quiet evening, maybe i've been to conservative but i've made no moves in the last 24 hours on blogshares, the reset is in about 9 hours and i just cooled it early, unfortunately the rest will probably hit about the time i headed to work so i probably will not get the chance to be real aggressive, but i'm not really concerned about it, i have no expectation of every move way up the list, if i can stay in or near the top 100 that's fine, i don't intend to put the time in that i would need to, to get up into the top, plus starting late in the beta, and no reset of cash...no big deal.....it's a fun game though if you have look at it check it out, but wait til to more after it goes live......

i got a tag from a review site offering me an award for my blog....i don't do review sites...frankly i don't give a fart in a wind storm about what anyone thinks of my site, not completely true....there are a few and i mean very few of my "web-buds" that i would at least listen to if they made a suggestion, in fact have responded with minor changes in a couple of cases, but my general response is or would be if you don't like it, that's why they put that little "x" in the top right corner of your browser.....but it did get me to thinking what awards i would like to win for this blog......how about:
1- Blog most likely to be declared a toxic waste site
2- Blog most likely to be declared a weapon of mass destruction
3- Blog most likely to be quarantined
4- Blog most likely to be picketed by GreenPeace
5- Best Blog Award from the Society for the Preservation of Pig Latin

if you can think of any others please email me your suggestions and i will treat them with the same disdain, ridicule that i show for everything else....basically i'll flat ignore them, but if you feel you must....then go right ahead

they have a local call in show on one of the area radio stations....well apparently somebody said something they should not have said, and forgot that big brother is watching (or in this case listening)...Woman questioned after alleged anti-Bush threats article appeared in the local news it's short so i'll qoute it.(quote)A town of Watertown woman was questioned Tuesday evening by U.S. Secret Service agents and Jefferson County sheriff's detectives after she told listeners of the "Hotline" show on WATN-1240 AM radio that President Bush should be, or is likely to be, assassinated(/quote).....talk about open mouth insert foot......sheesshhh!!

nice spring day, got a pleasant surprise, had to make a quick run to the wrehouse to add something to the transfer, jumped in the blazer, i always have the radion set to the classic music station, and what was playing but faure's requiem.....perked me right up, one of my all time favorite choral works, in fact if anyone is ever doing the piece and you need another tenor 1 just give me cab fare and a billygoat bone to chew on and trollie will be there with bells on, ok the bells are optional.

the way blogs become tradeable on blogshares drives me nuts, this blog would seem to have the greater value and it hasn't by authorized for trade yet...but the other two now are both active....on the tee for a couple of days...and the poetry corner just now...well it's not important really they have no great value, but it will make play a little different, i just hope that the third one goes active soon

played golf after work, a common occurance for me when the weather is nice, am sitting here listening to cafemusic, and thinking about going and getting a cup of tea.....have decided to go get a cup of tea (pause)......(/pause) got a cup of prince of wales tea and feed the cats..been home a while but made dinner and then sat down and while the round was still fresh in my mind did an entry in my golf blog,
have to sells i need to do on blogshares.....one is coming up in about a half an hour, and then another about ten and then i'm just going to sit out tomorrow, and wait for the reset...they going from beta to live as of may1, and any stock you hold you will lose, actually i had intended to be out by now, but there were just some deals i couldn't pass on.......

a couple of days ago i posted an article about PETA offering hamburg new york a donation if they would change their name to veggieburger.....well if you offer the copy i guess you must offer the original (quote)The German port of Hamburg has been offered $10,500 to change its name to "Veggieburg" by animal rights activists who are unhappy about the city's association with hamburgers.

"Hamburg could promote animal welfare (/quote)

this is a tack on to entry below, found a site with imformation about sackett's harbor, during the war of 1812 and after...neat source...hounsfield military(note sackett's harbor is in the town of hounsfield)

i don't know why but this article just caught my eye Falling Italian Satellite to Shower Earth with Debris This Week
bits of local imformation you don't know....added one today,,,today is th 190th anniversary of the death of american explorer and general..General Zebulon Pike.......Pike's Peak is named after him.....he was killed in an invasion of canada (then a british colony) during the War of 1812......his part of the force left aboard ship from just down the road from here...Sackett's Harbor, and in fact he's buried in Sackett's....althought the article did not say so probably in the military cemetary out there...will have to check that out sometime this summer...altought i guess i don't need to hurry, after all he isn't going anyway (yah i know sick joke but it's been one of those days)

well the more later i promised last night, is this morning, i didn't go to bed early or anything, just kind of lost focus, jj was back again and i guess i need to explain something about the tagboard,....the profanity filter is a default setting, which i left on when i first got the board, because....well just because....but then not that i have a problem with the language but i left it on because i discovered that i can change the *beep* message, actually i've thought of subing something truly obscene, so that even the most innocent of 4 letter words will appear as if the person is a real as my old friend would say a "potty mouth" in fact...trollie runs to taggie admin panel giggling ( and yes virginia there really is a giggling troll)

cafemusic and a diet cherry coke, was a beautiful warm spring day today, but very windy...played golf after work...if your interested account of round is here, that particular blog is for me, i've always wanted to keep a running summary of my play, but never have, i hope that doing it on line will give me the excuse to actually do it this time, just surfing a little and looking for something to comment on, more later

just a quick starter for the day, must get my butt in gear, lovely spring day here, looks like the weather has finally decided to become a bit more seasonal, got a short book overnight on taggie from jj.......thought the girl had dropped off the face of the earth.....well anyway have to get going......yah i know 2nd time i said that but i'm trying to convince myself....ain't working yet

my dad has always said about memory and remembering to do things..."if you don't have it in your head, you have to have it in your feet"....the necessity of retracing our steps to complete something that need to be done when you were there before, but you forgot....well i guess in this case it's "if you haven't got it in your head, post again", i no sooner posted and went to weblog and wanderlust to record my update that i remembered something i had intended to say..........DN suggested,that a possible solution to my dilemna over what to call my web based friends, the term "web-buddies"....i like it but i had to laugh....what DN doesn't know is that for the first 18 years of my life i worn as it where the nickname "buddy", and except for my college years have spent the entire rest of my life know as "bud", in fact i would guess that 90% of the people i know, face to face, have no idea what my real name is....in fact sometimes i forget my real name.....but "web-bud" for short....i like it.......double meaning for me and all......thanx DN

weather damp and rainy this AM but is clearing off now, looks like a should be able to get a quick nine in this afternoon, usually i play about 4 o'clock on weekends but need to be somewhere at 5, but this early in the season i should be able to go at 2'ish with out to much of a delay.....once the season really starts that would be impossible, just too busy.....have not done much with blogshares either yesterday or today, with the reset coming i don't wait to put in anything for the long term, and can't find a short term investment that fits my pattern, so may just coast into the reset and then see what happens....cracked the top 50....and really don't have anything to prove.....and if the weather is nice quite frankly would rather be outdoors, golf, gardening, just soaking in some rays.......think i may leace for the course a little early and spend some time on the pratice green........

IG asked the difference in our two dialects of pig latin, in her type you move the first letter to the end of the word and add an "ay" so for example tag becomes agtay and trollie becomes rollietay and oh becomes hoay.now in the version i learned every word begins with a vowel therefore you would strip all the letters preceding the first vowel and add an "ay" so tag would be the same in both and rendered agtay, but trollie would become ollietray....now in the case of a word that begins with a vowel it remains the same but instead of adding an "ay" at the end you add a "way".......so oh would become ohway

i have dr klassisk on the player, it has of late really become my favorite of the classical net radio stations.......and a diet coke....been a quiet night....when out to the mall for a while, whated to check what if anything the sporting good store had in new, and stopped in at borders, with was kind of dumb, seeing as how i had been in the borders in the 'cuse this morning which is about 3 times larger, but you never know....got quite a kick out of watching the saturday evening "parade" at the mall.......ah i know i was young once but was i that obvious.....well possible but you'd never get me to admit it...besides we didn't have malls when i was a kid......but no we didn't have general stores and pickle barrels either....well that's not entirely true ....there still were a few left......

