( the camera pans thru trollie's computer room....we see the ugly but lovable face of the trollie reflected in the monitor, although burned or etched into the monitor might be closer to the truth......as our scene opens the trollie speaks)......bored....bored....bored,,,,blogshares is down....the database server is well i guess dead.......but contrary to popular opinion i did not eat the data base......(as the camera pans down we can see trollie guiltily kicking a scrap of something under the computer hutch.......screen goes blank as we hear the camera man scream)

so it's all hollows eve.....a night for ghosts, goblins, and tooth aches (although they will undoubtedly come later) but not trolls....at least not this year....i'm hiding in the computer room with all the lights in the rest of the house off because i do not possess the energy, either mental or physical to deal with the trick or treaters tonight, nor the patience to do so.....so trollie is playing the grinch this year.....hand is a little stiff this day but really is a bunch better then i thought it might be after yesterdays misfortune....but i'm really beat down tonight....probably will watch a little tube later but right now....i really should just go to bed......

have spent the evening vegging, then watched survivor, and the the last half of the japan vs. usa match in the rugby world cup....usa finally won but have played well through out......had an awfully day at work, but physically and mentally exhausting...on top of which the palletizer tried to eat my had....it's okay....skinned a couple of knuckles and probably will have a little bruising but i use the machine so seldom, i just made a dumb move....ah well........

i had a hairy day at work today, i'm very tired but went to choir dispite really not feeling up to it, but glad i went, had a nice chat afterwards, very enlightening, anywho am ready to call it a night, been wet and cold and physically has been hard on me...

(trollie enters from left, dressed in party attire, clears throat and sings in a beautiful high tenor voice) "happy birthday to you...happy birthday to you....happy birthday dear blog, happy birthday to you"....that's right boys and girls and all the ships at sea i've been destroying the fine image of bloggers on the net for a whole year now...how does he keep coming up with this trite crap you might ask...but you're probably asking why does he bother.....well it's very simple.....because i can.......Nay..Nay...

i had a fairly simple day on the face of it today....at least that was what it appeared that it would be, but appearances can be deceiving, and that certainly was the case today...one of those days when everyone seemed to want something from me but nobody wanted to "wait in line".....everybody wanted it done now....even if i did have a half doz other requests ahead of them.....and the one person that was willing to wait was the chairman emeritus.....go figure...

was a very cold, wet, nasty day today.....and dark.....it's getting strange to drive home from work in the dusk of the day, time change and all, but the shortest day of the year it will be dark when i leave for work and dark when i come home.....and working i a building with very few windows it sometimes seems as if i never see the sun during the week......can be very depressing......work went ok, wasn't busy except that i had to put the final touches on month end inventory.....and must make time tomorrow for some warehouse work......trying to run the department alone is a drag.......was very quiet a work today....many yankee fans in mourning.....bills fans too.....actually quite pleasant...

i'm in the down 45 minutes between two rehearsals and stopped home to check blogshares and email.....i've left the cats alone far to long today, i've been trying to do things on the computer with smoky in my lap, and have not accomplished very much....must run....more later

i'm a bit bummed tonight, today was the last day i was going to get a chance to play golf before my home course shuts for the winter, and although it wasn't too cold, it certainly was to cold to play in the rain......dang.......have just kicked around most of the day and relaxed.........was a very tiring week...And tomorrow as usual will be hectic...must remember to set the clock back tonight as we are off daylight savings time as of tonight..........

Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event interesting article containing same information as below but this one has a more ....gloom and doom edge to it....

Solar Flare Could Disrupt Technology interesting article on a large solar storm heading our way......

you know i really should pay more attention, blogger has added a whole bunch of new features to the free accounts (things only pro used to have) about 2 months ago and i just caught on to it....oh boy is trollie observant....i can now ping weblogs automatically which saves me from trying to remember....and spell check....it's been sitting on the tool bar and i didn't notice...and it's not like i don't need it....also i've reset the archive to monthly, after almost a year of blogging the archive list was getting a bit long with the weekly setting...oh and one really funny discovery...the blogger spell checker doesn't recognize the word "blogger"....now that's funny....it suggests flogging as a replacement for blogging.....they apparently got the spell check from an S&M site

Insanitygirl last stop on my little surf....IG's place....she mentions that she has gout.....trollie has gout also.....won't wish that on anybody....nasty stuff...very painful....

Slow Train rene's place, co-worker, and like myself on the high side of fifty.....just got him started on blogshares.......

Kill the Sun we now find ourselves in new zealand, but be quiet....khai is reading.....

