Alrighty then.....

.....flog me with that proverbial wet noodle.

I've been much amiss in posting lately. To be honest, I've had tons to do and have had an overwhelming feeling of tired the past few weeks. I feel like I'm starting to come out of it and I had to tell you first. Because you know I love you best of all.

Taking the car up today to get serviced. Cat is hooking up with me. I'm selling her some phones and we're gonna go out and do some stuff.

Other than that, I will try to do a piece on the funeral from hell and some of the other stuff you have missed.

BTW. My cousin Steve's wife died this week. She was in her 40's and had suffered from cancer for several years. A real nice lady and a real fighter. She will be missed on this planet.

cya

Shake your Lean White Meat

This is one of the best bands I've heard in a while. I LOVE the name and they have a very cool visual too.

It's a shame it's a Burger King commercial.

Ladies and Gentlemen....

Solving NASA's Problems

So. The entire shuttle fleet is grounded. Seems like there's still shit falling off of it. So I've decided to fix it for them.

Why does the main fuel tank have insulation. I mean, when is it needed. Is it needed while it's on the ground to keep fuel cool for a long period of time. Or is it needed during the flight for some reason?

If it's only needed while waiting for launch, they could do a styrofoam cooler type thing that could be pulled off just before launch.

If it's needed during flight.....here it is.....are you ready....

Shrinkwrap.

I know it adds weight, but they can either calculate a slightly bigger tank to compensate or just add more fuel.

These are the two ways to fix it. Mark my words, they'll use one of 'em.

BTW. Viewing for mother is tomorrow. Funeral is Saturday. I'll let you know if I kill anybody.

cya

Triumph...

..and not an insult comic dog...

I had to sign my life away and get new phones for everybody else, but I got the Treo 650 on saturday.

A lot of exploring going on right now, but it is definitely cool.

How cool? I'm doing this blog entry on it at work!

cya

Tragedy

It was quick, mindnumbing and effect. In one moment life, the way we knew it, changed. It's a devastation like nothing that has been visited upon us before.

Of course, I'm talking about stepping on my Palm Tungsten E.

I set it on a step at work (inadequate security measures?) while I was traning someone. I absentmindedly stepped down and heard a light crunch. It didn't even register. Since there was barely a footprint on the wallet I didn't think anything of it. Until I went to use it at lunch.

So, we're off today to look at a replacement. I'm angling for a Handspring Treo 650. We'll see how bad the damage is and how much of my soul I have to sell.

I went to the Lycoming County Fair with Cat and her family yesterday. We had a nice little walk around.

I'm waiting for Deb to get out of the shower now so we can split. Shopping for the device, out to dinner with the kids and then.....Fantastic 4. Yippee.

cya

Blah de Blah

I have 991's to do tonite. I hate the fucking things, but all that's left now is to print them. A big waste of paper.

Lots of stuff happening. I'll drop as much as I can now.

One of the blades came off the lawnmower. So the yard is only 2/3 done. I was doing it this afternoon, got the mower stuck and pushed it out. I was so overheated I came in and couldn't cool down for about 2 hours.

We went to a little dinner at the church tonite. About 30 people there. I cut out before the "entertainment" and came back to finish the yard. That's when the little blade fiasco happened.

I started the trim in the back bedroom on Friday. I think it's lookin pretty good. About 1/4 of the way done. We went to Sam's Club with the kids Friday night. Found some cool stuff. I wanted to catch the Fantastic Four movie, but it was a little too late to go.

We have our start times at work changed starting Monday. I'll be getting home around midnite now. It's 2:30 to 11 instead or 4 to 12:30. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

The kids got Evercrack 2. I know some other people who are getting it too, so I think I will be joining the masses. Chatting and death, gotta love it. I need a good character name people, help me out here.

Heard a great band name. All-girl band called "Snatches of Pink". I stole a line from Dawn and Drew for a band name too, what do you think of "Running From Zombies".

Ok...that's enough. I have to kill a few trees for the USPS now.

cya

This is the game...

that moves as you play it...

I spent the whole week relaxing in my nice clean house with no wife. It was very nice. Don't tell her that though, or she'll get pissed. :)

Seriously. They went fishing in New York state and I stayed home. I did manage to get some things done around the house.

Friday I went to Knoebel's Grove with Cat and her husband and daughter. Went on a lot of rides and took a lot of pictures. Check here. I have to thank Cat for all of the "Babe Alerts". You guy viewers should too.

Started working on the trim in the back bedroom. That seems like it will come together soon.

I've been forced out to work on Saturday, but they didn't schedule us for Monday. So I guess I actually get to spend a Holiday with my family this summer. Go fig.

Cat said she would come down Friday. I spoke with my niece and she said that Shea Quinn and The Love Dogs are going to be in Hummelstown on Friday. Looks like we may head down there for a night of Rock and Roll. Anything to be different.

Enjoy.

They Paved Paradise.....

....put up a fucking house.

