As nice day weather wise today, very cool this morning but turned into a nice fall day. Inventory went better the I had expected considering all the other things that got loaded on me. Left work at 9 PM (13 hour day) and we are probably about 2 hours behind where I’d like to be, but should be able to wrap it up tomorrow.

Am just very tired tonight but too wound up to try to get any sleep yet…..

Weather this AM was nasty, thunder storms, high winds and I needed to load a 20’ container with a severe attack angle on the wet dock plate……and a 20 minute job ended up taking well over and hour…….rats……sometimes tings just take the time that they take……….

Had 3 shipping/receiving jobs slide into tomorrow, which is typical of month end, but this isn’t just a month end but a year end……..I’m in theory supposed to be supervising the year end count tomorrow …….and about 4 hours of the day will be devoted to things that have nothing to do with year end……..on one hand that’s not a really problem, I have by enlarge the same crew I have every year……good people…..who know the job…..so the bulk of the work will get done…….but those jobs I need to do relative to the task will have to wait, if I get out tomorrow before 10 PM it will be a miracle…….

Banking, gassing the car and groceries…….didn’t pay any bills tonight but nothing urgent and just didn’t bother………spend way more they usual but needed so staples and caught some good deals……….i feel really well tonight despite the fact that I really hate inventory and that looms ahead for the next 4 work days…………..

Was a very nice fall day, work, well work was work. As is often the case with a month end things seem to be sliding towards the last day of the month……which although a pain is doable……..however this is not only a month end Friday but a year end Friday which means that I have to do a complete inventory on Friday………..well actually I don’t have to do the majority of the raw count myself, but have to supervise the count, and with 3 truckloads that may ship Friday that will prove to be a problem………it tends to end up a 12+ hour day anyways, if things go perfect and another 4 to 6 `hours on Saturday dealing with adjustments to the computer system…….and then another several hours on Monday with the independent auditor…….so even if perfect a multiple headache and several aspirin couple of days…….but it seems like those who are uninvolved seem to discount the stress and seem to see no problem with throwing outbound into the mix………………in the perfect situation there would be no outbound shipping or receiving on the count day, but every year I get the…….”oh we aren’t shipping today” question……..well this really needs to go today………………dang…………

Finished the last of the pork roast tonight…….reheated it with a bit of barbecue sauce open faced on an onion roll with a side of scrimp salad and an ice tea…………watched American casino and mythbusters………as well as the II installment of hornblower, or at least the first 30 minutes or so again……..slept poorly last night……….so am tired and needed to get a restfully sleep the next two nights or I will be a useless pile of crap at the end of Saturday’s work with the inventory………probably will be anyways rested or not but need to at least put my self in the best position to survive it…………

Twas’ a very nice fall day, sunny, mid-60’sF and a bit of a breeze……..got to bed way too late last night and didn’t sleep very well………work was well work

Made a shrimp salad for dinner, some flash frozen salad shrimp, pasta shells, salt, pepper, mayo and horseradish, and boiled egg which I always use but added a bit of evoo tonight and instead of the onions I usually use realized that the shallots I had were starting to get a little soft so used the good shallots left instead of onion………a slightly different taste but I think I prefer it…….

Rehearsal went great tonight, learned some new songs ……good time

Never turned the ‘puter on until after rehearsal………got to watching a vcr tape of one of the hornblower episodes with dinner and realized it was time for rehearsal……….watched the big break IV ……….and I’m tired and ready for bed……nite all

A very cool, wet, damp, nasty day….we caught what was left of hurricane Rita…..very little wind just a lot of rain……made decent progress on getting ready for year end……..

Gentle night………nothin’ happenin’ …….and that’s the way I like it

It was damp and cool today, fall is definitely in the air, although we still haven’t had a frost yet……services went great today………

I had a small loaf of French bread that I split, added olive oil, garlic, fresh grated romano cheese, some black olives and sun dry tomatoes….popped it in the oven…..with the last of the cider………..then put a small pork roast in a pot with yellow turnip and boiling onions, salt, pepper and bay leaves and let it simmer for like 3 and a half hours……..very nice that was supper, and have leftovers for lunches this week……..