13 Stars For Me.. this is the home of the tirgress....i'll be a moment as i leave a silly note in her guest book

Rick's Blog i'm on a bit of a surf tonight, visiting old friends and updating my blogroll....and i thought i'd let you tag along.......

this week has really been a rough one, one day to go and hopefully i can get caught up....well really i guess i'm actually caught up now but i guess i don't feel like it yet, really am dead tired...will probably take a bath before survivor and go to sleep early...on the way home from work tonight it was snowing a little, that kernel type snow we call corn snow, it wasn't sticking but it was snowing.....it might be warm saturday so will try to play golf and then put the clubs away for the winter.....course closes at the end of october and although a few renmain open til the snow flies i think i'm done for the year, unless i play saturday....

i had a very exhusting day at work today, and really got behind the 8 ball.....need to get caught up tomorrow or i'll be really in for it...because i need to do a monthly inventory friday......had a battle last night with two of my cats for my bed....obviously they would dispute who's bed it is....but as it gets colder i'm sure the battle will be fought repeatedly....

i had one of those days when things aall didn't get done because the day just didn't fit together, things kept happening at the wrong times and in the wrong order for the day to run smooth....rehersal went great tonight...we got one of our voca;ists back who's been away for a while and it really helped....good rehersal...i'm tired and tomorrow promises to be ...well.....i will refrain from using the correct adjective......

i discovered something interesting tonight, i run a google tool bar with my browser, and there is a popup blocker option on the bar which i've been using, and it works good, maybe a little too good, i tried to use my blogroll this feature and the pop up blocker blocked the window from coming up, i had to turn it off in order to use the blogroll this, but in truth a minor price to pay for no pop ups...........

Slow Train this is the new blog of friend and co-worker rene, actually it's rene's fault that i'm blogging, he was the one that introduced me to it so if you've got a problem with me ....take it out on him.......

it was a nice day here, a bit on the cool side but a nice fall day, work up with a mild head cold and feeling a little weak, and decided that in order to complete the day something had to go, so skipped my afternoon rehersal, just didn'tr have either enough voice or energy to do everything that a normal sunday entails....feel good this evenong how be it a little tired, tomorrow promises to be a bit hectic so i think i'll reitre early, have been sleeping better of late, i've taken to drrinking a little sweet wine about an hour before bed and then some hot tea, whioch seems to be relaxing me and i've not had the problems i've had lately falling to sleep......nothing much is happening.....

it's been a wierd day, got up really late for me, after 9 o'clock.....even on non work days i rarely sleep past 6 or 6:30....stopped at mickey d's for a large coffee and a breakfast san and went to play golf....it's about 10:30 and there was no body on the course, infact i was the first out, ojay so it was only about 45* .....and it is the first day of deer season, well gun season anyway....and most of the die hards were playing an exchange match at another club but still....funny thing about it was (being the first day of deer season) is if i had packed a rifle in my golf bag i would have had about a 100 yard shot at a 4 point buck....and a shot gun there would have been goose on the table....saw about 100 geese lounging on one fairway.....rest of the day has been veg time....watched the eagles get beat by figi in the world cup......close game but......tired and headed for bed

well i got thru the work week, well almost, i'm sitting here waiting for ups and fedex to pickup, but everything that can be done is...finally loaded the last scrap load i had pending and that went very smooth, thought i might have a problem but didn't....i hear someone coming ....

Rugby World Cup 2003
have been following the rugby world up on fox world sports and if your interested ( well probably not but i am and it's my blog so you don't get a vote) here's the official home page

well today was fun....not......i worked my little tail right to the bone and am further behind then i was at the beginning of the day...i've got three of the four scrap loads done but i'm really hoping that the fourth doesn't come tomorrow....i hate to get to the weekend and not be caught up.....and the last load is the most problematical of the bunch....it's older material which has been sitting in the warehouse since moby dick was a minnow and the pallets are probably pretty weak by now....should be fun to load.....speaking of moby dick did you hear about the blonde who thought moby dick was a STD.......(rim shot)..........any how had to run north of the city with a load to the scale house and much to my disappointment the leaves i thought last week were not at peak yet were.....nuts....another fall with below average color......ah well......trollie go get spray cans of red and gold paint and fix trees.......i want colors of fall dang it and i'll have 'um if i have to paint them myself........probably not a good idea...i'm a real klutz where paint is concerned i usually get more on myself then i do on the object i'm painting........i can see it now ...a red and gold trollie....nah probably couldn't see it i'd probably get the dang stuff on my glasses as well.......

i feel unwell tonight and think i may be coming down with a cold, which is no surprise, caught quite a chill today....really miserable day but work load and weather....damp,rainy, windy cold....loaded two trucks and got really wet and cold in the process....lovely....and winter around the corner....i'm gettin' too old for this_____!!!!

