My Dailies 2007

JUNE

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Today was just another work day.

I re-hinged doors today and prepared thresholds to be re-finished.

And now I'm sitting here in my office feeling all burned out. I think I've gotta do cat cooking today. And I could do some laundry today too. Then I won't have to be bothered by it tomorrow if I go out to dinner.

I've got plenty more songs to sing. But right now I'm taking a little break from it. It can make my evenings quite busy when I've gotta work that day too.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Today was just another work day.

It was nice going to bed early last night though. I'm going to do that again tonight.

Then when I came home I worked on getting my main Dailies page here to where it loads a little quicker by putting each month on a separate page.

My 80 year old Uncle Scott was able to get released from the hospital now,. so he's back home and seems to be doing fine. And that's good.

Before he went in he was thinking that he might like to go and live in a convalescent home. But the hospital moved him to one for a little while and he didn't like it at all. Their rules. He couldn't do a thing without somebody coming around and allowing him to. Couldn't even go to the bath room without someone being there to escort him to the bathroom.

Here at home he can feel free to do as he likes.

Quite a while back I almost kicked him out of here for saying something about me that got sent through the grapevine. Later on I thought I should of never said a thing to him about it. I think he was just talking to my Mom about what he thought my problem may be,.. quite possibly in a sincere way.

But the way that my Mom brought it to my attention wasn't so sincere looking. "Insinuating that I might be too small,.. and that I may need a smaller hole". And I just didn't like her attitude when she said it one bit.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Today I woke up late and got to work late. And it's like I'm just going to have to start going to bed earlier so that I can get out of here on time.

I'm working on a job now where there's mostly just a bunch of touch up painting that I need to get finished while they are away on Vacation.

It's looking like I'm going to have to work all weekend if I'm going to finish on time.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Today I worked on touch up painting inside a house,.. then when I came home I was sitting here thinking how maybe I should just go to bed early,.. but I got all involved with adding more video links to my new Video Archives folder that's on the bottom of my Page 10,.. and now it's already after 10:00 pm.

I almost forgot that I haven't finished my dailies for today.

As I was adding Links to videos,.. I noticed that I've done quite a bit of singing in the last 9 Months. Over the past 9 Months I've learned that I can have a pretty nice singing voice at times.

I played around with a microphone 3 or 4 times back in my first 23 years of life. I remember the last time was when I was 23 years old. And it was like,.. "hey,.. I am sounding a lot like,.... well,.. it was The Ramones,.. at that time.

Through my problem years of life my voice changed and it was like I can only sing in my talking voice now,.. and I didn't like the sound of it and completely stopped singing along with songs that I heard. Seems like for 15 years or more I was like that.

And I'm still not up to par now either,.. but I've even surprised myself with some of the singing that I've done in the past 9 Months. I didn't use to think I could do Elton John songs.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Today I got a late start to getting to work,.. but when I got there I painted a fence gate. I wasn't supposed to be there today anyway,.. because it's house cleaner day,.. but I knew I could do any outside work I had.

So in my recent Alice Cooper videos,.. I'd have to say that,.. one of my very favorites in there is the song "Some Folks",.. because I was able to have some pretty cool to me facial expressions.

I've thought that it might be kind of funny to get the Church Lady from Saturday Night Live (Dana Carvey) to play drums as I sing Alice Cooper's "No More Mister Nice Guy". Not sure who to get for the other instruments,.. but I thought,.. as I sang the line,...

"Reverend Smithy recognized Me,.. and punched me in the nose",..

the Church Lady could be looking like she agreed with his decision to punch me.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video - Me singing My Version of Buck Owens - "Act Naturally"

Monday, June 25, 2007

Today I made it a little easier to find some of my videos. On the bottom of my Page 10 I put a new folder called "Video Archives". I haven't got all the videos that I'm going to put in there in yet,.. but I got a good start at it.

Washing Machines,.. I've thought that ideally,.. for a home washing machine,.. they ought to be large enough to be able to wash a King size bed spread or comforter. And one of the things about the washing machine that I just purchased yesterday is,.. it's one of the largest that I've seen on the inside.

