January 31, 2010

Well it was cold today and tomorrow will be a warmer 29 but still cold. I have been working on my novel again, but this time I am doing it on paper so I am rewriting it. This will take some time, but I am doing it to help make my writing better.

I have been thinking of getting some new ink soon. I don’t know which, but I may get a bottle of purple or green to be different. I used to love using green for March. I pretty much just use black though since its more formal.

January 30, 2010

Well today was VERY cold here! My hands are like ice tonight as I type this. I want some snow though so I can make some rifle money! It will be my birthday soon as some of you know. That is February 21, so better get your gifts now!

Weather for tomorrow will be 23. I had Old Country Buffet for supper which was good. I love the baked potatoes they have there. They are so good, and taste different then ones you make yourself. I also love the barbeque chicken as well.

January 29, 2010

Well, I am back into my pen hobby again for sure. I will be doing some pen pals again soon from the one pen forum. I want to find someone out of the country to send letters to, if the international postage isn’t too high that is.

Supper today was chicken alfredo that was good. It was cold today and tomorrow will be 17! I can’t wait till it warms up and I can do some shooting again. My trigger finger is getting itchy again! I hope to get my new rifle soon too.

January 28, 2010

Well today was a fun day. I was trying to get that new pen to stop skipping. Its flowing really well now, and is nice and wet. I am still on the lookout for the old laptop. I may have a lead on one, just need to see what unfolds.

Supper today was minute steaks and French fries. We had some now, which is all melted now today. It was coming down good but didn’t last. Weather for tomorrow is going to be a COLD 19! I won’t be going out tomorrow I guess!

January 27, 2010

Well today was chilly and tomorrow will be chilly too but hey its winter. I got a new pen today which made me happy. Looks like I am getting into that hobby again! It’s a Cross Century II fountain pen in a medium nib. It seems to right well. I got it for 10 bucks!

Supper today was a very good steak. I love steak on the grill. We are probably one of the few people in the area who use the grill even when its winter. You have to make steak on a grill, I think it’s a law, or at least it should be a law!

January 26, 2010

Well this should be fun. I dug out the old 100MB ZIP drive. It’s a USB one, and I will probably get a parallel port one off a friend soon. It depends on what happens with my old laptop ideas. I want to get a 386 or something similar.

Supper today was fried chicken and French fries. It was cold today and tomorrow will be 34 as well. I want to go shooting and I have something for the readers of this. I finally got pictures of all the guns, and here is the link: Guns

January 25, 2010

Needless to say it was a wash out today and the yard is flooded and muddy. Tomorrow will be 34 with snow showers. From one to the other, I am hearing “significant” snow for this weekend now.. I had Salisbury steak, corn, and mashed potatoes today for supper which was good.

I am playing around with that old NEC Mobile Pro 780 again and put some little programs on it. There really isn’t much software for the older stuff, let alone for Windows CE old stuff! I can find old Palm programs so much easier.

January 24, 2010

Well today was a good day, even though we had a strange power flicker. It was cloudy up until about 4 then started to rain and it will rain tomorrow and be 50. I had lasagna for supper, made a little differently though.

I want to keep up with C++ and keep doing a little work on it each day. I do need to start working on my book a little more too since I am taking a break. The plan is to rewrite a lot of it soon, working on the word choices a bit more, and adding to it a bit.

January 23, 2010

Today’s entry is a bit different than my usual entries are. How is it different you ask? Well I want to start off with a quote from Carl Sagan. “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are arranged”. This is something that has inspired me to make an entry with something I try to avoid, personal beliefs.

So to start this off, first let me explain why I avoid this type of stuff. Everyone has an opinion on everything. That is what makes life great, but can also cause fights between people who could be the best of friends. The reason I avoid it online is because I rather not have it look like I am forcing this on people. There is no way to judge the tone of text.

There are facts that not be disputed. For example if I said that the sky is not really blue, but simply reflected light from the oceans, you cannot say that isn’t the truth and incorrect. However when I say that I think alien life does exist, well now that is an opinion.

So, what does this have to do with that quote? Technically, it’s not the quote, but who said it. Okay, so what does it have to do with Carl Sagan then? Well, that is why I gave the opening thing about opinions. I think that he was a brilliant man, and that he died way too young at 62. He believed, just as I do, that we are not alone. There are billions upon billions of stars out there. Some we know, like our own star the sun, do have their own planets. What we do not know however is do these planets have life!

Carl Sagan was a big supporter of SETI. What is SETI? It’s the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. Some people may know that it’s the computer software that helps process the signals. What signals? The ones from the radio telescope! What is a radio telescope? Simply put, it’s a giant radio antenna. This giant dish antenna receives tons of static from distant parts of the universe all the time.

So, where does SETI come in here? What are they looking for amidst the static of space? They are looking for signs of life, intelligent enough to have developed radio transmissions. Well by the time we get these waves they are very old, so we may never know. I do not expect we will even know in my lifetime if we are truly alone as we think we are.

I got a hair cut today and we even picked up another gun, a small Ruger LCP in 380. The weather was nice here today and tomorrow will be showers then a lot of rain into Monday. I had fried meatballs for supper today as well.

January 22, 2010

Well today went good. I got my Slash out for a battery. I came in because it was cold though. I had McDonalds for supper today that was good. Weather will be 40 tomorrow as well so maybe I will get the Slash out again.

We got the new car today and it is really nice. I wish the new car smell would last longer though. I should take a picture of it tomorrow. It has a line in jack which means we can use a MP3 player on it when we want to listen to better music.