Vincent The Dragon

i came home early. The soaking rain did not bother me, it's a gimme when camping any way.
Fishing was good..i caught several trellis rigs, a large led weight, a fishing lure, half of a really old style coke can...

The lakes overfill valve is STILL broken so the lake levels are a shadow of what they should be.

The place was full of people, mostly in 2 large groups. I don't mind but the sounds of partying when your alone poking at the fire at night only make you sadder.

I did have some fun with the 2 guys that camped next to me. They were bow hunters but were...mmm...lets put it this way, they finally got a fire started after but putting logs into their charcoal grill...

It was nice to get outside and watch the full moon rise to a clear sky, only interupted by the red sparks dancing from my camp fire...but...Camping is better when it's not just you and the dog.

packing up to go fishing for the weekend at the lake again.

The garage now has a computer...old AMD 900 Mhz, running Xubuntu. Its good enough to access the mp3s on the server so i have music while i am tooling around out there; but what it does rather well and speedy is run programs that live on my main workstation via SSH -x .
So, i can run Open Office, Firefox and my IM client a bazzillion times faster remotely than that old thing will do locally and the AMD will not melt down when the temp in the garage is 85.

Finishing up my first birdhouse. I'd like to sell them. Actually, i think it is neat to build them in replica of your house. This first one is a mini-my Lair. I plan on making both hanging types and bigger ones that go on poles....now to find customers...

well...i noticed something that went bonkers on the blog update...the galleries are not working that were there before the update (after ones are working)
i dont really know what happened, i have all the images backed up but...

either i edit a bunch of entries in the SQL or i reupload the pics

It is likely that i will just re-upload. The blogs don't contain that many pics other than the House project; and that still needs re-done so....

The saw is actually a good (one of the VERY few) friend of mines.
He doesn't have the space for it.
Lucky me ^_^

It's like 15 years old but has a new motor and is in great shape.
The fence is a mostly universal design so it fits more or less.
Everything works well except there is no way to make the distance gauge line up, thats a minor issue that i can repair some other day.

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Bio pages are now done...less one page and some pics

first time i sat in the chair in a very long while without a laptop.
Generally i take the opportunity to write things.
...
No wall of text this time; i have nothing new to add at the moment.

Wiring the garage for phone...and might as well run a few more wires while i am at it.

This took all day to dig and pipe the trench -_-
Another 2 to do the wiring runs and get it all patched in and cleaned up.
I took the opportunity to pull the wires from the phone company drops off the side of the house and encapsulate them into the pipe as well. I like clean wiring...

So, now the garage has a phone, it will be an un-powered phone for when the power goes out. If we have ice storms again, the garage has a wood burner in it. Now it also has hard wired Internet so i can access my music and lookup things (like woodworking projects) or have an IM client running while i am in the garage fiddling.

Also added Coax for the T.V. just in case.

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the site is being upgraded so things will be a bit off.

comments and postings are still enabled and welcomed; only the look of the site has changed, for now.

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Went to see it with Kaz for his B'day present.
It's awesome

Hopefully Kaz can see that Peter Jackson is amazing at movie s and will watch Lord Of The Rings, which he is opposed to for no good reason.

Friendship is co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more people. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities. They will also engage in mutually helping behaviour, such as exchange of advice and the sharing of hardship. A friend is someone who may often demonstrate reciprocating and reflective behaviours. Yet for many, friendship is nothing more than the trust that someone or something will not harm them.

Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis:

* the tendency to desire what is best for the other,
* sympathy and empathy,
* honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart,
* mutual understanding.

In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association can be thought of as spanning across the same continuum. The study of friendship is included in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and zoology. Various theories of friendship have been proposed, among which are social psychology, social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles.

So, i look at this and try to decide if my friends actually have a friendship with me. For the most part the answer is no...most of them do not. They are friends, but i don't have a friendship with them. Words like; "mutual", "loyalty", "co-operative", and others seem to denote friendship is a 2 way street. Friends that take this from me, but don't return it do not fit the criteria of 'Friendship'. Most of you care for me when i come to you FOR you but you don't come to me FOR me. Many of you that do come to me, do so FOR them. Take an interest in me because you want to, not because you want me to reinforce you or dont call me friend; call me acquaintance instead because that's all you are.

i dont know...did work on the house.
got out of the house today and worked out at the Y with my workout partner for the first time in a while; listened to him talk about..um...him.
went out to eat
i guess thats good

finally heard from Foxxy
i guess thats good

did some maint. work on my truck

helped Fox pack a few things for his campout with his new guy

that's it

A fisher man i am not.

I caught a few here and there.

I sun burned, i generally do so the first time parts of me that have not seen the sun in a bit get to do so. From now on, that area will tan...until winter.

i met a kitty cat, poor thing. She was pretty wild but i have a way with felines. I taught her some manners when asking for food and she tamed up a bit. When i petted her, i could see a light go off in her little head. Either she remembered getting pets before she was dropped of in the wilderness, or these were the first she had ever had and they felt good.

The stars were pretty, the bugs were bad.

...enlightenment did not find me...