It looks like a bed spread will fit in it no problem. I don't know about a King size,.. but I'll be able to try it out with a Full size. That's the size I have.

Not having that middle agitator post sticking up in the middle sure makes it nicer for reaching into to get your clothes out.

Today I worked on touch up painting a kitchen,.. then I came home and have been busy making that new video folder that I mentioned up above. And now it's almost 7:00 pm here,.. so I think I'm gonna finish this stuff up for the day so I can go have a shower then cook dinner.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

So after watching myself in my Alice Cooper videos,.. to me I'm looking like someone that could be in some of those TV shows I use to watch. Like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer",... and "Angel",... and "Charmed".

I sure liked that "Witches of Eastwick" movie.

Yesterday when I said my CPU was being 100 percent used by converting video files,.. well I found out last night that it was partly because my FileStream backup software wasn't working correctly and for some reason it was using 50 percent of my CPU all day long. I didn't even have the application open or running.

I thought maybe something else could of been the problem,.. because converting video files usually only takes up around 80 to 90 percent of my CPU if I'm remembering right.

Well,.. my washing machine finally broke down this morning. I think it's near 15 years old now and the dryer attached to the top of it broke down a while back. I got a new clothes dryer and knew that I will probably have to get a new wash machine soon too.

I really like all those new side loading wash machines,.. but they all appear to be so small on the inside. I'm not even sure I'd be able to fit one week's worth of my work clothes into one load.

So because of that I've liked the looks of the top loading washing machines that have no center post in them.

I went down to Lowe's hardware store this morning and got me a new Whirlpool Cabrio HE washing machine. And as I watched it do it's first load of laundry through it's top glass door it's like I could just see the advantage of a side door type washing machine because the clothes are able to tumble in them as they spin around,..

where in my new washing machine they appear to just cling to the bottom of the washer. Good that it has that spinning thing at bottom center or the clothes may never lose their position of clinging to the sides as it spins. As if they would never get mixed around in there at all without that.

I figure that because it was near 1000 dollar wash machine that maybe it cleans clothes well anyway no matter what it's looking like down in there. Like they wouldn't be asking so much if it was not that great a wash machine. I don't know. But it was in the same price range as some of those side door wash machines.

I've gotta go Grocery Shopping here in a little bit,.. and I'm going to go out to dinner tonight. I'm just going to go over to Pomodoro Cucina Italiana again.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Today is Alice Cooper day. Alice Cooper was my very first favorite Rock Band. Back when I had dreams about performing songs myself,... Alice Cooper songs were the songs I remember Me thinking about performing the most.

So as I was making today's videos it was exactly like,.. "I don't really like doing this stuff now days". But just like with everything else I do,.. I usually always like my finished products.

In today's videos,.. the only song that I'm not really happy with is "Hello Hooray". But I'm tired of performing for videos today. And it's not sounding good to work on it some more.

It's before my time to be doing this music stuff. But I've had a bit of a voice for it now days and I've really liked some of the singing that I've done on video too. So at least I've got something in there to like.

As I was singing Alice Cooper's voice I was thinking that I wasn't sounding that great, but after seeing the videos I was sounding better than I thought I was to me.

I figured this was going to take all of Saturday to do. And it's going on 3:00 pm California time right now,.. so I wasn't wrong.

Back when I was learning about Microsoft Vista before I got it,.. they said you will need a lot of RAM or memory on your computer. I've got 2 gigs of RAM and it's appeared to be plenty. What I'm seeing is though,.. is it's the CPU that really needs to be able to handle more than what it does. On my computer it's taking up 100 percent of both my dual cores just for converting MPG video files to FLV video files.

If I build another computer it's the CPU that I'm going to go the best I can on. I've thought about putting more RAM in my computer just because I can put 2 more gigs in. But I haven't needed it,.. so I haven't.

On CPU I can't upgrade much. I'm thinking a motherboard with 2 CPU's or even 4 CPU's may be the way to go,.. especially if they could work independently from each other. Like for instance,... the second CPU won't even kick in until 90 percent of your main CPU is used.

Maybe even better yet would be if you could configure applications to run on which ever CPU that you choose. And it seems to me that it's probably possible to do that too.

