well inventory is done, audited, and in the books (or rather in the computer system) for another year and i've got the rest of the week off, was done at noon and on the golf course by a quarter to 1.........had a rehersal tonight for worship team, one tomorrow for choir and a choral rehersal on sunday....i think that under some situations trying to be in three groups at once might be a bit of overkill but all three do totally different music....different styles and i enjoy all 3....would be hard to drop one.....couldn't decide which one i would not do......am tired and i'm headed to bed........

i'm sitting here trying to relax and not doing a very good job of it....just finished doing the adjustments to inventory in the system and waiting to get the okay that they match up....once that's done all that's left to do is go round tomorrow with the independent auditor and i'm done with this for another year.....and off for the rest of the week.......actually i feel a little "off" right now but that's another kettle of fish.........

it's 7;30 am and i'm sitting at my desk trying to get my arse in gear, i have much to do today but my "clutch" is stuck and i can't get into gear...i asked the clerck at the store i stopped at this morning to slap me to wake me up but she refused....ah well.....

it has been a very long and busy day, a quick worship team pratice this morning (starting about 9 am) then taught an adult class....church service, team sang several songs, home just after 12:30...a quick lunch and then backout the door about 1:30 to get to the first rehersal for north country choral....got back home just before 5....and i am dead tired....i'm getting to old for this....voice is shot.....but had a great day none the less....music for choral is not that bad, nothing super high or demanding except that the rhythms are a little strange, some of the pieces are based on african folk music, which some spanish and welsh throw in for good measure, very unusual rhythms....one is in 7/8.....which i have never see before in my life....it is effective in the song but it's going to be a bear to get used to...will be a busy 2 or 3 days at work finishing inventory and then i'm taking some time off....i have 29.5 vacation days coming and i intend to burn several........

ABCNEWS.com : Bush Aides Defend Intelligence on Iraq the headline on go read "powell defends white house intelligence" now there is a contradiction in terms

was a very nice fall day, warmer but very windy, i mean pant legs flapping windy, took a roadtrip down to mannsville to play the little short golf course down there, it was empty and basically had the place to myself, if no one is there it's the honor system, put your money in the metal lockbox bolted to the deck....ah to live in the northcountry......and have just hung out and relaxed the rest of the day......have a busy day tomorrow....first choral pratice for the winter concert...have just about decided to sing....probably will....but whim and trollie are two words that mean about the same thing......i'll spend the time to think anything thru....figure all the possibilities and then more often then not throw the whole mess out and decide by whim.......dang....life is supposed to be free stylr ain't it........

well i survived the first day of year end inventory i think, i still have to check the obits in tomorrow mornings paper but came thru ok, it's probably the most important day because the count today covers most of the "cash" in the inventory.....still have some nitpickie stuff to do and then any adjustments to the inventory but the big headaches are behind me, nice day how be it a bit on the cool side but then it's almost october here in the northcountry and snow is just around the corner......i can remember a few years ago getting about 6" (of snow) the day before columbus day...but hope to get some nice weather next week as as soon as i have inventory in the books ( or in the computer) i'm taking sometime off.....maybe will take a little roas trip and play a few of the different golf courses in the area...have one that i haven't played the new nine on my own ball that i'd like to try...played a couple of outings there in scamble format.....may be take a run to the 'cuse.........

i see from the taggie that khai stopped by, haven't seen her for a while but then i have not surfed over to her blog lately either...have really not spent the time on this old dump or on checking out my web-buds blog lately that i really should....i have the prep for year end done as good as it can be.....but frankly no matter how well i prepare there is always something i overlook...or some wild card event that manages to cause a problem.....never really goes smooth...i guess it's just the nature of the beast....may nopost for the next couple of days as i usually get really tired and mentally drained doing inventory and lose my ability of coherant thought....asuming that i have that ability to begin with which is ptobably a pushing the boat out a bit far.......

i missed posting yesterday, first miss without a good excuse, just didn't feel like trying to invent something to say, decent day at work and took dad out to supper tonight, boys night out, of course it isn't too wild when one of the boys is 88years old, it's a bit weird when you can walkn into a resturant with your dad and both get the senior citzens discount.......had a good time....not much else happening tonight .........

very restful day, sang twice but that is really pure enjoyment and relaxing...things are going well in regards to the group ....maybe too well...a believe we may have a problwm brewing but i hope it can be avoided...promises to be a wild week with year end inventory friday and saterday but will get through i'm sure...i've been through more then 30 of these deals so i know i can survive but each one has a special pain all of it's own...no two are ever alike and it's rare to get through one with out something fouling up the process....have to break in a new guy for the third year in a row ....check that for the fourth year in a row and that always slows the process ssomne what......ah well....

been just a slow hanging out kind of day, just took it easy, well that's not intirely true, i did replace the clapper in the crapper, it had been running after the old flush and the rubber stopper, a clapper type was worn out, i'll have to write a lymerick using clapper and crapper to honor the event,......where was i ........played a little golf but have just taken it easy....blogshares is still down so played some video games....and watched monster garage on the discovery channel....really a wacked out show but i like it....being a bit wacked out myself........

