January First, 2012. and it starts all over again!

I was just nodding off here at the table/office/desk/TV viewing platform last evening when it sounded like WWIII started!!  Yep, the rednecks lite off the fireworks.I saw out my carport camera someone down in the road must have set off a whole package of firecrackers , pop and flash for what seemed like forever.  Then a bit later the aerial displays started!!  From what I've read, I'm sure a Vietnam firefight would have been less noisy :-)

All  is quite this morning of course  but bet there are some serious hangovers around here. :-)

As for us , Tiny hide under something till later last evening, Basset don't care about it at all unless it gets near her food bowl :-)   And I just slept through it all. 

Didja make an resolutions?   I quit even thinking about that years ago, Hell. you never keep them anyway  then you just feel bad cause you didn't have the will  power  , so why even consider it?

Got my new monthly calendar printed out laying here , marked up with anniversary dates . I tried a new form of calendar since my ole Calendar Creator is OLD and won't load on this computer and I got tired of fooling with it. So  gonna try the free one that's on with my email account through Google.    Only family event I got marked is Daddy's BD on the 19th, but  of course he died a few years ago so it's just a hold over reminder.

Gotta hold off with the comics till the store opens and I have a paper in front of me, BUT I got the Forecast of course.

46.0 °F
Clear   
Windchill:     44 °F
Humidity:     53%
Wind:     5.0 mph from the NNW
Wind Gust:     12.0 mph
Visibility:     10.0 miles
Dew Point:     30 °F
Pressure:     30.36 in (Rising)

New Year's Day: Sunny, with a high near 59. North northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

We don't normally get any ice, sleet, what ever , till late this month of even next. So no biggie yet.

OK, slow moving , so I'll leave you to your own devices till we all get some more coffee.
BBL

Well, OK then,found the comics without having to have the paper in front of me. :-)

Garfield
B.C.  
For Better or Worst
Shoe
Peanuts
Hagar
Ziggy 
Dagwood
Luann
Dennis
 Beetle Bailey 
 Pluggers
 Pickles

OK,  confession time. FIRST screw up of the year, but it is fixable!!
Had a real nice guy pull up yesterday .  Salesman for  Direct TV. Showed me the plans and how to get just the channels I wanted. So he was GOOD and I signed up, NO CC number involved.
Well, after thinking about it later and this morning ( and getting in 5 different emails!!)  I'm calling and canceling the order and the install.  Here in Texas there is a 3 day grace period to allow for buyers remorse or some such BS. So I'll get out of this and keep on with my FREE off air channels and my Netflix.

8AM What happen to the Parade?    Pulled out the TV Schedule from the paper and went looking for the Rose Parade time on TV.. DUH!!!

SAN DIEGO, Dec 31, 2011 –  If you’re on auto-pilot New Year’s Day morning after having fun the night before like most of America, you will stumble over to your TV and turn it on expecting to see the dazzling floats and energetic marching bands of the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Instead, you’re going to think you forgot what day it was.
Check the calendar: no, you were right, it IS January 1. But it’s a Sunday, which means the traditional New Year’s Day schedule will wait until Monday.

The Tournament of Roses Parade never takes place on a Sunday.

The Rose Parade is never held on Sunday. Every five to 11 years when New Year’s Day falls on Sunday, the Rose Parade is held back one day until Monday, January 2. This last happened in 2006.

Want to review this last year  through the eyes of CBS news?  OK, This link will take you to  a lot of storis that made Headlines in 2011.

Long about 10AM and there is a commercial running on TV that just bugs me. I'm afraid of heights, I get dizzy . This commercial for a Credit card is short 33sec)   but watch it in a large window and see where that crazy woman is standing!!    NUTZO 

Almost noontime  and I finaly got around to reading the paper. See I had to go out front and reattach a piece of the ABS skirting that was coming loose. Did that so no more stray or wild critters can get under the house...
ANYWAY, what I was going to point you to is a End of Year wrap up by Humorist Dave Barry.  Hey, you need a chuckle today,, just read it!!

And while you do that I'm gonna see bout making up my big ole meal I got the stuff for yesterday.................

4PM ish.    Cats are circling , bout that time.   BTW, that lunch with the chicken cordon bleu, loaded stuff potato and black eyed peas? Well, once I  loaded up my plate , it expanded!! So I got left overs for supper. But it sure is good eatin. but sure was hard to keep my eyes open afterwards. :-)