1:30PM .......DAYS AND COUNTING......

10:30AM: It's TIMES like this that I thank NEW YORK...

Still enjoying my company....

I try and sneak in some blog time (writing and visiting......but.......I OWE EVERYBODY (and you know who you are) visits!

But until then...............an OP ED article
from New York Times (couldn't have done better myself...all though, I am tempted to try!



THE NEW YORK TIMES

10AM: BACK TO BUSINESS--Hi, George!

Hi, George!

THE EVE BEFORE THE DAY AFTER THXSGIVING

It was a nice day.

My sister prepares a fine meal.

Having my granddaughter here is special (Bob has the flu & stayed home).

Having my youngest nephew (and his girl friend) here is also special.

You cherish "out of town" family visits because reality says, such visits are numbered......ashes to ashes.............

Sue-Sue, The Dog, got several turkey leg bones.

All four of the cats ("JC" Kitty, Pep'Purr, Zig and Catherine [my sister's cats]) got turkey breast meat.

My granddaughter brought me a surprise gift! Believe it or not, I recently dumped water on my mousepad and it warped out in spots----she brought me a new mouse pad with a picture of her on the pad! Cool.

Enjoy the thxsgiving 'pictorial'.....................................

1:15 PM: in 2 hours, turkey will be served.

8am: I'm dreaming of a white THXGIVING.............

I THINK, THERE FOR I AM?......or I think MY COMMENTS are working...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


....heard the turkey's were flyin" in.....and for you vegetarians, it going to snow TOFU!

but I want turkey!

I said turkey!

wrong button, George.


Ooooops.............

......Uncle Sam wants you, GEORGE!




Who cares.............29 days to go.............

'Twas the eve before the day before THXGIVING and...AW SHIT!

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GEORGIA ON MY MIND.......

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comments? Please...please! And the response was: NO COMMENT

an EVEning post.....but no ADAM

.......Russian style..............................




GEORGE HAS FOUND HIS CALLING...

31 days until xmas

all we want for Xmas is a blog site that works...............

But who is Santa Claus?

Blogback?

Blogspot?

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?

SPECIAL REPORT...............................

AM: ...colder than a witch's _ _ _ on a frosty morning!

Good morning!
COLD


..

...............IT IS SNOWING.............

HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP PLEH

Just got back from my road trip to Montrose.................

I am being told that my COMMENTS AND EVEN MY LINKS are still not working....................

If you pay me a visit PLEASE PLEASE try the COMMENTS
and the LINKS IN THE POST AND OLDCATMAN LINKS.

IF THEY DON'T WORK, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAKE A SECOND OF YOUR TIME TO TELL ME!

IF THEY DON'T WORK, I'LL ENTER THE LINK FOR MY EMAIL (BUT THE LINKS AREN'T WORKING??) AND THE
ADDRESS ITSELF TO TELL ME DIRECT.

PLEASE DO THIS FOR ME...............

THANK YOU
EMAIL OLDCATMAN

or email me direct at: oldcatman@worldnet.att.net

JUST LIKE TV: A RE-RUN!

I am going to be gone most of the day----off to Montrose with my sister and nephew.

Got to close the deal on my eMAC, buy some tile to have my kitchen sink tiled and to, in general, spend some of my social security settlement...............

And just like TV, today is RE-RUN DAY: My sister's poetry
posted early this month...................

Later..................







...............and we are off!

TIME: WHO GIVES A SHIT.................

This day started off quite good..................I bought tires for the truck, serviced the truck, bought a 3 x 5 window for my west wall (by my new Lane recliner) and had a great breakfast of steak and eggs.

While in the tire place, I met a neighbor that I didn't know was a neighbor..or I found out who lives in the house that Sue-Sue, The Dog and I pass by on walks.....2 crazy dogs lived there that Sue-Sue plays with but I never saw any people.........well, it's a young architect, his wife & 3 sons...was sad to learn that one of the dogs got killed by a car............

Anyway, on I went, finished my chores, burped and headed home.

Then the shit hit the fan.

Maybe my Imac knows that it is being replaced by the Emac
and is acting out 'its' anger because it is crapping out on me at every turn.

Then there are the fucking COMMENTS.........they seem quite normal to me....I can bring BlogBack up, post a comment
and it tallies in my comment total..........BUT, SEEMS LIKE NOBODY ELSE IN THE BLOGWORLD CAN SEE MY COMMENTS.....what the fuck?

