rota of other blogs i've basically stayed off line....i was so blow out both mentally and physically after work today that i just didn't have the energy to try to do anything which required thought....stayed in an skipped a choir pratice... but the cold has now slid to the throat and since i'm like 10 or 11 days from the north country choral concert i think it's probably best not to tax it and really get my voice rested....but am feeling some better now...have a couple of heavy days coming so i think i'll call it an early night...it's funny that yesterday i had more ideas about what to write then normal and today i'm fresh out...........well i guess that's the way the blog bounces......

i love search engines...i really do....but sometimes....i got a google search hit today....now even if the guy who comes off here is really lucky and what he was searching for is on the mainpage...the best he's going to get is a link to an article or my wise arse comments....but if it's in the archives i probably couldn't find it with anything short of a 5 man scouting party and i put it there, and if i could assemble a 5 woman scouting party i won't be looking for anything in the archives.( not that i would remember where i left my....well you know).......but this one was a gas the search was for __how to get rid of a troll__ well i'm sure as hell not going to tell him.......although i'm sure most everybody that comes in here wishes they knew the answer to that question .....i love search engines....they're good for a laugh

looks like they've revised the flood stage numbers and we'll probably be ok.....looks like it will crest below the wall.......i can remeber when it hasn't and we had a really fun time sandbagging et al....

this day has been a blur with being a little sick, being busy and my clerk out it's been one treat after another, i'm dead tired and still have work that needs to get out, although my job is physically demanding ( particularly if you factor in my 55 years) but it ain't nothing compared to the more primal physical demands of the clerks job....which somedays would even make atlas' back sore.....

oh the joys of spring...the black river is on the rise and if predictions are correct will crest sometime tomorrow at about 13 feet above flood stage.....somewhere between 12 and 13 feet the water will start coming over the wall that is about 150' from where i sit right now..but as long as that's the extent of it it will only puddle in the lower end of the parking lot and cause no real problem....but we will have to at least prepare for the worst......oh the joys of spring......sheeshhh!!!!!!

i'm still suffering from the effects of the cold although i feel much better this morning....will be a wild day as my clerk is out today and it looks like it could be busy....need to get at it so i shall..........

i've have been playing ostrich again tonight, i have avoided news of any sort...not for the reasons of the other day when i was in a good mood, but because i really don't feel well...better then what i did this AM but still not good...and i am easily depressed in this state...and so i've avoid any hint of news......besides i really don't see that it's necessary to do 24/7 coverage of the war....i'll wait a few years and read the cliff notes....got an early in tomorrow...i off to the land of nod......

if you've been here in the last week or so you know i've been rotation different pictures...."The Trollie Enigma Variations" on the site...all 5 current ones are now posted to the attic if you'd like to go over and take a look....a couple have not yet appeared on this site....i have a poll there so you can tell me which one you like best and for those of you wise arses ( and you know who you are) none of the above is not an option

i wrote a piece sunday i think and mentioned the blue laws which searchn picked up on and it reminded me of how silly legalism can be and how legalist always find a way out of the rules when it's to their advantage...in my youth i was a fair to midline distance runner, and was running Xcountry for a small very conservative college with very strict rules as to what could be done on sunday.....basically nothing.....well anyways we had had a race on saterday in which i had had severe cramps in my lower regions...and after we got back to school talked to the coach and the AD....we had a race on monday and there was no way that i was going to be able to run on monday if i didn't workout on sunday and try to get loosened up...well after a little thought the AD says ....well there is nothing in the rules which says you can't take a long walk on sunday....and some people do walk faster then others...so i see no problem in you taking a long "walk" tomorrow....just do it as far away from campus as possible and don't wear on anything with the school logo on it......now these guys were on the stop watch about a week earlier when i blistered a 13 mile training run in under 1hour and 10 minutes.....which included a sub 4:20 mile......even when i was just messing around i'd run a training clip between 5:30 and 6 flat per mile...now there is no way anybody in their right mind would call that a "walk"....so i took my "walk"......and we won the next meet......i just love legalists........

somedays i have trouble finding things to write about and today they seem to be falling out of trees into my lap....i was over at virtuallynicky's blog and she used a word that forced me to the dictionary....now that doesn't happen too often...but as god is my witness i didn't have a ghost of an idea what abseiling meant....come to find out it's UK-speak for rappeling....but it reminded me of the old shaw line which was something like the UK and US are two nations divided by a common language...although i've only been blogging for a few months i've been haunting newsgroups on line for a lot longer, and have seen several times when things have gotten a little crazy because of the different usages of english words...whether regionally in the US or with particularly UK vs US usage.....the best was on a golf group on usenet....a common golf item used in the US is a re-enforced bag with a handle on top and a tube on the bottom used to collect pratice balls after you hit them....well it's called a shagbag...now as a verb in the US that's used to mean "1 a : to chase after; especially : to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play b : to catch (a fly) in baseball practice
2 : to chase away " however in UK slang it has an entirely different meaning....i give you the spy who shagged me well the mayhem that broke out on the newsgroup was a riot........

don't really have time to post now...just got back from lunch and have a truck waiting but i'm doing this to leave myself a reminder to comment on what searchn tagged about.....something she said stuck a forgotten event that got me to thinking and will probably post that later today....when i've got the time to write a "book"

it's a strange deal here if i can stay at my desk and do desk work i'm fine but if i have to get up and walk around i feel like crap....i think if i don't feel better soon i'll take a half day this pm......need to finish a few things that can't wait til tomorrow....

life is strange...i avoided being sick most of this very hard winter, except for a light case of the flu i was cold free....spring is upon us, weather is getting nicer,,so this morning guess who's got a killer of a head cold,,,,sheesshhhh!!! life is full oif suprises

It�s about 7:30 on 3/24 and I�m sitting here typing into word because I have not been able to post to blogger. Template is gone. I don�t think I�ve down anything because the page can still be accessed, so it must be something on their end. Well I guess that happens from time to time is really to be expected�.but I am bummed out about it �oh well..it�s not like it�s life or death but it does reek�..
I�ll save this and post it when I get back on�I haven�t missed a day since I started this about 5 months ago, and I�m not going to miss one now even if it�s posted at a later date�
I�ve got tube music on�it�s very lay back a soothing which is what I need to night and Darjeeling tea�.i rarely drink just plain tea I prefer the specialty type�I a bit of a snob that way�I also prefer single bean coffee�.can always afford them but if I can then that�s what I drink�..
First day of a month end week�usually they turn into a real freak show but today wasn�t half bad�..will leave this for a while and maybe finish it later
entry from yesterday when i could not post)

i am at a lose to explain but i apparently lost the old template....i don't have time to reconstruct now ...one must work...but i will start over again tonight.......

