another really nice day, hectic work day but had planned to eat supper in the garden and relax before rehearsal..........had barely got in the door and the phone rang.........daughter had car trouble and needed a ride.......so that kind of did the supper and relaxing plans in.......rehearsal went fine and i'm basically out on my feet so nite all

what a nice weekend, weather has been just great, not hot, after all it's still may in the northcountry but warm, sunny, and nice........had a great night sleep........got up late and made the run through 3 different nurseries, really didn't need anything but you never know what you might see that you must have, as usually found nothing at rhoade's but i should be used to that, i'm not sure why i even go there other then habit.....was my wife's favorite greenhouse....but i always did think and think now that their selection is rather "see spot run" and overpriced.....and while we are no longer together i think i go there from sheer force of habit.......came back towards town and stopped at doctuer's.......more from the point of seeing old friends then necessarily getting any plants but ended up with a stock plant for the rock garden.........then was headed to sonny's and ended up getting stopped by the parade in brownville and then getting .....well not lost exactly but didn't come out where i thought i would.......just don't do the back country road thing very often.....got a reed grass, a perennial salvia.......and some blue cheese.........a bag of marble chips at lowe's and home to finish the garden...........ah forgot stopped at mickey d's for breakfast on the way out of town..........
got everything planted and decided i really need another bag of marble chips but that can wait until next weekend.......besides i've blown my garden budget out of the water.......again........
had dinner at my daughter's and have spent most of the evening just sitting in the garden and relaxing........it was a great day.......maybe a simple day but a great day no the less

another really nice day today, other then church this AM did nothing today, just too stiff and sore from the yard work yesterday....watched the indy 500.......really interesting race......despite a couple of rookie mistakes was most impressed with the showing of danica patrick......that girl has a real talent and i think will really develop into an exceptional racer........i think the funniest thing they did was a tale of the tape....the borg-warner trophy that the winner gets is 5"3" tall and weighs 110 Lbs.....if she ever wins indy at 5"1' tall and 100 Lbs. she'll have a heck of a time with the trophy...........
nothing planned for tomorrow other then a cookout at my daughter's.........and i really don't think that by tomorrow i will have recovered enough to play golf........ah well........
have been giving the idea of the ornamental grass some thought......and think if i do decide to add some to the garden will wait until next weekend.........still mulling ideas of how or where to use it........may decide to pass on it.......simply because i don't just want to throw it in some where...... it's got to make some sense with what i have and my basic design........

a weird day, although i am physically very tired..........sore and stiff from working all day on the flower bed ( and although i say flower beds i really have very few "flowers" other then roses, most stock plants and evergreens).......my mind is still in a whirl......still racing.....still active........but then although the day featured intense physical labor, it was amiss of any real thought or stress........just putting things back into order.......a little frustration when i couldn't find the rocks i wanted for one of the beds....but that was quickly solved with a reasonable alternative........some thought and planning on where to put the plants i'd like to add.....but no stress.......which is totally different then the work day.......when stress is a given.......a physically demanding day yes....but no stress......therefore though tired physically i feel great.........

it's been a good day, a physically exhausting day doing the spring gardening but a good day none the less......as i get older the physical work involved in getting the garden into shape each spring becomes progressively more difficult but i love the result.........made the mistake of going out to sonny's nursery.......after i was finished ( of course that assumes the fact that my garden is never really finished ) and they have a selection this year of ornamental grasses, two of which i must find a way to incorporate in my garden, i've batted about two or three different ideas and have not as of yet come to a conclusion but i must have them in my garden..........neat thing about sonny's is that it is one of the local nurseries that uses the products made by the irrigation company i work for.........
i watched the first part of iron chef america with cat aggie and the second part with cat smokey....of course in the second part i was snacking on good swiss cheese which i believe smokey loves more then i do........and lilly how can i forget......lilly's favorite spot in the whole house is on top of my favorite chair........
i had seen the iron chef episode before but it is one of my all time favorites.......first it has iron chef batali in it...i love not only the italian style that he uses but he is very whimsical in his cooking and second the episodes secret ingredient was cheese...........awesome......

