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Once again, I spent nearly all day sitting at home on the computer. What a way to start off the new year. On the other hand, there are people in hospitals or jails who would be happy to trade places with me!
I dyed my hair this evening. The usual "Garnier Nutrisse, Macadamia #90." I still have not got a haircut since Jo moved to LaDue. I am just letting it grow. May I will let it get long then dye it black and braid it. Or not...
I sent GoldWave to Ruby Dancingmoon tonight. She is learning to make sound files.
I had the Help Desk mostly by myself all day. It was busy too! Phil covered during the morning. Darlene's box with Yuletide gifts arrived today. Fortunately, Skip had come home early and was here to get them from the postman! That was just pure luck. She sent him a nifty little knife with a matching handle and scabbard (fake wood look). Nice looking knife. I got a Lava Lamp! I actually like it too! I've never had one. This one is actually call a "motion lamp" ... but it is the same thing. Leave it to Dar to be the only one to give me a gift this year :)
I got up about 9:00a and went straight to the kitchen and started cleaning! No food... no computer! It took me about 3 hours to get all the dishes done (with a few short sit-down breaks). Skip has not helped any of course, but I did not expect him to.
1:19p - I have spent a spell getting my January page caught up this morning. I created and added all the background graphics and am please with the result. Very rich and deep colours. I think I am getting slowly better at this stuff!
3:11p - I was at the store. Just bought a WetJet Swiffer... and mopped the floor. Spent 3 hours washing dishes and cleaning in the kitchen. Sweeping. Getting ready to vacuum. Dripping sweat! Spent nearly $40 on cleaning supplies at Wal-Mart. Going to put down some "French Vanilla" carpet deodorizer in a sec. Skip hasn't bothered to help a bit of course even though half the dishes I washed were his. Very disappointing. I do most of the house cleaning and all of the bill paying; I wish he would contribute more to this than just another mess for me to clean up.
4:03p - I just finished putting down the carpet deodorizer and filling my pill cases up for another 4 weeks. That is a tedious task!
Tad took me over to CostCo tonight ... I decided I was going to buy an new monitor. I need it badly! We got there right at 6:00p ... AND THEY WERE CLOSING! So early! On a Saturday!? We were perturbed, but I was not going to lose the chance to get my new monitor. He took me over to Best Buy and I ended up spending $551.00 on a new 19+ ENVISION flat panel.
Got home and set up my new monitor... YAY!!
...hmmm, not so yay. I increased the resolution and now my WinTV card keeps locking up again. Maybe it is the resolution setting. I have made some adjustments trying to see if I can avoid the problem, including reduction of hardware acceleration to "none."
It locked up again... and now I cannot remember where that darn hardware acceleration function is located to put it back to where it was! Sheesh... I should know to make notes.
I spent yet another day sitting in front of my computer. It was a cold and rainy day anyway. I worked on my February and March pages, so I am ahead of schedule for a change. Around 5pm walked over to the Dollar Store and picked up some some of those suction cup hangar/hooks, which I put in the kitchen to hang some utensils on the side of the stove. Skip finally got most of the dishes done (there was only a handful, after my 3 hour stint yesterday), and I chopped up about 4 quarts of (cabbage, onion, cilantro, carrots and celery) into a slaw. I used part of it to make eggrolls for supper tonight, and froze several bags for future use. It is great to start a soup with. I was up until just past 1:00am... I meant to get to bed sooner than that.
7:30a - I had my usual onslaught of weird dreams last night, but I do not really even remember what they were about. I've discovered, however, that if I skip my medications for a day, I tend to remember the dreams better (and be less rested).
7:32a - Back to the regular schedule again... a full week of work! I have had four-day work weeks, for at least 3 weeks straight. I think we still get MLK day off this month too, though.
Damn! It was COLD today! I should have worn my long johns. I will tomorrow! Nothing very exciting happened. I took 3 leftover egg rolls to work; and for lunch I had a very tasty helping of roast pork (I think), some chunked potatoes, and fresh green beans. The gravy over the potatoes and meat was just right. Sometimes Olin Hall Cafeteria has some good food.
I got an email from Barbara Mills with whom I used to work back in Orange County Probation.
7:23p - The train was about 3 minutes late this evening and there was a slight snow flurry. I was worried I would get stranded at 5th & Mo, but we made it in time. It was coming down much heavier there, but when we got to my stop, it was back to just a slight flurry.
7:30p - I am running my WinTV again this evening. Ever since I got this new monitor on Sunday and increased the resolution again, it has been locking up on me.
11:22p - I went for a couple of hours with no problem watching WinTV... then it bombed out. I had to reboot about 3-4 times. I am so disgusted by this.
7:10a - Kira woke me around 1am and again around 3am ... she needed to go outside. Then I had a "stomach issue" around 5am and had to run for the bathroom. I never did get back to sleep very soundly. I think that maybe I should make tonight a "no beer" night, go to bed early and maybe take a couple of Tylenol PM's to help get to sleep.
