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DECEMBER
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Today we got some mail delivered and I was stumped to why we would be getting mail on a Sunday...
And then a little later I finally figured it out,... it's already Monday today.
Today I worked in my office most the day. And I also did a little grocery shopping, cooked a nice dinner for the cats and finished one load of laundry.
I made a few videos over the past couple days. I'm just not sure if I'm gonna put them in here or not as of yet.
Well I think that's about it for my day and I'm about ready to hit the hay.
Think I may of learned all kinds of new things today. I was doing some reading and figuring. I don't know that any of it is really worth mentioning here though. Things like how to export computer drawings to where they can be imported in the same form that they were exported is one of the things I recently learned about.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Videos - me singing a song from the Black Eyed Peas called "Where Is The Love".
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
This morning I've decided to put a couple more practice videos in My Practice Videos that's on my Video Archives page. I like the videos, but I still haven't got the 3rd verse of the song down to my liking... They'll be the 2 videos on top labeled with today's date: Black Eyed Peas -Where Is The Love 2 and 3.
Well,.. today I ended up spending my whole day in my office again.
One of the things I did while I was in here is I put a new Site Index on the bottom of most my pages in this site.
The large rolling icon on the bottom of each page that says Site Index on it is now a clickable link to the Site Index page.
Most the things I learned new today were about finding mistakes in my the HTML coding on some of my pages. Don't remember learning anything new other than that.
And now it's goin on 11:00pm and I think I'm gonna be getting to bed here pretty soon.
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Today I just happened to notice that a lot of my videos in here weren't playable from the Internet Explorer Browser... So I ended up working on fixing that all day today.
The new software upgrade that I got for my web videos had a different style of coding that isn't working in Internet Explorer for some reason. I didn't even notice because I've been using the Firefox browser mostly.
I like it for a lot of reasons,... one of them is it's Themes. I've got mine all decked out with a Christmas Theme right now.
Another reason I like it is it shows every bodies Favicons. I don't know why Internet Explorer will only display some peoples Favicons. But I like being able to see my Favicons too.
I've been thinking that it may be because they can't trust the little things,.. as if they can carry virus's or something... I don't know.... I've thought though that I'll sign my Favicons up if there's ever a place to go and get them trusted.
Favicons for people who don't know are the little icon that is on the left of a tab next to the title of the web page that you are on. And the icon also displays at the left of the address bar where you type out an address to get to a web page.
The last couple days I've been singing the song from the Black Eyed Peas called "Where Is The Love". I still don't have the 3rd verse down to my liking. But I made a couple videos that don't sound too bad and decided to put them in my Dailies for today.
I like this song.
I've already mentioned what I learned new today up above. And fixing it was all about changing the coding on every HTML and JS page associated with the video pages that weren't working back to the old style of coding that I was using previously. I had to fix about every video page from November 2007 and December 2007.
It's 6:00pm here in California right now and I've still gotta take that load of laundry out of the dryer that I was talking about in my dailies yesterday.
And I've still gotta fix dinner for the cats,... and then I'll probably just stay in the office working with my computer up until time to go to bed...
Again.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Videos - me singing a song from the Black Eyed Peas called "Where Is The Love".
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Friday, December 28, 2007
I don't know yet... It's morning and I'm still waking up here. But I do have a video that I made yesterday that I'm putting in my dailies right now.
My tone in the first video seems a little too high pitched, so I've made a lower pitched version of the song and put it in for today's videos too.
And after hearing both versions I'm thinking that the high version sounds more right but maybe it would be better for me if the song started out in a lower key. Like maybe start the instruments in a G instead of an A flat... I don't know.
Today I just worked with my computer all day. There just seems to always be plenty of things that I can do with it every day.
And that's pretty much it for my day today... I've re-dryed my clothes that are in the dryer twice today to refresh them or keep them from wrinkling but I just haven't made the time to take them out of the dryer to fold them and now their probably ready to be refreshed again.
