Apr 19

Snow? In April?

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WeatherPersons have been predicting snow the last 3-4 days. Originally for Friday but that didn’t happen. Here at least. Woke up to reports of snow all over the place over Monroe way; but none here. It’s 1700 now and I still haven’t seen any snow here. Hail and it really looks like it wants to snow out there but no actual snow. Yet.
Catch up: Didn’t do much last Thursday. Gas costs too much to go out to the property every day now. Smallville was a bitch! Lex kills Lionel and his Secretary. Confrontation between Clark and Lex. Lana’s still out of it (step on in there Chloe!). Commercial for next weeks episode looked pretty good too!
Friday was our usual date night. Almost. Except we took the Missionaries to Pizza Buffet at FodGothers around noon. We took off from there about 1130 (I like being early to an appointment) but had a flat just before getting on the freeway. And of course it was cold and windy and I was sitting in the edge of the road changing the tire. But nobody hit me and I got it changed pretty quick. Dropped by Les Schwab and they replaced the tire free of charge. Cool! We don’t buy tires anywhere but from Les for this reason and they’ll fix a flat for free.
Battlestar Galactica was a bitch! Starbuck’s going nuts and a skin-job killed Callie. Cylon fighting Cylon! Cool! In some ways I’ll hate to see the end of this season but it really does have to end somewhere.
Today (Saturday) SWMBO took off for the Genealogy (as usual) and I suited up and went out to the property. Didn’t see any snow going there or coming back. Raindrops sure looked thick a couple of times though. I figure another degree drop in temperature would have turned it but it didn’t happen. Worked on the road a bit. Was nice and warm when the sun was out but the wind was CHILLY. Didn’t do too much though as I’m almost out of diesel and diesel is $4.47 a gallon right now. Damn! Guess from now on I’ll have to actually plan what I’m going to do when I go out there.
Came on home and have been watching OLD sci-fi movies (Catwomen of the Moon, Day The Sky Exploded, Day of the Triffids, etc) and fixing meatloaf for dinner. It’s smelling GOOD in here and I’m ready to eat. SWMBO isn’t home yet though; she was going to stop by Albertson’s and do some shopping on the way home. She should be in any minute…
@ 1723 if finally started to snow. Sort of. Oops. Stopped.
SWMBO got home, ate and drug me to Lowe’s to look at stovetops and ovens and stuff. COSTCO was closed. (Phew!)

Apr 16

What A Damn Crappy Ending!

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But I guess it was supposed to be. Just watched "The Mist". Pretty good movie; until the ending. What a damn crappy ending! Seemed to follow along with the ’novella’ as I remember it; until the damn crappy ending. But it’s a keeper and goes into the "I’d be glad if it was the end of the world" folder. Damn crappy ending though. But now if I’m ever in a situation like that and anyone starts spouting "Religion" (with a capital R) I think I’ll take them out right there…

When was the last time I made an entry here? Hmmm. Let me go look. Damn! That long ago?!

Sunday was a crappy day. No, not really. It was a lot colder than last Saturday but I still managed to get out to the property and move some dirt around. What? You think anything else happens in my life? You’re delusional…

Monday was a pretty regular Monday. Cold and wet out. Cold in. We’re down to our last half dozen pieces of firewood. Need to get off my ass and go out to the property and cut some of that downed dry wood.

Tuesday was "housework catch-up day" around the King household. Dishes. Laundry. Blowing the dust out of my computer. Wireless is working like a charm. MediaServer is working like a charm. Still re-ripping Smallville to 720p format. Had to buy a new printer as my Canon Pixma finally died. Something in it snapped when I was trying to print a cd insert. Damn. It was only 5 or 6 years old too. Bought an HP Deskjet D4260 cause it was cheap. Does pretty good with inserts though…

Today, Wednesday, I finally did get off my lazy old man ass and got out to the property and cut a truckfull of wood. Burns real nice. Now if I can just get my old man legs to not hurt! Sure is nice having that Digger to lift the logs for me to cut. Oh, almost got the Digger stuck down at the bottom of the property. Went off the road into a really SOFT spot and the front end sank so much I had to use the bucket to push myself up and out. Phew!

Damn, what a crappy ending…

Apr 12

ANOTHER Week Has Gone By?

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Damn! What the heck have I been doing? Sorry to admit this, but, this whole last week is a blur. Except for our usual Friday date (Pizza For Brunch at FodGothers) and today I can’t remember one thing about the last week. Damn!

Today. Wow, today. NICE day. Got up to around 70 degrees. And I was out at the property moving dirt around and burning some of the crap laying around. Got a good 6 hours of work done. Cool! Man, it was nice out today…

Spent this evening installing a wireless network in our house. Bought one of those HIGH speed Linksys routers and a usb network connector. Expensive! Took only a few minutes to set up the router though. Couple more minutes to set up the usb connector. Finding the right place in the house for the cable modem, router and the old router (for Vonage) was a pain. Getting SWMBO’s laptop to connect was a pain pain! Put an old D-Link wireless pci card in the MediaServer, downloaded the drivers to my computer and burned to a cd and finally got it working but the connectivity sucks. So I moved the MediaServer to the top of my old console radio. No help. And my longest network cable is 10 feet too short. Damn! Music plays great but video is out of the question for now. VLC media player errors out. On the plus side I downloaded 2 episodes of Battlestar Galactica (over 700mb total) in less than an hour. Must have a better internet connection in the back room…

Apr 06

Ought To Get Caught Up…

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Let’s see. Last entry was the 1st. Pretty regular April Fool’s Day for me.

Wednesday was a pretty normal Wednesday. SWMBO went in to the office and I mostly did things around the house.

Thursday? I have no recollection of doing anything Thursday. Smallville was a re-run.

Friday SWMBO and I went out for Breakfast since our son, Brian, was planning to come over when he got off work. Turned out he cancelled for Friday but that was okay as I came down with one hell of a headache. Luckily it went away before Battlestar Galactica! Good season premiere! Great show!

Saturday I went out to the property and moved dirt around (widening the road) until it got to raining so much I was pushing around mud more than not. Soaked from the knees down. Got back home in time for SWMBO and Brian to show up. Really didn’t feel like cooking so we took Brian to Teriyaki Chicken and an Albertson’s stop. He’s having to eat from our pantry this week. We don’t mind.

Stopped and bought a new 500Gig external drive, converted it into an internal drive in the MediaServer I put together. Those SATA drives are nice! Copied all my tv shows that I have converted and that freed up another external 500Gig drive to make into another internal drive. Danged external drive was cheaper than an internal. Humph.

Today was a fairly normal non-church Sunday for me. SWMBO went off to help a friend paint her house and I did dishes and laundry. Raining too much to go to the property anyway… Put the second SATA drive in the MediaServer and copied all the movies to it. Now I have an 300Gig external drive to use as I see fit. Pprobably use it as a backup drive. One I can plug in, do my backup, unplug and put away. Sounds good to me.

I Don’t Think This Is Gonna Work!