chatter from the Library Monkey

Two and then three

I’ve been diverted lately. Sitting around much on vacation and making way too many graphics. AND The Tigers are now on a win streak. Three games in a row and moved even with the Cleveland Indians. The Tigers have stumbled upon the Indians at the right time. The Tribe are probably at their worse right now.

The week heats up… sort of. I have a doctors appointment and a dentist appointment in the next two days, so I will be traveling to the home. Unfortunately there is a boil water alert there. It’s the small town craziness.… First I have to pay $27 a month for water I don’t use, but to turn the water on (if I canceled my service for six months) is $150. But the water system has had lots of problems… mostly because the infrastructure is old.

Here is the funny thing about that. 12 years ago the then mayor had worked up ainy day funds for several areas of the town. A guy ran against the mayor, on a platform that he could lower taxes. He won and lowered taxes —- buy using the rain day funds. And now the fund is needed and I have no doubt it will cost even more.

Not sure how I am going to find out if the Tigers are winning tomorrow or now. Not like the bars in the Adirondacks play a Cleveland or Detroit game.

so a couple days away from the computers — will I survive??

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20 minutes until Sunday

Hmmm 20 minutes until Sunday — I wonder if I can do a post in that time. Not that I have to be done by then, but I don’t want to stay up too late.

I slept in today, so I am no too tired. I did just sit on my butt all day. I did accomplish what I wanted to or planned to — mostly. I cleaned some, but I didn’t go to the store. I processed bills, but didn’t walk them to the post office or check my mail box. Notice the theme.

Might be floating away from Nisus to Journler. If I wasn’t playing around with current software, I think I would have made the switch already. Mostly what I look for in software is the support. For example the Journler has an active forum, where people post scripts they use. The scripts are little work savers. When ever I hear the word ’script’ or see it I think of a joke my sweetie mentioned once. We were at a dean’s luncheon talking about the students who always posted kiss up stuff on the listservs. A professor would post a comment and these brown nosers would write: “Great idea” and little more.

I was commenting it seems they just sat around waiting for the opportunity to post those brownie comments and sweetie said: “it’s like they wrote a script.” I found that so funny since I didn’t think that many people thought that way or knew of scripts (though she had seen such behavior for a while and had an undergraduate degree in computers). Still I miss her.

I also listened to CD 2 of David Allen’s GTD audiobook. It is starting to get repetitive, but it is good to have it reenforced. I think the hardest part for me is the doing things as they come. Like looking at my mail in my walk from the box to the apartment….in that time I could process 90 percent of my mail — mainly throw away the junk mail. Instead of leaving it on the table for a couple hours to process, and —ultimately— handling twice.

My wrist is getting sore from being at the keyboard. I am running out of time. Might even be too late for a g&t.

I think I will at least stay up to hear the rest of this Cracker concert (archive.org).

I was copying my gratitude list into a file I keep and I am pretty close to doing that for a year. Feb. 20, is the anniversary. Proud of myself, but for some reason I thought I had started last summer. I must have heard the radio program during our Feb. break last year.

I am so glad to be away from ’star’ another day. It is like a double bonus. Winter Carnival started last night. I think one of the other things I missed by having the snow day — is the phone calls I planned to make when I was in cell service areas. I might have to find a little spot and make calls.

I am not sure why I think of this, but I was so annoyed at the Thursday basketball game. I am not in charge of making the programs and the woman who was going to chaperone took the programs — then she traded nights with another woman and didn’t pass the programs on. I had printed up a few extra, but I am not sure if the woman even showed up — I assume she did, since her daughter plays.

To make it worse, the other chaperone was sitting on her butt — that is how she watched for trouble. When I asked her about the programs she told me to look for the woman who wasn’t there. Easy way to make $67.

Well enough.. click on one of the images and you see a bawdy extra image Good night

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the end of another long weekend Currently playing in iTunes: Jackpot by Beat

Let’s see, wrote half a poem, grocery shopped, did not do laundry, did not do a lot. I hunkered down in the apartment. I didn’t skate. I lifted dumb bells and that is about it. Ate. Made some food for my Wednesday night dinner… Not so much. Bought some software, looked at it a little. I will finish a book tonight, one I should read in one sitting. I put the hurt on a bottle of scotch.

