wenT tO seeD

The three shows I am currently watching on Netflix on the Roku are about to all three wrap up almost simultaneously.. Currently Drop Dead Diva, Continuum and the Killing are withing two shows of each other as we head to the finish line.. Then the next shows to be started will be.. Not sure.. Hope to have that set by next week.. The show Continuum is the favorite, it's filmed in Vancouver and is a show from the Global channel and must be done in such a way that Netflix was able to get it for streaming.. Speaking of shows to watch, the Walking Dead season 4 is streaming now.. I already watched it via torrent last year, I'll stream it again, then torrent it again as season 5 starts shortly..

Continuum reminds me a little of the show Almost Human that Fox dropped.. Sadly ...

The series is on Sy-Fy but originates on the Global channel in Canada..     Shaw).... 

The grass grew in the patch from August.. Happy that it grew, filled in quite nicely but.. There are weeds.. But it's green.. I give up.. I will more than likely never try to grow that big of an area of lawn ever again.. The first time must have been a fluke.. a couple years ago.. ..

I saw this little guy hanging out while I was mowing a couple weeks ago.. Grabbed my camera and took his picture.. Nice pose there by the way.. And after the niceties I decided to give him the what for on my next passage by and he was GONE...  Man, that could have been a meal.. Hope he doesn't make me wish I had nailed him.. I walk around the yard a lot barefooted..  Hope he wasn't one of those sweller biters.. Bite you and you swell up ... Fun.. 

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thE issuE aT hanD

Earlier today I heard of the guy who cut off his coworkers head and started to stab another and all I could think is this will start me thinking whenever I'm in a store someplace and have a stranger anywhere near me.. This has been a very violent week in this country, first with the guy shooting another guy in a walmart that was carrying a toy gun, to another guy who shot someone who was reaching for his wallet to retrieve his license.. Followed closely by todays guy cutting a coworkers head off and then stabbing another.. I have got to think this is some sort of test.. What the hell is going the fuck on here now??  This isn't what I was after.. Imagine going to the store and not knowing if you will get home for supper that night??  Imagine there is a fifty fifty chance you will piss somebody off enough to have them pull out a gun and shoot your ass..  Think of the finger gestures out there and remember, that could be the begining of the end for you.. Check this clip here.. :

From last weeks real time.. If you are white this sounds like a load of BS.. If you are black this is every day.. Imagine the day coming when this applies to EVERYONE..  Very scary indeed..

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thaT olD gaG

So mom was looking at a thing on the computer yesterday and all of a sudden I hear her say come take a look at this.. I figure she has gotten a funny thing she wants me to see, she does this every now and then.. I get in there and she says, look at this and I look and she points out the thing she was about to click open and it says "new law in Podunk has residents up in arms" and while it sure is tempting to click on something like this I tell he don't click this open and never click anything that looks like a familiar ring to it, has the name of your town in it.. The likelihood is it is a virus or some other fun like that.. NEVER open something like that.. The word virus rings true where saying malware or any other technical word might not..


So the survey have begun.. From Arbitron.. Check this out :

Starts on.. yesterday and runs for a week..

 The all in one survey there really is no reason to not do it.. For a week you jot down how much or how often you listen to the radio.. How often you not only listen to the radio but also hear the radio.. So certain stores that have the radio playing for background music.. So there is that..

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arE yoU kiddinG mE

Oh shit another reason to hate the president, he is saluting the guys at the end of the whirly bird with a cup of coffee in his paws.. Listen, I don't understand what the big deal is here.. He is the president who got elected.. He didn't go though the marines training, and yet he is supposed to know that you stop and salute each guard.. Truth is he was fine, he'd probably been up all night what with the new fun going on in the middle east (war again in case you live under a rock)..   I say to all the haters JUST CHILL OUT!!!  Besides the cup was photo shopped into the picture... Just chillax people..


And even if it is a legit picture who gives a shit...


