Where have I been?

Well I missed last Mondays post. Sorry to all my avid readers. Where has Walter been? Well I have changed schedules at work and now work Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. So I’m all a bit mixed up currently. Beyond that I have been indulging in a an old weakness “World of Warcraft” that is such a fun game and well it can suck up as much time as you will give it. I’m happy to say Amity enjoys it as well. I guess we both have an addictive personality when it comes to good games. Bunnies, Munchkin and WOW. I will try and take sometime and write up some more soon!

Mini Musing

So I'm walking down the hall at work just listening to what’s going on and every one greets everyone with the "Hi how are you" greeting. And for the most part people reply with something like " Fine and you?" Why in the world do we do this its not like we actually care how the day of this random person is going is it? It's not like if they start to tell us a sob story of how bad something is we are not going to be saying to ourselves. "Oh man I asked the wrong person" So anyway I promptly continued my walk and greeted the next person with "Hi how are you"

Moonshado's Late night monday musing.

I guess today I'm in a thinking mood. I don't know why sometimes I just find myself wondering about everything. It seems like some times our lives buzz by so fast that we don't really stop to enjoy the little things that bring us true joy. Or more importantly we don't slow down long enough to realize the joy in the things that we do. Its funny I sit here with the all the frogs croaking in the background the cool breeze blowing across my feet, the cat curled up on my desk and great music playing. Does it really get any better than this feeling? It bliss and yet I don't often enough stop to just enjoy it.

Anyways I guess my message is for a few minutes each day just try and slow down relax and enjoy the small things.

Too bad Amity is at work and can't enjoy this....

Night.

Moonshado’s Mammoth Monday Musing

Well another Monday has rolled around and for once I knew exactly what I would be writing about. This weekend I got my new computer and was in the process of getting everything set up. One of the items I have is a wireless print server. It allows you to have your devices on the other side of the room (printers) and connect to them wirelessly. Now I don’t know about the rest of you but it seems like every time I try and set something up wirelessly it is never as easy as the directions make it out to be. Everything I have ever had just seems to want to cause me a headache and I’m convinced that there must be a frustration meter built into such devices because it seems as though once I reach my breaking point for some reason it just starts working. I have no idea what else could explain this. Well to make a long story short I have decided to go with a wired connection funny how that seems to work every time. Well I must say I love my new computer I had forgotten what it was like to have a snappy system again. Another minor rant, while windows Vista looks fantastic…it does seem a bit buggy with older games. Ick Microsoft needs to get their stuff together.

Moonshado’s Mammoth Monday Musing

Moonshado’s Mammoth Monday Musing.

Well I was just sitting here and it donned on me its Monday again. What am I going to write about is there anything different in my life that is note worthy enough to put pen to paper, or key strokes to screen as it may be. Sure I could talk about my weekend… really I only have one funny tale about that and I will share that with you as well. Anyway where was I going with this? A few months back I was reading the Cray Bickford Family blog and there was a link to a 10 minute lecture that Randy Pausch did on achieving your childhood dreams. It was really good and touching due the situations he is facing in his life. I loved that little snippet it was fantastic. So I threw his name into Youtube and was lucky enough do find that he had a full length lecture on achieving your dreams as well as a full length lecture on time management. I had wanted to put those links up here as they are great watching. He is funny and uses great stories to illustrate his points and I think people can draw a lot of meaning from what he says and the actions he recommends. I have watched his “Achieving your dreams” three times and the “Time Management” At least 4 times. So here are the links if you find the time watch them I’m sure you will find something meaningful in there.


