Doc’s Personal Blog

Sorry about that. When your days are pretty much the same day in and day out you kind of lose track of time. And getting OLD doesn’t help!Many things going on this week. Yesterday, that bailout was defeated in Congress; which I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand, our economy could go further down the drain if we don’t give (whoever) the money. On the other hand; there are about 300 MILLION legal American’s in this country and if the government was to give each of us one Million Dollars, we’d all be able to pay off our bills and still save about $699 Billion. Sounds good to me. Sent a message to headlinenews@cnn.com and said:

It amazes me that we can pull $700 Billion “out of our hats” to save private business when we’ve so many other things that need to be done but haven’t the money for. Or so we’ve been told. If we can find the money for the bailout, then let’s pull the money and start the old Job Corps back up and employ some of our unemployed and get some of our bridges (and other public works) fixed!

I don’t know if they read it on air or not…

So, to catch up:

Monday: Rented a wood splitter and spent my day out splitting wood.Cause that’s what you do with a wood splitter…Spent the evening recovering!

Tuesday: Took the splitter back. Came home and cleaned up and went and got a haircut.

Wednesday: SWMBO’s normal day at the office. I spent the day lounging around the house cause I caught a cold that was Kicking My Ass!

Thursday: Raining. Stayed home. SWMBO’s brother came over for the afternoon and dinner. (Luckily he was gone before Smallville came on! Clark’s first day working at the Daily Planet was killer!) She took him to COSTCO to buy him a small microwave. Gave him one of my old 80 Gig hard drives. Never thought I’d see a day where I’d give away an 80 Gig drive! (My first Hard drive was actually a Hard Card, 40 Megabytes and cost me almost $500.)

Friday: Pretty normal Friday. SWMBO slept LATE so we wound up going out to Taco Bell in the afternoon. Regular shopping trip at Albertson’s where we spent WAY too much. Spent the evening just lounging around the house. Still got that cold.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />

Saturday: This cold is kicking my butt! Did get out to the property to try to enjoy some of the last of the good weather we’ll get this year. Was nice out there! Hot & Sunny.

Sunday: Missed church cause of this cold. Just wasn’t feeling good. Did get out to the property this warm afternoon and lay out a bit. Was damned nice out there! Wish I hadn’t had a headache… Did manage to stack the last of the wood I split after I got home.

Monday: Nice HOT day. Too Cool! Laid out at the property for awhile but came home early cause I was getting a headache.SWMBO was off to Tacoma to talk to the flooring people. She came home and took me out to teriyaki Chicken for dinner. Now just “chillin’”.

Today: Stayed home and got some of the things accomplished that I’ve been putting off by going out to the property.

Mostly in the evenings I’ve been ripping my dvd’s to .avi files and working on a computer for a friend that lives up the road. Having a hell of a time getting Linux to recognize ANY modem (and I’ve tried several). But that old V-Buddy computer has been just sitting in the back room for 3 years or so and Phil does need a "new" computer. Trying to load it with Linux cause he’s having lots of trouble with his Win 98 and Win 2k machines. But he really does pretty good for a guy that’s 70 years old.

The guys at DVDVideoSoft have put out a new version of their VideoToFlv converter that plays a list of .flv files so I’ll be redesigning my video’s page. Some times I have too damned much to do!

Now if this cold would just go away…

And I do mean SSDD! There just ain’t much going on. Well, not if you count the every-day things as just every-day things, that is. So I guess I ought to give you the most boring blow-by-blow anyway. Let’s see. Last entry was, Holy Shit, the 13th. Daymn! Last:

Sunday: Nice warm day. Which I spent at home. Got dishes done. Rearranged the storage room and our internet electronics. Fixed the back sliding door. Some laundry. Played with a few of my video editing programs. Dirty Jobs Marathon.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />

Monday: Damne Fine Day! Half of which I spent out at the property just laying in the sun and reading.

Tuesday: Damn Fine Day! (Which means sunny & warm to me. Sunny & "Damn it’s HOT!" for real Wasrhingtonians.) Half of which I spent out at the property just laying in the sun and reading. Took SWMBO to Q-Doba’s for dinner as she really likes their food and a new one has opened up at the COSTCO shopping area. Had a chicken taco salad. Wasn’t too bad. It’s kind of "foo-foo Mexican."

Wednesday: Fairly nice weatherwise. But kinda cloudy/hazy. Warm though. Stayed home as my truck was in the shop getting a new alternator. $425! Phew. Meanwhile, I cleaned the woodstove and did some other stuff around the house. See, SSDD!

Thursday: Got up EARLY and got out to the property with Phil & Matt EARLY to meet the driver picking up my logs. Had a whole load! Cool!Then Phil & Matt & I cut some wood and brought it back to Phil’s house. Been scanning SWMBO’s pile of papers she asked me to run through the scanner. Thank Goodness for the Sheet Feeder!