Galileo Project Home a good article or rather place to begin on the end of the galileo mission,a neat animation of the mission is there plus links to some of the photos.........

it was nice this morning but mid afternoon it turned extremely windy and the weather has been unsettled through right now, but i think that the remnants of the storm, now just classified a a low passed further to the west of us than what the original thought, really haven't had much rain, just windy and unsettled.....and they say it will get better and the weekend should be nice.........had a relatively easy day and work and have just hung out tonight....blogshares has been down all day but i've dropped my play a little lately......more later

Prehistoric guinea pig was largest rodent on Earth
my only comment on this is where to find an exercise wheel big enough

i hate pop up ads, i mean i really hate pop up ads, but have never taken the time to really go searching for any anti-popup software, so i was mucking around with the options on my google toolbar the other day and guess what, there's an anti-popup option as part of the bar....boy do i read stuff well....anyways it seems to work pretty well so i'm now surfing popup free....wheeeee......was a really hot, beautiful day here today....seemed more like a day in late july or early august then one in mid september but we'll take it.....by tomorrow they are predicting heavy rains and high winds as our weather is affected by the hurricane that's headed up the east coast, we're way out of the way of the brunt of it but it will affect the weather of the whole north east, but it's supposed to be nice this weekend if more seasonal......played golf tonight and have just hung out the rest of the evening........

nice night but didn't have time to play golf, had a raather frustrating work day but then that will happen to you from time to time, i think the impending inventory is starting to get to me but i'm in decent shape for it so not to worry....yah right....rehersal tonight....well ......it was one of those nights when nothing really clicked...it went okay but ....everybody just seemed a little off....oh well that happens....saw a couple of doe on the way....just munching on the lawn in front of the fitness center on the way to rehersal....now mind you this is not out in the country but within the city limits....ok a city of only about 35000 but a city none the less......

has been raining tonight and it's cut the humidity a little so it's quite pleasant, and we need the rain, things are drying out pretty bad....the only good news is that it being the end of the growing season it really doesn't effect much except the grass....and the golf course....we need the rain....busy day at work....not physically pretty eas day that way but mentally was a challenge....this afternoon i was trying to juggle about 6 projects all at the same time, but got everything covered pretty well....got one more job done setting up for the count...have only one more nasty job to do and then just general cleanup type work......night all

another hectic sunday, it seems as soon as summer is over, well iguess technically it still have a few days to run, and it was very hot and humid today but there i go again....once september comes sundays become a very busy day and they mat get worse....north country choral's fall seasn pratices start in 2 weeks and church choir in 10 days...will probably do the church deal but i'm wavering on the NCC.......on one hand i really would like to do it...i find the music a challange but on the other hand it makes for a very busy day on sunday....i'll do the spring dea because it's usually a small choir and i am needed for sure....they could you me in the fall too but........ah ......will probably wait to the last minute and trust whim to help me decide......when all else fails whim is always by my side to help me decide what to do........you think i'm kidding don't you.......well i'm not........

ive been your basic zombie all day, i slept well for a change last night but woke physically but i think my mind is still in la-la land....of course there are those who think that's always the case but have really not been able to get going today.....was beautiful this morning and weather turned sore just after noon......could have played golf this morning but just couldn't convince myself it was worth the effort.......have really not accomplished anything today....on the bright side this is the weekend and i deserve a lost day once in awhile......but bot i've been lost in space all day...unfortunately that space has been between my ears.......

i'm sitting at my keyboard tonight fighting to keep my eyes open, it's only a bit after 9:30 and i'm falling asleep at the switch so to speak, but if my pattern of late follows i'll probably lie down and not be able to get to sleep, maybe i'll just sleep in the chair, oh and as tired as i am my typing and editing will probably not even come up to my usually gawd awful standard, you my need to study ancient hebrew to figure out this post, speaking of which i need to get a font set for hebrew just for the hell of it, my word process progam comes with greek letters but not hebrew.....ah thank heavens that pig latin uses normal letters ..........lunch didn't set well today for some unknown reason and i stayed in tonight....wasted a great night to play golf but i'm feeling better now........have really been surprised that i'm progressing nicely on getting inventory setup....still have a ways to go but 2 weeks to get it done so i'm actually ahead of where i hoped to be....things are going way to smoothly.....so i'm going to keep a close eye out because the monkey wrench in the works is probably just around the corner......night all

i just got an email which really bummed me out, first it seemed as if it came from someone i knew, off their guest book, but it was a spammer who was trying to sell me search engine submissions, as in " we've noticed that your site is not listed with some search engines" oh really....well good....i hate _____ search engine hits and some idiot who has no idea of what a blog is putting some insulting crap on my tag board and no email or site for me to respond to....hell if someone would offer me a way to take my site off the _____search engines i'd probably do it.....(/rant)

