Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday was out at the property moving trees & dirt around trying to get ready to rent a big dozer to really move some dirt. Damn Fine Days out there! Nice and Hot and Nice! (What can I say? I’m a hot weather person!)

Evenings I’ve been "playing" on the computer. Sometimes making new music for a new video. Scanning pictures. Trying to make my web sites look & work better. Checking to see how my associates stuff is doing and how to make those more noticeable. Messing around. Tried to make a virtual drive for OS2 Warp 3 & 4. Damned hard time even making the installation floppies (I use floppies about once a year. Or less. And I have to use a USB floppy cause my computer doesn’t have one installed.) then the thing won’t ’boot’ from them. Would have been nice to play with.

Had an appointment with the Architect today at noon. He does nice work. He even has good ideas about things! We really didn’t change much. Added a door here. Shaped the roof there. Figured out what kind of windows will go where. You know, small stuff. Another couple of weeks and we’ll be ready to go over electrical & Plumbing.

Stopped down the hill from the Architect at a house our (probable) future Contractor, Mark Beard, is building. An ICF house. Walked around a bit checking things out. Looks nice. BIG place. Three stories of ICF construction.

Then SWMBO took me to breakfast at El Sombrero’s in Port Orchard. Great food!

And that’s about it. Battlestar Galactica isn’t coming on tonight and probably won’t until next April or so. Damned Sci-Fi Channel! So it looks like my tv will stay on the History Channel until about bedtime. (Dogfights, Dogfights, Moden Marvels: Freight Trains & Modern Marvels: Chocolate.) Maybe I’ll make some brownies tonight…

And tired! But let me tell you what I’ve been up to…

Thursday: Rented a wood splitter at Premiere Rentals in Port Orchard about 1100 and got it home. Bob & Marge (friends from across the street) came up and helped me split and stack about 1.5 cords of wood. Poor Marge stacked the wood a bit off kilter and a couple of rows of wood fell over on her. She was bruised but okay! After doing my wood we took the splitter to their house and split about 1/2 a cord of wood before we just plain gave up for the night. You talk about Sore & Tired!

Friday: Got up at 1630 and over to Bob & Marge’s by 0730. We split a couple of cords of wood between 0730 & 1000 when I had to load the splitter into the back of my truck to get it back to Premiere Rentals before 1100. Even SWMBO came down to help! After dropping the splitter off (and taking a walk-around of a dozer they have for rent) SWMBO and I went out for breakfast at the FHP in Port Orchard. Made our regular Albertson’s stop on the way home. Was going to go to the property and figure out how I’d utilize that dozer if I rented it but wound up staying home and getting some things done that I’ve been meaning to do. Damned Sci-Fi Channel STILL hasn’t shown the next episode of Battlestar Galactica! It’s only been 5 or 6 weeks so far. What the Hell is wrong with them?

Saturday: Did go out to the property and moved some brush into a burn pile and stacked the rest of the trees that have been cut to length for selling. That took most of the day. Was nice out there once the clouds burned off! Joined Google’s Adsense program and played with getting that working.

Today: First Sunday of the month so I didn’t go to church. Got out to the property by noon and took almost 4 hours moving the cut trees to the bottom of the hill and stacking them there. My digger moves at two speeds: slow and twice as fast as slow. Which is still slow. Damned fine day once the clouds pretty much burned off. I like it up there!

Just fixing up my stanking.net (Our New Home) site trying to make it prettier. Checked SWMBO’s laptop out as to why the sound isn’t working (can you say FN & Speaker buttons somehow got pressed at the same time?). Listening to Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite and browsing the forums at DVDVideoSoft. I’m sure they’re getting to where they hate seeing me log on!

Just want to say that the employees at Premiere Rentals in Port Orchard have always been helpful and courteous when I’ve done business with them.

I have absolutely NO idea what is going on…

Last Saturday & Sunday (after the first session of Church, of course) I was out at the property. Was out there Monday also.

Tuesday: Bob & Marge (friends from across the street) went out to the property and cut up some wood for them. Loaded it and brought it back to their house too. I was basically useless the rest of the day. Getting too damned old to do all this physical stuff!

Also, last Monday I called and talked to my Uncle Denver. Hadn’t talked to him in about 22 years! Called and talked to my Uncle Loren & Aunt Lois. Hadn’t talked to them in 10 or so years. Cool! Uncle Loren was saying something about not knowing anything about his father (other than his name even though he half grew up with him) so I got SWMBO on it and she found his father’s death certificat and on the 1900 census. Cool!

Today I attended a Workshop put on by the storesonline folks. I had bought a site from them thinking I’d put up an online store and maybe make some bucks from that. Well, the Workshop wasn’t a complete waste BUT if you aren’t "upgrading" to the PRO version you really didn’t have to attend the Workshop. Everything was geared towards people upgrading to the PRO version. Since I can’t afford the PRO version ($3600/year per site + $25/mo hosting OR $6000 one time fee + $25/mo hosting) the workshop really didn’t do me any good. They even had ’financing’ available and just couldn’t understand WHY I wouldn’t upgrade. Explained to them that it all sounded really good EXCEPT that I’m trying to get a loan to build a home and just could not have anything hit my credit rating right now. Otherwise I probably would have signed up. They do have some really good tools for building a store online…

And that’s about it. SWMBO’s at the office today and when I got home at 2000 the dog acted like he’d been alone, forgotten, abandoned ALL DAY or something. Been converting my mail from Thunderbird back to Outlook. Need the multi-function stuff as I’m tired of using different programs to keep a calendar or notes or contacts. Got it all working pretty good though.

Not that anything exciting has been happening around here!

Monday: Spent most of the day loading firewood into our friends trailer and hauling it back to their place. They hauled. I stayed and moved more trees and generally just messed around until they got back. It took only two trips to get al that wood we cut to their house. Cool! Spent the evening recuperating!

Tuesday: Damned if I can remember what the hell I did Tuesday. I think I stayed home and did some of the stuff I’ve been putting off until I got time to do it. Which means dishes, laundry and "stuff."

Wednesday: SWMBO at work. I hung around the house and got things done. Stayed up WAY too late. Started an "Associates Store" at Amazon.Com. Y’all check it out!

Thursday: Got up late. Took SWMBO out for breakfast as she’s got a dance thingie to go to tomorrow. Got out to the property for awhile.

Today: Stayed home. Installed SWMBO’s new cabinet into her desk thingie and drilled a couple of holes for wires. Just doing things around the house. Made a glass-fronted box cause I want to play with solar collection. Gotta get some black paint. The weather has been absolutely great the past few days! I love it!

Some musicians I heard at Bumbershoot in Seattle 8-9 years ago. Maybe more. Liked them. If anyone out there knows who they are and where I can buy their music, let me know.