Relaxed, watched the president’s cup and the indy racing league race from the glen……..

Have a very heavy week this week so must to bed

It was a nice day, a bit cool but a nice fall day and I probably like fall best of all the seasons, no color in the trees yet but has been a very warm late summer and no frost yet……despite the fact that I had to work 3 hours this morning, I hate Saturday work…….it went well and didn’t ruin the day…………it’s been a good day……..a relaxing day……..and I feel good……….

It’s apple cider season, I love the fall for many reasons but I think chief among them is the availability of apple cider…….there are several good cider mills in the area…….one of which has functioned as a mill since the early 1800’s……………I prefer the early cider made from Macs and Cortland’s…….but any cider is good cider

Today was one of those workdays when I swear I saw the “clown car” in the parking lot when I drove in. what a crazy, ridiculous, frustrating day………nothing went right, everything backfired, and I left work feeling like I had been drug thru a knothole backwards.

Just had some sandwiches with mixed cold cuts, dressed with a homemade vinaigrette made with evoo, balsamic vinegar, some hot peppers, salt, pepper and shallots……a couple of dill pickles and potato salad on the side, and some fine apple cider……..and i feel mentally fine but physically wasted tonight………..

Need to spend a few hours at work tomorrow, I was supposed to have help today and had planned some jobs to get my self in a position to really get setup for year end , next week but got my help pulled because of a problem in production and am not where I want to be at 8AM Monday……but a few hours tomorrow should turn the trick…………who am I kidding but I can hope…………

Although today was not the roughest day this week, I feel as physically low and depleted as I have in a long time…….next week will be a monster as it’s the week of year end inventory and many hours of stressful work so I will try to crash all weekend so I have then energy to get thru it………every year I get old it seems like year end is twice as hard………

Payday, errands, groceries and bill paying…..and a gentle night…….feeling better but need to get to bed early………of course every time I say that I end up staying up past midnight

Something happened today that really should have p*ssed me off, even a couple of months ago it would have, but at this point in my extended problem, I am just mildly irritated……I’ll move on, not a big thing and I think I’ve covered my arse and this my be the last hurdle……….until the next one…….at least I got this one covered………..

I had a reasonable day at work, didn’t go quite as plan and there were the usual………..what the heck was he/she thinking when they did/scheduled/decided that but then that’s life with a small industrial firm…….

Have had a gentle night……that is after the newest twist to the my on going problem was revealed by reading the letter in the mail box…………

Weather was very unsettled today, so really wasn’t 100% physically…….and had a monster day…….was on a dead run from 8 right thru 4:30. and just ran out of time, one job I really needed to do today just didn’t get done. The main culprit in the day was two containers I needed to load for a shipment to Portugal that took the entire morning…….

Was very tired but went to rehearsal anyways and it went fine……..enjoyable as always…….with the summer gone we are getting back to full strength and things are sounding very good…….

I stayed up to watch ultimate fighter 2 on spike, I loved the original, but quite frankly the redo, the “2” version sucks……so far the fights have been boring and the redo is far less interesting then the original…………the formula which exists in movies that the sequel never quite measures up to the original seems at least at this point seems to apply to reality TV as well……..rats………

It’s the time of year that the powers that be think that I can run my department alone and still get ready for year end inventory…….it happens virtually every year and I still manage to pull it off, they're wrong but I do it anyways……..I’m tired so good night all

I have ignored blogshares today, it is the first day in the 2 and a half years that I’ve played the game, that I’ve had internet access and not played the game………I did check the forum for any relevant bsec business but the game itself I have ignored………I needed the break…………and it is a testament to the game that it has actually kept my attention for this long……..

