Ya gotta love a turkey!

It’s bitter cold outside tonight.  The wind is whipping and shortly here it’s turning to snow, and all I can think about is those darn turkeys.  I hope they’ve found a warm place for the night. 

They were in the lower pasture this afternoon.  I’m hoping they took a stroll through the barn while they were out exploring.  There’s plenty of hay there for them to bed down in for the night, plus the protection the walls will give them from the wind.

Here’s a snippet of a quick little project I have going.  It’s part of my “new year” goals.  I’ve been wanting to make a chapbook, and so I am.  The pic is from simplebooklet.  It’s an app I found on google chrome.  You can make all kinds of little booklets with it and post them on facebook, blogs, etc.  It’s super cool and really easy.

Anyway, if I get all my toons redrawn tonight and scanned in to the laptop, I should be done tomorrow.  : )  So, I guess I better get going. 

Those shiny things rock!

That’s my problem.  I really love shiny things.  Shiny things are the newest thing that comes out and looks super cool.  Most of the time they are super cool, but not always. 

So, this year my goal is to avoid the shiny things and use what I have.  That includes using the tools my laptop came with and not searching around for something cooler and shinier to download and take up much needed space on my hard drive.

My Toshiba laptop came with some pretty cool stuff.  Microsoft finally got its act together and gave a free version of all you need with Microsoft Office Starter.  For once, it won’t expire. 

It has a cool sticky notes program and snippet tool, and I’ve even grown to like google chrome and started using the apps that work with it.  I like it!  I’m organised and set.

I’ve even set a limit on how many programs I load.  Most are for learning (biblical hebrew, talmud, talmudic aramaic, modern hebrew, torah, etc), and I’ve got a couple rpg games (Fate). 

This new laptop could possibly go down as the only focused computer I’ve ever owned.  lol

Alas poor Mountain Rex, I knew him well...

No more riding MR until his wheels are trued.  I didn't realise how bad they were until I set my bike up on the stand in the living room and got it under an overhead light.  Wow!  No wonder I can't get the brakes properly lined.  So, now the task at hand is to take off both wheels and take them to Athens Bike Shop and have them trued.  Hopefully, it won't cost a fortune.

When I was reading the customer reviews for this bike, there was a guy there who said he had to have the wheels trued when he got his.  A bunch of others didn't.  Another guy had to completely replace the breaking system. 

All of this leads me to say, Mongoose, even though this is your extremely low end, dirt cheap, bike - you guys could at least send the wheels trued.

Off to begin the first stage of editing my nanowrimo.

 

 

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Mountain Rex's First Big Adventure!

Took Mountain Rex on his first ride to Walmart.  We got splashed by a big truck, then MR decided, "Hey!  Let's just splash ourselves!" as we rode through a deep pool of cold water on the road.  Needless to say, it was an interesting ride.

The best part about the 23 mile trip was having awesome suspension.  Next, would be my right knee not hurting.  I've never had a trip in yet where I didn't think my right knee would be shredded.  Quite a few people who ride bent bikes all have the same problem - trying to find the right way to pedal without our knees hurting.  So far, I've not mastered it.

On the downside, that bloody seat on the mountain bike, even with the new gel cover, is nothing short of brutal.   It was ok for the first 12 miles, but after that it was hell on earth getting back.

All in all, though, it was a great trip.  I could ride as aggressively as I wanted without worrying about killing the bike, and I got to enjoy getting out of the cottage after days of rain, and countless hours at the computer hammering out my nanowrimo novel, which got done 8 days ahead of time.

Total miles so far this month: 102.22.

The tally

After burying the 3rd cat/kitten in the past 4 weeks, I decided to do a tally of everyone who has passed on in the past 13 months:

Bindi (Aug 2010)

Kitty  (July 2010)

Pudgie  (July 2010)

Blackie  (August 2011)

Frozen Fred  (August 2011)

Frozen Matt   (September 2011)

Not Frozen Amy  (September 7, 2011)

White Boy  (May or June 2010)

Stanley (Summer 2010)

2 kittens who were Stanley’s siblings  (Spring 2010)

Wooki (Summer 2011)

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12 cats/kittens total. 

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Still remaining:

Jeffie

Dougie

Conner

Alex

Abby

Spotty

Squeeky

Tiny Tot

George

Little Bo

Lillie  (It’s Skyla’s kitten, not mine.)

Piper

Chuck

Twitchy

TOTAL 13 + 1 not mine

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It’s been a tough year.