Think I'm about ready for bed here. And I don't recall learning anything new today.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Videos - me singing a song from the Ramones called "The KKK Took My Baby Away".
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
Yesterday I found a cool new to me song and sang it in a video that didn't turn out too awful bad, so I decided to put it in my Dailies today.
In my experience with trying to sing Rap songs so far it's been like,... rapping is harder than singing is.
Trying to sing this Black Eyed Peas song was like,... the words keep coming and I'm about out of air but there's no time to suck in more air...
I also put a practice video of this song in My Practice Videos that's on my Video Archives Page.
As far as I know,.. I've never heard the Black Eyes Peas sing this song before. I'm just attempting to sing it my way.
Well it's after 9:30pm here at my house now and I just got back from dinner over at Pomodoro Cucina Italiana.
Today it seems like I kicked back a lot of the day again and didn't do a whole lot. But I did go over to Lowe's and get me a new door and jamb for my bathroom that I'm remodeling.
I don't remember learning anything new today... Oh,.. except for I did find out that it is possible for me to sing this Black Eyed Peas song without running out of air. It was easier to sing today. Like practicing it and getting more familiar with the words helps.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Video - me singing a Black Eyed Peas song called "Where Is The Love".
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Today I took the day off from work. I'm gonna take the rest of the week off too if I don't get no calls about it.
And today really went by fast. Seems like I hardly did anything today.
First thing this morning what I did once the stores were open,.. I went down to a couple different Guitar Center stores to see if they had a wireless microphone system. Neither one of them had the one that I went there for,.. so I ended up coming home and ordering it Online.
And I took my Great Uncle grocery shopping. Cooked a nice dinner for the cats. A nice dinner is when I fry up a bunch of eggs and mix their food in with it.... They act like they really like those dinners.
But it's not like they don't like the crock pot of food that I cook them,... they always eat every bit of what I put out for them like they like it or somethin.
I didn't expect especially the cats,.. to eat vegetarian. But I've even got cats coming over from my Mom's house and her neighbors house to eat.
And then the rest of the day it seems like I've just been piddling around with things.
I've come across some cool new to me songs in my karaoke discs today and yesterday. And that's one of the things I was piddling around with today,.. I was listening to a few of the new karaoke discs that I have and doing some singing. Think I have 50 or more karaoke CDs that I haven't even listened to yet.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
I don't know yet... But I decided to put one more video of Nat King Cole's Christmas Song in here for today.
It didn't turn out too bad... It was just the volume level or difference of the sound compared to the other Christmas Song videos that I made that kept me from putting it in my videos yesterday...
Well,.. it's about 9:00pm here at my house right now,.. and my Christmas was a little bit different this year.
Me and my parents waited around all day for my brother to show up only to find out later that he wasn't going to be showing up this year.
But other than that Christmas this year was Ok I guess. I got money from my parents for Christmas and I got myself an Alice Cooper T-Shirt and an Elvis Presley Santa hat....
Oh,.. and I got myself a Christmas sweat shirt too with little Christmas trees on the front of it.
My Mom made some very good tasting white chocolate fudge with walnuts in it.
One thing that I learned new today is that out of 30 CD's from my new Sweet Georgia Brown karaoke disc's,.. about 90 percent of them have some kind of static on them along with the music. And I still have 30 or more CD's that I haven't even checked yet.
I'll have to see if their still returnable maybe tomorrow.
And that's about it for my Christmas this year.
I think I'm gonna hit the hay.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Video - me singing Nat King Cole's version of "Christmas Song".
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Today I had to go to work for an hour or so over on my Riverside garage painting project.
And then I came home and made some videos and I also went over to K-Mart and finished up my Christmas shopping for this year.
I had to go drop a friend off at the Bus Station. Scott that use to live here.
And now I'm sitting here at my computer,.. it's after 7:00pm,.. and I'm uploading all these new video files to my web server.
I know that I've learned anything new worth mentioning today.
