...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

A Dei in the ism

Looking at Deism.org it looks as tho my beliefs and those of the founding father are pretty much on in the same. It's nice to know that what you believe in has a name and maybe a few others who feel the same way as you do.
Check em out Hereespecially the bits about the founding fathers.

I'd like to get a bunch of people together so we could head down to Florida and kill Terri Schiavo, just so we could get this all over with. Maybe, if we coulda got the kid on the indian reservation then he would have done it. Looks like we'll never know. I personally think some people are bad. And those people should have access to high powered weapons and bullet proof vests and police cars and shotguns..

But I digress....got shot down for the Mifflintown gig. That sucks, but I knew it would happen......some other things should start opening up soon. I get my Freeburg interview Friday at noon. You know that won't be long.

I had a meeting today about the ASP program. It looks like I could get into that. Become a supervisor. Get an 11% pay raise withing 4 months or so.....not too shabby. Lots of stuff opening up. I'll grab something.

Gotta get the podcast up.......maybe over the weekend......keep em crossed.

cya

(machine is still behavin for now)

cya again

Stuff...P.O and Otherwise

I've got the 'ol online banking setup. I'm getting ready for another meeting this week on the ASP program (Supervising) and two documents to get ready for the 31st and a 7 tape video course to watch. Slow week.

Podcast Update

I've been shut down the past day or so because I got the Blue Screen errors again. I took Photoshop 7.0 off last night and defragged and it seems to be behaving. I hope to start getting some things done in the next day or so.

I've got some bumps written. I guess I'll have to do them myself if I wanna start this week because I never see Chris or Deb. I've figured out my routing problems, so I should be able to produce what I want to produce.

I've been having trouble with exercising. Just walking, but I'm losing breath and going numb. I'll be calling the Rehab today to see if they can give me some advice.

Back to it...

A Good Visit

I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned all ferkin' day. Anyway, the place looks great. Billy and Toby came out and we had dinner and a very nice visit.

It's Bill's birthday (grandpa). We got him some old DVD's and we're watching some old Red Skeleton shows. Pretty cool, Even have commercials.

Podcast Update

Chrissy said she'd do some bumpers for me. I will get them together and do something to get rolling as soon as we do it. Maybe even later tonight.

cya

AFUD

A Fucked Up day.

I went to see my brother in the hospital. It's so much fun watching people enjoying their morphine. My niece is back smoking again and I want to KICK HER ASS. If she would just be miserable all at once and get it over with she'd be a lot better.

I headed for work and realized I had NO GAS. So I had to run to the expensive gas station and get 5 bucks worth and then run back to work.

Then I found out that I didn't get the 1st job that I applied for. The contract technician one. So that sucked. Then I worked some overtime and headed downstairs. Then the two idiot women tried to talk to me so I had to don the work armor again.

Things got better, then i smacked my head on the machine and cut a nice gash on top of my head.

I finally got home, worked on the machine a bit and sent this to you guys. I'm setting up the browser for blogging now.

cya

Fitzlandia Podcast is Coming

Everybody who got a sunday paper probably saw the article on podcasting. I'm joining the fray.

I've been a busy little boy again. I've got a studio set up in the living room. There will be a before, during and after pic on the picblog before I go to bed. I'm pretty pleased.

I've got clients to see this week, but I'm hoping to do the first broadcast from Fitzlandia on Friday. We'll see how it goes.

I had a good meeting with Bobbie Reid today. She tore my 991 apart, which is a good thing. She did have kind things to say tho, which made me happy.

Back to setting up my machine. I've got a new keyboard (forced to get it, actually) that I want to try out. I've completely wiped this machine and am starting from scratch with XP. So far so good.

See ya soon kiddies.

So.......Much.......Stuff.......

It's been a really, REALLY hectic week. So here's a few things.

The Interview.

It went as good as it could have. 6 people interviewed for the job. I was the only one with zero postal management experience. I think that's a good thing. :) Anyway, I probably won't get it, but it was great experience for the next two interviews that I hope I get.

The Business.