I started re-reading another old book from my collection this morning: "The Way of the Pilgrim" (Gordon R. Dickson).
Today has been COLD. I checked the temperature this morning and it was 9°... it went up to 11° (feels like 2°), and finally to 14°. I checked it shortly after getting home and it was up to 19°. I just checked it again and it had gone down to 16° (feels like 9°).
Kira had another accident :( ... this time it included peeing in the kitchen. She has neer done that before. I have been giving her the cold-shoulder treatment all night. I am glad I bought that WetJet last weekend. It made the cleanup quicker & easier. I put the kitchen rug in the washer and the one from the bathroom too. I half-assed mopped the bathroom while I was at it.
Jo is supposed to be coming over to cut our hair tomorrow, so it would be nice to have the place sime-tidy at least. I just hope Kira doesn't have ANOTHER accident. She got a smaller supper tonight and no milk.
10:18p - I got all my journal pages started for the entire forthcoming year already! All the calendar buttons are edited and some of the birthday wishes are set, some graphics... still lots to do on each page, but at least there is a start for each of them.
10:20p -It's about time to eat... I have a Quiche-like dish cooking on top of the stove.
That Quiche thingy was pretty good.
I ended up not getting to bed until 1-ish again! That's not good.
7:29a - I have some food cooking for breakfast this morning. Yes, I am up, but I am not exactly bright-eyed nor bushy-tailed!
I thought Jo was coming over to cut our hair tonight, but it is NEXT Wednesday. Oops.
7:34p - The DSL was connect today. I am too tired to hook it up tonight though. I am making a pot of soup an then gonna go t'bed.
8:26p - I just set a "Smallville" reminder and made a theme song music clip for the audio notification. Took to Tylenol PM's... and now I am off to bed. Early as I promised myself!
7:19a - I am still half asleep at the moment, but I should be well rested today! I was in bed by 8:40p last light, didn't have any beer, and after Kira woke me twice (again!) to go outside, I let her stay outside the bedroom. I don't know what it is with her here recently. I think she has finally discovered a level of communication that is novel to her. She can actually get me up in the middle of the night (or wee hours of the morning) to do her bidding (i.e., let her outside) and I think she is starting to abuse this new-found skill. Of course, after 10½ years, its about time. Sadly, when Thor passed away, she lost her "translator." Thor was such an effective communicator. He had all kinds of barks, combined with body language, volume, and frequency to convey his various needs. Kira would just stick by him and she never had to do any communicating for herself. I sure do missed my little "Tor-tor." He was my baby. Of course, I love Kira even more I think. What she lacks in communication ability, she more than makes up for in affection. Thor was a very "dignified" canine (until it came to his "toy" ... then he would lose it). Kira is his opposite in so many ways. She has never been one to play with a toy. If you throw a ball or squeaky toy she will just look at you like she is saying, "Yes? Am I supposed to do something about that?"
7:31a - Time to let Kira back in, get my clothes ready and hop in the shower.
7:09p - I was full of energy today. I got all my backlog of merges done, all my email in-box emptied, New User requests processed, New Equipment requests processed, Help Desk email done, Billing Links Run, Backup Tapes loaded, my Applix queue is empty, the group queue included, plus the regular influx of new calls and problems. I even helped Lisa Z. re-write her evaluation and cleaned the coffee carafe at the end of the day. Very productive.
7:13p - Since getting home a few minutes ago, I took out all the build-up of cans in the laundry, pulling off the pull-tabs, cleaned out the pan with bleach and wiped down the washer & dryer (and cleaned the lint catcher).
7:16p - Next project... time to try to hook up the DSL!
8:31p - I got all the DSL stuff hooked up, loaded and we even drilled a hole in the wall for Skip's connection, but (of course) we ran into some glitches. We need a longer Ethernet cable for him (which I can probably get at work, since we make our own); and my password doesn't work! They got it wrong too, but fortunately they wrote down (wrong) for me as well. I don't know why I say "fortunately" since neither the password I gave them nor the password they gave me work! At least I had the good sense to leave my dial-up account hooked up. Also, I have a dual outlet filter which let me hook up BOTH my dial-up and DSL to the same outlet.
11:56p - I made some major updates to my "Tsalagi" site tonight. See Carl Masthay's Piasa(w) Petroglyph which I made colorful and reduced to a bearable internet size.
7:25a - Kira got me up once last night, but I did not sleep well all night. I don't know if it was because I took my med about an hour later than usual or what. Speaking which, I had better take my morning doses now...
7:27a - That's done. I had weird dreams all night (when I could get to sleep). I don't even want to try to remember them all; they were all disturbing and upsetting. I think that helping Lisa Z. with her evaluation yesterday triggered one such dream. I dreamt that it was ME getting the evaluation and that LR came to my cubicle. She told me I had done well in the past year and was getting a substantial raise. However, my position was being phased out and I would need to start looking for another job in the next year! I got up this morning very exhausted and shaky. I considered calling in sick, but I think I can make it through one more day. Then I will have the weekend to rest up.
