I got up and decided to go to the avenue before the "BIG BLAST"  of snow hit us. only just as I was  turning the door knob, my other friend Mike came in and gave me a bunch of flyers for the Build your own burger night. Yeah. He agreed to take me to the avenue and I got that done and didn't have to brave the icy sidewalks, of which there certainly are oodles around here.
My pal Bob wanted me to go with him to 1. help him walk in to the art store  2. pump gas and 3 buy him 6 candy bars, dark chocolate. ( this is the guy who is diabetic, remember)

Got all that done and then received notice that my pal Serge would be getting his birthday from me after all. I ordered him " The Genuise of Japanese carpentry" from Amazon dot com.  He is supposed to get  it on his birthday. not a bad day!
I then put on sauler  kraut and polish sausage and then, the UPS dude came to my door with my new anime. yeah.. " Red Garden".

this day just  doesn't stop!

so now I'm watching that and waiting for the snow and freezing everything to come.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/the-dumbing-down-of-japanese-students




Things seem to kind of gotten out of hand.  I wonder what us American's have achieved?

there's something very special about the aroma that is generated in a bakery. It drives me crazy.  sour dough bread, wheat, rye and my favorite, pumpernickel yum. and then,nothing goes better with  all of  them like french onion soup.
Today was like a box a sunkissed raisins, all bright and sun shinny. We went to two different bakeries, Nantucket and Wealthy street. both good shops. both very busy. But, living in Michigan, one would expect oodles of bakeries and snow storms.  one out of two isn't bad.


I guess there's a football game on tomorrow????

That's three times this week the lady has called on me! I have a feeling, this isn't simply going to go away. oh well. must be the muscles and intelligence I have that attracts her (  self  praise, half scandal!)  At least thats what my grandfather always said.  I'm sitting here, listening to the wind howling outside.  We just missed that horrendous snow storm they're having out east. I wish we had it here.

I made like Wimpy tonight for dinner: two hamburgers.  ok, grease burgers.  but I didn't wait till tuesday to pay for them.
I will watch "Red Garden" monday, night.  Right now, I'm watching the last episode of "To Heart". I don't care what the reviewers say, I think its an endearing series. 
I only wish I could watch "Fist of the North Star".  That's one series I like to watch when snowed in in January or February. 

But, I guess "To Heart" will have to do.


for now.

There's nothing quite like being woke up to the sound of a compacter on the back of a garbage truck smashing everything in it's bin.  and the day ended up eating a whopper and fries. yummie.  I then had a net to run and presto, "Heart to Heart". 
i'm thinking of watching "Red Garden". I saw it on "on demand" several years ago and its been hinded since. Whatever are they doing over at Cartoon Network????

Got more accomplished than I did all last month. and before noon too.  Ordered plaque for bill, japanese carpentry book for serge and bought "Red Garden", which was on sale. yeah. corrected some grammatical errors on a poster, made one ton of goulash and  oh yes, pet the cat.


It's been a very busy and good day.
also put out the garbage ( do you ever  get the feeling I'm writing as if this were a journal?  it is)
I have my pal's son, Simeon, interested in LJ.   hopefully, they both will join and  bring new blood to the old blog.

Right now, I'm watching " From Dust till Dawn", part 3.

thats right. I thought instead of cooking tonight, I'd order a piazza. 5:30PM it came. yum.  then a second piazza came at 6:30PM.!!! what? my pal Kelly had ordered a piazza to, and for some reason, they thought they should deliver it to the same address!  I called my pal and he was surprised: he was waiting for his dinner. He got his piazza and I got mine. I decided before I figured out how to balance the budget this coming month, I'd watch a nice series, without blood, robots, space ships and cat girls.   " Boys be boys".
Either that, or "Heart to heart".  its snowing and blowing it all over the place.  but its not frigid. yet.
The ground hog, bless his heart, gave us 6 more weeks or months of winter. that depends your outlook in life. me, I think 6 more months of blowing snow.
read the oscar list of nominations. This year is going to be tough. wife's work vs ex-husbands work. thats  got to be a first. along with nominating a women for best director ( I guess thats only the third time thats happened).

