Alarming

Yeah that was partially an accident yesterday when the "big entry" (appeared as "XXX" because I can't figure out what to call it yet) was posted for a short bit there.. The computer or the site got hung up for a bit and I tried hitting every link to get it to move forward.. When it appeared as an entry I quickly returned it to draft form to hold on at least through the holidays to see if things improve, but if Thanksgiving** was any indication they won't.....


Yesterday we went to Cheyenne and got a little shopping and more looking done.. We were at Target and I came across a router extender and I hadn't heard of one of these so I asked the guy there what this does, such as if I can get the laptop computer to go online in my bedroom would a streaming player work fine.. He didn't know so he asked his younger (looking) geek (tech) guy to help.. You know I've been looking at these things for the past four or five months now so a certain amount of spec knowledge I have acquired.. So this guy comes around and I ask him this exact question "If I am able to have the laptop work in the bedroom then will the Roku streaming player work there" and he looked at me and said this exact thing to me  "WHAT'S A ROKU??"     and all I could think is are you new here??   And I should have said, is this your first day.. So after getting the "I don't know" answer I went in search of the streaming players, maybe they don't have any there.. Turns out not only do they have the Roku, they have the latest Sony, Netgear Neo, and bluray with streaming.. The latest Sony was amazing, packed with so many features it is like computer but with the ability to surf the web like a computer but unable to download anything.. It was just about perfect.. Just about perfect in that the browser it uses is a version of  Google Chrome, which as you know for me, Chrome is my default browser but not my everyday browser..

Anyway after we got done with the shopping and ate at the chillis we headed out.. The one thing I have never really liked is driving at night and as we get closer to December the days get shorter, daylight is at a premium and I kept watching the sun peak at around noon, it starts to set about three..   The traffic was barely tolerable  but everything was fine.. Talk about  a town that is growing quickly, we hadn't been there in nearly a year..

We got a thing in the mail and then had an advert for the new *cable tv adding new programming packages and all this excitement.. It would have been exciting and been competition had I not committed to trying streaming..  The only thing they are doing is adding DVR and HD on a good lot of channels.. I have a HD tv in name only, I didn't know that HDMI  was the thing to have.. I wasn't even looking for that on my tv when I got it.. But shortly after getting my tv my little brother got one and OH Boy HDMI.. You don't have HDMI on you set??  No I don't.. We didn't have a source for it, so I wasn't looking for a tv with that, and in fact I didn't know about it.. No bother, HD isn't as hugely great as all the geeks say it is, for all the tech geeks that say it is so great there are an equal number who say the opposite.. So who do you believe..  Anyway I don't notice that it is a whole lot different on his tv than mine..

Oh yeah, I forgot.. We went to Sams club and I went right to the video cameras and was looking at one.. Here's how stupid I can be, I noticed that the other cameras would have a warning beep of sorts when my hands would come close to them and I just moved on to the video cams and I twisted the one in it's docking and tried to turn it on.. The thing went into hyper shit a brick alarm mode.. I just put it back in the dock and walked away..  Walked over by the gadget section and a couple of guys were trying to look at a tablet or something and the alarm went off there too.. I told them there must be a strict DON'T TOUCH policy in place now.. I used to could mess with just about anything there.. Not anymore I guess..

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(*P.S. So what it means is too little too late as far as what they are offering regardless of HD programming and even in I had a set, I have already decided to try streaming.. I was thinking of a few years ago when my little brother got his first Roku and shut down his dish completely and then found that there wasn't any true live sporting events back then.. Just a few short years later and there is quite a bit of live sporting events streamed, most of which is pro sports.. Just how much programming is there??  The site I currently have that shows added channels (apps and the like)  have added some fifteen per week over the past year, averages out to be maybe fifteen, sometimes less and sometimes more.. What intrigues me the most is the channel store and the private channels.. I mentioned something about the private channels and what they are is a channel that is in development, or beta (the dreaded beta) and they can be acquired by the web site that shows the new channels that are being added and they test every channel before announcing them, so while they might show at the channel store, they haven't been reviewed by this site, they aren't known..  what is the sites name??  Tell the people what it is, are you shitting a lie here??  Check it here : http://www.rokuguide.com/ fairly simple and direct name.. Then the one that should be used a lot : http://www.thenowhereman.com/roku/  Nowhere tv which they say will make getting Youtube somewhat easy, since there really is no true channel yet, this is great to see.. then there is the Roku forums everyone who does have this receiver or is planning to get one : http://forums.roku.com/index.php?sid=bf93639cd8f18dcdb9ab1917e062f315  ..) 