I dressed up like Alice Cooper for a Holloween dance back in 7th grade. That's where I met a guy named Vince Brown for the first time. He was dressed up like Gene Simmons of Kiss and he walked up to me and said,.. "hey,.. Alice Cooper,.. right on".

Vince Brown is a guy that I've talked about back in my original couch writing. And I think some people over at KLOS radio may know him. I remember he use to be up on the latest things going on in radio back when we were in school and he talked about radio jocks by name,.. so I can see how he may know some people in Radio.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Videos - Me singing Alice Cooper songs

Friday, June 22, 2007

Today I got paid on one job then started another House touch ups type job.

Now that I'm home it's like I've got loads of things to do. So I better go get to them...

Thursday, June 21, 2007

So back in original couch writing I mentioned that I thought I use to kind of resemble Kurt Cameron. It was partly because my hair style was about the same as his was.

Back when I was thinking how I may look very similar to people like Sara Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Aniston It was all coming from how I saw myself in the mirror. Now that I'm getting a good look at myself in pictures and in videos,...

I'm seeing myself in a bit of a different way than I use to. Maybe I shouldn't of called the 2 girls above "look a likes,.. as if they look to similar to how I look",..

they look to similar to me to match up with me.

And maybe more what I should of said is,.. they look like they could be my sisters,.. and I haven't seen them as my type when I've watched them on TV.

Back when I was in Hawaii last,.. I had a picture of Mariah Carey with me. Irene the woman that I was working for there,... thought she might be my sister,.. and asked me if she was. And in that picture that I had there,.. I could see how someone might think she might be my sister.

Irene goes,.... "nah,.. it couldn't be your sister,.. it wouldn't be sitting next to your bed like that".

I have seen Mariah Carey as a girl that looks like my type of girl though.

Today I finished the job that I've been doing touch up painting on. Then I came home and made up an Invoice for it. And now I'm sitting here finishing my daily for today.

By the way,.. if my paragraphs can sometimes seem broken off before they should be,.. it's because smaller paragraphs look and seem easier to read than large paragraphs. And sometimes it's because it seems like there should be a pause before reading the next line,..

like so. And also above where I say "they look to similar to me to match up with me".

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Today seems like a good time to bring up something that I heard on the California Television news one day. I don't remember what channel it was on. But it was a woman that said it.

It was back in the days of my original couch writing when people on the television were interacting with me. Talking to me a bit,.. as I wrote to them.

So, one day a woman goes: "tell us about your Plumber friend". She said it in a snide way,.. like she's got somethin on me. Like she knows about some dirt from my past or something.

At the time I thought,.. "I think I know who she's talking about". Which Plumber. But I decided not to even bother with that one. Not to even bother replying as if I don't know what she's talking about.

But I do think that I may know who the Plumber is that she could of been talking about. And I don't even know the guy. I think I was introduced to him once. So I met him once.

Friends of mine know him,.. I think his name is Mark. And My brother knew him. I remember my brother telling me about him like this,.. "Hey there's this guy that's really cool,.. he has a brand new boat,.. and he's taking a bunch of us to the River. He pays for everything,... You should go."

I didn't care to go. And never have hung out with the guy. I did one day end up at his house. He lived with his Mom. And Me and some friends went over to his house, and they dropped me off there where I hung out listening to his nice stereo that he had,... while they all went out looking for I don't remember what.

It was just Me and Mark the Plumber's Mom that was there. They left me there for hours. And then eventually came back and got me.

And that's about the extent to what I know of Mark the Plumber.

There is this though,.. the guy could come across as strange in this way,... "like he might be a Pettaphile",... (not sure how to spell that, it's not in my dictionaries).

But I don't know. I was never around him much.

He also came across like a guy that guy's would think about taking advantage of,.. "like,.. let's get Mark,.. he'll pay for everything".

Today was just a normal work day. I painted a bedroom today.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Today I worked on a job painting a bathroom. Me and the lady of the house picked a color for it yesterday that looked a little darker than what she had on the walls. But as I was painting it today,.. the color I was putting on was so close to what she had that I could almost use it for touch up painting her original walls.

