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Author: aron

  • More Progress

    So I got up and got to it, needed to run the last of the front wires. Took a bit of time to get the wire ready to pull but I did it. But I got into the attic and over the HVAC unit and felt the panic start to set in, I had to pull off the mask and try to get it under control, got the new wire, and grabbed it but I had ties of the south east cable to the existing and as I pulled it, it broke, ugh. so I managed to make it to the blue wire and pulled it finally came free and I managed to get both to the destination. Got out of there and there are 7 of 12 finished, two more runs that are on the backside, and the garage. I’m dreading the backside ones, just miserable getting back there.

    I got the southeast corner camera mounted and the DVR up and where it needs to be, the picture is pretty good. Put camera three in and nothing. It’s painful to terminate the ends and it’s been so long since I’ve done it I think I’m not doing them well. I’ll deal with it tomorrow, no need to kill myself with it.

    Sandy and I went to the grocery store today, she’s hard to shop with because it’s a lot of walking around and looking, not just getting and going. I felt like I’m in a race and she’s just lollygagging. Something seems off with her but I’m not sure what. She took a bath and was in bed at 7:40 pm, I note that because that’s a new record and early even by my standards.

  • Beautiful Day

    Slept in today, well I guess no more than usual. But I got up and made it to Harbor Freight and got a new cable puller, I need two for the camera project. Got another two runs finished. I wasn’t aware how much stuff we have above the garage in the attic, I had to dig a hole to get to the back to pull the cable. I’m down to 3 2 wire runs but they’re in the east of the house so a bitch to get to. Slowly but surely I’ll get it done.

    Made some biscuits and turned in a paper, also got the mason jars and the food saver attachment to vacuum seal the jars. It works great and I’m actively trying to figure out what else we can vacuum seal in the jars. Went for a walk to the gas station to get a red bull and completed my steps. All days except my birthday I’ve made my steps. I rock!

  • Friday, I’m In Love

    Well maybe not in love but I’m super happy that it’s Friday. I got a start in pulling the CAT-5 cable for the new POE security cameras. Got 3 of 11 pulled which is good but they were the easiest to do. Sandy said she’d give me a hand tomorrow so hopefully, we’ll get the line finished up tomorrow. It’ll still be a bit before it’s all connected but once the wires are run the hard part is done.

    Got a chance to catch up with General today too and that’s always fun. Sandy is going out to see a band play but I don’t feel like going out, I have studying to do. One day I won’t have to study anymore and I’ll be happy and have a smile on my face all day long.

  • Steps Done by Noon

    Just got off the treadmill after 2.5 miles, that felt good! A little hot but it’s only 42 degrees outside so I just stepped into the garage and got some paperwork done and now I’m nicely cooled down. So I’m 50, I’ve got more posts to backfill, for some reason my Ipad WordPress app won’t publish properly. Not sure what that’s about but nothing to lose sleep over.

    Haven’t been feeling up to par the last couple of days, probably just the travel and age, just been super tired. Started back up on my medications, we’ll see if that does anything.

  • Moms Birthday!!!

    Mom turns 80 today, I’d say wow that’s old but I’m turning 50 in 4 days and I thought that was old 30 years ago. So if God sees fit to let me live that long I imagine I’ll still feel like a teenager stuck in an adult’s body. We’re having lunch at Paco’s tonight and then from there Sandy and I are driving to Colorado. That should put us at the house around 8 am tomorrow. Shouldn’t be too bad, nothing like the 21-hour haul from Erie which was the last long haul I was on.

  • Such a Beautiful Day to be Grumpy

    I guess I woke up grumpy. Actually, it came to be when I sat down at my desk I heard the truck, couldn’t tell from the camera if it was recycle or trash as they both come today, went to the bedroom to look out those windows and they were dusty and with the sunlight shining on them I couldn’t see a damn thing, so now I’m pissed, camera’s can’t see, windows don’t work and something wasn’t getting picked up because they were here and it wasn’t out. Sandy walks in and asks ‘what you looking at?’ innocently enough and I bit her head off because the trucks were here, the windows weren’t working, the camera couldn’t see and something wasn’t getting picked up. It was completely my fault in how I reacted to an innocent question. I so need to fix that character flaw, not be so quick to anger. I’m looking for an audiobook that may fill the 11-hour drive to CO with some knowledge.