Oh yeah,.. I did all my Christmas wrapping today too.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Videos - me singing Christmas songs - "Rocking Around The Christmas Tree", I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", "Santa Baby" and "Christmas Song".
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
Today I had to go over to my Riverside garage painting project and work where I painted doors and jambs and put another coat of clear epoxy on one side of their floor.
Then I came home and did my chores and then a friend of mine,.. Scott,.. that use to live here for a while showed up. And I haven't really done much of anything since he got here.
I almost forgot to write my dailies out for today.
Which wouldn't of been that big a deal,.. I don't really have anything much to say here tonight anyway.
I don't remember if I've learned anything new today.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Today,.. since I worked a little late yesterday on the job and got it finished,.. I didn't have to go to work today.
And for what I did today,... Oh,.. I don't know,.. I'm still working on finishing some laundry. I've cooked up a big pot of food for the cats. I made a few music videos. And I transferred my Hoodoo Gurus record to my computer with my new USB turntable.
And I guess that's about it for today.
I've gotta go to work tomorrow,.. so I'll probably just go to bed here in a little while.
And I don't remember if I've learned anything new today.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Today I went out to Redlands, California and worked on my job where I'm Painting all their newly installed doors. I decided to work a little late today so that I could get that portion of the job finished.
I've also got their entire exterior of the house to paint and a fireplace mantel to build next year some time.
And now that I'm home I've got all my chores done for the evening and it seems like I'm kind of burned out...
So I may go to bed early tonight.
I don't remember if I've learned anything new today.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
For work today I worked on my Riverside garage painting project and I got the clear coat applied over the paint chips finish on the floor in the one car side of their garage.
Then I had to go to the bank and make a deposit.
And then I came home and played with my new USB turntable and it's Audacity software.
This thing is pretty cool. I've been busy with it all day since I got home.
The things I learned new today were all about this USB turntable and the Audacity software. Basically,.. I just learned how to transfer the music from records to my computer and how to use the software.
I suppose I can put a video in My Practice Videos that's on my Video Archives page today. It will be up on top dated with today's date labeled: Rocking Around The Christmas Tree-1.
And now it's after 5:00pm here and I'm just about ready to go over to Pomodoro Cucina Italiana to have dinner.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Today for work I went out to Redlands, California and worked on a job where I'm just painting doors and jambs along with some interior touch up painting. All the doors are newly installed and brand new.
Now that I'm home I've finished my chores and I'm just about ready to go in and go to bed.
But other than that I just got this USB turntable record player so I've trying it out tonight. It's a record player that can plug into my computer and I can put my old records on my computer if I like.
I haven't got the software intalled on my computer yet that came with it, so I don't know how well it works for that yet,.. but it plays records great.
I've only got 2 records left out of all the records I use to have over the years back when I bought records. But I think the 2 that I have are records that you can't get on CD,... as far as I know anyway.
The 2 I have are: Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars and The Rockats - Make That Move.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Today I worked on my Riverside garage painting project,.. and there I put the second coat of epoxy on the one car side of their garage floor along with a sprinkling of paint chips.
It's a pretty cool looking finish. After it drys up I'll be putting a clear coat over it possibly on this Thursday.
Then our hot and cold Arrowhead water dispenser stopped working yesterday. So on my way home today I picked us up a new one over at Lowe's.
And now I'm just sitting here with all my chores done for the night and I'm thinking that I might just work on my work web site for a while before I go to bed... It needs all it's html coding fixed besides anything else.
One thing new that I learned today is that my MBox 2 - Pro Tools software has an upgrade now for Windows Vista. So when I'm ready to fork out the $75.00 dollars for the upgrade I can have my Pro Tools working again.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
Today for work I worked on my Riverside garage painting job applying the first coat of epoxy to the second side of their garage floor,.. then I went over to a job in Redlands, California and Painted doors and jambs for the rest of the day.
I got home a little later today and this evening is going quite fast.
