Big Top by Rob Harrell for March 13, 2011

Good Morning, Tribeandall!

Breakfast Menu:

Three egg omelets. Rib-eye steak & eggs, your choice Hash brown casserole Sausage patties or links Smoked bacon Texas or wheat toast Blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries French toast w/strawberries & whipped cream Assorted pastries Pop Tarts Selected ice creams & ice cream floats! Cold KFC Root beer or PEPSI Assorted juices Bloody Mary’s COKEY COLA Johanan’s CocoMocha Doc’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee Chocolate/White milk Chocolate cake

Enjoy!

Good Morning, LuvH8.

May I please have the blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries and sliced strawberries on top? And a nice glass of milk to go with that, please?

Yes you may, LuvH8. Enjoy!

Help! Help! My computer is talking to me! Make It Stop!

Okay, that is better….. but for any of you have not updated to Windows 7. The new screensaver options suck big time!!! Peoples think your nuts if you want nice, easy to play with screensaver stuff. I still cannot believe that I cannot fly through space on my laptop!

Good Morning, ♠Lonewolf♠ & Ooops!

If I’m not mistaken, I’ve got Windows 8.

I’ll grab myself some cold KFC and an ice cold Pepsi.

Isn’t that IE8, Grog?

Isn’t Windows 7 is the latest OS?

Windows 8 won’t be out until 2012 or something like that.

Good Morning, Grog.

Okay……no geek speak in front of the legally not sane with a scythe.

Windows 7 is the operating system I believe, my desktop has Windows XP and much nicer screensaver stuff.

IE8 is Internet Explorer 8.

This is correct?

You’re right, ♠Lonewolf♠, I got confuzzled I guess. In fact I’ve got Windows Vista.

You’re up late.

And I don’t like changes! I was/am still learning the XP. Now 7! Don’t mention another operating system (unless they bring back my flying through space, maybe then)

Grog, I’ve been getting some of my own book work done on the ‘puter.

I really like Windows7. It has more features.

I’m not always up on the revisions. And that certainly goes for Microsoft Excel & Word updates. I find I lost features I liked and they’re now actually harder to use. Where do they get these stupid new ideas and what makes them think they’re improvements?

Since when does a small dog tell a big bear what to do.

Well DST finally caught up with me. I swtiched over Friday afternoon.

Windows seven here as well.

Hello Wolfbyte. I am afraid Winky has the backbone of a twinkie.

I guess so Ooops!

Good Morning, WOLFBYTE

That’s fine.

Good Morning, WOLFBYTE.

Oh! Crayola! Winky usually has the backbone of a twinky. Anyway I like how that sounds.

The geek-speak has confuzzled my brain.

Good Night Lonewolf, Grog & Wolfbyte

And with that I will head to the horizontal position.

Good Night Everyone.

P&L

Good morning ♠Lonewolf♠

Good night, ♠Lonewolf♠.

Hello Sir Lew, how are you doing today?

Well back to bed I go.

Don’t forget to SPRING forward.

When a Pagan sneezes and someone says, “God bless you”, the usual response is, “Which one?”

OOOPS I’m having a hard time. Twice a year I reset the clock my evil sister gave me with the pendulum from Hell. I try to be so steady as I put it back on the wall, till I see that swing ever so slightly. It’s been four hours, the cursed thing is gaining momentum, and by the time I finish CoComics, it will be louder than a jack hammer. I’m going to BIRDBRAINS and see if I can find some medications.

Good Morning, Tribe!

Good Morning, Doc.

How are you doing, my friend? Do you go back to work tonight?

Good Morning, Everybody!

What a great morning…..even though I still woke up “early”, the clock said it was later…….yes, THAT is confuzeling, too!

Is it too late for Breakfast? I’ll just mosey on over for some cold KFC…….as long as I can have potato salad with it. :)))

Have a great Sunday, Everyone.

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Good Morning TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

I’ll have some French toast w/strawberries.

Good Morning Doctor Toon!

Good Morning, Montana Lady & Sojo

Your orders are up. Enjoy!

Back to the grindstone, eh Doc? :^)

I know the feeling!

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠ - Thank you!

Good Morning, Lewreader, ♠Lonewolf♠, Doctor Toon, Montana Lady & Sojourner

Well I finally got my revised W-2 yesterday, so now I’ve got no excuse to at least try and get my taxes done. Usually I’ve got them done by the end of February, but I couldn’t this year, obviously.

