ramblin on

2009-07-14T06:43:00.000-07:00

hello all

just wanted to drop by and say hello. my wife and i are retired so we don't have a job to loose like a lot of people do here in the states. we do worry about social security and our small government pension though.
we had a dead tree in our back yard and another that looked bad so we hired a tree service to take it down and remove the limbs. the trees were close to my house so i did not have much choice about removing them. i truly hated to spend the money it cost but if one of them fell on my house it would have been a lot more money. i only called two places to get a price. i checked their reviews on the computer though and one of them had 120 reviews which were mostly great. i decided to take them. the owner of the company came out and gave me a price, which i thought was resonable, so i gave him the job. three men came out and in 4 hours they had the tree down and the limbs chopped up and the put pieces of the trunk in their trunk. i was very satisfied. well that is it for now. have a great weekend.

HELLO MY FRIENDS

2008-12-12T07:14:00.000-08:00

today is friday and that is the day we rent a car from enterprise rental. we have been doing this since last november when my car got totalled out.rentals on the weekend are half price and you have to rent for 3 days but i have coupons for one free day on the weekend. if you have a car every day you kind of take it for granted but when you just get one on the weekend it is like a treat. i know people who have pools and they don't use them much because it is always in their yard. let's face it, we want what we do not have and then when we get it - we don't want it. i know for a fact there is a country song like that.
mrsh. and i are doing fine in case you are worried. i hope you all are well also. for any of you that like to down load freeware i found a good program and it is called crossloop. you can google that if you like. if you have the program and the person who has the computer you wish to control remotely has to have the same program installed on his computer. you can read about it when you go to the crossloop site. it is pretty fast because i tried it with a friend. some times my friend needs help with his computer and he lives in fla. and i live in ga. he messages me on yahoo messenger and with crossloop running i can access his computer. he could access mine also if he wanted to.
well that is about it for now.talk to you guys later.

mrh.

hello all

2008-12-02T06:27:00.000-08:00

well it is abot 35 degrees here in atlanta. my friend walker ,who lives in canada , would say that that's t shirt weather. i use to live in massachusetts and back then i thought the same but now i do not. that is what happens when you move south and have lived here since 1969. i am also 63 years old and that does not help either.drop by walker's blog this morning and check it out. you will have a good laugh for sure. i had planned on getting up and raking leaves but not at this temperature. there not hurting and one laying on the ground anyway and besides that the leaves have not all fallen any way. i can always find an excuse for not working can't i.
on thanksgiving this year my son david and i went to a bar at 6 p.m. and they had a free buffet. i had to pay for the two beers i had which was 9.00 but they had a free bingo game and i won 10 dollars. we each had 2 plates of food so we came out good on that deal. my son had 3 glasses of tea and that was no charge.i guess if i had not been drinking beer he would have had to pay for his tea.well it is abot 35 degrees here in atlanta. my friend walker ,who lives in canada , would say that that's t shirt weather. i use to live in massachusetts and back then i thought the same but now i do not. that is what happens when you move south and have lived here since 1969. i am also 63 years old and that does not help either.drop by walker's blog this morning and check it out. you will have a good laugh for sure. i had planned on getting up and raking leaves but not at this temperature. there not hurting and one laying on the ground anyway and besides that the leaves have not all fallen any way. i can always find an excuse for not working can't i.
on thanksgiving this year my son david and i went to a bar at 6 p.m. and they had a free buffet. i had to pay for the two beers i had which was 9.00 but they had a free bingo game and i won 10 dollars. we each had 2 plates of food so we came out good on that deal. my son had 3 glasses of tea and that was no charge.i guess if i had not been drinking beer he would have had to pay for his tea.
i have stopped working on my den .i am laying low for a while until i get some money to pay for carpet and installation of the carpet. my problem is i am on a set income and it seems like the bills get more costly each year because the rates keep rising and my pay does not. it would be nice if i had a two day a week job i could run from home to make some extra cash. now that i am retired i would not want to work for some one else again.
well my friends that is about it for now. i will try to write again soon.

mrh.

hello all

2008-11-12T05:40:00.000-08:00

it is wednesday today and a little cold.the den is just about finished except for the carpet . i may have to wait a bit to get that installed because my money is short like usual. i am not sure it is a good idea to do it any way because the holidays are here again.
mrsh. has a cold and she has been coughing a lot. i am the one that started things off though with a sore throat but i was not coughing. this morning i woke up with a cough. we are going to pass this thing back and forth for sure. i hate colds of course , who doesn't. when my nose is stopped up and my throat is sore and closing up also it's the worse.
i have a carport and right off of my carport and adjacent to my den is two closets which i am now making some shelves. i plan on putting my tools in one closet and mrsh. will put xmas stuff in the other.
there was some guys next door getting the leaves up from the owners yard. i wonder what he had to pay them. they show up once a week to work on his yard. it must be nice to hire some one to come every week and work for you.
mrsh. and i have been doing a lot of grocery shopping lately and stocking up. she uses coupons every week and we are going to have to stop so the grocery stores won't go out of business.
i called my mother the other day and she is doing o.k. mrsh. says she sounds a lot better on the phone now that my father is gone. she took care of him for almost two years while he was sick and that was quite a strain on her. she is a strong woman though even at 84 and she took care of my father and did not put him in to a nursery home. he definitely did not want to go there.
well my friends, that is it for now. take care of yourself during these holidays and do not get to drunk and drive.

mrh.

den photos

2008-10-30T16:26:00.001-07:00

go here ramblin on 2 and look at the whole page.

hello again

i got a good laugh out of this so i am sharing it today.

soap bags

2006-12-07T08:22:00.000-08:00

soap bags, originally uploaded by mrhaney.

