How does a person catch and cold when it's 80 degrees outside? Easy, visit your local grocery store. That's how I was able to accomplish the impossible task since I am one of those lucky few that actually work from home full-time. Guess I need to get out into the public more often to keep my immune system up to date with the latest and greatest viruses and bugs that run rapid in the modern world. It's kind of like keeping your laptop or desktop computers up to date with the latest virus definitions and patchs (Ok, I know if I had a Mac I wouldn't have to worry about this issue!). So now we can compare out human bodies to computers. Well actually they are kind of designed the same way, the motherboard is the central nervous system, the brain is the hard drive and memory (or RAM for those techies out there), the heart and lungs are the power suppy and the rest is just extra things we need to make the rest of it work right or at least close enough for this blog. I just wish getting rid of a cold was as easy as getting rid of a computer virus (ok, so it isn't all that easy if the darn thing has you completely locked out or wiped your hard drive), but with a head cold you have it 24/7! At least with a computer virus you can walk away from the darn thing and do something else for a few moments. Or like me just move to another machine. Luckily most computer viruses today are caught before hand and we as the general public that do keep their virus software up to date (Ryan, take note here), we don't worry about something as odd as a software program made up of 0s and 1s to destroy everything we own digitally in two seconds. So on that note, I will go downstairs and feed my cold once again. I can feel my ears starting to hurt and all that does is make the room spin later on. It was not a pretty sight here in the home office by end of day yesterday. Later!

Boy, I am one pooped out puppy right now. Just spent 5 hours working the backyard gardens and still probably have another 5 to go to get everything cleaned up from the long, cold, grime winter months. Can you tell I am not a fan of winter? Big hint to anyone that is thinking about planting mint, don't do it! Unless you don't mind an alien plant that invades the entire garden by sneeking along underground and showing up in the middle of your onions! What a chore it was to get that one little plant (it wasn't little anymore mind you) and its amazing tenticles removed from the veggie garden. I think I will stick to onions and tomatos, alot safer to remove after you are done with them.

Tomorrow looks like a fun filled day. I get to spend the entire day (well hopefully not the entire day, but most of it) working on homework that is due tomorrow night. Online schooling is good when you have a full time job, but after closer examination of my schedule I noticed that I am really a full time student. Over the course of a regular college semester, the average student takes 5 classes. Well this online schooling pretty much follows that same concept, but our classes are only 5 weeks long. Well it is a dream of mine to finish this degree once and for all, so the past year has been fun and pure toture all at the same time.

I think its time for some Advil. I have a feeling I am going to be majorly sore tomorrow morning. I can feel it already.

Really short blog entry for today: it's nice outside and I am moving the office to the back patio area. Need to remember to get a patio umbrella soon, or I will bake out there by first of May. Can't beat working from home and having wireless.

Oh! I hear the UPS truck! Cool, I will be able to print again. Hate running out of toner and the only place to get it at a reasonable price is online. Off to great the truck before the dogs do.

The dog training is working! Well, I can't really call it dog training, it's more like the youngest is growing up and realizes that even though a dog biscuit got left by the oldest on her dog bed doesn't exactly mean it is for her. I noticed just a few moments ago this little mutt (oh she is not really little, about 50 pounds, but the smallest dog I have ever had) sitting quietly beside me as I work in my home office, staring very intently at an object kind of sort of under my side desk. As I drop my head down to see what is the main attraction for her, I notice the oldest dog has left the room and her dog bed. And so sitting there quietly all by itself was the dog biscuit, left to fend for itself. Normally the youngest just sneaks into the room and picks up what she wants and sneaks back out without me even noticing she was upstairs. Today was a first. She actually just in a way pointed at the object of desire and waited until I pushed her over to the dog bed to allow her to have the yummy treat. Now if I can only get the middle dog to do this. All she points at are the birds in the backyard, and I don't think she realizes she is actually suppose to do something other than point. I have watched her stand like a statue for over 5 minutes waiting I guess for the bird to make the first move. At least she is patient. Notice she is waiting on the fish to move too.

The countdown is on! Yes the weather people out there are predicting summer to show up on Monday. Only 5 days until temperatures are warm enough to do something outside.

As a kid growing up in a very northern region of the eastern US, I never got what people call "cabin fever". Guess I was to young to realize that winter was a long, cold and dark time of year. Now as a middle aged adult, I discovered the meaning this past winter. I don't live where I grew up, but do live in a region that has four seasons again. I don't count living in Las Vegas or eastern Turkey as living in an area with four seasons, more like two. Hot and cold. Winters are way to long and just as you are getting use to the time change, it changes again! This is no fair to those of us having to be concerned about time changes and time zones for our jobs.

Ok, enough about winter blues. The house is still standing, no short circuiting electric issues from yesterday. Only one more DIY electrical project for the house, the ceiling fan in the master bedroom. I think I will hire someone to do that one. Way to much over the head work, which in turns causes the household to hate each other for the rest of the day. Can't you tell we have been down this road already? The newly installed diningroom light was not a pretty sight or time. Lesson learned.

Been meaning to do this for sometime

Hello from my home office.
Nope I am not out here in blog land to find a job, got a really great one and it will go on for sometime the way it looks. I have been meaning to start a blog for about a year now, but thought my writing skills weren't up to par with the rest of the great blogs out there in cyberland. However, my attitude has changed. I have gone back to school to finish up a much needed degree and realized writing wasn't so bad after all. I still have alot to learn about creative writing, but as I have turned the corner and looking at another birthday soon to be arriving, I decided to a put my ideas and opinions out there for anyone interested enough in reading them. Plus working from home you get lonely really quickly.

Today's big event: my other half and a neighbor are putting up a new bathroom light. Hopefully they will read the breaker box info correctly and not shut the power off to the second floor. DIY stuff always scares me when the man of the house is involved. Love him to death, but projects are just not something he is good at.

Better end for now before the power goes out on the router.