Well I�m back from the �cuse, bought a couple of books at Barnes and Noble, one is an introduction to hieroglyphs, and the other is a dictionary of latin and greek origins of English words. Ok�ok�.probably not what you would normally consider page turners but it is the type of book that I most enjoy. I read very little non-fiction�..
Wet, damp, rainy day�.no golf for trollie to day. But I�m tired and the joints are stiff and sore today so probably would not have played anyways. Stop at dick�s sporting goods while I was out and bought nothing. Didn�t even see anything that I even desired. I must be sick.
Part of the reason for this entry is to �pimp� as it were a new site that a friend has/is setting up. But as I thought about how I wanted to write this I was struck by the fact that I call her friend. Because by all of my previous definitions (that is pre-net definitions) of the term she would not be. I have never seen nicky face to face, we�ve never shared a coffee, never spent an afternoon together, never broken bread�.and in all likelihood never will, we are separated by everything, age, nationality, time, space, distance, in every way except the net.
My first meeting as it were was through a board, since I�ve read her site, we�ve exchanged thru sites, emails, taggies, guestbooks, instant messages and the like�.but friend seems to miss the point�..because in a sense an element is missing and probably always will be�..i guess I need a new word��.a word to describe someone who I know only in a digital, over the net way��I was thinking of calling them� webbies� but then maybe somebody would think that they had, rather odd for humans, feet��..and �netties� just don�t cut it��so I guess that I�m stuck with friends�..because I think that if I did meet several of my �net based friends� the relationship would not end, it could only get better��.
Now before I need to start a new chapter in this book, on to the task at hand. Dippynicky has started a site, that the main focus is to rise awareness of the affliction we call epilepsy
And also maybe raise some money for charities involved in treatment and research of epilepsy. I think it is a fine thing that she is doing and deserves our support, so check out
dippynicky the online procrastinator's
paradise with a purpose.

I think that I in all probability I will start a firestorm here but I am going to create a new header over in my links �Trollie�s Select Sites�, and that dippynicky will be the first entry there. To be select for this place the site will have to be at least in part dedicated to a goal or a purpose for the betterment of the human condition, so if you think you have something that qualifies let me know�

i have a book to write today, much to say but need to take a run to the 'cuse, so will do that later, rainy and damp this AM but no snow...

it's late, way past trollie's bedtime, but am wide awake, i feel as good both mentally and physically as i have in a long tome, weather looks like it may have finally turned the corner and we will actually get a spring, tulips....well then there's the tulips, we had a brief warm spell and the came up and then it turned cold and snowed again and they look pretty stunted.....i've got about 100 bulbs in so i hope i get atleast a little color out of them even if they are a little late, we see white up here for 5 months a year, so we need the colors of spring to remind us that white is not really the predominate color in life.......

2 days off which is the first time in a while, a little dr klassisk and ice water, went out for dinner and home just surfing, hanging out and playing a little blogshares,....have cracked the top 100. doubt i'll stay there long, but just to get there once is enough, have been playing hard at it the last little bit, but as the weather gets better, i'll be thinking more of how much golf i can play........

at first glance it may appear that i got a couple of very strange tags from insanitygirl, but i was very pleased with them, if you've read this blog before you will know that one of the "causes" that i talk about from time to time is the revival of the use of that fine old language pig latin......and insanity's post are in that oft ignored tongue, how be it she is using the so.cal. dialect, but i'm being too picky.....i took my college degree in pig latin......(why do i sense disbelief).....but we will occasional use pig latin in tags.......( a tip of the trollie hat to IG.....keep up the good work)

de klassisk and black tea......i realize that i have only made one entry today....which is very unusual for me....busy day at work and really didn't sit and take a break most of the day....spent most of the early evening on msn messenger and playing blogshare...and this is a thursday so was watching survivor, actually had tonights result pretty well picked......will be interesting how it plays out from here......because i think it's really to close to call..........have an early in tomorrow so should call it a day but i really am wide awake and feeling pretty good tonight......i had it brought home to me tonight that one of the toughest things to do on the net is tell a joke, particularly when the audience is spread all over the globe.....actually i've been observing the problem for sometime now....the sense of humor while it is certainly universal....it is still a very regional thing in that what i find totally fun, someone from another country, culture, even region might not think is funny at all, or might not get it,or may actually find it offensive,......not just humor but in conversation (as it were) in general something that i might find to be trivial, humorous, or no big deal might actually prove offensive to another.........which never has been or will be my intent.......if anything offhanded i write ever offends then just mark it down as the trollie living in the frozen northcountry who means nothing by it.......if i every really get pissed....you'll have no doubt.....i tend to be an upfront, in your face grace type of guy.......tact is a virtue i neither have nor do i desire to aquire it.......

well i guess i wasn't losing my mind ( of course there again can you lose what you never really had to begin with)...but the anual weather service report on the winter is out, it's the coldest winter in 24 years, no records were set as far as cold or snow, but it was above average in snow fail, and below average in temperature
i first saw this in the local paper, and went digging for a net article to post PETA urges Hamburg, N.Y. to change name , it's kind of both a personal and local interest to me, having grow up in the buffalo area, and having friends from hamburg.....( the article must be off a wire service because it's identical to the one that appeared in the local rag)

dr klassisk and a diet coke.....it's a quite evening....i feel as rested as i have in a long time...the day or rather 1/2 day i took off did wonders....still spitting a little snow....which has not been good for my knees.....when i was about 20 i had a doctor tell me i had the knees of a 65 years old man, and they haven't got better over the intervening 35 years......it's the change of seasons that bother them the most, particularly when the temperature is yo-yoing all over the place likes it's done the last week or so....but besides that i feel pretty good, i guess after all these years i've gotten used to a certain backgroung level of pain, so a little bit has become so normal that i have to think about it before i "feel" it......kind of mind over matter...i can't do anything about it so i just refuse delivery.......enough of my problems.....at my age i should be taking it easy anyway......besides that i'm in good health...so i guess i should be thankful ( and am) for that........

it's still snowing very lightly, but most of what had stuck earlier has melted, just a few odd patches and what is in the boughs of the trees, mostly evergreens, took a half vacation day, nothing shaking this pm and the next 2 days look busy, but could really do nothing this pm to help that so took the afternoon off, would like to play at blogshares but i'm at my transaction limit for the last 24 so have to wait,.......have no music on but will probably correct that oversight anytime now,

we got about an inch of snow last night and it's still spitting a little, it's not sticking to the roads or sidewalks, just the ground...i know it's not much, andf probably won't stay around long, but emotionally it's a real bummer, this has been one of the longest, and most emotionally draining winters of my life, i am sooooo fed up with being cold, and having to deal with the winter, once the weather gets better ( and on an intellectually level i know it will, even if on the emotional level i doubt it), i think i'll take a little vacation, i need it

radio set and ice water, although i did drink china black tea a while ago....not 20 oz. and not because of article linked to below...for the basic reason that i reached into the jar with asssorted tea bags and that's what came out......just relaxed tonight...played a little blogshares.....we may get some light snow overnight.....a well at least i got to play golf twice.....which remends me of a gag i heard once about a guy in these parts who claimed to play golf everyday during the summer, last year he played 3 times......well the summer isn't that short up here but sometimes it feels that way

interesting article on the benefits of tea (black tea in particular Green, Black Tea Said to Boost Immune System , but the test group drank 20 ounces of tea a day, that's a lot of tea, but it is some of the first testing done, interesting results....

