Real Work

Barbara

I don't know what I would do without her. She does

all the cooking and cleaning. She does all the chores

and hard work without a single complaint. I sit around

and do things on the computer. It's just the way things

are. I recognize what side my bread is buttered and I'm

grateful to have her in my life.

Jay Day

Jay came over to put some time in on the paper he is doing

about the growth of our city for his school. We printed up a

gang of pictures of the City of Patterson that he had taken.

It's getting down to the wire.

Food

MEATLOAF

We had lotsa good food today. I usually write about the

days high point (if the day doesn't have a high point, I pick

a medium one). Most people wouldn't think that Meatloaf

deserves to be the high point. But they would have to live

on my diet for awhile. It was some DAMN GOOD meatloaf!

Road Trip

We went to Turlock today to do the shopping we

can't do here in town. We hit Target and FoodMaxx

and got everything we were looking for (cheap prices

are basically what we are always looking for).

Butting My Head

I've been butting my head all day on MySpace trying to

figure out how to post just code. When you post code...

you get a picture. I JUST WANT THE CODE. I will

figure it out eventually... I think!

Picture posting

We spent today playing cards and playing MySpace. We

worked on both our pages tweaking them to perfection!

Late night I posted some of the art to PhotoBucket for

future use. It's pretty cool being able to post pictures

in both comments and messages at MySpace.

Barbara is home... YAY!

More MySpace

As I've mentioned before... MySpace is addictive.

I spent the whole day re-doing both my and Barbara's profile

pages. I had figured with Barbara gone to Jenny's, I would

spend a lot of time watching TV (my favorite pastime) but NO!

I get busy changing one thing that ends up leading to another

which leads to another and so on... and being the perfectionist

that I am, it becomes never-ending. I enjoy it so it's all good!

Home Alone

Barbara left for Jenny's today.

I'm gonna be a bachelor for a couple of days!

This means that I gotta take care of myself!

BUMMER!

but it's all good... she needs time with Jenny and Jake

Lawn day

It was a beautiful day today. After so much rain lately it was a real

nice change. We took advantage by mowing and edging the lawn.

That's all..... the rest of the day was business as usual except we

talked and made plans for Barbara's trip to Jenny's this weekend.

A normal day

The Invitations... pt 2

Jay came by early today to give his final input to

the invitations. We changed quite a few things and

got a finished product everyone agreed upon. He left

and we printed them all up. Barbara then addressed

and stuffed all of the envelopes for all of the invitees.

It all turned out pretty good!

The Invitations

Today, Barbara and I worked on the invitations for

JDB's graduation from Sacramento State. We laid it

out and pasted it up, making a template to print the

invites with. We emailed the proof to Jay for his final

approval before printing them up. He is going to stop

by in the morning to take care of some business here

in town and give the final proof an upclose looky-loo and

tell us if he's happy with it or what changes we need.

Easter was great!

Well, It's over! We had our annual Easter Car Rally and

a good time was had by all! It rained but that really didn't

put much of a damper on the festivities. Barbara planned,

decorated and cooked for a successful Easter event.

It's Easter!

Countdown to Easter

We finished working up the map and clues for the Easter

car rally. We printed it all up and it's ready to go. Barbara

went to the store and finished up the last minute shopping

for all the food. She'll start cooking tomorrow and I'll be

there to taste the outcome. YAY!

It's Almost Easter!

We had a busy day trying to get things ready for our Easter

get together. It finally was a nice day so it was the ideal time

to get a lot of things done. Naturally Barbara did all the real

real work. We went out to scour the town for landmarks and

spots for the car rally. They had to be places that we could

write understandable clues for, and yet a little taxing on the

noggin'. We came home and started sorting things out and

preliminarily putting it all together. It was all kind of fun.

No On-Line!

Our Wi-Fi quit working for quite awhile this

morning so I was thrown for a loop because I

couldn't go on-line and do my normal routine.

