tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38155991863537629462012-02-18T19:22:32.452-08:00Just an old guy trying new things.Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-2074216418282052132012-02-18T19:22:00.001-08:002012-02-18T19:22:32.495-08:00

Well, last week I found a brand new 6BTV Ham Radio Antenna on Craig’s List and the guy wanted $125 or it. These things sell new from $189 to $289 online.  So I sent off a message saying “I have $100 and can pick it up today.” A couple of days went by with no answer. Saw the same ad on Craig’s List a couple of days later so I sent off another e-mail saying “I have $100 and can pick it up today.”

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I applied for a HAM plate. Got letter back stating Application cannot be processed. Reason checked below. NOTHING checked. So, called and spent 20 minutes waiting for customer service rep. What a misnomer! Girl asked for my name: gave it. Wanted the EXACT date of the letter. I didn't remember. She states that she CANNOT help me without the EXACT date of the letter. (In a really snide voice.)

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We survived what the News folks were calling “Snowmageddon” a couple of weeks ago. We got only 6 to 9 inches at our place; depending on where you measured. It was nice since I’ve gotten to the point of liking snow much more than the rain we usually get. Dog and I had some good walks once it melted down a bit. He had a lot of problems getting around when it was fresh cause he’s so small. Then we

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It’s not that I’ve been overly busy. I just haven’t felt like posting. Haven’t even felt like logging in to Facebook and getting involved there. Haven’t even answered many e-mails lately. Can hardly work up the gumption to curse Obama anymore. Not even much interested in watching my usual tv shows. Well, except for NCIS. I could be on my deathbed and would tell the thousands of crying, soon to be

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Honestly, the only thing that stands out is SWMBO and I went to see “Captain America” last Friday. Good movie! Then to our usual shopping trip and a late lunch at the Teriyaki chicken place over Gig Harbor way. OH, Saturday was “A Taste of Belfair.” (Which I call Belfair Bites.) Wasn’t as warm as last year Wx wise, but all the Classic Cars were still cool. Saw a couple of ‘67-‘68 Mustangs.

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Really a pretty regular week up until Wednesday. Wednesday SWMBO invited our youngest Granddaughter over for the day. DAMN, small kids got a lot of energy! She liked to have ran us ragged. Walked SWMBO a couple miles through the Tahuya Forest and had plenty of energy for a walk through the Theler Wetlands. And enough to play on the play-thingie at MacDonald's! Phew! Was really great having her

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Well, lots has been going on even if not much of it is even worth writing about. Things have been mostly SSDD around here even if the weather has been getting better. At least it isn’t raining constantly! Radio “stuff” is going pretty good. Been talking to Australia & New Zealand, Canada and all over the US. Pskreporter.info even said my signal has been heard in Denmark a  couple of times. (But I

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Wow. Times flies. Just not much going on around here. Some thunder & lightning today but nothing really close. Unusual, for us, to have thunder & lightning. Nice though! Didn’t do a whole lot this past week. SSDD every day for me. Did get a new Blue Ray burner for my computer for archiving things. Blank Blue Ray discs are still a bit spendy though. $32 for 15 discs! Hoping next year they’ll come

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And I can finally start writing my posts offline again. I can get back into posting! Ain’t that cool! Too bad there is just not much going on around here! This past week has been SSDD to the max! Has been since we got back from our trip to Eastern Washington. I lead a really boring life! (Sort of…) Updated our trip pictures to my Gallery and even uploaded some video to my YouTube. Updated the Ham

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-49839450440329250262011-07-01T11:48:00.000-07:002011-07-01T11:49:12.671-07:00

SWMBO knows that I really don't like the weather here in the western part of the "great" Northwest. We were talking the other day and boiled part of it down to me feeling "hemmed in" by all these trees. Don't get me wrong, I like trees, but I grew up mostly in Southern California (LA), Greenville, Mississippi and points in-between. Places with large open skies and much better weather (to me) than

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-62120482268378272042011-06-30T15:18:00.001-07:002011-06-30T15:25:54.370-07:00

Well, I've been really busy the past week and here we go...Friday, 24 June: Beginning of the annual Ham Field Day. I took the water & chips I'd bought to the MC-ARC Field Day site just north of Shelton, Wa and dropped them off. Spent some time helping a couple of the guys set up for field day. Stringing antanna's and such. Forgot I'd left my handheld in the truck and spent almost an hour

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-72407996823908625792011-06-18T20:10:00.001-07:002011-06-18T20:10:55.276-07:00

Well, I can always say “What a week!” but that doesn’t prove anything. Let’s see. What the heck happened this week. Might as well start with today and work my way backwards. Got up at my usual time, SSS and got out the door to go to COSTCO for some things for us and the Mason County Amateur Radio Club Field Day (this coming weekend). Shopping was uneventful. Nice to be out of the house

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Will try to import my old one...