i did it again, i told myself this year i was going to take the entire three day weekend and just pick at getting the gardening done rather then go like an idiot and finish it in one day and really tire myself out.........well i'm dead tired and the flower beds are all done..........dang i'm pathetic.....
got a couple of new stock plants, basically what i wanted, and some bedding plants for a couple of pots on have one the front steps........couldn't find what i really wanted for the pots but what i got will look fine.........and never actually plant the pots the same two years in a row and most times it's just a choice of whim......only real difficulty i had as trying to match the lava rock i used last year for the one bed that i have planted with ornamental evergreens......i need some more anyhow and was expanding the bed......well not really extending but removed the birdbath and the annuals and added a small evergreen.......rats......nobody had red lava rocks this year........solved the problem by spreading the lava rocks i had thin on the bottom and toping with some plain red stone.......color is pretty close and you really can't tell the diff........

nice sunny day, not too warm, and i'm taking a break from cleaning out the flower beds, have worked on it for about 2 hours or so and am more then half done with the clean out but i'm getting a little winded and so i came in to relax for a while......will not have to replace as many of the stock plants as i thought i might.....but once i get everything cleared out will take a look at what i need to get to fill in the spaces and go to the nursery.....already have bought the mulch i need.....but really don't care if i finish today.........

nice day but abit cool.....easy work day
some nice boneless lamb chops, potatoes with a thickened balsamic sauce and pear halves with abit of peanut butter for dessert....had the last of the danish blue and a bit of good swiss for a snack........truth be told my cheese loving cat smokey ate more of the swiss then i did, and i selected the swiss more because it was her fav then mine.........
we ( that is me and all three cats) watched the end of the eiger sanction in my easy chair....not easy when there are three cats in it but you get the picture..........the eiger sanction is unique in that i actually love the movie and the book.....very rare.....once i've read the book the movie version is usually to say the least disappointing...........

fairly nice day today, abit cool but not bad, work was fairly easy today but i'm dead on my feet, well i would be but it's my feet that are bothering me tonight so i guess that makes me dead off my feet.......just the week(s) catching up with me........
cashed my check, got gas and groceries.......left myself a little extra cash this week as i need to take care of the flower beds this weekend and add so new plantings as the open winter really took a toll on the plants.......
simple supper, a couple of cold roast beef sandwiches, a few can pears halves and some cheese for dessert, well actually my cheese loving cat smokey probably ate more of the smoked gouda then i did.....but we both enjoyed it.......

britten's young people's guide to the orchestra is pounding out from the cd player (also know as variations on a theme by purcell) and although i normally prefer the music of the baroque period, and disdain the so called modern classical period, i make an exception for britten and a few others, had a blt on toasted english muffin and a few pieces of dry mango for a snack........mangoes dried or fresh are probably my second favorite fruit......only oranges would top mangoes on my list
just watched mythbusters on discovery.......i probably watch more shows on discovery then any other network............i like the show and i'm in love with kari on the build crew......pathetic i know but true none the less

i fairly nice day today, abit on the cool side.....but a nice day.........work went okay.....i got caught up this AM and the afternoon went easy but........part of the reason was the phone system was down for awhile so i got abit behind because somethings didn't drop until after i had to close own shipping to run day end........
abit of good swiss cheese and mozart on the cd player........
really was physically beat by days end.......actually started the day pretty beat up but needed to cut the grass........really didn't want to leave it for the weekend as i really need to clean out the beds and plant some new plants and do the mulching so the addition of the grass would be abit over the top........

a damp, dreary day on the cool side and unfortunately not only effected my mood but my physical condition as well, day got off to a slow start i had a load which took more time then i would have liked, do glaring huge problems just a bunch of nagging little ones and that set the day akilter..........but got nearly caught up and with a bit o'luck i should get near even tomorrow....
interesting rehearsal tonight, the normal leader is away so we worked with a keyboard as lead for sunday, different rhythm patterns and different chording then usually which makes different harmonies possible.....i love a challenge......i love to be pressed to make adjustments.....particularly in music........

another dreary day, and i got way behind today at work and tomorrow promises to be worse, i may end up so far behind that i'm actually ahead (hehe)...........
made so soup tonight with ox tails, have never used that cut before but the soup turned out absolutely awesome, also made some tuna salad, smokey the cat was in heaven, her 2 sisters where nowhere in sight and she got the bits in the can all to herself........i rarely eat the soup or salad at home but it gives me a couple of things to grab at the last minute to take to work for lunch,

today was a very dreary day, and the weather is predicted to be the same for at least the first part of the week, physically i was way below par today and it affected my mental faculties as well, but surprisingly not my emotional state......i did manage to get through those commitments that a sunday demands but the rest of the day was a total loss........
not being a one who goes to theaters i watched starwars II for the first time on fox tonight......not a bad movie visually but some how every predictable.....as one would assume from a prequel.......when you know where something must end up, it is rather easy after all to predict with in a certain set of parameters how it got there........but the ex-queen/senator is a babe so all was not lost.......entertaining if in the form of mindless entertainment.....but then that was the state i was in..........

