dr klassisk and tea......it's raining again...held off doing any seeding this afternoon because it was supposed to be a downpour and i didn't what the seeds wash away or spacings changed....well it has rained most of the evening but no really that hard....but will get the annuals and put them in first part of the week.......it's early but i'm going to check blogshares one more time.....i've had a bunch of odd hits on the site today.....i've got a bunch of links i read most everyday but many of the links under trolls and billygoats are ones i only go to once in a while, well i went down the whole list yesterday....visit old friends and checking for dead links...found about a half doz and pruned them as it were, but i got hit today from several hit counter lists....so i guess i should check the links more often.....i've got buds on all my rose bushes some of them are really loaded if we get some nice weather should have a ton of roses by the end of next week and will take some pictures and put them in the attic.....well not my actual attic but my virtual attic....will give you the link when they are up......night all

just got in from finishing the yard work that the weather has prevented me from doing, mulching the beds, zipped into work earlier and got that done, drove by the golfcourse and it'ws beyond wet, probably will wait til the first of the week before i try to play...had a chat on messenger with a "web-bud" of my this AM....and i'm thinking about heading out to do a fews errands and grab a little lunch...really don't have a whole lot this morning, will probably putter around the yard this afternoon, sow some annuals and maybe add a plant or 1000 to the bed, i'm one of those who goes to the nursery to buy one or two plants and comes back with a carload...i'm surprised they (that is the garden centers ) don't have valet parking for me.....

anonymous 4 and reheated coffee from breakfast....actually it's less vile then usual....but i have no problem with strong coffee...have to go into work briefly tomorrow, got everything done today but must get month end numbers in as production doesn't finish to 6AM tomorrow.....probably will not set the alarm but just go in when i wake up.....went out to the mall tonight and while there got a couple of garlic soft pretzels.....just two....although i probably could have eaten a i/2 doz of them.....weather was sunny today but a bit cool, but with all the rain we've had the golf courses are pretty well soaked, will probably wait a couple of days before playing, i just don't seem to be able to handle walking on really soft ground anymore, just to hard on the legs.....quiet evening, no body i know seems to be online and i am tired, will try to caught up on yard work tomorrow........

i woke up way to fast this morning, don't know exactly why, but the first thing i saw was the owl like face of cat Lilly about 6 inches from my eyes, so i suspect that she might have had something to do with it, i feel pretty lousy this morning, just stiff tired and old, an in a foul mood, but too much to do today to can it, but lord help the first person who crosses me today....sunny day but on the cool side, but even the sun has done nothing for my spirits, just hurts my eyes and makes me blink, i really need to get away for a few days but if the weather doesn't change it will do me little good,......ah sh*t....enough of this gloomy introspection.....i think i'll ingage in a little lighthearted ball busting today....that usually does the trick, and a couple of my favorite tragets are working today.....ah that's the ticket

anonymous four in the cd player and tea....rained on and off all day but has cleared this evening.....we had an electrical outage at the whse and i ended up starting an unload on a truck, with only the headlights on the lift to see where i was going, actually you can see quite well but not unlike driving on a dark night, away from all other light, it's like driving in a tunnel.....i now have 3 people signed up on my notification list....3 lovely young ladies and all born under the sign of taurus the bull....i have no idea why or what the means but ir is one of those odd facts which i find amusing...speaking of signs a friend of my youth had the best answer i have ever heard of when some one would ask him what sign he was born under.....he'd always tell people he as born under the sign of Al's Deli.....which was literally true, on the way to the hosiptal...they didn't make it...and his dad pulled into the parking lot of Al's Deli...and his mother gave birth to him in the car....now i know little about such things...i do know there are water signs etc....are there also corned beef on rye with a full sour dill signs too........i was think of a clever line for a troll when asked what sign he was born under but the only thing i've come up with so far is i was born under the "DANGER...Lower Bridge" sign...not true but.....you never know

cafemusic and a diet coke, just finished a grilled polish sausage sandwich (sorry about the garlic breathe).....weather turned around and was half way acceptable today, mostly overcast but at least it was warm and the rains abated.....got the lawn cut, which i hadn't been able to do for about a week, and this time of the year it grows like crazy......but not enough to bale.....mood is much better tonight.........continued my watching the Henry the VIII series.....a little pesto for dinner....but i might have trouble getting to sleep tonight....2 of my 3 cats are on the bed with that half sleepy look in their eye which tells me we will have a fight tonight for the most comfortable spots.....and as usual i will probably lose.......will probably have to work a bit on saturday....with this being month end and production working until 6AM saturday morning will have to go in at least long enough to drop the month end numbers in to the system so they can run the month end reports.....ah well.......

