And then...

The question is how many entries do I write that don't get posted??  The answer is for every entry that gets posted there are as many that don't.. It's a ratio that is nearly one to one although it might be closer to two to one.. I delete the false starts after a day or two because they aren't relevant to anything at all and can't be incorporated into a current entry.. Some do get used in an entry to either pad the entry or there is an idea that could use the start of an entry to get it to a little further along idea.. Sometimes I will spend the better part of an hour writing what seems like a great idea only to push save and then come back later and delete the entry.. Sometimes I go off track from the original idea, edit it or not edit it and push publish and then come back later and add to the original idea and re-enter the entry.. So if you have ever seen an entry that seemed shorter earlier in the day, it is because I added to it.. Sometimes I will add to it in the *P.S. type of way. Asteric and then add to it.. Here more than on the PNOP site I will do that.. on the other site I might add to an entry that is scheduled, but NEVER  to an entry that has been posted already.. (well once I think I did this) ... So in conclusion..  There you have it...

Two weeks ago I was in ready mode.. Got the sprinkler of choice in hand and going to buy it.. But as with things that happen with me I decided to check another store.. Found the IT of all sprinklers and decided yep, I'll look on line a bit longer plus it might snow on Tuesday.. That was last weeks storm, and my thankfulness that I got a few more days to look at sprinklers and then Sunday I Googled best sprinklers and added more confusion to the game plan.. So I know or knew what I wanted and the search showed that was the wrong one to get but.. I think I will get the one I am after.. The mechanical sprinkler is the clear winner but I've not seen a good review for any that I have seen, not consistent enough to warrant  buying it, so it feels like a waste of money to buy something like that and am looking at the original idea..

Last year at this time the leaves were out, the lilacs were all starting to flower.. We were a month ahead.. This year it felt like January yesterday.. Hard to believe it is April.. And every time  I think of it I think I have to get the seeds for the pumpkins started pretty soon.. I'm gonna start them before I put them in the ground to try to keep from pulling them.. Last year I planted pumpkins but I think I pulled them thinking they were weeds.. This year I will let them grow either in the house or outside in a greenhouse type of setting until Memorial day weekend.. I have that three sisters planting project to do again this year..  I know it's going to turn off hot once this cool weather leaves by the end of the month it will be back to spring, then a couple of weeks later it will be summer..  Enjoy the cooler weather, I WILL.. 

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And then it ended.. just like that..

I check the Facebook rundown every morning like clockwork to see what has been going on since the last time I checked and it has evolved from being a keep track of family type of thing to a news type of thing like what RSS readers were about..   And Twitter.. So today I run through to the Rokuguide site and they have an update of a site that was quite near and dear, called Videobuzz..  Videobuzz is the YouTube watching site..  and it is being shut down.. This is Google doing this.. Kind of a buzz kill but guess what.. There are four or five other video sites on the Roku and two of them are up to the challenge of being the YouTube replacement.. Dailymotion being the one that I might start to post to.. There is a ton of material on youtube, and I will miss the Friday night music night there but I will move to another way of getting it.. I hope Roku gets a YouTube official channel, I hate the idea of getting a second streaming player that has a youtube channel just for that reason.. There are several out there but it seems like such a waste of money just to get YouTube for a while until Roku works out some sort of deal with Google/YouTube..  My reply to the news on the Facebook site was simply Major league bummer.. What can you say??  The channel was a beta (private) channel and well.. That's  the "thems the breaks" situation.. Some get to live on, and others die. They come, they go.. It's part of the internet lifestyle, here today gone later today...


I took a look at the channel store on the Roku and added a couple yesterday to try and both I have had before.. One is called Moviephone which is a video and movie preview site.. It is part of the AOL.ON channel and was that reason that I got rid of it before.. But I reacquired it to try for S&G again.. and the other was the Snagfilms site which isn't at all what it sounds like.. There are a lot of cool videos on there, one of which is about monuments, sites along the road that tell of historical significants here & there..  I watched some of it and they were saying how these are not always very accurate.. Kind of an interesting video, I will try to finish watching it later on..