a cool damp day today, really hasn't rained but one of those days when it feels like it could any second, have added a blogchalk button, basically just for the simple reason that i felt like adding something....anything....was going to take the afternoon off but am sitting here taking a break waiting for and inbound to arrive.....also need to go over to the warehouse on a scavenger hunt, something which we haven't used in over 10 years....and really don't know a- if it's even there or b-if it is there where in the house is it i went to a very conservative baptist college that was rather picky about language....particularly words of 4 letters, well i had a dorm mate who always used to answer the common phone ( no private phones in your room or cell phones remember circa mid 60's) "Schaffer Hall who in the Hall do you want" well anyhow one day he had the misfortune to do that when the dean of students called.........well all "hall" broke out, and he was under discipline for the rest of the term....

i'm up, well sort of, i feel unwell this morning, and just not in the mood to go to work....oh i'll go...but sometimes i go just because it's habit........i have plenty of accumulated vac time and personals but i go......the alarm rings and like pavlov's trollie i go to work.....have a bunch of things to do at the warehouse today but if everything fits right and i can get done this AM maybe i take a 1/2 day this pm....was in the middle of a 3 sided messenger deal last night and microsh*t locked up on me.....good grief.....but it was a little surreal if you think about it, here i am typing back and forth conversing with two other people over this thing we call the internet, one of them lives just the otherside of town, and the second was in the UK......it a little mind blowing.......but people of this era....young people take that for granted........i think the best thing about the net, the web....is the ability to connect with people that under normal circumstances you would never meet.....amazing tool....

rather imformative article on the SARS problem,

atlas cz and coffee, somehow i managed to loose all my presets on my media player, state of the art my but......have no idea how that happened but i did use the radio off netcrap last night so maybe the media palyer dropped my presets as an act of revenge....or out of sorrow for being ignored and cast aside.....anyhow i am very tired tonight, spent most of the morning posting inventory corrections, and ended up with a really lulu of a headache ( nothing that two IB's couldn't handle but i feel tired now).......not much in the way of interesting news today....disturbing yes...but interesting no........

it's a reasonably warm day here but a bit of light rain and the possibility of some sn*w in the forecast for wednesday....i have decided to start treating sn*w as the four letter word that it is....after the experiment with netscape 7.0.....i downloaded it just to see how bad the blog looked.....the older versions of netcrap really did a number on the blog...but 7.0 does a fair job.....blog still looks like crap but then that's the way it looks....decided to keep it....have it set with blogshares as my homepage so all i have to do is double click the browser and i'm there.....but i'm not getting obsessed or adicted to the game....no way.....( i detect a bit of disbelief in you....very rude actually)

claasic fm, wcny on the player and am about to go get a glass of ice water, played golf afternoon and it was quite warm...and i feel a little dehydrated, i do carry a water bottle with me and try to drink during play, but it's early, only the second time i've played and really don't have my "legs" under me yet....had an enjoyable dinner at my daughters, her in-laws were there, and they are quite a riot so it was fun......have been home about and hour and a half...made a little egg salad for supper and watch the end of the golf....

easter morning, have a cup of coffee on the desk but haven't turned any music on....but must be out of the house in a half so probably won't bother....will be gone most of the day...have a church service and then dinner at my daughter's and then if the weather holds golf this afternoon.....a random thought just crossed my mind, ok...ok.. there are those who would tell you that that's the only thoughts that i have,totally random. and that even those are not common ( i hate to have said it before you got a chance to put that in a tag macelf but there you go)....where was i oh yah...but i digress ( and no khai that is not my middle name).....i digress still....when i was a boy we lived in an area out side of buffalo, about 20 miles east of the city line, it had been in years past been mostly dairy farms, and most of the farmers were owned by german emigrants.....but in the early 50's there were a lot of slavics mostly polish who moved out of the city into the rural areas looking for land to raise childern and gardens....not necessarily in that order....but the key thing here is the oddity of the speak of the area.......for example one of the older farmers would never say come over tomorrow "morning"...it was always tomorrow "in the forenoon".......it just struck me how much things have changed in the world around me in the 50 some years that encompass my association with it, and in reality how nothing has changed....in many ways i believe that technology...all the new toys...only changes the way we do things......it really doesn't change what we do

classic fm and a diet cherry coke spent some of the night watching the hunt for red october on the new dvd player.....also have been messing around a little playing blogshares i need to be careful or i could get addicted to that game.....check it out ......also have been adding some links to the other two blogs.....need to think about bed...was up past midnight last night, dang i don't even stay up past midnight on new year's eve....then had to wage a pitched battle with a six lb. cat for the best spot on the bed.....she won......, also played golf for the first time this year today......weather looks good for tomorrow so hopefully will get out again...going to my daughter's for easter dinner.......

boy i've got to watch where i post stuff

cafemusic from brazil and a diet cherry coke, had a nice surprise, took sometime this morning to throw the golf clubs in the tunk of the car, firgured maybe i get the weather and the couse would be playable sometime this week and i could run out after work...and because i work closer to the course then i live i usually go right to the course from work, but when i went out to get lunch decided to go out to my home coyrse, willowbrook, and see how wet it was, to my delight it was open for play but raining a little, got some lunch and it cleared off for about an hour and a half and i got in a quick nine....the whole story will not be told here but if you'd like (and you better) you can find the gory details here, when i get around to posting them which is what i intend to do next.
have been playing with tables again, trying to make a score card to post to the blod with, i think i've got something while very basic will work....still need to check it out....off i go

just down loaded netscape 7.0, why....because it was there and i got about 23 unused gigs on the hard drive...but when i first started on the net about 6 years ago i always used netscape....wanted to see what the site looked like with 7.0 because frankly it like crap with the 4.7 i had.....still looks like crap but at least it looks like the crap it's intended to be......can't see any difference between how it appears in the 2 different browsers......

it's 47*F right now but is supposed to get into the low 60's with a little rain this AM.....not raining right now...but it is "rainy".....one of those does when you can almost "smell" the rain in the air..
NASA hopes to get pictures of cosmic nursery article talks about the last of the 4 "telescope" packages that NASA is launching....Hubble being the most recognizable....not a particularly earth shaking event on the surface but one thing did catch my eye (quote)What will Sirtf, originally set to cost $2.2-billion (U.S.) but brought in at $750-million (U.S.) by a budget-conscious space agency, actually do? Take baby pictures of the stars for one thing.(/quote)
lord almighty what is NASA thinking, bring a project in under budget.....man all the government agencies must be really pissed at them....i can here it now...."But senator we couldn't help it....cost over runs etc.etc.." "But NASA brought the Sirtf in under budget..."
how dare a government agency spend less of my money then they said they would......sheessshhhh!!!!!!!....wasn't there room in the project for a $75000 toilet seat.......

jazz, a cup of tea, and a matzot w/ peanut butter....i've been know to eat ham salad on a matzot before, and eventhough i've been warned that doing so will get me hit by a lightening bolt it hasn't happened yet.....and passover kosher matzot at that...i just love the flavor of the things....
here i am again, this is getting stale (not the matzot) but i'm dead tired physically and wide awake mentally....while as wide a wake mentally as i can be....i'll have you know i play with a full deck....52 cards....of course they are all jokers but i got 52 of um.....

i've added a chatroom....it's pretty basic but we'll see if it works out....you can find it here, have been playing blogshares tonight, just messin' with it, i not serious about it but it is an interesting diversion......

i have jazz on to night and a glass of ice water, i've been spending the night setting up a new blog, in which i intend to record my adventures on the links of the north country, these links however have no url's but rather are made out of 18 holes in the ground...really nothing there yet except a few links (of the url type)....maybe i can find a driving range open tomorrow,...went to a very nice good friday service, choir sang....but i feel really blow out tonight, spending the day doing inventiry will do that to me....i think i'd br less tired if i had spent the day digging a ditch....i'm sitting here clock watching....i can sell some shares on blogshare in another 20 minutes and need to do that as quickly as i can.......but will keep fooling with the new blog....

well the weatherman was off a little but we'll let him slide, it's nearly 60*F out, lovely day....but i spent 7 hours at work on a holiday...money wise good...every other way.....blaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!.....need to go out tonight and take part in a good friday service...but can kick back for the next few hours....actually have tomrrow off...first saturday off in weeks......

