Heat, ISDN, medicine, Sonic, smoking, napping, unpacking

Not much to say today, but as always I will think of something. *grin* Yesterday and today have been extremely hot here in LL, MO - in the mid 90's. Yesterday afternoon I went out and jumped into the pool. Boy did THAT feel good, although I thought the water was cold. When the kids jumped in a few minutes later, my daughter said, "This is NICE!" Crazy kid. *smile*

I called CenturyTel this morning and asked about ISDN since we can't get DSL. She immediately said "No!". I asked her why not and she told me, "Because we don't offer that". I told her, "Yes you do, I saw it on your web site under 'business'". She told me to hold on a minute while she checked. She came back a couple of minutes later and told me it wasn't available in my area. No kidding, nothing is. *sigh* I asked how much it would be if we could get it and she told me $500  a month. YIKES!

Called in my prescription to the pharmacy this morning, but when we got there to pick it up, it wasn't ready. The doctor hadn't called them back to okay it yet. That's okay, because I have enough to get me through until Sunday (Saturday's my last available dose), and it's one I can do without until Monday. Actually, I think the pharmacy is open tomorrow, so theoretically we could drive in tomorrow and pick it up if we want to.

While we were in town we stopped at Sonic and had breakfast. That was good. Then we swung by the store to check on my prescription, pick up a couple of things, swung by the cigarette store to get me enough to get through the weekend. When I run out of cigarettes after this weekend, if my wife has been able to stay not smoking after today, I will quit on Monday, or sooner if the smokes we bought today are gone. Once she quits (starting tomorrow), I will only smoke outside, to help her not be so tempted.

We've brought a few more things that we were storing in the craft room outside, in to the house today. Some movies, a few computer CD's, and miscellaneous stuff. That was done while I was napping. Now my wife and daughter are napping, and my son is in the other room watching TV. All the cats are lazing around and sleeping too. The chickens are outside roaming around though, but I'm sure some of them are just laying around as well. That's all I've got to say.

Rambleman

Excess liner, tanglefoot & horse flies, naps, frisbee, Pirates of the caribbean, Qumana 3.0

Got a few things done today, like cutting the excess blue liner off the sides of the pool, and hanging them on the fence to the side of the pool. Reason? I've heard that horse-flies are attracted to the color blue. The inside of the pool is blue, and during the latter month or so of summer, the horse-flies just won't leave you alone when you're in the pool. We figured that if they are indeed attracted to blue, then perhaps we can get them to buzz around the blue pieces on the fence and leave the swimmers alone. We we get the money, we'll buy something called "tangelfoot" to get them stuck to it and die. Just like those sticky fly strips you hang from the rafters and/or ceiling. Worth a shot anyway. *smile* During the whole session of cutting the excess stuff off the pool, I also pulled some weed because they're looking a bit unruly. I can only mow so close to the pool because of the wood framing that's on the ground around it. I was going to go back out and cut and pull the weeds, grass, and tree saplings, but I was getting tired. I came in and took a nap once I cooled off, and slept until 4 p.m. Came out to the livingroom and dozed off again until 5:30. Guess I was more tired than I thought. *smile*

Not too long ago, I was outside playing frisbee with the kids again. That was fun, even if it was only for 20-30 minutes. The heat was definitely getting to me though. I noticed at one point that every so often when I'd be waiting for the frisbee to come my way, I'd start getting dizzy, and sometimes I'd start seeing "tracers" of light cause by the sun hitting my sun glasses just right, just like when I tripping. *evil grin* Haven't done that for about 23 years though, but I still remember. *grin*

When I woke up the second time the movie was still on, it's a good one and the second time in as many days as we've watched it. It's called "Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl", with Johnny Depp.

Rambleman

P.S. This was written with an updated version of Qumana 3.0.