it's only 8 and i'm basically out on my feet, ok so i'm sitting down but it sounds better then out on my arse, that has a totally different meaning.....i feel much better cold wise but am exhausted......should try to make it an early night but if i stay true to form i'll probably just roll and not get to sleep any earlier then if i went to bed at the normal time.....
did go out and pick up a new sauce pan and what few groceries i needed....i must be losing it, this is the second time in the last 3 months that i put water on to boil to make ice tea and forgot about it and boiled the pan dry.....i really need to work on my memory....fortunately i smelled it before anything bad happened (discounting the mess i made of the pan)..hence the new sauce pan......
have played several games of stronghold crusader this afternoon, i won't play that game for months and then go on a binge where i play it solid for days on end....and then won't play it for months.....(pause)
phone rang and it was my daughter, seems as if she has gotten a new asian cookbook and i have an invite to lunch on laborday......Yummy

what a surprise, i awoke this morning with a bad cold, all my joints are stiff, and i can barely navigate.....i mean i only got soaked to the skin twice yesterday....man i feel lousy.....i called in sick....it's frustrating because i need to get the work done at the warehouse but there is no way that i could manage to do that today......rats.......

woke this morning feeling a little off, but had a crew assigned to get some re-arrange done at the warehouse, so went in, well got a couple of unexpected loads added, and it was raining like crazy all day, got soaked to the skin, twice.......and really feel headachey and running a fever tonight, probably will end up with a heck of a cold.....the one load was scrap that's been around the warehouse forever and the pallets were not in the best shape, but got help with that, and it ended being not to bad, but the seal between the dock and the trucks leaks, so i really got wet.....well i guess on the bright side i've had my bath for the month.....(hehe)
after work went out and got the fixings for a pot of stew and have that on now.....so in three hours or so will have a late dinner......i usually try to cook sometime when i have the afternoon off but that isn't going to happen this week so........

talk about a lost weekend, with the heat and humidity, plus the fact i really haven't felt good, the weekend is a blur....if you asked i probably couldn't account for more then a fraction of it......i've got a busy week lined up at work, i've got help scheduled from production to start working on getting the warehouse set for year end inventory which is about 5 weeks away, probably could wait a bit, but i've learned from experience that if you wait til the last minute something always comes up which puts you behind the 8 ball as it were, and if it's not set right then the actually count is x times harder.....

i got home from church in time to watch the finish of the men's marathon, and saw the attack on the leader, now years ago i was a fair runner myself and ran in quite a few roadraces. and you always had in the back of your mind the possibility of some one from the side of the road interfering, but at that level......i really feel sorry for the brazilian....i know what it takes to complete a marathon, the effort that was involved, and although i was never that good i do understand what it would have meant to him to win, now i don't think he would have, i think he would have been caught by the chase but.......really unfortunate incident

i have a busy day ahead, and frankly what i'd like to do is just disappear today......dig a hole, cover it back in on myself and hide for 24 hours.....i'm tired, i don't feel well....i just need a break from the world......nothing major wrong.....i just don't have a desire to use the energy necessary today to do what i must........this day has been declared null and void......by order of the trollie......it does not exist

i believe that i was born without the gene that allows you to make up a bed with ease, even the simple task of getting the blankets on straight baffles me, and when it comes to installing a fitted sheet, forget about it.....and to make matters worse i have a cat, who sensing my inaptitude insists on helping me with the task, by placing herself in the middle of the bed to supervise......it is a struggle worthy of myth, legend, and a movie with 2 sequels........

man is it humid and hot tonight, i went for a drive and had the AC on in the car, when i got out my glasses fogged over, sheeshhhhhh!!!!!!!, if it cools off at all we could get one heck of a thunder storm.....am feeling much better this evening then i have all day, actually got some of the housework done i need to....

woke up this morning feeling very poorly, i think i may be coming down with a cold or the flu, but drug myself to work and got every thing done that i had to do today,still have to put the inventory in final form, but that can be done monday.....went out to breakfast and am feeling some better..need to do some housework but may leave it for a while.....off to surf

just had a very brief but very noisy thunder and lightening storm, wind was a whistling and shook the house pretty good, needless to say the cats disappeared under beds very quickly and only one has come out, although the storm has been over for 20 minutes or so.....
weird day at work, got a lot done, but was disjointed as some of what should have happened didn't and those that did, didn't happen when they should have...all in all a pretty typical day at work......
feel pretty good tonight, other then just being over tired, just don't seem to have any energy or as an old friend was fond of saying...my get up and go, got up and went......
need to work tomorrow, finish up month end...should talk a couple of hours or so and then i intend to do nothing tomorrow except rest......