i seem to be having a problem with blogger, i think it's a problem accessing the server the template is on...i can losd the page but can seem to publish..this is a test because i was trying to publish a template change...lets see if a text entry works

i grew up in a time and a culture where sunday was a day of rest........it's really not that many years ago that the city i live in repealled the "blue laws" which forbade the sale all but necessaries on sunday.....but from a personal standpoint sunday has become anything but a day of rest....i just finished dinner and really should leave sometime in the next 10 minutes or so for my first of two rehearsels, will have at most 30 minutes to get across town.stop for a bite and get to the second......if i'm lucky i'll be home about 6:30....and have been out all morning....day of rest....i think not.......

well that should do wonders for site traffic...i can see parents making their kids look at the new trollie variation and say...."and that's what you'll look like if you don't eat your vegies.....hehe

it's sunday morning, the only day of the week i get to sleep in and i'm up by 6:30,,,,,,to many years of getting up early for work. have a busy day and probably won't update much today....i'm the mad updater.....i throw virtually every piece of coherent thought on this thing.....from my point of view coherent....probably total babble from anyone elses....have decided to post the seconf of the "Trollie Variations" today...possibly within the next hour or so....this one is probably the most trollish of the bunch,,,and i think its my fav.....

i got to thinking nicky came by and offered to put me on her list of notification when she updates....real fine site and accepted the offer quite willingly...but i've never considered setting up a deal like that for this slag heap....first of all i think most people would rather i never did update...second if i did notify them there wourld probably be a big jump in people booking passage on a slow boat to china...third i'd probably get accused of being a spammer because this post makes the 8th time i've updated today and i'm quite sure that that isn't my record......

i'm listening to tubemusic...link is down on the right there...it's a Korea net based new age music site....just easy listening....nice station...i've been working tonight on a twist on the concept that elgar used in his enigma variations....typically when one writes a series of variations on a theme....theme and variations by"whoever"...the structure is that they first state the theme and present a series of variations on that theme...the neat thing about the enigma variations is that elgar never states the theme and what it was has been the source of much speculation and debate......well the enhanced photo above is part of my own twisted enigma variations...i have an original picture...the theme if you will...and that picture above is the first variation on the theme...i spent sometime this afternoon and evening working on more variations on the theme....and will from time to time post the different variations but never the original......to most it will be relatively obvious who it is, but the real person,the true image will always be somewhat hidden....i think it parallels nicely the whole idea i have for the blog...while from time to time i'm sure i reveal much of myself here...probably sometimes more then what i intent...yet i never will reveal the whole man....i'm not sure that that is possible anyway...over a medium in which even with web cams we can never truly met face to face....but some of what you see is real...some is altered...and much is hinted at possibly but never truly revealed....

i'm not saying this guy was very bright but here is a man after my own heart (so to speak) Defendant moons Texas judge, but being that it was in texas he's probably lucky the judge only tacked 6 months on his sentence......with the precedent in that state of the use of the death penalty.......

bad troll, bad troll....i messed with the template and went to the site and all hell had broken loose.....repeat after me trollie when you open a header tag you must remember to close it.......duh!!!!

i've turned into a bit of a links whore....i've got 70 some odd listed right now and there is no telling how many i may end up with...over the last few days i have been sorting them a little and placing them under new headers to make things a bit easier to find...

i'm sitting hear listening to a little jazz this morning on cafemusic.com.br a net only station out of brazil....really nice music.....i never paid any attention to net "radio" when i was on dialup...just to much of a hassle but now with a cable hook up just in the last few days i have started to explore what's out there, have added a new section in the links down on the right someway with the stations i finding and enjoying...and will probably add to it from time to time......

a girl from old erin's isle
said to the troll with a smile
come fill my glass
and call me your lass
and rest 'tween my breasts for a while

the war invades my thoughts this morning
even though i will it not to...
i try to play the ostrich
but cannot

i try to place my thoughts
on the positive
on the mundane
but cannot

i listen to lovely music
i think on beautiful things
i try to focus on anything else
but i cannot

but i must
i cannot allow myself
to be sucked in to the maelstrom
i cannot
i must not
i will not

the more i say to myself that i have the site exactly the way i want it the more i tinker with it.....but i think i'm losing it...it's been bugging me that the new photo was not the right size....now we're not talking a big deal here...i enlarged it by 8%.....but it now fits a little better to my eye....i got this addiction bad....i keep saying that i'm really not that concerned with the appearance of the site but i keep fiddling with it.......

i knew i shouldn't take my head from the sand but found an interesting news site with a totally different perspective on the "war"..arabnews is a saudi based news agency....and this article really caught me between the eyes propaganda you might say...but then what would their opinion be of our reporting.....My Dear Americans, now obviously this is as biased in one direction as pro war reporting is in the other, but i usually find that the truth is somewhere in the middle......

just got home from a little dinner and a jaunt thru the mall, as i sit writing this i'm listening to wcny on the web....bach's bithday today so most of the day they've spend playing bach...quite nice....good station check it out ...i have a diet pepsi and a snoring cat......no that's not the newest cookie or candy bar but cat smokie is laying on a foot stool trying to snore the siding off the house....it's hard to believe that one 11 pound cat could make that much noise.....have not checked the news for hours and i really don't want to know what's going on in the world..i'm enjoying the music, the cold drink, even the cat snoring and the 'cuse won their first round game in the NCAA's.....all is right with my world right now, i am at peace....why mess it up with something i cannot do a dang thing about.....like the proverbial ostrich i will keep my head in the sands of my own tranquill state for a bit longer.....

as it is coming on towards the Oscars it seems like a good time to start awarding the first annual Trollie Awards.....haven't given it a whole lot of thought and probably will award these at random when the mood strikes me....but the first Trollie will be awarded in the catagory "Best Essay Writer who uses Taggie/Zonk boards as their medium".....although the votes are not all in, it's pretty obvious who the winner will be.......

