Yes, we have no bananas and yes, we have no worthy thoughts this morning. This is so common I shouldn't even mention it but I just wanted to remind you why the content is always so blah! I suppose it could be said that the content is most always just a bunch of blah, blah, blah.
Dory and Aunt Sue are going to visit new kneed Lena at the hospital in Columbia today. They have hopes of convincing her to take advantage of the opportunity to move down a few floors to the Skilled Nursing Facility for several days. The doctor recommends the move. If they are unsuccessful, someone will need to stay with her 24/7 which means Dory won't be home again until, I guess, until I see her. I believe the best hope would be sometime Thursday. She and aunt Sue will be taking turns when Lena does come home.
Meanwhile back here it the jungle, a list has been provided! Near the top is getting the machete out and hacking out a few area around the house. After I get things hacked down to a walk around condition I'll take the lawn mower and clean'er up. Can you believe she has added, clean all the mirrors? Geez! Thankfully, that is at the bottom of the list.
Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same." --Oscar Wilde
About Me
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
9/4
There has been thousands of people come past our house via the water in the last couple days, and more with probably some of the same again, going by again this morning. With gas as high as it is I'd say there are a hell of a lot of rich folks and/or some plain folks that aren't very worried about tomorrow or about having anything stuck back to help dampen the drudgeries of old age. I would think one could do a lot of more exciting and safer things elsewhere on the money that's spent riding up and down the lake.
If you look at a 50/60 thousand dollar investment in a boat that begins losing value the minute you accept ownership and then buy that three dollar per gallon gas to make it go, you've got a huge losing outlay. Add storage, winterizing and all the other necessary incidentals and the word dumb begins to glow with stupid doing a slow intermittent flash.
Now think about it: If a person owns a boat, he can hope to use it about seven months out of the year is he crowds both ends a little. Say he makes it to the boat every weekend, which he won't, but say he does, that would be about 28 days. Then he spends everyday of his two week vacation with the boat, which he won't, would be another 14 days. A total of 42 days out of 365. Starting to look a little dumb? If he was to use the boat for four hours each of these days he would accumulate around 168 hours use. Figuring only an average available daylight usage time of eight hours he would use the boat for a grand total of 21 days. Not counting anything else, taxes fuel etc, on a $50,000 boat, his cost per day would run him around $2381 per day of use. If he kept it for five years before updating it would still cost him around $476 per day. The stupid word is beginning to flash a little isn't it?
And the big deal for most, is to just pull a couple of kids on a tube of sorts, up and down a dangerous cove trying to dodge all the other idiots doing the same thing as well as the huge twin engine jobs zipping in and out. Makes for a pretty dangerous outing I think. I've lost my interest in thinking about this but I have enough left to ask, how many safe Six Flags, Disney Worlds and all the other forms of entertainment can a family participate in for $10,000 per year. I'd bet a full years entertainment wouldn't even cost the $10,000 leaving quite a bit to poke away for drudgery dampening in later years.
This boring waste of time is due to the fact we find ourselves old, without a job and in a poor financial state but still may or may not be the true feelings of the writer. The math may be a little off too but if I want to send a note near every day, something has got to be typed. Nothing is nothing whether it be a blank page or something typed by me but there could be no expectations in a blank page. Life without any expectations of some kind would be a sorry thing indeed.
If you look at a 50/60 thousand dollar investment in a boat that begins losing value the minute you accept ownership and then buy that three dollar per gallon gas to make it go, you've got a huge losing outlay. Add storage, winterizing and all the other necessary incidentals and the word dumb begins to glow with stupid doing a slow intermittent flash.
Now think about it: If a person owns a boat, he can hope to use it about seven months out of the year is he crowds both ends a little. Say he makes it to the boat every weekend, which he won't, but say he does, that would be about 28 days. Then he spends everyday of his two week vacation with the boat, which he won't, would be another 14 days. A total of 42 days out of 365. Starting to look a little dumb? If he was to use the boat for four hours each of these days he would accumulate around 168 hours use. Figuring only an average available daylight usage time of eight hours he would use the boat for a grand total of 21 days. Not counting anything else, taxes fuel etc, on a $50,000 boat, his cost per day would run him around $2381 per day of use. If he kept it for five years before updating it would still cost him around $476 per day. The stupid word is beginning to flash a little isn't it?
And the big deal for most, is to just pull a couple of kids on a tube of sorts, up and down a dangerous cove trying to dodge all the other idiots doing the same thing as well as the huge twin engine jobs zipping in and out. Makes for a pretty dangerous outing I think. I've lost my interest in thinking about this but I have enough left to ask, how many safe Six Flags, Disney Worlds and all the other forms of entertainment can a family participate in for $10,000 per year. I'd bet a full years entertainment wouldn't even cost the $10,000 leaving quite a bit to poke away for drudgery dampening in later years.
This boring waste of time is due to the fact we find ourselves old, without a job and in a poor financial state but still may or may not be the true feelings of the writer. The math may be a little off too but if I want to send a note near every day, something has got to be typed. Nothing is nothing whether it be a blank page or something typed by me but there could be no expectations in a blank page. Life without any expectations of some kind would be a sorry thing indeed.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
9/2
Cloudy with only a few fishing boats cluttering our waterways. Not probable but possible a little rain could slip in here and there.
What floats our boat we won't be doing today because of a trip to Columbia to check on and visit with Dory's mother. She is getting along just fine but we're hoping for her another day or two of confinement to the hospital. She needs to get as much therapy and teachings on how to get along with her new knee as possible.
It isn't long before our trip will commence so I'm running the cursor up via my wireless mouse to where is says send and left clicking there. Thankfully I've got spell-check to run automatically.
34rgy7uilOP9,m ......Sorry about that but Tommi just walked across the keyboard.
A day starts like no other but you're given the same opportunity to make it great.......or not.~Anon
What floats our boat we won't be doing today because of a trip to Columbia to check on and visit with Dory's mother. She is getting along just fine but we're hoping for her another day or two of confinement to the hospital. She needs to get as much therapy and teachings on how to get along with her new knee as possible.
It isn't long before our trip will commence so I'm running the cursor up via my wireless mouse to where is says send and left clicking there. Thankfully I've got spell-check to run automatically.
34rgy7uilOP9,m ......Sorry about that but Tommi just walked across the keyboard.
A day starts like no other but you're given the same opportunity to make it great.......or not.~Anon
9/1
Howdy, I'm just so proud to be here.
Dory's mom is doing as well as can be expected. Don't know yet when she'll be released from the hospital. Dory made it home last night and plans to spend the day here. Guess we'll be going to Columbia tomorrow to check on her. I think aunt Sue is going there today.
I got the lawn mowed, blowed and the downstairs vacuumed then got into a pretty good book by James Lee Burke. Don't you just hate to see the last few pages come up of a really good book? It happens to me every time and so far I've not figured out how to avoid it. No! I'll only read a book one time no matter how good it is.
My workaholic neighbor who doesn't like to read, gave me a talking to day before yesterday. Suggested that I need to be doing more with my body rather than sitting around poking junk fiction into my head. I think he is correct but my body doesn't mind sitting here and my mind thinks it's great. Maybe not his words but words to that effect. Anyhow, I'd say my extrasize might be modified somewhat with some exercise. I've got me thinking I might do that after some more of the soreness abates.
In one of the books I got a little quote that I didn't think was junk. A guy was asked if he believed in God. He said anyone in a foxhole believes in God and old age is pretty much a foxhole.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.~James Russell Lowell
Dory's mom is doing as well as can be expected. Don't know yet when she'll be released from the hospital. Dory made it home last night and plans to spend the day here. Guess we'll be going to Columbia tomorrow to check on her. I think aunt Sue is going there today.
I got the lawn mowed, blowed and the downstairs vacuumed then got into a pretty good book by James Lee Burke. Don't you just hate to see the last few pages come up of a really good book? It happens to me every time and so far I've not figured out how to avoid it. No! I'll only read a book one time no matter how good it is.
My workaholic neighbor who doesn't like to read, gave me a talking to day before yesterday. Suggested that I need to be doing more with my body rather than sitting around poking junk fiction into my head. I think he is correct but my body doesn't mind sitting here and my mind thinks it's great. Maybe not his words but words to that effect. Anyhow, I'd say my extrasize might be modified somewhat with some exercise. I've got me thinking I might do that after some more of the soreness abates.
In one of the books I got a little quote that I didn't think was junk. A guy was asked if he believed in God. He said anyone in a foxhole believes in God and old age is pretty much a foxhole.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.~James Russell Lowell
8/30
How can a person be all by themselves and not be alone? Memories my man, memories. I've got 65 years of them stored and they are with me all the time. Well, I may not have a full 65 years worth but I've got a pretty huge collection anyway. They are a mixed bunch but it seems the good ones are holding their own against the bad ones even tho I've heard bad is always the easiest to remember. Why do I bring this up? The first reason is that I again have nothing I really want to type about and secondly, which probably should have been the first one, Dory is leaving me here again with the animals while she takes her mother to Columbia for the knee operation. She doesn't expect to be back home tonight and beyond that it is up in the air depending on how things go. I think aunt Sue and brother Bob will be in attendance also so I won't be missed. She did gently tender me the option of staying or going and of course I opted for the first choice which I thought would be the easiest way.