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The finance guy dropped some paperwork by that the builder needs to fill out. He says that the people he’s talking to about a loan has basically given him first approval. Cool! I’d sure like to at least get the money in the bank! Even if the weather is starting to get really crappy.Never Give Up. Never Surrender!

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-27401215524911700442007-11-24T15:26:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.010-07:00

I hated to see the end of the Battlestar Galactica series last March; and really hated that it wouldn’t be restarting until Jan 08, but now I see the commercial for the next season and it says it won’t be starting until MARCH 08. You Bastards! Waiting nine months was bad enough but now you put it off until March. You Bastards!Battlestar Galactica: Razor was most excellent! It was a gas to see the

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-1924492188351577592007-11-20T11:33:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.010-07:00

So I got off my ass and (finally!) power washed the walk in front of the house and got all that moss off it. Now maybe I won’t feel like I’m walking on ice when I walk on it. Also picked up that pile of bark that was left over from splitting wood and got it into the back of my truck. Maybe tomorrow me and Poop Dog will take it up to the property and burn it. Made spaghetti for dinner. Yummy!Was

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-9596741651761427222007-11-18T15:42:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.010-07:00

Went to Subway for our Friday ’date’. Got in line behind a Hockey Team and had quite a wait! After eating we went and renewed our Costco membership then spent a couple of hours walking the aisles. Not counting the $50 for membership we only spent $40. Cool! Saw lots of neat things though! Almost picked up one of the 500 Gig drives for $150.Saturday was a pretty normal winter day. SWMBO did her

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-37554138490908806822007-11-15T13:44:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.011-07:00

And The Rain Has Began! Supposed to rain all week. It’s the annual pre-rainy season downpour to get us ready for the rest of the winter. Great. Which means that I will be spending more time indoors. Bummer. I’m so bored now that I’m thinking of looking for a job. (And that’s pretty damned bored!!)SWMBO and I made a trip to Albertson’s so I could get the fixin’s for homemade chicken soup.

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-43681827141784019852007-11-13T15:52:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.011-07:00

Been playing with Magix Music Maker 11 all evening (and watching Dirty Jobs). You can check out my latest efforts at my Personal Site (see link at right). I think I do a pretty good job; for an old man. I really like this latest one! Every music ’loop’ I make starts out at around 30 seconds and ends up at least a full minute. I usually add some video effect and export it to .mov & .avi formats

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Had a minor wind storm come through earlier today. Only lost power a couple of times! But, I was sitting here at the computer and heard a loud bang/thump and the house kind of ’thrummed’. Went outside but didn’t see any damage to the house or anywhere near. When SWMBO came home from her visit with her friends she says "Did you know there’s a power line down across the driveway?" "Why, no." says I

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To all our Vets I send good wishes and my profound thanks for your service.HM1, Ret

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Not for this sore throat, fever & chills I’m having. For the first damned Christmas commercial I saw on tv a few minutes ago. SWMBO says they at least waited until after Halloween. I think they ought to wait until after Thanksgiving! Looks like I’ll be watching more DVD’s to get away from them damned Christmas commercials. I hate them with a passion.As usual, not much else going on. It’s been

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-84250882425749974232007-11-10T02:46:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.012-07:00

A teacher is explaining biology to her 1st grade students. "Human beings are the only animals that stutter", she says. A little girl raises her hand. "I had a kitty-cat who stuttered", she volunteered. The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked the girl to describe the incident. "Well", she began, "I was in the back yard with my kitty and the rottweiler that lives

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-71860851093341019332007-11-09T14:26:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.012-07:00

I really like that program. My newest computer renders things pretty fast. My last computer took a couple of hours to render a 1280 x 1024 image. This one takes about 10 minutes. Cool!Playing With TerragenGot a damned cold with a fuzzy scratchy throat. No, I have the fuzzy scratchy throat; not the damned cold.

