Watertown, NY, USA . "Public Square" (vintage, date unknown) but the monument is honoring veterans of the American Civil War so the date of the image is late 1800s

Sunday, August 31, 2003

well i just deleted an email that offered me 6 free viagra....mercy....how did they know (hehe)....and with that being a prescription drug.....i wonder what they put in the sugar pill to make it blue......oh well i just love spam....and toothaches....and well pain in general.......sheessshhhh!!!!!!!.....restful day...played a little golf.....just hung out....day off tomorrow........weeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday, August 30, 2003

i was nearly part of the labour day weekend accident totals....was coming into the city from playing golf on route 37 just after the 45mph speed zone starts, and some one pulled out in front of me from a trucking compny lot, i sware with out looking, jammed on the brakes and just barely missed her, i don't think she was even aware of how close it was, absolutely no re-action from her at all, no eye contact.....sheessshhh!!!!!!!!

Friday, August 29, 2003

really easy. quiet day, wanted to play golf but it rained on and off most of the day from mid morning on, but the good news is that we were supposed to have a severe thunderstorm, and that did not happen, i heard so in the distance so it apparently missed us.....just hung out tonight....played some video games and some blogshares and watched a little tube..looking forward to not having to work for 3 days......

Thursday, August 28, 2003

kind of a nothing day, really was an easy day at work, and just hung out to night, went up to the mall for a while, was looking for a particular piece of music that i was pretty sure borders would not have a recording of but looked any ways and was right they didn't have it, actually i should check online because i'm not sure it's even available....i have an old cassette tape with an movement of the piece on it but that tape is probably 15 years old....also looked at the golf stuff at dick's....but am tired and i'm going to bed.......

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

i had a great day today, work was pretty flat so i was able to take the afternoon off and play golf, it's the first time in over a month that i've had a chnce to do that, mainly because of my foot, just to relax and play nine on a near empty golf course...no one to slow me down and no one beheind that i had to stay ahead of....just walking, wacking balls, and thinking ,,,,about .....well really about nothing....i tend to shut most things out when i play and just focus on the game...just relax and have a ball (pun warning system has been shut off....actually it went off so many times it burned itself out)..........have a monthly inventory to do friday which is kind of important....well more important,,,,all of them are important but this one needs extra attention because it will act as the check for the year end that will be done at the end of september.....i haven't been blogging at the time of a year end inventory before,,,so be prepared for a grumpy trollie ( yes i can get grumier) during the couple of weeks before it, year end is very stressful....and means long hours for two or three days that the count is inprocess......i really hate inventory....but i'm good at it and it's part of my job....but if you ever meet anyone who loves to do inventory ....run....because that person is both insane and very dangerous.........

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

this evening was kind of rushed as my rehersal was a couple of hours early because we were meeting with a sound consultant, which went well but reall was a light pratice but we did get some difficulties that we were having with the sound system ironed out so that was a good deal, on the way home i had a 6 point whitetail buck cross right in front of me on route 3, now this wasn't outside in the country somewhere this was within the city limits, in fact i've seen probably 8-12 different deer in that part of town....a beautiful site but not one which i enjoy while driving, unfortunately for all involved (that is deer, human and car) hitting a deer with a car is all to common an occurance in these parts, and the deer and the car almost always both lose......normally that dart across the road when you least expect it, tonight this guy was just walking slowly across and i had plenty of time to stop.......indeed a beautiful animal.......easy day at work......need to gfet some sleep as i have an early in tomorrow

Monday, August 25, 2003

nice weather continues, comfortable day, not real busy at work, and i slept well last night, how be it i did have one really strange dream.....not a nightmare....but just very disturbing...no that really isn't it either...i guess thought provoking.....it was as if blogs were represented as houses......some of the rooms in each were well filled out and ornate,,,and others were empty with cardboard walls.....and i guess that is true....the personality the lives and the thoughts of those that we read are complete in part, but total not revealed in part...weird dream....but dispite the fact i slept well and really wasn't busy today i'm dead tired tonight...need my beauty sleep....oh boy do i need my beauty sleep......

