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Everytime you talk on the phone it's a brand new thing! Laughing w/my SIL. I dropped off some flowers to Mom & Dad at the assisted Living place yesterday. They were napping so i left it on the table with a card and a couple chocolates. Mom called me 3x's yesterday (after my SIL told them it was from me) Every time Mom was excited about the flowers all over again!

My frame has usually been very willowy by nature. My arms have usually been so small that they can barely keep up small sized arm warmers. Now, I am not saying I am stacked with muscles by any means, but I picked up something and noticed that my biceps are really getting defined and larger. The strange thing is that I haven't really done much bicep work that isolates these muscles. It's more like core focused stuff, and we do something different every single day. I have not done any bicep curls or any of the crap I used to fritter around the gym doing. I swear I spent time in gyms, but I was going nowhere in my past lifting routine. My diet is more strict than I have ever done. Maybe that is contributing to the definition. Regardless, I can't wait for schralp season.

If you're a South park fan

Today I went to the Apple Store. I walked up to an associate and actually addressed him via verbal communication in English instead of sending him a text. I paid in cash instead of using Apple Pay. I asked for a paper receipt instead of getting it emailed. I tell you, Mr. Genius Bar Boy was lucky I didn't break out my flip phone.

Yesterday, I was at PetSmart buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Angel the Wonder Dog. I was in the checkout line when the woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So, since I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her, 'No, I don't have a dog. I am starting the Purina Diet again.' I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet, and that the way it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets. Then you simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well, and I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story. Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her, 'No, I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's ass and a car hit us both.' I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard. PetSmart won't let me shop there anymore.

I went up to Harrisburg to rehearse for the concert this weekend out at Shippensburg, and I just got home. Chris and I are going to have a lot of fun Sunday. We've performed these pieces before (the William Grant Still spirituals), but tonight was one of those sessions where you work the details. While these accompaniment figures are based on Gospel piano style, Chris is asking me to play one of these tunes more "strait" and with no swing at all. It really is a good idea, it sounded great when we did it. We're doing something a little different in "Listen To Da Lamb", so I have some work to do this week to get the changes into my hands. When you prepare something for performance, you don't practice until you get it right, you practice until you can't get it wrong. so I'm pretty stoked, and once I stop bouncing off the walls, its time to get to work

This right here is why engineers should never be left unsupervised...

I take this option. I can afford to buy the cookies. I can't afford to eat them, but I figure the service men and women can.

pressing one for English offends me

"Oh Terence - what color is the wind?" "I don't know - why don't you check?" (It's been a long time since I watched that show - initially I thought it was Ike)

I said no once. ONCE!

yell at your kids to change the channel

Good thing I had candy The head maintenance guy got an emergency call from his wife..she reacted to meds she was given for pneumonia...so I had to cover the install of the newer new TV (the first replacement tv a 75 incher...was too small) today they delivered a 85 incher and the amplifier and fancy do everything remote...they were arriving between 11 and 1....the came at 11....and left about 1... in the mean time other stuff going on...and Robyn came with Shelby to sniff out bedbugs...there were none...but I walk the building with her. I opted for a Gyro and a salad for dinner....

Nice lemonade!

Tonight at work they did a valentine dinner...I called it Smurf & Turf

Got a paper route and all the tossing seems to be helping. @Kzoo really seems to like getting the paper.

Should I get something for Mrs. Silly?

I had more cash yesterday than I have today. Those girl scouts are relentless. They came here with their sign up sheets and doe eyes. I tried to avoid eye contact at first. That did not work. I tried to pretend I had a phone call to make. That failed. I tried to tell them that I didn't want to eat them. They got me with "You can buy boxes and send them to the troops."

That is incredibly resourceful!

@Dirtyhip is doing clean and jerks. You on the other hand were doing jerk and cleans.

Elk hound! Imagine that! Spoken like a typical Canuckistani. I am surprised you did not toss your hat into the ring for the Labrador or the Newfoundland or St. Johns Water Dog or the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, not to mention the Canadian Eskimo Dog (which you did not choose because you did not want to be seen as a racist)

Unfortunately the hall of shame has no credibility any more.