Randy Pausch – Really achieving your childhood dreams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Randy Pausch – Time Management.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0


Oh to the story I was going tell about my weekend. I took Amity out this weekend as I wanted to buy her a desk and a chair. I have bought a new computer so I was moving my current computer over to he so she can use it. Anyway we went out and it took awhile but she found a desk and chair that she liked. Now being the smart girl she is she asked if I had measured the place where we were going to put the desk. Well I had meant to but totally forgot. So I called my good friend Dennis and asked him to measure. Well he did and told me it was 5’1’’ I had him double check and he said its was. He was using my electronic measuring device. Well fast forward about 6 hours I get home and had just spend time putting the desk together and I go and try and slide the desk into place and wowa it don’t fit. I measure the desk yep 59 inches. That should fit. I measure the space its only 4’9’’ hummm.. I call Dennis upstairs and ask him how he measured and well he did it wrong. Luckily the desk fit in the other direction not the way we wanted it by Amity still liked it. So I also got Amity a new monitor and speakers as she would be needing those. Its going to be nice to be able to sit in the same room and chit chat while we play on the computer. And well I can wait to kick her ass in Age of Empires and Rail Road Tycoon :-)

Back in the Saddle

Hey he is back. Well I know it has been a while since I have posted on my blog and for all of my daily readers I truly apologize. It’s funny how sometimes life just conspires to keep you from doing the things that you would like to do. I.E. Blog! Last week was a very busy week at work and slightly stressful, and that is saying a lot as most people know I am not one to get easily stressed. I would love to tell some of the stories but sometimes things that happen at work have to stay at work. Fun fun don’t you know. Well this weekend was a whirl wind of activity. As everyone know there were two birthday girls this week. One my sister turning the big 30. (aww sis its not that bad I’m about to do the big 33) . And my wonderfully woman coming in at 27. Friday night we went to Ruby Tuesday’s to celebrate my sister birthday. That was fun I got to roam around the mall. I don’t get to do that as often as I would like. One really funny thing that happened is Nicki and I were walking by the Lindt store and neither of us said anything we just eyed the store and slowed down. We decided that we would just “take a look”. Ok truth be told you can’t just go into a Lindt store and just “have a look” Well one chocolate bar and an half priced dark chocolate Easter bunny later I was done. I think Nicki bought a fair bit more than me but ah well. Saturday spend the morning just lounging around and as it was Amity’s birthday I decided to take her out for dinner. We went to a place called Peter Ott’s in Camden. It was very good but the desert was to die for they had a warm gingerbread with butterscotch sauce and vanilla ice cream oh was is gooooooooooooooood. It was here that Amity told me something she always wanted to do. She wanted to go to a restaurant and instead of ordering a meal just order EVERY desert on the menu. Of course this would be done with more than just two people there. But sounds interesting a bunch of people a bunch of deserts and a bunch of spoons. Woo Hoo. Ok fast forward to Sunday. Hung around in the morning and went to Nicki’s that afternoon. For some killer bunnies. Was a good time although the world was against me…..But it’s a game and that’s the fun of it. Oh a really funny comedian if you get the chance on youtube Jim Jeffries. He is a riot!

Moonshado’s Mammoth Monday Musing

I had thought of a really snazzy title to use for today’s blog it was going to be “Friends, Guitar Hero, and upset tummies” but than I remembered it’s the Monday Musing. Ah well what you can do another great title gone by the wayside. Oh yes friends its funny how your friends will introduce you to so many new things. I was over for Bunny night at Scotts and they have Guitar Hero for the Wii and have been trying to get me to play it. Well to be honest it has never really appealed to me. I was the kid in band that had the very important roll of playing the triangle or the cymbal. Basically all I had to do was wait till the band director looked at me and pointed and I either clanged some stick to metal triangle or I hit to trash can lids together. Either way not very musically inclined. Well let me tell you Guitar Hero is addicting and quite fun quick to learn takes forever to master. Amity and I really enjoyed ourselves. Now Scott being the good friend that he is picked up on this little piece of info and decided to capitalize on his knowledge the following Saturday. I get a call Saturday morning it’s Scott calling to chit chat talk about the evening and what fun we had with Guitar Hero. Now here is the ruse Scott states “Hey I know you had a great time the other night you should come over and play for a while, you know Deb and I are looking for someone to watch the kids. So I agree. I just sold Amity and I out as babysitters so we could play Guitar Hero. Can you believe it? Oh so you ask where was the “Upset tummies” going to come into it. Brandon one of Scotts kids did not want to eat dinner because he had an upset tummy. How does this play in well it doesn’t but when you have a good title it needs 3 things so I threw that in.