Winter Blas

It's cold, wet, windy and gray outside. Very little sun and a little snow. But other than that it's great. Good day in church yesterday. Bad day at work today, slow night but I,am glad to be alive and up and able to take nourishment. Just sort of killing time.

Tiger Woods

All is good in the world, Tiger is playing again. I caddied at a local golf course when I was 13-14. I was there every day in the summer carrying golf bags [I carried doubles] around the golf course. This was a old money country club, you could only join if you were invited, than you had the pleasure of paying about 30000-40000 dollars to join and a big fee every month to be a member. You got to remember this was in 1959-60 when money was worth something. So this was no small potatoes. I got 12 dollars a round 6-7 days a week. Big money for a 13-14 year old. Than I worked on course year round while going to high school. I did this until I went into the service. Never played but followed it all my life. I say all this to make a point that I have been involved in golf a long time. I was sitting watching TV one afternoon killing time when I saw Tiger for the first time, it was 1998. Since than every time he has played I have tried to watch, just to see how he wills a ball into the hole is a lesson in will power. He is probably the most intense athlete there is. I have seen him make shots that no golfer could ever think about much less make. 1998,1999, 2000 were the huge years for him. Than he decided to remake his swing and had some down years [for him down years] now has finally got it where he wants it. It will be fun watching and just see how well he does.

Cold

Its cold here right now. About 5 with a wind chill of -2. Its 10:00 am in the morning for cry out load. Suppose to drop all day until 0 tonight than -20 wind chill in the morning. I hate the cold, no if, ands or buts about it.
Electric went out at the plant, that was a fun time. No power for 3 hours, machines getting cold [we use a heat process] hard to start back up. Got thur it and moved on but expensive. Dealing with a electric company is a fun time to. They didn;t know the power went out than didn;t know when they would find out where the problem was than didn;t know when they would have it fixed. Other than that it was just fine. O ya they were sorry for the inconvenience. They are sorry alright but when you are the only game in town you can do what you want when you want to.
Got to go going to start a fire in the fire place and warm my old bones.

Football

My daughter lives in Wis. she loves the Packers and is a very happy women right now. My boy lives in Texas and has been a Cowboys fan since he was 6. He is on suicide watch right now. He can't believe that they would blow it so bad. Me! Iam enjoying the games. When you like the Bengal's, you learn to like other teams during this time of the year. The Bengal's only play [if that;s what you call it] 16 games a year, than they go home to watch all the good teams play on television. Used to be a Browns fan but lost interest after Jim Brown quite playing. Than became a Bengal fan, than lost interest after Paul Brown died. So now I watch them if I have nothing else to do on Sunday afternoon. They are a great napping team. You watch them for 15 minute's, you will fall asleep-guaranteed.

Politics

It is the silly season where normal people loose there minds. So many candidates, so many tax levies, so many issues to be decided by a vote. So many lies, half truths, crooks and noise. I let the meat grinder called primaries sort the candidates out, vote most money issues down, vote against anything calling for more government regulation, vote against any candidates that is pro choice [baby killers], more government, higher taxes, against the military, anti god in everyday life, anti business, and for more welfare.
I realize I just put myself in about the bottom 10% of the voting public but it is just the way I think things should be done. Basically my politics are just a little to the Conservative side, maybe a whole lot to the Conservative side. I could go on a whole lot more but you get the picture and with that I'll go for now.

The Ohio State Football Debacle

Let me start by saying I have been a Ohio State fan since Rex Kern's days. So I go way back but the reality is boys and girls that Ohio State can't play with the big boys. The big Ten is over rated and State keeps playing the little sisters of the poor. Having said that, it hurts my heart to watch State play the better teams and struggle. They have a great coach, lots of money, win a lot, and play hard but just don't have the ability to win the real hard games. I mean they totally collapse. I know I know don't be so hard on them but its just so frustrating to watch them go to peaces. O well nobody died or lost there salvation. At the end of the day that's all that counts. Still frustrating.

Tech Heaven

A couple of days ago I was whining and crying about my woes with the tech stuff that I have. It was all going bad at the same time and all the tech people couldn't speak English. Well all is good now. My computers power supply died, which is no big deal except that its like me "old". Its a 2001 Dell 8100 model. You can find them but its cost a arm and a leg to buy. But my brother said that one of his friends has 2-3 real old Dell computers. Sure enough the oldest one had the power supply that I needed. Got it for $30.00, works great.

My Dish network went out at the same time as the computer. The tech guy at Dish said no problem [I knew I was I trouble than]. Well after 2-3 hours of 2-3 different tech folks, they said they would send out a tech guy, which is what I wanted then to do in the first place. They said he would be here between 12-5 pm. Now that's covering all your bases. So he came out and looked all the hardware over. Started talking to himself and fixing wires, moving wires, taking wires out, putting wires in, up on the roof, in the attic, back to the van, back in the attic. 2 hours later he had everything working right except the second television. He said it needed to be hit several times with a signal. That it would take 2-3 hours to get that done. I made sure I got the number to call if it didn't work, after calling that number 2-3 hours later to find out if there was any way I could get the 2ed TV to work. Some nice tech person spent another hour getting the system to work.
Isn't the tech world a wonderful place. My head hurts. later