cold is almost gone, knock wood ( trollie raps knuckles on his head), voice is still a little shaky on the high notes but feels pretty good, had a good rehearsal today for NCC, but have a bit of a problem, actually have two rehearsals scheduled for 7 pm tuesday, but talked to J and will take the week off from worship team.....with a NCC rehearsal both tuesday and saturday afternoon, and the 2 performances, saturday evening and sunday afternoon that will be enough of a work out for my voice.....particularly as i am just getting over this cold and still not 100%.....blogshares is still done....and i'm getting a quick refusal when i try to connect.....doesn't sound good....as we all know things have a nasty habit out here in internet land of just going poof!!!!, now you see it . now you don't....have a heavy day tomorrow so i'm off........

it's been a cold blustery day up here in the north country. originally they had predicted heavy snow, which they changed to moderate, but so far i would describe it as a dusting, we've got just a few inches, or rather a couple of inches would be more accurate, and tomorrow has been now updated to snow changing to rain, not that i really want either but i'll take the rain, because A- i live on high ground and B- you don't have to shovel rain....well i do have a snow blower but you get the picture.....blogshares is still down....this is the longest outage i can remember....rats....cold is almost gone but i got a twinge out of my back earlier, i'm embarrassed to admit as i was standing up off the throne.....really weird...you would have thought being lighter then when i sat down there would have been less pressure on the back.....truth is i think it's the weather change....and then my back does go out from time to time....feels better now but it still is a bit sore........off to watch the bond marathon on spike tv........

it's a quiet, i haven't done a dang thing all day day...well not entirely true...went out and bought a few things....had a craving for white clam sauce and am to lazy to make my own, so bought a can but have spent most of the day watching the monster garage marathon on discovery....bummed out because blogshares has been done most of the day...have a whole day to play and it ain't there....ah well....feel good today, the cold is still hangin' on a little but otherwise feel good......made the mistake of going out arsenal street today....main shopping area in town....traffic was wild, so decided to take the back way home.....it's been rain cats and dogs today and forgot about the one low spot in the back way out of the plaza without storm drains.....oh boy.....i hit what i thought was a low puddle which turned out to be about 2 foot of standing water.....must of looked like a hydroplane with the rooster tail i shot up....but got through with out a problem.......ah well.....
i am slowly teaching this spell check my rather slang form of english but i really wish i could program it to learn that i never, well almost never use caps.......

quiet day, had a nice dinner, neighbors and inlaws....daughter and her hubby dropped by for dessert.....brought a video the the martial arts class that they attend made, it was funny watching her throw her hubby all over the place, i haven't seen her do the martial arts for about a year, she's improved greatly....purple belt.....also received her masters degree in reading......with just under a 4.0 cumm......otherwise a restfully day......

Fear Continues To Masquerade As Justice (washingtonpost.com) a thought provoking article

really long day at work, spent about 5 and 1/2 hours on one project, a rather complicated overseas shipment and when i was about 15 minutes from getting it done got a message that the might be adding to it....ah well....i have room on a couple of the pallets so that won't be too bad...it could be worse...the could be taking something off...and that has happened once or twice...and believe me you don't want to be within a 100 miles of the old trollie if that happens...we got about an inch of snow on the ground right now....which isn't really any problem at all....have one more day to work this week and tomorrow should be a relatively quiet day....production has the day off so maybe i'll get caught up...have a few things from today that didn't get done and a few housekeeping chores that i haven't got to...looking forward to the 4 day weekend....oops....i've been talking about the 4 day weekend like the typical ugly american trollie, assuming everyone knows why....thursday is thanksgiving in the US....and friday is also a traditional day off...the start of the christmas shopping season...and one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year....trollie stays home that day....

