Been pretty quiet around here this weekend. I'm pretty fanatic about the showering, deoderant, fresh breath type of stuff--so if it's me keeping everyone away, I guess it's that *old lady smell*! (I don't have blue hair yet.)

Anyway...I hope everyone had lots of laughs or at least plenty of smiles this weekend...good food, good friends and family...maybe some adult beverages.

I've noticed the quietness too - maybe everyone is out in the nice weather?...
Or maybe I'm smelly too!

Don't worry Raddy, us smelly old broads can hang out together and crack eachother up! (and don't forget the adult beverages!) Thee, no theeth again, now where did I put thoth theeth?...

NiCi ---I bet you smell like sweet lilacs.

Don't ya hate it when ya can't find your teeth??? True story..my stepmother called me in a panic, she had lost her uppers! I dropped everything and beat feet over there, searched high and low..even dumped the garbage. Turned out she had wrapped them in a napkin and left them on the top of an easy chair in the living room!!!!

I need some help. I don't know a whole lot about computers so please bear with me. I have a laptop that is wifi capable--I have no provider, but I was fooling around and it said that there were networks available so I thought I'd try to connect. One came up as an unnamed network, very weak signal, but then another one popped up called *pedophile_WiFi*!!! I'm sick ---is this someone in my neighborhood---should I call the cops----why would anyone name it that???

It's a very weak signal on my computer but I think I'll take it over to the police station in the morning (after all they are my good friends). I am so creeped out. I'm thinking it's something very local but I'm sure many people here could give me some insight into the wifi network stuff.

Is THAT what that smell is?!!!

I thought you were going to say that she found her teeth in her mouth... Like when I misplace my glasses and then find them perched on top of my head!

Oh, Hon, I'm so sorry... I don't begin to know enough about computers to know what that might be all about. Wish I could help. Do you have any friends you could call who might know more and be more helpful?

Oh spent 4 hours looking for them damn teeth!!! I do the glasses thing all the time, but the best is...walking into the kitchen only to forget why I went there!!! I look at it this way...I get to meet someone new every morning when I look in the mirror.

Radyms... when you set up a wireless network in your own home you have to name it..... that way when you hook your own computers to it you will know which network you are hooking to. Someone in your neigborhood is either A: a person with a stupid, sick sense of humor or B: a person with a problem. Either way, I would call the police and inform them.... they can triangulate that signal and identify the owner. At that point it will become the owners task of explaining what the hell he is doing. By the way... if you get caught connecting to a neighbors network via a wireless connection you can get in a lot of trouble... if you want to try your wireless out go visit most any Starbucks.

I do that at the office all the time. I am chugging away and go into the other room to get some paperwork or something only to screech to a halt trying to remember what it was I was going to get. My co workers are used to it by now - just shake their heads and smile.

I like to think that I my mind is two steps ahead of my body and that is why this happens... yeah, I'm not getting older, I'm just getting more focussed!!!

Thanks for helping Rady out, Ford. It sure is nice to have someone around who knows what they are doing and can give some sound advice!!

Thank you so much!!! Now I know there is another pervert in the neighborhood. I wasn't really trying to steal someone else's signal just wanted to see what the laptop could do.

When I saw it come up on the screen I really did throw up in my mouth----no way did I try to connect to that network!!!

If my questions cause folks to think-that's great, but I don't really know about wifi networks and I am so happy to get some answers! I spend most of my time on the PC and I know where I'm going when I'm here.

What a beautiful day Sunny and Nice,, The Hornets beat the Spurs last night... Last day of Jazz Feast..... I'm watching a movie on the couch see police car after police car go back notice some cars are reverseing the wrong way down our street. I go out to my stoop and wonder why there are so many police at the end of my block? Jenn comes out looks and says what the Hell is going on? A crowd is starting to happen at the end of the block.

We mosey down to see what is going on? Well how can such a great day turn so badly in an instance? Turns out a good friend of ours and three other people were standing on the sidewalk talking and a 15 year old girl being given a driving lesson comes around the corner hits the gas and plows into them on the sidewalk. Our Friend Billy was killed... I had just talked to him two days ago another friend Mike is in the Hospital... they say he will be fine....

Life is taken so quickly now a days...

Oh my gosh, just reading it takes my breath away. I'm so sorry for your loss. Everything can change....it takes a second.

Oh, Actor, it is so hard to process when something like that happens. Words can not express how sorry I am for the loss of your friend. Take care.

((((((((((((((Actor and Jenn)))))))))))))))))))
My goodness, this is beyond tragic. My thoughts and prayers for your friends and their families. No words possible....none.
Love to you and yours
Cyndy and family

Good for you, please help protect our children.....this is one of my personal soapboxes. Much love
Jazzie

Oh I'll be at the police station first thing in the morning. Probably won't sleep much tonite--sick from the computer stuff and heartsick for Actor. Thanks for the love Jazzie----missed you!!!