Rick's Blog link to friend rick's new place....was on blogger for awhile and then without a blog for a bit and now has just started a new one..not a bad guy even if he does use a mac.....

wow, i feel old tonight, 2 of us hand loaded a 20' container with 320...70+lb rolls....and i couldn't keep up..i just don't have the ability to do that any more....rather embarassing....of course i am almost 56 but .....rehersal went okay tonight..we are working in the new voice pretty well....and will be getting back anotheer voice in a couple of week which means we will probably split into two teams.....too many cooks spoil the soup....it just gets too muddy.....

well i went to bed last night feeling like a zombie and woke up feeling worse, i went thru the entire day like i was trying to see the world thru a thick fog, and still am out of it....really have nothing much to say as nothing got thru the fog today and registered with me.......first game of the rugby world cup was on and as much as i enjoy watching that game i just couldn't get into it.....well neither the eagles or the all black were playing so i guess i can use that as any excuse.....by nation i must pull for the eagles but ......i really enjoy watching the all black........

i feel like a zombie tonight, just could not seem to fall a sleep last night ...was after 2 am when i finally did...and then had a typical busy, hectic sunday....have been playing blogshares this evening with some success....need to get to bed but afraid that sleep will not come...i really have nothing nagging at me.....just can't seem to nod off .......

as i said i took a drive up on tug hill this afternoon looking for fall colors, and was fairly disappointed, with the exception of a few brillant yellow and oranges, the colors are pretty drap, none of the reds that really make it beautiful....but there is a lot of green yet and so i doubt it's peaked yet, at least i sure hope it hasn't......but just outside rodman noticed a small, old cemetary that i had never seen before, or at least never payed attention to, not that i'm out that way very often....not an active cemetary to be sure although some one has mowed it recently......almost all the stones in it are just that at this point, stones stuck in the ground, any carving or writting on them long since weathered into nothingness....although i did find one stone that was still in good shape...i think mainly because it was faced away from the direction of most weather....from 1839...and as able to just make out 1813 on another stone....which would be consistant with the time this area was settled.....but it got me thinking that this represented a "colony" of people living on this spot about 200 years ago ( the age of the woman from 1939 was on the stone and said that she had been 82 years old)....but in a general, impersonal way.....markers to people who lived and died here but for the most part nameless, remembered but forgotten........well in that mood as i drove back to town i past the cemetary my mother is buried in and remembered that it had been a while since i had visited her site...it's with a bit of embarassment that i must admit to driving round a bit (large cemetary) until i remembered where the site was, it's been about 4 years, almost five since her death, it's not that i've forgot her....i could never do that but just where she rests........i'm not one for great displays of emotion.........

another nice day today and i love it,love it,love it and the only conclusion you can reach after my tiraid last night is the obviously i had time to play golf tonight.....probably shouldn't have as my one knee is acting up and i like an idiot forgot to take any IB's before i went out to play....but it did loosen up after a couple of holes......with winter fast approaching i really hate not to take advantage of the few good days we get this time of year....
as a follow up to last night i had reason to drive out north of the city today and there is some color in the trees, they must have gotten a frost up that away that we didn't get in town...i may drive up onto tug hill tomorrow in search of fall color......if i do and find any i'll post some pics..........

it was a warm beautiful day today and i hate it hate it hate it......i had to work and by the time i got off there was no time to get around of golf in before dark, the weather is fickle this time of year it teases me with beautiful weather when i can't play and gives me lousy weather when i can play.....(/trollie feeling sorr for himself).....this has been a strange week, i was supposed to load 4 outbound scrap loads that were supposed to be picked up one per day monday-thursday....well here it is thursday and i've loaded zip....nodda....if they all come tomorrow i'm liable to nuke somebody ( got yah...i'm still feeling sorry for myself)..........
finished the last of the cider tonight....it was just starting to turn and had a zip to it....will have to pick up some more...probably just one more time....i really like the early cider best....made from the early apples like macs and cortlands....rather then the batches made from the late apples....but i'll drink it if it fizzes....(i'm not sure that is spelled right but you get the idea...and if not than buzz off)

i am exhausted tonight, got back from choir rehersal about an hour ago and just have crashed out...wasn't that bad a day at work and slept well last night but i'm very tired right now....i think i may be coming dwn with a cold....it was a very nice warm fall day today....but wasted on work....this week i've only got saturday to play golf and the weather will probably stink.....it's the time of year that everytime you play could be the last time you play...haven't had a deep frost yet so really no color in the trees yet.....if you get some nice color i'll shoot some pics and put the in the attic.....and put a link up to it....i may take a run up into the hills this weekend in search of fall leaves......