here is just some of the material that has been cut for soap bags. my wife is sewing 3,000 bags to send to a monastery in clyde missouri and the nuns there will put soap that they make in to these bags and sell them at their store. she volunteered there for 6 weeks this summer and this is what she did while she was there.

christmas time

2006-12-05T07:21:00.000-08:00

well it is almost christmas time and it is my favorite time of the year. if you celebrate christmas tell us what your christmasses use to be like when you were a child. when i was a child back in the 40's and 50's you would not get a lot of toys or any thing bought from a store when you were a child. so you always looked forward to christmas and what you might get. i was born in massachusetts and back then there was always snow on the ground well before xmas. in most households people had maybe one t.v. and a radio or two. radios were very popular. the t.v. was usually in the den or in the living room. my father would always go out and get the tree and my brother and sister and i would some times helped set it up . the tinsel that hung on the tree ,when stringed popcorn was not used, was hung by my mother. she had to make sure each strand was hanging perfect . there was no tossing tinsel at the tree. my parents would ask me what i wanted for xmas and my list was always long. i always knew what i wanted and desired even when i was a kid. christmas night we kids would go to bed about 9 to 10 p.m. we would go to bed but there would be not to much sleeping going on. we would wait till about 4 a.m. and try and sneak out to look at the presents. we didn't dare move the presents because we knew better. that was my fathers job. we would get up about 7 a.m. and run to wake up my parents. my father and mother would come out which seemed like hours to me but it was only minutes. my father would take the toys one by one and hand them out to me and my brother and sister. he would hand out one each to us and say who the present was from and we would open them. then he would hand out three more. some times my father would hide a toy that i really wanted and act like santa had forgot. he would say,' i think there might be one more for you some where. "" santa doesn't always put every thing under the tree, you know." after we opened the toys mom would make breakfast and after we ate that at the dinner table, we all sat together, we could then go out and play. it was december in new england so it was always cold and there was always plenty of snow on the ground. mom would always tell us when lunch was and we dare not be gone when that time came around. the rest of the day relatives always dropped by and they brought presents. before the day was over we would get in the car and go to my grandparents house which was in the city. when we got there we would walk up 3 floors to there apartment and there were kisses all around and there we got some more presents. at xmas we always had more fruit in the house and my dad always had some whiskey for him and any adults that might drop by. at my grandparents house they had the same thing plus they always had plenty of candy and also peanut brittle that my grandmother use to make. it was winter so every one served hot chocolate and the grownups always had coffee. my grandfather use to drink old granddad, which is a whiskey. some times he would pour some in a shot glass and drop it in a mug of beer. when he wasn't looking i would sneak a sip. my grandfather always had at least one horse that he kept at a friends barn in the country. he lived in the city himself. i use to go with him and his son, my uncle, and go to the barn to see the horse and play in the snow with my uncle who was only 2 years older than i was. christmas time was the only time i would go to my grandparents house that my uncle and i would not get to see a movie. they were closed on that day. christmas to me back then was a very magical day. so what was it like when you were a child?

2006-12-04T00:25:00.000-08:00

hello all. well i should be going to bed because it is now 3 a.m here in ga. and i am still up. last night i was up late again and it is getting to be a habit. they had a special on t.v. about dogs. i love dogs myself so i watched the special. it just got me wanting to have another dog again in my life. i am 61 though my wife is not crazy about having another dog that is not the only reason i do not get one. i know it is a lot of responsibility and some times even at 61 i do not feel like getting up and doing what is needed to take care of a pet. how would i feel at 70 or 75 if i live that long. dogs generally live to 12 - 15 years old if you get a puppy. any way i still love dogs and i had the need to see one today and the pets stores are closed on sundays . i told my wife i was going out to find a dog but i would not bring one back. so i went to the park hoping to see some one with a dog but no luck. so i drove around my neighborhood till i spotted a dog and i went up to the house with the dog in the back yard and knocked on the door. no one was there though so i stayed away from the dog even though i wanted to pet her. i did spot another dog two houses down from the house i was at. i knocked on the door and said, " i live in this neighborhood and i was driving around and i seen that you have a dog inn your yard and i was wondering if i might go and pet it. " i said i have owned several dogs but at present do not have one. the man said, sure you can go pet her and if you want you can go in the back yard also if you like" well i thanked him and did just that . i played with his dog for about 2 hours and then i thanked him and left. i told him i might be back and he said that would be fine. i think the man might have thought it would be good for his dog to get some exercise. at one point the man and his wife and their daughter had to leave and do some laundry at a laundromat and they said i could stay in their yard if i wanted to, which i did. when they returned i was still playing with the dog. i am not so sure i would have left my house with a strainger in my back yard but they did. i guess i did not look like a crook. well after i got home i felt better even though like my wife says, i smelled like dog. a lot of women do not like when men smell like dog but most men don't seem to mind and i know i don't.

easy to say and hard to do.

2006-12-02T23:38:00.000-08:00

hello all.

my wife and i are the parents of four children. we raised them and we had no help in doing so. they were ours and we did not expect any help. we were both raised in a time where you did things on your own and expected no one to help. if you got in a mess you cleaned it up. if you made a mistake you had to learn from it. the bigger the mistake the faster you learned not to do that again. now some people that have no children seem to think it is an easy job but it isn't. it is easy for some one to think he or she could do a much better job than we did or any one for that matter. it is easy when you are saying it and have no children but it is very hard when you actually have one or two or f0ur.