sitting here with a cup of coffee, listening to the faure requiem, ok......singing along with the faure requiem......i've had the chance to sing it on two different occasions, and it is one of my favorite pieces of choral music.....really nice tenor part ( 3 guess what part i sing)
crazy day at work, and tomorrow promises to be just as nuts.....month end.....so will have to put in a few hours saturday as well.......had one driver today that drove me a bit nuts........i've loaded truck for 25 years....and thousands of trucks....and every so often you got one who insists on looking over your shoulder as it were, which only slows done the process because you have to constantly be aware of where he is......i prefer if they just take a nap in the truck and let me do my job........
got a couple of ears of corn and had corn on the cob for dinner, it's funny, i'm not much of one for corn as a vegetable except on the cob.....not the taste so much as the experience i guess.....or maybe i attach it to youth, picnics, a less stress time of life.........

very strange day, a fairly easy day at work but it seemed like it took me 2x times to do anything....i feel okay tonight, but don't have any energy at all.......should cut the grass but don't have the energy to do so....but weather is or supposed to be nice for the next few days......so will take care of it tomorrow or so........
i feel much better emotionally today, have been low since the weekend but am much more positive today......

was feeling poorly after supper and almost decided to can rehearsal tonight, but went anyways and glad i did, by the end felt pretty good....and it was nate's last night as he's off to RPI.....he's been part of the group from the beginning and will be missed......he's a great kid......but then of course he is....he's my nephew......
have been surfing between the world series of poker and american hotrod for the last couple of hours, but need to think about calling it a night

took the afternoon off to run some errands
we still have a week of august and already it feels like fall, it seems that even the trees know it because there is already a little color in some of them, of course this summer has been more like an extended spring, but an early fall may mean an early winter and that is hard to take.in general we only have 3 seasons here normally.....winter....just was winter....soon will be winter......(rim shot) but this is too real to bee funny

really felt bad this AM, got woken up early by a lonely cat, and then the other two joined in the fun and there was no way to get back to sleep, had hoped to take the afternoon off, but that got messed up as well, just got off the phone with work and at least one thing that could have got me back in there tonight (other then a team of wild horses) had been taken care of so i should be ok......
never got a chance this weekend to make my weekly pot of trollie stew so that's on the simmer as we speak, and should be ready for a taste in about a half an hour......had a fairly light dinner.....pasta with clam sauce....so am ready for a snack....and if the broth is any indicator ( and it usually is) this batch is very good......beef for a change and also some top turnip....can't wait.....

i am emotionally down tonight, no body's fault really although a phone call and a conversation with a friend are responsible, the friend asked questions about something that i'd really just let rest, it's over in a sense without really being over, but it wasn't his fault he just didn't know....the phone call well....oh dang....it's a situation i haven't even talked about here and probably won't for a long time if ever....so i'm a bit blue....(hence the font color) but nothing serious....i'll get over it...i have no choice in the matter and won't want one...what is ....is....and that's a fact

US court: Software can't commit piracy can't help it, this headline just makes me laugh

everytime i load my browser, there is her face in the lefthand corner of my start page, even if she was halfway good looking it would be boring, and frankly i think she's ugly.....come on folks paris hilton's 15 minutes are up......let's move on and can the pictures.....trollie has spoken..........

i need to get my head out of my arse and get going this morning but i think my brain is socked in with fog......i was in bed before 9:30, but had difficulty falling asleep, not because i wasn't tired but just couldn't get comfortable, woke up in the middle of the night cold ( temp got down to 42*F).......feel ok physically but i just can seem to start the brain this AM......

i've really crashed out tonight, headache gone but i feel like i been drug through a knot hole backwards.......think i may call it an early night.....busy day tomorrow

have just finished supper, i'm tired but feel pretty good tonight, went to the adirondack museum with my daughter and son-in-law......i have been many times but each time they either have something new, or i see something i've missed before, was a bit uncomfortable because i guessed wrong on weather and really didn't dress warmly enough, and there are several buildings and much to see outside........by the time i got home i had quite a headache but i think most of that was hunger as i am feeling much better now.....all in all a great day......