Right across my road. Looks like we'll get all of the traffic in and out because the end of the place is right at the living room. Ahh well. Fitzlandia may have to seal it's borders. We're hoping that no military action is necessary, but all options are on the table.

The Mrs and the kids leave for 1000 islands Saturday. I get to do my best Macaulay Kulkin impression.

cya

.....well.....

Sorry it's been so long.

I had a vacation. We got some things done, then my brother went back into the hospital and it was one of those "get everybody here" moments. His kidneys shut down. They've had him one different types of dialysis. It's been about 2 weeks. He's on a longer dialysis now. 12 to 14 hours a day. They hope that this will remove the toxins, but leave enough fluid in his body that his kidneys will start working on their own. They believe they shut down due to a blood clot.

Moral of the story, think very carefully before you have your stomach stapled.

I've been out of work for 3 days. I've been having some problems with pain in my legs. Normally I wouldn't worry about it, but the Dr. said that that may be a precursor to recurring heart problems. I find out more Monday.

I just got a curio cabinet from Paulette (thanks!!!) and finally got to meet her husband Tom and her dog, Nutsy. Her dog was very well behaved, so I shouldn't say that. Anyway, it's humid as hell out, but I have the central air set at 76 and it's almost cold in here. I love it.

We are going down to Harrisburg tomorrow, I'll see how much shopping I can do before I drop, which probably won't be much. We have to go to Sam's and probably Home Depot. I also need to return something to Best Buy.

I'll try to keep this up more. I'll be working on my class blog so I'll be in the area.

later

...All I Ever Wanted (pt's 2 thru 49)

So...The next day we got up and got ready to head out. We got showers and did our idiot check and started out to Foxwoods. It's really a beautiful place. We got some change and Deb played some slots. I quickly lost 10 bucks. Slots are not for me. We took a walk around the place (it's huge) and stopped and got some ice cream. She told me to go ahead and find the poker room and she would hang out and she would find me later. So off I went.

The poker room is HUUUGGE!!!

I walk all the way thru and have no idea what's going on, so I figure first thing is to get some chips. I pick up 60 bucks worth and ask where to find a table. They direct me to a kiosk that has a computer terminal. A woman is taking initials and typing them in and they show up on the wall on a projection screen. I had to wait less than 10 minutes and they opened up a table. Funny part was, I said "I'd like to get a low limit game"...she says, you want a NO limit game?" Ahhhhhhh

I sit down and start playing.....

Intrigued? More coming soon

...All I Ever Wanted.

So...away we go to sunny Beantown.

We headed out yesterday morning around 11:30. The drive up was pretty uneventful. We come up thru Scranton and over. Hit a little rough patch in Hartford and then it was smooth sailing right into Newton. Then I decided to miss the exit.

We didn't really have to be anywhere on time so we headed down the road and felt our way in the back way. It was kinda cool, we saw a lot of beautiful homes. Another thing that is interesting up here is that they have these little parks and walking areas scattered around.

We pulled into the hotel and checked in. As we were pulling our luggage in, Deb's boss pulled in in the airport shuttle. When you own the company, you get to fly in.

We got settled in and went to the hotel bar. Steve, a food broker, was there and we had a drink with him and a light dinner. Then off to bed.

Today I got up and went to breakfast with Deb, Rob (her boss)and Steve. They've got a great buffet with an omelet chef and I pigged out royally. Deb headed out and I took a walk along the Charles River.

I spent the better part of the morning watching tv, working on this laptop for a client and RELAXING. Some would say that it's boring, but I had a really nice day just not HAVING to do anything to a deadline.

Deb came back and we headed out. We were gonna go to a mall we were at the last time, but she said we were headed in the wrong direction, so I turned around. Then she got the map out and realized I was right. (Boy, If I had a nickel for...) We got off the road and just started heading around the back roads. More great houses. I said that these places are the dictionary definition of quaint.

Rob had told her about a restaurant called the Wayside Inn. We finally stumbled onto it passed it and went to turn around. There was a beautiful reproduction of a grist mill and we got out and walked around it a bit. I have some pics and will post later. Then we headed to the restaurant.

It turns out that it's the inn referred to in Longfellow's "Tales from a Wayside Inn". We ate in a period accurate dining room. Right down to the computerized cash register. :) Great meal, which I didn't think would happen since they were heavy on the history part.

They have a collection of letters on display and the one was to the owner of the in from the leader of the town banning certain residents from the bar. Accusing them of being, well, slackers. My, how time doesn't change. The cool part was that it was written on my birthday exactly 200 years ago. I know there's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm too tired to find it.

We headed back without incident and I took a nappy. And now I'm listening to Leno and writing to you.

Cya

Mommy!!!!

Today went pretty well. We mowed the back yard and I seemed to have enough gas in me to do that and throw a few things on the burn pile. I'm gonna give work a shot tomorrow and see what happens.

We got cleaned up and took the inlaws down to Chrissy and Mike's. She made her first "big" holiday meal all by herself. Did pretty good too. I spent a bit of time figuring out how to program her vcr remote to run the tv. The tv remote is MIA.