I do happen to have a handy dandy list provided by Dory, of a few chores that could be done in her absence. I don't know why the words mowing the lawn looks so much nicer than vacuuming. We'll do what we'll do and maybe a few things that we didn't think we'd do. To sum it up, it's going to be a couple of those doo-doo days around here.
The things that come to those that wait may only be the things left by those who got there first.~Db
I do happen to have a handy dandy list provided by Dory, of a few chores that could be done in her absence. I don't know why the words mowing the lawn looks so much nicer than vacuuming. We'll do what we'll do and maybe a few things that we didn't think we'd do. To sum it up, it's going to be a couple of those doo-doo days around here.
The things that come to those that wait may only be the things left by those who got there first.~Db
8/29
I don't know for sure but it makes sense that the lack of a lot of daily verbal exchanges with multiple people, can affect a person's verbal skills by slowing his mind considerably and consequently his wit will lose a spark or two. That pretty well describes me in this part of my life and I'm okay with it. My job forced me, during my working days, to talk quite a bit and joke some. You know all that stuff it takes to get along. Anyway I think all that forcing bled out most of my desire for such once so important a thing. I still spend a few minutes each day trying to type a note so as not to feel completely neutered, no matter the struggle. I'd say all this makes me a 'halfast dimmer wit'.
Overall the few replies that a person or two feels the need to send us always tends to fiddle with the spark somewhat. Every so often a reply will ignite it for a full flash but my mind has no place to store it.
You may not be able to hear it but the words look like a lot of rattle rattle to me.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.~Salman Rushdie
Overall the few replies that a person or two feels the need to send us always tends to fiddle with the spark somewhat. Every so often a reply will ignite it for a full flash but my mind has no place to store it.
You may not be able to hear it but the words look like a lot of rattle rattle to me.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.~Salman Rushdie
8/28
Another day with the makings of rain in the skies big time. I think even the weatherman suggested the possibility of some showers on and off all day. Whee! We like it to rain here. So far we've only received about 2.8 inches for the whole weekend and last night. We could still use a little more even if I will be forced to start mowing again.
Took a little rest yesterday and the same is my plan for today. Dory has a therapy session for her shoulder and another therapy session for her mind late this morning and early afternoon. Well the second appointment is for a haircut but it does things to her mind. I've seen her happy as a lark after getting a hair cut and I've also watched her bawl after a haircut just by looking into a mirror.
There are several ways to become more aware of life or just some things in life. I didn't visit with the guru on a mountain but I'm about as aware of so many long not thought of parts of my body as I've ever been. I don't recommend falling down seven carpeted steps and landing on your head but it worked for me this time. With the new forced awareness comes some kindness and tenderness for a few of the places that have been so long neglected. Ones chest and back do far more than just provide a place for shoulders, arms and a head. Tho it is my right arm that causes me the most aggravation and that is only because of the raw carpet burn areas. It's also kind of ugly so I won't be looking into many mirrors for awhile. The deal is, my body is as capable as it has been but it seems to prefer obeying my hearts commands at a greatly lessened speed. No jump up spin around pick a bale of cotton for me! And I'm more careful on the steps now too!
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy~Izaak Walton
Took a little rest yesterday and the same is my plan for today. Dory has a therapy session for her shoulder and another therapy session for her mind late this morning and early afternoon. Well the second appointment is for a haircut but it does things to her mind. I've seen her happy as a lark after getting a hair cut and I've also watched her bawl after a haircut just by looking into a mirror.
There are several ways to become more aware of life or just some things in life. I didn't visit with the guru on a mountain but I'm about as aware of so many long not thought of parts of my body as I've ever been. I don't recommend falling down seven carpeted steps and landing on your head but it worked for me this time. With the new forced awareness comes some kindness and tenderness for a few of the places that have been so long neglected. Ones chest and back do far more than just provide a place for shoulders, arms and a head. Tho it is my right arm that causes me the most aggravation and that is only because of the raw carpet burn areas. It's also kind of ugly so I won't be looking into many mirrors for awhile. The deal is, my body is as capable as it has been but it seems to prefer obeying my hearts commands at a greatly lessened speed. No jump up spin around pick a bale of cotton for me! And I'm more careful on the steps now too!
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy~Izaak Walton
8/27
I was under the impression that sleep is to regenerate whatever a person used the day before. My sleep failed me last night. Before I went to bed I fell down seven steps slapping my head pretty hard against the tile at the bottom. I'm soo glad to be here! Even with the carpet burns and the bruises I'm up now to doing my thing which doesn't make a lot of difference to a lot of folks. Do you know how to use your curser and hit delete?
This day has us going to the big deal at the Catholic Church in Eldon. A yearly thing that brings in money for the poor church. Isn't it sad that the biggest money making thing at a church gathering is the beer garden?
I think Ruthie and Dory will make the trip while I sit at home. Maybe a nap will scoot away the ills.
If you want more than this call. I may not answer the phone but the message will be listened to.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.~Martha Washington
This day has us going to the big deal at the Catholic Church in Eldon. A yearly thing that brings in money for the poor church. Isn't it sad that the biggest money making thing at a church gathering is the beer garden?
I think Ruthie and Dory will make the trip while I sit at home. Maybe a nap will scoot away the ills.
If you want more than this call. I may not answer the phone but the message will be listened to.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.~Martha Washington
8/26
Sweet heart Dory has decided that I need a little action so she is making me go with her to an auction in Eldon this morning. It looks pretty rainy so it may have been rescheduled. I guess we're going to find out. Just what we need, another or two pieces of junk.
So far this morning but including yesterday, we've received 2.5 inches of rain. More is supposed to happen the rest of today and tomorrow tho it looks to be clearing pretty good right now. We do need the rain!
Sometimes more than none is good which could lead us to sometimes more than one could be better. I almost made an error yesterday but just lucked out of not sending yesterdays note four times. After reading it I see that the forth one wasn't any better than the first one and in truth probably wasn't any better than none. Everyone knows how sorry a person I am so I don't think there is any need to apologize for these lackluster notes so I won't.
I think most would find a little note a relief from all of the daily received jokes that constitutes most of the bulk of everyone's in-box. At least I know I appreciate getting notes instead of jokes. Most of the time any joke someone receives, he'll/she'll get it four or five times then a couple of months later here it comes again.
Now that I think about it, I see that these notes could qualify as a joke and everyone almost got yesterdays four times............I give up!
You can observe a lot just by watching.~Yogi Berra
So far this morning but including yesterday, we've received 2.5 inches of rain. More is supposed to happen the rest of today and tomorrow tho it looks to be clearing pretty good right now. We do need the rain!
Sometimes more than none is good which could lead us to sometimes more than one could be better. I almost made an error yesterday but just lucked out of not sending yesterdays note four times. After reading it I see that the forth one wasn't any better than the first one and in truth probably wasn't any better than none. Everyone knows how sorry a person I am so I don't think there is any need to apologize for these lackluster notes so I won't.
I think most would find a little note a relief from all of the daily received jokes that constitutes most of the bulk of everyone's in-box. At least I know I appreciate getting notes instead of jokes. Most of the time any joke someone receives, he'll/she'll get it four or five times then a couple of months later here it comes again.
Now that I think about it, I see that these notes could qualify as a joke and everyone almost got yesterdays four times............I give up!
You can observe a lot just by watching.~Yogi Berra
8/25
I worked some yesterday. I can read that and type it but thinking about it sucks. I took the time to mow the lawn, weed-eat the edges and blow of the road, porches and weed-eaten remnants. Actually the mowing was mostly mulching leaves except for about a 15x30 foot strip of very green doo-doo grass. Doo-doo grass is that which grows real well even during drought conditions because of the constant availability of water provided by the septic tank drain field. It was pretty tall and almost too much for the mower but we made it. I also had to blow several strips of cut grass from that area. A good day overall.
Now this morning a really nice rain is falling. We're hoping the brown mulched areas will get enough to inspire them to try matching the color of the doo-doo grass. All this and the exercise from yesterday makes for a perfect book reading day. Except not for Dory. Dory has the bowling alley on her want to list along with another session of therapy for her shoulder.
Lightning is about to cause some pretty quick unplugging around here. Bye
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.~Willis Player
Now this morning a really nice rain is falling. We're hoping the brown mulched areas will get enough to inspire them to try matching the color of the doo-doo grass. All this and the exercise from yesterday makes for a perfect book reading day. Except not for Dory. Dory has the bowling alley on her want to list along with another session of therapy for her shoulder.
Lightning is about to cause some pretty quick unplugging around here. Bye
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.~Willis Player
8/24
I'm not overly enthused about talking of yesterday's gambling boat trip nor many of the results but I will say that Dory came home happy and $40 ahead. She hit four deuces on a quarter machine but unfortunately she had only two coins in at the time. Still, nothing wrong with that. I did win $55 but tried to reinvest it in an unworthy hungry machine or two and it was promptly eaten up. When we left there, if I'd had a tail, it would have been tightly tucked I'm telling you! All that screwing around did make me hungry, thankfully we got fed at the buffet at no extra cost.
Today may be an Eldon trip kind of day. I hear the library calling pretty loud. The volume really increased after Dory told me her plans for the day included doing the wash and cleaning house. Last time she cleaned house she conned me into running the vacuum over all the downstairs. That vacuuming is not a very gratifying job! If I could find one and it was cheap enough I'd hire her a little Mexican gal to help her. Bless her little conniving heart.