9:12p - I got my DSL working to night. Its good to have broadband connection again!
We're going to order Pizza tonight. I was going to make some left-over frozen frito pie crap, with mixed greens on the side but.... yuck. That is really starting to sound disgusting!
Despite going to bed after 1am this morning, I got up at about 7:30a. Skip and I were going to go to the theater at Chase Park Plaza to watch "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King," but changed our minds. There is a Rams "play-off" game in town this weekend and we just did not want to deal with the hassle of the crowds on the train. We have tentatively planned to do this tomorrow instead.
We took a walk over to Wal-Mart this evening. I picked up a 'plastic shopping bag holder' for $2.97 (with a festive "chili pepper" motif. This should look less tacky than the big plastic bag we use for that purpose at present! I also got some odor hangar thingies to hang in a couple of closets. I picked up one more pill organizer to add to my collections; as well as some "Saw Palmetto" and "Selenium" supplements.
For supper tonight, I am planning on backing some pork steaks and making some mixed greens on the side (from a can, but... hopefully palatable). I also bought some chicken breasts on sale ($1.99/lb), a giant sized salmon fillet (like Skip bought last week) and a package of peeled, cooked, seasons & frozen shrimp. I still have the bag of froze shrimp from a few weeks ago too.
I just walked over to BP with Kira to pick up some beer. She was estatic about getting out for a walk! Iishe sh' os' unfeine! I love to see her happy and bouncy! Nyeinewe, Y'aatg' aim' iirb' aanje Y'iibe t'geingy ums' unkdre!
JANUARY
10th
1839: Today, John Benge, and 1,103 other CHEROKEEs will arrive in the Indian Territory. They started their trek with 1,200. 1879: President Rutherford Hayes, by Executive Order, adds to the Gila River Reserve in Pima Agency. This reserve was established February 28, 1859. The order also add to the Pima and Maricopa Indian Reservation. This second part of this order will be canceled on June 14, 1879. 1881: Gall & Crow are led into Ft. Buford today. 1929: By Executive Order Number 5023 today, the trust period on allotments to the "IOWA Indians in Kansas and Nebraska" will be extended for ten years. A few plots of land will be excepted because the person assigned to that land has died. 1949: Today, according to Federal Register Number 14fr00471, an order will be issued modifying the restoration of certain "undisposed of surplus lands on the Cheyenne River Reservation. 1961: Today, the Federal government will restore certain "nonmineral, unallotted, unreserved and undisposed of" lands on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota to tribal ownership of the three affiliated tribes. 1985: The CHEROKEE ask Arkansas and Missouri not to sell alcohol. |
I received the above in a Group e-mail from, "The Cowgurl of Montana" and thought it would be a worthy addition to my page.
10:03p - I've been helping Skip rearrange his room so he can get his PC closer to the wall adjoining "the office." This is so he can connect his system into the hub and get on the DSL connection. I hope is doesn't slow ME down more. I know it will to some degree, but I hope it is not anything I really take notice of.
I got up a little after 9:30am this morning. I needed to sleep in. I don't get enough sleep.
10:00p - Skip and I went to watch "Lord of the Rings - Return of the King" this afternoon. It was, in my opinion, the best of the three movies. I literally had tears trickling down my face ... especially toward the end. It was a very moving and well done movie. Skip loved it (of course); even he admitted to getting a little choked up.
JANUARY
11th
1839: The OSAGE sign a treaty today. 1881: Crow King confronts Sitting Bull. After the confrontation Crow King leaves. 1886: The 1st infantry has engaged APACHEs in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. For his actions today against "hostiles" under Geronimo and Natchez, First Lt. Marion Maus will be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 1972: Reverend Harold S. Jones, a SIOUX from South Dakota, will become the first American Indian to be made a bishop in the Episcopal Church. 1985: The National Tribal Chairmen
Association rejects several Federal proposals today. |
12:15a - I am still up. Cooking my supper. This evening has flown by! I need to get to bed, but I am making a pot of soup first. I got into a conversation with reshtarc1990 and we may be merging "Empire On Line" with "Klingon Empire International." This are still in the preliminary stages and ... we will see where this goes...
JANUARY
12th
1877: Five soldiers from troop a, 3rd cavalry, fight a group of 14 Indians on Elkhorn Creek, Wyoming. Three soldiers are wounded in the encounter. One of the wounded soldiers, Corporal Charles A. Bessey, will be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions. Some government records show this happening on January 13th. 1880: Major Albert Morrow, and elements of the 9th cavalry, find, and attack Victorio, and his WARM SPRINGS APACHEs, near the source of the Puerco River, in southern New Mexico. The fighting lasts for about 4 hours, until sunset, when the Indians escape. One soldiers is killed, and 1 scout is wounded. 1938: Land disposal modification on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. 1971: The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, Inc. Today alleges federal funds for Indian education are going to "every conceivable school need except aiding the 177,000 Indian children in public schools." Their study indicates federal money is going to white schools, or to lower white taxes. |
12:28a - My food should be about ready now... I must go check it.