Sunday, August 24, 2003

another nice day here, warm but not super hot and low humidity, played golf again, toe still a little tender but the real problem is the legs, usually by this time of year i'm in pretty good walking shape but with the month of not playing i've lost a little of the edge, on the other hand , walking slow my be a benefit because my back has been really good, no problems......other then that just a normal down day, got 5 days work this week and then a long week end......

Saturday, August 23, 2003

it's funny how until you hurt a particular body part you have no idea how importaant it may be in a given activity.....now that i've got your interest i'll burst your bubble and tell you i'm talking about my right big toe and no i don't have a foot fetish....i went out and played golf tonight for the first time since i messed up my right big toe about a month ago, and until i took a couple of pratice swings never realized how much pressure i actually place on it during a normal swing, if i finish with a high follow through, the only part of my right foot still on the ground is...you guessed it the offending toe...well after a couple of swings i realized that although the foot felt great walking it wasn't up to that kind of abuse just yet.....now if i take a short follow through more of the foot stays down and the toe was fine, of course the problem then was that i was hitting the ball on a much lower ball flight, actually i use that shot from time to time to get under the wind or a tree or what ever, called a punch or a knockdown, well i ended up playing most of the round like that and the foot is ok........hope i'm over that crisis......i thnik that the main problem is that i just can't keep my foot out of my mouth and it gets waterlogged and hurts.....(hehe)
was a great day, warm but dry...really beautiful day........popped in and out of work this morning and then just took it easy til about 4 and then played golf......i never play during the day on the weekend just to busy....i'll wait til late afternoon and then can usually play pretty well at my own pace without worrying about slow groups.......i don't wait well.......on the golf course or in life in general.....patience may be a virtue but i neither have it nor do i desire it....

Friday, August 22, 2003

not a bad day at work, for a friday, a little crazy but then fridays are usually a whole lot crazy, production is working 6 days this week so i have to go in tomorrow for a while to update the production firgures in the computer.....was warm, hot actually today but the humidity was a bit lower, mowed the grass and just vegged tonight......nothing really happening......but i feel pretty good.....but am tired....i think i might try to grab a couple of days off next week and unwind.....

Thursday, August 21, 2003

we;ve had a couple of warm dry days in a row but today somebody turned the humidity back up, i've felt unwell all evening, i'm just not used to the heat and the humidity which is rare in these parts, i guess my lack of tolerance may have to do with the fact that what isn't rare here is sub-zero winter temoperatures, i guess the body adjusts best to the most common extreme and here in the northcountry that's snow and cold, not in august to be sure but i do remember a pretty heavy snow fall on columbus day one year.....i'm going to take a shower to cool down......

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

just another typical day, really nothing great happened, or any thing really unpleasant, work was a bit frustrating but then work is always a bit frustrating....as a friend always told me they call it work brcause all of the good four letter words were already taken, foots pretty good, still get a twinge every now and then but i'm going to try to play some golf this weekend, been about a month but ......ah well.......i've become addicted to ben and jerry's ice cream....the everything but the flavor is my fav.......i better start exercising or i won't fit under the bridge.....

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

well i'll try again tonight to use my update list but with the luck i've had you never know, had a really good rehersal tonight, things are really coming together quite well, and i am getting used to the different style but i must admit to slipping in a little classical harmony from time to time, as a high tenor with mostly classical experience i heard the suspended note, the brief minor resolved to a major, and even in a folk/rock style , well if it sounds right...what the hey.......clear sky this PM so probably will get a bit chilly tonight, i'll throw another cat on the bed to keep warm.........

