9:05 AM 01/04/2009 (January 4th, 2009)

Last Night On Coast To Coast AM, Ian Punnett Interviewed a guy who had a much more positive vision of the future than most of the people who have been forecasting what the immediated future holds in store for us, Especially those of us in the U.S. (and maybe north america).

This guy’s angle on things involves his keeping his finger on the pulse of emerging new technologies, like the carbon fibre nano-tech breakthrough that is developing a synthetic paper that is lighter and stronger than steel. (I was wondering why nobody asked if it was flammable.) But they were talking aout being able to build cars that would take much less fuel and create building material that they could wrap around aging bridges to shore them up against the rust that is probably eating away at their structural viability.

Then I fell asleep on the couch and dreamed I accidentally cut my favourite cat’s head off, I then had him flash frozen and was racing the pieces of him to a vet to have them sewn back together, and when I woke up, went and found him to make sure he was still alive and okay. He’s currently curled up in my spot on the bed behind me.

We went to see Rob and Vic last night, I was impressed by the evening star that was glowing brightly in front of us. Then I grew slightly paranoid, thinking MIBs were following us as we turned onto a not very heavily travelled road and the vehicle which had been behind us, speeding up when I sped up and slowing down when I slowed down, turned onto that road behind us.

Then I forgot the name of the “Quadrantids” meteor shower, which Rob and Vic had seen, and I also forgot the name of the web page/organization that “Block and Bird” belong to, it is not EarthStar dot Org. it’s earth something something dot org. ((earthandsky.org?))

-tough to get older and feel your over-flowing memory begin to fail to hang on to things that you think should have been easy to memorize-

—eek

—–Jim

We are now a two gps fambly-

Amd I found out we live at

45˚N 21.215′

76˚W 21.907′

hmmmmm-

—–Jim

Uhhhhhh-

I pried myself out of bed
and managed to plod all the way downstairs,
Pausing only once to grumble “Schnarr!”-
Thinkin we missed the reycling deadline time.

With one eye open
I noticed the time

11:11 (am)

Hmmm-
watch what you dream about
you are creating your reality

with each thought.

yum

—–Jim

I’ve been listening to several people predicting stuff for the year 2009.

These people are professional predict-ers.

There are some who use Astrology, some who say they get their predictions from angels or spirits.

One guy has web bots listening to language changes on the internet.

Some of them obviously have their agenda.

One I like the best said he didn’t want to encourage an atmosphere of fear, so he didn’t want to name names of celebrities that he’s seen having a less than wonderful year.

Then a couple guys later, one with an agenda was talking about the economy collapsing and things becoming much worse than they became during the ‘Great Depression’ of the 1930’s.

I believe that, if we want to, we can watch the way things used to be done — fall away, and jump in to support each other, (“come together”) to have the world work a whole lot better than it has for ages.

—shrug….

—–Jim

It’s New Year’s Day (or it was)

January 1st, 2009.

Erin is laughing her head off behind me.

I don’t think I set out consciously to come up with  any resolutions.

But today I noticed that I was thinking about coming up with a programme of cutting the schnarr out of my life.

I  have been thinking about deciding what I should keep and what I should get rid of, what works and what doesn’t.

Um, We’ll see what happens, whether the trend continues or not.

—Looking ahead,

—–Jim

Jassper the dog is in dogatory (dog purgatory) ((His “iCrate”)).

He doesn’t want to be there.

He’s been all over “Mommy” on the couch, putting his paw on her leg and looking at me, as if to say, “hah hah, I’m in, you’re out-” nyaa nyaa-

Mommy (Cathi) is trying to do computer stuff on her laptop and battling with the dog is a major distraction.

I wanted to sit beside her with my laptop and do this, and maybe more- let’s see how the vibes go – And I would not be able to do this with a dog trying to insert his nose between my fingers and the the keyboard. I wouldn’t get anything done with the dog trying to climb onto my lap.

So I told him he’d be going into the crate, and he said, “oh, are we going outside?” and I let him outside.

Then I thought he scratched the screen on the window about 4 feet from the door, (where he often sits and watches us  to see if we’re getting ourselves  some food or getting him some food.)  Cathi said he actually scratches  the wood not the screen.

But anyway, I let the dog in and got him some peanuts and he willingly walked into his crate (where he gets the peanuts and other goodies) and I closed the door and locked him in.

