Happy New Year to you all

Happy new year to all of you out there.   I am sitting at the hospital waiting for 10:30 PM to arrive so I can leave.  So far  I did one csection.   They had waited 4 years to have this beautiful little girl, and they were so happy.

The place has been quiet and I think my partner here has gone to bed.  His wife bought him supper from Wendy's.   He will be here till tomorrow and then go home too.  It seems foolish for two of us to be here till late.  I am just sitting and writing in my journal.

Talked to Emily and she and her dad, aka my husband, went out to eat.  That was no big surprise.   I got a lot done this morning.  Read two papers, checked my email, went to the library, the grocery store, and the dry cleaners.  Went to get a bottle of wine.

Pennsylvania.   Wanted to get a bottle of wine.   PA is the absolute pits when it comes to liquor sales.   The sale of hard liquor and wine is the monopoly of the state of PA.   They control the price and tax to the hilt.   If you want a special bottle of something they will order it for you and you have to purchase a case.   The beer is sold only in cases at the beer distributors.    To get a six pack you need to go to a bar.   I guess the legislature thinks we are too stupid to buy beer and wine in the grocery stores.   Maybe it is a religious aspect????  Even in the Bible belt they sell the wine in the grocery store.   I think the people who are employed by the "State Stores" are relatives of the legislators.   It really is a freaking mess. Do they really think we will all become alcoholics if we buy wine in a grocery store.?????

Only three more hours to go.......Hope you all have a Happy New Year and it is better than the one this year.

 

 

New Years Eve Thoughts

"New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights."
Hamilton Wright Mabie

PALE YELLOW

I really like the pale yellow back ground for my journal.  I like it soooooo much that I think I would like to paint the family room this shade.  

Since before Christmas my daughter  has been having a REAL bad time with allergies.  She was loaded up on antihistamines, and none of them seemed to do much good.    I was doing my analysis on "what had changed"  and I had an Eureka moment; since she started sneezing and being congested just before Christmas the only thing that changed was the Christmas tree.  

This years tree was a White Pine.   WE got rid of it yesterday and she sounds much better.   Mainly because last night I did not hear her coughing, sniffing and sneezing all night.   I cleaned up the remnants of the needles this morning.   It hope this was the problem.     The weird thing (??????) when she had her allergy tests long ago she turned up allergic to ELM.  How can that be, the elm trees are all dead........and have been dead for a long time.

Chuck has a reaction with the short needle trees (what ever their species) so I guess we are on the way to looking at an artificial tree..........Maybe they will be allergic to the plastic or whatever they are made from..................

 

 

 

wisdoms by Dave Barry and one by Claudia

Pearls of Wisdom "Twenty-Five Things It Took Me Over
50 Years To Learn" by Dave Barry

1. The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
   
2. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight-saving time.
   
3. People who feel the need to tell you that they have an excellent sense of humor are telling you that they have no sense of humor.
   
4. The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
   
5. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
   
6. A penny saved is worthless.
   
7. They can hold all the peace talks they want, but there will never be peace in the Middle East. Billions of years from now, when Earth is hurtling toward the Sun and there is nothing left alive on the planet except a few microorganisms, the microorganisms living in the Middle East will be bitter enemies.
   
8. The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
   
9. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
   
10. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.
    
11. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
    
12. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
    
13. There apparently exists, somewhere in Los Angeles, a computer that generates concepts for television sitcoms. When TV executives need a new concept, they turn on this computer; after sorting through millions of possible plot premises, it spits out, "THREE QUIRKY BUT ATTRACTIVE YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN AN APARTMENT," and the executives turn this concept into a show. The next time they need an idea, the computer spits out, "SIX QUIRKY BUT ATTRACTIVE YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN AN APARTMENT." Then the next time, it spits out, "FOUR QUIRKY BUT ATTRACTIVE YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN AN APARTMENT." And so on. We need to locate this computer and destroy it with hammers.
    
14. Nobody is normal.
    
15. At least once per year, some group of scientists will become very excited and announce that:
    
    • The universe is even bigger than they thought!
    • There are even more subatomic particles than they thought!
    • Whatever they announced last year about global warming is wrong.
    
    
16. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
    
17. The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.
    
18. The value of advertising is that it tells you the exact opposite of what the advertiser actually thinks. For example:
    
    • If the advertisement says "This is not your father's Oldsmobile," the advertiser is desperately concerned that this Oldsmobile, like all other Oldsmobiles, appeals primarily to old farts like your father.
    • If Coke and Pepsi spend billions of dollars to convince you that there are significant differences between these two products, both companies realize that Pepsi and Coke are virtually identical.
    • If the advertisement strongly suggests that Nike shoes enable athletes to perform amazing feats, Nike wants you to disregard the fact that shoe brand is unrelated to athletic ability.
    • If Budweiser runs an elaborate advertising campaign stressing the critical importance of a beer's "born-on" date, Budweiser knows this factor has virtually nothing to do with how good a beer tastes.
    
    
19. If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
    
20. You should not confuse your career with your life.
    
21. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
    
22. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
    
23. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
    
24. Your friends love you anyway.
    
25. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

HE FORGOT, NEVER TRY TO WASH A CAT.  NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE IDEA SEEMS AT THE TIME.

 

Saturday

Widdershins (withershins) (adverb)

Pronunciation: ['wid-êr-shinz]

Definition: Moving in a direction opposite the usual; moving counterclockwise or in the contrary direction (of the sun, especially).

Usage: Today's word is basically an adverb but may be used as an adjective without the final [s]. As a predicate adjective, however, the [s] is usually left on. D. H. Lawrence wrote in 'Plumed Serpent' (1926) "She made up her mind, to be alone, and to cut herself off from all the mechanical widdershin contacts. He, too, was widdershins, unwinding the sensations of disintegration and anti-life."

Suggested Usage: Today's word is another wonderword from the land of kilts and bagpipes that we should all fight to keep alive: "Gerard does everything widdershins; he will either turn out a grandiose success or an abrupt failure." Niches for this word abound in everyday conversations: "Remember, the prophets agree that you get nowhere walking widdershins up the escalator."

Etymology: Middle Low German weddersinnes based on wider "back," whence German wider "against" and wieder "again." The English adverb wither "wrong, perverse" is rarely used any more. The "shins" is from earlier "sinnes" and is related to Latin sentire "sense, feel" since both go back to an original root *sent- "go in or choose a direction." We borrowed "sense" from the noun of this verb. The same root also turns up in English send "to cause someone to go in a direction."

–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com

 

These are the people who are zigging when everyone else is zagging.  I know a lot of them.

