A busy day but a really nice day, and a great food day, i never eat breakfast, well practically never and today was no exception, had a great nights sleep and since i had missed rehearsal this week for dad's 90th birthday was less involved in the services this morning, went to early service, and taught Sunday school and was gone. Was in the mood for pasta salad, but stopped to buy some things i lacked and got well something else i mention later..........tomatoes, red onion. cucumber, red bell pepper, balsamic vinegar, EVOO, cilantro, a bit of salt and pepper, your typical pasta salad with the exception that i replaced some of the vinegar with the juice of one whole lime............but despite the fact that i finished the salad around noon, never ate until 3 because i really need the salad to chill, and give the vinaigrette a chance to work

For supper made a simple pasta and sauce that I’ve made dozens of times but with a twist that really turned out great, angel hair pasta which I love, whole tomatoes, paste, onion, mushrooms, a bit of basil, a bit of crushed red pepper, a bit of hot sauce, some cilantro…….okay so I had it left over, but the real twist was I had found some ground veal on manager special and use that for the meat…absolutely awesome………dang best sauce I’ve ever made

so i went in to work this morning like the good little worker bee that i am (not!), anyways got month end cleaned up except for one part, i got the inventory sheets late and one of the inventory people was already gone for the week, will have to get those sheets monday
the rest of the day has been a blur, i am with out focus, cocentation or an attention span longer the 3.765 seconds..............nite all

for a while there today i thought i was going to wear the road out between the plat and the warehouse......our major storage facility is about a mile from the plant and i lost count as to how many trips i made back and forth today, between inbounds, outbounds, doing month end, and trying to solve a bunch of inventory problems i think i spent more time in the car driving back and forth then i did, at either spot......worst luck classic FM was off the better part of the day for antenna repair and i got stuck between classic rock and christian radio......i actually enjoy christian radio when they play music, but the preaching programs leave me a bit in the wind.........
made a pizza for supper and played some stronghold crusader.......and now a bit of blogshares

feel decent tonight, despite the fact that work.......as well work..........just one of those days when i wonder if there is ant intelligent life there, me included.........
i got some nice ground beef tonight shopping ( only 5% fat) and made myself a salisbury steak, haven't done that in years.........had some canned mushroom gravy........with fries and pickled beats.........but ran out of room and will probably eat the left over as a sandwich for lunch tomorrow..........i think i probably put a bit of a twist on it, i take the ground beef, and some spices.......like normal but i always add cracker crumbs to the mix, tends to put just a bit of a "crust" on it.........
have just "cooled my jets" tonight............did my banking and the check book has survived the last tax payment and is starting to climb back to normal...............why did i ever decide to live in the city.......seemed like a wise move at the time but between city,county and school tax..........oy vey.....
tomorrow is end of month friday......always a treat in shipping, everyone who has been dragging their feet for the last week decides that everything, and i do me everything has to go tomorrow........will have to spend some time saturday cleaning up month end and entering the last of the months production so reports can be run..........
was really a nice day, no rain and low humidity, and i feel about as good as i can feel considering my age .........

i really enjoyed last night, but with 15 at dinner in a resturant the meal took the better part of two hours and althought the seating was fine, i felt the effects of sitting for too long of a time today, back was a mess
work went easy, so easy in fact that i took the PM off as a half day vac.........still have about a week and 1/2 off lost time left + 5 personal days so not a deal

another hot day, work went ok other then the fact that just before i went to bed last night realized i had left the downstairs light on and managed to fall down the stairs, landed on my rump which probably did some brain damage but since i have so little left who could tell, was a bit sore today......
had to take an early run to the warehouse and on the way in a clearing in a wood lot saw just a beautiful doe with a pair of fawns..........not an unusual sight anymore......and this was within the city limits........
the family went out to dinner tonight for dads 90th birthday......went to a place outside of Carthage which i've never been to before, mostly steaks, seafood and italian , had a seafood platter which was broiled in a light white wine sauce, quite good and i love it when the meal is served in the bowl it was broiled in, all the tender, tasty little bits, a nice green salad and a side of pasta, maybe a bit pricey but well worth it........had never eating there before but will have to put it on my list

very weird i have had 3 hits today on a comment i made about qiuznos commercials the other day, i just mentioned the name once and i turned up as the #1 or 2 result on searches......very weird...........this blog really isn't a winner as far as hits goes, not a problem and i don't care but it's very strange that i would be the number one search result for anything..........