Although the day turned into a nice day it started out damp and dreary…..there fore my arthritis has been a problem again today……..Sunday services went ok……..first service voice was a little rough……but then to expect a 57 year old man to be in full voice at 8:30 AM is absurd……..second service went fine…….have relaxed except for doing some laundry the rest of the day…………

Physically I have felt like a worn out piece of crap today, it’s been damp, dreary, cool, and down right ugly the last two days after a very hot summer, and my arthritis has been driving me nuts all day, when I was younger that would have been enough to ruin the day, but I have had a good day mentally, emotionally and spiritually………and at my age 3 out of 4 makes a good day………..

Had intended to stay in all day after a rough week at work, but took a look at some bills and realized I really couldn’t wait until Thursday to write the checks, one was a bit to close to due date, had the money but had not written checks on Thursday as I normally do…….but decided I really needed to break form and write them today…..am nothing if not a creature of habit……..stopped at mickey d’s for lunch……..they have maybe a limited time return to the past and got a double cheeseburger value meal……….always has been one of my favs there but they haven’t offered it for a while.

Just hung out and watched a lot of tube today………..dang…………..as I get older the memory fades………. what the heck did I have for supper…………(trollie ponders the question )…….ah ……….egg and olive sandwich and a dill pickle………….well it’s my story and I’m sticking to it………..

I have hit one of those streaks lately where food is just food and not fun……..I have been eating mechanically and that’s bad……I run thru that from time to time………I always get over it but such is the curse of living alone……….I am actually a very good, creative cook but making food for one…….sometimes…….like lately…..being creative can be a drag………particularly in the summer time………most of my best dishes………my most inspired creations are soups and stews that lend themselves better to the long cold winters that the northcountry is famous ( or is that infamous) for.

Have re-watched the food network search for the next food network star, and I’m still pissed off…….I think the best of the lot was hosed because they have too many white female hosts of shows……..but then I get opinions sometimes and once I get them as an old codger they almost never change……..

(trollie glances up and realizes he’s writing a novella tonight)

the next couple of workweeks will be a nightmare. I have two weeks to get ready for year end inventory, and as always the powers that be have decided that I don’t really need any help over the next two weeks and have moved my clerk over to production. I will still get everything done as I always do, but it will cost them some overtime, (trollie shakes his head but then he always does). Makes absolutely no sense to me but then that’s why they call it work and not fun……..or for that matter logical………

busy day tomorrow so will try to call it an early night………..nite all……..

According to my sitemeter I went by the 5000 hit mark some time this morning. I sometimes think the it misses hits compared to the other hitmeters I run, but it’s the only one I have that ignores my own hits, so I must accept it as the standard. Okay, so it’s taken almost 3 years to reach that point, on the other hand, this is just a life log and I’ll bet most of them don’t last a month.

Wet nasty day, and I had only one job that had to be done today, a west coast truckload, which was supposed to be in at 9:00 AM, was dreamily thinking of an afternoon off……………(loud buzzer) ……………wrong answer……….arrived at 3:15 PM and never got out of work until 5:30………rats………….

But have had a relaxing evening so far, and the stress of the day is slowly melting away………

It’s late and I really should have been in bed an hour ago but one of the cable channels had “G.I Jane” on………alright I admit a bad flick but I love it…………(trollie admits being pathetic)……..I would have thought it would have been a better flick if they had casted a more “stud” female in the title role then Demi……but I enjoy the flick none the less……………..mindless entertainment maybe but oh well…..but no accounting for taste………..old Viggo of lord of the rings fame is in the flick…….my brother B says while he loves LOTR he just can’t accept old Viggo as king because he was his doubles partner in tennis in high school at old WHS. My daughter has the same problem with super model Maggie Riser because she graduated in the same class with her again at old WHS……….the old trollie only graduated from old ACHS with people who probably the most noted or rather notorious are either in jail or members of the “hells angels”

As you can see by the time stamp on this post I am not watching the presidential address, I never do……I am basically apolitical, and besides they usually talk for 20 minutes and say nothing anyways ( if he resigns because he didn’t kick enough peoples arses to get the federal relief effort in the gulf coast going in a timely manner, somebody post a comment to this so I’ll know)

Day started out cool and rainy and ended sunny, hot and humid……work day went ok other then the fact that today’s truckload is now tomorrows truck load………did some “leg” work on a change we need to make but since the GM is out until Monday it will have to wait……..