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman
Today may be an Eldon trip kind of day. I hear the library calling pretty loud. The volume really increased after Dory told me her plans for the day included doing the wash and cleaning house. Last time she cleaned house she conned me into running the vacuum over all the downstairs. That vacuuming is not a very gratifying job! If I could find one and it was cheap enough I'd hire her a little Mexican gal to help her. Bless her little conniving heart.
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." -Ingrid Bergman
8/23
Around daybreak this morning Dory asked me if I was awake. I looked at her through one eye and said, 'mostly'. She then said to me, "Hunky, you have been so kind and patient about my being gone so much that I want to treat you to a bell ringing session of sex." Instantly I was totally awake and the ole sun popped up as I looked at her with very wide opened eyes. The song, "I can see clearly now the rain has gone" popped into my mind along with another line or two of it like, "Gone are the dark clouds that made me crash", "I think I can ride now the pain has gone" and "It's going to be a bright, bright sunshiny day". All this quickly crashed and burned and the clouds gatherer in my mind negating the earlier rise of the ole sun as she continued. "I think I'll take you to the gambling boat in Boonville today."
It didn't take me long to see the bell ringing was going to be from a mechanical machine that I've got to keep sticking money into so that it will screw me. All those bells and flashing lights in a place where 98% of the other folks being screwed sit there without a trace of a smile or any happy. Looking at all the expressions you notice that most are very similar to what people wear to funerals. It's kinda like they've all maxed out on their credit cards and don't know what to do. I don't know what will happen when the machines begin to accept credit cards? Ug, what a thought Popeye!
Where I quoted Dory, she may not have used every word as I've typed it but it is a true summarization of the way I see it now.
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. ~Barbara Ehrenreich
It didn't take me long to see the bell ringing was going to be from a mechanical machine that I've got to keep sticking money into so that it will screw me. All those bells and flashing lights in a place where 98% of the other folks being screwed sit there without a trace of a smile or any happy. Looking at all the expressions you notice that most are very similar to what people wear to funerals. It's kinda like they've all maxed out on their credit cards and don't know what to do. I don't know what will happen when the machines begin to accept credit cards? Ug, what a thought Popeye!
Where I quoted Dory, she may not have used every word as I've typed it but it is a true summarization of the way I see it now.
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. ~Barbara Ehrenreich
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Enjoyment
We wake up to another new joyous occasion every morning. This morning it came through for us again. It all begins when we open our eyes and realize that the gift of getting has happened for us one more time. Too bad so much of our daily allocation use is looked at by a few other folks as a big waste. After you get the roof over your head, food in the pantry, a place to sleep and the ability to pay for it the next goal is usually to enjoy the time. In my opinion it's pretty hard to classify our enjoyment as a waste of time.
Dory's shoulder problem has been diagnosed as tendonitis. The recommended plan now is for three days of therapy per week for three weeks. If after that time things aren't better it is back to the doctor again. It got better during the last therapy so we expect the same results this time. Don't know why the problem came back. Her first therapy session of this round is this afternoon.
Any more than this I will not say today. Bye
"Teenager with nose ring, baggy clothing and spiked hair to friend: I don't really like dressing like this, but it keeps my parents from dragging me everywhere they go." ---Unknown
Dory's shoulder problem has been diagnosed as tendonitis. The recommended plan now is for three days of therapy per week for three weeks. If after that time things aren't better it is back to the doctor again. It got better during the last therapy so we expect the same results this time. Don't know why the problem came back. Her first therapy session of this round is this afternoon.
Any more than this I will not say today. Bye
"Teenager with nose ring, baggy clothing and spiked hair to friend: I don't really like dressing like this, but it keeps my parents from dragging me everywhere they go." ---Unknown
Still Thoughtless
Now I set me down to write, my fingers are ready and willing. But I guess I'll need to pay for my thoughtlessness through the severe and complicated struggles of finding something for them to type. Quit now comes readily to the top but I need the practice and hardly anyone likes a quitter. I say, except maybe the recipients of this note.
Dory left early to take her mother to a knee doctor in Columbia then she has an appointment scheduled later for herself to have her shoulder looked at. She will be home but it will be late I fear.
Here I am, forced to prepare my own meals again. There are some pinto beans in the refrigerator that I'll heat and maybe add a few fried potatoes. I'll slice an onion and a ripe tomato to put into the mix. Hi-Yo Silver, I'm getting hungry. I may not wait till noon. If I time things just right, little lucky Dory will be able to share in some of the delightful results of eating beans and onions without any Beano.....or not. I'd rather not be relegated to sleeping in a different room.
I'm thinking I've gone far enough now not to be classified as a quitter. Bye
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."~Charles Simic
Dory left early to take her mother to a knee doctor in Columbia then she has an appointment scheduled later for herself to have her shoulder looked at. She will be home but it will be late I fear.
Here I am, forced to prepare my own meals again. There are some pinto beans in the refrigerator that I'll heat and maybe add a few fried potatoes. I'll slice an onion and a ripe tomato to put into the mix. Hi-Yo Silver, I'm getting hungry. I may not wait till noon. If I time things just right, little lucky Dory will be able to share in some of the delightful results of eating beans and onions without any Beano.....or not. I'd rather not be relegated to sleeping in a different room.
I'm thinking I've gone far enough now not to be classified as a quitter. Bye
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."~Charles Simic
Selfish?
It looks like it could rain, it feels like it could rain and with all the thunder and lightning you would think it would be raining but it ain't. Maybe we'll get a little before it's over but I'm not betting on that nor the rain either. And I tell you we could use some big time!
One plus I've noticed is there are no boats beating our dock to shambles yet. Whoa! That sounds just a tad selfish even to me. People come from all over just to play in our water. Swimming is a little easier here that say Bull Shoals lake. Enough septic tanks leak into the lake to make it somewhat salty and you know salty water is more buoyant or at least that has always been my understanding. More power to those people as we all collectively, at least figuratively, secretly piss on'um.
Good grief Charlie, I need to unplug this thing.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.~ Cynthia Heimel
One plus I've noticed is there are no boats beating our dock to shambles yet. Whoa! That sounds just a tad selfish even to me. People come from all over just to play in our water. Swimming is a little easier here that say Bull Shoals lake. Enough septic tanks leak into the lake to make it somewhat salty and you know salty water is more buoyant or at least that has always been my understanding. More power to those people as we all collectively, at least figuratively, secretly piss on'um.
Good grief Charlie, I need to unplug this thing.
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.~ Cynthia Heimel
Talk
I heard one time that trying to accomplish a task without a plan will most often result in no control of the results. Actually I might have heard something like that or not, I don't remember. I think I just now made it up because of the way these notes usually turn out when I have nothing to say which is something I've got to struggle with every morning. It is always plainly evident by looking at the results, it was typed without a plan and just skimming thoughts.
Over the years I've talked directly to a lot of people who began talking on a subject from out of nowhere and ended it before it ever got to any kind of a destination. Lack of planning I'd say. That or because there are so many thoughts is a person's mind that one can interfere with another. I've talked to many folks over the years that gave me an opinion on a subject only to have changed it the next time we talked and they weren't all women either.
I think it is because when a subject comes up it is usually discussed by skimming through ones thoughts. Later, maybe even subconsciously, the thoughts go deeper enabling one to see it more clearly and possibly completely different. This can happen several times on any subject. It does seem the more you plan your thoughts, the better and more accurate the results.
What happened? I just awoke to the sounds of words seemingly coming from my rear end and my fingers are sore. I'd better go to the restroom and try to eliminate before anymore gets on this page.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.~Oscar Levant.
Over the years I've talked directly to a lot of people who began talking on a subject from out of nowhere and ended it before it ever got to any kind of a destination. Lack of planning I'd say. That or because there are so many thoughts is a person's mind that one can interfere with another. I've talked to many folks over the years that gave me an opinion on a subject only to have changed it the next time we talked and they weren't all women either.
I think it is because when a subject comes up it is usually discussed by skimming through ones thoughts. Later, maybe even subconsciously, the thoughts go deeper enabling one to see it more clearly and possibly completely different. This can happen several times on any subject. It does seem the more you plan your thoughts, the better and more accurate the results.
What happened? I just awoke to the sounds of words seemingly coming from my rear end and my fingers are sore. I'd better go to the restroom and try to eliminate before anymore gets on this page.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.~Oscar Levant.
Not Work
Dory read my yesterdays note and thought she saw some one-sided chore assignments and decided not to paint anymore until she can come up with an equal tedious time consuming type job for me. Thank goodness she didn't blow a gasket about the cooking segment of the note and we did go ahead and eat pretty good. All the food available at the bingo game was once again bought out with the exception of a little weenie. She brought it and a bun home for my lunch today. Ah, I think it is for my lunch.
She and Ruthie have plans to be gone before that time. They'll head to Eldon for a tiny bit of shopping and eating out before the scheduled bowling with the elders time of 1:00. They do invite me to go along but it is or at least it was, way too much socializing and not enough bowling for me. I imagine I can talk better than I can bowl but I'm pretty well stuck with the talking abilities that I have and doubt that it will ever get much better. My bowling on the other hand has a lot of room for improvement but that attempt at these bowling sessions is severally hampered by all the other nice folk's greater desire to tell stories and socialize. I think the real reason is that I would rather stay home and travel. You would be hard put to imagine all the wonderful places these library books take me as I sit in the old recliner and I don't need to buy tank after tank of three dollar gasoline either.