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Didn’t feel too well yesterday so the entire day was pretty wasted. Scratchy, fuzzy throat and just feeling Blah. At least I waited until SWMBO’s day in the office to feel bad! Felt a lot better today. The headache I’ve been waking up with wasn’t as bad this morning. I think I’m going to try sleeping on my foam pad on the floor tonight and see how I feel in the morning. I’d sure hate to think

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-37374236127996248602007-11-06T13:05:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.012-07:00

For the job I did last Saturday. And we brought my digger back to the house. This is the first ’commercial’ job with the excavator. Cool! Only made $100 but it’s a start. For a retired Navy Corpsman that fixes computers for work I sure enjoy moving dirt. I’m really thinking about starting a company and doing trenches and brush clearing and minor site prep type work. I think one of the

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-27056132034309697992007-11-04T15:55:00.000-08:002011-06-17T19:19:43.012-07:00

But, right now, at 2333 it’s directly overhead. It’s like a smudge of light or a little almost round spot of light in the sky. Maybe a globular cluster of stars? I don’t know. I’ve been checking it out with my binoculars. Too cold to take the time to set up my telescope right now. It’s kind of cool looking though. If it’s not raining tomorrow night I’ll set up the telescope and check it out. IF I

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-49306801723483654292007-11-01T15:13:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.013-07:00

SWMBO ordered two of the ’beach’ movies that came out when we were kids. Watching the ’kids’ gyrate (dancing) and hearing that music we thought was so cool back then; it all looks and sounds really fake now. Sort of what the oldsters thought kids should be like back then. Now even the ’bad’ kids look clean enough to put in a church choir. Yeah, I know they were meant to be comedies, but, damn! I’

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-10450801663581173322007-11-01T06:13:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.013-07:00

Got an e-mail from SWMBO with a statement from our Broker stating that we’d entered a trade on oil at 93 and it was now at 94.7 (or so) and the margin call on it was $14.5k. ??? Far as I know we haven’t made a trade in weeks! Called the broker and he said not to worry about it as it was a mistake. Someone else’s trade that somehow got put on our account. Too bad because if it had been our trade

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He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was really mad. She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds, AND IT BETTER BE THERE."The next morning, Ed got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up, she looked out the window, and sure enough, there was a medium-sized gift-wrapped box in the middle of the driveway.Confused, the

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-55183061163390138312007-10-30T02:16:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.013-07:00

On their wedding night, the young bride approached her new husband and asked for $20.00 for their first lovemaking encounter. In his highly aroused state, her husband readily agreed.This scenario was repeated each time they made love, for more than 30 years, with him thinking that it was a cute way for her to afford new clothes and other incidentals that she needed.Arriving home around noon one

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-64336565520307700892007-10-28T05:50:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.013-07:00

Went to church for the first hour (of 3) as I usually do on any non-first Sunday of the month. And as usual most of the program was ruined for me by noisy kids. I’m on the verge of never going back again because of some parents un-willingness to tell/teach their kids to sit down and be quiet and their inability to take them out into the hall when the kids won’t. IMHO it’s just plain RUDE to the

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-13973396196017433832007-10-27T06:13:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.014-07:00

No, not the old car! Finally saw another Galaxy with my telescope last night. No, I can’t tell you which one it is; I’m barely able to tell what direction I’m looking! It was kinda sorta north east when I first saw it. Still blurry/hazy but it was definitely another Galaxy. Cool! Sure will be glad when we get moved into our dome and out in the dark so I can maybe see more things. In all the shows

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-37529686262489349242007-10-26T10:02:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.014-07:00

What a cool program! This week Clark (afraid of heights) went over a wall from the top of a Tall building to save Lana. Funny how extenuating circumstances can make you forget your fears... Only took a couple of hours to download this episode.Not much else going on right now. SWMBO, Robert and I went to breakfast and then bowled 3 games. Now we’re just kind of lounging around the house. Finally

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-34291771046140596042007-10-23T09:50:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.014-07:00

From my landlords place up the street to mine and spent a couple of hours with the pressure washer getting the mud off it. Dirty Job! Moved it because it is WAY too muddy for me to get anything done on his pond. Will probably be that way until June or so. And I really don’t want to have to dig the digger out! Muddy!Not too much going on around here. Weather has been really nice the past couple of