Leopold Stokowski would have been 121 today....not a big deal but one of my altime favorite bugs bunny cartoons has bugs pretending to be "Leopold" so he can get even with a opera star which had got in his hare (and yah i mis-spelled it and yah the pun alert system is disconnected)....anyway they end up destroying the bowl the concert is at ....really a top cartoon in the trollie hit parade.......ranks right up there with "kill the rabbit"

it's 33*F right now and that's supposed to be the overnight low....althought it's forecast to be in the 40's and 50's for the next few days that's more normal for this time of year....maybe spring has finally arrived.....need to get to bed ....early in tomorrow but am still mentally stressed from the day, i've got something nagging at me and it just won't let go.....but i think i've got it pretty well figured out now....don't like it but i 've got it figured out....that bit of gibberish was for me ......it'd my blog after all...

something a little differnt tonight listening to choiceradio.com...they have both a jazz and a blues channel...listening to the blues tonight....i'm not sure i'm in a blues mood but i like the sound...and tea....eventhought i get payed for a holiday tomorrow i need to go into work at least for a while, i hope i can limit it to something under 6 hours but you never know...need to attend to some inventory adjustments........ah well it's been cold so probably couldn't play golf tomorrow antways....drat......
Ancient dung reveals a picture of the past (preceding article presented without comment because frankly i don't give a crap)

it's only 23*F this morning here in nature's natural freezer, i guess spring and summer are over and it's back to winter as usual....macelf is being a bit of a smart arse again witness his taggie, but it's really the character trait of his that i enjoy the most..his crack about I.L. at work...intelligent life...means he's out on disability....but it is true....without him the breakroom discussions center on nascar, how drunk they got last night, or the size of particular body parts....now that ain't all bad but i need a break from that from time to time....macelf is a bit arrogant.....but then so am i....and i've always thought that a little arrogance is a great trait to have

wow, what a wild day today was, i had a truck waiting right at the deck at 7:00 AM....needed to get him loaded because he need to make the pier by 4:00 PM and it's about a 6-7 hour trip....but had him on his way by 8:00 so i assume he made it...1 other load and a bunch of hassles later, i am dog tired but need to go out for a while, don't know if i have the energy but ........

they say in spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love, well in spring trollie's mind turns to two things...one i love (golf) and one i hate (cutting grass) but some people put a twist on grass cutting....Lawn Mower Racing the Cutting Edge Sport....oh boy....i don't kmow where to start triming this article down to size, but i think it borders on the strange....but i know what your think....those crazy americans well true but here are links to the official home pages of racing groups....both american and british.
after yesterday's beautiful weather....it is low 30'sF and raining today with the random hail thrown in for good measure.....well i guess it's put away the mower and grab the snow blower....snowblower racing.......nah.....i ain't going there

That Firefly's Glow Is One Big Boast, Study Finds
kind of a neat article on firefies...i remember as a kid being totally amazed and one might even say mesmerized by them on a hot summers night....it's only the males that shine...and the only thing they do is show off and mate....that's the upside...of course the downside is that they strave to death after about 2 weeks.....but that just facts...i will never forget the pure enjoyment i had as a kid chasing the glowing little insects all over the yard on a hot summers eve......

just got back from helping somebody move....i'm getting too old for that drama....but everytime i help someone move it remins me that i never want ot move again, heck i don't even want to think about moving again...i've lived in the same house for 27 years....27 years to collect to many things.....i think my best bet would just be blow the place up and start over....of course the neighbors would probably complain about that...not to mention the police...people just have no sense of humor.....need to be in early tomorrow have a load at 7:00 am so need tto think about hitting the sheets......

it now appears that what ever glitch was in blogger it is now fixed, and i now can view the current template....goodie goodie gum drops...what should i change........

this is really strange even for blogger, if i bring up my template, i see an old one that i haven't used in months, but when i look at my blog it's obvioiusly using the newest version to publish the site.....on the otherhand it does force me to leave my hangs off the template and not tinker with it.....but i think i'm suffering tinker withdrawal.....spent the whole morning and part of the afternoon doing some "spring cleaning" at the warehouse.....it's so d*mn cold in the winter that you really don't feel like spending any extra time making things "neat and pretty"......but the reverse is what happens.......it looks like it's been stocked with a very large manure spredder
and how that's pretty well done on the finished goods end, the other end is about 1/2 done but i got a crew working tomorrow on that, in point of fact friday is a holiday....but i have to come in to head a crew for inventory review, i hate it but the only time to do that sort of thing is when nobody is working.....nothings moving....nothing....changing....

it's already 62*F.....alright.....tried to delete and save the new template from my back up but it didn't work.....oh well i let blogger get fixed what ever is broken and then worry about what i need to do.....i keep a fairly current back up copy of the template, i think the only thing that isn't up to date is a couple of links to lycos news and odd news.....the reason i'm doing this is to remind myself to check once it's fixed so i can check and re insert if necessary......like i said a couple of posts ago....eventhough i recall things 45 years ago clearly i often forget what i ate for supper last night......

something is major league messed up with blogger this morning, actually noticed it last night.....the page is loading with the current layout, but when i go to look at the template what i get is the is an old cached view of the template complete with the dreded mouse clock which i had a bitch of a time getting rid of because they were having problems with the template server during the time i had removed it...but that problem was just the opposite....then i was seeing the new template but the page was being published with the old template......unfortunately i'm on my way to work and don't have time to fiddle with it .....

just got back from visiting dad in the hospital....he seems to be doing better, but is a little slow in recovering....but his spirits are good..and at 87 he deserves the rest.......we were recalling things from as far back as 46 years ago....it's kind of spooky how i remember certian events from that long ago so clearly....but can't remember what i had for dinner last night....the mind is a strange and wonderful thing.......

ok stop the world i want to get off..... Farmers Put Live Chickens in Wood Chippers, now apparently the chickens had a disease and could not be sold for soup, but this is the kicker and i qoute (quote)Stewart said the men, who run a poultry farm near San Diego , asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.(/qoute)......lord almighty if that one isn't one for the books......

holy cow it's 62*F in old H2O-town this afternoon.....get out the swim fins kiddies....it's time to run naked in the rain....( i always wear swim fins when i run naked in the rain but don't ask why, if you don't already know i'd never be able to explain it to you)....but seriously ( now that would be a near impossible switch for me)....well ok as seriously as i can be (relative term)....the warm weather has been too long in coming and i glad it finally has arrived.......on the otherhand we'll probably get 3 feet of snow tomorrow.......

