Billy Mayes(sp?). Well, not specifically Billy Mayes, even if it seems he’s always yelling at me, but those kind of commercials. It bugs me how they portray anyone not using their product as totally clumsy, incompetent and just plain stupid. People just aren’t (usually) going to be that physically challenged emptying their vacuum or cutting a tomato. Or any of a dozen other activities. But, no, if you aren’t using their product you’re a total dweeb! I hate that! You want to sell me something? Then show me how your product is better without showing me how stupid I am. Even if I am. Which I’m not. But don’t get me started…

Not much going on around here. I could not get to sleep last night. Have a cold. Took a sudafed a couple of hours before bedtime. Didn’t work. If I wasn’t awake trying not to drown in my own snot I was awake with a sore throat from breathing through my mouth. Finally about 0330 I just got up. Watched tv until about 0630 when I could barely hold my eyes open and went back to bed. Slept until about noon.

Just been lazying around the house with my ever-present roll of paper towels. I could open my own snot factory! Sneezing. Coughing. Stuffy head. Gad! I sound like a commercial myself!

It’s been raining off and on all afternoon. Sometimes raining hard!! I have mixed feelings. I’ve lived up here so long I really hate the rain now. But if all that came down as snow this area would be in real trouble! But I’d almost rather see it snow than rain. Won’t want to see either once I get my digger back out to the property.

So I haven’t posted. Really!

Saturday didn’t do anything but feed the Missionaries taco’s. Probably straightened up around the house but that’s pretty much a daily thing around here.

Sunday was a regular sunday. Church for the first hour then home. The rest of the day is a blur.

Monday: We spent New Year’s Eve as we usually do. Searching for a safe place to hide in the house from the falling bullets from those idiots that just have to fire their guns into the air to welcome the new year. Just kidding about the hiding part. Didn’t seem to be as many people shooting into the sky this year. No one went fully automatic this year. The guy with the mortar shot off only a dozen rounds or so. All in all a fairly quiet New Year’s Eve this year. SWMBO and I like to stay home (we’re not party people) and just be together for New Year’s.

Tuesday was pretty much SSDD. The Missionaries did stop by about 2000 just to visit for awhile.

Wednesday I got off my ass and went to the base and got a sticker for my car. Then I went to the Exchange and bought 3 expansion pacs for Flight Simulator X. OF COURSE I spent the rest of the day flying different aircraft! (Need you even wonder?!) SWMBO was off to the office for the day so she wasn’t around to yell at me to get off my butt and get things done. (That’s misleading though: She doesn’t yell at me at all.)

Thursday SWMBO and I went out and about to find a couple of things called "Chain Binders". They’re used to bind the chain when you tie something down for transport. We found some at a local feed store and got two. I’ll need them for this Saturday when I load my digger on a trailer to take it back out to the property. I want to get started on fixing the clearing and road. Probably should have started before the snow melted but couldn’t get my digger out there. Oh well.

Not much going on today. Just waiting until 1800 when we’re going to head out. We’re going to have something crunchy at Taco Hell then see "The Golden Compass" at the theater uphill. I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep last night cause of a migraine and have mixed feelings about going to see a movie; but I’ll be spending time with SWMBO and that’s always great.

Gotta Go!

Joined this web service today that makes audio of your blog for folks to listen to. Odiogo.com. You sign up and they make an audio file and give you a "listen now" button. The voice gets things pretty close. I’ll have to change Olalla to O La La and SWMBO to swimbo (with a long o) but, hey, no biggie. They do need to get a sexy female voice though. Not that it will bring anyone to my blog. I guess I’m not like other bloggers though; I know MY blog is boring and probably doesn’t contribute anything to society in general. But who cares! I enjoy doing it.

Things are pretty normal for Sunday. Church for the first hour then home. Getting the rest of the laundry done. SWMBO (swimbo) decided to batch it so I didn’t even have to cook dinner! Cool! She’s taken over the tv so I’ve been watching trailers at apple.com. I like having broadband internet!

Did all my cooking yesterday. Ground my own hamburger and made taco’s for the Missionaries. Them Boys Can Eat A Lot! Phew! But it was nice to have them over for awhile.