i had a running debate with myself today and as usually i lost.....anyhow i quite often will eat out on friday night, or at least get take out but with the day trip tomorrow decided that i'd rather stay home....what's for dinner....well after further discussion....again with myself......i stopped and got two ears of fresh corn and had corn on the cob for dinner.....first i've had this year....but not the last....
oh, have started a new blog which you can find here basically it's just a links blog...a place to save page urls with out adding to my already too big favorites file

man this week has dragged, partial because we had a short crew, partial because everything that should have happened didn't( of course that's nothing new), and partially because i've been looking forward to this weekend, but today seems a century removed from the beginning of the week. maybe old age is finally catching up with me.......

my last few posts may seem redundant, and a bit strange, but i guess there is some sort of back up in the system because they didn't post at the time i posted them but they are there now and in the correct order and day, a little strange but i'll take it......
outbound never showed today so i don't quite know what to think....the pickup had been confirmed yesterday with the dispatch on the load but i heard nothing today so will have to wait and see if it happens tomorrow......ran a few errands tonight after work, and have just chilled since then.....watched an old james bond movie that i have on tape....played a little blogshares ...
will be headed to the adirondaks saturday with my daughter and her husband to go to the museum at blue mountain lake...(..some shots....from a trip a couple of years ago).......don't have a digi camera at the moment so will be unable to add new ones.......

this post will be short, and is just out of curiosity, i have been unable to publish for the last day and a half, i'm wondering if it's fixed

i'm curious to see whether this will actually get published or not, tried to poat twice last night and it just didn't work, but blogger has been stable for so long that a glick or two once in a while really isn't a problem.
i'm sitting here kind of stuck, i have an out bound that i expect anytime now, ans a job i need to do that i really can't start if i'm going to be interupted (like with the outbound)...rats

i lost another post earlier this evening, i guess i should copy before i hit publish but really nothing i write is really earth shaking or can't be replaced so......actually the day ran pretty go other then bring a little disjointed....nothing seemed to quite fit with anything else so the upstart was that i "spun" my wheels a little and really didn't get done what i could of......spent a quite evening.....a little tube......actually a whole lot of tube tonight.....and now it's time for bed

weird day at work, seems like we are finally over the bulk of the computer problems except that the erp software was very, well twitchy today, just didn't quite run smooth....the day was strange...i would have gotten everything done if things and happened at the right time and in the right order but since they didn't i've got to play a little catch up tomorrow....
spent some time tonight downloading the mozilla browser, i already have IE and netscape, but have heard good things about Mozilla so i thought i'd check it out....there are i think pros and cons but will probably leave it on, and use it from time to time....
i like the new look here on blogspot with the adds gone and just the search bar on top, also the next blog function is neat, makes like a webring if you will, it's only been there a few days and i already have gotten several hits off it.....
chalk this one up as a first, i had gone out to do some shopping and was driving back towards home on arsenal street which is the main shopping district in town, and so a cop pull somebody over, which happens a lot out there, it's a 30 zone, but i'd guess the average speed is 40+, well just before i got over the bridge i saw movement in the edge of the cemetery in a grove a trees, and there are two cops on foot with a radar gun and a walkie talkie, now the cemetery is old and a don't think that anyone has been buried in it for 30+ years, you ignore it, never pay any attention to it, so i guess it's a perfect place for a speed trap, but i've never see them use a foot patrol with a radar gun........

another frustrating day at work, computer system was acting up again, or should i say still, i could get on the network, but apparently the profiles have been affected by a virus and i couldn't get on the ERP system, which means i really couldn't accomplish much, but was busy all day with the odd jobs that have been should aside lately....
had a great rehearsal tonight, because of logistical problems we went totally acoustic, not amps, mikes well except for the bass, really was a lot of fun......

