Day: 3/25/08

For those that may not have noticed, I have been quite busy on the internet of late. I have added a number of Blog feeds and links to the side of this blog. The "links I like/use" has been changed to "Whims of Chaos" because typically these are things that I just came across without really looking for them, so the name seems more fitting. I have also added a "Shop-A-Holics" section of internet stores and a "Forums" section for message boards and online discussion sites. Next is the "Temp (to be investigated) links" section that changes all the time. These are just sites I've come across and have yet to delve into to see if they have anything I consider worthwhile on. Most things that get here are moved up to the "Whims of Chaos" but not everyone works. For those that have actually gone all the way to the bottom of the screen, the list of online comics has been cleaned up, added one, and moved a couple of other sites out and up to the "Whims of Chaos" where they belong.

Life outside the internet has been pretty stable. Nothing of particular note to mention at the moment. Perhaps the rest of the week will liven up. :)

Day: 3/23/08

Well now, Easter time again. I hope everyone had a nice holiday, and those of us that got a three-day weekend, it just didn't seem long enough, did it? Oh well, back to the daily grind.

We were a bit heavier in the company department this year with the addition of my uncle, aunt and cousin from Texas coming up for the holiday. It's been quite a while since we have seen any of these family members, but we knew they were family as soon as we saw them. Must've been the weird look in their eyes. :)

Now, we have a few traditions in our family when it comes to Easter. First is the meal, I think everyone has this, but we usually have the standard fare of chicken, ham, lamb, assorted vegetables, pastas, and rolls. Next up is the kids. We are running low on children of age enough to participate in an egg hunt, but the three we did have had fun looking for the various plastic eggs around the yard. My son walked away with $0.90 this year for his efforts. As for the adults, we have the annual 'Beer Hunt'! This was started a number of years ago as a way to give the adults something to do besides stand around and talk and eat. I don't know where the idea came from, but pretty much everyone looks forward to it. One of the highlights of the Beer Hunt is not necessarily the hunt itself, but the trading that goes on afterwards. Everyone has their favorite beer, and some of us are willing to try just about anything. So, we all stand around trading until we get a good selection of brew to have. I walked off with 4 Killian's Red, 3 Buds, 7 Corona, and a Red Stripe.

For the most part, the whole weekend was kind of slow. We welcomed in the new washing machine on Friday, did laundry all day Saturday, and relaxed when we had the chance. Not a bad weekend, at least it was a three-day weekend so I was able to get a little extra sleep for a change.

Day: 3/20/08

Ok, as if looking for Wiccan things and finding a Protestant message board isn't bad enough.

So I was browsing through ask.com 's blog engine for 'chaote' and what do I find? A Baptist message board, weird, yeah? The Landover Baptist Church Forum. Once again I wonder what in the Chaos the Chaos is doing giving me this place, so I dive in and start reading. In honesty, I can't recall a forum where there was so much bad-mouthing in the name of the Lord and His work before. At least the Protestants were civil about the whole thing...for the most part.

Speaking of the Protestant board, I haven't gone back since my last post regarding it. Apparently, boredom set in faster than I thought, so I guess I'll chalk that one up to a whim of Chaos. Maybe I'll figure something else out about it later.

Back to the Baptists. No, I'm not jumping into this forum, I really don't want to waste the energy attempting to discuss anything with these. Read around a bit when the non-Baptists chime in and you'll see what I mean. Of note, I have seen Bob, a self-made Eunuch, a couple of Atheists (one of whom is James T. Kirk), and even a couple of Satanists (although I think one of them is making it up, along with some random claim to being a Chaote too).

So, I've updated a number of feeds on the blog here, added a couple of links, and generally been making a nuisance of myself around the internet, aside from that, not much else going on.

Day: 3/19/08

Please give a moment of silence for my friend, Aradiana and her family. Today they have lost a dear loved one after many months of struggle.

Author's note: I have invited a couple of my dear friends to join me in blogging here, hopefully you will see some of their work in the near future. In the meantime, I will continue to blog here as best I can and hope that Lord Darkfyre and Lady Aradiana join me soon. Happy blogging!

Day: 3/18/08

Well, today was a pain in the bud. Sinuses had kicked up to high gear apparently and left me weak and not doing so well. After trying to convince myself I did not have a temperature, I broke down and took it; 102F...yeah, ok, so I'm sick. I figure the only way to get myself back up and running is to take the day and drug myself up so much that I just sleep the day away and let the body do its thing. Robitussin, Sudafed, Halls, and Tylenol all start hitting the system every four hours. I'm glad the Robitussin knocks me out, because when I was awake, I think I felt worse.