What's that song?? You know the one that has that gal singing and then she reaches that extremely high note and holds it for forever??  The one we use to pull bats out of the air with??  Oh that's right just about any song that every radio plays about once an hour to make you proud that you listen to radio from around the world but here in America.. Seriously I have troubles listening to American radio.. And then this past Thursday night happened.. I was down here at nine ish and the phone rings and I see the number ends in 0550 and we had been getting this number calling us for a week or so and I was tired of it.. I rarely answer the phone here at the house but this time I did.. The person on the other end of the line started talking which was odd.. Most of the time it had been answer the phone and wait until the tone comes up and all I could think was well, lets see where this goes, I like to prank the telemarketers every now and then.. This however was legit as it turns out it was from Arbitron..  That's right Arbitron, the radio and television survey people.. Would we be interested in filling out a survey on the radio we listen to??  I said sure, why not??    My listening habits have changed over the years what with the tinnitis that I have developed from years of ...  Whatever the cause. I listen to the radio over night to tame that whining ringing sound that is at times maddening in silent situations.. The fear I have is if I ever get to the point where I am in a silent situation it might drive me over the edge, because there are times that it is so loud to me I swear people can hear it as I walk into the room.. "Can't you hear that?"... So yeah, there are three shows that are gonna get a glowing review as it were.. Steve, you can thank me later..  So we get the surveys yesterday and will start the week listening survey tomorrow through next Wednesday.. Could be interesting for Saturday which includes me listening to 1.FM on the Roku as well as Soma FM based in the San Francisco area.. And the Tune-in app for radio around the world..   Yep, well you wanted to know.. Should be fun.

So we get a call this morning from Arbitron to ask if we got the packet and I tell her yes, and were there any questions and checking to make sure we knew everything about the survey and everything and I tell her i think we have got it.. Then the last question she asks is this "Will you fill this out and send it back in on time" and I say ... What are you kidding me??  I mean the answer to this question can only be YES I mean ... I mean...  I mean with the incentive that they pay you for this information, shit yes I'm gonna get it done and mailed on time.. How much incentive are they paying for this??  Two dollars.. Two greenbacks.. That's right, two dollars, "RIGHTEOUS BUCKS"... 


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hentU

Well I completed the editing of the videos I shot between August 24 and last Thursday.. And while not perfect, I was happy with them... Set them to YouTube on my alternate site because my main site is now reserved for tv shows from everywhere else but the united states of glen.. (inside joke).. I say they were not perfect and they aren't, to me and with anyone who works in any medium like this, perfection is so unattainable.. Some stuff I felt wasn't needed because there were videos done from earlier that wasn't needed to make any point, whatever that might be.. To make the video somewhat concise to remain on topic which the topic is family get together.. And so with that in mind the first was moms birthday bash.

This was just a lot of fun and actually thrown together quite literally last minute...

The Old Settlers Days Reunion thing.. This was an attempt to edit with the previous video in mind..  Still after all was said and done it ended up being twenty minutes or so.. Some editing made the video somewhat out of sequence as knowing when certain people left made it seem odd when they were here later in the video..

From the Tuesday (9-10-14) where everyone was there that night.  A certain amount of redundancy is evident but I don't shoot/edit the video thinking this will end up on the "cutting room floor" or this will and that won't.. The animation (fades between scenes) are used the same way I always have, where there is something happening in the same relative setting I fade as cross fade.. But if there is a change in venue such as indoor to outdoor there is more of a dramatic fade.. Either a box or triangle fade.. 

Finally the 9-11 video.. Here again lots of the kids as with the others I concentrate more on the kids because they will never be this young again, and with that knowledge I shoot more for that reason.. Ryan is the (nearly exact) same size as his cousins are and he is some 8 months younger...  But a very interesting interaction between them.. And of course the girls are Ians biggest fans.. For Now, and the truth is I can see this "gang" being formidable when the get into school.. Imagine the kids getting out of the way as Ryan makes room.. "Outta my way, I'm comin' through" with Ian and the angels following.. Leaving broken beyond repair hearts in their wake... Tough tiddlywinks kids we got better things to do today.. Who wants ICECREAM...

