Saturday, 1-28-12.Had a briliant idea .. But.....

My weird sleeping patterns are back and   last night/early this morning (2AM) I popped wide away with a brilliant idea for a topic for today's blog .It would  amaze you and make your brain shift into overdrive  trying to  find the answer.  BUT!!, there's always a but isn't there?
When I woke up for real at 7, it's gone, all gone,not a flicker, not even a shadow of a memory. Just the time stamp remains.
I find that happens more and more lately , an idea or thought or solution pops up and unless I am sitting with pen poised over paper  or fingers on keyboard it slips away.  Guess I'll just write it off to the normal aging process.
Seems like , in my case anyway, I have those brain farts more often than I did as a younger man. Or maybe the memory is just jumbled and I have forgotten the ones I had when I was younger.

OH! here's one for ya. You have experienced the  full body shiver?   Your mother told you " A rabbit just ran across your grave"  as an answer?   Well sometimes I'll be sitting here about 7/8's into a short nab  and a part of my body will JERK!  Like my left arm ( or right) sometimes a leg or the other.   A really strong  one will almost knock my propped up leg off the table edge .  The really strange part is I know they are going to happen but the thought and then the action are so millisecond  close together I  can't do anything about it.
They never happen when I'm moving or doing something, just when I'm dozing.  I have had them in bed at night when I first lay down  and those are full body events.  Scares Tiny off the bed!!!
OH!! They are not painful  at all ( like a charlie horse)  just don't know what they are.




Got a long email from my architect brother last night concerning an idea about my thought of putting up or having built a smaller house on this site .  Of course he wants to design it for me, but his idea of smaller and mine are two radically different things.  His thinking was a micro mini while mine is  more along the lines of a small single wide mobile home built on site.  He and wife are kicking around the idea of building a small  camper on a truck bed type thing for traveling. Didn't have the heart to tell him that there is already a whole world  of do it yourselvers who  have done it already.

Then along that line I got another email from a bud who suggested I just move into an RV.  Already kicked that idea around and honestly don't think that's a life style that I could ever settle into.  Lot of people do that.  Just not my cup of tea.

Dangit!!!  There is some guy out here who starts up his Pick up the same time every dammed morning.  It's got loud exhaust on it and he starts it up, revs it a few times to make sure everyone hears him then hauls ass out of here. I can hear him a ways down the main road  even.   Hope he blows it up soon with over revving the engine before the oil has time to circulate and lube the engine so we can get some more sleep ..

( my brilliant thought hasn't returned so... )

Weather for today.
41.7 °F
Clear   
Windchill:     39 °F
Humidity:     55%
Wind:     4.0 mph from the North
Wind Gust:     11.0 mph
Visibility:     10.0 miles
Dew Point:     27 °F
Pressure:     30.41 in (Rising)

NWS forecast: Partly sunny, with a high near 53. North northeast wind between 5 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Sunrise:     7:28am
Sunset:     5:59pm

Guess I'll get another cuppa and keep moving. Got plans here after a bit to go pick up a  load of food distributed ( at cost)  to hold me a while. Part of the load contains several summer sausages and associated cheeses.   Gonna need more Ritz crackers huh?  :-)

Mo Coffee.. BBL

Breakfast over, and even went and picked up my order.   The non profit group that provides this service is Mid America Foods and clicking that link will take  you to their homepage. ( find a center in your area)  They have recently reorganized  but the service is still around. As I under stand the history  it was started by a minister so saw a need to help people.
I was told about it I  guess about  15 years ago and used their services on occasion. when times were tough. As my situation improved I would on occasion purchase an order for some one else who could use  it. 
Now days since they have reorganized I use it  just to supplement my grocery buying.
And I intend to tell some other folks about it and in one case  just purchase an order for them to go pick up.

This time I just ordered a small selection  includes   a package of four summer sausage logs , ( natural, no additives) and two  bricks of mild cheddar cheese ( naturally aged)
And a box of boneless Chicken breast, pound of stew beef  chunks. 4 center cut pork chops, pound of Italian sausage, and pound of ground beef. and I'm forgetting something.

Anyway, that's what I did today..How's by you so far?

Early Afternoon .   Dang it!! I cleaned out the old office too good.  I need a full size USB cable to access another storage drive I got and there ain't a one to be found in  the house. Well, there is, but it's a jumper type, male and female , that won't work.  Grrrr...

So off to explore the Windows site hunting for  instructions on how to do something else I USED to know how to do.

4PM Cat feeding time and wine cooler for me!!
So I realized I had not checked mail or gotten my lotto ticket. So ran up and did that, and just to go somewhere. Went to Tom Thumb and  restocked my wine, picked up some Diet Lemon/lime to mix and couple other items.   When I pulled back in saw a big ole dump truck and one of Bobcat things over at my Buddy Gaspar and Rosa’s place.  So of course I had to go see what they were doing. They had a load of cement mixed stones and sand put in their drive and even filled the big ole hole in the county road that the county  wouldn’t fill in.  It’ll make their driveway and that road smoother for sure.  Video link is if you’re bored..