I know what you mean...... we have our own network and when I set it up I picked up about a 1/2 dozen other signals; the only way you can protect yourself is to set up passwords to connect. I wasn't suggesting that you were being a thief ... I was just offering a warning.

Again thank you---I didn't want to walk into the police station looking like a maniac. Can you tell me--even if I can't get the same signal tomorrow can someone find it in the history of the computer?

Thanks for your message and support. It's funny that you had mentioned the nicotine thing as I have been concerned about that as well. I cut down on the dosage today to the 14mg and by the end of the week I will have weaned myself off it. I am sitting here shocked that I haven't smoked a cigarette in 3 whole days! That is amazing when I think of how long it has been. Anyway I'm here at work and up for any conversation of any kind (almost any kind)

Okay, so I'm here again. Three whole days without the evil weed. Going kinda nuts but that isn't unusual. I did almost kill my husband today, but he quit himself 9 years ago and still remembers that homicidal phase. Well not much else to report, anyone awake?

Awake....three days..amazing! You are a better woman than I am! Celebrate those three days and then think of how good everything will taste next week at this time!

Thanks Pita, I think I pulled something too. I have been going quite manic obviously and so I have been cleaning my house like a fiend! Cleaned all day yesterday and today I couldn't move my lt leg, oh well I worked out the kinks and proceeded to continue my cleaning today. Not only will my lungs be clean but my house is going to be spotless

Thanks , I did view that pic at home. I think Ralphie is just at tad too young.

Quick question about Episode Five where the chefs had to taste various items and say which had the highest quality. When it came to butter, the high quality butter was $18 (for who knows how much) and it looked like room temperature parmesean reggiano. What kind of butter is it? I can't find anything like it and just from the look of it I want to try it out.

Thanks, and feel free to respond via PM.

Well, I am being very careful what I do and don't eat. I lost most of the weight that I wanted to in the last year and don't want to put any back on so I am drinking lots of water, eating fruit and nuts and trying to exercise. My little doggie Max doesn't mind walking anytime so when I get antsy I just get the leash and off we go.

Hey there Wosh and Rady....am only cruising through on my way to sleepytown! But....just caught this and meant to tell you.....you have my admiration and support also. I quit a decade or three ago, and it was still one of the hardest things I've done. Back then, no patches so I just chewed lots and lots and lots of bubble gum and started crocheting again. Gave me something to replace the cigs with! Hubby still smokes, and I refuse to give him a hard time....I still remember the maniacal moments! Best of luck with it....I'm off to snooze!
Love
Jazzie

Sweet dreams Jazz! Wish I could sleep right about now!

Simon Bao could probably help you..... PM him!

I'm sure he won't mind....I'm his agent

This is a dumb thing to say, but it just feels fundamentally wrong for anyone to die in the spring when the trees are flowering and all the perennials are just starting to pop up like magic, here at least.

It's so terrible, for you, your friends, their loved ones, and for a child who has to live with the fact that she has taken a life, and for the adult who was responsible for her at that time.

Recently, I've stopped driving because of a new prescription that makes me drowsy and slows my responses significantly. I'm going to stop feeling sorry for myself and thank my lucky stars not to be tempting heartless fate.

Though, I'm bad at this kind of post, the way you communicate makes it necessary for me to try. The pain here is universal. Your post is universal in that in day to day life things just happen with no rhyme or reason or foreshadowing of eerie music or thunderstorm. And the next day the sun comes up and the broken glass is swept away and the world goes on oblivious to the bleeding in your soul.

And I guess this is how things make sense to me, in universal terms because it's difficult for me to get personal about loss, but I am sorry for you and everyone who has lost a loved one. It is what I fear most.

A wireless connection, also called a wifi connection, is based on radio waves. The same radio technology that powers am/fm/cb radios, phones (cellular and cordless) and televisions. A radio transmitter and receiver is either built into your wireless device, or is built into an adapter card. The computer's wifi connection translates the computer data into a radio signal and the computer transmitter sends the signal to a receiving station (the wireless router). The wireless router receives the signal and transforms it from an analog radio signal back into a digital (computer) signal where it is sent over a physical wired connection to other computers (local or over the internet). The response from the other computers comes back with the wireless router receiving the information, transforming it from a digital computer signal into a radio signal and transmitting it to the computer's wireless adapter receiver. The receiver converts the analog radio signal to digital so that the computer can process the information

I just posted this because it is likely that the signal you tapped into is connected with law enforcement. I find it very unbelievable that criminals would label themselves as such or network, especially under such a damning label instead of some euphamism. But you will feel better to find out for sure.

I am enjoying a big fat low cal sandwich with wheat bread, fresh tomato, red lettuce, low cal mayo and one slice of turkey and a Diet Root Beer. The tomato is like heaven with Helmanns's lowfat mayo!

It's 5 minutes to 3am! I am so bad!

I am eating an orange and some Planters heart healthy nuts, I would really like some of your sandwich though. It is really slow here at work tonight and I'm getting bored. Watching rerun of Roseanne. I am not a big tomato fan, but when I get my garden going this summer I will eat them off the vine. They taste so good when they are fresh.