Good Morning, Grog.

You’re welcome, Sojo.

Good Morning Grog!

♠Lonewolf♠ - I take it you’ve seen today’s The Argyle Sweater?

Have a good snooze Doctor Toon.

I wonder if Doctor Toon lost an hour’s work. Would he have to work an extra hour come fall?

Thanks Sojo. I had to save that one! LOL

Sleep well, Doc

Good Morning ♠Lonewolf♠,♥♥ Little Sister♥♥,Wolfbyte LuvH8/BBS,Grog,Doctor Toon, Plodswbeer, Doc Toon, MontanaLady, ♪Hopeandjoy♫Serenasakitty,, SRmom,Bmon,Ladyhawk,,lakesnake ,Digital Frog,Lewreader;MisngNOLA,Woodeye, Yukoneric, The Sojourner, Only Tink, pseudo

For C&H reminds me of my dreams. I went to bed earlly but time still went for me. Going to BR doesn’t help either but I have to. Done with church. Another week Pastor starts a whole new series.

Rest well, Doc.

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥.

Good Morning ♥Kab♥!

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥.

Good afternoon, Tribe

Time change is heck on the body. I will probably take a nap in a yawn little bit YAWN……….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz………….

Good afternoon, Quaby.

Hello Quaby - It sure can be!

Hello pseudo - I feel the same way about most new versions of things. They have some good new features but often remove some things you’re use to and may be important to you.

Good afternoon, Quaby & pseudo!

pseudo, I loaded my own screen saver from pictures I’ve uploaded - in fact they run as a slide show.

pseudo, my slide show is a Star Trek photo album from pictures I managed to get around the internet.

Good Afternoon, Pseudo.

Hey there, Pseudo. We have a table downstairs also, but we have a Lionel setup on it.

Good afternoon everyone :-)

Hello ♥Little Sister♥!

Hello ♥Little Sister♥

Yawn I’m back…I think. Still have some sleep dust in my eyes. Got to get my lunches ready as well as the taco meat for supper tonight. It is 79F out there right now….I think spring has sprung.

Watching Twister, makes me miss Storm Chasers.

Or maybe another nap is in order……..

Hi, Lil’ Sister.

I’m back after a whole day of migraine headache. It was a pain.

Sorry to hear that ♥Little Sister♥. Hope you’re fine now.

Well I feel better.

That’s great. :-)

Glad to hear it ♥Little Sister♥. We missed you yesterday.

Migraines….. Yuck! I’m glad you’re feeling bettrer Little Sister.

Well I pretty much got my taxes done. I get a decent refund.

I’ll re-check & file later in the week when I’ve got my time off. I’m just going to relax for the rest of the day now, knowing that I don’t have to pay.

Hi Grog, Quaby, Sojo, Little Sis, and Lonewolf and others Little Sis Glad you migraine is gone! they are bummers.

Grog I too, use a photos for my screen saver. Have one of Kauii up now. Waiting for tax acct to give us the numbers. We got a state refund last year and paid the fed a little. Think we will do better this year with fed.

Sojo and Lonewolf Duke played a good ACC championship game.

When I worked nights as an RN I got paid for extra hour I worked in the fall and also paid for hour I didn’t work on Daylight savings which was nice.

Finally, anyone doing NCAA brackets? BBL (?)

Hi, HopeandJoy♫

Not me, HopeandJoy♫. I follow the SEC and Notre Dame during the football season, but that’s it. I’d Follow the Red Sox & Habs, but with few exceptions, I don’t get those games locally - and I’m not willing to pay for the sports packages to get them. Football is quite enough.

Given the outlook for the NFL this year, I think I may have to stock up on a few of those 10 Greatest game DVD’s from some of my favorite teams around the NFL. I can’t possibly go without football on Sunday afternoons. I’d much rather forego it on Saturdays if the match-ups aren’t to my liking in College.

Hello HopeandJoy♫ - Glad to anout Duke. I don’t do the brackets but hope KU will do well now that OSU and OU are out.

Grog - That must be a good feeling to be about done with that.

Good afternoon, everyone!

Hi Rmom.

You bet, Sojourner. I waited a long time for that amended W-2….well I guess we all did. But if I’m getting a refund, I want to file as early as possible.