during the 60's when i was growing up ( and before you start your typical wise arseness yes virginia that is the 1960's not the 1860's)...one of the fades was the "Limbo".......if you have no idea what that is....look here...well one of the expressions used during said dance was "how low can you go"....well figuritively this morning i could probably pass under a bar about 3" off the floor....i am both physically and mentally at low ebb....in fact if i hadn't had a job today which i had to be here for i would have taken the day off....i find as i get older my moods have pretty well become insync with the weather and the weather has been dismal.....it's basically rained since last friday....and i have lost my sense of humor with it....truck is here must run

cafemusic and a cup of tea, although it did clear a little this afternoon, we got more rain tonight, may can be a very wet month in this climate, in fact it quite often is a wetter month than is april....of the old line "april showers brings may flowers"....grass is growing like crazy and with the weather being bad for the last 5 days, have not had a chance to cut it, if the weather doesn't break soon i probably will have to bale it......as a teen i lived in a dairy farming area outside buffalo,ny. and would from time to time help the local farmers during haying season,.....so i do have experience in the process eventhough it was several years ago....i'm tired and headed for bed but i have one or two more buys i'd like to make tonight in the game blogshares...but have to wait a while so am listening to a little light jazz and doing a bit of surfin'.......

sometime this afternoon the problem with blogger was fixed ao i can now get at the template, if you scroll down on the right aways we will find a notification list form, why anyone would want to know when this dump was updated is beyond me but.....khai asked so i took a look and found one.....of course then khai is way beyond me anyways.....now before you read too much into that let me explain......she is beyond me into the future by 17 time zones, so my present is her past, and that is way beyond me....(hope i got out of that one with out p*ssing her off to much).......anyways when did problems become issues, it seems like the in thing is to have issues with someone or something not problems......if we take that to it's logical end (or probably illogical end) does the math teacher stand up and say "Today's test has 10 issues on it, you must get 7 of 10 issues correct to get a passing grade or else you'll probably have a real issue with you parents"........ok ok but i have problems.....magazines have issues.....i'd like to see the center fold from a math issue.......but then maybe they would....i've heard numbers in sets of 3 attached to the centerfolds in magazines before......well maybe it isn't that bad.......would make math more .....interesting

well the weekend might be over but little has changed,,,,still can't get at my templates....weather is still rotten.....and to make matters worst i'm back to work....well bad luck does come in 3's

well the 3 day weekend is at an end, have been frustrated not only by the weather that kept me in all weekend and prevented me from doing several things i had planned but with the bad weather today i furgured i tweak the blog a little, and so the template server has been messed up all day and i can nmake any changes......well murphy obviously did not take the week end off......spent most of the day watching a little tube, watch the first of the 6 wives of Henry the VIII, (vcr) and then a bunch of john wayne movies on cable.....but must go in early tomorrow so i think i'll call it a night

3rd day of rain in a row...i've been looking for a site online that gives detailed plans for building an ark...just joking the spot i live is well above any flood line....but they have listed some of the low lying areas of lewis county(just south of us) as possible flooding...but i've got zero of the yard work i'd planned to do this weekend done...and no golf......i can't get at the templates of any of my blogs right now....blogger must be having a problem with their template server....so i can't even engage in that....rats.....Khai suggested a notification list (see taggie) which i am working on but at this point without being able to play with the template, can do nothing.....however if any of you run blogrolls if you blogroll me, i do ping weblogs so any updates would show there...

i promised to put the thoughts of this morning in some rational form, but i've reneged, well not reneged exactly but rather then rational, which i was unable to do, i put it poetically. really it's only a cheap attempt on my part to pump up the numbers on my other blog. seriously though i can sum up poetically sometimes in very few words what would require a "book" in proses. and except in rare instances, i am deterimed to keep this blog poetry free from now on. rain, thunder , lightening all day, really both days so far have been pretty nasty......have done little of substance today....but feel well rested and that i need

i'm sitting here with my morning coffee, the weather is damp and cool, and i am barely functioning this morning, had trouble falling asleep last night and the slept poorly, feel out of it...but must get going ....get the mind to at least hitting on two or three cylinders...will probably watch the indy500 today.....not the deal it was when i was younger but still can supply a little drama......sunday has become a little less hectic as one of my commitments has moved to another day of the week......have much to write ...much on the mind...but am not awake enough to put them in a rational order...so will wait til later in the day or maybe tomorrow

mostly classical and ...well nothing to drink right now but will probably get a cup of tea at some point....it's 10 of 9 and i've been home maybe a half hour left at 2:30 for the wedding.........and reception afterwards....i think i'd be less tired if i went 15 rounds with mike tyson......first of all the church we were in has pews, which i believe to be CSO......that's chair shaped objects....they appear to be built for sitting....but it is only an appearance...in truth i believe they are hold overs from the spanish inquisition and nobody expects the spanish inquisition (sorry)........why do ministers at weddings feel compelled to speak for 25 minutes on the meaning of marriage....hand the couple a copy of sex for dumbies and be done with it......the only good thing about the entire service was that the church has a wonderful pipe organ and the organists is very good....in fact it's the fellow that plays with the choral society i sing with so that was at least enjoyable.....if you discount the d*mn pews.......then the reception started ( or at least in theory started at 4:30) a sit down affair at the local ramada.....actually the food was quite decent but i don't think we started eating much before 6 and it was drawn out for ever......i'm just glad it's the last niece of marriageable age and will get a restbit from family weddings for a few years anyhow........oh and the ramada dining room also has CSO's........why can't places buy proper chairs......