Monday

Garrulous  (adjective)

Pronunciation: ['gæ-rê-lês]

Definition: Given to vast, enormous, overwhelming amounts of annoying chatter; going on forever and saying nothing and, I guess you could say that if it's annoying and about nothing, then it's pretty trivial, too, what, did I forget to say? Well, annoying and trivial talking, way off point, like, know what I mean?

Usage: This word has many near synonyms: talkative (tending to talk a lot), loquacious ("talkative" with a Latin stem), prolix (wordy in speaking or writing), voluble (characterized by rapid speech), glib (speaking or writing with ease, perhaps superficially), verbose (wordy, implying dullness).

Suggested Usage: Did you ever hear a rambling speech that wandered way off course? "The speech was so garrulous it went over everyone's head." The noun is "garrulity." "His garrulity leads him to frequently misspeak himself."

Etymology: From Latin garrulus (garr-ire "to chatter"). Probably from PIE *gar- whence also Sanskrit gir "speech," Greek gêrus "voice," Germanic girren "to coo," and English call.

–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com

Sound like anyone we know.  There is a lady at work who goes on and on and on.......Says a lot but says nothing.   And gets on my nerves.....SENSORY OVERLOAD.

 

Another computer mystery

I have come upon another computer mystery.   There is one link to AOL on my desktop and one down on the tool bar.   I clicked on the one on the toolbar and what popped up was an archaic edition, on this edition I could not access my journal.   The printed journal appeared but not the edition where I could add comments and post.

Then I click on the desktop icon and this edition appeared.   What is going on???   Sometimes I feel that I need a degree in computer science to navigate this miasma of the web.

What I really find irksome is how on VISTA it will click on links when the mouse just travels over the link.   I have gone into the bowels of my computer and control panel to find a solution but I have not found it.  

Also I hate when I am typing and somehow (???????) the cursor will jump and deposit itself in the middle of a word and then type there.  I hate you VISTA.  The colors are nice but it is aggravating to say the least. 

http://www.raogk.org/

 

Sometimes this is so freaking mysterious

Day aftr Christmas

Today was a day of going to the movies.   Emily and I saw JUNO.   Most of the good films are the indy films.     I really liked this, it was about a 16 year old who was pregnant and rather than abortion she interviewed to find a family to adopt the child.  I would recommend  the film.

I found a site of Random Acts of Geneological Kindness

Free Genealogy Research -- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

  I found a listing of a guy in Ireland who email me some information of the side of my familuy,, Dowd and Naughtons.    This will take a long time.   The next step is requesting microfilms from the LDS website and perusal of the baptisms at the church level.   This will be long and involved but at least I have some idea of the birthdate; if it is exact and can be believed.

Now, I have just tried clicking on this but it won't go???   WTF

Merry Christmas

"At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year."
Thomas Tusser

Sunday morning

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates."
Thomas Szasz

I guess I haven't found myself because I have been there all the time........What an eureka moment.........

We got the tree decorated yesterday. He and I have been decorating trees for a number of years.   His grandfather always said that he would give the Christmas Tree decorations to the grandchild who was the first to get married.   One Christmas, while we were decorating the tree, we told our daughter that story.   She asked  "Is that why you got married?"    "Of course!!!!" we both said at the exact time for two opposite sides of the room.  The timing was exact and we couldn't have planned it more perfectly....   We used the ornaments for a long time but now they are packed.   A lot of them were made in Germany and are fragile glass.    

I also have a antique Nativity Set that was my grandmothers.  It is made of paper mache and made in Oberamergau Germany?  I have perused antique stores for a long time but never have found any like it.   It is missing the donkey, camels, sheep and a cow, and shepherds.   Maybe I should try ebay..... 

colors

I really can't find a color I like.   I would like to have the option to "blend" my own colors rather than select a few options that are given.

Well, the yellow will have to do for now.   I wanted a pale blue or pink and that was not one of the options.

 

Aboulia

Word of the DayAbulia (noun)

Pronunciation:  [ê-'bu-li-yê]

Definition: A loss of volition or the ability to make decisions.

Usage: The adjective is "abulic," also used to refer to a person suffering from this dysfunction.

Suggested Usage: Medically speaking, abulia usually results from damage to the right (occasionally the left) parietal lobe of the brain. However, some smokers seem abulic when it comes to kicking the habit. Chocolate triggers abulia in weaklings like me. In fact, many foods are suspected of triggering this frailty; ice cream is at the top of the list. Sports leave many men abulic; shopping, many women. Currently, no antidote is available.

Etymology: From Greek aboulia "indecision" comprising a- "without" + boule "will." "Boule" comes from PIE *gwel-/gwol-/gwl "throw, pierce." It turns up in Greek as ballein "to throw" and ballizein "to dance" whence "ball" (the dance), "ballad," and "ballet." The same original root ended up in "quell" from Old English cwellan "to kill, destroy," not to mention "kill," itself.

–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com

 

I feel this way about chocolate myself.

Saturday

What is Veranda?   I observed the HTML option and wonder just how many people can read that and exactly what purpose does it serve to the average person writing in this journal.

I AM FEELING IN SOMEWHAT OF A CHRISTMASSY MOOD.   Playing with these fonts, but, although it says Veranda on the tab it switched when I chose this red color.   Where has  it gone?

Another point to ponder is what am I hitting on this computer that highlights sentences and then poofs them away.  At least with this some red line does not appear under your words and let you know you have spelled wrong.  It is like having a 8th grade English teacher looking over your shoulder.   Rather annoying to me.  I would rather type the information, then hit spell check and proceed from there.

I think I am finished shopping.   I took my large crock pot to my sisters.  Her assignment is 10 pounds of potatoes and the pot will keep them warm till we eat them.

With all these fonts there is just to much of a choice and this is so small a person would need a magnifying glass to read it.

 

Thursday

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity."
James Thurber

I don't necessarily think humor is emotional chaos, but sometime when I am in chaos I think  "someday this will be funny....."  maybe 20 years from now.....

The schedule has been light.....A hospital is the only place not busy during the holidays. It slows around Thankksgiving and then a major slowdown  nearing the week of Christmas and continues till New Years.    Then.................everyone who needs surgery will all come in January and we will be working like slaves.

I am off tomorrow and want to get some last minute things done; like get wrapping paper and get things wrapped.  I guess I can procrastinte till Saturdy or Sunday on that one. 

Monday

"IÂ’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation."
Mike Todd

 

I grew up poor, but I never knew I was.    But I think most people were too at the time.  We had everything we needed but not what we wanted.  
It was funny one day when my chums and I were talking we all grew up the same.  I knew when I was a kid or adolescent I knew I never wanted to be poor.   I have achieved my goal.   I went to school and  got an education and I know have everything of what I need and most of what I want.

