Month: July 2004

Another weekend is looming on the horizon, and that’s a good thing.

Let’s see, what’s happened in the last few days… Hmm, not a lot I guess.

I’ve been getting up, futzing with the computer for a little bit, then working on my daily chores of kitchen cleaning and general house maintenance, then performing my general “listen to today’s problem and comment on the fix” duties. Today I’ll be fixing the vacuum then spending some time working on Noan’s car before Scales gets up and bends my ear for a couple of hours in regards to whatever thing will have him spun up today.

Been talking theology, psychology, and magic with folks around Haven over the last few days. Some interesting discussions to be sure. Last night Fox was here for an hour or so and there was some discussion in regards to the reconciliation of hermetic traditions and pagan beliefs. Fun stuff.

Led Zepplin – Kashmir

Sunrise in Denver…

Yep, still in Denver. With Wolf still needing the Lincoln to get back and forth to work, Larry still not paying me for last month, and the fact it’s kind of nice to have people around to talk to of an evening; I’m still here.

I’ve gotten the online store finished for Larry… Now if I could just get paid for it I’d be a lot happier. The last time I talked to Vivian (she had me on the phone with some IT moron from the hotel to talk him though setting up her laptop to work with the wireless there) she said Larry would be cutting me a check this week…

I’ll believe it when I see it.

On the subject of computers I spent a couple of hours elbow deep in Scale’s computer yesterday… Oh the joy.

I’ve also had a talk with Wolf about them, hobbies, and other things which patched things up a bit. Yay talking.

Other than that, folks here are finally stirring and getting ready for another day of the day-to-day so I should sign off.

Take it easy out there in net-land…

BT – Content

Well, the week so far has been pretty mellow and I’ve been more relaxed than I have in months… A good thing to be sure.

Today I cleaned the kitchen here at “Haven”… It’s obvious that Wolf has either been exceptionally stressed or her new lifestyle has her too, umm, busy. See, she’s normally a borderline neat-freak, but this morning it took me a half an hour just to get the sink into a state where I figured it was safe to do dishes. It’s ok though, I rolled up my sleeves and dug into the place with enthusiasm: all of the counters, tables, appliances, etc are now ick free to my specifications. 🙂

Housework can be such a zen-like thing if you let go of the angst of doing it and just get into it. So sayeth me. 🙂

Anyways I’m taking a little break here before I start in on the microwaves. I did the range top right down to the drip pans but still need to do the front.

Anyways, enough with that. The rest of the week and weekend promise to be a little more hectic as I attempt once again to be all things for all people. Zeze will be flying in some time tomorrow for a job interview and I have to pickup, deliver, wait, pickup and deliver to the airport and interview. Then at about 5am Saturday I have to pick up Aryntha and Rai and deliver them to the airport too.

Not a big deal, just a lot of trips to the airport. 🙂

And of course I have to do all of this around Wolf who’s using my car to get back and forth to work and whatever gas is left in it from said traveling.

I still don’t know what time Zeze is coming in tomorrow so I don’t know how I’m going to work Wolf into everything… Nothing like last minute planning to keep your stress levels up.

Ok, well back to work. Have a great day out there folks.

Annie Lennox – Into the West

Lyon and I were up at the crack of dawn this morning and off to get a two-story ladder to get on the roof and take a look at the swamp cooler.

See, Lyon is on vacation this week and I’m sort of taking a week off too, so what do we do? House repairs…

It’s fun though as we make a hell of a team in just about anything we do. So while Lyon disassembled the cooler and checked out components I cleaned the filters and diagnosed the parts as he pulled them. It turns out that the copper line feeding the things has a break in it and the water pump had melted down.

We had help from Scales too who ran around getting tools, flipping switches, and fiddling with valves. He’s also got a hell of an arm and can put a can of wd40 right into your hand from 20 feet down. 🙂

So right now we’re down from the roof, Lyon is off to Home Depot to get a new $10 pump, a length of rubber hose, and two small hose clamps while I fiddle with Larry’s web-thing for a bit.

While we were up there we cleaned the gutters, checked over the shingles, checked the caulking around the vents, and performed the usual seasonal home maintenance. It’s hotter than hell today, 100+, but we’re having fun. 🙂

Once we get the cooler running we’ll be living like kings! (chuckle)

Queensryche – Revolution Calling

Well, I managed to escape briefly on or about Thursday. This led to Aryntha, Rai and I heading into the Pike National Forest for a photo-op with a few old AT&T towers. While we were there we got some pretty stunning pictures of the rest of the place too.

The first one I’m posting here is from the very top of the mountain that the AT&T microwave repeater “Devil’s Head”, an active AT&T microwave facility, sits on… It was a fair hike to get this photo as one has to traverse a big pile of rocks, but it’s worth it.

And people ask why we search out these old cold war towers…

The second shot is from a site called “Westcreek” which is probably still an active AT&T facility… Imagine having this view from your office.

The Alan Parsons Project – Standing on Higher Ground

The “guests” have left, leaving the house completely destroyed; from dirty towels all over the place and unmade beds to food all over the kitchen and dishes in every room. Every window in the house has dog prints on them, on both sides, at about 3 feet from the floor… It’ll take me till Friday to get everything cleaned up.

But, there was something even more distressing I found this morning… A note stating that they will be up here friday night through sunday every weekend while Larry and Vivian are gone.

Sigh…

Apoptygma Berzerk – Starsign

I’ve discovered that children have two modes: “asleep” and “loud as hell”. The bunch here are, like the last group, incapable of communication in anything less than full scream. The youngest, a girl, has another function which is to cut loose with this ear piercing scream any time she feels she’s not getting her way.

I was also wrong on a few observations yesterday: The two people I assumed were friends were just random folks looking at the house so this group only has two panzer-esque SUVs, the third was unrelated. Also I got the family members mixed up: This mom-dad team are daughter and son-in-law, not the sister and brother-in-law I thought they were. It’s also three children, not four… Not that you can tell the miscount from the volume. Oh well.

Beyond that, I’m still blocked in so there is no escape for me. I suppose I could go and have some confrontation over it, as everything is a confrontation with these types, but I’d rather just stay hidden in my room.

So far the most interesting thing I’ve discovered is that these folks only eat 100% organic foods and are borderline vegans, they spend a lot of time talking about how we are destroying the environment, how the media is a problem, and how the world is over populating… They do this while leaving every light in the house on 24/7, driving something that gets 8-mpg, using the TV as a babysitter, and having three kids.

Again; no matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up.

Phil Collins – Wake up Call

Well, I got exactly 45 minutes of peace and quiet after Larry and Vivian left… A short while ago two gas guzzling SUV loads of relatives showed up to spend the week in the “great outdoors”…

There’s mom and dad, four kids, two friends, a dog, and a mother-in-law.

These are pretty typical relatives from Vivian’s side of the family; meaning the father’s name is Saul and he just spent a half an hour telling me all about this really great deal he got on a sandwich on the way up here. There was also some discussion about the the mohel they use down in Denver having some sort of issue with his diamond business… Eesh!

Right now I’m stuck here too as they parked one of the monster SUVs right behind my car then left to go “sight seeing”…

Then there was the dog, a purebred standard poodle named Fido, who just sort of wandered into my room here and chowed down on the chips I left on the table next to the bed. This was met with “Oh isn’t he just so silly?” from the mom.

If anyone needs me I’ll be swinging from a noose in the back yard.

Def Leppard – Truth?