Looks like another old time phrase, "you can't ride a dead horse", has been shown to be incorrect with this ten year old JonBenet Ramsey thing. I watch Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and a few other news stations but it seems there is hardly time to crowd in any other type news. All of them are on that horse beating it to a ninth degree trying to get it to run.
Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok..ukn
She and Ruthie have plans to be gone before that time. They'll head to Eldon for a tiny bit of shopping and eating out before the scheduled bowling with the elders time of 1:00. They do invite me to go along but it is or at least it was, way too much socializing and not enough bowling for me. I imagine I can talk better than I can bowl but I'm pretty well stuck with the talking abilities that I have and doubt that it will ever get much better. My bowling on the other hand has a lot of room for improvement but that attempt at these bowling sessions is severally hampered by all the other nice folk's greater desire to tell stories and socialize. I think the real reason is that I would rather stay home and travel. You would be hard put to imagine all the wonderful places these library books take me as I sit in the old recliner and I don't need to buy tank after tank of three dollar gasoline either.
Looks like another old time phrase, "you can't ride a dead horse", has been shown to be incorrect with this ten year old JonBenet Ramsey thing. I watch Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and a few other news stations but it seems there is hardly time to crowd in any other type news. All of them are on that horse beating it to a ninth degree trying to get it to run.
Man who walk through airport door sideways is going to Bangkok..ukn
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Work, work, work!
So far my daily influx of news has not inspired nary a subject for a note. I usually read the Jeff City paper, the Columbia paper and the Drudge Report. Once every so often I read the Lake Sun Leader and the Mountain Grove paper. The Mountain Gove paper doesn't hold a lot but there is always something of interest there. One thing I get every day reading the local papers is that only a sure fire idiot would ride in a vehicle without buckling his seat belt. There are several people listed each day that I would bet would buckle up if they were alive today and could do it over. I can't believe how many people don't use the belt!
Dory tells me I'm too messy and doesn't allow me to cook or paint.......Works for me! Actually I'm not messy per say but I zero in on the goal 100 per cent and fail to pay enough attention to my wake.
Today after Dory gets the dishes cleaned up from her cooked breakfast and finishes making a chicken salad for our sandwiches at lunch she plans to head back out to the garage and finish painting the two walk in doors and facings. Of course I'll go out with her and will probably stir her paint every so often. I'll throw the ball playing with Mikey and take him for a walk in between stirrings. If it gets hot enough I'll aim a fan so my breeze will hit her after in passes me. When I get hot enough to get thirsty I'll go down to the house for a bottle of water and while there I'll get Dory one too.
It is really going to be hot here today! I suspect I'll be worn out by noon or shortly after. Dory will clean her brushes then come in to fix our lunch. She and Ruthie are the food cookers for the bingo parlor today and she'll need to start on that so thankfully, we probably won't be going back out to slave any more after lunch.
After a nice filling lunch I'll relax in the old recliner and try to get my strength built back up. Just happens there is one more book beside my chair that needs read a good reading. That should get my mind off all the work pretty well.
"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married." ---H.L. Mencken
Dory tells me I'm too messy and doesn't allow me to cook or paint.......Works for me! Actually I'm not messy per say but I zero in on the goal 100 per cent and fail to pay enough attention to my wake.
Today after Dory gets the dishes cleaned up from her cooked breakfast and finishes making a chicken salad for our sandwiches at lunch she plans to head back out to the garage and finish painting the two walk in doors and facings. Of course I'll go out with her and will probably stir her paint every so often. I'll throw the ball playing with Mikey and take him for a walk in between stirrings. If it gets hot enough I'll aim a fan so my breeze will hit her after in passes me. When I get hot enough to get thirsty I'll go down to the house for a bottle of water and while there I'll get Dory one too.
It is really going to be hot here today! I suspect I'll be worn out by noon or shortly after. Dory will clean her brushes then come in to fix our lunch. She and Ruthie are the food cookers for the bingo parlor today and she'll need to start on that so thankfully, we probably won't be going back out to slave any more after lunch.
After a nice filling lunch I'll relax in the old recliner and try to get my strength built back up. Just happens there is one more book beside my chair that needs read a good reading. That should get my mind off all the work pretty well.
"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married." ---H.L. Mencken
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Just thought I'd start again.....
If, "Time is of the Essence", has anything to do with smell, our use of time this morning is about as smelly as it has been for quite awhile. I didn't use the word stink because we are retired and can use our time just about anyway we want to. Our lack of utilization of our time this morning so far smells to high heaven but it is such a sweet smell.
We go through everyday with the strong hope on top of our minds, that our funds won't get so low as to require us the need to find a paying job. Frugally, that's it! We try to live in a frugal mode which would be called by the folks from across the tracks where I was raised as a 'cheap ass'.
Let me tell you. Back when I was younger I had a shoe shine box and went around town shinning shoes. The banker who always let me polish his shoes was a rough man to please but I was able and gladly accepted the meager ten cents that he handed me. I believe he was probably a cheap ass frugal person but unlike us he had money.
When I'd take my little box to the tavern, it was a different story. One time, just through the door a nice gentleman had me shine his cowboy boots and gave me a quarter. I polished a few more in there then as I started out the door the first person had me shine his boots another time and gave me another quarter. What a nice bunch. I messed around the square for about an hour then hit the tavern again knowing there was at least one pair of boots to be shined one more time but........the nice guy was gone.
Glenda is calling so I'm gone too.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.-George E. Woodberry
We go through everyday with the strong hope on top of our minds, that our funds won't get so low as to require us the need to find a paying job. Frugally, that's it! We try to live in a frugal mode which would be called by the folks from across the tracks where I was raised as a 'cheap ass'.
Let me tell you. Back when I was younger I had a shoe shine box and went around town shinning shoes. The banker who always let me polish his shoes was a rough man to please but I was able and gladly accepted the meager ten cents that he handed me. I believe he was probably a cheap ass frugal person but unlike us he had money.
When I'd take my little box to the tavern, it was a different story. One time, just through the door a nice gentleman had me shine his cowboy boots and gave me a quarter. I polished a few more in there then as I started out the door the first person had me shine his boots another time and gave me another quarter. What a nice bunch. I messed around the square for about an hour then hit the tavern again knowing there was at least one pair of boots to be shined one more time but........the nice guy was gone.
Glenda is calling so I'm gone too.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.-George E. Woodberry
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Been gone or lazy?
Another day without the sun, tends to makes a man feel older never young. Now that I give it a little thought I do remember some staying in type dreary days when I did feel pretty young and feisty too. I can't say that I felt especially young at the time but looking back I can see that I must have. Don't know about the feisty back then either but some of the things I remember seem to have been pretty feisty to me now.
These days it helps to have memories to overcome the drearies of another sunless day. Every once in awhile I reflect and have yet to fail to get a little rise out of it. Each day as well as memories should all be lived and viewed with a passion! Tis' true that my skills may never match my passion but I'm loving everyday I get anyway!
I don't know whoever said that life is not for the weak or maybe no one ever said it but isn't it great that we can always find someone who is a bit weaker than we are. Glenda is so lucky to have me and I'm blessed with a dog and a cat. Don't know where that sentence came from, just found it floating around in there....
I thought I had a few more floating around but they either sunk or drained off leaving me sitting here with my three typing fingers poised but with nary a note to type. This is the only possible way I know where I might be appreciated for being a little short.
I could say I'm sorry about that but who can be sorry about a thing when it makes others so happy.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their memories or hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.~Will Durant (edt)
These days it helps to have memories to overcome the drearies of another sunless day. Every once in awhile I reflect and have yet to fail to get a little rise out of it. Each day as well as memories should all be lived and viewed with a passion! Tis' true that my skills may never match my passion but I'm loving everyday I get anyway!
I don't know whoever said that life is not for the weak or maybe no one ever said it but isn't it great that we can always find someone who is a bit weaker than we are. Glenda is so lucky to have me and I'm blessed with a dog and a cat. Don't know where that sentence came from, just found it floating around in there....
I thought I had a few more floating around but they either sunk or drained off leaving me sitting here with my three typing fingers poised but with nary a note to type. This is the only possible way I know where I might be appreciated for being a little short.
I could say I'm sorry about that but who can be sorry about a thing when it makes others so happy.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their memories or hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.~Will Durant (edt)
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
February 1
Thanks to Aunt Ruby we had a really good free buffet at the South Coast yesterday. Ruby also won $50 playing bingo while the rest of us just sat there hoping. I did get four deuces on a video poker machine for $50 but ended up spending most of it before we got out of there. South Coast is a new place and it's pretty nice. We got a free movie pass to their theater out of the newspaper and Donna cut the one out of her paper for us so we'll be over there for a movie soon.
Can't go anywhere without riding in the car. Filled up yesterday with the lowest priced gas we could find, $2.379. Coming home after the fill-up I noticed my eyes watering and my nose running and thought at first that my cold was coming back but finally had to admit to myself that I was emotionally upset with the gas prices. Soon we may not be able to go anywhere!
As it is the car has a full tank now so I think the Fiesta and our free two for one buffet is on the list for this afternoon. It's kinda sad. My tank doesn't need nor should it receive so many fill-ups but still, when they're free..... They also increase our cost of moving from place to place. You know that hauling any additional weight in an auto increases fuel consumption.
Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.~-American Indian Proverb
Can't go anywhere without riding in the car. Filled up yesterday with the lowest priced gas we could find, $2.379. Coming home after the fill-up I noticed my eyes watering and my nose running and thought at first that my cold was coming back but finally had to admit to myself that I was emotionally upset with the gas prices. Soon we may not be able to go anywhere!
As it is the car has a full tank now so I think the Fiesta and our free two for one buffet is on the list for this afternoon. It's kinda sad. My tank doesn't need nor should it receive so many fill-ups but still, when they're free..... They also increase our cost of moving from place to place. You know that hauling any additional weight in an auto increases fuel consumption.
Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.~-American Indian Proverb
January 31
Today is just another beginning. Wait, every second is another beginning depending on when you want it to start. Scratch that! You don't have a choice. I'll say a beginning began somewhere along the line and thankfully we were there to participate. It may well restart thousands of times today but we're still here and ready for it. ...........Wonder where I was going with all that? I'm sure I had a destination but I do believe I got lost along the way.
Glenda passed some words already this morning, South Coast for bingo, South Coast for bingo, came spewing though her lips. I suspect South Coast is a priority for today but a woman, even an enthusiastic woman, can and will change her mind at the drop of a whim. Whimmies are so exciting! I can hardly wait to find out where we'll end up going today. The plot thickens as the plan includes picking up Carl and Ruby to go along..........Two women............Well, one is one and two is double. Yeehaa, double whimmies today!
Good and exciting whimmies to you too!
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over now.~-Bella Abzug
Glenda passed some words already this morning, South Coast for bingo, South Coast for bingo, came spewing though her lips. I suspect South Coast is a priority for today but a woman, even an enthusiastic woman, can and will change her mind at the drop of a whim. Whimmies are so exciting! I can hardly wait to find out where we'll end up going today. The plot thickens as the plan includes picking up Carl and Ruby to go along..........Two women............Well, one is one and two is double. Yeehaa, double whimmies today!
Good and exciting whimmies to you too!
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over now.~-Bella Abzug
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
January 30
Home is where my heart is and again today I'm keeping my butt here too. A free visit to the library might wiggle it out of here for a very short while but no further! Glenda on the other hand..........Well, she's going to Sam's Town for her free $5 slot play and she is taking my card to play mine too. I can't imagine her going there without sitting in the bingo parlor for an hour but we'll see. I'm going to sit here and meditate her a big win somewhere.
Hope your day turns out to be a winner too.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Hope your day turns out to be a winner too.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
January 29
We received a message from a cousin who visited Las Vegas about a month ago. He typed that both he and his wife were slowly recovering from their trip. Coughing and hacking that turned into bronchitis for him. I say surly they didn't get the illness in Vegas because I know 'what you bring to Vegas stays in Vegas' is a given. That makes it very hard for me to believe that anyone can acquire anything at all in Vegas and keep it long enough to get it home. Other than the cheap gimmes of course.
We're doing great physically out here and our happiness still flourishes in spite of our usual gaming results. How can a person be happy when they give a casino five, seven or twenty then the casino gives you one? How can that 'one' be such a delight under such imbalanced circumstances? Hey wait a minute! That is about the way it goes in everyday life isn't it?
Today is going to be a special day here..............staying home is one of my favorite activities. Glenda would have a stutter in a statement like the aforetyped, so I'm not going to speculate on her today's activities.
Hope you enjoy your day!
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?~William James
We're doing great physically out here and our happiness still flourishes in spite of our usual gaming results. How can a person be happy when they give a casino five, seven or twenty then the casino gives you one? How can that 'one' be such a delight under such imbalanced circumstances? Hey wait a minute! That is about the way it goes in everyday life isn't it?
Today is going to be a special day here..............staying home is one of my favorite activities. Glenda would have a stutter in a statement like the aforetyped, so I'm not going to speculate on her today's activities.
Hope you enjoy your day!
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?~William James
January 28
We met the Krohn's at the Joker Poker Casino and they rode with us to Sam's Town where each of us picked up a free umbrella. We left there and stopped in at the Boulder Station casino to pick up four free mystery gifts which didn't amount to much. The stop was really worth it for Carl because he hit four deuces on a Three Pay Deuces Wild video poker machine which paid him $750.00. For your information Carl is what you would call a winner, period. Now that he is hitting those jackpots, that makes him a double winner.
The machines were kind to Glenda again yesterday. It's kinda like I have a deal with the casinos, they give Glenda some wins and I subsidize them for it. There are times when I can cheat a little and get away without helping them too much. Yesterday was like that. We all decided to take advantage of our free buffets at the Fiesta instead of going to the Jokers Wild to eat.
All the local relatives stopped by last evening for a few snacks and some visiting. Being as they were all here left us very little to gossip and talk about but it worked out okay.
This day, the lure to the Sunset Station is $5.00 free slot play and the come-on at the Fiesta is a free logo sweatshirt. Tho I have yet to be made privy of our plans for this day, I'm pretty sure we'll be going over the hill after while.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.~Ursula K. LeGuin
The machines were kind to Glenda again yesterday. It's kinda like I have a deal with the casinos, they give Glenda some wins and I subsidize them for it. There are times when I can cheat a little and get away without helping them too much. Yesterday was like that. We all decided to take advantage of our free buffets at the Fiesta instead of going to the Jokers Wild to eat.
All the local relatives stopped by last evening for a few snacks and some visiting. Being as they were all here left us very little to gossip and talk about but it worked out okay.
This day, the lure to the Sunset Station is $5.00 free slot play and the come-on at the Fiesta is a free logo sweatshirt. Tho I have yet to be made privy of our plans for this day, I'm pretty sure we'll be going over the hill after while.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.~Ursula K. LeGuin
January 26
Wow! I beat Glenda yesterday and didn't lay a hand on her............. I beat her in the winning department. I know, I usually beat her every day but only in the losing. A real help to have this come to pass was the early ride home provided by Uncle Carl. Leaving before I could lose what I won was like knowing when to fold them. A knowledge that seemed to have evaded Glenda.
Thanks to family that congregated at the Fiesta for lunch with us yesterday, the light visiting lessened the heavy eating, at least for me. Glenda and I enjoyed it and still didn't leave hungry!
Today South Coast is beckoning and I'm sure it won't be ignored. The beckoning really should probably be beaconing, as in be-a-coning. As usual the compelling idea, inspired by hope and a memory of a past win that we might be able to slip in under the screen and escape with all of our money plus some of theirs, is neigh impossible to overcome.
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." -John Lancaster Spalding
Thanks to family that congregated at the Fiesta for lunch with us yesterday, the light visiting lessened the heavy eating, at least for me. Glenda and I enjoyed it and still didn't leave hungry!
Today South Coast is beckoning and I'm sure it won't be ignored. The beckoning really should probably be beaconing, as in be-a-coning. As usual the compelling idea, inspired by hope and a memory of a past win that we might be able to slip in under the screen and escape with all of our money plus some of theirs, is neigh impossible to overcome.
"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." -John Lancaster Spalding
January 25
Well, yesterday we did eat free and did pick up two free book lights but I'm not going any father into the real cost except say that bingo was six dollars each and we didn't win. I may go one more step and say that I lost more than Glenda won. To top the day off the batteries didn't come with the lights!
This day there is a two for one at the Fiesta buffet that we have enough points to make it another one of those free meals. Free only meaning no cash outlay to eat other than a tip. It's just too bad there isn't an entrance that by-passes all of those ding, ding, damn, damn machines. What is life without hope? We're full of hope! It is all that hope that causes us to respond to the lure of the ding, ding. You've just got to have faith. Faith, hope and the casinos as charities.
With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.~-Mario Puzo
This day there is a two for one at the Fiesta buffet that we have enough points to make it another one of those free meals. Free only meaning no cash outlay to eat other than a tip. It's just too bad there isn't an entrance that by-passes all of those ding, ding, damn, damn machines. What is life without hope? We're full of hope! It is all that hope that causes us to respond to the lure of the ding, ding. You've just got to have faith. Faith, hope and the casinos as charities.
With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.~-Mario Puzo
January 24
Another common very windy day here with lots of sunshine. 37* with a real feel temperature of 39*. Not bad at all. Now if we could make winning a common occurrence we'd be in business. Nah, that's only possible by being a good cheater, something we don't know how to do. These many million or billion dollar casinos would not be possible if people won. Why do people think they can slip in, take a chunk and get out of the building with it? The free meals should ring the first warning bell but with all the other noisy banging bells and sounds I guess a person just doesn't hear the warnings. WHAT AN EXCITING WAY TO LOSE YOUR CASH!
Today we plan to play a bingo game at Sam's Town so we can get a couple free book lamps. Pretty good looking lamps. If things work out, they may pay us to take them. Either way we'll probably partake of one of their free buffets.
Not a day of life passes without several gambles. Some like to spice it up a little by investing lots of money, or some like us, just a tad of extra spice by sticking a little buck or two in a machine betting on a come.
"Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts."-Virgil
Today we plan to play a bingo game at Sam's Town so we can get a couple free book lamps. Pretty good looking lamps. If things work out, they may pay us to take them. Either way we'll probably partake of one of their free buffets.
