Program update to shit the bed mode

A massive amount of disappointment in the video shot on Thanksgiving day.. The program I have been using to convert the video files made the videos really small.. There's a foot between the edge of the screen to the video on the screen (the frame).. It's the same settings I've been using, I think...  But the biggest problem I guess is that it updated the other day and I just assumed it was working the same way as it always has.. Found out the hard way it DIDN'T.. So now I have all the video from yesterday in the same exact way as this up above.. Bummed BIG TIME..  I deleted the source material.. I won't do that again..   That was my mistake..


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Hats off to you

Hey, happy Thanksgiving to y'all out there.. I don't usually do an entry on the day of anything on any site I do, any of the three I currently botch or the two or three I used to have elsewhere.. Today is Thanksgiving day and as such you are supposed to give thanks for.. Whatever you are thankful for.. I'm thankful for family.. They are better than any friend you can acquire through your life cycle.. I'm thankful to live in this country, the good old U.S. of A..  We might be quirky and have a government of the corporation for the corporations and the great bottom line dollar.. For the people, by the people .. NICE ONE ..

I put a little excerpt from the entry I am working on entitled for now anyway "Rock Legend" ... Right now that is just the working title, it might change later.. The entry is pretty much done, I will add here and there and .. But it won't be "published" until January at the earliest.. I don't want it on until after the first of the year sometime, and it will be preset and I will tell here when it will be on.. And I'm thinking it will be several entries rather than just one mother entry.. A few bits to add or subtract and also there are repeats of sorts so that's why the idea of several entries instead of one.. This took a couple weeks to write and even now I have more little tidbits that I remember.  So.. Soon, maybe six weeks from now.. It will see the light of a monitor someday though.. 

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Added to the..

A little excerpt from the entry that will be the story of my time with the band I was in way back in the day.. 




This isn't what I was after, I never wanted the band to end.. I wanted to shake things up a  bit, maybe hoping that starting the rumor that I was done would make it start up again.. Something, ANYTHING.. I wanted to gig again but then again, I was a little relieved that the phone didn't ring again.. Remembering that feeling from contest time in school when I would do a solo and have to get it just right.. It made me get torn up and nervous as hell. I wanted to do good not just for me but also for everyone.. Was that undue pressure??  I always over think things as far back as then.. And so now I was hoping for.. I don't know..  I wanted to continue but I wanted it to be us getting busy and doing as much as we could.. The music scene was going to change over the next few years and I thought as it did we might have been left in the dusty wake that sometimes happens to bands that don't adapt..  Grunge was actually an interesting sound and expression.. We had adapted well from the heavy metal hair band sound of the mid eighties to a more pop oriented sound of the same period.. We had that coexist for a time before we became the pop version pretty much exclusively.. Everything we did, it seemed the perfect time to do it in.. 

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Pad winner

Movie of the week was Won't Back Down..  About a woman having trouble getting her daughter into a different class to get her to be educated.. The teacher that teaches her class doesn't care to teach the students with any troubles learning.. So the mom goes about trying to first get her daughter into a class across the hall, but it is already too full so she then tries to get her in another school but that didn't work so then she goes about trying to change the school..  Really a good movie and a show of what it really is like out there.. The union is more interested in keeping the teachers in their jobs instead of why the teachers are there.. To educate the children..

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Chickens

I finally started watching that show Chickens that I got about the same time that Big School was on.. Because I thought Big School was a good show, the first two episodes were really funny but it dropped off really bad after that.. I thought Chickens might be the same way.. The first episode was actually pretty funny.. The show is about three lads in World War I era England that weren't able to join the effort to repel the German scurge..  The three guys seem like they are using the situation for their gain as the women would surely be sex starved..

Guess again..

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Got caught

Writing within the emotional framework from the events earlier in the month, I wanted to use that as a way to motivate the story of  everything that happened in the band.. It was amazing all the events that I remembered.. Although the dates are likely scrambled, I couldn't remember exact dates of some events but I could remember the  day that we came together the first time, maybe not the exact date or time or anything but I had  a general idea.. And the final gig happened on a Sunday in May, because that is the day the school had graduation.. Later May anyway. And all the events that happened in between was just general this and that day.. Remembering it like it was yesterday wasn't going to happen and at that time I didn't write anything down as in a "dear diary" or journal type of thing.. Some I wish I had.. Remembering people was tough too.. 