The commercials they show on these sites that are "free" aren't horrible, I know more about how the M&M will do anything for love but it won't do that.. And the car ads and Radio Shack, and truth be told a thirty second ad isn't that bad but it is the strange places they put the ads that have always baffled me.. In the middle of a scene that is fairly intense they will break.. Then come back from about there and continue on.. Strange commercial breaks.. The Vanguard site wouldn't start the video I wanted to see.. I was trying some sites for content to see if I wanted to keep the site or turn it free and might get them back on another day.. same commercial, the m&m and cars & radio shack.. I guess they have the market cornered for now..  Vanguard  got shelved as did World Worth Watching for now anyway.. I've started to do that with certain video sites.. Not because the ads but because I wasn't watching them anyway.. Others that got the axe was the Macgufin site, it is watchable from the i-tunes site.. I check to see if the podcasts can be seen in the i-pod site for some of these.. Vevo comes and goes.. Vevo has so much new music videos so that is a huge strike against it.. Sorry vevo..

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Trampsing lifelessness

I really had trouble clipping the third season of "The Walking Dead" because I couldn't see how to.. Truth be told I had never seen the series before last month when I started to watch it on Netflix streaming.. Then as I said in an earlier entry I was going to wait until this past season was available on Netflix and stream it but then I searched for a torrent that had the entire third season and got it.. Just finished watching it and I have to say it is still my favorite show on tv.. Even though it is another show I've never watched on the channel it was on.. "Like Justified"..   The first clip here is the one where Mishone has two "zombies" (walkers or biters as the two separate camps call them) as pack mule type of things.. Situated to be feared no more by removing their arms and made their mouths to not bite anymore.. Smart move..

I call this scene the trophy wall scene.. strange and it gives viewers a look at the mind of the govenor ..  Not a very nice guy and things would only get stranger from this point on..

Rick's new daughter is born but at a price..

After the governor went to the prison to finish those people off, it backfired.. This was one of the last scenes of series three..  Again what I like the most about this series is that no one is safe.. I had heard that one of the top characters from last season was killed off, so when it happened I wasn't too surprised.. This season was really good and it ended the way I was hoping it would..   Now the dreaded wait until next season all the way to October.. It's like waiting for football season to start again..

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Friday night music night

A little explanation about the entries on the PNOP site..: Fridays are set or preset entries that were set as far back as this past October.. I preset every Friday from now until the 27th of December (Final entry, which right now I'm leaning against but might ..  you know) so the things that are on those days are from old or from the old shit I got on the internet from before .. From the years leading up until now.. Why I collected so much of this odd crap??  I at first collected it for sending out e-mails and then when my emails were corrupted I kept collecting it and then started the web page thing to share that way.. This way peoples emails don't get twenty emails a day and if they care to see some odd shit they can come visit my odd crap site.. Kind of a win win situation and one of the reasons I will keep the site beyond the 27th stop date.. Or I might leave there and come here.. Or not.. Just not sure..

I watched that movie "Now Is Good" and it was every bit as good as they said it would be but man.. Have  a box of tissues it can get dicey..  It was well done from all aspects of the movie.. There are so many of these "dying of cancer" movies out there that all have about the same feeling to them, and I'm not putting them down.. They just all make you feel like because you are healthy that you are wasting your life away if you don't go cramming events into it.. Hard to say if you were given a true finite number of  days to live what you might do with them.. and this movie showed what one girl tried to do.. 


