just got back from choir, voice is better then yesterday but still isn't right....doing the split screen deal tonight as i have both this up and the blogshares IRC channel, but it appears to be dead, nothing going on, i will have to cause a ruckus after i post, had an inspected load to do today that turned into a nightmare, certain countries require that an independent inspector oversee the loading of the load and verify counts and content, well there was a screw up this morning when just a couple of hours before we loaded it was discovered that there was a difference between the Performa invoice on which the letter of credit was based, and the order that i was given to put together and not enough time to correct the order, it worked out but i was caught between a rock and a hard place for a while, then had a fit trying to get everything to fit....i had given the okay for the original load but the order i got had different stuff on it....any way i survived....i think (trollie checks pulse).....yup...

nice warm day here, spring seems to have arrived but i won't lay odds on whether we still may see a little snow, i can remember getting a fair amount on mothers day one year, struggled thru rehearsal tonight, have a bit of a sore throat and it was giving me a little trouble in the low range, high range was fine but low range was iffy........am tired an have a busy day tomorrow....night all

a nice warm day today, first day the truly felt like spring, took the afternoon off, probably the only chance i'll get this week, tomorrow promises to be a real wild one....strange though the power went off twice this afternoon, no wind, no lightening, no ice...just went off.....which reminds me that i must reset the alarm clock....i think that alarm clocks are the thing in this world i hate second most....first by a long toke are pagers...i carry one when ever the plant is running, regardless of whether i'm there or not, and for the last 6 or 7 weeks that's been 24/7.....i really hate the things, i've tried on several occasions to accidentally run over my with a forklift....well almost accidentally........

it's funny, i'm living alone again for the first time in a very long time and yet age old habits have kicked in, i did laundry to day, much like i would have when i was in college many years ago, i was out of clean clothes and had to, i guess you can never really take the boy out of the man, no matter how hard you may try....it kind of hard getting use to, i mean living alone but except for one thing i'm doing okay....i hate eating alone....i don't mind cooking and actually am pretty good with it (excepting the oven which is another story) but i hate eating alone......well i don't exactly i got one mooch of a cat that won't let me alone but that's not what i mean.........

it's warmed up a bit but was rainy today and damp.....all the snow is gone for the second time......went into work this morning and got out in 4.5 hours which was actually better then i thought with a load and inventory....must go in briefly tomorrow but then next sunday will be the last one we'll work, the 24/7 deal will end at 6AM good friday morning.....and we are supposed to get a 3 day weekend but i'll believe that one when i see it......did a bit of cleaning today but am saving it for tomorrow afternoon, feel pretty good flu bug seem to have left me.....have just hung out today with my cats.....

i've got a truck to load tomorrow and inventory to complete so i'll be lucky to get out of there in under 4 hours, rats....i hate having to work saturdays......am very tired tonight so will try to get to bed early........

felt lousy again this morning, went to work for a half day and was totally shot, but feel better now then i have in two or three days so maybe i'm over the worst of it.......but not really tired and must try to get so sleep.......have placed stronghold crusader most of the night...the combat which i have been avoiding.....coming from a background of board and miniature wargaming the real time is a bit daunting....i'm so used to turn base but i'm getting the hang of it.....nite all

i feel quite unwell tonight, i think i've got a mild cases of the flu, general body aches and well other "discomforts" which i will fail to go into any details on......really can't think about dumping tomorrow but may have to.......nite all

another cold snowy day, not much in the way of accumulation but the roads are pretty slick. and the weird part is that it may get into the 50's F this weekend, no the weird part is living in the northcountry.....once that is true any weather pattern is possible....
have felt unwell most of the day, not sure if it's something i ate or if i'm coming down with the flu, was very chilled when i got home from work, of course spending the whole afternoon in an unheated warehouse may have been part of that but it was more then the usual.....wanted to take a bath, very hot but needed to go out this evening, rehearsal went ok but really didn't want to be there......and still don't feel great but a bit better.....some hot tea and a bath sounds great so i'm off

been a very strange day, it's been cold and snowy again here....nearly april but winter doesn't seem to be done yet.....after several nights of not sleeping well i really zonked out last night only to have my pager go off at 2:30AM, they had a problem at work and need information from me.....needless to say i wasn't a happy camper.....but i does happen and it is my job....but.......and the rest of the day basically went down hill from there....but feel pretty good tonight...

that's weird, i went to ping weblogs and was told that my blog had not changed....of course it has....i wonder

