ANOTHER PEEK

Ok, last pics, I swear. Besides, the dang thing goes through

batteries like butter!

The top view is a view from my place. That's the car repair

place next door. There's some sort of old creek bed in the woods

there and it floods up during heavy rainstorms. A few times

it's made it up to the level of the grass and a few feet towards

the apartment building.

The second shot is the entrance to the Hobbit Hole. No, not the

stairs going down into the basement. The first two windows are

in the living room. The third window and a fourth that's not in

the pic are in my bedroom. The metal firedoor is further over to

the right out of the shot as well. The walls are some sort of

wood and not very thick so the winter is a wee bit nippy at

times in here.

Finally, a longer view of the wall in my bedroom where the

computer sits. And where I sit too. Sorry, didn't clean it

up before the shot.

A PEEK INSIDE THE HOBBIT HOLE

Okay, this is more an experiment than anything else.

These are pictures I took with the new digital camera. I needed

to shoot at somethig and I have more books than anything else

around the Hobbit Hole.

The top shot is the walking closet in the living room. I thought

I took a shot of both sides but the right hand one didn't take for

some reason. But trust me, there's another bookcase beside the

one you see there. Left hand case is mostly paperbacks shelved

two deep spine edge out and others laid flat in front. The hidden

case is hardcovers spine side out and other books laid flat in

front.

The other two shots are of the bookcases beside me here by the

computer. The middle shot is the top of the bookcase to my left.

The bottom shot is the bookcase to my right. Note the dinosaur

skeleton windup toy on top.

The batteries on the camera are low so the flash didn't work, so

I fiddled around with the exposure when I uploaded them

to the computer so they look black and white. The doorway

at the edge of the bottom shot is the fire escape door here in

my bedroom.

Somewhere, Diana is busily getting this all down in her Stalker

File on me.

THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS

Well, Christmas is over and calm settles upon the land.

Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof. More like exhaustion?

I worked at the bookstore from 9 to 6 Christmas Eve and then
went to my sister’s house after a quick stop here at the hobbit
hole to pick up the gifts. The adults all got gift cards and my two
youngest nephews got radio controlled cars and a transformer
type toy each, but my two older nephews had so much fun
assembling them I might have to get them some too next year!


Did I mention here that my nephew Paul and his bride Jen are
going to be parents next June?


My sister and my brother in law Pete gave me a digital camera
and once I get the controls figured out there’ll be more pictures
here.


Dinner was the traditional lasagna, meatballs, and salad with
pastries for dessert and enough other munchies to fill us up and
make me sleepy. So I left at 10:30 for the drive home and
eventually found my way to bed.


Today…well… I think I was more tired than I thought. I slept
into the mid afternoon and woke with a stuffed up nose. There’s
been a cold going around at work, so I decided to just stay in here
today and relax. I have the next two days off from work as well
as part of my usual work schedule so hopefully by Friday I’ll have
licked this. I surfed the web a little to see what I might buy with
the gift cards I got as presents and then did a little genealogy
work, copying some files from my PAF5 file to the Family Tree
Legends file and doing some editing in the process.


And I'm going to be doing some Cams writing as well since I
have the free time!

Anyway, I hope everyone reading this has had a quiet, peaceful
and wonderful holiday!

TOP TEN

Someone on the Cams List asked folks what their Top Ten
Favorite Songs were.

I'm going to really show my age with this.I'm more into Celtic
and folk music these days but these are the songs that either get
me singing along as I drive or maybe a few air guitar riffs from
me (when I'm not in the car, of course!).

Pretty Woman-Roy Orbison
Light My Fire- The Doors
Ride My Seesaw-The Moody Blues
Sympathy for the Devil-Rolling Stones
Green Grass and High Tide-The Outlaws
Still Haven't Found (etc.)-U2
If You Could Read My Mind-Gordon Lightfoot
The Question-The Moody Blues
Living in the Past -Jethro Tull
Running Down a Dream-Tom Petty

In case no one recognizes "The Question" by the Moody Blues
it's the one that starts with "Why do we never get an answer,
when we're knocking at the door?"

I'd add the following if the list were longer:
Ohio-C,S, N, &Y
Southern Cross-C,S &N.
Suzie Q.-Creedence Clearwater Revival
Nights in White Satin-The Moody Blues
Tangled Up in Blue-Bob Dylan


Anywho, that's the list from the Old Fart

BABY IT"S COLD OUTSIDE!

Dang, I hate winter.
I'm into Unibomber Mode again wearing a hooded sweatshirt as
I type away at the kb. I'm going to head off to bed as soon as this
is done bcause not only am I sleepy but the bed is a very nice and
warm place to be.

Other than that, life goes on. The Christmas Horde has descended
upon us and all I can do is wait it out. At home I rp a little, write
a little and do genealogy, which I now seem to do more than the
other two. Rp has slacked off a bit and there's only the same core
group in there every night now.I've come to accept the fact that
many of the others aren't coming back to rp. I'll most likely end
up as the World's Oldest Roleplayer if I don't croak at my
keyboard some night. But I can't and won't just walk away from
Camelot and the others who are still there.


Today I deleted Diana from my "whois" file. When I logged onto
Mirc this afternoon her name popped up and it took me a second
to realize that someone else now uses her nick. I know she'd say
it's about time, too. So I deleted the nick. It's not THE Diana
anymore. Time to move on.