 But I don't have that damn Mercedes

 

 

This is a snow storm of another year.  The weather men/women have had it all doom and gloom with the forecast of the past few days.  Right now we are in a pocket of warm weather.   Looks really weird on the map.   Now I wonder if that will stay there or will it change ????

weather.com - Large Maps

I should have been a meteorologist......it is the only job that you can be wrong  <50% of the time and still ahve your job.....  Health care providers can not be wrong at all.

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Saturday

"Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
Alvin Toffler

This is what happened yesterday when the chief of our department told  us that everything will now be done on the computer.  This includes all aspects of documentation of goals of employment, selection of  benefits and things like vacations.  All of our compliance articles and tests too.

Most of them looked dazed and confused.   This is going to cause a major disruption in their lives.  My only concern is that we don't have enough computers to get this all done.   I told me coworker   "They don't have a clue what to do."   She said, laughing.  "I am not going to help them LOL"

I told my boss that we need more computers to get done what is now expected....He had to agree.  We also need the time to get it done too.

Friday

Friday, and the work week is done.   The It is 4:15 and it is dark and gloomy outside.  The husband and the daughter are at work and it is very quiet.  I like the sounds of silence.   There is a snow storm scheduled to begin tomorrow.  They are calling for snow, rain, freezing rain and then snow again.   The best thing I can say is no one of us has anywhere to be on Sunday morning.  I would rather have all snow than that freezing rain.

The two 16 hour shift were not too bad.  I mostly sat and waited for the time to pass.  Could have been worse and worked my fingers to the bone.   It is either a feast or famine.   There is no middle of the road. 

Wanted to do a little more shopping, I guess I will have to get up early; before all the idiots are out and about.

 

Still sittilng

Still sitting here......The hospital I work for has a filtration system on it so a person can not access certain sites.  But,    I want to know:

WHY DON'T THEY BLOCK THE DAMN SPORTS SITES......

I guess there is no answer to that imponderable thought.....I have spent the past hour or so perusing the other journals........This institution, in its wisom somehow, managed to filter and block all the pictures in the journal.   I can not even see my own photos..

GO FIGURE THAT ONE.

 

 

Sitting

I am sitting at work waiting for 11pm to come about.   Someone had a bright idea that one of us were to sit here just in case.  We also have a second call person at our beck and call.   I would be willing to bet that 90% of the time we are not busy.   Only two hours to go.

Nothing new here.   I am off tomorrow.  In the morning it is suppose to start freezing rain.   I HATE  freezing rain.   Why doesn't it just snow.    Then Saturday afternoon a snow storm is scheduled to begin.  I would like to talk to the scheduler of that event, and tell them that we do not need this.

 

Tuesday

Yesterday I was at work for 16 hours.   It was something new started at the end of October or beginning of November.   A grand idea that we should have people there just in case.  Most of the time we have just been sitting, collecting the pay.  I spent from  8 to 11 watching television.  I am doing another 16 hours tomorrow. 

This morning was a meeting of the geneaology group and then we went to lunch.  There was just seven of us, but we had a good time.  One of the woman had attended Johnstown Symphony Orchestra's Christmas Concert in which my daughter is a member.  Turns out the woman grew up in Johnstown and every year she meets with her friend and they have dinner and attend the concert.  It really is a small world.   She liked the concert.

"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."
Mark Van Doren

"We are all pretending ... The important thing is to maintain a straight face."
Maurice Valency
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Book Journal

I have been asked my two of my friends about the possibility of starting another journal.  This one will be dedicated to books we have read and love.  

I have gotten past the planning stages and into the actuality.   I have to figure out how to get the link here so others can read it.   When I click on the other one this one disappears.   Just a small matter, I think.

Last night we went to Johnstown to the annual Christmas concert.  It was good, the music was all popular tunes and not too hard to play, or so my daughter says.  That drive is a killer.  The temperature hovered about 34-35 degrees and I was worried that the rain would turn to freezing rain, but it held at  34.  I was glad about that.  But all the PENDOT salt huts were lit up.  Guess they were worried too.

Tomorrow I am working 16 hours.  What was I thinking.   I hope it is OK,  some of my co-workers asked why I was doing that, I just wanted to try it out  I said. It can't be any worse that taking the call and I get to sleep in my own bed.

http://journals.aol.com/blossomcat/books-we-love/         Here it is I knew it was a simple operation 

 

 

Thursday

Great Quotes from Great Leaders Movie     Click to listen, on the sentance to the left.

This photo was taken at the Cleveland  West Side Market.

I tried to do this yesterday and all I was doing, somehow I can't figure it out, was highlighting and erasing my entry.  After the third time I was so irked at myself I just quit.   Yesterday I started my Christmas shopping.   I got a few things.  

Next I went to the library.   I like to go into Oakland and go to the Carnegie main branch; they have such a good selection of new books. I just could not deal with the tied up traffic.

  PENDOT has the roads in the area  so screwed.   Everytime you try to go somewhere they are under construction.   The turn interstate roads into cattle chutes by starting miles ahead with the blockage of whatever lane is in their planning this weekend.  What I find most aggrivating is the fact that there will be miles of unused. blocked off roads and there is nothing going on.   I think they like to do this just for the feeling of power.   If they were obviously work it would be another story.  Most of the time I don't even see a whole crew leaning on their shovels looking about.   Well, it is raining and I  know there are not working, but I bet they have those orange pylons sitting somewhere.

Off tomorrow.   Got the news that one  of my cooworkers/friends PET scan results were good.    It lookd like her tumor was localized.   She has to go thru a year of chemo,  that will be rough but considering the alternative.......................

My daughter has an interview next Friday, hope  this is what she wants to do..............

Taking my friend out to lunch tomorrow along with my other friend Rosemary and the above daughter (if she gets out of bed and goes with us)

Really, nothing on my radar.  Today was a good day at work.  It is nice when you have a good day with your co-workers.  We laughed all day long........................But, the most amazing thing was all my paitents were under 150 pounds.  

Usually they are all over 250.....Hope I am retired before they are all over that....

 

Tuesday

I just read an article where a woman made 40K by collecting and selling tumbleweeds.  I would  love to come up with something totally useless but everyone would love to have it.    Now, if I could only figure out what that would be........................

Pet rocks, Chia pets, hula hoops.............

Today was an uneventful day at work.  I was assigned OB and spent the morning doing post op rounds, stocking OB, doing breaks, helping with shoulder block and doing lunches.  I am a highly paid gofer........Tomorrow I will be in a room and sit on my rump.

Monday

Today is a dark and rainy day.  But, I would bet that a lot of people in the rest of the USA would love to have this problem.   Its not really a problem, it is just wet.  Went to work and found out I was in charge, then someone called off.   I was then in a room and it lasted all day.  