it's in the high 40'sF is AM and looks like it might warm up even a little more....i am more the ready for springtime to finally be here....my clubs have been cursing me everytime i walk passed them in the cellar....they are convinced that i've bought a new set and am playing without them, they know that by this time of the year they should already be in their summer home, the trunk of my car, but it's good for 'um, maybe once i do take them out they'll behave better, no pulls, no mishits and no sh**ks ( for those of you who are not golfers and have no idea what sh**nks means, there is a word that discribes a horrible mishit which a real golfer will never say or even write for fear that the meer statement of the name will bring a visitation of that dreded evil mishit.....but if you need to know just sub "an" for **, but please do not say it in my presense because the golf god's will curse me with a case of them......they never seem to come in singles only flocks)
not a bad day so far....things not real hectic but you never know

mostly classical net radio on the player.....and a cherry coke.......ah mozart....let me see if my memory is functioning tonight it's the 3rd horn concerto.........neat piece of music.........have down nothing all day of any meaning.......spent a little time messing around with my poetry blog....watched the masters......was a pretty decent shootout for the win....but not anyone that i really follow so while it was enjoyable...it really wasn't that exciting........but have been unwell most of the day....i don't know if it's a cold...the flu...a mild case of "something i ate" not agreeing with me....or the winter blahs or any combination of the above.....but i am feeling better now..have an early in tomorrow so will probably call it a night early.......

it's only 41*F, but feels much warmer, sun is out and a beautiful spring day....it's about time.....winter has been a rough one this year...i've lived basically my entire life in the lee of either Lake Erie or Lake Ontario, and have know colder and snowier winters but can never remember a longer one....with almost no thaws.....but perhaps age is a factor in my thoughts...i just don't tolerate the cold as well as i once did...both physically as well as mentally.......i intend to spend the afternoon glued to the coverage of the masters........i found this article of extreme interest..Plan for democracy in Iraq may be folly
Experts also question U.S. ability to reform entire Middle East , the basis for the arguement of the article is that there is a lack of key elements in the middle east in general and iraq in particular for the setting up of a democratic government, it's an interesting and thought provoking article, whether you agree with it's conclusions or not

i got this pic earlier this morning when the cats showed a great deal of interest in a visitor to the bird feeder, at least this time they did trash the living room in their excited state...that has happened in the past....the funniest thing was after the squirrel had left, the cat in the picture, lilly, looked up at me with longing in her eyes and that little cry as if to say " go get him and bring him back...i wasn't done watching yet"

look we all know that i'm a cynic, and a bit of a smart ass, ok maybe more then a bit....but i wonder how long it takes for this stuff to show up on Ebay...... Looters strip Iraqi National Museum of its antiquities

i just got done watching the coverage of the third round of the masters shaping up to be a really shoot out tomorrow....but it's a little strange......usually by the masters i've already been to a driving range a few times and may even have played once or twice, and eventhough it's been warm the last couple of days we still have snow on the ground....if we don't get lucky it may be may before i get to play.......%$^&*#@@.........

lord, nicky is going to think i'm picking on her to day but i'm not....it's just that much of what she has said today has hit a chord with me....
one of the advantages of the net, about meeting someone thru blogging, tru boards is that we get to "meet" the person first...in real life we "see" the person first, and our first impressions of the person are from their appearance....that puts me at a real disadvantage because i'm a troll, little childern see me and point "mommy mommy, what's that, does it bite, should we call animal control"....(hehe).....
seriously i try hard not to judge people from their appearance, that being said i am a male, and have been known to drive up a lamp post if a particularly well endowed young lady is strutting her stuff down the sidewalk, but i really make an effort to get to know the person before making any firm judgement on who, what .....they are......
i try not to create a mental image of what a person looks like that i meet on line
rather i try to construct a mental image of who they are inside............a beautiful face, a great body is only the whipped cream on the cake.....the real meal is the personality.......and besides at my age...i should watch my weight and skip dessert anyways

Nicky has an interesting entry on her blog this morning. Yesterday�s posts by her were filled with emotion and concern, and several of us posted comments of support. She made the statement that our support came even if all she was to us was �pixels� and a few entries in a diary. On one hand what she says is quite true. All we see on one level is �0�s & 1�s��.but on another level we can see, or at least get a glimpse in to the soul of the person(s) we exchange with out here in net land. (NOTE: the use of you in the following is purely generic, no specific individual is intended) In many cases if I read your blogs, if I have exchanges with you on boards, there are the entries on taggies, guestbooks, et al. and each time even though you are in reality only leaving �0�s&1�s� you are also leaving little bits of yourself, little bits of your soul. And yes if I passed any of my �net� friends on the street I would walk by with out recognition. But if I conversed with you, even a little while I may not recognize you, I would come away with the feeling that something was strangely familiar.
If a person is honest, if they are not playing a persona out here in net land, then one gets glimpses into the personality from what they write. Particularly on boards and diaries, Even if you withhold much, you cannot conceal everything. Your basic character traits will emerge. You can not for long conceal for example your sense of humor, those things that you feel strongly about, will not stay hidden, and each piece shows another piece of your soul.
If one posses a reasonable level of empathy�and I do�.you can learn much�and feel much from very little�.
One of the great things about blogging is that you can �see� the person; you can feel their emotions, because in many cases through their writings you get to see a bit of the soul of the man/woman/troll.
(NOTE: after writing this I realized that I might be using a term in a unique way. Depending on your particular background the word �soul� my have a variety of meanings. Therefore a definition is in order. When I use that term, I use it in the meaning of the Old Hebrew definition. Soul = the essence of the man/woman, it is what makes them unique, it what makes them who they are)

haydn and vivaldi in the cd player....i'm giving net radio a rest tonight....somenights i'm in a more electic mood and i'm satisfied to listen to what some one else has programed or i'm in a mood where i what to hear something new...or sometimes all it is background and really don't give a dang what it is just so long as it's music.....but the last is rare....music is very important to me...it's been to big of a part of my life for far too long to have a mox-nix attitude about it very often,,,,tonight however i what to listen to what i want to listen to dang it......i think i'll wander out and get a cup of tea....diet pepsi on the desk is dry....and time to feed the cats....they are a gas...we feed soft food twice a day, plus have dry out at all times and every night when i feed them they act like they've never eaten before......what a bunch of furry con artist....heck they probably could live on their built up fat for weeks......
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cats are feed and a cup of double bergamot earl grey tea is ateaming on the desk....if you like early grey and have never tried the double bergamont check it out......one of the cats aggie is a really gas, first you have to understand although all are cats are rescues and have doubtful backgrounds breed wise aggie most likely has some maine coon in her....big bodied,long legged 15-16 lbs. worth of scaredy cat...i sware that cat is afraid of it's own shadow....but she sings in the ....well when she.....oh dang...when she's in the "sandbox"....we refer to it as her "poop chant"......remember before i said she was a gas....well i wasn't totally refering to her being fun....when she chants it's a good idea to clear the room for about 15 minutes......

i have i believe completed the "table" game, and i can now officially declare this blog complete as far as lay out and it will never have to be changed again.........do i detect a note of skepticism or was that down right cynicism, was that doubt as to the veracity of the above statement, i'm in a total state of shock....not over your feelings towards it....but rather that i made such a foolish and obviously false statement in the vain hope that the statement alone would prevent me from messing with the template....dumb troll....foolish troll....silly troll.......i'll probably leave it alone for maybe 5 minutes but i won't bet on anything by that........but a good 5 minutes.....

looks like we will have a spring day today.....it's a little nippy this morning but the prospect is for some nice weather....it's about time...can't tell from here what the day will bring but it's a friday so all bets are off......

