it's late, well not really late late but i do need to get up at 6 AM tomorrow, and i need my beauty sleep....boy do i ever need my beauty sleep....i took a half day and played golf.....spent some time this afternoon playing the older 'puter game civil war general....i also have CWG II, but inspite of the fact or maybe because of the fact that there are more options with the later version i prefer the original, much quickier game....just a lot of fun.......also played blogshares quite a bit...new features came live at about 8pm EDT.....haven't really done much with it yet but did purchase an artefact which has special functions associated with it....and no i did not mis-spell it......british game designer using the old spelling of "artifact"...lilly was driving me nuts earlier, she jumped on my lap while i was trying to type something, and then tried to dislodge a hair ball....cute...really cute...you haven't lived until somenight in the dark, barefooting it to the old john you step on a freah hairball......i have a few choice words that i save for just such an occasion.....my other favorite is on i get woken up in the middle of the night when all 3 cats decide to hold an over the top rope battle royale in the middle of my bed.......the joys of being owned by cats.......nothing beats it......

bizet, the 2 suites from L'arlesiene and the 2 suites from carmen and ice water, weather cleared off into a beautiful evening and as i felt much better went out and played a quick 9, went out to the mall first, i think way too many peolpe up here have seen the movie fast and furious....seems like every other car has one of those big spoilers on the back of it...well anyhow feel much better tonight....but am very tired and need to be in early tomorrow ao will probably make an early exit....

it's raining and it's welcome, as much rain as we've had this spring it hasn't rained for better then a week and things were getting too dry, i keeped the garden watered but the lawn was beginning to get a little burned out....besides i really don't want to play golf today and now i have an excuse..not that i reaally need one......did not sleep well last night and really have felt a little out of sync all day.....have played a little bloogshares....watched a little tube and played at a few video games but nothing seems to hold my attention......have much to say but can't seem to find the words....i sometimes battle between being open and honest ......and private and secretive....part of it lies in the fact that this is an open medium........anyone can read what i write......and that would make no difference because i am who i portray myself as being to most everyone who reads me.......i "hid" behind the hidden nature of the web........really name and location not known.....on the other hand i can be found by people who know me in the "outside" world....and there are things i might feel free discussing in front of complete strangers....those who i will never met......never see face to face that i would with hold from those who know me face to face........weird but true.......i come from a background were much was taboo....was not discussed openly......was keep within.......ane even though i know that too much restraint can be bad ....i still have trouble being open on some issues......totally silly but true....

it's late and i'm tired, and feel a little unwell, just indigestion and my left hand is bothering me a little. has been for the last couple of days, i just think it old age creeping up on me.....although sometimes i do believe it's coming up on a dead run rather then creeping.....was so bored tonight that i sat down and watch the first mission impossible movie......i got to be really bored to watch anything that has tom c in it......zzzzzzzzzz....dozed off there.........i think it's time to hit the sheets........nite all......

just a beautiful day and i sit inside messin' with the 'puter.......lord i think i'm turning into a silly,geekie,nerdie old man....well if the shoe fits......i need to think about going out to run some errands and get some lunch....but if i follow my standard saturday pattern i'll go out and end up coming home and throwing something together and eat about 2...i've sorted thru my links list today and reduced the size/number of links.....ones i never use or have lost touch with the person, but i might have gotten one in error, if i dumped yours by accident shoot me an email and i'll replace it...if you read my site on a regular basis and what me to link to yours give me a shoot.......i'm off in quest of lunch

was in the mid-70's today, which was a relief from the hot weather of the last few days, work went remarkably well for an end of month, in fact was able to leave a little early and get to the course before the rush, despite that fact that i got caught by road work both on the waut and back, but as we say up here there are only two seasons...winter and construction.....have been working a little on assembling material for my new fiction blog....i have the intro story done and have been working on several stories in my mind...have nothing on "paper" as it were yet but then i have no particular deadline in mind for launching the site.....i've been thinking about doing something of the sort for a couple of years, first on a regular web site but now i think i'll use a blog....and actually sitting down to write the intro was the first real progress i've made....so i would guess knowing me it will probably be later then sooner, but younever know, whim is something that does control muow i do so ......who knows

well that seemed to work so it must be the code for opening another window that caused the problem....but the funny thing is i selected ignore the problem and it works ok....must just be a bug.....