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Came through yesterday. Lost power about 1500 (or so) and didn’t get it back until about midnight. Generator worked great! We all spent time in the living room near the wood stove trying to decide who would be best for different characters from the Dragonriders Series of books.Took SWMBO to dinner at Taco Bell and made our usual Albertson’s stop. It’s been raining (dumping!!!) since we got home

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-44982267860594755442007-10-16T14:34:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:19:43.015-07:00

My landlord, the guy that bought our old house, has ’hired’ me to dig out the pond at his house so we went and got the digger today. (I always ment to dig out that pond but never got to it. Just too busy working and doing other things... It was raining way too hard to get started on it today though.Really not much going on. SWMBO bought 50 pounds of apples and we (I) spent a lot of yesterday

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Felt like laying down around 0100. Felt tired enough to go to sleep. Couldn't. Around 0400 I started getting hungry so I got up and got something to eat. By 0500 I just gave up getting any sleep. Been up all day.Went out to the property EARLY and moved some dirt around and started burning the slash pile. Probably got 1/20th burned. Only sprinkled a couple of times. Was cool away from the fire.

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Damn! I’ve been hanging around the house too much since the weather outside is mostly SUCKY! I have been out to the property and I’ve moved some dirt around and collected some rocks and generally just farted around JUST to stay out of the house awhile. Got laundry and dishes done so I’m just sitting around watching "Dirty Jobs" and playing on the computer. Maybe I’ll get my PHP Programming book

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-62067163621403582792007-10-04T02:01:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.749-07:00

FINALLY back online! We had one hell of a Hail storm yesterday that lasted for about 4 minutes. Major Hail, thunder, lightning, some wind. I tried taking a picture with SWMBO’s camera but the batteries were dead. MY camera was in the truck and there was NO WAY I was going to step out into the storm. Was kind of cool! Anywho, our internet (and phone: The only bad thing about Vonage) went out. I

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-57920646811730237412007-10-02T14:03:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.749-07:00

My computer quit working sometime last night. Damn! Can’t tell if it’s the power supply or the motherboard. (Turning it off and back on sometimes started the power supply but the motherboard didn’t seem to work and visa versa.) So, since this was the 4th time in 12 hours the computer just died (no warning or anything. It just turned itself off immediately) I went to Computer Sonic’s over by the

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-89020759777639181772007-09-27T13:59:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.749-07:00

Season 7 premiere was too cool! I really enjoyed that they didn’t conclude the Bizzarro in the first 10 minutes of the show. Unfortunately we’re still going through all the Lana Angst (though she does look good as a blond!). The only real question I had was: When Clark hit the anti-Clark up into the air, WHO was the streak of red that carried the Bizzarro up into space? Hmmm... AND why didn’t

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Cool! Guess you can tell I’m looking forward to the premiere, huh?Was just puttering around the house yesterday (dishes, laundry, etc) when I looked outside and saw NO clouds; and the temperature wasn’t too bad. Hmmm. I contemplated (for about 2 seconds) on either 1) staying inside and getting some of the thousand things I need to do DONE or, 2) heading for the property and getting a bit more

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Much going on, I mean it. This has been one of the slowest weeks I’ve ever lived! I think the weather changing to cold has had something to do with it. Been raining a bit.Matt, a friend of mine, and I went up to the property last Tuesday and cut up some wood for him.SWMBO and her brother, Robert, went to Seattle and walked around today. I met them at the Panda Palance or something and we had

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#1: I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave it back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor and gave her the money back. She became indignant and informed me she was a University of SC graduate (big clue there) and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the

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As much as I like the show, I wouldn’t recommend watching Smallville on "The CW". Too Damned Many Commercials!! Except for the season premiere I think I’ll just wait until I can download them and watch the shows on my computer. THANKS to all those people that edit the commercials out and make it available for downloading! (Usually within hours.)AND when the stations finally get Really Stupid and

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-14124060297239480092007-09-04T06:45:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.750-07:00

We got more thunder and lightning last night than we’ve had in the past 10 years! It was COOL! Tried to video it but my damned lousy camera wasn’t up to the task. Got some of the thunder but I don’t see any of the lightning flashes.My brother-in-law, Robert, showed up sometime EARLY this morning. He’s going to be staying with us for awhile.Not much else going on. It hasn’t been raining but is