Let's give it a thousand likes.

I'm not afraid of xylophones either, Jim! good for you! ...and good thing Mr Churchill's not around to see that!

If they get far enough north, they're in trouble.

I can give you an arbitrary rating of 9.8 the guys at Parody Metric staged a walkout earlier when reports surfaced that the Parody Ratings they published were just made up numbers they took it pretty hard. Its a very dedicated bunch over there, tirelessly rating their little fingers down to the bone for you guys

You suck. You dangle the "parody written all over it" carrot and when I trot my happy ass off around the parody ring, drawing forth the sinewy armed ire of @Dirtyhip, you give me a score like that?! I may just be done being your whipping boy sir!* * we both know that is a bald face lie, but hey I have act a bit outraged, no?

I'm usually just fiddling around but I practice till I get things right. Turn on the recorder and surely something will go wrong! If I play with a recording, things go so much smoother so I can get things right just about every time. Turning off any outside help is what makes it hard for me. Even if my brother sings, it is so much easier as it helps to keep time for me, area where I suck! But even with my brother singing, there are times when I say, that was good but let's do it again, we almost had it right. He says no, let's try another. I'd rather practice till we get a song down right but he sucks. So just about everything we record is first take. I'm sure if he was willing to practice, it would sound much better. Like this song, this was the first time we ever tried this song together. First and only time. Not bad but I am not real familiar with this song so if we practiced, it might end up sounding pretty good.

We have hot and cold "aquamilk" on tap at our house. Hell, I even shower in the stuff.

I have decided that almond milk is bullshit.

You are part mexican and part chinaman! I will call you Juan Hung Lo

don't worry about your organ shortage. Electronics are the first system to shit out on a car, so those things will be self crashing cars before you even have them paid for

It damn sure is! But then again, most days are hump days for me.

And here I thought this was a post about regretting asking about universal remotes and setting me off.

For good reason, they take some abuse too, but they do have their limits as one got thrown across the room to many times and after a couple years ended up with a cracked screen. I started out with an 880 It was a good remote, easy to use, but was prone to button issues after a lot of use. Next I had an 1100 which was incredibly easy to use and I loved it, but do to it's shape, it got dropped a lot and eventually ended up with a cracked screen. That thing saw a lot of freaking abuse. Now I have a Harmony Ultimate One, and it is far more advanced and complicated than others, but easy to use. You can set it up so buttons do different things for long and short press if you want, that is why it is complicated as I got way to carried away sitting it up. So I forget how I did it sometimes or I forgot to set a long press on an activity, but that is all my doing, basic operation is a breeze, and it has a cool "HELP" option if things don't turn on correctly (usually because you didn't have the remote pointed at things with picky IR sensors). Programming has always been a breeze because it's all done via computer through a USB cable. Logitech's software is simple and the newest is even more so. You used to have to hunt for images and mess around with making them just right to fit for favorite channels, now they are just there for the most part (I had to make two for some strange reason on a common channel, can't remember what channels now)

I was starving...I was thinking of eating the steering wheel on my way home....

I recall when I was in scouts and we went winter camping you brought whatever you had and if you were cold, oh well it's winter

My mother in laws obsession is people's birthday and sending birthday cards. On my birthday we bailed out the mother in law from assisted living and went out for dinner and 15 minutes after we dropped her off at the home she called me to wish me happy birthday. I think that she called me 3 more times. My son received 4 or 5 birthday cards with 20 dollars in each one.

Cooking or eating?

You are one, wild and crazy guy!

I would think a warming area would be a disaster for little snowflakes.

I guess they did this because sales had become flaccid.

20 flat miles at 13.5 mph avg. Almost 50°F but windy.

I don't hear a tune. There's just some silly words that I don't recognize.

Nice work. Today, I rode about ten miles (all errands) I did gym stuff this morning, and so far I have walked 7123 steps. I should hit 8600 steps by tonight.

We call that 2Far. Ha, I got a million of them.

looks like you're going to be the poor bastard that's going to be getting up and changing channels then

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