kitty's knee....

you see the kitty i use for the profile...not only does she chew electrical wires... (one of the main reasons we decided to ban the cats from the bedroom...) we also swear she has some manic bipolar codependent issues....our previous house the carpet got torn up at the door entry to my study...

but she redeems herself in her ability to cuddle and purr loudly and pretty much be a wonderful lap cat otherwise..

well i noticed she wasn't jumping like she used to (you know like being in the way)... kind of pathetic to look at... i tried the "squeeze-here" theory of trying to find out where it hurt.. i must have gotten close... cat teeth are kind of sharp and she gave me a very firm warning w/o breaking the skin... she always had a weak right knee and now it appears she did something to the left knee...oh bother... i just hope it is something nonsignificant she did on one of those crazed moments of the cat running around the townhouse... hopefully it will go away soon.. if not i might ship the cat to Bea; she seems pretty adapt at taking care of her cute dogs.. (just kidding...i couldn't do that to Bea or her dogs) ... i just hate spending money at the vet... i also hate spending money at the dentist, so it's nothing personal against cats or the vet....so here's to ignoring the problem for now in the hopes it walks away or jumps away in this case....

the family IT guy continued

you know it's embarrassing to have your wife watching you reattempt to the umpteenth time to enter in user name and password...yes ladies and well ladies..as far as i know no male reads this blog..but i digress again about my lack of fans..yes ladies...she had the solution...clear cache and restart..viola...yes it worked...a famous quote by Einstein came to mind "doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is the definition of insanity" or in this case a slight case of stupidity....oh well wifes are wonderful...wouldn't live without'm...
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i am the family IT guy

well thursday morning i made sure my step dad's laptop was working with his printer (my mom can't see the need for an internet connection) ...tonight i am working on my mother in law's computer....so tonight i am sure i will have visions of computer parts intermingled with the taste of some lovely yams with brown sugar and marshmallows....yummy...the best of both worlds..

nerdy craftyness with a box and cables

okay...after blowing out the dust again from the inside of my computer (sorry forgot to take a picture..but it is really cool)... i got totally disgusted at the amount of dust on all the cables behind the desk and computer....so i decided to buy the necessary items to create a dust free cable environment...some sort of sturdy square container to hold the surge protector; power bricks; cable modem; wireless router; and all the unnecessary extra cable length; yielding the desired result of one easy clean box to dust and organized cables.....well as with all things; the trip to the local have-mart and worst-buy resulted in nothing purchased yet

things i have learned that just confuse the uninspired:

1. never ask in the craft area if there is a box strong enough to drill through...

2. never ask in the hardware area if the drill bit is the right kind to drill through a craft box...

hmmmm... i think i see a pattern here...

so far i am left with see through containers that are big enough, but totally defeat the purpose

dark colored containers too small..

short cables that are just too long, but insulated...

short cables that are not insulated..

and for the priceless punchline; around $60 just to hide some dust bunnies and ugly cables ...ugh...

back to the drawing board...which means pulling out all my cables and comparing their lengths to shielded/non-shielded etc. ...perhaps a trip to ikea ... and yes i know they make these boxes especially for this, but they just aren't right either or way over priced....but somehow that price seems more justifiable now.....

wife and chocolate

never remove chocolate from a women...especially when that women is your wife...even if she says "i just don't have any will power and i want to eat the whole thing"....it's amazing what a look can do....(please reference her site)

hmmm..hair legnth

you know...i used to be in the military...so my hair has to be short...i just realized i have been thinking about what to post and running my fingers through my hair....DEFINITELY time for a hair cut....especially because my follicles are decreasing in density and i do not want to be accused of attempting the comb over or under or across.....

soggy contacts

well it's time for bed...no time for too much writing....my contacts feel like soggy cornflakes, my bladder is full, my but is numb, and i have to wake up in five hours...oh well, atleast 3 of these things on this list i can do something about... i just wish i had a delorean with a flux capacitor for the last one....

my office window

okay....i have a cubicle, but i have an office window that is just spectacular...




i should bring a real camera....but trust me...the views are really good...

how may i help you

okay...this is kind of funny...currently my wife is working a lot of extra hours prior to getting laid off...don't worry, she already has another job lined up...so all is good..

but, the point is that i have been spending more time in the yarn store than my wife (or we go together)... my sole function is to feel the yarn & look at the colors...i cant knit, she does...i am the yarn pusher though...i ask her questions like: this is soft, can you make anything from it?

well, at the knitting guild meeting, someone referred to my wife as mr80grit's wife...funny ..it's probably because while i am there [at the shop], i usually end up balling some yarn on the hand crank thingy ( i get fed chocolate as a reward too!)

also today, at our favorite knitting store, i started helping out a customer (the owner & only employee was helping another patron with a knitting pattern) .. i got stuck on a question about the scarf example next to some baby alpaca (i think) yarn...you should have seen the look of amused shock from the store owner as she went to assist the 'first-time-ever-in-the-store' customer...

it's just neat to be able to integrate into a community such as knitters, they have the amazing ability to do knit and talk... and not surprising, that just doesn't translate into my hobby of computers...

night of confusion

okay..i'm brilliant at hardware...i can build and over clock a computer...but blogger somehow eludes me....

question to the 2 people that read my blog..okay i'm hoping there's more, but right now i only see evidence of 2..but i digress..here is the question...

i post a comment on someone else's blog, is there a default setting that will allow a way that they can email me back with a response without advertising my email address?...i hope the question makes sense..thanks in advance...