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I goT yoU uh hU

Here's an idea.. How about NO .. As in leave, or I will show you the door.. We have an unwanted guest, or more than one as it seems to be turning out..

I was looking one day at a farm/hardware store we have here nearby and came across this trap.. Truth is I was tired of the nerve wracking process of setting the old wire traps.. I've never had the most stable of hands and working with those snapping sumbitch traps were more fun than they were worth.. This little baby hanging by the hanger on the door there on the top, there on a peg in the store.. I was after something... I saw that hanging there, and kept looking.. How genius of a design, simple.. They walk in to the trap to get a little goody at the end that is tipping up and while hey walk in and the slight motion from where they were to where they have the goody, if they don't notice that motion, they are shut in by the door behind them.. Click shut, and their own weight keeps the door secure if they walk to the bait end thinking that has to open now.. Nope it clicks shut, and they are caught.. I had caught the critter the first night I used it..  Ok, now you have him caught, he's alive in a "humane" trap (bloodless and the mouse is still alive) but what to do with him?? Well you see these commercials of people setting the mouse free in a field and they run back home to their families and discuss what a great experience it was to be caught (heart a pounding, this can't be good, it never ends well in the end) and you get a ride in a nice car to  field and set free with the bees buzzing and birds chirping.. Roll the credits what a nice way for that mouse to keep living and making some fifty or so more mice a year.. You can just never have too many mice in the world, shit make more.. So yeah, I do the same thing but my way of returning the mouse to the wilds from whence it came.. I take the trap to the bathroom.. open the lip on the water slide and activate the swirl and open the lid to get ready to open the trap and let the mouse go down .. Down the water slide (aka the toilet).. Fairly tricky this move is, that mouse was not wanting to leave the safe confines of that dark box.. He finally relinquished and slipped the pearly bounds and slid with the slightest of splash into the water park slide and down the top part and went so ever quickly and quietly (so far as I know, the salutatory music was loud enough to drown the please of the creature or any screaming it was letting out).. Ten seconds later the mouse splashed down in the pool, shook it's head/body, thought wow that was fun and moved along.. Now anyone who says that's not very humane way to treat this thing, I say you are right.. BUT T T T T... Did you read the earlier part of this where I said the freed mouse went back home to lead a quite fruitful and multiply life??  Then you get that fifty fewer mice might not be that bad of a thing..

I got the trap above from the local farm/hardware store, but you can get the same exact fun toy from this site via amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Kness-Tip-Trap-109-0-001-Live-Capture-Mouse/dp/B00004RA4G/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&qid=1411053990&sr=8-29&keywords=mouse+trap

The best part is of course : "Gift-wrap available"....  Because nothing says I love you more than a mouse trap..

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(P.S.  So they also have those glue traps, scented with peanut butter, and ready to use.. The mouse gets on there and struggles to get off eventually dying.. And I know there are those reading that and saying that's so cruel.. And I say yeah it is..    :)  )

noT u2 agaiN

My uncle was here recently (last week, when winter made a surprise visit as well) and after they went to bed one night mom made the comment "did you see how thin he has become?"  and my answer was yeah, I noticed his arms are really thin, and then I told her how I was afraid how my arms will look when I get to that age.. Both of my arms are screwed up with my ability to touch my shoulders stopped happening by the time I was in fifth grade, the same year the school got a weight machine (HURRAY, NOW MAX OUT.. how fucking stupid was that!!??) And I was one that should have NOT started lifting weights before I was at least in high school because both of my arms started to snap crackle and POP like mad.. My left arm is the size of a grapefruit on the opposite side of my elbow and has been that way since then.. What's that going to be like when I'm that age?? I never gave it much thought, until now..  My right arm I can't bend my arm to where I can touch my shoulder with my hand.. I see people do this all the time and wonder what it is like to have full range of motion like that. Then in 2001 I redislocated my left arm, sort of bent it backwards a  bit.. Not horribly bad but it locked up and took a half an hour for me to get it unlocked.. Since that day I couldn't do a few things the same way.. Shaving being one of them, I've had to shave right handed exclusively until May of this year when I tried to shave a part of my face I have troubles reaching with my right hand.. And surprise surprise.. my arm locked up but I tolerated the pain and shaved, and the next time I was able to shave that small spot with my left hand.. And still do.. So is it getting better??  No it locks up regularly.. Why not get surgery done??  That might work.. But I've seen people rely on surgery to fix things and been disappointed so I think a little inconvenience is ok.. I'll live..