 I started reading what I wrote the past few days, and some is doubled but the second time there was added detail that I didn't remember from before.. Some I added to as a correction type of thing, my original recall and then when I read it I wrote a possible second thought.. There are times when it reads like I might be whining about the situation but I have to say that this wasn't my intentions to sound like I was whining.. If anything it was a slightly emotional time at times, as I was reading and remembering what I was hoping the band would be doing or playing or whatever.. Being in the band was everything I thought it would be like and nothing like I thought being in a band would be like. You have four or more members in a band and you have that many people to please.. Or try to.. now for  a timetable to complete it.. Never.. How's that sound??    Umm..  Tuesday... I didn't say which Tuesday..  I don't know when it will be done.. I always have troubles ending anything.. But the "publish" date will be ... eventually..


I lost all my pictures.. All of them.. Where did they go??  I could swear they were on the picture X flashdrive..  They weren't..  Lost forever I guess.. Then I put it the SCAND flashdrive in and wasn't sure they would be there.. All those scanned pictures from the family photo albums are on there.. And then the folder with my pictures clicked open using fast stone and.. THERE THEY WERE.. 97 folders worth.. I gotta get another flashdrive and double up the pictures.. Actually I need to do another scanning session and make sure I get everything. The definitive scanning session. I remember scanning the pictures back with the very first scanner and getting a lot but I'm not sure I got everything then.. Maybe a day of scanning is just what I need to get everything.. I think that first session was a day in January, I think it would take several days to get all those pictures..

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Moved to toss

Demented, or the demented was the big movie I watched last night on Wednesday nothing on the tube night.. It was partially like that movie on Cinema Insomnia from the Zom-bee channel on the roku.. That was such a b movie it might have been more of a c movie.. But the demented had a good premise to it.. It also reminded me of those 28 days/28 weeks movies..  It was a terrorist attack that yielded bombs that rendered people with that mad as hell virus that hopefully is not in existence but who knows.. A slight change is that people are calm and in a "frozen" state until arroused then the party is on..  I would say I would rate this one three stars except there were a few surprises that I wasn't ready for so.. Four stars...

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Throw for it

An add on to yesterdays entry about the band.. My hopes were/are to have it done by the end of the month (November) and I was thinking the other times I wrote about this I ended up setting them to "done/publish"  before thinking it through.. This time I will push publish only when I really think it is done which I have decided not to set a date for.. So it might be next week or it might be next month or even later..  No pressure but I do want it to be done right..  To my satisfaction so that the next time I get the urge to write about it there won't be any more to add..  Same as with that about dad and that ordeal.. There would be so little to add, and in fact there isn't anything to add.. I haven't revisited that because I can't remember any..  Maybe that is for the better.. Same with this "Rock legend" (not the name of it, i don't think)...

I got the yard nearly finished Friday.. Got the leaves raked up, mowed/mulched and set the leaves in the pumpkin patch.. I watered the leaves there hoping they will stay there and not blow to Kansas when the wind blows.. I like using yard waste for the garden area because it is better than having to buy fertilizer in the spring/summer growing season.. That brings up the planting season next year. I think it will be pumpkins again, maybe the three sisters project that I passed on this year because of space restrictions..  Thinking about the Earth box this past season I was fairly disappointed in what I got again although not horrible.. I almost didn't plant anything this past summer but I just gotta try every year with that self watering system, takes a lot of the work out of gardening..  Three tomato plants next year, just like this year three turned into four then to five.. I really like Roma, but they cross pollinated with the cherry tomatoes so that was an odd lot, just like last year.. But for now..

LET IT SNOW..

Again losing daylight is more dramatic than gaining it in the spring.. Watching the sun start to set at about three in the afternoon, watching it start to arc down, there just is nothing to compare to it.. It's like seeing things for the first time, most people don't even notice this.. The shadows, the light and the sky, clouds and everything combined.. Very impressive to watch.. 

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Your asschoose

Working from a mental outline I tried to work the story of when I was in the band from when I first started playing the drums way back when the drums were icecream buckets and even when I had my very first snare drum in the form of a toy.. Then worked through the school days quickly to my first band then later the bands that would become the two that I would gig with..  I'm gonna try to get it all wrapped up by the end of this week.. I spent a few days writing exclusively then took Friday off and sparing writing to try to get any of the ideas that were buried in my memory.. I finally wrote about the final days of the band or my final days in the band.. After writing so much material I now am going to have to figure out what stays and where and what goes and hopefully it will be a nice little writeup.. I tried several times to have the story written before on another blog but just was too in a rush and wanted it to be done in one sitting.. This time I thought about a lot of issues and wrote them down in an outline type of way, starting an idea and getting the gist and then moving on to another and getting a start to where the idea  could be finished.. A lot of the ideas came that way.. I would be writing about one thing then a different idea would pop into my head and I would write about it and then go back to where I was.  So many things happened during those five years, and the emotional roller coaster of being in the band and everything that was what being in a band was like.. The times was just right for what we did.. For what we were..