I listened to KROQ 106.7 radio for a little while today. I haven't listened to them for a long time. They use to be my favorite radio station back when I was in High School and up til around my age of 24.
One of the things I learned today was that my second web site server that I'm not using anymore just gave me a refund and told me what the amount was. And I also learned how to get my favorite flash video converter working again too.
Other than that,.. I just had my shower, fixed dinner for the cats,... think I'll have me a little singles Red Baron pizza and then go to bed here in a little bit.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Ok,.. it's Sunday night here now,.. about my bed time and I've gotta figure out what I've got to say for today here in My Dailies.
Seems like most the day I spent working on things with my computer. I tried out some new softwares, got my calendar all squared up for next week, payed some bills online, worked on fixing some of my web site pages that need their html coding updated and read and replied to my emails.
Then also today I went over to Lowe's and picked up a few things for my job on Monday and for my bath room at my house. And went over to Rite-Aid and got a few things.
Then I wrapped a Christmas present for a friend that I haven't seen in a long time and went over to his house this evening and gave it to him and also met his wife for the first time.
It was kind of like stepping into reality for a moment over there and made parts of my life seem phony.
I'm sure I must of learned something new today,.. but I don't remember what it was at this time.
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
I've been so busy with things all day today that I haven't had any time to work on my bathroom remodel here at my house.
Let's see here,.. I've done some Christmas shopping, some grocery shopping, 2 loads of laundry, been to the bank and made some deposits, worked on some web site stuff, cooked a big pot of food for the cats and also fried them up a nice home cooked dinner and I had to drop off some materials on a job this morning also.
One thing that I learned new today is that my favorite video converter software company won't all me to use the software I purchased now and are saying that I have to purchase an upgrade.
Their the first company I've come across that won't allow me to use their older versions of the software.
I purchased their upgrade weeks ago,.. but think of it as a downgrade because it converts my videos wrong. It crunches them down where they look fatter than the original video.
Their old software converted my videos to the same looks of the original video.
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Today for work I worked on a house in Redlands California painting Doors, Jambs and wall shelves. It's the same job I worked on yesterday.
Then on my drive home from work the freeway was a little backed up so I decided to get off the freeway before it got me to my usual off ramp which took me by Sears... So I went in a did a little Christmas shopping before I went home.
And now that I'm home I've worked on some web site stuff, cooked dinner for the cats and now I think I'm about finished for the day.... Just about ready to go in and go to bed.
I don't remember if I've learned anything new today. Seems like Sears don't have a toy department anymore though.
I remember when I was a kid we use to look at the Sears catalog every year for gifts we were interested in getting... Maybe they didn't have a toy department back then either,.. all I remember seeing in there at this time from back then was drum sets and guitars.
Oh they must of had more than that,... because I remember really liking that catalog a lot back then. And it wasn't clothes, appliances or tools that I was interested in back then.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
Ok,.. here I am about to go in and go to bed and I've gotta figure out what I've got to say for today...
Well,.. I just got back from dinner at Pomodoro Cucina Italiana a little while ago. Dinner was Great again... I had Ravioli Di Zucca, Spinaci, Cavolini, Pane Al'aglio and a glass of milk.
For work today I had to go over to another job that I have out in Redlands, California where I puttied, caulked and primed door edges and decorative wood wall shelves. I needed to get back over to this job because they wanted it done before the Holidays.
And that was about it for my day today.
One thing that I remember learning new today was that this sander that I thought I purchased in November was really purchased in July so the 3 month warranty wasn't any good when I brought it back to Home Depot to return it.
Seems like I hardly even used the thing. It just stopped working all of a sudden. I think it's the switch,... the On-Off switch may be the problem.
So now I've gotta call RIDGID Tool company and see what I have to go through in order to use their warranty.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Today I worked on my Riverside garage painting project again and got the floor all ready for it's epoxy coatings. Had to special order some of the materials, so I won't be back to start the floor finishing until next Monday.