there seems to be a lot of things in this life that are easy to say but are very hard to do. saying is always easier than doing. i can say i want to go on a diet but going on one is another thing. it is hard and difficult and hard to do each and every day. it is hard to stick to. people that have never had a problem with their weight love to tell a person that does, whats the big deal. just eat less. so easy to say, especially when you have never had a weight problem. it is easy to tell some one who is depressed, just take it easy and don't worry so much . you think that the depressed person has not tried that. some time he or she has no idea why they are depressed. maybe it is a chemical imbalance. there could be many reasons. a lot of people look down on the homeless and it is easy to think to yourself or say to some one else, that person should just get a job. he or she must be lazy. that might not be so at all. i know there are things in my life that come easy for me and some times i think why isn't every one like that. i had a friend that was good at fixing cars. i use to have him fix mine all the time. he use to call me when he had carpentry work to be done or a heater or air conditioning unit worked on. when i would go to him and tell him my problems with my car or truck he would tell me how easily i could fix it. he would say, you just have to do this and then he would tell me what i should do. i always stopped him right away and said, it is easy for you but not for me. i must admit i did the same when he would call and ask me to hang a door or find out why his heater was making a funny noise.

i see people all the time that love to grow things. theey have a beautiful garden and i love to see what they have accomplished. on the other hand though, i can't grow any thing. i have tried but with no luck. so i stay away from it. you have to know your limits some time . i must admit though that i am hard headed and do not like to be beaten and i will try and try to do some thing before i give it up but some things are not easy for some and real easy for others.

if we could start over.

2006-11-29T14:00:00.000-08:00

if you could start the world over and hypnotize every single person that was born to always, no matter what , do to each and every other person on earth then what would that be ? if that person was going to do some thing or say some thing that went against the one thing each and every one was programmed to do or hypnotized to do he or she could not do it or say it. it seems to me there is a simple rule that most have learned or know about but it seems to be so difficult to follow for one reason or another. what we beleive gets in the way of us doing that one thing is a lot of things. one is we are influenced a lot by our parents and the way they think and what they teach us. we are influenced by family, friends and a lot by religion, no matter what that religion might be. we are influenced some how by a persons color and race . a lot are influenced by a persons surroundings. what kind of house they own or do not own. their ability to earn money or not. if they are lazy . we are influenced by the way they dress and how fat or thin they are. we are influenced a lot about if they are gay or not gay. we are influenced by what their politics are also. so many things seem to influence how we treat our fellow man and there are very few here on earth that can truly say it doesn't . it seems when we are children though we see clearer than any adult or maybe it is just that we know nothing of the world or what is going on or what has transpired through the years. we don't know who likes who and who doesn't like who. appearances to a child mean nothing and if your rich or poor means nothing also. if you have all your teeth or no teeth we don't care. if you are catholic or jewish or greek orthodox or presbyterian or what ever religion it matters not. i tell you what does matter though and this is the simple rule that we have heard about and most have tried to adhere to but for many reasons could not, DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU . IF WHEN WE WERE A CHILD WE GOT TO THAT POINT IN OUR LIVES WHEN WE WERE CAPABLE OF DECIDING WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO. WHAT TO SAY AND WHAT NOT TO SAY. HOW TO FEEL ABOUT A CERTAIN THING AND HOW NOT TO FEEL. how to treat another person or how not to treat him. if we got to that point and we had no choice no matter how hard we tried to treat every one with out exception as we would like to be treated how would this world be? my grand mother who was like my own mother always spoke kind of every one. i never heard her say a bad word about any one. she may have but i never heard it. she treated all the same and now that i think back on that it amazes me so. she was like a saint on this earth for all to follow in word and deed. my father once said if some one on earth could dislike my grand mother what kind of person would they be. so the next time you see some one or talk to some one treat them like you would like to be treated, today and in the future and after a while things in this world should get a lot better for all of us. i did alright on this post and i think i kept it together but when i started to speak of my grand mother i got emotional and i almost could not finish the post but i did. i myself need to remember to do what i am saying here because i am influenced by a lot of things in this world so i have to constantly remind myself of how to treat every one. i wish i had more of my grandmother in me but she influenced me a lot and made me a better person than i could have been.

chat room tonight for my friends

2006-11-28T11:11:00.000-08:00

today we are going to have a test of my chat room. it is located at my other blog site. go to chat room at that sight at 6 p .m , 9 p.m. and 12p.m. eastern standard time and look to the right of the blog. just type in the square at the bottom of gabby chat and hit your enter key on your key board to enter your text. right above where you type you message you may see a number. the chat room just assigns you a random number and that is who you are in the in the chat room. if you look above the box at the bottom where you right your message you will see a number next to the word change . it will say gabber and a number. that is your number. you can change that number to your name by deleted the number in that box . just move mouse to the box where the number is and delete the number and write your name in there and click on change next to your name. then when you write on the bottom now and hit your enter key your message should appear. i haven't had a chance to try this yet and it may not work but go there tonight and see if you can say hi to some one. i may be there tonight at one of those times but if not every one who comes can try to talk on it and it will stay on there for me to see later. i will try to be there though at one of those times if my wife doesn't need our one and only computer. if you happen to see this before 6 p.m. you could go to the chat room and just practice on it a bit to see if you can write to it and change your number in to your name. then come back later and see if any one is typing on it.

hello all - happy holidays

2006-11-24T07:33:00.000-08:00

happy holidays every one. i have not been posting lately and i should. i have been busy with other things. i ate up a storm yesterday because it was thanksgiving. my wife cooked a large turkey and made the stuffing that i love and only she makes. my youngest son came over and ate with us and stayed a while and that was good. he doesn't come here often. like all grown kids he has his own life to live. i showed him the yahoo games on the computer and how to play pool on the computer. he liked that . he has a laptop he bought but does not use it much except to watch videos. i told him if he got on yahoo messenger with voce then him and i could talk to each other over our computers and we could also play some yahoo games together and talk while we did it.
well i hope every one out there in the blog world is doing fine especially my friends .
i will tak to every one soon.

