Thanksgiving bonanza

Ah, yes, the post turkey glow is upon me.  Had dark meat turkey with
cornbread stuffing, and cranberry sauce that's it, except for desert.
For desert 2 brownies and a slice of apple pie.

There was an excellent prayer, prayed by the leader of the church I
think.

The quantity of food was outrageous.  There may have been over
100 people present.  The cook insisted that we take 2 boxes of food
each when we left. I got a wing and a bunch of dark meat, didn't get
any stuffing or any mashed potatoes to take home.  That's right all
i ate was turkey stuffing and cranberry sauce, and of course the desert.
For some reason my gut told me to stay away from the gravy.  I don't
know it was probably fine, but the cornbread stuffing was delightful
all by its self.  I think i ate pretty rationally today.

Getting along twards Winter

Ah, hey,

Cam is going to work surveying in west australia.  Scott is busy with his
telecommunications in Texas.  Jocelyn is getting ready to move to
Oklahoma.  Gloria is having a Thanksgiving Dinner at her place.  I don't
know what my Dad is doing for thanksgiving.

Vicki and i will probably eat early on Thursday, i just hope that the
turkey has been cooked all the way through.  I'll try for my favorite a
wing and a few slices of dark meat.  I usually give everything a pretty
good dousing with gravy.  I have a lot of canned peas, was thinking i
could make green peas with pearl onions, and maybe bacon.

Wasn't able to get the car worked on this month, have to shoot for
next month.

Pesto still has a tumor on her right arm/paw/hand, it looks like an extra
toe, but it's not.  I hope it is really benign cuz having it excised would
prove costly.

anyway there's a quick November post.

Farm Town on Facebook

I'm getting a little bored with Farm Town on Facebook.  It seems all
one does there is make money and buy stuff.  I guess i should be
working on making it all look attractive and symetrical, but that just
doesn't tickle my fancy.

Now that i have several million in Farm Cash, I can buy just about
anything i want.  The only exception being the green money stuff.
I don't know how one aquires green money, it just magically
appears and there's never enough of it.  Green money is mostly
derived of people actually paying real cash into the game.

That seems just a little silly, so without putting your own money
into the game you can get about 1/2 of everything, everything you
can buy with your farm cash, has an equal that you can buy with
green cash.

I have planted tea, coffee, cocoa, pineapple, rice, rosemary,
oranges, cows, chickens, olives, lemons, and it's the same old
ordeal you plant, harvest, store, plow, go fishing.  Build new
shops, cut down trees, and the only reward is buying stuff.
Yes, you can compare with other people, but they all invest more
time and have more elaborate farm setups than you do.

I think i get more out of RSS than playing Farm Town on
Facebook, at least i learn something when i RSS. /rant

The Avenue

Today, Vicki and I went out to do some errands. First stop Carl's Jr.
so i could get some lunch. Then Micheals (art supply megastore),
Friedmans another megastore, hardware this time and Trader Joes.
Finally we ended up at Safeway north of town on Mendocino.
Traffic was kinda heavy we fell into a groove, hit a few yellow lights,
stopped for a few, blew thru a few more.

Vicki got a clear 18" ruler to help her with perspective in her art.
I had the Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger. Then at Safeway,
I picked up 2 loafs of wheat bread, some mayo, some virginia baked
ham, some milk and a few other things.

The Buick is still doing okay.  I think it's looking forward to a tuneup.
Any tampering with the timing might affect the smog inspection.  So,
if Dave brings out the timing light i'll discuss it with him and let him
know of my concerns.  I'll be flexible.

The tuneup kit consists of wires, plugs, fuel filter, rotor, cap, and pcv
valve and i think that's it.  I think it'll set me back $ 70.00 for the
parts. I might be able to get a discount from Dave's friend at the
parts house.  So, i'll check into that definitely.

Oh, I missed NBLUG this month, it was good too!  Kyle was giving
a talk on Ethernet Bonding.  This is good failover/redundancy in case
you have a net failure and it's physical, and it's local.  Basically from
my understanding it's 2 NICs per client.  There may be a lot more
to it than that.  I really shouldn't have missed it.

As far as the blog it's coming along, who wants to read all this
personal stuff?  It's a relaxing thing for me to do, to sit down and
jot a few lines about the last week, or the last day, or in this case
the last month :/


-marcus

Time for a tuneup

Dave my buddy came thru big time today.  He replaced about 6 cracked
and leaky vacuum hoses.  Vicki and i went over there this afternoon.  I
keep on getting lost when i go there.  It's on a long road with relatively few
landmarks.  Lucky for me there's a business next door that has a side of
the road display.  I noted a couple of landmarks this time to make it easier
to spot the place next time.

Dave suggested a full tuneup.  That sounds like a good plan to me.  It has
been running a little rough.  Vicki priced that on the phone this evening, it'll
total out at $ 70.00 for all the parts, then add about $ 40 in labor and it should
be done.

I also have a desire to get the side windows tinted with a reflective film.
It makes the car less hot on the hotter days.

Finally, Charles (WD6DTK) suggested i sneak in a tank full of medium grade
gas. I've been giving it exclusively premium grade, because of a knock that
was occuring when i used a lower grade.

g'night

The difference between chopped ham and smoked ham.

At the store, in an economical mood, i went to the deli case.  I bought some ham for sandwiches.  Chopped ham is $ 3.99 a pound, that's a pretty good price.  Smoked ham is
$ 6.99 a pound, which is also a good price.  You see, chopped ham is kind of like ham
hamburger, and smoked ham is kinda like ham steak.

So, i enjoyed my sandwiches anyway, why let a little thing like the difference between ham steak and ham hamburger affect the joy i feel when i'm devouring bread, meat and cheese.

On another note, Pesto seems to have developed a tumor.  I blame the anti worm medicine i gave her, it's poison, it would just make sense that it caused a tumor. It's on her right wrist and it's currently about the size of a dime only it's a sphere.  oh no, i'm missing the net.

ttyl.

-marcus

Well, i have a lot of ramen in the house

That's right, i've stocked up on ramen and stir fry veggies and beef.  Ramen is kinda salty and it is kinda filling.

Pesto has taken to hiding under the bed these days, i don't know what's wrong with her. She comes out when i call her, so maybe she just likes the solitude.  I feel rather guilty that i never picked up a second cat to keep her company.  I don't know how she would react to a new friend at this point.  She's getting older and more stubborn

Talked to a mechanic about the vacuum lines on the Buick, he said he was pretty sure he could get it done in under an hour.  He gets $ 90.00 an hour

I missed out on skiing this year.  Nothing like shusshing down the slopes on a pair of skiis.  That's real fun.  I could sign up at the ski store for a skiing expedition,  take a bus with a bunch of other people and stay in a hotel.

Oh, Mark P. was out at Goat Rock on Thursday of this week, he said the water was like glass and there was no wind at all.  On another note he tuned up my old Tempo 20/20 and worked Chile at 50 watts, so it's good to know that that old radio still has some umph to it.

ok, g'night folks