I think my one neighbor may be making eyes at me. oh well.  

yup. you guested it.  Big Bob stoped by and wanted me to fill her up!   $54.00 worth. It was nice to stand outside in the cold, holding a gas nozzel. listening to the click, click click and I almost got frost bite on the hands. this was  not a nice way to start the month.
but, it was nice to see that I had given my neighbor three music CD's that all won grammy's. yeah. ah. I still have the magic.

computers, cats, dirty dishes.  Did I mention I did the laundry too?  This is how my Sunday was spent. Yeah.  Had oodles of  trouble with AT&T internet. I'm glad I know  as much as I do.  I also thought, after 4 years, to watch Evangelion.  I never understood that series.  the only thing that seemed to make sense was the "Fan Service". ( why do they call it Fan service?)
 it's about 24 degrees outside and was even colder last night. So why did I see two cats running in the middle of the street at midnight? followed a little later by rocky raccoon walking down the same street?  What is wrong with people letting their animals out on a night like last night?

So, I guess values change, huh?


oh, about the boob study. i've been looking at it to see if there might be something confounding  the study.  but, won't know till you look it over carefully.  good practice, huh.

http://www.themedguru.com/20091206/newsfeature/stare-boobs-longer-life-study-86131320.html


Read this for yourself. I don't believe it, but it appears to be true.

I can't believe I used the same ingredients, and got a totally different concoction.  I was more like goulash soup. it was ok, but not like Fridays. Why did I make goulash twice?   I thawed out 2 lbs of ground beef. I couldn't re-freeze it, so, either make oodles of hamburgs.
My pal Lee called me and asked me to go with him to the grocery store. I needed a can of tomato's and macaroni so I did. of course doing this, means I wouldn't be home to go with Big Bob when he came over.  I thought Lee needed the company more than Bob.

I thought it would be nice to spend a weekend with Oolong and Bluma and Goku.  I'm re-watching "Dragonball" volume 1. I only wish I had the newer versions.
I was reading about ADV ,now called section 23. what a mess. So very sad.

I'll always remember her performance as The psychic in the Poltergeist movies. What a wonderful voice she had. She died from multiple organ failures.

Gosh, 9 degrees and dropping.  I had to pump gas for my friend tonight and I want to tell you squeezing a gas nozzle freezes your fingers, not to mention the nice wind chill hovering below zero.
and over here, February is usually our coldest moth.

I-Pad???   who ever thinks up these names. Think about it.

I tried my hand at creating a DVD using You Tube stuff. Wow, do I ever need a Mac!!!   My desktop is ok for small stuff, but trying to do video is way beyond its capability.  ah. I remember the good old days when I could edit any audio file and mix it using my trusty 386DX40.  Now, Adobe bought the little company out and increased the price by 400%    It was called "Cool Edit". Great little program.

I hope you all are warmer than scooter the cat and I am. 

you know what I mean. it's snowy, cold with the temp dropping, and walking is yuckie.  loose snow covering ice.
I need a vacation...Will one of you adopt me??? please........ especially, if you live in a southern climate, like tahiti, pago pago. ok, Japan would be nice too.
Had a pretty good day. I got woke up by a phone call asking me to help them get to a web site????

Our church!  www.stisidoregr.org
oh well.

I couldn't get back to sleep so stayed up.  then we went shopping.  kitty litter, garbage bags, and of course, coffee and cookies.
Then visited a 91 year old friend and his sister. had short visit and left. got home and made din din. yummy jasmine rice and salad. yum yum.

Heard part of President Obama's speech, but when the camera's showed  the republicans expression, I left and started to watch "Witch Hunter Robin".
Now, I get to think over redoing the web sites I take care of. yeah.

Just watched the nasty radar showing the artic front moving this way. yuck.  But hey, 5 months  from now, when it's 88' degrees outside, this will be but a memory.
Had to do the laundry again. Scooter the cat kept telling me that the blankets needed washing. drats the cat.

