August 31, 2014

Plotting my big trip. Haven't been away for a while.

Augusy 30, 2014

Only one load today. Already in the dryer.

August 29, 2014

Boat trip cancelled. My friend got tagged for a last minute meeting. Will go to work, nothing to fill in the day and it is the start of a three day weekend. Hardly anyone there.

August 28, 2014

Getting up for a four day weekend. Will do outlets with Grand-kids and nothing much else the rest of the time.

August 27, 2014

Have to take it one step at a time. Kind of busy at work, keeping it steady.

August 26, 2014

My friend with ALS is fading fast, I pray for him and his family.

August 25, 2014

Last week of Summer. For those of us who use Labor Day as a guide.

August 24, 2014

Last night was Ernest Borgnine night on TCM. Taped The Wild Bunch.

Pike Bishop: We're not gonna get rid of anybody! We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can't do that, you're like some animal, you're finished! *We're* finished! All of us! 

August 23, 2014

Laundry day, one load in, one to go. A lot less with one away.

August 22, 2014

Another shot from upstate. As kids, we would always hunt for cattails . AKA Bulrush, Typha latifolia. Once dried they burned well and kept insects away

August 21, 2014

Did the ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge” last night. A good friend has it and is not doing well. Don't forget to donate,

August 20, 2014

Summer's almost gone
Summer's almost gone
Almost gone
Yeah, it's almost gone
Where will we be
When the summer's gone?

August 19, 2014

Exercise keeps me balanced. I now work out five days a week. Three strenuous and two low bore. Maintains Physical and mental health.

August 18, 2014

Penny the cat from my recent travels.

August 17, 2014

Summer Streets allows you to get closer to some iconic spots.

August 16, 2014

Laundry Day , one load in, one to go.

August 15, 2014

45th Anniversary starts today. Will pick up the Director's cut DVD that was put out for the 40th and watch it this weekend.My I-Pod is playing songs from the CD, crazy with the announcements interspersed. Wild year that 1969, Man on the Moon, Mets World Series and the start of College for me.

August 14, 2014

Ok, money came in. Time to spread it around. Pay off some bills, get a little something for myself this weekend.

August 13, 2014

 














Slim: You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow.

August 12, 2014

Robin Williams, R.I.P.

August 11, 2012

Been real busy at work, sometimes feeling like it ain't worth it.

August 10, 2014

Yeah, I'm down but not out. I have to start thinking of all the good things and keep busy.



The full quote:
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn--pure science, the only purity there is. You can learn astronomy in a lifetime, natural history in three, literature in six. And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics--why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing. After that you can start again on mathematics, until is it is time to learn to plough."

August 9, 2014

Laundry Day, one load in, one to go. Much lighter with the oldest away.

August 8, 2014

The NY Post is right, they're back. I have encountered them at the Queensboro, or 59th Street Bridge.

August 7, 2014

The Bethel Woods Woodstock exhibit was interesting, but the best part was a 21 minute film about the music.

August 6, 2014

Mountain Lake , Smallwood, NY.

August 3, 2014

Road Trip time, back to the Summer cabin I spent most of my childhood Summers. Maybe a trip to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Weird that the Woodstock Museum has a $15 admission when the real thing was free.

August 2, 2014

Laundry Saturday. Less to do because one son is away, and he had a lot. One load in, one to go.