So, I ended up spending much more time with

Barbara than I normally do and it wasn't half

bad. In fact it was a lot of fun. I've always known

she was cool... but FUN too! Indeed! The extra

time went by quickly because of her!

Will Somebody Answer The Damn Phone!!!

Tinnius = ringing in ones ears.

I've got it and it sucks! No wait... It BLOWS!

I'm really kind of used to it, I've had it for a

few years. I can see how it could actually drive

someone a little crazy. It ain't easy but I just

ignore it. Some days are worse than others...

and today was a particularly bad (loud) day.

No biggie, It'll quiet down some (I hope).

Road Trip

(blogger is having a little hic-cup and won't upload the picture)

We went on a road trip to Turlock today. It's time for

our monthly trip to Costco, FoodMaxx, CostLess and

Target to pick up supplies and get ready for Easter. We

are having a few friends and family members over to

dinner, Easter egg hunt and car rally. It's a yearly thing

and it's time. Anyhoo... We finally got to see how high

the San Joaquin river is. Wow! It is really spilling over

into the fields that are next to it. Kinda scary!

Sunday is Raceday!

Any Sunday that the DRAG RACES are on TV is Joey's

kind of Sunday. I LOVE watching the Drags. Today Melanie

Troxel won again and stretched he lead over the boys. You

go girl! I was also pulling for Ron Capps who won funny car,

so that pleases me. Then with the HBO shows...the Soprano's

and Big Love... Sunday is a good TV day!

If only Grey's Anatomy wasn't a re-run (sigh) it woulda been perfect!

Obsession

Sometimes I get obsessed... driven... to solve the smallest

detail. It becomes the item versus me, as too who's the boss

and I AIN'T GIVING UP! I worked today for hours trying

to change the color of the title on MySpace. You have to go

into the code that formulates the page and change it just a

little. It was hard but I won! Yay!! The color is now right.

MySpace

MySpace is addictive.

I started it up when I read about it on Joe Rogan's blog

and wanted a MySpace of my own. And when I saw that

others had color and were fancy, I started to get involved

finding out how it was done. The more I dug and learned...

the more I had to be at MySpace. The more I saw, the more

I had to learn. The more I learned the deeper I got into

MySpace...

...and so on and so on...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I LIKE IT!

Oh NO!!!

Cards

The high point of the day was working with Barbara

making up greeting cards. We really enjoy making our

own cards for all of our family and friends. We make

cards for all occasions. Today we made birthday cards

for my daughter Lisa and my son-in-law Frank. Their

birthday's are next week and we have it covered!

Happy Birthday Bert ~ RIP

Diets....

THEY SUCK!!!

'nuff said

(obviously I didn't lose the weight I thought I should)

Music

I spent most of this rainy day looking around the new

music site. Looking for songs... what's available... how

to post it at the different sites and blogs. I posted the

new player at the bottom of this page. It works cool!

Saving that daylight

It was a busy day (TV wise)
First, I woke up calculating what time it was REALLY!"Lets see, it's 8:15 now... so it's really 7:15 NON-daylightsavings time". You think like that the morning after settingyour clocks ahead the night before.
There was a lot on TV today. With car races (NASCAR &NHRA) during the day (pretty much all day) and a largevariety of good shows on in the evening, it took all of mytaping skills (let's not mention the one mistake DUE to adaylight saving time snafu) to get everything watched andsaved.

The Salad Daze

What are things coming too?

I remember when I thought a salad was something

that came with a dinner, it came with the real food,

it came with the meat! Never did I consider a salad a

meal! It came along with the meal. I mean REALLY!

Well, today I had a salad for lunch and a salad for dinner.

And I liked it! Times have changed for Joey indeed!

Rain... rain... go away!

It rained today... HARD! It's been the wettest March

in history. For crying out loud, this is California, the

SUNSHINE STATE! Barb is still feeling poorly but we

made the best of a off day, playing games and watching

TV. With her around... it's always sunny! (aww... sweet!)