Did orthopedics.  The doc is a nice guy and he gives all his patient local after the end of the case and they wake up relatively pain free.  It worked out very well.

I am on OB tomorrow and I would rather do orthopedics.   Some of the woman act like they are the only ones in the history of the world to have labor pain.  It just gets to me sometimes.

Nothing else going on in my mundane life.

 

sunday

After much constirnation I bought a new computer.   I  got a good deal.  Acomputer, a printer and a year of security for quite a nice price.   I have to fill in the rebates.  It is a small computer like I prefer.   And I got my aol downloaded too.  

I just have to get use to it.  But I like it fine, so far.

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Black Friday

In my whole life I haven't been shopping on Black Friday.   Some of the stores were opening at midnight.  There are all kinds of nuts out there while I am safe and snug in my house.   I was suppose to work but got a call that I could have the day off.   We had 13 people scheduled and only 5 rooms.   No one minds taking a Friday off.   You just have to save some time and it will be OK.   I do have to go to the grocery store and pharmacy to get a few things.

There won't be crowded because they will all be at the mall.   My daughter, however, goes to work at 3.  For a 20 minute ride she said she will leave an hour to get there.  Then parking will be the pits.   They sell a lot of jewelry but the crowds are tremendous.

Had a dusting of snow last night.  Nothing to shovel.  Chuck worked an extra day and he was hoping it would be dead in the radiology department.

 

Thursday---Thanksgiving

Ever since I was a little kid my thoughts on Thanksgiving would be "I wonder what I will be doing next year at this time."   Mostly everything was the same.   But once in a while life throws you a curve ball.  Like the year 1965, I was in nursing school.  I really didn't see that one coming the year before.  

I had graduated from high school and really didn't know what I was going to do.   No ever sat me down and asked "Claudia, what are you career goals ?"   But back at that time  there were very many options open to women.   Medical school classes would take 2 women out of a class of 100.   Men were paid more than women "because they had a family to support."    I chose nursing because there was not anything to do at the time.  Guess it was sort of a default thing.  I had to do something, and this seemed to be the easiest.  What it all came down to was the school that had an opening in August after I had applied in March.

I discussed that with my daughter and to her that was unbelievable.   It really is 42 years later.   But she also said with every career opportunity it was hard to decide what to do since she like to do many things.   But nothing had a "PASSION."  My words at that time was find something to do that will pay you and make passion a hobby.  I haven't found my passion yet, although, there are lots of things I like t do.

Then there was the year I met my husband.  We had a disagreement whether it was 1967 or 1968.   Not really a disagreement but rather a discussion over food and beer.  I say it was 1967 and he says it was 1968.  Either way it was a while ago.   That Thanksgiving  after I met him, I didn't see that coming either.   Either way "I love you Chuck."   He sometimes reads this journal to see what I am thinking. 

Then there was the year that the Thanksgiving was celebrated in Korea.  The quest was getting a turkey.  I think we ate with my friend Ruth and her husband and many other expatriates.  You did a wonder full job Ruth.  We had to buy a lot of foods on the black market because there was not a selection of western foods there at the time.  If  you could find something in a shop the price was triple what you would have paid back in the USA.

And a then the one that was in Yugoslavia.   I remember that one because there were a lot of expatients living there and we had dinner in a castle on the Sava River.   That particularly stands out because half of the diners got sick.  I don't remember what they ate.  There were two choices and I didn't eat the one that made everyone sick.  

One year we had Thanksgiving dinner in Iowa and Ruth and her family come from Chicago on Friday and had dinner.  It was a good time too.

So, who knows what we will be doing next year.  I am always prepared for the unusual and unexpected.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL.

 

 

 

WEednesday

This is in Williamsburg.   I think it is the Capital Building.   I got a call and I have off on Friday.   The schedule must be very light and twelve people are not needed.  Don't know what I will do but Chuck and Emily are both working.   Maybe I will do my nails. 

Am I crazy enough to go out and try the malls.  The old computer is shot.   It is giving me "Danger Will Robinson" warnings.   It stops what it is doing and sends me message to install things that have been recently installed.   I have not installed anything recently.  Now its newest thing is to shut itself off.    Word of advice.  DO NOT HAVE AN OLD COMPUTER REPAIRED.  I did and it worked fine for one month and then it was up to its old tricks.  I don't understand how because he wiped it out and re-installed the softwear.   The computer guy thinks it is from Microsofts Updates, since this happened after one of those updates.   Well, too late, too late, too late once it is on there.

Had a "high maintenance" hair appointment.   My hair appointments have all become high maintenance.    There are some things people should not do themselves.  In my opinion.  One of them is coloring of ones own hair.   The second thing is carpet cleaning.   And the third thing (when you get old and have to worry about falling off the ladder) is clean your own windows.   Have to find someone to do that.

 

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Tuesday

"History is a vast early warning system."
Norman Cousins

If a person learns anything, it is NOT to invade Russia in the winter.   A la Napolean and Germany in WWII.

I am off for three days in a row.  I should be cleaning but I just don't feel like it at all.  In fact, I feel like it less and less.  The dust really does not matter to me.  

Work is the same.  Funny thing, they came out with a sign on bonus if you re-up for another year.  But they won't pay it till the anniversary date. No one will  be signing early and probably waiting till the anniversary date occurs.  If people quit maybe they will up the cashola amount.  LOL LOL

  Another funny thing is shortly after this they added weekday second call, and the late, late shift.   I think people are looking elsewhere.   In fact, I KNOW, they are looking elsewhere.   With not too much longer to work and the fact I will not be working long enough to get vested else where I am just going to go with the flow for now.

Maybe I will go clean out the freezer and throw away:  Things with freezer burn, things older than a year and that I don't remeber buying, and mystery items that I haven't a clue what they are or where they came from.   Guess I will have a salvation of plastic containers by the time this day is over.   This HAS to be done today because the garbage man comes today and I don't want thing sitting around rotting and fermenting all week.

 

LONG WEEK

I haven't written  much in this jouranl because I have spent a lot of time being IRATE.  The first thing has been for the past month I am getting unsolicited text messages on my cell phone.   I AM ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST FOR MY HOME AND MY CELL PHONE.    I feel that if the message comes to me using my number it is a call.   And to make the whole matter worse I am paying for those messages.

I have started my campaign to get them.  First I have contacted the local TV station and they have a consumer editor who handles complailnts.  I complained to her. 

kdka.com - Yvonne Zanos

Secondly, I have written to the Attorney General of PA and complained to him.  If there is a way to have those idiots fined for sending me message I will do it.   I consider this a great imposition on me.

Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General - Tom Corbett - Protecting Pennsylvanians

The second source of my rant is PEP BOYS,   I am in the mood to send their store headquarters an email nasty gram.   I think I will do it and write what their offense was maybe tomorrow.

 

 

Cats

There are four cats living at my house.  All of the were adopted by me and my daughter.  They just kind of take over.  It is a coolish autumn day and they are all positioned by a heater vent.  They do not sit by the A/C vent in the summer.   It is a wonder they don't get bedsores from sitting there so long.

I would like to be my cat for a week.  There is a wonderful human who feeds then and caters to their needs.   Their cat box is always clean and there is a steady supply of food and water.    All they have to do it be on the alert for rodent intruders.  And be avaliable for a head scratch or back pat when the human feels the necessity of cat contact.

This is Ginger who was one of the bestcats ever.

Sunday

"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
Norman Cousins
This seems to be lacking in todays society.   The consequences are always someone elses fault.

Claudia

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
Daniel J. Boorstin

Guess this applies to the dumbshits of the world.  I hope they don't unite.

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
Kingman Brewster

The above dumbshits would say "Duh"

Saturday

I think I have used this before but I don't care.  I am doing an experiement on if it is possible to,  or rather how to, put more than one picture in an entry.  This was taken at the VA Farm Market in Winchester. 

People at work are in an uproar.  They hav added a 2 to 10;30 position.  I think it won't be used more than it is used.   Also have added a second call during the week.  I envision a few people leaving.  I am just going with the flow.   Why get upset when you don't know what will happen.  Besides I can theoretically retire in October 2008.  I can tolerate that place for another 11 months.

Emily is playing in a concert in Johnstown this evening.  They are playing Beethovens 5th.  The beggining is probably the most recognized four notes in mucis.  They sounde good in rehersal.

Yes, it can be done with mininal disruption to the body of the paragraph

Wednesday

Its a long time since I have written.   Been to work for three days and my foot hurts so bad.  Today I took naprosyn and it felt much better, I also wore my birkenstock shoes and I guess it was a combination of both.

Work has been busy.   I think it would feel better if my foot was pain free.   It is really busy and there were seven rooms running at three.   There is always two more rooms than we have people to cover.   The latest is a 2 to 10;30 shift.  and second call all thru the week.   I  think this is in preparation for the heart program that is to start in March. 

JCAHO is here this week.  These are a bunch of inspectors that we pay big bucks to come and see how we are doing and then they find some nits to pick.  We really pay for this.  The big thing now is labeling syringes.   You are suppose to draw up medication first and then put on the label,  they want no labeled syringes in your drawer.   They are in utopia.  How can a person "double" check if there is no label  with which to check two times.       They came in my room to watch the induction (commencement of anesthesia).  I did everthing perfect, as usual.  Being OCD helps to have everything just so, and always the same and in the same order.   Most people who work in the OR are OCD.  I don't know if it attracts that sort of personality or it developes as you work there.   I had a student and everything went well.   I personally think he was checking for our "surgical pause"; where before the incision the person, dob, and surgical procedure are checked with the surgeon and the permit on the chart.  This is done to insure that the proper surgery and side is done.

Our department got good grades.   I am off tomorrow and it is play off week at Trivia.   I wish I could recruit a few more players.  We need someone who is good in sports.

Saturday

Taken at the Virginia Farm Market.  Winchester VA is only about a 30 minute drive from Fulton County PA.   Winchester is a really nice town.  I could live there.  The problem in driving thru PA is that I70 from the PA border to Brezewood is 55mph.   What are the officials thinking.   The road is primarily straight and NO ONE goes 55 anyway.   PA is so antiquated in their thinking on so many fronts.

I like the journal much better now that I can add pictures.   I  am glad the people in the photo do not have their faces showing.   A few things to do today I can't decided where to start.  My foot looks much better but the incision is still tender to touch.  I have been wearing slide in shoes.  I don't know if it will hurt when I were real shoes, but I have a suspicion that it may.  Think I will start by closing this and washing my hair.

 

Friday

Photo is of house in  Colonial Williamsburg.  The nice thing about digital cameras is you can take as many as you like and delete them if they are no good.

Back in PA. Going away is nice the first two days and then after that I get tired of lectures and just want to go home.  The weather was nice and the trip was uneventful.  I hate driving in bad weather.   I left Williamsburg about 2ish and then drove to Winchester.  It was going on 5 o'clock.  I stayed overnight.  I do not like to drive in the dark, especially when I am not familiar with the roads and it is deer mating season.

On this trip I saw about 14 deer carcases along the highways.   There is a trivia fact I heard and they said that every day about 52 deer are killed in PA with fatal encounters with moving vehicles.  I wish they would allow more of them to be harvested during the hunting season.

I have been off three weeks and really don't miss it at all.

Friday

"Fanaticism is ... overcompensation for doubt."
Robertson Davies

I do like to take pictures.  The digital camera is great because you can take as many picture as you like and them just load them on the comuter and erase those you don't like.   If you want to get prints it is easy too.  

Last day for meetings tomorrow.  The last one over at 1:30.  Then I will be on the road again.   Will stop over in Winchester and leave Friday when the sun is up.  I  am looking forward to getting home.  I really hate driving in the dark.  I can't see well, so I suppose that is the problem.   I like to see what is going on all around and at night I can just see what the car lights illuminate.

Had dinner at my brothers, nothing really new with them either.  Guess that is good.   I like my life to be uneventful most of the time.

meeting

This was taken in Winchester VA at the Virginia Farm Market.   I want to know if the first aid is for people or the apples.

Spent many hours at educational meetings.  Why does the last session seem so long? I like the four day meetings because you can get 20 points in one meeting, but it does seem long.................

Nothing new here, going to my brothers tomorrow for dinner. Guess I will start at the grocery store and buy a wine.   PA has a monopoly on wine and liquor sales.   I think the legislature thinks we will all become lushes if we buy it in the grocery stores.   GOOD GRIEF  even in the Bible Belt they sell wine in the groceries.  I suppose too many of the people in government has relatives that are in the State Store Business.

Meeting

Here is a Williamsburg cat.   I wonder if she is a descendant from the colonial times.???

So far the meeting is good.   What I like about it is that there are 20 points.   That is five points per day.   These weekend meetings are good if you didn't have to go far.  I would rather go to one meeting and get it over with.

Going out to dinner with my brother and his wife.  They live down here in the Tidewater area.. 

 

 

Monday

"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."
Wilford O. Cross

I guess that just depends on whose attic it is. 

Up bright and early.   I wonder that after I retire will I be able to sleep in.   For me a fantasy vacation is a week of sleeping in till 9 am.