Everybody needs work done. Yesterday. I've been goin' nuts doin' computer stuff. I just spent 7 hours at a guys house with a major problem on his win98 machine. I was ready to give up a couple of times. I hate it when the machine is going to win. I kept saying..."just let me try this....". And, eventually, we got almost everything back up AND hooked to his DSL line. Except for a pesky sound card that we can't seem to find the driver to. (Or the name of)

Today.

I had a typing test at 9 in the morning. So, of course, it snows. It wasn't bad, but I got around (maybe) 5 hours of sleep. I still hit 48 wpm, so that's not bad.

I gotta hit the rack....did anybody see the test on here today?? If not, you can go here or here for the real thing.

cya

FINALLY!!!!!! (updated)

I finally got an invite for a Gmail account. So, if you wanna contact me, you can use fitzlandia@gmail.com. It offers 1 GIG of storage, so send me big audio files....I need content to start the podcast, so if you know somebody who writes their own songs, tell em to upload them and give me permission to play them. I can walk them thru the open source thing because I'm getting a handle on it myself.

It turns out that Chrissy's grandmother died. It was either today or yesterday, so I'm not really sure on time frames. It's bad, but it's good because Billy is on his way home now as we speak. Now I gotta get him that canadian bus ticket. :)

I need a massive karma redirect to Crooked Hill Road on Wednesday around 1 pm. That's my big interview for the Postmaster job. I reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally want it.......really!

Putting a site meter on so we can see how many other people should be doing something else too.

cya

It's Been a Long Time....

...since I posted.

Sorry...but things are moving in about 18 different directions of UP and I'm just diggin' it. So here goes.

Work

Other than some stupid shit the other day, things are fan"fucking"tastic. I had an interview last Wednesday for a Contract Tech job. Basically a Contract Tech is a purchasing person for the P.O. The interview went pretty well. I have to take a typing test on Friday, but i've taken it before, it's a piece of cake.

THEN I get a phone call on Friday morning for an interview for one of the Postmaster jobs. I put in for Level 13, 16 and 18. I figure they may call me for the low one, but they call me for the LEVEL 18. That job is 4 miles from my house. Two of the people I would see the most I get along with great. Hell, the one girl Hi-Fived me when she found out I had an interview. I haven't been Hi-Fived in....well....I don't think ever. By a woman anyways.

Ipodding

Ipodding is the shit. I'm up to my ass in learning about new stuff and I love it. I did radio in college, and worked at a station after school, but I never got into the corporate "you have to do it our way" bullshit. Now, with I podding, you can suck and still have an audience.

It begs for me.

I am all set to go and should have some stuff up within 2 weeks.

Other Crap

There's lots of other crap. I have to start the search for the "son" now. And, as Cindy pointed out to me, I could very possibly be a grandfather.

Talking to "mom" alot and enjoying it. Maybe she'll let me post her nickname here sometime, at least.

I've got websites to update. Studio's to set up. Porn to watch. It's not very pretty, but somebody's gotta do it dammit. :)

Things will switch a bit....ill be updating more frequently when I get my temporary studio/office set up.

stay tuned.

Happiness is...

...belt fed weaponry.

I could have used some tonight. I knew everything was going well and something was gonna give, well, it did. I turns out that I'm not going to get the weekends off thing. There's a fine print deal that said I had to put a slip in saying I'd be off light duty in 6 months in order to bid.....well, I didn't do it. I have a couple of angles I'm gonna try to get it back, but chances are slim. I hoping it's just a brief karma repeal because so much good stuff is gonna start happening job wise...stay tuned.

On the baby front...talks continue. So that's another thing to stay optimistic about.

I could do a lot of stuff tonight, but I have a computer to order for Maggie tomorrow and a class to attend in the afternoon for the postal resume. So I'm gonna hit it.

BTW...my friend Paulette got the job and she reads this, so I think she ought to post a comment and apologize to everyone that she's denying me valuable weekend time with yall. (Actually, if it has to go to somebody, I couldn't pick anyone better than her)

cya