Life is a continous string of one liners

Fave5 vs. facebook

2009-04-28T22:32:00.000-06:00

well long time no post...

but i have an all important question...

how can i have 165 friends in facebook but i cant even fill out my Fave5 on my cell phone...

its even more pathetic... 2 are for my wife (home & work) & 1 is for my mom.... good thing i'm married cause then i would really look pathetic...

am i back yet

2009-03-17T00:08:00.000-06:00

you know the old saying the mechanic never works on his own car... well this computer nut had to reload windows XP when he changed anti-virus software (that and it was time to anyways... as it turns out the default windows firewall is actually pretty good so i unloaded my bloated software firewall also...)

well that means several days of program reinstalls and then catching all the latest updates on all of them.... well i am finally done....

now i can start to blog again... by the time i got done each day i just couldn't stand to look at the screen any longer.... so here goes it for another very very very long run with having to reinstall windows ( or i have got to learn how to do my own slipstream installation like the corporations do)

untill tomorrow..... toodles....

auto vehicular day

2009-02-27T23:26:00.001-07:00

yep.. today i decided my power steering was going in my car.... get home... kiss wife.. she walks back in door frustrated... 25 yards into her drive to work .. flat tire.... easy fix.. i drive my wife and I in my car with balking power steering to her work.... we are now late enough so no wonderful coffee at java joe's.... come back... spend 20 minutes figuring out how to retrieve the spare tire from underneath the dodge grand caravan sxt... it's actually a cool set up once you figure it out... change tire.... got new tire for price of buying new road hazard warranty $14 w/tax.. get back home.. switch cars ... go get power steering fluid because it was bone dry.... ugh.... no cat food at end of day with family at wonderful meal.... back to walmart at 11pm to get cat food.... now finally took heavy jeans off.... ugh... and i thought it was going to be a layed back friday... the 7pm to 940pm part was great....well rambling... signing off...

things not to say to your beloved one

2009-02-25T22:43:00.001-07:00

"i didn't read your post today.... was it important?...."

hmmmmm.... translation.... you usually never say anything of significance... why would now be any different....

i love my wife.. she gave me lots of grace for this statement....

an actual fully cooked meal made at home

2009-02-24T22:13:00.002-07:00

yep.... mission successful... took a laundry basket to the kitchen (its portable and i needed the oven ... if you ever been pushed for time and the kitchen is a mess you should catch my drift)... magically made the kitchen instantly or almost instantly clean

boars head bacon..
2 eggs...
spinach/rice pasta (gluten free kind)
fresh ground parmesan
pinch of fresh ground pepper
butter..

blend while hot....tasty ... very delicious..

this is the original old style spaghetti carbonara... any thing else like garlic or cream has been added later is not traditional....

ps.... kids love this too...

now just to hide tonights dinner dishes....................... just kidding ...

it's hard to shop

2009-02-23T23:02:00.003-07:00

well actually its hard to eat what you shop for.... i mean.... for myself... i would eat tons of fruit if someone would just cut it for me... i don't even need it skinned... talk about pathetic... then my wife... she got lunch bored.... see i can eat the same meal every day every week ... but my wife.. its a different story... anyways about 3 hours later and we only have enough food for a couple of lunches... but it's a good start.... please see 2 postings down about eating out...

it's a shame too... i had to throw out about 10 lbs of various meats.. all got freezer burned.. ugh... oh well thawing sometimes takes too long...

ps my wife wanted to point out she ate the same lunch since august....

pss. apparently our eating out also affected my wife's lunch...

on a good note... tomorrow's dinner is spaghetti carbonara ...easy..fattening and delicious... this wonderful meal is made or broken on the quality of the bacon...i prefer boars head due to its vast availability and quality

our love is electrifying

2009-02-21T23:57:00.001-07:00

wow... talk about amazing.... my wife and i kissed and the hugest shock went from her lips to mine or mine to hers... i mean it--- our lips were both numb... for like 10 minutes... wow ... at least i know we still have it...

the secret's out .. life was busy.. eat out...