And, of course, it was the season 8 premiere of Smallville! Too cool. Noticed during the credits that Kristen’s name was missing so it really looks like the Lana Angst is over. Great! But I don’t know about Chloe giving up on Clark to marry Jimmy. Still think they should get together for a couple of weeks anyway!

However, Michael Rosenbaum was also missing from the credits so it looks like they’ve moved Lex on to other things. Which is good as it follows the Superman legend closer to what it’s supposed to be. They’d do great to have Lex come back every so often to menace Clark anew. And they did take Lex just about as far down the path to evil as they could. Still, I’m going to miss Michael’s portrayal of Lex.

And speaking of moving on: I’m glad they finally have Clark moving away from the farm and working at the Daily Planet. I hope you guys know that I hope the show goes on for another few years! I don’t like the new character as the acting CEO of Luthorcorp though…

Friday: I had a headache all day.Took SWMBO to breakfast at FHP. Took a load to the dump. $15 for a truck full of stuff. Got the final (maybe) plans from the Architect to go over this weekend and if there are no changes then he’ll send them to the Engineer Monday. Engineer usually takes a couple of weeks for his part. Then it’s off to Mason County… (But I wouldn’t bet on it being Monday. SWMBO still has to go over the plans and she just cannot not change something!)

Saturday: It rained most of the day so I stayed home and goofed off. Well, except for driving to Sears in Silverdale and picking up my new tool box and bringing it home. Big thing! Then I spent a couple of hours putting it together and trying to get all my tools in one place. THAT job ought to take a month of Sunday’s!

Today was a SSDD Sunday. Did the first session at church (one of the sister’s told me I had a nice singing voice) and then drove out to the property and spent an hour making sure my drainage was working right. Mostly it was. Put in a couple of small trenches to catch more runoff and direct if off the road. Than came on home and have been backing up some of the stuff I’ve ripped to DVD (as .avi files). I’m doing that cause I’d hate to have to re-rip all that stuff if I ever lost the hard drives in the Media Server. Made baked Ham and steamed green beans and SWMBO made candied yams for dinner. Was yummy!

And that’s about it. Are you bored to tears yet?

Now the fucking Senate is working for the RIAA Nazis:

"A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill backed by the recording industry that would give federal prosecutors the power to file civil lawsuits against peer-to-peer users who violate copyright laws… Groups such as the American Library Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are opposed to portions, including the Justice Department pursuing taxpayer-funded lawsuits on behalf of private parties."

Wonder how much it cost to buy that Senate Panel? You all (Y’all) realize that you let this POS RIAA get as powerful as it has by your inaction, right? Quit buying cd’s/music for a month to let the Artists know that we don’t appreciate their police department nor the RIAA’s tactics. Oh, you’re too weak to do without buying a cd for a month? Figures.

Which would be great if I could remember what the hell I’ve been doing. It all kind of runs together…

Saturday: SWMBO took me to dinner at Taco Bell and to see “The Mummy: Emperor’s Tomb”. Movie was about an hour too long… The Gig Harbor theater is SO much better than the theater in Port Orchard. “The Mummy: Emperor’s Tomb” almost sucked. I thought that if they couldn’t use Rachel for her part then they should have killed her off or said she was busy somewhere else.

Sunday: First session of church. Stayed home as it was kind of cool. Finally cleaned my truck out. There had to be a half inch of dust in the thing. I can see the speedometer again! And there’s this little green light thingie that comes on when I press the cruise control button. Cool!

Monday: Labor Day. Mostly stayed home. Did get by Staples to see what they had “on sale.” Came home with a couple of 100 packs of blank DVD’s. Wasted a lot of the day watching/listening to the Dirty Job’s Marathon. You Go For It, Mike!

Tuesday: Spent a large part of the day out at the property cutting wood. I think I cut almost a couple of cords. Brought a load of it back home.

Today: SWMBO is off to her office as usual for a Wednesday. Architect dropped by to review the plans and we drove out to the property for a look-around. I stayed and moved dirt. Brought home a truck full of wood. Hurt my left leg somehow. Probably just getting old…

And that’s it. I think I’m caught up. Damn! It’s bedtime…

I don’t know who’s in charge of the programming at the Sci Fi Channel; but they suck. I volunteer to do a better job for them for half the bucks. They’ve canceled several good shows to put on some more of those terrible ’made for sci-fi channel’ movies. And how in the hell can they give us half a season of Battlestar Galactica and make us wait until sometime in 2009 for the rest? Think I’ll wait for the DVD.

ONLY 14 MORE DAYS UNTIL SEASON 8 OF SMALLVILLE! Y’all (All Y’all actually) need to update your calendars!

Finished re-reading the first two and NEED the next one.

Any time now…

Playing with a sunset from the other day. I’ll do the "catch up" thing later…