it's getting to be that time of year, when i was loading the transfer this morning i turned the dock heater on....and was greeted with heat which i enjoyed but also that odor which tells you right off that the heater hasn't been run for a while.......could turn in to a fairly busy end of the week as a couple of loads that should have already gone were delayed......had a decent rehersal tonight.....but everybody was just a little off....that happens from time to time.....decent but not great.....

woke up this morning went down to the car to go to work, and the windows had a coat of dew on them ( i thought) it happens quite often this time of year i said to myself , got the car started and went to wipe the windows dry and discovered not dew, but a thin layer of ice, and i have no idea where the scraper is...(note to self: it would be a go idea to locate the dang thing because winter is coming) well anyway i've discovered that if the ice isn't to thick, which it wasn't, a cassette tape box works great as a scraper when the actual item is not in hand, turned into a pretty if a bit coll day........first day back to work and the weather is great....it sucked most of the time i was off.....ah well......

man am i tired, a wild day today, was on a dead run from just before 9 AM until after 7:30....didn't have anytime to just relax and unwind....starting back work tomorrow....am a little bummed out tonight....i got kind of put in a spot the other night....was asked for my opinion on something that really wasn't my call but the person involved needed some back up, so i backed him up....agreed with him anyway but probably would have supported him anyway because he needed it....well i'm catching the heat for it and he isn't....ah well just goes to show you that no good deed ever goes unpunished.....

weather was cool and rainy all day until about 5 PM when the sun came out and it warmed up a little, so no golf today, by that time there wasn't enough light left, but i'm glad in a way, i probably would have played if the weather was better, but i twisted my knee a little last night and it was probably best that i stayed off it today...i've been playing blogshares and surfing a little but also have the ESPN gamecast up so i can follow the braves/cubs game....i've been a braves fan since i was about 9 or 10 years old....and yes they did have baseball that long ago.....thinking about taking my bath and getting ready for bed now.....monster garage is on the discovery channel at 9 and i've become addicted to the show......going to the bottom of the ninth and braves are up 6 to 3....i guess i could walk the 20 feet to the living room and watch the end of the game but i'm too lazy........

fall is upon us here in the old northcountry, it was partially cloudy most of the day but very windy, cold and a bit of dampness in the air, played golf early this AM and played prettty well, but had the winter golf gloves on most of the way and really needed the long johns and turtle neck....( which reminds me i need to dig them out from where ever i put them for storage last spring)......played early evening and it was a bit nicer weather wise but i stiffened up the last few holes and basically played like_____. still we haven't had a hard frost yet and the leaves have barely started to turn.....maybe we will get some color this year, last fall was so damp and the frost so late that the colors were ....well not colored....fall is a neat time of year up here.....several really good brands of local ciger ....and the colors of fall...but really we have only 3 seasons....winter....just was winter....and soon will be winter....(rim shot).......i'm tired and headed for bed

a cold, wet, nasty day...i'm told there was alittle snow in the air early this morning..i was still abed and was spared the horror of seeing it this early, however when i was out for a while this afternoon it was a rain/hail mix....but it was almost more like corn snow then hail.....really nasty....my joints have beem stiff and sore all day...they bother me most when the weather is unstable and changeable.....once it gets cold and stays cold i'm usually okay but regardless of temperature damp weather always gets to me...really just enjoyed doing nothing today....spent some time playing one of my older sims....civil war general....i have the new version...CWG II....well even that game is a few years old but have always perfered the original....i'm not much of one for real time games...i like the turn based better,,,,i guess to many years of playing tac level board and minature wargames to break the turn based habit.....although i did play some roleplaying games years ago but mostly as a GM........(oops...game master)........but i guess that with the advent of the PC and the internet those style games have fallen from grace......

am off until next week....spent a quiet day....was cool and rained on and off all day...no golf...ah well i took the time as much to just get away and unwind as i did to play golf....so it was a great day...never got out of bed until almost 10 o'clock....sure beats getting up at 6 every morning....had a choir rehersal tonight and that's the only thing i had on the must do list before sunday so i just will veg out, relax,unwind,play some golf if i can and just do nuthin' .....i mean that's what i need......