After one bite, he realized that his addiction to peanuts had done him in again, and stopped biting, stopped chewing, and stared at the closed and locked door.

Moe came over and rubbed himself on the outside of the closed and locked door.

Bad kitty, he was certainly rubbing it in.

Happy new year.

—–Jim

-Okay, I’m quirky.

-I’m not a follower. I don’t consider myself a trend-setter. I don’t expect anyone to like or adopt my tastes or values.

- I don’t expect anyone to try to ram their values or tastes down my throat. And I hope that anyone who tries doesn’t believe I will let them get away with that.

- I have Mac computers. Several of them. And more than one are usually on and connected through a home network at once. I often have one playing a podcast or an internet radio show. I may be doing something work related with a second, and if that work is taking time, I may even be playing a game on a third while it sits there waiting for email or even and Instant Message if I’m feeling particularly adventurous.

-I (usually) like firefox and almost always use it for my browser.

- i don’t like the standard plain vanilla theme it comes with.

-I do like the glowy themes, blue and green particularly. (And I try to keep a different theme on each hard drive, so if I’m dealing with more than one computer at a time, I’ll know which computer I’m typing into by the theme it’s displaying?)

-I do not like and will not upgrade to Firefox version 2. (for the stupid ‘reason’ that I hate right clicking to open a new window, if I wanted to right click to open a new window with a link I could give myself a lobotomy and downgrade my existance to sub human and settle for a windows piece of shi—p computer.)

-So you may be able to conclude that I also refuse to ‘upgrade’ to firefox version 3.

-If you have reached that conclusion, you are right.

-Now I just signed up to be able to post reviews and/or comments on the firefox addon boards.

-it’s new year’s eve.

-I tried to post a review.

-it told me to go to my email and follow the ‘click here to confirm’ your registration snarr.

-I did.

-I clicked there to confirm my registration snarr and sat there while firefox tried to confirm my confirmation.

-when the colourful beach ball stopped spinning and the page started to load it started off with, “Invalid Confirmation Code”.

-I tried the ‘copy this entire link and paste it in your browser’ b.s. and that didn’t work either. == Invalid confirmation code. ==

-Ya know, it’s painful watching the human race self destruct. Everybody racing as fast as they can to make their own lives as miserable as possible, and then some…. then racing even harder to make the lives of everyone around them as miserable as possible.

—Woldn’t it be nice if this year all of a sudden everybody woke up and realized they don’t want to make themselves and everybody else miserable?

— Am I halucinating the chorus to Aerosmith’s “Dream On-” ?

— Probably.

Happy New Year.

Don’t blow the opportunity to make this life liveable, okay?

—–Jim

December 30, 2008

Uhhh— Waking up in the Twilight Zone

It’s a Saturday, I just went into the CSS of a theme I want to use and will need to upload through a special process, I cut all the calls for any font-family that even thought about being inthe sans serif range, and I posted in the other blog a rant suggesting that anyone who chooses a sans serif font should be castrated in public.

yup

honesty will probably get me in trouble

yup again,

—–TaleRocker

Sunday, October 12, 2008.

I was just outside, scraping the utility trailer with a wire brush wheel, first on a portable cordless screwdriver, then on an electric drill with a fifty foot long (yellow) 3 prong heavy duty extension. Some time way in the future, nobody will have any idea what that is. I should take a photo and post it. yeah yeah, one of these days.

Anyway, I finished scraping and started painting (this real dark green rust proofing paint) and this weird, semi-oppresive feeling, akin to depression or anxiety… began seeping in around the edges and slowing saturated my whole being.

So anyway, I was feeling weird, sort of the way I feel when I’m coming down with something like pneumonia or bronchitis? weird formless anxiety coming from somewhere… but it never seems to be connected to anything I know about with my 5 lower senses focused on the ‘real world’?

A couple times, this sort of feeling has been accompanied by sudden images, of earthquakes or something.

Not this time, it was just a kind of warm afternoon on the day before Canadian Thanksgiving, (Scarf’s Birthday this year, it the states they’re probably celebrating Columbus Day tomorrow?) And the feeling wouldn’t go away.

I sub-veralized, “Feels like the calm before a storm, don’t it?” How bad? I don’t know, but it did feel like a big one. Something with world wide implications.

I’ll have to listen to Coast to Coast A.M. tonight…

—–Jim