wet, rainy, cool day...great start to a 3 day weekend....i am headed out to get some lunch...i usually do the burger/sub/buffet deal for saturday lunch....have been listening to a classical cd this morning...tranquility...hasn't worked...might dig thru my stack of cds and find my meatloaf cd....more my mood today....have a wedding to go to this afternoon, niece's wedding...and even though this wedding will be decidedly "dry"...it reminds me of the old gag about the difference between an irish wedding and an irish funeral....one less drunk......(rimshot)........

it's been very quiet for a friday, looks like we may get some rain, and it's predicted to be cool and raining thru the weekend, well the memorial day weekend is always a coin flip here anyway, sometimes real nice and sometimes cool and damp, at least they're not predicting snow......am i a much better mood today....looking forward to the time off....i think i might sleep til noon tomorrow.....yah right....i've gotten up between 6 and 7 AM for so many years that even when i can sleep in i don't....or rather can't....well got a few things to clean up before i can call it a day..........

it was a nice sunny day today, if it was abit on the cool side...i have another of the in classical mood discs in, this one is entitled tranquility, which is the exact opposite of my mood tonight, but i don't have a disc called agitated....but may be the music will do me some good....have a diet soda....i've been re-watching the old pbs series Elizabeth R ...this week have watched the first 3 installments so far.......enjoyable and well acted.....goning to surf for a while.....

i woke up in the depths of depression, very strange dream last night, one of those that you wake up just before you either die/or are saved.....and you wake with a what happened on your mind.....but am feeling better now....but hop over to the poetry corner (link on right) and todays first entry was written before the clouds parted....

quiet couple of days, but two day s of work and a long week end......but weather looks iffy for the 3 days off....oh well...3 rainy days off are better then 3 days at work.......i'm sitting here trying to concentrate...trying to keep my eyes open and failing miserably......well night all

it's been a few days since i have done a good morning post...my focus lately has been anything but here...on this blog.....actually i'm not sure i've had a focus.....damp, cool, one might even say raw morning, only high 40"sF and rained most of the night....and as often happens my mood fits the weather.......

it was a beautiful day, warm almost summer like, but of course was stuck inside all day, if i could break the bad habits of eating, wearing clothes...etc...then i could quit my job and hang out on days like today...of course if i quit wearing clothes i'd hang out all the time.......(rim shot)........i'm tired, just got back from the rehearsal....went ok but it kind of took the strach out of me...as much as i enjoy singing sometimes it's just too much like work.......last night my msn messenger was lite up like a christmas tree and tonight it's a jack-o-lantern with the candle gone out, i think all my web-buds have been abducted by aliens.....nah....although a couple of them might be aliens.......hot mosly clasical on the media player and a diet soda ....have been doing aome work tonight on Troll's poetry corner....i'd give you the link but i'm to lazy...it's over there on the right somewhere....was going to take some pictures to post in the attic...also linked over there but never got the chance........early in tomorrow so i think i'm going to surf awhile and call it a night

i was about to sit down and recount in great detail my tedious day...but just remembered i have a rehearsal in 15 minutes so your salvation has come

lord, i'm getting lazy...i haven't posted here for just over 24hours......well it's not about being lazy but being busy.....i've been on line for about 2 hours but other things have interceded.....important and necessary things.......lovely day...played a little golf after work.......i had intended to start writing more poetry but will put that off to ...well to a day i have time.......no music except that which always is in my mind and sometimes comes out in soto voice.....i never learned to whistle, and rarely hum....but i sing under my breathe often...actually i think most people who know me think i'm a little nuts........nothing could be farther from the truth......i'm a whole lot nuts

i think i mentioned this before but i'll repeat it, over the time i've been blogging i have had a message board linked to my site (well 3 different ones actually)( and it's linked from all four blogs) but i digress.....the first one was a basic board which took forever to load...the second was a basic board that loaded quickly but nothing worked on it.....well i put up with that one for months and have just within the last week put up a much better board.....why....for the same reason i do anything with or add any thing to my blogs.......because i can......so if you get a chance stop in and give trollie a blast....( what...i forgot something....i don't think so.........oh you mean the link...oh i think they could find it anyway)