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-73807442514351243142007-09-01T13:53:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.750-07:00

Pretty normal Saturday for me. Got up early. Went out to the property after SWMBO left for the Genealogy Library. Cut some wood. Loaded it into the truck. Brought it home when I was ready to leave. NICE day! Warm enough for me to take all my clothes off and move some dirt and lay out for awhile. Trying to even out my strange tan! Only top parts of me get tanned ’cause I spend all my time on the

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And I actually won a couple of games. Actually, using the 12lb ball, I had the two best scores since we re-started bowling. Was really hungry by the 3rd game and didn’t do so well for that one. Breakfast at the Family Pancake House was pretty good!Stopped and bought some bedding for the travel trailer we have out back so Robert (SWMBO’s Brother, who’s going to stay with us for awhile) won’t have

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-22418677462641163922007-08-29T14:28:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.751-07:00

After the sun goes down, of course! I mean it is DARK our there! But when that full moon pops up in a clear sky it lights up the Alder trunks like there’s a street lamp or something at the street. You can see a go-zillion stars! I need a bigger telescope. The one from Mt. Palomar will do! ;-) Poop Dog ain’t too sure about being out there after dark at all. He didn’t waste no time getting into the

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About time I spent some time catching this up! Let’s see....Monday I spent all day splitting wood. Got about 99% of it done and I was MUCH worse for the wear Monday night. Sore as hell! I hurt in places I’ve forgotten I have!Tuesday I got up early and finished off my pile of wood, then towed the splitter across the street to Pat’s house (she’s our 85 year old neighbor that heats only with

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-72508381552938228832007-08-20T15:04:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.751-07:00

Spent the day splitting wood with the log splitter I borrowed from Virgil. I am so sore I can hardly walk!!!! Got about 99% of it done though. Cool! At least we’ll have heat this winter. Â   

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Last Friday was our usual date; but we didn’t really go on a date. Talked to the finance folks (couple of hours there) and ate at the food court at the Silverdale Mall. Finance folks say it could be up to 8 weeks before we’ll know if we got financing or not. DAMN! I’m not sure we’re going to be able to get started this year. If we don’t get the dome up before the rainy season it ain’t going to

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-82246666160677065612007-08-15T13:14:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.752-07:00

Silver little VW car pulled right out in front of me on the highway to Belfair. Stupid person at the wheel was busy talking on the phone and didn’t even look before pulling out in front of me! I caught up with her at the stoplight in Belfair and yelled at her that I almost rammed her ass back down the road. She just gave me this "What are you yelling at me for?" look. Man, I came so close to rear

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Yet! As far as I know. But I did get out to the property and (wait for it) Cut Up Some Wood to bring home and (More?) Moved Some Dirt. Nice day out there! Mostly sunny and fairly warm. My kind of weather! 

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Just had a meeting with the contractors , Jeff & Ken. Phew! After going through almost anything you could think of for building a dome the total comes out to over $371k. Phew! I knew when we first started that $150k wasn’t going to be enough; but, damn! But when you stop and look at it, with the prices nowadays it’s really not that expensive. New stick homes (in our sizes) start at $250k around

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-84227806617349237072007-08-11T04:58:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.752-07:00

SWMBO and I went on our usual Friday date last night. Went to Red Lobster for dinner then to see "The Bourne Ultimatum". Cool movie! Action from beginning to end. I knew at the end that Bourne was going to end up in the water with bullet holes in his back before they showed it. The only "complaint" I had with the movie was how incredibly fast, accurate and 'all knowing' the computers they used

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-49426195090223633332007-08-08T12:48:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.753-07:00

Still going out to the property most everyday and either cutting up wood and bringing it home or moving dirt. Trying to make where I want the outbuilding bigger. Rained the other day so I stayed home and re-stacked the wood in our 'wood shed'. Have room now for the 'new' wood. Now to rent a log splitter...Want to go see the latest Bourne movie. Maybe Friday night. Red Lobster sounds good too!Â

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And we're moving back to warm (GOOD) weather! I've still been going out to the property most every day and cutting a load of firewood and bringing it back here. About got enough to justify renting a log splitter.SWMBO took me to the mall in Silverdale today to pick up her Harry Potter book. We tried out some of the Select Comfort beds also as we're planning to switch beds when we move in to the