I think that we may have ended up picking the very same color that she had on the walls. Just that it looked darker on the color chart.

Now that I'm home I'm just sitting here working on web site stuff. And I've still gotta go cook dinner for everybody,.. ... ... ... else.

Which means,.. "excluding me".

Monday, June 18, 2007

Today was just a work day. I went and discussed how were going to go about installing a bath tub with the tile guy on one job, then went and worked on house touch ups on another job. Then I went down to the paint store and got some paint for a bath room and bedroom.

And then on my drive home I decided to stop at Staples (office supply store), and got my Mom a new All In One Printer.

I almost forgot,.. it was her birthday yesterday.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Today has been a busy Sunday. I've been busy all day. And it's looking like it's going to stay that way until I go to bed.

Let's see here,.. I'm still in the process of doing laundry, I've cooked foods for the animals, but have still gotta fix their dinner, I've worked on a clothing type project that I'm working on, I've worked on my web site here and still am, I've played a little music, read my emails, and it seems like that's about it.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

It's Saturday morning here right now. Last night I had some odd to me help in my mind. Odd,.. because I figure my web site server would just contact me if they had a problem with something that I'm doing.

So,.. last night I really got the impression that what they really don't like is the new X-Large videos in my web site. Which is understandable,.. these videos can take up a lot of room on a computer. Their starting to take up a lot of room on mine.

I've thought about offering to buy my web server more hard drives. And then I thought maybe I'm going to have to buy more web sites then link them to this one in order to have more room. And then I thought maybe I should just learn how to be my own web site server. I can see how if I keep going with what I'm doing here in my web site,... that over the years,.. it's going to be a very large web site.

Anyway,.. so what I've decided to do for my web server at this time though,.. is to stop making Large videos.

The X-Large videos,... their file size is actually almost exactly the same size as the Large videos file size. Like for instance: X-Large 27.66 MB, Large 27.64 MB. So I might as well just make the X-Large my new Large and get rid of the old Large.

My web site server is called DirectNIC,.. directnic.com. And I've been very happy with them. I haven't had to switch or try out other companies. I found them,.. seems like 2 weeks after I got my very first computer,.. signed up and built my very first web site,... when I really didn't need a web site,.. I was just finding new and interesting things to do on my new computer. And I've been with them ever since.

I would use them if I was to start building web sites for others. And I would recommend them to others that are interested in building their own web site.

Well,.. that's what's on my mind this morning. And I need to upload this daily because I made some changes. So I'm going to upload it,... and then I'll finish my daily later today.

Ok,.. it's almost 7:00 pm California time now,.. and I just got back from dinner over at Pomodoro Cucina Italiana again. I tried a new to me dish tonight called Agnoloti. It's organic roasted vegetable ravioli with tomato sauce, brown butter and sage. And it was very good. I think,... worth getting again sometime.

I've been on my computer all day again, except for going to dinner and cooking dinner for the animals here. Seems like I've been on my computer almost every single day since I bought my very first one. There's just so many things that I can do on one that has been keeping me so busy that I don't make much time for anything else except for work and sleep.

I mentioned not long ago in my dailies here that I think my Microsoft Vista has a problem with copying and moving files. Because I've copied and moved picture files and video files to other folders and when I went to check out the file that was moved or copied,.. there was files there but they were no longer readable by the computer.

And I've been thinking lately that it may be a harddrive problem. Because I bought a new 10,000 rpm Western Digital harddrive to use as my Operating system harddrive,.. and ran Killdisc on my old harddrive completely erasing it so to speak, then re-installed it as an extra harddrive on my computer.

So lately what I've been doing is "copying picture and video files only on one harddrive,.. instead of from one harddrive to another. Not moving them,.. because then I may not have that file anymore. And so far I haven't seen any problems.

But I realized today that I've also had a problem copying files from my USB Iomega harddrive too,.. so it's sounding like it's not necessarily my old erased harddrive that is the problem. And still seems like it could be an Operating system problem. I don't know.

Looks like it's copying and moving files from one harddrive to another that is the problem though. And it's a "sometimes they have copied or moved fine, but then some haven't".