Discovery Channel :: Black Hole Sings Deepest Note neat article about sound being produced by a black hole. but just one note....and that a bass one...course if it was a tenor it would probably brake every glass on the planet

i spent the majority of the day with my butt in the seat of a forklift, not the most comfortable seating, it's designed for protection and vision not comfort, it's particularly hard on the legs because both feet have to be i relatively static positions to work the 3 foot pedals, plus beacuse of the gear shift on the right + the 3 control levers for the mast control you are in a rather fixed position, on top of which part of the time i was loading scrap bails, 6'x4'x3' blocks of compressed plastic scrap that weight about 1350 lbs. a piece and you generally handle two at a time, they tend to have a mind of their own and since some of the material has been thru a water test process the flour under them is wet which makes traction a relative term, actually it only took me an hour and a quarter to load 31 of them which is actually a good time, i've had the banding brake on them before and that is a real mess, but just a hectic day......have taken it easy tonight....hope to get in some golf tomorrow.......

a beautiful fall day, well i know that technically it's still summer but up here in the northcountry fall comes a callin' long before the it should, would have loved to take the PM off and play golf but just had to much to do, year end is around the corner and i started setting up the warehouse for counting....decided not to play after work which turned out to be a choice with great fore thought, i got called back in for an hour......have just hung out the rest of the night....still having sleeping problems and can't quite figure out want the problem is......have no rehersal this week so if the weather is nice will probably hit the links tomorrow....

i have a tagboard on now on the tee troll54 which i rarely pay any attention to, well so charming person wondered what the point ofthe blog was, and why the world needed to know what i shot on every round......actually his words were what this idiot shoots on every round.....well why not.....maybe he has no idea what a blog is......ah well...i suppose i could keep a paper diary just as well....after all i am keeping it for me but i'll bet he found it thru a search engine.....quiet day....and i'm tired....so what's new......

i will be glad when the good weather is over and i don't have to duck car washes at my favorite drive thru places....seems like every group trying to raise money has a car wash....today was a mess because in two of the fastfood lots side by side were two car washes....one was the IHC cheerleaders and the other the WHS cheerleaders....needless to say they were packed with cars driven by young men ( oh IHC and WHS....catholic and public HS's in town) of course it wasn't as bad as the weekend before the fourth....as crazy as it may sound the Miss New York State beauty pagent is held in watertown and they had a car wash with the contestants washing cars....hell i think every red blood male between the ages of 18 and 103 was in the line for that one....never seen so many dirty cars in my life......and no i was not in line....trolls don't have red blood..........no if it was a wet t-shirt contest.....nah......

i feel a lot better today but still have a bit of the flu hanging on, today was cool and damp but never rained, but the effect on my old joints made me a little gimpy all day....wanted to play golf tonight but it just wasn't in the cards, weather less then nice and some errands to run, but looking forward to getting out tomorrow.....i had another driver in today which spoke very limited english....really makes communicating difficult......i've gotten pretty good at understanding the different accents but i'm not always sure whether or not they understand me......

rainy morning but was an absolutely lovely afternoon, unfortunately no golf for trollie, i came home after a half day sick, i was running a fever, and had other complains that indicate that i have a mild case of the flu, for the benefit of all i will delete the graphic discriptions of said problems, actually i'm told that the word problem is out and the in term is issue(s)...however in the current situation i think issues my border on the graphic discription i'm attempting to avoid.....speaking of which i probably shouldn't use the term void either.......ah well, feel better this evening but i think part of the problem ( to heck with modern useage) is that i have not slept well for days...and what i have may be just a case of being overtired.......night all

i didn't update yesterday for the first time in a long time but i waited til late in the day and when i tried to update blogger apparently had a problem and it would not let me publish....but i was in a foul mood yesterday and it was probably a good thing that i couldn't publish......had a very frustrating day at work but have mellowed out tonight so am in a much better mood....it's cool and damp here tonight and i've been drinking Prince of Wales tea all night.....i read an article that suggest the benefits of drinking 20 oz of tea a day.....seems a bit much to me.....i think i'd probably float away even though i do enjoy tea....but it's a seasonal thing...i rarely drink tea in the summer...either hot or iced but i drink a fair amount of tea in the winter......anyhow have not been sleeping well and i think i'll turn in early tonight.......

labor day is an odd summer holiday, not many people up here play golf, i went out early afternoon and the place was not busy at all.....now on a normal weekend they'd be backed up at that time of day....on the other hand once labor day comes the amount of people playing golf drops to a handful and with a little luck with the weather you can play thru the end of october......true it gets a little nippy but if you dress right its ok..........