2009-02-15T22:59:00.012-07:00

take the combination of being lazy (or lack of interest) with being extremely busy during the last 2 months of my wife's corporate job.... she was training for her new job while working extremely long days at her corp job...

the problem is in 2 parts:

part 1: we had no idea when wife would get off work...430pm or 730pm?... my poor wife was overstressed and overworked.. is it a light dinner or heavy dinner or just almost straight to bed?

part 2: during this time our kitchen saw amazingly low use.. i might dirty a pan..rinse and set aside to be cleaned later... repeat for next few commonly used pans.. along with the few favorite knifes... (so now its clean before eat...ugh)

the result: led us to eat out almost every night... wendy's chili/potato... it's fast and easy (and cheap)... or we could savor the company of each other in the late night's by also eating out at our favorite restaurant... we sit at table 37 and get treated like royalty by the staff there....

honestly .. the person that works the most does not want to help in the kitchen.. so we would have disjointed conversations at best while i made dinner (no complaint, i love to cook) but by they time dinner prep was over it was 830pm some nights.... heartburn city too because of it being so late...

so i think we maintained our sanity by avoiding the chore of making the nutritious meals ourselves... so the secret is out.... now through some conversational slips of thought most of our close friends now know that we have not reciprocated in the dinner invite because our kitchen is a disaster..no health codes ... just non-functional....

but time to celebrate for our joint guts... wife's last full day at corp job was jan 31, 09... ready for the irony.... we now have the time (and less stress) to eat meals at home knowing the exact out of work time (no more suprise late nights).......................... and get ready for it...................... we celebrate by ............................ yep.. you guessed it............ eating out.....

boy....start a habit....but that is another posting..

mother in law and the couch

2009-02-14T23:10:00.001-07:00

standing on couch.... funny how our parents told us not to stand on the furniture... i just never knew they (the furniture) fought back.... the couch launched my poor mother/law off and into the corner of a wall.. 8 stitches later (ER visit required) ... she's all good though.... hard head... now don't be reading between any lines on that one either....

the funnest saturday in years

2009-02-09T23:53:00.002-07:00

this has been the first saturday my wife and i had off without using vacation time for either sickness or business in years... my wife has a new noncorporate job now... just mon-fri noon to six... wonderful... well at the end of her first official week we both spent about 4 hours reorganizing the office... it was the funnest time we had in a long time... we turned the desk around and i used my navy skills of ceiling to floor cleaning along the way....we found out the baseboard is actually a true black..not a lighter shade of gray... and how does dust stick to a vertical surface anyways?...

yes her salary has decreased (we haven't felt it yet...) but it was just so much fun.... to discover that we will have weekends again.. to discover that planning a vacation no longer requires the corresponding meetings at work to plan and quible with all the other members of management of who gets what days off...

yep.. this is going to be fun....

old navy buddies

2009-02-09T23:47:00.002-07:00

okay... the reason i haven't posted in 3 days...

old buddies... uss gettysburg (CG-64) and uss constition (old ironsides) have been taking up my time on facebook...boy it is wonderful to have technology to catch up with friends that are seperated by miles and years..

totally cool....now its almost just about a part time job to catch up...

bonds of friendship.. insight to self...

2009-02-06T22:38:00.003-07:00

navy buddies... i have just spent probably 4 hours today making new links to old friends in facebook... we served on board uss constitution and uss gettysburg ... it's hard to explain, but there is nothing like the kinship that one achieves when serving so closely with others in the military... for some it's been 15 years since i have last seen them.... they have families now... or they just have a bigger family... some were men of weak moral aptitude and others were men of strength that honored their covenants to their wives and girlfriends when out to sea... but there was always a silent confidence that if i needed help... any one would speak up.... no matter the personal feelings of annoyance.. i guess this is what eventually turns men of weak characters into men of strength.. i guess they witness first hand what it is to disagree, even vehemently, at times with you (me), but then be the first to volunteer to do your (my) watch if the need arose...

the ethics of professionalism developed during the workday would bleed into the personal lives of the men during the off times...it just wouldn't do the other way around... the ones who could not wouldn't last very long...so this is why i have a special affinity for anyone that served more than just the minimum in the military...

it's the character of strength i admire and hope that in myself i have retained just enough to remain extra-ordinary... it would be a pity to discover in myself that i lost that character i learned 15 years ago...which leads to a very difficult question... what would the quality of the handshake be if i were to meet the mentors i had from this time? .. could i look them in the eye or allow my eyes to wander in embarrassment?... i think i'll leave the last question open/rhetorical for the moment as i ponder its significance.... (the wonderful thing is.. my wife knows the answer... 2nd scary ponder... am i ready to listen) ... (or jokingly should i just give up and buy the next most expensive toy.. NOT!!!... )

ps....
this is just amazing.. i love the technology that allows people from all over the country to reconnect and laugh at very old jokes and make new ones...

its a secret...