nice day, just a brief sprinkle of rain this morning but a nice day, had to make an appearance at work this morning, not a big deal but i had hoped to get a chance to sleep in which went by the boards.......
went straight from work to the exec golf course, didn't play bad but didn't play that good either, was just a little off today, headed back to town and had lunch at the chinese buffet, and then once i got home just crashed out for about 3 hours, felt poorly, i don't no if something i ate didn't agree or the week just caught up with me.......felt better and got a start on the yard work and a few things i need to do around the house but ran out of energy real quick.........rats.........still need to come up with a plan for replacement of the stock bushes i lost to an open winter, hope to hack a little at the yard work this week and then finish it off next weekend (3 day weekend) or even the week after that, with the climate up here really can do anything with annuals until end of may and still can do the stock plants which i really haven't a plan for yet, some ideas but nothing firm
had the nub of the corn beef left and was just going to make a couple of sandwiches when i remember i had about a half a head of cabbage left in the frig, so put that on for a quick boil and mad some hot sands with a bit of butter and mustard.......nice

nice day today, work went okay but they late scheduled tomorrow as a production day so i will have to go in for an hour or two....rats.....i was looking forward to sleeping late, playing some golf and doing a bit of yard work........however i may just good to work dressed to play golf and go from there....
i really haven't any major yard work to do, i still have tulips in bloom and won't disturb them until memorial day weekend, besides i lost several perennials due to the open winter and really haven't decided what i want to do to fill in the holes.........
(pause while trollie wanders off to make a pot of earl grey tea)
i love a steaming pot of tea....i have a small porcelain chinese style tea pot that makes just 2 large or three normal cups of tea..........other then rose hip....earl grey is about the only flavored or herbal (in the case of rose hips) that i drink.....i just like good regular tea.......it's funny that i rarely drink ceylon tea hot, but it's my favorite tea for iced tea.........
i had planned to go out for dinner tonight, which i haven't done for a couple of weeks, got home, checked email, took a shower, sat down in my easy chair and an hour later said for get it and had leftovers for supper, a little ice cream for dessert, and some figs for a snack a little while ago......
the only thing hot about trollie's friday night is the tea............

took a hot bath, and now am snacking on canned cherries, blue cheese and tea......feel much better but my feet are bothering me tonight, of course after spending over 30 years working a factory with cement floors and on my feet a better part of the day it's actually surprising that i have any feet left, or legs or back for that matter..........

nice weather day, he work day wasn't a bad day, wasn't a good day was just a day.........but i'm tired and my arthritis is bothering me tonight, so i'm off to a hot bath and maybe a pot of tea......
cashed my check, filled the car if 3 gallons of gas can really be called filling anything......i always fill the car up with gas, or in this case top the tank off every payday.........just a habit....and last week just didn't drive that much.....i have less then a 2 mile commute to work every day.....so if i don't take any trips really don't put very many miles on the car.......just needed a few things at the grocery.......i hate it when grocery stores remodel......which is what the place i do most of my shopping in is doing right now........you get used to where everything is and then they go and change it......dang.......
nothing good on the tube tonight, and just can't concentrate on anything so a hot bath, a pot of tea and an early night makes the most sense, and some cheese.....can't let a day go without cheese

nice day today weather wise, cool this AM but warmed up this afternoon.......
monster day at work, i was fortunate that i could pull some help otherwise i'd be in a hole i might never get out of.......i spent the entire day working on truck shipments........and if i had not got the help the 25 or so small package shipments that went today would still be sitting there waiting for my attention........actually had the whole releasable screen cleared except for one that dropped late in the day when it was to late to really do anything about it.....
just a basic supper, a little polish sausage, a few noodles and some baked beans.........and a little cheese for dessert......i love cheese i have 9 different kinds in the house right now.....3 different blue cheeses (italian,danish and british) a smoked gouda,fontina, a very good swiss, two different grated italian cheeses and shredded cheese for pizza.....and i usually take a bit of cheese to work for lunch.......
i am in love, okay it probably won't do me a bit of good because i'm in love with kari who is on the build team for mythbusters a series on discovery channel.......but it's kind of funny.....she's a redhead and i usually am not attracted to redheads physically.....but this gal has got intelligence, humor and a smile that could melt....well melt me.......i only say this as kind of a lead in.....it's funny that looks really are of little importance to me when it comes to attraction.....now i'm not denying that if present they are not a bonus, but seriously the smile, the wit or sense of humor if you will the intelligence the personality are far more attractive the a large set of upper frontals.....they are (that is upper frontals) just hood ornaments anyways.........

