...plus all the times I didn't bore you with the fact that something
different broke on the garage door. This weekend it was a pulley and I
still have to replace the cable that it partially shredded while it was
broken.
I thought everybody needed a picture of Kaleb today. We sure do miss
that dog.
Which telephone book?
In the past month, we've received our annual three telephone books. The
official Verizon Telephone Book, The Yellow Book, and the Talking Phone
Book. Does anyone even use the phone book any more? That is unless they
don't have a computer. I think I like the Yellow Book the most. It
covers a largest area, has the best restaurant section and largest
yellow pages. I won't use it much but I'll keep that one in the kitchen.
Today it rained
hard. I had to walk two blocks and into a foot of water to retrieve our
garbage can. I assume the cap is lost forever. I saw our neighbors'
recycling bin wedged under the middle of a car three blocks away which
had a small stream going under it. I would have gotten it but that would
have meant submerging myself. I opted not too.
I've spent the last couple of days adding a couple of sets to
flickr.
I uploaded a lot of the pictures of
Schenectady I took a couple of years ago and made a separate set of
the
Stockade. I have a lot of pictures.
Rain, let's talk about it. How can anybody complain when it could be
snow? February was the second wettest February on record. It's rained or
snowed everyday in March except for two. As of this afternoon, we are
more than three inches above normal rainfall for this time in March and
it's still raining hard. As for snowfall, normally we should have 56
inches by this time, we've only had 52. So like I said, I really
shouldn't complain.
Sinus Buster,
one of my new best friends. I don't have a lot of chronic bad things
wrong with me but I do have a lot of problems with my sinuses. Duncan
can actually recognize me having problems before I admit it to myself
because I'll start pushing on my face with my knuckles or something
strange like that. Squirting pepper juice up your nose as far as it'll
go. It burns like a mother but after it subsides, it's a great temporary
relief most of the time without drugs and sleepiness. The trick is to
force it back as far as it'll go and let it burn. Cry baby cry...
I have a new favorite cop.
Sorry Officer Dan, Deputy Adam from Leon County and Tallahassee FL is my
new favorite cop. With that cool accent and evil eye, you are the man.
I like
this idea. I'm not sure why they're needed because really, what kind
of a dumbass doesn't know that a solid green ball doesn't give you the
right of way to turn left in front of on coming traffic...unless that
is, I say, unless that is, you're in Schenectady, NY where there are a
couple of lights that give you the right of way to turn left in front of
traffic with no arrow but a solid green ball so you just sit there if
you don't know any better. Schenectady is pretty progressive when it
comes to a lot of things such as green projects and wise energy usage.
But anything to do with traffic such as design, redesign, painting lines
in an efficient way to move traffic or just painting lines at all, it's
1955. The exception being replacing the traffic lights with all LCD, but
that's really one of their energy saving measures they've been taking
over the last several years. Geek Mode Alert: I really like the one
traffic signal that has both the green and yellow arrow in the same
position in the light...one good thing is, to my knowledge, we don't
have any signals still on timers like Albany has.
I still love Janet Jackson. I wish I could still love Michael Jackson.
Eliot Spitzer resigned today, effective Monday. I don't really have
any personal problem with prostitution, especially when it's done like
this. Off the street with girls(guys) who are hooked on drugs just
trying to get their next hit or are forced into it for the same reason
is a different horse all together. What gets my goat, other than the
humiliation his wife and KIDS, who have to go to school with this
hanging over their heads, is the fact he paid over $80,000 over the last
several years. Yes he's a rich man but my god, that's a lot of money.
I like David Paterson. He seems to have a lot of the same goals for
upstate new York as Spitzer did. Will he be forceful enough to stand up
to Joe Bruno, I don't know.
It's so unfair as I notice it's 76 in Charlotte, NC. I'm sitting here
and it's 34 degrees and that's not really too far from normal. That
said, I like the fact that it's light this late in the afternoon. I like
daylight savings time. I'd much rather have it light in the evening
rather than in the morning. I sleep better when it's dark outside. Since
standard time is hardly more than four months now, why don't we just do
away with it and have some more daylight in the evening during those
short winter days?
Where's my numbers pad? I learned to use a computer at work many years
ago and I did a lot of data entry, hence, I've always have typed my
numbers with the numbers pad. Since I got my laptop, I feel I have
completely lost my ability to type, along with the fact, I can't even
hit the shift key anymore. I'd buy a separate number pad but that's just
something else to drag around.
I like the new $5 bill released today. It's all purplely (pronounced
purple lee) and stuff. I wish American money was colorful like much of
the foreign currency.
I've never noticed that archive.org
had so much going on. It's been a while since I've been there but they
have great classic movies, commercials, TV shows, news archives,
newspapers, books, shorts, music, concerts, software, and much more I'm
sure I missed. Check it out.
I really want these, except for the fact they're Kool-Aid shoes. But I
want these size 11 1/2 giant big red shoes, again, except for the fact
they're Kool-Aid shoes.
Albany is getting the country's biggest Super Wal-Mart. It's actually
the old Wal-Mart in Crossgates Commons which is on the top floor and
they're combining it with the old Sam's Club that used to be on the
bottom floor. They've installed the escalator with the
cart trolley in the middle and it's actually open though the remodel
won't be finished until May. The only other escalator I've been on for
carts actually was more of an incline conveyor that grabbed onto the
cart wheels and you went down with your cart instead of it going down
separate. It was actually pretty cool.
We just got back from
Delmonico's Steakhouse, supposedly the best steak in the region. I
think they may be right and it's not a "I have a stick up my ass kind of
place". One of my friends gave us a gift certificate so we thought we
should take advantage of it. I think we may have to go back.
One of my friends is moving and when he told me, for some reason, I
thought I was going to cry. Pretty gay, ehh? People come and go through
your life. Some don't matter, some do.
The family's up for the week so we spent Easter sledding down at Lake
Luzerne.
My best friend's dad died today. I may take a trip down to North
Carolina depending on the funeral plans and such. It's long been
expected but you still never know exactly what to do or say. He knows
whatever he needs, I'll do it.
Sad faceless snowman built by Beth and Christina before they left this
morning. We got 3.7 inches of snow this morning while the mountains got
the brunt of the storm. As I browse the news this morning, I see it's
gonna be 79 in Charlotte today. It should be around 40 here
today. I'm a little jealous.
A quandary: A job at work has opened up and I may want it. The problem
is in January when another job I wanted opened up, my boss promised me
some things if I stayed where I was. I stayed and my boss so far had
done his part. Now another job has opened up. What should do? keep
my word or go for it? Humm...
Besides having six females in the house this week, (great time by the
way though I had to work most of the time) I've been digging the new
B-52's
CD every chance I gotten since I downloaded it Tuesday. It's great by
the way but was there ever any doubt? I thought I'd have to wait until
Sunday to see the Funplex video when it debuts on LOGO but it's around
to enjoy now on the little screen.