(**  There seems to be no end in sight to this debacle and truth is it just seems to be worse the more time gets by us.. I feel bad for moms sake and wish things would get better for her.. But I wouldn't want to try to get things to where they were before, I rather am glad I don't watch him anymore BUT.. It seems  if we don't get royally reamed by them then we don't get to see the little guy, so which is worse??  When mom was talking to her brother (Bob) and he asked how much we got paid and found out it was nada he more or less freaked.. And when he heard that the blowup happened he was actually happy for us.. Mom admitted that watching him as much as she did just wore her out and I knew it did.. I tried to hold him at their house as late as I could but it was never long enough..

I won't give a particular day that I will have the entry go "live", or if it will even be a good idea too, but to be sure it will be  a last ditch effort to show whoever reads this our side of the story.. From the beginning of everything through the latest mine sweep, we'll let the cards fall where they may..  For better or worse, more than likely worse.. )

Bargain hunting

What does "DREAMING OF 5000" mean??  Well I am now under one thousand views to that number on the PNOP site.. Is that a milestone??  It kinda can be, the site I was on was well on it's way until I left and then started to be there full time.. This will be a banner year as they say, for that site.. Resetting from what it was to what it is now, and building.. It is strange to watch it grow, very slowly but still the viewership seems to grow...

There are those that might have read my last entry here and thought, there's no way he will help family if he wins the lottery.. Actually if I won a tenth of the pot I still would.. But $500,000,000   Five hundred million dollars...  That would be a no brainer.. How would you feel good about yourself if you didn't help family.. And I would die before spending that much money on my own...  Thas a lot of candy buckaroo...

It's after ordering the Roku that I found the best reason to get it.. The programming that is being added is unbelievable, and something I didn't know was that they have the "channel store"  where you set your lineup, and then there are private channels, and that is where the really cool stuff is at.. And the site I just came across will make this really worth it.. Imagine being able to see shows from everywhere in the world... Blows me away the potential of streaming.. HBO has a channel that is available to subscribers on just a few cable outlets and dish network (I think) and the reason they don't dive head first into streaming is it would likely end all other avenues.. VOD is the way of the future, but I don't think cable or satellite will ever be totally gone...  Not for quite a while yet.. Streaming is still quite an underground fenom, but is gaining traction all the time..

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Winner winner chicken dinner

YOU WON THE LOTTERY!!  the grand question what would you do with that kind of money??  What would I do with a half a billion dollars??  Well my feeling is that while I would feel extremely humble to have won that kind of money, truth is I would count myself lucky as hell, and figure I was just in the right place at the right time and.. Well cut the crap, I would have a good time no doubt but first thing right out of the box, or bag, I would assemble the family and get all debts they owe to be paid.. So in other words Donalds house would be paid for and all outstanding bills would be paid off as well.. Same with Bob & Freda ..  House and whatever else they owe.. GONE.. Same with Tabitha.. Jordan and Adam, their house... Paid off...  Then split the rest evenly with the family members.. Do with it what you want.. Set up a trust fund for the twins and Ian and Ryan..     I would still like to try my luck and start a business like a fun plex thing.. A slide park with trampoline thing like I've seen on YouTube..  Maybe a three tier park with the slide, trampoline and miniature golf or something cool, and for the older "kids" a serious party palace with wall to wall ceiling & floor video screens like the ones they are making, full room screen that is forth dimension, think video surround like the surround sound..  Dare to dream.. 

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Flinger

Because of the massive amount of "stuff" I've gotten since the October preload of entries I am going to up the number of things (?) that will be on each entry through December.. The number was around 15 and I'm thinking they will be increased by nearly twice the amount or thirty..  Somewhere in that number, except for Sundays which will still be in the five to nine music videos area, depending on my mood..

The "coaching carousal" starts for college coaches this week and next then the pro teams start the clearing house next month or January (happy new year).. My memory of when they got rid of Callahan at Nebraska was they knew Osbourn was gonna fire him shortly after the final game against Colorado.. Fast forward to this year and the rumours running rampant of Polini leaving after this year are running rampant.. But what people should look at is the Colorado situation.. They still haven't righted the ship this many years after letting McCartney go...  I think it would be a tough place to coach because it is tough to fight for a place in the state where the Broncos rule, and have for decades.. Their latest dismissal of Embree makes them have a "revolving door" on the head coaching job and it reminds me of what the said about Oklahoma just before they got Stoops, and even when they got Stoops I thought he would be there for five to seven years and then move on.. It's something you don't want to see, a coach be there for five years and then move on.. They say turning a program around is easy, keeping it that way is the hard part.. Urban Myer at Ohio State, they say he will be there until he retires from coaching.. I say since he retired once what's to keep him from retiring again shortly..  But with Colorado it will be a tough sell, since they gave Embree two whole years to get things turned around the next coach will have that amount of time.. Except for one thing, Embree had absolutely NO previous coaching experience.. What they thought was a good idea, I don't know.. Bet they get someone with a little experience next time for sure.. Maybe..