just a crazy and insane day at work, walked into a absolute freak show, and could feel the stress and frustration really building, had mechanical problems with one of the transfer trailers, still having computer problems (although it is better), and just general logistical problems, well i had arranged to get the trailer picked up for repair, and need to get it unloaded first, well apparently in the process of trying to move it (brakes were locked) they did manage to get it away from the dock, shut the swing doors, and then decided they couldn't get them released so put it back to the dock, but forgot to re-open the swing doors, which of course are impossible to open with the trailer against the dock, so i not knowing any of this, opened the dock door, and was looking at a closed trailer, the nutty thing was rather then being frustrated, or blowing a gasket, i just burst out laughing, i mean it was just a perfect topper to the way the morning had been going.....
funny thing is, right after that the day smoothed out and the rest ran fairly smoothly....still busy but things fell into place and i got basically everything done.....
just a quiet kick around night, i think i mentioned last week that i was not looking forward to the weekend as i thought that there may be a very uncomfortable situation, however it never materialized.....i worry to much.......sometimes......

a typical busy sunday morning but no involvement in the evening services so i passed, i have a cat pawing at me for attention so there will be a brief pause......lilly is now well petted to hopefully she and her two evil step-sisters will leave me alone long enough to finish this post....
i spent most of the afternoon channel surfing....between the pga and the nascar race.....i don't always watch the nascar but i enjoy the road course races and there is a bit of local interest because watkins glen is just a few hours away...
spent the early evening watching the 2nd lord of the ring movie on cable...have seen it once already but really wanted to watch it the second time because it is bit disjointed and confusing to keep track of......
i think i will probably rent the 3rd one here in a bit just to see the end.....i rarely go to see movie...in fact the last movie i saw in the theater was the original star trek movie, and seldom rent, but will make an exception in this case......
i grew up in a church where attendance at movies was forbidden, and although i never really accepted that nor do i now, i just never got in the habit of going to movies......and see no real reason to start now.....in the day of dvds, vcrs and cable.......

i hope this works this time, i went to post earlier and got a page not found and of course lost the post, i know i probably should save the post to note pad or the like just in case but then of course i never do. had a problem at work as the transfer didn't run last night so had to move a few things between warehouse and factory in the back of my car.....pickup truck was no where to be found.....but got everything done but unloading the transfer, which i had wanted to get out of the way...oh well turned into a nice day but i spent the late morning and afternoon with housework and yard work.....and wedged in watching the pga and some rugby......feel well tonight but probably will try to get to bed early as tomorrow will be hectic

i hope this works this time, i went to post earlier and got a page not found and of course lost the post, i know i probably should save the post to note pad or the like just in case but then of course i never do. had a problem at work as the transfer didn't run last night so had to move a few things between warehouse and factory in the back of my car.....pickup truck was no where to be found.....but got everything done but unloading the transfer, which i had wanted to get out of the way...oh well
turned into a nice day but i spent the late morning and afternoon with housework and yard work.....and wedged in watching the pga and some rugby......feel well tonight but probably will try to get to bed early as tomorrow will be hectic

altought weather wise it didn't start out as a very good day, i turned into a nice day.....got everything done i needed to at work except unload the transfer, i was going to do it today rather then leave it for next week, but it didn't move last night so will have to wait......
spent the late morning and afternoon with laundry, yard work, and a little house cleaning, not that i really make a huge mess, i think the cats mess the house up more then i do.....
have been watching the pga on the tube, and also caught some of the tri-nations rugby game this morning....rugby is a game i never got a chance to play but i wished that i had...seems like a lot of fun......but then you have to understand that i played sports like a maniac, and never really was intimidated by size (which i didn't have) or speed ( you could probably have timed my 100 with a calendar).....but i was like a bulldog.....once i got hold i never let go.....

i have to go in tomorrow to do a few things that i couldn't do today, but a weird week, actually only worked one full day and 4 half days but i have my vacation time down to 15 days, most of which i plan to take in october, after year end inventory is up......production is down next week, and my clerks away so even though it shouldn't be too busy it always ends up strange, because at least once next week i'll be in a spot where i really need to be in two places at the same time.....always happens at least once when i'm in with not backup.....
has rained most of the day and i've just taken it easy.....weekend could prove interesting......but that's all i'll say about that......

apparently the spyware/adware problem at work was not totally to blame for the problem, apparently there was a bug in a service pack they downloaded, and it's messed up some of the user profiles....but i'm ok so got everything back up to date........have the PM off, and probably tomorrow as well....
clerk is off next week, but production is on shutdown so shouldn't prove to be too bad........more later