'Poo taboo' slows progress on world sanitation, and if i may quote the first paragraph...."Kyoto: Embarrassment and inhibitions over discussing human waste is one of the major obstacles to resolving the global sanitation crisis, experts at the Third World Water Forum have been told.".....good grief....but tradition, superstition, religious belief sometimes can cause major problems....but this one is a real pisser ( yah i know going for the cheap gag again but...oh well) but if i may quote further "Until we can discuss shit and piss without squirming or giggling, we will not resolve this crisis," said Rosemarin. "Everybody's going to be downstream from someone else real soon."....yah but do you really expect to say a line like that without a giggle or in my case a belly laugh......don't get me wrong it is a major problem and one that has to be handled but it must also be one where i would think a sense of humor would be vital,,,,

Golden Gate Bridge fall was 2nd for protester
Victim had survived similar '88 plunge , very strange event , apparently this man commited suicide to protest the war....but had apparently accidently fallen off the bridge once before when protesting somrthing else but suvived....very strange.....but as an odd counterpoint Dow Up 87 Points, Nasdaq Rises 15 Points , i simply lack the intelligence necessary to undestand mankind......i guess i'm lucky to be a troll,,,,,

Web users make war, not love, apparently search engine request for imformation on the war have replaced sex and britney as the most searched for items....i can see it replacing sex but poor britney must be crushed.......actually she probably should be crushed but that's another kettle of fish entirely.....

Khai must of stopped by some time over night, however it would have been during her day if i remeber right because if my failing brain is correct she posts from nz. which reminds me ...i have really gotten into watching rugby on fox world sport...and they do a lot of coverage of the super 12 and the tri-nations.......and i usually root for the all-black so khai be gentle with me...she posted a semi provocative taggie...khai your a bad girl....i like bad girls...keep up the bad work....but don't let insanity girl find out....and mean while aunt marge lies in a ditch just outside of town having take a tramp in the wood (/this mornings installment of the trollie soap opera)

where was i....oh yah i was no where......which is sometimes the best place to be....i'm really starting in a hole this morning ( and no wise arses the pun warning did not just activate)....because with the two late loads yesterday and the trouble i had with the lifts( not lift as in an elevator, or to make me taller, as i forklift) i have about an hour of yesterday to finish before i can start on today...so my breaktime posts may not happen.....

you will probably not see any comment at all on the war here....evil edna over a bitchfest is talking about a new round of "bitchie" awards for the worst war related commentary on a blog....i have no desire to let her hang one on me...i run in fear (yah right)...but it's a great excuse and allows me to avoid a subject that has conflicted my limited mental resourse...thanks eddie

pardon i'm leaving now i must go make the proverbial donuts.....

i have an early in tomorrow so it's time to go to bed.....but as often happens although i am physically tried i really haven't destressed from the day yet....but may read for a while before going to sleep, probably reread a part of one of the C.S.Forester books in the Hornblower series....i'm a military history buff and although civilwar is more my cup of tea...this series is excellent...not truly fiction...really more historical fiction...a good read.....night all

have decided on a little wcny...they have an interesting feature on from6-7 everynight called the sounds of jazz, which reminds me i really need to link to them which i will take care of right now.....

i was thinking of changing the image and as much as i like the gettysburg pictures, they are after all already in the attic, i decided to put something a little different here....let's face it this place is a little different....ok...ok...it's a whole lot different and i thought of face and different and only one possible candidate came to mind...but to prevent from being place in the axis of evil for uploading a weapon of mass destruction to the net i decided to play with some special effects....and used the coloring book effect and it came out quite nice....well as nice as any picture of that puss could be....while frankly i don't give a hoot whether you like it or not....well if that's the way your goning to be then bugger off....hit the "x" on the top right and leave me and my lovely (cough) image (choke) alone.......

lordie am i glad today is over....well not the rest of the day but the work part of the day....but it was not with out it's humor....one of the guys that was helping me step into my path without looking....not a close call but i said to him that hitting him was the last thing i wanted to do......that good said he...i said you don't understand i want to hit you...it's just the last thing i'm going to do....later while having trouble going up a slippery ramp i was chanting "I love my work.....I love my work......" not very convincingly and he said no you got that all wrong you should be chanting "I love my paycheck.....I love my paycheck....." mark one up for him.....have not made the effort to find any music yet but am finishing a diet pepsi from supper.....and deciding want if anything to do tonight.....may watch some round ball....and surf for a while......

if you notice i do have my site listed with some blog lists and if you scroll down right you'll find a link to some webrings.....but you won't find any where i have submitted the the site for review.....it's not out of fear for what people might think.....it's because frankly i don't give a hoot....this blog is for me......then why isn't it private.....because truth be told i am an individualist.....and i enjoy flaunting that....i get a charge out of sticking it under your nose and going Nah nah, na nah nah.........terribly childish of me to be sure.....but then in many ways i have never truly grow up.......to quote that great man Popeye the Sailor "I am what i am and that's all that i am, i'm trollie the crazy man"....ok so i changed it a little..........if you don't like it use the "x" at the top right of your browser.......and don't let the virtual door hit your virtual arse on the way out......

it's getting late and i have a heavy day tomorrow.....watch survivor....it was tonight because the NCAA b-ball tournament starts tomorrow, the 'cuse plays friday........haven't done to much tonight.....

i'm listening to wcny fm tonight on the web...which is kind of funny because it is a local station....well actually wjny is the local translator of wcny which is a syracuse station,,,,excellent classical public radio station...you can play it right from the web site or you can probably find it on your media player classical list....and tea......have pretty well decided that i'm in for the night......searchn mentioned that altought it was only 40 here is afternoon it was 75 where she lives....but the silly thing is just coming off a cold winter 40 seems warm.......it might be just 40 but that's 75* warmer then the coldest morning this winter....and since we will probably have at least a few days in the high 80's this summer it should mean that we have a max/min temperature swing of 120*+.........pretty severe contrast....

ah well the essay contest seems to be going strong on my tag board........home from work....just one of those days when nothing seemed to go the way it should have.....in other word quite typical.......should go out to a choir pratice tonight but am sitting here listing all the reasons i should dump it....and the top of the list is total lack of interest....the big 0....nodda...zilch......

i've been fiddling with taggie...i've dropped 1 font size, change font style and increased the lenght by 37.5% ( this later thing was accomplished by feeding the taggie some of those drugs they advertise to increase the size of your....welll....you know.....so if taggie starts growing hair you'll know why) anyway this was done because people have been writting term papers over there lately and it helps to read what's going on......

not a particularly busy day....just a frustrating one.....one where each completed job seems to require it to be pulled screaming from the pile.....have several things hanging because i have an in-op forktruck at one location and am waiting on the fixit man..........

i have tried very hard to avoid political comment, at least here on this site....but i like to link to news which has been absent, not because i haven't looked for some, but all i can find is on the war....and that is a subject which i will do my best to avoid here...if you must know where i stand then you can find it here. but i really think that there are far more pressing problems to deal with...and you will only find them here from time to time....i really feel that the whole purpose of this place is not to debate the profound...but i would much rather feature the mundane, the witty and the down right silly.........