well that was different, i tried to post earlier and blogger was not available....that's the first time i got a can't find screen for blogger in a long time, it's really been stable for the last 4 or 5 months......i've been thinking of maybe starting another blog....but a password protected one that only selected of my web-buds have access to, there are things sometimes that i want to post, get off my chest as it were but would rather not have the world know....had a frustrating day at work.....just nit picky stuff were the timing just hasn't worked out right and in order to put it right will require a special effort...sometimes everything works the way you want it to, but most of the time....oh well......have actually felt a lot better today but i sound like i'm on my last legs...voice is horse and raspy.....and i got a fair amount of drainage but feel ok...need to get some sleep and i'll be okay.....2 more days and i'm off for 4.....yahoo......aggie just wandered in with her little i'm lonely cry.....not that anything can truly be called little on a 15 pound house cat...so i'd best sign off...don't try posting to your blog when a 15 pound cat is on your lap trying to butt type....it ain't pretty

boy did i wake up feeling lousy this morning, i have a major head cold and it also has effected my voice, all that garbage doing the dip dip dip into my throat, well got through teaching and church but had not high notes....just not there so skipped NCC....would have been a waste of time and besides i felt lousy...felt better this evening and just need to get through 3 days this week and then have a 4 day weekend....which i need...have somethings i would like to say but have not the words nor in the mood to say them....will probably write more over next week end.....

The Presidents Cup i've been following the cup matches this week, US got shelled today but the real irksome thing is that one of the networks has 6 hours of coverage....every hole every shot...sweet but the irksome thing is the lead advertiser....a new Chrysler mini-van...they only got one dang commercial for the silly thing...so every commercial break you see they same dang ad....sheeeshhhh!!!!!!!

Chapin Living Waters Foundation Home Page
spent a good piece of the day working on getting samples ready to ship overseas for the above foundation, it was founded by the fellow who started the company i work for and we do the shipping for them, it (through relief agencies and the like) sends watering kits to third world countries to help families grow vegies

i still don't feel A1, first class but feel much better then yesterday, dried out this afternoon so the arthritis isn't quite as bad, but trollie's tum-tum still is a little flippy......watched survivor...and for the first time in a while actually figured out who would be voted out...i tend to always guess wrong...put my own logic/feelings into it and not really see it from the other side...but then some of the choice people make on that show...they need to have their head examined....or possibly need a head....anywho....one more day of work and i'm outa there for the weekend.....

trollie is under the weather today...i can't figure out if i have a cold or a mild case of the flu or a combination of the two but i feel rotten, well i've always been rotten to the core but that is an assessment of my mental state not my physical state which we are presently discussing....made it through work but just barely...skipped choir tonight but i have no voice and could not see the value of sitting there, not singing and infecting everyone else, now there are i few people that i would quite willingly infect but none of them in the choir.....rainy and windy again today which has got my arthritis going and that is contributing to my general feeling of "bluck"....yah i know i've invented a word but pronounce it phonetically and you'll get the picture......

very strange weather for this time of year, it was in the lower 50's today and very windy....not the windy is unusual but the temperature is...and they say (i've always wondered who they were) that we might get as much as 2 inches of rain over the next 24 hours.....well the one good thing is that that much rain would equal about 2+ feet of snow so i'm glad that it is warm, voice is shot tonight, had a good rehearsal but no voice left, i have been using it a bit freely of late and have a touch of a cold, or possibly a bit of the flu, but then as changeable as the weather has been i should not wonder..could be a busy day tomorrow and i need my rest...really have not slept well again for about a week but the arthritis and the sore joints makes it hard to find a comfortable position....that and nightly visits from my 3 cats....

i'm having one of those days today, my mind seems to be everywhere but where i happen to be at any given moment...it seems to have a great sense of wunderlust today and if anyone can locate it and send it home to me i would really appreciate it....i try to concentrate on something...anything and my mind just seems to wander off...and i find it difficult to write anything at all....one of those nights that i'm glad i have spell check or this post would probably look like it was written in sanskrit..........i'm impressed spell check actually recognizes sanskrit....not the language of course but the word....it doesn't recognize "blogger" even though it's supplied by blogger but in recognizes sanskrit....i'm sure there is a lesson to be learned from that but for the life of me i'm too foggy to ascertain it

wow i've sat way too much today....and with the arthritis kicking up i feel like somebody has poured quick drying cement into most of my joints...need to get a hot bath and some IB's and see if i can loosen up a little before bed or i probably will not get much sleep tonight
i know i should just ignore the spam emails but sometimes i just got to look at them....got a really beaut today...wanted to know if i wanted to lose 3 dress sizes before christmas....now i might need to lose a pound or twenty but 3 dress sizes.....then i'd have to buy a new wardrobe.....besides how did they know (trollie clears voice and starts singing " i'm a lumberjack and i'm okay........)

