2007/10/31 – Wednesday – Bad Food

Lunch – was none, I had a meeting that lasted longer (like a hour longer).

Cheryl went and got dinner from some fast-food places.

Amanda got all dressed up as Jack’s girl friend Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas. One of our friends came over and also dressed up as a wood elf – it looked like a witch ghoul to me. O and I cannot for get about her dog that she dressed up and he did not like it.

We handed out candy but I still think each year we are getting less and less kids.

I worked on computers getting this reconnected to each other. I had to reset the modem/router because I forgot the password, so I had to redo all the settings, getting both printers working/talking again.

I have ate to much of the bad food, the candy is way to tempting I am gong to try to make sure they are gone form the house.

2007/10/30 – Tuesday – Meltdown

Lunch was with my buddy to crazy chicken and then we walked over to Wal*Mart for some browsing.

Cheryl stopped on the way home and picked up dinner.

I did a load of laundry. I still need to sort out all the white clothes – maybe tomorrow.
I also worked on the computers again – I know, when don’t I :)

I also had to do some work for about half-hour.

Amanda had a meltdown tonight when it was time to go to bed. She was not being corporative about taking her meds and doing what Cheryl was requesting. Again I think she is doing a wonderful job at manipulating us, but we are trying our best. Cheryl is getting frustrated.

2007/10/29 – Monday – Frustrating

Lunch was with my buddy over to Quizno’s

Cheryl took Amanda to Church group.

I started work on the computers. I worked on BOINC on most of the machines; Eric machine was giving my fits, but finally I got it fixed. I worked on the Linux machine. I was not able to upgrade it to the next version via CD, but I was able to reinstall BOINC with a new version (test) and its working good currently.

Cheryl picked up Amanda and got dinner for them.

2007/10/28 – Sunday – Laundry and Pumpkins

Cheryl and Amanda went to Church this morning. I did get up before they came home, but not by much.

Cheryl and Amanda went to get their nails done.

I worked on getting the laundry done

Amanda worked on a pumpkin and it looks good.

2007/10/27 – Saturday – Errands and Relaxing

The day started early. Eric and I took the dogs to the groomer and then we stopped by the store to get some milk.

Once home Cheryl and Amanda was up, so now we are off to do some shopping. We got some Halloween stuff. Next stop was a Borders and we got book. We stopped at the pet store to get some dogs stuff and cat litter. Now it was time for some lunch. While at lunch we got a call that the dogs were ready to pick up.

We stopped at the groomer and Zircon looks really good. She does not have her pompoms but she was really bad. That’s what we get for not getting her groomed earlier.

Once we dropped the dogs off, I was a stop at the grocery store. We spent way to much but we like to eat. Once home, we did cleaned out some cupboards that had old cans and stuff.

We watched two movies tonight.

We did miss the square dance that we were going to go, but when we remembered, we were to late to go; now we will have to apologize when we see our friends.

O – I did update photos for the last month on my other bog – so go and see.

2007/10/26 – Friday – Relaxing Again

Lunch was with a friend over to the bar.

Our houseguest went home today. They are giving passes out to the residents so they can go back and check on things. I have not heard of anything yet – I have left messages but no return.

Cheryl and Amanda went out and got something really quickly.

Tonight we watch more shows on ABC again and relaxed

I talked with Mom M tonight, she was asking some questions about some programs for the computer.

2007/10/25 – Thursday – Relaxing

Lunch; I went home ate and took a quick nap.

Nothing much tonight. We watched our Thursday night programs on ABC.

2007/10/24 – Wednesday – Glendale

Lunch was with my buddy to Quizno’s

We stopped by Jack-in-the-box for dinner on our way to the last show of the season at Glendale Centre Theatre. We watch Mouse Trap. Very interesting finish – we got back late like normal.

2007/10/23 – Tuesday – Supporting Friends

Lunch was with my buddy to Dinno Dizza and we watch the new (CNN)

Our friend did not return to his family out near the fires. He is going to spend the night with use so he can still earn money during this time of fires.

We went ahead and took him out for dinner. We had a good time. He stayed up late for him and watched the TV for any type of news. We also found a Big Bear scanner on the web that is online and we had that going all night. We were listening to the information that was being talked about on the scanner – saving buildings, but had to let some other building go, but save the ones next to them. Listen to guys about hose lines and were to get guy to.

Looking at the photo on TV, the winds have changed, and it might slow things down hopefully.

I would love to be up in the mountains, but during these times, I am glad that I am in the city (about the only time I don’t mind to be in the city).