the 6 "london symphonies" of haydn....a philips disc with sir colin davis and the concertgebouw orchestra...and coffee.....i have only really started to enjoy haydn in the last couple of years.....i guess that as i get a little older rather then my taste in music becoming more ridgid it has actually become some what more extensive....not that i can stand any of the modern pop crap but then there are limits.......no real focus tonight....probably will just surf aimlessly...but you never know.....

i sometimes wonder if the average person ever listened in english class on vocabulary day or have every bothered to look up certian words in their "Funk and Wagnal's".....sheessshhhh!!!!.....i was asked to figure maxing out a 20 foot container,,,,what was the most i could get in it, i gave my reply and told them that that was going to be close, but by pulling a few tricks i could do it.....so the order comes down at those numbers........+ a 16"cube box of literature........now i always thought that maximum was just that...all done... no more....forget about it......good grief......so now i've got to come up with every nook and cranny to try to stuff the literature in....oh boy and god help me if it doesn't get there is perfect condition......

got a tag about my creative urges concerning the tag board from eddie, seems that she thinks that she's the target and has declared war.......my, my...i've asked for 48 hours to go into exile but i assume that that will fall on deaf ears....now if she is that it would only be a little tit for tat.....try going over to BF and type troll54 in a post....it comes out "bananas"........i wonder how that happened.....hummmmm......( trollie mulling over possible tactical moves)............(trollie now laughing hysterically as he heads for taggie admin panel)

looks like it will be a nice day today, not as warm as yesterday but at least above freezing...don't have to be to work til 8 but woke early so have been reading some boards....i believe i have at least for the time being appeased the vandals....but i realize that it is only temporary and that they will return......i've been thinking of doing something different with the profanity filter on the tag board....may be i'll put some really vile phrase there worst then anyone ( other than .........) would write......nah i've got it why not sub *we love you troll54*.........or *Oh Troll54 your the best*........hey i like that....of course it would probably embarrass the hell out of 2fan.....which come to think isn't a bad idea.......(sound of troll digging into template.......)

it has been a lond tiring evening, i think to some extent i'm having a little problem adjusting to the warm weather, i feel a little lowgie tonight....have basically watched a little tube and ignored the blog...and net altogether........need to check on the boards and such.......but really have not th where with all to continue.......

2fan is happy with his new position in the links....i thrilled...(yawn)....but remember boys and girls ....whale dodo now has a link....tick off the troll and your link could be lower than whale dodo.....think about it.......

have re-ordered the links, in case you still have a problem with my strange sense of humor...fellow galley slaves is a list of sites run by co-workers...whale dodo's link is now up too....

after i went to bed last night my taggie was vandalized, by 3 individuals.....2 of those were ladies ( and i use that term in the("WARNING PUN ALERT SYSTEM JUST KICKED ON") broadest (/PUN ALERT)sense of the word) from bitchfest,,,,oh there will be vengence but i will wreak that vengence on them on their own tuff so to speak.....i choose as the ground for that battle the bitchfesty board (link over there on the right)......i got an angry email from my friend whale dodo, he was upset that i compared him to 2fan, i had to reassure him that that was not true....i didn't say 2fan was whale dodo...i said he was lower then whale dodo(hehe)....anyway whale dodo wondered why i wasn't linked to him and it's because he has yet to supply me with that link....i hope to take care of that in the next few days.....will think about tonight re-organizing my links list....and find an appropiate place of honor for 2fan.......

virtuallynicky stopped by and kinda gave me a rough time over being included under my one size fits all links header "Trolls and Billygoats"......she is one of the crew at bitchfest.....when i first labeled the links to other blogs and web sites that way i guess i never really figured on having a large percentage of them to sites run by the opposite .....well gender.......i thought about just adding a word and making it "trolls,billgoats and bitches" but there are some of the female persuasion over there who are not members of bitchfest and who might not have a sense of humor when it comes to that word......so i have removed those links to the "bitches" and placed them under their own title..."The Ladies of Bitchfest"......i do hope that if somebody wanders in here from a search engine looking for a porn page and sees that he doesn't think he's hit paydirt....on second thought i hope he does...after all traffic is traffic....

i'm basically a wreck tonight between 2 and 6 this afternoon i sang for all but about 1/2 an hour with a voice that wasn't 100% to begin with...........not that my voice is ever really 100%.....but have a mild sore throat...or i guess i should say i had a mild sore throat ....what i have now is a major league sore throat.........but it was fun and i enjoyed it but it is very tiring......have an early in tomorrow so i think i may hang it up early tonight......

it's +52*F in watertown right now, i drove back from church with the car windows open....the feel the smell of the warm breeze was beyond words.....i feel 100% better then i have in a long time......despite my location in cold northern ny, i am a child of the warm, not of the cold........

the day is about to begin, i really should be thinking about getting dressed and get out of here, but have been doing a little surfing, have added some links lately to the girls from Bitchfest( hiding over on the right )......virtuallynicky is a new design, nice job...i can actually read a black background blog.....i really struggle with some of the backgroud/font color schemes people use...i have pretty bad eyesight....and certian color combinations make it difficult for me to read, but this site is a breeze...good read as well.....

the sunday morning ritual, i have a cat on my lap who is taking a bath, and is sharing it by licking my hands as i try to type......always a treat

i'm tried and tomorrow promises to be a heavy day....i've got a 2 1/2 hour choral pratice among other delights and i've had a bit of a throat problem this week so i think i need to get a full nights sleep to night so i thing i'm outa here

i am feeling much better this pm......ran some errands and stopped and got a burger for lunch....not a normal thing but was in the mood...despite my best intentions got caught in the traffic i was trying to avoid........i like snakes.......

mind you i'm not complaining but it was below 0*F yesterday morning and as i write this it's +41*F outside....man it feels warm enough to go swimming...but i doubt anyone will have the snow cleared off the beach yet.....it finally gives hope to me...after this winter was so long and cold i was starting to suspect the start of anyother ice age.......

as a item of fact, watertown is set up as a wheel, and the easiest way to get anywhere is often thru the center, know as public square, an old style traffic circle.....i was just thinking of going out to run some errands and get a little lunch...but will have to take an alternate route...this is the weekend of the annual St. Paddy's Day shindiggs........3 days of it...most centered on or near the square...if i want to go to the mall i'll have to come up with some kind of an end run to avoid the traffic....parade...annual 10k run...and those who have had more grog then corned beef.......must probably go east and north to end up west......and all for getting rid of a few snakes...sheessshhh!!!!!!

elgar...the enigma variations and tea......just got home from a brief visit to the plant to take care of the morning reports........still seem to be under the influence of the.... you guessed it...that was very clever of you...dang i'll stop spreading those vile rumors about you.....anywho.....i'm not flat on my butt sick...i really think i'd perfer that....let it run it's couse (both literally and figuratively) and be done with it....but i'm not that sick...i just feel unwell...........it's not a deal stopper just an interferance.........