Ok, now to the latest  controversy.. Who knew getting an album for free could cause such a shit fest.. I think it was the way it was done where if you have an i-Tunes account you got it for free weather you wanted it or not.. I'm talking of course about the new U2 album "Songs of Innocence"  Where they forced the album as a free download.. That to me was wrong, they should have offered it free sure no problem there but forcing the album on people was way wrong.. They should have had a box pop up saying do you want this free download from U2? and then have  a yes or no button.. They likely would have had as many people say yes as they forced, it's just the idea of getting something forced on you.. I think that was the biggest beef everyone had.. I like to think if Pink Floyd did the same thing it would be looked upon the same way as what U2 did..

Speaking of Pink Floyd, Their new album "The Endless River" is due to be released next month and when I heard they were finally going to release the extras from their Division Bell sessions I thought, yea, I'll buy that.. But hold on a second.. These songs are the songs from that session, but augmented with full vocals and the like.. If there were a choice I'd like to hear the songs as they were before being touched up, because from what I heard the second lot were pretty much done back then.. Maybe some needed to be done to get the songs to be more up to the Floyd standards.. But I think they would be surprised that true fans would love to hear the creative process.. Some box sets show that.. Some groups wouldn't think of doing that.. Mostly because, such as the case with Pink Floyd The Wall album, the demos were quite good but some needed a lot of production, help from the producer since Roger wasn't writing with David anymore.. Yes there are co written credits on the album, but they were done when the guys weren't in the studio together..  It really is a wonder The Wall ever got done at all..

So will I get the new Floyd album??  I think I will check to see if it rates a buy or not.. i think Roger Waters is about to finally release the Wall tour live DVD set shortly.. That I want..

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arE thaT speciaL feelinG jusT reserveD foR SaturdayS

I've set my Roku netflix play list with way over a hundred shows (movies and tv shows) and it's .. More than likely going to take a few days to watch it all.. Binge watching isn't my style, sitting down and watching episode after episode of the same show.. I did that once with Breaking Bad and found myself over invested in the show.. To the point where when it was over I missed it quite badly.. So I have three shows I watch almost daily and as the episodes count down to zero on one of the shows it ends, the final episode should be seen in early October.. The other show is running new episodes this fall/winter so new episodes should be added.. So when these three end (in staggered succession) I will start a new show.. What about what is coming on this fall tv season??  What about it??  I've gotten to the point where unless they get a hold I won't even bother.. Within three weeks of the show Hostages last year I heard it was cancelled.. I had started watching it and got rather pissed off that they canned it, however i wasn't that surprised.. the Black List, ahh that's where your viewing should have been, and I did watch that show although on opposite hostages.. That was on a channel called NBC i believe.. That channel that I forgot about.. One whole show last season.. Back for a sophomore run this year.. See you on torrent again.



 I have movies set to be seen, most of the "oldies but goodies" I have and started to watch a few weeks ago with Adventures in Babysitting.. Yep that oldie with Elizabeth Shue, that fox and she still is now on CSI..  The other night I watched Red Dawn.. The original version.. It still stirred up emotions from when I saw it before.. The idea that we could be invaded that way.. Invade a town by the school?? Really??  A bit far fetched but.. The overall premise of the movie, the story.. Kinda overall bull shit but interesting none the less..