WCNY-CLASSIC FM -- Start listening ONLINE i've talked about classic fm, local classical station a lot...if you'd like to listen they are on line...here's the link to the webcast

The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990
this is a link to the library of congress aaron copeland collection, trollie would like to wish a belated happy birthday, he would have been 103 yesterday...brillant composer....local classical station played a lot of his works yesterday in tribute...

today has been a rough day physically for me, i have problems with my arthritis particularly when the weather is changeable, or during the change of seasons.....fall to winter....winter to spring....i was so stiff when i awoke this morning that i could not get my one wrist to function properly....but took a few IB's and got thru the day...really busy this morning but got thru it and it calmed down in the afternoon...have kicked back and relaxed this evening....how be it a bit mindless...i actually watched bloodsport II on the tube.....very enlightening entertainment.....( ho boy).......Plan to just veg tomorrow....need to take a very hot bath tonight...that usually helps to relieve the stiff and sore joints....

oh what a lovely day we've had today, 45mph winds with gusts to 60mph......rain, mixed with snow and sleet and the kitchen sink i think....and we were lucky...the brunt og the storm went below us....which is kind of odd but the wind was out of the WNW....which is unusual for this time of year so the effect of the lake on the storm didn't hit us....now if the wind is out of the WSW then you may not here from me for days....i'd probably have to shovel snow out of the computer room to get to it......ok maybe not that bad but..........haver a busy day tomorrow and am tired.....haven't slept well the last two or three nights....but haven't gone to bed early enough either.......

weird work day....i was busy all day....not flat out but busy and really didn't accomplish much of note...spent the day fiddling with small projects.....had a cracker of a thunder storm earlier and it's supposed to turn cold and we should get some snow tomorrow...in fact there is a winter storm advisory they tell me....thunder rattled the house a little and my cats more.....the different reactions are a riot.....lilly cuddles.....aggie hides under the bed and smokie gets in a window and watches the storm.....of course i've always thought smokie was probably brain dead but she is a lovable little scamp...

a cold miserable day...and rainy too.....work day wasn't too bad and although i started the day feeling a little punk by quitting time felt much better.....isn't that funny the way that happens........no rehearsal tonight.....made some shrimp salad for supper.....could never do that when my cat jenny was alive....if i made pasta and didn't open a can of tuna i was in deep trouble.....and if i didn't leave enough in the bottom of the can...i was in even deeper trouble....i can still see that little scamp pushing the tin all over the floor and cleaning very visible morsel out of it....and a plague on them if one of the other cats interfered......that cat dearly loved tuna.......watched the all blacks beat south africa in the 1/4 finals of the rugby world cup......well time for bed......

man did i wake up in a fog this morning, i hate to admit it but i'm not as young as i used to be and something has to go on sunday....just too much for this old man to handle...on the bright side i've only got about 5 more weeks of NCC before the concert so i guess i'll just tuff it out.....and the truth is i can't choose....everything is something i want to do....enjoy doing....rats.......thankfully had an easy work day but tomorrow promises to be fairly busy....should be getting to bed but mind is not ready to be shut off......watched monster garage which i think is a neat show....really have gotten hooked to it.....which is weird in a way because i'm not a motor head....but like the show....oh and if i'm not busy enough with the music i got an offer to sing with a garage band....50's and 60's stuff...might check it out after the new year....have never sung with a group like that...and sounds like it could be a gas......night all

one thing i've discovered about spell check is that it can't seem to accept my complete disregard for capital letters....ah well thats's what the learn button is for.......

another cold but clear day here....very busy and i'm really tired but mind is in a whirl so will probably stay up a while...managed to get a deal in blogshares to push IG over the billion dollar mark .......had an enjoyable day...voice is shot right now but still had a great day....the composer of three of the pieces we're doing for the christmas concert was at the rehearsal today and we got to run thru them with him at the piano....really a great guy....neat music....first rehearsal with the children's choir as well....but am really too tired to make much sense here so will say goodnight

it was a nice sunny day up here today...that's the good news .....no snow like they said might happen...even better news....but it was windy and colder than a witches' .....well....gosh....(trollie blushes.....)......just kicked back and relaxed today...busy day tomorrow....and a bit special....the composer of a couple of the pieces we're doing for north country choral is going to be at the rehearsal....kind of neat....and a bit scary......have had some fun with blogshares today,,,,been quiet over there and i've managed to latch hold of both MT and persianblog.....made rene a billionaire and in the process of trying to get IG near that mark too.....(trollie clears voice and sings) "they get high with a little help from their trollie".........sorry guys did mean to make your dogs howl.......