Then I came home and worked on my own bathroom remodel project a little bit. Got the new junction box for the wall light installed.
And now I'm sitting here uploading files to my new web server that haven't been uploaded yet.
Then I've got a load of laundry to fold and I think I'm gonna go to bed after that.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Today I worked on my Riverside garage painting project again and today I got the floor all scraped and sanded. The floor has been painted previously and it's peeling here and there.
Think I'll put some more videos in My Practice Videos that's on my Video Archives page. They'll all be on top dated with today's date.
Now that I'm home I've had my shower and I still have a bit of a headache that I've had most the day so I don't think that I'm going to be doing to awful much tonight...
I don't know if I've learned anything new today,.. but the night is still young,.. I could learn somethin later maybe.
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Today for work I had to go back to my Riverside garage painting project and get started on the other half of the garage. Had to store stuff in this area while I painted the first side of the garage. Now the stuff is moved over on the finished side.
And today I got the walls and ceiling all prepared and painted and the stem walls patched up.
Then when I got home,... well,.. it seems like my evening sure went fast. It's already time for bed.
Anyway,.. I've been sitting here making sure my videos in my web site here are working correctly and on the correct web server and then deleting my files from my old web server once I find out their not needed anymore.
I don't recall learning anything new today... I'm just not really geared towards remembering new things that I've learned throughout my days at this time.
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Ok,.. here I am sitting here after my shower at 6:10pm and I've gotta figure out what it was I did today.
Well,.. I worked on remodeling my bathroom most the day. Did a little grocery shopping over at Vons. Went over to Lowe's and got some electrical supplies and a new light for my bathroom. Cooked up a crock pot of food for the cats and did some Online banking and paid my bills.
And I think that's about it for my Sunday. Think I might have me a little Red Baron's Singles frozen pizza and then go to bed here in a little while.
On my bathroom remodel,... so far I've got the plumbing all moved and done, removed the drywall where needed and I'm about ready to do the electrical. After that I'll be ready to install drywall and get everything patched up.
I'm just installing a new bathroom sink and vanity, new light, new mirror-medicine cabinet and new floor tile for this remodel project...
Then next project in there will be a new bath tub.
I don't remember if I learned anything new today.
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
Today what I did was,.. I got started on remodeling my bath room at my house.
It made for kind of a long day. Definitely would be better if I had 2 bathrooms instead of one.
If I had 2 bathrooms instead of one I could just rip everything out of the bathroom I'm remodeling...
But I don't so I have to do things and keep the bathroom functional.
It was cat cooking day,.. time to cook up a crock pot of food for them,.. but time flew by and I didn't have time for it...
And I still have a load of laundry to fold too... Probably be my last job for the day.
I don't remember if I learned anything new today.
I also went down to Lowe's today and picked up some tile for my bathroom floor. I'm thinking I might do that job during Christmas because I may have some extra days off at that time.
Oh,... and I suppose I could put some videos that I made in my Practice Videos today. There will be 4 new ones on top dated with today's date.
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Friday, December 7, 2007
Today for work I worked on my major whole house remodel project sanding trim and painting ceilings and walls.
Then I came home made a few music videos and cooked dinner for the cats.
Oh,.. and I stopped at the grocery store and picked up a few groceries on my way home.
I've been feeling burned out like ever since I got home today.
Can't think of anything new that I learned today... I just fixed dinner for the cats,.. and I'm sitting here thinking that I'll probably go to bed early tonight.
Oh,.. here's something I remember learning,.. "gotta turn the heat setting down when toasting 2 slices of bread in my toaster,... but keep it up for toasting 4 slices at a time."... The toaster will burn 2 slices of bread at heat setting 5, but toast's 4 slices at that setting nicely.
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Today I'm putting one video in My Practice Videos that's on my Video Archives page. It's on top and dated with today's date labeled "SANTA BABY - 1"...
I dedicate it to all the Divorcées out there that are interested in getting all they can from their Ex's.