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But I've been too busy to say that. Sort of!Missed our regular Friday night date last Friday 'cause SWMBO drove down to Sisters, Oregon for their annual Quilt Show. She was gone until late Saturday night so it was just Poop Dog and me hanging around the house.I went out to the property friday and saturday and cut up some wood. Having that digger to hold trees at waist level sure makes it easier

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'Cause I haven't posted in awhile. In reality; not much. Been enjoying the 90 degree plus weather by going out to the property (taking all my clothes off) and moving dirt around. Pulling dead trees out of the woods. Putting in guardrails and such. Generally just trying to be productive.We had a 3 hour meeting with a general contractor this morning. Went well; I think. We're really trying to get

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-40100163807447738632007-07-05T09:30:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:12.753-07:00

Me? I spent a LOT of time out at the property moving things around or cutting wood and bringing it home. It's all stacked outside waiting for me to split and stack it. I just love this hot weather! Up at the property wearing nothing but flip-flops!Took Kat to see "Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer" last night. Wasn't hardly anyone in the theater. Didn't like this one as much as the first

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When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed.  But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the truck, the car, playing golf - always something more important to me. Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a

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Damn! Mostly been out at the property moving dirt around with my digger. Kind of fun and relaxing in it's own way. The weather's been pretty good lately.Had Bob (The Dirt Guy) and his dozer out for the 5 hours he owed me. Damn, can that man move dirt! He did a lot that would have taken me forever with the digger. Dome hole, the clearing and the road all look pretty good now. (I'll take

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Went out to the property and pushed some more dirt around and started pulling out the Scotsbroom or whatever it is. Moving downed trees in the clearing. Generally just having a good time.Took SWMBO to see the Pirates 3 movie. Was okay. Thought it was about an hour too long though. Still being out with my favorite girl has it's good points too!

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-28310418868783906752007-06-22T14:01:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:22.227-07:00

With My Lovely Young Bride! Today we went out for breakfast at the Family Pancake House in Port Orchard then bowled 3 games at Hi-Joy Bowl. She whipped my ass! Good exercise though. Afterwards we did our usual shopping stop at Albertson's.Nice Day!

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Well, spent the last couple of days at the property pushing dirt aroundwith my Digger. Nice and hot and sunny! My knees are so sunburned!Moving dirt has it's own mellow; once you get into a rhythm your mindcan pretty much go where you want it to.Been on the phone or internet most of the morning tracking down someoneto install the floor joists & subflooring, windows & doors and maybeframe in the

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What a great day out at the property! Spent about 5 hours moving dirt around and getting things done. Cool!Got home kind of late so I took SWMBO out to all you can eat pizza at Fodgothers Pizza. Was okay. Best part was being out with her!

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Pretty much been out at the property when I could be moving dirt or burn pile or whatever. I am really enjoying that digger I bought! It's pretty easy to forget the time when I'm out there accomplishing something. Especially with the weather being as nice as it has been. We even had a couple of days where it got over 70 degrees!Was feeling pretty poorly yesterday. Had half the symptoms of West

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-84269174899167915242007-06-06T12:40:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:22.228-07:00

After 15 yards (20 tons?) of gravel and me getting out there on my digger and spreading it around. I think it's done. Will call the inspectors tomorrow and see if I can't meet them out there for the inspection so I can fix anything I can before they leave. Just want to get it out of the way!

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And got it out to the property. Only cost $130 to get Bethel Towing to haul it out there. Then I spent most of the day finding out what it will do and how well it travels over our hill. Works Great! And it was a NICE day out there! 

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Yep, got it all fixed up and have had it sitting our front; was planning to take it back out to the property. Can’t think of too many jobs to do with it though. Nothing I can’t do with a mini-excavator. So, I put an ad up on craig’s List and a couple of days later a guy (Mike) calls me from Hillsborough, Oregon: He wants to come up and see it. So he drives up and spends about half an hour

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-75433220091505846892007-05-17T13:59:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:22.228-07:00

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!Martha moved off to D.C. Lana blown up in a car explosion. Chloe dead after saving (stabbed and bleeding to death) Lois' life with a tear. Lex under arrest for Lana's murder. Lionel under a pipe in a flooding room. Clark knocked to hell-and-gone by a Bizarro Clark. DAMN!You know, they can kill off anyone they want to (I'm kind of tired of the