That's because tomatoes are fruits!

Goodnight Woshkie! Hang tough!

Night Note, thanks.

SHEESH !!!

No wonder I woke up in the middle of the night what with the noise of you rummaging through the fridge in the kitchen annex of the cave. Now I'm having a bowl of no salt/no sugar, bite sized shredded wheat sinfully swimming in homo milk (PI) and dreaming about home grown tomatoes in the months ahead.

Youse guys are a bad influence! The cat is rubbing against my leg to tell me it's time to go back to bed. Tomorrow (today) is another day.

Sorry, but us nightowls gotta eat. So another night another dollar. Have a great day. Be back tonight.

Woshkie,

Hey Girl, you still there?

Gotta say Great Job and hang tough my friend!!!
Don't wean down on the patch too soon, plenty of time for that.
Keep on Keeping on!

Still here, I won't do it too soon, I'm gonna try this week. I don't wear it when I go to bed and I'm going to delay putting it on a little longer each day, till I won't put it on. Don't want to stay on the nicotine either, but so far so good. Going home now, talk later and thanks so much!

Thanks Note and everyone else for their thoughts and prayers. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one tragedy. As a friend put it yesterday God must of wanted one hell of a piano player yesterday.

Billy was a great musician and played with his band here in NOLA..... the thing is that got me was a few pages back we all read shared post on loseing friends we had close at one time in our lives. Both Jenn and I could not even let our thoughts of Billy go by numbing our minds with T.V. last night.

I guess with the aftermath of Katrina and hell I can't even count on my two hands anymore the friends and loved ones I've lost over the past two years.... I guess I'm just getting numb to it all now... All I can say is I'm tired of going to funerals.

But your right we will all go on with our regular lives and the cool thing is in a fleet instance be it a smell in the air , a particuler song or a laugh out of the blue I will smile because in that instance I will know Billy is near and trying to get all of us to embrace life. I guess that is what keeps me trudgeing along.

LOL, I stand in front of the supply cabinet at work all the time. T will tell me to go back to my desk and then I'll remember what it is I came over there for.

Actor,
I am so sorry for your loss and I hope your friend in the hospital recovers soon. It is truly a tragedy. Hugs.
Cyd

Made the dishes for my audition video last night for my girlfriend. I did both the Tilapia and the Eggs.

She tried the eggs first when I finished and was surprised. "Wow! That's REALLY good! I thought parsley cooking into the eggs would taste weird, but it's delish!"

For the tilapia dish...I couldn't find any pizza sauce at Kroger... just lots of pasta sauce. So... I made my OWN pizza sauce from scratch. I went strickly on what I think it should taste like. Didn't measure anything, just threw it all together. My girlfriend recorded me making the sauce and when she turned off the camera, was like "really? You're just gonna throw all that together in a pot?" I told to her just wait. When I finished the whole dish...

She took a bite. She immediately put her hand to her mouth while she finished chewing. Her eyes got big and she blushed, chewing slowly. I thought maybe I screwed something up and it was gross. "What?" I said. She swallows and turns to me, "Are you serious?!" Again I asked What?! She she rolls her head around in disbelief and says "Ok, 1) that is the best ****ing pizza sauce I've ever had in my life! It's fantastic! You can taste all the stuff you put in it, and it comes together so well! And 2) I don't like fish.. ever... THIS? I love this!"

Did you record her reaction for the audition tape?

I can't wait to see the audition. When will you put it on youtube?? Soon I hope!!!

Thank you for the education! Sorry for showing everyone how ignorant I really am, but I absolutely freaked when it popped up on my computer!

When it's done! lol. I still need to record the interview part where I talk about why I should be on Top Chef, do something to show my personality a bit, and I want to see if I can get my old boss (Chef Silverio Conte) to talk on camera about my cooking skills and creativity in the kitchen.

Then I have to edit it all since it can only be 5 minutes long total.

Phil's sister had tickets to see the Beatles in early 1964, at the Washington Coliseum, but her parents told her she had to babysit Phil and I. We then talked her into blowing her friends off to take us, and we would never tell anyone. We did too. Neither one of us said a thing until we were adults.

We both became huge fans, buying all their albums, and we did get to see them a second time, when my stepfather bought tickets for their performance at D.C. Stadium (later R.F.K.). They were our band. The Rolling Stones, Yardbyrds may have been harder and the Kinks and Who may have been more, overall, sophisticated, but the Beatles were just what we wanted, and needed.

The night John was shot was the opening night of work at the new Holiday Inn-Capital. I was their Bell Captain, and I should have been happy, but I was watching Monday Night Football in the bar, and Howard Cossell anounced that John had been shot and killed. I took off early, went home, and we listened to our entire Beatles collection. I've never really gotten over that night. We all have our versions of the "day that music died". That was mine, and later that decade MTV came along, and slammed the final nails in the coffin.

I'm not saying that some great music hasn't been made since then, but I've never been as excited by music as I was by The Beatles.