Not a day of life passes without several gambles. Some like to spice it up a little by investing lots of money, or some like us, just a tad of extra spice by sticking a little buck or two in a machine betting on a come.
"Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts."-Virgil
January 23
Got a whole lot shaking here this morning with the wind blowing eight plus miles per hour. All the palm trees and other bushes are doing quite a dance. No tighter than the windows are in this place we're doing a little bit of shaking too. Some of which is caused by the chill but mostly caused by the worry of the heat bill that we're going to receive.
I've got a cold or a sinus problem and have opted to stay home again today but can't say the same for Glenda. I can imagine her stopping at a few places to play her new loved game of video keno mixed well in with a few others. She'll probably find a place to play a little bingo too.
I can only wish her luck as well as wish you luck for your day ahead too.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.~Carl Sagan
I've got a cold or a sinus problem and have opted to stay home again today but can't say the same for Glenda. I can imagine her stopping at a few places to play her new loved game of video keno mixed well in with a few others. She'll probably find a place to play a little bingo too.
I can only wish her luck as well as wish you luck for your day ahead too.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.~Carl Sagan
January 22
I finally got on-line wireless. I'm setting in the old recliner in the front room typing this message. I'm thinking that it slows the system down considerably but I'm not sure yet. Still have nothing to type but what's new? I do think it is easier to type on this than on the keyboard. And that is what Glenda said too.
No casino visit's today. Just sit around here and watch the football games. All our meals for the day will be home cooked too. The first one is behind us now, probably literally! Glenda made some low-carb pancakes from a box that she paid a dollar for and has had here for about a year. You might already be thinking bad? On the back of the box it said for 2 pancakes, use one tbs of oil, one egg and 1/2 cup of water. Down lower in the instructions is said pour in all the ingredients of the box. Glenda said she couldn't even stir the mixture. She ended up adding water till it seemed right and cooking up sixteen pancakes. With the low carb syrup on them they were pretty good tho we couldn't eat that many. Later, we found on the end of the box, a better set of directions. For what she cooked she should have used three more eggs and three more tbs of oil. The extra water that she had to use was correct.
I can hardly wait for supper. She has plans for a fresh chicken, baked and served on rice that is a new purchase too. I'm not privy to what else will be served but it already sounds pretty good.
"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings."-George Will
No casino visit's today. Just sit around here and watch the football games. All our meals for the day will be home cooked too. The first one is behind us now, probably literally! Glenda made some low-carb pancakes from a box that she paid a dollar for and has had here for about a year. You might already be thinking bad? On the back of the box it said for 2 pancakes, use one tbs of oil, one egg and 1/2 cup of water. Down lower in the instructions is said pour in all the ingredients of the box. Glenda said she couldn't even stir the mixture. She ended up adding water till it seemed right and cooking up sixteen pancakes. With the low carb syrup on them they were pretty good tho we couldn't eat that many. Later, we found on the end of the box, a better set of directions. For what she cooked she should have used three more eggs and three more tbs of oil. The extra water that she had to use was correct.
I can hardly wait for supper. She has plans for a fresh chicken, baked and served on rice that is a new purchase too. I'm not privy to what else will be served but it already sounds pretty good.
"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings."-George Will
Hot Flash
A losing day again yesterday but I didn't play all that much. We lost our free play money at the Sunset then lost it at the Fiesta too. So then after we had our free buffet, Carl dropped me off at the house leaving Glenda to play some and to take Ruby home. When you're hot you're hot and I was not!
Glenda did have a hot flash after I left and won $170.00 on a video keno machine while Ruby, sitting next to her hit $160 on the machine she was playing. I might give one of those machines another try one of these days. Nickels go pretty fast if you don't hit anything but that is the same no matter what you're playing. We play lots of penny machines but never play one penny at a time. It always takes at least nine and up to thirty to cover all the lines depending on the machine and that's all we do. You can't believe the people that play a buck or more at a time. Ooheee.
A new computer and I'm having problems with a program and I don't even know what it does. It is the Light Scribe Burn Watcher. Go figure!
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.~Albert Camus
Glenda did have a hot flash after I left and won $170.00 on a video keno machine while Ruby, sitting next to her hit $160 on the machine she was playing. I might give one of those machines another try one of these days. Nickels go pretty fast if you don't hit anything but that is the same no matter what you're playing. We play lots of penny machines but never play one penny at a time. It always takes at least nine and up to thirty to cover all the lines depending on the machine and that's all we do. You can't believe the people that play a buck or more at a time. Ooheee.
A new computer and I'm having problems with a program and I don't even know what it does. It is the Light Scribe Burn Watcher. Go figure!
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.~Albert Camus
STUMBLING ALONG
We got a wireless router with this computer but I'm too stupid to get it to work! It would be nice to set in the recliner and use this here thing. Maybe I'll figure it out in a few days.
I stayed home yesterday to work on the computer but still have a lot to go. It is amazing how much stuff gets put on a computer. Much of what was on the other one.......most of what was on the other one is lost for good if I can't get it back up somehow. We took it to Best Buy (Geek squad) to have a diagnostic program run on it. Before we took it in a few things didn't work right but after we got it back it won't boot up windows because of a missing file (\windows\system32\config\system). They said that I needed to take windows off and reinstall $110.00. Anything that I want save is another $89.00 each and they can't save the stuff in Outlook Express. The computer does tell me to put in the start up cd and try to repair it that way...........I don't have a start up CD. I'm told that we can order one from Hewlett Packard for $30.00. I guess that's our next step.
No the next step is to say goodbye and click send.
No quotes on this computer, sad to say.
I stayed home yesterday to work on the computer but still have a lot to go. It is amazing how much stuff gets put on a computer. Much of what was on the other one.......most of what was on the other one is lost for good if I can't get it back up somehow. We took it to Best Buy (Geek squad) to have a diagnostic program run on it. Before we took it in a few things didn't work right but after we got it back it won't boot up windows because of a missing file (\windows\system32\config\system). They said that I needed to take windows off and reinstall $110.00. Anything that I want save is another $89.00 each and they can't save the stuff in Outlook Express. The computer does tell me to put in the start up cd and try to repair it that way...........I don't have a start up CD. I'm told that we can order one from Hewlett Packard for $30.00. I guess that's our next step.
No the next step is to say goodbye and click send.
No quotes on this computer, sad to say.
CRASHED
Well, we got us a laptop. Until we get home and maybe forever we've lost all our saved info including the address book. Trying to get stuff on this computer is a slow process and means messages from here may not be but if they are they certainly will be better because they will be very short.
A bad sign was on the way home with the computer a policeman stopped me for making a right on red when there was a sign saying NO! There were three motorcycle policemen there giving out tickets as fast as the could right them. He told us our fine would be $167.00. Sick isn't it?
A bad sign was on the way home with the computer a policeman stopped me for making a right on red when there was a sign saying NO! There were three motorcycle policemen there giving out tickets as fast as the could right them. He told us our fine would be $167.00. Sick isn't it?
Friday, January 13, 2006
January 13
We had computer problems yesterday so who got what I don't know. Who cares is a little easier to answer but I'm going to ignore it. Anyway you may get part of this for the second time or ........ not.
I told about Tuesday but it was supposed to be Wednesday at the Fiesta. First we partook of the nice free buffet there, then played 3:00 bingo without a winner. It got a whole lot better later. Glenda decided to play a dollar, twenty cents at a time in a Millionizier??? penny machine. Still playing on the original dollar, for some reason the millionizer came down. That has twelve squares on it and the chore is to pick a square until you match three. She finally matched three for $1247.00. Now she won this with only twenty cents gambled. Not bad huh? Well it was kinda bad. If she had picked a different match she would have won a million bucks or $252.00 or $22.50. We are pretty happy with what she got! Later she hit another four deuces playing a penny deuces wild poker machine winning $50. I......lost but she shares, which is just like winning.
Now on Thursday we traveled over to the South Coast and played 1:00 bingo. For my $7 investment I won a pot of $150.00. Sure made me happy. We went from there to Terrible's for lunch. Luckily we had enough points to have the lunch buffet for free if you don't count a small tip. Left there with five dollars more than I went in with so it was good for me. Glenda didn't fare so well during the day but she is frugal enough that her loss was minimal. Over all, another good day.
Today is pickup the free stuff at the Fiesta Casino, Sam's Town and at the Station Casino. It could be we'll make a little moola along the way and have a free buffet too.
Monday will be a get the computer fixed day. They work on them at Best Buy so we're taking ours there. Geek squad I think.
Good wishes for you from here!
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.~Washington Irving
I told about Tuesday but it was supposed to be Wednesday at the Fiesta. First we partook of the nice free buffet there, then played 3:00 bingo without a winner. It got a whole lot better later. Glenda decided to play a dollar, twenty cents at a time in a Millionizier??? penny machine. Still playing on the original dollar, for some reason the millionizer came down. That has twelve squares on it and the chore is to pick a square until you match three. She finally matched three for $1247.00. Now she won this with only twenty cents gambled. Not bad huh? Well it was kinda bad. If she had picked a different match she would have won a million bucks or $252.00 or $22.50. We are pretty happy with what she got! Later she hit another four deuces playing a penny deuces wild poker machine winning $50. I......lost but she shares, which is just like winning.