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caN iT bE donE

Defined of wonder and wonder, as from the PNOP blog..  I wonder how much that dog costs.. He is such a wonder, a great person indeed..   I'm going to walk around, maybe just see what's out there, wonder aimlessly...  That's what I was going for.. Wondering and wondering, spelled the same but pronounced differently and meaning different things as well.. Strange..


Back about twelve years or so ago I started to try to teach myself how to play the guitar.. I had the ability to play rhythm by way of playing the drums so counting was the easy part.. the hard part wasn't really that hard, it was the realization that my left hand wouldn't cooperate with the task at hand.. For an example do this little exercise, with your right hand touch your thumb to the tip of each finger.. For me touching each finger to the thumb was easy, and in fact I could touch the inside and outside of the tip of each finger.. Do that with the left hand.. Touch each finger tip to the thumb.. I'm fine until the ring finger.. That gets tough, and the pinky finger simply won't touch anywhere near the tip, in fact it is closer to the first knuckle from my hand.. When this issue presented itself I had no idea what the deal was.. Was it arthritis??  Turns out I remember what might have happened.. One day when I was younger I was coming down the stairs on New Years eve (or day, not sure which) and mom had some things on the stairs and I had missed these items through the entirety of it being there but on this day I wasn't even looking and stepped just right and my left hand ran into the wall.. Initially I thought I broke my hand but as I brought my hand up and my pinky finger was sticking out ninety degree angle to my hand.. with my ring finger  right  next to it.. That hurt.. Full dislocation that would have my hand (fingers) taped together for several weeks, or until I started to play the drums five days later, whichever came first.. playing the drums was more important and ignoring pain is easy when your having fun.. Fast forward to twelve years ago and when I realized this was more than likely the reason I couldn't hit that bar chord playing the guitar beyond the two or three basic chords was not ever going to happen.. No matter the hand exercises I tried to do.. Just ain't not in my planing.. Darned it all..


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porK anD cheesE

Save the beloved internet.. Won't happen but I will support the effort.. Why won't it happen?? Because it already is being tampered with.. Our internet here in Podunk that is slow.. Slowwww ...  Three Mbps is where our current internet speed is.. So many people bitching about their internet speed being slow at the 50Mbps mark.. We've never had that speed.. More than likely never will.. I can tolerate the 5-7 Mbps rate but the slower it gets the least desirable being on the internet is.. Oh we can get faster but the way it was advertised we could get 5Mbps.. Our modem now is rated a 1Mbps but we get closer to five regularly.. Would 5 get us twice as much??  Likely NO.. So people fight the good fight.. The fight is lost, and people don't even know.. Test your internet speed regularly..  Check your quality of the internet here: http://www.pingtest.net/  And the upper left corner there is a speed test link: http://www.speedtest.net/   Use these two to check your connection and do it as often as you feel every day and more to the point twice or more, you'll be amazed at how often the internet fluctuates and how horrible it can be..

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT..

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nO pantS delayeD

That didn't almost happen AGAIN this past Friday night??  Did it??  (couple those together, makes more sense).. As we get to that big ass center pivot and start to think we're half way home.. Zip bing bam boom.. all I saw was the three quarter section of that deer.. Mom is taking a swig of her pop and started to say something but had a full mouth and.. After all was said and done all i could think was I almost drown my mom and hit a deer... ALL IN THE SAME THREE SECONDS... Talk about drama... was I scared??  Not really, I was driving two thirds the speed limit.. And now you know why I was driving that slow.. Stopping at 45 miles per hour is a lot easier than full 60 or faster.. A few weeks earlier we came home and I had a cop pass me and then saw one in the ditch a few miles further up the road as I'm setting a new snail land speed record and all I could think is, this guy is gonna pull out and track me down and have me walk the straight line (drunk test, boy those are fun)  but he didn't pull out.. Just what I would have needed, you have that happen just once and you remember.. Being busted for being cautious, that sucks but I won't drive the speed limit just because it is posted 60 (or 65 I'm not sure which it is).. I drive at or around 40 on those two in the morning fun times.. I'm not drunk, nor have I been drinking.. Tired (drowsy) driving??  That's about the same and not my idea of a good time,  I'd rather be in bed trying to get some sleep..   This was the third deer incident.. Might be the last I hope..  Can't say it was fun.. No seriously, it WASN'T FUN... Far from it..