At this moment in time, it appears impossible for me to contact BlogBack direct, as they want LOGIN information
to get to who knows where..........don't have any login information for BlogBack..........and I keep a manual (you know, 'handwritten'--no computerized shit here!) list of my
various sign ins and passwords...........

I guess YAHOO owns BlogBack..............I have sent 2 different YAHOO enities an email.....yet to hear back.

...................and as an added treat: BLOGSPOT is running slower than turtle shit laced with mercury!

Those of you who have read me in the past KNOW that technical bull shit like this drives my creativeness down my composting toilet!

After yesterday's POETRY POST I was really happy, as my sister's (Karen "Esmeralda") poetry is so good AND MINE?
I guess it is interesting because it would appear that my mind set of 40 years ago is the same as today...then I was an angry young citizen and now today I am an angry oldcatman...hear me ROAR! (BUT NO FUCKING COMMENTS TO GET FEED BACK ON THE POETRY!!)

There was a thing or 2 that I was going to exploit that is bouncing around in the news...........

Michael Jackson: that little wanna-be-white pedophile is finally going to get his ass fucked! So many folks say that people are just picking (not his face please!) on Michael........come on, folks.....he's a pedophile...they should make the little
prick build his own prison and stick him in it with a dozen or so BUBBA's....................and to really see some HAHA about Michael, visit LORELEI and read the comparison between Michael
and another ''show biz'' great!

Good to see that MY SON BOB is coming out of his FUNK..............his holiday BLUES
are very real and you would think like his Dad (Who me?)
would promote the holidays to erase his BLUES.....well,
can't happen because Bob would catch me faking it....in other words, I don't get the holidays BLUES (specifically XMAS)
but cause for as long as I can remember, to me, XMAS SUCKS! Even though we KNOW that I am ANTI-RELIGION,
Xmas at one time had a lot of religious meaning to alot of other people, now it's just CAPITALISTS HOLIDAY.

Bah humbug!

Well, I hope you dealt with NO IMAGES and the fact that I
was very CAUSTIC about Mikey & Xmas (too bad, so sad!)......because this is about it.

And..........................you remember the picture of the
SNOW LEOPARD? Found, when I was searching for "SNOW".

I came across another 'snow picture' that is mesmerizing
in its own way.......Link directly to the picture (it is my
image files and not on its own web site)
SNOW BEAUTY and we'll see what tomorrow brings...................

4:30 PM: rhyme or reason, that is the "Q" of 'q & a'...

A 'thank you' to my sister, Karen "Esmeralda" and a thank you to some Guy who wrote poetry 40 years ago......or was it yesterday?

BLANK

8:30 AM: .....All is well again. Thanks, Blogspot!

My template was found!

Well, after dummy (computer that is) me, did something to
"crash" my template, I sent a HELP email to Blogspot.

This AM I got an email back and MY TEMPLATE IS BACK TO
''NORMAL''.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

NOW, I AM GOING BLOG HOPPING.....................AND I HOPE THAT MAIZZY AND LORELIE HAVE THE BLOGGING ROLLING MESS FIXED AND THAT TAS HAS "FIXED" HER IP BLOCK!

ROLL ON..................................

......the fear is real...............

5 PM and there is fear on the farm......

WELL, SO FAR SO GOOD.

THE 'FEAR' IS I THINK MY BLOGSPOT TEMPLATE IS
SCREWED UP AND I MIGHT HAVE LOST EVERYTHING THAT WAS ON MY SITE [fonts, colors, links, comments and the other little logos] EXCEPT FOR THE POSTS THEMSELVES AND THE IMAGES (I THINK).

THE DAY STARTED OUT REALLY WEIRD.

I WENT TO VISIT MAIZZY AND THERE WAS APPARENTLY
A ''LINK'' PROBLEM...ALL OF HER LINKS WERE TO ''LAURA'S BLOG''..........OK.

I WENT TO VISIT LORELIE AND THERE WAS APPARENTLY
A ''LINK'' PROBLEM...ALL OF HER LINKS WERE ALSO TO
"LAURA'S BLOG"............

I WENT TO VISIT TAS AND MY ''IP'' ADDRESS WAS
BLOCKED!

A QUESTION CAME UP ABOUT MY LACK OF ''PERMALINKS"
AND I WENT TO BLOGSPOT ''SAMPLE BLOGS'' TO GET
A COPY OF THE PERMALINK'S TEMPLATE CODE.