mostly classical on the media palyer and a diet dr pepper......i'm tired tonight......but am debating staying up awhile....things have been very unsettled on blogshares and i may stay up for the next re-sataement of the index fund...should be about 11PM......had a nice walk tonight chasing little white balls around a golf course....really nice warmer spring evening.......i am in a confused state ...several things around me are in a state of flux....and i am not in control of any of them....one of the things i do poorly is wait for the other shoe to drop.....i react well to an ordered situation.....even if it is chaotic.....i realize that in a normal sense on would not hook the words order and chaos, but if i am in control of the situation making order out of chaos is what i do for a living....and i do it quite well....(ouch...i just threw my shoulder out patting myself on the back)......but nothing is more frustrating to see the solution to the chaos, the order that could be established, but be unable to accomplish it because i don't have the "hammer".....

an interesting church service this morning...and long....it's armed forces day in thr US and wehad a service honoring the military that attends the church...well in some churches that would be a few but since we're onlt a few miles from Fort Durm which is the home of the 10TH Mountain Division....we have serveral.....and add to that we have an air national guard F16 polit who flys out of the 'cuse...he told an interesting story about being on a pratice bombing run and having a turkey vulture miss the canopy by about 2 feet.....ouch that would have smarted whether you were pilot or bird.......still much to do today.....

owning a house is always a treat, particularly when yard work is involved....i spent a bunch of time last weekend on a landscaping project and declared it complete....well i spent a lot of time yesterday on the same project an declared it complete....i feel like i'm stuck in a time loop......also did some seeding and plantings......fairly busy day ahead...so must get started

i'm listening to another of the in classical mood cds and coffee....this one is subtitled music for a summer's evening and not surprizingly starts with Eine kleine Nachtmusik......that's a bit oh please but i like the piece so i'll let them get away with it (in case your not into classical music or speak german the english translation is a little nightmusic).......i'm in a bit of a haze this morning.....really have nothing planned for the day.......may do nothing........it's been a while since i've do nothing and don't know if i remember how to do that...i mean nothing....but i guess it's probably like riding a bike......

i realizes today that i haven't updated the attic in about 2 months......by this time i had hoped to have some pics of the spring flowers but they have been very disappointing this year......i'm afraid that the late cold and snow caught them right about the time the were ready to start shooting up the flower stalk, and even those that are flowering are quite stunted.....but must don't seem like there is much hope........but lost only a couple of perennials and nothing that was really important, things i planted and then really didn't like that much, but i won't take them out.....if it grows, and i planted it, it's got a home until it's natural time is come.........

i feel old this morning, weather is damp, a little rain....and i played 18 holes of golf yesterday, and walked....first 18 of the year and add in the fact that the grtound was soft and a hilly golf course, i'm stiff and sore this morning and i feel old......i feel everyday of my 55 years, 5 months and 4 days......i feel every bump, cut, scrape and miscue that i've every made or encountered......but then it's a friday.....a few more hours and maybe a little sunshine and i'll forget most of them.......but right now i remember,,,,

i did end up playing golf this afternoon, and at a course i hadn't played but will recount that tale over on Now on the tee:Troll54, butwill do that later.....have no music on, just to lazy and a can see the remote, and i don't feel like net radio, and just emptied my can of soda, so i'm in a mess....will have to get up or die of thrist....feel relaxed tonight and have a story to write but that one involves blogshares so will post it over here.........will probably post more here later but i'm off......

finally a nice day.......i've got everything done and i think i'm going to take a half day and go play some golf.....in fact i think i'm going to go an play a course i've not played before........feel in an adventurous mood......

have felt under par all day, probably stayed up to late last night, on top of which have a slight cold, and aches and pains in the joints...am going to call it an early night and see if maybe a good nights sleep will put it right.......

i forgot last night to mention the good news...my daughter received tenure at her teaching position ( she teaches grade4-12 instrumental music).......and if all goes well should have her masters completed by years end.....and that at her current rate she should have her "blackbelt" in Hakido in two years......i kid her alot about setting up a studio not only to teach her students how to play musical instruments but also how to defend themselves with said instruments....but come to think of it if i had to teach 4-12 grades a black belt would come in handy

cool. damp and lousy for the 4th straight day, but looks like the weather is going to be better tomorrow, not in the best of moods this morning, nor in the worst of moods either, but the weather has been rough on me physically, my knees and hands are stiff and sore, the young adult who had this body thought it indestructable, and used it accordingly....the old trollie who now has it knows he was wrong........