Payday, did errands and such, I think I spent as much on food for the cats today as I did for me…….but will the silly little fur balls thank me……..no chance………

Was a decent work day, problems and “issues” of course, I work materials supervisor at a small factory, problems or if you prefer issues is what I get paid for, but no meetings today (trollie hates meetings). And by days end almost everything was solved, resolved and as it should be………

Ate an extended supper tonight, needed to do some errands and like an idiot was out on the Westside and forgot to get cat food…….only one store in town sells my cats fav food and I drove right by and forgot to get a bag…….sheeeeeshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!……… although I must admit feeling a little weird going in to farm/tractor and only coming out with cat food……….payday tomorrow and I thought I had done all the shopping necessary on the west side for the week but need to make the trip tomorrow…….

I feel great tonight……..although dinner was a bit extended……made a hamburger when I got home, fried potatoes about an hour and a half later, and a salad an hour after than………….not in order I realize but then I live alone and definitely listen to the beat of a different drummer…………….

The workday went pretty smooth today; I’m starting to work on some setup work for year-end inventory, which occurs at the end of the month. Was a beautifully day weather wise, and I feel pretty good tonight. Rehearsal was fun tonight PJ is at conference this week so TB lead the rehearsal, much less organized and a bit crazy, but frankly a lot more fun…….have been up way too late the last few nights, what to call it an early night………

One of those days when the hardest job I had all day was convincing myself to get out of bed this morning……..work day went reasonably well……..mowed the lawn and just had a salad and a hard roll for supper with a home made vinaigrette……..have just kicked by and relaxed tonight

I may have mentioned this before, you will pardon a failing memory from an aging man if I have, but I have no control over hits to the blog. Some days I pick up massive hits to the blogger’s next blog option and days like to day I gather very few or even none……….no accounting for it I guess…..and I really don’t care about hits on one hand, on the other hand I’m a “numbers person” and the inability to predict or understand why the hits are either amazing or not existent amuses me.

A very nice fall day, okay I know that technically it’s still summer for a few more days, but frankly fall comes early here in the northcountry. Services and worship team went fine today, start of the Christian Ed. Quarter and picked up a couple of new students who are very gifted and will probably stretch me a bit……bring it on……I love a challenge…….I also love people who interact and contribute……….

Spent most of the afternoon watching the final round of the Solheim Cup……..USA won the event, basically on the play of the young guns……Creamer….Kim…….and Gulbis played fantastic all 3 days (results)…..

Basically a quiet, restful day………no marvels from the kitchen……no new recipes……….just a basic comfort food day……….

In general I hate “reality TV”……..I do watch the survivor series although it does bother me that winner is seldom the really survivor…….the only other two show I watch are ultimate fighter on spike, (although I tend to watch the replay at 10 on Saturday, the first showing at 11:05 on Monday is just to dang late for a 57 year old man who needs to be at work at 8 AM.). but my favorite of the reality shows is the golf channels big break series……..soon to be the 4^th in the series starting Tuesday. First I love the game and second it’s really simple, you either make the shot when you need to, or you go home.

Life is weird and growing old is weirder, about 75% of the hair, that is facial hair that I have is gray……trollie has a mustache and a goatee…..the mustache I’ve had for almost 40 years, the goatee on the other hand is a relatively new addition, I grow one from time to time and have never been satisfied as to how it’s ”grown in” until now, this one looks okay…..the weird part is although the facial hair is 75% gray, my “head” hair is only tinged with gray……….weird and strange and really doesn’t create a situation that needs attention, just a why the heck is that response from the old trollie.