2007/10/22 – Monday – Smelly (Fires)

Lunch was with a buddy to the bar so we could watch the fire stuff that is going on here in Southern California.

I found out that one of our close friends evacuated from their place on the mountain. We might have a guest for the week so he can still work before returning for the weekend.

Cheryl took Amanda to church group tonight.

I think I need to install a different operation on the old tower – the Linux version I am trying to install is just not working out, I keep getting errors.

A few time tonight you can smell the smoke in the air.

Cheryl then picked up Amanda. Cheryl also did some work.

We watch a few show, then watched the fire reports…

2007/10/21 – Sunday – Dance

Cheryl and Amanda went to church

Eric got sick this morning – he could not keep things down.

Amanda and I went to the monthly Croakers dance. The drive to the dance center was an interesting dive through the strong winds and not seeing the mountains in the distance because of the hazy from the winds.

A broad from the top of the dance center flew off the roof and hit one of the parents on the noise and forehead. The wind was really bad. Dealing with the incident took a lot of my time.

I did have a little tiff with Amanda and her not dancing for the first part of the dance. But when I was dealing with some more stuff, I found out she danced the last three tips – but she is pushing the boundaries.

After dance, several of us headed over to Sizzler for dinner.

2007/10/20 – Saturday – Demo

We had to get up early for a Saturday. We left on time and went to a SCAD’s meeting. This meeting was to discuss the anniversary dance the weekend after Thanksgiving.

After the meeting we dropped off some cards and bought some stuff at Boot Barn. Then we went next door to have lunch at Poly Pies.

We did a few things around the house and now it was time for our next adventure.

We went to a demonstration of Square Dancing at a club down south – Laguna Niguel Racquet Club. We did two sets, and our caller did one teach. But several people that were to come to the event (paying customer) did not show up. With the low turnout, it was not a good demonstration.

We headed on out for someplace to eat. Well, I lost Mom D, so a few phone calls and we were all back together trying to find a place. We could not find the place we wanted, so we had to go drive some more before finding a place. The group seemed to have fun and now time to head home.

2007/10/19 – Friday – Desk

Lunch, well I came home – Amanda was still sleeping – I guess she had a hard time getting to sleep.

I stopped at the auto store and I finally got my battery – But man the price of the Optima has raised their prices – WOW.

I worked on the desk again. Reduced on stack to only two items.

2007/10/18 – Thursday – Desk

I went with fellow co-workers to celebrate the boss’s birthday to a Peruvian place.

Cheryl went grocery shopping and both kids went with her.

I worked on m desk trying to get my stacks down.

2007/10/17 – Wednesday – Nothing Much

Lunch was with my buddy to crazy chicken.

I worked on the Linux machine again, but its going slowly.

Cheryl got me dinner again tonight and she also worked on one load of laundry.

Nothing much tonight.

2007/10/16 – Tuesday – Restarting

Lunch was with my buddy over to Quizno’s

I stopped by the part store again – and the second battery is of course not available yet – I am sure glad that I am not in a hurry.

I took Eric to church group tonight. On the way home I got several messages from work. I logged on and had to call the subject expect and he worked on it. He knows more details about the working of the software then the other two of us that help support. By the time we where wrapping things up, it was time for me to pickup Eric from church group.

I had to start over again on the old tower in installing the Linux system – hopefully it will work this time. Well it is not looking good – so I am downloading a newer version and creating a new CD and see if that will work.

2007/10/15 – Monday – Parts – Blog Action Day

Environment is the subject of the day. Well, I like to enjoy our lands, not from afar, but on the land (don’t get me started). We have explored many places in the Western US. One thing I notice (might it be a stereotype) if it is the part of town that has the lower income people then the area is a mess. Again might it be a stereotype, but the lower income people shopping at Wal*mart near us are making it an extremely trashy location. The parking lot ALWAYS has trash all over it. I do think if we can get the companies to keep their properties cleaned up, then it might spread some sense of cleanliness around the neighborhood.

Now back to my normal mundane daily dribble.
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Lunch was with my buddy; I took the van to pick up the RV parts from the dealer. And we stopped at Wienerschnitzel – hot dog + corn dog.

Cheryl is home when I got home – hurray.

I installed the new window on the back of the RV – another thing off my list of things to do on the RV.

Cheryl worked on a little bit of laundry.

Cheryl took Amanda to church group.

I worked on several of our computer to bring them up on changes. I finally got Eric’s computer running on BOINC. I am converting another old computer to run Linux – this will be my second computer on Linux.

2007/10/14 – Sunday – Relaxing

I finally got up and did started on load of laundry, but never finished it.