When I first got Microsoft Vista installed on this computer and copied all my picture files from my Iomega USB harddrive to my new picture folder,... which is,... on my old erased harddrive. Hmmm,.. maybe it is that erased harddrive that could be the problem then.

Anyway,.. what happened was,.. some pictures copied fine,.. but a lot of them were unreadable. Still readable on my USB Iomega harddrive though. And then I could copy the files individually and they would copy fine,.. but then I noticed the next day after my computer re-booted some of the files were un-readable again.

I think my old erased harddrive could be the problem. And it's like by sitting here thinking about it and writing it out,.. I'm in the process of seeing where the problem actually is.

Well,.. I could use a larger harddrive anyway,.. been thinking about getting one anyway. Actually it's more like I've been thinking that I'm going to need to get a larger harddrive pretty soon due to all these new video files.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video - Me singing a song by Mariah Carey called "HERO"

Friday, June 15, 2007

Today I had some thoughts that led me to think about talking about my singing of the song "Short People". Seeing a picture of Mariah Carey next to Michael J. Fox inspired it. And I think I'll add that,.. "I think that Michael's cool and don't really need any of what I'm going to say below though".

No,.. I don't have anything against short people. I have something in common with short people,.. I'm one of them.

I decided to sing that song because it sounded like I had the voice for it,... and because it relates to me. Of course we don't all have tiny little teeth,.. but a lot of the words in there fit me pretty well.

And actually,... I became fine with my height as I got older except for one thing,... "Girls". "Taller than me Girls".

The thought of standing up and looking up at a girl and moving in to kiss her has always been "I cant do that".

And I've had times where I thought about doing it too. But just never could.

Therefore,.. I have to grow if I'm going to match up with one of those girls. Which I've been led to believe will really happen if I ever have a life again.

And if that time ever comes for me,.. I figure that I will still have something in common with short people,... because I was one of them for,.. well,.. 44 years so far.

A while back when I was thinking about how long it takes to get rid of the problem that I have. I was thinking about it so that I could write it some where in my original couch writing. And did,.. but I don't remember exactly what I said back then.

But anyway,.. as I was thinking about how long it might take,.. I was thinking about writing down 15 years. But in my mind,.. I believe "the creator of this world",.. wouldn't allow me to write it.

But he-she would allow me to write 20 years. And because it has been 20 years now that I've had a problem,.. I've thought that,... he-she may not really know exactly how long it takes because it has never been done before.

And that led me to think that Jesus Christ may of done this for a little over 15 years but less than 20 before he died. And that he may of died while he was in problem life.

Funny how in the song Short People,.. he mentions "they wear platform shoes".

That's exactly what I've thought that I'm going to need to do in order to be totally comfortable with standing close to Mariah Carey.

Now,.. if me and her were about "just being friends" it would be different...

"But were not."

And maybe I should add here that,.. "I don't know that I know what Jesus Christ was really doing here on earth" ,.. but it seems like "fasting" may of came from him.

And to me,.. "fasting is actually an odd thing for anybody to be doing unless your trying to lose some weight or something".

I cant say that I ever would of fasted. Just ended up being a part of my life to fast is all. And it's also the reason I ended up in a mental hospital every time.

If I never had to fast,.. I would of never had that Mental Hospital history about me.

Fasting religiously along with my experiences with life shows me where I think the story of Adam and Eve comes from.

"As if it would be wrong to eat something when you are designed to be able to do that".

Since I'm thinking about it now,.. I think I'll add this,.. Back in my original couch writing I mentioned how for a long time during my problem years I thought sex may be a wrong thing for me to be doing. And how any time I would wake up dreaming about it I would keep myself from having a wet dream by holding it back.

And was able to too... But back then I said something as if I think all religious leaders,... or Priests and such,.. may preach a certain way but behind closed doors their doing the opposite. As if they preach against sex,.. but are doing it themselves.

"I was wrong to say that." I don't know what they are really doing. And maybe my thoughts about that stemmed from seeing Priests who are in trouble for sexual reasons on the TV news.

And I just figured that they may not of been holding it back like I was.

Come to find out after I've been holding it back for near 15 years that it wasn't sex that was wrong for me,... "it's the want for it".