2009-02-06T20:41:00.002-07:00

well actually not... just not as many people read my blog as my wife's... she just can't currently sit at the computer.. our red computer chair that is front of it isn't quite agreeing with my wife yet... so there it is.... no updates on her blog and an update on my blog about her.... but thankfully she can knit so i'm not being driven nuts.... lol...ha ha....

why i don't clean my windows

2009-02-05T22:29:00.002-07:00

apparently it's for the birds... i mean really... not the saying of who cares, why do it?..but actually for real birds... just trying to minimize the headaches of birds... one of the blogs i follow shows a picture of feathers stuck to a window from a bird smack.... taken together with the cute dog pictures; it creates a good laugh... the kind of laugh where you have to poke the next nearest person incessantly until they notice and start laughing too... (my wife's back is hurting so i turned down my desire to do this) but i was still obnoxious during an episode of American iron chef ..

thanks for the laugh...

can we get a new back and hip joints ordered please

2009-02-03T21:28:00.000-07:00

okay... my wife does this about once every 2 years... usually involving a slip in the tub.. but this time no tub... and she has no idea how she did it... but boy does it look pathetically painful... on the bright side... she was just able to leave a note at her new job and come home to recoup... i am so glad she is out of the corporate world...

borrowed from my other comments

2009-02-02T22:39:00.001-07:00

how long can you ponder about nothing before you realized you have started to think?

i actually have nothing to say

2009-02-01T23:29:00.000-07:00

here it is: "nothing"

ya ... i know...pretty lame..but i didn't want to miss a day... and i ran out of creative juices having fun on facebook....

$3 fries....12 hours of gas

2009-01-31T21:59:00.001-07:00

priceless....

or enough said...

hair vs. vacuum brush

2009-01-29T22:50:00.004-07:00

let me first of point out... i love long hair... especially if its on my wife.... during my last cleaning episode.. something started to smoke on the vacuum... no big deal.. unplug and figure it out later... did you know there are ball bearings inside the roller brush... i didn't either till i cleaned all the hair out from everything.... just on the brush alone it was 1/4 inch thick and i thought the see through window on top was too scratched to see through any more... ha ha ha... it was hair hiding the neon green bristles....

i think my wife is shedding... or at least I'm driving her crazy and her hair is falling out..

so let this be a warning to all men that have wives with long hair... don't wait to clean the brush down to the ball bearings... it takes about 2 hours... and if the pets are shedding too... clean it more often.. ugh... no wonder the vacuum guy charges so much...

sorry if this is boring for ya... but it was quite traumatic for me..

husband has computer..wife has bed...

2009-01-28T21:58:00.002-07:00

okay.. there are certain instances during which either sxe (misspelled to avoid google search) of the husband/wife team becomes oblivious to the inquiries and responses of the initiator... i for one am woefully inadequate on my attention span and short term memory retention if the following condition is true: computer is on; i am in front of it ... my wife, on the other hand, just reminded me that if i discuss with her prior to sleep, same thing... as evidenced by a preceding statement i, myself, uttered in attempting to trigger synaptic recovery of a previous conversation "while you were falling asleep" ... yes yes ... i should have known .... "here's my sign"...

soggy cornflakes..late night

2009-01-27T23:14:00.000-07:00

its amazing.... usually every morning i swear i am going to bed earlier... than i stay up late... yep.. tonight's punishment is my contacts feel like soggy cornflakes.. so off to bed...

day 2...still nothing to write about...so i have a happy marriage

2009-01-26T21:22:00.005-07:00

yep... i must be still boring... but maybe... just maybe i have learned all the secrets to a happy marriage... perhaps i have so figured out my wife so well that i no longer have the necessity to improve myself... yep; that must be it.... just call me the idiot savant of a happy marriage...