..............AW SHIT [WHICH IS MY RECORDER 'YOU'VE SCREWED UP' ALERT.....................MY TEMPLATE WAS
PLAIN! NONE OF MY SHIT WAS THERE!

I SENT AN EMAIL TO BLOGSPOT TO 'FIND' MY
TEMPLATE.............NO ANSWER YET.

WELL, I STILL HAVE BLOGSPOT PLUS, THE REST OF THE SHIT?

LET'S FIND OUT...............

......................AND PUBLISH!

5 PM: we're trying the truth again...........

One inspiration deserves another. Thx, Lorelei

3:15 PM.........................ooops.........

THE BLOGSPOT 'IMAGE MACHINE' IS NOT WORKING AT THE
MOMENT.

DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN DOWN OR WHEN IT'S COMING BACK.

CHECK BACK LATER.

11:15 AM: .......LET'S ALL BE GOOD SPORTS TODAY!

4:30 PM: EMERGENCY BIT AND PIECE #3

....still more to follow...............

2:30 PM: BITS AND PIECES, #2

................more to come...........................

HIGH NOON: A BITS AND PIECES DAY #1

A BITS AND PIECES DAY #1: I did a bit not too long ago
about E-mail SPAM (and I didn't mean the SPAM that makes meat lovers in Hawaii drool...........) or should we rename it
SCRAP (with maybe a silent "S" !)?

How many of you have received an E-mail/beg-a-thon/
bull shit/con job letter from some 'foreigner' from a far
off land whose family wealth has been pillaged by some evil
political being in their country (sound likes the USA & George)????

Well, the letters makes me angry, not because they are as phony as breast implants or a rolled sock in your underwear,
BUT because I fear there are actually people (my 90%ers!!)
who fall for the con...................I usually resend the Email with a big FUCK OFF on it but this time I decided to let my blogging world read it..............................(and may a green card elude them forever!):




Good luck, Momma!

End of BITS AND PIECES #1

1 PM: .......trivial ''rantings'': If I may borrow the word from you all....

HIGH NOON: ARE WE UGH! (BLOGGING) AGAIN?

It's been a really bizarre past week for me................the obvious being: Right smack in the middle of an Oldcatman fantasy "caper" came a real life "caper" with the disappearance of Sue-Sue, The Dog.

When she was gone, I endured an emotion that I never
ever had before.................someone (a dog is someone, jerk off!) I loved very much "was gone"---not sure where or how or if I'd ever see her again......there lies the emotion and that thing that we all call "CLOSURE"......without 'closure' the unresolved loss of a loved one could last FOREVER....if you
have a 'dead body' you have CLOSURE and without the 'dead body' you could have emotional torture for all eternity.

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Since I have brought up the subject of "love", "emotion", "friendship", "etc", I felt it time to say "HI" to everyone that touches my life at the moment----to NOT INCLUDE the 'people' I live with ("JC", Pep'Purr, Sue-Sue, Sunny-D...etc: they get lots of "blog" time all the time!).

Sticking by my "guns" (whatever the fuck "guns" means in this context), THERE WILL BE NO ''LINKS'' FROM THE TEXT.......ALL ''PEOPLE'' MENTIONED CAN BE LINKED ON FROM THE LINKS ON THE RIGHT--------------->!!

Nepotism not with standing.............MY DENVERITE SON
(BOB, that is..) is my favorite READ as it keeps me/us informed with each other's lives............saves bucks on our phone bills! Most importantly, it has given Bob and me a new source of "entertainment'' (of sorts) that we enjoy doing together.....of course, any similarity between 'our blogs' is purely coincidental.......so glad, much better to have an "averagewhiteguy" raising my grand daughter than someone with the ilk of an Oldcatman! Love, you two!

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And along came.....MAIZZY; my first (I think) "blog" friend.
When I read her 'post' (when the busy lady has time to post, with a new job, boy friend, travels and that Montreal
night life!) it is always light, refreshing and so easy to read.
Perhaps it is because what she commented about today--that 'people' oft accuse her of having blond roots?
Well, blonds usually have more fun because they are in control----all women need that 'ability' to be "blond" on
demand......it keeps us "guys" on our toes as long as we
don't trip on our toes and fall on our ass! ......and a BIG
thanks for all the "template" help.

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Of course, we have TASBERRY............my very articulate
and outrageous lady friend! I think TAS was my second
blog friend. As I have told her before, I lived for almost 10 years in Reno and spent a lot of time (too much!) in CASINOS and I had lots of casino employee friends and her
reports of her shift brings back good memories (except for the $$ lost). Still think with your music knowledge, Tas, you should be a DJ!