I'm glad that the tube in me never burst or broke due to holding it back like that.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video - Me singing a song by The Bangles called "Eternal Flame"

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Today I had to meet with a plumber on one job to go over how were going to go about installing a new bath tub. Then I went back over to the job where I've been doing some touch up painting lately.

Now that I'm home,.. I'm going to go take a shower,.. then cook dinner for the dogs and cats,... and then I'm not sure what I'm going to do after that. But I'm sure I'll find something.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Today I worked on a job painting a set of custom front doors.

Last night I figured out how to put anchors on my Dailies Video pages so that when you click my back button to come back to the Dailies page, you come right back to where you were when you clicked to get to the video.

So I've spent an hour or so tonight putting anchors on all my video pages in my Dailies 2007.

Time has just flew right by tonight. Lately it's been like there just isn't enough time in a day to do all the things that I'm doing.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Today I got started on a new job where I'm just doing a bunch of house touch up painting to spruce things up.

On my way home I went down and got me a little Ipod Shuffle so that I can familiarize myself with the songs I've been singing a little better before I sing them. Something I can listen to at work.

And then I came home and the time is just flying by. It's about bed time already and it doesn't seem like I've really accomplished much of anything since I got home.

Well,.. I've gotta go cook dinner. So I better go get to it...

Monday, June 11, 2007

Today I thought I'd share kind of a funny story from my past. From a time back when I was 18 years old. Me and my friend Dana went to Knotts Berry Farm one night specifically to meet girls. All night we weren't meeting any and hardly seeing any. Around the time when we were just about ready to leave,... we saw 2 girls standing across from us about 15 feet away. They looked right at us as we looked at them.

I told Dana,... "I get the blond one",... he goes "OK". This girl I'm talking about here is a girl that I've written about before. Her name is Sherry. The girl that Dana ended up with was named Loella.

So we all met and hit it off right away,.. and were all kissing within an hour. It was in the Log ride where me and Dana got our first kisses. The girls sat behind each of us and Sherry just wrapped her arms around me and kissed me from behind, and as I looked back Loella was doing the same thing for Dana.

So anyway,.. we all ended up seeing each other for about a Month. At one point during that Month,.. Dana's Grandparents went on vacation. So we all went to Dana's Grandparents house one night.

Dana let me and Sherry have his Grandparents bed and bedroom. Him and Loella went to his Grandfather's favorite sitting room.

At one point during the evening as me and Sherry are in bed,.. I hear some sounds going on at the bedroom window. I thought,.. it's probably just a cat and went back to what I was doing.

Then all of a sudden the window slid open quickly and Dana's mom is climbing through the window. She's whispering,.. "Dana",.... "Dana",..... "Dana",..... Dana" as she's climbing through the window.

Me and Sherry were lying there not moving a muscle at this time,... and all I could think of to say was,... "Mrs. Coon,... it's Rick,.... please don't turn on the light".

Dana's mom got through the window and walked past us not turning the light on and went to the kitchen and turned that light on to see Dana stark naked peeking out the living room window to see what's going on out there. And then Loella came out with a sheet draped in front of her to come see what's going on too.

It wasn't long,.. and me and Sherry starting getting dressed. I was dreading having to walk out there in front of Dana's parents. And didn't even think that we could of just climbed out the window instead.

Once we were about dressed Loella came into the room and it was like all 3 of us were dreading having to walk out there. We needed to walk through a hall then through the living room to get to the front door. Dana's parents are sitting in chairs in the corner facing us as we walk into the living room all with our heads hanging low so to speak.

Dana is standing behind his parents with his arms folded and as were walking past them Dana's dad says,.. "pitiful sight,... isn't it?".

And as I glanced up at them I noticed that the look on Dana's face matched his Dad's as if he agreed with him,.. and with the way he was standing there and looking it was as if he wasn't even a part of it as me and Sherry and Loella walked out the door.

And that's the end of the story. I don't remember any of us ever getting into trouble for it. It just ended up being something that got talked and laughed about for a long time.

I remember Dana's Grandfather telling me Month's later,... all seriously,... "we still haven't got the smell out of there."