i've spend sometime putting some of my feeds into tables...i may eventually get the hang of HTML even if when i was in HS we were still using slide rules and a calculator was a person not a thing....but then again maybe i won't......still the use of the tables has cleaned up the appearance a tad.....but i've got the illness bad....i can't seem to leave my grubby hands off the template which reminds me i must save the template to back up.....good night all........

found an interesting article on cloning particularly primate cloning, does rather darken the cloud so to speak over the claims made earlier in the year that a clone had been born....Scientists say human cloning may never be possible

the zonk board has an option called "Graffiti Mode"......your message appears as if it was spray painted on a wall i've wanted to try one but it's way to wide for this template and i don't want to change it right now so i've installed it in the attic on this page, with all the vandals that spam my taggie i thought you'd have a riot with this

it's warmed up nicely today and is now about 46*F, and i know that's not really warm but relative to the last week and this winter it feels warm.....maybe winter is finally gone....but we thought that a week or so ago and got swatted again........wild and wackie day at work.....one of those days where i couldn't get a straight shot at anything.....i was trying to accomplish a 5 minute job and it took an hour because of the interuptions.....but things should be a little easier tomorrow and we are just about at the end of the "busy season" so thinks should get back to normal.......while they are never really normal....but at least not as crazy.........
just for something completely different i've been listening to the net feed of village voice radio links down there on the right...also have linked to blogshares theres a gif hiding over there somewhere.....need to go out for a while so i'm outa here

over the last 3 or 4 days i've had a re-occuring problem with my archives....first i've been losing some of them from the site.....which is really a constant thing with blogger.....but when i try to republish i get an error message.......not a typical thing....so if they aren't there .....what can i say.....wild day.....just back from lunch and will post again maybe this pm......pretty day, sunny,,,,and above freezing.......yahooooooooooo!!!!!!

back now......still radio set but i have a diet pepsi now.....i'm tired tonight so i think i'll just pack it in.......scanned the news and see nothing there that i choose to comment on.......i'm just a dry hole tonight....just have nothing that i've any inclination at all to write on.....nuts.....

i have radio set on but am sitting here drink less....busy day and i have a practice to go to tonight which i would like to skip but since i've dumped the last 3 and we will be working on passion week music i'd better go....truth be total i could probably sight read and sing anything we do in this group but one must keep up appearances........i hope that we don't justify this war by the results until we see the long term results.....i really hate the precedent we've set here......and i hope we don't go charging off into the shit again just because we got away with it (apparently) this time....eventually we will be viewed as a big bully who beats up on the little ones just because we can......we may become something worse then what we are supposedly trying to eliminate......

i really must start taking the time to write my entries first in word, so i can spell check.....i re-read today's first post and i had more spelling errors in it the usual........i guess i was more in a fog then i realized........sheeshhh!!!!!!

i'm ready to start work for the day.....busy day ahead as my clerk is off.....woke up with a start this morning with the alarm.....was sleeping too soundly so i'm in a fog right now, wake but not really wake.....mind is not functioning at a very high level.....ok it never does but this is at a lower level then even i usually function at.....boards were quiet over night....must get to it

one of the really funny things about taggies is if you read something on someone's taggie you sometimes don't have ghost of an idea whats going on because it might just be a piece of a deal that spreads over several taggies....message boards and guestbooks....but macelf's comment can be easily explained....he and i have a team blog and his comment is a response to the last entry by mayhem...which you can read here. actually it's not a new gag for me i used it on a message board one time when pimping my site....i gave this horrid review of a site (my actually) and then used the get away gag that i used over on the other site.....which you have to go there to read....we need the traffic

just got back from visiting dad (see below) he seems to be resting comfortably and is feeling a bit better, they are giving him IV antiboitics and have heat on the leg....he is in good spirits.......a little wcny...classic fm tonight.....and a diet pepsi.....i have an early in tomorrow and will be alone for the next two days as my clerk has a couple of days of vac.....i should probably call it an early night but doubt that i will.......

need to run up to the hospital and see dad, apparently he has a problem with cellulitis again....it's been kind of a re-occuring problem over the last few years......i feel a lot better about it...must dash

it's been a strange day.....and to add to the confusion i just found out that dad has been admitted to the hospital....he's had a problem with a swelling in his leg and it has not gotten any better........he's 87 so i'm a bit aprehesive about it......sis is going to call once they know more so depending on what happens i may not have my head in this (that is the blog) for a while........

i posted this morning at home before i walked out to the car and discovered that we had gotten another 3 or 4 inches of snow last night..this is getting to be almost funny......i ain't laughing but it does resemble some kind of perverse joke....here it is april 8th.....the masters will be played this week in augusta....and here i sit under a blanket of snow.....well not literally of couse but you get the drift( oh by the by i've disconnected the pun alert system).....by this time most years i've at least hit a few range balls or actually have gotten in a round or two.....at this rate it will be may before i get to play....it's coming up on 6 months since i played last and i hereby declare that winter is over...........(nuts,,,,that didn't work....just went out side and it's still here).........we only have 3 seasons here in the northcountry ( local discriptor for the section of upstate new york above syracuse)........winter.....just was winter....soon will be winter....drat.....

and this is why i love search engines, i got a hit last night from msn on search for lost realitive by name for free now admittedly the searcher didn't put the search in quotes but while i may have used everyword in the search at one time or another...oh good grief......i don't know which is worst search engines or........dang......how to say this....the ninnies who use them....
i don't believe it the 'cuse won the NCAA's .........yah........maybe coach B will finally get the credit he deserves.....but 'cuse fans being 'cuse fans i doubt it..........Warrick's big block saves day for Orangemen

i'm off to work....could be another wild one........

still have cafemusic on and the last of a diet pepsi.....a quiet night so far here in blogland....boards are dead.....i'm too tired to do anything constructive.....and don't really have my wits about me so i will leave my grubby paws off the template.......
this seems to be a night for sad stories.....
Ebola Spurs Fears of Looming Ape Extinction

have cafemusic brazil on the media player, and a cup of tea....darjeeling tonight.....i'm glad i decided to download the lastest up date for the media player....i like the new stock skin....also a few more features on the skin itself which makes it a tad easier....not a bad day at work if you don't count the chinese fire drill that the morning turned in to ........ah did i use an americanism again well check out here or here...

we just went to daylight saving time here in the US......and had actually a few people from outside the US ask me about my time zone and i wasn't sure whether anyone,,,,that is to say another country observed DST.....so i did a web search and discovered that the use of it is quite extensive.....however many palces call it summer time found a very imformative site dealing with it....ah you live and learn.......it's interesting to me that things that you sometimes assume are regional turn out to be pretty universal.....and the opposite is guite true also......
the drive to write the next great american novel (althought at times it is the next great UK novel) is going strong on my tag board....i find myself checking it from time to time during the day....at times i thing i might need a bigger taggie......but it's all in fun....and i enjoy it

man it's still cold here and it could snow for the next two days....this is getting real old.....very busy day so this will probably be my only chance to post til nightfall.......

i don't believe it , the 'cuse is playing for the NCAA roundball title tomorrow, this was a team that wasn't even picked in the top 40 at the beginning of the year....but really have come together and played well....i've got an early in so i'm going to call it a night....

