Archive for the 'Dear Diary' Category

It is a bit strange. I saw them last year and spaced it until the foliage had grown back in the spring. This year I saw them off and on as they decorated the bare branches of the salt cedar in a random order towards the core of the tree (if a salt cedar has a core – it sends out new shooters and ends up resembling a main stem with a zillion offshoots).

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The croaking frog still lives in my vocal chords.  I choose not to try to scream at the mouth piece to use Dragon Naturally Speaking right now.  So…this may not be too long since my typing skills are weak at best.  Imagine, in high school I typed 117 words a minute on a manual typewriter during a speed test.  My regular speed was 95 wpm.  Now I probably hit about 75 words a minute when I’m sailing…but the thumb/wrist still isn’t in the mood to sail.  My fingers have a lot of flexibility, it’s just the angle of the wrist can be a pain – and the wrist below the thumb is not happy at times.  You’re sick of hearing about my ills?  Not nearly as sick as I am of having them! (more…)

We want you!  Be there!  This is our very first one at Full Tilt Poker.  It starts at 22:30ET on March 14th – a Sunday (that’s tomorrow kids) – play the inaugural PokerWorks Family HORSE tourney.  It costs $5 + .50, the password is ‘donkeys’ and you can find it by going to ‘tournament’ > ‘private’ > ‘PokerWorks Family’ or by searching tournament id #145123245.  MiniFTOPS is running too… (more…)

I had a rant post that I wanted to put up, lo and behold, extreme laryngitis set in yesterday afternoon and was turned up to the max all day today.  The hand/wrist is still tender enough that typing for long periods isn’t good, but how does one use Dragon Naturally Speaking when they can’t speak?  Kee-Rist!  I hope for better days tomorrow.

It’s only 9 PM, but it feels like it should be 3 AM to me right now. I expect to be in Las Vegas by about 7 AM tomorrow. That’s really scary, it means I have to be up by about 5 AM and on the road by 5:30. It’s time to take the Silver Steed in for a maintenance checkup and some work. Of course it’s going to be costly… what the hell else would one expect? And of course it’s going to cost me a few hours of sleep. I don’t even know why sleep is coming into the picture right now because I sleep in such weird patterns at times that I’m up at five on some mornings anyway – but the fact that I have to get up and be out all day is the part that bothers me the most. (more…)

are almost back to normal.  There are still a few things that need to be reinstalled and rechecked. (more…)

This is short.  The one program I wanted most to work right now with the Windows upgrade is…you guessed it…Dragon Naturally Speaking.  It doesn’t.  Long story, short ending.  I will reinstall windows and start over, being the super computer genius that I am, it’s best to do it now than 3 weeks from now.

Our PokerWorks Family tourney is set for Full Tilt Poker, HORSE, password ‘donkeys’ tournament ID 145123245, this coming Sunday, March 14th at 22:30.  More harping on that later.

Today is my baby boy’s 39th b-day.

About two weeks ago my hiking partner, Amy, and I started out across the desert heading towards a small mountain that’s about a mile and a half from our place. The ground was dry in most spots but there were a lot of ridges on our route from the previous rains and quad vehicles driving through it, and the paw prints of many of the dogs/or coyotes that went through before us. Those ridges had dried into rough obstacles and as we were walking along, Amy stumbled and took a fall. Luckily she had been a diver and tumbler as a youth and managed to roll into the fall so that she only scraped up one side of her arm and ended up bruising the top of her hand and her thigh, but she got right up and was completely able to finish the walk with no long-term after effect. (more…)

PokerStars Tourney – ‘private’ – February 28th, 22:30ET, PokerWorks Family.  The tournament ID is 247601352, the password is ‘donkeys’ (don’t we all know it?) the buy-in is $5 + .50, the object is to be the last donkey seated!  So-o-o-o-o-o, you in – or you out? (more…)

two back-to-back Vegas trips.  I’m running on empty.  I have been beefing up on the exercise – still determined to lose the popping fresh dough wad that rose on my tummy and can’t seem to be kneaded down – and not much sleep the last few days has sent a spiral of  ‘you crazy bitch, what are you trying to do to me?’ from my body.  I got about 5 hours of sleep last night, crawled out to some website work, emails, and IM chats, had my half cup of coffee with PBJ on winter wheat (Orowheat makes it), and got ready for my walk with Amy.  It’s overcast, and there was a slight breeze when we started.  We made almost 3 miles and the last half of it was spent with the wind picking up speed and working on sending us to Kansas.  Love the desert!

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