good grief...i haven't post here for 22.5 hours......i think that's just about the longest gap unless you count the couple of times i've had technical problems and couldn't post....have been working most of the night setting up a new message board.....you can find it here, or by following the links to message board either here or on my other 3 blogs which you can find here,here,or here. I've had 3 different message boards counting this one and have always gone for basic ones in the past....like the first one but it took a year and a half to load, the second one loaded quickly but nothing worked on it unless i wanted to pay(now that's funny)....this one is a tad more complicated and i really had refrained in the past from taking that on, but i think i've got it pretty well handled.....i really don't foresee a whole bunch of use but this one has the capacity for private formuns and i thought that that might come in handy at some point......also have been playing a little blogshares tonight....no golf again...weather still lousy......one of my former clerks stopped by today to say hi and gave me a couple of classical cd's he found at a garage sale....typical new age bits of this and that but nice recordings....under the title in classical mood subtitle reflections not bad....i looking at my empty cup of tea and hoping one of the cats will fill it for me.....now if i could only find the cup of coffee Khai left (see taggie)......

weather is still lousy, but mymood is much better, have a can of diet soft drink but have no music playing....i actually added to the poetry corner to day which is the first time in probably a month, just haven't been in the right mood to right anything poetic for quite a while.....but i do tend to be very random in my poetry....but there is one new one there and a great deal has now slid into the archives...i have pretty well come to grips with the drama that overtook me this weekend.....to the point where it is now one of those things that all you can do is laugh about it......it's the kind of craziness that if you read it in a book you'd think that it was made up...totally a put up job...no real.......surreal if you will.....well i couldn't have done but what i did .....and would not change the out come if i could.....(flip...turn the page and start the next chapter)

most days i love weather maps and access to the weather radar on the net....today i hate it...it is a damp. dreary drizzling day here and my mood matches the weather....so i checked the radar maps...maybe the weather will clear and i can play a little golf after work..and renew my failing spirits....but no way...this weather should continue at least thru wednesday morning....although i can tolerate the weather that long...it's spring and should be expected...i can't tolerate the mood i'm in until the sun decides to peek thru the gloom....somedays i'm able to maintain complete independence from the world around me...it doesn't have any effect on my mood at all...and then there is today.....but even as i write this while the weather remains the same....a glimmer of sun is invading my soul...more a glimmer of a wry sense of humor...that some how declaring my weakness to all (ok ....now with my low hit count...all is relative and small...but at least for all to see....yah i know everyone isn't wired...but get off my back)....that somehow declaring my weakness to a few ( ok you win) is defeating that weakness....no not defeating really but at least neutralizing it.....or possibly turning it into a strength

it was pretty windy here this evening and we did get some mild Tstorms....but nothing of any consequence...watch the two hour series final of survivor and while at the beginning i never would have picked the winner, i do agree....anyone that can run off with the last two challanges against the odds...well you go girl.....feel tired tonight and need to get to bed so this will be short, besides really have nothing on my mind tonight.......

oh fun the following is a quote from the national weather service:
Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...IN CENTRAL NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 18 COUNTIES...
LEWIS OSWEGO ONONDAGA MADISON SENECA OTSEGO CORTLAND YATES CHENANGO TOMPKINS STEUBEN SCHUYLER BROOME TIOGA CHEMUNG JEFFERSON ONEIDA CAYUGA

...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT LAKE WATERS.

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

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS....
(/quote)
i live in jefferson county so we are on the extreme northern side of the alert, so we should be ok...but it's been an interesting 6 or 7 months weather wise......need to be out of the house for a couple of hours but i don't think we'll have a problem........busy day...and am still bit unsettled over events of the last few days..........but what happened was totally out of my control....so will just put it behind me and move on but.....

Dr Klassisk and a cup of Prince of Wales tea....am quite tired physically tonight. did a bunch of yard work (details in below posts). But as often happens my mind is still running laps. It's a common occurrene...small brain...large head, so gather run children and Uncle Trollie will tell you a bedtime story.
Once upon a time there was a baby trollie who grew up in a rural community outside Buffalo NY. Now it so happened that his parents attended a fundamentalist Baptist church. In fact they(that is the church community) were so much of each that in their independence they denied both. By enlarge they were good people but as is often the case in that type of society there was a rush to judgment and one got the impression that sometimes a decision was made based on limited or one sided facts. But please don't confuse them with the truth because they had already made up their minds. They held their own perception of the truth in such high regard that they would give no thought to anyone else's, in less of course it agreed with theirs.
Now to make matters worst this young trollie after he left high school attend a small college that if anything was even more so then the above. But being a trollie and having an independent streak a mile wide, finally rebelled against that limited scope of reality. And over the years has shed most of the baggage that was loaded on during his youth. And although in principle he still agrees theologically with the past, his out look on the world is at least partially sane.
Many years later this now mature trollie discovered the means of personal interaction know as the internet. And isn't great that finally he is able to deal with people whether from a religious standpoint or not, who don�t rush to judgment, who always seek the truth, and who listen to a rational explanation before coming to a decision. (/sarcasm)
Now off to bed little one, and Uncle trollie will bring you milk and cookies in a bit.