this is a little strange, i think the heat is effecting me more then what i realized, one of my favorite if not my actually favorite clint eastwood movie is on, in fact it one of the few movies made from books i've read that i actually like the movie, how be it they did in my opinion change the storyline a little too much from the book but i do like them both, on top of that it is one of the earlier film scores by john williams....music is excellent......and i started to watch and was totally unable to get into the flick, weird (oops.....the eiger sanction.....sorry) ......i'm sitting in front of the puter sweating my arse off.......and i truly think that some of it is not sweat but is my brain melting and coming out the holes in my head...
oh have taken some more rose pictures and they are posted in the
attic if you'd like to take a look
which reminds me i had a little trouble with the "new blogger" earlier when i put the link to the poetry corner and set it up to open in another window i got told i did something "illegal".......i don't think the code police ronto me yet but anywho i'm not going to open the attic in another window and see if it's just the link that's causing the problem........i'm off to take a cool bath and see if it preserves what brain hasn't leaked out already

it's been a very hot,hazy,humid day here and i'm just not handling it very well, played golf last night but just don't feel like braving the heat two nights in a row, as much as i bitch about the cold in the winter i think i physically handle it better then the heat, however emotioonally i handle the heat better then the cold, so whats new, conflicted as usual..did add some poems to troll's poetry corner yesterday before the up grade....need to go out and do some yard work....primarily water the plants before they turn to dust......

i didn't post anything yesterday because i decided to wait until last night and then discovered that they were updating blogger....they've done a redo of the publishing screen and it looks much better, but i don't really know what allk they've changed.....need to get to work more later

it's late and i have an early in tomorrow and should really be trying to get some sleep but while i'm physically tired my mind will not let go, so rather then trying to sleep, i'm tryin to write, but my thoughts are so jumbled i'm not sure i will have any great success at this either......have a diet soft drink on the desk but no music in the room...i'm kind of "musiced out" tonight...not some thing that happens very often with me....had a rehersal tonight and although it went quite well i just have had enough of music for one day...almost forgot about the rehersal and was half way out the door on my way to play golf when i remembered.....it's been warm....actually read hot all week and is supposed to get hotter and more humid as the week progresses.....now mind you what we call hot probably won't fit most definitions of hot.....never gets much above the high 80's F here....with a rare 90 day....but considering that most winters it gets into the -30*F range or lower my comparison high 80's is boiling.....your body tends o ajust it's self to the most common extreme and here that extreme is the cold.....i handle 30 below better then 85 above......
have some ideas for writing some fiction, short stories......have been mulling the idea of maybe starting a another blog to store them..but i've had that idea for a long time and never actually sat down to write, the stories are all there in my mind but i guess i lack the .....whatever....to actually put them in writing.....they all seem to be sci-fi/morality things....well maybe nows the time....but not tonight.......

been a half busy day....i fought the numbers for a while trying to figure out whether or not a load would fit in a 20' container.....but no matter how i re-arranged it just won't go.....well better to find out now then when the dang thing is parked at the back door....really nice day, abit on the too hot side for my liking but think i'll play a little golf tonight....

bach's mass in B-minor and water.....a truly gigantic work....both in scope and beauty.....the first movement of the credo is probably my favorite choral work of altime........really strange day at work...one of those days when i was busy all day but have no idea if i actually accomplished anything.....just a bunch of small problems then seemed to chew up more time in the solution then they were worth.......ah well.........warm day....hot even.......feels strange sfter as cool as it's been all spring......cut the grass and did a little yard work tonight....then have veged out....actually watched a rerun of the movie flash gordon........the movie stinks but i like the sound track........cats are laying around in a semi-conscience state.....i think the heat has gotten to them and if they could they would probably ditch the fur coats they're wearing........

tube music on the media player and water...was quite hot today and played golf and feel a little dehydrated.....i have a wish list based on playing golf this afternoon
1) i have no problem with kids playing golf...i really don't but parents should not let two kids under 12 play alone, good grief...well i got by them on three and ....
2) there is a reason why fivesomes are not allowed in golf ( in sex they can be entertaining) but not on the golf course.....i got by them on six......and then
3) if your going to teach your wife how to play golf please do the following
a) learn how to play golf yourself first
b) teach her on the driving range
c) or anywhere except in front of trollie
never did get by them.........