drawing a blank

2009-01-25T21:48:00.002-07:00

okay... i suddenly feel excessively boring.... i had tons of fun today..but most of it occurred while my wife was at her last day of working sundays (like hopefully never ever again) ... so i've already told her what happened all day.. so now my brain is just empty...sorry fans ... so, i guess this one time, i'll let my wife got the best of me...

renewed ambitions apparently require the mundane also

2009-01-15T00:22:00.001-07:00

yes...okay.. the beginning of the new year started out quite drastically yes....the suspense i am sure is just exhausting... yes the new year required all things to be washed that lay flat to dry....boy what an exciting beginning...

new year..great dinner...such awesome possibilities

2009-01-14T00:36:00.002-07:00

okay...haven't blogged in a while...haven't followed my friends blogs either (shamefully not even my wife's...but dont worry she keeps me up to date personally on how her life is going)...

i was stuck in a computer envy rut..why...who knows (i still have the best IMHO)... but tonight i went to a wonderful dinner and listened to former pro football player tracey eaton speak... to sum it up.... it was awesome.. i feel rejuvenated ... empowered to start enjoying life to the fullest again....my wife's painfully exhausting job will soon be over and her new enjoyable one will be fully started... i think we can both see the light at the end of the tunnel now...okay...it's late...the clicking on the keyboard is keeping her up.. got to go.....

i have a cold and a straw wrapper hit me in my forehead..

2008-12-09T22:38:00.002-07:00

right in the middle of my forehead to be exact...you see i have a cold..and before that i was rebuilding my mother in law's computer (hence no posting update)...but now it is time..but i had to wait for something truly inspiring to convince me to write something... you see i am pathetic when it comes to colds...and typing exerts a certain amount of energy that causes my nose to run... yes i have heard that one before...i am running down the street to catch it right now... anyways... oh wait... straw wrapper...

we are at our favorite restaurant... i love to cook, but hate to do anything when i have a cold...so we have been there friday night, monday night, and tonight.... well beware of the ides of march...wait wrong season.. beware of your wife when you're not looking.... i must be sick... usually i am the one to blow the straw wrapper at my wife..with exceptionally bad aim, i might add.. but tonight...tonight i wasn't even thinking....i just unwrapped my straw and unwittingly bowed my head down to drink, whilest my dearest love, contriving supremacy, took the opportunity at my weakness, in my befuddled stupor of being sick and slow in thought... tonight ...YES tonight, the aim was true..with quickness of hand and slight of breath took aim... robin hood would be so proud.. my beloved.. my bethrothed succedded in hitting dead center on my forehead.. we wont mention that is an easier target now than in my younger days..

there was much celebration to be had apperently by this event that could only have occured when the celestial bodies were aligned just right... my wife had a good old fashioned giggle meltdown....

in reality, it's all worth it though...it is with great appreciation that i have such a wife to enjoy these moments with......if i dont post soon again, i must still have my cold and will be waiting further inspiration....

kitty's knee....

2008-11-30T22:04:00.005-07:00

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

2008-11-28T22:31:00.002-07:00

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

2008-11-27T22:16:00.002-07:00

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

2008-11-25T23:09:00.003-07:00

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

2008-11-18T22:10:00.001-07:00

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

2008-11-17T22:55:00.002-07:00

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

2008-11-16T23:38:00.002-07:00

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

2008-11-15T21:38:00.005-07:00

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

2008-11-14T21:06:00.004-07:00

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

2008-11-13T22:43:00.000-07:00

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

2008-11-11T22:16:00.003-07:00

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?

2008-11-10T20:23:00.002-07:00

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

2008-11-09T20:40:00.001-07:00

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

2008-11-05T21:31:00.005-07:00

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....

2008-11-03T20:28:00.006-07:00

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...