Is it me or is the grass still growing??  Well about the same as it usually does.. Last year I watered into November then stopped when it did get cold.. This year it has been cold but lately it is that early fall temps in the 60's and 70's..  How weird is this??..  Decorated for Halloween .. Well not really.. We never got anywhere to get anything to decorate with so.. I didn't decorate.. For Christmas I will set some lights up this week and set it to the light switch with the timer on it to be on for five hours..

Mom was talking about where to go for Christmas shopping and the one place she doesn't feel like going this year is Cheyenne.. I told her that was fine with me.. The main reason is we would have to leave fairly early and she wares out fairly quickly and I just lose the notion to be there.. Stores I like to go to is Target, they have the coolest displays of everything really.. The mall was such a great place but has lost it's lustre recently.  Big Lots became a favorite because of it having more unique items.. Really there isn't much that I like about driving clear the hell down there to shop for.. It feels like a fair waste of time when we can get everything online, the trip to a "brick and mortar" store is just not that important anymore..

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Flash in back

Alright the truth is I FORGOT yesterdays entry.. Until I checked the site (PNOP) and saw the date empty.. Why did I forget??  Not sure, I thought I had all of the end of October, November and December done.. Well i know I have X-mas eve and day as well as new years day still open.. The rest are done just like last year at this time.. I will start on January sometime in December.. Except for the Sunday music entries which are done through April or early May next year..

Currently I am working on the story, as close to my memories as possible, of the band I was in.. Trying to remember all the events is tough because.. My memory is getting swiss cheese like.. I think I wrote about it on another site somewhere a few years back.. Sometimes a memory will flood back and I write about it.. with an event that happened recently I wrote on a couple of my blogs about certain events.. I then thought I should get all of it out.. The blog I had done this on was somewhere else I guess.. That or it was on Myspace which I tried to get to show.. Myspace is completely different than it was and the blog part is gone now.. Gone or I can't find the link to open that part up.. I tried.. So without the earlier entries to work from I started from scratch and that means going back to the very beginning.. Yikes, all the way back to grade school.. in other words the old... OLDE days.. Ye olden days, so there are gaps and I remember more and add it here & there.. Hopefully I will keep the ideas flowing and get the story down before I decide it's not worth doing, which has happened on many ideas.. Many.. Anyway..

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Just a Jeep story

From the Silverton Standard and the Miner recently..

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For my Dad

Blue Sky Song  as performed by Michael Stanley.. 

Faraway cheese

A few things to write about.. First the new blog "Sphesters Mitt" : where did the name come from?  There is a site that has pictures blurred out for the "guessing" what is there purpose, some are a giveme and others are meant to be true stumpers ...  I have gotten names for some of my sites and entry names from this.. Clearing my head of all thought (like that is really hard to do) and coming up with the first thing and adding or taking away from it.. Sphesters is pronounced with the s as normal, the ph is the f as in the phonics knowledge, the esters as in the way you would say it.. so sfesters mitt..  if you will.. as it were..   So what's it going to be about??  What's the angle??  Well, first off the name came first with absolutely no idea of what to have on it.. Maybe I announced it too soon.. Maybe that's as far as it needs to go.. All I do know is the the blog site Infinite Improbability was started a while before I had an idea what to use it for.. Maybe when the Phudge Nuts site ends next year this will take it's place.. Not sure yet..


Speaking on I.I., the idea of presetting the videos on that site are.. were.. was what it was about.. Trying to preset entries the same way as with the PNOP site but with the one problem.. I set the entries to be done eventually,.. I got the videos up there, set the date to have them go "live" and .. With the idea to finish the entries with some idea of what the video was about.. But I never got back to it and so there was one entry with the UF after it which the U F simply meaning Un Finished..  And so they stayed that way, with just the videos and nothing to show for what the video idea was about.. I was going to preset all the remainders of all the videos but now.. I'm not sure what to do..  maybe give up??  Maybe..

The Tree entry explained a bit:  When I started the Tree entry the other day I had no idea which way that was going to go, absolutely none.. And so it started with one idea and evolved into another with the ending not being there until I was derailed in the thought process..  Truth is I had an idea for a theme type of thing.. trees and what they see in their lifespan.. and coupled it with what I was writing about, a little theme about my dads ordeal, and it worked a little bit.. But I was writing about how I felt like I was selfish at the wrong time, although things could have been different... But ..Hindsight as they say..


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SPHESTERS MITT

Sphesters mitt coming soon to a blog site near and dear to the Phudge Nuts blog site..