7:16a - The soup I made was delicious. I want to take some of it to work with me this morning, but I don't really have anything to carry it in.
7:17a - I sure did not want to get up this morning. I was literally laying in bed trying to think of good excuses to not go to work! Of course, I could think of none.
7:33a - Can't think of a valid reason not to go to work. Neither "burn-out" nor "a bad hair day" are adequate. Can't find any sign of Bubonic Plague or Leprosy either. I must be forgetting something... maybe I have Alzheimer's!
7:09p - I sure I could have thought of a good reason not to go to work this morning. It was a very hectic day. The Barnes network wasn't allowing users to connect through CareNet to IDXrad, so we bounced IDXRad twice; PACS was having archive problems; then Applix crashed (they just moved the Applix to a new server over the weekend... and will be moving it back again tonight!). Our network and Lotus Notes seemed to be the only steady systems today. I am tired.
7:12p - The new bus/train schedules went into effect today. The do not seem to be affecting me adversely, however, I had a nervous moment when I got the 5th&Mo tonight. No busses were there! I called Skip to tell him and he said she was running late. There had been an accident; a hit & run I found out later. Anyway, I got home a little before 7pm. Skip already has the garbage sitting out. It did not get emptied last week.
7:14p - I wrote up a proposal this evening and submitted it to BS to review. A proposal for a new process to handled off-staff/terminations. So far, every method we've had has been chaotic and haphazard. I think my idea will work.
Fairly typical day. Went to work. Continuing to read Gordon R. Dickson's, "Way of the Pilgrim." Busy day at work. BS didn't read my "proposal" yet. The bus was not waiting as it usually is after work. Probably due to the new schedule.
I was sick this morning, out of the blue. I had a fever and was shaking. I called in sick. My lips chapped and I started getting ulcers in my mouth. Maybe it was something I ate? I felt better by noon and walked over to Wal-Mart and bought a new shower curtain. Wow... it sure makes a big difference!
Jo came over with her ex, Phil, to cut my hair. Kira was all freaked out and I had to put her outside. She did not know what was being done to me! Poor thing... she was all ready to protect me though.
8:06a - I gotta run before I miss my bus! Feel MUCH better today. Don't know what was wrong yesterday, but I did need that day of rest. Hope all is well at work. Kira had her monthly heart worm pill this morning. Had a weird dream about Barbara Jones last night and emailed her about it early this morning.
I spent part of the day, off & on, preparing a letter to send to Michael Salvato in Deltona. He has not really heard from me since I moved out to the Midwest in 2000. I am going to send him a huge package with lots of pictures and even a couple of CD's full of pictures and movie clips.
10:21p - I am working with Marty on his website tonight.
11:52p - Made some tasty "meatball" things tonight. Fried pork, shredded potato, hamburger, onion and more. Yummy. But... it's so late I could only eat a bit and now I must be off to bed.
12:14a - I am off to bed now. Just got through answering an email to Clara.
7:25a - As usual, I would have preferred to have stayed in bed. I need to start getting to bed earlier, but I keep getting caught up in email, or web design, or... something on the computer. At least I have something to keep me interested and mentally active.
7:28a - I was going to make some rice this morning with some of those pelotas fritas from last night, but I did not remember early enough. It's too late now. In fact, I need to go let Kira back in and the take my shower. (btw, the new shower curtain is very nice, very clean... it was a good purchase).
7:30a - oh... one last comment before I get dress. I had (as usual) lots of weird dreams last night, but the one that stands out in my mind most is the one in which my cousins, Margie Lee and Joe Frank were there. I was at some house and I had lost a shirt. I was digging through a pile of clothes when they cam in. Joe was wearing some cut-off shorts and had a blanket draped over his shoulders; Margie was carrying a cocktail in one hand. I have not seen either of them in many years, so this was a very unexpected dream!
I finished "Way of the Pilgrim" (again) this morning. A good book, but very dark and depressing.
I made labels for Mike's CD's (the ones I burned for him last night) and got his huge letter/package in the mail for him this afternoon. It only cost $4.90 to mail. Not as bad I feared. I hope he enjoys it. I feel good about it.
7:21p - Home at last.... what LOoOoOoOonNG Day! Kira is fed, Skip is at the store, cans are taken out to the recycling, pills are taken and I am in evening wear. Time for a beer and some relaxation!
7:50p - I am finally back to entering my bills into Where's George once again. Here are my statistics after entering another $31 tonight...
