mish mash of bits and pieces

I spent a few days at the OKie cousins this weekend. Lots of poker, cocktails, food, bowling and fun. But on Sunday we took a roadtrip to OKC to see some of the sites. The main site was the Oklahoma City National Memorial for the 168 that were killed when mcveigh and nichols blew up the Murrah building. It is fascinating art. The reflecting pool is amazing, so seamless. The symbolism and the architecture is impeccable, very well thought out.

I've been trying to find a decent .flv player that does the few things that I want it to do - mainly resize quickly and maintain somewhat of a play list. I came across this VLC player It seems to be pretty good for a freebie. The other one I checked out is Sothink flv player

Today Magg goes to court for the restitution hearing. I wonder if she will get to come home soon. She wrote that the bitch e.diane smith was present at the last court date. She said she really looked like shit. Did my heart good to hear this.

I started out on my morning walk around the hood and didn't notice the neighbor sitting on his stoop. He greeted me and I stopped to chat with him for a few minutes. Something caught my eye and I looked down. I said to the neighbor that there was a baby snake about 5 feet from me and that it was a coppery color. The neighbor made his way down to where I was and announced that it was a copperhead. YIKES!
The neighbor did the hero thing and that copperhead is no more. Sure hope the mom and/or brothers or sisters don't avenge the death. double YIKES!

I have been battling with trying to get my laptop to show on LCD tv. I bought the cable the walmart clerk told me I needed and I tweaked and adjusted and cussed and still the pc would not show on the tv. It consumed me - the fact that I could not make this work.
Today, I went to the local computer shop and the kid there sold me 2 cables to replace the one.
AND he even told me that if I could not get it to work, to bring the cables and my notebook down to his shop and he would get it working for me.
Now, that's the kind of service we all love ... and miss.
But, the kid sold me the right cables and all is working beautifully!

And dammit, wouldn't ya know, that pilates dvd plays perfectly on the tv now via the notebook.
I am left with no excuses.

who is the real racist

I read that jesse jackass jackson thinks Obama is "acting white", huh?

Obama probably has more class in his dingle berries than that piece of black trash jesse jackass jackson will ever hope to have.


thoughts from yours truly,

a conservative :)

all by myself ... temporarily

I got happy when I realized that I wouldn't be going bowling with the malemate this afternoon.
I got happy when I realized I would have the house to myself for a few hours to do whatever I wanted.
I got happy when I realized I could turn the tv off and just listen to silence.
Ahhh yes - silence.

And now, here I sit at this machine.

The OK cousins arrived on Saturday and it was pretty much a drunken, sleepless weekend. We had some other people come over on Saturday night and we played cards. It was a whopping $5 buy in. Yeh, heavy gamblers are we.

Sunday we did some road tripping and then around 9pm we went bowling til midnight.

Monday we did a float on the Elk. The weatherbug showed that it would be mostly sunny with a chance of rain. Well, fuck the weatherbug. It rained almost the entire time we were on the river.

The float was not so relaxing this time.
First, we had heavy rains almost every day the week before so, the river was very high ... and running very fast.
We are used to it being shallow, where the bottom is visible the entire float. I knew we would probably going to have some problems with as fast as it was running.

The malemate would make sure of it.

We get the canoes in the water and about 5 minutes into the float I see a huge uprooted tree in the middle of the river. The left side of it looks a little calmer than the right side. The OK cousins take the left -- cuz they are older, you know ... and wiser.

The malemate gets this 'gotta be in the lead' and aggressive attitude.
Off to the rougher right he steers us ... right into a large root that is about head height.
I grab the root to try to push us off and away from it.
The malemate leans to the right and I can feel the canoe is going to tip.
Sure enough. The canoe tips and dumps us out into the water and then flips completely over.
Life jackets? Nah, we don't need those bulky , ugly, dirty things.

The water is moving so fast and I know I have to grab the canoe, because I have no idea when we'll see it again if I don't.
I finally get a hold of it, then the malemate also gets a hold of it and we struggle our way to a little tiny area of shore.
We didn't have anything strapped down inside. At that point, I'm assuming that all is lost with no chance of retrieving because of the fast current.
We finally reach the tiny beach and attempt to get the canoe flipped over ... full of water
and
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that all 3 bags/coolers, 2 aluminum chairs and the oars were all still there.
We finally got it unloaded so we could dump out, what seemed like tons of water, and then reloaded and off we went to finish out the wet, rainy trip.
I'm glad that was the last Monday of the season to do a float. I don't think I have it in me to do it again this year.

On a lighter note -- when was the last time you saw a walking stick bug out in the open?
I had one visit me yesterday. It stayed above the front door all day long. Then, when I went to check it after the sun went down, it had moved on. It measured about 6" long from tip to tip and it looks like it was missing one of its legs. Curious looking critters aren't they?

paint me a rainbow

Today will be a good day. I hired a painter to come in to paint the peak ceiling in the living room. It's going to be the luscious color of ceiling white. Yeh, sounds boring, but since white is my favorite color, it will be a welcome change. I'm hoping that painting away the blue will paint away my blue attitude toward this house. Sometimes that is all it takes to spur me into decorating. I can only hope that is true this time -- and if not, at least it will brighten up the living room ... somewhat.

The 3 day weekend took me gambling two times. Both times I lost my ass. I figure I am down $300 now. Sure hate that. The good news, en route to gambling, I got me a new pair of bowling shoes -- and they are gaudy! Shiny white with purple stripes -- they will go perfect with my neon ball and socks.

The new work is interesting but the billing is a fucking nightmare and for that reason alone, I'm not sure I'll last after the 6 month commitment. I'm hoping I can move over to a single account rather than three accounts. The owner was on vacation this past week so I had very little work, which pissed me off. But, I am at her mercy. I really think there is something strange or maybe the word is 'shaky' going on with this new company. I can't put my finger on it, but I'm leaning towards perhaps she is going to be taken over by a national in the near future. I just hope it doesn't happen until after the first of the year, as then I will have the 2 years experience that many of the companies require.

I spent some of the time this weekend watching a few vlogs. Those are strange and most not so interesting, alot like these blogs. But then, it was something, non-productive, to do while I nursed my scotchies.

I have nothing funny, catchy, informative, or interesting so I'm outta here for now.