Today was an easy work day. I finished a little wallpaper patch up then got to come home a little early.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

First of all,.. before I forget,... for anybody that's interested in seeing them,.. I put 2 new photos in my photo gallery that's on the bottom of Page 10 in my web site here. Photo 45 and photo 46. If you scroll backwards in the gallery,.. you get to them right away.

Photo 45 is me when I was in Hawaii last. And photo 46 is me and my ex-girl friend Lisa, who I've talked about in the past.

Well,.. it's 4:30 pm here now in California,... and I've still gotta fix dinner for the dogs and the cats,.. and then I think I'm going to go out to dinner.

I haven't been over to Pomodoro Cucina Italiana for quite a while now,... so I'm gonna go over there for dinner.

Today I had a bunch of bills to pay,.. and I had 3 Invoices to make out for my jobs too. And I've done laundry and cooked another big pot of food for the cats and dogs. My Uncle that lives with me had a stroke last week and is in a convalescent hospital right now. He usually feeds the dogs.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Today is singing Elton John songs day. He's an artist that I think highly of. I think highly of his voice and his music.

It's been an all day experience. It's going on 4:00 pm now and I'm at the point where I'm uploading everthing to my web server.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Videos - Me singing Elton John songs

Friday, June 8, 2007

Today I painted exterior trim on a house again. Then I came home and made videos again too.

I'm getting things done a little bit quicker today here,.. but I'm still in the process of finding out what the quickest and best ways are going to be for coding and filing of this new video player and all the files that need to be uploaded along with it.

This stuff is really taking up some time lately. It's 8:00 pm here now in California and I'm just about finished with this web site stuff for today. Making videos took up more time today than the coding did. Yesterday it was the other way around.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video - Me singing a song called "Puff the magic dragon"

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Today I did more exterior trim painting, then I came home and worked on making videos for today.

Wasn't all that happy with what I was coming up with,.. but it's getting late and I'm tired, so I'm just going to put a couple of the best I was able to come up with in here for today.

The videos are me attempting to sing a Tone Loc song called "Wild Thing". One acapela,.. then one along with him.

Getting it down exactly like he says it will take me a bunch of time,... and already has.

It's like if I had the song on karaoke,... I wouldn't have to try to be so exact.

Sorry,.. I'm a quite a bit late in getting my dailies in here today,.. it's because I got this new web video player that I'm using here today,... and I'm having to learn how to go about using it. They are doing things different than I'm use to. It's after 10:00 pm here in California now,.. and I'm still sitting here.

I'm at the point where I'm uploading everything though,.. so if I've got everything coded correctly,... I won't have to sit here much longer.

I still haven't fixed dinner for everybody yet,... and I'm not real crazy about the way I'm looking in videos tonight too.

Well now that it's near midnight,.. it looks like the videos are working on the web,.. just that they may take a few more seconds to get started in playing for some reason.

Oh,.. I see,... if you click the video file but don't click nothing else,... the video will play quicker. I was clicking the video file and then the play button and it was causing the video to take a long time to start playing. Looks like if you just click the video file it will start playing automatically without clicking the play button.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Today I worked most the day touch up and re-painting exterior trim on a house. Then I figured out how a new set of doors is going to be installed along with the measurements for ordering the doors.

Then I came home and started playing with my video software's,.. figuring out how to make DVD's out of some of the videos that I've made. I haven't really worked with any of my DVD making software before, so I'm having to spend some time in learning how to use them.

My Windows has a problem on my desktop computer. It has a problem with moving and copying picture files and especially video files. Some of the video files that I've moved to another folder are not viewable anymore. That Sex Pistols version of the song "My Way" that I made the other day,... I moved both the videos that was made for making that video and now I don't even have a copy of that video anymore,... except for the flash videos that are in my web site,... those copies all look like they are still OK.

And speaking of that Sex Pistols My Way video that I made.... While listening to the radio today they were doing some phone call thing,.. and they came to a point where they couldn't play what the guy said,... because it was the "F" word.

And it made me think about mentioning why I was OK with putting the Sex Pistols version of the song "My Way" in my dailies here.

It's because I didn't say any cuss words in that video,.. what I said was,... "cuhn",.. and "fuh",... and "fuhen".