i didn't post yesterday, a rare thing for me, but i felt badly as the night worn on, my own fault really but i really felt, well, unable to post and leave it at that..........
yesterday was a typical sunday, busy as usually, church picnic was yesterday and though i didn't go up to eat, it would have been entirely not right to not attend at all, being part of the worship team and teaching sunday school, i needed to at least make an appearance.........had a nice chat with several people.........
work , was well work, there is a reason they don't call it fun, ran a few errands and mowed the lawn, have been just hanging out tonight, feel much better now but was very rocky earlier in the day.......
i got a really interesting insight yesterday into a man i have know for near on forty years and really have never completely understood, a statement yesterday made clear many things i have never understood..........
may not post tomorrow, the kids and grand kids and great-grand kids are taking my dad out for his birthday, he is a WWII vet and will be 90 tomorrow..........
my dad is and always has been a great teaser, i got him recently, i took him out for dinner, and was remarking to him that you really know you're old on your son takes you out for dinner and you both qualify for the senior citizen discount.........

just a relaxing day, no work and i put all household chores on hold until tomorrow.........just kicked back relaxed and took it easy

was a nice day if maybe a bit too humid for my tastes, it has been a very humid summer so far, which is actually quite unusual..........
has been a difficult day on blogshares, and i feel a tad betrayed but i will get over it.......am quite tired and am headed for a late night sitdown in the garden and bed........nite all

really never felt good all day, work went well, and have had a pleasant evening but really not quite up to feeling good, did my weekly errands and banking.........fried some eggplant with onion garlic and a bit of sweet sausage and store bought sauce, and of course evoo......was very nice........have a bit of a hassle going on over in blogshares which i really should be giving my attention to but tonight i have no attention to give

a really nice day today, mid 70'sF and very low humidity, really a nice break, however i felt lousy, got very little sleep last night and took the afternoon of.......feel much better now......but really no brilliant comments so i'm gone

another hot day today, work went okay except for i spent better then a 1/2 hour figuring out weights and measures on a truckload and i no sooner got it done then i got told, oh well we changed are minds the load is now like is.........oy vey......the one good thing is that i had used a spread sheet so it really didn't take a lot of redo but.......oy vey..........
have just taken it easy tonight, just too hot to think about doing anything........plain just too hot to think

i'm tired tonight but i feel pretty good otherwise, another very hot. very humid day but most everything worked out quite well at work, have just taken it easy tonight, just too dang hot to do much of anything..........

it's been hot and humid all day, rained on and off, a bit of thunder and lightening this afternoon but nothing close, went to the south of us, it just started to rain about 15 minutes ago, one of the weird rains that you get on days like today as night falls and the temperature drops, it rained moderately hard but zero wind, the rain in big drops falling straight down, i guess the temperature had dropped to the point where the air was not able to hold the local high moisture content and it must literally fall out of the sky.........
day went ok, but i'm tired and must muster the last of my energy reserves to make up my bed, laundered bed cloth today, and my big fat cat always enjoys helping do up the bed..........fitted sheets and a persistent cat is a recipe for disaster.......

at least in theory i was going to bed early tonight, well 12:30 AM is not early and i still have some personal things to attend to,...............rats.........got involved in a couple of discussions on #blogshares and the time passed before i was truly aware of the actually time........double rats with a side of sewage..........

i just returned from a late night sitdown in the garden, i love to sit in the garden after dark, in the cool of the evening, i love the cool breezes and the fact that i can't see all the weeding that i really need to do...... a nice snack of hot pepper stuffed olives and some figs......... .i am plagued this evening with a re-occurring problem..........i am physically spent and very tired but my mind refuses to let go.......it is flying as i post from one totally weird subject to another and though i need my sleep, i have a heavy day tomorrow , my mind refuses to let go of today, of yesterday, of the possibility of future past.........i live to dream.........when i stop
dreaming consciencely i will no longer be, but tonight when i need my rest....it's a real drag

rained pretty hard in the AM today, unfortunately i was in the middle of loading a truck and ran out of LP gas on the forklift, so had to change tanks and you guessed it the tanks are stored (by state law) outside, got soaked to the skin..........
pretty easy day otherwise, unfortunately one of today's loads got kicked into tomorrow, which makes 3, and on a friday that is dicey........
nice evening, how be it a bit humid and we may get some more rain......am tired and plan to call it an early night

3 or 4 waves of very heavy thunder storms hit us last night, woke me up several times, really;;y nasty storms......work went ok but i'm faced with one of those odd little problems that comforts us time to time with no solution in sight, not a big deal, just one of those nagging little how the heck did that happen things.........weird

stayed up way to late last night and paid for it this morning, felt lousy, got out to the car and had a very soft tire, stopped and put air in it, looks like it's okay, but really won't know until i check it tomorrow morning.............had a problem with my one foot at work, really hurt bad so took a half day off and feel pretty good now.......
weird rehearsal tonight, first night back for the usually lead and he was, well abit hyper, nothing was quite the way he wanted it..........unusually but not the first time.........
but anyway.........have stayed up to late again tonight for the way i feel but wanted to watch the replay of the tour stage on OLN

dang, today was common, ordinary, basically your average boring day.........and frankly that's just what i needed.........