Hello Smiley R Mom - Just had a light rain here.

Hi, Grog! - I’ve got my tax stuff almost ready to take to the CPA. I normally do ours, but there’s some tricky stuff with the inheritance, and with 3 of us having college expenses, that I decided a pro needed to do it. Hi, Sojo! - It has been overcast most of the day, but I hadn’t noticed any rain yet. I did check the forecast today and saw about a 50% chance. Guess I’ll look at the radar and see if anything is coming this way.

Good afternoon everyone! We did our taxes at the start of this year, Smiley R. Mom.

Sojo - Either we didn’t get any, or it happened during my nap. Not much sign of moisture outside either. Since it is moving north, I don’t expect I’ll get any later.

Hi, Josh! - I usually do our taxes earlier, but the CPA had to do my parents’ trust tax return, before the beneficiaries could. Next year it shouldn’t be as complicated, so I’m hoping to get back to doing them earlier.

Hello Josh!

Hi, Wolfie! - When I read Argyle Sweater today, I thought of you.

Hi Josh, Rmom & HopeandJoy♫.

Just got back from a few errands.

I liked it too, Rmom!

Good Afternoon, peoples of the Tribe! (especially: SRMom & ♠Lonewolf♠!!

(It just felt right.)

When the OS/IE discussion was going on earlier, I just thought Grog was ahead of his time–or else his computer was running on vaporware… .

Hello bmonk!

Hi, Sojo! I think we are melting just a bit today!

bmonk - That’s good to hear!

Howdy, Bmonk!

More this week–it’s supposed to get into the 40s and 50s every day. The slow melting will help keep us from flooding.

Bye! Gotta go pray!

God Bless you!

Did they revise the definition of Pagan again? Mendasock! That is just rude. I thought you had more options than which God?

Sir Lew, have you considered disconnecting the pendulum? Perhaps you really needed to apply hand lotion right before you tried to hang the clock back up?

Good Afternoon & Evening Peoples!

Bye! Gotta go ……. ummm… not pray. (giggles)

Windows 7 stretches your pictures to fit the screen (not warped though) and doesn’t give you size options. Phooey.

Bye bmonk.

Hi and Bye Ooops!

Hi, bmonk & Ooops!

Sorry I missed you, bmonk. but yes I was running on DST since Friday afternoon. It made for a much easier transition and I had the whole weekend with a later sunrise & sunset. I much prefer it that way and never really want to change back to standard time.

No zoom control? That sucks!

Bye, Ooops!

I had to flip on the a/c for an hour or so to clear out humidity, it was getting muggy in here. It’s down to 70F for lower 50s tonight.

Making tacos tonight. Crew’s slicing and dicing the fixings, including fresh picante and pico de cala (sp). Blue Bell is backing up to the delivery dock, Blue Bell ice cream for dessert, all the available kinds, along with fixings for that.

All and all a good sendoff for having to go back to work tomorrow.

Just checked in while I’m making dinner……..our “cold plate special”…cold chicken and my own potato salad, and tomato slices…. small portions, of course. I’ve gone to using a small plate for meals, and it really looks like I have lots to eat! And, the best part, is it is more than enough!!!

It got up to 61 today!!!!!!!! WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s been cloudy all day here today, but the temperature and humidity are quite comfortable. There is a 40% chance of rain tomorrow. The long range was looking promising for my vacation time though - even St. Patrick’s Day.

Quaby Sounds like a party! I may pop over!

bmonk, Smiley mom, Ooops Sorry I missed you.

I left you a reply back on page 2 HopeanJoy.

Hello Montana Lady!

Good evening all. Survived the time change. We did our taxes later of February. I had the day off on one Monday. We get back on State very small amount have to pay bigger to Federal. Hubby has been cashing in bonds from 30 years ago. Next year we have to decide if need take out more from pension for Federal. To pay on interest accured towards Federal. I was at my mom’s when rained. Had a little small hail to. Hubby and b/i/l had to get something fo b/i/l small vendor business sugar and flour and got caught in rain. Monday a little cooler then warming up fast Tuesday on.

♥Kab♥ - No hail here but starting very light rain.

We had a little light rain this evening. Earlier at was at my mom’s and heard sounded harder then rain. KAKE news weather had pictures of hail. Someone oragnized the hail as KAKE news took a picture of it. At least not sever. Also talked of light snow. Should be that bad and melt fast.

