The day started off well enough: Slept pretty well, had a very nice breakfast. Trixstir and I went to see "The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug" at the local theatre at the 2pm matinee. It amazes me that Peter Jackson was able to take the shortest book in the series, and stretch that one book into three movies nearly three hours long each!! ( Read more... )

     It's been a long week, or so it feels, and yet very little has been accomplished.  While keeping the bowling alley open later at night has definitely helped its revenues, it seems to be doing so at the expense of Iron Pony's.  I simply cannot be coming home past midnight, and then try to open Iron Pony on time in the mornings.  When I drag ( Read more... )

Well, so much for the momentum from the weekend...

On Sunday, we all went into town to put some of my massive collection of electronics parts into storage at Iron Pony. I am thinking of doing electronics repair out of the other side of the shop, we need the space at the house and this brings that stuff that much closer to the SARCAN ( Read more... )

     Fair warning...  The icon and the unusual hour of posting should give some clue as to the contents...

Yesterday started off OK enough, other than the cold grey skies forewarning of the approaching snow-storm.  We knew about the upcoming storm (such as it was) from the weather forecasts though, so that wasn't unexpected.  Have I mentioned ( Read more... )

     ...have not been fun.

Whatever the "bug" is that I seemed to have acquired last Friday has certainly been making me miserable.  Suffice to say that I was in the bathroom every two hours throughout the night, pretty much like clock-work.  The Kidling and trixstir  show no symptoms of anything, so it seems to be something that only I was exposed to ( Read more... )

    Worse than being sick, I hate being "just a little sick"...  IE: Sick enough to make me useless, and possibly hazardous to others while I'm contagious, but not sick enough to be bed-ridden.  My throat feels a lot better than it did yesterday, but the rest of me is just as bad, or worse.

So long as I'm sitting still, like I am now as I type ( Read more... )