roses have exploded...but not enough light to take any pictures, i'll try to get some tomorrow night and post some in the attic

boy i must be out of it today ....not the day to mess with the template

mozart and coffee...i was more tired last night then i thought....went to bed about 10:30 and never woke up til 8:30........i'm so use to getting up at 6 on work days that i normally don't sleep much past that even when i can....it started raining about an hour ago so looks like golf is out for this afternoon....needed to pickup a few plants for one "hole" in the garden....so ran out to sonny's ghse which is just a few minutes north of town....really had very little hope that they would have want i wanted because being close to town they get picked over pretty quicky and it is late in the season....but i was trying to save a trip...no luck....so ran out to rhoades which i knew would still have a good selection....they are the biggest ghse in the area but are probably 15+miles outside past henderson habour....(at the mouth of black river bay and lake ontario)....but as i cut the back way between the two discovered that garage sale season is in full swing up here....i never stop at garage sales...unless of course i can see golfclubs leaning up against a table....but anyway have you ever noticed that every woman going to a garage sale wears a fanny pack and all look the same....actually most wear the fanny pack in front so i wonder why they don't call them belly bags or gut gadgets.....oh on second thought maybe i do understand..but i digress........even rhoades was picked over especially the perennels but found some nice daisies that look good it the spot i had open......came back in to town on route 3 which runs right thru the major shopping area and stopped at lowes and wally's....thought i might get another shubbery.....you really need to know what your doing to buy any plants from those type of places....one had 2 different sizes of holly........in the small size all they had was blue prince and in the large size all the had was blue princess....(i'd like to make a comment on the princess being larger then the prince but will refrain)......but if someone only bought based on size they will be sadly disappointed with the result......because blue holly is one of those plants that in order for there to be fruit ( those cute little red berries) you need not only the princess but also the prince.....ah sex in the flower beds.....maybe i'll post a picture to picpost with the prince and princess copulating...i've had blue holly for a couple of years now and when i planted, have one bush of blue prince flanked by a princess on either side....the prince is probably henpecked but the results have been quite good.....i love holly because it holds it's green color all year........so i was in the mood for an order of onion petals from arby's....but as i drive thru "fast food alley".......i discovered that charity car wash season was also in full swing....and they had one at arby's....i hate going into places with those things going on......trollie " no i don't what my car washed" ..."yes i know it's dirty"..."i like my dirt"....."get off my d*mn car you snot nose kid".......although i almost made an exception this time because it was in benefit of the local high school cheerleaders........ah........( dirty olde trollie remarks edited out)..........

truth or fiction...at 11:00 AM we were told that the truck to pick up the last load was about an hour away....which was true because i asked the driver, what we were not told was that he had two deliveries to make one where he was and one up here before he got to us.....well he rolled in about 3:00 PM.........pretty night how be it a bit overcast ....played golf....played well but was a little frustrated....i had a couple of very slow groups ahead of me.....prettty well just hacking the ball all over the place...well that's ok but no concept of how the game is to be played.....that is no concept of the etiquette of the game........veery tired and will call it a night

oh joy....did i mention the clown car in the parking lot...well one of two loads is done and i still have two loads to go.....no my math hasn't taken a severe hit...they added one...and a scrap load at that...they are always a treat.....loading 30 some odd bales of scrap plastic on a trailer can be a real pain in the arse, my only compensation is that unloading them would be worse......i think i've finally woken up...have been wandering around in a fog all morning.....well if i get out of here at a decent time i think i'll play golf tonight....then go out for a bite to eat.....or an eat to bite.....or i....ithink i'll let that line of thinking atop right here......