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anD twO makeS threE

So I'm searching for the Nebraska audio on the different radio apps (channels) on the roku.. We have satellite radio and the game is there, but can I find it on the roku??  I look on the two bigger (?) radio channels in Tune in and i-Heart which proved a waste of time.. Tune in had several that showed the game was on but never played them, buffering issues I guess.. Then I tried i-Heart and this is really more for music than anything else.. Then I tried a few more channels, Accuradio and Shoutcast of which Accuradio is more music and a lot of foreign news talk/sports.. And shoutcast is pretty much the same...   I also loaded up a "new" channel called 1.FM  or one dot FM  and I checked the music and they really aren't too bad.. I moved it up to the music/radio section of my lineup and checked Earbits and found it is nearly not working at all now, left a post on the Roku forum site to let them know if anyone cared, I told them I hadn't checked the channel out in quite some time so I didn't know how long it was this way..  Yesterday during the yawnfest Cowboys/niners game I checked a couple more radio channels on the old roku and one was Rdio... Just for the shits and giggles I checked to see if I could get it to work without going through the hassle of getting it authorized to the computer and shit and to my surprise I didn't.. Why hadn't I tried that before then??  Beats me, anyway I gave it a try.. First group I tried, of course it just had to be Lacuna Coil, my favorite group from Italy...  They had them but as I tried to get my favorite song by them to play, it played a song fom earlier on that album.. Dark Adrenaline is the album and so now that channel is called Dark Adrenaline.. Works for me.. Set up a few more and when it came to groups like Schiller they did alright, I like Schiller more in the era or realm they are in I want the channel to be that, so when I clicked to have the true Schiller channel, I picked the song Schiller.. That should stay closer to what I want.. Velvet Airplane was too vague I guess..  I liked the direction it was going until it went too dub step for me... YUCK... then I tried something that I just had to, to find out how that would sound I tried Pink Floyd..  Big mistake.. Well, the thing of it is when I want to hear a group like Pink Floyd, it generally is that I want to hear Pink Floyd, not a group remotely thought to be like Pink Floyd.. So after letting them try to get that channel to be like Pink Floyd and not hearing a Floyd song, I tried another favorite in Tangerine Dream.. Again when I want to hear Tangerine Dream, I generally want to hear them.. not a group remotely related to them.. Sorry that channel won't work.. tried Rubicon as a song to work from..  That didn't work..  Maybe it would be good to hear some distant relative of their music.. Then I went more mainstream and tried Dave Edmunds... That actually was quite good, that was more true Rock and roll in that vein of what I wanted.. Then went with Dwight Twilley and that as well worked quite well.. Then it was kickoff time for the game and switched it off.. Interesting channel though, kinda like Pandora..  But not... 

The video above was from the local celebration last Monday called Old Settlers Day(s)  with Monday being the final day and the one everyone gets together for.. Through the video works from the week before and this one I came to my own realization..  I have a crush on my nieces daughter Emmerson.. What a cutie she really is and just is so..  Has such an incredible personality.. She just has that "it" factor..   When I say I have a crush I mean I can see a lot of broken hearts in her wake as she gets older..

