There is an old saying to the effect that if you cast your bread on the water it will be returned to you in some way. It's been almost exactly a month since Melissa moved in and so far this old saying has been proving true. When I originally took Melissa in Rev. Carol at MCCGSL told me that if food costs became an issue that the church would help ( Read more... )

Not a lot going on today - it's as close to a total rest day as I get these days. Slept in late and for once I'm not hurting and/or feeling tired/sleepy. Drank a pot of coffee, played with the computer, talked to a couple of people on the phone. Only grand plan is to grill some thick pork chops later - left over ones make good dinners for work ( Read more... )

I know that I've written this before - even if what we are getting is a "normal" winter - its been long enough already! They say that if you don't like the weather in the midwest, just wait a bit and it will change. After having a taste of spring for the last couple of days winter is back with us for an encore. Over the weekend the weather was ( Read more... )

Guess I should have known better than to think that my problems with the truck would be over when I got it back with a tune up and ignition troubles fixed. That was $450+ - then came tire problems that resulted in buying two new All Terrain radial truck tires - another $300+. If bad luck timing wise comes in three's I don't want to know whats ahead ( Read more... )

A day with nothing on the calender - no need to be anywhere or do anything. A rest day by any standard. It's been a long while since I had one of those. So what did I do? Some catching up on rest and sleep to start - got up when I darn well felt like it. Made a pot of coffee with a couple of spoons hazelnut flavored beans thrown in - 1 or 2 spoons ( Read more... )

Its been awhile since I've spent the Thanksgiving holiday or any major holiday alone - but with my friend Bill passing away this summer and Katie having moved out to be with her GF full time it may be the norm for sometime to come. In any case I'm determined that I'm not going to sit and feel sorry for myself or let being lonely mar the day. Since ( Read more... )

Been doing some more fiddling with Vista - Got Firefox and Thunderbird installed and working then decided to try an older Windows XP program to see if it would load and work. Since I use a Palm PDA to keep track of my schedule having the Palm desktop calender on the Vista install would be handy - nuff said - out with the install CD and gave it a ( Read more... )

Between heavy dental work and being on midnights it's been awhile since I've posted anything of substance. Suffice to say that having a wisdom tooth with really deep roots pulled ain't no picnic. Best dealt with using copious amounts of pain meds and sleep. Follow up visit to the dentist at least confirms that everything is healing up nicely. Nuff ( Read more... )

Spent the day once I woke up on admin type stuff - nothing of major note. Did some laundry, some running around, started a pot of ham and beans for tomorrow's dinner. Add cornbread baked in an old iron skillet and call it's called comfort food - something good for cold wet weather. Bought a wireless keyboard and mouse as a replacement for the OEM ( Read more... )

Finally getting into the day shift rhythm - my body has more or less caught up with and gotten in sync with the clock. Would be OK but the work week so far has been a cluster fuck from the word go. Seems that management where I work has a talent for shooting itself in the foot - and then leaving us worker bees to clean up the resulting mess. ( Read more... )