this day could end up as a classic, the clown car is in the parking lot, things are all in disarray and the master trollie (note master probably should start with a bs) is not on top of his game) must run

mozart (choral works) and diet pepsi....although i don't always listen to choral works and think of all forms of classical music i like the choral works and particularly the mass form the best, i think some of has to do with the fact that they are fun to sing, i have for the past few years sung with the local choral society and we have done several masses, which i have found fun, and a challange...we did a hyden a copuple of years ago that really pressed the limits of my ability...it was fun.......very stressful day....several times i was called upon to pull someone's bacon out of the fire.....a fire i might add of their own making....i wasted 45 minutes on a problem that all hung on someones inability to use a tape measure properly......sheesshhh!!!!!!!!.....which resulted in a problem with a cube on an overseas shipment.....oh well....rained tonight....on the down side i couldn't play golf....on the upside i couldn't mow the lawn...tomorrow will be not bad if the off shift got down what i ask...if they didn't then could be crazy...i'm feel pretty good right now and don't have to work saturday........

overtures of von suppe and auber and a diet pepsi.......just got back from playing golf.....really slow.....but nice night.....saw friend jeff for the first time this year, had been wondering why i hadn't seen him, if anything jeff's a worse "course rat" them i am but he's military and just came back from a 45 day deployment, probably will get together to play this weekend......looks like tomorrow won't ber to bad but friday could be crazy.........there was a brief pause while i turned the cd down...the plaster was coming off the walls....need to hit my must read list so i'm off

i sitting at my desk waiting for a truck to get here to pick up a load that needs to get to the westcoast asap.....just fgound out about it so it's split between both locations which is a pain in the arse.....nerely took a header down the cellar steps this morning thanks to cat smokey....i always give her a little milk in the morning and because i got up at 7 instead of the usual 6 she was beside herself, somehow managed to rub on my legs all the way from the bed room to the kitchen, i opened the cellar door to reach for a can of food for the other cat and as i step on the landing guess who was under foot, i avoid stepping on her but almost took a header down the stairs......talk about love almost hurting......but i don't think it was on purpose....after all they don't have opposible thumbs....but if they ever figure out how to open cans and bottles of milk i'm probably history....

i sit here tonight absolutely exhausted, not a day that i worked physically hard but a very frustrating, high stress day, one where i had 3 or 4 high priority jobs that all needed to be done first, all at the same time, got everything handled but ended up with a sick head ache....beautiful night and not energy to do anything...what a waste......have not done much of anything tonight but veg out......i relize that i have been neglecting the blog of late...oh i've put a brief post up every day but really haven't spent anytime on it.....i don't think i've changed anything in weeks.....have a long weekend coming up in a couple of weeks or so for the 4th...and i have been mulling some changes.......maybe that will be a go time ....friend rick who is gay told me a neat joke the other day....he says that gays invented boxing.....why else would two grow men strip to the waist and fight over a belt and a purse......i for the sake of decency will not repeat my responce......... although it's early and i don't need to be in early tomorrow i think i'll call it a night

praetorius.....and a diet coke.....it's just a little after two and i and home hanging out.......decided to take the afternoon off, doesn't look busy to day but tomorrow will be a nightmare and i was a little out of sync this morning...beautiful day and i've already played golf and going to kick back for a while and probably catch up on some yard work.....watched more tube this weekend then in a long time, mostly sports, watch the US women's national team game against Ireland....it kind of irritates me that those are religated to one of the cable channels, but at least it's covered, also watched the US open, and was reminded why i try never to watch golf coverage on NBC..........the one commentator drives me nuts............

it was a lovely day up here today, went to my daughter's for lunch, father's day and all....we have a running gag, i really don't know why she bothers to wrap my present because she gets me a golf shirt for father's day every year, she hands me the box and i ask her what color is it....but i do enjoy receiving them....i was a very strange child..( well there's an under statement)....i loved receiving clothes for birthdays and christmas because i didn't have to go clothes shopping with my mother...now i loved my mom dearly...but still shutter at the thought of going shopping for clothes with her, you'd end up going to half a dozen stores and then going back to the first one and buying the first thing you tried on.......