We got the renew bill for the satellite radio yesterday and we were sitting around after breakfast this morning and mom starts to talk about the radio.. She really likes listening to hers and says but you don't listen to yours anymore and I tell her I do listen to it, I listen to it overnight..  And then the thing she didn't know that I know or am pretty sure I told her that the reason I listen to it all night is because I can't have total silence... Because of the ringing in my ears, and she acted like she hadn't heard me say this before.. How long has this been this way??  Since about two years before dad passed away.. She seemed totally stunned.. Truth is I don't let on about half the things that bother me.. The other thing that hurts me is my arms.. Remember the first time my shoulder popped out of the socket was by the clothesline back when I was still in high school and I pulled the rope on the mower.. You tend to not forget little things like that.. It's why I started trying to be ambidextrous, using my left arm on equal.. So that's why I started to start the mower left handed, until of course my left arm popped out.. You just don't forget that feeling, it popped out and right back in and hurt like hell for a week.. But my ears started to ring one morning as I was getting up.. It was just there, but would steadily get worse until I couldn't sleep without the tv being on all night.. That evolved to the radio about six or seven years ago..  I tried a sort of mp3 player two years ago but was trying hypnosis programs to ease my ability to sleep and help with my anxiety towards large crowds.. Neither worked the way I was hoping although the anxiety towards large crowds worked incredibly well one time as I went into Walmart and saw nobody there.. Were they open or was this a dream.. That happened twice but hasn't since.. The sleeping hypnosis didn't work quite the way I was hoping either but.. Thankfully I stopped doing that..   My favorite show to listen to is Bob & Tom.. I'm addicted to that show.. They are NUTS..  They are like  a clean version of the Opie & Anthony show which I also like when they interview people they are the best.. But Bob & Tom are just off the wall.. Kind of a little like the Monsters in the morning, but not as frantic..


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(P.S.  a little extra on the "tinitis"  thing.. Yes my ears have this continuous insistent ringing in my ears and neither  is worse than the other, but make no mistake, I can still hear quite well.. as an example, mom has her phone turned up as loud as she can to hear the conversation and while she is talking to someone on the phone I can hear the conversation, the person she is talking to, very clearly while she is in the front room or the kitchen and I am on the computer.. The worst part about having still quite good hearing is being in the local walmart and the occasional cart with that extremely high pitched squeaky wheel..  Unnerves me... )

Cyber Monday & excesses

So yesterday, last night, I was looking online and seeing what was what.. I have several sites I "follow" via the like on Facebook that are a shopping type.. Cyber Monday, like Black Friday, started early this year.. Started last night at midnight eastern or ten our time (earlier if you have a couple of watchdog sites/RSS feeds that do that kind of thing and I have every site on RSS).. So what caught my eye??  The Roku streaming player, and not the one I was looking to get at Walmart (the $49.99 one) it was the next step up, which as I looked at it, they are identical..  the cheaper of the two, the LT (purple box) then the next step up is the HD and it has a regular price tag of $59.99 but was listed for cyber Monday at $39.99... Ten dollars cheaper than the LT, so this morning the suspense was ended as I got it ordered.. I waited until today in hopes that the NEO TV streaming player would be offered at a must have price.. The one I wanted, the one that I can hook up (I don't have a High Definition Media Interface (HDMI)  hookup on my high def tv go figure) but it wasn't cheaper even by a dime so, rather than wait until later I ordered this box, and also three replacement batteries for my video camera hoping these are good batteries.. The non OEM batteries aren't nearly as good but were fine before but they went bad when I needed them the most... Hopefully these will be good, and at the price I hope they are not a waste of money.. Yeah they're cheap but I hope they work at least as good as the last two non OEM type..  Knowing really good, nearly OEM quality are nearly a quarter the price of the camera..

