barkingowl

Well we're finally getting a taste of the colder weather that has taken over the country. Its about time. I thought that winter would never show up. I'm thinking about going out to dinner tonight at a nice Italian restaurant & wearing my mink. Its a very warm coat & I can wear a t shirt without shivering. Other than that I'm expecting a new...
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Well NYE has come & gone. Like most others the night was punctuated by the neighbors firing off fireworks. I spent a few hours on the phone with a good friend of mine in Alaska, as well as surfing the web & working. No champagne though, I still have the hacking cough from Thanksgiving.

I did go out & buy a nice bottle for the...
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I had the misfortune of being dragged to a Christmas party on Christmas Eve by my wife. We were supposed to be going there just to eat & leaving afterward. Both of us were sick with the flu so staying wasn't what either of us wanted to do. So I call my friend up & ask what time dinner is... 5pm... We go over a...
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The weather has been acting very strangely here over the past week. It started off normally being chilly during the days & colder at night. We set up the hot tub & got to use it for a couple days before it started to get really warm. I've had a bad cold these past few days. It started off with congestion, then a fever, &...
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I'd always wondered where I'd be at the time that the toilet decided to erupt & spray its contents all over the bathroom. Now I know. I had just used the toilet. I flushed it & watched with horrified fascination as the water level in the bowl kept rising & rising. But the contents didn't erupt out the top in a geyser, rather they wept...
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Damn... It looks like its been nearly three months since my last blog post. What have I been up to? Well I've been moving piles of wood around my yard from place to place to get ready for erecting a new shed in the coming spring. I've been sawing quite a bit of wood as well to make the piles easier to burn.
I've also...
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Well not much has been going on these days. I finished an appraisal for a client yesterday that I'd begun over the weekend. The rest of the weekend was a blur of playing Diablo II.