Stone Age human tracks found
Three people were rushing down side of a volcano near Naples i wonder if they were wearing nike's or new balance...or drinking gatorade.........(hehe)

assorted faure...including the Requiem.....really awesome piece of music...but it has a special place in my ear....it is one of those pieces of music that i not only really like, but have had the chance to sing in a performance of the pieces twice......really has some beautiful tenor lines....actually 2 tenor lines because in many places there are 2 seperate tenor parts.....also a couple of section solos...neat stuff...from an emotional stand point i can think of few pieces that effect me quite like the sanctus section....it contains as well as beautiful vocal parts...a neat horn line..the last time i sang it one of the horn players was my daughter...neat experience....and a diet pepsi........the work week is over...well almost...need to go into briefly tomorrow to put daily production numbers in the system but should be in and out quite quickly.......

Soldiers make last deployment from Fort Drum, ann article about the personal aftermath of the crash on fort drum......

cold again or rather still....today's only out bound is here already....but rather now then 3 pm.....still trying to control some minor flu problems.....well once more into the pit......

have just kicked back, played some pc games, watched some tube, and basically have taken the night off the net, really didn't have the level of concentration needed to even bother, but will hit a few sites and then off to bed, still am not feeling 100%...dang flu....but have an early in tomorrow, and a load first thing......i need my beauty sleep....not that it will do ant good...that was taken care of a long time ago..........

day end, have a couple of loads tomorrow.....but then fridays are fridays and even a relative benign one can end up as a monster....am feeling a bit better but still haven't gotten warm....

i awoke this morning with some moderate flu symptoms, nothing i couldn't handle so was a good boy and went to work....and for my sins ended up spending 3+ hours in a barely heated warehouse (about +16* F outside) on a forklift, 2 outbounds and 1 inbound, and froze my.........well i guess i froze just about everything.......weatherman says it may actually be in the 50's over the weekend......but at this point it seems to far away to do any good

march 13, i really hate it when friday the 13th falls on thursday..........am not well this AM,,,,i'm at work out of rote....have a day that i really need to be here but don't know how long i'll last

the following is an explanation to friend rick about something i tagged to him on rainbow road, but it's funny enough to post it here. he had a really funny joke on the site so what i tagged was in part " you're a pistol, halfcocked, but a pistol none the less" or some such thing....anyway what i got was "you're a pistol,"beep"...(etc)", now i understand the profanity filter....but boys and girls and taggie "cock" is a legitimate word......you cock a pistol,,,,it's a male chicken ( and a whole bunch of other male fowls as well).......we have shuttlecocks......you cock an ear....( although i admit that, that one brings to mind several strange possibilities....)........i can see filtering out the one meaning 4 letter words, but cock is a legitimate word...i think that's pushing the filter boat out a little far from the dock (/ half*beep* rant)

was out for a while tonight, and have returned in a foul mood......no real reason...just a bunch of little nagging semi-reasons that have all ganged up to make a Godzilla size, foul smelling, mean spirited mood.......so rather the sprew acid and stench..i think i'l just hit the sheets.......

Military confirms 11 deaths in helicopter crash; 2 survivors hospitalized this article lists the names of those involved, nobody i knew so at least i can put those fears to rest, however my heart and my prayers go out to those who unfortunately are not as fortunate as i and know names on that list

China censors four Stones songs, boy am i shocked about that, actually finding something in the rolling stones that offensive....(hehe)......i guess they won't be inviting any rap stars to china any time soon....

no current/new imformation on the crash story, taking a quick break...have got one more inbound to unload and need to be at the other house in 10.......still spitting a little wet snow, but i'm feeling a little better then before.....must dash

light. wet snow falling this morning, the kind that sticks to everything giving a shading effect to trees, and everythipng else in it's way...the stuff of those great winter scene pictures, but at this point, after this winter on this day, i am ignorant of the beauty, intellectually i know it's there, but emotionally i am cut off from it, rather than a blanket of beauty i see a shroud of despair

11 Soldiers Feared Dead in Crash of Army Helicopter at Fort Drum this seems to be the latest imformation i can find, no names yet

US Army Helicopter Crashes, 11 Dead, not good news....as i said before this rises great concern as i know several members of the 10th, again my prayers and now unfortunately my sympathy to the family and friends of those who died....

Army Helicopter Crashes in Upstate New York , this was on Fort Durm, home of the 10th Mountain Div, which is just a stones throw from here, in fact i know a whole fist full of guys in that div,many of them play golf at my home course, it's maybe a little selfish but i sure hope nobody i know is involved, or is ok.....my prayers go out to those involved and the families.....

i got home at normal time just barely, truck was after 3 but did get it done by punch out time, but am very bushed tonight, there on the table about 2" out of arm's reach is the remote and i haven't bothered to stretch to get it.......nah i'm not that lazy....hayden...the lord nelson mass, although the way i feel tonight a requiem would probably be more appropiate...have the dregs of a cup of tea......watched some tube and played PC games for a while....have checked my boards but ain't nothing shaking....

Depression
It covers my mind
As the snow covers the ground

Nothing seems to evade it
Nothing seems to be growing

And yet
Under the snow
Life waits

Bulbs planted last fall
Wait for warm
Wait for moisture
Wait to spring forth

Yet
Does that matter
Will the mind
Also renew

Will new life
Spring from so long forgotten
Thought
Some seed of truth left long ago

I wonder
But I suppose that very act
The wonder
Implies
That it might be true

have a truck on route here from Jamestown which is about a 4 1/2 hour trip from here under prefect conditons, and they aren't, we got 6-8" of snow over night and probably more then that south of us where he'll have to come thru....due about 1:30 PM, hope he isn't too late.....i wish there was something that could be done about the way search engines direct people to a blog.....got a hit today on an article i commented on a while ago...that post now resides in the archives,,,,but the engine doesn't take the searcher to the archieve page it's on but rather to the current page......it's got to drive the searcher nuts...heck i probably would have trouble finding something in the archives with anything short of a 3 man scouting party, and i wrote it...i'd have at least 1/2 a guess as to date....too bad the engine can't take them to the actually page...then "find" would work....i guess one of the weaknesses of the blog is that it's order is chronological, not by subject.....no index if you will (/mild rant)

got about 6-8" of snow overnight, it was spitting a little when i went to bed but must have gotten heavier overnight....it's the 11th of march for pity sake....i really am at a point where i have serious concerns that we maybe at the start of a new ice age.....this area really got the crap kicked out of it by the last ice age....evidence of the geological nature abound.....i really would like to see a little of the global warming about now......

friend rick has started another blog, this one he says he will post only happy, inspiring things on, i wish him luck with it, link is down there on the right or you can find it here.

getting some light snow tonight, thankfully i don't have an early in tomorrow so will not have to get up at some ungodly hour to blow snow even if we get a lot.......i'm either way too smart....or old ...or lazy(take your pick) to shovel that crap anymore....am tired and i think i'll head off for bed........