in theory i'm watching the US open on the tube, it's turned on but i'm only dashing into the living room once in awhile to watch it...normally i pretty well am glued to the set during the majors but i'm just not the interested yet, but one comment i really don't see that it's necessary to cover the 3rd round for 6 and 1/2 hours....even for a golfing crazy that's a bit much.........have finally got some roses in the garden.....i'm at least 2 to 3 weeks later then usual.....but they are really beautiful....check them out here

a long very frustrating day, had to go back in for an hour and teach another forklift session, need to go in tomorrow briefly as well, but it's been raining again, now i'm a deep sleeper but we had a severe enough thunder storm last night that it woke me up, one of those rolling thunder affairs where it seems to echo forever.....rain extremely hard this AM and light since then,.....i'm done in tonight....and am going off to the land of nod..........

mostly classical and warmed over coffee.....khai and i have a running gag about coffee in general and my habit of drinking warmed over breakfast coffee in the evening, which reminds me she had something on her site a couple of days ago about cats taking over the world one bed at a time.....which brings to mind my nearly nightly stuggles for my bed with anyone or several of my 3 cats...you have not lived until 3 cats decide to hold an over the top battle royale in the middle of your bed at 3 o'clock in the morning (complete with pyrotechnics) or wake up with a start in the morning to see the owl like face of lilly 2 inches from your nose with that look that says now that your up, feed me.......or try to post something to your blog when a cat is sitting in your lap praticing her butt typing skills.....one learns very soon with cats who is really the boss and it ain't you..........had to go back into work briefly tonight to teach a forklift class....and need to stay late tomorrow to teach anyother......oh joy.......

turned into a nice day, but was rainy this AM, did some catching up as it were with a driver that i haven't seen in probably 6 months, have know this guy for probably 20 years.....he works for the company that always delivers for this one vendor. it cleared off this evening but the wind is starting to pick up and it smells like rain. was relatively busy today, but i was in a fog most of the day, never gotr to sleep til after midnight and 6AM is way to close to midnight for these old bones.....feel ok now, but am very tired and will call it an early night.....hope the weather is nice tomorrow, but you never know.......

a bright, sunny, warmer day here in the northcountry.....upstate ny is really beautiful this time of year....i once heard this area that the locals refer to as ...the northcountry....as not just upstate but way upstate......things are a bit slow today....we had a power failure...and everythinbg needs to be restarted......feel pretty good this AM....slept well last night for a change....if things don't pick up here pretty quick may decide to take a half day......

praetorius and a glass of ice water, had one of my nights last night where i just couldn't get to sleep....being awake to almost 2 AM , the alarm at 6AM is both rude and unwelcome....spent most of the day in a fog...but feel much better this evening, nice day but on the windy side...by the time i felt better it was too late to play golf, so i mowed the lawn instead, with all the rain we've gotten if you don't mow every 4 or 5 days it gets away.......but i feel better tonight both mentally and physically then i have in days......all 3 of my cats are indoor cats....but one of their "friends" from the neighborhood stopped by and was sitting on the porch rail....have you every wintessed a cat fight in which the two combatants are seperated by a window screen.....truly funny......but smokey drove the intruder off....and then stalked all round the house proudly....what a blast......

mostly classical on the media player and a diet coke, a quiet sunday for a change, a beautiful day, really the first "summer" day we've had, unfortunately i felt kind of punk physically all day, went to the course to play, hit a bucket of balls on the range and praticed putting for a while but was so shakie that i decided not to try to play, went to the mall instead and bought a couple of garlic pretzels, a sure sigh of summer, they're flushing the hydrant across the street and it's got my one cat really spooked, whats funnt is it's not the resident scaredy cat but the bully cat, well i guess there one thing she's afraid of......i just don't feel up to par today at all...nbeed to go read some blogs......

cpe bach and ice water, it's whats in the machine and i'm too lazy to change, quiet day, went to work briefly but it's rained lightly all day, got some deep fried haddock for lunch, there is a little take out place nearby that does mostly deep fried foods and does haddock to a "T"........watched the belmont race on the tube, i'm not a big horse racing fan but i usually watch the triple crown....this one was of interest not only because of the possibility of a triple crown, but the horse funny cide has a local contention, several of the onwers live just down the road as it were, although i don't know any one of them, the home town boy syndrome don't you know....feel pretty good physically tonight but still not on top of the game mentally, but then when was i ever...........