a weird day at work, i got a little bend out of shape, but got most everything done that i could.......was on the cool side today but not bad......
rehearsal was a little weird as well, we started a new song, very contemporary and i had a devil of a time hearing the melody, had to go throught it several times......now i don't sing the melody but if i can hear it, i can harmonize to it......but finally knocked it out

relatively easy day at work.....nice day weather wise, and i feel pretty good tonight, a little low emotionally but we all go through those times........sometimes..........well enough said

interesting day we had are annual tribute to the military members of the church today, with fort drum and the 10th just down the road from the church it is a large part of the congregation....nice service.......
i did my usual crash and burn physically this afternoon, but figured out i was just a bit dehydrated and several glasses of ice water turned the trick and a feel pretty good right now.......

i was more beat then even i realized, i slept 12 hours last night, minus the trips to the little boy's room, i am 57 after all, and may have slept longer if my 3 cats hadn't had a triple threat match on the end of my bed.....but i can't really blame them because 9 out of 10 days i'm up by a little after 7 and checking their food and water, i can hear the argument now....it's your fault dad has slept until after 9 , no it's your fault.....cue hissing and spitting.....

so i work up to a damp, rainy, ugly morning....it's been beautiful all week....when i was working and so my only "real" day off this week and it's lousy weather......rats

a little egg,bacon, oil cured olive omelet on rye toast for breakfast with coffee, a little corn beef stock soup with noodles for lunch.......

went out and got some socks and bread and ice cream this afternoon.......i have falling in love with dove icecream......i has few flavors then most "designer" ice cream but the neat part, the part i love is that each pint has a layer of dove chocolate on top.......And very good ice cream

had a cold corn beef sandwich with some corn and cheese for dessert....Very nice....

blogshares was down earlier in the day but when i came back up i had an excellent days play

cleared off this late afternoon and even though i hate cutting the grass when there is moisture in it i really had no choice, it had to be done or it would have required a bailing machine.......

another nice day......actually although cool a couple of days the weather has been beautiful this week....i only hope it lasts until tomorrow as i have some yard work to do and i would like to play a little golf, provided my feet and legs co-operate/........Thought week and spending 40 hours pounding cement......the feet and legs were giving me a problem today..........not a bad day......just one of those days where your busy all day and accomplish little.......
i got home and had thawed a point cut corn beef that i wanted to cook......to give me a few meals and some sandwiches for the week end.....besides i had bought some jewish rye bread earlier in the week that was sitting there demanding to have some good corn beef between it..... i had gotten a really nice point cut awhile ago...turned out to be just really beautiful.......usually althought the point cut imho is the most flavorful cuts, it sometimes has a lot of fat, but this one was lean...since i was going to just use it for sandwiches and meals i had decided not to veg it up too much, just a few onions, a bit of garlic and some cabbage,,,,salt, pepper and bays leaves......well about 2/3's through the cooking i tasted the stock and was just blow away, just amazing.....so after i pulled the corned beef i added a few wide cut noodles and made some soup from the stock, it's thin actually very thin as opposed to the thick soup i usually make but it will knock your socks off with a very intense flavor........
just hanging out tonight and relaxing.....i need it.......

was a nice sunny day how be it on the cool side, had a very easy day at work, which i desperately needed........everything actually ran very smoothly........cahed my check and gassed the car.....did my grocery shopping......was really surprised with all of the things i needed i actually got out of there with less then i've spent in week.......home for a basic burger and fries.......
i am here to declare that this maybe the dumbest set of game players ever on survivor.........or at least the most timid.......everytime those on the "outside" have a chance to knock off the top players they chicken out.....the only reason i am still watching is to see if they can top the stupidity of the week before........

i got a letter from northcountry choral today.....the bad news is they talked the former conductor out of retirement......rats........the good news is we will be doing the christmas portion of the messiah this fall........hot dang.........one of my problems with the group in general and the conductor in particular was that over the last few years we have gotten away from doing the master works......which is the reason i joined in the first place........i am very glad that we are headed back in what i consider the right direction.....