[NP: faure requiem] ( trollie in a calm mood)
very strange day, haven't slept well the last couple of nights and am very tired....in fact i kind of lost this afternoon, i couldn't really tell you what i did from say 1:30 to about 4:30 but the time was gone before i knew it, i feel mentally ok to night but am a physical wreck

had my first full day off in weeks, didn't have to get up, could sleep in, so what happens....you guessed ...i woke up at 6:15 AM, wide awake and didn't even bother to try to get back to sleep, wouldn't have done any good anyway as the cats knew i was awake and they were lonely......i really like those little furballs but not a 6:15......quiet day....spent most of it playing stronghold crusader.......and a little blogshares......did do a little cleaning and not much else....watched the syracuse/maryland game....the 'cuse just held on...so it's on to the round of 16....which is about as far as i thought they should go....any further is gravy..

took another half day vac from work, and don't have to work tomorrow, will try to sleep in, had been in a funk earlier but seem to have mellowed out abit....strange dreams last night...as usual remember nothing of them other then total weird....it seems the subject and facts of the dream(s) never stays with me but the mood produced by them does......have hung out on irc most of the afternoon....definitely addictive

i got everything done that needed to be done today by noon so took the afternoon off. i love it when i can take a thursday afternoon off...thrusday is pay day and it lets me cash my check and do my shopping when i don't have to fight long lines...have just hung out most of the rest of the day, watched the last half of the 'cuse ncaa game....would have watched the whole game but forgot that it was on.....i don't think that can duplicate last years run but still hope springs eternal....i've got the blogshares irc channel up but no one seems to be talking ...ah well....i am very tired tonight and will try to get to bed early.....

so i get up at 5 AM this morning and drag myself to work so i can load a container at 6 AM so it can get to the pier and avoid a late gate charge.....awful time of day to be out of bed......and guess what time the container gets there.....that's right boys and girls 12 noon.......sheeeshhhh!!!!......the best part (oh yah it gets better) is that according to the driver he told the trucking company at 3:30 yesterday afternoon that he couldn't make the 6 AM pickup and they never called us.........and the day went down hill from there......the only good part is i left at 3 PM....but am very tired tonight and have a busy day tomorrow.........
i've been spending some time on the blogshares irc channel.....it's a new deal for me....have never used irc before....it's interesting....and addictive......

i don't know what i'm still doing up, i need to be at work at 6 AM tomorrow, which is two hours earlier then usual but i just don't seem to be tried yet, which is no surprise....but must try soon....avoided a possible nasty situation last night while watching american chopper from my recliner i had all three cats on the chair with me.....fortunately they all behaved ( which is unheard of) and no damage done, tonight i opened a package of burger while cooking supper and dropped a good size piece on the floor....you would have sworn that you were in shark infested waters and there was blood in the water....the following brief feeding frenzy was quite a scene to behold......

another crazy morning at work, by the time i got everything taken care of it was 1:20 PM before i ever at lunch....which is almost two hours late, afternoon was a bit weird but it went fast, so really wasn't in the mood to eat when i got home, so ate late so evening is a bit off, nave to go in at 6 AM wednesday which i'm not looking forward to at all.......i really hate early ins because the way days have been running lately i end up staying to the usual out time......and 10 hour days just aren't my cup of tea anymore.....heck i can get stressed out in 4 hours i don't need overtime to accomplish that........

just a quiet day, did have to work briefly and will have to spend a little time there tomorrow but nothing major i don't think.....just have hang out and taken it easy all day...needed that......i'll admit to being a bit frustrated about a couple of things but nothing that i want to air out.....so to speak........

i don't think i mentioned that yesterday was a really nice day weatherwise, mid 40'sF which is great this time of year, well while running my errands i had taken my coat off and left it in the car, woke up this morning and it's snowing like crazy, we ended up with about 8" of heavy wet snow, and for awhile the visibility was very poor and the driving conditions were pretty nasty.....snow has stopped and streets are okay but by the time i got home from work they had plowed and there was no way that i could get my low slung car into the drive without removing the snow.....so i get the blower out and try to start cleaning out the drive and it just isn't moving much snow (note: have not had reason to use it in over a month) and knew exactly what was wrong....had broken a shearpin on one side so only half of the rotor was working....i really think i have a spare pin somewhere....i just can't remember where somewhere is....so had to shovel that wet, heavy snow........rats.......

i took the afternoon off today, yah i am trying to be a good boy and use up all my back vacation but that wasn't the real reason, i didn't really wake up this morning in a bad mood, quite the opposite, but it seemed that once i got to work everything just got under my skin......and it didn't take long before i was i as foul a mood (or is the fowl mood because it was for the birds as they say).....maybe the foulest i've been in in a long time, anyways i decided to get out of there before i swatted somebody.....ran a whole bunch of errands...and got take out for lunch and am back to my sweet, lovable self again ( well that is a relative judgment and from my perspective)......had some knockwurst for supper which i was forced at claw point to share with one of the cats....but am feeling a late better now.......