webkey

2006-11-20T11:11:00.000-08:00

hello all. well last night i managed to stay up till 4 a.m. and then i went to bed and got up at 7:30. i am to old for this. i took my lovely wife to the thrift store and then i went to the waffle house and had breakfast. i hadn't been there in about a month and they were surprised to see me. my meal came to $8.00 which is the usual now for breakfast. i usually leave a two dollar tip but seeing this week is thanksgiving i left the waitress four dollars. those waitresses at waffle house are still getting $2.00 an hour. i can't see how restaurants get away with it but they do. the bosses of all these restaurants that hire people to waitress must have convinced washington that every waitress makes tips and that adds to their salary. any way my mother use to be a waitress and i always like to tip at least 20 percent. i remember when i was a child she would come home after a night at the restaurant and complain about how hard she worked and how little she got in tips. i have seen my mother waitress and i know for a fact she was real good at it. i don't say this just because she was and is my mother. well now that i have got all this out of my way, here is my post.
i was talking to a woman i know on yahoo messenger last night while playing yahoo gin, a card game for those who do not know, and i was telling her about some of the freeware i have down loaded on my computer to save me time. i love saving time. i will even spend some time to save some time. one of these programs i have is called webkey, which you can find here . webkey helps you "Go to your favorite sites, and email friends and family, at the touch of a keyboard button. WebKey contains features such the ability to an email client, run Windows applications (even work with shortcuts), and open registered document files. " i have used this program i guess foe about 3 years. maybe not this edition but another edition. what i do is open webkey after it is down loaded of course and assign it what they call hot keys. for instance if i wish to go to http://www.yahoo.com/ i assign two keys to that url and i have assigned the alt key and the y key on my keyboard. so when i hold down the alt key and touch the y key once it my browser will take me to the yahoo web site. i visit many people who come to my site and i set webkey up to go to their sites. for instance if i want to go to wakers blog i hold the alt key down and hit the w key and i am off to walkers blog. if i like to go to play pool at yahoo i might find the sight and then i copy the address url and enter it in webkey and assign it two hot keys like alt and the letter p and the next time a friend asks me if i care to play pool on yahoo i just hold down the alt key and hit the p key and off the browsers goes to that sight. it is very easy to set up and after you do you will be glad you did.

my parents had the right idea.

2006-11-19T21:24:00.000-08:00

i think my parents had the right idea. i have come to that conclusion now after many years of thinking about it. their theory is once you leave home then you are on your own. if you step in it, whethe on purpose or by accident then you have to clean it up. if you can't then live with the smell. their theory is your problems are your problems and our problems are our problems and never the twain shall meet. i happen to live 1200 miles from my parents and my wife lives 2,000 miles from hers but it would not matter if her and i were 500 feet from their house, things would be the same. as a matter of fact one time we did live 500 feet from their house in my aunts house which we rented. that was fun. we did not have a washing machine then and her house had no room for one any ways. we use to take the wash to the laundromat. one winter day my pregnant wife was not feeling to good but she had wash to do. she walked to my parents house and asked my mom if she could use the their washing machine just this one time. my mother said no. she said my father did not believe in letting any one , even family, using their things because it would wear their things out sooner. so that ended that and we knew where we stood and did not ask again. my parents are good people but they beleive what they believe and i respect that. when my kids come to my house they say i do not treat them like adults. my answer to that is, when you act like an adult then i will treat you like one.
usually my children will ask us to help them and we will. it will start out small and then before you know it they will ask for some thing else. before long we will be doing a lot of things. we will end up doing more than they are doing and it is their problem and not ours. i hate to be thinking about a problem more than the person that owns the problem. then usually at some point we say no we can not do some thing. when that happens they get madder at us than all the rest of the people that did nothing. then that is when i say to myself and my wife, we are damned if we do help them and damned if we don't. so my theory is it is best for them to get mad before we go through all our time and effort and money if the results are going to be the same. so then we usually stop helping and say do it on your own like you should have in the first place, like an adult would. we leave out that last sentence usually. then we swear to ourselves that this will be the last time, lol. that last till one of them needs help again. now some will say, why not stop. all i have to say to that is, their will be a wife involved in the decision and worse than that a mother. kids know that their fathers wife might not help sometimes but their mother will, because that is why GOD made mothers.

volumouse

2006-11-18T07:32:00.000-08:00

i just downloaded volumouse from nonags .go here to get it . if you download it you can set it up to adjust the volume of your speakers with the wheel on your mouse if you have one that is. i set mine up to start the program when i start my computer . then i set it up that when i hold down the alt key on my keyboard i can rotate the wheel on my mouse and the volume increases. go the opposite way with the wheel and hold down the alt key and the sound decreases. also a icon will appear on the screen showing a slider bar as you do this. i have my speakers set back and i almost have to get off my seat to adjust the sound. this is much better.

movies and other things.

2006-11-17T21:12:00.000-08:00

todays post is about the movies and shows you love to watch over and over again. personally i love to watch westerns, john wayne westerns nowadays but back in the day when i was a child i would watch hopalong cassidy and roy rodgers, big valley, bonanza, gunsmoke, lone ranger, big valley, have gun will travel, cheyenne, wyatt earp, gene autry, wanted dead or alive, high chapparral. i use to love to watch the jackie gleason show and i love lucy. i was born in massachusetts so of course i was a red sox fan and i loved to watch baseball and also football. nowadays when they try to make a western they like to talk to much in the movie. they can talk a western to death
nowadays. in the old westerns they did not talk to much and when they did they meant it . the good always won over the bad and it was commom for the star to ride the best mount there was in the show. my grandfather, who owned horses and rode and showed them to , loved to watch westerns with me and his son. his son, my uncle, was two years older than i, and we would spend every weekend together in the summer and if we weren't watching a western we would be watching war movies. those were the days when the you paid a quarter to see the movie and i beleive the candy was a dime and the popcorn was 15 cents and the cokes were 10 and 15 cents. there was always two movies and cartoons and some short war films. you could spend half the day in there and not spend a dollar. when i went to my grandparents house i would take the bus. my parents had a car, one car, but they would not use it to take me to my grandparents. they would give me 20 cents to ride the bus. the bus would stop at the station in fall river, massachusetts and i would walk about a mile to my grandparents house. my uncle, who was 2 years older than i would know i was coming and would drop water baloons from the third floor balconey on my head. i would always walk up the stairs to the third floor sopping wet, there was no elevator. my grandparents would greet me and dry me off and chastise my uncle for getting me wet once again. i always kissed my grandparents when i arrived and when i left. i love them both dearly. my grandmother would give me $4.00 and i would go down to the chineese place and by food for the 4 of us. there was always plenty. my grandmother always had rolls from the bakery and she heated them in the gas oven and we had them with butter with our food. after a while my uncle and i would walk back to town, about 3/4 of a mile and take in a double feature. the chairs were always hard and the screen was always large with a curtain in front of it. when the movie started they would draw the curtain back and we would sit there with a large popcorn and sodas and candies and watch and look in amazement at the movies that were shown. the movies were so simple back then but we loved every minute of them and went every week with out fail.