So after getting all of my x-mas gifts set to come to me I looked at a few more things.. Last year I lost my pocket knife (read an early entry somewhere) and I looked all over last year at this time for a replacement, but I never really found the perfect knife.. Then the people who do the lawn found my pocket knife somewhere and it was a year rusted but was back and I was happy.. I found two or three perfect replacement pocketknives while looking around after sending in the order.. Then I found the most beyond.. What can I say ultimate if this is your cup of chissel... check this out:

I mean  87 implements, 141 functions and a price tag of just under one thousand dollars.. The reviews are so classic on this.. One of them says it's so big it won't fit in my pocket.. It's a novelty, more than anything else.. I saw a guy found one of these in an episode of storage wars and had it appraised for more like two thousand dollars..  The shit you find on cyber Monday..

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Final Saturday

Tomorrow's entry on PNOP will include what I call a "teaser" video from the "infinity" project.. It was put together (the video) quite towards the end of the project as a whole..   There was a point during doing this project where I looked at video and thought that I could possibly do a nearly forty song set.. Then pulled way back as by the end of the ten day period that it took to do this I saw no end in sight and decided I better find an ending... Which I did, quite abruptly, just decided this or that was to be the last song/video..   This video, the teaser, was the video that was signalling the end because five more songs later it was the end..  Anyway here is the play schedule for the videos from the infinity project, it will be five videos on the first Sunday of the month through March..  So the next four months.. 

So how did your black Friday freakathon go for you??  Me, I had to go to the dreaded dungeon aka walmart.. They treat their employees so bad, sweat shop working conditions.. Dark dank stinky places nobody should ever have to venture in to..   Of course service with a smile has long been a thing of the past..  But would you smile with blood dripping from your overworked hands...  We had to get stuff to work on the sink, it was plugged but it isn't anymore....

I went back and revisited  the old entry from after the "blowup" that I will post after the first of the year if the situation with Lucy (and Donald) doesn't get better PDQ.. I knew when that happened that it would be quite possibly after the first of next year before things might get better.. And even then it might take until April after she has the baby.. And maybe.. MAYBE then.. I wrote how after she got back from Poland that I felt some amount of guilt about not doing more to help keep her from going in the first place but had no idea what it would be.. Purger myself and end up in jail??  Not sure how important altering my life would have been.. But if I do put that entry on it will show the time frame and all will be explained..  from my point of view.. There was their point and it was probably  a lot more dire that I could ever have known..   But I think I watched Ian as long as I did, and we did bend over backwards as much as we did because of the immigration BS that we all went through... Made us stronger??    Made them more in control of shitting on us and I didn't like it, and hopefully we are even now.. Probably not..   But I feel like we are even, a full year plus of watching him and through the entirety of that year we kept telling them make sure you have a backup plan in case the weather gets bad.. it wasn't the weather that went bad... In the conversation on the FB IM I told her I would try to get there but I would have to get "doped up".. She freaked and told me not to bother doping up.. Doping up for me is nearly a daily situation, I take advil daily and when I have to use my arms to some form of extreme I take an alieve to help with the bone on bone grinding that happens when I have to push Ian on the swing for hours on end.. If they freaked because I think of that as doping then guess what guys??  I've been doing that every time I watched him.. I think she thought I do something heavier drug wise.. 

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Long incoherent rant

Ok so the woe is in on black Friday.. Why should we care about what the average Walmart employee makes in wages and if they would have had made a better choice in life they wouldn't have had to settle with working there.. But there are part timers there who use that job to help with their income i.e. working a few extra hours to pay for something or for extra income because of what Christmas can be.. There is no excuse for the put down of the walmart pay grade, mostly because ... Well if you live where you can afford housing by working there then you should be fine.. Trouble is how bad is your house at $15.500 a year??  also how bad of shape is your 1986 model car??  How badly would you like to get a new muffler so the buzz you get while going to work doesn't wear off until lunch break.. Knowing you can't miss a single day of work no matter how much you pray for death from the cold you caught because your heater doesn't work, or you have to take a shower in cold water because the hot water heater doesn't  work and you can't get the landlord to buy a new one..   Remember the television show Undercover Boss?? Remember how the boss comes through in the end and buys things for those employees who are just so helpful and things like that??  Well there are people like that through everywhere.. They just weren't lucky enough to be in the right place on the right day to get the goods.. There are a lot of those hard luck stories and I just think that show is a farce..

Yesterday I read something on Facebook where a republican is going to go against the "No new taxes" pledge that the republican party stands for (T party).. And his reason is simple, they need to start being responsible for what they have been doing.. Everyone on the FAUX (fnc) are saying how bad things will be in the next four years with Obama as president but they don't realize is that the status quo can't be maintained.. If there is just a slight increase by the rich (ultrarich) or getting rid of the loopholes they have and take advantage of and taxing all their money including the money they have in off shore banks (Romney)..  If these people don't want to pay taxes on their entire income then I think they should leave the country..





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