'Your Bills' Summary
Statistics You have entered 486 Bills worth $3,689 Bills with hits: 63 Total hits: 74 Hit rate: 12.96% George Score: 680.47 Your rank (based on George Score) is #3676 (out of 12,413 current users with a George Score. [70.4 Percentile]) |
2:35p - I tried to sleep in late this morning. I managed to sleep until about 9:30a. I suppose that's enough. I've been sitting in front of the computer, again, as usual, all morning. Except for when I made a bowl of soup from some leftovers (come to think of it, the "left over" dish was made from left over too!). The soup actually came out quite tasty. This is a three-day weekend. I hope it gets more interesting. I am bored silly. Everything is so far away here in Cahokia, and not having a car really makes it a pain to go any where or do anything. Then there are days like today which is cloudy and gray; overcast and drizzling rain; cold and dreary. That does not help either.
2:45p - Time to take a refreshing shower...
3:02p - Ahhh! MUCH better!
We walked over to Wal-Mart, Schnuck's and the Dollar Store (in the rain). I picked up some new shirts at Wally World. A big pork roast (for $1/lb) at Schnuck's), and a bird feeder & seed at the Dollar Store.
I got a call from Chuck tonight. Mark is in the Hospital. I only got voice mail, so I could ask no details. But if Chuck is in Orlando at the Hospital, it cannot be a good thing. I suspect Mark is dying.
EXCERPT FROM OLD DIARY: 2001 - Loaded "DreamWeaver" on my computer.
SUNDAY
- January 18, 2004
Mark Henderson passes from this world today...
2:58p - I just got off the phone with Chuck. There is not hope for Mark Henderson. They are going to "pull the plug" on him any moment now. It is a very sad day. A chapter closed ... the end of an era. Rest in Peace Mark... say hello to Danny.
3:29p - I got up up about 8:30a this morning. Didn't get to bed until about 2:00a. I hung the bird feeder up first thing this morning. The I dumped all the cans from last night out and cleaned off the shelf in the laundry room. I put some of the tiles down on the shelf that were in the cabinet and it looks much nicer and neater.
I spent most of the morning on the computer (of course), I basically live on the damn thing these days.
3:37p - I just prepare the roast that I bought yesterday. I injected it with butter, and seasonings and am letting it set. I would have put it in the oven, but Skip used the last of the foil and I need some to cook with <grrr!>. I will have to go to the store again.
3:50p - Chuck just called. Mark is gone. He passed at about 4:50pm EST. It's hard to believe. Very sad.
9:46P - UPDATE - For those who wonder who Mark is... was. In August of 1978, I moved in with Chuck (Charles Patrick Welsh) at Greentree Apartments at 1987-C South Semoran Blvd. in Orlando, FL. Chuck was about 25 and I was about 21. Chuck had previously been stationed on a ship in Scotland and it was during this time that he met Mark Henderson. When Chuck moved to Orlando, he still kept in touch with his friend Mark and suggested that he move to Orlando. Mark did so and got a job working at Disney World at the Polynesian Resort. I met Mark shortly after moving in to Greentree with Chuck and even though we were never all that close, he played a continuous and everlasting part in my life. Mark's "life companion" was Danny... and I was well acquainted with him as well. In the early 1980's Danny was killed when attempting to cross Interstate 4 on his way to "The Loading Dock" (a local bar). He was struck and killed by a police car no less! Danny's brother Ricky was also a close friend and was mine and Doug's neighbor, living at Forest Park Village on Silverstar Road between 1985 and 1988.
Mark impressed me with his practicality and perseverence. In the early 80's, he bought his home (just off of North Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando) with cash. He had put his paycheck in the bank for years and live off of his tips. He was a vibrant and wild character and we all respected that. He was stricken hard by Danny's death, but life moved on. Even though I was not in constant contact with Mark, he and Chuck remained close over the years and I kept "in touch" with him through Chuck.
In the past year, I learned that Mark was stricken with AIDS, and he had possible cancer. Today I learned that the AIDS (plus pneumonia) along with the cancer had taken his life. Cancer had spread from his throat to his brain and pancreas. At approximately 4:00p EST "the plug was pulled" ... and around 4:40pm EST after a brief struggle, Mark gave up his life force and crossed over to the beyond.
He will be buried beside Danny, who neither he nor we have forgotten.
Skip and I watched "The Final Destination" today.
MONDAY
- January 19, 2004
Martin
Luther King Day
OLD DIARY ENTRY 2003: Calais' boyfriend, John, was murdered in Modesto today! He was stabbed to death. Also, Kira is sick. I am very worried about her... |
We didn't have to work today. It was nice to get a three day weekend. Skip actually got the dishes done this morning! I walked over to Wal-Mart and spent $21 on 5 more plastic tubs. Then I worked in "the office" and got is straightened up finally. There is still work to do, but it looks hundred better! I also got a VHS tape transferred to CD.
I watched "The Savage Empire" ... a new Star Trek episode centered around The USS Exeter. However, it was "on-line."