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So, I stopped by Alpha & Omega Rentals outside Belfair, Wa last week and arranged for an excavator to be delivered out to the property at 0800 Monday morning. Monday morning comes around and I get up at 0600 and out of the house by 0700. Get out to the property about 0745 and wait until 0900 for it to show up. I drove a couple of miles down the road (towards town) until I could get a signal on

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-18072928552998190092007-04-30T12:36:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:22.229-07:00

And we can pick it up tomorrow! Too Cool! Now we just need to get all the numbers together for the financing! Too cool! I am really hoping we can start building by June 1st...Rented an excavator and spent the day up at the property moving dirt back into that trench we dug for the water/power and doing some other things that you need an excavator to do. Kinda fun. Kinda Scary. Dug a new trench

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Yesterday I drove over to Union, WA and spent a good hour talking to Rob at Dogwood Construction. He'd be glad to take on our dome project but I have to get him MUCH better plans and a lot more information. Really kind of a productive meeting. The drive over and back was beautiful! Right along the water front from Belfair to Union. Took some good pictures (check out our Webshots site). Got back

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For unethical and unfair marketing practices. For not giving the public a way to leave them a message complaining about the crappiness of their products and (most importantly) for not giving us a way to 'opt out' of their damned spam-mail. Anyone Agree?Things been going well. Passed the EcoEngineer report on where our dome is going to physically sit. Been working for Bob (The Dirt Guy) the past

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Cool Cool! We don't get much thunder and lightning around here. Every couple of years or so we have some thunder; not often. Something about being too close to the coast and the atmosphere not having enough time to pick up/generate enough static electricity or something like that. Bummer! I like storms.

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Got up yesterday and took my 'crowd cylinder' (from atop the boom on the backhoe) to Pape (pronounced Pa Pay) over in Fife. Asked them if it would be okay for me to watch them replace the seals. Man, am I ever glad I took it over to them to fix!!! I'd have never gotten it done at home. Alone. We had to use a 5-ton crane and a lot of muscle to get the ram out of the cylinder! I got right in there

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I been busy! We are getting really close to getting our building permit issued and I am already busy running around trying to get the dome stuff finalized. Met our Eco-Engineer out at the property and he checked out the site where we want to actually set the house. Called bunches of people about different dome things. Radiator for the dozer won't be back until next Monday night. Been fixing "

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Cause I really could use one. Closest I can find on is in Witchitaw or Michigan and they want $1300 PLUS shipping for it. Damn! Hope the radiator guy can recore it monday. Gotta be cheaper.Damn, looks like we've had our summer! Yesterday was again the nicest day. Took Kathy to breakfast at the Family Pancake House in Port Orchard. Worked around the house until about 1800. Went out for a light

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It had to get up around 65 or so. Over 60 anyway. Never thought I'd think that a temperature over 60 would be nice. Poop Dog and I went out to the property to look for a part that fell off my dozer sometime but didn't find it. Was really nice walking around the property though. Sunny. Warm. If I had had on my sandals that's all I would have had on!Not much else going on. MY computer is down right

Doc Kinghttps://profiles.google.com/112840028309096500304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815599186353762946.post-51252927796355080262007-04-04T15:21:00.000-07:002011-06-17T19:20:22.230-07:00

Got up early and took the radiator down to the radiator fixit place and dropped it off. The guy said he needed it for the day to pressure test it to see where it's leaking. He didn't call before the end of the day so I figure he either didn't get to it OR it doesn't leak at all and he doesn't know how to tell me I'm a dork. You choose.So, since SWMBO went into work today I did laundry and dishes

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Last Sunday Bob (the Dirt Guy) and I spent almost all day getting his trailer unstuck out at a job he's doing, then getting out to the property and loading my dozer on the trailer; then getting it unloaded at my house! Got it done though! What a trip!Monday I spent about 6 hours just washing the dozer with my power washer. I was plenty greasy and muddy by the time I finished for the day! Was so

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Well, sorta. I did get out to the property; I just didn't go out to move any dirt. Took Poop Dog and all we did was walk around. Started a fire to keep a bit warm. Kathy showed up around 1500 and we walked around again. Poop Dog fell in a mud puddle and got mostly muddy. Was kind of nice out there. Especially with Kathy along!We had our normal Friday night date last night. Went to El Sombrero's.

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Cool!

