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Just One of My Daily Ramblings
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The Love of My Life!
| Just One of My Daily Ramblings |
| 07.02.04 (10:11 pm) [edit] |
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The temptation not to post is very strong tonight, for there is no clear reason to do so. With the limited time I've got left in the day it is not conceivable to adhere to my normal post style (which I suspect to most is simply just being verbose and boring). However, I've not missed a post since starting this adventure May 6, 2004 and I'm not prepared to break stride tonight. So far my endeavors have lured in 5925 hits. Taking away my own launchings, that take place upon post execution, comes to roughly a 100 viewers per night average, but the current daily mode hit rate is more like 150 per day. This may be just a statistically relevant number, one based on random chance of tBLOG viewing, this I do not know, but I do know that the nice round number of 6000 feels a bit exciting and by tomorrow I should be there. Now comments on the other hand lag way behind my 150 hits per day mode average. Aside from Krazydone, (she has faithfully commented at least once a day almost since I've started this venture) it is unclear who my regular readership has been - aside from family members who are likely checking on me, to see if I'm becoming an embarrassment to the family. In truth, my family members have been very kind and supportive - if you feel my effort is wasted, you can blame this all on them, because they got me started. Anyway, my conclusion is my posts must be brilliant and evoke no argument; or they are so boring that people just say to themselves, "Ignore him and he will just go away"; or, the hit numbers are another tBLOG screw-up, and no one is really reading this stuff anyway. It maters not one bit in any case If anyone is getting something out of this effort; it is keeping me occupied and that is the important thing for the moment. I truly am grateful for all of you that do visit though and ecstatic when there is evidence you keep coming back. Yesterday Margo managed to make headway on her desire to get a new kitchen and she signed the papers. It was such a simple process at the Cabinet Depot that it leaves a lot of room to wonder why that after a month Lowes was unable to even give us an estimated cost. It was simply enjoyable to be here tonight when the installer came in to verify my measurements; my suspicion has been that Magoo doubted my abilities to get this done right, maybe she just wanted a second opinion, but in the end I was vindicated in my measurement and concept accuracy. The place we are dealing with made us an offer we couldn't refuse (only $110 to install 30 linear feet of cabinets), so now I do not even have to do the install. I didn't even question the cost of demolition for the old structure though, this aspect of the project just sounds like too much fun to let it pass by. Two more weeks to D-day! ;-}) Tonight the wife and I went out and saw Shrek II. No kids to take too it, no adult excuse for seeing it, just and admission that the first Shrek movie was enjoyable and it was time to get in touch with my inner child - truthfully I don't do that often enough. Tomorrow is literally a day to raise the roof. If the weather cooperates Margo will be turned into a carpenter's assistant and the rafters go up on the mini-barn. After that task is over, I will be able to put on the roof and siding by myself, if she decides she has had all the fun she can stand. The weatherman says it will hit 90 tomorrow, with a matching humidity; in those conditions I've literally got to consume about a half-liter of water every fifteen minutes, or become grossly dehydrated. Just the task of drinking enough water throughout the day will cut into the efficiency of my efforts greatly. Last weekend, even after drinking about ten liters of water each day, my water weight loss was five pounds; sadly it all come back by the end of the week. My hope for all you Yanks is that you have a wonderful Independence Day weekend. When you see those fireworks -for at least one moment, please remember in your heart all the sacrifice that was made on both sides. I'm not sure the founders of the revolution truly knew what they were creating when the effort to break away from English rule was initiated, but in the end it revolutionized the way the three countries involved in the war would lives their lives thereafter. All three nations took stock in what developed in the aftermath and all three live their lives today with a greater personal freedom in choice than anyone could have dreamed of at the moment. Perhaps even the descendants of my English cousins and banished patriots are not lamenting today, that their ancestors won most of the battles but lost the war. |
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