Pondering

When I checked into my room I found a Sleep Soundly CD, a face mask and ear plugs.  Well lo and behold, I found out why.   What did I hear.............................A train that sounds like it is going by in the parking lot.   Thank goodness it doesn't blow its whistle...

Even though it is the end of October,guess who is going to have to sleep with the A/C on to diminish the sound.  Good thing I like the room cold.

Took some pictures on the way down.  Not really a lot, just some I took at the Virginia Farm Market in  Winchester VA.  You will have to search for the pictures yourselves I am tired and going to bed.   Only after I turn on the "white noise"  in the form of an airconditioner.

Virginia Farm Market: Virginia Is For Lovers

Trek to VA

Today I got up early and drove south.  The entire strip was uneventful   The weather was good and traffic light.   Well, lighter than it is summer.   Took the route thru the VA countryside.   I really hate driving around DC.  To busy and to many nuts, and too many people with diplomatic immunity if they hit you they are off the hook.

The leaf color all the way down wasn't very colorful.  In PA they re falling off the trees and in VA they are a lot still green  with a little yellow.   This has been about four years in my observation of lousy color.   Is it the lack or rain, the hot year or a combination of both.   Tonight in PA we are suppose to get a freeze.   Guess they will put on the furnace....., if they are cold enough they will.

REally tired and hungry and the dinning room opens at five.

 

LONG AGO TIMES

This is a picture taken circa 1959.  We were all lined up sitting on this log.  The photo was taken in Cooks Forest State Park in the Allegheny National Forest area in northwestern PA.

 

Cook Forest Online - Info on Cook Forest State Park, Pennsylvania - Lodging, Activities, Business Directory

 

Saturday

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
Norman Cousins

Is is also a adventure in getting even!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Payback is HELL

Friday

This group of people are my sibs and I.  I am wearing the red sweater.  This picture was taken when we were all cleaning, refurbishing and getting my dads house ready for sale.  February of 2005, I think.    My sister in law took the picture.  There is another that is very similar that was taken about 1968 or so.   I will have to scan it and post it.   In that picture we were all sitting in the same spots..  Long ago  Chuck took the picture. 

I had forgotten all about the original until he was cleaning out his parents house and in a random box emerged the photo.  The original I had enlarged and gave it to my dad and the sibs for one Christmas.  They were all surprised and happy with the gifts./

The foot is still healing.  I have taken half of the antibiotics, 5 down 5 more to go.  I have to go to the mall today and find a pair of brown shoes with no backs,  At this point the back of the shoes will rub on the side of my foot and causes an irritation.  

 

Thursday

This is sort of an autumny shot.   It has turned chilly or should I  say seasonal.  I decided I really hate driving in city traffic.   Only a few days till I leave for my meeting.   I think it will be warm there.  I check the weather or Wiliamsburg VA and it is 88.   While here in PA it is 57.     I really don't know what to pack.

This picture was taken in State College PA. The   home of Penn State University.  That town  is geographically in the middle of  PA.  

 

It seems that if the pictues are uploaded from your files there is no control over their size, but if the pictures are on the AOL site you can choose the size.

I have been off for almost 2 weeks.  I don't think I will be bored cutting down my days.  I am not bored yet and I still have not resorted to cleaning the house.  Of course I haven't gone out much, will a sore foot I would be limping and potentially falling down.  Really don't want to do that.

Wednesday

This is another shot from Acadia.  The foot is finally looking better.  It is amazing what antibiotics will do.  Two days and the redness and swelling is gone and the wound is starting to heal.. 

Just a few more days until I go to the meeting.   Just have to figure out what to take, it will be chilly here but what will it be in VA.  I will just have to watch the weather channel.  Sweaters and cords sound OK.   I will take the camera and hopefully have some new pictures to post.   

The weather is damp and gloomy.  I had the windows open but decided it would be more comfortable with them closed.    After watching the fires in CA I will not ever complain about the rain.

computer has returned

This is a picture taken in DC.  It is the Woman Vietnam Memorial.   I thought it was good the emotion in their faces.   I took photos  of all the people in the grouping. 

The computer is back home.    It was all a serious software degradation.   Which means I screwed it up royally.    So now it is great.   All my downloads are the latest.

The problem with Chuck's laptop is that (somehow) when I am typing it jumps into the body of whatever it is and then it is hard to get it in order.   I type the same and it doesn't do that in this one.  Another thing it does is when you just roll the mouse over an icon, it goes to that place without any clicking involved.   I don't see any great advantage to Vista.   Sorry Bill Gates and Microsoft.

 

 

Monday

Now. I just tried to add a photo and it would not let me.    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr  Had to go to the doctor because I thought I had an infection in my surgical wound.  The wound had came apart.  It had a slight infection.   On antibiotics.   He removed the stitches.   The first was easy but the second was in an area that was swollen, so he had to dig for the knot to cut it.    Pleasure is the absence of pain.  

Thought

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."
Maurice Chevalier

bodies

This picture is of the Bass Head Light in Acadia National Park in Maine.  Taken long ago.  I want to go back to New England some Autumn.

Went with my lady friends to see the body exhibit.   The Carnegie Science Center is located next  to Heinz Field.   University of Pittsburgh was having a foot ball game.  When we entered the lot the attendant asked why we were there???  To see the Body exhibit.....parking......?   $3.   If you were for game day the parking was $25.   Isn't that the wildest thing.   I wonder if they had someone watch to see if we went in the Science Center.   

This was an exciting show.  What I liked the most were the nerves, arteries & veins, and the outline of the pulmonary tree.  These are things I routinely do not get to see.  We spent an hour and a half in there.    

Next we went to Max's Allegheny Tavern.   This is the best German Restaurant in the county......The ladies wan to go back, we stuffed ourselves........till we were on the verge of explosion.  I had Weiner Schnitzel, Potato Pancakes, and Red Cabbage with Apple Strudle for dessert......

Birthday

This is the second time I have started this entry.  I went to click on a link to post in here and the original writing, ranting and commentaries on my birthday have disappeared.  

I want to say "thank you" to all of my friends and people who read my journal who have wished me a "Happy Birthday"

AOL THAT DESIGN SUCKS............IT SHOULDN'T DISAPPEAR TILL I MAKE IT DISAPPEAR.   NOW I HAVE TO GO THRU ALL OF THIS AGAIN AND I AM ANGRY.

Today is my sister's and my birthday.   We are not twins.   I feel the same as I did long ago.   My mother had a neighbor who said she felt the same in her 90's that she did when she was younger.   She said she looks in the mirror and "Wonder who that old lady is?"

People's attitude and demeanor remain the same through out life.  People who were miserable when they are old were the same when they were young.  I am not miserable but sometimes the others can be trying. 