i'm a bad boy, first of all i have a cat on my lap who desires attention and i'm posting, make that trying to post to my blog, i had intended to go to bed early tonight, right after i posted earlier i decided to play stronghold crusader for a little while, got involved and when i looked at the clock it was almost 2 hours later.....i can't hold off the cat any longer...before she starts butt typing i will say nite all

so i decided to make a macaroni salad for dinner tonight and rather then the usual tuna as i checked the cupboard i found a can of crab meat i bought and had forgotten about so i et everything ready, open the crab and check for the expected arrival of the cats for their potion........no cats.....not one......so i decided to just put it all in the salad....i no soon get all the meat combined then....yup...you guessed it....3 very irritated cats all winding their way around my legs......i'm glad they can't use the phone or they probably would have called the aspca on me......
i'm very stiff tonight...spent too much time on the forklift today....and really had a day which started very stressful but somehow keep my cool and didn't throttle anyone although i was tempted....

the cats have been acting very strangely of late, very quiet and real no big dust offs....until this morning that is...i'm not sure what set them off but i was sitting on the end of the bed trying to get my socks on when all three decided to hold an over the top battle royale in the middle of the bed....i barely escaped with my life......should have just crawled back into bed and heeded the omen...because the day went down hill from there...got to work and still had no usable workstation, that did get fixed but then my clerk who uses to different computers (one network and one stand alone manifest system) had trouble all day with both systems......we had truck problems.....just a "lovely day"...........no rehearsal tonight as our leaders wife is due actually past due any time.....so will just try to relax.....

with everything else that's wrong with me, i'm also partially deaf....any sound that is behind me i either don't hear at all or i have a very difficult time identifying what and where....well i playing away over on blogshares and am suddenly aware of a strange low pitched rumble behind me, as i was engaged in activity i tried to figure out what it was without turning....no guess.....get done turned around and there was my one cat sleeping on my bed trying to snore the siding off the house......

i got to be nuts....sunday as usual promises to be a very busy day.....+ i need to make an appearance at work so i need to get some rest and here i am pounding an entry because i'm wide awake.....i should be trying to sleep but no.....much on the mind and i don't think sleep will come......as a youth i had no trouble falling a sleep but with age i seem to sleep less soundly then i used to and have trouble falling asleep even when tired......just to much stress and too many things on the mind.....it's snowing lightly....most had melted and i was being to believe (although i know better) that winter was at an end.....so any snow even a little is not wanted.....i want to be warm....i want to take off the long johns....i want to play golf......nuts........

if you ever want to watch a good show just put an open tuna can with some of the left in it on the floor of the kitchen when you have more then one cat.......the scaredie cat got up on a stool and cried (being a soft touch i gave her a chuck that was to be part of my salad) and the other two engaged in a head butting contest to see which one could push the other off the can.....they both got some and no real blows were struck but it was entertaining......before the passing of old jenny, no cat but jenny ever got the tuna cat...the other three were too smart to take on that vile tempered old cat......and i'm sure were not sorry to see her go.....but i was......mean as she was i loved that old girl.....
but enough about my cats....
just stayed in today except for a brief stop at work.....did a few chores around the house...watched one of the hornblower video's and played some blogshares......and a few PC games......just relaxed.....daughter stopped by....she had a wild day i guess...

another warm day, except for the banks were it was plowed, the snow is gone....easy day at work ...got everything done early so took a half day vacation, had to get an oil change....i'll bet you didn't know that....trolls need to get their oil changed every 3 months or 3000 billygoats......(rimshot).......the only drag at work today was that my PC went belly up......hopefully they got that changed out so i don't have to go begging for a tube tomorrow to put numbers in......

yesterday morning was wild, and i got the chance to get everything that had to be done, done early so took the afternoon off, but ended up .....(long pause...phonecall).......feeling very poorly by days end....have no idea what happened but i think maybe i ate something that didn't agree with me....fairly easy day today....and i feel pretty good tonight
i find myself addicted to bottle water, is there a additive in spring water that makes you crave it......but i can't seem to get enough....but seriously it is very easy to get dehydrated up here in the winter time because it gets very dry in doors.......

lord, two days in a row, today again was a monster for the first 6 hours and I just "hit the wall" about 3 PM....I had hoped to take the afternoon off but that never happened...I really hate it when I have to hit the floor running first thing in the morning...Usually I send the first hour or so getting data and getting glued into the day....Planning a rough outline of what needs to be done and what order of events makes the most sense....But two days in a row I've had an order "forced" on me my circumstance...I really hate that...Oh I also learned something today....Be very careful while drinking bottled water at your work station....IT guys have no sense of humor when you spill water on your key board.....

yesterday was definitely not a good day, very emotionally draining, and my life right now is in flux, and then a very busy day at work today....well at least the first 6 hours...so tonight i am at a low ebb both emotionally and physically....as to the emotional flux.....i need to give it sometime before i'm ready to speak or write about it.....have not really had time to give it enough time to make sense....i'm sure it will but just too early