well the retaining wall is done, the top soil is in, the seed is sown, and i also have the pavers placed, and the trollie is finished....and i don't mean the job, still have to level and set some of the pavers but they are where they belong and i'm bushed.....just relaxing a littl before dinner......

am taking a break, have been working on a landscaping project in the back corner of the yard...have a sloped spot with very little light and it's the only undeveloped as it were spot on the yard.......it's very narrow and faces north, also where th wash lines are...i'm using some landscape timbers to level it a little....will have to add some topsoil and then in the one spot that gets some light will probably sow some shade loving ground cover.....maybe some wild flowers, and in the spot that gets like no light at all, probably place some pavers.....but that may wait until another day......changed my mind a little about half way thru and have to get some different fastners...but i've been messing around a bit much and my knees have filed an official protest with the pain department of my brain....so i am taking time to process their request.......

classic fm and i'm shaking an empty can of diet cherry coke hoping that something was left in the bottom of the can....rats.....i now have a cup of prince of wales tea.......after dinner tonight went out past henderson harbor, which sits at the very begining of the black river bay and the east end of lake ontario.......one of the better nurseries in the area is out that way and bought 3 lilac bushes for the yard......well anytime you try to plant or dig any hole in the my yard your in for an anventure.......a couple of years ago we contracted a local fence company to place a picket fence across the front of the yard and partial down the one side......i live on a corner lot and we placed the fence for three reasons, one to stop people from cuttting the corner, two because we have no back yard and it gives us a place to sit out with out feeling like we're in the middle of the street and lastly because for some reason dogs choose corner lots to leave their calling cards.....and i got sick and tired of cleaning up after dogs i don't own....anyways when they started to dig the 3' deep post holes they got down 14 inches and hit solid rock.....they had to bring in a jackhammer to finish the job.....well the bed rock stops about 2 feet into the yard from the fence but the rest of the yard is a rock field.....first hole wasn't too bad but got digging the second hole and hit a rock, well 20 minutes later after enlarging the hole about 3 times the size i need i managed to pry the offending rock out...it was about a foot square and 6" deep and probably weight the better part of 45-50 lbs...so i got those two down by the drive planted and moved to the front yard.....i got down about 3/4 of the depth i need with no problem...and then hit old tree roots and another monster rock...but just the tip of the rock so i moved the hole a bit......and cut out the root with a hatchet.......always a treat but i love lilac and it draws lots of birds including humming birds which i love to watch..plus it will entertain the cats......

Google to fix blog noise problem, while i for one would object to the blog = noise equation... in essense what it means is that hits on blogs would be filtered out of the main search page and would be given their own tab....like usenet hits are filtered out and appeart under the "group" tab......i've made the comment before that the way blogs are handled by search engines drive me nuts.....and it would give you the option to in essense filter out the crap and only look at blog results....i for one find the rest of the web noise interfering with the music that is blogging

bit on the cool side this AM but a beautiful sunny day....been busy this morning and being a friday could get strange...never can tell what a friday will be like.....i think that anyone using email for work should take a course in the proper writing of email...sometimes you get one and you know what the person is trying to say...but the "tone" of it is so insulying that you basically trashcan it with out a second look.....and i don't think that that is necessarily their intent.....i've got one who insists on writing everything in "CAPS".....as a long time board user that drives me nuts......ah weekend in just a few hours

the IB's did their job and i played this evening, just a beautiful night, was able to wear shorts for the first time this year, really perfer to play in shorts but with the weather here abouts that is not always an option......feel pretty go tonight...the exercise did me a world of good...i really have a hard time dealing with sitting for long periods of time anymore......knees and back just stiffen right up......sitting here with a diet coke and munching on a spiedie sandwich.......now in all probability you have no idea of what a spiedie is and rather then try to explain it i'll just leave you in the dark.....nah......check it out here, i learned to love spiedies over 35 years ago when i was a student in the Triple Cities area of southern NY......and you can purchase the marinade in central and northern ny to make your own..i really can't explain what the taste like....but they are great

it's a nice evening and i really would like to play golf but i've spent most of the day on the forflift and am stiff as a board....popped some IB's and hope that helps,

i came home in a pretty good mood, but managed to spoil it....made a really stupid, mental error playing blogshares tonight....not a disaster by any means but i really have no tolerance for mental errors in myself.......i can accept it when i make a mistake but in what is basically a game of tactics, to make a tactical mistake really ticks me off, an error in judgement ....oh well...but an error in tactics........nuts.......i can at times be way to hard on myself.........it's ridiculous to expect perfection........after all i'm subhuman....but i think i get madder at myself then i do at others....totally ridiculous........