D finally dropped off Eric. I went with D to pick his RV up and take it over to the storage place; he also did some minor maintenance on the roof.

I did 2½ hours of work dealing with the Mainframe maintenance at work – luckily all from home.

I found out today about Grandma Barb passing away she was past 80. I will send a card, I am not expected to go up for anything – so card should do hopefully.

I talked with mom for sometime tonight.

2007/10/13 – Saturday – Unexpected End

I finally got up around 10:00. The kids and I went and dropped Eric off at D&M to spend the weekend with them. I had a good talk with D about Jeep and RV stuff before they needed to head out.

I called to make sure the RV parts was open – nope they close at noon – dam out of luck.

I stopped by the parts store and finally got my battery for the Jeep (Blue). I am still in need of a battery for Green (Jeep). I finally changed the battery in Blue and now the hood can close correctly. The spoiled milk smell is bad, so I poured some smelly stuff to see it will cover it up – not sure that will work.

Amanda and I finally left at 6:00 to head for Knott’s Scary Farm. The traffic was bad getting to the parking lot. It took over an hour to finally get to the parking both – BUT we found out that tonight was sold out – and we had not got tickets ahead of time so we are out of luck. So Plan B (which we had not planned at all). We went for a movie. Dam, I should have been more prepared on which movie to watch – we watched the Ben Stiller movie.

2007/10/12 – Friday – Picking Things Up

Cheryl left for your business trip to San Francisco.

I got a phone call from Mom D – something about her scooter. We made arrangement for this evening.

Lunch was with some friends over to Alpine Village. Two of the friends did some shopping.

I got home, moved the Jeep, and got the kids to hop into the RV. The drive was the normal Friday night drive. Once I got to Mom D Work, I could not do the u-turn so now I had to drive the next 10 minutes to get back – what a pain to get the RV turned around.
I loaded Mom D scooter onto the trailer.

Mom is a little sore from her spill, but she is ok.

We made it back to the bike dealer in time, so we unloaded and got her scooter in for a good check of things.

After getting the RV and trailer back into the driveway, we hopped into the van and all went out to Hoft Huts for dinner.

We finally cleaned out the back end of the Jeep. For some reason there was a gallon of milk and it had exploded the top and was stinking the Jeep up. So, now it is all cleaned out.

Finally it started raining around 10:30 tonight.

2007/10/11 – Thursday – School Meeting

Eric complained to Cheryl about his teeth hurting and not able to eat, so she let him stay home today.

Lunch was with my buddy to Costco, the two of us had lunch for $7.

Cheryl and I went to an AVID meeting. We found out some information about Eric program that he is in and what he needs to do.

When we got home, we got Eric to show us some stuff.

Cheryl got ready for her trip.

2007/10/10 – Wednesday – Dinner

At the beginning of lunch, as we was walking to my buddies vehicle, we herd a car crash and then noticed the dust. A guy bolted from the side street against a red light and got hit. Ambulance, Fire Equipment, and Sheriff all arrived and took care of things. We went to Quizno’s and came back out to the patio to watch them clean things all up.

After work, I stopped at the auto part store – and guess what – NO Battery – now it should be there something tomorrow afternoon.

Cheryl took Amanda and Eric to their Ortho appointment.

Cheryl and Amanda went to Cheryl’s company picnic today, well they won some gift cards. We went to Marie Calendar for dinner – the gift cards paid for about half of our dinner.

We really had to work with Eric on his homework tonight. Cheryl even emailed the teacher and she responded so he could finish the work.

I finally download the pictures from the camera; I should be updating the other blog in the next couple of days. I also created a CD for Cheryl of the picture she took at her picnic.

2007/10/09 – Tuesday – More Shuffle

Before getting to work, I took the RV to the dealer to get the oil changed and fix the right blinker issue fixed. Cheryl picked me up and took me to work in time for my first meeting.

My buddy took me to the part store to see if the battery was ready, but of course not. The part guy started to get my battery – hopefully tomorrow. We walked over to Carls Jr for lunch.

I got a friend from work to take me to the dealer so I can get the RV out. They did the oil change, fixed the right turn signal problem, but I thought they were going to do the recall and the cruise control would be disable – but not true, cruise control still works.

Once I got home I had to do a modified vehicle shuffle. Take the Jeep out of the drive way and then put the RV back in and also hooking up the RV to the trailer. But I didn’t put the Jeep back in the driveway – Cheryl parked the Van in the driveway instead.

Cheryl and I worked on our NFL Fantasy lineup.