Monday, August 18, 2003

now that is funny (see below) i finally was a good boy and was going to key my notify list and it wasn't there. got that irrating IE page about this page will not display or some typical microshit foolishness.......IG i tried......
i've been a bad boy, and no IG my notofy list is not broken, i just ....well....i don't know....i haven't taken the time to use it....i guess i could claim failing memory because of old age but .....what was i talking about....lost my train of thought there...oh yah......my memory is like a steel trap.....of course it's rusted and the trip is gone and i probably ate the bait for supper.....now what did i have for supper........
nice day today, was hot but not as humid, in fact was quite cool over night, woke about 2:30 AM freezing my arse off, must of been quite a sight, fumbling around in the dark trying to find where i had thrown my blankets, probably scared at least one life out of my cats, no on second thought they probably were safe in a corner laughing their furry rumps off at me.........

Sunday, August 17, 2003

i'm in a foul mood, one of those days when i absolutely will not allow myself to make any important choices, because in the mood i'm in i'd live to regret it , just crawl in a hole and stay away from the world, it actually started last night and has gotten worse today.....i'm starting to snap out of it but still........well this would not be the night to meet me in a dark alley.......

Saturday, August 16, 2003

murphy most live next door, it was a beautiful day, and my foot felt fine, and i planned to go out and play golf for the first time in a long time about 4 o'clock, well about 3 o'clock i stubbed my toe, i'll give you 3 guesses which one and the first two don't count......agh!!!!!!!!!!........watched a little of the PGA....and channel surf for a while but nothing much on.......

Friday, August 15, 2003

a hot humid day today, work wasn't too bad, had to out bounds but they were pretty basic, basically vegged tonight, foot bothered me a little, i think probably because i cut the grass last night, it was very thick and still a bit wet, and the uneven groud was a problem....had thought about playing golf but just didn't want to aggrivate the foot again tonight, probably won't play tomorrow, rain but will try sunday......i haven't written much lately but that's just because nothing has happened, life has been routine, calm and boringly normal....

Thursday, August 14, 2003

this is really weird, here i sit right in the middle of the area effected by the new east power black out and i have power, north and west parts of town are out but the southside where i live still has power, very strange, had to go out for cat food, and took better then an hour to run a 15 minute errand, no traffic signals and trying to find a store that had emergency power.....most of the stores are out in the area efffected.....really weird.......

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

it actually didn't rain today, should have mowed the grass but just didn't have the gumpsion anyhow will mow tomorrow if it doesn't rain.......easy day at work except that the server was down half the morning which slowed everything down to a crawl.......just kind of vegged again to night but i did run a few a errands......still hot an humid..........

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

a continuation of the weather of the last two weeks, but it's supposed to be better this weekend, went to practice this evening, is really going well, i think i'm finally getting comfortable with the style, kind of a rock/folk cross which is light years away from my classical roots.........

Monday, August 11, 2003

still hot, rainy and humid.....it's nearly 10 o'clock and i'm sitting here sweating like a stuck pig.....really is starting to wear me down......not a bad day at work but the humidity is draining me.....we don't get extended periods of high humidity very often....living where i do what we or rather i have got the most used to is snow and cold.....and some times in the summer....nah just kidding although i have seen snow as late as may and as early as columbus day......( trollie is done, he just melted.......)

Sunday, August 10, 2003

another humid, rainy day here, seems like it rains like nuts for an hour and then gets humid for the rest of the day, watch the golf on tv this afternoon, the international which is played in an odd format but DL III won for the 4th time this year, i guess if i have a favorite player it's him, i really like Payne, i miss his knickers.......anyhow feel good and well rested for the first time in weeks......now if we could lose this humidity i'd really feel great......

Saturday, August 9, 2003

weird i got a publishing error when i tried to update trollie does blogshares but the entry is showing so most be a glitch or a bug....(trollie runs off to get cyber fly swatter) so i'm not sure whether this entry will post or not.....rained again today..for about the upteenth day in a row...i've been searching the web for the design specs for the ark...and a supplier for gopher wood...(hehe)
ran a few errands but basically vegged again today....feel more rested then i have in a long time......i also avoid giving a blood sacrifice today as well...i had better explain...i've used an electric shaver for years....not really because i perfer it but it was giving to me as a gift and i'm lazy.....but it finally bit the dust and since i'm also cheap and there didn't seems to be another gift razor on the horizon i went back to the old safety razor deal, which i haven't done in probably at least 10 years....well no blood was spilled

Friday, August 8, 2003

was a strange day, foot is almost healed but with it being a little swelled i've go so skin irration there now that bugs me a little but no big thing....today at work was flat....so i took a half day....and went to the mall...a dick's sporting goods opeb today....christmas in august....i was like a little kid in a candy store with my nose pushed up against the glass of the display case, drolling.....total disgusting but i loved it.....didn't buy anything but their golf dept. is awesome.....there is one in the 'cuse but i think this store is bigger.....but basically veged most of the day.....i'm just tired out.......

