honeysuckle breeze runs riot

through the window over the kitchen sink.....I'm going to run MLB on the video, and the Pandora music machine on audio and kick back 'til around suppertime pretty much.....reading Sashenka by Simon Montefiore, so there's a contrast going on here between freezing Petrograd during WWI and 21st Century Dixie on a Spring day.....May Day in the morning.....with a rolled up piece of newspaper, I finally whacked that one fly that got into the living room somehow the other day......had grilled ham and cheddar on wheat for lunch.....scalloped potato supper will be effortless, just nuke it.....well, it's time for St.Louis vs. Atlanta.....Angels are doing good so far, Padres are sucking hind teat again.....

picture perfect dixie morning

clear, mild, not too windy.....very pleasant early morning walk.....maybe the second walk will be over into "downtown" instead of by the park.....just for a little variation.....been sleeping well the last few nights, good weather for it, not too hot, not too cold.....the evening news and two movies takes you from suppertime to bedtime around 10 pretty well, with maybe a little reading and radio mixed in there....well, net-music isn't exactly "radio", but you know what I mean....watched a pretty recent movie first, and then some strange japanese flick with subtitles.....the foreign movie selection on Netflix is pretty extensive, a break from Hollywood stuff anyway.....April is just about over.....the Cardinals and the Braves are on Fox this afternoon, so I might watch some of that, since Fox HD does come in on my antenna......

nothing much

going on.....cut the grass out front early when it was nice and cool.....thinking about going for a walk.....got the City bill today, that was the only mail.....watched a couple netflix movies last night after watching the news on a local channel.....and another channel has a 10 o'clock news, I watched a few minutes of that and then went to bed....the scalloped potatoes are delicious, plenty leftover....always leftovers ....oatmeal for breakfast today.....punched in a Charlie Musselwhite Radio on Pandora, that's playing right now, good music to play guitar to, was doing that a while ago......grilled salami and cheese for lunch, opened the new loaf of bread....whole wheat .....

Roku

I guess it isn't really "Rock-you", it's "Row-que".....whatever....I got back from my walk and the box had come in the mail, so I unplugged my Dish box and hooked up the Roku to my router and to my TV and stereo.....it works great.....clear picture and good sound....the computer works just as fast as usual with the streaming video running at the same time on the device...I wasn't sure how that would work.....it took about 45 minutes and six transfers between different voices to cancel the Dish bill and get that unbundled from AT&T-Bellsouth.....I haven't set up the Netflix yet, or explored all the stuff on Roku.....I just turned on a Bruce Lee flick from something called Crackle which is free and that's been running in the background as I wrestled with the voices....one had such a strange foreign accent that I just plain could not figure what she was saying....anyway, so now I am in the post satellite-cable era.....with local news over the air, and movies, TV shows, etc... on demand...

between three and four in the morning

the storm front passed through here.....they had taken away the tornado warning box on the radar map for Laurens County around 9 0'clock, before I went to bed, so I figured that Clinton was sort of in the clear in that regard.....power stayed on, didn't see much blown down on my newspaper walk.....starting to clear off some now, so I'll go walk the park in a bit.....one of the over-the-air stations I get on my new antenna is 21.2, a secondary digital feed which is NOAA.....radar map and official weather service advisements 24-7...kinda cool.....for a tornado alley area.....I think this afternoon I'll fix the escalloped potatoes with ham....I got a can of cream corn....for some reason I always used to serve cream corn with the ham and potato dish....because they were both yellow in color? Dang, it's just starting to rain a little.....have to re-evalueate the timing of the walking.....I'll check the radar.....

severe weather

the really bad looking storm system on the radar looks like it should slide north and east like they do most of the time......going along the western side of the mountains instead of actually coming due east to hit here.....we had one "pop-up" cloudburst around noon I guess it was, and it's gusty outside now, with clouds coming and going.....I'm going to go see if I can walk some.....I didn't need much at the grocery store today.....and I went to Radio Shack and got the Ethernet cable I'll use when my Roku box gets here.....the little TV antenna came in the mail today, and I stuck it up on top of the window shade on the west wall of the living room, and I'm picking up about six channels looks like.....enough to get the evening news and some sports....and PBS.....the stations that do come in in HD are really sharp looking.....better than Dish HD? Anyway, change is good......I guess....

clouded over, windy, muggy

looks like it should be cool out, but it's not....68 and 100% humidity.....half a chance of showers and thunderstorms from now through Thursday, lots of warm moist flow from the south interacting with a colder front from the west.....yesterday for supper I had a chicken leg quarter, baked beans with mustard sauce, and potato salad.....that's about the last of the potato salad.....it was "southern style" from the grocery deli.....where I used to shop in Escondido, the deli section had "egg and potato salad" that I liked to get....half egg salad and half potato salad.....haven't found that here.....maybe they have it over at Wal*Mart, they have a long deli case over there.....I should just go pay Allstate this morning, get it over with while I'm thinking about it, so I can stop thinking about it.....my TV antenna could possibly get here today ......it's "paper thin" they say, their demo video online shows somebody taping it to the wall above the TV and then hanging a picture over it, etc....I've got more framed prints out on the laundry porch I could use for that if that's going to work in my situation.....anyway, guess I could go walk the park......