now that was a little strange, i just went to "file" my update with wanderlust and discovered that it's kaput, done, over, gone.....just a goodbye message.....wanderlust was one of the first places i listed my blog.....o well...i guess nothing last forever.....farewell wanderlust

cpe bach and well i'm got nothing but empty cups and cans and bottles littering the computer desk.......and i think it's about time that oi clear it off or i probably won't be able to find the mouse....well mess cleaned up and i now have a cup of coffee warmed from breakfast, yah i'm aware that that is pretty pathetic but i'm lazy......and a bit of a tight wad....hate to throw out perfectly good coffee...ok...ok....drinkable coffee....ok ok barely drinkable coffee....really strange day at work....woke in a foul mood for no particular reason and as the day progressed it just got worse and worse.....am in at least a neutral mood now....i won't call it a good mood but it's a beig improvement over this afternoon.....i've just been mulling a bunch of things over in my mind and can make heads or tails of them....anyhow need to pop in to work for a bit tomorrow becasuse production is working 6 days this week......i'm tired and kind of stressed out.........need to get away for a few days and just veg somewhere........

holst the planets real good recording, remastered to cd with the NYPO and bernstein, probably holst best know work, parts have been used as movie music, and tea......rained on and off most of the day, and a half way busy one, did some sorting and re-arranging at thw warehouse, pent part of the afternoon with my monthly chore of trying to figure out the resin schedule, and getting supplies ordered, we've been a little flat but seems as if we're going to be a little busier, so have to move up some of the buy dates....it has cleared off a little bt it's really to late to think about playibg golf, well that's not true i theink about playing golf when there is 3 feet of snow on the groung, but to late to play golf anyway......creatively i've been in a funk for the last week or so, just flat mentally....haven't written any poetry of late.....but the old stuff is still here if your interested....well off surfin'......

didn't end up playing golf, remembered that i still had a few annual seeds to plant, did a little pruning, cut the grass, and ran out of time......really boring evening but i enjoyed it.....doing just simple things around the yard is some how very relaxing...mind is basically off line tonight....i've been trying to come up with an idea for blogshares and no luck.....just one of those days when the mundane is the best i can do.....well no sense beating a dead trollie...i'm off to bed......

it was one of those days when i was relatively busy all day, but really got nothing of any real import accomplished, just cleaning up the bits and pieces of yet another month end inventory, and dealing with a whole bunch of little minor issues, but then that really is pretty normal. nice day today and now tht we're i june and getting towards the longest daay of the year, will probably eat supper and then go out to play golf about 6 o'clock, weather looks like it may turn to rain but should hold off long enough for me to get in a quick 9.......most of the planting is done for another year so will just sit back and watch my flowers grow, yah right, more like spend time on my knees weeding, if i sat back and did nothing the weeds would take over,

really nice day, warm, sunny and wasn't busy at work so i took a half day vac and played some golf and then came home and planted so annuals in the garden, still have one more bed to do, but still have a few tulips in that one so probably will wait, i've decided rather then take a week all at once i'll probably just take my vacation in dayss and half days....it works for me and work has no problem with that, as long as i pick days when we're not super busy.....need to go out for a while this evening but will probably be on later.....

mostly classical and a cup of tea, beautifully sunny day but a bit on the cool side, but should be nice at least til friday, with all the rain we.ve had that's a relief....probably will try to play golf wednesday after work, have a group reheasal tomorrow evening so probably won't have time....made some pasta for dinner with artichokes and oil cured olives....and of course EV olive oil, garlic and my favorite vegatable the onion.....and a little sweet balsamic vinegar....where i grew up one of the things that was always on the table was a bottle of vinegar....not balsamic but just regular apple vinegar.....was used just as one would use salt or pepper....and i have a taste as it were for sour in foods......of course the whole meal was set off by the entertainment...i watch the last half of starship troopers......a very meaningful...thoughtful flick (cough).......

it's another wet, damp, cool day but the forecast for the next 5 looks pretty good, morning coffee and dr klassisk on the media player....have to go out this morning but for a change have nothing shaking the rest of the day so will just rest.....blogshares rankings are posted at the start of every month and you hold that ranking for the whole month.....well i don't know why things happen the way they do, but my ranking is 69th......and althought i probably could play with that fact for hours...well actually i would like to be ranked higher but i won't let the fact that i'm 69th eat at me......need to get dressed and out of here......