Thursday, August 7, 2003

foot feels much better today, i'm still limpimg a little but thats because it's still stiff and will not flex when i walk, one more day of work and i've got two off.......if i take it easy hopefully i'll be fine next week, it's been raining alot so not being able to play golf because of the foot hasn't driven me too nuts.....getting o;d ain't fun.,.....

Wednesday, August 6, 2003

amasing, it's almost the end of the day and the foot feels better then it did at the beginning of the day....maybe i've turned the corner so to speak....tried the safety shoes this am for about 3 steps and put the soft ones back on....well need to finish a few things and i off for the day.......

Tuesday, August 5, 2003

man did it rin hard this afternoon, really came down in buckets, had let up abit by the time i came home and as i was about to make a turn towards my street realized that apparently a drain in the street was plugged and there was a absolute lake in the street, well i've got a low slung car and really didn't want to chance it so i made a quick detour and came in the high side to the house.....really weird weather....wet spring ...dry for june and the first bit of july and rain ever since......foot is really tired tonight....made a mistake with the soft shoes....feet got to hot and irratated the toe...will go back to the steel toes tomorrow or maybe just take the day off........

Monday, August 4, 2003

took the afternoon off, several reasons, just dead tired from last week, haven't taken a half day in over two week, and although the foot is tons better it's still tender and i didn't want to pound cement for 8 hours, i've worked on and off in factories since i was 18 and for the last 31.5 years on the same job, 8 by 5 + hours on a ement floor, it's a wonder i have any legs left under me at all. the most fun part of the day was trying to get my tender toe and the foot to which it is attached into my steel toed shoe, well they really aren't steel toed anymore, the use some kind of composite for the hard toe but i still think of them as steel toed, the biggest advantage other then less weight to the composite is that it doesn't retain the cold the way steel does, mercy in the old days when it was cold out, man that steel insert would make your toes cold, anyhow i got permission to wear soft toes if i need to but i think i'll be ok......off to surf.....

Sunday, August 3, 2003

a quiet day, foot feels alot better, igoing to take a hot bath, some ib's, and go to bed early and i should be ok by tomorrow, i think i remember what happened, friday while i was loading truck my foot slipped off the brake petal of the fork lift while i was backing up, i only use just the inside of the foot and i probably popped the toe when i did it, actually not the first time but this one was a beaut.....just had a very intense thunder and lightening storm, one in particular hit in the street maybe 20 feet from the house, real loud and shoke the house pretty good....i had to laugh....we've never seen 3 cats jump higher or move faster trying to find somewhere to hide....so much for the fearless hunter routine......

Saturday, August 2, 2003

not a good day, slept very poorly last night because of my foot, finally got to sleep and it's better today but still not right, would have liked to stay in but i was out of cat food, and rather then face a palace revolt i hobbled out and got some around lunch time, decided to go thru a drive thru for lunch and went to mickey d's, not that it's my favorite but because it was on the way, but the drive thru line was so long i said screw it and hobbled in to get my fish sandwich......rained to beat the band a little while ago and i think the weather has something to do with my foot problem......

Friday, August 1, 2003

what an exhausting week, that finished with an utterly exhausting day, i was dead on my feet by 2 PM and somehow bluddered thru the reat of the day. my one foot is giving me fits and i can't decide whether i sprained it, over used it or it's the return of the gout (which hasn't bothered me in years)...or all of the above.....it did change my normal friday plans which consist of golf and a roast beef sub, weather was marginal but physical was way below that......