it's late and i'm tired and i should be tucked into my little bed, but i'm still the trollie that wanders in the night, had an easy day at work today, needed one.....went to get a snack earlier and realized that i was out of milk...not a big deal from my point of view but a huge problem from the point of view of my one cat, who was standing there waiting for her nightly splash of milk....and "crying" ....well i went out and got some milk....when i got back home there she was in the kitchen...staring at her empty dish....seeshhhh!!!!!....i'm too easy........

finished up getting caught up at work, was warm today but has turned cold this evening....watched survivor tonight, i can believe how often that game turns on a stupid decision by a weak player who has no chance of winning but really is in control and makes a bonehead call that will send them home quicker....some of those players are 5 watt light bulbs.....also watched some rugby....and the local boys class A soccer finals..all while sitting in a chair with two cats perched at awkward spots....i now have a sore back......looking forward to the weekend......i need the rest.......

it was a nice warm day today, was overcast and rained a little but was quite warm, for november, i actually had a reasonable day today....was busy all day but not with new work, with catching up with what has gone undone...still have one more thing to do and i'll be even with the 8-ball....i can never get ahead....not the nature of my job....but to be even would be nice.....but then i'm sure that evryone would thing i have nothing to do and load another 5 jobs on me......feel pretty good tonight, had a good choir rehearsal andam looking forward to the next to evenings with nothing scheduked when i can just kick back......

another crazy day, not quite as bad as yesterday but bad enough, was dead tired when i got home but after dinner felt much better, had a good rehearsal tonight, and tomorrow looks pretty easy so maybe will have time to play so catch up with what i've left un-done so far, weather is nuts as usual this time of year, should be in the 60's tomorrow but snow this weekend, it's a wonder we don't crack from the temperature swings.......

my dad has always said after a tough day " my mommy told me i'd have days like this....but not everyday"....well my mommy never told me i'd have a day like today.....mommy would not have used the only proper language to describe this day, and i don't think i'll use it either. i am so far behind after the craziness of today i may actually have lapped myself in reverse and be a head......and tomorrow promises to be almost as bad as today, all though short of the world coming to an end i don't think it could be worse......not to mention the weather which is cold and rainy and total bumming me out.......
on the bright side it's the 3rd of november and we don't have snow yet, i still need to cover some of my roses for winter but it was warm saturday and i hate doing it when it's warm, i still have flowers on some of the bushes....
night all

tired, exhausted, nothing to say...night all

it's been a very nice relaxing day, boy did i need it, i'm sitting here with a glass of sweet wine, and a little britten in the cd player, well let's be honest, the young people's guide to the orchestra really can't be described as little but ah well anyhow...got up and decided i needed french toast, now i rarely eat breakfast at all but i occasionally will get in the mood for it and this morning was one of those times, but it's too much hassle to fix for one so i took myself to the local ponderosa for their breakfast buffet, their's is not like mother used to make but it's decent, and i like their sausage gravy and biscuits.....they also have corn beef hash which i love but i never eat it there because they don't have poached eggs and it is indecent to eat one without the other. came home and did the some yard work and then watched henry V on ifc.....wonderful film.....well it was a nice, warm fall day, which was nice after getting about 6" of rain over the last week or so, and i realized that it was almost 2 and i hadn't eaten lunch yet, said the heck with it , and decided to go and say good bye to doug (pro/owner) of the golf course i play at, i figured it would be too wet to play, but also that he'd be closing up shop after tomorrow and off south for the winter, we had a nice chat, and the course wasn't too bad, so i played a quick 6 holes and came home and had dinner....have played a bit of computer games tonight......and probably will watch monster garage later and then go to bed early....sundays are always hectic...(trollie looks up from keyboard, to see he's written a nouvelle.....oops...)