Trial Drug Fends Off Peanut Allergies , maybe not an earthshaking article for some but i have a nephew, a truly gifted young man, who will graduate with his AA from the local cc this year at age 16, who among other things has a severe nut allergy...so on a personal basis an interesting article and some good news...

hayden,vivaldi,faure and elgar.......3 cd changer so i can listen for 3 hrs or so without moving if i choose....ain't modern technology great...and tea.....i am tried tonight and have no real desire to do anything but veg...i think i may surf for a while and who knows i may run into something worth writing about......or more then likely i'll run into something that isn't worth the K it will take to write about but i will anyway because that's the kind of troll i am......

day finally settled down this afternoon and i got everything done that needed to be done......i got a fairly busy week this week but hopinh that i can get some vacation time in next week, weather seems to be getting on toward spring, this winter has been a long rough one and i need to get my head screwed back on right....hopefully we'll get some nice weather and i'll be wacking golf balls soon

it's part and parcel of the way this day is headed that i sat down to take a break after 31/2 hours and file a post and had typed a few lines when i got interupted with another....."but this has to be done now"....oh well such is the nature of my job.....haven't had time to scout out any headlines to play with today.....but then this really isn't a links page, although i will from time to time feature some links.....nor is it a blog devoted to social or political comment....although i will from time to time rant on about one thing or another....but it is not a blog without direction,,,,in truth the problem is that it's a blog that seems to be pulled in several directions....and all of them at the same time.........because it is an exact reflection of it's owner.....who seems to be pulled by many things and in many directions.....i am committed ( and there are those who think i should be committed.....) to the concept of "both and..."......i really am not except on certian core issues an "either this or that..but not both" type of person.....makes for a view point that tends to seem from the outside as self contradictory...but from within although i sometimes stuggle with the conflict makes perfect sense...

have been on a dead run from 7:00 AM.......shaping up to be a crazy day.....actually pretty normal day.....my momma told me i'd have days like this.....but not every day.....cold, sunny day would actually be pleasant except we also have rather striong gusty winds

it's been a day in which i've crashed, pratice went well, but when i got home i just had no energy left....i've spend the afternoon and evening just watching the tube, something i rarely do, have payed little attention to the blog or my boards just zoned out....i sit here trying to come up with something more then my current blah state, but am to blah to care.....night all

sundays have become as far removed from the idea of the "day of rest" that i grew up with as to be unrecognizable...would like to surf and post a little this afternoon, but need to get to choral pratice, probably should aready have left but it's only a few blocks....

spent some time last night trying to help friend rick with a new site he's working on, he was trying to use one of the more complicated blogger templates, the one that's adjustable and changes colors....well that thing is convoluted, i guess at some point i really should make an effort to learn html, maybe get a source book rather then just learn by trail and error...but just don't seem to have the energy or desire to invest the time.....however being a pretty good "puzzle solver" i can usually kick around in the code and find whats wrong...but struck out last night......with the code i mean....sheeshhhh!!!!!....you guys are real low this morning.......

i am dog tired tonight, it's a good thing my cats can't read or they would be very upset with my choice of words...have decided not to mess with a new design....i'm very comfortable with this one and have no complaints about...it's simple, i know where everthing is and i've never been one to change for change sake.....if there would be an advantage then i would but frankly i can't think of one.....

have changed message boards, all the links should take you to the new board..the old board just loaded way too slow...well live and learn

the 3 cd's in the machine probably are as good a hint as to the chaos that is my mood....the choral works frrom a couple of nights ago....britten....and the moody blues.........and a tea.........took a walk earlier along the south bank of the black river and added some pics from the walk to the attic, much of the river is still frozen but this section partial because of the power plant, and the rate of flow is already clear......

insanity girl accuses me of being a leg puller, absolutely, i'll pull it, yank on it, figuratively cut it off and beat you over the head with it....i'm the east coast sales rep for "Leg Pullers Unlimited".....which is a whole owned company in the "We're Going to Get U " group...i love to tease people....i love to laugh...and make others laugh too....if i can sometimes fool you...pull the wool over your eyes so to speak so much the better.....as to my altering the discription of the bunny....dang this is the internet,,they are giving this bunny to bloggers..if they didn't want it changed they could have encrypted the discription in the GIF.....they put it in the cut and paste HTML.....that's like showing the bull in trollie a red cape........CHARGE!!! or in this case ....CHANGE!!!
now i mean nothing by this, i'm not trying to insult anyone,, my only goal is that all concerned get a good laugh out of it..

yes i know i'm getting the use of blogger for free, yes i know it costs money, yes i know they offset that by banner ads, i accept that, but now two banner ads on the page....it takes up 40% of the first view......good grief.........

"Dinosaur-Killer" Asteroid Crater Imaged for First Time interesting article, some substantial evidence of a major asteroid strike, but i see no evidence here of dating it.....
now for some bad news The Big Rip: New Theory Ends Universe by Shredding Everything of course the good news is that it won't happen for another 20 billion years......i just shake my head at theories like that, i mean why bother......it's so far in the future as to make speculation absurd........and i'm going to live 20 billion years and when it doesn't happen i'm going to say i told you so........sheeshhhh!!!!....why don't they put obviously very gifted minds to problems that our occuring in our lifetime.........

have been rumaging around in the attic, added some explanation which was sorely needed to some of the photos, and a link to the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, realized like a dumby i had not either fully identified it, nor link to it.......i guess the bright thing to do is force you to go to the attic but i won't, it's a great museum...usually make the run up there once a year, find it here, in fact i think i'll probably add the link to the list on the right...they have some really neat on-line exhibits you can find those here

neat new pictures of jupiter check them out here or here

have bumped the bunny, well not really when i was a lad ( and yes rabbits were already evolved in present form then) "bumping the bunny" was euphemism for an intimate act with a young lass, but i degress( again or is it still anyhow)....where was i....oh yah....but i degress ( here we go again).........i've moved it up somewhere in the middle right, it wasn't loading very well where i had it....don't know if that will help....but it couldn't hurt.......just got back from dinner.....have to go to work briefly tomorrow...but with any luck can just duck in....enter the production numbers and hightail it outa' there.........weird weather today, -11*F this morning and mid 30'sF this afternoon, with a temperature swing like that it's amazing that i don't develope a crack.....well yes i do have a crack but i think i was born with that one........actually alot of people i know just think i'm crack period........