This summer was a lot less hot that in previous years.. We had a day in July where if the temperature got above seventy I would have been surprised if it did.. Then last week on Wednesday it got to a hundred degrees.. Here this week nearly a week to the day it might snow.. Thursday the high is supposed to be mid forties ...  Hard to believe.. It reminds me of the year.. actually ten years ago.. I decided to tear part of the wall in the back down and try to build it up again because it was starting to fall down and look nasty.. sadly I remember that time the most as being the last heavy project I did before my dad passed away.. And every fall I remember that as the weather, begins to turn, and we have a rainy day that announces the turn from summer to fall.. This past summer being the most tolerable summer in quite some time.. Hot days and cooler nights, I had a (single) twin fan window fan except for one week in early August when it wasn't cutting it.. I had a big triple blade fan in for that week only, then the fever broke and it cooled off.. I think I tolerated the heat better than mom did.. Now it's getting cold.. I won't wear a coat before the seasonal change on the 23rd , the first day of fall.. just won't do it..

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anD theN yesterdaY happeneD

I'm not going to lie.. Since the second week (Saturday) of July we've been at the burg watching a couple little boys and I thought, "just as long as this ends when football season starts I'll be fine.. Yesterday we were off.. What a relief.. I would have never thought it would feel so good..  I felt like buying a lottery ticket.. THAT'S HOW LUCKY WE FELT...  But we went out.. Bob was here and we went out somewhere and just enjoyed not being in a hurry to get somewhere on a Saturday ..  Felt so good we'll do it again next week.. And every week until the super bowl...  Ah football...  You just gotta love it.. And speaking of football did you ever think those games yesterday would be so good??   You know just when you think they have changed it to the point you won't like it anymore, the kids kick it into a new gear.. The uptempo game is great.. I love Oklahoma and their cross state rival Oklahoma State uptempo game.. The coaches that don't like it.. Tough shit, grow a pair.. I love the uptempo game.. Beats the boring game most of the big ten plays.. Yawn... Nebraska eeked out a win.. I saw last week after the games that someone said Nebraska was like the third best team in the league and I said we beat a team that has been in the upper division for three years now??  maybes.. Let's see what they do against Miami.. Let's see what they do against Mc. Neese State... Never thought there would be doubt about that one.. I thought Miami, Michigan State, Rutgers.. Rutgers??  Hard to say... How about BYU?? That's a team that wants to join the big XII  conference and the conference is saying NO WAY, you'll never be able to compete with the big boys like Texas..  And the laugher of course, last year they stomp Texas and seal Mac Browns "retirement" in September.. And turn around and prove maybe the big XII isn't the right conference for them to play in.. Maybe they should look to the SEC instead..

Great fun yesterday afternoon.. Drove out to the outback as it were..

Sullavan Hills... A camp/retreat area..  I remember going out there for our fifth and sixth grade end of school picnic thing back in the day... Back when it was just a ranch thing.. The pond.. The ability to just relax..

What's that out there??  What's in that picture there??   A whole lotta nothing.. 

Zip line.. nothing says relax quite like peeing your pants... 

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a forM oF thursdaY

Fighting to keep my head above water here.. Fighting the depressed feelings that the colder weather brings.. I love this time of year, the cooling down from the heat, but... BUT..  It signals the true cold weather to come and I really only like the colder weather when it's better than the heat.. This past summer was the easiest to take.. A week or two of upper 90's was about as much as I could take and that was fine.. This year I seemed able to take the heat better than mom... I'm usually saying "is it EVER  going to cool down again"...  swearing all the way through..

The better part of this past summer we watched my nephew and most Saturdays we did as well.. Thankfully after this Saturday that will change as football will take over and we won't be watching them again until after the super bowl in February next year..   It would be different if my brother had the ability to watch any games at all but he has gone all Jahova Witness or whatever religion bans all watching of sports in any form or fashion... So he has no way of watching any football there so for that reason (thankfully) we get to say no more.. We'll see you in February...  Because I don't care for basketball at all.. or at least until the playoffs and even then I watched five minutes all together...    because there is basketball on pretty much every day of the week, Saturday night wouldn't be a big deal.. But college football is on Saturdays, and the best games are on Saturdays, even though they play  other nights as well... When the Big ten conference games start I don't want to miss a single game.. See you in December... Hopefully big red gets to December...

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