tom cruise and katie holmes

2006-11-16T05:20:00.000-08:00

i am not usual interested in hollywood stars but this wedding with tom cruise and katie holmes is getting out of hand. does any one think that the stars in hollywood should give more of their money to charity? i suppose that they give to charity and i have no idea what they give but i read cruise gave katie a 20 million dollar plane for a wedding gift. twenty million dollars, is that nuts or what. now they are going to get wed in a castle. what is that going to cost before it s done. i just wonder wonder when these people spend 50 million dollars on some thing and people are starving in their country do they think even once i could have spent 30 million and gave the poor 20 million. when they go to a hotel some where and get charged five thousand dollars for the night do they think even once, these people are taking advantage of me. now if you spent five thousand for a night in any hotel would you leave the hotel for any reason. i wouldn't even want to go to the bathroom because i would be saying to myself, well that trip to the bathroom cost me $300.00.
you would also think that any one who had all this money and all these so called friend would be happy but that is not so. i bet i am happier than 90 percent of the people in hollywood. they are trying to buy happiness and that is not going to happen.
the news always wants to tell us what the starts are doing and what they are spending and who married who and how many times they married. i wonder if they realize that most of us do not care what they do. oh yea, they say tom cruise did not invite oprah to the wedding. my question is, does oprah care if she gets invited. if i had oprahs money i wouldn't care. she can throw her own party every day of the year and still be rich. while i am at it, oprah is rich but i some times think she thinks she is still in touch with us. when i say us i mean the ones that go to work every day and worry about paying the electric and gas bill. when i say us i mean the ones that can count our money instead of weigh it and have no idea how much money we have.
there was a point where oprah went from us to them. she crossed over years ago and she isn't coming back.
whenever a person goes to work he is part of the us and the bosses are the them. if you ever are one of the us and then get to be a boss then you have crossed over to the them. all of a sudden those friends that you had for years no longer wish to talk to you. you try to tell them , just because i am a boss now means nothing. i am still the same person but they don't believe you. if you don't think so see how many times you get invited to go to lunch with the us crowd. here is the funny thing though. when you go from the us to the them all of a sudden the them becomes us and the us becomes them. that's weird isn't it.
does any one think of things like this but me. am i all alone here? i am rambling i know but check out the name of my blog and you will know why.

i just checked the spelling on this and i spelled coming as comming. i always feel like comimg should have two m's . what do you think? as a matter a fact why isn't it spelled cumming?what makes the o sound like a u. when we say tom cruise the o in tom doesn't sound like a u. we don't say tum cruise do we? some times the spelling of words baffles me. no wonder so many of us can not spell. there is even a lot of them that can't spell. most of us know what group we are in though. we are either in the us or the them except for oprah that is. she beleives she is in both groups i am sure. i hope oprah doesn't read my post. she may not invite me to her next party. oh well, i have nothing to wear for a fancy party any way.

HELLO ALL

2006-11-14T20:45:00.000-08:00

I BOUGHT A HEADSET TONIGHT TO USE ON YAHOO MESSENGER AND THIS MIKE IS SO SENSITIVE IT CAN RECORD ME BREATHING. I TRIED TO ADJUST THE MIKE SO IT IS JUST THE RIGHT DISTANCE FROM MY MOUTH AND IT SEEMS TO WORK ALRIGHT BUT WHEN I LOOK DOWN TO TYPE I CAN SEE IT AND IT IT HARD FOR ME TO GET USE TO IT.
I HAD A WEIRD DREAM TODAY. YES TODAY IN THE AFTERNOON I FELL ASLEEP WATCHING T.V. I WAS DREAMING I HAD THIS PORTABLE HEATER GOING IN THE LIVING ROOM AND IT WAS ON MY NEW HARDWOOD FLOOR THAT I INSTALED THIS SUMMER AND WHEN I LIFTED THE THING UP THERE WAS A BURN SPOT ON MY NEW FLOOR. WELL WHEN I SPOTTED THAT MY FRIENDS I WOKE RIGHT UP. IT SCARED ME SO MUCH, I JUST KNEW I HAD SCREWED UP MY FLOOR.
HAVE YOU HAD ANY BAD DREAMS LATELY?

hello all

2006-11-13T20:36:00.000-08:00

well i dropped by walkers blog and he has managed to burn himself . he may be out of commission for a while unless he can manage to type with his toes. so drop by there and say hi.