dang today was a wreak, not a total wreak and probably no one knows but me, i awoke stuffed up big time, no cold just stuffed to the max with nasty drainage ( yeah i know more then you really wanted to know)............and i had a problem with the one chorus we did for worship team, now part of the harmony i sing is at the very top of my usable range and that last note was there but weedy, and a little off.......probably no one knew but me but not up to par...........the rest of the day.......well..........just disappeared into nothingness...........just not really up to par......about the only thing i really remember with any clarity is the nice dish of assorted olives i had for a snack......

as good as i felt last night when i went to bed , i felt that level of lousy this morning, work went ok, just an in and out but it was wet, cool and miserable weather today and my physical and emotional condition have matched......the high point of the day was when i found a container of dates in the frig that i thought i had finished..........

dang what a brutal day.......i went in this morning and had 3 orders that had to ship today........problem is production had finished them yet.....and in one case we were waiting for a shipment from a vendor so we could do what we had to, to the part and still get it out today........however one did get shipped "outside" the system because the order was so jumbled in the computer i couldn't process it through the system..i know what must be done but the guy who must give the ok is out until monday so it will just have to wait........

it's late and i'm tired but i feel great tonight, as good as i've felt in a long time, just got done watching the extended coverage of the tour de france on OLN..........obviously the live coverage is on at 8 or so in the morning but the evening coverage while truncated a bit ain't bad........it really isn't really about armstrong.......i just enjoy the racing and the tactics involved.......a good watch

was a nice day, but rain and some thunder this evening....but nothing close, the thunder that is......even though because of the monday holiday and pay day is delayed until tomorrow....i did my grocery shopping and errands to night, except for gas and bills.........stores are just to busy on friday and it takes way to long to get everything done.........off to watch the tour on OLN

( this is not an entry, trollie is way too tired tonight to fool around with writing to this dang blog.....this is just a notice that i have no intention of posting tonight........this post will self destruct in 5 seconds......and remember if any of your IM force is caught or killed the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence)

last day off, had intended to play some golf today but weather was very unsettled and so was i.....felt rocky all day but feel decent now.........had a really great rehearsal tonight.....usually leader is on vacation so jamie lead........i really enjoy sing with him as lead.......plus just a top drawer guy on every level.......won't be with us for only a few more weeks and his unit is going to iraq for a year......will miss him........singing with him is a challenge for me as his style is country......and my style.......well i sing almost any style but my preferred style is classical but it's fun to expand you comfort zone............

i' m tired and there will be no post tonight

this is a day that i think i would have been far better off canceling......not that anything went wrong......many things went right but i just drifted through it as in a fog........
went to bed late, didn't get right up when the alarm rang so fell back off to sleep and woke back up 15 minutes before i was to be at services, made it just a tad late....but no harm no foul.......
had a nice cook out at my brother and sister-in-laws, nephew was just up for a few days but much of the evening didn't register......i'm a bit of a blank......i do remember some fine smoke sausages........came home before dark...party was still going but i didn't want to drive back into town after dark, and very glad i did as the fog was starting to roll in on the champion hill road.........that would have been fun..........not really great night vision, a road i don't travel very often and fog.........glad i missed that trip.........

nice day, not too hot or humid, spent a couple hours at work finishing up month end numbers and inventory.........a trip across town for eggplant........one of my favorite things .....a relaxing afternoon....dinner at my daughters and we were getting ready to walk up into the park for the annual concert and fireworks display.......when we noticed a thick black cloud of smoke.....well at first we thought it was quite close and in the basic direction of trollie's homestead, so got in the car for a look and realized that it was a major fire, probably industrial, and in the wrong direction.....wrong because it was in the general direction of the factory i work, and the business my son-in-law's family owns...........as we got closer we knew it wasn't my place of work and gladly was steven's either..........one of the little used older mills was on fire.........basically it's gone......well anyways we used to use space a while back in that building for storage.......but haven't for quite awhile (trollie heaves big sigh of relief)
concert was good and fireworks where maybe the best i've every seen.........got home and noticed that i had had a call from my niece ( caller ID i like)........gave her a call and she was wondering if we had any materials in the building that burned because she remembered we once did......had a nice chat...........a really nice day........a little scary there for a bit but a nice day anyways

got some rain this afternoon, broke the humidity a little bit, actually a very comfortable evening.......work went surprisingly easy for an end of month friday...but need to spend sometime tomorrow to finish up month end........then don't need to be back into work until the 6th.......
not much shaking tonight......just chillin'