Wow... I found the book I thought I had lost at Schnuck's today (book #10 of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time."). It was sitting in my room the whole time! Duh!
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Happy
Birthday |
7:29a - It's back to work today. I had intended to go to bed around 10p last night, but I didn't make it until 1am this morning. I will be tired again today. That's bad. I must get to bed early tonight. This is not a good was to start out the week!
7:30a - I am taking some things in with me to scan today, including the x-rays of my knee showing the pins, my "Anchor" books from boot camp and miscellaneous other papers and photos.
7:32a - Need to let Kira in. She only has one pill left... I meant to call and order some yesterday. Must remember today!
11:25p - This was a hectic and busy day at work. Had lunch with Skip. Started back into book #10 of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time." Was falling asleep on the way home tonight. Made a casserole for supper. Got the dishes done.
11:30p - TIME FOR BED!!! (so tired....)
7:19a - I am more tired than when I went to bed. I had so many dreams last night. I had one dream just before getting up this morning. It was about getting up. I was laying in bed and there was someone on a bull horn outside, down the street giving a speech or something (I couldn't hear quite what they were saying). Then there was a knock at my door and a female voice asked for me. Kira was laying on the bed with me. I covered myself and said, "come in..." It was Francine D. Ellis! Rex Ellis' wife (or ex-wife). She was with some other woman. The other girl went to petting Kira and I was surprised Kira did not bark or get defensive. I told them both to have seat in the living room and "get comfy" while I got up.
7:26a - That was just one of many fragmented dreams that were crammed into my head in the last hour before I got up. I feel exhausted from them all. It is the emotional overtone of stress and confusion that is inherent in these dreams the wears me out. The actual "content" is often inconsequential and possibly meaningless.
7:30a - Must get showered & dressed... would so much rather crawl back into bed. Dreams or not.
7:21p - What hectic frellin' day! I still have a backlog of about 215 merges done... there is just no time to do them. I scanned a few personal items in this evening before work, including the old x-ray of my knee showing the 5 pins. Also an enlarged picture of at work at Guajardo's in Pasco. I printed that out and put it up on the wall in my cubicle.
7:25p - C.P. lost his cool at work today and pulled the cubicle door off our "spare" cubicle. Everyone thought it was funny, but I thought it was stupid. I don't go back ripping doors out of his area because they bother me. Now we have these big ugly rails the doors slide on sticking out there looking like crap. They spent thousands of dollars building these cubicles (however poorly designed), then he just rips it up and everyone thinks its funny. I would have been written up or fired for such behaviour! There is a lot of favoritism in this place. I wish I could risk finding another job sometimes, but its just too dangerous for me due to health issues. I wish I were young again <sigh>...
11:35p - Warmed up some of the glop from last night for supper. It was passable. Time for bed now.
7:14a - I'm up... but half asleep. Kira got me up about twice to go outside again in the middle of the night. She is out of Proin. She got one pill on Tuesday evening; the last one. She should get one in the morning and two in the evening. I've ordered more. I should arrive today. It arrive quickly the last time I ordered some.
8:04a - Time to go. I'm finally awake again. Got a little more sleep last night. Tomorrow is payday/Friday... that helps (in theory)...
7:10p - Another day of work down. Money goes in the bank tonight. I am supposed to join Marty for a "HAM Fest" downtown on Saturday. I am not all that interested really, but its better than sitting in the house all day. It is sure cold out... has been all week.
8:03a - I thought it was Thursday when I got up this morning. I am so glad to be wrong! I am starving this morning and there is a CoorCom meeting first thing when I arrive. I will have to find some food before getting to the office.
8:49p - I just entered my the rent money and some other bills into Where's George. I went over the "500 bills entered" mark! Here is the resulting screen...
9:03p - I am so glad its Friday. This was another long and tedious week. I am so ready to go on holiday...
11:22p - I am off to bed. Marty is supposed to be over to pick me up at 9am...
8:47a - I am getting ready to go to the HAM Fest with Marty. Off to the shower now...
3:04p - We got back about 2pm. I got myself a white polo shirt with my website "www.jubchuQun.com" embroidered on the breast. I also picked up a couple of CD's full of MP3 files of X-Minus One (98 programs) Alien World (31 programs) and Dimension X (50 programs).
I went to bed in a pissy mood last night. My CD drives would not respond and I couldn't reboot because Skip was online. So I went to cook supper and Skip was cooking and took over the burner. I just said 'to Hell with it all...' and went to bed about 11:00p. I ended up around 1:30a for a snack.
9:10a - There is an ice storm in progress this morning. Kira was "ice over" when she came in this morning! The road out front looks more like a glacier. I am staring off the morning with a reboot.
10:59p - Wow... I got SO much done on my websites today. It was tedious but productive. I spent most of the morning re-designing the Klingon Video Gallery. I helped get Marty's "MoGayCampers" site refined a bit too. I also found my old "Lee's Diary" VIDEO tape and converted it to WMV files. I only had 2 days recorded on it before it "fell by the wayside." Octber 12th and 14th of 1990. I put them both in my October pages for for 2002 and 2003.