LOL.....searchn's last tag got me to looking and i realized i hadn't posted anything for over 19 hours....probably a new blog record for the trollie to be silent.....it's a wet,dark,damp,ucky day here and i am a mirror of the day......not only did i sleep to the alarm this morning, but i was still dreaming....and i think that i have remained in that dream, a nigthmare as it were, all day....just can't seem to see over the edge of the abyss...even on tiptoes....i'm in such a funk that i can't get angry even one someone disses me today...which has happened a couple of times....and when i don't have the energy to lose my temper something is really wrong in fact i might be turning (perish the thought) human....on the topic of temper...i am in complete control of my temper...i can lose it anytime i want (rimshot).....it's not really a lack of energy...it's more the simple fact that i don't give a crap today....blah!!!!!!!....but things are looking up....i'm out odf here in an hour....oh and searchn if we ever meet i'll remember to polish my black shoes.......

played golf after work, turned into a beautiful evening......have been starting to get a fair amount of hits off of blogshares....which was the whole point of getting involved in the first place.......had a wild afternoon at work.......really was in a foul mmod by the end of the day but after golf and a little dinner i feel fine now, a little "washedout" but fine....will probably call it an early night as i have an ear;y in and a busy day ahead.......britten and tea.....not just because it was already in the machine but because i really like the first cut...the music was first written for a film....the young person's guide to the orchestra and has as a subtitle Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell well a nice peice even if i'm by virtually no definition a young person

it's a cool damp day today...i'd like to play golf tonight so i hope it clears off a little.....i didn't sleep very well last night and awoke in a dazed and confused, one might even say befuddled state......and have not improved much this morning....thankfully not a busy day...or one that so far has taxed my rather limited abilities.......headed to lunch so maybe will fel better.....

radio set and a diet coke.....blogger has been a little buggie tonight......haven't down too much....was a beautiful day but weather turn cool and overcast tonight with a little rain......i've calmed down a little.....after 30+ years i do a bit better job leaving work at work..saw one of my favorite reruns of star trek tng, i been thinking a lot lately about getting older....in many ways i feel old but in many ways i don't...it's not the i'm fighting against it.......i have no fear of growing old.....and after all there is not a dang thing i can do about it anyway......but is still am thinking about what i want to do for the next 20 years or so....no conclusions but something will come up i'm sure......

(RANT) You know I think I finally have to dig deep and come up with the money for the plastic surgeon to take that "I'm dumb as a post� look off my face. I�ve already got a plastic sturgeon that sings a beautiful rendition of �Come on be my baity� (and no that was not a typo and yes I�ve not only disconnected the pun alert system, I threw it out)�where was i�.oh yah the plastic surgeon�..I�ve only had my statements/intelligence questioned a half dozen times today, usually by this time of the day I�d have had it questioned at least a dozen times�.and I�m batting a 1000 because I�ve been right every time today. And each time it�s been in the area where I�m the �resident pro��and the questioner doesn�t know sh*t from shin-o-la about it�..and when I was proven right did I hear one word of anything�.of course not�the best part of the whole thing is these are the same people when their arse is in a sling who do that come to for help?��sheesshhhh!!!!!!(/RANT)

36*F this morning which i a few degrees colder the what was predicted but not unusual for this time of year...i've see this happen into early june...should see the mid 60's today....but looks like it will be a nice day......a brief explanation of them very brief post below....for those of you who are not fimilar with the blogger edit page if you have more then one blog all are accessed from the same page.....there is just a little drop down menu so you can choose the page you want.......well i default to this page...it was the first.....i posted here left to ping and came back and posted to trollie does blog shares without remembering to change pages.......i sometimes think that i'm getting a little batty here.......that i'm a couple of bricks short of a load.......but most be getting my butt in gear and to work

i got to watch what i post where........

britten and coffee....i've done some spring cleaning and discovered under a pile of cd's and book my cd player.....ok i wasn't quite that bad but i've been i a mood lately that i what to listen to what i want precisely...sometimes music is music and net radio is easier, but tonight i want what i want......i feel like i'm between a rock and a hard place....i'm in a group situation where everybody is trying to pull/push the group in a direction of their choosing and the directions seem to be in totally different areas of the galaxy........i seem to be the only one who has not forgotten the original purpose but short of hitting somebody between the eyes with a brick ( which i have contemplated doing but won't) i think that no one will every realize how far we are from where we need to be....i have been seriously considering dropping the whole thing but i can't...because if by some sheer stroke of......i don't know what....we get our focus back much can be accomplished.....

has turned in to a lovely soring day...mid 60'sF. sunny and not real windy......on one hand i'd like to play golf this afternoon...on the other hand 4 fingers and a thumb (ouch...yah i know very old gag).....but on the otherhand as nice as it is the course will probably be quite busy and i have to be somewhere at 5 so it really would be cutting it pretty thin...besides i'm not 100% today...road a lot yesterday so the back is tight and the knees, well the best that can be said about them today is that the take up the space between my upper and lower leg......been doing a little surfing.........