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Got out to the property about 1100. Brian (our son) met me there and we spent a good hour trying to get the ends of the pipe over that connector thingie. ALMOST got it. I'm not sure we had the pipe warm enough before I ran out of propane. Damn! So we spent a couple of hours re-digging part of the trench so I could run the cable and phone lines and bury them. Hooked my backhoe to the dozer for

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Which means I went out to the property and worked on the water line today. Didn't get much accomplished because I really could have used a helper. It's hard to pull the ends of pipes onto the connector by yourself! So I came on home and started doing stuff around here.....Chief Tyril: There must be some way out of hereColonal Tigh: said the joker to the thiefAnders: there's too much

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Got up early. S-S-S. Well, didn't -S cause it's monday. Did get out to the property by 0930. I made a 'thing' with my space heater to attach to the water line and run heated air through it. Had to take the generator. It worked great though! Heated the one end so much it melted but the whole pipe got warm enough for me to lay it like it was supposed to be laid. I did mess up a bit though; I

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Went to bed about 0100 this AM but just could NOT get to sleep. Finally at 0430 I just went ahead and got up. Was watching tv and I remember seeing the time as 0620 and the next thing I know its 1000. Wha? Then I was sitting and eating breakfast when our landlord knocked on the door and said the water was going to be out for an hour or so. So I didn't get to take my shower until after 1300.Aside

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the electrical inspection. Cool! The Inspector told me to make damn sure that there are no sharp edged rocks against the wire because over time the wire will be cut. Wants me to walk down the trench and pull about 6 inches of clean dirt (clean dirt?) over the top of the wire before backfilling. I can do that. I actually do (most times) listen to the experts.Got out at the property about 0900 and

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Got up at 0600 and was out of the house shortly after 0700. Stopped by the rental place and rented a trencher. I've never operated one before and I probably never will again! Man, that thing is a trenching fool but harder than hell to turn. After putting in about 50 feet of trench I was drenched with sweat. But it worked; now the water goes around the area where we wanted to work today.Finished

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Got up around 0730. Got on the phone at 0830. Called the company that is going to do our Special Inspections to get their registration number (they don't have one). But they did e-mail me a copy of their certificate to operate. Called PUD3 (Dianne) to find out if they have to inspect the trench and wire/pipe Bob and I are going to put in Thursday. They don't. However, Labor and Industries does!

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That I took Poop Dog out to the property to run around a couple of hours. You should have seen him! When I said the "G" word (GO) he damned near jumped out of his skin trying to get me to the door and on the way. He knows what IÂ mean when I say "Want to go to the property?" even if he is an inbred shiteatin' mono-testicled mutt!Was nice out there. Didn't rain on us at all and it almost felt

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Didn't start out that way. Kind of cloudy. But by the time I got to the property the sun was shining and it almost felt warm. Nice!Damned near killed myself at the property. I need to dig a trench down this one path that's really kind of steep for my dozer with that heavy-asses backhoe on it. So, I'm going down backwards and the dozer is really tipping backwards and I'm like riding the brake,

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Bright and early today! She had to be at the park and ride at 0555 so we got up at 0400 so she could get ready. Her mom is sick so Kat's going back to help out for a couple of weeks. Me and Poop Dog miss her. Poop Dog's hauled balls from the yard out back to the front door a couple of times thinking Kathy's come home.Went out to the property and pushed dirt around for a couple of hours. Quit when

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A guy that used to work for me WAY back when I ran sick bay on the Turner Joy just sent me an e-mail. Joe Hudock, who I remember as a young Hospitalman (HN). He didn't say much but I answered his message so we'll see...Not much happening on the homefront. Raining too much to get out to the property and push dirt around. Me and Poop Dog did get out there for awhile yesterday to start the dozer

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And I'm starting to get pretty good at it! Wanted to move it to it's own database.Bob Child and I have the road ready for gravel. Just as soon as I dig the trenches for power & water, get those installed and refill the trenches. THEN I'll be able to put the gravel on and finish the road! Cool!

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It’s all pretty normal…Except I didn’t get to go out and push an mud today. Raining too much. SWMBO and I did go and talk to Mike Boyle at North Bay Mortgage about getting financing for our project. He seems pretty sure that we’ll get the $260k this is going to require. (But that’s his job, ain’t it?)Called Bob the Dome Guy and talked about getting final numbers for building his part.Got a

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