Last night was Friday night music night and featured.. Well I wasn't sure who to watch.. I knew I had that movie to watch (Now Is Good) and wasn't sure what I wanted in music so in the Roku I clicked on one of the groups in my playlists, the Heart concert from '75 quality was horrible both sound and video (a transfer from video tape) and then I clicked to do a "related to.." video search and as I went through the other concerts, the  show "Alan Parsons Live Proyxt"  came up (why it was so misspelled is beyond me) but it was the show from Madrid Spain.. A fairly good show although short, I think they were playing some sort of festival thing..  The drummer was the lead vocalist singing the Chris Thompson parts and the actual lead vocalist did the Eric Wolfson leads because he is of course no longer alive.. Why is Alan Parsons so popular or why did I start to listen to his music??  I really started listening to his music because I was talking to a guy at a record store way back in the day about getting into another group sort of like Pink Floyd, and they said try APP and so I did..  The relativity of Alan Parsons and why I didn't get it right then and there was I wasn't sure.. But the name Alan Parsons should be well known to anyone who reads old record jackets. Alan was a recording engineer back before his music project lifted off, and worked on one of the greatest albums in Dark Side Of The Moon  by Pink Floyd..  But the show was really good.. They played Sirius (the song most sports teams come out to) and when I thought about it the song was a throw away track that just seemed like a good way to get from the start groove (on records) to the true first song "Eye In The Sky"..  To me the song I-Robot is a better over all song..  The highlights of the concert were the songs Breakdown/The Raven, Psycobabble rap and I-Robot..  Then after the concert I looked at a few more concerts and there was a Heart medley, songs hooked together quite well..  Interesting video.. And a few other concerts that could be in the Friday night rock show lineup including that Moody Blues concert at the Royal Albert Hall, a three hour marathon.. 

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Barking cats and weapons of other wars

Sorry about the last entry.. I tend to write about things that are going on and that can be both good and bad.. Needless to say I slept fairly well last night after gagging the night before.. When I blew my nose after that event I thought everything was blown clear, but boy.. WAS I WRONG.. anyway.. 

Mom did work today after worrying that they might cut her free she took her phone in with her and told me she might be calling right quick if they were going to in fact fire her.. Trouble is even at her short amount she does it is still the most they will get out of anyone at any price..

I was listening to the radio today and I had it on Ed Shultz and he is of the more democratic side of things politically speaking. When everything was going down during the election season I was watching and nodding my head.. Romney had reversed his position and was flip flopping on almost everything he had set on in the primary season.. I voted this year for the first time in many elections.. I felt this strongly that I voted for Obama and now he is betraying those who believed in him.. I think everything he is doing now is starting to make people start talking about recall or impeachment.. Maybe not impeach but trying to organize some sort of revolt against him.. I can't believe he would go against what he ran on, but of course he can't lose another election because he is done.. He spend the next three plus years doing whatever he will do and either make a strong case for four more years of democratic party rule or have the country be so disillusioned with them that they vote in a Romney like republican.. One thing is certain I can't tell we have a democrat in the whitehouse, in fact the republican party has to feel good about Obama, he is more republican than Romney would have been..

I check my spam folder on Yahoo mail every now and again and today I had a letter from a Adriane person (female likely the way the letter read) and there was so much miss spelled words and things that I read it with a lot of laughter.. Ok I know I have trouble spelling (most of the time I  have a dictionary site opened when I do entries on my blog sites) but this is.. And I get some texting gets in there a lot but this wasn't texting, it was seriously miss spelled words, and when it comes to the ending of ING  and they try nig or gni or gin I kepp thinking get consistent and look at the first way you wrote.. Guessing three ways to spell a word ending in ING three different wrong ways.. Takes some talent..

Hey what's with all the tv sets in the aisle in the electronics part of walmart??  They are on clearance, but why??  Well I've heard they are going to a standard tv.. The standard tv will be a "smart" tv.. what a smart tv is??  Smart tv sets will have the ability to stream as part of the standard televisions going from now on. I saw the smart tv sets earlier and thought well that's nice.. Streaming is perfect for sales of tv's because then you sell a tv and even without cable tv setup you can get something to watch.. 

Speaking of streaming  that Daily Motion site on the Roku is just way cool.. Beyond the YouTube site, the videos are really cool to watch.. I would say Vimeo and Daily Motion are neck and neck after the YouTube channel on the Roku.. And then there is Break.. and blinx and...  well the archive.. Nowhere archive is the best isn't it?? Old public domain just can't be beat..