It has been one week since my foot surgery.  The  incision hurts and I went walking at the Mall and now the muscles in my leg hurt.   I think I strained them when I was limping along.  I was pulling on things that I usually do not pull in that direction.   The pain only hurts when I walk, not when I sit down.  I have eliminated thrombi as a possible cause.

Today my daughter and I will go to Atrias.  They will send you a gift certificate for a meal on your birthday.  

ATRIA'S RESTAURANT AND TAVERN - Good To Be Here

Tomorrow I am going with my lady friends to see:

bodies_website

and then to eat at :

Welcome to Max's Allegheny Tavern - A Fine German Restaurant in Pittsburgh, PA

We will have a good time.  That's all for now folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What worlds

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell

What are these alleged "worlds"  I only live in one.   Maybe the schizophrenics and psychotics live in ones other these real ones. 

Thursday

Felt in sort of a flowery mood today.  Tomorrow is my birthday.  I had told my friend   the autumn leaf colors were at its peak for my birthday.  Well, Marie, this year it didn't happen.   Most  of the trees are still green and brown.   I don't know if this has to do with the hot weather or lack of rain or combination on both.   The past few years the colors have been sub-par to say the least.   I always look forwrd the change of seasons and the vibrant color.   My hopes have been dashed again.

I  usually go out to lunch and then buy something for myself for my birthday.  I am off and so is my daughter.  I also got a free lunch from Atrias, maybe we can go there.  Don't know what I will buy.

I am going to VA the last week in October for an Anesthesia meeting.  I hoped the weather would be cool, but who knows what it will be.   I really think this year will go down as the hottest on record.

 

Tuesday

This is a street in the shopping district of Manteo NC.  We went there, and stopped for lunch at a German restaurant.  We had beer and wine with our lunch and then were too tired to walk around.  It was also about 95F so that was way to hot.

The bandage on my foot is coming off tomorrow.  It is bulky and driving me crazy.  I can feel the stitch pulling and it hurts when  the shoe rubs on it.   I can't wait till 08:30 tomorrow.   Then I will be foot loose and fancy free.   I really don't know about the fancy free but the foot will be loose.

Today the daughter and I are going to a  Nursing School Open House.   She says that she could do that.......  She could see herself as a nurse practioner.  I could see her as and educator in a college.  Who know how it will go.

Tuesday

This is a picture of a bridge in Celle, Germany.   The town that my grandmother came from.     I looked again at some post cards that she had written in 1966.   In one she mentions visiting her brother.   I knew about her sister Johanna and her brother August who emigrated to the USA.   But I was surprised about the mention of another brother.  She also mentions visiting her sister in law and one of the post cards is signed by "Lily"  I guess it is the lament of everyone who is seeking their departed ancestors.  Why didn't ask this information when they were alive.    I suppose it wasn't important then but it is now that the source of the information is gone. 

Do you suppose having a seance (sp???) at the grave site would be of any help???

Monday

We drove to Johnstown for my daughters concert on Saturday.   I really didn't like the cello piece.   It was sort of obscure.   The Symphonie Fantastique  was good.   It was an 'opium fog"  I guess 30 years ago it would have been a LSD trip.   I don't know what it would be considered today.  

I am sitting with my foot propped up.  What hurts is the dressing.  I will be glad when it is off.  It isn't hurting per se, but I can feel the stitches pull and pinch.    There is something to be said about the subcuticler closing.   I had asked about the super glue but he said no, the tension on the incision would pop it open.

Where did the purple type go???  This is the middle of October.  By now, the leaves shuld be vibrant.  But they are all green and a lot of trees with their leaves blown off.  This is not going to be a good leaf year.   The past few years have not been very good in the atumnal splendor department.   I have to drive down to Williamsburg VA for a meeting in two weeks.  I was looking forward to the colorful drive but I don't think it will very pretty. 

 

Today was fix the  foot day.  Had to get up at 4:30 to be at the hospital at 5:30. The trip was uneventful.   The operation was non eventful.   Got my Versed while going down the hall and don't remember anything after the opening of the door to Room 5.   Woke up as I was moving myself to the cart to go to Recovery.  No pain, and lots of amnesia.

Lots of people fear anesthesia because they have no control.  I just want to relax and let my colleagues do their job for which they are trained.  Someone asked me was I afraid and my answer was that with a minor surgery it was no.  I would be worried if it were major.  But I told the person I would be REALLY worried if I didn't know what sort of a procedure my surgeon would do.   There are so many out there I wouldn't have operate on my dead cat. 

   I ALSO TOLD THIS PERSON THAT IF YOU NEED SURGERY FIND SOME ONE WHO WORKS IN AN OR AND ASK THEM WHO THEY WOULD HAVE OPERATE ON THEM.. 

  Excellent advice loud and clear.    That would be one of the secrets of surgery.  Don't ask me for a second opinion when you have scheduled your procedure.   

This advice is a precious pearl of wisdom for all of you out there in cyberland.

Friday

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
Pearl Buck

I do enjoy my work and strive for excellence, but it is the company politics and associated bull crap that I do not enjoy.

"The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.'    

Gerald Burril

This statement has a lot of truck but I think I am just in a rut.

 

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
Martin Buber

 

And they are saying leave me rest human!!!!!!!

Having ones photos stored on AOL sure makes it easier to add photos.  I gave up on self fixing of my computer.   I took it to the computer guy.   He will look at it and determine if it is worth salvation.     I told him I do not play games and used it for mainly for reading email and research.  On my own of course.

I have my document, photos and music backed up on my external hard drive....Now, how many people can say that.   Especially that directory (forgot his name) who had 15 years of things stolen.......What was HE thinking.........I just have my little piddly crap backed up.....

Still searching for the ancestors.   At lease I made some procress I know where my grandfather and grandmother were from (Quickborn and Celle); and my grandmothers parents, (Celle and Jena)  Now I hav to take it somewhere from there......but where do I go....      The Dowd and O'Rourkes really have me mystified.

Saturday

Got a call from my bank that they thought there was fradulent charges on my ATM card.    Boy oh boy was there.    Thousands of dollars.   One was United Airlines with a trip to Singpore.   The bank woman wanted to know if I was going there or was my husband ????  I told her that I  didn't even have current passports......Charges at Radio Shack and a few other places.....    How did they get our numbers; both of which are different.  We do not use them for anything but the ATM machine.    I personally think that the  banks security has been breached.     I also put a fraud alert on my credit history.     I tried to put it on my husbands account but that didn't go through.

I am having a problem with trying to deal with a person.  You can talk to Equifax  only 8 to 1 Monday thru Friday.    I really hate trying to get to talk to a human with all these freaking companies.

gethuman 500 database  Here is the link but it isn't helping me...