i have dr klassisk on the player and a tea......china black tea tonight....i really like black tea..am particularly fond of the flavor...with the concert and therefore the pratices over sunday should calm down a little....it has been very hectic of late and with working most saturday mornings really has not left me a day off...........have been using the weblog pinger the last couple of days and it seems to be generating as much if not more traffic then anything else i have tried....( with a nod to nicky who pointed me to it) and now i've pointed you to it...not that i'm obsessive about hits...i have very modest goals for the site via-a-vie hits, but since i really still haven't reach them yet i'm still scraping a little....however it still have time...but i'm not obsessive about it...no really....now screwing with my template...now that's another story......

back from the concert, no major flubs...was a lot of fun and well received....but am basically exhausted........also i'm straving so will have to think of finding something to eat that takes no effort on my part.....

today is again a busy one, this will probably be mine only post (yah i know you've heard that one before) before later this evening..i need to be at the pre-concert shigdigs by 1:00 PM....concert at 4:00.......(ooooowwwww!!!!!...sound of trollie breaking leg)

it's late, i've got a concert to sing in tomorrow, we lose an hour of sleep tonight because of the switch to day light savings time, and it was a long week, but i sit here, mindlessly surfing, nothing is really making any impression on my mind, just clicking from page to page...seeing everything and yet seeing nothing....i should sit down and write my thoughts in poetic form but i don't have the will to do so, i feel the inspiration to be poetic but not the will to write that way...i don't feel bad or good ....kind of a zen state ....a calm neutral... and yet have not the will to do...or not to do......but i must .....sleep will come ......but just a few more clicks....

you will repeat after me " keep your hands off the foolish template, you must stop tinkering ,you are verging on obsession,".......doubt it worked but i tried....nicky was back....she not only spammed the taggie but she got the guestbook as well...up til now she's missed the message board but i have faith in her skill and sure that she will not miss that for long...but she's a good egg and has a great site which i with my poor manners have failed to link to....so must take care of that oversite on my part, i try to if i discuss anyone in the blog who has one that i link to it, that way i get them twice...first by talking about them...and secondly by connecting their great sites to this toxic waste dump....never fool with uncle trollie.......

i've been raided again by nicky who when she is in her current condition has been know to spam her own zonk board......but she's a real peach and i'll humor her....besides a hit is a hit....have been messing around in the template and experimenting with the use of tables...have cleaned up a few areas on the site i was not happy with...but still not sure i really have the hang of it....have a new ring membership....it's down on the right there ...check it out....

i am reluctant to post this seeing as how a friend lives in or near LA but Newfound L.A. Fault Threatens Major Quake, (qoute) Known as the Puente Hills Blind Thrust System, the fault is three to 17 kilometers (2 to 11 miles) deep and extends for almost 50 kilometers (31 miles) from northern Orange County, through Los Angeles, up to Beverly Hills.(/quote) unlike most faults this does mot extend to the surface.....interesting article...if you don't live in the LA area....

file this one in the, well i really don't know where to file it but it is interesting Bi-sex bird brain questions origin of gender

it warmed up a little and the streets are a mess...real slushie wet snow...oh joy....need to leaave the house in about an hour so i thnik i'll hung out on line for that time...went out to get a controller for my pc games....last one that i had i really liked but it broke so i went out top look for a new one....now if i wanted a controller for an x-box...ps2...et al i had loads to choose from but for a pc....forget about it ended up with not what i really was looking for but the only thing close....have to check at best buy next time am in the 'cuse...actually i would have run down today (only about an hour south) but didn't have the time......

well it looks like we are finally out from under the severe weather warning...it slid north of us overnight..and we only got a couple of inches of really wet, slushie snow....( trollie sakes head in relief).....just got home from my quick hop into work to slam the daily numbers in to the 'puter....have some errands to run later plus a rehersal.....but i'm trying to get caught up with net stuff...email, boards et al.......if i think about it , and have some time i'll take some pics of the april storm and post them later....just playing around and refining the site......have somethings to say but really have neither the time or the inclination (lord i don't believe it i wrote that said oh dang probably mis-spelled it check it and i was right, chalk one for trollie) to do it now...

oh lovely
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Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...JEFFERSON-LEWIS-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF LOWVILLE AND WATERTOWN352 PM EST FRI APR 4 2003
...WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT...

SNOW AND SLEET WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT OVER THE REGION. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES OF HEAVY WET SNOW ARE LIKELY. CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE ON SATURDAY AS THE SNOW TAPERS OFF DURING THE MORNING HOURS AND TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE THE FREEZING MARK BY AFTERNOON.

IF YOU NOTICE POWER LINES DOWN...REMAIN AWAY FROM THEM. NOTIFY THE PROPER AUTHORITIES. FOLLOW MANUFACTURERS INSTRUCTIONS WHEN USING ANY ALTERNATE HEATING SOURCE...MAKING SURE THE HEAT SOURCE IS VENTILATED PROPERLY AND FIRE PRECAUTIONS ARE TAKEN. DO NOT RELY ON AN ITEM AS A HEATING SOURCE WHICH IS MEANT FOR OUTDOOR USE ONLY SUCH AS CHARCOAL GRILLS.

STAY TUNED TO THE WEATHER CHANNEL AND WEATHER.COM FOR UPDATES....

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i guess in some ways that's an improvement.....but the possibility of losing power in the winter time is no fun....we've had 2 major icestorms in the last dozen years and they are definitely no fun........

i've been fiddling again....have joined blogroll and weblogs....i'm not obsessed with number of hits...i have very modest expectations but i can see were the blogroll function can make linking easier.......still listening to dr klassisk....very relaxing and enjoyable..snow has subsided for the moment and hopefully most of what has been predicted will not come ...have not looked at an update forecast for a few hours and must do that....have too many things to do in the next few days and need to be aware of the possibility of interference from the weather......

back from dinner...have dr klassisk on the player, which i just upgraded to series 9......not really anything new for what i use it for but with cable connection it downloads and installs so quick there's no reason not to....diet pepsi....i'm going to surf for a while and keep an eye on the weather which is not good...have to go in briefly to work tomorrow and have a rehersal tomorrow afternoon...so probably won't get back on for any lenght of time until tomorrow evening

i know that the last two days this has turned into the weatherblog.....and i'm your charming weather girl.....the beautiful Miss Trollie
here we go again
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Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...JEFFERSON-LEWIS-OSWEGO-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF LOWVILLE...OSWEGO AND WATERTOWN1136 AM EST FRI APR 4 2003
...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR TODAY THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...

SNOW AND SLEET ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT OVER JEFFERSON AND LEWIS COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED TODAY WITH ANOTHER 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW AND SLEET TONIGHT.

FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL CONTINUE TODAY OVER MUCH OF OSWEGO COUNTY TODAY. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF A HALF INCH OR MORE ARE EXPECTED TODAY. AREAS OF SLEET AND SNOW ARE EXPECTED OVER THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY.

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we've already got a foot or better(actually its worser) and maybe another foot overnight into tomorrow......this is getting real boring....

well it looks like i've got everything sorted out.....the forecast now calls for as much as another 12" of snow over the next 24 hours....mercy.....this would amount to a major storm in the middle of winter....as a spring storm ......wow.....

man what a mess....i'm still waiting for them to get the warehouse yard plowed....they tell me it will be another hour.....they in this case are the county who we lease the building from.......soooooo!!!!.......will have to juggle schedule to try to get everything done....i love winter.....not.....i love watertown.....not right now.....i love my work.......open to interpretation....i love my paycheck....oh yah!!!

well we've got the 8" max that was predicted + a little and probably another 6" pn the way......if i find out who ordered this one there will be trouble....needless to say we've got a mess....will be a busy day and must get to it.....

and i quote(quote)Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...JEFFERSON-LEWIS-OSWEGO-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF LOWVILLE...OSWEGO AND WATERTOWN747 PM EST THU APR 3 2003
...A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...