I talked to Calais on line a bit ago. She is still going into the Airforce. Her grandmother, Evelyn, is not doing well. She has only a couple of weeks left to live. It's a sad thing.
11:40p - I got fixin's ready to make rice in the morning. I am off to bed now. Skip went to bed a few minutes ago. We are both beat I suspect....
7:21a - The routine continues, except I got up earlier than usual this moring (at Kira's prompting) and have already put on a pot of rice and check my email.
7:30a - I need to call the Vet today. Kira's pills have still not arrived! ... but, for now.... off to the shower. It's going to be cold out there this morning. The ground is still covered in icey-hard snow.
8:03a - ...and its time to leap back out into the world! ... I wonder how many won't be there today due to the icy roads?
This snow is solid. Iced over. I walked down the driveway on a couple of inches of snow and did not even leave a footstep!
7:49p - What a long day! BUSY! The weather caused several people to be out. Many because their children have no school; like my coworker, Lisa. I was the only one on the Help Desk and it was busy. Of course, today we got struck by a hacker again. Not too bad though. Nothing really went down. I kept the HD email caught up, the voice mail, and got a lot accomplished. Sometimes I think I get more done when I am working alone than I do when there are 3 of us working (we spend too much time "communicating" betwixt ourselves. Necessary to some degree, but ... I am a conversational person I suppose).
9:38p - I got home tonight and got the trash out (Skip forgot as usual). Got the cans put in the recycling barrel (which is full!) and the can taken care of. Got my clothes out of the dryer and hung them up, folder underwear and match up socks.... for a change! (probably the most I've done since moving to Cahokia!). The red candle I've been burning in Mark's memory is nearly gone. Maybe one or two more evenings at most.
9:41p - BILLS!!! Ouch!! I got the cell phone bill and the residence phone bill both today. I never saw one for last month! I was wondering about that... it seemed way too long since my last bill payment. Well... they were doubled up and totaled over $405.00!! I was not planning on paying THAT big of a chunk of money tonight <moan/groan>. That really hurt. I had to slice the top off my savings... again. That has left me in a foul mood all evening.
9:44p - AND I forgot to call the darn Vet today... Kira's Proin pills have still not arrived. They must have forgotten. Maybe she does not need them any more. She had been getting me up in the middle of the night/morning consistently now for weeks. I think she is "adapting" to cope with her mild incontinency problem. Her bed had wet spot this morning, but I think it was from when I let her out earlier and she was licking the snow and coldness from her feet. I don't think it was "a leak" per sé.
11:16p - I guess I am not going to fix anything for supper tonight. I am drinking beer and haven't fixed any food. I am getting a bit hungry though. Skip is cooking and mouth-watering smells are coming from the kitchen.
OLD DIARY ENTRY 1998: Tue - didn't get to work til 11am. PC was at desk (new) |
7:11a - I got up early again this morning. I was laying awake anyway and was not going to go back to sleep. I had my usual avalanche of weird dreams last night. The one that stands out in my mind the most was in which I was working as a cook in the kitchen of some big Mafia family. Where this idea came from I haven't clue! It seems we (kitchen help) were supposed to be chopping up vegetables and mixing them in see-through containers (like the one I keep my Jasmine rice in. I chopped up a bunch of crappy "garbage" pieces and put them in one container (possibly out of some spiteful motive? ...not sure). A few minutes later, one of the other kitchen workers was dragged, screaming from the premises! They were being blamed for what I had done! The strangest part of it was that I recognized the guy they were "removing" from the kitchen. It was my old friend, Earl Hart, of Mesa, Washington. I have not heard from him in all these years. I wonder how he fares. (Not so well in my dream!)
7:17a - All my clothes are prepared for the week. I just need to go pick something out. Kira is outside... I better go let her in. It's snowing more. This looks like it is going to be a COLD morning at the bus stop!
7:19a - Kira looked like she was VERY ready to come in! I've never seen her show any sing of actually being cold. She never shivers... but she looked like she had enough "outside" for this morning.
7:24a - My free time is over for the morning... must get in the shower and begin another day. I hope I am not alone at work again today.
I had a message from the doctor's office this morning. My appointment on Friday had to be rescheduled. I rescheduled for February 20th and am now just going to take the entire day off on Friday.
Oh no.... the package I sent to Mike was returned! I got the address wrong. It should have been 1114 Gerona and I had 114. Very disappointing.... not to mention being a five-dollar mistake. Oh well.... I will just send it back out.
7:14p - I took my webcam to the office this morning and set it up so that I can watch the front door from my computer. The ground is still covered in snow and it is cold out! I called the Vet and told Bruce "nevermind" on the Proin pills for now. Kira seems to be doing better. I will call back and order them if she starts to have a problem again.
10:47p - I just finished
translating the first paragraph of the jubchuQun
"history".