Now on Thursday we traveled over to the South Coast and played 1:00 bingo. For my $7 investment I won a pot of $150.00. Sure made me happy. We went from there to Terrible's for lunch. Luckily we had enough points to have the lunch buffet for free if you don't count a small tip. Left there with five dollars more than I went in with so it was good for me. Glenda didn't fare so well during the day but she is frugal enough that her loss was minimal. Over all, another good day.
Today is pickup the free stuff at the Fiesta Casino, Sam's Town and at the Station Casino. It could be we'll make a little moola along the way and have a free buffet too.
Monday will be a get the computer fixed day. They work on them at Best Buy so we're taking ours there. Geek squad I think.
Good wishes for you from here!
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.~Washington Irving
January 11
Yesterday was a pretty good day at the games. To start with and the highlight of the day, was at the Fortune Casino where playing pennies, I hit a royal flush for $125 and Glenda hit the 4 deuces for $50. We left there and wasted a stop at the Joker's Wild but didn't waste too much time. We traveled across to the Sunset Station to play 3:00 bingo. Another waste of time and money! We needed to be there after 4:00 to reach into a box for a certificate for mystery cash. No mystery for me because I got my regular $3 but Glenda pulled out a 'spin the wheel' paper and the spin gave her $15. The wheel is covered with $10 spots but has a few $15 and a very few $100 then only one $1000 spot. She did better than the worst she could have done anyway. Our meal was one of those two for one buffets at the Railroad Pass. We're not sure but thinking it took the last of our points to do it. Free, not being a word used with food at that place, will probably mean no more meals there.
Today the free word with food is at the Fiesta and they just happen to have the two for one today also. You know all those buffets can be pretty fattening but I've found a positive in that. I don't carry a cross but I do shoulder a heck of a lot of problems as I move through life. I've discovered that while sitting down my extra size stomach is an excellent place to lay my chest to rest my shoulders.
Healthy foods may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.... Robert Redford
Today the free word with food is at the Fiesta and they just happen to have the two for one today also. You know all those buffets can be pretty fattening but I've found a positive in that. I don't carry a cross but I do shoulder a heck of a lot of problems as I move through life. I've discovered that while sitting down my extra size stomach is an excellent place to lay my chest to rest my shoulders.
Healthy foods may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.... Robert Redford
january 10
Yesterday was one of those rare stay at home days. Thank goodness we're still able to afford that but I must say it is getting to be a mite too much with increases in every charge on a pretty regular schedule. Not living here full time, it just about has us priced out. We were over our heads in the beginning but opted to bite the bullet and take the step. That little shred of stupidity was pretty easy to overlook but it is fast becoming too huge of a stupid to ignore with all the price increases. Heavy on our minds is to sell out before we leave. Yep, it could be that easy.
Say, did we wish you a good day yet? We wish you a very good day!
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.... Bill Cosby
Say, did we wish you a good day yet? We wish you a very good day!
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.... Bill Cosby
January 9
No complaints about the Jim Stafford show. Matter of fact I think Ruby, Carl, Glenda enjoyed it as much as I did. A couple of painful miscalculations for the evening because of the show but they were self inflicted. First, we got there too early and I wrongly spent too much money trying to entertain myself as we waited for show time. Then after the show, we decided to mess around the casino for another thirty minutes or so. Believe me the show wasn't free. As much as I enjoyed the show I'm sitting here counting the remnants in my wallet trying to decide if the show and the free tickets were worth the cost.
Today has started out pretty slow but I think we'll lick it. Yep, our plans so far, right or wrong, is to slow'er down and just stay home and lick our wounds.
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.~Randy K. Milholland
Today has started out pretty slow but I think we'll lick it. Yep, our plans so far, right or wrong, is to slow'er down and just stay home and lick our wounds.
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.~Randy K. Milholland
January 8
Going to do a little work around here today then go to a Jim Stafford show this evening. We got free tickets the other day while playing bingo. Well, we didn't win at bingo so I guess in reality, the tickets wasn't really free.
Anyway, we're wishing a grand day for you!
All grand thoughts come from the heart.~Vauvenargues
Anyway, we're wishing a grand day for you!
All grand thoughts come from the heart.~Vauvenargues
January 7
I think we're going to Barstow, California today with Aunt Ruby to pick up Uncle Carl. Uncle Carl drove their granddaughter's car out to her in Palmdale and stayed a few days. Now, daughter Kim is meeting us about halfway with Carl aboard. We think it is about a two hour drive, four hour round trip. We're looking forward to it.
I'm going to be forced to punt or whatever it might be called, in regard to the computer problem. All error's contain the winspool.drv and I suspect it to be the culprit. I can't even download window updates! Setup.exe, update.exe and a couple more items have problems related to winspool.drv. IT IS ALL SO VERY IRRITATING! So far we're still able to send and receive emails as well as surf so it isn't as bad as it could be except I can't update windows which might make us pretty susceptible to a virus. I need to look for a repairman next week.
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?~Clifford Stoll
I'm going to be forced to punt or whatever it might be called, in regard to the computer problem. All error's contain the winspool.drv and I suspect it to be the culprit. I can't even download window updates! Setup.exe, update.exe and a couple more items have problems related to winspool.drv. IT IS ALL SO VERY IRRITATING! So far we're still able to send and receive emails as well as surf so it isn't as bad as it could be except I can't update windows which might make us pretty susceptible to a virus. I need to look for a repairman next week.
Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?~Clifford Stoll
January 5
Going across town to a new casino, the South Coast. Ruby is going along. Our intentions are to play and win at bingo there. If you win a pot along with another, as I understand it, both get full pay. Sounds good to me. Now if we can just bingo a couple times.
Yesterday was a free buffet at the Fiesta and a blood letting at Boulder Station. Blood letting here, doesn't refer to a financial loss but a true loss of blood. They were giving away free buffets and t-shirts to folks donating blood. Glenda and I were right in the middle of them. We both got the buffet coupons and the t-shirts but they wouldn't accept Glenda's blood till September because of the recent radiation. If she hadn't spent a losing $6 in the bingo parlor she would have truly received something free. No blood, no money.
We're both thinking that next year we'll try to find a place that buys blood. Check out the difference in value before we sell....um I mean give.
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."~-Joan Borysenko
Yesterday was a free buffet at the Fiesta and a blood letting at Boulder Station. Blood letting here, doesn't refer to a financial loss but a true loss of blood. They were giving away free buffets and t-shirts to folks donating blood. Glenda and I were right in the middle of them. We both got the buffet coupons and the t-shirts but they wouldn't accept Glenda's blood till September because of the recent radiation. If she hadn't spent a losing $6 in the bingo parlor she would have truly received something free. No blood, no money.
We're both thinking that next year we'll try to find a place that buys blood. Check out the difference in value before we sell....um I mean give.
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."~-Joan Borysenko
January 4
Another day another dollar, the question being, is it going to come or is it going to go? The odds aren't in the favor of it coming but we've been holding up pretty well. Maybe one more really good day will put us into the lead and fix a strong smile upon our faces tho if you can't smile when you lose you need to quit playing.
I believe Glenda said the Fiesta is on the list for a late lunch today. We have enough points for the buffet and it is their, "two for one day." Of course they can't cook worth a hoot but there are a couple of dishes that are really edible. The number one dish, as far as I'm concerned, is their spicy white fish. It's baked I think. Um um good.
We're still wishing for the printer to work again and I still keep looking on the internet for a cure but some of the possible cure talk gets way too deep for me. I need a much taller and more knowledgeable person to help me. I spent several hours on live chat with a guy from HP but I think he ended with me before we made any hay. I ended up right back where I started. I do believe the problem lies in 'winspool.drv' but so far I can't fix it. However, I don't plan to quit trying!
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.~Wendell Phillips
I believe Glenda said the Fiesta is on the list for a late lunch today. We have enough points for the buffet and it is their, "two for one day." Of course they can't cook worth a hoot but there are a couple of dishes that are really edible. The number one dish, as far as I'm concerned, is their spicy white fish. It's baked I think. Um um good.
We're still wishing for the printer to work again and I still keep looking on the internet for a cure but some of the possible cure talk gets way too deep for me. I need a much taller and more knowledgeable person to help me. I spent several hours on live chat with a guy from HP but I think he ended with me before we made any hay. I ended up right back where I started. I do believe the problem lies in 'winspool.drv' but so far I can't fix it. However, I don't plan to quit trying!
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.~Wendell Phillips
January 3
We did okay yesterday except getting to eat where we planned. At Sam's Town I won part of a bingo pot ($67) then rushed to the buffet. We've got points to eat there but we can't seem to make it work yet. Yesterday they had a plumbing problem and was closed because of it, the time before we only had a minute to get in and Glenda wasn't there yet. We'll eat there one of these days.
Was forced to stop at the Magic Star for a Prime Rib dinner. We had enough points for that too but had to kick out some cash for a tip. Glenda played a little afterwards and made the tip back as well as the $5 that I lost.
Today is already on the books and has been for a time now, but there are no details as to our today activities written there yet. First I'll work on the computer a little more. Still can't print nor run the street program. Woe is me! Next I'm going to try a free program called Error Doctor. Who knows what problems that might cause.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.~Isaac Asimov
Was forced to stop at the Magic Star for a Prime Rib dinner. We had enough points for that too but had to kick out some cash for a tip. Glenda played a little afterwards and made the tip back as well as the $5 that I lost.