2007/10/08 – Monday – Shell Game

I got up and when it was time to go to work, I could not get the Jeep to start – the batter was totally dead dead dead! Some how the cable that would activate the trailer brakes was pulled the trailer breaks drained the batteries.

Cheryl took me to work while she got a day off today.

Lunch was with co-works to celebrate this month birthdays at El Torito

I walked home because Cheryl was out and about. I started work on the vehicles. I removed the battery from the Jeep. I waited for Cheryl to get home. Once home I went and got a battery. But once I got home, the battery is a little to big, but I got it to work for next day. Because the battery I wanted will be available tomorrow.

Cheryl took Amanda to her church group

Now the shell game begins. I moved the Jeep and trailer our and next is the RV was moved out to the street. I then backup the Jeep and trailer into the driveway, next is the RV – leaving enough room so I can disconnect the trailer from the Jeep.

I also asked our friend – a plumber, to clean our line out because it had backed up last night – those dam tree roots! It was about 5 months ago that the line was cleaned out last.

Cheryl went and pickup Amanda from her church group.

Cheryl cooked me some dinner and salad – good.

2007/10/07 – Sunday – Walked and Sit

Amanda and I got up early and headed on out to our next adventure.

We walked the Off Road Expo. We met several of our friends. Amanda dragged me to do one of those rock climbing thingy. Well, I had to show this old guy how to climb clear to the top on the difficult run. Amanda finally was able to climb to the top but on the medium run.

When we finally got home, Cheryl said we needed to go to a movie – so off we went. We say ‘Star Dust’. It was a decent film. In fact it will most likely be one of the videos in our collection when it come out.

Mom M called and we talked for a short time, but I was somewhat distracted by one of the Sunday show that we watch.

2007/10/06 – Saturday – Parade and Dance

The family got up early and headed out. We went to San Dimas. The Jeep and trailer got decorated for the parade. Cheryl, Amanda and Eric Square danced on the float (trailer) with the rest of the Croakers. This was our third year doing the parade.

As soon as we got home, we change vehicles and went to lunch – the bribe for Eric to not complain about dancing for 20 minutes straight on the float (trailer).

The day was slipping by fast. Now it was time for the Croakers Saturday night dance.

We had a total of six squares on the floor one time – most of the time we had 4 or 5 squares.

We went to Denny’s after the dance. We had about 16 people in our group. The waitress took our order (drinks and food). Well; we waited for 25 minutes before we walked – yes we walked. Nothing was ever delivered to our tables – so we walked. I did give the guy at the register why, and he understood.

Another long day – but fun.

2007/10/05 – Friday – Moving Vehicles

Lunch was with a friend and we walked to Dinno Dizza - P’s look like D – Some day I need to take a picture of the sign.

I disconnected the RV from the trailer and moved the jeep behind the RV and got the trailer connected to the Jeep. Once that was done, I had to move the RV out onto the street and move the Jeep and trailer out, then move the RV back down the driveway all the way back to the garage, next was move the Jeep and trailer back into the drive way.

I put away all the straps and ramps – I got Eric to help in unbolting the step ramps that I usually have bolted to the trailer. We then put up the handrails onto the trailer. The Jeep and trailer are ready for tomorrow’s parade.

Cheryl played Ratchet and Clank this evening. So said she doesn’t see how the kids could be on it all the time.

2007/10/04 – Girls Dance

I had lunch all by myself at Quizno’s.

Cheryl dragged Amanda with her to a work event to practice some type of dancing.

While the girls were out, Cheryl bother B brought both his boys over for a couple of hours so he could attend a meeting.

Eric and the cousin played on the Gamecube – it seemed like they had fun.

2007/10/03 – Wednesday – Nothing

Lunch was a trip to the tire place – my buddy wanted to make sure his tires were balanced. We went to Islands for lunch. When we got back the truck was not event touched – so we left with nothing done.

We did not do much tonight.

I do have a concern with whom Amanda has been talking to – but Cheryl knew about it. I am just steamed about it. But of course I just over reacting.

2007/10/02 – Tuesday – School Night

Lunch was with friends to an Italian restaurant.

Once at home, we went for Eric back to school night. We found out some information and the school is pushing to have all the grades on the net so we can always know what the kid’s grades are currently.

2007/10/01 – Monday – Email

Lunch was a quick pay stop to pay my water bill and then over to Arby’s.

I sat down on the couch and I woke up from a nap that I had not planned – o well.

Cheryl took Amanda and Eric to get some dinner from Subway.

I worked on my email – cleaning out my inbox…