another beautiful day wasted.....work was wild and i've just crashed out tonight...have watched a little tube, played a little blogshares, and i sitting here blogging.....a little cheese, a cold drink and alittle anon 4 on the cd player.....i actually feel pretty good mentally but i'm just beat in physically.......will be an early night

another beautiful day weather wise and another very hectic day work wise....i got behind schedule early and never did really catch up........was tired but still felt pretty good....came home....had supper........and then rehearsal but about mid way through rehearsal i just started to crash out and i really don't feel well now.......i think i'm just over tired but i feel lousy

another nice day weather wise up here, a shame to waste it on a work day, one of those days at work that it took me all day to accomplish very little...seemed like everything i did took twice as long as it should, days like that just happen....no really reason other the they just happen
was out of bread and stopped on the way home......made some lentil stew tonight with a pork shoulder and some italian sausage...........had some sausage gravy on rye bread toast with a salad for dinner and have just chilled tonight....lawn needs mowing again but need to get so gas for the mower and will have to wait to wednesday because have other things to do tomorrow.........laundry tonight......
just a weird day on blogshares.......no explanation.......no discussion......just take my word for it....a weird day

i feel pretty good tonight, but my voice is shot......sundays are a busy day and very hard on the voice........but it was a beautiful spring day.....and well i feel rested tonight at least.....
i had a comment yesterday reminding me that blogshares is a game...true enough........but as a mod and a member of the bsec i have to deal with people who have forgotten that fact......and there in lies the problem.......but i have decided that i can change 'um.......and i just need to step back where ever possible and let somebody else handle 'um for a while.........

so i'm on my way to bed, heavy day tomorrow and i decide to take a finally run through email and check my site meter......now i've never had any outlandish expectations of my blog being particularly popular or getting alot of hits......lets face it....it's just a pretty basic lifelog of a 57 year old man who really isn't a social butterfly, or rich or famous or doesn't really comment too often on anything other then work, his cats and cheese.......so if i get 10 hits in a day i mint a coin.......so i check my hit counter and i got 19 hits.......most in the last few hours......and most off the blogger next blog button.......a world's record for me that frankly i don't care if i ever top
this blog has never been and never will be about readers, it has never been about hit totals......it's always been and always will be about me....the crazy trollie.....it is an outlet.....it is about a record.....it is about reminding me about things i'd probably forget if i didn't write them down

i think the week that was finally caught up with me, after feeling great this morning i just crashed out physically this afternoon......really felt pretty lousy.....but steak, afew home fries and creamed corn with ice tea and i'm feeling better........problem on the forum amounted to a tempest in a teapot as the old saw goes.......watched the derby........the "boss's'" horse got beat........i have never forgiven the yankees for beating the braves in the '57 world series.......yah i know a grudge carried for almost 48 years but then such is the personality of the trollie.......but when your 10 things make a long lasting impression.......

(trollie wanders in...he's looking for a place to hide........just got back from playing golf and checked his email......several alerts of private messages from the blogshare's forum.........dang.......looks like another wild day.......trollie thinks he will hide........trollie thinks he doesn't want to look.........trollie digs hole and crawls in and covers it up behind him)

nice day today....a bit overcast but finally warm......
work was absolutely nuts.........had an outbound plus a rush ltl that i had to wait for assembly to finish.....when all was said and done i got everything done that had to be done, but never took lunch until 2:20.....so just snacked earlier......and may not actually eat a formal dinner tonight....although i have a nice veal chop in the frig.......
as anyone who reads this at all knows i'm addicted to the online game blogshares.......have played it since beta.......some 2+ years now......and my commitment to the game has changed ....for quite awhile i was only interested in the game and....well avoided the community aspect.......but overtime the community aspect has become really more important to me then the game itself.....
i am one of the forum mods and also on the bsec......but today was one of those days.....well really this week has been one of those weeks that i question why the heck i got involved in the community.........has just been a frightful hassle......but i will survive and i will go on but........this week has not been fun......