Purposely,.. so that it would be OK for my regular dailies.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

I ended up staying home sick today. I've been feeling sick like for the past 4 days or so. Actually I think it all started when my face swelled up.

Yesterday while I was thinking about it,.. the word "abscess" came to mind. And I thought,.. yes,.. I think that's what I have. An abscess in the upper gum of my mouth.

Last night it got to the point where some blood and what ever else oozed out of it and today it's looking and feeling like it's starting to heel up.

This morning it was a bad headache, a queasy like feeling and I felt all weak,.. so I decided to stay home and go back to bed.

I got back up around 1:00 pm and have been starting to feel better now. And that's good because I've got a few jobs that I've gotta get started on and finished by a certain date.

I'm gonna take the day off from music today. And I've gotta cook dinner for the cats and then I'm going to go back to bed soon after.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Today I worked on painting some exterior trim and I went over to another job and did a little touch up texturing. Then I came home and made a bunch of videos that I wasn't happy with.

I was up past midnight last night,... and I'm feeling all run down and tired like today.

In my version 1 of the song My Way in yesterday's videos,... I never realized what a great sounding song that is instrumentally until the day I went to sing it. I really dig the way it starts.

And after seeing myself sing it,... a song that I had never thought about singing has become a song that I would sing. They call that version on my Karaoke disc - My Way (In the style of Frank Sinatra). Version 2 of the song "My Way" from yesterday's videos is Sex Pistols style.

In today's video below,... "Proud Mary" is the only Tina Turner song that I have on karaoke disc at this time.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video - Me singing a Tina Turner song called "Proud Mary"

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Today I've sitting around playing around with music stuff most the day. And I've did a little work on web site stuff too.

Also I've got a couple loads of laundry to finish and I thought I might ought to cook up a pot of food for the cats so that I don't have to do it during the week.

I went out to find a certain music CD at a couple stores today,.. then ended up having to come home and download it from iTunes because the store didn't have it.

So far I like buying music in CD form better than buying it from a download. It's because once I switched to Microsoft Windows Vista, all my downloaded music wont work anymore. I've gotta go through some kind of process to let them know that I'm still using the same computer. And I just haven't bothered finding out what kind of process that is as of yet.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video 1 - Me singing a song called "My Way" (version 1)

Video 2 - Me singing a song called "My Way" (version 2)

Saturday, June 2, 2007

There's just something about that Mockingbird song that I really like. I've spent a lot of time today just listening and watching myself sing it in today's video. It really helps to get to know the words of a song. If I could get to know the words to all the songs that I've been singing it would allow me to do more moving and acting instead of having to read the words as I'm singing them.

Back when I use to dance I would be dancing through the whole song, instead of looking like I'm standing there waiting for my next singing part.

I just don't feel the music at all anymore.

Well it's 6:00 pm here in California now and I've still gotta cook dinner.

My missing front tooth has been giving me pain all through last night and today too. It's caused swelling of my nose and upper lip.

I like it though,... because it's like the swelling is causing my upper lip to come down and hide my upper teeth better.

Though it swelled,.. it's been feeling better today. Last night it kept me awake most the night.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video 1 - Me singing a song called "Mockingbird"

Video 2 - Me singing a song called "Layla"

Friday, June 1, 2007

Today I worked on fixing a wall in a bathroom. They had a water leak in their wall and when it was fixed the people that repaired the wall didn't do a good job. The wall under the wallpaper had noticeable valleys and it wasn't textured like the rest of the walls are.

So I removed the wallpaper and re-patched and textured the wall. I've still gotta go back and put the wallpaper up.

Now that I'm home,... I'm sitting here with a tooth ache that's giving me a nose ache too.

But other than that I'm just about finished getting my web site here all updated and then I may go in and cook dinner and have a shower.

With todays videos,.. it was the opposite of yesterday where I remade videos. Today I made 2 and I couldn't decide which one I liked best,... so I'm just putting them both in here.

They are basicly the same video twice though.

"Had to remove these videos. New server doesn't allow any room for videos."

Video - Me singing a Steppenwolf song called "Born to be wild"