After eating we headed over to the local Giant to do some grocery shopping. Very big place. Then we took the kids back and headed up the road.

Happy Mommies day everybody.

cya

This is starting to suck....

I had to come home from work early Sunday. Haven't been in the last two days. Lifting those extremely heavy sacks did me in again. I go to the Dr. tomorrow to figure out what we're gonna do. I'll keep you posted.

Two more pieces of software to install and I can start the podcast.....should be ready by 2008.

The A/C guys were here tonight and finished up. Now we have central air. Yippee.

Talk to ya

ok...

here's the deal....

The machine is up and running. I realized at work tonight that I need to load Frontpage, Musicmatch and updated the site. I don't know when I can do that. I realize I've been slack here at the blog and I apologize. It seems like life has caught up and I've been really busy doing life stuff. :)

I saw Laura Swisher on a Wendy's commercial. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of it thru the summer. Ya Laura.

I will be around....we'll see ya.

Weekend Update

The refrigerator is wonderful...keep air exactly where it's supposed to be for the greater good of humanity. We've reassembled the kitchen quite well and learned a little bit about woodworking that will be employed in the coming months. My Podcasting rig is finally behaving like a real computer so I hope to launch podcasts this week. Start hitting fitzlandia.com for info, as well as the blogs. I am contmeplating moveing to another service, but this one serves us so well.

The little ones have set a load to the promised land. I will visit and deliver my blessing tomorrow. I have an early Dr. appt and a chunck of time to kill. Humor shall ensue.

later kiddies.

Reefer Madness

You always remember your first one. It was kinda clunky but it was SO cool. Then you got older and your tastes got more sophisticated. But it was still cool. Then it starts to get a little routine and you need something new.

Of course, I'm talking about refrigerators.

We FINALLY broke down and bought a new one. You have to understand. Deb bought the old one used, from her aunt, 24 years ago. USED dammit! I mean, it's really just an impending disaster waiting to happen. We've looked at new ones for several years and finally got one that we're happy with.

I'm a little pissed at Sears. They said they would deliver Friday (we ordered it the previous friday) and then called on Thursday and said it wouldn't be here till Monday. If I would have been awake I would have cussed them out and asked them to waive the delivery fee, but it didn't happen.

So today I have to drill a hole in the kitchen floor and run the water connection. We've been cleaning since 8am. Did I mention that 8am and I don't get along? Anyway, I'm all ready for bed and it's 11:30.....am.

I'll take some pics of the new unit and put them up.

There haven't been too many blogs lately. Partly because all hell's been breaking loose and partly because my machine has been a piece of shit. I've reinstalled XP twice in the last 3 weeks. I'm up and running with a minimal load. Hoping to make it thru 24 hours without a BSOD. I've had two, but that was before loading XP2, so I'm hoping it was just a "first release" problem.

I DO have my sound card back, so we're planning on a podcast this week....as soon as I get some files moved around and get musicmatch reloaded

cya

Alotta Stuff

Work, of course.

Taxes, suck...I need an extension.

Getting things installed....takes time.

Podcasting....staring back at me....taunting.

Training for work.....7 hours worth of videos and tests.

Waiting to see if I got jobs......nervewracking.

Computer consulting.....picking up nicely.

My own computer......keeps fucking crashing, part of the podcasting problem.....will probably call Redmond this evening.

Hopefully some things start breaking soon.

Healthwise, I think I'm much better off off of the pravachol. I'm up to walking 30 minutes a day with minor ill effects.

more stuff later

cya

stuff

I've got a ton of stuff worked up and a ton of stuff to do. I will really promise to try to do one by the end of the week.....get all yer friends to come over and give me a cyber kick in the butt.

Ill tell yah about Duh!...too.

cya

When the Rains Came...

There's a creek out back. There always is, but usually I can piss harder than the trickle of water running thru it. Today is a different story. I took a few pis of it and I'll post em.

Last night we used the gift cert that Paulette gave us and went to J.P. Edwards. Had a very cool meal and a few drinks. I won't bore you with the details, but it was very nice.

We did a little grocery shopping because they're talking flood here and the first thing to close is the Lewistown Narrows. So we nipped that one in the bud, didn't we Barney?

Then I kept setting up the studio area. It all works. It now does exactly what I need. Chrissy is here, so I hope to get her and the gang to do some voices later.

I'm updating fitzlandia.com too. Check it out.

Hot steamy podcasts soon too.

cya

www.fitzlandia.com

It's there.

Just type it in your little browser and you'll see......not much.

Just a holding page and a few links back to here.....that's where the podcasts will be based out of.....a permanent site that I own, so blogger can't kick me out in the middle of the night.

Things have been megasupercrazy here. I almost had a meltdown Saturday when I couldn't find a ton of my CD's. I've been working on 991's for the PO. That's the real world's equivalent of a resume done "Postal Style". An extreme pain in the ass. But I can finally decompress for a few days and do all of the other shit I have to do.

Here's something cool....Do you like old people or young people better? Harvard wants to know. Go here for the IAT test

So how's by you?

cya