Bonds to be activated Monday who really gives a crap, his career is a sham, he has achieved what he has by using "steroids", and frankly i don't buy the bullshit story he told that he didn't realize that what he was using were steroids...........give me a break

On one hand “hits” to my blog is not really a big deal for me. The blog is for me not really for the “great unwashed”. But as a confirmed number crunchier I had figured out a month or so ago with any kind of luck I just might pass 5000 hits as registered on my sitemeter just before my baby ( or my blog if you will ) was 3 years old……….now with almost 2 months to spare I’m 50 hits short of the 5000 goal. I have other hit counters that are way higher then sitemeter but A- I can’t filter out my own hits to the blog……and B- quite frankly I think sitemeter misses a few but it’s the one that I have accepted as the standard.

I’ve spent a bit of time today watching the Solheim Cup, which is a team golf match between pro golfers (ladies that is) from the USA and Europe…….the format is based on the Ryder Cup matches that where original between USA male pros and UK pros, but when It got a little one sided, it was expanded to include all golf pros from Europe ( and there is the President Cup matches that pits USA male pros against the rest of the world pros –Europe). Truth be told if you consider the number of golf courses in the USA, and the number of players an international in golf. As in an international in football (soccer in the USA) would be a walk over………golf is just to big in the USA for any one country to field a 12 man/woman team to compete with a USA team.
But It’s been a delight to watch. Tied 8 apiece going into the 12 singles matches tomorrow…….. The match that features Kerr and Creamer from the USA especially intrigued me. Not only was it the “babe” match up, both are very fine looking young ladies, and Paula Creamer is a rookie on the LPGA tour, who qualified for the cup in a half year of play, she’s won three times this year, and her first win was the week before she graduated from high school, and yet plays like a vet. She is both impressive to the level of skill in the game she possess and to the eye, a fine looking lady and an awesome player.

It’s been a quiet, restful, and stress free day. Never rolled out of bed until almost 10:00 AM. Except for a few household chores have just relaxed and enjoyed the fact that I had nothing whatever that needed to be done today………a nice toss salad for lunch with a homemade vinaigrette……tarragon infused white wine vinegar, evoo, salt, pepper, and shallots………over mixed greens, cucumber, tomato, some yellow onion, a few black olives and some mild hot peppers, and some fresh grated cheese on top, with a hard roll and iced tea…..very nice……just a full dressed burger for supper, but I forgot to put the bacon on again……..rats……

It has been a very, well annoying work week. Meetings and problems, on top of problems and meetings. I sometimes refer to my job at the plant as a “firemen”; I put out fires (aka correct mistakes, problems, et al) and then try to devise schemes to prevent their re-occurrence. But meetings I abhor.

Today was a Friday/Thursday, usually pay day is on Thursday, but this week with the Monday holiday pay day was Friday. Banking, gassing the car (I might add at $.25 less a gallon then last week, still $3.34.9/gallon but a bit less none the less), grocery shopping and errands.

Hand a simple meal of fried knockwurst with onions, garlic, salt and pepper, mixed with a bit of barbecue sauce, and egg noodles, hard rolls and iced tea. Common, even peasant food I must admit, but it makes me full, happy and satisfied.

Have had a quiet, peaceful, restful night. Have spent quality time with all three cats. It is late but then it’s the only night of the week that I do not have to set the alarm clock, so when I awake (if I awake), that’s ok………

This whole week has been about variations on two themes, meetings and problems……….problems I can handle, that is a huge part of my job and I accept that, meetings on the other hand suck………..the week after month end tends to spawn, both however and this is the week after month end…….

A very quiet Thursday ( well after work was over any how )…..usually Thursday is banking, shopping, and errands….but with the Monday holiday…….payday is tomorrow, could have done it tonight to stay in sync but ………..

Dang, this morning was almost as bad as yesterday, spent the majority of the morning in meetings and trying to run down problems, and the afternoon running down problems, that’s okay, just no meetings………

I needed to run over to the foundation this afternoon to pick up 5 cases that needed to go on a pallet to Kenya. Now as the crow flies the plant and the foundation are maybe 3/8 of a mile apart, in fact you can see the back end of the plant from the street just in front of the foundation parking lot, fortunately for the flying crow he doesn’t need to use a bridge to cross the black river, the company’s F150 does. Have two options……..either way is 1.6 miles one way………..