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The adjustment

The other day I was reading an entry at the sodahead site and they have polls and one of them was about weather  a woman should be allowed to write men while serving time..  and my quick quip reply was I would hope so.. Men is is a three letter word, should be quite easy to write that should she need to.. I take some things like that literally sometimes.. The day that Jordan was telling mom that she was going to be a para I said your going to be a pair of what.. She didn't get that I don't think.. Anyway on to what I called you here for.. I said in a past entry that I got the third season of The Walking Dead and started to watch it recently.. this show is so addictive to me.. A good guys versus bad guys type of story, but I think what gets me is that the entire cast can be killed.. No one is safe, except maybe the "Rick" character.. The show I watched yesterday had a guy the picked up at the prison where they are holed up got shot mid sentence..  I was just getting to like his character too.. Oh well.. Very interesting show..  

Last night was another adjustment night.. I seem to go through these around this time of year.. I think mom worries about it a little but I get why it happens.. I used to (and still do) blame it on fish.. Fish the culprit to the adjustment that came in that form quite a few years ago.. And the recent adjustment was from eating too much candy although I have to say I've been eating more recently.. The last time I had trouble was after eating a good lot of pumpkin seeds, after eating them fairly good amount I guess I ate too many and I had an adjustment to fix things.. Not as bad as last night.. I had a full refund of everything I ate from supper time through the evening snack of apples and celery.. it all came back up... About midnight, or shortly after looking at a show I was wanting to see.. Anyway everything seems better today..

From the aborted entry for yesterday: 

Because of the weather from yesterday to today mom says she doesn't even want to try to go in to work today.. I figured as much, the highway is closed although it might be a suggestive closure, sometimes it's closed but not really.. So she starts to call the Mc.D's and this was at seven thirty and about every ten minutes after that.. No answer, no surprise they could be very busy.. A little backing story on this.. The local Mc.D's was sold to another owner and the GM stayed on through the transition but I think he knew he was going to leave after everything settled down.. Well the new field manager (higher than the GM) has been nothing short of a real pain in the ass and they have had full shift people walk out, and recently a Sunday crew quit on the spot.. so fast forward to yesterday and today and the weather causing closure of highways and making the going tough and when mom can't get through to the place I told her they might not even be open.. That wasn't a joke, they might only have five people total on the payroll.. FIVE..  And two of those are from Bridgeport, and they can't get here because the road is closed...  I think the place is open but there are only three people working it.. They import workers from the town they are based in just like they used to do at the one down here when the base was in Sterling.. Well now they are based out of Scottsbluff and that is quite a drive to bring crew   And they more than likely didn't get here..  Attitude is what kept the other manager there for so long, he was a shit but he knew the right balance to keep a crew there..   I was just thinking of the number of times I drove down there early in the morning when it had snowed and trying to keep the vehicle on the road out of the ditches.. There were a great number of times I drove down there in crappy weather, and did so when others wouldn't have even tried..

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Last Chance for Love (Joe Schmoe 2)

Joe Schmoe 2  : Last Chance For Love was an interesting show..  But as much as you think wow this is interesting how they try to pull this off, they have had three shows that were successful.. Were there others that didn't make it far enough in to even run the few shows that they had??

This season was the second of the 'schmoe' series and the season following the Lap of Luxury show  that was the first and then the bounty hunter type that was done this year.. The girl, Ingrid, flipped.. The guy was along for the ride and stayed that way (?)  (did he?  figure it out??   ever???).. And then there is the feeling that it was too far fetched even for him, but..  Interesting..

I read the synopsis for the show before watching it so I kinda knew what was going to happen long before it did and watched with the idea in the back of my mind that this was going to be fake.. Some seemed that way and then some didn't..

These five clips are the show in a nutshell.. The recap shows and the final reveal.. These first three are recap and the last two are the final part of the big reveal..

This version of the show, the T.J. character is on Castle right now and has been since the show started.. Probably the most well known actor from this Schmoe ...

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