(trollie enters hopping up and down.........trollie is hopping mad....well more frustrated really...if you've read the below posts you know that our computer system at work has a problem...which still has yet to be solved.....and i really can't do my job without it.....all my MRP stuff is on spreadsheets which i can't get too....and i'm trying to make do with pencil and paper.....and a calculator.....i haven't resorted to the slide rule yet but it does make it a pain because one it's fixed i've got to go back a do it again on the computer so it's up to date.....grrrrr....... )
so anyways i just had to get out of there this afternoon, i was nearing the point of a meltdown and the next unfortunate soul that ruffled a feather was going to get blasted.....spent the afternoon doing grocery shopping and just kicking around the house....
have calmed down tonight, and they were getting the server guy to come in and look at the problem so hopefully it will be fixed by tomorrow and i can get caught back up....fortunately this is the start of the slow season so i can stay up without aid of the system but.......rats.........

it is getting nasty outside, although the thunder and lightening is at a distance, it does appear to be headed this way......about time...i knew this morning we were in for a bad storm...my onboard barometer was going off ( my arthritis)......felt really bad this morning but went in anyways because i knew there were a couple of things that i just had to do today or the rest of the week would have come "unglued".....but was able to get done by noon and came home , spent the afternoon cooking trollie stew, this a combo of lamb and veal that came out really great, i've been playing with different combinations of things and finally have hit on some really good combos....
rehearsal tonight was fun, just the old hands and it worked great..one of the reasons i took this afternoon off was that i knew i'd probably not have the energy to go tonight and it is the high point, or at least one of the high points of the week.....i do love making music.....

very interesting, so as below i had run the spyware/adware sweep and went to play a PC game that i've had a couple of years and was told that it won't run because the computer couldn't find a piece of the program, weird but not the first time something has got messed up, it is after all ME i'm running.....so i uninstall and reinstall the program, go to fire it up and spysweep comes up, adware detected, now there is a piece of adware in the program and it is embedded in such a way that you can't run the program/game without it.....cute.......on the other hand the company it was "aimed" at is now defunct.....but interesting...i'm curious to find out if any other of the games i have have adware embedded......well you learn something new every day.....and as i said before i'm a nerd not a geek.......

well it was a very nice day today weather wise, not too hot, not too cool, and not humid......IT worked most of the morning and finally removed all the problems caused by the spyware/adware that got downloaded into the system on friday...but with that in mind i decided that i needed to do something about the spywarre/adware deal on my home machine..
my first stop was downloading the yahoo tool bar, which has as an option spyware scan....it checks memory and register but only checks common locations otherwise, there is a cookie option which i have tried yet but the basic sweep only takes about 90 secs.....probably because i went to stop 2, i downloaded the free version of spysweep (you can find it at www.webroot.com), now if you run that it takes the time it would take for you to eat a quiet meal, and i did, but it found things the yahoo deal didn't and also has the option of scanning continually while your on line, and prevention is better then a cure, but will probably leave both programs running.....

the next two weeks should prove interesting, my boss is away for the next two weeks and then the second week he's gone my clerk is off....so things could get a little nutty......
was a beautiful day today but what with the commitments of my time at church, and the fact that i feel off, really just vegged this afternoon, kind of a wasted day....but i feel decent this evening.......think i'll call it an early night......haven't slept well the last couple of nights.....

slept rather poorly last night, woke up about 2:30 absolutely freezing, i apparently got down to the mid 40's F last night, got a blanket and went back to sleep, but slept very lightly which is atypical for me....woke up and was nicely warm about 6:30.....and tried to move and realized that i had all 3 cats plastered to me.....felt bad but went into work, needed to get numbers and catch up a couple of things that i didn't complete yesterday because of the computer problem(see below entry), well IT has still got some work to do because the system is still messed up and the spreadsheet is affected, or is that infected, anyhow i only got about half what i wanted done, but there was no reason to stay as there is no IT support on the weekends......
spent the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon doing housework......ugh.......and decided to get take out seafood for supper....very nice...have spent a quiet evening and am heading to bed..........