Today is already on the books and has been for a time now, but there are no details as to our today activities written there yet. First I'll work on the computer a little more. Still can't print nor run the street program. Woe is me! Next I'm going to try a free program called Error Doctor. Who knows what problems that might cause.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.~Isaac Asimov
January 2
Railroad Pass didn't do us any favors new years eve. We got home around 10:30 with me wishing we had never gone. The outing was a loser money wise but we got to visit with the aunts and uncles who made the stop and was the reason we went in the first place. It wasn't a very busy place when we left but it may have gotten busier closer to the midnight hour. We did stay up till after the new year started here.
We are well, broke and lazy! Should have left the comma out of there. With nothing more to say I'll close now.
We're hoping too, that things are good there with you also.
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.~Thornton Wilder
We are well, broke and lazy! Should have left the comma out of there. With nothing more to say I'll close now.
We're hoping too, that things are good there with you also.
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.~Thornton Wilder
December 31
Got a call this morning from Russell our neighbor at the lake. He said his little dog Daisy ran off and got hit by a car. She is in the animal hospital with a broken leg and a big gash on her back but she is going to make it. Hope she has learned not to run off anymore and to be more weary of cars.
Glenda and the girls took their day yesterday. When they made it home Glenda inferred the outing was good and it was bad. She really enjoyed being with her aunts and thinks they enjoy being all together too, but in the end they all paid well for it. At least Glenda paid her share and she doesn't think the others fared much better.
Today Glenda says a free buffet at Sam's Town and a stop at the Petco store for some animal food is heavy on our list. We might even give Sam's Club a walk through.
I bought a cheap printer and the computer still gives an error notice and won't download the software for it. Common to all the error reports is an error signature that includes "winspool.drv". There may be the problem but I don't know what to do about it. I ran search and found it listed in four places. So what? Might be the one I need is bad or it could be I don't have the one I need. There was a free photo something program with the printer and the computer accepted it. Go figure.
My mind is weary from wondering what to do as are my fingers from trying so many different things to repair the problem. I know I'll wear the keyboard and the cd deal out if I keep at it much longer. Since I can't seem to do sh*t, I guess I'll get off the pot! Sure, experience is a really good teacher, I just don't care for it right now.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.~Aldous Huxley
Glenda and the girls took their day yesterday. When they made it home Glenda inferred the outing was good and it was bad. She really enjoyed being with her aunts and thinks they enjoy being all together too, but in the end they all paid well for it. At least Glenda paid her share and she doesn't think the others fared much better.
Today Glenda says a free buffet at Sam's Town and a stop at the Petco store for some animal food is heavy on our list. We might even give Sam's Club a walk through.
I bought a cheap printer and the computer still gives an error notice and won't download the software for it. Common to all the error reports is an error signature that includes "winspool.drv". There may be the problem but I don't know what to do about it. I ran search and found it listed in four places. So what? Might be the one I need is bad or it could be I don't have the one I need. There was a free photo something program with the printer and the computer accepted it. Go figure.
My mind is weary from wondering what to do as are my fingers from trying so many different things to repair the problem. I know I'll wear the keyboard and the cd deal out if I keep at it much longer. Since I can't seem to do sh*t, I guess I'll get off the pot! Sure, experience is a really good teacher, I just don't care for it right now.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.~Aldous Huxley
December 30
Got a call this morning from Russell our neighbor at the lake. He said his little dog Daisy ran off and got hit by a car. She is in the animal hospital with a broken leg and a big gash on her back but she is going to make it. Hope she has learned not to run off anymore and to be more weary of cars.
Glenda and the girls took their day yesterday. When they made it home Glenda inferred the outing was good and it was bad. She really enjoyed being with her aunts and thinks they enjoy being all together too, but in the end they all paid well for it. At least Glenda paid her share and she doesn't think the others fared much better.
Today Glenda says a free buffet at Sam's Town and a stop at the Petco store for some animal food is heavy on our list. We might even give Sam's Club a walk through.
I bought a cheap printer and the computer still gives an error notice and won't download the software for it. Common to all the error reports is an error signature that includes "winspool.drv". There may be the problem but I don't know what to do about it. I ran search and found it listed in four places. So what? Might be the one I need is bad or it could be I don't have the one I need. There was a free photo something program with the printer and the computer accepted it. Go figure.
My mind is weary from wondering what to do as are my fingers from trying so many different things to repair the problem. I know I'll wear the keyboard and the cd deal out if I keep at it much longer. Since I can't seem to do sh*t, I guess I'll get off the pot! Sure, experience is a really good teacher, I just don't care for it right now.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.~Aldous Huxley
Glenda and the girls took their day yesterday. When they made it home Glenda inferred the outing was good and it was bad. She really enjoyed being with her aunts and thinks they enjoy being all together too, but in the end they all paid well for it. At least Glenda paid her share and she doesn't think the others fared much better.
Today Glenda says a free buffet at Sam's Town and a stop at the Petco store for some animal food is heavy on our list. We might even give Sam's Club a walk through.
I bought a cheap printer and the computer still gives an error notice and won't download the software for it. Common to all the error reports is an error signature that includes "winspool.drv". There may be the problem but I don't know what to do about it. I ran search and found it listed in four places. So what? Might be the one I need is bad or it could be I don't have the one I need. There was a free photo something program with the printer and the computer accepted it. Go figure.
My mind is weary from wondering what to do as are my fingers from trying so many different things to repair the problem. I know I'll wear the keyboard and the cd deal out if I keep at it much longer. Since I can't seem to do sh*t, I guess I'll get off the pot! Sure, experience is a really good teacher, I just don't care for it right now.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.~Aldous Huxley
December 28, 2005
Now I received a message saying that this one didn't go on the first try. Told me to go to sent messages and resend it. If you get it twice you'll know why.
It appears that another really swell day is in the making here in the desert. A few days ago the wind was so bad, the blowing stuff obscured some drivers visions near railroad pass and a SUV driver didn't realize the dark blob in his limited view was an eighteen wheeler until after contact. Then I think the vision problem in the other lanes caused an accident making the two or three miles of travel between Henderson and Boulder City a very long drive either way. Fortunately we went through before the action and didn't return until after it was over. Since that day the wind has calmed down.
Yesterday we were paid to visit the Sunset Casino and then paid to visit Railroad Pass as well as given a free evening buffet. Not bad at all but a bit uncommon. Picked up a cheap printer at Wal-Mart too, while we were near there. Now if the thing will work. I think the problem with the printer we was using might be in the computer somewhere and not in the printer itself. For some reason an error message comes up about the printer when booting up then it doesn't work. We get an error message on our Microsoft Streets program too, and can't use it anymore. I reinstalled the Streets program but it didn't help.
Tis sad I say!
Sadness can only be good when the time is used for a positive resolution.~Anon
It appears that another really swell day is in the making here in the desert. A few days ago the wind was so bad, the blowing stuff obscured some drivers visions near railroad pass and a SUV driver didn't realize the dark blob in his limited view was an eighteen wheeler until after contact. Then I think the vision problem in the other lanes caused an accident making the two or three miles of travel between Henderson and Boulder City a very long drive either way. Fortunately we went through before the action and didn't return until after it was over. Since that day the wind has calmed down.
Yesterday we were paid to visit the Sunset Casino and then paid to visit Railroad Pass as well as given a free evening buffet. Not bad at all but a bit uncommon. Picked up a cheap printer at Wal-Mart too, while we were near there. Now if the thing will work. I think the problem with the printer we was using might be in the computer somewhere and not in the printer itself. For some reason an error message comes up about the printer when booting up then it doesn't work. We get an error message on our Microsoft Streets program too, and can't use it anymore. I reinstalled the Streets program but it didn't help.
Tis sad I say!
Sadness can only be good when the time is used for a positive resolution.~Anon
December 27
Made a quick foray into Henderson yesterday, well it wasn't too quick but we only stopped at two casino's and four retails stores. I found a printer cheap enough at Wal-mart but after standing in one of the twenty lines that each reached to mid-store, I calmly sat the box down and walked out printerless.
The stores were all so packed as to be unbelievable! Why a terrorist could set off a bomb in any one of them and take out many thousands of people. It looks like a lot of folks out here have a lot of money indicating that a many of the locals may not be visiting any of the casinos.
We were able to find a very good prime rib at the Gold Rush for $4.00 each but rather than use money Glenda paid for it with some accumulated points. There was a little cash outlay for the tip but we got that back plus several dollars more at the machines on the way out. We must have caught a couple machines still in a Christmas giving mode if there is such a thing with those one armed bandits.
Today's plans remain to be firmed up but the lure of the two for one meals at the Railroad pass is a big possibility.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.~Oscar Wilde
The stores were all so packed as to be unbelievable! Why a terrorist could set off a bomb in any one of them and take out many thousands of people. It looks like a lot of folks out here have a lot of money indicating that a many of the locals may not be visiting any of the casinos.
We were able to find a very good prime rib at the Gold Rush for $4.00 each but rather than use money Glenda paid for it with some accumulated points. There was a little cash outlay for the tip but we got that back plus several dollars more at the machines on the way out. We must have caught a couple machines still in a Christmas giving mode if there is such a thing with those one armed bandits.
Today's plans remain to be firmed up but the lure of the two for one meals at the Railroad pass is a big possibility.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.~Oscar Wilde
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