    It was Shelly’s last day here too, that’s kind of sad because she’s such a character. She will be missed but hopefully fewer distractions so I can study, I say this as we make ever-expanding plans to head to CO.

  • MLK Day

    It’s Monday and it happens to be MLK day too, I appreciate the man and the idea, not sure how I can be of assistance to the dream but I’m here if called upon.

    Been trying to study and I made it through one of the more trying chapters I needed to and now it’s on to the next troublesome one, only 3 or four more to go but I need to step it up. I thought there was a light at the end of the tunnel but I’m not sure it’s not a train. Shelly, Sandy, and I walked over to Brookside Cafe for lunch, they had steak fingers for a special and they were awfully tasty. Shelly had the burger and Sandy the pot roast.

    I got irked again with NextDoor this time, I can’t take how many idiots there are in this world, even in my neck of the woods. Oh well, I need to learn to control my angst. One day I hope to be far away from all the idiots and in nature. One day hopefully. We’ll talk more about that shortly.

  • Sunday, but not bad

    So the girls took off for Turner Falls and I did my best to study, that didn’t work out as well as I would have liked it to but still moving forward. It was a pretty but chilly day. Tomorrow is MLK day so it’s not a real Monday in the aspect that a lot of our clients are off so I don’t have any meetings except internal. When the girls got back we had meatloaf with green beans and mashed potatoes. The potatoes were premade garlic mashed and Shelly doesn’t like garlic, poor girl…

    So yesterday I had said that dad never got hold of me. As I’m walking into the kitchen today I look down and see this something or other, I reach down to pick it up and it’s a paper towel that dad had formed into a monkey face, I’m guessing the cats found it and were playing with it, or were they? Happy birthday weekend dad! Thanks for saying hi!

  • Dad’s Birthday

    Today is my dad’s birthday and today he would have been 81. So it’s almost been 10 years since he passed. In his case, he truly was not suffering anymore but it’s hard for me to think about what the last months must have been like. He was damned and determined not to have to go to dialysis like my uncle did. I think in the end it was renal failure that was the ultimate cause of death. One of the regrets I have by not having him here is the health narritive that he could have provided, insights as to what I have in store for the future heathwise. I try to make comparisons but I didn’t know much of dad when he was 50. I’m sure I sent him a card and he got a call, I’d have been in the process of failing out of my first try at college at Clarion but about all I remember of him from the time was a care package that included a carton of Marlboro 100’s.

    I hope that in some way he’s been able to see the good highlights to what I’ve done since he left. Stopping drinking and smoking, buying the truck and the RV, going back to school and most recently paying off the house. We were kind of annoyed at each other while he was here, him at me for not living up to my potential and me at him for not being much of a father. I always faulted him for being in such poor health, he hurt and couldn’t move and I didn’t understand it. I mean I hurt but I still move. I think it was the depression that got to him mostly, wether that was his own doing or chemical imbalance we’ll never know and is pointless to think about.

    Today, I’ll just try to remember good times. My earliest clear memories are in the mountains of Colorado when we lived in Denver, I remember listening to an 8-track, and an earlier time on a motorcycle driving to a lake, and the lake seemed to have paths through the bushes all around it. I remember driving throught he mountains and seeing cars that had slid off the side of a hill and him saying it was too dangerous to retrieve them so they just left them.

    I don’t hold much hope of an afterlife, I always felt that if there was a possible way to get a call from the other side it’d be from dad, that maybe because he never said goodbye that it wasn’t really goodbye… And who knows, maybe it isn’t. Miss you dad, happy birthday!!!!

  • No Time To Die

    The latest installment of the James Bond series is a 2 hr 43 min story that does its best to keep us enthralled but is a bit of a bore in my honest opinion. It’s too long and jumps around too much to keep on target. But in usual Bond fashion, there are neat chases and gadgets and scenery to give you something to watch as the story labors along. Never really felt Daniel Craig as James Bond but the ending would seem to indicate this is his last stint as 007.

    All told I’ll give it a 7 out of 10 stars.