They once said that a black man would be president when pigs flew.

His first 100 days …BAM…swine flu.

Been busy? Well, sorta. Kinda. But, sometimes it’s so boring that I just haven’t anything to write. Even though this blog is dedicated to the every-day minutia(?) of the average American life, sometimes I’m too boring even for myself.

Let’s see: Been running back and forth from here to Belfair almost daily to sign different papers for the house we’re trying to buy. We had the house inspection last Thursday and had to be there early for that. (Issac?) did a great job. Only thing that was really troubling to me was the heater in the MIL apartment shorting out and popping the circuit breaker when we tested it. That’s gotta be replaced. Then more papers to sign trying to work all that out. And even more to sign when the Sellers respond. I didn’t sign this much to join the Navy!

Other than that; just not much going on. I’ve been out to the property a couple of times but, now that I don’t really have a plan to accomplish something that will get us to building a house, I just don’t do anything but sit in the sun (if it’s out) and read. Started practicing building rock walls with the boulders I’ve dug up but I can’t even hardly justify the fuel to do that now that we aren’t building up there. Bummer! I do so enjoy just being out there!

Speaking of which: had a really nice day the other day and I managed to just lazy around the property laying in the sun and reading for a few hours. Would have stayed out there later than I did but got a headache. (WHERE are these damned headaches coming from?) Since then it’s either been cold or raining. Usually both (like today!). Ah well. That’s Warshington weather.

Sat around a couple of hours last night playing all the music video’s I’ve collected from various places. Wish I could write music! I’ve been trying to learn a couple of different programs (Finale & Fruity Loops mostly) but haven’t the musical background to really compose anything. Fruity Loops gives me a lot of instruments to use and I can get down to the note level; but has a high learning curve. Finale does the same thing but gives you a music sheet that you place notes on. Again with the high learning curve. I practice (sometimes!) on the keyboard Phillip is letting me use, but I just don’t seem to have the time!

I’m too old for this shit!

Been watching the news (online) about the Swine Flu. Sounds like the furor we had over the SARS scare a few years ago. That came to nothing. I think this Swine Flu thing will come to nothing also. Oh, I could be wrong; but enough other people are worried about it that it’ll get taken care of. Funniest thing about it (if there is anything funny) is the Scientists looking for another name for the Swine Flu cause they don’t want people to hate Pigs (or have it associated with Pigs or something like that). Go figure! This virus had genetic material from humans, birds & SWINE. So I guess you could call it the Flying ManPig Flu. (Or the HBS Flu?)

That brings an interesting question to mind: If Muslims (of all denominations) can’t consume Pork because it’s an “unclean” animal; what happens if they catch a virus that contains genetic material from Swine? I mean, other than the obvious. (The obvious being that you’ve caught a VIRUS and we haven’t any way to treat (kill) a virus without killing the host.)

Keep getting notices that I have a new member joining my blog; Cool! Although I have to wonder about your level of sanity for reading this drivel, I do appreciate you checking in. I just wish y’all would leave more than a user name and e-mail address. Tell me something about yourselves! The two most popular e-mail domains for people joining my blog are Gmail and Mail.Ru. Mail.Ru is in Russia! Now why would Russians be interested in my blog?

Let me tell you a secret…

That got your attention, didn’t it!?

Never thought I’d say that. Don’t get me wrong, I like Lana. But I am damned sick of the "Lana Angst" and am glad that she may finally be out of the picture as far as Clark is concerned. And making her "super suit" absorb Kryptonite without killing her was a stroke of genius. Cool! I think the body at the end, the one identified as Lex, will turn out to be a clone though. Lex is still out there. How much ya want to bet?

Guess you can tell that I still like Smallville. Just downloaded and watched the latest episode. I really like watching it without the commercials! Thanks to the guys that make it available via torrent.

Not much going on right now. It’s early. Think I’ll SSS and maybe go see the latest Underworld movie. SWMBO is talking about going over to a friends house to help her unpack her stuff into her new house.

Me, Grandma holding Anthony & George. 1956

Sorry about that. When your days are pretty much the same day in and day out you kind of lose track of time. And getting OLD doesn’t help!Many things going on this week. Yesterday, that bailout was defeated in Congress; which I have mixed feelings about. On the one hand, our economy could go further down the drain if we don’t give (whoever) the money. On the other hand; there are about 300 MILLION legal American’s in this country and if the government was to give each of us one Million Dollars, we’d all be able to pay off our bills and still save about $699 Billion. Sounds good to me. Sent a message to headlinenews@cnn.com and said:

It amazes me that we can pull $700 Billion “out of our hats” to save private business when we’ve so many other things that need to be done but haven’t the money for. Or so we’ve been told. If we can find the money for the bailout, then let’s pull the money and start the old Job Corps back up and employ some of our unemployed and get some of our bridges (and other public works) fixed!

I don’t know if they read it on air or not…

So, to catch up:

Monday: Rented a wood splitter and spent my day out splitting wood.Cause that’s what you do with a wood splitter…Spent the evening recovering!

Tuesday: Took the splitter back. Came home and cleaned up and went and got a haircut.

Wednesday: SWMBO’s normal day at the office. I spent the day lounging around the house cause I caught a cold that was Kicking My Ass!

Thursday: Raining. Stayed home. SWMBO’s brother came over for the afternoon and dinner. (Luckily he was gone before Smallville came on! Clark’s first day working at the Daily Planet was killer!) She took him to COSTCO to buy him a small microwave. Gave him one of my old 80 Gig hard drives. Never thought I’d see a day where I’d give away an 80 Gig drive! (My first Hard drive was actually a Hard Card, 40 Megabytes and cost me almost $500.)

Friday: Pretty normal Friday. SWMBO slept LATE so we wound up going out to Taco Bell in the afternoon. Regular shopping trip at Albertson’s where we spent WAY too much. Spent the evening just lounging around the house. Still got that cold.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o />

Saturday: This cold is kicking my butt! Did get out to the property to try to enjoy some of the last of the good weather we’ll get this year. Was nice out there! Hot & Sunny.

Sunday: Missed church cause of this cold. Just wasn’t feeling good. Did get out to the property this warm afternoon and lay out a bit. Was damned nice out there! Wish I hadn’t had a headache… Did manage to stack the last of the wood I split after I got home.

Monday: Nice HOT day. Too Cool! Laid out at the property for awhile but came home early cause I was getting a headache.SWMBO was off to Tacoma to talk to the flooring people. She came home and took me out to teriyaki Chicken for dinner. Now just “chillin’”.

Today: Stayed home and got some of the things accomplished that I’ve been putting off by going out to the property.

Mostly in the evenings I’ve been ripping my dvd’s to .avi files and working on a computer for a friend that lives up the road. Having a hell of a time getting Linux to recognize ANY modem (and I’ve tried several). But that old V-Buddy computer has been just sitting in the back room for 3 years or so and Phil does need a "new" computer. Trying to load it with Linux cause he’s having lots of trouble with his Win 98 and Win 2k machines. But he really does pretty good for a guy that’s 70 years old.

The guys at DVDVideoSoft have put out a new version of their VideoToFlv converter that plays a list of .flv files so I’ll be redesigning my video’s page. Some times I have too damned much to do!

Now if this cold would just go away…