For most of the my day, I spend it curled up either in the bed or on the couch sleeping in shifts, 3-3.5 hours here and there and then up for a bit waiting for the next medicine dose. Some times, I didn't get very much sleep since my son isn't quite old enough to understand that when someone is sick, it is usually better not to try to play horsey or giddy-up or jump on daddy. I did manage to keep my temper in check, so I didn't go flying off the handle today though I thought I might a few times. Momma tried her best to keep the kid in check and let me rest when I could.

I suppose the saying that 'you get worse before you get better' still holds pretty much true for me. I always struggle with certain things before it finally bests me and takes me down for a day, but usually after that day, I recover more or less fully in the next few. We'll have to see how this one goes.

Of other notes, I haven't been up to much. My time has been pretty much absorbed by projects around the house and work. My online time has been spent just working the emails and doing random searches for others who think I have some magick power to find exactly what they want for them. Ever try to find pictures of Princess Tiger Lily? Apparently from Peter Pan she isn't one of the more favored characters and finding cels of her are hard. Oh, sure, Tinkerbell is a snap, there are entire sites devoted just to her. But Tiger Lily is second to Tinkerbell apparently. Oh well.

I have not returned to the bible forum to date except long enough to copy and save all the messages to date that I have been involved in. Call me cautious, but I like to keep things like this that irritate me in case I need it later. Eventually I will delete it and forget about it, but for now, my irritation is still up at this place and at the moderator that was rather pushy towards me. So, I may go back, as the days go by, my curiosity of this place fades and I think less and less about it. I still am not sure why I was directed that way, perhaps it was just to give me something to do for a bit. I always say, "Chaos is funny that way." :)

Day: 3/16/08

Today was a day of family and friends. We started the day by having one of our friends drop off her son for a few hours while she went to work. This is a good thing, as it gives my son someone his own age to play with. I admit that he is not often able to have time with those of his age group in that my neighborhood is mostly older couples whose grandchildren are all older than him. I can not, at the moment, afford for him to attend a day care where he could spend more time with children, so we take what time we can get with him and the children of our friends. Granted, now that we have had three kids in the house, my son's room looks like a dozen tonadoes hit it, but what can you expect of a couple of two year olds? :)

Once we were minus the extra child, we piled in the car and headed to my mom's house to use her washer and dryer since I have yet to replace ours. We spent a good hour there, before other responsibilities called us elsewhere. We had hoped to return here later, but events would prove that to not be the case.

After taking care of a few other issues in life, we drop off my girlfriends daughter at her house and return to town. On the return trip, before we were to return to my mom's we had a delivery to make. Turns out, that the delivery turned into a chat session and three hours later, we realized what time it was and decided that it was better to return home than to try to go anywhere else. Sorry hon, we'll get you some crawfish soon, promise. :)

For the greater part of the night, I spent it on the internet working through pages of appliances trying to find the best deal on a new washing machine. I found one for about $260 that is made by Maytag (even though it doesn't say it is a Maytag). I hope that the store has one in stock, I don't really want to have to clear $300 before tax. Here's to hoping.

Day: 3/15/08

Ok, so when things go wrong, they usually do so at the worst possible time. Take for example my now deceased washing machine. While I am working Saturday, I get this cryptic call from the house saying that the "washing machine is making a funny sound." Now, guys, if you've dealt with a lot of women in this department, you know what this means. So, I say that there isn't much to be done about it right now, and I'll look at it when I get home. I get home that evening and proceed to yank out the dryer, and then the washing machine. Ok, so far, so good....except what is that black stuff on the floor? Oh great, metal filings, not a good sign. Ok, plug it up and check a few cycles to see what happens. Lots of noise, but not much motion to the ocean. (Almost like a bad sex video ;) ) Yeah, this is not a good thing.

I hang up my belt and hit the hay. At midnight, there isn't much that can be done to this machine or the clothes still in it.

RIP: GE Washing Machine, 3/15/08

Work for the most part was a pain. We were down a number of good people today, and on warehouse day, that is not a good thing. So those of us that were there and know how to do the work required busied ourselves as best we could at trying to put out as many warehouse totes as we could. We didn't get as far as we wanted, but did better than we could have hoped.