My first really bad nights sleep in weeks, and plagued by weird, disturbing dreams…….maybe the weirdest and most disturbing of all………..I actually wanted my ex back in one of the dreams……….and that ain’t gonin’ to happen………..

Well it setup a lousy day at work, spent the entire morning practically in meetings with my boss, the treasurer, and the big guy…….I hate meetings……not that in any of these cases was my butt out in traffic, I was actually in a good position in all of them but I just hate meetings and ended up with the mother of all headaches……..I rarely get headaches…….but then I rarely have a morning when I’m sitting on my butt in meetings………..

Weird thing is I feel great now, rehearsal was a riot tonight, the lady vocalists were in a crazy mood and everything went pretty well, I am very encouraged by the improvement in M, she has a beautiful alto voice, but is inexperienced, she has a natural ear for harmony, and is just starting to feel confident enough to trust it………we have one piece where we need to sing in “couples” and she hears harmony only one way as of yet, it took a while to get it right because she has not the experience to adjust to me so I must to her………but in the end it worked out great………

I have been sing, playing in small and large groups, and an occasional solo, although I must admit I prefer the small group musical experience for over 52 years………..helps when you start at 5………and making music is the best part of my life…….weird thing is I prefer rehearsal to performance……in rehearsal you make the same music…..but it’s more fun…..less up tight……..before performances of the choral group I sing with I stalk the warm up hall for 45 minutes before the performance, nerves have always been a pre-performance deal with me………after the first few bars of a piece they’re gone………but the few times I haven’t had them I’ve been below par………..
i work to survive, i make music to live..........

A Monday off, Labor Day or whatever………a waste day……..a day to de- stress……..a day that doesn’t count in my life…………..just watched some cable and relaxed……….

The weird thing is that food was without meaning for me today, I am a good cook, I usually take time to prepare meals but today it was a bout being hungry and making something quick, it was not about taste…..but rather about need………..

I've had a decent day, not a great day certainly, physically I felt way below par today and emotional, and mentally not a great day but a decent one.................I spent the morning at church, 4 hours worth........first service worship team voice was iffy, but class went great, we had visitors this morning, well in a sense not visitors but rather just occasional regulars, the parents of a lady who's family attends regularly and we see the parents a few time a year, and are a great addition to the class..........second service went great but a tad longer the usual.......
rest of the day had been quiet, restful, and without stress......the fact that I have been physically and mentally a bit off today does not detract from it being a decent day

A very weird thing has stuck me, although it is true that I find the baroque period of classical music my favorite period, my absolute favs are from the 1900’s………….weird but true, my favorite classical choral work is faure’s requiem from the early 19—‘s and my fav orchestral work is britten’s young people’s guide to the orchestra……….a lat 1940’s piece……although based on a very old theme…………strange but no accounting for taste, even the trollie’s…………

With apologies to those of you who occasionally comment to my blog I have been forced by a recent flood of spam comments to select the word verification option that blogger offers, just another step in commenting, which I regret but I am annoyed by the spam to comments. I can accept spam emails, heck it’s what keeps the Internet the Internet, but spam to comments is annoying.

There are times, tonight is one of them where I compose great posts in my head. Posts that are insightful, which really reveal my problems, I guess the modern jargon is issues, but then I’m not modern. Those posts never get posted, because I am nothing but a private man, and yet the oxymoron is I have a blog, which is anything but private. It is a weird conflict. Between being open and honest about who I am, what I am, and the simple fact that the most important, the most difficult, the hardest for me to keep silent about……….those are the things that I cannot mention…………….I am in conflict…………but then if I wasn’t I won’t be who I am………I accept it……….I don’t always like it……but I am who I am and I won’t change it if I could………

I really enjoy the ultimate fighter on spike TV, well I guess the current series is ultimate fighter 2 but who cares, but 12 midnight as a sign off time is way too late for me to consider with at 8 AM start time on Tuesday, however it is rerun at 10 on Saturday and that’s okay………