It’s spring. The dogwoods broke forth in white blossoms and now the green leaves are obscuring them. I noticed my white Saturn was faintly yellow…..we’re coming into pollen season. Last year it was really bad, turned our blue car yellow. When it rained the water puddles/rivulets were yellow. Yellow, yellow everywhere. Aachhooooo!

Almost reminds me of my sneezing and blowing. Very nice rain here. Too quit here good thing I have books to read. English is moving alone. My writing lab I stubble at times have to look up what is meaning on sentence structures. I don’t have this to do place I work at.

Hi kab

Why are you paying interest on Federal? Do you have a tax balance from prior years? Or is Hubby not making installment payments?

The interest has to do with savings bonds he started 30 years ago. We knew this could happen. He did take some out of his pension. Last year there was a higher bond. This year not so big. To help cover Federals not sure how much more leaves less for food, bills etc. I am hoping our cc gets paid off from my pt check. Then have to save money for windows. A couple of other things but not sure if we can afford higher property tax.

Thanks Grog I think Lonewolf and I are the only basketball fans but not sure if he does March Madness!

At the place I work at the facility manager is season ticket holder and big fans of a local college here. They will be in AZ playing and that person plans to go and have fun to. Be gone for three days. I’m not a sports fan. Though Dancing is coming in one more week. I told my sister I wonder who will be booted off first Christi Alley perhaps.

It’s too bad those high yield bonds aren’t in in your retirement plan. It’s also too bad Hubby didn’t put some into higher yield preferred shares. Capital gains and qualified dividends do provide a more favorable after-tax yield. I think you may need to talk to someone who can help you with budgeting & financial planning.

Bonds may be safer to hold - particularly Government bonds, but I would not hold a large sum outside of a tax-deferred retirement plan, unless I had sufficient resources to pay the consequences - in additional deductions from my pay, or if retired - in tax installments.

Good evening, Tribal Family

Yes, HopeandJoy♫, I do keep up with March Madness

Bye, Doc. I really feel no ill effects.

Good evening, Lonewolf

Hi & Bye, Doc.

Hi abd Bye Doctor Toon.

Good Evening ♠Lonewolf♠!

Hey there, Grog. I thought I would have missed you by this time.

Grog hubby said these are regular treasure bonds. We have snow here just a trace on windshields. He know about those high end bonds you talked about. We have something for the future we made investment’s on have to wait for a few years.

Kab, to bad you can’t afford to make installment payments. Paying interest to the Feds is so wrong - especially since there are very rare circumstances that they will pay interest to you.

Time for me to call it a night.

Gunite, Tribeandall

I guess I better say goodnight. I’m reading then when hair drys going to bed. Had my shower earlier. Be glad my sinus gets back to normal. Still getting my hearing back.

Grog are you kidding since when would Federal pay interest to tax payers. They will go after someone if they are late owing on taxes. Federal and their budgets. I wish they would take a furlough themselves know how others feel when they have to take furloughs.

Good Night Grog and ♥Kab♥.

Time for my zzzzzz’s.

♪ P&L ♪ ≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good Night, Kab & Sojo.

Good Night, Grog. Rest well.

Hi and Bye, DocT

BTW, I’ve heard it said that a significant other can significantly cure squinky brains–and even if it doesn’t cure it, you don’t care, as long as the remedy is applied thoroughly enough.

Good night, Sojo, Grog and ♥Kab♥. Pleasant dreams!

Hello everyone from my Aunts house.

Ooops! said, about 4 eruptions ago

Did they revise the definition of Pagan again? Mendasock! That is just rude. I thought you had more options than which God?

The Mummers’ Dance is rather ambiguous…

bmonk ambiguous or not, I like it and the music of the poetry touches me. Photographs are glorious and make me homesick.

I did like it when it was on the radio–late ’90s?

Have they still not fixed the avatar problem?

I don’t think they know how!! I am becoming disenchanted with the “powers-that-aren’t” at this website. I would like to do a St. Patrick’s Day avatar and some March Madness too. The only response I get is that “they are working on it” ????

Oh well, Hope you both have a good rest, Lonewolf and bmonk We are having snow here….it’s kind of pretty.

Good Night, HopeandJoy♫. Rest well.