The following was done in the "Times SudEuro" font. I am trying
to get the Esperanto super-signs to display on-line, but have had no
luck so far, except for the letter ý
... which is the letter U with a breve over it, but it will look like
the letter A with an accent mark if you don't have the right font available).
The letters which should have a circumflex (^) are not displaying for
some reason.
| Miloj de jaroj antaýe, neniu povas kompreni precize kiam, ekzistis rason de homoj kiu ni nun vokas La Antaýgardanoj. Kiu ili estis, aý kie ili foriris, neniu scias; sed, ili postlasis siajn signojn sur nian galaksion. Antaý la arkeologiistoj trovis la malabundajn indikojn al siajn ekzistadon, konsciismaj rasoj tra la konataj kosmoj miris pri la ekzistadon de tro multaj da homformajxanoj de tiom suprizantaj similecoj. Koincidon nur povus konti pro iometaj procentoj de la simileciojn. Cxar tial, tra la galaksio, gehomaroj kredis ke devis esti iu ajn de semandajxoj de homformanoj tra la galaksion. |
11:54p - Off to bed!!!
7:15a - My monotonous cycle repeats yet again. <yawn> ... I will be hungry this morning by the time I get to work. More so than usual I suspect. Since all I had for supper was a medium bag of spicey pork rinds.
7:15p - Today as still cold, but a bit warmer. Ice is starting to melt and the snow is slushy. The sun was out. Everyone is really looking forward to Spring, I think.
7:42p - I picked up some mixed greens and am thawing out a pork steak for supper. I feel kind of nauseous again tonight though. Seems to be every night.
I don't work Friday... I am looking forward to a quite day alone at home doing nothing.
10:45a - It looks like I am getting my 'quite day alone' sooner than expected. I felt rotten this morning and called in sick. Kira just got me up to go out... and I still feel rotten. The cold weather doesn't help. I need to get out and sit in some sun and fresh air.
This was a long boring day at home. I started having some discomfort around my heart this afternoon too. That was bothering me. I walked to KFC and BP for some chicken & beer this evening. Very cold though! It was continuing to snow lightly
1:20a - I am off to bed here shortly. I've been responding to emails for the past few hours. I am up late, but I have Friday off. I did not mean to take off 2 days, but... life takes its own course....
9:26a - I got up a few minutes after 9:00a. Strange... I had two requests on my computer on YIM to add "tweety62206" and "moonpye233" to my friend's list. I wonder if I know who they are? The "tweety" person has my zip code at the end, so maybe she is a local. Mi vidis ambaux de siajn profilajn pagxojn kaj notis ke ili estis ambaux iomete grandaj virinoj. Hmmm....
Mi babilis kun la "moonpye" virinon. Sxi estis sercxanta viron! Ne min!
12:02p - Tad is having computer problems. I am going to shower, and go fix it for him. Then we're going to Brentwood.
12:24p - All spruced up ... it always feels good to be clean in clean clothes.
Bought a stand for the old PC and set up the new stand. Tried to set up the old PC, but I need a new keyboard (or a PS/2 to AT adapter) for it.
1:20a - I need to go to bed.
4:45p - I slept fairly sound last night and got up around 9:30a I think. I put bird seed in the feeder and spent the morning and most of the on the computer (as usual). Kira has spent a lot of her day outside (she is enthralled by the bird flocking around the feeder of course!). I red bird was my first customer this morning. He was a very brave little guy and was on the feeder before I could even go back in the house. I took his picture and "animated" it above.
11:52p - I've been sitting at this computer nearly all day long again. I did not eat until about 2pm when I fixed a cheese omelet with pecans and some of the left over pork roast of days and days ago... the one I bought on the 17th. I order FAMILY TREE MAKER (from Broderbund) this evening. I am glad I waited now. I got version 11 for $50 instead of version 10 for $70. ... That works! I sent out a FAMILY BULLETIN this evening. I think I will try to do this on a monthly basis. This one had lots of sad things in it. Uncle Sheno's illness, Mark's passing, Evelyn Selfridge's situation, Lola's problems (though I did not go into detail about that since it is "classified"). Lola estas mia kuzino. Mi telefonvokis sxia patrino, mia Unklino Marlene, cxi nokte, kaj lernis ke Lola eksedzigxantas! Estas bona situacio por sxin! Mi komprenas ke sxia edzo misuzis sxin kaj traktis sxin kiel servistino. Mi estas tre felicxa ke sxi forlasas lin! Yo Lola! You go girl!!
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In Memory of Doug
Douglas E. Cross
(1956-1996)
Remembering 16 years of fond
memories with you, Doug,
on your 48th birthday.
January 3rd.
We all miss you so....
(and you too, Dax!)
BIRTHDAYS on January 19th... Kerri Adams (1964) Donna Daniel (1948) and Carrie Yglesias (1967) |
FAMOUS |
FAMOUS |