Watching "The Search for Spock". This brings back good memories. I sat and watched the first run of both "The Search for Spock" and "The Breakfast Club". Good flicks.
Today was a so-so day. I spent oodles of time downloading from "You Tube". You might try and give a listen to Elisa's Luce. Some great stuff, hey what.
As a said right off, it is snowing and the temp is droping. My pal who left here Saturday,  left behind 40 degree weather and ran into 17 degree's and today, a near white out condition. I was so tempted to laugh about that, but now, he's snowed in for the  rest of this week. Did I mention, the reason he left to quickly was so he could get home so his wife could travel to different colleges. Now, she's snowed in too.

Ah, I love Michigan......
So, now, with "You Tube" stuff downloaded, should I create a musical CD, or a DVD???????
I found Kenji Kawaii 's  cinena symphony at "You Tube", but nothing available on a production DVD. Hmmm???? But, this is something to do on a



a snowy, cold night..

My pal's family bought him an two seat airplane when he retired several years ago. It's not a lear jet, just a small, one engine prop. But, for me to ride in it, I have to get under the weight capacity of the horsepower the engine produces. ( this is a fancy way to say I have to lose my lard butt and start eating the good things)
So, starting right off, I made two great salads for last night and tonights dinner. yum. Now, the exercise. lets see, outside right now its raining, which means there are pools of water covering ice. ok.
This is  something to look forward to this coming summer when he comes through on his way up to he island.
I'll try to take before and after photos.  
But a word about losing weight.  "The Biggest Losers" are just that. The only thing your going to lose in one month is water, or worse, muscle. It takes a while to get ones body to start converting fat adipose cells into energy. and thats not in one month. You can start exercising, that's a great way to get  your body to change from the storing mode to the using mode.
but enough from me. Look it all up. the human body is a wonderful machine.
now off to the races...

Well, my pal got up and went to the furneral. Seems they knew each other when they were honest to goodness hippies. It was a sad time, due to the fact they had all got older. ( picture the  in crowd on geritol!)  We then prepaired the table saw for transportation to  Morris Mn. He's going repair it and then build the rest of his house with it. It's great to see a old piece of equipment finally being used for its intended purpose.
So while he left, my other pal with the  diabete's showed up. He wanted to get bread.from the Wealthy street bakery.
In order to do this, we have to bring out the walker and  set it up. of course, this is taking place on a busy business route with snow banks and ice. Now, my pal, using the walker, weights in at around 400lbs.  A one legged diabetic using a walker  on a icy street with freezing rain in the forecast. Now that I've set the stage, maybe you'll understand why I was a tad upset.  If he should fall, ( he's done so every couple of weeks) there's no way I could get him up.
He then showed his appreciation by buying me a dinner roll.
All in all, it was a great Saturday.  I ended it by making a huge salad and warmed up goulash. yum. Great way to start the middle of the weekend.

I see DeepDiscounts already changed their site. I kind of wish they would have updated the files from the old site. They didn't.
Friday started out ok. I made out the stupid water bill and decided to walk up and mail it. yeah... I walked out on the porch and here comes my pal. He got caught up with catching up on old times with his friends. He stayed the night. who's he think he is???
Tonight, he's visiting his grand daughter Claira Rose. A real cutie. I gave her a "Bear" to take care of.
My buddy coming back here to pack up: he's headed home for the next 8 weeks, then back here for a license upgrade class the state of Michigan requires.
I'm finishing up watching "Ergo Proxy". I really enjoy this series.
back to the drawning board.

I met my pal's son several years ago and thought here's one creative dude! He graduated with a B.A. and he speaks, reads and writes Japanese. But he doesn't like anime????  hey, 2 out of 3 aint bad! Below, he is blowing glass. He also stains glass and plays the bagpipes.



I only mention this, because I wish I had taken creative  art class's when I attended college. I spent my time instead in the theatre dept and music. 
"what would you like to try your hand at?