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Damn! It’s Cold Out There!

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I only know that because I took the Dog for a walk around the back 40. Sun was shining; it ought to be fairly nice out. NOT! I know, some people think 35 degrees is fairly nice. Not me. Anything below 75 and I’m ready for a sweater.

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Not much else going on today. The usual. Did get down and get a lot of straightening up done in the basement. Trying to put like items together in one place. “One of these things is different. One of these things don’t belong.” Looks a lot better but still have a lot to do.

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Spent the evening playing with my outlook accounts and trying to wrap my head around what’s what where. Going after Google Photo’s and Picasa Web Albums to see if I can figure out what the HELL I’m doing. Not to mention that I still have all those photo’s to straighten up in my “Latest Last Scans” directories.

But not tonight.


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It’s Another Magic Monday?

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Made a run to Walmart in Bremerton this morning to get a refund of the video game they double charged me for. That really did go well. No hassle or anything. Turned right around and spent the refund on a “digital” antenna that, if I had checked the broadcast stations online before, I wouldn’t have bought. No matter what antenna “color” I chose there are still only two (2!) stations close by that I can receive. And of those only 13.1 is what I’d call a “decent” channel. Well, the antenna looks a lot better than the antenna wire I had hanging before.

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Other than that just not much going on all day. All the usual chores and laundry that I didn’t feel like doing yesterday. Swept some. Moved some stuff I’m not using from my room down to the basement. (One of these days I really have to get down there and straighten up that mess.) Moved the small couch back into the library. Caught up my finances in Money. Not that I have a lot of finances. But I like to keep track of what I do have.

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Cold out. Wind was really kicking things around here earlier. Sounded like someone pushing cardboard boxes around on the roof at different times today. Antenna’s really bouncing around. Supposed to get down into the teens tonight. Brrr.

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And that’s pretty much my day.


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No Snow @ Our Place. Yet.

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Just sitting around this morning thinking about various things. One is the state of our economy and how it’s really kind of funny. I stuck with the Navy 20+ years specifically for lifetime “free” medical coverage (which I don’t get. It costs me bucks out of my pocket), and 50% of my pay for the rest of my life. I figured it was worth taking the chance I’d get killed for this (once Great) Country (They did give TWO wars for me!). So, after taxes and medical I’m living on about half of that. And people bitch about it. (People, I notice, that have never served in the Military.) At least we get a bit more respect now than we did during Viet Nam.

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Personally, I think I did well in the Navy and was pretty good at my job. Not the absolute best Hospital Corpsman that ever was; but not bad. Not too hot on the “book learning” but never lost a patient. If they were alive when I got to them, they were alive, patched up and in no danger of dying, when I left for the next one. And a couple that were “clinically” dead are enjoying their lives today. (Hopefully)

Sick Call twice a day. Emergencies anytime. Daily Berthing and Sanitation inspections. Water testing. LGBT readings when underway. I could suture with the best of them. Even diagnosed a couple of “greenstick” fractures pre-X-Ray.

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Yeah, I was once a highly trained, motivated, individual. And look at me now. Thinking about the Past. What a waste of time.

OTT, pretty normal Saturday, so far. Watching a storm move in to Eastern WaRshington. It’s just wet outside here. SWMBO is still catching up on her lost sleep. Even I “overslept” this morning and didn’t get up until 0730. Must be getting old. No, I am old. Beats the alternative though.

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My Lovely Young Bride of almost 30 years showed up around 1500 and took me out to dinner at Taco Bell. Then we went to Best Buy where I spent way too much money (but not as much as I could have thanks to that gift card her Son got me for Christmas) on a new video card, 32 Gig thumb drive, and “How To Train Your Dragon” on Blue Ray. Made our usual stop at Safeway and came on home.

Almost time to hit the rack. But, instead, I installed the new video card. a GTX 750. And the HDMI works! Cool!!!!

Now it’s bedtime.


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