Happy Birthday Keo!!

8 AM Friday morning my hairdresser, my longest term friend, his son, and myself will start stripping 3 layers of shingles from the roof of my house. The forecast is for the hottest day so far this summer, 92 and humid. I'm not looking forward to this, but it has to be done. It would be so much easier to just have it done, but now that I am ( Read more... )

The last few years we haven't had much snow in central Indiana ( Read more... )

Temperature in the teens...
Minor snow, ice, and slickness on the roads...
Car slides into a pole about half mile down the road...
POWER OUT.
It took Duke Energy over 10 hours to get the power back on.
No big emergencies in the area...
No wide spread outages...
Still took over 10 hours.
Duke Energy sucks!

I went to see MILK yesterday.
It's a great movie for many different reasons.
You need to see this movie.

My ancient furnace (hot water boiler) quit in the middle of the night Thursday night. The cold woke me up at 4 AM Friday. Friday was a very busy day and I didn't have time to check it out until Saturday. I thought it was the high pressure pump, but turned out to be the coupling. Fantastic news, I fixed it for $5.35 instead of over $100 ( Read more... )

The temperature was in the mid 20's last night and I woke up at 3 AM cold...no heat. The electric heaters are running so individual rooms aren't too bad, but most of the house is below 60 ( Read more... )

My only sibling, my sister, died last night from dialysis complications ( Read more... )

I'll be glad when ratzinger leaves my country. My respect for the catholic church took a serious hit when this nazi was elected pope. Historical photos and papers show that he was a nazi sympathizer during world war 2 and his actions since do nothing to repent. I believe that he would still support the "final resolution" if he could for both ( Read more... )

Last week I went to see the Rolling Stones/Martin Scorsese docu-concert movie at the new Hamilton Commons IMAX. At first I was a little critical of the production and Scorsese's directing, but after thinking about it, it worked. I had a really hard time not standing up, dancing around, and not cheering and clapping after every song ( Read more... )