weekends

2006-11-12T08:22:00.000-08:00

well it is the weekend and sunday to boot . so what i wanted to ask today is , what does every one do on their weekends? do you all do the same things weekend after weekend or is it up in the air and you decide as you go. now that we are retired you would think we go out all the time but we don't. when we were working money was tight and now it is even worse. i never could seem to save any money no matter what i heard about saving money. i never seemed to have extra money. all my money was spoken for and a savings account was a joke because i needed all my dough for the essentials. i guess i could have worked another job besides my full time job but that would take me away from home and my wife and 40 hours away from her was enough for me. well today i am on the computer again and my wife is sewing soap bags. now every one is saying, "what is a soap bag." well my wife has done some volunteer work at a monastery in clyde missouri. she has been there a couple of times for 6 weeks at a time in the fall and this time they had her sewing together these small cloth bags, i call it any way, which holds 1 bar of soap each. the nuns make the soap and they put each bar in a small cloth bag with a ribbon on it and sell it at their little store they have. so after my wife got home from the monastery she waited a few months and called the nuns and said if they sent her the material she would sew the soap bags and send them back. she is sewing 1,000 of them and it should take about 4 days to do. so while she is busy doing that i am here writing this post and talking to people on yahoo messenger.
by the way, who has yahoo messenger with voice?
well that is enough for now and i will talk to use guys later. use guys is a yankee expression in case your about to correct me which i know you won't because we are friends, right?

veterans day today

2006-11-11T06:30:00.000-08:00

today is veterans day and we should honor all our veterans. here is a good sight i found that explains things, veterans day .if you know a veteran pick up your phone and call him and thank him or her for their service . there are a lot of veterans that have never been thanked. we owe our lives and freedoms to these brave men and women. i know walker will be posting about the day and it would be good if you dropped by his blog later on today . give him a little time to get up though.

hello all.

2006-11-07T21:11:00.000-08:00

well another day has come and gone and it is just past midnight. time sure flies around here. i guess it is because i am retired. i remember the first days when i was retired. i got up at the usual time like i had to go to work but i didn't. i could just stay home or go where ever i wanted. i felt if i went out some one would stop me and say, aren't you suppose to be at work. it didn't happen though. the retirement checks even though very small would be sent to my bank each month with my name on the top and i would get mail in my mail box saying it had been sent. to me it was like a miracle. i knew there was a pension at my job if i stayed for 20 years or more i just never expected to get there. i guess i though i would be dead by then. the best time though was the month just before my retirement date. i came to work but that was about it. i worked very little. the people knew i only had 30 days left and they did not mess with me. my bosses did not mess with me. my date was set and i had worked since i was 18 and by then i was 57. i really expected to work till i died. i would never have enough money to retire on i thought. i was getting paid for 40 hours at work and that was never enough and i knew my retirement check would be about half of that. one day though i decided enough was enough and i figured out what my retirement check would be and i decided if it was not enough i would do side jobs or work on the weekends some where. i never did though after i retired. i was in purchasing and i would take the business truck and go pick up supplies that last month and i told every one at the supply houses, you won't be seeing me next month. they asked why and i would say, i am retiring from my job. well they could not believe it and i almost didn't believe it myself. the day i decided to retire i came home and said to my wife, i have to talk to you. she got scared when i said that i think. i said, i have figured things out and i think i am going to retire. i guess she was expecting me to say in five years but i told her in 30 days on our anniversary day. she said, your kidding, right. i said, no i am serious. after i retired i waited for the hammer to fall and my dreams would end on the retirement thing but that was 5 years ago and no one came and got me and sent me back. i am glad of that. now i wake up and do not go to work and don't even give it much thought at all. it is like my life is suppose to be that way now. i still work a lot around the house and a lot of the times work harder than when i was actually at work. it is a lot more relaxing though and i don't wake up with stomach aches like i use to , especially on monday mornings. i hope it never ends for me and my wife. i would hate to work for some one else again.

i am back again.go to my movie and that will take you to a web site called send space. look for download link movie5 avi . click on it and see if you can download it to your computer and open it. it is a movie i made of my desktop. turn your speakers up a bit to hear my voice because it has audio and see if it works. if it does let me know.

i am back.
i had to people try to see the movie and they could hear my voice but not see the movie. so here is the challenge. who can get the movie to play both on audio and video.
i can see it fine on winamp media player on my computer.

time- do you have some?

2006-11-06T16:23:00.000-08:00

i have been sitting here trying to figure out what to post tonight and i thought i would post about time. it seems that time is an important part of each day. we either have enough to accomplish what we want or we don't. when ever i do what i happen to like in life it seems if i don't have enough time i make time. actually one can't make time but every one says that when they have some thing important to do. some times we just have time to accomplish one task and that is it. when i was working i would get up each morning and get ready for work. i had to make time for that even though i wasn't that happy about going there. some times my wife would ask me a question that i knew would take maybe 20 minutes to answer and i had to leave in 10 minutes for work. i would always say, i don't have time for this now. i will make time when i get home. i can't speak for the women but as for most men i would say we have plenty of time for certain things. we are basic in nature to begin with so we like basic things like food, drink, sex . i guess that is the main three. maybe not in that order. it seems some women have a hard time finding just the right present for their boyfriends or husbands. i would say if you made them their favorite meal and gave them a few drinks and then , well you probably know the third one. it is one of the top three. that would be good enough. if you want to go above and beyond turn on a football game and go get them a few cold beers and go to sears and buy them some tools. don't worry about wrapping the tools either. just put them in a bag with another case of beer and 2 or 3 maine lobsters. men always have time to write post to women about things they would like to get if any of the women wanted to. now i will give the women equal time to list what they have time for. i know the bond girls have a big list. after all they are the bond girls. i know walker is going to chime in tonight and say i am rambling but i do that best. maybe he is to tires though from working on his house today. well i can dream can't i?