i must admit that if push comes to shove and i had only one period of music to listen to i would pick the baroque period of classical music, for many reasons not the least of which is the use of the fugue in that period.....i love the fugue and fugual style of music, and i really don't like 20th century classical in general.......but there are a few composers that i really like......one of which is britten......his young people's guide to the orchestra is now blasting through the house, the cats are quaking in fear.......also know as variations on a theme by purcell.........had a bit of good extra-sharp cheddar for a snack.......
work today was well work......i had a friend who always said that they called it work because all of the good four letter words where already taken.......
payday....gas is actually down to just under $2.25 a gallon........eventhough i really don't do a lot of driving......i live less then two miles from work...i always fill the car every payday.......top off the tank probably would be a better description.......
did grocery shopping tonight.........one of those weeks when i was out of alot of things that i only buy from time to time...have decided to switch from monday to payday for grocery shopping......why......danged if i know........
have just hung out tonight.......watched survivor......i have decided that this is the dumbest group who have ever played the game.......

another sunny but cool day, had a half way busy day at work, but nothing really bad.....but didn't feel like fussin' for dinner so just made a shrimp salad.......my cats hate me......anytime i run the can opener and it isn't tuna they give me the evil eye.........went to choir rehearsal and have felt pretty good all day but have hit the wall this evening........

was a sunny day today but a very cold wind......
boss told me this morning that i would get a call this week concerning a pick up for a scrap load...now according to hoyle their as supposed to call me 24 hours before the pick up......which wasn't bad because they had just finished the bales i needed and i could easily have them over at the warehouse by tomorrow and load from one location......so half an hour later i get a call from a driver who's 45 minutes away wanting to pick up the load.......ah i'm glad i got 24 hours notice......
bale loads can run the range between not a problem to a total disaster.....this one just didn't want to load......fought it all the way..........

weather was sunny today how be it very cool.......got alot accomplished at work....day ran very smooth
came home and hung out on #blogshares and #bsec....had a problem in the game to deal with.....
and then supper....ah supper.........had a couple of nicely broiled center cut lamb chops with a bit of mint jelly......french style green beans......some nice firm sliced tomatoes with french dressing.....black olives, oil cure olives and a couple of stuffed grape leaves......roll and butter and ice tea.......would have been a wonderful meal.....if i hadn't needed to fight off a crazed cat with designs on my lamb chops......she did manage to take off with one little piece........ah the joys of having cats allow you to live with them.........
mowed the grass for the first time this year tonight....had a bit more moisture in it that i would have liked but was getting to the point where it had to be done now!!!!!!........either that or cut it and bale it.......the mower was a little problem to get started, but haven't replaced the plug in.......well haven't replaced the plug since i bought i like 5 years ago.........probably should attend to that.........

so i'm sitting there watching iron chef america, a little stilton cheese for a snack and a cat on my lap.......depending on the exact time either smokey or lilly....and there's an ad for microwave kraft macaroni and cheese.......with the queen of the night aria from mozart's magic flute as the background music......first thought is what in the sam hill was the ad man thinking of when he picked that, and second despite mozart's well documented sense of humor he must be spinning in his grave at mach 3..........of course the music is in the public domain but oy vey.......don't get me wrong i love that aria...but an ad for mac and cheese.....you got to be kidding.......
one of the movie channels has been playing tombstone......has to been the 1000th remake of the gun fight at the ok corral......well maybe not the 1000th but you get the point.......not badly done.....maybe the best of the lot....if you like westerns....but val kilmer as doc holiday....brilliant.......whether or not an accurate historical presentation of the man ......well i'm no expert on old west in general or doc holiday in particular but kilmer's doc is the only reason i would re-watch the flick..............

it was a very nice spring day, sunny if a bit cool and windy but a relief from the dreary weather of the last couple of days.......but with as busy as i am on sundays i really just observed the nice day from the comfort of my easy chair......i had a real brutal week at work from a physical standpoint and just needed to rest........
plan to watch iron chef america in a bit and then off to bed........boy do i know how to have a hot time
blogshares has been fun the last few days and we have a whole bunch of n00bs who are posting to the forum....fun and at the same times can be a bit tedious........answering the same questions over and over does get to you from time to time yet.....some of the new crop have a sense of humor and that's a treat.........although i still have a goal of getting back into the top 10 and should do that by the end of the month, that's really not what keeps me playing after 2+ years......it's the mental fencing on the forums and #blogshares....the the community of the game and some of the people i've met..........mostly it's out of friendship........if that word can really apply to people i've met on line....people i have never seen.....people i have never and probably will never met "face to face"........i fooled around a while ago with the term "net-buddy"......to try to keep it straight in my mind but the truth is despite the separation and connection only over the net i see some of them truly as friends.......there also a few i've met that i stick around on the game and the forum/channel only to be a thorn in their sides.........ah but such is the personality of a troll........