i was reading insanitygirl's blog(link over there on the right trying to hide) and she had this disgusting happy bunny on her site, so i followed the link, i'm mean it is a silly girl thing but what the heck, filled out the form and the result was....well actually pretty close to perfect...so for the time being anyway the little rascal is hiding out at the bottom on the right.......at least until i decide i'd like a little rabbit stew.....

the page finally seems to be fixed ( sound of trollie knocking on wood, drumming knuckles on head).....the tail of the tell-tail clock seems to be at an end ( and no i didn't mean tale.....if you'd seen that dang clock you'd get the joke.....maybe......well probably not.....but i get it and that's all the counts).....i'm getting sick and tired of watering down my razor like wit and intelligence so it can be understood by mere humankind........( Dar she blows....the trollie ego)..........( if you got any on you wash quickly, it will stain)......

it's a cold morning, i don't feel well today so of course i have a heavy day at the unheated warehouse.....murphy is working way to hard lately.....still seem to be having the problem with the page, it's been almost 48 hours since i removed that one piece of code but still get the old page probably 50% of the time........oh well when it's gone it's gone...i can give it no more energy...

i've kind of taken the night off from the net, haven't surfed much, haven't blogged much, just watched some tube....was completely stressed from work today and then the problem with getting the page to load right has really got me wired.....i just needed to take a break....i'm doing this blogging deal to relieve the stress not cause it....but at least the last couple of times i loaded the site it loaded right so maybe the problem has finally worked itself out because i frankly have no clue what else to try......

now i'm at a point where sometimes the new page loads sans clock and sometimes the old page loads, must be stuck in a server and it just depends one luck.......it is frustrating but have given up and trying to fix or even comprehend what is going on......work was a a pain today, had a mass of computer problems which we finally tranced to the hub, which was basically half fried......then had a couple of surprise loads....all in all just a lovely day..........and i'm pretty well strung out..........

still fighting "beat the Clock"...thanks for the support 2fan.......i'm even now thinking of what messy job i can find for you next week....let's play "Beat 2Fan"............(hehe)

am really frustrated with this whole blogging deal at this point...am tempted to pitch the whole dang thing right out the window....the only thing i can figure is that sometimes an older version of the page (complete with now deleted clock) loads...instead of the new version of the page.........sheesshhhhhh!!!!!!

still confused clock is still showing eventhough the code is long gone.......maybe it's really the ghost of the clock come back to haunt me......oh maybe it's Mr. Rod S........and i've entered the "Twilight Zone".......( hear the weird music"

i'm really confused, i removed the code for the floating clock, i've checked the template half a dozen times but some times when the page loads the clock is still there and sometimes it isn't....blogger has been a little "glitchy" today so maybe that explains it...but it is weird

i'm doing a little surfing checking the boards but nuthin' shakin'....have to go out tonight so my time is a little truncated...have been tossing some ideas around in my head about possible changes to the design.......actually there is plenty of open space in my head to fling ideas in....problem is none of them every seem to take up residence, they kind of enter one ear...bounce around for a while then exit....more often then not out my butt.......so if while surfing tonight you think you smell a fart...it ain't...it just one of my ideas that got a way before i got a chance to do anything with it....and if you've got any sense at all you'll just plug your nose and leave it go bouncing by.......

i've decided to get rid of the mouse clock, if you've never been here before you have no idea what i'm talking about because it's gone, for those of you who hated it, i did not remove it for you....just got bored with it....but i've still got the code so if you cheer to loud, it will make a return

it's been spiting just a little snow, very typical of late winter it's as much rain as it is snow, very wet and a very slushy mess, fortunately not much has fallen...i really don't have what it takes this PM....i feel while not sick....unwell...no energy....no focus...have gotten most everything do ,,,, but must try to finish up a few things....tried to post earlier but had a problem...hope this goes thru

very strange morning, almost would be easier if i had a split personality...i've spent 1/2 the morning working on getting the "books" closed on Feb, and the other planning raw material del'vy for april......everthing partically has been past or future......nothing in the present tense......

have dodged the bullet, so to speak on the weather so far....have gotten just a little bit of, well i really don't know if it's sleet or just very wet snow...it's kind of defies definition.........

it's not that late but i think i'll call it a night...have an early in tomorrow, and we are under a severe weather advisory...again...or may still would be better....we've got freezing rain headed our way, between 5 and 8 tomorrow morning, as much as a 1/4" and then some snow on top of that or maybe some sleet....should make for some interesting driving conditions...thank heavens i only have a 2 mile commute and that entirely within city limits........

cd tonight is choral music...mostly german composers...and a diet pepsi...have done a little surfing tonight..posted a bit to mayhem and mischief...team blog i have with friend rick...link is over there on the right....which is where it should be...even if any link that has to do with rick probably would be more comfortable on the left.......but anyhow.......i guess i have gotten a little hung up on the whole genetic/cloning issues but i really feel strongly that you humans as usually are rushing in where angels and trolls fear to tread........all to often science leaps before it looks......or at least looks deeply enough.......while not completely opposed to genetic/cloning research i think it far too early to be messing with the human genome

while looking for just the right gene
to make all the little girls lean
they made a mistake
and o goodness sake
the result was truly obscene

Scientist fears 'genetic apartheid' i posted the link to an article a few days ago on what i thought were rather dangerous comments by a genetic scientist....apparently i wasn't the only one worried.