SNOW IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TONIGHT OVER JEFFERSON AND LEWIS COUNTIES. ACCUMULATIONS OVERNIGHT OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE EXPECTED WITH ANOTHER 3 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW ON FRIDAY. SOME SLEET IS ALSO POSSIBLE AT TIMES.

FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT OVER OSWEGO COUNTY WITH SOME SLEET MIXED IN AT TIMES. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO A HALF INCH ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT WITH ADDITIONAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED ON FRIDAY. SOME ACCUMULATION OF SLEET IS ALSO POSSIBLE
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weell i guess it's good news and bad news....they have upped the snow prediction but atleast it looks like the ice will stay below us...well all in all iguess we lucked out....but looking at the newly fallen snow i don't feel lucky...only resigned to the fact of no golf til may....drat!!!!!!!!!!!

somebody did a msn search on "Fort Drum" and of 168 hits, my blog was 7th on the list....now i did mention it several times after the crash....because it's just a few miles to the north and i know several of the GI's from the fort....but what information i have is buried some where in the archives.....at least on a google search you can select the "cached" option and it will take you to the right page...ah search engines........blah!!!!!!!!!!

it's snowing to beat the band ....we've already got probably 4-6 inches on the ground and it's still snowing have been back to work once....and may have to go back in again........what a rush........if i have to go back i told them it would be after i watched survivor....dang i'm pathetic........seems like my site was invaded while i was out if you look at tag.......i'm sorry i missed the ladies of bitchfest...but i'll catch up with them later.......i'm sitting here hoping that the phone doesn't ring but fearing that it will.....i hate waiting for the other shoe to drop...........

the weather is not doing much right now but the thing is if you don't like watertown weather wait five minutes and it will change...of course you'll probably like the new weather less then you liked the old batch.......a little brazil on the player and coffee and a few cookies........been reading boards and am about to take my daily stroll thru blogland.......i think it woeld be neat to be able to tajke a cyber dog with me so he could .....well leave his comments at so of the places on the way...(hehe)

if i may quote:
(quote) Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...JEFFERSON-LEWIS-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF LOWVILLE AND WATERTOWN304 PM EST THU APR 3 2003
...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING...

SNOW AND SLEET ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND FRIDAY WITH A POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE LIKELY OVERNIGHT WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE FRIDAY. IF THE WARM AIR ALOFT SNEAKS A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH THAN EXPECTED...FREEZING RAIN MAY BECOME MORE OF A PROBLEM. STAY TUNED!

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i'm sorry but it april for goodness sake.....enough of this winter crap....i want sun and warm and half dressed ladies parading on the streets and open golf courses........augh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

today i loaded the truckload form hades.....if everything goes right i can load a full load i 45 minutes to an hour.....this one took 4 hrs....first off because of order changes before it arrived i had material for the load in two different locations about 1 mile apart....during the loading i got 4 pages and even with that had two pallets to go and was right on being done in an hour and a half......then 2 pages and 3 phone calls later....i need to add 2 more pallets to the load, but in order to get the load to ride correctly and axles scale correctly i had to unloadcd 3/4 of the load and re-arrange it.......we are now at 2 hours and 45 minutes the load is finished and the driver is pulling out of the yard......at 2 hours 46 minutes i discover that i ....in the process of loading misread the load sheet and had a wrong pallet on....but the drivers cell phone number was in my rolodex---1 mile away.....got a hold of him got him back to the whse but you guessed it mistake pallet was 3/4 of the way to the front of the trailer......4 hrs from the start of the load it was finally done right.....sheeesshhhh!!!!!!.........

have my morning cup of.....checking up on my boards and getting ready for work....chuckling over a bad joke that Insanity girl posted to BF ..........will not repeat it but ......(chuckle)....it was baaadddd!!!!!!!!!...but don't take my word for go to BF and read under general " a bear at the bar"...........

i've got a busy day tomorrow plus an early in amd here i sit...physically i'm tried but my mind is racing....i suffer from the odd bout of insomnia from time to time still...at one time it was a major problem but i've learned a little better to leave work at work....but that's not the problem tonight.....it seems little the more tried i am physically the more trouble i have shutting down mentally........anyhow smokey is now sleeping on the foot stool and the coast is clear for me to ramble on........but i think i'll try to get some sleep .......

hi...my name smokey...trollie was going to post but i'm on this lap......and won't let him.....is there any tuna in this net....?????

where is my head at...i added a link today to blogpoll, there's a green gif hiding over there on the top right....it's kind of new but it looks like it has the potential of being any interesting source of information...check it out

have the brazilian radio on the tuner.....and the dedges of a diet pepsi but need tea....will take care of that need soon..........have been doing some surfing and some hanging on boards tonight.....just kicking back and enjoying the world that is the net...i think the neatest (yah i now neat/neatest really shows my age) is that i've gotten to "known" thru boards and blogging people from all over the world.....sure it's not like knowing somebody face to face but it still is enlightening.....

searchn was by as witness the taggie......as usual i don't have a ghost of an idea what she said, nor why she said it....but i'm glad she did....the girl definitely has a great handle on the sense of the absurd....which i find curiously refreshing.....theses are the voyages of the starship searchn......boldly going where no one has ever dared to go....or for that matter even conceived that that place even existed...a trollie thumbs up my girl......
it's snowing out to beat the band...we've had a bit of light snow on and off over the last few days but right now it's snowing heavy....enough already....trollie wants to hit golf balls......plant flowers....run naked thru public square.....ok maybe the last one is a stretch but......dang.....

hump day......well maybe i should explain that....there could be a double or even triple meaning for that.....middle of the week and after today down hill to the weekend............will be busy this weekend .....a special pratice saturday and then the concert sunday,,,,cold is much better but i'm doing my best to protect and save voice......
the mind is a funny thing...sometimes it will dredge up an old memory and you don't have a ghost of an idea of why....what did i do hear or see that brought that to the surface....yesterday afternoon about the time i was leaving the plant i realized that i was humming the tune to that old...old...old...pop song "100 pounds of clay" which i haven't heard or even thought about for, lord, probably 30+ years.......i even remembered the entire wors for the first verse....the mind is a funny thing

i have sometimes mentioned here friend rick.....well i hate to revel his deep dark secret but.......rick and macelf are the same person...macelf will stop by from time to time with a tag but this one needs some explaining.......we work at the same shop and as i was walking by this machine he had something for the trash and no time to take it well he asked me to do it which i did but ribbed him about for a while....no big deal really but any excuse is all the excuse i need to rattle his cage...or anyone elses for that matter....

i will freely admit to pulling only one april fools gag today and that was on a board.....and really wasn't any big deal...but with what's transpired recently it was a natural.....i usually refrain from pranks, gags and jokes on april 1 .....it's amateur day...and one it comes too leg pulling i'm a pro......i'm also arrogant....but that's a different story....had to go back into work as we had a supply problem....oh well.......

classical is cool on the player and a diet sierra mist......take out chinese for supper....and i can post again....all is right with the world......ok maybe not with your world but my is just fine......except i could wish that people would stop writing on the bridge...i mean i really don't care if Jack loves Jill......besides he probably doesn't ....he just says that so he can get a little jill...(hehe) where as i.......oh yah.....i've been jonsing all day because i couldn't post....i'm pathetic.......wild day at work.......we had light snow all day and looks like there is a chance it will continue most of the week....now this has got to stop...i want to play golf and i want to play now..........need to catch up on my boards will be back later........

seems like this might be fixed now....just a test....no time to post