Saturday

Got a call from my bank that they thought there was fradulent charges on my ATM card.    Boy oh boy was there.    Thousands of dollars.   One was United Airlines with a trip to Singpore.   The bank woman wanted to know if I was going there or was my husband ????  I told her that I  didn't even have current passports......Charges at Radio Shack and a few other places.....    How did they get our numbers; both of which are different.  We do not use them for anything but the ATM machine.    I personally think that the  banks security has been breached.     I also put a fraud alert on my credit history.     I tried to put it on my husbands account but that didn't go through.

I am having a problem with trying to deal with a person.  You can talk to Equifax  only 8 to 1 Monday thru Friday.    I really hate trying to get to talk to a human with all these freaking companies.

gethuman 500 database  Here is the link but it isn't helping me...

Thursday

Here is the pdated version of the sibs.

 

Thursday

Word of the Day: Languor (noun)
Pronunciation:  ['læng-gr]

Definition: Weakness, a sense of lassitude or inertia; mild depression, listlessness.

Usage: Today's word belongs to an odd family of individualists with an odd array of suffixes. The major adjective associated with it is languid "lacking spirit or motion," as a languid breeze whose movement is barely distinguishable. The verb is languish "to grow weak, lose vitality," as you might languish without attention your actions. "Languorous" is also out there with a meaning close to that of "languid" but implying a bit more melancholy.

This is how I feel sometimes.........The hot weather makes me feel worse; and I am tired of hot weather.   I had to put the A/C on and this is the first time I have had it on in PA.

tuesday

Today we went to see the gems and minerals at the Carnegie.   It was a nice show, you got to see what they looked like before they were cut.....The thing I didn't like was some guy was standing infront of the Birth stones giving a lecture.   And hogging up the space.   If you want to lecture go to a class room.  People who paid to see the show deserve an equal opportunity without some other standing in the way.This one is slightly askew, not as bad as the rest.

Sunday

Looking closely at my brothers I even see a resemblance of them and the Schridde family.  Guess I have to go to Germany to look for people who look like us.

Saturday

This is a picture of my brothers from about thirty years ago.  When did we all get old???  Time just goes by so fast, not so slowly into the future.......I guess that song was from thirty years ago  I post a more current picture of the sibs at some other time.

Just had a neat google feature shown to me by by daughter.   You go to www.google and then you his images and then type in what you are searching for.  And presto a multitude of pictures  will appear.    You can gaze at them for eons.    I was looking for a map of Ireland with its counties.   And they did have many of them , along with pictures of Ireland.   I then did the same for Germany.   I am not getting far with my ancestry.

I am stuck on the great grandparents.  Two of them are in Germany.  I will post their pictures.....The two that are in PA I got most of my information from the census and just can't find their records of when they immigrated.......I really would like to know how some of these people can trace their family back to Charlemagne.  I can't seem to find any relevant records to search.  What I read is that you have to know where the came from and to what church they belonged.   That is the enigma for now.............  Here are Frau and Herr Bartels.  He looks like he has on his German face for sure.....

Well, another addendum.  I tried to put the Schridde family down here with the Bartelsbut it didn't happen.    So, up above on the left is the Schridde family.  The soldier in the middle is my grandfather Willi.   His sisters namer were, Minna, Una (Oona??), Johanna, Lily and  ??????.  I also do not know the names of my great grandparents.  But I sure have their picture.........The spookiest thing is the woman sitting,third from the right looks like me.    Maybe there is something to the gene theory...????

 

 

Light bulb

Did I mention my light bulb????    Doing my part to save the earth I read the information on the "new" light bulbs.   Low energy, lower cost and will last 7 years !!!!!!   Sound wonderful, doesn't it????

The light bulb was out.....I wrote to the light bulb company.  I stated that their 7 year light bulb didn't last 7 months........Plus, that bulb (and others I suspect) has mercury vapor.    How am I suppose to dispose of this bulb.   They said they would send me a new light bulb (which they did) and to dispose of it I was to contact my state department of enviormnmental protection......

I did install the bulb, and haven't gotten around to notifying the state.   Surely they must have a recycling program for those bulbs>>>

 

 

Wednesday

Another askew picture of mine.  

"Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own back."
Geoffrey Bocca

Somehow the photo look straight when I put them on the scanner.   I haven't scanned anything for a long time.   Still trying to get this computer working correctly.   I will not give up on it.   

Nothing new in my life.  SSDD at work.   Everything is the same, only the names changes but the crap is constant.   One year and 21 days till I can retire.  I am starting to sound like Vivian, who started the countdown about five years before.  She retired at 62 and hasn't regretted it at all.   My hero.

Have to get blood work for my surgery and the oil changed in my car.   I will be off for three weeks.   It is really bad when you are looking forward to an operation to get some time off.  LOL LOL.  

 

Sunday

Here are my sisters and I 30 years ago.   I have one of my brothers too.  This is just before my sister ran off and got married.   That was a trying time in my life.   I was living in Europe and my youngest sister was still living at home and walking on a phyysological tightrope.   My father thought he was always right.  He didn't talk to her for about 5 or  years after.  Till his buddies at work told him he was wrong (now that was a really new concept) and they should get over it.  They did but I don't think things were ever the same.    As he got older he still thought he was right and tried to control the lives of the children who were in their 40's nd 50's.  Go figure that......  Guess he had real control issues.

It is hot, hot, hot.  September is suppose to be mild and it surely has not been.  Back to work.   Our department is interviewing for a new assistant chief.   One of the interviewees was asked what she would do about the OT situation. ( we don't have it if we don't want it)  She said she would make it mandatory.  She won't make any points with us.    This is the same broad who's husband filed for divorce because she was having an affair with one of the students.   Just who I would want in charge..........I am glad I only have one year and  26 days till I can retire.   I plan right now to look elsewhere and do two 10's or the time being.

I am going to have my foot operated on.   It hurts most of the time.  But even more after I have been on my feet all day at work.  The floors are terrazzo.  I will be off for  weeks and then go to a meeting in Williamsburg VA.   I think I am going to have company. 

 

Thursday

One more day left for this week.   Today was busy doing GU.   It made the day go by faster that I was working with two woman who  kept me laughting al day.

Going to TRIVIA tonight.   Had a test run last week.  We came in third, but we only had four players.  The group that won had twelve............Tonight will be better.

At long last

I got the old relic going.   Went into (somehow again)  and did a system restore.  This took a few restorations, and finally got one that worked.   It still needs a bit of fluffing up.

Then I went into msconfig and and added all the start up files.   Then I could get connected.  I went back and eliminated the things I  really knew I didn't need.   So at this point in time it is working.  At long last.   Microsoft can put their updates where the sun  doesn't shine.    The could help me but it would cost me.  What a crock of crap.