2008-11-02T18:17:00.002-07:00

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 ........

mini-fridge squared

2008-10-23T23:20:00.003-06:00

last night after two very wonderful but completely exhausting days...it was time to go to bed..i ate a bowl of cereal...refreshed it..forgot i had already eaten one bowl...got a fresh spoon and contemplated my aching feet and wondering why this supposedly 1st bowl was not as satisfying...

anyways..being the thoughtful husband i am i decided to treat my wife to a whole bunch of munchies to stock in our mini fridge in the master bedroom...after all our kitchen is on floor one and our master is on floor three....

so when i arrived all she did was laugh at me....i'm like what?...so she said..look in the fridge... apparently she had the same idea...told me her idea before she went upstairs and even walked in front of me with her own munchie supplies....needless to say...the fridge was pretty well packed at this point....

wonderings in our master bedroom

2008-10-20T19:49:00.003-06:00

apparently a man cannot just randomly look in a snack drawer or the mini fridge in a master bedroom without being asked the question as to the nature of the search... i had to explain the "just because they were there" reason for any man to look in a fridge...

although my wife is beginning to wonder if a i am the subject of this post or if she is the subject of this post...

this is a wonderful video

2008-10-17T21:10:00.000-06:00

i am not catholic but it has a wonderful point... i have been in the military and my wife was adopted herself....i also run the soundboard at our church..so it echoes my beliefs ....

feed the birds...get a rat....

2008-10-13T23:12:00.004-06:00

well during the summer i had an idea that i might like a bird feeder...well apparently birds can be quite picky eaters and they go through gobs of food to find what they want...so along with strange new plants growing in my grass; i also had a new visitor that appreciated the dropped seeds..it had moved the gravel from under our wood patio (at ground level)...it is quite nice...24X24 squares of 2X4 set up in alternating directions....see my wife's blog at http://www.knittingonestitchatatime.blogspot.com/ for the picture...

anyways the gravel had been moved out from under in several locations..thank goodness our deck is still solid and i could see cleared out holes along our vinyl fence and cement wall... with the new construction recently done across the street; i had dreaded that a groundhog had appeared...but no....to my good luck it is just one rat....kind of looked like a squirrel without a big tail...it did not look like a rat initially until i Googled pictures of wild rats and sure enough..it is one of them......i guess i'll call the city and see if they can give me a live capture trap... i'd hate to kill the thing out right and especially hate to deal with any mess in the backyard from doing so....and their are too many neighbor pets to use poison....so i guess i'll try my luck with a live capture trap....and i have the perfect bait..birdseed...now i just hope i catch a rat and not a bird..

it's 23:22...do i know where my wife is?

2008-10-11T23:22:00.002-06:00

i sure do....she's telling me it's time for bed...apparently funny is at 2300..not 2322...so she is signing cutely and obnoxiously to get me motivated to get off the computer...so one more last word....ack...i can't...time to get off......

my wife is more popular

2008-10-11T00:19:00.002-06:00

well it is official...after noticing the comment count (including the recent spammer) my wife has more visits than my blog... of course i gave no pretense about being mentally stimulating either...just funny ..and probably just funny to me at times... but have no fear my fans of diminished quantity... i shall continue in my postings of randomness and hopefully funniness.... so until next time...rats i couldn't think of anything profound...superbly dumb; yes.. but profoundly funny; no... so oh well.... have a merry 1am in the morning to ya....

snickers and salads

2008-10-07T22:15:00.000-06:00

well i had a craving ..totally healthy...so i enjoyed a salad...it was quite tasty...wonderful zesty type dressing... and then just to fall back into character..i ate 3 miniature snickers for a follow up treat... it's just great to be an adult and totally eat any abnormal way that tickles one's taste buds..

okay...an easy post

2008-10-06T22:54:00.002-06:00

between facebook....blogs...and the final book of the p0tter series.. it will be amazing if i get to bed... so here is one post that is just hilarious from you tube ...i cant imagine we grew up in these clothes...
( and just to ensure no misunderstanding....it is the presentation that is so hilarious...okay and quirky wording in spots....)

chasing snow...what a wonderful sunday..

2008-10-05T20:42:00.003-06:00

well its quite obvious and wonderful... God has an awesome color pallete...

here are the computer pictures

2008-10-04T17:25:00.002-06:00

this is the screen shot of my screen....and yes my wife has confirmed i am dorky....

this is a picture of the blue light that emanates from my power supply....

which i believe gives me immunity against cold weather (taken from last winter)
either that or it's my super socks......which of coarse is knitted by my wife....

the last copy at the store

2008-10-03T21:29:00.005-06:00

while relaying to my wife the conquests of my shopping adventure... i had mentioned picking up the last "copy" of gluten free beer at the store....i think i have been spending too much time on the computer.........

ps..there is supposed to be a picture here, but i think blogger is misbehaving currently ...but geeky enough, it was a picture of this exact (compose) screen...minus the ps of coarse..