I was just flicking channels tonight and caught the second half of USA vs. Mexico world cup qualifier. Deep on the cable, unfortunately, USA won and qualified for Germany with three games left. Also blows my mind that the regional which includes north, central America and the Caribbean has tw0 of the top 6 ranked teams in the world, USA (6) and Mexico (5)……along time ago I played small college soccer………..sorry but it’s football ever where but North America………..I love the game……….I was never fast but through hard work and total insanity in the way I played was a decent center midfielder, at a small college level, it’s a beautiful game.

Had a frustrating early part of the day, needed a controller for my PC. Only have one game that uses a controller, finally found one after an hour + and 5 stores and then couldn’t get my PC to see it. Need the ME disc, which I can’t find and assume disappeared with my wife when she took off, although I can’t figure why she would have taken it because her machine ran XP. Other then just being vindictive………but that’s another story………..

The rest of the day has been quiet and uneventful…….

Made ground beef pasta tonight for dinner, which could easily double as a batch of barbecue beef, as usually did a lousy job of matching the amount of pasta to the amount of sauce, this time way to much sauce for too little pasta………..rats…….but the sauce is off the wall……….

Not a bad Sunday is before me, we are canceling evening service because of the long weekend, so just the typical 3.5 hours for the two morning services and I’m done………don’t get me wrong I love what I do every Sunday………but at times it is exhausting……….and starting in October I have a 2.5 hour rehearsal ever Sunday afternoon for north country choral……….which I am addicted to………but it makes for probably the busiest and most exhausting day of the week……….and I wouldn’t miss this season for the world……….lately NNC has been doing more contemporary music………..in fact in honor of our 50^th year we commissioned a work last year by Paul Halley………an awesome piece of music and the first time in my 52 years of performing choral music that I have ever been part of a world premier……….but we are going back to our roots and doing the Christmas messiah……….and that’s why I sing choral music……..

Although I recognize the fact that summer doesn’t technically end for another 3 weeks or so today was the first day of fall, a cool very windy day and if you forgive the poetic there was the scent of fall in the air. Work went okay other then a very unsettling meeting with the “landlord”. I mentioned last night that I was to have a meeting with the county from whom we rent our warehouse space and it looks like we may have to move, have no idea what the “bosses” will make of this as they where all absent today……but it doesn’t look like we’ll have much choice………on one hand the spaced offered while smaller is useable, would fit the present need , and actual much nicer, on the other hand moving the contents of a reasonably full 4o,ooo square foot warehouse is not my idea of a good time.

Have had a quiet, restfully evening, except for the fact that every time I sit down I have a lap full of cat………

Have no plans for the weekend and I defy anyone who tries to make me, make plans……..in fact I never really thought about it until this morning that I had Monday off………

Cat smokey and I have been watching iron chef America…….well I have been watching it ( a rerun) but smokey has been on my lap demanding attention, she is my oldest at almost 17 and my most demanding

of affection.

I found out something very weird today, if you have a blog on msn-spaces (parenthetically the highest valued blog or blog related site on blogshares) according to the terms of service you do not “own” the blog or for that matter even the content of the blog……..msn does…….somehow that seems to me to “fly in the face” of what a blog is…….what blogging is……..but then it’s msn……need I say more

Twas a nice day to day, work went ok, except that I was still a bit out of it physically. Tomorrow could be a little weird, production is off and so it’s just my department and maintenance working, and I have to spend some time with the “landlords”. We lease warehouse space from the county industrial complex, and I got a call to go and view another area, we might have to move, don’t like the idea but that’s what happens sometimes when you lease rather then own………..

Did my weekly banking, bill paying and shopping………….i just about had the big one when I stopped to get gas, $3.56.9 per gallon………..which is like $.80 more a gallon then I paid last week. Fortunately I only used 4.3 gallons since last week. Dang……….really had almost nothing I needed, and so spent way below budget, except for gas……..dang……….