Sunday, February 28

Just writing (or not)

Just have not been into just writing. Why? It may be because a few months ago I decided to give the task (for lack of a better word at the moment) of "no complaining" a try. It's actually going fairly well. Also been trying to tell myself that things just are as they are. It is what it is, etcetera. Nothing mysterious or conspiratorial. Things don't happen to just piss me off, make my life more difficult or whatever, they just happen. Like that old saying goes, "Shit Happens! Deal with it." Part of 'it' may be a feeling that sometimes, not always, but maybe people would like to read more than 1-140 character spaces of my prose. Then again, it's really quite interesting to me trying to be more precise/exact in saying what I need to with as few words as possible. I've heard or read that there is a program or are programs that enable you to post MORE than 140 characters on Twitter, but I won't swear to it. To me that just seems to defeat the purpose of Twitter. If you need to write/say more than Twitter allows, just write a blog, email, Facebook 'Note', or whatever. KWIM?

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Saturday, February 27

Digging for a mole

Though she did have the mole (http://tinyurl.com/66yu63) for a few seconds, it was apparently too strong or something because it got away and dug too fast for her to catch it again. We thought it was fascinating how quick she was at digging, as that's pretty much what Cairn/Yorkie mixes were originally bred to do (dig for small varmints).

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Friday, February 26

Our "pet" opossum (not really)

Our dog starts barking hysterically whenever she sees the opossum that hangs around all the time. I put the dog in the house, went outside and took this video. It was hard keeping the camera on it

Friday, February 5

Projects, phones, timers, breaks, electric power lines

light under shelf shaving tools Motorola W376g bottle and glass

(picture clicking enlarges what you click)

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The 1st picture (left) is one of the things I put up yesterday. It's the fluorescent light above the washer & dryer. It was over just the washer, but for a while the lid of the washer would hit it when you lifted it. I got tired of that. Since there are two shelves above those machines, I attached the light to the higher, or second one.

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Picture #2 was another project I accomplished a few days ago. I moved the electric trimmer (right side of pic) from our bedroom to the bathroom shelf. The razor in the middle was laying flat on the shelf, so yesterday it got mounted on the wall so other things, like the shaving cream would also fit on the shelf above the toiler.

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Third picture is my Motorola W376g cell phone. The reason for this picture is so you can see exactly what I'm talking about when I tell you that I figured out how to use the 'calendar' on it. Took me a couple of hours this morning to find out how to get the alarm to sound at a specific time on a future (or current) date. Solution: Set the reminder to '0 mins before' the set time. Now it'll beep when it is, for example, Valentines day or someone's birthday. Cool, huh?

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That last one is what I spent a 5 minute break doing: pouring myself to drink of cola. See, I was once again searching for a timer to auto-start when the browser (Google Chrome) was opened. The one I chose is from someone who thinks a 5 minute break after every 15 minutes of web surfing is strongly suggested. Still 'shopping' for one that will beep at the 'take a break' reminder time, instead of just flashing like this one. However, after setting my computer time timer to 15 minutes and then hearing the alarm for a break a couple of times, my wife and I decided that's just not enough time. You just start getting into whatever, and BEEP. If you got up to do something else every time, you'd get nothing, or not very much anyway, done. So I'll be changing the on-line/browser timer to remind me every half an hour for a short break. If I'm doing something non browser related, I'll set my off-line timer to 30.

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Last but definitely not "least" is the question my wife and I have had for quite a while now. Question is: Why haven't the electric companies in the U.S. *buried* the power lines? Especially in areas like here or Missouri in general where ice storms happen almost every year where thousands or potentially hundreds of thousands of households lose power when heat is needed the most. Just makes no sense to us! My wife thinks that if the government needed a way to get more people back to work, thus lowering the 10% unemployment rate, that making burying all electric lines mandatory in the nation would be an excellent way to do it. You know, like the phone companies did a long time ago? Just a thought. Peace out!

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Tuesday, February 2

Chores. Timer

Had been looking for an off-line, desk top, count down timer so I could make better use of my time. Rather than getting all caught-up doing things on-line or just on the computer in general and losing track of time, decided I should regulate my time so that I remind myself it's good to take breaks that don't involve the PC. Plus chores don't get put off as much. Speaking of chores... Dishes washed, dried, and put away. Towels washed and now in the dryer. Compost bucket emptied of it's contents into the outdoor compost bin. Check, check, check check check. LOL.

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Plus email and blogs read and responded to. Woot! All that's left is catching up with my Facebook and Twitter friends :)

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Now when Rain gets up from her nap and is ready to make the cookies that she promised, she'll have a clean kitchen and all clean utensils for said baking.

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