for all to know

2006-11-04T09:13:00.000-08:00

lately I have been talking on yahoo messenger to people all over the world. it is very easy to do once you get the hang of it. now some of these people that I meet for the first time might have strong opinions about americans in general , which I am one of them. they might have decided that americans are not any good at all. they have a right to their opinion as do I and every one else. what I ask for them to do though is to treat me as an individual and I will do the same for them. there are things about my own country that I do not care for. there are things I disagree with. there are things I would like to change but feel I can not or maybe I am just lazy and do not go through the effort. in general though I love america and I choose to live here. I also choose to try to get along with all countries and all races and treat people like they treat me. if america chooses to get in to a conflict with another country it does not mean I believe every one in that country is bad . I think there are good people every where if we just choose to find them . if it was up to me there would be no wars and no mother's son or daughter would die today or ever. my theory is, why can't we all get along. it seems like such a great idea and I believe my LORD would want us to all get along but for some reason we never seem to get there and may never do so in the future but we can strive to get along with each and every person that treats us decent. so if you don't like some of our policies and you do not live in america then that is o.k. because we in america are not pleased with a lot of things either. that being said I am an american and I would not change that. I am also an individual that likes people and always tries to treat them in a kind way. if I hurt some ones feelings I have no quams in apologizing. I will respect you and yours as long as you give me the same consideration. I post this today to let all my potential friends know how I feel. if they want me as a friend that is fine. I make a very good friend to people because I care for people. if they choose not to be my friend well that is o.k too. I can go either way.
well now that I said all this, have a good day and drop by soon.

msn messenger

2006-11-03T09:52:00.000-08:00

i have windows live messenger on my computer now and have been having fun with it lately. it has a lot of features and it is a bit hard to learn at times but i found one man in new zealand that was willing to help me. i usually do not play games on the computer but he has shown me how to get in to the yahoo pool and we have been playing pool quite a bit. last night i opened up th msn messenger and i had his name on my contact list so when he is online i know it. next to his name he left a link to where he was, which was at a yahoo pool game. so i clicked on the link and went to where he was on yahoo. when you click on the link a screen wil open on your desktop a nd your name will appear in what they call the lobby of the game room along with other names. one of the names was his name which showed me he was playing pool. i then went to my msn messenger and located his name on my contacts list. i double click on it and then i click on conference and then i click on his name and invite him to talk with me. if he accepts the invitation we start to talk on our mikes to each other. at this time i can tell him i am in the lobby of the pool hall and he can see my name there and he clicks on a screen that invites me to the game he is playing. i accept his invite and now a screen will open on my computer and a pool table with appear. his name is on the top so i know he is there and i click on the word sit which gets my name on the top of the table as his opponent and we are ready to play pool. now we can play and see the balls move and we can also talk with each other over our mikes. now there is a feature when we are playing pool that either one of us can click on that will leave a link next to our names on msn messenger that tells all our contacts where we are. so if you had the msn messenger and had me as a contact when you opened messenger and seen mrhaney you would also see a link next to my name telling you i was playing pool. if you clicked on the link you would go to the lobby where the game was taking plave and now your name would be on the list along with my name and my friends name. if i happen to see your name in the lobby i could click on invite and invite you to play. i could also call you and get you in to a conference with my friend and i and we could all talk while we played pool. last night i was playing pool with my friend from new zealand. while we played we were both in a conference with 3 other people. one woman was in washington state, one man was in saudi arabia, and another woman was in china. while my friend and i played pool these peope could watch us play on theeir computer and could talk to us or talk with each other while we played and they could also write to each other if they did not happen to have a mike. it is unbeleivable what you can do with the yahoo messenger with voice. while all this was happening walker sent me an instabt message on msn messenger and i typed on the message that i was playing pool. i am sorry walker but i did not know how to tell you how to get where we were at the time. if i was thinking straight i could have told you to open your yahoo messenger and next to my name on your contacts list you would have seen the link showing you i was at the pool game. when these computers are working it is surprising all you can do while you sit in front of them. i just wrote this and i went to my my msn e-mail site and clicked on compose a letter and pasted the test and after i do that it will show me mistakes in spelling. it does not show me how to correct them though so i have to change each incorrect word till it accepts it as correct. i then copied it and pasted it to my post. i think i did it right. i have a program to spell check words but i learn better doing it this way. after i get it in the post i want to send every one i then open readplease or speokonia and the words will be spoken to me so i don't have to actually read aain what i have written. i hate reading so thats why i installed readplease and speakonia. so now i am ready to click on publish post so my few readers can read this. so here goes. i have installed a program called clipboard diary. one of the things that this program does is while i type a letter or this post for instance if i stop any where in the letter i can hold down control and the letter a and it will highlite what i wrote and then i hold down control and the letter c and it copies what i wrote to the clipboard diary. the clipboard diary program will save that text to the program and it will be there whenever i open the program. there were a lot of times i would write a long post and i would get a glich in my computer and loose all i had writen before i had a chance to save it on my computer. so now when i write a post i open this program and after i type a portion of my test i highlite it and copy it and that portion is saved . then i type some more and do it again. so if i saved it twice and i was on the third part and i got a glich i would only loose the last part that i was typing. the other 2 thirds would be saved. i use to write a long post and save the post to microsoft word or notepad. but you have to open up the word program and paste the text and then click on file and then save as and decide where you want to save it and what you want to name at and then click on save. thats to many steps for me. if i tried to save it in 3 parts it would take to long . with clipbaord diary though i just highlite the text and copty the text and it is saved. if i get on the computer 3 days from now and open my clipboard diary program there it will be. it is a very handy program to have. well thats all for now. i should leave this post up for a coupe of days.

you won't beleive this. i went to publish the post and it would not do it . which meant all my test would have been lost but luckily i had saved it along the way in 3 parts in clipboard diary and was able to get it back . that would have been a lot of time lost.

did a bomb go off

2006-11-02T22:23:00.000-08:00

did a bomb go off and destroyed all my blogging friends? where is every one ? it says in my stats counter i had 19 visitors today but no one has replied to my post. i must have made some one mad. the problem is i do not know who. maybe it is because i am not on the new beta yet? maybe it is my deoderant? tell me some thing?

when pigs fly.