a bright sunny day here, but it's only 44*F.........i love saying that....just a month or so ago that would have felt like a heat wave...according to the long term forecast the temps this whole week will be highs in the low 60*F and lowers in the low 40*F...not that untypical for early mat weather......the tulips are trash so far, then had come up before we returned to the two very cold weeks and are pretty well stunted......a bit of color but much smaller the usual......nuts.......if they come at all i'll post some pics but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.....looks like all the rose bushes got thru the winter ok......also most of the rest of the plantings.....the hardy mums weren't (hardy that is) but then i wasn't surprised...we really are on the very edge of where they will survive the winter, and as cold as last winter was i was pretty sure they would not....must be off (and any one who knows me will say that i've been "off" for years)

radio set and a diet coke....it's 10 after 8 in the evening and i've not posted all day...well that's not quite true, i've posted to a couple of the other blogs i own but not this one....got up early but messed around playing blogshares, and then played golf this morning and was in the 'cuse doing some shopping until just an hour or so ago, have been blogging for the last hour but was on my other sites...just feed the cats and got a cup of prince of wales tea...a blend of black tee....i'm tried and stiff from riding around most of the day....and need a pick me up.....strong black tea usually gets the job done.....started re-readin the lightfoot translation of the apostolic fathers last night....have been meaning to do that for the last couple of months but just wasn't in the mood...interesting look into the early second century idea of what christianity should be.....doesn't match up very well with the curreent trends.......i read it every so often to get my center back......would like someday to purchase the complete translations of the father's but that's a 32 book set, and about $350...well some day when i find that amount laying around i will get it.....those who fail to learn from the past are fated to repeat it.....( not new to me, but can't remember the source of the preceeding quote) but it's old enough to be in the public domain........but it is true about all endevours

a cup of coffee, warmed up from what was left from this mornings pot, ok i know it was brewed 14 hours ago and could probably jump out of the cup and walk around the room, but i'm both cold and lazy so it tastes good......played golf after work cold, damp night and i probably should have dressed a little warmer, if your interested the summary of tonight's round is here. have had an interesting day blogsharing that sad tale is here
actually made the effort to put a cd in the player tonight...i'm in a strange mood ( no i don't mean the normal strange mood, i mean really strange)....telemann's 12 fantasias for solo flute....jean-pierre rampal....really not my normal type of music at all, in fact it's one of those gifts people give you and you thank them and all the time at the back of your mind your thinking of creative uses for the gift....in this case a cd... a frisbee....a drink coaster...a replacement for a clay pidgeon.....but one day saw it in the cd rack....still unopened some two years later and thought what the heck might as well listen to it before i give it to the cats to play with....but actually liked it...but i have to be in the right mood.....

still a damp, overcast, on the cool side spring day.....had an outbound this morning....drove me nuts ( ok short trip, probably won't have to drive me, just take my hand and lead me accross the street)....but i was fighting a misbehaving forktruck.....dang thing just wasn't running right, they've worked on it for the last 2 weeks and just can't seem to find the root cause....i think we should just shot it and dump it's carcass in the river....

strange goings on ....some times when i try to access my site i get an "under construction" page....??????.....if it was accurate it would read " needs demolition"......archives keep disappearing but i get an error message when i try to globally repub...but if i repub one or two individually they all return...????????...been raining for hours here...damp day.....

did start the new blog...if your interested ( was that a yawn i detected) in my ranting and rambling about blogshares you can find it here. tomorrow will probably be a strange day at work, production is on slowdown and only working four days a week, so we'll be in a very empty building tomorrow, it's kind of built like a tomb, very few windows and thick stone walls...and is quite old......rumor has it that it was a munitions plant during WWI and that they made phosgene gas in the plant...i've never been able to find any documentation, but then who'd want to admit to it.....article about gas warfare in WWI.....part about phosgene gas is about half way down.......

i've pretty much decided to start a fourth blog.....rather then keep babbling on here about blogshares i think that i will move that babble else where......rained very hard this afternoon and i think that eventhough it has cleared off now i don't think i'll try to play golf tonight.....i think i'll just surf...maybe start the new blog and veg out a bit......and of course it's thursday so we must do a little survivor

blogshares is on live now.....because of restart restrictions and the fact that i have 3 claimed blogs i'm kind of limited in my buys so i've decided to play the bond market, but i did leave myself a fair chunk of working capital once restrictions are lifted.....the only bad thing about it......is that i may lose control of the ywo blogs of my that are availible for trade....really all i was going to do was control them and by bonds ...so i got about 1/2 a loaf......

blogshares was supposed to reset between 10 and 2 GMT today.....we are now in that timeslot but doesn't look like it happened yet...i was hoping that it would happen right at 10GMT because that would have given me some time to grab some stock before i went to work....nuts