I didn’t lose out on any sleep that is for sure and I made lots of graphics. Almost got my gather account over 11,000. My stomach was bothering me today — maybe it is old coffee.

I did do a little school work. I had planned to do my laundry, but when I called the Laundromat at 6:10 p.m. they were closed, so I didn’t make the trip to the little ski town. I made my call to Amtrak and was told my voucher expired in October 2007. The first guy I talked chided me for waiting two years. I was given the voucher in October 2006, so it is hardly two years.

I can’t remember if they told me if there was a limit, but I am pretty sure they did not. I didn’t have them send me anything. If I new there was a limit I would have them send me the voucher to remind me. Since it was only a year long, I think I would have requested a refund. I travel by train about once every two years. Sometimes I am on the train twice in three years, but usually that is close to gether — Like Christmas and Easter or something like that.

I’m proud if that little couch potato above.

I found some English Beat and have been rocking down memory lane listening to it. makes me want to dance… O boy it has been forever since I last danced in public.

Nothing like a weekend of doing nothing that makes one have really nothing to say.

Going to miss volleyball for a couple weeks, but I will play hockey on Thursday. The ice should be good — the high this weekend was about 12 and it is nine degrees right now.

They are suppose to get the Ice Palace started next week.

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• I am grateful for being rested and ready to go to bed early
• I am grateful for a hollofil sleeping bag that keeps me warm
• I am grateful for the English Beat

• pushups = 0
• crunches = 0
• squats = 0
• bike = minutes

politics

I am listening to the Pistons play and in the course of about 40 minutes I have heard a rodeo commercial four times. I am not thinking that basketball fans and rodeo fans are the same demographics, but then maybe the baskeball fans will go to a rodeo on a lark. I wonder how many people know what a ‘longhorn rodeo’ is, I’m not sure I do.

Hmmm McCain won SC. This might be the first election that I don’t care who wins. In the past few years it was a bit of anyone but Bush, but I wasn’t so enthused about the alternatives. I think I believed the attack republicans would go after McCain

The reason I thought this was the 2004 primary when devil43 did that. It is amazing that after the primary candidates can support each other in a run for the presidency, let alone be a running mate. Not just the republicans. I don’t that Obama wants to be the VP candidate with Hilary, but after the friction created so far in the primaries, I can’t image it at all.

I suppose this makes up for Mitt Romney’s win in Nevada, for McCain. I say that in making the race even. I think Romney is a bit too much of one of those candidates who will tell you what you want to hear. I guess that is kind of the definition of a politician, but he seems to switch his platform from state to state.

I know I do a lot of surface reading on the internet, but after searching for a while, I finally found out that he Democratic Primary isn’t until next Saturday. In the two or three articles I read they did not mention that. I popped through a couple internet/talk radio stations until one of the news stations mentioned this fact.

To me when the articles report on the republican results in SC, I would think the first thing they would mention is the Democratic Primary is next week.

I have been amazed how good the candidates look through these primaries —- appearance-wise. I can’t even imagine how hard it is to be running for the office of president. I don’t seem many stories about it, but I would be fascinated to read/hear what it is like for the candidates on a day to day

Take Mitt Romney. His hair is immaculate every time I see him. Not just when he is coming out to make a victory speech, but in all the dinners where he meets with the ‘common folks.’

And hanging with the common folks is kind of funny to me. If you live in New Hampshire I am sure you had a chance to shake Bill and Hilary Clinton’s hand. That is to say a former president has to work the stump up close and personal

Listening to hockey now. One of the things I think is interesting is the Redwings seem to have fans where ever they go. A lot of times when I tune into the play by play I am not sure where they are, because there is often cheering when Detroit scores. Maybe it is just the Redwings, but I don’t notice this with many other teams. The yankers and lately Boston Red Sox.

I have been having fun with graphics and animation.

Talked to my FWC last night. She was okay with the Fable that featured her. I thought she might be a little angry with it. I am nto sure if she liked it a lot, but at least she didn’t seem upset by it. I can see/hear she is pretty stressed by the whole deal. As you would expect.

Was suppose to be a snow storm today — but it didn’t materialize. I would have gone and done laundry if I knew it was going to be a nice day — instead I did nothing.

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