veteran's day...i honor those before me and after me

there are those who have volunteered to join the military such as myself for reasons that were secondary to the nation... me, i joined for the GI Bill, a way to pay for college...but during the coarse of boot camp...just 2 short months..i was broken down as an individual with solitary selfish concerns and emerged into a greater understanding...i was not the important one....a brotherly bond is built that is virtually impossible to duplicate in its intensity in civilian life, save the bond that i share for my wife...

the impact of my choices 19 years ago are only now beginning congeal into form as i cogitate on the actions of those who served a generation or two before me...

was i willing to die for my comrades, i hope so, i was lucky to have never had the chance to test my character to the fullest extent...i fortunately never had to see the loss of any of my friends either...

but the generation before me and the ones currently serving after me are...

it is to them we owe a great debt to...do yourself a favor..talk to a world war II veteran before they are all gone...

one just died last week.. Marty... he stormed the beaches on d-day and walked through blood red waters and unrecognizable human parts...his stories died with him...

Mack...still living...prayed on an the deck of an airplane to accept Christ into his life when his plane was being bombarded with so much shrapnel, they could have used the hull as a fishers net

Pappy... grandfather on my wife's side...he captured a German tank...no longer with us...

the ones currently serving have the most difficult duty to nation and county...fighting a battle where the enemy wears no uniform...doesn't value life...first respondent medical care has improved so much that now men survive when they have been seriously wounded, but they survive at the cost of missing body parts...others have their souls scarred by the intensity of fighting a faceless enemy....listen to these men...honor these men....support these men...let not the history of Vietnam repeat itself upon the veterans that have served...

yes i am unabashedly grateful for the greatest nation God has given men and i am extremely humbled i was able to serve it, if only for 6 years....

is it plagerism if you cut & paste your own comments?

okay...i thought i was pretty clever when i came up with this....much more deserving than hidden in the comments section...so here it is again...

oh darn, not enough yarn?
did you try in the barn?
of anyone we could ask, it would have to be a Narn.*
but i think we're out of luck to darn with yarn...oh darn...

*fictional race of characters from the TV series Babylon 5.

okay...i edited a little..here is the original

oh darn..not enough yarn...but did you try in the barn? if there was anyone around from TV series Babylon 5 we could ask a Na'arn...but i think we're out of luck to darn with yarn...oh darn...

let me know...which one works better? or is this one of this times like a joke where you had to be there, but I am the only one there?

how to really suprise your wife

we were laying in bed..winding down...exchanging conversation..no really just talking....when i answered a question...my wife just stared at me with shock, not mock shock, but total shock (okay and a little confusion)...you see the question i answered was asked of me about 27 hours prior..i just never answered then...i think i forgot to...so there it was....and they say men cant remember what our wife's say....hah...

steak and almost no veggie's for dinner

well...the workings of my brain are unique...I'm hoping that all men can join me in this instance of incredible daftness....(it is amazing that we are these same men that can achieve greatness in the workplace...well most of the time)....

my wife has been on a lifestyle changing diet that i assist in by cooking wonderful meals....well, for the past 5 months..if it is steak (at least once a week)...there are veggies....

except for today (almost)...i made sure i did not forget anything on my list..i stayed focused and got the ONLY item on my list ---> steak...yep...just steak...walked down the frozen isle (where we get our frozen veggies in the microwave steam fresh bag) ..picked up 2 rib eye's ..walked down an isle that sells socks and pantyhose????..weird in a grocery store....wait..stay focused ...purchased steaks and proudly arrived home knowing mission successful...

my wife knowing me quite well, phoned ahead...asked me if i bought anything to eat with the steaks..i replied no...(ah oh..husband self preservation instincts just kicked an alarm in my brain).. my wife responded obviously "how could you forget the veggie's" ....my response, given in haste defense..." i didn't forget the veggies, they were not on my list....hard to forget something you didn't remember in the first place".......................(brilliant i thought...REMEMBER in the first place?...repeating my wife's question to myself again)

ya....my wife loves me..there are countless things i could even say to myself about that defense...many of them brilliant sarcastic statements....but she lovingly and kindly suggested i just go pick up the veggies for our meal....my wife is wonderful.....

ps..the dinner was awesome.....

i was waiting for you to want to....

well, we have just experienced one of those marriage moments....during the nights of computer repair, i had not been much of a conversationalist, so my wife had become accustomed to listening to her mp3 player while knitting....

i finished the laptop about 3 nights ago...but have sat in the bedroom in the stillness of not doing anything that required a higher level of reasoning or thought...our conversations had still been minimal while all i could hear was the occasional tinny sound emanating from her headset.. i once asked if we could listen to the same songs on the computer but she politely declined...proffering that i shouldn't be bothered by such a hindrance in my computer adventures..

well tonight i posit that an increase in brain functioning or enlightenment yielded the results we both desired, individually desired, desired together but unknowingly to each other...

all that was required for this event to occur; simple direct communication...who'd a thunk it?

now we are blissfully listening to a book on tape...jointly together...

fun with vista or really not...

okay....i'm back..i'm done....no more vista computer repair...i've been spending almost every bit of spare time working on my step-dad's laptop....it's a nice computer....but ...ok BUT ..it was running windows vista without the new update to make it a lot more stable....but now i am done ... back to playing on my own beautifully built ...hand built...lovingly carressed into an electronic heartbeat built computer that absolutely stomps any other computer out there bought from any major vendor that puts lots of garbage on it that one spends 4 hours to delete just to get a clean install of windows vista....but i digress....i am back to actually being able to blog.....catchup on facebook... and break my self imposed curfew doing the fun things i want to do on my own computer....

yes...it is good to be back ........