weird summer day, it was mid 40's F this morning and i don't think it ever got out of the 50's all day, quite cool again tonight and according to the weather report will stay on the cool side through the weekend....felt pretty good this morning but hit the wall about miss afternoon and just ran out of pep...feel okay tonight but a bit out of it mentally
had a load headed west today and kind of an odd deal, the company that picked up usually runs teams and this one was a solo driver and a woman, don't see that too often....see a lot of woman truck drivers on long haul but rarely one driving solo...
computer at work got all messed up this afternoon, despite constant reminders from the IT guy there are just some people who think that it doesn't mean them and insist on down loading goofy stuff onto their machines, forgetting that it isn't a stand alone but a server, well we got a whole load of spy/adware.....took the IT guy most of the afternoon to clean it out, and really put a crimp in what i needed to get done

very strange, the two articles below appear in reverse order of when they were actually posted....one was posted from the usual interface and the other with the blogger button on the goggle tool bar, but i posted that one first, on the other hand i opened the window for the regular interface first, originally was going to mention the show in my post and then decided to link to it......i wonder if the publish date/time reflects the time you open the app rather then the time you actually post.......well it's past me......as i've said before i'm a nerd not a geek

Discovery Channel :: Christopher Columbus i just finished watching this program on discovery channel, very interesting but really was presented from only one side and imho leaves the question as much in doubt as it was before i watched it. but an entertaining hour

have not felt well all day, had a strange morning at work, but took the afternoon off, did my banking and paid some bills, but really nothing else, had hoped to play golf but by the time i was done with errands really didn't feel physically well enough to play, was a cool, nice day.....a shame to waste it not being up to par......
have just kicked around and watched a little tube tonight, played a few games and a bit of blogshares....but do not have the will to do anything of worth......

it's another hot humid day, and i feel blown out, just have no get up and go tonight, had a very busy morning at work, and a slow but very frustrating afternoon, discovered a fairly large inventory discrepancy and have no idea how it happened, everything looks right and normal and i had just verified the count a couple of weeks ago, and yet there is a big fat error, which i have no logical explanation for, usually i can track down the error but this one eludes me......
did my weekly grocery shopping after work, and was to hot and tired to cook so just had a big salad, and a couple of knockwurst........discovered that my mooch cat like triscuits and rye ones at that....i swear that little ( well 18lb.) fur ball will eat anything......

it's been a mixed bag of weather today, and i feel decent, but not 100% yet, was nice when i got home so cut the grass and took a shower before supper and felt much better....
had a good rehearsal tonight.....have some new people that we're adding to the group, because we've lost a few...but seems like they will work out ok......
have much i would like to say, much i would like to record here as a record to myself, but do not really have the words to say them, not just yet anyways, my life is in flux at this point with no real way of changing that.....i need to see the light at the end of the tunnel in order for me to put things in perspective and as of now i still don't see that....i'm confident that i will but it is yet to be revealed

it was a nice bright sunny day today, and not very humid except as it comes toward evening and the humidity has picked up quite a bit. really was not that bad off at work today, just had a few things to catch up with, but tomorrow could be wild, boss has been away and there are several questions i need answered before i can do the supply ordering, part of the fun is that most of the major raw materials i have to give the suppliers 4 weeks + lead time, so i need to get september orders placed, and i need so projections which he alone can provide......
feel better then the weekend but still have a lot of stiffness in the joints, just didn't have the will to mow tonight, and won't have the time tomorrow so i hope the weather is okay wednesday.....

it's hot and humid today and although i feel better then yesterday i'm still a tad below par. got a break to day as the leader was away worship team did not sing in the services so i could go later then usual, and did not have to attend tonight..which was good indeed as the voice was a bit rough, when the arthritis flares i usually run a low grade fever, which usually gives me just a tad of a raw throat......
i suspect that i will be receiving any day now news of when northcountry choral will start rehearsals, usually we don't start until the end of september but with this being the 50 years deal, and the fact that we have commissioned a work in it's honor i suspect we will start early.....those rehearsals are sunday and will tax an already over loaded day....not to mention the voice.....i have pretty well decided to not sing in church choir this fall...with worship team NCC and teaching adult christian ed every sunday something got to go and church choir is it...besides because of the current makeup i have to sing bass......which i can do but really isn't my natural part and frankly i've grown tired of it....
i think i may investigate the possibility of taking a class at the local community college this fall......more for meeting some new people then for any other reason....but need to see if there is something that strikes my fancy