when you know you have married to the same person

2008-10-01T21:13:00.002-06:00

well i decided to go away from a black background...kind of hard to read text against it...anyways i spent an hour looking for the right template...asked my wife what she thought...her immediate response was that it looked amazingly familiar and suggested i take a look at her blog...amazing ...just amazing....exactly the same template...so i had to change at least a few colors..just to be different...kind of like having to order something different at restaurant...marriage..its just wonderful to think alike...

can you read this

2008-09-30T19:53:00.001-06:00

okay i have started to play with the colors... i like the black background....but is it readable.. anyways..changed 4 tires today....too exhausted to think funny...

one should never make statements of simplicity

2008-09-29T22:03:00.000-06:00

okay...my wife snagged me on this one....i go ahead and write an entry about how easy it is to write a blog with one liners...and then i do the unforgivable....i forget a day...it totally blew by me..apparently my interests in the developer forum for windows 7 took priority to my own interest in my life....once again...computer geekness to its max...i'm just glad i remember to bathe and shave (but of coarse once you're married, the task of remembering such minutia of detail is no longer required by the male partner..it is actually enforced on quite a regular basis)....

speaking of bathing and showering...i miss florida...apperently a dip in the ocean followed by a dip in the pool is enough to cleanse any military man for weeks at a time....it doesn't do the hair any good, but then again it is required to be kept short anyways...(obviously this is part of my single days)...

but i digress...we are talking about one liners in the now, the moment, we are talking what i have done to make someone elses day brighter or atleast my own day not as boring....it started out miserabley annoying with a flat tire...enough about that ...

continued to a trip to the dentist... but atleast i told my dentist he should thank my wife...you see i had this plan to save all my dental floss for an entire container and then mail it to him with the empty container..you know how they are always pestering you to floss...anyways about a month ago my wife made me throw it away...said it was disgusting..so what happened i threw it away and i quit flossing... i lost all motivation in the flossing dept and i blame my wife... apperently computer geeks have strange motivations....but atleast as of today my gums are still healthy...so the dentist told me that whatever works...preferably a non-see-through plastic bag and no he does not want to see the proof...

okay longer than a one liner....but hey...you just cant describe the above in one line....

keeping it current

2008-09-27T23:04:00.000-06:00

well i have discovered it is actually real easy to maintain a blog...especially when the title is Life is a continuous string of ONE LINERS......

matching shirts

2008-09-26T22:09:00.000-06:00

well my wife and i were wearing our red shirts today...both LL Bean...so i suggested we get our pictures taken so we could be Beaners...the answer was an immediate no, followed by the "your such a cute dork" expression....

hard chairs

2008-09-24T22:47:00.000-06:00

i am pondering the inevitable result that will occur when i stand up..i am such a computer geek..i had not realized it ... and i am sure OSHA would definitely not approve....but you see, both of my legs have fallen asleep....

why 80grit

2008-09-23T23:10:00.000-06:00

well it's easy...i dont shave for a couple of days and then attempt to kiss my wife....

80grit is the texture of coarse sandpaper...need i say more...

the cats practicing for halloween

2008-09-22T21:11:00.000-06:00

although we don't particularly get into Halloween....we prefer Christmas hugely more...still our cats seem to have captured a particular flair for Halloween and seem to be practicing the look to give any dogs that might walk past our front window...

saturday morning band and humor

2008-09-20T10:28:00.000-06:00

here i am at band practice getting ready for Sunday morning... running the soundboard....the band has reached the giddy giggle stage...we're practicing the reverent song...well it started with the drums...he added the chimes at a most inopportune moment...followed by piano playing a little high pitched trill at the end of the next verse...our poor worship leader couldn't keep his composure after the violin added a trombone sounding effect after the next verse....God is just awesome that he has given us the gift of humor....

to top it off...no joke...the person in the kitchen trying to clean up from our breakfast set off the fire alarm during the repeat of this same song.....

just starting.....

2008-09-20T00:37:00.000-06:00

okay...the expert is asleep...she has a knitting blog...so please forgive me while i attempt this...

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To use a line from my facebook page:

80grit is coming to the realization that the electric shaver is not removing less hair; the hair being dumped into the sink more closely matches said WHITE sink....