Today I had a short work day,.. but I worked on my major whole house remodel project then went over to my upstairs remodel project and then went over to another job that I need to get to before Christmas.
And then I had to do some running around to the Paint stores.
Now that I'm home I've still got a few calls that I've gotta make about work. And then a little later I'm going to get cleaned up and go out to dinner over at Pomodoro Cucina Italiana.
And that will probably be about it for my evening.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Today for work I went over to my upstairs remodel project out in Redlands, California and primed the new wood front deck that are still in the process of building... They were worried about the rain that may be coming by this weekend or before that... Didn't want to ruin or damage any of the new wood.
Then I came home and worked on my web site here,.. I've got a lot of pages that are still running off of my old server that don't need to be anymore,.. so I've gotta go through all the pages and change their Links.
And I've had my shower, fed the cats and I'm just about ready to go to bed.
I don't remember learning anything new today.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Cool,.. it looks like my new web server is already working and,.. so far,.. it looks like it's going to be able to play my Large videos too.
Last night I made a video,.. and while I was singing it,.. it didn't seem like I was doing real well,... but after viewing the video I'm pretty happy with the way I'm sounding in it.
I'm going to put the video in my Dailies for today and run all the videos (small, medium and large) off my new server.
For work today I worked on my major whole house remodel project out in Redlands, California again and painted ceilings.
And tonight I'm thinking I may go to bed early. Although I was in bed and looked like I was sleeping last night,.. it seems like I was awake all night.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Video - me singing an Elvis Presley song called "Surrender".
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Monday, December 3, 2007
Today for work I worked on my major whole house remodel project out in Redlands California just painting walls.
Tonight I've decided to change over my nameservers to the new web server that I'm going to try out.
I'll change over at Midnight tonight and then my web site may not be accessible for 24 to 72 hours I think it is.
Then after all the servers around the world update my site to the new nameserver every thing here should be working again if I've got my site uploaded correctly.
Other than that,.. tonight I don't have anything special planned other than the usual stuff.
Maybe I'll see if Dancing with the Stars is on tonight and see what's going on there now...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
The song that I'm singing in today's video,... I remember the very first time I heard that song,... I dug it... One of those songs that I liked a lot the very first time I heard it.
Sounds like she could be singing about Elvis Presley in this song... I'm not sure what the new religion is that's she's talking about though.
Well it's Sunday morning here right now,.. and I've still got a load of laundry to fold,.. so I might as well get started on some of my other chores now.
Well now that it's about my bed time,.. I've gotta finish my Dailies here.
Today I finished my laundry, finished uploading all my web site files here to my next new web site server,.. showered, cooked dinner for the cats and did some Online banking and paid all my bills.
I don't remember learning anything new today,... .. .. Oh,.. looks like there's a New Update Available for Network Magic down in my computer task bar... So there's one of those little type things that I learn daily that don't really seem worth mentioning.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Video - me singing a Alannah Myles song called "Black Velvet".
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
The song that I'm singing in the video for today came from my Sweet Georgia Brown pack of Karaoke discs. It's the first CD from a stack of 60 and the first CD that I've listened to so far.
The song "Blue Velvet" sounded familiar the first time I heard this karaoke version, but I don't remember ever hearing it before.
My favorite of the 2 Blue Velvet videos down below is the second one,... the volume down version. It sounds like it's a really nice bed time song or somethin.
This morning I worked on web site stuff most the morning along with doing a couple loads of laundry which I still need to fold the first load.
Now it's after 4:00pm here and I've just got back home from grocery shopping. I picked the time to go to the grocery store that a lot of other people picked. There wasn't many parking places there when I got there,... but when I left there was plenty.
I don't remember learning anything new today. And I think that's about all I've got to say for today.
I'll probably just fold and finish my laundry, cook dinner for the cats, work on my web site stuff some more then go to bed.
"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."
Videos - me singing a Bobby Vinton song called "Blue Velvet".
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