2006-11-01T07:28:00.000-08:00

go see the news about bob barker . i guess i am ready to leave this earth because in my life time the red sox won the pennant and bob barker is finally retiring . what is next. tommorow i will wake up and see pigs in the air. when i was comming up if i or any one else heard some thing we did not beleive would ever happen we would comment, " that will happen when pigs fly." so not only will pigs be flying but all those things we said would never happen until pigs fly will be happening and we use to say that a lot. we had that much confidence that whatever we were talking about would not happen. that just made me think of some thing else. have you ever been talking with some one and maybe you told them a story and they said are you telling the truth and to let them know you were you would say, i swear on my mothers life . now when you said that the other person would beleive you because you were actually saying if i am lying to you my mothers life will be taken. you might as well say if i am lying you can shoot me and i would rather say that then the one about my mothers life. see what i did walker , i started to ramble. as ralph malph of happy days would say after he told a joke to his father, " i still got it."

do me a favor please.

2006-10-31T14:32:00.000-08:00

drop by jules's blog and comment on her post. her son has been in an accident. i wrote the following post first but i just found out about jules. she needs some prayers.

happy halloween every one. i haven't had any kids come to my house in five years. when my children were small and we lived at my first house there were all kinds of kids. they would come back 2 or 3 times dressed as some thing else. how busy is it around your house at this time?
well i am back. i have installed skype and it is like yahoo messnger. i have it on now. it is 6:34 est.my skype name is mrhaney1. if you have skype put that in your contact list and give me a buzz. i am trying to test this out.

hello

2006-10-29T22:04:00.000-08:00

hello every one. i am writing this post to thank my friend walker for redoing my blog. if you look at my sidebar it is a lot easier to read and you can scroll down and see my links and my favorites . he did an excellent job on it and he deserves all the credit. the post are still mine and the errors in spelling and grammar on mine also but now things aren't all over the place. so welcome to my new old blog. it is still ramblin on and your links will still get you hear. i tried myself to change this one to beta but it would not take. they still have some bugs to work out. while you are at it drop down to the post before this and give it a read. it has some thing to do with my sidebar and i wrote it before walker did all the tweaking on my template . so now it iss much easier to read and clck on things and go places . well i hope every one had a good weekend. i have been busy lately trying to learn all the ins and outs of msn,yahoo, and skype messengers. i talk to walker quite a bit but i have also got to talk to ssome guys in new zealand. it is 1:15 a.m. monday here in ga. and it is 7;15 p.m. monday in new zealand. so when i call some one at 3 a.m. my time it will be 9 p.m.i new zealand , which is not to bad. if i call miss vickie up she will get mad because she does not like to be woken up at 3 p.m. just because i want to stay up. are you suppose to say woken up. that's probably not right. well have a good one and be safe out there.

side bar

2006-10-29T12:20:00.000-08:00

hello all. well it is sunday and it is a wonderful day in the neighborhood, as mr. rogers use to say. any one know who mr. rogers is? to learn about the show go here?
this is not my topic at all. i am ramblin on. did you know i was or are you still asleep like me and need a cup of coffee ?
i was just wondering, when you go to some ones blog do you ever see what is in the sidebar or do you just read the post. how many read post but seldom leave a comment? some times i will read a post on a friends site and even if i do not have much to say about the post i will click on comment and just say hi and let them know i was there. if you look to the right of this post on my blog you will notice under the flag it says misc. messages.at the bottom of the messages you will see get a c box. to the right of that you will see name,e-mail/url,message and go. now if you click on those boxes and fill them out and write a message and click on go i will get the message and it will appear at the top above every one elses message. this is your chance to go to the top in just a very few seconds of your time. where else do you get this oppertunity. so if you want to leave a comment leave it here under comment or just stroll over to the right on my sidebar and leave me and all others that will see it a message. you could say for instance, hello mrhaney how are you today. i just popped in to say hi. you might even say, how's your family or give my best to your mama, any of the above will make me feel better. maybe you could just tell a joke there and share it with me and any one that drops by my site. also after that look around on the sidebar and click on a few things and see where it takes you. think of my sidebar and other sidebars as an unopened box with a surprise in it. if i sent you a box in the mail would you open it, of course you would. it would drive you crazy not to wouldn't it. well my sidebar is like an unopened box, so browse around. it might be some thing you like and maybe not. there are links there to my friends blogs and you can go to their blogs from my site and browse their sidebars. you can start at walkers blog . you could spend the day there just looking around . say hi to him for me while you are there.
i know you have been dropping by here and there have been no post . well today i have given you some thing to read . have a good weekend and be careful out there.

what wrong

2006-10-29T07:17:00.000-08:00

this is not posting

test

2006-10-29T07:16:00.000-08:00

test

sidebar

2006-10-29T07:14:00.000-08:00

test

2006-10-29T06:50:00.001-08:00

this is a test

sidebars

2006-10-29T06:50:00.000-08:00

sidebars

2006-10-29T06:42:00.000-08:00

sidebars

2006-10-29T06:39:00.000-08:00

so how ah ya.

2006-10-28T16:40:00.000-07:00

if you ever go up to the state of massachusetts and you are not from the north you will hear this a lot. they seem to like to say how are you but it sounds more like how ah ya. when my wife and i went to the state of ma. where my parents live we spent a lot of time at one particuliar thrift store. every time we were there we kept hearing some say, holy moley. the problem here is i can't explain how he said it with out having an audio byte or a recording of him , which i don't. so i made you a holy moley recording myself . go
here to download it . if you figure out how to download it and you hear it let me know. it worked for me when i went to the link. you may have to turn up the volume on your speakers a bit. people that have dsl can open a file like this real quick and the other , like me , that have dial up takes longer. this is only a short file though so it does not take long even for me.