(below is a repost of that)

DNA Discoverer: Use Genetics To Improve IQ if i may qoute in part from the article ""If you really are stupid, I would call that a disease," James Watson, 75, the American biologist who in 1953 co-discovered the structure of the molecule for life with Britain's Francis Crick, was quoted by The Times of London as saying.The lower 10 percent who really have difficulty, even in elementary school, what's the cause of it? A lot of people would like to say, 'Well, poverty, things like that.' It probably isn't. So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 percent."" i guess that orwell and huxley weren't that far off the mark, i don't know about you but that kind of perspective scares the hell out of me, i just don't think we know enough about it to go manipulating our genetic code, either by engineering or cloning....besides in science, particularly medical science, today's breakthrough all to often becomes tomorrow's nightmare.....

although our concerns are not identical...i glad that i'm not the only one who is worry about the possible effects of what has been embarked on.......it's about time we should learn the lesson that before we ask the question can we, we should answer the question should we

it's a very damp. windy 23*F today with a wind chill of 11*F, but one of those days when because of the winfd that the cold seems to cut right through you.....i feel like i've been transported into the middle of a large block of ice......winter has lasted, at least so it seems. forever this year... saw a neat blurb on the tube this morning if your into odd number deals...apparently a woman in Philadelphia gave birth to triplets yesterday.....3 on 3/3/03.......but then i have one of those oddities in my future ( ok...ok... i have a lot of oddities in both my past and present as well but i mean a numbers deal).....should trollie survive that long i will be 65 0n 12/12/12

have finally found a new image server, well i know they're lots of them...i guess what i really mean is i finally found a free image server......the above pic which i will leave there for a while....which the way i go probably means forever is one that i took at gettysburg during june '02...it's a view off little round top.......i find that with me the only things that every remain forever are those things which i intended to be temporary........so go figure...i'll probably also post a copy of the pic in a larger size to the attic..

am sitting home doing a little surfing, have not really got any focus in mind to night....but hope to get something worked out will see and maybe post results later

still hasn't warmed up at all but the day hasn't been bad at all, have gone thru and checked all my links to personal sites and only discovered 2 dead ones....which have been removed....still have almost 40 there....i guess i'm kind of a links whore but i guess there are worst things to be

day is not going half bad so far....but is still bitter cold ...have added a few links in trolls and billygoats lately.......mostly from the crazy girls from bitchfest....that link's over there too......have thought about redoing this slag heap...but probably won't do anything major......i like it the way it is......or probably closer to the point i really don't have the burning desire to change it....i guess i believe in the old motto if it ain't broke....don't fix it.......i am not opposed to change....ok i may drag my heels a little, but i'm not totally opposed to change...as long as there is a good reason for it....but change for the sake of change.......leave me out........

this is getting really old and stale, it was in the mid-30's F over the weekend and right now the temp is -15*F with 15-20 mph winds, which makes the wind chill something awfully, i don't really what to know....it's march 3rd for pity sake....enough is enough...i want to play golf...i want to start working in my garden...i want to burn my long indies........AUGHHHH!!!!!!!!! (/hissy fit)

but the day wasn't a total waste, went to north country choral pratice this afternoon(see below), some how i never got the letter when they started and am about 4 weeks behind, but one peice i've sung before( about 37 years ago but i looked thru it quick and it will come back to me easy) and the other two aren't that bad, reasonable tenor 1 parts...nothing impossible.....in music i usually am able to do the impossible...it just takes a little longer......(hehe)

i am reminded tonight of the old joke about the guy when interviewed for a job, when asked the question are you responsible replied " i must be, last job i had everytime something happened the said i was responsible"....now i know that i tend to be a bit paranoid....but remember just because your paranoid doesn't mean their really not out to get you....but i degress....it's starting to get really old...seems like lately if anything anywhere goes wrong, i have to prove it wasn't my fault....just the other day i read a paper which claims that i was the cause of the Franco-Prussian War....ok...ok...i might be stretching the point a bit,,, but i can't be wrong and at fault all the time........it's just not possible....heck random chance says at least once in a while it's got to be somebody elses fault...does it(/troll feeling sorry for himself)

.....well that helped......sometimes i take things too much to heart.......i need to get away for a while...a vacation would be nice....maybe 3 days and 2 nights under London Bridge....of course that's out west some where....maybe i'll rent a dumpster for a week...used of course ...i love a vacation where meals are included.....

i am a really "soft touch" when it comes to cats, cats know it and take advantage of me, i'll go to the aspca and walk into the cat room...anybody else who view the cats in the cages the cats will just kind of sit there an stare at them, i walk down the rows and they all reach out to me paws thru the bars and act pitiful, brakes my heart, i'm surpised i don't have 100 of the furry little rascals, although we are at a low point right now, we had as many as 5 but 2 left for that big tuna bowl in the sky within the last year (aged 14 and 16), and i hate to admit it but i do miss them......here's a link to the local aspca.

a question off the taggie as to breed of cat, all 3 are rescues 2 from the ASPCA and the other from a friend who was unable to keep her, all are of mixed breeds, but i love them just the same

i have a cat on my lap this AM. not that unusual as it's a sunday morning, it's just me and the cats and smokie is lonely, problem is that she just will not sit quietly, right now she's taking her morning tongue bath and apparently i'm dirty too because she is licking my hands as i type....later on she will probably lay over my mouse arm...or do some butt typing......it's 37*F, and raining lightly this AM....after the cold winter we have had this feels warm....but with the rain an all as one of the old farmers i knew growing up used to say...."tarnation this damp weather's got my rhumatiz kicking up" ...........i woke up this morning really stiff and sore....it feels like somebody pour wet cement in all my joints...well ok all but one but you didn't have to get personal......(pause) lilli was wandering the house with her little cry like call, as translated into english..."i need my morning tummy rub".....i grew up with mostly dogs for pets and most of them would have done anything for a tummy rub, i've had mostly cats as an adult and this cat is the first one that i've had that will even let you within 30 miles of their tummy let alone request a tummy rub...hell she demands it......have not had a visitation from the 3rd cat yet, looks like she had found her spot for the day, she's sound a sleep in the papa-san......there are pictures of the cats at the bottom of this page in the attic.

i'm tried and i'm headed for bed...tomorrow promises to be a very busy day and i may not get much net time, but then that may not be a bad thing...i probably have been spending more time then i should....and it probably won't be a bad idea to cut back on it at least for a day.....

just got done watching the semi-finals of the match play tournment, some really fine play and even matches.....really have spent little time on line today....watched some college roundball too...the 'cuse over georgetown...have rooted for the 'cuse for years being that the uni is only about 70 miles south, and my daughter attended there.......am feeling unwell this pm....don't know if it's something i ate or if i'm coming done with a cold/flu....have had a winter pretty much cold and flu free so i guess i'm due...

ok...ok...i'll take back all the nasty and rude things i said about tag board...i got my smilies back......nah why should i...i really don't care if i have them or not.....besides i'm basically rude and nasty anyhow........too old to change...

had to reload archives again....oh well...ready to head home for the day, but probably with a pit stop at Panda Buffet first, i love the smell of eggroll in the morning.....(hehe)

well i got the rough part out of the way, need to do a few more things so probably will be here half the day, oh well 1/2 a day off is better then none....