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Then there is the 'ANONYMOUS GURL'........damn, I enjoy
your writing...........I rag on her to post more often but
if you think about posting just once a week...and you post something very special just once a week......it tweaks the interest of the reader (this one anyway) to look forward to the "Sunday" post...............So, when in need of some good prose and poetry....GURL's the GIRL!

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My mystery lady..............LORELEI..................Mystery, primarily on the "personal side"(I think you live in NYC?).............I do know that we totally enjoy kicking the shit out of GEORGE, the war and those things that make Americans "ugly Americans".....and you leave the best
comments! "Tongue in cheek" forever!

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Can't forget JAI.................love her polar bears and not to mention Misty...........looks so much like my Pep'Purr....by the way, Jai, I hate to disappoint Misty, but......but....Pep'Purr is 'fixed'.....The coffin joke....ok...the VIAGRA bit is great....."hard" to find good humor.....

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Then there is the blogging ability to communicate around
the world.............leading me to DEMI who lives in Tokyo
with her husband and daughter MII......always worried about her English but she communicates better than she thinks she does....can't wait until she gets her "image" system
fixed so I can see more pix of her and her family and Tokyo!

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What can I say about Carter? She first left a comment on
one of my image posts and it was signed "Carter"...ok, who is this 'guy' Carter? Carter turned out to be a young (just turned 16) girl living in Texas. What the hell does a
63 year oldcatman have in common with a 16 year old cheerleader? (I just smacked "YOU" across the mouth,
for those ugly thoughts!)......maybe it's because when I was 16 I was bombarded by parents, teachers, peers...all tryng
to "run" my life....they have a place in one's life but they also must leave the door open for other thought.....hang in there, Carter, "we're" with you all the way!

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A new read, meaning an everyday read, as opposed to a "once in a while" read is CHEF QUIX......we have had some good dialog on Bush, drugs (legal) and whatever the
''headlines'' will bring...........looking forward to 2004!

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A mentioning of my favorite people would not be complete without an early blog mentor.........TIGER! He has always
been there for bloging help.....several times off line. Now, I have to admit that some of his "criticism'' of the Oldcatman's
"presentation" has pissed me off and I have said so in my post.................but if 'my readers' don't get 'it', one of the things that makes my world go around is HYPE! Make a
mountain out of a mole hill, for " creative arts" sake!
(All though, the early on "criticism by MANY on my use of CAPITAL letters was a bit much!).

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There are so mnay other blogs...actually, millions of them around the world.

Reading blogs is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge--it is perpetual....start with blog "A" right now and to read "thru Z", you would be on line forever! Scary thought!

The rest of my links--------------------------------->
are all good reads......just not enough time in the day
to read them all...........so I do a periodic visit!

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What a thought.......................many years ago, while sitting
at fortune teller's table: I WAS NOT told that I'd meet a tall dark stranger......instead I was told that in November 2003
I'd be living on a farm on the Western slope of the Rockies,
no longer working for the MAN (fuck you, MAN!) AND.....
AND.....AND.......WRITING A DAILY BLOG!

What the fuck is a blog?.....I would have asked!

11 AM: JUST LIKE A 1040A....IT'S A RETURN!

10 AM...................all is now well....

11:45 AM: Big Daddy speaks!

........................................GUNG HO!..................................

5:30 PM: ....we're seeing red....

1:45 PM: No one cares but the blog must go on....

10:45 AM ...somewhere in the vastness of space...........

10 AM: ......imagine that.........................

....help me!

4:30 PM: .......good riddance?....

10 AM: ..."he had a 'great fall' day............."

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11 AM: another government haunting

12:30PM: Least I forget my humble beginnings....

Delightful little romp this AM, now it has blown into the
PM............................

I am so tired of the wind (and I don't mean the "breaking wind" type that is the nature of my post).....
I am talking about 30-50 MPH winds...the kind that blows my damn hat off! That blows all of the chicken
feathers into one big pile against the pen's fence--looks
like a chicken bit the dust, leaving nothing but feathers!
That blows so hard that a kite would fly you! The best
news about the WIND is that we have several very large
cottonwood trees in our immediate yard and before the
WIND started, we had "billions & billions" (Thanks, Carl)
of L E A V E S but thanks to the WIND, the ''rest of our neighboring world" has the L E A V E S....

Bye.

11 AM: .....PISSED OFF AGAIN................

1:45 PM: Sister! Sister!